Sahara Reporters Latest News Today Tuesday 27th July 2021
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E2%80%99s-thugs-attacked-residence How Ex-Commissioner Escaped Death After Lagos Speaker, Obasa’s Thugs Attacked Residence
Lagos Assembly Speaker Mudashiru Obasa
Thugs allegedly loyal to the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, have attacked the former State Commissioner for Transportation, Kayode Opeifa.
SaharaReporters gathered that Opeifa was attacked at his residence at Oyewole Road, Mulero bus stop, Agege on Sunday.
Lagos Assembly Speaker Mudashiru Obasa
A source, who witnessed the attack, said the hoodlums came to challenge the former Commissioner for allegedly influencing electorates to vote for the Ward D, Orile Agege Local Council Development Area councilorship candidate of All Progressives Congress in the Saturday’s council election, Wahab Adeoye against Obasa’s candidate, one Afolabi Omotunde of the Young Progressives Party (YPP).
The source said, “Some APC members in the ward led by Obasa were not favourably disposed towards Adeoye and they shifted their support to the candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Afolabi Omotunde, a clear case of anti-party.
“On Saturday, they openly campaigned for the YPP candidate. Opeifa and his team monitored and mounted spirited efforts to prevent rigging hence he became a target
“On Saturday evening, the hoodlums supporting the YPP candidate took the people of Oyewole hostage, attacking people at will. They gathered in front of the house and converged there. They later left. They came back around 3am on Sunday and attacked the residence. They fired gunshots and threw stones and other dangerous weapons at the house.”
Meanwhile, a chieftain of the party has condemned the action of the Assembly Speaker, accusing him of anti-party activities.
Speaking with SaharaReporters, the APC chief said, “It is frightening and terrifying the kind of dangerous dimensions being introduced into the politics of Agege LG and Orile Agege LCDA by the Speaker of the Lagos State House Of Assembly because of his (Obasa) 2023 Lagos West Senatorial ambition. Even though there is nothing wrong in being ambitious but over ambitious could be dangerous.
“The barbarism and the gangsterism displayed on Saturday, 24th of July, 2021 by Hon. Mudashiru Obasa’s gangsters during the LG/LCDA poll is despicable, dishonourable and mindless. In Agege LG and Orile Agege LCDA, the unwarranted attack on the people of the area leaves a sour taste in the mouth of the people. His ambition of becoming Lagos West Senator in 2023 is an ambition taken too far. He should know that his ambition is nor worth a single life of anybody.
“How could he be so greedy to the extent of imposing himself on the people by force. He disrupted the peace enjoyed in Ojokoro LCDA, as a result of his over-zealousness by working against the People’s favourite. Now things are no longer at peace in Ojokoro LCDA, due to his reckless ambition. What happened in Ojokoro LCDA is Personal Interest Supremacy, not Party Supremacy.
“We implore the party leaders across Lagos state, to do their survey before selecting Candidates. Let the People wish and will prevail. Too much of Personal Interest in selecting APC Candidates caused the voters apathy in the just concluded LG/LCDA poll throughout Lagos State. Let’s be watchful, 2023 general is around the corner, and people are watching all the shenanigans happening in Lagos. In a nutshell, personal interest, supercede General Interest in selecting Candidates in APC.
“He (Obasa) tried to impose candidates at IBA LCDA, but they clipped his wings and some other LGs and LCDAs. The wanton destruction and carnage inflicted on people at Orile Agege by the cultists working for him is enough for him to be sanctioned by the party. After his failed attempt to foist a cult member by name Omotunde Afolabi Abdulkareem on the people, he took him to Youth Progressive Party (YPP), to contest, but failed woefully.
“The aftermath of his failure was to unleash an APC member called ALASHE, who happens to be the Special Adviser on Budget to Orile Agege LCDA. He (Alashe) is an Exco in Ward D, Orile Agege LCDA and also the leader of the cultist to perpetrate the heinous act, by destroying properties belonging to the APC candidate that ran against his (Obasa) YPP candidate. How on earth will a cultist be given so much chance in a progressive party. Its barbaric, absurd and abysmal to the Progress of All Progressive Congress (APC).
