Sahara Reporters Latest News Today Wednesday 11th March 2020

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El-Rufai Appoints Sanusi Into Kaduna Investment Board

Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai, has appointed deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, into the board of KADIPA, its investment promotion agency.
The appointment was announced through a statement.
The statement reads, “Mallam Nasir el-Rufai has appointed His Highness, Muhammad Sanusi II, into the board of KADIPA. 
“The appointment is part of the reconstitution of the board of KADIPA, which is statutorily chaired by the deputy governor and has as internal members senior officials of the Kaduna State Government.“Gov @elrufai said that Kaduna hopes to benefit from the profile, experience, intellect & networks of Muhammad Sanusi II, who before becoming Emir, had built a solid reputation in global financial circles. Kaduna is honoured to call on the services of a man of such calibre†pic.twitter.com/jH5IWlNqsN— Governor Kaduna (@GovKaduna) March 10, 2020

“Governor el-Rufai hopes to benefit from the profile, experience, intellect and networks of His Highness, Muhammad Sanusi, who before becoming Emir, had built a solid reputation in global financial circles. 
“Mallam Nasir el-Rufai said that Kaduna State was honoured to be able to call on the services of a man of such calibre to drive its development.
“The governor also said that he was confident that the new board, which includes the most senior officers of the state, will further propel KADIPA to greater success in attracting investments to Kaduna State. 
“He disclosed that the external members had been carefully chosen to further reinforce the investment credentials of the state.”
Sanusi would be Vice Chairman of the agency while Hadiza Balarabe will be the Chairperson.
 

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Sanusi Moved To Another Nasarawa Town, Awe

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Deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has been moved from Loko in Nasarawa State where he was initially banished to and now taken to Awe also in the same state.
Head of Loko town, Abubakar Sabo, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday that Sanusi “has been relocated from my domain”.
He said, “The Emir of Kano left my domain around 1:40pm. 
“I don’t know where they have taken him to. They came with a helicopter and took him away. He has left.”
Kano State Executive Council approved the dethronement of Sanusi at a special sitting held on Monday.
Since coming on the throne, Sanusi, who rose to become governor of Nigeria’s Central Bank as a professional, has always spoken out against harmful traditions and practices in the North, often times drawing the ire of elites in the region.
The executive council headed by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano claimed that Sanusi was removed for displaying disregard for laid down rules.

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Nigerian Lawmakers Summon ASUU, Education Ministry Over Strike Action

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Members of Nigeria’s House of Representatives are making moves to stop the Academic Staff Union of Universities from embarking on any other strike in the near future.
To resolve the issue, the House of Representatives has summoned the leadership of ASUU, the Ministry of Education, and Ministry of Labour to find a solution to the strike action.
The lawmakers posited that strike actions by the union had the tendency of collapsing the economy of the country.
The lawmakers expressed fear that ASUU would embark on an indefinite strike if their agitations were not addressed.
In a motion of urgent public importance submitted at the floor by Dachung Bagos, the legislator urged the House to intervene in the ongoing strike action by the union.
He highlighted Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System as the major reason for the industrial action.
In his submission, Rimamnde Shawulu posited that education tourism drains the country’s forex and called for the development of public and private institutions to discourage the practice.

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Emir Sanusi Deposed: Sultan Sa’ad, Shehu El-Kanemi’s Turn Loading By Obinna Akukwe

