…wants him to step down as EFCC chairman



The Senate has been dragged before the Federal High Court, Abuja over its presumed bid to reconsider the nomination of Mr. Ibrahim Magu as the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) after the parliament had earlier rejected same nomination based on a security report. Also joined in the suit are the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, the EFCC as well as Magu.

A constitutional lawyer, Chukwukasi Jideobi, who filed the suit, is asking the court to determine whether having regard to the provisions of Section 2 (3) of the EFCC (Establishment) Act, 2004, the rejection of Magu’s nomination by the Senate on December 15, 2016 has not ended his tenure as the Acting Chairman of the anti-graft agency.

In the originating summons exclusively obtained by New Telegraph, the plaintiff is seeking a declaration that by virtue of Section 2 (3) of the EFCC Act, Ibrahim Magu cannot continue to function in office as Acting Chairman of the Commission after the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria rejected his nomination.

Jideobi argued that the failure of Magu to vacate his office as Acting Chairman of the EFCC after the rejection of his nomination by the Senate has disqualified him from further consideration for confirmation as the substantive chairman of the commission by the parliament.

In the summons, Jideobi also argued that the Attorney General of the Federation and, by extension, the Federal Government of Nigeria, are bound by the decision of the Senate rejecting Magu as Chairman of EFCC and cannot continue to treat, recognise, deal with him as acting chairman of the commission.

He further urged the court to declare that Magu “is not a fit and proper person” to lead the EFCC as its chairman either in its acting or substantive capacity.

The plaintiff is also seeking a declaration of the court that the EFCC, its servants and officers are bound by the decision of the Senate, rejecting Magu and cannot continue to treat, recognise or deal with him as the Acting Chairman of the commission.

It said that by virtue of Magu’s rejection by the Senate on December 15, 2016, all actions taken by him, especially charges and information filed in various courts since then should be declared illegal, null, void and invalid because he acted in excess of his legal term as Acting Chairman of the Commission.

In clear terms, the suit seeks an injunction restraining Magu, whether by himself, his servants, agents or privies, or in any manner whatsoever from functioning in office as performing or continuing to perform the duties of it, holding himself out or parading himself as Acting Chairman of the EFCC. Jideobi also sought an injunction restraining the Senate from receiving, entertaining, considering or deliberating upon any request, letter, application or demand for approval, confirmation or endorsement of Magu as Chairman of the EFCC.

In a letter dated March 2, 2017 and addressed to the Clerk of the Senate, the plaintiff recalled that that President Muhammadu Buhari had, on January 17, 2017, sent a letter to the Senate re-nominating Magu as Executive Chairman of the EFCC, but faulted the move, given the grave security reasons that informed Magu’s earlier rejection by the Senate.

The plaintiff urged the Senate to stay action on the said letter re-nominating Magu and requesting for his confirmation pending the determination of the suit already filed against him.

Source: http://newtelegraphonline.com/news/lawyer-drags-senate-court-seeks-magus-disqualification/

In suit no FHC/ABJ/CS/159/17: Johnmary Chukwukasi Jideobi v. The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria & 3 Ors, an based Lawyer is asking the Federal High Court to order to immediately vacate his post as the purported Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He has equally prayed the Court to declare that Mr. Magu Ibrahim Mustapha is unfit to be reconsidered by the Senate as the substantive Chairman of the EFCC.

Below is the letter sent to the Senate by the Lawyer intimating it of the pendency of the suit before the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court. The Lawyer is asking the Senate to suspend further action on the request of Mr. President to have Magu ratified as the substantive Chairman of the EFCC until the Court hears and disposes of the Originating Summons he filed against Magu.

The suit was filed on Thursday, 2nd March, 2017. No date has been fixed for the hearing.

An Abuja based Constitutional Lawyer, has written a letter to the Senate seeking to halt the ratification of Mr. Ibrahim Magu Mustapha as the substantive Chairman of the EFCC..... The reasons will shock you.

Here is the acknowledgment copy of the letter.

