Friday, 15 May 2015
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Petrol shortage will end when FG pays N200bn – Marketers
Oil marketers in Nigeria have
said that the fuel scarcity being experienced in the country will
continue until the Federal Government pays the remaining N200 billion
subsidy debt it owes them.
The marketers also said that fuel is coming into the country but it’s not adequate enough to meet demand.
This was disclosed on Friday, May 15, 2015, by the Executive Secretary of the Major Oil Marketers Association (MOMAN), Obafemi Olawore.
“It is not that we are not bringing in fuel. The problem is that we are not bringing enough and the reason we are not bringing enough is simple. If you pay 154 [billion Naira] out of out of 354 [billion Naira] you are left with 200 [billion Naira]. That is not up to 50 per cent,” Olawore said.
“What we are saying is that we should make attempt to pay. Banks should agree to open their lines of credit so that we can access funds and bring in more products while the government talks to us. As we speak, nobody is talking, so we do not know the thinking of anybody. There is no crime in asking for the money. They are owing us some money and we want the money,” he added.
The government had earlier paid the marketers N156 billion as part of the subsidy debt owed.
The marketers also said that fuel is coming into the country but it’s not adequate enough to meet demand.
This was disclosed on Friday, May 15, 2015, by the Executive Secretary of the Major Oil Marketers Association (MOMAN), Obafemi Olawore.
“It is not that we are not bringing in fuel. The problem is that we are not bringing enough and the reason we are not bringing enough is simple. If you pay 154 [billion Naira] out of out of 354 [billion Naira] you are left with 200 [billion Naira]. That is not up to 50 per cent,” Olawore said.
“What we are saying is that we should make attempt to pay. Banks should agree to open their lines of credit so that we can access funds and bring in more products while the government talks to us. As we speak, nobody is talking, so we do not know the thinking of anybody. There is no crime in asking for the money. They are owing us some money and we want the money,” he added.
The government had earlier paid the marketers N156 billion as part of the subsidy debt owed.
Senator-elect Dino Melaye calls President Jonathan a ‘promoter of corruption.’
Senator-elect, Dino Melaye, has said that President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration is the most corrupt in Nigeria’s history.
Melaye, a former House of Representatives member, also called Jonathan a ‘promoter of corruption.’
The Senator-elect made the comments during an interview with Premium Times.
“Jonathan
is the promoter of corruption. I am telling you that the Government of
Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan is the most corrupt in Nigerian history
but (who) we have as president-elect of this country today (Muhammadu
Buhari); the man I see as the nemesis of corruption,” Melaye said.
“Change!
I am an advocate of anti-corruption and for me if I enter office, I am
going to do it more this time around. More importantly, now that we have
a government that is going to have zero tolerance for corruption, we
must as legislators carry out our functions from any form of sacrifice,”
he added.
“Either at the national
assembly, we will be drastically checked. Legislators need to check if
they are on the side of the people or side of their pockets. They must
be content because you have to live a life of sacrifice,” Melaye said.
“If
we supervise the MDAs, N3billion will not be budgeted for the travels
of Mr. President in a year. Where is the president going? Is he the
supervisor of the world?” the Senator-elect asked.
Jonathan will hand over to President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari on Friday, May 29, 2015.
Rotimi Amaechi See photos from Governor’s book launch
A book written in honour of Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi was, on Thursday, May 14, 2015, launched at The Civic Centre in Victoria Island, Lagos.The book, titled ‘Dynamics of Change: The Amaechi Years,’ was written by Chidi Amuta and edited by former Managing Director of Daily Times, Yemi Ogunbiyi.Dignitaries present at the event include All Progressives Congress (APC) leader, Bola Tinubu and Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka among others. See pictures below;
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The BeyHive and Rihanna Navy come for Ciara on instagram
Beyonce and Rihanna's fans joined forces to attack Ciara after she said
in an interview with The Guardian that the two singers are not her
competition. Below is the article from The Guardian...
"Despite her success – 2010’s Basic Instinct is the only one of her albums not to reach the US top5 – she's never become a household name like Rihanna or Beyoncé.
