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Former FCT Minister of State, Ramatu Aliyu, refuses to relinquish official cars


... aides still occupy office spaces




Confusion and anger are rife in the Federal Capital Territory Administration, following the outright refusal by the ex-Minister of State for FCT, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu to return the official SUV Prado Jeep, said to worth about N200 million, she used, during the period she enjoyed some constitutional privileges. 




This development is coming three weeks after the expiration of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, with constitutional dissolution of his government. 




More worrisome is the fact that two of her aides, Special  Assistants on Special Investment Programme ( SIP) Mrs. Chinwe Amba    and Special Assistant on Climate Change,  Tpl. Fache Rekyat Ahuoza, are still sitting tight, occupying official office spaces, also illegally. 




An insider Source expressed dismay that the ex-Minister of State could still be illegally holding unto government property, after her ego- trip silent  war with the FCT senior Minister, which almost crippled the administrative productivity before the expiration of their tenure.




Investigation showed that few months before May 29, the ex- Minister of State, had abandoned her constitutional responsibilities at the FCT, as she intensified lobbying for reappointment. 




Some Management staff of FCTA who pleaded anonymity, expressed shock that with the fleet of exotic  cars owned by the ex-Minister, she would still be holding unto government's car. 




It was learnt that tradition demands that the car be returned immediately after vacating office, so that it can be serviced and made ready for other official engagements by the incoming administration.




On her aides who are still occupying official office spaces, the source said that the Special Assistant on SIP came from the private sector while her counterpart in Climate Change is on secondment staff from Development Control Department under Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC) of FCTA, and were supposed to have gone back.




The source said that their continous occupation of the official office spaces is a pointer to the speculation that the ex-Minister was lobbying to come back to FCT as a Minister. 




" If President Bola Tinubu could approve the dissolution of all Boards and Parastatals of Federal Government, why should ordinary aides of an ex-Minister be doing within an official office space ?"




" The Ex-Minister has shown the level of her greed by holding unto the SUV she used as a Minister.  That car is among the least in her fleet of  her personal cars, so why is she refusing to return it ?", the source added. 




It was also gathered by this reporter that at the twilight of her tenure, she was busy mopping up every opportunity around her to the disadvantage of even her close aides.




Investigation revealed that the FCT Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board had serious logistics glitches in preparing for the 2023 Hajj, because the ex-Minister hijacked almost all available Hajj slots, and allegedly used them to lobby Tinubu’s close allies, for appointment purposes. 




Efforts to get her reaction on why the car has not been returned and on other issues, have not succeeded as she allegedly travelled out of the country. Also some of close aides refused to comment on the matter.


https://independent.ng/fct-ex-minister-of-state-refuses-to-give-up-official-car/

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Amotekun and the Politics of
Security - Olusegun Adeniyi

Therefore, a lion from the forest will attack them, a wolf from the
desert will ravage them, a leopard will lie in wait near their towns to
tear to pieces any who venture out…Jeremiah 5: 6

The introduction of the ‘Amotekun’ security outfit by South-West
Governors has added a new dimension to how Nigerians make humour
out of every situation. Aside Biblical inferences, I will not be surprised
if we begin to see in the market creative leopard skin fashion
collections, complete with make-believe talismans! But beyond the
social media memes, there is a knotty problem that speaks both to the
politics of the moment and our delicate fault lines; though before I go
into the kernel of the controversy, it is important to provide both
context and background for how we arrived at ‘Amotekun’.

The idea of a collaborative security outfit among the six states in the
South-West (Lagos, Oyo, Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Ekiti) came out of the
summit held in Ibadan on 25th June last year, following a spate of
kidnappings, banditry and armed robbery in the region. With the
security situation almost out of hand, and fingers being pointed at
roving herdsmen, the murder of Mrs Funke Olakunrin, daughter of Pa
Reuben Fasoranti, put considerable pressure on the South-West
governors at a time many farmers were being forced to abandon their
only means of livelihood and villagers were deserting their homes due
to incessant attacks.

Held in Ibadan under the auspices of the Development Agenda for
Western Nigeria (DAWN) Commission, the Director General, Mr. Seye
Oyeleye, had assured before the meeting that the outcome would
provide concrete ideas on how to secure the region. Invited to present
papers were Mr Leye Oyebade, the Assistant Inspector General (AIG) in
charge of Oyo, Osun and Ondo states as well as Prof. Femi Odekunle
and Prof. Olutayo Adesina, who chaired the technical committee that
eventually distilled the outcome of the meeting and came up with both
‘Amotekun’ and ‘Western Nigeria Security Network’.

Working under the umbrella of a ‘Network’ is because the governors
had made it clear that whatever security arrangement the committee
came up with would be state-based but feature a network that would
share intelligence in relation to cross boundary crimes. They would
jointly procure electronic gadgets, including phone trackers and drones
and the outfit would also be under the same command for coordination
and effectiveness. But in the operational guidelines, ‘Amotekun’ was
envisioned to function complementarily to, and not separately from,
the existing conventional national security agencies. In fact, the
Ibadan meeting was also attended by representatives of all security
institutions in the country. The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr
Mohammed Adamu was represented by DIG Taiwo Lakanu who retired
a few months later.

