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Declared 2016 Republican Presidential Candidate Dr. Ben Carson Physician, Author and Citizen Politician Dr. Ben Carson's campaign website
Ben Carson is a reluctant politician. A physician by trade, Carson gained national attention when he spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast in 2013. As a man who speaks his mind, Carson used the opportunity to talk about a range of social and fiscal issues, and standing just ten feet from President Barack Obama, he spoke bluntly about healthcare and what he saw as the dangers of Political Correctness. Many interpreted the remarks to mean that Carson is conservative and he became a darling in conservative media circles. Carson, however claims not to be affiliated with any political group, and that makes him even more appealing to a large segment of the population that is looking for a leader from outside the political realm. Carson is a native of Detroit, Michigan and after receiving his medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School, he began an accomplished career in medicine. He has served as Professor of neurosurgery, oncology, and pediatrics, and was the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. At just 33 he became the youngest division director in Johns Hopkins history.



Ben Carson is also the author of six books all published by Zondervan, a Christian media and publishing company. His books speak to his personal struggles and triumphs and lay out his philosophy of what it takes to succeed in life. Carson’s political views have been described as traditional and infused with common sense. He has spoken about his belief in traditional marriage, thinks marriage is between one man and one woman and has been critical of the theory of evolution. These views have generated criticism from the political left in America, and made him even more endearing to the right. Carson takes these criticisms in stride and actually views them as sort of a badge of honor. They hit at the heart of one of his top issues, his attack on political correctness and the danger he sees in that way of thinking.





As a doctor, Carson has also been an outspoken critic of the Affordable Care Act and has referred to the laws as the worst thing to occur in the United States since slavery. He is an advocate for a government sponsored health savings account that allows individuals to save money, pre-tax, to cover their health care needs. He even advocates that individuals could bequeath these accounts to their family members upon their death.







Dr. Ben Carson announced his candidacy for President today, May 4th, in his home community of Detroit. The Carson campaign kicked off with a 40-minute paid television documentary to air in 22 states and Washington, DC. The video is titled, “A Breath of Fresh Air: A New Prescription for America” and details Carson's biography from birth to a poor, single mother and his rise to director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University.

the money is there in this country treasury, so if they wish to pay it,there are enough to pay it.

Fashola Commissions Solid Waste Material
Recovery Facility In Alimosho, Advocates
Corporate Social Responsibility
• Says corporate social responsibility, expressed
through making other people happy, gives
business image and prosperity
• Solicits greater support for incoming
administration of Akinwunmi Ambode
May 12, 2015 - Lagos State Governor, Mr.
Babatunde Fashola SAN, Tuesday commissioned a
solid waste material recovery facility in Alimosho
with a call on corporate organizations in the State
to engage in Corporate Social Responsibilities in
their areas of operation as a means to create
image for their business and to prosper.
Addressing an audience consisting members of
the Organized Private Sector, top Government
functionaries, members of the Alimosho and
Igando communities, PSP operators and factory
workers at the factory site, Governor Fashola
argued that whether or not a business would
eventually become a successful would be defined
by the people who work there and how happy
they are made to be by the employers.
The Governor, who was making reference to
children of Compassionate Orphanage who had
performed a choreography as part of the
commissioning programme, cited the West African
Energy Limited, facilitators of the factory, who
have adopted the Orphanage as their Corporate
Social Responsibility to the Alimosho community
pointing out that it forms the heart and soul of
any business.
"I think it is a lesson for all our business men and
women out there who are endowed, not that it is
their business to support other people, but a
business must have a heart and it is the heart
and the soul, expressed through young children
and people who are happy that gives a business
real image and prosperity", he said.
Governor Fashola, who thanked the company for
bringing joy to the orphans, noted with gratitude
that apart from their investment and the business
and all that it would bring in terms of
employment, the company chose as part of the
corporate social responsibility to support the
orphanage adding that from the look on the faces
of the children, it was obvious that the company
has contributed to make them happy.
Giving a little background of the factory, Governor
Fashola said the idea came to him through an
email he saw on his phone which suggested that
an investor wished to establish such a company
in the State adding that he directed that the
investor be invited to discuss the idea.
According to the Governor, although his first
concern was whether it would create jobs, the
idea turned out to include environmental concerns
and the building of access road network which
then required a multi-disciplinary action which
then involved the Ministries of Commerce and
Industry (business), Environment (environment),
and Works (roads), and the State's Waste
management Authority (LAWMA, for solid Waste).
"But the problem then was how to turn his idea
into a project and a project into a factory? You
would see a multi-disciplinary collaboration here
in the work of Government", he said adding, "But
the more we looked at it, the more we saw that
there is also an environment issue so we moved
to the Ministry of Environment and because it
was a solid waste part of the environment, we
involved LAWMA.
Noting that the factory is the first phase of a
material recovery facility, Governor Fashola said
the function was to recover solid waste materials,
recycle them for reuse and conservation adding
that in doing so, Lagos was only joining the rest
of the world by having the recovery facility
"The whole world is recycling, the whole world is
reusing, the whole world is conserving. So nothing
really goes to waste in any significant proportion.
So that is what we are signing on, we are joining
the whole world by having this recovery facility to
recycle our wastes and turn them into wealth",
the Governor said.
He recalled that there was a time Lagos was
rated as one of the dirtiest cities in the world and
expressed joy that the reputation has been
consigned to history while the city has acquired a
new reputation of being one of the cleanest in the
world adding that the new problem now was how
to get more refuse to run the factory .
Noting that the factory will service 130 compactor
trucks a day when it begins operation in a few
months time, Governor Fashola said the
expansion of the factory later in the year would
usher in its next phase where even more refuse
will be needed in order to produce heat for
electricity generation.
"So from a state that could not manage refuse,
we have moved to a state that needs refuse", the
Governor said adding that the Company CEO had
said the factory would start the next phase by
December this year which meant that the people
of Alimosho, Igando Housing Estate, the General
Hospital and the School of Nursing in the environ
would expect "hopefully sometime next year", to
enjoy more regular electricity.
The third phase of the project, the Governor said,
would be composting and the production of
fertilizer to maintain the lawns , parks and
gardens and other green areas across the City
that one industry that the greening industry now
employs over 100,000 people.
"It is an industry that was not there eight years
ago, just like the Association of Waste Managers,
it wasn't there 15 years ago. So we have opened
new frontiers, creating new economies that were
not there before. But is one side of the story, the
next side of the story will be Power, the next side
of the story will be organic fertilizer and
composting", he said adding that the other sides
to the challenge to the environment would be the
development of renewable energy from solar
panels "made in Nigeria not imported from
China".
Thanking the West African Energy Company and
its CEO, Mr. Paul O'Callaghan, for believing in the
state and its economy, Governor Fashola declared,
"For me, as we wind down in the next 16 days,
my promise to you was that I would deliver a
sustainable environment for Lagos, a cleaner
environment, a greener environment and I think
my job is done".
In his good will message, the Managing Director
of First City Monument Bank (FCMB), Mr Ladi
Balogun, said his organization was ready to
partner in any project involving the Lagos State
Governor whom he described as a visionary and
development strategist who has turned Lagos into
a City of reference.
Vice Chairman of the Igando Housing Estate, Dr.
Anthony Chukwuemeka Elemuna, who spoke for
the Community, praised Governor Fashola for his
transformational leadership of the State in the
last eight years saying one of the three dumpsites
that pollute the environment of the place had
been cleared while the operations of the factory
would take the rest of the refuse.
The Onigando of Igando, in his remarks thanked
Governor Fashola for bringing development to the
area pointing out that although the people were
not averse to development, many administrations
had come to promise development without
carrying it out until the present administration.
The CEO of West African Energy Company, Mr.
Paul O'Callaghan, in his remarks said the idea of
the factory was conceived in 2012 adding that
from then till now the idea has been turned into a
factory that has the capacity to take 130 PSP
compactor truck loads of refuse employing over
120 people at the first phase with the prospect to
employ 300 in the later phases.
In his welcome address earlier, Special Adviser on
the Environment, Dr. Taofiq Folami, described the
project as a well thought out one adding that it
was intended to be a catalyst to attract more
investments in the area and also generate more
employment for the teeming unemployed in the
State.
Also present at the occasion were the
Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Mrs.
Sola Oworu, Commissioner for Establishment,
Pension and Training, Mrs. Florence Oguntuase,
Commissioner for Local Governmeent and
Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr. Cornelius Ojelabi,
Commissioner for Special Duties, Dr. Wale Ahmed
and Managing Director of LAWMA, Mr.Ola
Oresanya as well as officials of the West African
Energy Company and chief executives of other
organizations as well as members of the
beneficiary communities.










