ACCORD PARTY STORMS OGUN STATE: COMMISSIONS NEW SECRETARIAT

Abeokuta, the rockcity experienced massive turnout of Accord Party members in Ogun State on Wednesday 6th August, 2017, where the party officially commissioned her new secretariat.  The Party Secretariat is situated at Kolanut House along Abeokuta-Lagos Expressway, Ita-Oshin roundabout, Abeokuta.

The Official Commissioning and Opening of Accord new Secretariat had in attendance the National Chairman of Accord Party Honourable Mohammed Malalo, Accord BOT Chairman – reverend Isaac Adeniyi, South West Zonal Chairman of Accord – Chief O. Ojo, Leaders from Lagos and Ekiti states amongst other Special Guests.

Also in attendance are Dr. Doyin Okupe who was conferred the Leader of ACCORD South West by the national leadership of ACCORD, Elder Isiaka Amusa  – Leader Accord Ogun State and other stakeholders of the party.

The National Chairman of Accord Party Hon. Mohammed Nalado on his arrival commissioned Accord OGUN State Secretariat and inspected the Secretariat.

The State Leader – Elder Isiaka Amusa said in his welcome speech, stated how favoured Ogun State is to have produced the likes of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Chief MKO Abiola et al. He also said ACCORD is well prepared to send poverty out of Ogun State. Elder Isiaka Amusa enjoined the youths to join ACCORD to achieve their political desires.

The Leading Leader of Accord Party in South west, Dr. Doyin Okupe reiterated that YOUTHS need to participate in politics in order to take over from them (the old politicians). Dr. Doyin Okupe said he is not contesting for any post at all likewise other stakeholders of the party.

The National Chairman of Accord – Hon. Mohammed Nalado promised the youths, special consideration for elective posts and  free nomination forms for female aspirants.

Chief Kehinde Oladeinde in his vote of thanks appreciated everyone who were present at the official commissioning and opening of Accord new secretariat. He prayed that come 2019 Accord will govern Ogun State, he wished everyone who were present journey mercies back to their destinations.

Ogun Suspends Non Sporting Activities at MKO Abiola Stadium

The Ogun State Government has suspended trading and other non sporting activities at the MKO Abiola Stadium, Kuto, Abeokuta from Wednesday, September 13, 2017.

It also ordered all traders and shop owners within the premises to move out their valuables before the said date.

Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Barr. Taiwo Adeoluwa, who made this known while reading the Communique at the end of a meeting with traders at the stadium complex and security chiefs in his office yesterday, disclosed that all stakeholders agreed that social vices, such as teenage prostitution, drug trafficking as well as noise and environmental pollutions, have assumed an alarming dimension, which must be tackled head-on.

The state scribe also announced the constitution of a Joint Task Force, comprising the traders, security agencies and government, saddled with the responsibility of finding lasting solutions to the trend.

According to him, the complex would be reopened to trading and non sporting activities as soon as the Task Force fashions out ways of solving the identified problems.

“We all agreed that problems at the stadium have become unacceptable and must be immediately addressed. In the mean time, we have all also agreed that all non sporting activities be suspended in the stadium, with effect from Wednesday, 13th September, pending the decisions of the Joint Task Force”, Adeoluwa said.

He assured the traders that government was mindful of the fact that they earn their living from the facility and as such would not subject them to any undue hardship.

Some traders, who spoke, including Messrs Sofela Sodunke, Rasak Olalekan and Lateef Babatunde, expressed delight at the meeting and pledged their readiness to cooperate with government to restore normalcy and decency to the stadium.

(SIGNED)
Otunba Dayo Adeneye
Honourable Commissioner‎
Information and Strategy
Ogun State

Kashamu writes Makarfi on proposed convention

HE Sen Makarfi.
The Chairman.
PDP National caretaker committee.
Wadata Plaza. Abuja.