“It’s a big slap on the APC leaders face across Lagos state, that the number three citizen of Lagos state, who is heading the affairs of the legislative arm is working against the party that brought him to limelight. Dr Kayode Opeifa who he (Obasa) is fighting against, stands shoulder above him in all ramifications.
“Obasa can only force himself on the party and not on the people. Obasa needs to be reminded that 2023 elections is not going to be conducted by LASIEC but INEC. Asiwaju Bola Tinubu did not attain the status he is today, through brigands and thuggery. I’m of the view that Obasa will bear the full responsibility for his irresponsibility in due time. What you cannot achieve through peaceful means cannot be gotten through violent methods.”
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E2%80%99s-arrest-asks-police-stop-harassing-journalists Okei-Odumakin Condemns Sowore’s Arrest, Asks Police To Stop Harassing Journalists
Human rights activist and President, Women Arise and Centre for Change, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, has condemned the illegal arrest of human rights activist and Amnesty International-designated Prisoner of Conscience, Omoyele Sowore, at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday.
Sowore was at the court in the hope of attending the trials of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), and five #BuhariMustGo protesters arrested at Dunamis Gospel Church, Abuja by the Department of State Services (DSS).
Sowore has been one of the front-line voices who condemned the recent re-arrest and repatriation of Kanu to Nigeria.
The activist had called for the unconditional release of the IPOB leader, who was controversially arrested in Kenya.
Reacting in a statement titled, ‘Stop the harassment of journalists’, Okei-Odumakin urged security operatives to respect the country’s constitution and not to the government of the day.
She said, “The publisher of Sahara Reporters and convener of #RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore, was arrested earlier today by security operatives. Sowore was sighted earlier in the day around the court premises probably to attend the scheduled court session on the fundamental rights abuse case involving five activists arrested at Dunamis Church, Abuja.
“Reports have it that Sowore was released later in the day by the security operatives. These must stop. The freedoms, liberties, and fundamental rights of citizens are not at the whims and caprices of security operatives or of the government they purport to work for.
“Security operatives are public servants who owe their authority to the Constitution and not to the government of the day. Governments come and go but citizens remain the boss of those in government at all times.
“Regardless how sensitive a trial may be, the people deserve to be informed of goings-on. Whether the trial of the leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, or that of the Yoruba self-determination activist, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, government must not muzzle the media.
“Sowore was accosted as he live-streamed activities around the court vicinity. His phone was also seized from him before he was whisked away. The camera belonging to Brock Media was equally snatched from the journalist, Yusuf Rock, while the journalist narrowly escaped arrest.
“All these harassment of journalists performing their lawful duty of informing the populace must cease. The media have been saddled with the responsibility of holding government accountable to the people. This duty they must be allowed to perform without shackles and hindrances of any sort. Once again it bears repeating that this is a democracy and a nation under law, not a dictatorship or banana republic.”
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PDP Governors Demand Electronic Transmission Of 2023 Election Results
Ondo local government election
The People Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ forum has asked the National Assembly and the Independent National Electoral Commission to ensure that the results of the 2023 general elections are transmitted electronically.
The forum accused President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration and the All Progressives Congress of turning the Presidential Villa to the new APC headquarters.
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The statement was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of the 11th meeting of the PDP governors in Bauchi State on Monday.
The governors, who deliberated on the state of the nation, disclosed that the Aso Rock Villa had now turned to “where coerced PDP members are being paraded at intervals.”
The forum said, “The governors condemned Mr President and APC for turning the Presidential Villa that belongs to all Nigerians into the new APC headquarters, where coerced PDP members are being paraded at intervals.”
The PDP governors called on the National Assembly to entrench the electronic transmission of results of elections in the nation’s electoral jurisprudence.
The forum said, “On the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, the governors identified with the need for a free, fair and credible election in the country and called on the National Assembly to entrench electronic transmission of results of elections in the nation’s electoral jurisprudence.
“We request the Independent National Electoral Commission, the only body empowered by the constitution to conduct elections, to deploy appropriate technologies necessary to ensure that the vote of every Nigerian is counted and made to count.”
The governors also advised that political parties should be allowed to decide whether to use direct or indirect method of conducting primaries as part of internal democracy in political parties.
