Sahara Reporters Latest News Today Saturday 18th January 2020
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Nigeria’s Ex-AGF, Kanu Agabi, Petitions Malami, Insists Police Must Obey Court Orders On Peace Corps
Legal Practitioner and former Attorney-General of the Federation, Kanu Agabi (SAN), has called on current AGF and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami (SAN), to prevail on the Nigeria Police Force to obey court orders.This follows the agency’s incessant disobedience to various court orders standing in favour of the Peace Corps of Nigeria, a youth organisation in Nigeria.Though duly registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission and accorded recognition by the Nigerian Government and international bodies; the PCN has had a running battle with the police and other security agencies, winning all 15 legal cases instituted against it with over N50m standing against various agencies as cost awarded in favour of the corps.Despite subsisting judgments and orders from various courts, which were never upturned or appealed against, the Nigeria Police Force through the Ondo State Commissioner of Police, Undie Adie, on January 13, 2020 arrested the Ondo State Commandant of the corps, Alawoki Lukeman Oluwatobi, who was said to be at the CP’s office on a scheduled visit alongside other affiliate bodies of the National Youth Council of Nigeria, the apex youth body in the country.Agabi in his letter dated January 16, 2020, disclosed to AGF Malami that, “The essence of visiting the Commissioner of Police was to exploit ways of how youth leaders could compliment the effort of the police in curtailing crime in the state.”Immediately the NYCN leader introduced our client’s commandant in Ondo State, Alawoki Lukeman Oluwatobi, as member of the delegation, the Commissioner of Police instantly reacted by declaring that his organisation is illegal and that there was an existing circular to that effect from the Force Headquarters. He subsequently ordered immediate detention of the commandant.”The police also invaded the PCN office in Akure with heavy arms. Agabi averred that by sealing off the PCN’s office in Ondo, the police had violated the right of the organisation, which enjoys consultative status with the United Nations and the African Union to acquire and own immovable property and disrupted its lawful activities.Agabi is relying on section 150(1) of the 1999 constitution of Nigeria, as amended, to urge the AGF to direct the police boss “to comply with the subsisting and valid orders of various courts of competent jurisdiction in respect of this matter but not limited to the unsealing of our client’s offices nationwide”.
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Football Film Festival Beams Searchlight On Corruption, Exploitation
Football as a tool for social change and the issue of corruption which is endemic in African Football affecting the potency of the beautiful game was the subject of focus at this year’s African Football Film Festival.
The three-day festival was declared open on Thursday at the Marturion Cinema in Igando area of Lagos where over 100 young male and female footballers had the opportunity to discuss the effect of corruption on their football career and society at large with some social change advocates using creative works like film and documentary as case study.
Ghana’s award winning investigative Journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas’ documentary “Betraying the game” Was the curtain raiser for the festival.
This 55-minute expose of corrupt elements in the game of football in Africa was a shattering revelation, which brought some top football administrators like former Ghana Football Association President Kwesi Nyantakyi to a disgraceful end of their football administrative career.
Executive Director of Human and Environmental Development Agenda, a social change and human rights advocacy group, Olanrewaju Suraj, was one of the facilitators at the festival.
He reinforced he need for a holistic approach in tackling the problem bedevilling Nigerian football and by extension sports.
He said, “The way forward is for every stakeholder to come together and fashion out how we want to reposition the sports sector in Nigeria, it is in comatose and what you see right now is facade.”
Eze Alloysius, founder of the not-for-profit organisation that put together the African Football Film Festival in it’s fourth year, said they will work more with stakeholders in sports to stem the tide of corruption in the sector.
Meanwhile, screening of some of the films lined up for the festival will hold at Gowon Estate, Festac Town in Lagos and Abuja at a later date.
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Ondo Police Arrest Man Posing As Kidnapper Of Missing One-year-old Boy
Chibuzor Elike, a 39-year-old man posing as kidnapper of the toddler, who went missing at a popular church in Akure, Ondo State, Eniola Gold Kolawole, has been arrested by the police.
Elike was arrested at Port Harcourt, Rivers State, while trying to swindle members of the public by claiming to have the missing child in possession.
Spokesperson for the police in Ondo, Mr Femi Joseph, told SaharaReporters that Elike wasn’t behind the disappearance of the boy as he claimed.
