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E2%80%93campaign-group Count Buhari Out Of Third Term Agenda –Campaign Group
A group, Buhari Media Organisation, has said that all those pushing for a third term in office for President Muhammadu Buhari should count him out as his decision not to be involved in such was sacrosanct, final and irreversible.
In a statement signed by its Chairman, Niyi Akinsiju, on Monday, BMO said that those pushing the agenda should respect the President and stop the campaign.
Akinsiju said that his organisation had believed that Buhari’s declaration would put the matter to rest finally.
The statement reads, “We want to restate that President Muhammadu Buhari is an acclaimed democrat and a man of integrity.
“It is important to acknowledge that Buhari’s major concern is to rebuild the dilapidated infrastructure in the country, eradicate corruption and fight insecurity, thereby bequeathing a country that works for all citizens.
“As a man of integrity, he will not renege on his promise and neither will he bastardise the Nigerian constitution for personal gains, no matter the pressure.
“Definitely, third term is not on the agenda of the President as it runs contrary to the oath of office he swore to.”
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Oshiomhole Urges APC Governors To Implement N30,000 Minimum Wage
National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, has called on governors on the party’s platform to implement the N30,000 minimum wage and the consequential adjustments.
Oshiomhole made the plea on Monday in Jos at the Federal Government-Progressives Governors Forum parley in Jos, according to the News Agency of Nigeria.
He said, “As progressives, let us be the first to pay the new national minimum wage and not just the wage but also the consequential adjustments arising from it.
“Already, there are some proactive progressive governors that have taken steps to address this.
“I plead that you give this a priority because when other governors are fighting whether or not to pay, you will say that progressive governors have paid.
“Where there is will, there will certainly be a way.”
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The Mark Of The Beast By Femi Fani-Kayode
“If the Hate Speech Bill had been in place between 2013 and 2015, Lai Mohammed would not be alive today” – Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe.
My dear friend and brother Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe as courageous and truthful as ever, is absolutely right.
I would however, go a step further by adding that President Muhammadu Buhari himself, Bola Tinubu, Nasir el-Rufai, Rotimi Amaechi, Adams Oshiomole, Yemi Osinbajo and a good number of other leaders in the Federal Government and/or the ruling party would no longer be with us either if the bill had been in place between 2013 and 2015 because they would all have been hanged for their hateful words and inciting speeches.
Yet that was not the way of the Peoples Democratic Party and neither was it ever even discussed, contrived or contemplated because civilised leaders and enlightened political parties do not seek to kill others for airing their views and neither do they seek to supress dissent or destroy those that oppose them.
To his eternal credit President Goodluck Jonathan never locked up anyone for what they said, no matter how provocative, and neither did President Olusegun Obasanjo.
These were enlightened, educated, temperate, accommodating and civilised leaders who understood the importance of freedom of speech in a democracy and who were big and strong enough to resist the temptation of becoming unaccountable and sociopathic tyrants whose sole objective was to crush all their detractors, traducers and political enemies.
Sadly those that rule Nigeria today are from a different world and their mindset and disposition are not as reasonable, charitable or kind.
Simply put they are hard-hearted and wicked men with dark, vengeful, bitter, cruel and relentless souls. Not only are they modern-day tyrants but they are also a bunch of psychopathic and psychotic sadists who thrive on instilling fear on their hapless victims and on intimidating and oppressing the people that they seek to lead.
This brings me to the topic of this contribution. It is my view that the Social Media Bill and the Hate Speech Bill are the greatest threats to democracy and freedom of expression in the history of Nigeria.
They can be collectively described as the biblical ‘mark of the beast’ because their objective is to diminish our humanity, silence our voices and cage our creativity.
The former seeks to cripple freedom of expression on social media whilst the latter seeks to literally murder all of Buhari’s political enemies. Permit me to break it down in simple terms.
Under this proposed new law, if you speak against RUGA they will call it hate speech and hang you for it. If you speak against Fulanisation or Islamisation, they will do the same. If you speak against their tyranny, their abuse of power, their violation of court orders or their abysmal record in public office, they will do the same.
If you speak against their persecution of Christians, Southerners, Middle-Belters and members of the opposition, they will do the same. If you speak against their slaughter of IPOB youths and Shia Muslims, they will do the same.