“The meeting condemned, once again, the use of under-hand tactics to arm-twist some PDP governors and other stakeholders to join the APC; a political party that has wrecked Nigeria’s economy, turned Nigeria into a killing field and has nothing to offer Nigerians but misery and bad governance,” the forum added.
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E2%80%93-afenifere Igboho Is Like Prophet Muhammed Who Fled Mecca For Medina Over Persecution – Afenifere
Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, has said there is nothing wrong with Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, seeking asylum in another country where his safety can be guaranteed.
The Afenifere’s National Publicity Secretary, Jare Ajayi, said Igboho is like Prophet Muhammed who fled Mecca to Medina over persecution.
He stated this in a release, titled, “Sunday Igboho Court Hearing: Afenifere Commends Olubadan, Ooni, Other Obas.”
SaharaReporters had earlier reported that the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji, explained that he sent a delegation to Benin Republic to allay the fears of several people, including protesters who besieged his palace.
Afenifere said, “Sunday Igboho lives in Ibadan, got married in Ibadan, reared children in Ibadan, built houses in Ibadan and as such he has the rights to be protected by the Ibadan traditional institution within the ambit of the law just like any human being in Ibadan.”He also allayed public fears of a “repeat performance of Yoruba-Fulani coalition of 1814”.
In its statement, Afenifere lamented that “what is now regarded as Sunday Igboho’s travail ought not to occur at all if there had been good governance in Nigeria and people were not harassed without any just cause.”
“It is so sad that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration is concentrating on hunting and harassing those who are seeking relief from the oppressive situation in Nigeria while shying away from tackling the menaces of kidnapping, terrorism and antics bordering on ethnic-cleansing,” the group added.Afenifere also said there was nothing wrong with this intention, as it narrated, “We recall that Moses had to be taken away from the prying eyes of Pharaoh and his agents in Egypt. Prophet Muhammed (S.A.W) too had to leave his hometown, Mecca for Medina in order to escape persecution.
“Thus, there is nothing wrong in Igboho seeking a respite first to preserve his life and perhaps to re-strategise.”
SaharaReporters had reported that Igboho and his wife were arrested last Monday at the Cotonou Cadjehoun Airport by security operatives following a signal the West African country received from the Nigerian government.
On Thursday, the Cour De’appal De Cotonou, Benin Republic, where Igboho and his wife, Ropo, were arraigned on Thursday, ordered the wife to be released same day.
The court had ruled that Igboho should be returned to custody.
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Johnson Suleiman’s Money Magic Bank Alerts, By Bolaji O. Akinyemi
The Author, Dr Bolaji O. Akinyemi
The choice of Atlanta in the United States of America for this pentecostal rascality and mother of all scams must have a purpose.
We must not forget that during 2020 Covid 19 lock down, Apostle Johnson Suleiman had a divine visitation and the lock down became a blessing in disguise for our beloved, who came to town with the testimony of his 2nd jet and therefore wished that the world will remain locked down.
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The exuberance not withstanding it was nothing short of a visitation. But for lack of communication skills and information management he had the crisis that followed a divine visitation. Wisdom is required to transmit divine massages at human frequency by everyone of us parading ourselves on the pulpit.
Money is the need of our post Covid world, and with the threat of another wave, we all will do well to have enough to store up for the days ahead. A smart mind you will agree with me must take advantage of global vulnerability.
I reached out to Apostle on the saga of his Covid-19 private jet and found his admittance a reflection of maturity for which he tendered apology to Nigerians and the global village at large, on that he had my respect, this we all must keep earning from one another on this side of time.
I am however amazed that this greater assault to the integrity of God and his word will draw his irk. I am not a church policeman, nobody, but the devil is, he is the fault finder of the brethren for the purpose of fulfilling his ministry as our accuser.
But I owe it a duty to Christ, His word and the Church to point out any contemporary charismatic act that are inconsistent with the Bible contextually, interpretation wise and application. As usual, I reached out again to him on his moment of pulpit rascality. He responded in a manner that left me with no option than to come public, he blocked my channel of engagement to be able to continue with our chat on the issue.
Hence, I am writing this to him and all who must have fallen for this gimmicks at exalting Mammon on the altar of the living God. It is important for us as Christians to understand the divine ordination and protocol of blessing, by going to the beginning, another principle that Jesus exposed to us; “it was not so in the beginning”, when the pharises were in conflict of knowledge, which he applied, dealing with their question on marriage.