 
The criminals that destroyed the North by deposing Emir Sanusi will soon turn their attention on Sultan Saad Abubakar of Sokoto and Shehu Abubakar El-Kanemi because they want to remove any voice of reason from the North, loot down the region and disappear into Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and US to enjoy their loots. The CUPP had last year raised alarm that there is a plan to depose Sultan of Sokoto and Emir of Kano for holding views contrary to that of the parties in power.
In December last year, I wrote a piece titled ‘Planned Deposition of Emir Sanusi; Foolishness of Northern Elites’ the next day, the Presidency set up a committee headed by Ex Maximum leader Abdulsalami Abubakar, Yakubu Gowon, Adamu Fika, Governor Fayemi among others to resolve the Ganduje, Sanusi feud.
In the second piece titled ‘Plot to Depose Sanusi; North Sheds Foolishness as Buhari, Abdulsalami, Gowon Intervenes’, I posited that, “The worst humiliation to the Emirate stool is the new law that when an emir wants to travel out of the state, he sends letter to the local government chairman, instead of the governor. Thus Emir Sanusi will have to take permission from a houseboy local government Chairman of Kano Metropolis before he can visit the Emir of Zazzau in Zaria.
“Soon the law will be extended to Sokoto and the Sultan will take permission from the Chairman of Sokoto Local Government Area before he can attend Argungu Festival in Kebbi Emirate jurisdiction. The Shehu of Borno will soon beg Maiduguri Local Government chairman before he can attend a state function in Abuja.
“Governor Ganduje has humiliated the north. He has desecrated the revered emirate mystique of northern Nigeria. This nuisance may continue until Almajiris turns Emirs to lap dogs. Babangida started it, Abacha joined in 1996, Obasanjo and Aliero took it to another level in 2005. These men are former Presidents. Now a Governor is threatening an emir as though he is a councillor. Soon a local government chairman will depose the Emir of Bauchi, and soon again road transport workers will banish an Emir of Daura. Ganduje is sowing the seeds and it will germinate very soon”
Now that the hawks have deposed Sanusi, I want to tell the north that the cycles of depositions have started. The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar is next in line. The Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Ibn Umar Garbai Al-Amin El-Kanemi will be the next until they have turned Sultanate and Emirates to rags at the becks and callings of riff raff.
The criminal politicians that destroyed the North, looted the North, hoisted Boko Haram on the north, raped young girls in the name of child marriage and sent their impoverished fathers to Mecca for a gratuitous pilgrimage, have finally taken a big pound of flesh, sacked a most brilliant, most intellectual, most progressive Emir. They have tested an experiment and it walked successfully.
Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar should either shut his royal mouth up, and swallow every piece of shit from these criminal northern politicians or risk being thrown away. The Shehu Abubakar El-Kanemi should be sheepishly praising the government as Boko Haram invades Maidugeri, or be thrown away. It will come to a point where the troublesome leader of Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Yerima Shettima will sack the Emir of Zazzau. It will degenerate to a point where MC Oloumo, leader of Lagos touts will influence the sack of the Sultan of Sokoto
It is very unfortunate that despite the interventions of Generals Abdulsalami, Gowom, Adamu Fika, Governor Fayemi among others, Ganduje still went on to depose Sanusi. Buhari gave a tacit approval to this heist when three weeks ago he pledged neutrality in the Sanusi-Ganduje feud. Where is the Father in Buhari.
I chided Igbo leaders when they were fooling away with Jonathan while infrastructural deficits engulfed the region. Today, Nnamdi Kanu of IPOB fame has turned them into rags. These people superintended over a 419 Second Niger Bridge and 419 Enugu International Airport and another 419 ‘Ebele is our brother’ mantra which kept the Igbo in infrastructural crisis when other regions are being developed with oil money.
Northern elites have shown that they were even more foolish than their Igbo counterparts. Soon the Almajiris will do them ‘frog jump’. They should mark my words.
Sanusi blew the whistle that $20bn was missing from the Federation Account in 18 months from NNPC remittance alone. Jonathan and his team victimized Sanusi until they hounded him out of the CBN while the international finance world hailed him. Months after Sanusi’s revelation, Oby Ezekwesili former Vice President, World Bank African Affairs revealed that billions of dollars has been wasted. She was abused to high heavens by Jonathan’s men.
Months after Ezekwesili’s revelations, Prof Soludo, Sanusi’s predecessor at the CBN put the figure of stolen funds at $150bn within Jonathan era. I had months earlier put up my calculation of stolen funds during Jonathan era at $142bn.
Sanusi could have asked for his share of the missing $20bn and could be given $2bn to shut up. Sanusi as Emir of Kano, criticized in 2016 Buari’s forex policy. Sanusi said that “We have created our own billionaires since 2015 from foreign exchange subsidy.”
Sanusi as Emir of Kano, criticized in 2016 Buhari’s forex policy. Sanusi said that “We have created our own billionaires since 2015 from foreign exchange subsidy.”
Sanusi said: “For instance, when the CBN was selling dollar at N197 and people were buying at N300, if I sit down in my garden and pick up my phone I would have enough people to call in the industry to get $10M at officials rate and sell at N300 and make a profit of over N1bn and if I do that four times in a year. For doing nothing I would have earned N4bn.
“And people were telling us that this policy was to help the poor. We should not devalue because if we do the poor people would suffer”.
Criticizing Governor Ganduje’s light rail project Sanusi said “We have governors…”they go to China and spend one month on a tour and what do they come back with, MoU on debts.
“China will lend you $1.8bn to build light rail. This light rail will be done by the rail workers from China. The trains will come from China. The engines will come from China. The labour comes from China. The driver is Chinese. At the end of the day, what do you benefit from it.”
Sanusi challenged Kano residents to defend themselves against Boko Haram and the terrorists plotted to assassinate him, bombed the Kano Central Mosque, killing over 200 persons inside the place of worship. Fortunately, their principal target, Emir Sanusi, travelled to London earlier in the day.
Therefore, it is dumbfounding that the entire northern establishment sits in silence while a corrupt governor Ganduje destroys the ancient prestigious Kano Emirate. Ganduje’s tenure will expire in 2023 but Kano Emirate lives for long.
Sanusi should accept his fate. But let no evil Nigerian ever consign him to any life in exile in a village in Nasarawa for speaking out against evil. Any attempt to try that, we burn down the useless country. Let him go and rest. Let Sultan Sa’ad wait for his turn of disgrace. Let Shehu El Kanemi wait for his turn, until Boko Haram, bandits, kidnappers, ISWAP and criminals overrun the North.
Obinna Akukwe wrote via profetobinna2@yahoo.com

