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Politics › Re: Army Secretly Moved 20 Lekki Massacre Victims To IDH Mortuary - Sahara Reporters by capitalzero: 4:38am On Oct 31, 2020
murmee:
Which means the bullets were selecting Protesters who were orphans and homeless and have no families and friends. O ga o!
Why did u think tinubu say 'what are the characters of victims? Survivors have questions to answers. ' That statement is deep. Did you listen to femi falana interview recently on this matter? Security agents dumb bodies in mortuary and tagged them criminals. It took me years to figure out . Some families will come out , others will not. Why do you think hospital organize mass burials for unclaimed bodies? Road accident victims and those brought by security agents are majority . 2 months ago, sars brought 1 guy, he was tortured to death. Till now no family member has come to claim the body.

Lekki masscre is a matter of national security, most cases will be off record for now. However, list of missing persons is being compiled by cso regarding lekki incident. Take your time and check Twitter, information for mature minds is there.
Politics › Re: Army Secretly Moved 20 Lekki Massacre Victims To IDH Mortuary - Sahara Reporters by capitalzero:
Most people here do not use twitter. The evidences are too much for military to cover. Some classified videos will be protected and you will not see them online. Some people are in lagos without families. They live with friends. Some left villages for greener pastures in lagos. Some are orphans and homeless. If these ones joined protests and they were killed it would be very difficult for families to even know what have happened to them. The truth is that many people were killed , military is just trying to minimise casualties to avoid another outrage.
Politics › Re: #EndSARS: IGP Adamu Replies Amnesty, Says Policemen Didn’t Shoot Protesters by capitalzero: 1:14pm On Oct 30, 2020
powerfulguy:
https://punchng.com/breaking-igp-replies-amnesty-says-policemen-didnt-shoot-endsars-protesters/?amp=1&utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&__twitter_impression=true
Akeju and jimoh were shot dead by police in ogbomoso in first week of police.
If there is no truth and justice, forget peace we just be dancing around a circle. It is law of nature.
Politics › Re: Why They Want Ngozi To Head The WTO by capitalzero: 11:51am On Oct 30, 2020
MagicBishop:
The history of the Jews is one of parasitism.


From ancient Egypt to Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome to modern day Anglo-Saxon USA and UK the Jew has always found a way to sleethe his way to the corridors of power. This arrangement had always been profitable to a few lucky Jews but always end up disastrous to all of them.

The Golem problem is a constant theme in Jewish history and it postulates on how Jewish influence may end up being their greatest downfall.

The Golem is a mythical creature in Talmudic Judaism that symbolizes world powers and how the Jew influenced those powers to do their bidding but end up being destroyed by it.

It originated from the story of Esther and how she influenced her husband not to heed to Haman's call to get rid of the Jewish influence around him.

The Jews celebrate Esther's intervention as a holy day known as Purim.

The Jew will later find out that it is better to have two golems at a time rather than one. This is why they faccilitated the accelerated militarization of the Soviet Union via espionage after the second world war.

China is now their new golem and a perfect one at that as the Chinese by nature is naturally subservient to state authority - a conditioned mentality brought about by 3,000 ys of brutal subjugation by series of hordes of Invaders.

The CCP is also highly greatful of their Jewish overlords as they know without them, China will still be at the horse carraige era.

In China , Jews are highly revered and the first question a Chinese parent will ask an intending western in-law is if he is Jewish.

The Talmud is also a best seller in China and Chinese foriegn policy in the middle East has always aligned with that of Israel.

Early this year the Chinese ambassador to Israel was killed by CIA agents and the Americans sent a stern warning to Israel to review their growing ties with China after it became apparently clear that the Corona virus (which was stolen from a US military bio weapons lab by Jews) which later was further weaponized at the Wuhan lab with the help of Jewish scientists like Charles Leiber with funding from Gates came to light.

The US elections is down to a pro Nationalist Trump vs a corrupt career politician swamp creature (Biden) who is unashamedly pro Chinese.

Bill Gates and Google funded and provided the tech for China's Owerllian Social Credit System that seeks complete loyalty to the govt authority .

That same social credit system is tied to Bill Gates Digital currency patent which under the ruse of a global pandemic will be feasible through a nano tech implant injected under the guise of a Covid 19 vaccine.

The Jews are jumping ship from the US as that population is quickly waking up to the fraud the Jews have played on them.

Majority of young Americans today do not believe the Holocaust happened, see Israel as the aggressor in both Palestine and the middle East , do not subscribe to the narrative of WW2 and are beginning to question the highly disappropraite concentration of Jews in the media, cinema, banking, politics and legal field and also see all US wars in the ME as wars fought for Israel.

The Jew has been here before and they are not sticking around and are about to jump ship. But the Jew is parasitic and will only jump ship after killing it's last host.



The WTO under Ngozi is meant to promote China globally while isolating the US and seeking it's destruction.

The final nail to the US will be the end of the fiat dollar system that has existed since the end of the gold standard.
I agree with theory of world order but it seems you have hatred for jews. Granted there are globalists and nationalists among movers and shakers of world police. Globalists are not controlled by jews
Politics › Re: Revolution Is A Marxist Trick by capitalzero: 9:53am On Oct 30, 2020
thebosstrevor1:
Beware of people that support revolution or like the idea of a revolution for change to come.

The marxists plot of taking government is not by election or any democratic process but by revolution.

They sow the seed of revolution on the poor, the weak and the vulnerable, those people act as the marxists shield, protector and use tools to bring a revolution for the marxists leader.

Marxists know how to use psychology, they instill hatred and jealousy on the lowest bottom of society, they blame the rich for everything, blame white supremacy for their failures, blame the system for their failures, all these is an attempt to make those people inspired for damage and destruction.

The marxists revolution isn't actually a revolution but a means to get power, when the marxists gets power, they create laws that will enslave you, that will even make you more further to degradation that your self esteem is destroyed.