Gen 1:26-29, told us the plan and purpose of God for creating man and revealed the secret of dominion mandate as the seed. He made man to be fruitful and to multiply, with capacity to replenish.
Gen 2:15 (KJV):
“And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.”
After man was placed in the garden, he was commissioned for the protocol of his ordination to be fruitful, he must keep the garden and dress it, to have fruits of it to eat. Work is not a punishment. It is a protocol of creation, for eco system management, it was set in place before the fall, though it became harder after the fall.
God enforced the same principle in the days of manna, he could have made it to fall at the camp near their doors, but he rained it in the field for every bread winner to go and harvest daily provisions for the family.
Exodus 16:4 (KJV):
“Then said the Lord unto Moses, behold, I will rain bread (blessings) from heaven (known source) for you; and the people SHALL GO OUT (to work) and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or not”.
The protocol of creation forbids gathering after work, work must come first and reward for work will follow.
No passage of the scriptures brought it home like 2 King 4:1-7, where on of the most divinely qualified class of people for alms been a widow found herself in debt, Elisha did no such thing as asking her to open her bag and she will find money, but the question posed to her answer it all, what do you have in your house? In other word, what is your trade or business? Then miracle of business capacity expansion was birthed through prophetic counsel. Note, he never told her what will happen.
Understanding the protocol of work as a divine prelude to blessings, the Apostle Paul said, he that doesn’t work, let him not eat.
2 Thesalonian 3:10 (KJV):
“For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.”
As Christians God’s word is our standard and Jesus is our best model of operation. It was Apostle Paul who said, “be ye followers of me as I am of Christ”. His analogy is born out of the typology of construction, wherein conner stones are set and rope tied to them to get every block that will be set aligned with the conner stones, each of us as blocks must align with Christ, the conner stone in God’s ongoing building project. Apostle Johnson Suleiman or any other, has responsibilities to me, the body and Christ at pointing out our mistakes, offences, error or sins if any is found.
Johnson Suleiman cited Matthew 17:27 (KJV): “Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened its mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.”
A close look at the verse reveals their needs, which was money to pay their taxes. Jesus turned to Peter in consciousness of divine ordination for fruitfulness through the protocol of work.
Go thou to the sea, the sea of course is work place for Peter who was a fisherman. Was he to go there to beg? No!
He was clearly instructed he was going there to work; “cast an hook and take up the fish that first cometh up”, it was going to be a day of blessing, but work is the protocol to it, it won’t be a toiling like he has known in the past, rather a day of little work for so much blessings, “but he gat to work” like the Americans would say.
Jesus is a miracle worker, our model for the miraculous. Why did Jesus not command the money to be put in their pockets and pulses so he could simply ask them to reach for it?
I will like to know if offering was collected in that church for any reason that day, if that was done then credence is lent to my position on this even by common sense. The Angel transferring money into people’s accounts probably was not given the church’s own?
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E2%80%99s-lawyer-drags-nigeria-kenya-african-commission-seeks-kanu%E2%80%99s-transfer-uk Nnamdi Kanu’s Lawyer Drags Nigeria, Kenya To African Commission, Seeks Kanu’s Transfer To UK
Aloy Ejimakor, counsel to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has dragged the Nigerian and Kenyan governments to the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights, demanding accountability over the torture and extraordinary rendition of Kanu.
Ejimakor in a release obtained by SaharaReporters on Monday noted that one of the reliefs being sought is that Kanu must be restored to his state of being before the rendition, which in this case is the United Kingdom.
The lawyer added that Kanu travelled to Kenya on his British passport and was duly admitted as such and as a free man.
Ejimakor said, “A few days ago, I commenced a continental legal action against Nigeria and Kenya before the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights, demanding accountability for the extraordinary rendition of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“Jurisdiction lies with the Commission because Nigeria and Kenya are State Parties to the African Charter; and Nigeria even took a step further to domesticate the Charter, thus making it part of her municipal laws.
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“Both countries also have extradition laws that prohibit this sort of reprehensible conduct that saw Kanu to Nigeria. More particularly, extraordinary rendition is expressly prohibited under the African Charter, where It provides in pertinent part that “A State may not transfer (e.g. deport, expel, remove, extradite) an individual to the custody of another State unless it is prescribed by law and in accordance with due process and other international human rights obligations. Extraordinary rendition, or any other transfer, without due process is prohibited”.