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E2%80%99s-legal-team-challenge-banishment BREAKING: Sanusi’s Legal Team To Challenge Banishment

 
The legal team of dethroned Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has said that they will challenge the Kano State Government’s decision to banish him from the state.
They said that the banishment was an infringement on his constitutional right and liberty.
Announcing the decision on Tuesday during a press briefing, head of Sanusi’s legal team, Abubakar Balarabe Mahmoud (SAN), said that they were however, yet to get any further instruction from him.
He said, “We have the directives of the emir through his Chief of Staff, Munir Sanusi, to challenge the legality of his banishment.
“We have not received any directive to challenge his dethronement but we have been directed to challenge his banishment.”
Kano State Executive Council approved Sanusi’s dethronement at a special sitting held on Monday.
Since coming on the throne, Sanusi, who rose to become Governor of Nigeria’s Central Bank as a professional, has always spoken out against harmful traditions and practices in the North, often times drawing the ire of elites in the region.
He has been banished to a town named Loko in Nasarawa State where he is expected to live quietly with his family.
 

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Dethronement: Timeline Of Sanusi, Ganduje Fallout

 
The existing feud between the deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, and Governor Abdullahi Ganduje dates back to 2017 before the former’s eventual removal on Monday.
Sanusi and Ganduje have had public confrontations and engaged in intellectual brawl over the running of Kano State.
To reduce the power and influence of Sanusi, Ganduje created four new emirates in the state.
Disregarding an order of the court, Ganduje presented letters of appointment to the four new upgraded emirs and also presented them with staff of office. 

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Sanusi has also had to battle the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission accusing him of laundering millions of naira.
Some governors and highly placed politicians tried unsuccessfully to settle the rift between the two men.
Outlined in this piece is a timeline of major incidents leading to Sanusi’s dethronement on Monday.
April 2017: The Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission accused Sanusi II of laundering N6bn. He replied by giving a breakdown of how the palace spent N4bn since he emerged as Emir of Kano.
May 2017: The Kano State House of Assembly set up an eight-man committee to investigate Sanusi II over alleged abuse of office.
May 2019: The Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission invited one of the Kano Emirate’s officials, Alhaji Isa Bayero, to explain some payment vouchers bearing his name from 2013 to 2017.
June 2019: The Kano anti-corruption commission recommended the suspension of Sanusi II.
Ganduje queried Sanusi II to explain within 48 hours an alleged misappropriation of N3.4bn by the emirate. Sanusi replied the query, providing how funds were spent since he took over office.
December 2019: After a Kano State High Court dissolved the four new emirates created by Governor Ganduje, the Kano State Executive Council approved a new Emirate Council Bill, 2019, which legalised the establishment of more emirates in the state.
January 2020: The Kano State anti-corruption commission launched a probe of Sanusi II.
February 2020: A Federal High Court in Kano dismissed the preliminary report by the Kano State anti-corruption commission seeking the suspension of Sanusi ll over alleged misappropriation of funds.
March 2020: The Kano Assembly initiated a fresh probe of Sanusi II over alleged misappropriation and violation of norms and culture.
A Federal High Court in Kano also restrained the state’s Public Complaint and Anti-Corruption Commission from investigating Sanusi II.
However, on March 9, 2020, Sanusi was eventually dethroned and sent into exile in Nasarawa State.
 