History does not lie, Soviet Russia, cuba, north Korea, china, countries in south america were taken over by so called revolutionary leaders but guess what after the revolution was done by the people, they single handedly gave all their rights and reasoning to a man called a dictator who brutalized them. No wonder marxists societies killed more people than second world war.
I thought china is your model country
Education › Re: IPPIS: FG Paid Some Professors N8,000 As Monthly Salary – Abiodun Ogunyemi by capitalzero: 9:42am On Oct 30, 2020
ChiefS:
Let me respond to each of your allegations:
1. Do you have enough evidence? This is a spurious allegation that holds no water. The system has checks and balances. The human resources of each University has records of birth certificates /age declaration which must be submitted before a person is appointed a lecturer. Retirement date of each lecturer is also indicated in the annual appraisal forms which must match with the employment records.
2. Vacant academic positions are collated from departments and advertised by universities yearly. Sometimes those vacancies are not filled because the applicants may not meet the specific requirements. Minimum requirements for lecturing is a PhD in the relevant discipline. Plus specific work experience and publications.
3. I'm not aware of lecturers working as full-time staff in multiple Federal Universities. A lecturer should have only one full-time appointment and can be a visiting lecturer based on need. No lecturer can work in unilag and UI or OAU as full time it is just not possible. Its cheap blackmail of the government. They should provide evidence and make scape goats of anyone culpable. A visiting lecturer is only paid about 30% of what a full-time lecturer gets.
1. Age information in human resources is inconsistent with bvn. It applies to most older lecturers not young ones. There is corruption in human resources
2. If earn allowance is stopped, vacancies will be filled like magic. Guys are looking for work. Some dons are reserving spaces for their wards. Exception is few department .
3. NUC rule is 1 full time and 1 visiting appointment. Nothing more. Some lecturers are working as full time in federal institution and will also take visiting appointment in fuoye, redeemer , and uniosun which is wrong. I know a professor working in unilorin, bowen, and LAUTECH.it is too much. A professor was working in bowen and blocked employment of another lecturer until his ward qualified to take the job.
There are alot of cover up in the system. There are a lot of overwhelming evidence against top dons.
Education › Re: IPPIS: FG Paid Some Professors N8,000 As Monthly Salary – Abiodun Ogunyemi by capitalzero: 8:35am On Oct 30, 2020
ChiefS:
It negates the law governing Universities. The principle of autonomy which took ASUU many years of strike . It does not capture the peculiarities of lecturers. Lecturers have specific allowances that support publishing in journals and attending conferences. A lecturer is expected not only to teach but do research which should be published in journals and presented at conferences. The cost of publishing in local journals range between 35 and 100k. While open access international journals cost between $1,000 and $2,500. This he does using his lean salary. No lecturer is promoted without having a good number of publications in local and international journals. The mantra in academics is "publish or perish".

Those attributing lecturers' rejection of IPPIS to their visiting status to other universities are not aware that the lecturers that serve as visiting lecturers are mostly visiting lecturers to private and state universities which are NOT on IPPIS. So it is impossible for IPPIS to detect it.

Also, IPPIS does not take into consideration other peculiarities like visiting lecturers from foreign universities whose services are required to support some departments that need their expertise. Universities all over the world don't operate in isolation.
Are health workers not on ippis? Are they not getting allowances as well? Allowances of visiting lecturers are not the problem. In hospital, there are also visiting consultants on ippis. They are not complaining
Let me tell you why ASUU is against ippis.
1. Most lecturers especially old professors are using falsified age. It is university that is covering them. I have my facts
2. Earn allowance has been politicised between ASUU and nasu. Most universities refuse to employ young lecturers because of earn allowance. Nasu is also getting earn allowance which also wrong.
3. Working in multiple universities. The rule is 1 full time 1 visiting appointment either in private or public institution. Many lecturers are working in multiple institutions. Government wants to have database of all lecturers and where they are working
Politics › Re: How ENDSARS Really Started. Not Many People Noticed This. by capitalzero: 7:40am On Oct 30, 2020
Sonoyom:
The correlation between the songs you mentioned, the political undertones, the advice you gave to NBC, the curfew and finally the truck driver is zero.

In containing the 'protesting terrorists' the government declared a curfew. What has the government declared to contain the security challenge in various parts of the country? I am not surprised though because the real terrorists are granted amnesty while protesters are shot at in a country we are supposed to be proud of.

I will leave you with the words of J. F. Kennedy "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable". What happened recently is just round 1, subsequent rounds will be louder and more pronounced.

You forgot to point out the fact that the government brought the hoodlums into the equation by hiring them to disrupt the peaceful protest and when their hirelings went haywire they blamed it on the #EndSars movement that was well organised than anything any government (democratic or military) has ever done.

Does 'Occupy Nigeria' sound familiar to you? Or you want to deny that you were not in this country during the 7 days anti fuel subsidy removal protest was carried out. Was the anti subsidy subsidy removal protest done in individual homes? or was it done on the streets? Were the roads blocked during the protest? Did the military open fire on anyone?



As for your advice about reading, i read everyday and also about a wide variety of subjects because i am a teacher so i think you should help yourself in that aspect also.
Fixed!!!!
Family › Re: Olubunmi Kama: My Husband’s Siblings Seized Our Properties After His Death by capitalzero: 6:59am On Oct 30, 2020
ThatReporterz:
Source: https://punchng.com/my-husbands-siblings-abducted-him-seized-our-property-after-his-death-widow/
If you are getting married to other tribe, make sure it is court marriage.
It is only lazy woman that will say I do not work because my husband said I should not work.
If your husband insists you should not work, he should do life insurance/assurance or children endowment plan
Politics › Re: Desmond Elliot Apologises For Addressing The Youths As Children by capitalzero: 10:47pm On Oct 29, 2020
DexterousOne:
The person you quoted had a point

But your rebuttal was very much SPOT ON.
I agree with you
Politics › Re: Desmond Elliot Apologises For Addressing The Youths As Children by capitalzero: 10:13pm On Oct 29, 2020
IamD18:
The likes of Desmond Elliot, Yahaya Bello and Elisha Abbo have so many times proven the fact that an average Nigerian youth is no different from the old men in the Government.