Mr Chairman,

THE NEED TO ADHERE TO THE RULE OF LAW ON PDP OGUN STATE & SW ZONAL EXCOS ISSUES:

I’m without choice than to write to advise you again, when I learnt that you’re planning another national convention for December despite the avalanche of disobedience of court orders during your planning of the last convention with the  attending vissitudes such illegal actions have created. Could it be that, unknown to me, the PDP National caretaker committee has assumed appellate jurisdiction over Nigerian high courts? Infact, I wish to also think that you’re not deliberating working with your caretaker members to destroy the PDP in the SW and particularly Ogun state. Otherwise, one is left to wonder why ordinarily easy and righteous reconcillatory steps are difficult for you to take. Rather, you increasingly complicated the matters for no logical reasons other than extreme self interests and parochial repayments for support of your stand, or lack of same; during your National leadership tussle with Sheriff. Even if you’re to be egocentric, though that’s unfortunate; must it be this total as to disregard and seek to deliberately circumvent the rule of law and possibly destroy the party in the whole of the SW zone?
Should you by the benevolence of Allah, become the President of the federal republic, is this how you would handle national and intra-zonal disputes?

Quite honestly, I appreciate that politics is an interplay of contending interests but these must be within structured regulations and laws of the country. You glaringly nurture a presidential ambition as well as Sheriff, which understandably both of you are denying, awaiting the right moments. That’s why I had nothing personal against you for fighting up to the supreme court for matters dear to your perception. However, upon your judicial victory, it absurdly unthinkable for you to be acting as if others have no such rights. The truth is that, only transparent fairness by the arbiter that can discourage parties to disputes from resorting to litigations if their law abiding and capable of standing for their rights. In the present PDP SW  circumstances sir, you have been unfairly partisan and economic with the truth in your handling of the matter. Several letters had been written to you by the legitimate SW zonal exco and that of Ogun State. Details of subsisting orders and judgements of competent courts of jurisdiction were clearly stated. It is to be expected of you to have verified the validity and subsistence of these legal processes if indeed you’re law abiding and a leader given to administratively respecting the rule of law.  Reasonably, it is upon this initial due diligence that you could now fairly and honestly settle the issues in dispute out of court. Thus, such credible reconciliation could then be filed in the courts as out of court settlement as judgement.  Unfortunately, uptil now, you have neither responded to issues addressed to you in multiple letters nor called the contending interests for the SW zonal and Ogun state excos for reconciliation. Rather, you arbitrarily in league with your recent PDP National leadership litigations allies; recognised a disbanded SW exco by a subsisting court order and include flagrant disobedience to court judgements unappealed and recent orders of court illegally chose to dissolve the Ogun excos. Why didn’t you call the parties in dispute over the SW zonal and Ogun state excos as you did to those in disputes over Oyo, Oshun and Lagos states? Is there no disputes in Ekiti and Ondo states with consequent parallel excos? Why didn’t you dissolve the Ekiti state exco? Is Ekiti PDP exco monolithic without any rancour? Ditto Ondo state exco?

Mr Chairman of PDP National caretaker committee; I’m not against you!!! It’s your leadership which is suffocating the truth and legitimate rights of teeming party men in the SW and particularly Ogun state that makes me often to be advising you. These actions of yours could lead to chaos and breakdown of law and order in the SW if care is not taken and  luckily, by God’s providence, the injured parties chose to be law abiding by resorting to the courts instead of resorting to self help. Prior to the last convention, orders of court were served on you and the National caretaker committee to ensure that the authentic delegates from the SW as well as from Ogun state be allowed to participate. I appealed to you personally that you should obey the court orders to which you gave me your words to respect by being law abiding. Also those interested in the enforcement of their rights via the court orders wrote you and further sent emissaries to you for adherence to law, but you chose to disobey these subsisting orders. Not satisfied with the avoidable contempt of court, your caretaker committee lied to the NEC and subsequently misdirected the said convention which was constituted in disenfranchised rights of authentic delegates into taking illegal decisions. The illegal SW exco was recognised and the Ogun state exco was illegally dissolved!!! Is this right? Also, a disciplinary committee was set up ostensibly fed with lies and inaccurate facts of the issues to discipline these disenfranchised law abiding party men. Can this serve the course of justice and fairness? Is the Tom Ikimi disciplinary committee properly briefed of your disobedience of court order? Is that disciplinary committee aware of the subsisting judgements you acted in flagrant disregard of? What do you want the interested and disenfranchised parties to do other than petition the police and resort to the courts? Nobody is challenging your leadership but it seems the constituted disciplinary committee would need to evaluate your administrative circumvent of truth and disobedience of court orders to realise if at all there is any member to discipline as per the SW zonal and Ogun state excos matters.