Cc: Lalasticlala, Seun

More troubles have come the way of the Acting Chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu Mustapha as an Abuja based Constitutional Lawyer has filed fresh Originating Summons on Thursday 2nd March seeking to restrain the Senate from confirming his appointment as the substantive Chairman. The plot against Magu’s confirmation thickens day by day and there are indications that in no time, he will lose the long-drawn battle he is waging against many powerful forces bent on ending his career at the foremost anti-graft agency.

In his letter to the Senate dated the 2nd of March, 2017, the Lawyer, Barrister JOHNMARY CHUKWUKASI JIDEOBI, explained the rational for his legal action thus;
“Given the grave security reasons (which has neither been tested in any court nor vacated) on which the Distinguished Senate rested its decision to reject Mr. Ibrahim magu’s nomination, I have approached the Federal High Court (Abuja Division) in suit no FHC/ABJ/CS/159/17 to challenge the powers of the Distinguished Senate to reconsider Mr. Ibrahim Magu. I am equally asking the Court to order him to give up the seat of the Acting Chairman of the EFCC which I strongly believe he is occupying illegally at the moment. Attached herewith and marked as “Annexure IMM1” is a copy of the said suit. The Distinguished Senate is the 1st Defendant in the said suit.”

The Lawyer therefore urged the Senate to stay further action on the letter transmitted to it by the President on the 17th of January, 2017 re-nominating Magu to be confirmed by the Senate as the substantive Chairman of the EFCC. His words;

“It is my humble belief that now that a Court of competent jurisdiction is siesed of this sensitive matter, the Distinguish Senate would allow itself to be persuaded by the ancient doctrines of lis pendis/ sub-judice and accordingly stay action on the said letter requesting for the re-nomination of Mr. Ibrahim Mustapha Magu pending the determination of the Originating Summons already filed against him.”
The Defendants to the suit filed yesterday are: the Senate, the Attorney-General of the Federation, the Economic and Financial Commission and Mr. Ibrahim Magu. The Plaintiff is praying the Court, among others, for the following reliefs;

AN INJUNCTION restraining the 4th Defendant, Ibrahim Magu, whether by himself, his servants, agents or privies, or in any manner whatsoever from functioning in office as or from performing or continuing to perform the duties of or from holding himself out or parading himself as the Acting Chairman of the 3rd Defendant, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

AN INJUNCTION restraining the 1st Defendant, whether by itself, its respective members, its servants, agents, officers or privies from receiving, entertaining, countenancing, considering, deliberating upon or in any other manner acting upon any request, letter, application or demand for the approval, confirmation or endorsement of the 4th Defendant, Ibrahmi Magu, as Chairman of the 3rd Defendant, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
The Originating Summons is supported by a 23 paragraph affidavit.
In part of written address, the lawyer came down heavily on Magu in this telling words;

"By continuing to remain and act as the Acting Chairman of the 3rd Defendant despite his resounding rejection by the 1st Defendant, the 4th Defendant is rumpling the Nigerian Constitution. Has he got the powers to do that? The answer is a loud NO. Persons who are desirous of presiding over the agencies of government established by law cannot afford to be spiteful of the law and where they are found to be riding roughshod on the Rule of Law, a civilized society ought not to entrust them with a position of responsibility otherwise by their impunity and abuse of democratic ethos, an organized society may come to a sad end. The 4th Defendant should be told so in the clearest of language."

Some paragraphs of his 23 paragraph affidavit read as follows;
5. I know as a fact that ever since the 4th Defendant was rejected by the 1st Defendant as the Chairman of the 3rd Defendant on the 15th December, 2016, the 4th Defendant has not vacated his position in the office of the 3rd Defendant despite the bindingness of the 1st Defendant’s decision on him. The persistent refusal of the 4th Defendant to bow to the constitutional authority of the Nigerian Senate is scandalously spiteful and scornful of the Nigerian Constitution and capable of weakening the potency of the laws of the land in a manner that will precipitate anarchy and crash our democratic system.
16. I know as a fact that despite the rejection by the 1st Defendant of the nomination of the 4th Defendant as the Chairman of the 3rd Defendant, the 4th Defendant has continued to exercise the powers and functions of an Acting Chairman of the 3rd Defendant in defiance of the decision of the Nigerian Senate rejecting him which constitutes a grave affront to the Constitutional authority of the Nigerian Senate and gravely threatens the established Constitutional Order of Nigeria.