They've so many times proven that corruption in Nigeria isn't just about our aged politicians but a general thing.

We saw how our various SUG officials operated in school, how coursereps, lodge president and the rest operated. We all saw the corruption there. If you think this generation will politically do better than this current aged politicians, then you are clueless.

An average Nigerian is tribalistic, oppressive, selfish and corrupt. It's in almost all the sectors in this country and it'll take decades for this country to be free from the aforementioned.

Know this and know peace.

And just so you know; 98.485% of Nigerians condemning Desmond Elliot will do the same, they'll choose the interest of their political mentors and Godfathers over the interest of the masses.
Old men in government look for youths who are corrupt as them , who are visionless as them and invite them to join political class!!!
Politics › Re: WTO: FG Moves To Counter US Position On Okonjo-iweala by capitalzero: 3:03pm On Oct 29, 2020
stagger:
You are simply clueless. It is not about Trump or Obama or Clinton. Whenever foreign policy is concerned, Democrats and Republicans are one. If you understand US foreign policy in Africa and the world in the last 50 years, you will not make this intellectually bankrupt statement of yours.
Most people do not know this.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Three Killed, Woman Beheaded At A Church In French Knife Attack by capitalzero: 2:26pm On Oct 29, 2020
Marine54:
Islam is number one problem of this world !
World leaders are coming for it . End of organized religion is around the corner.
Crime › Re: Inmate Who Fled In Edo Killed Neighbour Who Testified Against Him In Court by capitalzero: 2:23pm On Oct 29, 2020
BigBashiru:
The only way to reduce crime is death sentence for a properly tried and properly convicted criminal with evidence beyond all reasonable doubt. The threat of death and execution is the only thing that can deter a criminal frol murder because the repercussion is his or her own life too.
For crimes that attract death sentences. For other crimes, correctional centres should serve their purposes not to make criminals worse.
Crime › Re: Inmate Who Fled In Edo Killed Neighbour Who Testified Against Him In Court by capitalzero: 12:53pm On Oct 29, 2020
thatsleepboy1:
it is high time the government turn our prisons to vocational centers where the inmates go to get vocational skills and use them to do various government mason jobs for free for them instead of them to waste that time of their lives away like that and coming back to unleash mayhem to the citi3ens again thereby making the last deception be worse than the first deception. It'll even save more money for the government and the crime rate will reduce thereby making gains at both ends. Abeg
Well said!!!!
Correctional centres do not correct the inmates. Rather they make them worse criminals. To reduce crimes, why people commit crimes must be understood. We need more of sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, criminologists, skilled workers as staff in correctional centres if we actually want to correct inmates .
Business › Re: I Just Opened A Business And Got A Salary Work I'm Confused by capitalzero: 11:34am On Oct 29, 2020
Ahmed0336:
geting a trusted hand to run your biz will be difficult.

my advice; go to work in the morning, when you're closed in the evening you can open your shop let's say 6-9 pm.
Fixed.
Crossbelt
Politics › Re: What Of If It Is Really True That Buhari Died In London 2017 by capitalzero: 11:15am On Oct 29, 2020
tsagir:
IPOB how market ? NIGERIA MUST DEVELOP
If there is no truth and justice, forget peace and development. It is law of nature
Politics › Re: WTO: FG Moves To Counter US Position On Okonjo-iweala by capitalzero: 11:02am On Oct 29, 2020
freshMallam1122:
Trump hates blacks as far as am concerned... have seen it an have come to understand...upon say we biafrans an Igbo love you like we did for PDP ,but still this is how Trump hates us so much no worry our eyes dong open,,APC &PDP must go..,,#NigerianLifeMatters,#BidenMustWin,#NOImustWin
Do you love your fellow blacks especially other tribes ?
Politics › How Federal Ministry Of Health Staff Was Shot Dead By Police At Lagos Island A D by capitalzero(op): 11:00am On Oct 29, 2020
Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja, Bashir Bolaji Akinsemoyin, who was running an errand was shot dead by the police at Lagos Island.


The incident occurred on Wednesday, October 21, when the police opened fire on thugs, who went berserk by looting and burning properties in the city.\


It was gathered that Akinsemoyin was on his way to see a family friend at Isale Eko but was hit by a stray bullet on the head in an encounter between the police and thugs.

He was said to have been rushed to the General Hospital on Broad Street in Marina for treatment when he later died after several efforts to save his life.

According to his brother, Akinsemoyin Ademola, who spoke with SaharaReporters, the victim was neither at the protest ground nor was a thugs, adding that the loss was a big blow to their family.

He said, “Bolaji was not a hoodlum. He was not part of the protest. He was just on his way to Isale Eko to see a family friend. Before I could reach General Hospital, he had passed away.

“He was preparing to go back to Abuja on Monday before he was killed.”

The victim’s wife was still too traumatised to speak with SaharaReporters over the tragic incident when contacted by our correspondent.

It was gathered that he was shot by one officer Ibikunle from Adeniji Police Station, who later fled the scene.

SaharaReporters gathered that the mob in the area were miffed and infuriated by the incident, which led to the burning of the Lagos State governor’s mother's house.

The 41-year-old man was buried on Thursday at Abari Cemetery, Epetedo, Lagos.

Source: Sahara reporter
Politics › Re: US: Why We Oppose Okonjo-iweala’s Election As WTO DG by capitalzero: 10:56am On Oct 29, 2020
SaintLucia:
The most useless tribe in the world is Igbo. They carry Trump matter for head as if their Paradise in heaven depends on him and yet the same Trump doesn't even know whether their parents exist on earth. This is the same Trump and America that is denying their daughter who majority of Nigerians and the rest of the world supported to become the DG of WTO. Foolish and cursed tribe.
You are a worst tribalist to identify useless tribe in the world.
Politics › Re: Is Now Clear That The North Feeds The South by capitalzero: 10:32am On Oct 29, 2020
NNEWIsuper:
From recent events about the #EndSARS saga and its aftermath food shortage and hike in price in the south, is now clear that the southerners largely depend on the middle belt for 98% of its food supply.. That's really pathetic, yet they're lands for arable farming in the south better than the north central.