“You know what I think?” she asks, rhetorically. “Everything’s about timing. I’ve had records just as big as those artists, I’ve had No 1 songs around the world. My biggest competition is me.” That and her old label, perhaps. After Basic Instinct only reached No 44, she left LaFace/Jive, announcing on Facebook that they had not supported her enough. Her next album, Ciara, released on Epic, duly went to No 2. “There’s no doubt in my mind how high up this train can go,” she says calmly. “I faced those challenges. I don’t see myself beneath Beyoncé and Jay Z; I don’t see myself above them. I’m in my own world, hungry to grow.”After this segment of the interview circulated online, Ciara's Instagram page simultaneously erupted into swarms of bees and hundreds of anchors. See pictures below;
Obasanjo Presents Strategic Development Plan To Buhari
The reports contained templates that would assist the incoming government to rapidly achieve its objectives of taking the nation a notch higher.Top on the list were Education, Power Sector,Economy, Security and Infrastructure.The development followed a research work embarked upon by the Centre for Human Security of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library on major social challenges facing Nigeria four months ago.The event, which took place at the Buhari Support Organisation (BSO’s) office in Abuja, featured the Chairman, Governing Board of the Centre for Human Security of Obasanjo Presidential Library, Professor Akin Mabogunje, who was incidentally the chairman of the committee; former Minister of finance
and Committees Vice Chairman, Dr. Kalu Idika Kalu, who presented
volumes of the report to Buhari and Dr. Christopher Kolade, who headed
the Power Committee.Speaking to newsmen at the end of the ceremony that was held behind closed-doors, Mabogunje said the report contained policy documents that would help the president-elect restructure Nigeria, revealing that Buhari was full of thanks for the documents.
He said: “Centre for Human Security of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library has being working on a number of critical issues for the development of this country and they have now sent a delegation of those who’ve been involved with the preparation of those policy documents to talk to the president-elect and get him to appreciate what is being done to help his administration. That’s why we are here.
“We’ve looked at education, security, economy, power and Infrastructure. Those are the areas we’ve made recommendations and which we hope the new administration will be able to work on.
“He (Buhari) was very happy that we’ve been thinking about how to help him hit the ground running and he expressed his appreciation for what we’ve been doing.”
Giving details of the reports, Dr. Kolade explained the long, medium and short terms goals of the report.
According to him, the strategic plan hoped to raise the country’s power generation to 10,000 MW within a short period of time.
Expanding thoughts on the development also, the Buhari’s media spokesperson, Mallam Garba Shehu, said “the whole idea was that Obasanjo set up his own think- tank with the aim of carrying out a study on challenges facing the country in five key areas of Education, Power Sector, Economy, Security and Infrastructure.
“The study was commissioned four months ago so that the outcome will be made available to the incoming administration after the election.”
He also stated that the president-elect expressed gratitude to Obasanjo for their kind gesture, however, regretting that the outgoing regime of president Goodluck Jonathan had not done anything close to that.
Receiving the report, Buhari expressed gratitude to Obasanjo and his team, describing their intervention as a great impetus for the incoming government.
Buhari regretted that the out-going government that is supposed to give him tips on how to take-off has done nothing so far.
He thanked the Obasanjo for their gesture, assuring them that his incoming administration will be needing their advice as time goes on
Ahmed Joda, Chairman of Buhari Transition Committee refused to speak in his capacity as the transition committee chairman when asked by Journalists to make input.
“I am here not in the capacity of the chairman of the transition committee. I am here because I am a chairman of one of the committees of the centre that consider security issues at the Obasanjo centre for human security”, he said
Sources- http://dailyindependentnig.com
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Saka Joins The Band Wagon. Renews ContractWith MTN
Hafiz Oyetoro popularly known as Saka has
joined other MTN ambassadors in renewing their
endorsement deals with the telecommunications
giant.
Saka joined MTN back in 2013, when he made
the term, ‘porting’ famous by leaving, Etisalat for
MTN in a great endorsement coup.
joined other MTN ambassadors in renewing their
endorsement deals with the telecommunications
giant.
Saka joined MTN back in 2013, when he made
the term, ‘porting’ famous by leaving, Etisalat for
MTN in a great endorsement coup.
photos below:
The world mourns as B. B. King dies at 89
The blues great passed on in Las Vegas, according to the AP. The music legend passed on yesterday in Las Vegas, according to reports by the New York Times and :Associated Press.Riley ‘B. B.’ King was a globally renowned singer and guitarist whose dexterity ensured ‘blues’ became mainstream in America and beyond.Multiple sources say he was ill and diagnosed with diabetes, and the BBC confirms he died in his sleep.