If you speak against their domination and intimidation of the legislature and judiciary and the total breakdown and violation of the doctrine and principle of separation of powers, they will do the same.
If you speak against their control and regulation of the traditional media and the fourth estate of the realm, they will do the same. If you speak against their implementation of an insidious, frightful, ancient and unholy ethnic and religious agenda, they will do the same.
If you speak against the ruling party, its governors, ministers, officials, institutions or leaders, they will do the same. It goes on and on.
If the National Assembly makes the mistake of passing either or both of these two bills, Nigerians will suffer the consequences for many generations to come and human rights, liberty and freedom will be a thing of the past in our country.
I would urge the Nigerian people not to view this matter with their usual levity, indifference, complacency, docility, stoicism and lily-livered cowardice because the whole thing is an insidious attempt to silence their tongues, cage their spirits, capture their souls, break their ability to resist tyranny and evil and finally turn them into a nation of pliant little quislings, slaves and errand boys.
What we are witnessing is the final and greatest manifestation of the fascistic, totalitarian and authoritarian state which, like Hitler’s Germany, is creeping up and hiding under the guise of democracy.
Buhari and his friends want Nigeria to be like Stalin’s Soviet Union or, better still, like modern-day North Korea and Saudi Arabia.
These are countries where dissent, opposition to government, plurality of views, variety of opinion, individual rights and criticism of government policy and the maximum dictator is forbidden and where total power is concentrated in the hands of just one man. This is the classic Orwellian nightmare and it is unfolding before our very eyes.
If they get away with it and achieve their objectives, Nigeria is finished and within a matter of years we will become the blight of Africa, the pariah of the Third World, the laughing stock of the international community and the world’s largest, most brutal and most savage prison.
What a terrible fate for a people that are so trusting, so innovative, so resourceful, so resilient and so blessed.
Let us go a little deeper.
The leader of the Fulani herdsmen and President of Miyetti Allah, Abdullahi Bodejo, said he and his organisation are in full support of both the Social Media Bill and the Hate Speech Bill and that these proposed laws would allow those he described as “Fulani-haters” to be jailed and hanged.
Now we know, who is behind these bills and what their real intentions are!
These people came to power and installed a rabidly and virulent Fulani nationalist government through hate speech and the social media and now they are terrified of being removed by it.
And of course they are the ones who get to determine and define precisely what hate speech is.
To them, criticising and condemning Buhari, his incompetence, his racism, his religious bigotry and his atrocious governments policies or speaking out against the mass murder and genocide of non-Fulanis all over the country by Fulani herdsmen is “hate speech”.
To them, condemning Boko Haram and those that are secretly backing and supporting them is “hate speech”. To them, condemning that which is evil, wicked, unwholesome, barbaric and indefensible is “hate speech”.
To them, any mention of the President that does not put him in a favourable light or project him as Nigeria’s long-awaited messiah, is “hate speech”.
As a matter of fact, anyone that refuses to worship and praise Buhari or lick his rectum will ultimately be accused of “hate speech” and hanged and anyone who so much as criticises him on social media or elsewhere will be arrested and jailed.
That is where this man is taking Nigeria and he is using his minions in the National Assembly to achieve it.
He wishes to impose a culture of silence and fear in our nation and he wishes to intimidate and cow our people. To him, we are nothing but conquered slaves and serfs who do not deserve to have a voice.
To him, we are a broken, cowardly, conquered and subjugated people not worthy of life and liberty and who do not deserve to be treated as equals.
To him, we are vermin that must be subdued and put in their place. To him, we do not deserve the privileges, rights and liberties that accrue to other citizens of the world that come from other climes.
To him, we are not worthy of having a voice or a defender. To him, we must bow our heads, bend our knees and tremble in our beds each time he growls.
To him, we must accept subjugation, oppression, injustice and tyranny without expressing dissent or saying a word.
To him, when our people are slaughtered like flies by his Fulani brothers and core Northern Muslim colleagues, we must not complain and we dare not write about it, post about it, tweet about it or even cry about it.
That is Buhari’s shameful vision for Nigeria and that is the kind of society and culture that he is attempting to impose. And the slavish fool of a senator from Niger State that is proposing these bills is simply doing the President’s bidding.
Yet all this is nothing new. We have seen it many times before and it never lasts.
