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With the recent widely-expected dissolution of the Federal Executive Council by Acting President Dr. Ebele Goodluck Jonathan, a deep reflection into the composition and workings of our government mechanisms is called for. This is with a view to ascertaining the utility of draining scarce resources in servicing of personnel costs and overheads with a record forty two ministers, each with no less than ten to fifteen aides and hundreds of hangers-on.

In fashioning a clear 3 point Agenda for the (Acting) President, namely electoral reforms, cultural reorientation (rebranding of attitude) and steady electricity, his Advisers should insist on reducing the ministerial slots to what is rational and not what is ‘politically expedient’. Nigerians are not difficult to govern; it is the elite that always obstruct good policies that will favour the people once it may not guarantee their own continued relevance and pecuniary sustenance.

It is easy to argue that unemployment can be abated by having forty two ministers so that if each has about twenty aides (both the official ones in Abuja and the retinue of support staff and hangers-on) that comes to about eight hundred and forty families who are literarily ‘guaranteed’ of stable food and provisions for the period their oga’s tenure lasts. But I still think that it is a narrow, short term and defeatist perspective, because if we do things the proper way and each ministry or minister passionately and patriotically puts in a mere 60% of genuine and honest work, as Mr Odom tried to exemplify, our country will be well on the way to economic and socio-political stability and that to me is more secure, purposeful and long lasting for the greater number of Nigerians than just a mere 840 families in a country of about 140 million.


My point is clear, albeit it may sound un-Nigerian, for a direct beneficiary of a system to speak against that (warped) system. We don’t need more than fifteen ministries as against the present twenty eight ministries which are at best conduit pipes for draining our resources through bogus contracts that are either shabbily done or not done at all. And if about fifteen ministries under the present arrangement have been operating without ministers of state, then we might as well scrap that concept of minister of state, which in any case is laden with unimaginable struggles for space and relevance with the senior ministers often seeing them as a little more than just aides.

For avoidance of doubt, the following ministries had only one minister in the last dispensation; Justice, Aviation, Power, Sports, science/Tech, Defence, Environment, Labour, Mines, National Planning, Police Affairs Transport, and Woman Affairs.

So if these ministries can stand with only one minister, why do we need to create confusion and the shameful battle for turfs between ministers and their ministers of state? With a good breed of permanent secretaries and directors, any seasoned technocrat or Administrator can comfortably man one ministry and give Nigerians results within the next fifteen months.

And in point of fact, we also need to close down some ministries or better still merge them with other related ones to avoid duplication and or over lapping of schedules. For instance, if our ministry of Works and Housing is really effective under a development-crazy patriot like Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, we may not need to have a separate ministry for Abuja or Niger Delta. And for crying out loud, did we honestly need to waste time and resources convening another talk-shop in Warri on the same amnesty issue for which the Ledum Mitee committee has already turned in useful and broad based solutions? I guess that was the message the MEND guys were trying to pass across, that all they want to see in the region henceforth are Julius Berger bulldozers and caterpillars. Its time really to stop these seminars and give people like Prof Pat Utomi the chance to make the Singaporean change he has cried so much about!


Who has ever heard of a minister of London or Washington? It is the ineptitude of existing structures and the lack of political will on the part of past leaders that keep making them talk of creation of new ministries and agencies and commissions right from the time of Willinsk.

Why can’t the police join the other services like Immigration, Prisons and Civil Defence under the Interior ministry as is found in other societies?

What is special about a Special Duties ministry? Why would women, with all their claims to equality with men, allow themselves to be treated as if they are physically or mentally challenged, by awarding them a separate ministry? They should be asking why there is no ministry for men. For that is the stuff true women’s liberation should be made of. Women affairs can better still be part of culture, Tourism and social Development. Why can’t we have a ministry of transport that coordinates Air, Land and Sea activities instead of another separate ministry for Aviation that asks for 63 billion naira just to expand a runway?

Youth and sports Development are complementary and can be handled very well by a seasoned entrepreneurial administrator

Like Prof Pat Utomi, (have you noticed how most sports administrators are sit tight dictators? - Amos Adamu, Isa Hayatou, Sepp Blatter and even Dr. Rafiu Ladipo of supporters club fame)

Akuneme was an aide to former Minister Julius Chika Odom.

