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I suspect their is no smoke without fire and the lady might actually be a sex worker. So, sex workers are not allowed to have kids? However, in this case their was no evidence to support their claim(council) and the kids are not in any danger of abuse or ever been abused.

The couple in question are not UK Citizens, although the kids were born in the UK. Hence, the Nigeria High Commission along with the Nigeria government should seek for the Children to be United with their parents immediately and deported back to Nigeria as the Couple no longer wish to reside in the UK.

The way Nigerian children are separated from their family in the UK, is quite scary. Once these kids are removed they are given to white couples without children outside ur State of residence for the kids to be raised with White values not knowing were they are from. Terrible wat politicians do for Bigotry and intolerance.

UK Police seize day old Nigerian baby, five siblings
Just Human    Sunday, November 13, 2011


By Wale Akinola

What will you do if you have just been delivered of a baby and the police storm the hospital hours thereafter and seize the baby?

Baby Musa, allegedly in custody

Cry? Kick? Resist? Action predictable. This is exactly what Mrs. Gloria Musa, a native of Umuahia, Abia State, and married to Mr. Musa from Garkida, Adamawa State but lives in Haringey, United Kingdom (UK) did after she had just been delivered of a baby and the police invaded Norwich Park Hospital and took away the baby. Three months earlier, the same police, allegedly acting at the behest of the Haringey social service, had equally seized five children of the Musas on the grounds that the mother was a sex worker.


The newly born baby’s seizure in hospital took place on June 12, 2010 while its other five siblings were taken into custody on April 8, 2010. But more than one year after, the six seized children are said to remain in the custody of the Haringey social service while every effort to get them to rejoin their parents has reportedly failed. The social service, according to reports, secretly gets interim care order (ICO) on monthly basis from the court to validate its action because the evidence they peddle against the Musas is untenable. The action is generating ripples both in Nigeria where the couple hails from and the UK. Although Sunday Vanguard could not ascertain the intervention of the Nigerian High Commission in the UK on the matter, a letter from an Advocate and Public Interest Intervener on behalf of the embattled mother of the seized kids asked the Haringey social service to forward documents in the Musa family case to the High Commission.

In Nigeria, the House of Representatives has taken up the matter, urging the Federal Government to persuade her British counterpart to ensure that the Musas are reunited with their kids until evidence show any wrongdoing. The House claimed paternity tests conducted on the children showed they belonged to the Musa couple.

The sponsor of the motion that led to the resolution, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, from Ikorodu Federal Constituency and chairman of the House Diaspora Committee, among 27 other lawmakers, described what the Musas are going through as the height of inhumanity. Narrating what she went through when nine policemen invaded the hospital in June 2010, to seize the baby, Mrs. Musa said it was "bizarre, unthinkable and worrisome".


Before the Musa kids were 'held'


According to her, "this atrocity was meted out to me and my new born baby, Queen Elizabeth, at Norwich Park Hospital at about 3 a.m. on June 12, 2010". She went on: "Regrettable, painful and inhuman as it were, the action of the police did not only cause pandemonium, discomfort, unnecessary tension, and embarrassment to the patients and staff of the hospital, it also revealed a Haringey that is devilish in character and lacking in human feeling, amateurish in style, brutish in operation, and dastardly in her acts of executing a hidden agenda that runs counter to westernized forms of civility in police modus operandi. It is unbelievable that a country like the U.K,highly respected as an icon of democracy with commendable human right records, couldstoop so low to authorise the police to perpetrate acts that are antithetical and inimical to the cause she goes all out to protect.

"My joy of safe delivery was cut short; as i was physically manhandled, emotionally battered, and psychologically traumatised by the ill-treatment from the British police .While recuperating from the pains of labour, I was awakened by theunwelcomed guests whom I would never forget in a hurry. Nine hefty looking police personnel, who by the suicidal nature of their mission(to take away my new born baby, as they told me in unmistakeable terms)would be best described as “kill joy”, Naturally, I, like every other woman,would prefer being killed to letting it (baby) go easily, hence, I held on and closely to it too. Unperturbed that the baby could be dangerously hurt, considering its age–less than few hours old- and capitalising on the weakness, unstable, and feeble state of mine whois left with little or no strength, after much exertion of energy during labour, the devil-may-care personnel of theHaringey police station applied every force at their disposal, unleashing terror on my helpless self and bruised me all over until they over powered me and took my baby.