He said the suspect was already in custody of the State Criminal Investigation Department undergoing interrogation.
He stated, “Chibuzor Elike is now in our custody and he confessed during interrogation that he heard about the kidnap of the boy via the social media and called some people.
“He told us that he sent text messages to scam after claiming people that he had Kolawole Gold in his custody and will only release him after collecting N800,000.
“He said he was only looking for a cheap way to make money as he knew nothing about the kidnap or whereabouts of the little boy.”
Joseph disclosed that the suspect would soon be charged for prosecution.
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Military Attacks Bayelsa Community Over Killing Of Personnel
In what appeared like a reprisal attack, operatives of the Joint Task Force, Operation Delta Safe, have invaded Bilabiri community in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State over the death of some officers earlier this month.
A community member told SaharaReporters that no fewer than 19 gunboats loaded with soldiers invaded the area in the early hours of Friday.
According to reports, many thatched houses and buildings believed to harbour those behind the killings of the naval officers have been razed down while residents have also fled their homes.
Military authorities are yet to comment on the issue.
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Malami: Bring It On… Or Go To Blazes! By Bayo Oluwasanmi
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All things considered, General Muhammadu Buhari’s regime is an anathema. General Buhari as President, continues to govern Nigeria as a nation where the lion is led by monkeys.
Buhari’s attorney general of the federation Abubakar Malami, is one of the most infamous members of Buhari’s cabinet. Malami always search for a banana peel to step on. When he can’t find one to step on, he supplies his own. While we are yet to recover from his juvenile and primitive interpretation and application of court orders that granted Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare bail, he came out like a confused lost cow and declared Amotekun illegal.
Amotekun is the security outfit established by the six governors of south west states to protect lives and properties of their citizens. Amotekun was conceived and birthed due to the abysmal failure of Buhari’s regime to secure life and properties of Nigerians. Political science 101 informs us that any government that fails to discharge the primary function of protecting life and properties of its citizens should cease to exist.
Only cowheads like Malami, Ibrahim Babangida and other backward feudal herdsmen terrorists need be reminded that as oxygen is to life, so also Amotekun is oxygen to Yoruba people for security. Malami, from time to time, believes administration of justice should be rationed selectively to different parts of the federation. He sees the application of justice as his prerogative to dispense to the ethnic group or groups he favours or the ones his northern terrorists recommend.
Malami is the worst unintelligent and professionally crude attorney general in modern Nigerian history. Malami’s ethical and professional flagrant dishonesty in handling important national legal and constitutional issues that border on rule of law, equal justice, and the upholding of the constitution, shows how crooked the justice system has become under Buhari.
At every opportunity, Malami has managed to rewrite the constitution and redefine our laws: RUGA, court orders on bail, the supremacy of SSS, the illegal detention of Nigerians. The list goes on.
Malami has installed two systems of justice in the country – one for the south and another for the north with the north as superior to the south. As far as he’s concerned, the north should be treated with special favour. Few examples will suffice: the security outfits of Hisbah and JTF in the north are legal and constitutional. Whereas Amotekun in the south is illegal and unconstitutional. Miyetti Allah is legal, but IPOB is a terrorist group.
Malami’s ethical nihilism, his utter indifference to ordinary norms of professional behaviour, and his prostitution of justice, spell doom for the unity and co-existence of multi ethnic, multi culture, multi religion of different groups that make up Nigeria. Malami as the arrow head of northern feudal jihadists, is carrying out the larger agenda of the northern emirates: to suppress, oppress and subdue the south and Islamise Nigeria. This is why he’s so concerned about the security and safety of northerners. But when it comes to the security of life and properties in the south, he’s not affected. He could care less!
Malami has insufficient intelligence experience. As a lawyer and attorney general, he lacks the strong intelligence background to serve as attorney general. He does not represent the collective view of Nigeria’s intelligence community that believes in a fair, objective, and impartial one justice system for different ethnic groups in the country.
Justice security are key to a united Nigeria. Without justice and security, there can be no peace. Without peace, there’s no Nigeria. Malami cannot sit in the comfort of his Abuja office and decree who has the right to live, who to wipe out, who Fulani herdsmen terrorists to kill or spare, where to deploy the police, which security agencies are legal or illegal. Yorubas will defend Amotekun with their last breath. No one can stop Amotekun. Amotekun is here and here for good and for life. Malami, bring it on… or go to blazes!