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The political alliance of top opposition politicians made up of General Muhammadu Buhari, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Sokoto State governor Attahiru Bafarawa and former Lagos State governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu may be heading for the rocks as a fresh dispute has emerged over the proposed new platform.

The alliance had proposed to adopt as its collective platform a modified Action Congress (AC) which was expected retain only its logo, the broom and lose other identities like the name, the headquarters building, the elected officials from the ward to the national levels and to have a new membership register.

However, a source said the last National Executive Committee meeting of the AC in Benin, Edo State, took an extreme position that will make it difficult for any member of the group, Buhari’s Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and Bafarawa’s Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) to agree to the merger.

A source at the meeting said AC pointedly said it will not subject itself to the changes being proposed. The proposal to adopt a ‘modified AC’ was said to have been reached after the party argued that it has two governors, several members of the National Assembly as well as dozens of state legislators who would be subjected to litigation should they move to another party.

The idea of registering a new party was jettisoned because the alliance said it did not want to be rubbished by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). It cited as example of the length of time and the rigours that Buhari’s allies took to get the CPC registered.

Only last week, General Muhammadu Buhari announced that he had formally joined the CPC and would accept to run for the presidency on its platform if the party gives him the chance. He also said on a BBC Hausa programme at the weekend that no politician who has a case to answer in court would be given the chance to contest in the party.

Further indications that the alliance is shaky came up yesterday when the trio of Buhari, Tinubu and Bafarawa were absent at a one day conference on Electoral Reform organised by the National Democratic Movement (NDM) in collaboration with the Coalition of Democrats for Electoral Reforms (CODER) and other civil society organisations at the Sheraton Hotel in Abuja.

Atiku Abubakar, who was expected to chair the event, arrived at the venue at 10 am prompt only to see that there were very few participants present and who did not include his co principals in the movement. He left shortly after he arrived at the venue.

However, the meeting was finally held with representatives of the leaders such as Alhaji Sule Yahaya Hamma, Senator Lawal Shuaibu, Senator Olorunimbe Mamora and Dr. Usman Bugaje in attendance. They respectively represented Buhari, Bafarawa, Tinubu and Atiku.

When contacted, a source in the alliance who preferred not to be named dismissed suggestions that the NDM alliance was collapsing. He said the new mega party will emerge at the end of this month after the next meeting of the group at the Sheraton Hotel on March 30.

When asked why the top leaders boycotted yesterday’s event, the source said General Buhari had sought special permission to be absent because he is billed to give out his niece’s hand in marriage at his home town of Daura in Katsina State this Saturday.

On Bafarawa’s absence, he said the former governor was in Kano on Sunday to commiserate with the victims of the fire that gutted the Kantin Kwari market. He said even though Bafarawa was billed to return to Abuja on Sunday in order to attend the NDM meeting on Monday morning, he was held up in Kano by his hosts and a Freedom Radio programme that he participated in.

"When he saw that it was late and considering the circumstances surrounding him, he decided to postpone the journey for reasons of his personal security," the soured said, adding however that the former governor had called to express his apology.

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A 22-year-old housewife Tuesday appeared before an Abuja magistrate court for allegedly biting off the finger of her neighbour (Joseph Odeh).
The woman, Sikirat Aminatu of Sauka Kahuta village, Abuja, was also accused of using firewood to inflict injuries on the man’s face on March 8.

Police prosecutor, Paul Anigbo, told the court that on March 8, the complainant, one Joseph Odeh reported the accused to her husband and informed him to stop his wife from insulting him and his family.

The prosecutor said after the accused person’s husband had warned her, she picked up firewood and inflicted injury on the complainant’s face.

“The accused also bite the complainant’s smallest finger until it was completely cut off, thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 247 of the Penal Code Law,” the prosecutor added.

When the charge was read to the accused, she pleaded not guilty and requested for bail, which was not objected to by the prosecutor.