"My request for their reasons and the authority empowering them to dispossess me of my new born baby was denied, rebuffed, and rejected with brazen arrogance in these words, `We did not need to show you or give you either’. The hospital staff insisted that the baby should not leave the hospital premises. To ensure a fulfilled mission andthat iwas completely debilitated andknocked down, the police removed the child from wherei could sight it, and placed it in the intensive care unit downstairs all alone. This is sheer wickedness.

"My family has done practicallynothing to deserve this painful and unwarranted suppression. Barely three months earlier (08-04-2010), five of my children were,without cogent reasons, abducted by eight policemen from Haringey; and while the case for their release was still being battled, nine policemen, again, in an unprovoked attack, swooped on me andmy new born baby in the hospital, seizing the baby, thereby denying it ofits right to naturallove, breastfeeding andcare by its biologicalparents. This is injustice of the highest order.

"As deprived , wounded, and bleeding as my family is, I request a thorough investigation of this issue by the British police ,with a view to ameliorating the situation and returning my children to me and in good health too. I state in unmistakeable and categorical terms that I and my husband are capable, loving, caring, and very competent to adequately cater and provide for our children without any external assistance or recourse to public funds. We need them returned to us as nobodycan take care of them better than us."

In a position insinuating that the Haringey social service was avoiding being confronted in the family court, on the seizure of the children, because it has no concrete evidence of its claim of the mother being a sex worker, one Maurice Kirk cited at least one instance when the social service personnel secretly obtained an interim care order (ICO) from the court on the issue. The said instance, according to Kirk, was on September 5, 2010 when, whereas himself (Kirk) and the Musas were in the court premises, the Haringey council procured the ICO in their absence. Kirk stated: "On August 30 (2010), Mrs. Justice Hogg had specifically ordered that the case be heard on September 5 (2010) with the sole intention for the parents to bring further evidence and for the (Haringey) council to produce the documents upon which they relied.

I arrived the court (on Sept. 5) and spent the first hour trying to establish where the case was being heard as no one knew. Separate from me and unknown to me, the totally distraught parents were doing the same from 9.30 onwards.

"I eventually demanded a judge and a hearing be convened or there was going to be 'trouble’. Staff clearly indicated something unusual was going on.

"At 4p.m., District Judge Berry informed the three of us that the case was already over!

It transpired that the case had taken place in the very same building without any of us being told and obtaining, for the fourth time, a further one month detention order (IC0) by the simple use of a telephone call from the council to the court".

After the alleged court abuse, Kirk stated that they went to Hornsey police station, near Haringey council, where the police had firstheld the children but the police refused to disclose their custody records or copy interview tapes needed for the hearing in the Holborn family courts.

The Musas, according to him, were being blackmailed to leave the UK without their kids.

Kirk also said he and the "frustrated parents went to the Nigerian High Commission in the UK on September 6, 2010, to establish what progress, if any, had happened since the parents had first contacted them in June 2010.

"We were assured by the Nigerian High Commission representative that it was fully aware of the seriousness of the separation of young children from their parents and 'all that could be done was being done’. We obtained no documentation, however, to support their apparent answer that the council was ignoring the commission’s concerns", he added.

"On September 7 (2010) we, three, decided to visit the Haringey council to examine the children’s medical records upon which the council relied for the 'snatch’ being lawful.

The parents were not just refused, they were denied any information as to whether the children were even still alive!"

`Prisoners in hell’

Kirk is not the only person in the UK protesting the seizure of the Musa children. Peter Bellett, in a letter dated October 28, 2011, to the Nigerian High Commissioner in the UK, implored the High Commissioner to "use the powers of your good office and do everything that needs to be done including taking this matter to the highest government level to ensure that this family are reunited and sent back to their homeland without delay".