www.tundefashola.com/archives/news/2015/05/12/20150512N01.html

Fashola Commissions Solid Waste Material
Recovery Facility In Alimosho, Advocates
Corporate Social Responsibility
• Says corporate social responsibility, expressed
through making other people happy, gives
business image and prosperity
• Solicits greater support for incoming
administration of Akinwunmi Ambode
May 12, 2015 - Lagos State Governor, Mr.
Babatunde Fashola SAN, Tuesday commissioned a
solid waste material recovery facility in Alimosho
with a call on corporate organizations in the State
to engage in Corporate Social Responsibilities in
their areas of operation as a means to create
image for their business and to prosper.
Addressing an audience consisting members of
the Organized Private Sector, top Government
functionaries, members of the Alimosho and
Igando communities, PSP operators and factory
workers at the factory site, Governor Fashola
argued that whether or not a business would
eventually become a successful would be defined
by the people who work there and how happy
they are made to be by the employers.
The Governor, who was making reference to
children of Compassionate Orphanage who had
performed a choreography as part of the
commissioning programme, cited the West African
Energy Limited, facilitators of the factory, who
have adopted the Orphanage as their Corporate
Social Responsibility to the Alimosho community
pointing out that it forms the heart and soul of
any business.
"I think it is a lesson for all our business men and
women out there who are endowed, not that it is
their business to support other people, but a
business must have a heart and it is the heart
and the soul, expressed through young children
and people who are happy that gives a business
real image and prosperity", he said.
Governor Fashola, who thanked the company for
bringing joy to the orphans, noted with gratitude
that apart from their investment and the business
and all that it would bring in terms of
employment, the company chose as part of the
corporate social responsibility to support the
orphanage adding that from the look on the faces
of the children, it was obvious that the company
has contributed to make them happy.
Giving a little background of the factory, Governor
Fashola said the idea came to him through an
email he saw on his phone which suggested that
an investor wished to establish such a company
in the State adding that he directed that the
investor be invited to discuss the idea.
According to the Governor, although his first
concern was whether it would create jobs, the
idea turned out to include environmental concerns
and the building of access road network which
then required a multi-disciplinary action which
then involved the Ministries of Commerce and
Industry (business), Environment (environment),
and Works (roads), and the State's Waste
management Authority (LAWMA, for solid Waste).
"But the problem then was how to turn his idea
into a project and a project into a factory? You
would see a multi-disciplinary collaboration here
in the work of Government", he said adding, "But
the more we looked at it, the more we saw that
there is also an environment issue so we moved
to the Ministry of Environment and because it
was a solid waste part of the environment, we
involved LAWMA.
Noting that the factory is the first phase of a
material recovery facility, Governor Fashola said
the function was to recover solid waste materials,
recycle them for reuse and conservation adding
that in doing so, Lagos was only joining the rest
of the world by having the recovery facility
"The whole world is recycling, the whole world is
reusing, the whole world is conserving. So nothing
really goes to waste in any significant proportion.
So that is what we are signing on, we are joining
the whole world by having this recovery facility to
recycle our wastes and turn them into wealth",
the Governor said.
He recalled that there was a time Lagos was
rated as one of the dirtiest cities in the world and
expressed joy that the reputation has been
consigned to history while the city has acquired a
new reputation of being one of the cleanest in the
world adding that the new problem now was how
to get more refuse to run the factory .
Noting that the factory will service 130 compactor
trucks a day when it begins operation in a few
months time, Governor Fashola said the
expansion of the factory later in the year would
usher in its next phase where even more refuse
will be needed in order to produce heat for
electricity generation.
"So from a state that could not manage refuse,
we have moved to a state that needs refuse", the
Governor said adding that the Company CEO had
said the factory would start the next phase by
December this year which meant that the people
of Alimosho, Igando Housing Estate, the General
Hospital and the School of Nursing in the environ
would expect "hopefully sometime next year", to
enjoy more regular electricity.
The third phase of the project, the Governor said,
would be composting and the production of
fertilizer to maintain the lawns , parks and
gardens and other green areas across the City
that one industry that the greening industry now
employs over 100,000 people.
"It is an industry that was not there eight years
ago, just like the Association of Waste Managers,
it wasn't there 15 years ago. So we have opened
new frontiers, creating new economies that were
not there before. But is one side of the story, the
next side of the story will be Power, the next side
of the story will be organic fertilizer and
composting", he said adding that the other sides
to the challenge to the environment would be the
development of renewable energy from solar
panels "made in Nigeria not imported from
China".
Thanking the West African Energy Company and
its CEO, Mr. Paul O'Callaghan, for believing in the
state and its economy, Governor Fashola declared,
"For me, as we wind down in the next 16 days,
my promise to you was that I would deliver a
sustainable environment for Lagos, a cleaner
environment, a greener environment and I think
my job is done".
In his good will message, the Managing Director
of First City Monument Bank (FCMB), Mr Ladi
Balogun, said his organization was ready to
partner in any project involving the Lagos State
Governor whom he described as a visionary and
development strategist who has turned Lagos into
a City of reference.
Vice Chairman of the Igando Housing Estate, Dr.
Anthony Chukwuemeka Elemuna, who spoke for
the Community, praised Governor Fashola for his
transformational leadership of the State in the
last eight years saying one of the three dumpsites
that pollute the environment of the place had
been cleared while the operations of the factory
would take the rest of the refuse.
The Onigando of Igando, in his remarks thanked
Governor Fashola for bringing development to the
area pointing out that although the people were
not averse to development, many administrations
had come to promise development without
carrying it out until the present administration.
The CEO of West African Energy Company, Mr.
Paul O'Callaghan, in his remarks said the idea of
the factory was conceived in 2012 adding that
from then till now the idea has been turned into a
factory that has the capacity to take 130 PSP
compactor truck loads of refuse employing over
120 people at the first phase with the prospect to
employ 300 in the later phases.
In his welcome address earlier, Special Adviser on
the Environment, Dr. Taofiq Folami, described the
project as a well thought out one adding that it
was intended to be a catalyst to attract more
investments in the area and also generate more
employment for the teeming unemployed in the
State.
Also present at the occasion were the
Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Mrs.
Sola Oworu, Commissioner for Establishment,
Pension and Training, Mrs. Florence Oguntuase,
Commissioner for Local Governmeent and
Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr. Cornelius Ojelabi,
Commissioner for Special Duties, Dr. Wale Ahmed
and Managing Director of LAWMA, Mr.Ola
Oresanya as well as officials of the West African
Energy Company and chief executives of other
organizations as well as members of the
beneficiary communities.