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Giving Women A Voice In Era Of SDGs Development By Dayo Aderugbo

 
At the Gender Equality and Women’s Leadership for Sustainable World conference last year, the President of the 73rd session at the United Nations General Assembly, Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, made a striking remark on women’s involvement in achieving global sustainable development.
In her comments, she said, “We have no hope of realising the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development without the full participation and leadership of women. This is an obvious point to make, but it is, sadly, one that we cannot repeat enough”.  This statement is not only accurate because of its attribution to the UN General Assembly but because the world has continued to show that it is not fully prepared to support the advancement of women in driving realisation of the SDGs and also as change agents leading some of the world’s most important industries.
From an international standpoint, the 2019 SDG Gender Index’s global findings show that “The world is furthest behind on gender equality issues especially related to public finance and better gender data (SDG 17), climate change (SDG 13), gender equality in industry and innovation (SDG 9) and very worryingly, the standalone ‘gender equality’ goal (SDG 5).” The index goes on to reveal that even Africa’s biggest nation, Nigeria, with a score of 46.1 per cent was among the 10 lowest scoring countries by an overall index score. However, while this looks like a slow step in the process, we see a pattern in sight for women to play active roles in these sustainability areas.
For us as women, we make up a huge part of the world’s overall population and have in the last few years began to benefit from the economic and social progress that the growing battle for women empowerment have continued to trigger. Looking at the MDG Monitor, it observed that if and when we fulfil the gender equality SDG 5 goal by 2030, poverty and hunger cases will reduce significantly and by the end of the century, more of the world’s third countries would have become fully developed.
During the Rio Declaration in 1992 which emphasized on how the full participation of women is essential for sustainable development, gender equality champions, the UN Women continues to use each year’s International Women’s Day to advocate for the advancement and success for women globally. This year’s #EachForEqual theme takes an in-depth view into each one of us as individuals and why gender equality must remain utmost priority.
In some of the work we do at Standard Chartered, we have an unwavering pursuit to uplift the everyday woman to improve livelihood because we trust in the multiplier effects a woman brings to both her family and communities. We started the Future makers program for example, where we are using education as a tool to tackle inequality and promote greater economic inclusion. With this program, we aim to have raised US$50 million by 2023 to enable us empower the next generation of women to learn, earn and grow through training modules that focuses on employability, education and entrepreneurship.
In areas such as gender equality (SDG 5), reduced inequalities (SDG 10), quality education (SDG 4) and decent work and economic growth (SDG 8), we have put in place a combination of sports and life skills training called The Goal, for over 200,000 girls in Nigeria. This training is geared towards building confidence and knowledge for women to attain leadership positions and lead them in the right path. The Goal project started in 2011 with only 4 schools in Lagos and has since expanded to 21 schools in Lagos, Oyo and Abuja. with five training modules such as, ‘Be Money Savvy’, ‘Be Yourself’, ‘Be Healthy’, ‘Be Empowered’, and ‘Be Independent’.
Due to the financial responsibility associated with the ‘Be Independent’ module, this was taught only to girls between the ages of 18 – 24 years who were old enough to understand entrepreneurship and employability which also forms a part of the three core pillars we believe women can be empowered at Standard Chartered.
Also, in June 2019, we launched the Women- in-Tech program aimed at providing support to women entrepreneurs and help them in raising seed-funding. We identified that women entrepreneurs sometimes experience difficulties in accessing resources and we decided that the Women-in-Tech program would through its activities support gender representation and diversity in technology and ICT generally to ensure readiness and provide a gateway to a pool of resources.
When we look at this topic holistically, to achieve sustainable development, women require a supportive environment that has no obstruction to equal contribution, women being recognized as policy decision makers and the introduction of initiatives that can drive productivity for women.
We see this era as a time for organisations and government to continue to concern themselves with women empowerment in the advancement of SDGs. Like the Head of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo said some time ago, “If you don’t know where to start with SDGs, start with women and girls, everything else will fall into place”.

