An accident that involved a truck belonging to Zeberced limited, on Friday, claimed multiple lives including a solider and 19 vehicles along Abuja-Keffi expressway in Abuja.
Preliminary investigation confirmed that the accident which happened at about 10:30 am was as a result of break failure on the side of the truck.
Eyewitness told Saturday Sun that the driver was descending the Kugbo hill when he realized that his break system have failed.
“It was obvious that he couldn’t control the vehicle anymore and instead of heading to nearby ditch to stop the truck, he took the wrong decision of using people and vehicles as break. It was catastrophic because innocent lives were lost and vehicles destroyed,” he explained.
Nyanya Unit Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corp (FRSC), Micheal Arinzeagu, who led the rescue operation narrated what happened.
He said: “There was minor crash earlier between two motorists who were unable to settle themselves peacefully. They parked and were claiming right. In the course of the argument, a soldier on a motorcycle stopped and tried to make peace among them. Before then, the traffic had built up.
While the soldier was trying to make peace, the zeberced truck that had already failed break, apparently loaded with chippings, was descending the Kugbo hill.
“As the driver could not control the vehicle again, he begun to crush vehicles along the way. Unfortunately, the soldier that was trying to make and many others were crushed by the truck.”
When asked on the number of people that died, the FRSC official said, “We could not give exact number of people that died because we were busy trying to rescue those that were still alive.
“We are yet to visit the hospitals where they were taken to. But we counted 19 vehicles including the Abuja high capacity bus (elrufai bus) and several other expensive vehicles that was damaged,” he explained.
He appreciated the combined effort of the Police, Civil Defence, VIO and others that led to quick response to the occasion.
I greet you in the name of Allah and congratulate you on the return of your son Yusuf after an apparently successful medical tourism to a country better managed than Nigeria. When I saw Yusuf’s smiling face on television, I recalled the gloomy faces of my schoolmates picked up by moonlight that fateful night as we were being driven by our abductors to a land unknown after they forcefully took us from our school.
The excitement on your son’s face as he returned back to a life of luxury whereby he uses expensive motorbikes to drive away boredom contrasted sharply with the dreadful melancholy on the faces of my schoolmates as we were being taken in a rickety truck to a life of certain misery. I saw Yusuf being surrounded by ministers, government officials and a state governor, each person trying hard to identify with his joy. This was almost the same way our abductors surrounded us, each of them trying to identify closely with any of my schoolmates he found most sexually attractive.
When I saw the mirth and glow on the face of your wife over the recovery of her only son from a serious accident, I remembered the crying and tear-ridden face of my mother when they showed her on television. I heard that your wife thanked Nigerians for their prayers and concern over Yusuf’s accident. I also heard that my mother complained that security agencies harassed and beat her because she lamented the way the government handled the issue of our abduction.
Please send my warm regards to Yusuf. Tell him that I envy people like him – those who are fortunate to live like kings in a land full of suffering. Tell him that people like us still exist – those whose cardinal sin was that they were unfortunate to be born in a country cursed with incompetent leadership and insensitive leaders.
His Excellency, I currently live with two men who take turns to rape me countless times in a day. The first day, I fought one of them as he tried to deflower me but he hit me so much that I passed out. It was when I woke up that I realised that he had deflowered me while I was unconscious. I wept for several hours over my lost virginity and wept more when I realised that the second man also slept with me too in my insentient state.
I wish you can ask these men why they usually thrust their stinking bodies on me one at a time, one after the other, anytime they finish saying their prayers, taking my pride as a woman in such a violent manner that I wonder whether the god they just prayed to do assent to such cruelty. I used to struggle and cry in the past but now I am drained of energy. So I only close my eyes and beg God to take my life and save me from an existence I never thought was possible. But God has refused to listen so I starve myself and eat any strange substance that I come about, hoping to die of hunger or poisoning. I am disappointed that I am still alive.