www.tundefashola.com/archives/news/2015/05/12/20150512N01.html

why cant she let the sleeping dog be,she and her husband has cause so much already,she should shield her sword and concentrate on how she can touch life positively rather than playing politics. God bless Nigeria



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I was told that every Igboman who heard
Ojukwu’s speech after the Biafran war was filled
with a renewed sense of pride and hope. A hope
that one day the Igbo nation will rise and
become a force of reckoning not just in Nigeria
but in the entire black world. I have read that
speech over and over and each time I read
through, I am filled with pride and imagination of
how those who heard the words pouring out of
the mouth of the warlord himself must have felt.
Before going any further, let me recount a little
part of what the late sage said while addressing
the press:
“In the three years of the war, necessity gave
birth to invention. During those three years of
heroic bound, we leapt across the great chasm
that separates knowledge from know-how. We
built rockets, and we designed and built our own
delivery systems. We guided our rockets. We
guided them far, we guided them accurately. For
three years, blockaded without hope of import,
we maintained all our vehicles. The state
extracted and refined petrol, individuals refined
petrol in their back gardens. We built and
maintained our airports, maintained them under
heavy bombardment. Despite the heavy
bombardment, we recovered so quickly after
each raid that we were able to maintain the
record for the busiest airport in the continent of
Africa. We spoke to the world through
telecommunication system engineered by local
ingenuity; the world heard us and spoke back to
us! We built armoured car tanks. We modified
aircraft from trainer to fighters, from passenger
aircraft to bombers. In the three years of
freedom we had broken the technological barrier.
In three years we became the most civilised, the
most technologically advanced black people on
earth.”
Ojukwu, with those few lines, defined the
ingenuity and never-say-die spirit God has
embedded in the marrows of the Igboman. But
my question for Ndigbo is, where has this
ingenuity for which the entire world has given
them a standing ovation, gone? Why can’t it be
used today to enhance the cause of Ndigbo?
Can’t we re-enact the same war time feat to
launch ourselves back to reckoning again in
Nigeria and in the entire black world?
Since Ojukwu died, Ndigbo have been like sheep
without a shepherd. Those who we thought could
take up the mantle of leadership are nothing but
selfish entities who care for nothing but their
personal interest. As I am writing this article, I
just got words that a senator in Imo State has
been discovered as a saboteur working against
the interest of his people because he has been
promised to be made Senate president in the
new political dispensation which begins on May
29. What is it with Ndigbo and greed? How long
are we going to kill ourselves? Isn’t it a
gargantuan shame that a tribe as populous as
Ndigbo can’t provide a single individual that is
seen to be credible enough to be elected
president of Nigeria? A casual observation of the
performances of the governors of the south
eastern states will reveal their level of under-
performance since 1999. Case point, take Aba
which has failed to enjoy any meaningful
development since the 1929 Aba women riot. The
place is a total mess. What have the governors
done with what has been accruing to the state in
the last 16 years of democratic rule? The fact
that these individuals who have mismanaged
fortunes of the state consider themselves fit to
even contest election is a slap on the faces of
Ndigbo. Ndigbo, are we cursed? The red-cap
goons known as Ohaneze do nothing but crawl
from one place to another offering themselves for
sale and for use. This has been their money-
making scheme for too long and it can no longer
hold water. Can’t we take a cue from the style
Dangote adopted and made a kill? The Yoruba
have already adopted it and it is working. We
have to restrategise to become that economic
power house we crave. The idea that every
Igboman who makes money whether through his
ingenuity or by accident becomes misguided and
begins to push for political office even though
they are clearly not professional politicians
should be discarded.
We hear of Dangote, the Dantatas, Otedola, Mike
Adenuga, the Okoyas, where are the Igbo
equivalent in terms of their organisational set-
up? Most of our businesses are largely one-man
businesses and whenever the founder dies, the
whole thing dies. Ndigbo must do away with
their selfishness and personal greed, otherwise
we will continue to languish as a people. We
must redirect our thoughts away from the deeply
engrossed notion of “to make it in life,” “we must
make money at all cost.” What Ndigbo should
learn from the just concluded elections is that
without a harmony of opinion, all our efforts will
yield nothing. Igbo kwezuenu.