Unfortunately Mr Chairman, you and the caretaker committee are becoming part of the SW disputes rather than the arbiters. Self interests has brought you into the arena of disputes. What indeed do you know about the intricate nature of Ogun State and the SW generally, other than perceptions and informations fed you, through national interactions with some few personalities for some years? Your reliance on the agenda of Fayose, Omisore, OGD, Bode George etc being your few SW allies during your struggle for the National control of our party can’t achieve the desired party unity. Worse still, it casts credibility doubts on your capability for National leadership and fairness required generally required for upright and credible statesmanship. These people are unreliable except that which serves their selfishness and they are alien to democratic processes. They have grown to relevance by democratic manipulations that are always predetermined. They are work-to-answers undemocratic elements. They always desire to be in control irrespective of the wish of the people and due process; which script they’ve sold to you and you’re now playing. Had it not been for the love I have for PDP and my avowed commitment to my supporters and followers, I would have liked to leave you with these political hawks so as to learn lessons from an imminent dose of treachery and betrayal they’ve in abundance. Or else, what is to be said of the institutional schemer, legendary manipulator and pathological lier – OGD; aspiring to succeed you as the National Chairman!!! OGD that thrives on commission from any and whatever political engagements without qualms? OGD that can do multiple contradictory things concurrently? With capacity to make a U-turn at jet speed of 1000miles/hr without a summersault!!!  Is it Fayose, the psychiatric political dreamer; unable to administer a state well and yet aspiring to be President of Nigeria against the tide of popular zoning arrangements? Mr Chairman, we indeed have not much of problems in the Southwest and Ogun state except the complications caused by your desired resolve to compensate your locally unpopular supporters during your litigations against Sheriff.

Aside of rhetorics, adherence to laws of this country is not by choice of electives. It is mandatory and compulsory. If you can’t endear an all-inclusive reconciliation, you therefore, compulsorily must abide by the Nigerian judicial process that interestingly enabled you to occupy the position that makes you to now determine the fate of others. Consequently, I most sincerely appeal that you do the right things and adhere to the rule of law for reconciliation of these  crisis instead of current efforts that are opaque and complicates matters. Otherwise, without prejudice, interested parties shall have no alternative than to turn to the police for protection as law-abiding Nigerians while redress is being sought at the courts. That’s the right, sensible and civilised way to go. That’s the kind of leadership I can provide. I am unlike OGD that ruled over a state-induced theatre of cultists, thuggery and monumental destructions to lives and properties. Still talking of build-up to our resolve to involve police and stick to judicial adjucation; a longstanding OGD ally has just recently been discovered to have sponsored the purchase of over dozen guns in the course of police investigations of recently instigated political assassination attempt. We’re law abiding sir. We won’t maim or kill ourselves nor burn our houses or destroy properties over your deliberate leadership  manipulations against us and serial disobedience of court orders and judgements. Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Sen Kashamu.

SHOCKING! FOUR UNDERAGE GIRLS NABBED DURING INITIATION AS CULT MEMBERS

Four underage girls, whose ages range between 10 and 13, were among the 13 suspected cultists arrested by the police in Ogun State early this week.

Ironically, other male members of the suspected group were in their early teens, and their leader slightly older. He is 19 years of age.

All the suspects were, at time of their arrests, residents of Mosunmore Village near Kobape in Abeokuta, the state capital.

Stunned by the worrisome development, the Baale of the community was said to have alerted the police, sequel to the alarm raised by one of the suspected girl’s mother.

True to the allegation, detectives attached to Owode-Egba Police Divisional Headquarters, led by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO),  Shehu Alao, swung into action and succeeded in smoking them out of their camp during initiation of another set of girls.

Speaking on the ugly incident, the state Police Commissioner, CP Ahmed Iliyasu, disclosed to Crimepuzzle that on Monday, August 28, 2017, at about 6:30 pm, a woman raised alarm to the Baale of Mosunmore Village near Kobape, here in Abeokuta, to the effect that her daughter went out late a day previous.