The Governors then met twice after receiving the report of the Adesina
committee and eventually ratified the idea of ‘Amotekun’ as a security
outfit for the South-West. It was also agreed that each of the states
would enact laws to back it up as state-based security initiatives. This
would precede the operational takeoff which, notwithstanding all the
current hullaballoo, has not commenced. Pending the time this process
would be concluded, the governors decided to purchase vehicles and
motorcycles while fine-tuning grey areas like mode of recruitment,
command and control, code of conduct, etc. However, with Abuja
following developments, a sense of unease began to creep in the
moment an operational template that banded together all states in the
South-West was adopted.

To allay fears of the federal government, Ekiti Governor, Dr Kayode
Fayemi, who also doubles as Chairman of the Nigerian Governors
Forum and is a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (ACP),
met with IGP Adamu on behalf of his colleagues prior to the launch.
Adamu, I learnt, expressed his concerns that the option of ‘Amotekun’
could create a domino effect in the South-East and South-South with
dire implication for national unity. Fayemi, I gathered, dispelled any
such notion while also reaffirming that their responsibility as governors
was not what others would do but rather to find a solution to a
problem that had become rather worrisome to the people of South-
West. This, I learnt, was also the position of his colleagues when the
IGP met them separately.

With a weak and largely ineffectual police force—whose men prefer to
stay on street corners, scrolling through the mobile phones of passers-
by for extortion or arrest young men on the basis of their hairstyle—
sundry cartels of criminals seem to have overpowered the capacity of
the state to restore law and order. More worrisome was that rural
areas were practically being taken over by these criminals while those
tasked with providing security looked helpless. The governors felt they
had a responsibility to find a solution to this growing menace. Since
five of these six governors belong to the ruling APC, they were in
constant dialogue with the police leadership on the options being
considered to tackle the security challenge within their zone.
Intent on finding an amicable solution to what had become a
perplexing problem, IGP Adamu led his team to Ibadan on 1st
September 2019 to meet with the governors and other stakeholders,
including the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) led by the Aare Ona
Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Chief Ganiyu Adams. Tagged ‘South-West
Geopolitical Zone Security Summit’, Adamu appealed that the police be
allowed to handle the security challenge while pledging that a special
operation was underway across South-West to specifically address the
threat of kidnapping and armed robbery on the highways and other
locations. Adamu told the gathering that the meeting was convened
within the context of community policing vision which emphasises
citizen engagement in the process of identifying “and prioritising
threats to communal values. The strength of this partnership and the
commitment of all actors within the process will undoubtedly,
influence the extent of success we can record against the criminals.”
Host Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state, who read the communique
at the end of the session said the IGP approved the deployment of
special forces to be commanded by a Commissioner of Police who
would lead a Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT)
team on their crime-fighting efforts. “It’s agreed that a committee,
consisting of policemen, other security agencies, the OPC led by Chief
Gani Adams, Miyetti Allah and the citizenry should be set up in each
state,” Makinde said as part of the decisions arrived at. Unfortunately,
while IGP Adamu was exploring quiet diplomacy to see how he could
defuse the problem without creating a bigger one, the Attorney General
of the Federation, Mr Abubakar Malami added fuel to the fire by
issuing a statement on behalf of the federal government, banning
‘Amotekun’. That statement, more than anything, rallied all the critical
stakeholders in the South-West behind the idea!

For me, the controversy has highlighted several issues. I do not know
of any federal structure that has a single police because it is simply
not practical. In the same token, there is no way the South-West
governors can secure their states individually without the kind of
collaborative efforts envisioned by ‘Amotekun’ given how interlinked
the forests are. The same reason informs the endorsement by Governor
Aminu Masari of Katsina State and chairman of Northwest Governors’
Forum who said they had “a lot to learn from them (the Southwest). I
will call a meeting of the states affected by insecurity to see what they
are doing and how we can borrow from them.” Masari is well aware
that there is no way Katsina or any other state within the region can
on its own successfully fight banditry when the expansive Dajin Rugu
forest straddles four states and criminals can move from one location
to another, as they have been doing for years. So, what is the way
forward in the South-West?

The Governors have decided to meet President Buhari, not to back
down on ‘Amotekun’ but to explain that this is not a political but a
practical security idea regardless of attempts by religious and ethnic
bigots to hijack it on both sides of the divide. A draft law on
‘Amotekun’ is also quietly going through the Houses of Assembly in
the six states. Whatever may therefore be the misgivings about
‘Amotekun’, the genie is already out of the bottle and we will be
making a grievous error to think it can be forced back in.