www.punchng.com/columnists/etcetera/igbo-leaders-a-disgrace/

VERILY, Verily I say unto you, Children of Nigeria:
Unless you consciously change your ways and
attitude and fully embrace Science and
Information Technology, God may surprisingly
shock the nation and her citizenry, if Nigeria fails
to take advantage of the Digital promise and
opportunities of knowledge automation presented
by 21st century information society! Indeed, if we
have faith in God and his recent election message
to Nigeria – for transparent leadership and
governance throughout Africa, then, this is the
time to listen to the wakeup call of making
Information Technology the centerpiece of our
national development mission or perish?
The above subject matter was informed by my
informal discussion with ‘Uncle Sam Amuka’ –
Publisher of Vanguard News Paper – an
accomplished and inspirational Nigerian
knowledge model, better described as a citadel of
monumental humility and bundle of wisdom –
after my recent appearance on Channels
Television to discuss “Technology, 2015-Election
and Governance in Nigeria”.
In the feedback encounter with Uncle Sam Amuka
one significant thing was identified and perhaps
reveled. That is: The audacity to belief and build
trust. According to Uncle Sam, “In life, there is
need to belief in something. Nigeria has started
to have faith and build the trust for the future of
sustainable democracy”.
Indeed, the outcome of Nigeria 2015 Presidential
Election is a sign of God – applying and using
Information Technology to commence the delivery
of free and fair election. Secondly, the most
critical lesson learned from the 2015 Presidential
election is that all the problems of Nigeria
(incorporating Corruption, Terrorism,
Technophobia, Nepotism, Ignorance, Tribalism,
Anti-Merit syndrome, Hate and Excessive Greed,
etc) translate into ‘the absence of the culture of
truth and contentment’ and indeed, the absence
of a credible institutional umpire to administer
truth, fairness and justice at all levels – in the
face imperialism and the blatant failure of the
custodians of the rule of Law!
While we congratulate INEC & Nigerians, there is
need to unequivocally emphasize that Information
Technology is the CENTRE of gravity of the
current success of electoral processes in Nigeria!
Today, the world is electronically connected with
over 16billion devices on the Internet – providing
access to knowledge transmission of quantum of
trillions of terabyte of data, (IPv4 to IPv6).
Relevant white papers show that, five (5) years
from now, over 40 billion devices will be
connected to the Internet.
God help the nation that neglects to strategically
respond to the current challenges of building
commensurate capacities and innovative
capabilities for her survival. Nigeria be warned! If
we have the privilege to mine existing electronic
Data in the Nigeria IT Space, – It will reveal that
the 2015 election was technologically decided
four Years ago on Social Media, going by the post
election data on the 2011 election.
With 70 per ecnt of Nigeria’s population who are
youth and equipped with more than 80 million
smart phones of the available over 134 million
Mobile phones, it no surprise that the 2015
election is and will predominantly be decided by
mobile technology interface.
General Buhari as CEO is elected to govern 180
million Nigerians, but he may not deliver the
dividend of Democracy, unless Information
Technology and IT Professionals are at the centre
of his leadership program. It is practically
impossible today to govern effectively and
transparently without Information Technology.
Paper Ballots: The first use of paper ballots to
conduct an election appears to have been in
Rome in 139 BC, and the first use of paper ballots
in the United States was in 1629 to select a
pastor for the Salem Church.
All in All, Information Technology has made the
great difference in the 2015 Presidential election.
It has relatively rescued transparency and
restored truth as the ultimate currency for the
prosperous future of Nigeria.
Therefore, sustaining the critical path and role of
information technology to deliver peoples-first,
smart and innovative governance is a strategic
imperative for our survivability and global
competitiveness.
I am concerned, just like other IT Professionals
and Practitioners that while technology is at the
centre of the electoral processes, Nigeria IT
professionals have been totally eclipsed out of the
process – against the spirit of Nigeria Local
Content ACT 2010 and CPN Act 49 of
1993.Whereas, more than 40 Years ago, a
Nigerian Dr. Issaic Odeyemi, became the 1st
African to earn a PhD in Computer Science.
Today, we have only 129 Universities for 180
million people. Whereas, the city of Hanoi
(Vietnam) with 7 million people has about 103
Universities and Mexico has more than 300
Universities.
Uwaje is a former President, ISPON.

www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/04/nigeria-in-search-of-god-of-technology/