Gov forum’s crisis paved the way for PDP defeat–Tinubu, Soyinka
The National Leader of the All Progressives
Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and Nobel
laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Thursday in
Lagos said the 2013 Nigeria Governors’ Forum
crisis paved the way for the end of the 16-year
rule of the Peoples Democratic Party.
They made the observation during the public
presentation of ‘Dynamics of Change: The
Amaechi Years,’ a book edited by a former
Managing Director of Daily Times, Yemi Ogunbiyi,
and author, Chidi Amuta.
They explained that the crisis provided the spark
that led to a common sense revolution as
witnessed in the defeat of the PDP by the All
Progressives Congress.
The NGF crisis erupted from an election organised
by the 36 governors of the federation. Governor
Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State garnered 19 votes
while his Plateau State counterpart, Jonah Jang,
had 16 votes.
However, the Presidency chose to recognise Jang
as the chairman, thereby causing a split in the
forum and the defection of five governors from
the PDP to the APC.
Tinubu, in comments at the event, said when the
split happened, he quickly wooed Amaechi.
He described the Rivers State governor as the
general that the APC used to secure victory
during the just concluded general elections.
Tinubu said the APC played on President
Goodluck Jonathan’s lack of understanding of
Arithmetic to defeat him.
He said, “Governor Amaechi and most of the
governors thought of a different arithmetic
algebra without derivative. Thirty six minus 16 is
equal to X and if X is greater than 16, suggest the
answer and if you can’t, you have failed
democratic arithmetic.
“Amaechi resisted it and we joined him in the
resistance. Of course, how can a leader educate
and be responsible for the future of our citizens if
he cannot do a division of sum total of a number,
36? We are glad today that we decided and we
got rid of that leadership through ‘General’
Amaechi.”
Tinubu stated that his message of a common
sense revolution gripped Nigeria and opened their
eyes.
He said for instance, the Civic Centre on Victoria
Island used to be a dumpsite but the state
government sold it to the Chairman of Zenith
Bank, Jim Ovia, who turned it into a revenue-
spinning machine that now pays tax to the state.
The APC leader said it was the same method that
the APC would use in redefining the history of
Nigeria.
He said, “We are in this hall because of its good
construction. The hall is part of a common sense
revolution. It used to be a dumpsite but we asked
our friend, Jim Ovia, to excavate it and pay
whatever price to the government. He took the
risk and it is paying off. It is part of the common
sense revolution.’’
The former governor also enjoined all APC
stakeholders and other Nigerians to brace for the
post-election challenges.
He said, “Elections are over and both the leaders
and citizens must brace themselves to meet the
challenges required to build a better, more
prosperous nation. Indeed, even as we subscribe
to the tenets of common sense revolution, we
must retool ourselves; the new leadership must
embark on policies that will improve the general
well-being of our people.
“This revolution is not a violent one to tear things
down; it is a revolution to rescue us from
violence, injustice and poverty. It is a positive one
to rescue, repair and restructure the nation and
its institutions in ways that further collective
prosperity and well-being. The only violence that
is to be done is to violence, injustice and
poverty.”
Tinubu said Amaechi, who was the director-
general of the APC Campaign Organisation, would
be given a key position in the incoming Buhari
administration for his role in the party’s victory.
He said what Amaechi and his colleagues in the
NGF wanted was a better management of the
Federation Account .
The former governor said, “Governor Amaechi and
most of the governors want a properly defined
federalist relationship with the government at the
centre. The President would have none of that as
in the notable example of the management of the
federation account. This is, therefore, another
great opportunity to salute Amaechi’s rare
courage of conviction and sense of purpose.
“The APC change agenda is anchored on the three
Rs – Reform, Relief, and Recovery. It is the tripod
upon which Nigeria must operate in order to
unleash her potential.
“Rotimi will go on from here to continue to serve
Nigeria in key positions. He will not be alone. He
will share the company of many change agents
and professionals who have cast their lots with
the new political order under the leadership of the
President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari.”
Like Tinubu, Soyinka pointed out that the NGF
crisis marked the beginning of the end of the
Jonathan administration.
Soyinka said one of his close friends in Aso Rock
had urged him to talk to Amaechi to stop
attacking the Presidency as his party(APC) would
not succeed in defeating Jonathan.
The playwright, who is a notable critic of
Jonathan, said the two architects of the APC
victory were Tinubu and Amaechi.
He said, “In the political atmosphere today,
whatever you call it, change or hope or cautious
hope and or careless hope, I recognise two
personalities in particular who led the chant of
change. One of them, I call him the architect of
the process, the architect in fact, that houses the
essence of hope Bola Tinubu.