Bellett added: "The Musas do not want to remain in the UK and have refused the offer from Haringey Council of an application for British passports. They cannot return to Nigeria without their children; so they are virtually prisoners in a hell created by forces beyond their control".

In the House of Representatives resolution on the Musas, entitled, "Saving Mrs. Gloria Musa and her six children from Haringey British Police", and dated October 25, 2011, it noted: "Sometime in June last year, the Haringey British Police stormed the peaceful home of the Musas and forcefully took custody of their five growing children to an undisclosed destination, without any concrete evidence against them".

The House said it was aware that series of paternity tests have been conducted and evidence has been brought forward that confirms the paternity of all six children in favour of Mr. and Mrs. Musa.

It expressed worry that this

"Nigerian family has been subjected to the worst psychological crisis, and are currently in a state of mental trauma from the way their case has been handled by the British Police and since June 2010 till date, Mr. and Mrs. Musa have had no contact with their children".

The House urged the Nigerian government to persuade the British government to try the Musas in a court of competent jurisdiction if need be, and ensure that justice is done.

It also called on the British government to ensure that the Musas are re-united with their kids until evidence shows any wrong doing on the part of the couple.

Husband accuses wife of calling his mother a harlot, wants divorce
News Monday, November 14, 2011


Lagos -A man, Mr Tajudeen Adenekan, 53, on Friday told the Igando Customary Court, Lagos, that his wife, Kuburat, called his mother a harlot, and therefore, sought the dissolution of their 12-year-old marriage.

Adenekan, who has five children by his wife, also alleged that Kuburat unduly accuses him of been infidelity.


“Whenever she comes across condoms in my car, she concludes that I am cheating on her.

''For the past four years, I have been the one cooking and washing the children's clothes, “he said.

The petitioner told the court that his mother-in-law was aware of her daughter’s “uncaring attitude“.

''Since my mother cared for my wife after she had one of our babies, she had resorted to calling my mother a harlot whenever we quarrelled.

''She usually calls my father an slowpoke and always threaten to deal with me, “ he said.

He said that Kuburat once locked his 10-year-old niece outside till 10.00 p.m. “for no reason“.

The respondent, Kuburat, 33, said that she was tired of the marriage as she denied calling her in-laws names.

She argued that her recent visit to her mother-in-law attested to the cordial relationship between them, adding that she also wanted the marriage to end.

“Tajudeen drinks to stupor. He gets drunk to the extent of urinating and excreting on his body. His conduct embarrasses me, and whenever I try to caution him, he feels offended.

“Most times, strangers drive him home when he his drunk. In all sincerity, I no longer love him,“ she said.

The presiding Court President, Mrs Francisca Johnson, adjourned the hearing to Dec. 1 for judgment. (NAN)

Very welcomed news.

[quote author=aloy@emeka link=topic=803526.msg9557874#msg9557874 date=1321308380]Haters call him a thief.[/quote]

igbo2011:
No but that is what I always hear  I hear that he stole a lot from Lagos and continues to steal.  I could be wrong though, it is all he say she say. But Nairaland people always call him a thief.

Wonders shall never end, perhaps somebody will care explaining this article and Tinubu current court case at Abuja Nigeria. Since we are now arguing whether Nigerian Politicians of all people are corrupt.    http://allafrica.com/stories/201109121101.html.

American Group Demands Trial of Tinubu for Perjury, Fraud

Maxwell Oditta 9 October 2011
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JUSTICE For All Nations (JFAN), a United States of America-based non-governmental organisation, has described that the planned commencement of the trial of former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, by the Code of Conduct Tribunal as a welcome development.

The impending trial is in connection with Tinubu's alleged operation of 16 foreign bank accounts while in office as Lagos State governor.



JFAN however added that Tinubu must also be prosecuted for alleged perjury, having reportedly lied on oath by refusing to declare the operation of several foreign bank accounts in the assets declaration form CCB-1 he submitted to the Code of Conduct Bureau on January 6, 2004.

'Most importantly, too, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) must tell Nigerians what has happened to the case against Tinubu, which its former Chairman, Malam Nuhu Ribadu said had international dimension,' JFAN said in a statement, Saturday September 10.