Pathetic to say the least!
Politics › Re: How AGF, CBN Shield Police, Military From Paying Damages To Victims Of Abuses by capitalzero(op): 10:18am On Oct 29, 2020
More horrific tales

Justice B.I. Molokwu was enraged by the way the police treated the case of Mr Daniel Bisiriyu, after he was shot on the stomach by a trigger-happy policeman on August 6, 2008 following a melee in the Egbeda/Akowonjo area of Lagos.

The younger brother of the deceased, who testified before the judge, recounted how after getting an emergency call, he rushed to the scene of the incident, found his brother bleeding profusely but policemen stopped him from rushing his critically-injured brother to the hospital to save his life.

“The police also refused to reveal the name and identity of the culprit, claiming that the matter was being investigated,” the brother of the deceased added.

In her judgment of May 25, 2012, Justice Molokwu said, “His (Bisiriyu’s) shooting and death are totally senseless. No sympathy was shown by the defendants to the family of the deceased. The identity of the police officer who shot the deceased was a closely guarded secret by the 1st to 3rd defendants, just as the reason for the shooting. It shows an utter disregard for human life and the dignity of human person.”

The judge went on to award N15m exemplary, aggravated and special damages against the police in favour of the widow, Mrs Toyin Bisiriyu, and her four children.

But justice has yet to come the family way 12 years after Bisiriyu’s unwarranted killing and eight years after the judgment.

The impediment, as usual, is the non-existent AGF’s consent to take the money from the police bank account.

Like the Bisiriyus, the Odeyemis are also seeking justice eight years after the life of their loved one, Roseline Odeyemi, was needlessly cut short by Inspector Usman Shehu, Corporal Alex Edomagbon and Corporal Seun Adewale, who were shooting for fun around 4pm on May 12, 2012 at the entrance of Melanido Night Club, somewhere in Lagos.

Justice C.J. Aneke has since June 30, 2014 ordered that the Odeyemis be paid N50m exemplary and aggravated damages with 21 per cent interest “to assuage their pains, suffering and expenses over the loss of the deceased person, as well as for the unbridled impunity bellying the rampant and reckless use of firearms by the respondents’ officers in Nigerian in recent times.”

Justice in this case is frozen by the requirement for the consent of the AGF.

It is for this same reason that a national newspaper in the country has not got justice 26 years after armed state agents invaded its head office in Lagos, brutalised journalists, whisked away the editor and sealed off its office, in June 1994 during the jackboot reign of the late General Sani Abacha.

The court had in the same year awarded N25m damages in favour of the newspaper and N100,000 in favour of its editor.

At the end of a 25-year legal trip all the way to the Supreme Court, the apex court, finally in June 2019, affirmed the monetary awards.

But over one year after the judgment and 26 years after the rights violation, the applicants’ lawyer, Mr Clement Onwuewunor, says refusal of the AGF to give consent has kept justice at bay.

Long years of police impunity spark #EndSARS protests

At the moment, Nigeria is emerging from the negative aftermath of #EndSARS, a nationwide protest by millions of youths across cities and towns, demanding the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a unit of the Nigeria Police Force notorious for brazen assaults, extrajudicial killings and extortion.

The youths demanded that all policemen who had been involved in rights violations be fished out and publicly prosecuted. They are also demanding compensation for all victims of human rights violation by the police. At the height of the protests, soldiers in Lagos in the evening of October 21, 2020 opened fire on the peaceful youth protesters at the Lekki tollgate. Scores were injured, some were feared killed. The incident has attracted global opprobrium for government.

Amnesty lawyer scores Nigeria low

Legal Adviser at the London office of Amnesty International, Dr Kolawole Olaniyan, says to curb wanton abuse of rights by Nigerian security agents “victims must have access to justice and effective remedies, including adequate compensation, reparations, restitution, satisfaction and guarantee of non-repetition.”

“Unfortunately, this is rarely the case in Nigeria as perpetrators continue to enjoy impunity for their crimes. What you have is blatant disregard for the rule of law, judicial corruption and a pervasive culture of impunity which have continued to deny victims of human rights violations and abuses access to justice and effective remedies,” Olaniyan says.

Sheriff Civil Process Act anathema to justice

Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, believes Section 84 of the Sheriff and Civil Process Act 2014, which he described as “a piece of colonial legislation that came into force on June 1, 1945,” should be abrogated.

Adegboruwa says, “The Sheriff and Civil Process Act was used by the British to gag our people from holding them accountable. This archaic law originates from the British principle that the crown can do no wrong, thus, even when the court has indicted government and awarded damages, Section 84 of the Act allows the executive to sit on that judgment to frustrate its due execution.”

The human rights lawyer says given the principle of separation of powers among the three arms of government, “it is absurd for the executive arm, through the Attorney General, to sit on appeal over the judgment of a court of law.”

“It is an anathema that should not be allowed to stand. It gets more distasteful when the Attorney General is also a party to the case and after losing the case in court upon a full trial, then the Attorney General, who lost the case, is required to consent to its enforcement.

“In most cases, the Attorney General does not grant such consent, leading to a fresh round of litigation to compel him to grant his consent. For poor and indigent litigants, frustration sets in such that the judgment may be abandoned totally.”

Leading human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Femi Falana, says impunity by Nigerian state agents may not let up until individual officers are specifically compelled by the court to pay awarded damages.

Falana says, “My own suggestion is, and I have been pleading with the human rights community, if your client is detained, don’t sue the police alone, sue the police officer involved and ask for specific damages against him. If by the time the judgment is delivered, he has retired, let them take part of his pension. That will serve as a lesson for people. But right now, they detain illegally, some get killed and the officers involved get promoted, retire with their benefits. For me, that should not be allowed.”

We’re law abiding – CBN

But the Director of Corporate Communications at the CBN, Osita Nwanisobi, in response to our correspondent, disagreed that the apex bank shields law enforcement agencies from paying damages to victims of rights violation.