“The other person (Amaechi) was unconsciously,
perhaps, the arrowhead of that charge that led to
the change and that is the man that we gather
here to celebrate.
“He was the one who said no, we cannot turn the
clock backwards. Nothing about the philosophy of
the clock runs against what we were hoping for.
It was a very unpopular and risky decision to
take. But it exposed to us the basic arithmetic
fallacy of governance in demonstrating that when
16 is said to be higher than 19, something is
fundamentally wrong and the same kind of
arithmetic leads to the cooking of figures in
governance.
“And it was within that nexus that he stood up
and challenged even his own colleagues, and said
let’s change the mentality of the stock, let us re-
orientate it towards the people and towards the
nation and the electorate.”
In his remarks, Amaechi said he and Tinubu had
disagreements during the electioneering but were
able to put their differences aside in the interest
of the party.
He said Jonathan destroyed the governors’ forum
but expressed joy that with the APC victory,
things would return to normal.
He said, “I was determined that there should be a
change because if there’s no change, things will
not move. Even before our convention, I got
Asiwaju Tinubu angry. I went to him and implored
that we should not fight or disagree over issues.
“I told him that the important thing was for us to
win first and after which, we can disagree. I
believe that we must win and make a change. I
am ready to make a sacrifice.
Fire guts Federal Ministry of Education, Abuja
There was panic at the Federal secretariat, Abuja,on Thursday when fire engulfed the fifth floor office of the Ministry of Education.It took the combined efforts of the Federal Fire Service and the FCT Fire Service to put out the fire which reportedly started around 1.45pm and spread to the sixth floor. No casualty was recorded in the incident, but some files, furniture and other office equipment were destroyed. The Minister of Education, Ibrahim Shekarau was said to be holding a meeting with Principals of Unity Schools when the fire broke out.The meeting ended abruptly as the minister, his officials the principals and other participants scampered for safety.The FFS Public Relations Officer, Mr. CollinsElechi, said the cause of the fire was not immediately known. He said, “We cannot ascertain the cause of the fire now cut it. It started from the fifth floor and remained between it and spread to the sixth floor. “As you can see, the fire has been put off; we curtailed it from spreading to the adjourning property.” The FFS spokesman, however, said that one of
the challenges his men faced was that the lack of hydrant in the building.
“There is need for a functional hydrant in this building. We did not see one; we are not indicting the occupants of this building. That is one of the challenges we met here in the process.’’ The National Emergency Management Agency
Research and Rescue officer, Mr. Labaran Haman, said investigation to determine the cause of the fire was ongoing.He added that the rescue teams, including NEMA and fire servicemen, responded swiftly but faced the challenge of crowd control.
“There is need for a functional hydrant in this building. We did not see one; we are not indicting the occupants of this building. That is one of the challenges we met here in the process.’’ The National Emergency Management Agency
Research and Rescue officer, Mr. Labaran Haman, said investigation to determine the cause of the fire was ongoing.He added that the rescue teams, including NEMA and fire servicemen, responded swiftly but faced the challenge of crowd control.
Nigerian restaurant nabbed for selling humanmeat to residents
A restaurant in Anambra, Nigeria has been closed down after its activities of selling human meat came to the knowledge of local leaders, says BBC . Police were informed about the restaurant’s activities by local leaders and residents, where they rushed to the scene and were shocked to see
two human heads; still fresh, oozing blood.The blood was being tapped into a polythene bag,perhaps going to be served as a different delicacy.The police arrested six women and four men in connection with the crime.At the time of arrest, they managed to recover an AK-47 rifle, other weapons including sets of grenade, and several mobile phones.
Sources-www.bbc.com
two human heads; still fresh, oozing blood.The blood was being tapped into a polythene bag,perhaps going to be served as a different delicacy.The police arrested six women and four men in connection with the crime.At the time of arrest, they managed to recover an AK-47 rifle, other weapons including sets of grenade, and several mobile phones.
Sources-www.bbc.com
Jonathan Has Not Given Me Any Useful Tips ToRun The Government - Buhari
President-elect Muhammadu Buhari has accused
the outgoing Goodluck Jonathan government of
not giving him “tips” on how to kick-start his
administration on May 29.
He spoke on Thursday when a committee from
the Centre for Human Security of the Olusegun
Obasanjo Presidential Library, presented a five-
point policy document to him at the Buhari
Support Organisation office in Abuja.
