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Reps, security chiefs in closed-door meeting over insecurity
Principal officers of the House of Representatives on Monday held a closed-door meeting with heads of security agencies on the spate of insecurity in the country.
They were said to have extensively discussed what they called the breach of national security by the recent #EndSARS protest.
#EndSARS protest which initially was adjudged peaceful nationwide later turned violent as hoodlums hijacked to cause mayhem and destruction in many parts of Nigeria.
The House, at plenary on October 20, 2020, had set up an ad hoc committee under the chairmanship of Deputy Speaker Ahmed Idris Wase to be assisted by House Leader Alhassan Ado Doguwa and Minority Leader Ndudi Elumelu.
Other members of the committee were drawn from security-related bodies in the House to meet with heads of security agencies in order to proffer solution to the development.
The committee was set up following a motion sponsored by Sada Soli (APC, Katsina) and seconded by Julius Pondi “on the urgent need to address the possible breach of national security in the national #EndSARS protest.”
Wase said, “You may recall that on October 20, 2020, the House passed a motion on the need to address the breach of national security under the peaceful protest in the country in the guise of EndSARS.
“With that, the House set up a committee to be headed by myself, the two leaders of the House (Minority and Majority leaders), chairmen of all relevant committees in terms of security and three members from each of the committees.
“The essence of the committee is to …ensure that we have a harmonious nation. This is the essence of the committee. This is our first meeting and we are going to take input from the various services.
“This is a matter that concerns security. No nation discusses its security situation on camera. With this, I want to beg the press to kindly excuse us so that we can have a very robust discussion.”
The Deputy Speaker said the Federal Government had swiftly disbanded the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) unit of the Nigeria Police, which was the reason for the protest.
He expressed concern that the legitimate protest of Nigerians was hijacked by hooligans who took advantage of the protest to unleash mayhem on innocent Nigerians.
He urged President Muhammadu Buhari to issue an Executive Order to address police brutality.
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Just in: I’ll resign if Yahaya Bello is not prosecuted – EFCC chairman
Just in: I’ll resign if Yahaya Bello is not prosecuted – EFCC chairman
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has vowed to follow to a logical conclusion the prosecution of former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello.
He states this on Tuesday during an interactive session with media executives in Abuja.
The EFCC chairman said he would resign if Bello escaped prosecution.
He said, “I called Yahaya Bello, as a serving governor, to come to my office to clear himself. I shouldn’t have done that.
“But he said because a certain senator has planted over 100 journalists in my office, he would not come.
“I told him that he would be allowed to use my private gate to give him a cover, but he said my men should come to his village to interrogate him.”
Olukoyede said the EFCC did not violate any law while trying to arrest the former governor from his residence.
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“Rather, we have obeyed the law. I inherited the case and I didn’t create it. Why has he not submitted himself to the law?” he asked.
“I have arraigned two past governors who have been granted bail now — Willie Obiano and Abdulfatah Ahmed.”
The EFCC chairman promised that anyone responsible for impeding Bello’s arrest from his home in Abuja would face the full force of the law.
“We would have gone after him since January but we waited for the court order,” Olukoyede said.
“As early as 7am, my men were there, over 50 of them. They mounted surveillance.
“We met over 30 armed policemen there. We would have exchanged fire and there would have been casualties.
“My men were about to move in when the governor of Kogi drove in and they later changed the narrative.”
He vowed that all those who have dipped their hands into the nation’s coffers would be investigated and prosecuted.
Olukoyede said, “If I can do Obiano, Abdulfatah Ahmed and Chief Olu Agunloye, my kinsman, why not Yahaya Bello?”
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Updated: FG to route 20% of palliatives through traditional, religious leaders
FG to route 20% of palliatives through traditional, religious leaders
President Bola Tinubu has directed that 20 per cent of palliative food intervention should go through religious and traditional institutions.
Vice-President Kashim Shettima made this known on Tuesday while delivering a keynote lecture at a High-Level Dialogue of Faith Leaders on Nutrition in Nigeria held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He said, “The Imam of Bayero University (BUK) mentioned about the exclusion of the traditional and religious leaders in the distribution of palliatives.
”The President has approved that 20 per cent of the palliative in terms of food intervention be routed through our religious organisations and the traditional institutions.
“The Tsangaya schools, the mission schools will be specially targeted for such intervention.”
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The Vice-President said that government was working out the logistics through the Federal Ministry of Agriculture to ensure smooth implementation of the intervention programme.
“This intervention will be anchored by the office of the Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Sen. Abubakar Bagudu, and he is going to anchor the programme.
“We are going to provide the overall supervision towards the implementation of the programme.
“Also 20 per cent of the funds for the School Feeding Programme is going to be channelled through the office of the Minister of Budget and Economic Planning to the religious bodies.”
Shettima said government had commenced the engagement and working out modalities for the intervention to ensure a very transparent disbursement.
He added that the intervention would include Tsangaya and Mission schools.
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Peter Obi was never a Labour person, LP just special vehicle – Doyin Okupe
Peter Obi was never a Labour person, LP just special vehicle – Doyin Okupe
Former director-general of the Labour Party presidential campaign, Doyin Okupe has said the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, never believed in the ideologies of the party.
Okupe stated this while answering questions in an interview on Arise Television’s flagship programme, The Morning Show.
The Labour Part, according to Okupe was just a special purpose vehicle (SPV) for the presidential election.
Okupe who resigned his membership of the Labour Party in January, on the grounds of ideological differences said his membership of the party ended the moment Obi lost the election.
“The LP for us — for Peter Obi and I — and those in the leadership of the movement… the party was a special purpose vehicle (SPV).
“I have never been a labour person, I have never operated on the left before but we needed a platform and this was the only platform readily available to us.
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“We thought that if we won the election… there are no fast and hard rules about ideologies. You can always find a shade between the left and the right. You can always move to the centre.
“We were hoping and praying that if we won we would find a way to come to some consensus with the labour.
“Peter Obi is not a labour person. He is not a leftist person, he is a trader, he is a businessman just like me. I am a liberal democrat, I believe in liberal democracy, I believe in free enterprise.
“I am not a social worker. As far as I’m concerned, my membership of labour expired the moment we lost that election.”
The former presidential aide said it was “unreasonable” for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to present a northerner as its candidate in the buildup to the 2023 election.
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