The Boers of South Africa passed a law to stop their victims from condemning ethnic cleansing. The Nazis in Germany passed a law to stop their victims from condemning genocide.
The Fulani in Nigeria are passing a law to stop their victims from condemning mass murder.
Yet hear this: whatever you say and do, we the people will never stop criticising and condemning your unholy agenda, racism, mass murder, genocide, ethnic cleansing, oppression, Fulanisation, islamisation and tyranny.
In order to have your way and silence us, you will have to hang us all!
Today belongs to you but tomorrow belongs to the people. In God’s way and in His own time, He shall rise up and deliver us, just as He rose up and delivered the children of Israel from the tyranny of Pharaoh.
Until then, we challenge you, nay we dare you to do your damnest worse. Christ in us: our hope and glory!
Permit me to end with the following: any senator or House member that supports either of these two bills should bow his or her head in shame and know this: we the people shall never forget or forgive you.
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Kenya Flood, Landslide Death Toll Rises To 52
The death toll from floods and landslides in Kenya over the weekend has climbed to 52, an official said on Monday, according to AFP.
Bodies were still being recovered in the Pokot region, 350 kilometres North-West of the capital Nairobi, after powerful walls of mud and rock swept away homes and buried people in their sleep on Saturday morning.
West Pokot governor, John Lonyangapuo, said a mother and her three children were among those found by rescuers sifting through the devastation.
“The number of people confirmed dead now is 52,” he told reporters on Monday, adding that some had been buried and others taken to the mortuary.
Kenya’s Interior Ministry said that army and police helicopters had been sent to West Pokot where the initial death toll was around 30.
Rescue efforts were delayed because roads and bridges had been cut off after streams turned into raging torrents, and Lonyangapuo said transport remained a problem.
The Kenya Meteorological Department has warned that more heavy rainfall is expected to lash parts of country until Tuesday, including in West Pokot, and urged people to be on high alert for landslides.
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BREAKING: Again, Court Threatens To Jail DSS Boss Over Continued Detention of Sowore, Mandate
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Monday threatened to imprison the Director-General of the Department of State Services, Yusuf Bichi, over the agency’s refusal to release detained activists Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare widely known as Mandate.
Recall that the court had on November 6, 2019 ordered the release of the activists after they met their bail conditions.
A notice of consequence of disobedience of court order (Form 48) marked FHC/ABJ/CR/235/2019 obtained by SaharaReporters was served on Bichi by the court’s bailiff.
The court document reads, “Take notice that unless you obey the directions contained in this court order of the Federal High Court, Abuja, made on November 6, 2019 which ordered you to release the defendants/applicants in suit no: FHC /ABJ /CR/ 235/2019 forthwith, you will be guilty of contempt of court and will be liable to be committed to prison.
“This court has been informed that you are yet to comply with the lawful order of the court by refusing to release the defendants/applicants namely Omoyele Stephen Sowore and Olawale Adebayo (Mandate) in your custody.
“You are hereby directed to comply with the court order forthwith or you will be guilty of contempt of court.”
Sowore, famed globally for exposing Nigeria’s corrupt politicians, was arrested in Lagos on August 3, 2019 for calling on Nigerians to take to the streets in peaceful demonstrations to demand a better country from the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The government is accusing him of insulting Buhari and planning to bring down his regime – charges observers around the world have described as baseless.
Despite two separate orders by the Federal High Court in Abuja directing his release after meeting stringent bail conditions, the DSS has refused to release Sowore, casting a huge shadow over the human rights record of Buhari’s regime.
Notice of Consequence of Disobedience of Court Order (Form 48) Marked FHC:ABJ:CR:235:2019 Obtained by Sahar… by Sahara Reporters on Scribd
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E2%80%93buhari No Room For Underperformance From APC Governors –Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he will not accept underperformance from any All Progressives Congress governor following the performance of the party during the 2019 general elections.
According to Buhari, governors must channel resources and come up with initiatives that will benefit Nigerians.
Buhari, who spoke through Secretary to Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, gave the submission on Monday in Jos, Plateau State, during the Federal Government/Progressives Governors Forum’s summit.
He said, “Early in 2019, Nigerians overwhelmingly re-elected me as President. That election was a referendum on not just my leadership but also on our party.
“Some state governors were re-elected while new ones also came on board.