Hours before the event which held behind closed
doors, the All Progressives Congress, insisted that
the Federal Government was not cooperating with
the transition committee set up by the President-
elect.
“Buhari regretted that the outgoing government
that is supposed to give him tips on how to take
off has done nothing so far,” Garba Shehu, the
Director of Media and Publicity of
the All Progressives Congress Presidential
Campaign Organisation, told journalists after the
presentation by the committee.
According to PUNCH, Shehu added that the
President-elect “thanked the Obasanjo initiative
for the gesture, assuring the committee that his
incoming administration will be needing advice as
time goes on.”
Areas covered by committee in the document
include the economy, security, power, education
and infrastructure.
He said that Obasanjo had set up a think tank to
carry out a study on the challenges facing the
country in the five key areas. The study, he
added, was started four months ago “so that the
outcome will be made available to the incoming
administration after the election.”
He also revealed that Nigeria’s former High
Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Dr.
Christopher Kolade, who headed the power
committee, gave various stages of the proposed
power sector development plan to include short-
term, medium-term, long-term solutions.
Under the short-term solution, the plan seeks to
raise the country’s power generation to 10,000
MW within a very short period of time.
He added that the president-elect described the
intervention of Obasanjo and his team as a great
impetus for the incoming government.
The vice-chairman of the committee, who is a
former Minister of Finance, Kalu Idika Kalu, said,
“We have looked at education, security, economy,
power and Infrastructure. Those are the areas we
have made recommendations and which we hope
the new administration would be able to work
on.”
He further explained that the president-elect was
very happy that they had been thinking about
how to help him hit the ground running.
The Chairman of the centre’s governing board,
Akin Mabogunje. who also spoke to journalists
after the event, said the committee had been
working on a number of critical issues for the
development of the country.
According to him, a delegation of the committee
members involved in the preparation of the policy
document was sent to present the report to the
President-elect.
Earlier on Thursday , the APC described as untrue,
a statement credited to the spokesman for the
Peoples Democratic Party, Oliseh Metuh, that the
Jonathan administration was cooperating with the
transition committee constituted by the President-
elect.
It also described Metuh in a statement signed by
its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed,
as a man with “an incurable disdain for truth.”
The PDP spokesman had in the said statement
accused the APC of raising a false alarm over
happenings within the Jonathan and the Buhari
transition committees.
However, Mohammed insisted that the
uncooperative attitude of the Jonathan team had
continued despite its public posturing.
The APC statement Read,
“We say with all sense of responsibility that as of
today, May 14, 2015, just about two weeks to the
May 29 handover date, no shred of information
as to the status of governance from any ministry,
department or agency of government has been
given to our transition committee.
If that qualifies, in Metuh’s lexicon, as
cooperation, then there is a problem somewhere.
We dare Metuh or anyone for that matter, to
controvert the fact that not a line of handover
note has been handed over to our transition
committee.”
The APC also restated its earlier call to Metuh to
urgently undertake a course on how to be an
opposition party spokesman so that he would not
talk or write himself into avoidable troubles in the
days ahead.
It equally admonished him to always verify
information available to him in order to separate
rumours from facts.
The statement further read,:
“Metuh decided to put his foot in his mouth when
he latched on to the statement made by our
Transition Committee Chairman, forgetting that in
making his statement, the chairman was only
advising him against anything that would put the
Federal Government in a bad light.
A discerning party spokesman, rather than a
rabble-rousing one, would have understood the
elder statesman’s stand for what it is instead of
using it as a peg to issue a needless, hollow
statement that puts his party and government in
a bad light.”
The APC said it had decided to allow bygones be
bygones, but now that Metuh had stirred the
hornet’s nest, it was time to put out the facts for
Nigerians to judge. It added;
“What happened was that, following the request
by our transition committee to meet with them,
they invited us to what was the first formal
meeting between both transition committees. But
the meeting was a mere photo-op, as it yielded
nothing concrete as far as handover notes are
concerned.
In fact, what we met at the so-called meeting
was far worse than what we had thought.
Whereas we had hoped to get their handover
notes on May 14th (the date they had indicated
to us informally), they told us point blank that
the notes won’t be ready until May 24th.
Because this date falls on a Sunday that means
we won’t be getting the handover notes until May
25th, just four days before the May 29th
handover date.