Nwanisobi claimed there were instances where fraudulently-obtained court orders were presented to the CBN.

“Most judgment creditors think the CBN is just like any other government agency which won’t do due diligence on court order before compliance. We pay where all legal conditions precedent are complied with before order is obtained.

“No garnishee can be honoured if the judgment debtor has gone on appeal and obtained a stay of execution. If you pay, you have not only destroyed the ‘res’ but also risk being cited for contempt,” he says.

He stressed that money in the custody of the CBN “can only be paid in garnishee with the consent of the Attorney General of the Federation obtained prior to the grant of the garnishee order nisi.”

AGF not expected to grant consent with pending appeals – Media aide

When contacted, the Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations to the AGF, Dr Umar Gwandu, demanded evidence that some judgment creditors indeed wrote to the AGF to seek consent but were not granted.

After eight of such cases were shown to Gwandu by our correspondent, he responded that the AGF would not grant consent where there are pending appeals or order for stay of execution.

Gwandu said, “In view of the fact that multiple facts are inherent, including the right of appeal, the right to set aside judgment or court orders and the right to apply for stay of execution, among others, the Honourable Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice is not expected to grant consent in circumstances where these rights are being considered for determination by court of law of competent jurisdiction.”

But in the eight cases cited, there has neither been appeal nor order for stay of execution. Indeed, most of the cases were not even defended by the police before judgments were entered in favour of the litigants.






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Politics › Re: How AGF, CBN Shield Police, Military From Paying Damages To Victims Of Abuses by capitalzero(op): 10:06am On Oct 29, 2020
More horrific tales

Justice B.I. Molokwu was enraged by the way the police treated the case of Mr Daniel Bisiriyu, after he was shot on the stomach by a trigger-happy policeman on August 6, 2008 following a melee in the Egbeda/Akowonjo area of Lagos.

The younger brother of the deceased, who testified before the judge, recounted how after getting an emergency call, he rushed to the scene of the incident, found his brother bleeding profusely but policemen stopped him from rushing his critically-injured brother to the hospital to save his life.

“The police also refused to reveal the name and identity of the culprit, claiming that the matter was being investigated,” the brother of the deceased added.

In her judgment of May 25, 2012, Justice Molokwu said, “His (Bisiriyu’s) shooting and death are totally senseless. No sympathy was shown by the defendants to the family of the deceased. The identity of the police officer who shot the deceased was a closely guarded secret by the 1st to 3rd defendants, just as the reason for the shooting. It shows an utter disregard for human life and the dignity of human person.”

The judge went on to award N15m exemplary, aggravated and special damages against the police in favour of the widow, Mrs Toyin Bisiriyu, and her four children.

But justice has yet to come the family way 12 years after Bisiriyu’s unwarranted killing and eight years after the judgment.

The impediment, as usual, is the non-existent AGF’s consent to take the money from the police bank account.

Like the Bisiriyus, the Odeyemis are also seeking justice eight years after the life of their loved one, Roseline Odeyemi, was needlessly cut short by Inspector Usman Shehu, Corporal Alex Edomagbon and Corporal Seun Adewale, who were shooting for fun around 4pm on May 12, 2012 at the entrance of Melanido Night Club, somewhere in Lagos.

Justice C.J. Aneke has since June 30, 2014 ordered that the Odeyemis be paid N50m exemplary and aggravated damages with 21 per cent interest “to assuage their pains, suffering and expenses over the loss of the deceased person, as well as for the unbridled impunity bellying the rampant and reckless use of firearms by the respondents’ officers in Nigerian in recent times.”

Justice in this case is frozen by the requirement for the consent of the AGF.

It is for this same reason that a national newspaper in the country has not got justice 26 years after armed state agents invaded its head office in Lagos, brutalised journalists, whisked away the editor and sealed off its office, in June 1994 during the jackboot reign of the late General Sani Abacha.

The court had in the same year awarded N25m damages in favour of the newspaper and N100,000 in favour of its editor.

At the end of a 25-year legal trip all the way to the Supreme Court, the apex court, finally in June 2019, affirmed the monetary awards.

But over one year after the judgment and 26 years after the rights violation, the applicants’ lawyer, Mr Clement Onwuewunor, says refusal of the AGF to give consent has kept justice at bay.

Long years of police impunity spark #EndSARS protests

At the moment, Nigeria is emerging from the negative aftermath of #EndSARS, a nationwide protest by millions of youths across cities and towns, demanding the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a unit of the Nigeria Police Force notorious for brazen assaults, extrajudicial killings and extortion.

The youths demanded that all policemen who had been involved in rights violations be fished out and publicly prosecuted. They are also demanding compensation for all victims of human rights violation by the police. At the height of the protests, soldiers in Lagos in the evening of October 21, 2020 opened fire on the peaceful youth protesters at the Lekki tollgate. Scores were injured, some were feared killed. The incident has attracted global opprobrium for government.

Amnesty lawyer scores Nigeria low

Legal Adviser at the London office of Amnesty International, Dr Kolawole Olaniyan, says to curb wanton abuse of rights by Nigerian security agents “victims must have access to justice and effective remedies, including adequate compensation, reparations, restitution, satisfaction and guarantee of non-repetition.”

“Unfortunately, this is rarely the case in Nigeria as perpetrators continue to enjoy impunity for their crimes. What you have is blatant disregard for the rule of law, judicial corruption and a pervasive culture of impunity which have continued to deny victims of human rights violations and abuses access to justice and effective remedies,” Olaniyan says.

Source: REUBEN Abati media
Politics › How AGF, CBN Shield Police, Military From Paying Damages To Victims Of Abuses by capitalzero(op): 10:05am On Oct 29, 2020
The popular Nigerian saying “It is easier to drag a horse to the river than to make it take a drink” is apt when one thinks of the frustration of victims of human rights violations seeking to enforce court judgments against Nigerian law enforcement agencies. The judgment itself is not easy to get. Only the extremely patient and dogged can go through the long years of forth-and-back trips to court without giving up. And when the judgment comes, the excitement is short-lived because the victim then realises it is just the beginning of another tortuous and torturous journey if the fruits of the judgment will ever be reaped.

