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Biafrarep:
Buhari is not qualified to be a ruler, he is not sound upstairs, now everybody is suffering it.

ABUJA—Justice Olukayode Adeniyi of an Abuja High Court at Maitama, yesterday, admitted an aide to Governor Ayodele Fayose, Mr. Abiodun Agbele, bail to the tune of N50 million.

Agbele, who has been in custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, since June 27, had through his lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, approached the high court for the enforcement of his fundamental human rights.

While querying the legality of his continued detention without trial, Agbele, told the court that the anti-graft agency arrested and kept him in its custody on the premise that it is investigating over N1.3 billion that was allegedly traced to governor Fayose’s personal bank account.

Aside praying the court to order the immediate release of his client, Ozekhome, SAN, also requested that N500 million be awarded to the applicant as compensatory damages for his unlawful arrest and detention.

Specifically, Agbele prayed the court to enforce his fundamental rights to liberty, human dignity and the right to acquire and own properties in line with provisions of the 1999 Constitution, as amended.
Delivering judgment on the matter, Justice Adeniyi declared the action of the EFCC in detaining Agbele beyond the period stipulated by the law as wrongful, unlawful and unconstitutional.
He said the continued detention of the applicant without trial or a valid court order was in breach of his fundamental human rights.

Consequently, Justice Adeniyi imposed a fine of N5million on the EFCC, saying the money should be given to the applicant as compensation for his unlawful arrest and detention.

The judge said the anti-graft agency could not controvert the allegation that it has kept the applicant in its custody beyond the period stipulated in section 35 of the 1999 constitution.
According to the court, the fine it imposed on the agency was to make it learn how to operate within the ambit of the law.

Justice Adeniyi further faulted the commission for rushing to an Abuja Chief Magistrate Court to secure a remand warrant, while Agbele’s fundamental right enforcement application was already pending before his court.

He maintained that the Magistrate Court would not have granted the remand order if it was aware of the potency of the suit before the high court.
He went ahead and voided the remand warrant the Magistrate Court issued to the EFCC.

He therefore released the applicant on bail in the sum of N50 million and a surety in like sum.
The surety, according to the court, must be a top ranking civil servant with the federal government or any of its agencies and must show evidence of residence in Abuja.

More over, the court directed Agbele to surrender his international passport with the EFCC.
It however ordered the commission to within 21 days, either charge the defendant to court, or release all the property it seized from him.
EFCC rejects bail, files for stay of execution
Meantime, the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, yesterday, expressed indignation over the ruling of a Federal High Court, which granted bail to an ally of Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State, Abiodun Agbele.

Responding to the action of the judge, the EFCC described his ruling as ‘shocking’ and indicated its readiness to appeal against it and file for a stay of execution.

Spokesman for the EFCC said it was ‘curious for Justice Adeniyi to grant bail to a suspect who is being investigated for a range of financial crimes bordering on fraud and money laundering.

EFCC on vendetta mission — Ekiti Govt
Reacting through the Special Assistant to the Governor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the Ekiti State Government has described EFCC's decision to appeal the Abuja Federal High Court judgment, granting Governor Ayodele Fayose’s ally, Mr Abiodun Agbele bail and awarding N5 million damages in his favour as clear demonstration of the anti-corruption agency’s wickedness and show of vendetta against the governor.

A statement made available to Vanguard by the Spokesman for the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, said the judge’s conclusions were shocking given the background of the information presented to the court, which included the fact that the suspect was being held with valid remand warrants issued by competent courts.

This indeed has not been the best of times for Ekiti State, as hardly a week goes by without one form of public protest or the other. Just as that of the organised labour was being settled, protests for and against the activities Economic and Financials Crimes Commission, EFCC, by the two major political parties, the All Progressives Congress, APC and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state erupted. As if in a battle not to be out done by others, angry workers of the Ekiti State university, late last week locked down their institution.

The entire workforce of the University marched to the entrance gate of the 34 year old institution protesting the none -payment of six month subventions, salary arrears as well as cooperative deductions.

They lampooned the state government for compounding their woes over its failure to pay the subventions due to the school since January this year, adding that for over six months now, all has not been well with the University in terms of the funding, especially concerning adequate payment of the staff’s salaries and other emoluments.
But both the varsity’s management and the state government seem to have been managing the situation by perfectly well before now, persuading the staff to be patient.