They did not care whether I ate or not in the first four days. But since their commander came and talked to them, they have been bringing food to me, sometimes begging me to eat. I overheard their commander telling them that they need to keep me alive and well so that they would use me to make a lot of money from the Nigerian government and get some of their commanders in government custody released. Initially I did not understand what they meant until one of them said they want to use me and my schoolmates the way they have been using the other girls they took from Chibok to blackmail and extort the government.
Sir, even in the lowest point of your glorious military service and your remarkable life, you wouldn’t have experienced half of what I am going through. I am permanently disheartened over my uncertain, miserable future and I keep thinking of my parents and siblings who don’t know whether I am still alive or dead. My mother is hypertensive and I doubt whether she would survive the abduction of her favourite daughter by bloodthirsty terrorists.
I don’t know where exactly we are being kept but I know we are very very far from our school where they took us. The truck that took us from our school drove through the road and bush for several hours in the night, until we got to a newly cleared place that looked lonely and deserted. They kept all of us who were taken from our school there for a day and then separated us and drove me and nine others for several hours to another place where we were shared out to twenty dirty, stinking bearded, Quran-clutching, gun-trotting men. The place we now find ourselves looks like it was hurriedly built with wood and paper cartons and is located deep inside a thick bush.
Every evening, they bring ten of us together in the house of a man they call Sheikh where I was surprised to see a big television with satellite connection which is powered by a small generator. Most of the men were usually interested in Nigerian news, which Sheikh interpreted to those who do not hear English.
All of us former schoolgirls usually sit quietly in a corner of the large room, each of us aware of the trauma and tragedy of the other. We recognise one another but we hardly talk to each other as we are aware that our oppressors may be listening and they have instructed us not to speak to each other. Even if we wanted to talk, I wonder in our anxiety and anguish what any of us may want to say to another. So we always sit face down, innocent girls whose lives have been ruined by the failures of the government and institutions that were supposed to protect them.
Mr. President, you need to do something about those in your government that tell regular lies and those who bring disgrace to your name. You need to see the way the men laughed when they heard that you have deployed 100 aircraft to look for 110 girls and how they laughed harder when they watched a newscaster narrating how the Nigerian police and army were blaming each other over our abduction.
It was the third day we were taken there that Sheikh explained the existence of the television. I heard him telling one of them that looked like a fresh recruit that they bought the television together with a generator and a lot of sophisticated weapons after your government paid them handsomely in order to secure the release of some kidnapped lecturers. They talk about you as if you are one of them. They seem very delighted that you are Nigeria’s president.
Sheikh has huge white beards and spoke with authority. He looks like you – tall, dark in complexion and lanky – but with a beard. He speaks to us like an uncle and keeps telling us that we were abducted in the service of the holy prophet and that we may be needed on an important mission. One day, I complained to him about the persistent rape and beating by the men that I live with. That was after one of them beat me mercilessly only because I was menstruating.
I wasn’t surprised or shocked when Sheikh told me that I should count myself lucky that some servants of Allah were violating an infidel. My ordeal is like an unending horror movie that I have become inured to surprises and shocks.
When we got back to the place we are staying after the encounter, both men beat me thoroughly with sticks. I did not cry or shed a tear. Maybe the tears refused to come or my body is now deadened to pain. I don’t really know.
Our dear President, it was during our sixth visit to the Sheikh’s place that I saw you on television looking very happy and excited amongst other expensively clothed men and women. It took me a while to understand that you were attending the wedding of the children of two serving state governors. Do you know that our abductors found the scene on television so amusing that they laughed and laughed and laughed? Their laughter was so loud and consistent that it drew the attention of all of us in the corner of the room. When we realised what tickled the men, all of us started crying. Our scalding tears were because of the tragedy of our lives and the tragedy of our country.