Section 214 (1) of the 1999 Constitution states that “There shall be a
Police Force for Nigeria, which shall be known as the Nigeria Police
Force, and subject to the provisions of this section, no other police
force shall be established for the Federation or any part thereof.” But
we all know that in Nigeria today, there are quasi police forces such as
Hisbah, which in several northern states enforces Sharia rules and the
Civilian Joint Task Force that has been helping to combat insurgency
in the North-east. Besides, many governors (whether in the north or
south) endorse the idea of state police because they spend
considerable money on the federal police over which they have no
control and without much result.

Meanwhile, the idea that we can run a command and control system
from Abuja is already unravelling before us and it is not only in the
security sector. Just two days ago, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory
Commission (NERC) Chairman, Professor James Momoh, said the
current centralised national grid system is hampering the delivery of
electricity to Nigerians. You can say the same of several aspects of
our national life. But on the immediate challenge of ‘Amotekun’ in the
South-West, the problem is with the supporters who can be
categorized into three. One, those who genuinely believe that the
federal police have failed to provide security for the people and are
now awakened to a collective sense of self-preservation. Two, those
who see in the ‘Amotekun’ controversy a golden opportunity to further
push the idea of restructuring the country for our collective good.
Three, those for whom ‘Amotekun’ is another ‘anti-Fulani agenda’
against President Buhari and his government, especially with Miyetti
Allah and other groups also making noise in the North. The moment
Malami issued his reckless statement, he antagonized the first group,
provoked the second and emboldened the third. Now, all three are
united on Amotekun!

What worries is that if, by an act of omission or commission, we frame
our national security challenge around identity politics (as some
politicians in the South-West do) or a “We” versus “Them” paradigm
(as some politicians in the North now also reason), we are not likely to
get an enduring solution. In fact, we are only going to exacerbate the
situation. The connecting thread for the variants of violence that we
witness across the country today, as I have argued several times on
this page, is that the Nigerian state has lost what Max Weber
described as the monopoly of “the legitimate use of physical force” to
sundry criminal cartels. And that is why the South-West governors
should be constructively engaged over ‘Amotekun’ before the process
is hijacked by the mob. But to bark order from Abuja as Malami did is
counter-productive, especially when he also appears to be speaking
not for Nigeria but rather for some special interest groups, in a manner
that fatally threatens the unity of the country as an inclusive polity
founded on diversity.

Interestingly, I had just completed this piece when my attention was
drawn to the statement by the APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola
Ahmed Tinubu, who has in recent days been goaded to make his
position on ‘Amotekun’ public. Where I disagree with him is the
attempt to exonerate Malami from the “dangerous rhetoric of those
who should know better.” But Tinubu has expressed a greater clarity on
what the real issues are. “Those claiming that this limited, inoffensive
addition to security threatens the Republic have taken themselves
upon a madcap excursion. Those claiming that the Federal
Government seeks to terribly suppress the Southwest have also lost
their compass. Those who occupy these two extremes have sunken
into the dark recesses of fear and political paranoia that can undo a
nation if such sentiments are allowed to gestate,” he said.

Most of the commentators on ‘Amotekun’, according to Tinubu, “have
but the vaguest notion about it. They know few details yet vigorously
attribute to its opponents the most negative intentions. Ask those who
oppose Amotekun. They are equally ignorant of its provisions. They
oppose the initiative not on its merits but merely because it was
proposed by their political opponents…Too much energy has been
spent distorting this issue instead of seeking a resolution that
supports local enhancement of security while keeping the constitution
intact.”

On the whole, the political unease about ‘Amotekun’, especially in the
North is an unspoken one, and I understand why. One, its location:
South-West. The history of resistance in this part of the country
indicates that threats from the centre never work whenever the people
are united on a common cause as they seem to do now. Two,
‘Operation Amotekun’ in Yoruba is ‘Operation Damisa’ in Hausa (since
both connotes leopard), and students of Nigeria’s tragic history have
something to remember on that, even when it is just coincidental.
At the end, what we should not overlook is that this crisis also comes
with a huge opportunity for institutionalising the idea of community
policing and perfecting our federal structure so it can work for the
greater majority of our people. But on ‘Amotekun’, we must also take
the heat out of the needless tension being generated by mischief
makers on all sides. President Buhari and the South-West Governors
need to play a crucial leadership role and the only way to do that is
not to surrender the initiative to extremists, while working for a
political solution that is anchored on securing lives and livelihoods, not
only within one zone but across the entire country.

Obiora’s CBN Nomination
Last week, President Muhammadu Buhari sent the name of Dr Kingsley
Obiora to the Senate for confirmation as Deputy Governor of the
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). It’s a pick that has been widely
applauded. Humble and self-effacing, Obioha, currently an Alternate
Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
headquarters in Washington DC., brings to the job (when confirmed)
not only his expertise, experience and exposure but also a passion for
the development of the country. In the present dire straits that our
economy is in, we need people with the intellect and temperament of
Obiora at the apex bank and it helps that it is a terrain to which he is
already very much familiar. I wish Obiora success in his new
assignment.

You can follow me on my Twitter handle, @Olusegunverdict and
on www.olusegunadeniyi.com

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