“A victim of extraordinary rendition is entitled to remedies mandated by the Charter. Therefore, among many other reliefs, I requested that Kanu be restored to his state of being before the rendition, which state of being was that he travelled to Kenya on his British passport and was duly admitted as such and as a free man.
“Further, that no valid territorial jurisdiction can issue from an act of extraordinary rendition because Kanu is, technically speaking, still in Kenya. And that the Nigerian bench warrant standing against Kanu is, in the absence of any successful extradition proceedings in Kenya, invalid to arrest in Kenya.
“I also requested the Commission to adopt other urgent measures as the Commission sees fit in the circumstances to protect Nnamdi Kanu in the interim. A fact-finding visitation to Nigeria is also in reckoning.”
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Ejimakor added that he had stated in his previous press briefings, that he knew Kanu’s trial would be “trial within trial.”
“To those who didn’t fully grasp what it meant, this extant continental legal action will give you a clue. And this is just the beginning. To be sure, any nation that dabbles in extraordinary rendition has unwittingly brought impediments to her territorial jurisdiction. So, Nigeria, whether it admits it or not, has triggered a hornet’s nest that has, for the first time, brought the international legal order to bear on the matter of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu,” he said.
Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja had on Monday adjourned the trial of Kanu to October 21, due to failure of Nigerian Government to produce him in court on Monday.
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Obi Cubana’s Mother Of All Burials By Ozodinukwe Okenwa
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Some decades ago as a teenager a village brother based in Lagos had taken me to the late Victor Okafor’s birthday bash somewhere in Ihiala, Anambra state, during Yuletide. Victor Okafor (may his generous soul rest in peace!) was the popular ‘Eze-ego’ who used his wealth to develop his village in Ihiala — tarring roads, fixing street lights and constructing houses for the poor and borehole for the community. The birthday was an annual feast featuring the rich and powerful from afar and near. In that year’s edition under reference it was a rich colourful all-night party featuring live bands (Oliver De Coque, King Sunny Ade, Shina Peters etc). There were so much fun to remember for, so much to eat and drink that everyone must have gone home at dawn down and satisfied.
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The late handsome ‘Eze-ego’ (king of money) was then one of the youngest and richest men from his community. And he displayed his wealth without complex touching lives and making himself heard loud and clear. He built an edifice befitting his status and made friends across ethnic lines. During the Xmas season he distributed bags of rice, goats, groundnut oil, money to the needy. And donated soccer cup and played football in the village with the youths.
As we watched great musicians entertaining the mammoth crowd, wining and dining happily, I was struck by the display of opulence that I had wished silently that I became rich and powerful too! Money ‘rained’ all night long speaking every language you could think of as it were. Dollars, Pounds, Naira flew in different directions as friends and associates threw wads of local and foreign currencies on the late business mogul based in Lagos as he danced with his beautiful wife, Nkechi.
Some intervening years later Okafor was involved in a minor auto accident on his way to the village a day or two to Christmas, few kilometres to Ihiala, and he died instantly! Every other person inside the car including his wife and children survived the accident. Then rumours began making the rounds that Victor could have been killed by an evil spirit (agbara) after failing to honour summons from the fetish dark kingdom. According to one of the theories being propounded then someone he ‘ate’ his money must have taken his complaint to the evil shrine.
Another theory was that his wealth was as a result of an evil pact with Lucifer or involvement with ritualism or cultism. No one knew the truth for sure but the late Okafor is still remembered today in Ihiala for his great impact on the lives of the local folks.
Recently in Oba, a sleepy town in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, dozens of kilometres from Ihiala, a mother of all burials took place. Obinna Iyiegbu, alias Obi Cubana, held the funeral of his mother who died late last year at a ripe old age. For days running the great event trended globally online. I watched the videos and came out with the impression that money spoke powerfully during the week-long fiesta.
Politicians, entertainers (Nollywood greats), businessmen, social media influencers, ordinary and extra-ordinary folks thronged Oba to commiserate with Cubana as he sent his mother six feet below with a golden casket valued at millions of Naira. Indeed it was a colourful rich occasion featuring the mundane, the obscene and the wierd, all embedded in debauchery.