You see, when I was in primary school, I dreamt of being married by a wealthy man and having the kind of wedding you just attended. I realised that the easiest route to achieving such dream was to read hard and work hard. I read hard, I worked hard. That was the reason I have been top of my class since I entered secondary school.
Now my dreams are shattered. I don’t think I have a future. I don’t even want to have a future. Because the future offers me lowlife, endless sexual assault, possible pregnancy, death from the bullets of the Nigerian Armed Forces or the terrorists themselves. A future for me means possible indoctrination to become a suicide bomber whereby I go and blow up a market killing innocent people or being abused in captivity until I will be used as a bait to fund the terrorists and increase their capacity to kill more people. Or sometime in future I will appear on Shekau’s video, which would surely kill my mother. I just want to die now.
President Buhari, you have failed me. Your government has failed me, Nigeria has failed me.
Among those affected in the purge are the 18 members of the state executive council and all political appointees in ministries, departments and agencies.
A letter signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Solo Chukwulobelu, in Awka, ordered the affected officers to hand over to permanent secretaries of their respective ministries, departments and agencies or to the most senior civil servants in the absence of permanent secretaries.
The Commissioner for Information and Communications Strategy in Anambra State, Ogbuefi Tony Nnachetta, has debunked media reports that Governor Willie Obiano has dissolved his cabinet, sacked his commissioners, aides and other political appointees.
He noted that the false report emanated from a section of the media’s “misinterpretation of the contents of a leaked internal memo originating from the office of the Secretary to the State Government directing all political appointees to prepare and submit their handover notes and accounts of stewardship on or before Friday, 16th of March, 2018.”
Nnachetta further stated that, “the tenure of all appointees including the Governor ends on Friday, March 16th. The Governor will be sworn in for a second term on Saturday, March 17th. His Excellency may then chose to appoint or re-appoint whom he pleases. That is proper governance.”
A porn star sued President Donald Trump on Tuesday to declare a “hush agreement” over their alleged affair invalid because he never signed it, documents say.
Los Angeles lawyer Michael Avenatti posted on his Twitter account a copy of what appears to be the suit filed on behalf of the porn star who goes by the name Stormy Daniels. Her real name is Stephanie Clifford.
The hush agreement does “not exist, because, among other things, Mr Trump never signed” the document with a Superior Court of California stamp, the suit says.
It alleges she had an intimate relationship with Trump from 2006 to 2007, which she sought to reveal after Trump won the Republican Party nomination for president and other women claimed to have had sexual encounters with him.
With help from his lawyer Michael Cohen, Trump then sought to “aggressively… silence Ms Clifford as part of an effort to avoid her telling the truth, thus helping to ensure he won the presidential election,” the document says.
Cohen prepared a non-disclosure agreement, a copy of which is attached to the lawsuit and which required a $130,000 payment to be wired from a company known as Essential Consultants LLC to Clifford in return for her silence, according to the documents.
Using the pseudonyms Peggy Peterson and David Dennison, Clifford and Trump were to sign the agreement, along with Essential Consultants.
Days before the November 2016 presidential election which Trump won, Clifford put her name to the document, as did Cohen for Essential Consultants, it says.
“Mr. Trump, however, did not sign the agreement, thus rendering it legally null and void and of no consequence,” the document adds.
Cohen told US media last month that he paid Clifford $130,000, prompting her manager to suggest a non-disclosure agreement had been broken.
Cohen declined to give details such as why he made the payment, or if Trump was aware of it at the time.
“Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly,” Cohen said, according to the New York Times.
Trump declined to comment on the issue. The White House has dodged questions about whether allegations of an affair are true, claiming the matter was dealt with during the campaign.
Cohen’s comments came after the watchdog group Common Cause filed a federal complaint in January arguing that the payout may have violated campaign finance rules.
Barely four days after some youths attacked Catholic bishop of Owerri Diocese, Archbishop Obinna, for criticising the Imo State government during a funeral service, more prominent sons of the state have joined their voices in condemning the incident.
