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Mr pigtormentor are you aware retires generals has soldiers guarding their houses till they die?

PigTormentor:
I have watched thr whole video. Wike did right thing as the top executive manager of the FTC. The officer should be dismissed ASAP. What has defending a person's land has to do with his job?
We have our priorities misplaced in this country.
He is supposed to respect civilian authority not his boss that sent him on a personal matter.
Watch the full video not the sound bites.

Ttalk:
That argument doest sell in a civil matter. The instruction from the senior military man was not in line with military primary role of protecting the country from external and internal aggression like insurgency

I civil matter should be handled by police and not a military personnel. Let's free mind from the hoax of military mentality

But military are called upon to handle police matter.

Wike should be sack or deploy to ministry of information.

NewHe:
Deserve National Award for restricting a constituted government authority from carrying out her functions?

Which function to go & demolish a legally acquired property?

It is hard to believe Putin is a Christian, he behaves like that mad camel people .

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LimAnc:
NANS have suddenly found their voice.
Meanwhile, dental students at the University of Jos have spent 10 years with no hope of graduating, as they battle accreditation issues and the nonchalancy of university management.
Medical students in LAUTech have been out of classes for over 3 months, and nothing has been done about it.
Where is NANS when you genuinely need them
I am not in any way defending the lawlessness exhibited by the minister.
We have a long way to go to get things right as a nation.

How can one spent 10yrs just learn how to pull out tooth?dis cun3 no be am.

Adakintroy:
Technically everything is under the minister

He is the governor. All this power play is because ehe is not a Northern.

Imagine telling a governor he can't enter somewhere.

So a governor has a power to enter your bedroom without permission?

zoedew:
OFFICER YERIMA BREACHED THE LAW IN THAT FACEOFF WITH NYESOM WIKE

By Prof. Sebastine Hon, SAN
(Constitutional Lawyer and Author)

Brushing sentiments aside, I hereby condemn in totality the actions of the Naval Officer, A.M. Yerima, who obstructed the FCT Minister from gaining access into that parcel of land, under the guise of ‘obeying superior orders.’ The duty of a junior officer to obey the orders of his superiors, even though strongly upheld in military and paramilitary circles, has its own limitations recognised by no other authority but the Supreme Court of Nigeria. I shall establish this anon.

In the recent case of Onunze vs. State (2023) 8 NWLR (Pt. 1885) 61 at 108 SC, the Supreme Court held emphatically, per Ogunwunmiju, JSC, thus:

“My Lords, the obligation to obey the orders of a superior does not include orders that are palpably illegal or manifestly unjust. Every military or police officer swears an oath upon commissioning. The Oath is not to obey all orders, it is to “preserve”, “protect” and defend the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria against all enemies, foreign and domestic. When an officer obeys palpably illegal orders, they become personally liable for their actions and would be expected to face court martial or official sanction for the wrongdoing.”

In the earlier decision of Nigeria Air Force vs. James (2002) 18 NWLR (Pt. 798) 295 at 324 SC, Onu, JSC, delivering the lead judgment of the Supreme Court, held firmly, subjugating military personnel to civilian authority and disparaging obedience to illegal orders, as follows:

“See the case of Pius Nwaogu v. The State (1972) 1 All NLR 149 where it was held, inter alia, that "a soldier is responsible to Military and Civil Law and it is monstrous to suppose that a soldier could be protected when the order is grossly and manifestly illegal. Of course, there is the other proposition that a soldier is only bound to obey lawful orders and is responsible if he obeys an order not strictly lawful.’"

The illegality in that order stems primarily from the fact that no service law of the military permits a serving military officer to mount guard at the private construction site of his boss, especially under suspicious circumstances like this. The retired Naval Officer ought, under the circumstances, to have engaged the civil police, if he suspected likelihood of arson or criminal trespass.

Additionally, Barr. Nyesom Wike is the equivalent of Governor of a State – he being the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. More importantly, all lands in the FCT Abuja, by section 297(2) of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria, 1999 as amended, belong to the Federal Republic of Nigeria. By section 302 of the same Constitution, read together with other extant Acts of the National Assembly, the President of Nigeria has delegated all powers with respect to land administration in the FCT Abuja to the Hon. Minister. Going by constitutional and administrative law, therefore, Mr. Wike stood in loco the President of Nigeria and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces on that fateful day. Consequently, even if the superior officer were still in service, he would not disobey Mr. Wike or obstruct him from entering the land. This was an affront to the civil authority of Mr. President.

The Minister’s method may be brash; but it is legal and lawful in all respects. Rather, it is the officer who obstructed him that has breached not just the Nigerian Constitution, but also service and extant regulatory laws. For the avoidance of any doubt, section 114 of the Armed Forces Act makes military personnel criminally liable for civil offences. This means the officer in question could be arraigned before a Court Martial for obstructing a public officer from performing his public duties, et cetera.

In conclusion, celebrating the humiliation of Nyesom Wike, simply because he is a ‘big man’ or simply because he is not liked by certain persons begs the real issue here. If such intolerable conduct by the young officer is not punished or is celebrated, this may unleash a reign of terror by the men in khaki against hapless civilians – with a grin or boast that ‘we did it to Wike and nothing happened.’ This is not Nigeria of our dream!
I rest my case here.

