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Fani-Kayode Sent Security Aides To Further Threaten Me After Verbal Assault During Conference –Daily Trust Journalist
A journalist with Daily Trust newspaper, Eyo Charles, has shed more light into what transpired during a press briefing with a former Minister of Aviation in Nigeria, Femi Fani-Kayode.
In a viral video, Fani-Kayode, who recently took a tour of some South-South and South-East states, described the journalist as ‘very stupid’ for asking who was bankrolling his trip.
Reacting via a statement, Fani-Kayode said he had no apology to offer, insisting that the journalist’s comment was insulting.
However, in a statement on Tuesday, the reporter gave a full account of what transpired during the media briefing.
Charles said the former minister sent one of his security aides to further threaten him after the press conference.
He said, “It took the intervention and pleas from Chief Press Secretary to Governor Ayade, Mr Christian Ita, and other journalists before the ex-minister would leave the Daily Trust reporter, saying, ‘You can go ahead and write your rubbish. I have marked you’.
“When he returned to his suite, he sent one of his security aides to further threaten me. The man accosted me, saying what effrontery did I have to ask such a stupid question, and what was my next action.
“Sensing how tensed up the atmosphere was, I said to the man, ‘I had apologised to the ex-minister. If the usage of the word ‘bankroll’ was offensive to him, then I withdraw it. What more should I do?’ I then sneaked away.
“Now the ex-minister is circulating a doctored video, claiming I was rude to him. What could be farther from the truth! I have a modest background and well trained as a high priest to respect people of all standing. Please note, too, that I am a bishop in the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, which exalted stand can never allow me to descend to insulting public figures or anyone.
“This is also to colleagues that have called to express unhappiness that I did not ‘give it back to FKK.”
He said Fani-Kayode had given the go-ahead to be asked any questions, but when it came to that on the “bankrolling”, he lost his cool.
Charles added, “Time for question, Christian Ita moderated. But Olanrewaju interjected and sought permission from the ex-minister that questions be limited to what FKK had said. But FKK himself said there was no problem at all. That we should ask any manner of question.
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“Many asked questions. Gill Nsa of The Nation, for instance, asked whether his national tour had any political undertone such as having presidential ambition. A reporter from the state-owned TV asked whether some of the 33 projects he said Ayade had embarked upon, such as the 278km superhighway from Bakassi to the border of Benue State as well as the deep sea port were not, in fact, white elephant projects.
“FKK disagreed strongly and said what Ayade needs is the federal government to take over the projects and that Nigerians would see that the superhighway for instance will boost trade and integrated Nigerians.
“Now the question that would break the camel’s back! When I was recognised, I asked, “Sir, please you did not disclose to us who is bankrolling you….” FFK did not allow me to land with the question when he threw caution to the wind and shouted at me, and said the press briefing was over.
“He then rained terrible abuses on me, calling me unprintable names; that I was sponsored to come and ask and insult him.”
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Ex-CBN Deputy Governor, Mailafia, Resigns From NIPSS
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A former Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr Obadiah Mailafia, has resigned his post as a directing staff at the National institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Jos, Plateau State.
The news was confirmed by his lawyer, Yakubu Bawa, on Tuesday.
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Mailafia’s resignation has been linked to his comments on insecurity and killings in Southern Kaduna during a radio interview, The Nation reports.
During the radio programme, Mailafia alleged that a Northern governor was commander of Boko Haram, which led to him being invited twice by the Department of State Services in Jos for questioning before the police invited him to Abuja.
On Monday, the former CBN Deputy Governor approached a high court in Plateau for enforcement of his rights after declining the police invitation.
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I Owe Nobody Apology, Fani-Kayode Says As Outrage Greets Verbal Assault Of Nigerian Journalist
Femi Fani-Kayode, former Minister of Aviation in Nigeria, has said that he owed nobody apology for verbally attacking a journalist during a press conference.
SaharaReporters had reported how Fani-Kayode attacked Eyo Charles, a journalist with Daily Trust newspaper, who asked him a question during a press briefing in Calabar, Cross River State, last week.
Charles had asked the former minister if his recent trips to some South-South and South-West states were sponsored when Fani-Kayode rained verbal assualt at him.
The ex-minister said, “I could see from your face before you got here, how stupid you are. Don’t ever talk to me like that. Who do you think you’re talking to. Bankrol who? You think I am one of those ones you… from who, when, how? You have a small mind, very small mind. Don’t judge me by your own standards.”
The development has since triggered reactions among Nigerians with most condemning Fani-Kayod’s action.
But reacting via a statement on Twitter, Fani-Kayode insisted that he had no apologies to offer for his action.