At a requiem mass in honour of the mother of the Pro-chancellor of Imo State University, Mr. Alex Mbata, at Saint Michael’s Catholic Church, Ngwoma-Obube in the Owerri North Local Government Area, Imo State, some irate youth, angry that Archbishop Obinna condemned attempt to impose a governor on Imo State, hurled insults at him, snatching the microphone.
In his reaction, Senator Ifeanyi Araraume condemned, in strong terms, the incident, describing it as sacrilegious. He called on the relevant authorities to ensure that the perpetrators of the ‘heinous’ crime were brought to book.
In a statement signed by the Director of Media and Publicity of Senator Araraume Destiny Organisation, Chief Kingsley Ufere, Araraume said:
“We like to state unequivocally that this act is totally unacceptable, condemnable and reprehensible. The perpetrators of this heinous offence should be brought to answer to the law. Our politicians should realise a place of worship and sanctuary of God is a revered place and not a place for gangsterism, political rascality and cult activities.
“The person of Archbishop Obinna is a highly respected man of God and a senior citizen of our state. He should be treated with all measures of respect and dignity that he and his office deserve.”
Araraume, who is a governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), disassociated the ruling party from the ugly incident.
“The leadership of the party at the state and national levels condemns this act in its entirety. Once more, we call on well meaning members of the public, especially our youths to shun all acts of violence and should not allow themselves to be used as thugs to carry out anti-social vices,” he said.
Also, a governorship aspirant under the banner of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Mr. Okey Ezeh, has condemned the attack on Bishop Obinna. He said the incident was not only an affront to Christians everywhere, but also a complete desecration of an institution of God.
In a statement in Owerri, the management consultant and devout Catholic bemoaned the erosion of moral and religious values in the state and regretted that “those in high places in the state have rather chosen to aid and abet this anomie instead of address it.”
Ezeh said: “The archbishop, as a man chosen by God to herd his flock, has it both as a responsibility and an obligation to speak the truth to power when the people are oppressed, and must never be persecuted for doing so.”
He added that the suffering wrought on the people by the Okorocha administration has become unprecedented. He alleged that Imo State has been so poorly managed and plunged into debt crisis and unemployment dung pit by this administration, cautioning:“The way out is neither by hushing and harassing the messenger of God nor intimidating critics, but, by the failed administration quickly preparing their handover note.”
Ezeh called on the people of Imo to put their trust in God and realise that the signs of an end to their plight are now clearer, while enjoining the Church in the state to keep praying for the archbishop, who he described as, one of the biggest blessings of God to His people in the state.
The Imo State government has said Archbishop Obinna was not manhandled, while condemning attempt to link Okorocha’s son-in-law with it.
“The Archbishop personally told The Guardian Newspaper of Monday March 5, 2018, that he was “Neither beaten nor manhandled by any person.” And we have, therefore, no other option than to leave the matter at that point. Since the archbishop is at the centre of the whole drama, his account should be the most authentic. And we take it up from there.”
The state government alleged attempt to blackmail Uche Nwosu, asking:Why is Uche Nwosu the hottest political figure in the state today? Why do they not talk about the possible candidates of other political parties. Why has Nwosu become hot cake everyone wants to buy? That is where the pendulum or compass is pointing at. And Imo people have bought into the whole thing. That is why it has become an issue even at the pulpit.”
It is another season of wailing and weeping in Benue, Plateau and Borno states as three separate attacks by suspected herdsmen and Boko Haram insurgents sent at least 30 persons to their untimely grave.
Worse hit is Benue where 24 people including children, women and the aged were killed in Omusu-Edumoga, Okpokwu Local Government Area.
The incident came barely a month after the remains of 73 persons killed in a midnight bloody attack by suspected Fulani herdsmen in Guma and Logo local government areas were given mass burial on a site at the Industrial Layout along Naka Road in the state capital.