20. I know as a fact that in considering the nomination of the 4th Defendant and rejecting him on the 15th December, 2016, the 1st Defendant has found the 4th Defendant wanting and grossly unfit to be appointed to the Office of the Chairman of the 3rd Defendant.

21. I know as a fact that despite the grave allegations leveled against the 4th Defendant by the State Security Service (otherwise called the DSS) in its letter to the 1st Defendant, the basis upon which the 4th Defendant’s nomination was rejected by the 1st Defendant, the 4th Defendant has not been arraigned before any court of competent jurisdiction for the purposes of the determination of his guilt or otherwise of the grave allegations dangling over his head like the sword of Damocles.

The matter is yet to be fixed for hearing.

Source: http://www.odogwublog.com/2017/03/ibrahim-magu-faces-yet-another-legal.html

It is more trouble for Mr. Ibrahim Magu Mustapha, as an Abuja based Constitutional Lawyer has today dragged him to the Federal High Court seeking for his immediate removal as the Acting Chairman of the EFCC and equally seeking an order of the Court stopping the Senate from further considering his re-nomination by the President as the substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

Joined in the suit as Defendants are (1) The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (2) The Attorney-General of the Federation (3) The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and (4) Mr. Ibrahim Magu Mustapha. In the Originating Summons marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/159/17, the Plaintiff, Barrister Johnmary Chukwukasi Jideobi raised one question of law for the Court to resolve to wit:

1. Whether having regard to the provision of section 2 (3) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act, 2004, the rejection by the 1st Defendant herein of the appointment of the 4th Defendant herein as the Chairman of the 3rd Defendant has not ended the roles of the 4th Defendant within the 3rd Defendant herein?

Against the answer that may be given to the above question, the lawyer is seeking the following reliefs from the Court;

A SOLEMN DECLARATION OF THIS HONOURABLE COURT, that under and by virtue of section 2 (3) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Establishment Act 2004, the 4th Defendant, Ibrahim Magu, cannot continue to function in office as Acting Chairman of the 3rd Defendant, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, after the decision of the 1st Defendant, The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which rejected the nomination of the 4th Defendant as Chairman of the 3rd Defendant.

2. A SOLEMN DECLARATION OF THIS HONOURABLE COURT, that the failure, omission or neglect by the 4th Defendant to vacate and relinquish his office as Acting Chairman of the 3rd Defendant, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, after the rejection of his nomination by the 1st Defendant, has disqualified him from further consideration for confirmation as the substantive Chairman of the 3rd Defendant by the 1st Defendant, The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

3. A SOLEMN DECLARATION OF THIS HONOURABLE COURT, that the 2nd Defendant, the Honourable Attorney-General of the Federation, and through him the Federal Government of Nigeria, are bound by the decision of the 1st Defendant, the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, rejecting the 4th Defendant, Ibrahim Magu, as Chairman of the 3rd Defendant, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and cannot continue to treat, recognize, deal with or deploy the 4th Defendant as Acting Chairman of the 3rd Defendant.

4. A SOLEMN DECLARATION OF THIS HONOURABLE COURT that the 4th Defendant, Ibrahim Magu, is not a fit and proper person to lead the 3rd Defendant, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, as its Chairman, either in its acting or substantive capacity.