In the course of an almost 8 (eight) years tenure
of service, I have been privileged to lead a team
of public servants who have given a better name
to governance in our country by their commitment
to confront problems, devise solutions to them
and painstakingly pursue those solutions to
fruition.
Five new Independent Power Plants in Akute,
Lagos Island, Alausa Ikeja, Mainland GRA, and
Lekki, 10 (Ten) brand new Maternal and Child
Centres, with 100 beds each, a new school of
Nursing in Igando Alimosho, Primary Health Care
Centres in Epe with 24 hour lighting by solar, a
light rail system whose construction is making
progress inspite of huge odds, represent some of
our problem solving interventions that have
shown the difference between us and an
amateurish government led by the PDP.
Today, my chest is pumped up, my head is raised,
my heart is full of pride and I can say thank you,
and very well done to our team, as we open the
Gbagada Cardiac and Renal Hospital to serve our
people.
For those who are coming here for the first time,
please permit me to dimension the problems that
this hospital was meant to solve.
After Governor Tinubu’s administration upgraded
the Ikeja General Hospital into a teaching
hospital, the place became full, with new
structures built there. A critical care unit, a
diagnostic centre with MRI facilities, a dental unit
and many more, which compelled us to expand to
Gbagada in order to provide more specialist
facilities for critically ill people and to train our
doctors and students.
During the 2007 campaign, one of my aides was
shot by opposition thugs, he died in this hospital
because it was over- crowded with burns victims
who were casualties of an NNPC pipeline that
exploded in Alimosho.
The Gbagada Expressway used to flood, it
belongs to the Federal Government, and residents
of this area of Gbagada, Medina Estate and
Deeper Life all lived with fear of the rains.
That was when the Ministry of Health and Deux
Project, our contractor came up with the design of
this complex as an Annex to LASUTH.
At the time also, the Honourable Commissioner
for Health informed me that there were up to
20,000 Nigerian medical personnel, who were
living and working overseas.
Many of them who I met on my travels,
complained that they wanted to come home and
practice but there were no hospitals comparable
to where they were accustomed to working.
I told them that we will do something.
Year on year, I watched as we exported Nigerians
abroad, with family members to care for and
support them; all at high cost in foreign
exchange, because there was no local alternative.
Between 2008 and 2014, we sponsored very sick
people overseas at tax payers’ expense. There
were 42 (Forty Two) cardiac cases and 28
(Twenty Eight) renal cases that benefited from
this gesture of compassion on the
recommendation of the Ministry of Health.
There were also 11 (Eleven) renal cases that were
State sponsored for kidney transplant, dialysis
and post-transplant immunosuppressants at St.
Nicholas hospital in Lagos
Some people have needlessly died abroad out of
loneliness, being unable to see their loved ones
around after going through complex surgeries,
changing diet and eating foreign foods they were
not used to, and seeing people who did not speak
their language.
Yet the PDP and its Government was moving from
NEEDS, to VISION 2020, to 7 Point Agenda and
now to Transformation.
The turning point was when we exported
President Yar’ Adua to a Saudi Arabia hospital to
manage a kidney ailment.
We could have built one with all the petro dollars.
But that is not the PDP way. The Federal
Government does not understand that it
diminishes our image every time the head of
government travels abroad for medical care.
I understand that. But I must not be mistaken for
suggesting that we can have all specialties
locally. But we must try.
In most other countries, the best hospitals are the
Military hospitals where the President gets
treatment. Nigerian Military hospitals used to be
like that.
What is the ailment that a Nigerian President
goes to treat abroad that a Nigerian hospital built
by him cannot handle?
This hospital was started in 2008 and completed
in 2013. That is 5 years, compared to the 16
(Sixteen) years of the PDP Presidency.
This failure cannot be attributed to the
opposition.
Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, these were
the problems we set out to overcome and I say
with pride, that we have defeated the problems.
We have struck a decisive blow at them.
We could not build without solving the drainage
problem, which took over a year.
Today, this area is flood free and you can ask the
residents of Medina, Gbagada, and Deeper Life
what their new experiences are.
We also revived the street lights poles on the
Federal Government owned Gbagada Expressway
which the PDP campaign team now adorns with
the President’s posters asking for your votes, but
they have not paid N51 billion we spent on other
federal roads in Lagos.
Since we are now in the era of giving change, let
me remind them that N51 billion is chicken
change compared to what they have spent on TV
and radio campaign propaganda.
As we prepared to complete the hospital, our
contractors, Deux Project advised us to replace
the asphalt on the road leading to it with concrete
so that it will last long.
Their argument is that critically sick people
require urgent attention and a bad road can make
the difference between life and death.
Today, there is a concrete that does not need
resurfacing. It will be here for at least over 50
years. Many of you drove through it to get here.
Today we have a hospital that has 24 dialysis bed
stations, 20 (Twenty) beds for recovery and
general ward use, 2 (Two) high dependency wards
with 5 (Five) beds each, making a total of 10
(Ten) beds, for patients who have come out of
intensive care, 5 (Five) beds for patients in
intensive care, 4 (Four) post-surgery beds for
patients who just finished surgery, 2 (Two) post
cathlab beds and 2 (Two) surgical theaters built
to the most contemporary standard to cater for
people who are critically ill.
There are lecture rooms for students, but one of
the fascinating facilities is the surgical theatre
where kidneys and hearts can be removed and
transplanted.
There are cameras fitted into the surgical scumps
which project images and voices of what is
happening in the theatre to the students lecture
rooms on the ground floor.
This ensures that students can learn by seeing
and hearing what is going on in the theatre
without actually being in there, which ensures the
sterility of the operating theatre area and
prevents patients from secondary infection.
After building the hospital, the next problem was
managing it.
We put out a bid on the internet and in
international newspapers for concession
management.
That was where we came across the Renescor
Team, a multi-dimensional consortium of Nigerian
and American doctors and nurses who are cardiac
and kidney specialists in America.
One of their members, an American, in his
presentation to us in the Executive Council had
performed numerous successful heart surgeries.
This is the quality of the team that won the
concession to manage and maintain this hospital
for the next 5 (Five) years with a renewal option.
As at today, they have recruited 32 (Thirty Two)
medical staff who are already on ground. 17
(Seventeen) are local, 8 (Eight) are Indians, 7
(Seven) are Nigerians in diaspora who returned
home full time.
12 (Twelve) other Nigerians in diaspora have
signed to come home here in rotation and 50
(Fifty) Nigerian specialists in diaspora would be
coming on permanent rotation.
The negotiations took almost a year but they
assure us first that our students and doctors will
be able to train here.
They also assure me that there will be no strikes
in this hospital because critically ill people will
never be left alone.
They also have in their agreement, an
accommodation for a quota poor people who the
State will refer to them to treat for free, and when
that quota is exceeded the state will pay.
Whatever we pay in future, will be cheaper than
going abroad. It will not include airfare, it will not
include accommodation abroad all of which are
paid in dollars, and doctors’ fees and feeding
costs will now be charged in Naira, in Lagos.
Therefore ladies and gentlemen, apart from
solving a drainage problem, a road problem, and
building a hospital we have taken a very big step
in reversing human capacity flight from Nigeria
and turning a brain drain into a brain gain.
Nigeria medical practitioners are returning home,
to practice medicine.
But this is not the end of the dream. This hospital
now has the best burns unit and facilities in
Nigeria, in response to the experience of severe
burns that I encountered in 2007.
We are now planning to site our cancer centre in
this complex if you elect an APC Government led
by Akinwunmi Ambode to continue after me.
We also foresee the start of medical tourism from
across West Africa into Lagos Nigeria.
So we have planned accommodation for relatives
who may want to accompany their sick relations
here for treatment within this complex and the
land for construction and management has been
set aside.
So there is opportunity for investors who propose
acceptable terms within the hospitality industry to
build hotel/apartments here for relatives.
In the way that we paid for accommodation for
spouses or relatives of sick people to go abroad,
our hospital can now earn income from the same
facility and use it to run its operations, set new
salaries for doctors, nurses and health workers
who are willing to do the work and reduce the
dependence on Government subvention.
In this way, health workers can set their own
income based on work done and away from
agitation for wage increase.
This is the part of the dream that I cannot
complete. The road to achieving it is clear. But I
am happy to see this day. We have taken the first
big step. The journey can continue from here in
tested and experienced hands.
I can look forward to my old age now with
confidence that if anything happens to my heart
or kidneys, I used my period of service to build a
facility that can respond to my needs.
I know now that I will not need to go abroad
because of a lack of choice. If I do so, it will be
my own choice and not because the Lagos State
Government failed to provide an alternative.
It remains only now for me to thank Dr. Jide Idris
and the entire staff of the Ministry of Health, who
designed and implemented this project, Dr. Muiz
Banire, Mr. Tunji Bello of the Ministry of
Environment who designed and implemented the
drainage solution, and Mr. Tunji Olowolafe and
Deux Project who delivered the bolts and nuts of
this hospital.
To the glory of God, I now have the pleasure to
declare the Gbagada Cardiac and Renal Centre
open for the benefit of humanity.
May the infirmities of all those who are brought
into this centre be fully cured.
Thank you for listening.
Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN
Governor of Lagos State

