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More states set to defy Buhari over naira pronouncements

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1 year ago

February 17, 2023

President Muhammadu Buhari

There are indications that more states of the federation are set to confront the Federal Government over the current impasse over the deadline on the Nigerian currency.
Just last night, Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, called the bluff of President Muhammadu Buhari, who had earlier approved the re-introduction of N200 bank note which he said will still enjoy legal tender status till April 10, this year.
The president had said that N1000 and N500 notes now stand demised as they are no longer to be accepted as legal tenders.
The president, in his address to the nation Thursday morning, said those who still have the old notes should take them to the Central Bank of Nigeria for deposit.
But el-Rufai fired back in a state-wide broadcast about 12 hours after saying the rejected notes would continue to be legal tenders in Kaduna.
The Kaduna Governor accused the president of breaching rule of law saying his decision runs foul of the subsisting order of the Supreme Court which had earlier on Wednesday said its earlier order given on February 8 that all old notes should continue to be legal tender.
Three states – Zamfara, Kogi and Kaduna – had dragged the Federal Government and the Central Bank of Nigeria to court asking for a suspension of the implementation of the new naira policy.

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The three states were later joined by Niger, Lagos, Ondo, Ogun, Kano, Ekiti and others to press home the demand. Bayelsa, Edo who are under the Peoples Democratic Party also joined but in favour of the Federal Government.
NPO Reports gathered that el-Rufai’s broadcast in Kaduna was part of a joint decision of some governors of the All Progressives Congress to declare their stand on the matter especially with increasing condemnations by the civil society organisations.
Some human rights campaigners and groups have chided President Buhari for violating the constitution with his unilateral pronouncement.
A source close to one of the Governors told the NPO Reports late Thursday that other governors will declare as legal tenders the notes demised by the Federal Government.
“You will see a trend in the next few days. That is the decision of the governors. It is becoming a full blown ‘war’ between them and the president.
“They believe very strongly that the president is being misled and that this will kill the APC at the poll. So, there is an urgent need to act and appear to be on the side of Nigerians especially because of the hardship being experienced by the ordinary people,” said the source.
Recall that el-Rufai had earlier said that he was no longer able to trust the judgement of the people around the president.
It was gathered that some of the governors had instructed the Attorney generals of their respective states to see what options are there for them under the current situation.
The 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which contains 68 items in the exclusive legislative on which only the Federal Government of Nigeria can legislate has banking and banking as one of those on the list.

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Lagos Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin

Fake doctor arrested in Lagos after performing surgery, practising for three years

Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a fake medical doctor practising in the Ikorodu area of the state, with a forged certificate from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State.

According to a video by the TVC posted on Tuesday, the police said they discovered about 200 patient cards with the fake medical practitioner, Tayo Shakirudeeen, an indigene of Abeokuta, Ogun State.

Shakirudeen said he had treated malaria, typhoid, infections and performed operations on children suffering from appendix, after he learnt it where he worked as a Nursing Assistant at The Jones Hospital, Ojokoro along Ikorodu Road.

Asked how many years he had been treating patients with a fake certificate, he said three years claiming that it was his first time performing a proper surgery.

He also said it was a patient he treated that came with the policemen to arrest him, as he regretted his actions.

“I performed vital signs and abdominal scans. Then after confirmation, you do PCV (packed cell volume) and then you prepare the patient for the surgery. You clean the stomach with antiseptic Dettol with water. So after that, you give some anesthesia injection before starting the surgery,” Shakirudden said.

He used a surgical blade “to dissect the stomach, it’s appendix after opening the stomach then you cut the appendix after cutting the stomach then you suction the appendix then you suction the flesh fat and the skin then you pack it with gauze and apply plaster.”

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It was gathered that he only holds SSCE from Majidun Grammar School, as he said he was arrested, “after performing the surgery, the patient has been discharged home. So after like three months, the patient came with the police to arrest me.”

He said there were no complications after treating the patient so he did not know the reason why the patent came back with the police.

“I charged one hundred fifty thousand, and I have six workers. My hospital is located in Ikorodu. It’s a new site but somewhere close to Elepe Estate. I regret every bit of my action so I would never advise anyone or if there’s anyone that is still hiding somewhere and doing such a thing they should desist from it,” he added.

Shakirudeen’s hospital is Skyline Medical Centre and noted that he is a married man with three children

Speaking about the certificate the police found with him, he said, “It’s a forged certificate from Obafemi Awolowo MBBS, Medicine, and Surgery. Nobody taught me, but I used to help my boss when he was performing the surgery.”

“To dissect the stomach, it’s appendix after opening the stomach then you cut the appendix after cutting the stomach then you suction the appendix, then you suction the flesh fat and the skin then you pack it with gauze and apply plaster,” he added.

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Gunmen kidnap 13 persons in Abuja, demand N900m ransom

Suspected gunmen raided Piko, a secluded town in Abuja’s Bwari area council, and kidnapped 13 people.

It was reported that the incident, which began at midnight on Sunday in the village, continued more than an hour without being challenged by either the vigilante group or other security forces.

According to a close community source, Chief John Jatau, the village’s Maidakin, has verified that 10 residents, including four nomadic Fulani herders, were kidnapped from his domain.

He noted that out of the four Fulani people, one escaped from the kidnappers’ custody.

While he said that the kidnappers had demanded a ransom of N900 million, he also gave the names of the kidnapped victims from his community.

According to him, the kidnap victims from the community that are still with their abductors are Nuhu Anyiwoyi, Emmanuel Nuhu, Danjuma Ali, Parisa Numa, Ezekiel Jatau, Shekwosa Ezekiel, Roseline Samuel, Salome Jacob, Abyelo Ezra, and Ezra Male.

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The source said, “The kidnapping incident occurred last night Sunday 05/05/2024, at about 11 pm. The kidnappers raided the village for about one hour without any response, or reaction from the community or outsiders, the major challenge the community faced last night in terms of communication to others was as a result of no telecommunication network in the village, so they picked people’s house to house, from the community they picked about 13 people, and later release three.

“The Madakin Piko informed me that they (gunmen) have called and they said they need the ramson of N900,000,000 (nine hundred million naira). They picked about four Fulani people and one of them is released.”

All possible efforts to reach the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, proved abortive as she neither replied to messages nor picked up calls placed to her for clarification on the incident.