5. A SOLEMN DECLARATION OF THIS HONOURABLE COURT the 4th Defendant, Ibrahim Magu, is not and cannot be the Acting Chairman of the 3rd Defendant, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

6. A SOLEMN DECLARATION OF THIS HONOURABLE COURT, that the 3rd Defendant, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, its servants and officers are bound by the decision of the 1st Defendant, the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, rejecting the 4th Defendant, Ibrahim Magu, as Chairman of the 3rd Defendant, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and cannot continue to treat, recognize or deal with the 4th Defendant as its Acting Chairman.

7. A SOLEMN DECLARATION HONOURABLE COURT that all actions taken by the 3rd Defendant, especially charges and information filed in various courts, during the period when the 4th Defendant, Ibrahim Magu, acted in excess of his legal term as Acting Chairman thereof, are illegal, null, void and invalid.

8. AN INJUNCTION restraining the 4th Defendant, Ibrahim Magu, whether by himself, his servants, agents or privies, or in any manner whatsoever from functioning in office as or from performing or continuing to perform the duties of or from holding himself out or parading himself as the Acting Chairman of the 3rd Defendant, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

9. AN INJUNCTION restraining the 3rd Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, whether by itself, its servants, officers, agents or privies, or in any manner whatsoever from holding out or parading, treating, recognizing or in any other manner dealing with the 4th Defendant, Ibrahim Magu, as its Acting Chairman.

10. AN INJUNCTION restraining the 1st Defendant, whether by itself, its respective members, its servants, agents, officers or privies from receiving, entertaining, countenancing, considering, deliberating upon or in any other manner acting upon any request, letter, application or demand for the approval, confirmation or endorsement of the 4th Defendant, Ibrahmi Magu, as Chairman of the 3rd Defendant, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

11. AN INJUNCTION restraining the 2nd Defendant, and through him the Federal Government of Nigeria, from holding out or parading, treating, recognizing, deploying or in any other manner dealing with the 4th Defendant, Ibrahim Magu, as Acting Chairman of the 3rd Defendant, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

12. AN ORDER, forthwith directing the 4th Defendant, Ibrahim Magu, to vacate, relinquish and surrender his office as Acting Chairman of the 3rd Defendant, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

In his letter to the Senate Clerk dated 2nd January, 2017, the Lawyer informed the Senate of the institution of the matter thus:

"It is my humble believe that now that a Court of competent jurisdiction is siesed of this sensitive matter, the Distinguish Senate would allow itself to be persuaded by the ancient doctrines of lis pendis/ sub-judice and accordingly stay action on the said letter requesting for the re-nomination of Mr. Ibrahim Mustapha Magu pending the determination of the Originating Summons already filed against him."


No date has been fixed for the hearing of the matter.

Contact your attorney.

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More troubles have come the way of the Acting Chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu Mustapha as an Abuja based Constitutional Lawyer has filed fresh Originating Summons on Thursday 2nd March seeking to restrain the Senate from confirming his appointment as the substantive Chairman. The plot against Magu’s confirmation thickens day by day and there are indications that in no time, he will lose the long-drawn battle he is waging against many powerful forces bent on ending his career at the foremost anti-graft agency.

In his letter to the Senate dated the 2nd of March, 2017, the Lawyer, Barrister JOHNMARY CHUKWUKASI JIDEOBI, explained the rational for his legal action thus;
“Given the grave security reasons (which has neither been tested in any court nor vacated) on which the Distinguished Senate rested its decision to reject Mr. Ibrahim magu’s nomination, I have approached the Federal High Court (Abuja Division) in suit no FHC/ABJ/CS/159/17 to challenge the powers of the Distinguished Senate to reconsider Mr. Ibrahim Magu. I am equally asking the Court to order him to give up the seat of the Acting Chairman of the EFCC which I strongly believe he is occupying illegally at the moment. Attached herewith and marked as “Annexure IMM1” is a copy of the said suit. The Distinguished Senate is the 1st Defendant in the said suit.”

