Sahara Reporters Latest News Monday 26th August 2019

Sahara Reporters Latest News Monday 26th August 2019

Sahara Reporters Latest News Today and headlines on some of the happenings and news trend in the Country, today 26/08/19

target=_blank>Gunmen Attack Enugu Police Station

Yet to be identified gunmen have attacked the Ikirike Police Station of Enugu Command of the Nigerian Police Force.Eyewitnesses said the hoodlums came to the station under the guise of reporting a case and immediately launched an attack on the station, according to a report by PUNCH.It is unclear whether any policeman was killed in the attack and if the station’s armoury was looted.Enugu Police Public Relations Officer, Ebere Amaraizu, confirmed the attack, saying “no policeman was killed”.He said the command was hunting for the hoodlums.

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target=_blank>Finish Off Boko Haram, Army Commander Charges Soldiers

Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, Major Gen. Olusegun Adeniyi, has charged troops combating Boko Haram in the North-East to finish off the insurgents and return to the barracks.
Adeniyi stated this during a visit to Gubio, a town attacked by the terrorists in Borno State a few days ago.
The army general said that he is counting on troops to take the battle to their enemies in their enclave.
He said, “I urge you to make up your mind to end this war.
“The entire country is behind you to finish off Boko Haram so that you can return to the barracks.”
Adeniyi visited three local councils to boost the morale of the soldiers and assure villagers that they are more determined to protect lives.

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target=_blank>Man Rapes Five-year-old Niece In Adamawa To Punish Brother

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A man named Mustapha Kabiru has allegedly raped his brother’s five-year-old daughter to teach him a lesson.
The victim, Fatimah Ayuba, was said to have been rushed to the Federal Medical Center Yola, Adamawa State, for medical attention following profuse bleeding from her vagina as a result of the incident.
According to a family source, who spoke to Sahara Reporters, Kabiru, a mobile phone repairer, have had a long running feud with his brother, Ayuba, currently serving a jail term in Lagos, and therefore decided to molest the little girl to get back at him.
It was also gathered that the family never wanted to seek medical help for the victim for fear of exposing the matter to the public but the girl was eventually taken to the hospital through the help of one Hauwa Garba.
Confirming the incident, Information Officer at FMC Yola, Mohammed Dodo, told Sahara Reporters that the girl was bleeding profusely when she was brought into the hospital.
He said, “Fatimah was referred from Yola Specialist hospital on Saturday due to profuse and uncontrolled bleeding from the vagina.
“Her condition couldn’t be managed at the specialist hospital, that’s why she was transferred to the FMC, which has better facilities.”
When contacted on the matter, Public Relations Officer of the police in Adamawa, Suleiman Nguroje, said that they had yet to be briefed of the incident, adding to commence investigation once the case is reported to them.

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target=_blank>Jailing Dissenters, Invitation To Violence, Shehu Sani Tells Buhari

Senator Shehu Sani ( middle) addressing journalists at the programme in Abuja

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Former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Shehu Sani, has described the incessant clampdown on opposition by the Nigerian Government as an invitation to violence.
He noted that the government had the responsibility of respecting citizens’ rights by allowing them to express their views on national issues through peaceful protests.
He disclosed this at the weekend in Abuja during an interactive forum organised by the Nigeria Union of Journalists Correspondents Chapel.
The lawmaker said that citizens could be compelled to be violent instead of peaceful when they are being prevented from expressing their opinion through legitimate and peaceful protests.
Sani said, “If people are desirous of protecting and defending their freedom through peaceful protest, the state has the constitutional responsibility to respect their rights and protect them to express their views.
“If you crush dissent and jail dissenters, you are forcing people to take the road of violence.
“Sowore has not done anything wrong. He contributed his own quota to the emergence of this government and I cannot be mistaken to say many of those occupying position of power today in this government went to New York and met Sowore on many occasion to help them fight the former government.
“How do you turn and say the same person who spoke on justice and freedom five years ago is now the enemy. That is totally unacceptable.”