“Apparently disturbed by the said outing, the woman pestered her daughter who later confessed that she was initiated into a cult group, a development the woman found difficult to conceal to herself and alerted the community head who, in turn called in my men.

“Consequently, officers of Owode-Egba Division stormed the area and successfully apprehended the 13 youngsters in the process of initiating yet another set of underaged girls”, CP Iliyasu said.

The girls, all primary six school leavers, confessed to being lured into the group by the boys.

Leader of the group known as “Penalty Guys”, 19-year-old Tunde Adio, narrated to Crimepuzzle how he was initiated by one Tosin, also a resident of the community in January, 2017, adding that they came about their own group’s name during the last Easter celebration when his third-in-command, 13-year-old Adewale Raphael’s church was organizing a picnic.

According to Adio, “we decided to do customized vests, with the the inscription “Penalty Guys”. This was what attracted the girls and agreed to be initiated”.

Adio’s second-in-command, Silas Sunday, 15, was also arrested during the police raid.

Meanwhile, CP Iliyasu has ordered that the  suspects be transferred to the Anti-Kidnapping and Cultism Unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) for further investigation and prosecution of the suspects.

From a concerned Citizen of Ogun State – Still On The MODEL COLLEGES

Anytime I think about Ogun state and indeed Nigeria, I’m left with the illusion that my beloved state and country can be great again.

The government of Ogun state offers a clear example of what misgovernance encompasses. The administration of Ibikunle Amosun under a “progressive” umbrella, instead of bringing succour, has brought in full force, a reign of cluelessness, visionlessness, spinelessness and insensitivity to the yearnings and aspirations of the good people of the state.

For sometime now, education (the bedrock of growth and development) in Ogun state has been experiencing a downturn, which is becoming shameful for a state once synonymous with academic excellence at all levels. As I write this, we’re almost at par with educationally backward states of the North.

Now, building model colleges beyond the reach of ordinary citizens of the state is anti-people, self-serving and insensitive to the recent educational woes the state is currently faced with, evidenced by recurring, abysmal performances of our secondary school leavers in WASSCE and sundry examinations.

Having model colleges with state’s funds at a time like this is not in our best interest. This policy is discriminatory to the teeming students of the state, majority of whom are from humble background. It’s akin to robbing Pete to pay Paul; an ill-wind that will blow no one no good!

I want to encourage well-meaning Ogun state indigenes, across the globe, to rebuke this preposterous, ill-conceived policy of a clearly insensitive government of the state. We cannot continue to shoot in the dark and also hope for the best, because clearly, our silence can no longer be said to be golden. With people like Amosun in the saddle across our country, we’re left with the Hobson’s choice of sweeping out these retrogressive progressives come next general elections.

Babatunde Osunlaja

Cow thieves caught and strip naked in Benue (Photos)

A Facebook user identified as Patrick Peresio Barnabas, has taken to the social media to narrate how some cow thieves who normally trigger herdsmen attacks, were stripped n*ked after being apprehended in Gbajimba, Benue State.
Here’s what he wrote;

Cow thief’s (rustler’s) apprehended in Gbajimba Town, Guma LGA, Benue State.
They have been in the business for a long time.
This are some of the problems that lead to Fulani’s invading communities, killing innocent people since they cannot identify the thief’s.
Luck ran out of them this time as this is the eight (8) cow going missing in the town, we are at peace because all the cows stolen this year belongs to natives and some strangers (not Fulani’s).
Some people are working hard to live a decent life, to feed their families while some are just busy stealing the sweat of others.

UK: ending modern slavery in Nigeria

The International Development Secretary, Priti Patel, announced that the United Kingdom was cracking down on the barbaric crime of modern slavery as she called for a world free from this abhorrent trade.

here are an estimated 46 million people living in modern slavery across the globe who have been trafficked, coerced, or otherwise forced into terrible exploitation, labor, or domestic servitude.

The £7 million announcement will work to tackle the root causes as well as the symptoms of modern slavery and human trafficking in Nigeria. Nigeria is the fourth largest source of human trafficking to the UK and International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimates that approximately 80% of girls arriving in Europe from Nigeria are potential victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation. The numbers have soared from 1,454 in 2014 to 11,009 in 2016.
 