The Lawyer therefore urged the Senate to stay further action on the letter transmitted to it by the President on the 17th of January, 2017 re-nominating Magu to be confirmed by the Senate as the substantive Chairman of the EFCC. His words;

“It is my humble belief that now that a Court of competent jurisdiction is siesed of this sensitive matter, the Distinguish Senate would allow itself to be persuaded by the ancient doctrines of lis pendis/ sub-judice and accordingly stay action on the said letter requesting for the re-nomination of Mr. Ibrahim Mustapha Magu pending the determination of the Originating Summons already filed against him.”
The Defendants to the suit filed yesterday are: the Senate, the Attorney-General of the Federation, the Economic and Financial Commission and Mr. Ibrahim Magu. The Plaintiff is praying the Court, among others, for the following reliefs;

AN INJUNCTION restraining the 4th Defendant, Ibrahim Magu, whether by himself, his servants, agents or privies, or in any manner whatsoever from functioning in office as or from performing or continuing to perform the duties of or from holding himself out or parading himself as the Acting Chairman of the 3rd Defendant, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
AN INJUNCTION restraining the 1st Defendant, whether by itself, its respective members, its servants, agents, officers or privies from receiving, entertaining, countenancing, considering, deliberating upon or in any other manner acting upon any request, letter, application or demand for the approval, confirmation or endorsement of the 4th Defendant, Ibrahmi Magu, as Chairman of the 3rd Defendant, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
The Originating Summons is supported by a 23 paragraph affidavit.
In part of written address, the lawyer came down heavily on Magu in this telling words;

"By continuing to remain and act as the Acting Chairman of the 3rd Defendant despite his resounding rejection by the 1st Defendant, the 4th Defendant is rumpling the Nigerian Constitution. Has he got the powers to do that? The answer is a loud NO. Persons who are desirous of presiding over the agencies of government established by law cannot afford to be spiteful of the law and where they are found to be riding roughshod on the Rule of Law, a civilized society ought not to entrust them with a position of responsibility otherwise by their impunity and abuse of democratic ethos, an organized society may come to a sad end. The 4th Defendant should be told so in the clearest of language."
The matter is yet to be fixed for hearing.

It is more trouble for Mr. Ibrahim Magu Mustapha, as an Abuja based Constitutional Lawyer has today dragged him to the Federal High Court seeking for his immediate removal as the Acting Chairman of the EFCC and equally seeking an order of the Court stopping the Senate from further considering his re-nomination by the President as the substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

Joined in the suit as Defendants are (1) The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (2) The Attorney-General of the Federation (3) The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and (4) Mr. Ibrahim Magu Mustapha. In the Originating Summons marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/159/17, the Plaintiff, Barrister Johnmary Chukwukasi Jideobi raised one question of law for the Court to resolve to wit:

1. Whether having regard to the provision of section 2 (3) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act, 2004, the rejection by the 1st Defendant herein of the appointment of the 4th Defendant herein as the Chairman of the 3rd Defendant has not ended the roles of the 4th Defendant within the 3rd Defendant herein?

Against the answer that may be given to the above question, the lawyer is seeking the following reliefs from the Court;

A SOLEMN DECLARATION OF THIS HONOURABLE COURT, that under and by virtue of section 2 (3) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Establishment Act 2004, the 4th Defendant, Ibrahim Magu, cannot continue to function in office as Acting Chairman of the 3rd Defendant, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, after the decision of the 1st Defendant, The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which rejected the nomination of the 4th Defendant as Chairman of the 3rd Defendant.

2. A SOLEMN DECLARATION OF THIS HONOURABLE COURT, that the failure, omission or neglect by the 4th Defendant to vacate and relinquish his office as Acting Chairman of the 3rd Defendant, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, after the rejection of his nomination by the 1st Defendant, has disqualified him from further consideration for confirmation as the substantive Chairman of the 3rd Defendant by the 1st Defendant, The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

3. A SOLEMN DECLARATION OF THIS HONOURABLE COURT, that the 2nd Defendant, the Honourable Attorney-General of the Federation, and through him the Federal Government of Nigeria, are bound by the decision of the 1st Defendant, the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, rejecting the 4th Defendant, Ibrahim Magu, as Chairman of the 3rd Defendant, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and cannot continue to treat, recognize, deal with or deploy the 4th Defendant as Acting Chairman of the 3rd Defendant.