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Group Gives Tinubu 24 Hours To Disclose Position On Amotekun
An association, Save Lagos Group, has given former Lagos State governor and national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, 24 hours to reveal his position on the newly established South-Western security network known as ‘Operation Amotekun’.
Tinubu has remained silent on Amotekun since its launch by South-West governors last week.
Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), had on Tuesday declared the outfit as illegal while the South-West governors have remained unfazed.
In a statement on Friday, Convener of the group, Adeniyi Sulaiman, said they were giving Tinubu 24 hours to speak up.
Sulaiman, according to a report by PUNCH to be courageous regardless of his rumoured Presidential ambition.
The activist rubbished threats by Northern groups like Miyetti Allah, which stated that supporting Amotekun may cost the South-West the Presidency in 2023.
He commended several personalities like Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka; Afenifere chieftain, Chief Ayo Debanjo; legal practitioner, Femi Falana, SAN; Chief Olu Falae, Otunba Gani Adams and several others for speaking up for people of the region.
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Petrol Tanker Explodes In Onitsha
A petrol tanker on Friday exploded at Upper Iweka, Onitsha, Anambra State.
Confirming the incident, Sector Commander of Federal Road Safety Corps in the state said the tanker loaded with 33,000 litres of petrol with no registration number caught fire about 2:30am.
No casualty was recorded.
He said, “The tanker caught fire due to electrical fault in the engine of the vehicle.
“But fire servicemen, FRSC officials and policemen responded promptly and the fire was extinguished. No casualty or injury was recorded.
“Officers of the FRSC are diverting traffic and cordoning the scene to avoid running into the carcass and the fire service vehicles.”
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TCN Restores Power Supply After System Collapse
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The Transmission Company of Nigeria has announced that the national grid had been fully restored after a system collapse, which occurred at 4:15pm on Thursday.
According to TCN’s General Manager, Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah, full restoration of the collapsed grid, which occurred while the grid was recovering from an earlier partial system slump, was fully achieved at 2:19am on Friday.
Further revealing that the grid was still supplying power to Port-Harcourt, Aba, Omoku, Yenegoa, Afam, among others at the time of collapse, it stated that the supply was through Afam IV, Rivers IPP and Omoku power stations.
She said, “Effort immediately commenced to synchronise other parts of the network but as restoration reached an advanced stage, the situation suddenly degenerated into a collapse of the nation’s grid.
“Full restoration of the grid re-commenced immediately after the incident and by 10pm yesterday, most parts of the nation had been reconnected to the grid.
“At 2:19am, however, the grid was fully restored.”
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JUST IN: Two-storey Building Collapses In Lagos Island
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A two-storey building has collapsed around Agarawu area of Lagos Island, Lagos State.
Eyewitnesses say the building collapsed due to lack of maintenance.
Earlier on Friday, another building at 12 Alasepe Street, off Community Road, Ago Palace Way, Okota, Lagos, collapsed as well.
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PDP Holds Emergency NEC Meeting, Plans to Protest Ihedioha’s Removal
Following the sack of Emeka Ihedioha as Imo State governor by the Supreme Court, the Peoples Democratic Party on Friday held an emergency National Executive Committee meeting to deliberate on the next line of action.
The party’s National Chairman, Uche Second us, who spoke during the emergency NEC meeting on Friday, proposed that the party embarks on a protest against the judgment of the apex court that sacked Ihedioha.
Secondus said that the mandate given to the party by Imo electorates had been snatched from them.
According to him, the declaration of the court producing candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Hope Uzodinma, as Imo State governor was a miscarriage of justice.
Chairman, PDP Board of Trustees, Senator Walid Jubrin, who also expressed his displeasure, said Nigeria is at ‘war.’
He stated that the party had not recovered from the alleged injustice.
He said, “Nigeria is getting to an end if we continue this way.”
Also, the 2019 PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, said the party and the G34 fought and brought democracy to Nigeria.
He said, “Our party governed very well from 1999 to 2015. As true democrats, we handed over party to the ruling party, hoping that it will deepen democracy, alas we have been disappointed.”
Atiku called for the constitution of a committee to review what happened at the last election and make necessary recommendations.
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