In her ruling, Magistrate Hadiza Shagari granted the accused bail in the sum of N50,000 with a reliable surety in like sum, who must swear to an affidavit to produce the accused in court on the adjourned date.

The case was adjourned to April 1 for hearing.

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When you have question about fast and expensive cars that are quite discreet. These are the top choices you should be looking for. The regular E-class and BMW 5 series are not the top level luxury saloon that will offer you the highest comfort and if you are naughty it won’t give top performance.

The BMW760LI is the biggest, most powerful and most expensive car BMW has. It has a 6 liter V12 engine with twin turbo that will turn 535 horsepower that can make the world move backward. It is said from 0-60mph it will beat a Porsche 911 and with the speed limiter of it could hit up to 188mph (302km/h). There is a digital display of the speedometer on the windscreen to show you how fast you are moving.

Internationally testers have commended the 760LI on its comfort even on high speed travel. It is said to be quiet with comfortable seats that massage your back. It has advance suspension system that will give you different driving mode for whichever drive mode you desire. Just imagine yourself on a business trip and you felt someone was following you. Then you turn your suspension to sport mode and those behind won’t even know what just happened in front of them. Perhaps with all the technology you won’t feel terrified. It is said the throttle response is sharper. But for an expensive fast car what counts most especially in Nigeria is comfort. Earlier on I mention the massaging seats to keep you relaxed. There are night vision cameras. If you had to a turn at a junction there are cameras to help you see blind spot. Behind the driver seat there is a lot of space which makes it commodious. There are also many buttons available to the owner seat to operate a lot of functions for comfort. There also DVDs perhaps optional that keep you inform with news updates perhaps the CNN. Even though the 760LI has sporting capabilities it turns out that it’s about dignified drive and not side drift and tyres burning.

With the Mercedes S63 and its 6.2 liter naturally aspirated engine. It generates up to 518 horsepower and is almost a second slower than the 760LI. The 760LI has the added advantage of the twin turbo which gives it extra grunt. The S63 is said to offer equal comfort as the 760Li but really it tends to have a split personality between the sport ride and comfort. It is not like the 760Li that simply powerful fast and luxurious. Also it said to have a tank like feel around it.

So what would be our choice? For the sake of Mercedes pedigree record the S63 may just prove to be a better ride since it has always been better in soaking road lumps and patches. It is said to still have its sense of occasion. BMW has always been good for on track of late and with good driving it could get you on time for that million naira meeting. This makes it a better drive of the two.

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An evidence that Acting President, Goodluck Jonathan, is flying at a height that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the ‘powerful’ Governors Forum cannot comprehend was the hysteria at the party’s Wadata Plaza headquarters last Thursday morning.
“All the National Working Committee (NWC) members were angry,” a source told Sunday Trust at the weekend. “The party executives learnt of the cabinet dissolution on Thursday morning from newspaper reports. No member of the executive was consulted and they were agitated. It would be the third time the Acting President would shove aside the party in taking such a decision. The first was the removal of Chief Michael Aondoakaa, the former Attorney General and Minister of Justice. The second was when he constituted the Presidential Advisory Council. The third was the removal of the ministers.”

Three weeks ago, the PDP, acting in unison with the Governors Forum, thought they had clipped the wings of the Acting President when they told him in unequivocal terms that he should not expect to be president; he should not expect to contest the presidency in 2011, and that he should maintain the status quo in the federal executive council, i.e. he should not sack ministers. As acting president, Jonathan should have continued with the implementation of the programmes of ailing President Umaru Musa Yar’adua, they claimed.



Is this the end of the Yar’adua administration?

To say ‘yes’ to this question sounds like making a sacrilegious statement. Though Yar’adua is still president, there are indications that Acting President Jonathan is actually beginning his own administration. On the day the Senate announced that he should act for Yar’adua, Jonathan rolled out a four-point agenda, apparently ignoring Yar’adua’s seven-point agenda. His four-point agenda included electoral reforms, security in the oil-producing Niger Delta, providing more reliable electricity and fighting corruption. Incidentally, there is little anyone, except Yar’adua, could do to stop him from carrying out policies that are not in consonance with what Yar’adua began. According to constitutional lawyer, Festus Okoye, only Yar’adua can reverse what Jonathan is doing at the moment.