The statement issued by JFAN Coordinator, Dr. Dada Popoola, said that President Goodluck Jonathan must demonstrate to Nigerians that he has the will to tackle corruption, which is the number one enemy of the progress of the country by making sure that no one is treated like a sacred cow.

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According to the group, 'We are happy that the Code of Conduct Tribunal has woken up to its responsibilities and we urge that this case must be diligently prosecuted. It is also hoped the EFCC will also tell Nigerians where Tinubu corruption files are being kept.

'At least, we are aware that Ribadu said publicly that "Tinubu's corruption has international dimension" and there is no time for the EFCC to tell Nigerians what has happened to that corruption case and its international dimension.

'Tinubu should also be made to face criminal charge for perjury because he lied on oath by refusing to declare the operation of several foreign bank accounts in the assets declaration form CCB-1 he submitted to the Code of Conduct Bureau on 6th Janu

Finally, Africans are making a stand and refusing to trade their principles for money. we are getting there.

OBJ thieving pals. it really is not hard to see how corrupt OBJ administration really was.

A rascal dat is not a novice is fine but a rascal and a novice is absolute disaster. We need visionary leaders with wisdom not coconut head dat will be cracked.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=802783.msg9552040#msg9552040 date=1321259616]You guys have tarnished nigeria name and that is the bitter truth you should live with ![/quote]joblessness!! na disease. Bluetooth hating is now a full time job for u? SMH!

jason123:
STFU YOU LOSER! Bastar.ds!

una for leave Nigerdelta out of this assault! see trouble!

dayokanu:
Just like the SE SS SW and other regions are incapable of producing quality leaders.

You sef check am, SS produced a president and they gave us the most clueless, mor0nic and Retardeed president ever

who was chasing Oyinbo women Joystick in hand all over Australia

^^ NO MATTER HOW BAD U TRY TO DEPICT GEJ, OUR PRESIDENT, OBJ IS A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW FOR MOST CLUELESS, MORONIC AND RETARDEED PRESIDENT. BARE THAT IN MIND. 

[size=18pt]If Chime is not President or Vice President by 2015 den their is no hope for Nigerians. Another strategic urban planning well done. Excellent Job! [/size]

Get well soon Mr President. Fierce and Naughty but kept it real. To those, who see sickness or death as a thing to rejoice over be careful wat dey wish. 

[size=18pt]"All ready for action and present arms,fire at will boyz"[/size]. 

How authentic is dis news becos it is a dream come true.   Anyway, the US are more dan welcome to join the scuffle. Lets Boko and Igbobe the harams.  

Drones ready for launch. 

Desola:
She is ibo; that I know, so she can only be a lagos resident.

aribisala0:
abi?
talk naa where you from?
no be who sabi im papa go sabi where im from?
this one wey drop from  him mama yansh for market??

where you from??

Take your brothers advice becos am a Lagosian through and through. Igbo and lagos resident my foot. Desola u are from Ogun and maybe the resident thing is wat u are in Lagos but some people were born in Lagos for generations and are married there. Stop going around the forum displaying illiteracy. It is appalling. SMH

^ Na only my response u see der. Stupid Man!

^^O Shut Up! Idiot. nuff said!

[size=18pt]GEJ is abosolutely correct and Nigeria Is The New Global Investment Destination. Fact.[/size]

Tribalist off this thread.

[size=14pt]We know the ethnic group that was first to endorse BUHARI for President

We know the ethnic group that was aiming for VP to BUHARI (Tunde Bakare)

We know the ethnic group that was mouthpiece for BUHARI ADMINISTRATION  (Tunde Idiagbon)

We KNOW THE TWO ETHNIC GROUP DAT HAVE MOSTLY MIS-RULED Nigeria for over 50 years[/size]