He said, “During my tour of the South and after a long and successful press conference in Calabar, Cross Rivers State, a journalist put up his hand for the last question and said: Well we do not know who is bankrolling you.
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“Below is my response and I have no apology to offer for it. This is not a question but an assertion and an insult. And if this insulting assertion were made before (Donald) Trump or OBJ (Olusegun Obasanjo), I know how they would have reacted.
“The young man apologised to me during the press conference and sent his apologies to me after the conference. I have accepted his apologies in good faith and moved on.”
Meanwhile, the Nigeria Union of Journalists has condemned the action of the former minister
NUJ in a statement by its President, Chris Isiguzo, described Fani-Kayode as “an intolerant, unstable person”, who does not want his activities scrutinised by the media.
He said, “By denigrating the journalist, Fani-Kayode has exposed himself the more as an intolerant and unstable person who will not want his activities closely scrutinised by the media.
“It is instructive to remind the likes of Fani-Kayode that it is the constitutional right of journalists to monitor and keep a check on people and institutions in power.
“By delving into politics and holding political office, Fani-Kayode is very conversant with the watchdog role of the media.
“For him to have embarked on assessment of projects in some states, even though we are yet to be told under what platform he is doing so, it is proper for the media to hold him to account for his actions and decisions.
“His reaction was totally unacceptable, dishonourable and reprehensible and we demand for retraction of his untoward, irritating and awkward utterances which negate simple decorum and civility.”
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Nigerian Army Arrests 160 Suspected Bandits, Kills Three In Zamfara
Nigerian troops under Operation Sahel Sanity, have arrested at least 160 suspected bandits and killed three in Zamfara State.
Acting Director, Media Operations, Brigadier General Benard Onyeuko, disclosed this in Faskari town on Tuesday.
Onyeuko said the troops uncovered a hideout at Gadan Zaima where the suspected bandits were arrested.
He maintained that the arrested suspects were currently in their custody undergoing preliminary investigation and would soon be handed over to relevant security agencies for further action.
He said, “On 23 August 2020, troops conducted a well-coordinated intelligence-based operation leading to the raid of an illegal mining site located along the Gadan Zaima-Zuru Road in the Bukuyyum Local Government Area of Zamfara State which also serve as bandits’ hideout
“During the operation, troops arrested 150 suspects and recovered 20 locally-fabricated Dane guns. One of the suspects was neutralised while trying to escape.”
Onyeuko further explained that more bandits were arrested and three killed on August 20 and 21 in different parts of the state
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What If Femi Fani-Kayode, Mr Short Fuse, Was Buhari? By Fredrick Nwabufo
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Femi Fani-Kayode makes conceit solemn. He is the sui generis of narcissism. His arrogance dovetails with his foul temper and cutting tongue. There is no shade of modesty, temperance and grace in the son of Remilekun Fani-Kayode (Fani Power). The mealy-mouthed politician takes the “H” in hubris. He is the undisputed crown prince of double-speak.
I watched the video of where Fani-Kayode gave a dressing-down to a journalist who asked him an innocuous question which “the Almighty” found irritating and pesky, “Who is bankrolling your tour?” That was it! Femi emptied the content of his pugnacious buccal cavity on the journalist. He called him stupid and expended minutes chopping the reporter to insignificant bits.
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Femi said he had a ‘’short fuse’’ and asked the reporter to size him up because – ‘’…I am a former minister, lawyer…. Who do you think you are talking to?’’
Femi’s diatribe: “Do you know who you are talking to? What type of insulting question is that? Which bankroll, to do what? Who can give me money for anything? Who do you think you are talking to? Go and report yourself to your publisher. I could see from your face before you got here, how stupid you are. Don’t ever talk to me like that. Who do you think you’re talking to? Bankroll who? You think I am one of those ones you… from who, when, how? You have a small mind, very small mind.”
“Who is bankrolling your tour?’’ The non-toxic question that bled Femi’s poison. Femi is not a disguisable character for integrity. He is notorious in political circles as a mercenary who can serve anyone and any purpose as long as his belly gets filled. His former boss, Olusegun Obasanjo, whom he turned against after Goodluck Jonathan picked him up to wait at the table, put a stamp of affirmation on Femi’s devious constitution.
Obasanjo once said: “Femi is my boy. If you give him food, he will sing for you?’’
Femi was vicious on former president Jonathan – not until he was appointed to be the spokesman of the re-election campaign of the former president. But he spoke to Jonathan to defeat in 2015.