4. A SOLEMN DECLARATION OF THIS HONOURABLE COURT that the 4th Defendant, Ibrahim Magu, is not a fit and proper person to lead the 3rd Defendant, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, as its Chairman, either in its acting or substantive capacity.

5. A SOLEMN DECLARATION OF THIS HONOURABLE COURT the 4th Defendant, Ibrahim Magu, is not and cannot be the Acting Chairman of the 3rd Defendant, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

6. A SOLEMN DECLARATION OF THIS HONOURABLE COURT, that the 3rd Defendant, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, its servants and officers are bound by the decision of the 1st Defendant, the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, rejecting the 4th Defendant, Ibrahim Magu, as Chairman of the 3rd Defendant, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and cannot continue to treat, recognize or deal with the 4th Defendant as its Acting Chairman.

7. A SOLEMN DECLARATION HONOURABLE COURT that all actions taken by the 3rd Defendant, especially charges and information filed in various courts, during the period when the 4th Defendant, Ibrahim Magu, acted in excess of his legal term as Acting Chairman thereof, are illegal, null, void and invalid.

8. AN INJUNCTION restraining the 4th Defendant, Ibrahim Magu, whether by himself, his servants, agents or privies, or in any manner whatsoever from functioning in office as or from performing or continuing to perform the duties of or from holding himself out or parading himself as the Acting Chairman of the 3rd Defendant, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

9. AN INJUNCTION restraining the 3rd Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, whether by itself, its servants, officers, agents or privies, or in any manner whatsoever from holding out or parading, treating, recognizing or in any other manner dealing with the 4th Defendant, Ibrahim Magu, as its Acting Chairman.

10. AN INJUNCTION restraining the 1st Defendant, whether by itself, its respective members, its servants, agents, officers or privies from receiving, entertaining, countenancing, considering, deliberating upon or in any other manner acting upon any request, letter, application or demand for the approval, confirmation or endorsement of the 4th Defendant, Ibrahmi Magu, as Chairman of the 3rd Defendant, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

11. AN INJUNCTION restraining the 2nd Defendant, and through him the Federal Government of Nigeria, from holding out or parading, treating, recognizing, deploying or in any other manner dealing with the 4th Defendant, Ibrahim Magu, as Acting Chairman of the 3rd Defendant, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

12. AN ORDER, forthwith directing the 4th Defendant, Ibrahim Magu, to vacate, relinquish and surrender his office as Acting Chairman of the 3rd Defendant, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

In his letter to the Senate Clerk dated 2nd January, 2017, the Lawyer informed the of the institution of the matter thus:

"It is my humble believe that now that a Court of competent jurisdiction is siesed of this sensitive matter, the Distinguish Senate would allow itself to be persuaded by the ancient doctrines of lis pendis/ sub-judice and accordingly stay action on the said letter requesting for the re-nomination of Mr. Ibrahim Mustapha Magu pending the determination of the Originating Summons already filed against him."


No date has been fixed for the hearing of the matter.

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The Archbishop of Ondo Province, Anglican Communion, Rev Latunji Lasebikan, yesterday advised Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu not to be distracted by probing his predecessors.

Rev. Lasebikan said this in a sermon at a thanksgiving service at St. Andrew’s Cathedral Church, Owo Local Government.

The service was also to celebrate the 85th birthday of Akeredolu’s mother, Grace.

The bishop said the focus of the new governor should be on how he to fulfill his campaign promises.

Akeredolu, on several occasions, had said he would not probe the Olusegun Mimiko administration, adding that the law was there to punish any corrupt officer.

Rev. Lasebikan said: “Probe of successive administration, what do you make out of it? You get to an office, do your own job.

“President Muhammadu Buhari was to ensure that all those who mismanaged our money are brought to book, what have we got so far?