How do they honestly expect us to peruse
thousands of pages of handover notes, ask
pertinent questions and seek necessary
clarifications within four days? Because we want
a smooth transition, we asked if we could meet
with some of the ministers pending the release of
the handover notes, but they said no.
When one of their members even suggested that
the whole process be fast-tracked, they did not
budge.
Despite this setback, we decided not to put the
whole issue in the public domain, until the
babbling Metuh decided to look for trouble,
describing the deliberate stonewalling by the
Jonathan Administration as cooperation.”
the outgoing Goodluck Jonathan government of
not giving him “tips” on how to kick-start his
administration on May 29.
He spoke on Thursday when a committee from
the Centre for Human Security of the Olusegun
Obasanjo Presidential Library, presented a five-
point policy document to him at the Buhari
Support Organisation office in Abuja.
Hours before the event which held behind closed
doors, the All Progressives Congress, insisted that
the Federal Government was not cooperating with
the transition committee set up by the President-
elect.
“Buhari regretted that the outgoing government
that is supposed to give him tips on how to take
off has done nothing so far,” Garba Shehu, the
Director of Media and Publicity of
the All Progressives Congress Presidential
Campaign Organisation, told journalists after the
presentation by the committee.
According to PUNCH, Shehu added that the
President-elect “thanked the Obasanjo initiative
for the gesture, assuring the committee that his
incoming administration will be needing advice as
time goes on.”
Areas covered by committee in the document
include the economy, security, power, education
and infrastructure.
He said that Obasanjo had set up a think tank to
carry out a study on the challenges facing the
country in the five key areas. The study, he
added, was started four months ago “so that the
outcome will be made available to the incoming
administration after the election.”
He also revealed that Nigeria’s former High
Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Dr.
Christopher Kolade, who headed the power
committee, gave various stages of the proposed
power sector development plan to include short-
term, medium-term, long-term solutions.
Under the short-term solution, the plan seeks to
raise the country’s power generation to 10,000
MW within a very short period of time.
He added that the president-elect described the
intervention of Obasanjo and his team as a great
impetus for the incoming government.
The vice-chairman of the committee, who is a
former Minister of Finance, Kalu Idika Kalu, said,
“We have looked at education, security, economy,
power and Infrastructure. Those are the areas we
have made recommendations and which we hope
the new administration would be able to work
on.”
He further explained that the president-elect was
very happy that they had been thinking about
how to help him hit the ground running.
The Chairman of the centre’s governing board,
Akin Mabogunje. who also spoke to journalists
after the event, said the committee had been
working on a number of critical issues for the
development of the country.
According to him, a delegation of the committee
members involved in the preparation of the policy
document was sent to present the report to the
President-elect.
Earlier on Thursday , the APC described as untrue,
a statement credited to the spokesman for the
Peoples Democratic Party, Oliseh Metuh, that the
Jonathan administration was cooperating with the
transition committee constituted by the President-
elect.
It also described Metuh in a statement signed by
its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed,
as a man with “an incurable disdain for truth.”
The PDP spokesman had in the said statement
accused the APC of raising a false alarm over
happenings within the Jonathan and the Buhari
transition committees.
However, Mohammed insisted that the
uncooperative attitude of the Jonathan team had
continued despite its public posturing.
The APC statement Read,
“We say with all sense of responsibility that as of
today, May 14, 2015, just about two weeks to the
May 29 handover date, no shred of information
as to the status of governance from any ministry,
department or agency of government has been
given to our transition committee.
If that qualifies, in Metuh’s lexicon, as
cooperation, then there is a problem somewhere.
We dare Metuh or anyone for that matter, to
controvert the fact that not a line of handover
note has been handed over to our transition
committee.”
The APC also restated its earlier call to Metuh to
urgently undertake a course on how to be an
opposition party spokesman so that he would not
talk or write himself into avoidable troubles in the
days ahead.
It equally admonished him to always verify
information available to him in order to separate
rumours from facts.
The statement further read,:
“Metuh decided to put his foot in his mouth when
he latched on to the statement made by our
Transition Committee Chairman, forgetting that in
making his statement, the chairman was only
advising him against anything that would put the
Federal Government in a bad light.
A discerning party spokesman, rather than a
rabble-rousing one, would have understood the
elder statesman’s stand for what it is instead of
using it as a peg to issue a needless, hollow
statement that puts his party and government in
a bad light.”