President Muhammadu Buhari is billed to visit Benue any moment, in continuation of his tour of security-challenged states, to condole with the government and people over recent attacks.
Those killed in the latest mayhem included Eric Attah and his wife, a septuagenarian, Pa Innocent Itodo, an 11-year old schoolgirl and another 60-year-old woman, Mrs. Catherine Abah among others. Godwin Igoche was also said to have lost his wife and two children while another lost his two wives.
The injured are at the St. Mary’s Hospital, Ugwu-Okpoga while the bodies of the 24 victims would be buried on Friday.
Daily Sun gathered that the herdsmen who came in through the Ado Local Government axis invaded the village at about 3pm on Monday. Some of the locals said as soon as they stormed the village, they started shooting indiscriminately and killing people.
Council Chairman of Okpokwu, Olofu Ogwuche said immediately he received a report from the police that some herdsmen lodged a complaint that some people had rustled their cattle in Omusu village, he swung into action and called all the parties together for an amicable resolution of the matter.
Ogwuche said while the meeting was ongoing, he got another report that the herdsmen were already attacking the village. He hadto rush there with security operatives.
“On getting to the village, we were able to recover 17 corpses on Monday evening. This morning, we recovered six other corpses and just while we are here, a corpse of a seven-year-old girl was just recovered while some persons are still missing.”
Governor Samuel Ortom who visited the village for an on-the-spot assessment described the killing as unacceptable.
“We related very well until these killer herdsmen came to invade and kill our people. We will no longer fold our hands and watch. Twenty people killed in one day? This is not right, this is not acceptable. All we seek is justice and justice must be given to our people. Anything outside that is unacceptable
“I am happy the security agencies have gotten some of their (invaders) equipment that can be used to track them. We cannot surrender our state to criminals. We must all rise up and stop this evil that is posing a grave danger to all of us.
“The best they (herdsmen) could have done was to report to security agencies, which they did. What is the basis for attacking innocent people after reporting the matter? Those who rustle cattle are Fulani men and not farmers. How do you come and terrorise innocent people who knew nothing about the matter? We shall do the needful and ensure those who perpetrated the criminal acts are sanctioned according to the law.”
The governor noted that the state’s anti-open grazing law did not discriminate against anyone. He said the law was enacted to protect both the farmers and the herders stressing that anyone who wanted to stay in the state must learn to obey the law.
Ortom reasoned that there was no need to keep the corpses for too long said the local government would be assisted to quickly make arrangement for their burial as soon as possible.
Ortom also urged the youths of the village to team up with security agencies to police the area so that those who had deserted the village could be encouraged to return home soon.
A member of the community, Isaac Ojobo whose elder brother was also killed in the mayhem disclosed that the village had been deserted following the attack.
The Benue State Police Command in a statement signed by ASP Moses Yamu confirmed 16 people killed in the attack.
In another development, two persons were reportedly killed yesterday night in separate attacks by suspected gunmen in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State.
Daily Sun gathered that one of the deceased was a Fulani cattle rearer who was killed at about 5:30pm. In apparent reprissal, Fulani herdsmen attacked two miners in Gyero village, Jos South Local Government Area, leaving one dead.
Daily Sun gathered that the attacks, which took place at an interval of 30 minutes, threw the entire communities into confusion.
It was gathered that the deceased person died at Eons Hospital, Miango, while the survivor who sustained gun shots and machete injuries is currently in coma at the same hospital.
Police Public Relation Officer of the Plateau State Police Command, ASP Tyopev Marthias Terna confirmed the incident.
“There was a culpable homicide and that cause grievous hurt and mischief by killing animals on 5 March, 2018 at about 5:30pm. Information received was that one Fulani cattle rearer whose name and address is not yet known was killed by unknown persons suspected to be Irigwe people. About 15 cows were also killed at Rafin-Bauna Area.