Ms. Patel’s joint visit to Nigeria alongside Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, raised the issue of trafficking at the highest levels in government and challenged the political and cultural acceptance of modern slavery, a trade which earns more for criminals around the world than any other, apart from the illegal drug trade.
The announcement was made during Ms. Patel and Mr. Johnson’s two-day visit, during which they announced a new package of humanitarian aid to help rebuild north-east Nigeria, and saw how the UK’s aid, defense, and diplomacy would be working together to build security and shared prosperity in Nigeria and at home
 
Ms. Patel stated:
“It is shameful that in the 21st Century the evil crime of modern slavery lurks in every corner of the globe, including on the UK’s streets, destroying the lives of young men and women. We will not stand aside and ignore this barbaric and often invisible crime which all too often reaches our shores and is damaging for everyone except the perpetrators.”
 
“The UK is a global leader in stamping out modern slavery, pressing the international community including the Nigerian government to tackle this crime at the source, bring perpetrators to justice and protect victims who have been subject to unimaginable horrors.”
 
“Our support is offering vulnerable girls and women an alternative life to slavery and exploitation and helping them reintegrate into society, stopping vicious cycles of abuse and creating a more prosperous and secure future for thousands, as well as for us at home.”
 
The Home Office estimates that there were 10,000 – 13,000 potential victims of modern slavery in the UK in 2013.
The British Prime Minister, Theresa May, has made it clear that tackling modern slavery is a top priority for the UK. She created the world leading Modern Slavery Act in 2015 and established the cross-government task force, which includes the International Development Secretary.
In December last year, Ms. Patel announced £8 million to double support to a special protection fund set up to keep women and girl refugees in the Mediterranean region safe from trafficking and exploitation.
According to latest figures, 875,000 Nigerians are living in modern slavery worldwide, including in the UK. Ms. Patel visited a safe house in Lagos ran by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Person (NAPTIP). Ms. Patel heard from the counselors at the safe house who have helped some of these vulnerable people. 
There she saw children – some as young as seven years old – who have been trafficked across the world, including to the UK, Europe, Libya and other countries across Africa. She vowed to challenge the cultural acceptance of human exploitation; often young girls and boys who end up trapped in this abusive trade are encouraged by their families to risk their lives in search of money and a better future. 
 
The new package of support builds on progress already being made by the UK in Nigeria and across the world. The UK’s existing assistance in Nigeria is helping to support investigations and bring perpetrators to justice, as well as providing for victims.
The program will build evidence base and trial interventions to prevent modern slavery and be ready to scale up what works. It will also provide credible alternatives for women and girls in the high risk demographic and help diversify economic activity in Edo State – Nigeria’s trafficking hub – and other Niger Delta states.  Most importantly, it will improve the essential support for victims, including counseling and reintegration assistance, to prevent vulnerable people being re-trafficked and falling back into a cycle of exploitation. 
The British government is driving reform within the international system to coordinate a more effective and focused approach to stamp out this exploitation. 
The Department For International Development (DFID) will challenge the Nigerian government to step up and tackle modern slavery, and act as champions that will help advocate for reform. This new allocation of funds from the DFID’s Nigeria budget will explicitly go towards tackling human trafficking and modern slavery

The Federal Government has declared Friday, September 1st and Monday 4th as Public Holidays to mark Id-el-Kabir Celebration.

The Minister of Interior, Lt Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau, (rtd) who made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government, congratulated Muslim faithful and all Nigerians to use the occasion to pray for peace, unity, prosperity and the stability of the country’s democracy.

Dambazau further urged all Nigerians to join hands with the Government of President Muhammadu Buhari in its avowed determination to build a peaceful and harmonious country, where the rights of every citizen, are protected and guaranteed, as enshrined in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

According to a statement issued on Monday by the Director Overseeing the Office of the Permanent Secretary (DOOPS), Dr Rufa’i Kawu Attahiru, the Minister assured citizens of their safety in all parts of the country, emphasizing that security agencies have been directed to maintain the peace and protect lives and property.

He condemned in strong terms the prevalence of Hate Speeches in the country and warned that the government would henceforth deal with perpetrators according to the law, while emphasizing that the government would continue to foster peaceful coexistence, national cohesion and stability in its march towards actualizing the full potential of Nigeria.

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