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MURIC backs new laws to protect Lagos indigenes

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Director of Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), Professor Ishaq Lakin Akintola
Muric backs new laws to protect Lagos indigenes
An Islamic human rights group, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has backed the move by the Lagos State House of Assembly to make new laws that would protect indigenes in the state. The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, revealed on Tuesday, 5th June, 2023 that the state would promulgate laws for the protection of its indigenes.
MURIC voiced support for the new laws in a statement issued by its Executive Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, on Monday, 12th June, 2023.
The statement reads :
“The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, revealed on Tuesday, 5th June, 2023 that the state would promulgate laws for the protection of its indigenes.
“Obasa made reference to the coming laws in his acceptance speech after he was unanimously elected as speaker of the assembly for the third term. He gave hints that there would be laws and resolutions in the areas of economy and commerce, property and titles. He said the programmme may necessitate ‘reversing all that are reversible to protect the interest of the indigenes’.
“There is nothing strange or new in the new laws which Lagos is planning to promulgate. The advanced civilisations of the world do it. Britain had its own taste of the Exclusion Bill in 1679 and 1682 during the reign of Charles II. America enacted the Exclusion Act in 1882 to protect locals from exploitation by immigrants.
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“Even as recently as February 2023, Glenn Youngkin, the governor of Texas, United States, signed the Exclusion Bill 147 to bar citizens of certain countries (China, Russia, North Korea and Iran) from owning agricultural land or buying real estate in the state (https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/18/politics/chinese-land-law-texas-virginia-what-matters/index.html).
“Every society whose indigenes feel threatened take recourse to the law for protection. What we are saying in essence is that responsible governments have a duty to protect indigenes wherever and whenever there is any element of existential threat against their cultural and historical heritage in any form.
“This is why we see nothing new in the new laws which Lagos want to enact. Already, such protections exist albeit in unwritten practices in several parts of the country, North, East and West. There are some parts of the country where non-indigenes cannot buy real estate. What Lagos seeks to do now is to commit such protective conventions into written laws.
“Every civilized society seeks to protect its indigenes from the bastardisations of globalization. It is even considered an abdication of responsibility on the part of the government when and if it fails to rise to the defence of indigenes of the state.
“Therefore, MURIC supports any legislation that protects the citizenry, particularly indigenes and the vulnerable in society. We therefore call on members of the Lagos House of Assembly to join hands with Speaker Obasa and expedite action on the bill of exclusion and protection.
“All parts of Nigeria should seek means of protecting the heritage of indigenes. Every state needs such laws but as usual, Lagos must lead the way for others to follow. From Lagos to Mokwa, from Port Harcourt to Kaora Namoda, indigenes must be protected from overbearing hawks who make stupendous wealth on their land, yet seek to eliminate their ancestral heritage and leave nothing for the benefit of indigenes.
“We charge the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to exercise no delay once the Lagos Assembly passes the bills. Lagos must be sanitised. Complacency, excessive liberalism, indiscipline and impunity are the bane of Lagos. Obasa must strike when the iron is hot.”
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Professor Ishaq Akintola,
Executive Director,
Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC).

Muric backs new laws to protect Lagos indigenes

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Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Abubakar Sa’ad, says the crescent moon marking the end of Ramadan fasting has been sighted.

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Embrace environmental sanitation during Eid-Fitr, LAGESC boss tells Lagosians

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The Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) has urged Lagosians to embrace proper environmental practices and obey the state’s environmental laws ahead of the Eid-l-Fitr festivities to mark the end of the Ramadan fast by Muslim faithful around the world.

Corps Marshal of the agency, Major Olaniyi Olatunbosun Cole (retd), sounded the call at the agency’s command headquarters at Bolade-Oshodi.

He said, ‘‘The Ramadan fast is a testament to the willingness of Muslim faithful to adhere to the pillars of their faith and it is enjoined that cleanliness is an important religious practice in all faiths, which is why we admonish Lagosians to imbibe proper waste disposal and keep their environment clean during the celebration.”

Cole also advised Lagosians to make proper use of pedestrian bridges for their safety instead of crossing highways to prevent ‘hit and run’ cases by speeding motorists.

He equally read a riot act to miscreants in the habit of converting pedestrian bridges to sleeping areas which deters Lagosians in transit, pedestrians vowing that anyone caught w be made to face the state Environmental laws as amended

The KAI boss also revealed that the agency had recorded giant strides and would not relent in ridding pedestrian bridges across Lagos of criminal obstructions, traders and hawkers with daily arrests made alongside secured prosecutions by the Courts.

The Corps Marshal also warned Lagosians to desist from street trading, use of Styrofoam pack, hawking in traffic, patronage of cart pushers for refuse disposal, and erection of illegal structures on laybys, setbacks, medians, road verges, kerbs or around public schools in the state.

The KAI head said offenders would be made to face the consequences via prosecution in a competent court of appropriate jurisdiction.

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Mother, daughter who stole ponmo, stock fish in Ogun jailed six months

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Mother, daughter who stole ponmo, stock fish in Ogun jailed six months

A Magistrates’ Court in Abeokuta, Ogun State yesterday sentenced a mother, Falilatu Amidu, and her daughter, Ayisatu, to six months imprisonment each for stealing dry ponmo, stock fish and dried meat valued N1 million

The defendants, who reside at No 21 Ago-Oko area of Abeokuta, were convicted on a two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing.

The Magistrate, Mrs O.O. Odumosu, held that the evidence presented by the prosecution had proven beyond reasonable doubt that the convicts were guilty of the offence as charged.

Odumosu sentenced both mother and daughter to six months in prison each with an option of N5,000 fine.

She ordered that the convicts should refund N100,000 each to the complainant as restitution before accessing the N5,000 fine option.

Earlier, the prosecutor, Insp. Kehinde Fawunmi, had told the court that the defendants committed the offence at Lafenwa market sometime in August 2024.

Fawunmi explained that Falilatu conspired with her daughter, Ayisatu, to steal a big sack  containing stock fish, dried ponmo and dried cow meat valued N1million, belonging to one Mrs kafayat Alao.

According to him, one of the defendants, Falilatu, used to help the complainant to carry load from her store in Lafenwa to where the complainant sells her items.

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“The complainant asked her to help her pick some goods from the store. She waited for over an hour and did not see the defendant, which made her to go to the store to check on her.

“On getting to the store, she did not find Falilatu, and she noticed a big bag containing dried meat, ponmo and stock fish was missing while the defendant was nowhere to be found,” he said.

Fawunmi further explained that Falilatu stole the goods and gave it to her daughter (Ayisatu) to sell. He said Ayisatu received the goods from her mother, knowing that they were stolen.

The prosecutor noted that the offence committed contravened sections 516, 390(9) and 127 of the Criminal Code Laws of Ogun 2006.

Mother, daughter who stole ponmo, stock fish in Ogun jailed six months

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