“On the other hand, information received also reveals that at about 6pm, of the same day, two Irigwe youths while returning from mining were attacked by Fulani herdsmen. As a result, they sustained various degree of injuries and were rushed to Enos Hospital, Miango, Bassa Local Government Area for treatment.”
Terna said investigation was ongoing to ascertain and assess the incident while intensive patrol of the general area is being sustained by security agencies to avert further killings.
The incessant attacks by suspected Fulani herdsmen have been flayed by Nigerians who are demanding that the president arrest and prosecute the herdsmen involved as well as pronounce herdsmen as a terrorist group.
Also, the Police yesterday confirmed the death of three Civilian Joint Task Force members after a suicide bomber with explosive devices strapped around his body on Monday night detonated himself at a crowded Muna-Datti area of Maiduguri, Borno State.
Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Joseph Kwaji, in a statement said 17 people were also injured in the attack.
“On Monday, March 3 at about 2030hrs, a male suicide bomber riding on a bicycle detonated IED strapped to his body at Muna Datti area, killing himself and Three Civilian JTF members while 17 people were injured,” Kwaji said.
He added that the Explosive Ordinance Device and patrol teams have visited the scene for an on-the-spot assessment.
The victims of the attack, he said have been evacuated to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital.
The police also gave the assurance that normalcy had already been restored in the area.
Muna Datti is one of the communities in Maiduguri that has been plagued by series of suicide bombing by Boko Haram insurgents.
Meanwhile, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has donated the sum of $10 million to Nigeria to aid the fight against the insurgency.
According to the team leader from Saudi Arabia, the donation is part of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Programme.
The team leader, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Defence Ministry, Nasir Mutbak, on Monday, told journalists that the donation is expected to aid the provision of food and other basic amenities in IDP camps in the Boko Haram ravaged North-East.
“We are here to implement King Salman issued to help our brothers in IDPs and refugees in North-East, we are here to reach out, and provide assistance for our brothers in that region. And of course, the donation will be $10 million.
Minister of Defence, Brigadier General Mansur Dan (retd) who received the team from Saudi Arabia said the fund would go a long way in helping to fight terrorism in the country.(the sun)
If you are wondering why the 2018 budget has not been passed, here are 10 reasons to guide you.The blame game between the Executive and the Legislature over the non-passage of the appropriation bill otherwise called the 2018 budget, has commenced.It is March already and Nigeria is not running on the 2018 budget just yet. So, why is there a delay?
Here is a beginners guide to why we still don’t have the 2018 budget to work with….
1. On November 7, 2017, President Muhammadu Buhari laid the 2018 budget proposals before the National Assembly (NASS).
2. It is democratic practice for the Executive to table budget proposals before the Legislature for consideration because the Legislature is constitutionally empowered to appropriate monies to wherever.
3. The 2018 budget was submitted late last year because the Buhari administration wanted to avoid a scenario where we start implementing the annual budget mid-year.
4. According to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, “If you recall when I was Acting President, I signed the 2017 budget and, at that time, I made the announcement with the full consensus of the National Assembly that, from 2018, we are going to have a budget that is going to apply in January and end in December the normal financial year.
“We agreed that we will submit our proposal in good time, and we did that first week of November. The president did so. We fulfilled that part of the agreement”.
5. However, the lawmakers are now blaming the Executive for the non-passage of the 2018 budget.
According to the lawmakers, Buhari’s ministers who were invited to come defend their budgets, didn’t honour those invitations. Instead, most of them have been travelling the world, lawmakers say.
6. This is how Vice-Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Sen Sonny Ogbuoji, explained the delay with the 2018 budget:
7. “Since January, the Appropriations Committee’s doors have been opened to receiving reports from the sub-committees but most of the sub-committees have a huge challenge with the MDAs (Ministries, Department, Agencies) because majority of the MDAs are not coming forward to interface with them.