No one knows the story better than Mrs Afusat Enilari and her four children. Their breadwinner, Mr Olajide Enilari, died on January 29, 2009 after being brutalised by two power-drunk military men – Private Friday Ameh and Nimmack Nappon.

Mr Enilari, a flour merchant, had on January 27, 2009, gone to the Nigeria Flour Mills in Apapa Lagos to place an order. He was standing at Airways Junction in Apapa to board a bus, when he was hit by a vehicle, whose driver was apparently in a hurry. On getting up with the help of his truck driver, who was with him, Enilari charged after the rushing vehicle, demanding if the driver planned to kill him.

Suddenly, contrary to his expectation, the vehicle halted and its two occupants hurried out. One grabbed the metal butt of his belt, the other seized an iron rod by the road and they began to whack Enilari. When they smashed his head and blood began to gush out, the military men took to their heels. Though Enilari was rushed to the hospital, he gave up the ghost two days later.

Enilari’s widow and his four bereaved children sued the Nigerian military alongside the two power-drunk officers. The Attorney General of the Federation was also joined as a defendant in the suit filed before Justice Ibrahim Buba, sitting then at the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court.

The family said they were particularly chagrinned that the Nigerian military authorities behaved “irresponsibly and callously” by not even deeming it fit to express any sympathy to the family, despite being aware of the violation.

The rule of the Nigerian court says fundamental rights enforcement suits must be treated with dispatch. But, often, this is not the reality, since the courts’ dockets are congested with backlog of cases. The one filed by the Enilaris in 2009 lasted eight years in court, before judgment came on March 30, 2017.

Eventually, Justice Buba ordered the military to pay the family N35m as general damages “for the loss, pain and suffering caused them by the brutal assault of the deceased by the defendants which resulted in the death of the deceased.”

In addition, the judge ordered the defendants to bear the cost of Enilari’s burial, estimated at N295,000, while the family should also be paid N250,000 for the trouble of coming to court over an eight-year period.

But it is three years on after the court judgment and 11 years after Enilari was killed, still the compensation remains elusive.


The military did not bother to appeal the judgment; they simply ignored it.

Two letters of demand, written in October and November 2017 to both the Chief of Army Staff and the Chief of Naval Staff, by the family’s lawyer, Mrs Chinelo Chinweze of Access to Justice, were simply ignored.

The lawyer said a garnishee proceeding initiated by the family has not succeeded.

Enilari’s widow sounded very despondent when she spoke with our correspondent over the matter.

But the Enilaris are not alone. It is the same tale of frustration for the family of Waheed Kabiru, a student and businessman, who was extrajudicially killed at age 25 in the custody of the police at Igbogbo, Ikorodu, Lagos in November 2015.

Efforts by Waheed’s aged parents and brother to enforce a N200m court judgment secured against the police since 2016 have been futile.

Their lawyer, Mr Olukoya Ogungbeje, says it’s been a journey from one obstacle to another.

Detained beyond 24 hours, killed in police cell

Waheed was on his way from work on November 20, 2015, when he was picked up by armed policemen from Igbogbo Police Station and clamped into cell, his brother, Ibrahim, said.

Ibrahim said when their aged father visited the police station on November 22, 2015 “he was ruthlessly chased and pushed out of the police station because he could not provide money for the release of his son.”

He said repeated visits to the police station yielded no result till they were eventually on December 2, 2015 “confronted with his sudden disappearance” from the police custody.

Ibrahim said, “My deceased brother had remained in detention without bail or being charged to court for (10) days until his sudden disappearance and extrajudicial killing in the cell of the Igbogbo Police Station of the 3rd respondent (then Divisional Police Officer, SP Remilekun).”

Waheed’s detention for 10 days breached Section 35 of the Nigerian Constitution, which says a suspect must be taken to court within 24 hours of his arrest.

Ibrahim said Waheed’s death devastated his both aged parents and other family members, more so as “no one from the Nigeria Police Force has ever been in contact with me, my father, mother or any other member of our family but instead chose to treat us as if we do not exist.”

“No human being deserves the kind of torture and sadistic pain inflicted on my deceased brother by the officers of the Nigeria Police Force, which resulted in his death. Till date, the corpse of my deceased brother cannot be found,” Ibrahim lamented.

In his November 1, 2016 judgment, Justice Mohammed Idris noted that despite being served with court papers, the police chose not to come to court to explain the events leading to Waheed’s death.

“I hold the police responsible for the death of the deceased and the applicant is entitled to some relief,” Justice Idris said.

Before arriving at the N200m damages, which he ordered the police to pay the family of the deceased, the judge bemoaned the steady erosion in the value of the Nigerian currency, naira.

As of November 2016 when the judgment was delivered, N200m was worth US$651,465.7 (at $1 to N307). Today, with $1 exchanging for N381, the value has plummeted to $524,934.3. Yet, there is no end in sight in the struggle to get the money.

A string of obstacles

For all victims of human rights violations, who succeed in getting monetary award against brutish security forces in Nigeria, the first usual obstacle on the path to true justice is Section 84 of the Sheriff and Civil Process Act 2014.

This law stipulates that anyone who gets monetary judgment against a state or Federal Government agency must first obtain the consent/permission of the state’s Attorney General or the Attorney General of the Federation, as the case may be, before he can garnishee the bank account of such an agency.

But being an agent of government, the AGF is not known to grant such consent. The AGF routinely ignores such requests for consent or simply dismisses them.

Such victims/judgment creditors often have to begin a new legal battle to compel the AGF, through a mandamus order, to give them the consent.

If they succeed in obtaining a mandamus order against the AGF, they may even have to go further to start a contempt proceeding against the AGF, where he shuns the mandamus order of court.

Those who successfully cross the AGF’s consent hurdle will then have the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria to contend with next.

The CBN is known to routinely disobey court orders authorising withdrawal of damages from the accounts of government agencies, including the law enforcement agencies.