Thereby making everyone to believe that the institution is faring well, paying its staff salaries as at when due and thereby making the workers happy.

Praises and encomium


This feat got the Vice Chancellor, Professor Oye Bandele the praise and ecomium of Governor Ayodele Fayose, who expressed delight at the way and manner the University management has been able to cater for the staff welfare and emoluments since January, inspite of his administration‘s failure to pay its subventions since December, 2015. This is due to dwindling allocation from the Federation account, occasioned by the sharp fall in oil price in the international market.

Governor Fayose, who is the visitor to the university and had graced the institution’s 21st convocation held recently at the University campus, had appreciated the school management for having performed admirably well in financing the school’s payment of staff salaries and emoluments without receiving due subventions from his government for six months.

Attributing the development to the university’s management’s initiative in some investment such as its new brick-making, bread baking and Information Technology ventures among others, the governor gave the impression that the investments have assisted in shoring up the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of the school, hence the payment of staff salaries and other emoluments hasn’t been a problem.

His words: “I want to appreciate the governing council of the university for your efforts and outstanding performance at a time like this when financing government has become a huge challenge in the face of the dwindling federal allocations. Your performance for the six months has been commendable.”

The bubble bursts


But on Monday, July 11, it seemed the patience of the staff of the institution had been stretched beyond its limits as they paralyzed academic and administrative activities in protest against what they alleged as non-payment of six-month subventions, salary arrears as well as non-remmittance of cooperative deductions from their salaries into the accounts of three cooperative societies of the workers in the school.

Alleging that they have found out that the governor was making efforts to exclude them from the bail-out it just received from the federal government, the protesting staff prevented vehicular and human movement in and out of the institution as they ensured that its giant gate was under lock and key.
Many vehicles were parked outside as many of the staff and students loitered about in front of the school gate.

The unions who participated in the protest include National Association of Area Technologists (NAT), Non-Accademic Staff Union of Universities (NASAU), Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASSUU) among others.

According to them, contrary to government’s position that the institution’s recent investment in some ventures to shore up its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), has made it capable of taking care of paying salary, emoluments and renumerations, all is not well, as the management has allegedly been able to pay a paltry 20 per cent of the staff’s salary arrears since January this year.
They maintained that the management had failed to live up to its responsibilities due to the failure of the state government to pay subventions since January this year.

Their plight


Speaking about their plight, Chairman of SSANU, Mr.Kolapo Olatunde, said: “The state government released the universities’ subvention last in December last year, which means since January, we haven’t been getting the subventions.

The government has erroneously believed that the management take care of the full salary payment without the subvention. But the reality is that we have only been receiving 20% of our salaries since January till date with deductions, and even the deductions were not remitted into the accounts of the cooperative societies on campus.”

“We also heard that the state government is not putting EKSU in the agenda of bail-out from the federal government given erroneous impression that all is well with us, whereas we have been suffering in silence.

Chairman of NAT, Engineer Awogbemi Omobola, attributed the non-payment of the staff’s full salary to the fact that the institution has exhausted all its available resources to pay net salaries of workers. He said: “The institution has even been struggling to augment the payment of 20% of salary with N250 million monthly from the IGR. We have remained patient with the management because it has been trying, but with this protest, we want to tell Ekiti and the world that they should not allow the insitution to collapse as this is the only asset the state has.

Mr. Tope Akanmu, the institution’s NASU chairman who itemized their demands, urged the government to resume the payment of monthly subvention to the institution and also include it in the bailout scheme from the federal government. He lamented that despite series of letters written to the state government prior to the last convocation in June, nothing has been done to alleviate the suffering of the institution’s staff, “ he said.

Reactions and denials

Reacting to the allegation leveled against the government on the bail-out funds, Ekiti State Commissioner for Information, Hon. Lanre Ogunsuyi, denied the allegation that the government was planning to exclude the institution’s staff from benefiting from the bail-out funds it just received, adding that such rumour was being peddled by social media as well as some hostile newspapers who do not mean well for the government.