Okoye said, “the Acting President has the powers to dissolve the Executive Council of the Federation. By the provisions of sections 142(1) and 145 of the constitution, he has the power to dissolve the Council. As Acting President, he has the power to exercise Presidential powers in the absence of the President. There is a presumption that his actions are in consonance with his brief as Acting President. If the donor of the power comes back and believes he acted ultra vires, he can reverse the actions of the acting president. The important thing is that the Acting Presidency is a stop gap measure designed to take care of the exigencies of particular circumstances.”


Why Governors, PDP leaders are frightened

Sunday Trust gathered that governors and the PDP leaders are not comfortable with the Acting President because his approach is a questionable. While compiling the list of his ministers, Yar’adua consulted the PDP hierarchy to the point that governors and their candidates lobbied the national secretariat of the party to ensure their candidates scaled through. But before last week when the cabinet was dissolved, the Acting President did not consult the party. “We don’t understand what he is doing,” an executive member of the party told Sunday Trust last night. “He has not consulted us in any way, but we think he should consult us.” Our reporter gathered that those who would want to be nominated as ministers are contacting former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former Defence Minister, Theophilus Danjuma, Niger Delta elder, Edwin Clark, former Chief of Army Staff, General Andrew Azazi and former Minister of State for Niger Delta, Godsday Orubebe. It is not clear how influential two female former ministers, Professor Dora Akunyili and Mrs Deziani Alison-Madueke are, but Sunday Trust said the Acting President may be consulting them while he compiles his ministers list. They have apparently been assured of places in the expected cabinet.

However, when contacted, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Professor Rufai Alkali said there is good understanding between the party and the presidency on the issue surrounding the appointment of a new cabinet.

He added that, although, there as no discission as whether the party holds meeting to discuss the matter, “there are consultations between the party and the presidency on the matter.”

The fear among the PDP national executive, Sunday Trust gathered, is that, with the Acting President’s current posture, the speculation that he would dissolve the PDP leadership may be true. In the last few weeks, several faceless groups have bought pages of newspapers in which they accused PDP chairman Vincent Ogbulafor of alleged corruption and lack-lustre leadership. They have been calling for his removal. It is not clear who those behind the advertisements are, but there is apprehension in the PDP because if the Acting President is displeased with them, he could use the planned mid-term convention to call for another election to sack the current National Working Committee.



Federal Lawmakers queue behind Jonathan

Since the political diatribe orchestrated by the president’s ailment broke out, some members of the National Assembly have played roles that some Nigerians found and still find suspicious even when the actors in this game are consistent in their claim that the entire action is premised on the nation’s interest.

In the Senate, a group known as National Integrity Group, led by Senator Bala Mohammed from Bauchi State, was a strong advocate for the invocation of Section 144 which connotes a declaration that the president is no longer fit to rule. Though that did not happen, the Vice president, Goodluck Jonathan, got the acting presidency and they relaxed.

And when it appears Jonathan has fully consolidated, another caucus by name Nigeria First Forum (NFF) under the leadership of Rep Abbas Anas Adamu from Jigawa State, emerged in the House of Representatives, drumming support for the acting president. The group’s major outing was last Thursday when it endorsed the sack of ministers appointed by the ailing president.

The group said it was a master stroke as the cabinet was polarised and something was needed to steer the ship of the nation out of troubled waters.

The forum said: “our dear nation, Nigeria, will particularly be indebted to the acting president if he will give unqualified priority to the perennial problem of power which has so much impeded on our economic progress.”

According to them, since his empowerment as Acting President, Jonathan has taken positive steps which deserves commendation like appointing a new and veteran National Security Adviser, Lt. Gen. Aliyu Gusau; the setting up of a Presidential Advisory Council, the spontaneous response to the lingering Jos crisis, the initial minor cabinet reshuffle and the final dissolution of the hitherto polarized Federal Executive Council.

Besides the group, some lawmakers told Sunday Trust that the Acting President, Goodluck Jonathan, literally interpreted his constitutional powers when he dissolved the Federal Executive Council last Wednesday.