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,
candidate for Adamawa South Senatorial
District, Silas Zwingina, has claimed that
the Presidential candidate of the All
Progressives Congress, Muhammadu
Buhari, intends to send public office
holders to jail if he emerges president.
Senator Jonathan Zwingina Mr.
Zwingina, therefore, urged his party
members to work hard to ensure that
Mr. Buhari fails in his bid to become
president.
Speaking in Yola, the Adamawa state
capital, Mr. Zwingina said “we have to
stop Buhari and his plan to build more
prisons to jail politicians.
“You know Buhari, he will send us to jail
for between 200 to 300 years and it is
the lucky ones among us that will get 50
years.
“As you know, there is no way you will
hold office in Nigeria and go scot free if
the authorities want to get you.
“Buhari is determined to send people to
jail and even APC governors are not
comfortable with him and that’s why
many of them are not following his
campaign team,” Mr. Zwingina alleged.
He said President Goodluck Jonathan is
better than Mr. Buhari and needs to be
returned to continue his transformation
agenda.
“Let me tell you, that Jonathan is 1,000
times better than Buhari and that’s why
people resolved to vote for our
candidate, President Jonathan,” he said.
He also urged the people to elect the PDP
gubernatorial candidate, Nuhu Ribadu as
Governor and vote all other PDP
candidates in the state.
In his remarks, Mr. Ribadu pleaded for
the unity of PDP in the state if it must
emerged victorious.
“If you vote me, I promise you that I will
not betray you. I met just recently with
Mr. President and he showed concern
over the level of underdevelopment in
Adamawa with the promise that
Adamawa is among the states he will
accord priority in terms of federal
projects.
“In 2011 election, we gave the president
65 per cent and I promised him that this
time around we will give him 80 per
cent,” Mr. Ribadu said.





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A Federal High Court in Abuja,
presided over by Justice Adeniyi
Ademola has ordered Independent
National Electoral Commission,
INEC, not to do anything in
respect of Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, candidates for
elections in Ondo State until it
rules on committal proceedings
before it.
The judge reminded INEC of the
earlier order made by the vacation
judge to the extent that INEC
should not take any further step
that would render nugatory other
judgements of the court when
delivered.
Both PDP and INEC had
addressed the court extensively
on which application to take
between the preliminary
objections brought by the PDP on
motion for committal by the old
PDP candidates.
Counsel to the old PDP cited
Supreme Court decision to the
extent that when civil and
criminal cases of contempt are
before the court, the court must
dispose the criminal contempt
before continuing with the civil
case.
The PDP lawyer had argued
before the court by a way of
delayed tactics, urging the court
to take preliminary objection
application before the contempt
proceedings.
The lawyer, who argued that he
was not served despite the
publication in newspapers of the
order of the court, was asked by
the presiding judge how the PDP
came with motion to discharge an
order he was not aware of.
The lawyer who confessed that
the case was above him asked for
one day adjournment to enable
his senior, Raji, SAN to help.
Barrister Oloyede, lawyer to Ondo
old PDP candidates urged the
court to continue and rule on the
criminal contempt since a
violation of the court order is
taken serious anywhere in the
world.
He reminded the court that the
violation is disrespect to her
majesty and that no court will
take it lightly if her order was
breached.
Justice Ademola in the interest of
justice adjourned the matter till
today for the hearing of the
committal proceedings brought by
the old PDP candidates.
The court had stopped both INEC
and PDP from dealing with any
other group, other than the Chief
Olu Ogunye-led executive in the
state.
Justice Ademola, who expressed
displeasure with the development
in the matter, rejected an
invitation by the alleged
contemnors to examine the merit
of the case first before
countenancing the committal
proceedings maintained against
them by the Ogunye-led exco.
The motion on notice for
committal of the alleged
contemnors was brought pursuant
to Order 35 of the Federal High
Court (Civil Procedure Rules)
2009.
It was filed by the Olu Ogunye-
led exco and over 20 PDP local
government chairmen in the state
as well as some candidates of the
party for the 2015 elections.
In a brief ruling on the matter,
Justice Ademola held that PDP’s
argument to stop hearing of the
committal proceeding was
“premature at this stage”.
The judge said: “Where the
court’s dignity is to be ridiculed,
jeopadised or undermined by a
party, any application in respect
of this should be heard first.”
He insisted that the order of the
court of competent jurisdiction
subsisted until set aside,
particularly when the order
stopping the PDP or INEC not to
deal with any other group other
than the Olu Ogunye-led group
was not appealed.
Justice Ademola, while fixing the
committal proceeding for hearing
for today, however, said that the
order of the court made by
Justice Ahmed Mohammed on
December 30, 2014 was still
subsisting.
The court had ordered that parties
should not take any step or action
that would render the substantive
suit a nugatory till January 6.
Lawyer to the applicants, Mr. R.A
Oloyede, had protested to the
court that INEC had gone ahead
and accepted a different list and
published names of candidates
from a group not sanctioned by
the court in violation of a
subsisting order.
Oloyede had told the court that
despite a subsisting judgment and
an order of the court, the alleged
contemnors went ahead and took
steps that undermined the
authority of the court.
According to him, the court had
delivered judgement in suit
number FHC/ABJ/CS/826/2014 on
November 28, 2014 in which it
declared and made an order of
perpetual injunction restraining
Dare Adeleke and Osawu Solomon
from relating with the PDP or the
National Working Committee of
the party in respect of the
conduct of primary elections
leading to the election of
candidates into membership of
Ondo State House of Assembly,
House of Representatives and
Senate of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria.
He added: “However, rather than
give effect to the November 28
judgment in suit FHC/ABJ/
CS/826/2014 and December 18,
2014 order in the main suit, the
PDP by its National Working
Committee and INEC colluded and
conspired to defy the authority of
the court.”
He therefore invited the court to
move in their favour by granting
all the reliefs sought including “an
order of this honourable court
declaring the 1st and 2nd alleged
contemnors to be in criminal
contempt of this honourable court
by reason of its conspiracy with
others, to defy the authority of
this honourable court and to flout
the purpose of the court as
clearly expressed in its order
made in respect of the Ondo state
PDP leadership tussle.
“An order of the court directing
the 1st alleged contemnor by its
officers, organs and agents
including in particular, the
members of its National Working
Committee to accord recognition
to and accept as valid, the list of
candidates of the PDP set out
hereunder as compiled and
forwarded to INEC (for the general
elections to the Ondo State House
of Assembly, House of
Representatives and Senate of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria in
Ondo state) and to accord no
recognition whatsoever to any
other list including that forwarded
by it or anyone else apart from
the applicants to INEC for the
purpose of the said elections.
“An order of the court directing
the 2nd alleged contemnor to
accept as valid, process, publish
and use for the purpose of the
2015 general elections (INEC (for
the general elections to the Ondo
State House of Assembly, House
of Representatives and Senate of
the Federal Republic of Nigeria in
Ondo state) the following list of
candidates of the PDP in Ondo
state.
“An order of the court directing
the 2nd contemnor to deal
directly with the applicants with
regards to the results of primaries
of the PDP in Ondo state, for the
2015 general elections and to
provide the applicants all the
necessary forms, facilities and
liabilities allowed by law to
enable completion of the
nomination process for the 2015
general elections and to accept
process and use the nomination
forms submitted by the applicants
on behalf of the listed candidates.
INEC’s lawyer, Ibrahim Bawa had
admitted in court that he was
present when Justice Mohammed
made the order, while PDP lawyer
O. Adedipe said “factually we
received two lists and accepted
one because they were related.”
However, by way of arbiter, the
judge had to caution INEC, by
saying “doing opposite of what
Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the
Federal High Court ordered is
dangerous and you have to be
careful.”
He therefore invited the court to
move in their favour by granting
all the reliefs sought including “an
order of this honourable court
declaring the 1st and 2nd alleged
contemnors to be in criminal
contempt of this honourable court
by reason of its conspiracy with
others, to defy the authority of
this honourable court and to flout
the purpose of the court as
clearly expressed in its order
made in respect of the Ondo state
PDP leadership tussle.