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target=_blank>Sowore: Group Petitions US Department Of State, To Protest At Nigerian Embassy In Washington Friday

A group, African Renaissance Organisation, has sent a petition to the United States Department of State over the continued detention of rights activist, Omoyele Sowore.
Sowore was arrested on August 3, 2019 by operatives of the Department of State Services for urging Nigerians to pour out to the streets and protest bad leadership in the country.
Despite growing calls for his release, the convener of RevolutionNow movement has continued to be held by the secret police.
Condemning the situation, convener of ARO, Onyinye Chuks, urged the US Government to prevail on the Nigerian Government led by President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately and unconditionally release Sowore and all others arrested during the RevolutionNowprotest on August 5 across most parts of the country.
According to Chuks, Sowore’s continued detention not only breaches his fundamental rights as guaranteed by the Nigerian constitution but also falls short of expectations under a democratic government.
He said, “We write to call the attention of the good people and government of the United States of America to the worrisome developments in Nigeria, particularly the increasing threats to democratic freedom, and the gradual rise of tyranny under the current government of President Muhammadu Buhari.
“We recognise the enduring political, economic, and military ties between Nigeria and the United States; ties we must now invoke in hopes of halting our nation’s steady descent into full-scale despotism.
“Under Buhari’s watch, Nigerians have grown poorer, more insecure, and far more divided than at any other time since the birth of our republic.
“The government’s war on corruption has since been exposed as a scam designed to scare and cudgel opposition elements into subservience.
“In reality, President Buhari has not only demonstrated tolerance for corruption, he has fully embraced it.
“Credible allegations of embezzlement and corrupt enrichment against his closest lieutenants, including army chief, Tukur Buratai, Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, party chiefs, Godswill Akpabio and Orji Kalu, among others, have been swept under the carpet.
“Dismayed by President Buhari’s vapid and extremely reactionary leadership, a new generation of Nigerians led by Omoyele Sowore, publisher, activist, and leader of the African Action Congress, resolved to exercise their democratic rights to protest their government, and ensure the preservation of our constitutional democracy.
“Using the hashtag #RevolutionNow, Sowore whose contributions to Nigeria’s democratic journey are well documented, mobilised Nigerians for nationwide protests to demand fundamental changes in government policies and actions to reflect the yearnings and aspirations of our people.

“Unfortunately, in response to Sowore’s calls for protests, the Buhari government has unleashed a reign of authoritarian terror and state brutality reminiscent of the dark days of military dictatorship in our country.
“On the eve of the protests, armed and fully masked men from the Department of State Services broke into Sowore’s home, unlawfully arresting and detaining him.
“Thereafter, they proceeded to clamp down on thousands of unarmed citizens who poured into the streets on August 5 to join the protests.
“Ostensibly acting on presidential orders, the police shot sporadically into the protests, injuring hundreds of people and arresting dozens for merely exercising their democratic rights to change the direction of their government.
“Sowore and other arrested activists have now spent more than 22 days in brutal DSS detention facilities as the Buhari government feverishly seeks even the remotest strand of evidence to bring trumped-up charges of treason and felony against them for daring to express their constitutionally guaranteed rights to freely assemble.
“We insist that Sowore and other detained activists are not criminals but brave patriots who left their personal comforts to champion the cause of change for our people to challenge the broken system that keeps chasing our citizens to foreign shores as all hopes of a decent life in our country are extinguished by selfish and inept leaders recycled every four years through severely flawed electoral system to question an obscenely inequitable resource allocation system which ensures that our parliamentarians are the highest paid in the world, earning several times the compensation of US congressmen despite our economy being a mere 1/47th the size of the US economy.
“Finally, we believe that the strategic position of Nigeria as a regional force whose stability, security and prosperity aligns with the US national security interests cannot be overemphasised.
“We urge the US Government to prevail on President Buhari and his minders to immediately and unconditionally release Omoyele Sowore and other unlawfully detained activists.”

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target=_blank>Unease Lies The Heads That Wear The Wig By Funke Busari