His words: “ It is not true that Ekiti State government is excluding the staff of EKSU from the bail-out scheme. The issue of the bail-out scheme and how it would be disbursed to pay workers’ outstanding salaries is yet to even be discussed.
Governor Fayose cannot do anything that would be to the detriment of the staff of the institution because he has their welfare in his heart as they remain part of the civil servants in the state. The rumour of the alleged exclusion is being mischievously peddled by the opposition through some social media platforms and some newspapers who are hostile to the government and are bent on destroying the image of the government.

On the contrary, the governor is working towards ensuring that all the civil servants in the state get what is due them in the shortest possible time, “ he said.

AHEAD of the July 30, 2016 rerun election, the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has accused the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmud Yakubu, of hobnobbing with the state Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Dr. Davies Ikanya.
Wike also alleged that Yakubu met with Rivers South-East senatorial candidate for the APC, Senator Magnus Abe in company with the state APC chairman on July 19, 2016.

The governor, who addressed thousands of the Peoples Democratic Party supporters at the Rivers East PDP Senatorial Campaign Rally in Okehi, Etche Local Government Area on Thursday, explained that such an action was inimical to a credible legislative rerun election in the state.

Wike expressed regret over the posting of compromised policemen to Rivers State with the aim of damaging the security network ahead of the rerun elections.

He further accused the INEC national chairman of planning to postpone the July 30, 2016 rerun elections in deference to the fear of defeat allegedly expressed by the leadership of the state APC.

Wike wondered why anyone would be happy to destroy the state just because “they wanted to satisfy the politician who funded the APC national elections efforts using Rivers State resources.
“They are frustrating elections in Rivers State because of one man who sponsored elections for APC. They have posted electoral officers from the APC states to rig elections and they want to accede to the request of the Rivers State APC to post out the Resident Electoral Commissioner.

“But the truth is that nobody can rig elections in Rivers State. The INEC national chairman only has the power to postpone elections, but he has no power to rig elections here.

“As I speak to you, on 19th of July, 2016, the APC chairman, Davies Ikanya, Senator Magnus Abe and others; 7.30 to 8pm were with the INEC national chairman in his office.

“Rivers State is key to the development of this country. Will they continue to deny us representation at the Senate and majority of the constituencies of the House of Representatives?”
He, however, called on the people of Rivers State to continue to resist every attempt by INEC to rig elections in the state because power resides with the people.

Reacting, the state Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr. Chris Finebone, said, “Let it be on record that neither Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya nor the Rivers State South-East Senatorial Candidate of the APC, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, separately or as a group, met with the chairman of INEC or any INEC personnel at the commission’s headquarters or anywhere else as contrived by Governor Wike.

Abuja - The Senate on Thursday called on the Federal Government to put in necessary measures to evacuate Nigerians in South Sudan, currently facing internal conflicts.
The decision followed a Point of Order by the Deputy Spokesman of the Senate, Sen. Ben Bruce, at plenary.

Bruce while raising the point of order said that reports reaching him indicated that Nigerians in Sudan were the only nationals still left in the country in spite of the increasing tension.
According to him, rather than being evacuated by the authorities, Nigerians in South Sudan are being subjected to question and answer sessions and subsequently dismissed.

``As we speak, in the Hallowed Chamber, the fate of Nigerians in South Sudan is unknown and there are no indications that they have been evacuated,’’ he said.

Bruce urged the Senate to summon the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, to explain why Nigerians were allegedly abandoned in the war turn country.

The lawmaker also urged the senate to mandate the Committee on Diaspora and Non-Governmental Organisations, to carry out holistic investigation into what transpired between Nigerians at the Nigerian Embassy in the country.

In his remarks, the President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, said the relevant authorities would be communicated appropriately to ensure that the lives of Nigerians in South Sudan were not in danger.

``Ben Murray Bruce came to discuss this matter with me and I think that based on our rule there will be no debate.

``But we will get the message across to the relevant ministry to see that a thing like this doesn’t happen and action is taken to properly address the matter.’’
The Republic of South Sudan gained its independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011, following a referendum that passed with 98.83% of the vote.

The country, has however, suffered internal conflicts since its independence, with a resurgence of violence following its fifth anniversary as a country.

greatness22:
Yeah bro, am the newly elected Delta State Chairman of SAN.