Recently, Femi embarked on a PR tour of PDP states. He travelled to Zamfara where the governor treated him to the niceties of princes. The former minister who is a known adversary of the north – as his writings and public statements show – geared into duplicity afterwards untamed by his pursuit of pleasures.
He once put the trouble with Nigeria on the pouch of the Igbo. In his article of August 2013, ‘’The bitter truth about the Igbo’’, Femi wrote of his intimate congress with the wife of the late Odumegwu Ojukwu — an extraneous piece of information that he divulged to spite the Igbo.
He did not camouflage his bigotry and hate for the Igbo. But he started cantillating differently when the Buhari administration came to power. He needed alliances from the south-east to confront the ‘’northern government’’ which pulled him to court on allegations of corruption. He became an abetting voice, albeit hypocritical, against the perceived grievances of the region. Not that he really cared about Ndi Igbo, but in President Muhammadu Buhari, Femi and a few Igbo politicians displaced from the dining table, found a common enemy.
Femi lives only for himself. He is vacant of character and principles. He stands for nothing and falls for everything as long as he gets fed. It is in this context that the question (who is bankrolling your tour?) of the journalist to Femi, should be situated. Why was he so incensed by the question? He could have simply torpedoed whatever the insinuations on the tour are with an intelligent and polite answer. Perhaps, he felt he was being ratted out? His outburst busts his pretensions.
Femi is critical of anyone who does not favour him, and his approach to opposition is both savage and irrational. He once called Buhari “an evil tyrant”. But it is clear; the politician would have been a more ruthless tyrant if he was sitting on the throne. He pleasures himself insulting other people, but he brooks no opposition. He can throw blows, but cannot take them. That is the making of an aboriginal tyrant.
However, Nigerian journalists must redeem themselves from the curse of “brown envelopes”. Journalism is a noble profession, deserving of respect. Some journalists act like peasants before politicians for crumbs. So, naturally, they cannot stand up to them. But what is journalism when journalists are afraid of asking critical questions? We have to redeem ourselves. The profession is fast losing dignity and appeal.
Fredrick Nwabufo is a writer and journalist
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Evicted 85-year-old Retired Soldier Gives El-Rufai 24-hour Ultimatum To Repair Demolished House, Demands Compensation
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An 85-year-old retired staff sergeant of the Nigeria Army, Paul Ojo, who was evicted from his residence, has given Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai, and a 24-hour notice to repair his house.
He also demanded compensation for the assault and trauma he suffered at the hands of armed policemen, who carried out his eviction.
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SaharaReporters had reported how armed policemen allegedly assaulted and evicted Ojo, his 75-year-old wife, Veronica, and two sons from their house at Block L12, KAPWA Quarters, Kabala Costain, Kaduna on August 17.
In a letter dated August 21, his lawyer, Kimi Livingstone Appah, asked the governor to repair the demolished house and resettle his client within 24 hours.
Ojo also demanded the payment of N50m as general damages for the psychological trauma his family had passed through.
Appah said his client remained the rightful owner of the property but the team led by Samuel Jacob Madaki went ahead to forcefully take over the house without a court order or notice.
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The letter reads, “Following from the above facts, we demand the following: That within 24 hours, you authorise your agent; Samuel Jacob Madaki, to repair the house he supervised the demolition and settle our client back to their premises.
“That you cause to be published a written apology over the act and action of your agents. That you pay the sum of N 50, as general damages for the psychological trauma you subjected our clients.
“Note kindly, that should you fail to strictly follow through the demands as stated in paragraph 26 above, we shall carry out our clients’ further instructions and note please, this letter also serves as a pre-action notification.”
Appah explained that the committee in charge of public auction of government residential houses reassigned the property in question to one Mr Abbas Mohammed Ango without cancelling or revoking Ojo’s bid and the initial payment he had made over the property.
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President Buhari Lists Nine Focus Areas For Remaining Part Of Tenure
President Muhammadu Buhari has listed nine areas his administration would focus on during his remaining years in office.
Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to Buhari, Femi Adesina, made this known in a statement on Tuesday while the President received letters of credence from ambassadors/high commissioners of eight countries at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Buhari in the statement said he would focus more on giving Nigerians quality education, health care, power supply and poverty reduction.
The statement reads in part, “In our efforts to achieve a realistic domestic and foreign policy, as well as national development, we have identified the following nine priority areas to guide our policy directions over the next few years.
“Build a thriving and sustainable economy; enhance social inclusion and reduce poverty; enlarge agricultural output for food security and export; attain energy sufficiency in power and petroleum products and expand transport and other infrastructural development.
“Expand business growth, entrepreneurship and industrialisation; expand access to quality education, affordable healthcare and productivity of Nigerians; build a system to fight corruption, improve governance and create social cohesion; and improve security for all.”