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E2%80%93senate-president-lawan Out-of-school Children, A Big Problem To Nigeria –Senate President, Lawan

 
President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said that out-of-school children were a big challenge facing Nigeria as a country.
According to Lawan, the problem constitutes not only social but security problems to the country as a whole.
He said, “We all know that the out-of-school-children are at the moment a big problem to us as a country.
“They constitute not only social problems, but also security problems to some extent.
“Therefore, it is our responsibility to do whatever we can to ensure that they are enrolled in primary and secondary schools.”
Sponsor of the motion, Senator Adamu Aliero (APC, Kebbi Central), noted that over the years the Nigerian Government had made efforts to reduce the menace of street begging by introducing the Universal Primary Education in 1976 and Universal Basic Education in 1999.
According to the lawmaker, the past administration of Goodluck Jonathan embarked on a laudable project by building Almajiri integrated model schools in which children in Northern Nigeria were enrolled and given both Islamic and a Western education.
He lamented that currently, “some of the structures are either laying fallow or put into uses other than what they were originally intended.”
The Senate urged government to come up with ways and means of collaborating with state governments on how to enrol the 14 million children out of school.
 

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Police, Anti-graft Agency Criminalise Complaint In Fraud Case, Shield Top Nigerians Involved In Act

 
Investigation into an alleged fraudulent hijacking of a contract worth N170m by some prominent individuals and their allies appears to have taken a different dimension.
Despite the intervention of the office of Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo, and Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami (SAN), justice is still far from being achieved.
According to findings by SaharaReporters, a network of influential Nigerians allegedly defrauded one Mr Joseph Benjamin, Managing Director of Citadel Oracle Concept Limited based in Ibadan, Oyo State, and these people have been using their connections in government to suppress the matter.
Benjamin, who is the complainant in the fraud case, is now crying out for justice more than eight years after reporting the matter to the police.
Rather than properly investigate his complaint, the police and some officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission allegedly conspired with persons, who hijacked the N170m contract to frame and charge him for giving false information in order to cover up the fraudulent act.
SaharaReporters gathered that top officials of Zinox Group including the company’s Secretary/Legal Adviser, Chris Ozims, were said to have conspired and hijacked the contract awarded to Benjamin’s company in 2012. 
One Folashade Oyebode and two staff of Access Bank Plc, Obilo Onuoha and Deborah Ijeabu, were also accused of playing major roles in the alleged fraud.
Citadel Oracle Concept Ltd had sometime in April 2012 applied for prequalification to tender for the supply of ICT products as advertised by the Federal Inland Revenue Service.
The company forwarded the required documents through one Princess O. Kama, a church member of Benjamin.
A meeting was said to have been initiated by Kama where she introduced one Chief Igbokwe as Managing Director of Ad’Mas Digital Technologies Limited to Benjamin that he and his partner, Chief Leo Stan Ekeh of Zinox Telecommunications LTD, were in full control of the tendering process through their associates at FIRS and can determine, who gets a contract.
Igbokwe then gave two conditions for the contracts to be awarded to them. 
The conditions included that the nominal complainant should accept N15m being the estimated accruable profit on one of the three slots tendered for. 
That a deal has already been closed by MD of Zinox Telecommunications Limited with FIRS at the top, which requires the profits from the other two slots to be used purportedly to bribe officials of FIRS. 
Therefore Citadel was not expected to execute or be involved in the execution of the contracts.
The second condition given to Benjamin was that Citadel should pay the sum of N85m up front into the account of Ad’Mas Digital Technologies Limited.
But Benjamin turned down all the offers as proposed by Igbokwe. 
In August 2013, when Citadel submitted tax returns for the year in the Ibadan Zonal Office of FIRS where he requested for the issuance of a tax clearance certificate, he was informed of a possible under declaration of income and Value Added Tax.
He was told that his TIN account had been credited with a withholding tax of N8.1m in respect to a contract allegedly executed by his company for the Federal Inland Revenue Service.
Upon the discovery that the contract had been awarded and executed in the name of Citadel Oracle Concept Ltd, Benjamin confronted Kama and Igbokwe about it but they feigned ignorance.