President Muhammadu Buhari hosts Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Speaker Yakubu Dogara, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo among others to a private dinner on Thursday, October 26, 2017.play
One of those times when a meal was supposed to fix the relationship between Executive and Legislature (Presidency)
“Some of the ministers will tell you that they are going outside the country and because of that the MDAs are not fully ready. So, we don’t have the reports yet.
“We believe that it is when the MDAs come forward that our colleagues will be able to finish with their work. Some of the committees are unable to do their work. When they (committees) screen what they (MDAs’) have brought, they will ask them to go back and work on the budgets and come back.
But they don’t come back, and that is delaying the work on majority of the MDAs. That is why up till today, we don’t have completed report. We believe that it is when the MDAs come forward that our colleagues will be able to finish with their work.
“Some of the committees are unable to do their work. When they (committees) screen what they (MDAs’) have brought, they will ask them to go back and work on the budgets and come back. But they don’t come back, and that is delaying the work on majority of the MDAs. That is why up till today, we don’t have completed report”.
Senate President, Bukola Saraki, VP Yemi Osinbajo, President Muhammadu Buhari and APC membersplay
APC big boys during a meeting (Channels TV)
8. However, the Executive is refusing to take the blame for the non-passage of the 2018 budget.
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Osinbajo says: “The budget is with the National Assembly. There is very little we can do to control that. That’s the system that we have. We ensured that we released our budget on time. I want to believe that the Executive has done its part and we wait on the National Assembly”.
9. Ben Akabueze, who is the Director General of the Budget Office of the Federation says it isn’t true that MDAs are delaying passage of the 2018 budget.
Ben Akabueze who works in the budget office says presidency is blameless here (Guardian)
10. “Given the seriousness the presidency attaches to getting the 2018 budget passed so it could earnestly focus on achieving the goals set out in the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan 2017-20 (ERGP), it had directed heads of ministries and extra-ministerial agencies to attend to any requests for meetings/information by the National Assembly (NASS) with dispatch,”Akabueze says.
“To the best of our knowledge, this directive has been complied with”, Akabueze added.
So, at this point, do you understand why the 2018 budget hasn’t been passed?
Remember to live before you leave. Don’t spend your entire life making a living and forget to live.
There are only two ways to live, you’re either living or just existing. A balanced life is the best life.
Whoever says you’re irreplaceable is lying to you.
Life is like exam questions. If you are having a problem understanding one question move to the next. Don’t get stuck in one chapter of your book of life.
Winners don’t quit but they surely take breaks. Don’t spend your entire life opening one door. If it refused to open forever means maybe it’s not your door. The fact that a certain aspect of your life is not working as planned doesn’t mean your whole life has to be on hold. Your time here is limited, spend it wisely. A wise hunter with just one bullet doesn’t shoot anyhow.
If you can change it, change it. If you can’t change it, stop worrying and complaining about it. Never give the management of your life to those who cannot manage their own life properly. To be spiritually fooled is to be spiritually foolish. Be careful when someone who cannot hear his own voice tells you he’s hearing from GOD.
Happiness is a choice, not destiny. Happiness is not a destination, you must travel with it. A situation and a problem are two different things don’t mix both.
Happiness is a present tense, not a future tense. You can delay your gratification but your happiness should never be postponed.
Always do your best but never ever forget to take a rest. Whoever refused to rest will eventually be laid to rest and people will tell him/her to REST IN PEACE.
The Police IG, Ibrahim Kpotum Idris, has ordered that the vigilante groups set up by governors as a response to the ethnic cleansing the Fulani terrorist herdsmen have been visiting on the non-Caliphate rest of Nigerians be immediately disarmed. In a statement the Niger state-born Cop released through Force spokesman, Jimoh Moshood, all State Police commissioners have been ordered to arrest and prosecute those who refused to turn in their arms within 21 days.