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RULAAC Condemns Suspension Of Recruitment Requirements By Inspector-General Of Police
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The Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre has condemned the suspension of entry requirements for applicants willing to join the Nigeria Police Force as constables.
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, had earlier in a signal dated August 24 directed that no candidate should be disqualified irrespective of their physical appearance, age and qualification.
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But RULAAC in a statement on Wednesday said such action would open doors for criminals, bandits and terrorists to be recruited into the police.
The statement reads, “The suspension of entry requirements as stipulated in the police regulation at this time in our national history when unemployment rate has jumped to 27.1%; and when bad governance has produced many criminals in the system- will open the room wider for marauding terrorists, bandits, kidnappers and criminals of all hue to more easily find their way into the police and the citizens will be the worse for it.
“Since some of the recruits do not possess the minimum educational qualifications, they can neither read nor write, nor can they cope with the mental rigours of basic police training at police colleges. They are unable to comprehend simple concepts of human rights and human relations.
“Unfortunately, it is mainly police personnel from this category that come in regular contact with the ordinary citizens on a day to day basis and who are deployed to carry out law enforcement duties including arrests and public order policing. It is for this reason that they deploy reckless and disproportionate force, and easily open fire at unarmed protesters as their first response to public disorder.”
Meanwhile, the police boss has denied directing that entry requirements be shelved, saying no IGP had the power to do so.
Adamu in a statement on Tuesday said that all screening officers were directed to allow all applicants participate in the exercise by using established benchmarks contained in the Police Act.
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Economic War: Building New African Nation Using Power Of Private Sector By Kelvin Ogbonna
Governments across the African continent have tried their best but failed and now it is time for Africans to ignore them and build a new nation through the power of the private sector.
Africa is where it is today because governments have been the ones making all economic decisions and this has not brought any economic growth for years.
The private sector, which contributes 80 per cent of the continent’s economic growth, has the power to transform societies, boost prosperity and enable citizens thrive. This economic growth benefits the poorest members of society, accompanied by more and better jobs, which is one of the main routes out of poverty.
The Black Wall Street through its Economic War has been at the forefront in helping Africa transform its economy and create productive jobs by supporting investments to build essential infrastructure, helping workers develop skills and facilitating greater access to markets for citizens and businesses through economic integration.
The Economic War, which is led by Charles N Lambert, Chairman of the Black Wall Street, is already bringing together private sector, African multilateral institutions to identify opportunities and address constraints for changing the investment landscape in Africa.
Lambert believes that all the private sector needs is to collaborate in connecting African businesses to better market opportunities, creating vibrant and competitive value chain, including production, processing, and distribution, which are key pathways to creating jobs and improving GDP.
Building a new nation using the power of the private sector is targeted at diverting the over $203bn on capital flight to Africa, retaining this money in Africa, making Africans buy African products, supporting African businesses! And only the private sector can do this.
The Black Wall Street is committed to working to help ensure that the continent has the ability to build private investments, create quality jobs, and realise better development outcomes for people where they live.
Africa is home to the world’s youngest population and is ready for an economic transformation that could change the trajectory of the continent into a new nation. A rapid transition to an economy run by the private sector can boost productivity, delivering jobs in the process.
The BWS offers Africa its very first economic ideology known as the “Ubuntu Spirit” or ‘Compassionate Capitalism’ if you like.
This ideology, according to Lambert, is a massive opportunity for those, who believe in Africa and have been in the management level operations but couldn’t just ever make it to that prestigious chief executive officer level either because the opportunities didn’t come or racism or sexism or prejudice stopped them from hitting that high-level corporate ceiling.
BWS demonstrates this in 28 basic human needs apps designed to bridge the development divide between developed and underdeveloped countries. It believes it is time to restore the image of black people everywhere in the world.
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The Disinvitation Of El-Rufai By NBA By Tony Ademiluyi
Mallam Nasir el-Rufai came into limelight in 1999 when democracy returned back to the country after a 16-year hiatus of military misrule.
The then President, Olusegun Obasanjo, made el-Rufai the Director-General of the Bureau for Public Enterprises, which was saddled with the gargantuan responsibility of disposing some of the assets hitherto held by the government to private investors.
It was as the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory that his name became permanently etched in the minds of many Nigerians as he had the ambition of restoring the original master plan of the city. Many houses including those owned by prominent Nigerians were bulldozed as the then diminutive minister spared no one and took no prisoners.