However, it was later discovered that Kama fraudulently submitted through forged letters on December 20, 2012 to FIRS details of Access Bank Account number 0059202675 used to perpetuate the fraud. 
The matter was said to have been reported to Special Fraud Unit of Nigeria Police Force headed then by Commissioner of Police, Tunde Ogunsakin.
After police investigation, it was revealed that two signatories to the account were directors of Zinox – Ozims and Oyebode. 
It was also revealed that Mrs Chioma Ekeh, a director in Technologies Distributions Ltd and Zinox Computers, supervised the disbursement of the fund from the said account to TD and Admas Digtal Technologies Ltd.
Three month after the investigation, former Attorney-General of the Federation, Mohammed Adoke, and Director of Public Prosecution, Mohammed Diri, indicted seven persons and recommended their prosecution as a prima facie case had been established against them.
Those recommended for prosecution were Ozims, Oyebode, Mr Adigwe Charles, Chief Igbokwe (Adams Technologies); Kama (Adams Technologies); Mr Ohilo Onuha (Access Bank Plc) and Mrs Ojeabu Deborah (Access Bank Plc).
It was alleged that since the time Mr Solomon Arase reigned as Inspector-General of Police, the law enforcement agency had refused to yield to the request by the DPP to prosecute the suspects.
Instead, the complainant, Benjamin, was put on trial by the police for allegedly giving ‘false information’ in the petition submitted to the authorities.
The forensic examination carried out by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission showed that the documents, signatures and letterhead used in opening the account in the name of Citaldel Oracle Concept Ltd were forged.
Meanwhile, Kama contradicted herself while testifying as witness before Justice Senchi.
In a statement she made to the police on June 13, 2016, she claimed to have “agreed with Mr Joseph Benjamin to make the purchase from TD and that TD gave condition that a new account must be opened to make the staff of their company signatories and that she told Benjamin and he sent all necessary documents for the account opening including board resolution of Citadel Oracle Concept Ltd.” 
Kama told the court that she drove together with Benjamin alongside Chief Igbokwe to the Access Bank where the account was opened.
As at today, only two out of seven people, who participated and carried out the fraud and forgery are facing trial while others are walking freely on the streets.
Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, had in a letter dated July 25, 2019 addressed to the EFCC Chairman notified him of the suspicious conduct of the prosecution counsels, Mr Jude Obozuwa and Mr Egbe Princewill Omagbitse. 
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Following an attempt by the prosecutor to close prosecution without him giving evidence, Benjamin, appealed to Justice Senchi of the FCT High Court, Abuja, for an opportunity to state his side of the case.
Benjamin said EFCC prosecutor, Jude Obozuwa, had refused to present documents he submitted to the anti-graft agency to the court but had closed the case in an attempt to shut him out from telling his own side of story.
He said, “My Lord, I will love this court to give me an opportunity to say my side and defend myself in this case.
“My Lord, I am being shut out of this case by the prosecutor. I have not been given the chance to say anything to defend myself of all allegations against me.
“The prosecutor even slapped me in his office when I went to see him. He said I wrote a petition against his poor handling of this case.” 
Since that period, the complainant had written to the EFCC several times over the delay in completing the investigation but no concrete response had been given by the anti-graft agency till date.

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Senate Receives Petition Over Journalist Killed During Shiite Protest

 
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday received a petition over the killing of a journalist, Alex Ogbu, by the police in Abuja during a protest by members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria.
The petition, which was brought to the floor during the start of plenary by Senator Abba Moro (PDP – Benue South), was referred by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, to the Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions.
The lawmaker said the journalist on January 21, 2020 was shot on the head by a police personnel during the protest.
According to Moro, an autopsy carried out on the body of the deceased journalist confirmed that he died from bullet wound in the head. 

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The President of the Senate thereafter sought clarification from Moro as to whether the wife, who is the petitioner, is presently seeking judicial remedy before any court.
In his response to Lawan, the lawmaker disclosed that there was no suit before any court of law on the matter.
The petition was then referred to the Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petition.
 

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