Now here is the criminal double standard in this:
The Police IG DID NOT order that the AK-47 wielding Fulani Terrorist Herdsmen be disarmed. The same fulani terrorist herdsmen this police IG has continued to serve as their spokesman by ordering governors to suspend their anti-open Grazing laws and provide ranches for the private business of this internationally recognized 4th deadliest terrorist group.
The Police IG DID NOT order that the Hisbah police set up by the Sharia-practising northern governors be disarmed.
It is the vigilante which is the only thing stopping these modernity-loathing Barbarians from wiping us off the earth surface that this police IG want disarmed.
For what?
To make it easier for this govt-enabled terror group to kill us without encountering resistance.
And this atrocious order is coming at the same time they are releasing thousands of hardened Boko Haram terrorists from prison and paying them millions and billions in cash and reportedly enrolling them into the Nigerian army.
To stop you from even crying when they kill and maim you, they have used one of their senators to introduce an iniquitious bill in the Senate which will give them the legal backing to hide under “Hate Speech” to hang anyone who criticizes them for their murderous way.
Fulani herdsmen who demonstrate raw Hate by killing and maiming thousands and displacing millions are going about holding press conferences and being defended, funded and protected by the President and his security Chiefs who are all Fulanis but non-fulani peoples of Nigeria who cry out against this unholy matrimony between their govt and fulani terrorists can now be HANGED by this same terrorist-friendly govt.
How tragically ironic!
The brazenness with which these Barbarians are advancing their demonic ethno-religious supremacist agenda is peculiarly peculiar. This is a case of, “We own you. Even your life is ours to give or to take”
Shame on all Southern Senators who are too dumb to see that hate killing currently being perpetrated by the Fulani terrorist herdsmen with govt-sponsored impunity should be of more concerned than citizens expressing frustration at the roguery of their rogue govt.
The real tragedy is,
The victims and casualties of this open war yet go about their business without even realizing they are at war and currently being killed and maimed and few steps away from being completely conquered, owned and enslaved by men whose world views and value system are deeply rooted in feudalism.
And the horde of deplorables masquerading as the Leadership Collective from the affected region are busy talking 2019 election.
Shame, isn’t it?
The obnoxious directive by this obnoxious police IG is one directive every human person has both moral, legal and natural duty to DISOBEY. This atrocious directive must be resisted by all the state governors concerned as well as everybody affected by this Fulani Genocide .
IF THE POLICE HAD LIVED UP TO ITS CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY OF PROTECTING LIVES AND PROPERTY OF ALL NIGERIANS FROM THE TERRORIST HERDSMEN, WOULD THERE HAVE BEEN NEED FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF VIGILANTE GROUPS????
Right to life is not just the most important of all rights, it is also a FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT. Meaning, it is our entitlement as humans. It is not the govt’s to give or take.
A Police IG who has repeatedly proven he is on the side of the terrorist herdsmen by REFUSING to protect unarmed law abiding citizens from their attack has absolutely no right whatsoever to stop the citizens from protecting themselves.
The first and most important duty of the govt is the protection of lives and property of the people. A govt that fails in this all important duty is no govt at all. A police force that is incapable of protecting tax-paying citizens is worse than a terrorist group.
Section 33 of the 1999 constitution clearly recognizes Self Defense as a fundamental human right. I am submitting that all victims of the well organized ethnic cleansing being perpetrated by the fulani terrorist herdsmen must activate self defense. This barbaric directive by the police IG is a further testament to the fact that the Nigerian police under him CANNOT be trusted to protect any non-fulani person from the Fulani bloodletting.
Our choices are exceedingly limited:
Obey the Police IG by disarming your Vigilante and sit in your home waiting for the terrorists to come dismember you and your family
OR,
Resist this inhuman order by protecting your life and that of your family BY ALL MEANS necessary.
Our life was not given to us by Ibrahim Idris. Since he has proven unwilling to protect us, he has no right anywhere, both in the laws of God and that of man, to stop us from protecting ourselves!
This murderous govt has made injustice a law, we must now make resistance a duty.