The APC said it had decided to allow bygones be
bygones, but now that Metuh had stirred the
hornet’s nest, it was time to put out the facts for
Nigerians to judge. It added;
“What happened was that, following the request
by our transition committee to meet with them,
they invited us to what was the first formal
meeting between both transition committees. But
the meeting was a mere photo-op, as it yielded
nothing concrete as far as handover notes are
concerned.
In fact, what we met at the so-called meeting
was far worse than what we had thought.
Whereas we had hoped to get their handover
notes on May 14th (the date they had indicated
to us informally), they told us point blank that
the notes won’t be ready until May 24th.
Because this date falls on a Sunday that means
we won’t be getting the handover notes until May
25th, just four days before the May 29th
handover date.
How do they honestly expect us to peruse
thousands of pages of handover notes, ask
pertinent questions and seek necessary
clarifications within four days? Because we want
a smooth transition, we asked if we could meet
with some of the ministers pending the release of
the handover notes, but they said no.
When one of their members even suggested that
the whole process be fast-tracked, they did not
budge.
Despite this setback, we decided not to put the
whole issue in the public domain, until the
babbling Metuh decided to look for trouble,
describing the deliberate stonewalling by the
Jonathan Administration as cooperation.”
This Is The Story Of How An NYSC Member Almost Lost His Life To Military Torture At Camp
Bunmi Adeyera, a Corps member in Nasarawa
state orientation camp, yesterday almost lost his
life at the camp after being severely maltreated
by security operatives.
According to an eye witness who pleaded
anonymity, “Bunmi is sick and today locked-up in
the guard room for hours until he collapsed and
became unconscious in the Guard room”.
Naij put a call through to Bunmi Adeyera who
confirmed the incident.
Read excerpts below:
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“To all my fellow NYSC corp members around
Nigeria, today, I witnessed how one of my
colleagues, Adeyera Olubunmi (State code:
NS/15A/0134)(Call-up no.: NYSC/
NIJ/2015/061287) almost died due to
maltreatment in Nasarawa state NYSC camp by
security officials.
What happened this morning was that Bunmi
Adeyera who is also Platoon 4 leader and was
obviously sick went to the Camp clinic to collect
some drugs to combat his ailment and was
approaching the camp market to get food (since
food was no longer available in the camp kitchen)
in order to use his drugs when he was stopped
by security operatives (Nigerian Police force and
Man’O War) and was asked to go back into the
camp hall for lectures.
How NYSC Corp Member Almost Lost His Life To
Torture At Camp
He tried explaining to them that he was sick and
needed to take his drugs but they did not listen
to him, rather he was told to start ‘frog-
jumping’.Bunmi quietly explained to them that he
might not be able to ‘frog-jump’ because of his
health status.
The next thing I saw was that the security
operatives (who were obviously Hausas, because
they communicated fluently in Hausa language)
told asked him if he was Hausa or Yoruba. When
he told them he was Yoruba and he hails from
Lagos state, they seized his NYSC identification
tag and marched him straight to the ‘Guard room’
allegations of ‘being stubborn’ without giving him
any chance of speaking in his own defense.
This place called Guard room is a bathroom
located at the entrance gate of the Nasarawa
Camp where soldiers urinate at all time and with
no cross-ventilation.
We all watched them take the poor sick Corps
member to the Guard Room, and was detained
there going to three hours. The next thing I saw
was people from the camp medical unit running
towards the gate with stretcher in their hands.
Behold Bunmi had collapsed and fainted in the so-
called guard room.
Even while the Red Cross team was trying to
rescue the situation, the soldiers sent them back
saying that all was pretence and that when he
wakes up, he will return to the guard room.
The doctors battled for his life for about an hour
before Bunmi Adeyera became conscious again
and was later stabilized.
Every Corps member on Camp including NYSC
officials know Bunmi to be easy-going, obedient
and friend to all which is more reason he
emerged the leader of Platoon 4.
The population of those who went to the clinic to
check on him is one that I have never seen on
camp although they wouldn’t allow us take
pictures of this ugly incidence.
But my question is this why is it that we Corps
members who have in good faith and humility
come to serve our father land are being
maltreated even to the extent of someone
fainting. This should not continue. All these
security agents should be careful in performing
their duties and should remember that the pen is
powerful than the sword…”
Bunmi Adeyera is a graduate of mass
communication from The Nigerian Institute of
Journalism, Ogba, Lagos state. All attempts to
reach the Nasarawa state co-ordinator, Mrs. C.I
Uba, proved abortive.
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