In the Lagos State Judiciary, court congestion and unending adjournments have continually made justice seekers suffer in a stalesystem, reports Funke BusariCourt! The voice of the male registrar pealed through the SexualViolence Court to announce the arrival of Her Lordship, Justice SybilNwaka on June 25, 2019. Time was 11:16 a.m.
The High Court Rules of Lagos State provides that sitting at the courtshould start officially at 9 a.m. and end by 4 p.m. On this day,however, sitting ended about 2:08 p.m.
After about four hours sitting, Justice Nwaka was able to entertainonly three matters out of 26 cases slated for the day. She alsodelivered two rulings not listed in the cause list, or on the court’swebsite at www.lagosjudiciary.gov.ng/portal for the week of June24-28, 2019.
Isiaka Oladele, scheduled to be arraigned before Justice Nwaka on thatday, was not lucky. His case was adjourned to October 2, 2019. Byimplication, Oladele will have to spend another four months in remand.By this date, it is expected that more cases would have piled up inNwaka’s docket.
Not that Justice Nwaka is oblivious of the anguish and frustrationthat litigants go through, but according to her, she had to risebefore official sitting hours to attend a maiden meeting with the newChief Judge of the State, Justice Kazeem Alogba alongside otherjustices.
By her action, the fate of Oladele, who was not accompanied by a legalcounsel on this day, and that of other justice seekers whose matterswere not heard would have to wait in the wings until after all thejustices come back from the annual court recess which began in July.Legal proceedings on 26 June, was not in any way different from theprevious day. On June 26, 27 matters were slated for hearing the sameday, including one earlier adjourned to June 28.
But proceedings did not begin in the court until 11:20 a.m. JusticeNwaka rose three hours later. Time was 2:07 p.m. after hearing thebail application of a defendant, Adenekan Adegboyega who was standingtrial for the defilement of a child in suit number LD/5013C/17.Justice Nwaka didn’t show up on June 27 and no reason was offered.This reporter later found out that most of the judges did not sit aswell because they were attending a valedictory service in honour offormer Chief Judge of the state, Justice Opeyemi Olufunmilayo Oke, whojust retired. Consequently, 22 suits on the cause list, expected to behandled by Justice Nwaka, for the day got new dates for attention, andremain in the docket still.
No matter was slated for hearing on 28 June, according to the week’scause list. However, an argument for the bail of a certain Adenekanwas adjourned for that day, and the ruling was adjourned until July 3.
In all, a total of 105 cases, plus another five add-ons as a result ofcontingencies, were slated for hearing for the week, making a total of110 cases, out of which 10 cases were entertained by Justice Nwaka.That’s less than 10 percent of the entire cases in the docket for theweek.
Yet on average, the judge is assigned 22 cases daily. And in a month,charges begging for her attention would be in excess of 400 cases.
That is happening in the Lagos State Judiciary where government citedthe need for speedy hearing and dispensation of justice as reasons forestablishing the Special and Sexual Violence Courts in February 2018.Recognizing the magnitude of the social and economic cost of domesticand sexual violence, the state government pioneered the Lagos StateDSVRT in 2014, and later the Special and Sexual Violence Courts todeal mainly with matters bothering on domestic violence and sexualassaults separate from the normal courts.
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In 2018, Justice Kazeem Alogba chaired a committee to review the CivilProcedure Rules 2012, then as an Administrative Judge. In one of thebriefings by the committee to intimate the bar and bench of theiractivities, he painted a pitiable picture of the plight and sight ofhis colleagues.
“Sometimes in my humble position as an administrative judge, it painsme a lot because, at a time, you could give one judge 50 files andwithin the week more cases are filed; you’d still send more files tothat judge. What miracle do you expect a judge to perform in suchcircumstances?”
A year after Alogba’s lamentations, the Lagos Judiciary is stillreeling under the burden of overflowing dockets and tell-tale signs offatigue on the judges.
According to Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi, Coordinator of the Domestic andSexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT) in Lagos State, Justice Nwakacurrently has over 600 cases gathering dust in her docket for 2018alone.
The workload is the same for the other judge in the Lagos State SexualViolence Court. Further checks at the court registry show that JusticeAbiola Soladoye, has matters in excess of 350 pending before her for2018 too.
“These courts are congested, and the judges overwhelmed,’ the DSVRTCoordinator lamented to the reporter.
Justices Mojisola Dada and Oluwatoyin Taiwo, both of the SpecialOffences Courts, are heavily ladened too. At the inauguration of theSpecial and Sexual Violence Courts in 2018, former Chief Judge ofLagos State, Justice Opeyemi Olufunmilayo Oke revealed that no lessthan 500 matters bothering on economic and financial crimes beggingfor the attention of the court were assigned to both judges. Ineffect, both women had 250 matters each in their dockets at the startof operations in the economic and financial crimes court (SpecialOffences Courts.)
“Presently, there are over 500 cases of financial crimes pendingbefore the High Court, the bulk of which have now been assigned to theSpecial Offences Courts.
“We are enthusiastic about the designation of the new courts as we seethe development as a step in the right direction.”
This was the plan, but the reality that later dawned on the specialcourts after one year of existence speaks to the same challenge.By the end of 2018, Kayode Oyekanmi, Public Affairs Officer at theLagos State Ministry of Justice, told this reporter that theDirectorate of Public Prosecution had added additional 407 matters tothe already overflowing dockets at the Special and Sexual OffencesCourt. As at July this year too, the DPP has filed another 273 casesalready, increasing the number to 680, with the likelihood of anincrease before the end of the year.How delay affects the system – Lawyer
The backlash of the rising numbers of case files inundating the fourjustices at the special courts are the sustained frustration andseveral adjournments that many trials suffer before they get to beconcluded. By implication, the adjournments culminate in swellingpopulation in the prisons because of defendants who have to remain incustody until their matters are entertained.
“You see, the justice system has been circumvented by such undue delayin the administration of justice,’ Barrister Kayode Bankole lamentedto the reporter, ‘and those who infringed on the right of theaggrieved take solace in the snail speed that bedevilled and underpinsour justice system.
“It affects justice system in that it makes the citizens loseconfidence in the judicial process and it also encourages theoppressors to continue to do what they are doing, people who thrive inimpunity, it encourages them to continue because they know that at theend of the day justice will be denied by way of justice delayed,” theLagos lawyer explained.Loophole in Lagos criminal law