Most times, access to the funds is not granted without the victim/judgment creditor initiating a contempt proceeding against the CBN Governor and other officials.

It is instructive that the police and the military rarely enter an appearance in court when they are sued for rights violations. It can be safely inferred that they are confident in the knowledge that they would always be shielded by the AGF and the CBN from paying, even if damages are awarded against them.

The Director, Access to Justice, Mr Joseph Otteh, describes the Sheriff and Civil Process Act 2004, as “arguably the greatest obstacle to the enforcement of human rights in Nigeria.”

“It restricts the ability of Nigerian courts to protect human rights, enforce the rule of law, and check impunity on the part of security and law enforcement agencies,” Otteh says, calling for the scrapping of the law.

He says by withholding consent, “the Attorney General takes side with abusers, and offers nothing but helplessness and despair to victims of human rights violations and who have expended enormous time and resources in often protracted litigations to win justice.”

Otteh says, “The CBN also contributes immensely to the grinding hardships that victims of human rights violations undergo, including families of victims of extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions, most of whom are widowed mothers and infant children, who have had to endure blistering suffering on account of the loss of a breadwinner.”

Tireless litigation

From the AGF to the CBN, Waheed’s family has come through the full gamut of the string of resistances in their five-year-old quest for justice.

In a July 30, 2019 “protest letter” to the Director of Legal Services at the CBN, Mr Akinwunmi Johnson, the family accused the CBN of “constituting itself into a lawless organisation, fighting tooth and nail and conniving with the police to deny our family of justice and foist injustice on us, despite the dismissal of the application of your bank for stay of execution of the order absolute.”

At the moment, the family is back in court with a contempt proceeding against the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, and four other CBN officials over their refusal to release the judgment credit.

Justice Aneke had on February 13, 2020 summoned Emefiele, CBN Director of Legal Services, Johnson; Mr Olusegun Bolaji and MK Gbenro Adetona, to appear before him to explain why they should not be sent to prison for disobeying the order of court.

Maimed without remedy

When Krimo Usman got into an argument with a friend on December, 22, 2010, he had no idea how much the incident would alter his life. An encounter with the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Kirikiri Police Division in Lagos on that day has left Usman maimed for life.

Today, 10 years after the DPO shot him at close range on his right knee, Usman walks with a permanent limp and is pained that the N4.5m damages with 21 per cent interest, which he got in 2016, after four years of legal battle, remains elusive till date.

The refusal of the AGF to give him consent to withdraw the judgment sum from the account of the Nigeria Police Force is the clog in the wheel of justice for Usman.

Usman’s lawyer, Chinweze, lamented that police authorities had shunned a letter of demand for the N4.5m compensation, and without the consent of the AGF, any garnishee proceeding would be rejected by the court.

But while delivering judgment on December 7, 2016, Justice Muslim Hassan had affirmed that Usman truly deserved compensation, given his pathetic ordeal in the hands of the police.

Framed for armed robbery, detained in “Oven Cell”

Usman’s case was that he was arrested on December 22, 2010 on a bogus allegation of armed robbery.

He said, “The DPO personally interrogated me. When I refuted the armed robbery allegation, the DPO pulled his pistol from his waist sachet and shot my knee at a very close range, shattering my knee cartilage and paralysing my leg.”

He added that rather than give him access to medical care, the DPO ordered his transfer to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Ikeja, where he was kept for two months in the SARS “Oven Cell”.

Usman said, “No medical treatment was offered to me at the SARS cell for the two-month stay, in spite of my putrefying bullet wound.

“The custodial condition at SARS, Ikeja was blistering and unbearable, characterised by overcrowded and pest-ridden enclosures in both the ‘Oven Cell’ and the ‘Wounded Cell’; poor ventilation, no sleeping materials, no potable water or food in a cell enclosure named ‘Oven Cell’ in which faecal waste overflowed toilet bowl and filled the cell with unbearable stench.”

To compound his ordeal, he said SARS operatives wrote a self-incriminating statement in his name and forced him to append his signature “under the threat of shooting my other leg.”

He said, “I yielded to the threat for fear of being shot and I was arraigned at the Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on the basis of the incriminating statement in February 2011, after two months of incarceration in SARS’ cell, and I was in remand custody, without trial, at the Kirikiri Medium Prisons for over one year and six months.”

Justice Hassan described Usman’s inhuman treatment in the hands of the police as “callous, wanton and reckless”.

But it’s four years since Usman got N4.5m judgment yet justice has not come his way.

Others like Usman

There are countless victims of police inhuman treatment like Usman. In the last three weeks, following the spontaneous nationwide #EndSARS protests, sparked off by the footage of a youth being shot in broad daylight by policemen, the nation has been regaled with heart-wrenching tales of Nigerians who have fallen victim of police routine acts of wickedness against defenceless citizens.

Usman’s case mirrors the plight of Dalington Amaiham, who has been struggling for seven years now, to no avail, to enforce a N15,128,000 judgment, after being crippled in 2012 from gunshots by Inspector Usman Shehu, Corporal Alex Edomagbo and Corporal Seun Adewale.

For “the senseless and unwarranted shooting of the applicant on his back and knee by the afore-mentioned officers, which caused severe injury to the applicant’s back and knee, leading to a severe damage to the applicant’s leg, thereby preventing the applicant from walking as well as carrying on with his normal life,” Justice Mohammed Yunusa, in 2013, awarded N15.1m damages to Amaiham.

But like Usman, Amaiham’s quest for justice has been frustrated by the need for AGF’s consent to make withdrawal from police bank account.

It is exactly the same story for graphic artist Tomori Gbolagade, who was shot on the right hand by Corporal Philip Ayuba manning a checkpoint in the Dopemu area of Lagos on the night of September 30, 2011.

Nine years on after the incident and five years after he got judgment, justice remains elusive to Gbolagade. The AGF has yet to honour his October 9, 2019 letter, requesting consent.

In a chat with our correspondent, Gbolagade says he believes the Nigerian judiciary is incapable of getting reparation for citizens whose rights have been violated by agents of the state.