To these lawmakers, the action clearly answered the question of how much of the constitutional powers the acting president has.

Rep Leo Ogor (PDP Delta), said as an acting president, Jonathan has the powers of the president as enshrined in the constitution, hence he can hire and fire, adding that the action of the president was within the limit of the law.

According to him, presiding over a divided cabinet where loyalty was divided, would definitely impinge on effective governance; hence Jonathan had no option than to do what he did to allow for the composition of a more purposeful council.
He said the only credible thing to do now was for Jonathan to bring on board technocrats and credible individuals who have the passion, capacity and ability to perform. Ogor said Nigeria has such personalities in abundance, hence Jonathan need not go far to get them.

Rep Yusuf Shitu Galambi (PDP Jigawa), simply said the sack of the ministers was a welcome development, saying that some of the ministers failed woefully in their official mandate.

According to him, their sack will give the government the opportunity to bring in credible persons who will help take the country from the present level to the next level.

Speaking on the position of the pro Jonathan caucus, the Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Media, Labaran Danbata (PDP Kano), said the House is one on the matter, hence their action could not suggest any division in the House.

He said the group have the right to exercise their democratic freedom by associating and taking decisions that are allowed by law.

Jonathan might have done the easiest part. The harder aspect is getting replacements who will make a difference for the good of the country. It is not expected that he would sweep everyone away, but he has a great opportunity to ignore most of the political jobbers who would want to replace this cast with one worse than the departing lot.

The battle for the slots for states

One constituency that is interested in grabbing some of the slot is the National Assembly. Surprisingly, lawmakers who ordinarily should be satisfied with their stable and sure seats in the National Assembly, are indicating interest in crossing over to the executive arm. Sunday Trust gathered that not less than 10 lawmakers are eyeing the possibility of grabbing opportunities to serve in the new cabinet.

“We heard that the Acting President is going to pick some of the old ministers and then mix them with some members of the National Assembly because he does not want to have a delay in security clearance. You know, if old ministers are picked together with members of the National Assembly, there would be no problem with security clearance and Senate screening. The old ministers have been cleared not long ago and for members of the assembly, there would be little or no problem getting through security and when they get to the Senate, it is ‘bow and go’, a source told Sunday Trust.

Sunday Trust gathered reliably that at least, four senators have indicated interest to become ministers and are leaving no stone unturned to realize their ambition. Sources revealed that former Kaduna State governor and now Senator, Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi, is jostling to make it to the new list. The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, it was gathered, is attempting to cross over to the ministry which he presently supervises.

It was also gathered that Senator Abubakar Gada representing Sokoto South is interested in becoming a minister. A reliable source in the Senate, said Gada wants to succeed Aliero as FCT minister. “His own is very clear because he is close to senators from Bayelsa State and he is using them to get close to the Acting President. He wanted to be Vice President when attempts were made to make Jonathan substantive president. Now, since that has not happened, he is scheming to get a ministerial position.” Sunday Trust learnt that some of Gada’s colleagues in the Senate, especially those who are members of the National Interest Group (NIG), refer to him as VP. His strong point is that he gave his support to Jonathan during the days of the struggle to recognize the Acting President as the man in charge in the absence of Yar’adua.

There is also Senator Bala Mohammed, leader of the NIG. Sunday Trust gathered that because of the turbulence in his constituency over his role, the Acting President may consider him for a ministerial role. At least, he will be sure to play a key role in the administration. Our source said

“The only odd against his nomination is his governor, because they don’t see eye to eye. You know, the governor sees his role as leader of the pro-Jonathan in the Senate as an affront to his personality being one of the son-in-laws to the ailing President. But the senator has the support of his colleagues, especially those from the South South zone and Bayelsa State in particular, who can help him secure a place in the cabinet.”

From the House of Representatives, there are members who are interested in going to the Federal Executive Council (FEC). One of the members believed to be making moves for ministerial position is Rep. Farouk Lawan from Kano state. A source said the member is interested in order to boost his political credentials towards contesting the Kano state governorship election in 2011. Rep Lawan is said to be eyeing the Education Ministry.