However, one of the major factors responsible for the perceived lapseson the part of judges lies with the framing of the Criminal Law ofLagos State 2015. The law is silent about the maximum limit ofadjournment in any particular criminal cause. Quite unlike theAdministration of Criminal Justice Act, ACJA 2015, which sets out toensure speedy trials.
Section 396 of the ACJA, for instance, provides for day-to-day trialfor criminal cases or where this is not possible, the number ofadjournments is limited to five each and the intervals between eachadjournment is not to exceed 14 days, and where the trial has not beenconcluded then the court may award cost on any other frivolousapplication for adjournment as the case may be.
The reason behind this provision is obvious; parties to a criminalproceeding are left with no other option than to execute their dutiesexpeditiously in order to obtain the best favourable results for theirclients.Like Lagos courts, like Supreme Court
Even at that, this crucial Section of the ACJA 2015 appears to beeffective only on paper. At the Supreme Court where the ACJA isexpected to be fully deployed, litigants are already taking datesbeyond 2019 as a possible time for their matters to come up, thisreporter found out.
As early as February this year, counsel have started taking 2020 dates.“Let me tell you, at the Supreme Court as at today, we have startedtaking the year 2021 dates, not 2020, Bankole disclosed.
“So if you file a case today in the Supreme Court, you cannot get adate this year again, it will be hard. It has to be 2020 or towardsthe end of 2021.”
The reason for that is not too far to seek. The apex court is alsogroaning under a heavy workload. And unfortunately, it is the samenumber of Justices the constitution provided for when Nigeria was just100 million people around 1979 that are still there today when thenational population has snowballed to 201 million.
Section 230 of the 1999 constitution provides for a maximum of 21justices, including the Chief Justice of Nigeria, to be in the SupremeCourt at any point in time. But as of 2019, only the Chief Justice ofNigeria and 14 other Associate Justices are on the bench of theSupreme Court. Invariably the court is running on a six-man deficit.
Back in Lagos, the experience of Christian C. Erondu in Suit No:ID/692/2006 is emblematic of the grave consequence of the delay anddenials that Bankole is griping about. The matter took 13 years to beheard before Justice A.O Opesanwo at the Lagos High court.
And even after getting a judgment, Monday Ubani, Counsel to theplaintiff told this reporter, the delays are far from over.
“The defendant is trying out to use the process of appeal to delayfurther the case. Knowing fully well that if the matter goes onappeal, it will take another average of seven years or thereabout.“And maybe if it goes to Supreme Court, it may take another 10 years.Maybe it will take an average of 20 or 30 years for a matter to beresolved, so you can see the danger.
“The danger is that some people die waiting for justice, in fact inthis case that I told you about, the defendant died. And he was theone using all manner of tactics to delay the matter knowing fully wellthat he is in possession of the properties.”The Devil’s Advocates?
Part of the problems identified by the Justice Alogba-led committee onthe review of Civil Procedures rule in 2018 are the antics mostlawyers deploy to delay or scuttle trials.
That’s done in part through asking for frivolous adjournments, or notshowing up in court on appointed dates, the reporter found out.This reporter also found out that when lawyers are not asking foradjournments or playing the truants, they make the job of the judgemore difficult using lengthy written addresses.
“Most of these judges came in very beautiful and handsome but afterfive years, they’d become enemies of the barbing salon because of yourvoluminous written addresses,’ the judge groaned.
As such, the Lagos judiciary has set a limit for all written addressesto be no more than 20 pages, and reply on point-of-law to five pages.Lawyers who scuttle trial dates at will too will also pay a fine ofN100, 000 to serve as a disincentive.
The rules are severe though, but Bankole does not think the hash lawsare necessary.
“It is not making the rules to be harsh that will solve the problemsbut rather it is when the system works properly. When the rightpersons are called to the Bar, the right persons are called to theBench and the system is well funded and above all the right attitude.It is then we are going to have justice or resemblance of justice.”Same old structure