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we Nigerian should rise up and fight for our right, so many so called leaders doesn't known that there is a casual worker and even when they do. they are not bordered because there family are in splendour. but we must rise up for our right. If we don't take care of our self, who will?

The Indians instructed two Nigerians whom they
employed for “cleaning up” such messes for them
to use the same forklift to take the dying Tosin
out of the company unto the road leading to a
hospital
The forklift lifted tons of iron inside the Indian
company – African Wires and Allied Industries
Nigeria Limited, Plot No. 4-6, Opic Industrial
Estate, Agbara, Ogun State. But two heavy discs
of iron hooked, so Tosin Olajide, one of the
hundreds of casual workers at the company, went
up to free the two irons weighing over 1.5 tons
each. Suddenly, one of the irons came down on
him, trapping him to the ground. No safety helmet
was provided for Tosin by the Indians. It took the
same forklift to lift the tonnage of iron before the
boy could be pulled out.
But the damage had already been done. The iron
had chopped off part of his face and broke his
foot! His work mates present at the scene of the
accident said blood was pumping out of his
nostrils as water would rush out of a tap. “Such
accidents occur regularly there,” said former
safety officer of the company, Mr. Jonathan
Abimbola.
Tosin’s life could have been saved if the company
had been prompt in providing transport and
rushing Tosin to the hospital, eyewitnesses
insisted. Unable to find a vehicle in a company
whose turnover runs into millions of naira, the
Indians instructed two Nigerians who they
employed for “cleaning up” such messes for them
to use the same forklift to take the dying Tosin
out of the company unto the road leading to a
hospital. After some kilometers, they saw a pick-
up van and transferred Tosin into it. They drove
him to one ill-equipped hospital used by the
company. But there was no doctor there to attend
to the boy. The nurse advised them to take Tosin
to the Badagry General Hospital. On their way to
Badagry, the pick-up van carrying Tosin broke
down. Tosin gave up the ghost before they could
reach the general hospital.
Police connivance
With the assistance of the DPO of Agbara police
station, said to be at beck and call of the Indians
who own the company, Tosin’s body was
deposited at the Badagry general hospital
mortuary.
Angered by the negligence with which Tosin was
handled by management, his colleagues, on the
following morning, Thursday 11 December, 2014,
gathered at the entrance of the company, refusing
to go in. The Indians swiftly reacted by calling in
policemen and MOPOLS from Agbara. The DPO of
Agbara police station came personally. Together,
the policemen fired tear-gas canisters at the
workers, beating them and seizing the mobile
phones of those who tried to take pictures of the
brutality.
Tosin, Saturday Vanguard learnt, could hardly be
up to 23 years old, though Mr. Samuel Ogundimu,
the personnel manager and one of the most
disgusting Nigerian lapdogs of the Indians,
according to sources, told our reporter that Tosin
was 28.
Tosin had laboured for years for African Wires and
Allied Industries under Parco Group of companies
for a paltry N850 a day as casual worker, working
from 7am to 7pm. Parco Group of
Companies is owned by the Guptas, one of the
richest Indians who have lived and done business
in Nigeria for more than 50 years, exploiting the
endemic circumstances.
Last year, the company employed Mr. Jonathan
Abimbola, a chemical engineering graduate from a
UK university, as a Safety Officer, “not that the
company cared about safety,” said a company
source, “but because they wanted to use him as a
shield from the harassment of the officials of the
Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity and
Federal Ministry of Commerce and Industry.”
Massive exploitation, deadly work conditions
The company thought it could use Mr. Jonathan
in the usual way it uses other Nigerians, but that
was not to be. Mr. Jonathan was shocked at the
way the company uses and exploits Nigerians.
For instance, people worked more than the
number of hours stipulated by labour laws without
any payment for overtime. Moreover, there are no
safety measures whatsoever in the company. The
Indians expose Nigerians who work for them to
all manner of dangers, and whenever accidents
occur, the victim or the victim’s family only get a
ridiculous amount as compensation.
Death of Tosin’s elder brother
Last year, the chief driver of the company, Tosin
Olajide’s elder brother, who drives Mr. Narayan
(MD), slumped and died after closing work. Those
who should know said “nothing reasonable” was
done for the chief driver.
The same year, Onyebuchi, another casual worker,
got drowned in a deep reservoir filled with alum
water while trying to clean himself up after work.
It was not until 12.30 after midnight that
Onyebuchi’s body was pulled out of the large
body of alum water.
At first, the company was said to have offered
Onyebuchi’s family N150,000 as compensation.
However, the fiery safety officer, Mr. Abimbola,
demanded N5 million for the family. At last, one of
the Nigerian lawyers working for the Indians arm-
twisted onyebuchi’s family and convinced them to
collect N600,000.
Fear of govt agencies
Besides exposing Nigerians who labour for them
to danger and making money with their blood and
sweat, many don’t understand the attitude of the
Indians inside the OPIC Estate any time some
kind of inspection team comes around. They can’t
explain the pandemonium that occasionally
ensues among the Indians whenever officials of
the Nigeria Immigration Services, Standard
Organisation of Nigeria, Federal Ministry of
Commerce and Industry, Federal Ministry of
Labour and Productivity, or other government
agencies, arrive at the company’s gate without
prior notice to the Indians.
What could be happening inside the OPIC Estate?
Have the Indians fully declared to regulatory
agencies and the Nigerian government, all the
business activities engaged by the four companies
rolled into one – the acid plant, the silicate plant,
the fertilizer section, and the wire section?
Although this may not be said of OPIC there are
companies owned by Indians which enjoy duty
waivers for the importation of certain goods like
irons for the purpose of building factories. But
when they import the goods they turn back and
sell those goods to Nigerians, forcing the country
to continue to be a consumer economy dependent
on imported goods, while their home country,
India, is known for its booming technology, health
export and manufacturing.
But one may blame this on Nigeria’s leaders and
government and not those who exploit the
circumstances created by Nigeria’s failure.
The Indians make the government believe that
their businesses in Nigeria are providing
employment to Nigerians. This may appear to be
true on face value, but in reality, their exploitative
tendencies are a sad commentary. For instance,
out of hundreds of Nigerians who work for
companies owned by Indians in Nigeria, only a
handful of them, probably less than 10, are
staffed. Many of them are paid as little as N600
per day, working from 7 am to 7 pm.
The Indian exploitation and enslavement of
Nigerians is not limited to their factories.
They select Nigerian young girls meeting their
fancies and employ them at home, where they
work as cleaners and as sex slaves for Indian
men whose wives do not live with them in
Nigeria. Sexual harassment of the young Nigerian
ladies, even the married ones who work for them,
is already viral on the Internet. Nigerian
authorities including the police, immigration and
Standard Organisation also compromise on
matters of compliance to rules as the police
demonstrated when Tosin died.
As we write this story, Tosin who died a few days
ago has already been buried and forgotten.
“They have completely bought over the Agbara
police station,” a company staff told us, adding
“you need to see where a policeman is saluting
an illiterate Indian. They have also bought over
the Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity.
Their contact man at Abeokuta (name withheld)
who is on their payroll to make sure that
unionism does not take root in the company.”
Tax evasion
Many companies owned by Indians and Lebanese
or where they head prefer to bribe tax officials
and get tax clearance than to pay their taxes.
Environmental contamination and pollution
There is the issue of environmental pollution and
contamination of sources of drinking water
supply. Since environmental laws and regulations
in Nigeria are porous, hardly enforced, foreigners
have field days flouting environmental provisions.
Some companies channel toxic waste from the
acid and silicate plants directly into gutters. Since
the largest sources of drinking water for people
nowadays are boreholes, one can almost be
certain that the water from those boreholes have
been
contaminated by waste water and from factories.
Apart from poor working conditions and pay, it is
not surprising that some of the Indian companies
are highly insensitive to the environment. In June
2012, an Indian Company, Top Steel Nig. Ltd, in a
seeming display of insensitivity to the
environment, reportedly erected a transmission
pillar and ran a high tension power transmission
line directly over the roof of an industrial complex
owned by Isocare West Africa Ltd., in which over
100 Nigerians work daily. Both companies are
located at the Ikorodu Industrial Estate,
Odogunyan, Lagos.
On June 5, 2012, the counsel to Isocare West
Africa had met with the General Manager of Top-
Steel Nigeria Ltd, Mr. Rajendra Bharadia and
explained to him the dangerous implications of
mounting a high tension wire directly over the
roof of the industrial complex of Isocare West
African Limited and advised him to have a
rethink.
Mr. Bharadia however, rebuffed the entreaties and
went ahead with the project.
Following Isocare’s complaint and petition, the
Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency
(LASEPA) inspected the project and issued an
abatement notice to Top Steel and its General
Manager Mr. Rajendra Bharadia to discontinue
the project. The order was also ignored by the
company.
The Ikorodu Local Government Environmental
Task Force also issued a stop work order that
and was also ignored.
At the time, the Power Holding Company of
Nigeria, in a statement by the Principal Manager
(Public Affairs) Mr. Jude Oyenuga, said it
portended grave hazards to have buildings or
activities under or even within close proximity of a
high tension wire.
His words: “The public should bear in mind that
these electrical materials are persistently exposed
to mother nature which makes them vulnerable to
wear and tear. This could lead to the snapping of
the line and such accident could happen without
notice with dire consequences”.
Mr. Bharadia, after several complaints and
directives to him to stop work, was said to have
got top officials at the Army Barrack in Ikorodu,
Nigerian soldiers and mobile Policemen and
stationed them at the construction site, while he
personally supervised the erection of the high
tension wire. Staff of Isocare West Africa who
attempted to take pictures of the erection of the
high tension wire over Isocare were reportedly
brutalized by mobile policemen.
Culpability of govt agencies, others
Certainly, it would almost be impossible for these
companies to succeed without the help of some
Nigerians themselves. Beside the officials of the
regulatory and law enforcement agencies they
keep some faithful Nigerians as members of staff
– men who serve as fronts and intermediaries
between them and those they compromise.
Reliable sources gave Saturday Vanguard the
names of some of those obedient lapdogs in OPIC
Estate.
The Personnel Manager, of African Wires and
Allied Industries, Mr. Ogundimu, a retiree from a
textile company denied that Nigerian workers
were being treated poorly. In a telephone
interview with Saturday Vanguard, Mr. Ogundimu
said Nigerian workers were better treated than
what we were told.