The battle for the slot from Kogi State may be between the former Minister of State for Commerce, Barrister Humphrey Abah and any candidate that the leaders of Kogi West Senatorial District may suggest to the Acting President. A source close to Governor Ibrahim Idris told Sunday Trust last night that there is no evidence that the Kogi State chief executive officer would submit a different name. The source said, “the governor does not have any problem with the retention of Barrister Humphrey Abah. The man did not show any sign of ambition while serving as minister. He was not in any way controversial. Also, considering the fact that he was the last minister who was sworn-in in the defunct cabinet, it is fair to allow him to continue to represent the state in Jonathan’s cabinet.” However, Sunday Trust gathered that the Kogi West senatorial district may insist on producing the minister this time around. It is not clear if they have sought the support of the governor, but the leaders of the region may be in touch with the Acting President to present their case.

The fight to make Jonathan’s new list from Borno State may be contested by heavy weights in the party. At the end, three names may be forwarded; one from each of the three senatorial zones i.e. Senator Sanusi Daggash from northern Borno; Ambassador Saidu Pindar from the southern part of the state and for the central zone, either Alhaji Kashim Imam, the party’s governorship candidate in 2003 and 2007 or Senator Abba Aji, the current Presidential Adviser (liaison officer) on National Assembly matters may make the list. The acting President may choose one out of the three names.

In the case of Yobe state, the Acting President may not leave it to the party to select; he may re-appoint Adamu Maina Waziri who was State Minister of Agriculture, before he was sacked along with 19 others by President Yar’adua in 2008. Waziri was one of those who started the clamour for transfer of power to Jonathan soon after Yar’adua left for Saudi Arabia for medication. In addition, Waziri is believed to be close to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, while his sack as minister was said to have been due to a of disagreement he had with Dr Abba Sayyadi Ruma, a member of Yar’adua’s kitchen cabinet when they served in the same ministry.

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Sunday Trust 21/03/2010

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An attempt by Acting President Gooodluck Jonathan to sack the Aide-de-Camp and Chief Security Officer of President Umaru Yar’adua last week has been resisted by Turai Yar’adua, the ailing president’s wife. This is coming in the wake of Jonathan’s bold move to dissolve the cabinet constituted by Yar’adua in an attempt to consolidate his hold on power.

Sunday Trust gathered that Turai opposed the move to sack the president’s aides on grounds that she had no idea how to explain the sack to a recuperating Yar’adua. She also raised concerns over what people might say should anything happen to the president in the event of the sack of his trusted aides.

Jonathan, it was learnt, has been uncomfortable with the duo of Colonel Mustapha Onudieva, Yar’adua’s ADC, who hails from Edo State and the CSO, Yusuf Tilde, who was the Director General of the State Security Service in Katsina State while Yar’adua was governor. The development arose from the duo’s stance on the occasion of the President’s return, February 24, under the cover of darkness.

Hours after Yar’adua’s return from a three-month sojourn in a Saudi hospital, Col. Onudieva positioned himself behind Yar’adua’s seat in anticipation of Yar’adua chairing that day’s Federal Executive Council meeting. That chair had been occupied by Jonathan since he was advanced to act as president by the Nigerian legislature. A potential clash was averted when neither Yar’adua nor Jonathan turned up for the meeting, which was eventually cancelled. It was not clear at the time if the aides would have prevented Jonathan from taking the president’s seat had he attempted to.

The two men have also been playing a key role in keeping Yar’adua away from public officials since his return. A source disclosed that this stance earned the duo the wrath of the acting president who had since wanted them out. The sack would have had dangerous implications to the person of Yar’adua considering the roles the two aides play. A presidency source disclosed to Sunday Trust that the absence of the ADC and CSO makes the president vulnerable as it implies he is no longer a state property but a property of himself and his family.

The ADC, in the Nigerian context, has always been a preserve of the military especially in the last 10 years. President Shehu Shagari is known to have used a policeman as an ADC.

The ADC is usually a ceremonial post where an individual occupying the post is attached to a very important personality (VIP) and takes care of the VIP’s protocols, stands behind him, holds his files and phones and review his domestic messages whether official or personal.