“I think the cases that the (Nigerian) judicial system can handle are cases between individuals. When it comes to real issues involving the government, I don’t think the judiciary has any say,” Gbolagade says.

Justice Saliu Saidu had on September 30, 2015 ordered the police to pay Gbolagade US$47,062 “being the total expenses incurred for the medical treatment of the plaintiff in Nigeria and the 1st, 2nd and 3rd stages of surgery in India.”

In addition, the court awarded another N5m to Gbolagade “as general damages for the physical, emotional and psychological pain/suffering caused him since September 2011, when this injury was inflicted on him.”

Gbolagade’s lawyer, Mr Monday Ubani, says all efforts to get the money have proved abortive.

“I have written to the Attorney General, I have not got a response; I even brought in the Central Bank of Nigeria in the garnishee proceeding but the CBN has been hiding the bank account of the Nigeria Police Force. One thing is to get judgment, it is another to get remedy when your rights have been violated,” Ubani laments, saying, “This thing has to be done by way of law reforms.”




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Politics › Re: Lekki Tollgate: Amnesty International Doesn’t Run This Country — Femi Adesina by capitalzero: 9:54am On Oct 29, 2020
Omooba77:
The Presidency has said Amnesty International does not run the country and was wrong in its report on the movement of military men from the barracks to Lekki Tollgate, where peaceful #EndSARS protesters were shot at on Tuesday, October 20.


Mr. Femi Adesina, Special Adviser on Media & Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, said this on Channels TV, Thursday morning, while responding to claims that military high-handedness towards the protesters at Lekki Tollgate led to hoodlums looting and burning across the country.

Also exonerating the military, Adesina said that the Lekki Tollgate incident didn’t precipitate the arson and looting spree that spread across the country.

Vanguard had reported that Amnesty International, on Wednesday, released a report entitled “Nigeria: The Lekki Toll Gate massacre — new investigative timeline”.


In the report, the rights group chronicled the movement of soldiers from a barracks till they got to the tollgate, where flag-waving and the National Anthem-singing #EndSARS protesters were shot at.

Earlier, it had claimed that about 12 persons were killed in the shooting, which precipitated the looting spree across the country.

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However, pointing out that looting and burning had started before the Lekki incident, Adesina told Channels’ Sunrise Daily: “The prison break incidents in Benin and Oko had happened before Lekki.

“Orile Police Station was burnt before Lekki. Many things happened before Lekki. So Lekki didn’t precipitate the looting, arson.

“Amnesty International is wrong. They don’t have all the facts; they don’t run this country, so they shouldn’t know beyond what they have been told.

“Amnesty International should do its job. But it’s the duty of Nigerians to look at what they have said whether it’s justifiable or not.”

Asked about the reports by the ministers who President Buhari had sent to their home states, Adesina said: “Only two ministers had briefs ready.


“The rest are still in their respective states. They should turn in their reports in the coming week and they will help establish the truths about some things.

“The minister will come with what is near authentic.”

VANGUARD

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/10/lekki-tollgate-report-amnesty-international-doesnt-run-this-country-presidency/amp/
Femi does not know that world trust AI than presidency
Politics › Re: US: Why We Oppose Okonjo-iweala’s Election As WTO DG by capitalzero: 9:51am On Oct 29, 2020
SaintLucia:
The most useless tribe in the world is Igbo. They carry Trump matter for head as if their Paradise in heaven depends on him and yet the same Trump doesn't even know whether their parents exist on earth. This is the same Trump and America that is denying their daughter who majority of Nigerians and the rest of the world supported to become the DG of WTO.
Tribalism is a disease
Politics › Re: US: Why We Oppose Okonjo-iweala’s Election As WTO DG by capitalzero: 9:48am On Oct 29, 2020
THUNDER4real:
This is not racism but because Nigeria is not a reliable ally. This was manifested in UN when Nigeria voted against USA and Israel.
Hmm. It makes sense now
Celebrities › Re: 'List Of Celebrities Who Shared Fake News Online' - JJ Omojuwa Reacts by capitalzero: 8:59am On Oct 29, 2020
mariahAngel:
In Nigeria, speculation is better than silence!

"It's better to say too much than never to say what you need to say"
Especially when government is trying to cover up.
Politics › Re: Ikotun Massacre by capitalzero: 8:54am On Oct 29, 2020
eburuu:
Is like you are mad,..all those basterd that get killed are fucking dumb craft...the first set that came & break in to slot & twins faja plaza at the first time sucssede the next day those animal stil cum to loot agin b4 u know mopol don come day open fire on them
It is extrajudicial kilings as long they are unarmed. Where is justice? People stole billions, security agents are still protecting them. People stole thousands, they were killed. Haba! No justice no peace!!
Politics › Re: I Don't Blame The Nigerian Police For Doing Shakara by capitalzero: 8:12am On Oct 29, 2020
iokpebholo:
Let me tell u guys d truth, police are not in any way absent from duty as we think;fueling and maintenance of police vehicles was before now carried out by proceeds of corruption.No one cares how they go to work and maintain their vehicles,all we want is for them to perform magic.They have simply decided not to be corrupt and at d same time them no go use their meagre salary to fuel and maintain police vehicles.Pls no one should compare them with d RRS cos those guys are completely funded by d Lagos State govt in terms of allowance,fueling,car maintenance and insurance in case of eventuality
May God bless you for this comment but some online hoodlums are spitting foul smelling meconium- stained vomitus.
Education › Re: ASUU Strike Will Continue As Long As FG Withholds Our Salaries - Ogunyemi by capitalzero: 8:04am On Oct 29, 2020
khingTony:
Source: https://m.guardian.ng/features/strike-will-continue-as-long-as-govt-withholds-our-salaries-says-ASUU/amp/
Government should use operation crocodiles against these academic hoodlums and send political thugs to harass them as they did for endsars protesters.
Travel › Re: Truck Crashes Into A School Bus In Enugu, Many Pupils Dead (Graphic Photos) by capitalzero: 7:47am On Oct 29, 2020
Being a Nigerian is death sentence.May God comfort the families of the deceased !

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