“To whom much is given, much more is expected. It is therefore incumbent on this to meet the expectations of our teeming population.
“There should be no room for excuses and that is where the outcome of this parley becomes very critical.”
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Two Stolen Children Rescued In Anambra By Police
The police Anambra on Monday rescued two children allegedly stolen by two women in the state, a report by PUNCH said.
The children, who were stolen from Enugwu Aguleri in the Anambra East Local Government Area were rescued in Nkpor under Idemili Local Government Area of the state.
Handing over the children to their parents at the command’s headquarters on Monday, the police warned parents to be wary about the whereabouts of their children.
Spokesperson for the police in Anambra, Haruna Mohammed, confirmed the incident.
He said, “Following intelligence report, police detectives in Anambra State arrested two female suspects at Nkpor in Idemili North LGA of the state.
“Preliminary investigation by police detectives attached to Otoucha Division revealed that the two children were allegedly stolen from Enugwu Aguleri in Anambra East LGA by one Ani Chisom, 28, of Amuri in Nkanu-East LGA of Enugu State and Afamefuna Udodili, 32, of Orodo in Mbaitolu LGA of Imo State.
“Following the public announcement by the command, parents of the two kids from Enugwu Aguleri came and identified their children.
“The children have since reunited with their parents and the case is under investigation after which the suspects would be charged to court.”
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Medical Report Reveals Maina Healthy, Fit For Trial
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A medical report submitted to the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Monday by the Nigerian Correctional Services has declared embattled former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, fit for trial.
The medical examination conducted on the orders of the court, revealed that Maina’s health was well under control and can face trial.
However, his counsel, Esther Uzoma, argued that the medical record was not submitted to her and called on the court to disregard the report.
The court however, ignored Uzoma’s plea.
The trial judge, Justice Okon Abang, had earlier ordered a medical examination of the defendant by the medical director of the Nigerian Correctional Services after Maina through his lawyer had complained of being ill, a ChannelsTV report said.
Maina’s lawyer last week Thursday told a Federal High Court in Abuja that his client was bleeding during the trial and asked that his client be allowed to take his medication.
The advocate stated that his client cannot stand trial while the issue of his health status was still a question before the court.
He informed the court that it adjourned to receive a report from the NCS in the health status of Maina and since the agency asked for one week to turn in a report, it will only be appropriate to await the same.
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Woman Allegedly Sells Day-old Baby For N300,000
A 34-year-old woman, Chineye, on Monday appeared before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly selling her one-day-old female baby for N300, 000.
The alleged buyer, Happiness, 49, who was arraigned alongside the defendant, was charged with unlawful adoption of the baby, according to the News Agency of Nigeria.
The duo, whose residential addresses were not given, is facing a three-count of conspiracy, child trafficking and unlawful adoption.
They however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The prosecutor, ASP Ezekiel Ayorinde, told the court that the defendants committed the offences on October 4 at 10:00pm at Sari Iganmu, Orile, Lagos.
According to him, the duo conspired to engage in child trafficking.
Ayorinde told the court that the arrest of the two women followed information received by the police that Happiness was in possession of a baby suspected to have been stolen.
He said that the offences contravened Sections 269, 276 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015 (revised).
The Chief Magistrate, Mrs B. O. Osunsanmi, admitted the defendants to bail in the sum of N200,000 each with two sureties in like sum.
She ordered that the sureties must be gainfully employed and have evidence of two years’ tax payment to the Lagos State Government.
Osunsanmi adjourned the case until February 3, 2020 for substantive hearing.
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Man Saved From Jumping Into Lagos Lagoon By RRS Operatives
Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad have rescued a young man, who attempted to jump into the Lagos lagoon.
In a tweet via @rrslagos767, RRS disclosed that the incident happened on the Third Mainland Bridge.
The operatives said when he was interviewed, the young man “sounded incoherent.”
“He has been taken to Adekunle Police Station for his family to be contacted,” the tweet added.
RRS officers on 3MB just prevented this man from jumping into the Lagoon. He was interviewed and sounded incoherent. He has been taken to Adekunle Police Station for his family to be contacted. #TheGoodGuys pic.twitter.com/jiZ0Ip1YgY— Rapid Response Squad (@rrslagos767) November 24, 2019
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