The CSO on the other hand is charged with the VIP’s physical security and is always on duty 24 hours. He is usually a highly trained spy who takes charge of co-ordinating the VIP’s security and, unlike the ADC who may be absent sometimes, he is always with the VIP in all circumstances.

Sunday Trust sources in the presidency disclosed that there have been separate meetings between Acting President Jonathan and Hajiya Turai as well as Yar’adua’s mother, Hajiya Dada. The two women also reportedly met the new National Security Adviser (NSA) General Aliyu Gusau (rtd) but details of both meetings have not been disclosed.

The influence of General Gusau, an old spy master, is gradually coming to fore as it emerged that he played a major role in Jonathan’s decision to dissolve the cabinet, Wednesday March 17. Sunday Trust gathered that Jonathan was encouraged by the NSA to dissolve the cabinet based on intelligence he claimed to have gathered from Saudi Arabia that Yar’adua may not recover enough to return to office. The president has been diagnosed with pericarditis, a heart condition resulting from the inflammation of the pericardium – a membrane which encloses the heart. It is known that there is just a recovery window of three months after which it is feared the victim might never recover. Yar’adua has been suffering from the ailment since November last year and prior to that; he has been known to suffer kidney infection and his health as always been a subject of discourse even while he was governor of Katsina State.

This information, Sunday Trust gathered, emboldened Jonathan to effect the cabinet sack. It is expected that the new cabinet to be constituted will have a larger number of Jonathan loyalists who may move to make him a substantive president and consolidate his hold on power in the run-up to next year’s general elections.

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ABUJA —Indications emerged, yesterday, that Federal Government might have parted ways with the Senate over its call on the United States of America to delete the name of Nigeria from the terror watch-list within seven days or incur a diplomatic row.

Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Michael Kaase Aondoakaa (SAN) who gave the hint in Abuja, said the Federal Government was poised to embrace dialogue instead of confrontation. The occasion was a World Press Conference at the Conference Room of the Attorney-General’s chambers. Meantime, a United States grand jury has indicted Umar Farouk Abdulmuttallab over a plot to blow up a plane on Christmas Day while it was also revealed that Abdulmuttallab was recruited in London by Al Qaeda.

FG makes U-turn

In revealing government’s latest decision to mellow, Chief Aondoakaa, however, said the Federal Government was working closely with the National Assembly to ensure that a bill proposing life jail term for terrorists and their sponsors is passed without further delay. He said the bill was forwarded to the National Assembly in last October.

The attorney general who noted that the country was not just waking up on the global fight against terrorism because of the Muttallab’s issue, said: “it is pertinent to note that there are about 16 United Nations, UN, and African Union, AU, instruments on counter terrorism, all dealing with related issues ranging from money laundering, drug trafficking, crime to nuclear terrorism .

It is noteworthy that Nigeria has been able to sign and ratify nine of these. Nigeria is also considered to be at a good compliance level with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1373 of 2001, 1455 of 2003, 1526 of 2004 and 1822 of 2008 on issues related to counter terrorism.”

He said he had got the assurances of the leadership of the two chambers of the National Assembly to get the bill on terrorism passed into law as soon as they resume for the next legislative session, stressing: “We are not saying we are not in support of the seven day ultimatum by the Senate but we are dialoguing with the US. We are presenting our effort.

What we are doing is the issue of global fight. If it happens to a brother, a sister country, it is not something that you should have a quarrel with. It is something you should join hands together to create measures with which you combat it.

Friendly country

“This is so because, everyday, terrorists are getting new advanced methods and all countries in the world must join hands to think together to get new methods to deal with the situation. Our position is to deal with the US as a friendly country, with mutual relationship, cooperate fully and take emergency measures in Nigeria that will complement measures being taken by them and globally.

We have taken steps to pre-empt any future occurrence of this situation in Nigeria and elsewhere. We have proposed a bill to the National Assembly which stipulates that if you conspire to commit an act of terrorism anywhere in the world, but you did not do it on Nigerian soil but the conspiracy took place in Nigeria or aspects of the conspiracy took place in Nigeria you go in for life. The bill before the National Assembly seeks to criminalize and punish all acts of terrorism, terrorists and their associates including their sponsors.