How an otherwise melancholic occasion was effortlessly transformed into a carnival fraught with obscenity beat the imagination of the serious-minded observers.
Money was used and abused at will as people competed for space to be seen or for whom would throw more money towards Cubana in appreciation of his much-vaunted munificence or naked demonstration of belonging to the rich elitist club.
In one of the obscene videos ladies (some showing off their professionalism as whores) scrambled for cash at the pool side, skimpily-dressed, as money was thrown inside the swimming pool! Some of them must have swun themselves to riches!
Obi Cubana had jetted off reportedly to the Maldives Island for a deserved rest after the moneyed party dressed as a funeral. But before he left our shores the young man (46) had defended his legitimate source of wealth telling whoever cared to listen that his sudden rise to opulent fame was through the dint of hardwork. After his graduation from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Cubana did his NYSC youth service in Abuja and from there he laboured his way to the entrepreneurial top. He invested heavily in hotels and night clubs!
Before I stumbled on his profile I had dismissed him wrongly as one of those ‘money-miss-road’ young Igbo millionaires out to prove their ignorance before a global audience. Undoubtedly many of these ignorant elements abound in Igboland! They believe in two things which they consider utterly significant in life: making money, marriage and making babies. They value neither God nor rules and regulations! For them a good house, car and wife and millions or billions in the bank accounts are enough to guarantee ‘paradise’ here on earth.
Lately criticisms had trailed the money show in Oba. Some of the critics were interrogating the profile of some of the guests that came and displayed their status of millionaires or billionaires. Others were asking about the source of wealth of not only the Cubana of a man but those that ‘rained’ bundles of freshly-minted legal tenders on the celebrated celebrant. And others (admirers if you like) were busy demanding a cut of the ‘soap’; that is, how and where they could make money through ritualism or cultism!
You have these critics too who were of the opinion that instead of the Cubana rich club exhibiting their new-found riches in a supposedly sombre occasion they could have used their wealth to construct hospitals, roads, schools or better still, given scholarships to the indigent children that abound in the town. Perhaps, Cubana is doing these charities but more are required.
Well, how anyone makes their money or how they spend same is none of our business. Suffice to say however that the Oba show ‘shaming’ money or poverty bore a hallmark of misplaced priorities. Obi Cubana may be generous in his dealings with his people but there are many social challenges in his village and town awaiting his attention. Intervening and making things better or life more bearable for the rural folks ought to be his primary preoccupation.
Promoting obscenity or get-rich-quick syndrome attitude may not be a source of role model for the restless youths in his town or elsewhere. And now that some misguided youths are bombarding stars and celebrities with probing questions on how to get rich by hook or by crook (cutting the soap or whatever it is called) brother Obi Cubana and his rich friends must provide satisfactory answers to their worries and troubles.
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E2%80%93-ipob-reacts-leader%E2%80%99s Department Of State Services May Have Killed Nnamdi Kanu In Custody – IPOB Reacts To Leader’s Absence In Court
The Indigenous People of Biafra has reacted to the failure of the Department of State Services to produce its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, to continue his trial at the Federal High Court, Abuja on Monday.
IPOB stated that the DSS operatives might have killed Kanu in their custody.
The group also lamented that the DSS had denied Kanu’s lawyers and family members to have access to him in detention for the last one week.
IPOB dared the Nigerian government not to joke with its strength, while calling for the release of all those arrested for coming to witness the trial on Monday.
These were contained in a statement by the group’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, made available to SaharaReporters on Monday.
SaharaReporters had reported that Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court adjourned Kanu’s trial to October 21, due to the failure of the Nigerian Government to produce him in court on Monday.
Reacting, IPOB said, “We the global family of Indigenous People of Biafra under the command and leadership of our great leader, Nnamdi Kanu, condemn the seek and hide attitude of the Department of State Services, DSS, and its systematic delay and failure to produce our leader in court today in Abuja.
“This was a deliberate and wicked plot to inflict further torture on our leader who they have kept incommunicado for some days now. In the past seven days, DSS has refused our lawyers and our leader’s family members access to him. This is wickedness!