Some of his die-hard supporters pushed his name forward as a possible successor to Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in 2007 after the alleged failure of the latter’s third term bid. For some reasons best known to Baba Iyabo as the former President is fondly called, he settled for the late Umaru Musa Yar’adua, who was then governing Katsina State.
El-Rufai went into political winter for eight years after his former boss’s presidency and he was hounded by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to give an account of his eight-year stewardship especially as the minister. He went on to write his memoir – ‘The Accidental Public Servant’ which was an interesting read even though some critics accused him of hagiography.
He became governor of Kaduna State in 2015 after defecting to the All Progressive Congress from the Peoples Democratic Party where he was one of the foundation members.
Kaduna – the melting pot for many Northerners, has been under siege by Fulani herdsmen and bandits. Southern Kaduna where the majority of Christians reside has been under severe attack since 2011. Many indigenes of there have been mindlessly slaughtered and hundreds of thousands displaced from their ancestral homes.
The bone of contention is about lands and the desire by the Fulani settlers to create emirates there.
One would have expected el-Rufai to act as the father of all but instead his divisive and bigotry side has shown in the handling of the crisis. He went as far as accusing leaders of Southern Kaduna of masterminding the killings so as to continue to get paid by the government alluding to an allegation that the practice was popular before he came into office. Up till date he has refused to visit that part of the state.
The technical committee for conference planning of the Nigerian Bar Association decided to invite el-Rufai as a keynote speaker for their forthcoming conference scheduled from 26 -29 August 2020.
In the opinion of the NBA, he was well suited to speak on the subject matter as Kaduna is the hub of many tribes and the two major religions of the country.
Some members kicked against his invitation opining that he had no respect for the rule of law and that his statements with regards to the crisis in his state were rather inflammatory and dismissed him as a bigot.
While the NBA may have their shortcomings especially with regards to their last elections which saw one of the presidential contestants, Dele Adesina (SAN) cry foul, I totally agree with them for rescinding their earlier invitation to the diminutive Kaduna state governor.
El-Rufai has proven not to be the father of all with regards to the way and manner he is handling the crisis in Southern Kaduna. His statements as earlier written above shows that he is petty and vindictive. Don’t human lives matter? Are the indigenes of Southern Kaduna second class citizens in their homes? Has he condemned the ploy by the Fulanis residents there to subject the real owners of the land to eternal servitude and suppression in their attempt to create an emirate there? Is he too big to visit a part of the state that has been surreptitiously Balkanized by frequent pogroms? These are critical questions urgently begging for answers to which he must give reasonable answers too.
The NBA is a highly respected professional body and shouldn’t be the platform for a wannabe ‘intellectual’ in the person of el-Rufai to speak effusively on a topic that he has no genuine intentions of implementing in his base. Charity should indeed begin at home. He shouldn’t just talk the talk; he should also walk the talk as action speaks louder than words goes the age-long aphorism.
The apology to el-Rufai by the outgoing NBA President, Paul Usoro (SAN), is rather unfortunate as it casts a gargantuan slur on the personality of the Bar’s numero uno helmsman. Why couldn’t Usoro stand by the decision of the NBA? What was the sense in eating his words and going back to his vomit? It’s really tragic for a learned man to behave like a school lad who has been reprimanded by his teacher for misconduct.
The NBA’s platform – a veritable tool for social change shouldn’t be graced by individuals who have disregard for the sanctity of human lives and peaceful coexistence with people of other tribes or even nationalities.
The new slogan globally is that of diversity and inclusiveness which has no place for bigots and small minded people. The beauty of the United States is that it is a land peopled by citizens and nationals of divergent tribes, creeds and religions. Agreed, the history of both Nigeria and the US is different in the sense that in the latter, there was the voluntary amalgamation of people who left their former places of abode and thronged in droves to the New World; that of Nigeria was through the use of force in the 1914 amalgamation by Lord Frederick Lugard. It is never too late to still live in peace as we must permanently exorcise the ghost of Lugard which still haunts us till this day.
I hope that the incoming leadership of Olumide Akpata whose mandate was made possible by many younger lawyers upholds el-Rufai’s disqualification so as not to send the wrong signal to the rest of Nigerians that bigotry pays.
It is high time that Nigerians ‘take it back’, apologies to citizen journalist, Omoyele Sowore. We shouldn’t create platforms for divisive elements to spew out gibberish in the name of freedom of speech and expression. We recall that the 1994 Rwandan genocide which consumed millions of its citizens in just three months was as a result of hate speech accentuated through the power of the radio by both Hutu and Tutsi leaders.
Well done NBA for a stitch in time saves nine!
Tony Ademiluyi edits www.africanbard.com and wrote from Lagos
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