The bill clearly defines and prohibits all acts of terrorism and its support. It makes violation of provisions of the bill an offence and prescribes penalties for such violation. The bill further makes provision for listing and delisting, freezing of funds and financial assets of terrorist groups and prevention of their entry into or transit in Nigeria.”

He said: “We assure Nigerians that the issue of Nigeria being on the list of country of interest will be resolved. We will be transparent and by this mechanism, we will invite our colleagues from the United States. We are going to be very open and transparent in the investigation of this incident. I have assured my colleague, the Attorney-General of the United States that we will give full cooperation and all requests relating to investigation will be granted. We have nothing to hide.

We have visual information at the Murtala Muhammed airport which we expect our counterpart from the United States should come in and have physical inspection that our security agencies did what they were supposed to do.

“The young man came in, he was screened and it is on the visual information. He removed his shoes. He first came, he walked to the right, tried to go to the right screening machine, then suddenly changed his mind and came to the left, removed his shoes and entered. It is there. Our security agencies did all that was required under the law to ensure that Nigeria complied with international standard.

We feel that the long existing relationship between us and the United States will be mutually continued. I am very hopeful that with the fact and what we are placing before the United States government, they will rescind the decision. Nigeria is not a terrorist country. Nigeria will not and cannot be on a list of countries of interest because we have a track record of peace keeper.”

Money Laundering Act

Aondoakaa who said that the Money Laundering Act 2004 would be amended to curtail terror financing, added that another law which, in his view, would check the incidence of terrorism was the Maritime Security Agency Bill which was also pending before the National Assembly.

He described the Bill as one of the President Umaru Yar’Adua’s commitment to meeting Nigeria’s international obligations as it relates to the war against terrorism. He also disclosed that henceforth, any person or group of persons involved in religious violence would be prosecuted, stressing: “The body of Attorneys-General at its meeting held in Jos, Plateau State resolved that religious based violence should no longer be tolerated in the country. Henceforth, commissioners of police have been instructed to ensure that all religious based violence are properly investigated and prosecuted.

To ensure that there are no hitches in the process, it was resolved that the AGF should give appropriate fiats to state Attorneys-General to prosecute federal offences committed within their jurisdiction. It is hoped that this will streamline the process and enable the prosecution of such offences to be conducted speedily.”

Farouk may get life jail

Umar Farouk Abdulmuttallab, 23, was indicted, Wednesday, by a grand jury on six counts arising from a botched Christmas Day plot to blow up an airliner packed with 290 passengers and crew as it approached Detroit, Michigan. The charges included attempted murder and trying to use a weapon of mass destruction aboard a US plane. Attorney General Eric Holder said a “global” hunt was tracking those who helped the alleged bomber.

If convicted of trying to use a weapon of mass destruction, Abdulmuttallab faces life imprisonment. According to US Attorney General, Eric Holder in a statement, “This investigation is fast-paced, global and ongoing, and it has already yielded valuable intelligence that we will follow wherever it leads. Anyone we find responsible for this alleged attack will be brought to justice using every tool – military or judicial – available to our government.”

Al Qaeda ‘recruited Farouk in London’

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab charged with attempted murder over the alleged Christmas Day plot was recruited by al Qaeda in London, according to reports. Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, 23, has been charged with attempted murder and trying to use a weapon of mass destruction after allegedly trying to blow up a plane. Yemen deputy prime minister had acknowledged that Muttallab had been in his country.

But he said Muttallab had been recruited by al Qaeda in London, adding that he had been equipped and trained in Nigeria. On Thursday, Yemen’s deputy prime minister for defence and security affairs, Rashad al-Aleemi, revealed that Abdulmutallab had met with radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaqi

However, senior Home Office officials have denied that Muttallab was recruited by al Qaeda in the UK, saying they think he was recruited and radicalised abroad. “The Nigerian hid in Shabwa area in Wadi Rafadh (east of Sanaa) where he met Awlaqi and Mohammad Omair, who was killed in the air raid on Wadi Rafadh,” the minister said.

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