Yakubu Gowon, Head of the Federal Military Government Mil Deposed
29 July 1975 to 13 February 1976 Murtala Mohammed, Head of the Federal Military Government Mil Assassinated
13 February 1976 to 1 October 1979 Olusegun Obasanjo, Head of the Federal Military Government Mil 1st term, transitioned to civil rule
1 October 1979 to 31 December 1983 Shehu Shagari, President NPN Deposed
31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985 Muhammadu Buhari, Chairman of the Supreme Military Council Mil Deposed
27 August 1985 to 26 August 1993 Ibrahim Babangida, President of the Armed Forces Ruling Council Mil Resigned
26 August 1993 to 17 November 1993 Ernest Shonekan, Interim Head of State n-p Deposed
17 November 1993 to 8 June 1998 Mil Died in office
8 June 1998 to 29 May 1999 Abdulsalami Abubakar, Chairman of the Provisional Ruling Council Mil Transitioned to Civil Rule.
29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007 Olusegun Obasanjo, President PDP 2nd term
29 May 2007 to 5 May 2010 Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, President PDP Died in office

aribisala0:
what a pity
go and pour kaikai for your ancestors
if you mother can unclutter her mind
and remember
who gave her belle

you are welcome to lagos that is our nature
but
your ancestors are crying
who will feed them as you have abandoned
their land
accursed and desolate.
and now point there with
your left paws
say i am lagosian 100 times a day
but it is all
banza.
illegimate bastard
homeless mongrel
your ancestors are wailing but you ignore them
well they deserve it they were no use to you
come and join omo oodua and partake in the noble feast
of a people elevated
regal and blessed

DONE GIVING U THE MOTHERLESS ATTENTION AND FATHERLESS SUPPORT U FAILED TO GET, OTHERWISE your LIFE WOULD HAVE TURNED OUT DIFFERENTLY. PLS TELL your FAMILY ISSUES TO ANOTHER NAIRALANDER WHO CARES. I SIMPLY HAVE NO MORE TIME TO LEND U.

I AM HERE TO MAKE SURE SELF DELUDING YORUBA'S LIKE URSELF, KNOW THE SCORE.

aribisala0:
your family and ancestry are screwed up. do you not not which hole they all crawled out from. are your ancestors prowling around homeless. ogun strike them. that you are now seeking refuge in lagos. are you ashamed of where yo came from.
tell us.
me i am a proud descendant of oduduwa omoluabi
who are you.
you better crawl back to the hole you wriggled out from
have you got a father??

More revelations of your family history. Shocking! Anyway it is Yoruba culture. Bunch of lunatics. Simple. Everything u mentioned reflect aspects of Yoruba culture. Multiple wives, baby mothers and children everywhere dat they never care for. Stay clear Lagos, u have been kindly warned. 

aribisala0:
maybe your father is a thief ask your mother ? if she knows who he is. she might need a computer to figure that one out

LMAO!! U really have a low estimate of both your parents dat u come on Nairaland to brand dem theives. U are really screwed up! Shame! Lagos Ole.

Retardeeno Dayokanu will u give our President a break?

aribisala0:
actually i do not believe yorubas own lagos.
lagos is nigerian.
for all nigerians or in a globalized world for all peoples.
but at this point in time its essential character(people history,language culture etc) is yoruba.  a different proposition from ownership

of course that may change but right now that is the status quo.
regarding your insults of the yoruba. it is not really necessary. i rather suspect your people whover they are have nothing to boast of and so you feel good by trying to drag the yoruba to that level. a futile sisyphean  exercise.
we transcend nigeria and africa and are not your coevals
i don't know what your ethnicity is but if you have something to be proud of flaunt it .
believe me as i nigerian i will claim ownership too.

Lets pretend u can't read all the insult your people direct to a whole ethnic group. My words were directed to the yoruba extracts on nairaland insulting entire ethnicity over claims that Yoruba owns Lagos, why not Ibadan or Abeokuta, why Lagos, are dey thieves?

The truth remains dat Yoruba's don't own Lagos. Nigerians own Lagos and Abuja and wen the Foreign investors taking over Lekki as sold by Fashola comes into the equation, the international community own Lagos.

I laugh at some of the claims ragtag Yoruba's make on Nairaland. Oh well, dey dear not lay does claims in reality otherwise a Lagos/Nigeria War will occur and we all know who the winning sides are. 

ACN THE FASCIST PARTY FOR TRIBALIST. HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

All you cynics can keep ranting, but come 2015, brave your President of Igbo Extraction.