“We are no longer comfortable with this development. We have enough grounds to suspect foul play. With the failure of DSS to produce our leader in court today without any cogent reason and coupled with the torture meted out to him since his abduction in Kenya, we are worried about the safety of our leader.
“The failure of DSS to produce our leader in court today is confirming our fear over the uncertainty concerning his health. Considering his deteriorating health condition since he was kidnapped and the refusal of DSS to grant him access to his personal physicians, it is possible that our leader may have been killed.
“DSS should prove us wrong by producing our leader in court or granting his lawyers and family members access to him. We are running out of patience. Nigeria should not take IPOB for granted. Our leader must not die in detention.
“We also demand unconditional release of all those arrested today in Abuja and other parts of the country for their solidarity with our leader. Nigeria must release them.”
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E2%80%93-nigerian-cleric Why Igboho Decided Not To Escape From Beninese Custody Through Native Powers – Nigerian Cleric
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A Muslim cleric, Idris Oladejo, has revealed why he believed the Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo (Igboho), decided not to escape from the custody of the operatives in Benin Republic, using his native powers.
Oladejo, popularly called Imam Oladejo, said Igboho indeed had the native powers to “disappear” from custody but had refused to do so because of his wife and the love he had for the Yoruba Nation.
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The cleric stated, “Sunday Igboho believes in Allah and he hates cheating, especially cheating the Yoruba Nation. He has those powers and they are from Allah. He can’t disappear here because he doesn’t want any problem for his wife, Oodua Nation and Yoruba Nation. He hates problems; he’s a good man and that’s why I love him.”
Oladejo, who had been in Benin Republic since the announcement of Igboho’s arrest last Monday, told journalists that Igboho would go from Benin to Germany and would return to Nigeria in peace later on.
“I pray, I tell my Allah, I tell my God and Almighty Allah can never disappoint me. Sunday Igboho will not be taken back to Nigeria. From Benin Republic, Sunday Igboho will travel back to Germany, and from Germany, Sunday Igboho will come back to Nigeria in peace.”
SaharaReporters recall that Igboho, following the raid on his house by operatives of the Department of State Services, admitted that he had spiritual powers.
Igboho had added that the guns found in his house were “government’s magic,” stating that he only made use of traditional powers for protection.
SaharaReporters had reported last Thursday that the Cour De’appal De Cotonou, Benin Republic, ordered Igboho’s wife to be released while Igboho would remain in custody.
His trial continues today, Monday.
A source had told SaharaReporters that the activist was not for extradition to Nigeria.
SaharaReporters had reported how Benin Republic police last Monday arrested Igboho at Cardinal Bernardin International Airport in Cotonou, while trying to fly from the country to Germany.
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E2%80%99s-legal-team-challenge-october-21-adjournment-date Nnamdi Kanu’s Legal Team To Challenge October 21 Adjournment Date
Nnamdi Kanu
Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the lead counsel to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has stated that the team of lawyers will activate a “judicial process” to ensure that the Federal High Court in Abuja can hear Kanu’s trial earlier than October 21’s adjournment date.
Ejiofor, in an update he posted on Monday, also noted that the court had allowed Kanu’s friends and family members to visit him in custody.
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SaharaReporters had earlier today reported that Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja, adjourned the trial of Kanu to October 21, due to the failure of the Nigerian Government to produce him in court on Monday.
Ejiofor had informed the court that there was a pending application before the court to transfer Kanu from the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) to a correctional centre.
Justice Binta Nyako had stated that the trial could not continue in the absence of the IPOB leader.
The court had adjourned to October 21, 2021, for continuation of hearing.
In an update he posted on Monday, Ejiofor said, “Important take-home from today’s proceedings; one, henceforth, our client – Nnamdi Kanu – cannot only be visited by his lawyers, but relatives and friends, provided it is only two persons in every of such visit, on his visiting days.
“It is now an Order of the Court. Anybody within the above classification will be profiled by our Head of Chambers. Two, we will activate the judicial process to ensure that the Court is granted a Fiat to hear this case during the court’s annual vacation that commenced today.
“Three, our discreet findings confirmed that Kanu was not taken out of Abuja to an unknown destination. Kindly ignore the rumour mongers. We will visit him again within the next 48 hours. Kanu will regain his freedom sooner than may be expected.”
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