At the moment, there are just 59 judges and 120 magistrates staffingthe courts in Lagos. That’s less than 200 judicial staff in a state ofno less than 20 million residents, and still counting.
As the population burgeons, business transactions are expanding,relationships are also being cultivated, thus making infringementsinevitable.
But the Lagos courts remain the same old institutions—manned bystenographers who listen to court proceedings and type away on theircomputers. And judges and magistrates who shuttle between listening tocounsels and taking notes in the usual longhand.“We need to equip our judicial system with basic infrastructure. It’shigh time we left the long-hand process we are using in taking notesof proceedings. We should employ technology in the administration ofjustice. We see how other nations are not taking proceedings inlonghand, rather it is being recorded electronically after which theyreview and do the right thing,’ Monday Ubani, 2nd Vice-President ofthe Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, told the reporter.
“Funding is also an issue. If we employ more judges, that means youhave to pay more money, you also have to equip the court system and wemust also amend some of our rules to accommodate speedy dispensationof justice.”Ubani’s recommendations are apt. But they will work more if the stategovernment also consider a swift appointment of more judges in theLagos judiciary, in addition to expanding its judicial divisions fromthe current five.*This investigation was done with the support of the Premium TimesCentre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ)

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target=_blank>We’ll Hunt South-East Governors Abroad, Vows Nnamdi Kanu

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, has said members of the group outside of Nigeria will hunt and hound south-east governors when they visit foreign countries, according to a report by PUNCH.
He said, “We shall continue to hunt and hound them whenever they leave the shores of Nigeria.
“Our decision to go after the South-East governors and frankly, every corrupt, wicked and opportunistic politician is rooted in the principle of accountability of public office holders.
“All over the world, enlightened and brave citizens hold their public officials to account through many democratic avenues.
“The right to protest against injustice is part of the dividends of democracy as entrenched in the constitution.
“In the unfortunate case of Nigeria, public servants, media practitioners, citizens do not know and are ignorant of the provisions of the very constitution they vow to protect.
“Sowore is in illegal detention and from all these, you can see that something sinister is awkwardly and fundamentally not genuine and right with masses and the morally-depraved crop of politicians in the hellish contraption called Nigeria but more especially the governors and other political leadership from the East.”

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target=_blank>Presidency: Abba Kyari Is Buhari’s Adviser On ‘Any And All Matters’

The President Muhammadu Buhari regime says it is nothing new that the newly-inaugurated ministers should see the Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, if they want to schedule a meeting with their principal, pointing out that Kyari advises Buhari on “any and all matters”.This was contained in a statement by Garba Shehu, spokesperson to President Muhammadu Buhari.The presidency was reacting to the directive by President Muhammadu Buhari for his ministers to seek meeting appointments with him Abba Kyari if they needed to see him.Shehu said the practice was not new.He said: “Recent media and social media reports on the responsibilities of the Chief of Staff to the President have suggested that the role has changed. This is not the case. “Today, under the Buhari II administration the role of Chief of Staff remains the same as it was under Buhari I.”It is worth stressing that the role and responsibilities of the Chief of Staff and the method of communication and arranging to schedule between Cabinet members and the President are, in Nigeria, based on the US model, where the same system operates – and has done for decades – in precisely the same way.”That role is to act as the head of the presidential administration at Aso Rock; to be an adviser to the President on any and all matters; to be the line manager for all staff at Aso Rock, and to manage appointments and scheduling for the President.”In the traditional presidential system, it is a primary function of a Chief of Staff, which may vary according to the needs and desires of each President, to supervise key State House Staff, control access to the office and the person of the President, manage communications and information flow and this includes that which binds the relationship with the two other arms of government.”During the President’s first term those were the responsibilities of the Chief of Staff, and they remain the same responsibilities today. There is no change.”Continuing, he stated, “When President Buhari explained to ministers that they would be expected to communicate with him and arrange scheduling to meet with him primarily via the Chief of Staff, he did so as many of the Buhari II Cabinet ministerial appointments are new appointments and cannot, therefore, be expected to know how matters of liaising with the President operate.”This is to stress that access to the President is open to ministers. It is not true that this is denied them in the Second Term.”The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) on the other hand is responsible for ensuring the effective coordination and monitoring of the implementation of government policies and programmes. All cabinet matters must go through him.”Under this dispensation, a performance evaluation of ministers and Permanent Secretary will be maintained by the SGF. Two weeks after assuming office, they are expected to sign mandate acceptance documents.”It is time to end the unnecessary controversy, for the key appointees of the President to carry out their jobs.”