HFOG:
Never knew Donald Duke was a lawyer. If only this could happen to Nigeria. You sure this is not coming too late abi? What platform/party would they come under? I'm in full support abeg.

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Some times good leaders take the stage
because people requested them to. It the
responsibility of citizens to determine who
leads them, particularly when there is
clear evidence of competent leaders within their
society. This is a call for Nigerians to sign this
call for Governor Babatunde Fashola and
Governor Donald Duke to consider the call to
National Duty. These two have proven the
ability to provide visionary and practical
leadership in their States, and have also been
recognized internationally as bright lights in
Nigeria's political circles.
If we can gather 1 million signatures, we will
approach and impress on them our critical
support if they choose to run. I can make this
happen, why shouldn't we at least try.
*They have not endorsed, and have no
knowledge about this campaign.
GOVERNOR BABATUNDE RAJI FASHOLA (SAN)
is a Lawyer and the outgoing Governor of
Lagos State (2007-2015). This serious leader
is the recipient of the 2009 Yitzhak Rabin
Centre for African Development Governor of the
Decade for Peace Award and the recipient of
the 2010 Award of Excellence in Leadership of
the Martin Luther King Jnr. Foundation. He
overwhelmingly won re-election in a free and
fair election.
GOVERNOR DONALD DUKE is a Lawyer and
served as Governor of Cross River State from
1999 - 2007. He has been praised for his
contributions to the fields of agriculture, urban
development, government, environment,
information and communication, investment
drive, and tourism. Described glowingly as the
champion of development politics, Mr. Donald
Duke was also overwhelmingly re-elected for
his second term.
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