Who is this charge n bail SAN go and allow wike to enter your bedroom with his security to inspect.

floss:
It’s only Wike can tell Wike he’s wrong and Wike will agree and take correction given by Wike, anything far from that will result in Wike acting like Wike ….

I’m beginning to see why pdp can’t control Wike, because they’re all weak.

My friend wike can't control wike.

Did ekweremadu tell them he want to be released?did he tell them he want to serve his term in Nigeria prison?he should reject such deceptive offer they want to kill him.

According to shriek Gumi Muslim killing Muslims should be seen as two fighting.

Imagine a some boy stop wike d tyrant,d wicked,d landgrabber.this one sweet belle.

Ikaeniyan0:
It seems you don't have data to watch the video. Before Wike went to the place at all, the FCT administration sent some of their officials to the land and asked them to produce the land document, instead of providing the documents they have, the former CNS sent soldiers to the land to stop the officials from doing their job, they don't have any documents at all. Watch the video and stop supporting illegality because it's affecting a politician you hate

We will be here when the table turn

You don't show land documents on d spot, you sort it out in d office.

Am one of those that support that the artifacts should not be returned to Benin Nigeria,it should have remain their and d revenue be shared btw the host country & nigeria.see the results now one day the thugs will wake up & burn down d museum & returned artifacts.

When will this gal ever grow up a woman who has two children is not a small gal but her brain refuse to grow,she needs a handler.

"It was the government that wanted us to engage in banditry, but now it has called us and told us to stop. Therefore, by God’s grace, we have stopped from today,” said one of the bandits during the peace meeting between Batagarawa and Charanchi held on Saturday.

“If the government wants all this insecurity to end, they have the power to end it — but they don’t want it to end. For the past two months, we have been trying to initiate a peace talk, but we were unable to because they didn’t know where we were hiding.

“But when they finally decided to meet us, they were able to find and talk to us today. Peaceful coexistence and the end of insecurity depend on the Nigerian leaders. If they want us to keep striking and attacking, we will. But if they want peace, we will also make it happen.

“We don’t have the power or wisdom to bring peace to the country except through the Nigerian Government, because everything is under their control. Despite people saying that we are attacking, it is the government that made us do it.

“If they don’t want us to attack or kidnap people, they can stop it. However, today, they were the ones who called us, and by God’s grace, we have stopped from today. You oppressed citizens — if you want to cry, don’t cry with us, the ‘terrorists,’ but cry with your government, for they are the ones who made us do what we have been doing.
Why would the maad shiek gumi told us that Terrorists are on revenge missions when they are not attacking government but innocent citizens.
This revelation should be forwarded to Trump & US Congress.

Gala for vote

This man is a wizard!if the children survive they should disown him.

Is this not d same shia that government,army & police killed like flies in buhari era,what I will call genocide of shia in 9jeria?this is stockolm syndrome.

beardedboy:
My biggest regards to her family.

Kingsley k!lled julliet.

Xtian on xtian cr.ime

The orange cl.own should please come and rescue Nigerian christians from themselves.

Grow up did d killers told you they are xtians?

ebukal67x:
Pastor Adeboye should have advised Donald Trump to stay away from the invasion of Nigeria suggestion.

WHY??

Mirasteel:
The sanctions is one of the reason why they are facing these problems.

So sanctions make their ground not to have water but sanctions could not stop missiles production.

This cun3 need to be divided so that they can go & form the Arewanistan Islamic republic.

My candid advice to bat is to reach out to president trump to work out how US can help us fight & end terrorism:BH, iswap,Isis & Fulani bandits.US has d technology, weapons & intelligence to conduct search & kill operation in Nigeria.

stuffs2002:
Not when America wants to destroy your country and China wants to save it

So china want to SAVE our country by supplying bandits with weapons to kill nigerians & causing environmental degradation?

Saviola86:
China and some EU countries are the ones sponsoring and paying those terrorists to kill people and sack communities

All over Africa, China has the most illegal miners. Reports in nigeria shows that China has the most illegal miners in nigeria.

They get our govt high in Huge debts to give the leverage for their citizens to operate.

They arm those bandits, to cover their tracks, supply them with western weapons, fuel and logistic supplies through backdoor. Once rare earth mineral resources are discovered in a community, these bandits launch attacks, kill and sack communities then go in to mine the resources there and sell to Chinese buyers or if it is too complex, Chinese illegal miners go in to do the job themselves while our govt look the other way.


US know this, they know that is how China enriches their people and give out massive loans to Africa countries.

Coming out rightly to blame China would be seen as provocative so they used religious coloration but the actual target is to boot out China out of Nigeria and also force nigeria to give them approval to establish a military base here.

What China is doing is what France and UK (especially france) have been doing for years in francophone countries until they got kicked out. Same formula and pattern. US ignored France and UK because they are allies

It's all about geopolitics and for me I don't mind. They can burn the country down and our stupid government for all I care. Nigeria should either divide and take a huge reset

Oil dey your head.

jogojogo:
US Wey end up negotiating with hamas after fighting for one year and failing to crush hamas

Haba!is it US fighting Hamas?

They never talk of soveriegnity when foreign terrorists from mali,Niger,Chad invaded our country through our borders killing Nigerians & grabbing lands.

Because they are exploiting our resources, conniving with corrupt government officials to mine our minerals & oil,roping d cun3 with useless loans.

So now she know see to naked & puke for video na bad thing.

How comes soldiers where station there during d attack & they did nothing no terrorists was killed or eliminated?