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Obadiah Mailafia, a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, has described Bola Tinubu, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as naïve for believing northern politicians will relinquish power to him by 2023.Mailafia, who was also a candidate of the African Democratic Congress in the 2019 presidential election, told Punch in an interview.He said Tinubu must have misjudged the political ambition of northern leaders before forging a collaboration.He said: “Yes, I have my reasons for saying that Jagaban Borgu is rather naïve. He seems not to understand the kind of political animals he is dealing with.”He doesn’t realize that the game-plan is to exploit to the fullest his political and financial capital and to forebear with him until such a time as they are in a position to run him aground. He is the last to know that the North will never hand over power to him.”The ancient Yoruba civilization is anchored on monarchical republicanism. The Oyo Mesi constitutional council of yesteryears could demand that an Oba commit suicide if he fell below the people’s expectations. Loyalty, respect, honour, and principles are the defining features of Yoruba leadership traditions.”The northern power system, by contrast, is rooted in feudalism, taqiyya, and dissimulation. In the name of friendship, they will hand over to you a colourful long rope and you will happily go to the gallows singing their praise!Tinubu has, of course, a legitimate right to aspire to the high magistracy of our federal republic. He has paid his dues. But his best bet is to realign with the Middle Belt and the South. The North will not relinquish power any time soon.”Speaking further on why he thought northern leaders would not relinquish power easily, he said the region had a different idea about the nation.”They operate a different cosmological worldview and mindset from the rest of us. They are trying to remake our country in the image of the Caliphate,” he claimed.”They willingly sacrifice social progress at the altar of ambition, in the Machiavellian understanding that hungry, desperate people at point zero would be too broken to ever raise their miserable heads.”They have installed their people in all the key security and strategic departments of government. Meanwhile, they are implicitly allowing murderous hordes from neighbouring countries to come and take over our ancestral lands by force of arms.”And they are ruthlessly imposing total hegemony over culture, mass media, public administration and the commanding heights of the economy. They govern by fear and are willing to deploy the cloven hoofs of history to plunge our country into another civil war.”Trust me, I am not an alarmist. I have been a faithful student of political theory from Plato to NATO. But we can never be afraid of them because they can only kill the body. Rather, we should be afraid of the ‘one’ who can kill both the body and the spirit.”We know that they will surely fail because our God is a consuming fire. Bola Tinubu understands this evil agenda, but it seems he is willing to sacrifice the destiny of his people at the altar of personal ambition.”

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Kidnappers Abducted 7 In Kaduna, Abandoned Car With $10,000, N647,300 -Police

Suspected kidnappers dressed in military uniforms have kidnapped five people in Kaduna.This was revealed by Yakubu Sabo, the spokesperson for the Kaduna State Police Command, on Saturday.The command said the incident happened at Danbushiya Village, on the outskirts of Kaduna metropolis, on Friday.According to the police, about 11 pm on Friday, the head of Malali police division received a distress call that armed men in military uniforms blocked the access road to Babatunde Fashola Housing Estate, Danbushiya Village, on the outskirts of Kaduna and intercepted a Honda Accord Reg. No. LND 753 AL and five other vehicles.They reportedly kidnapped seven persons.The police added: “However, due to pressurized patrols within the general area, two of the victims were later found released by the hoodlums.”Upon searching, $10,000 and N647,300 were recovered in one of the vehicles.”He also explained that combined teams of police anti-kidnapping unit and vigilantes were later dispatched to the scene for a search operation.“The IGP’S IRT were also contacted for technical support in tracking the hoodlums,” Sabo added.

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