“The precious time he would have used to do better things has been wasted pursuing people who are unwilling to bend.

“The nation is suffering because of probe; probe has no meaning for anybody”.

The cleric, however, urged Akeredolu to ensure he clears all the seven months unpaid salaries left behind by his predecessor.

He said: “You should pay salaries; many of our people have not been paid, not only in Ondo State but in other parts of Nigeria.

“It is not good. A labourer is worthy of his wage and government needs to do something that the public will know that it is taking care of them, otherwise people will not respond to the politicians.

“I know recession has been a bad thing for the nation but there should be a way that workers are paid.“

Akeredolu, who commended those who were present, urged the people to always prophesy good things into their lives.

He assured the people that his administration will hit the ground running immediately.


Source: http://thenationonlineng.net/bishop-akeredolu-dont-waste-time-probing-mimiko-others/

Cc: Lalasticlala, Seun

www.odogwublog.com reports exclusively that the spiritual Director of Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry, Uke in Idemili North council area of Anambra State, Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Obimma, yesterday pleaded with the federal government to grant amnesty to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.He saw the incarceration of Kanu as an injustice and inequity from authorities that be.

He said that addressing various critical issues like injustice, marginalization and others which fuel the urge to secede would have far-reaching effect than holding other people captive. This was even as he took the anti-corruption war of Buhari-led federal government to the cleaners over lop-sidedness.

Fr. Obimma, popularly known as Ebube Muonso, expressed his views at the closing ceremony of a 33-day prayer march themed ‘’My Year of Divine Enthronement organized by his ministry which attracted about 1.5 million participants across the world. He preached from 9 pm to 9 am yet started attending to over 600 others who booked to see him after the prayer session.

Aside miracles and testimonies of open doors and great blessings from God with the 33 days crusade, deaf and dumb participants in the congregation including Paul Ukachukwu and Bernard Mmaduka received spiritual healing as both regained hearing and speech.
“The president is partial in his anti-corruption war. For him, the politicians in the ruling APC are saints but the ones in the PDP, APGA, and other political parties are corrupt. Let there be equality; let love lead Nigeria.”

Obimma a Catholic priest with Onitsha Archdiocese and Parish Priest of Blessed Iwene Tansi Parish , Umudioka ,Dunukofia also in Anambra lamented that with the exchange rate of dollar to Naira worsening by the day, many Nigerians are finding it very difficult to afford the basic requirements of living even as many industries and business are closing down every day.

“My message is for our country Nigeria whereby some people are under oppression. We say we’re one Nigeria but that’s only in words. I am advocating for equity, justice, and fairness.”

“And again, God has absolute power; holding other people captives just like Nnamdi Kanu who is languishing in prison. And everybody is passive about that even Ohanaeze Ndi-Igbo. Injustice is injustice.”

“I pray that the Federal Government will grant him amnesty. As you can see, there is hunger in the land. The president and others should alleviate hunger in the land. People are dying on daily basis. Prices of goods are skyrocketing. As a priest, I’m not happy when I see my flock suffer” he stressed.
‘’A man of grace shall never suffer disgrace because God has promised to release your promotion and anywhere you are tied down has been broken this night for your promotion to be released.
www.odogwublog.com reports further that Obimma said the message centered on ‘true promotion from God’’ raised over half a Billion naira from cheerful donors as sowing of seed for God’s continued mercies, blessings and grace since His blessings has no sorrow. The monies raised were for propagating Christianity through evangelism and Charity.
The Adoration ministry beside St Dominic’s Catholic Church Uke which witnessed an unprecedented crowd of pilgrims approximately 1.5 Million pilgrims since the inception of ministry had several testimonies of God’s healing and restoration to attendees even as warned against nepotism, corruption, tribalism and occultism in the country.

He said the congregation prayed and fasted for the success and progress of Nigeria and its inhabitants as according to him , once his children (referring to pilgrims in the Adoration) are happy and embarrassed with divine promotion, which
He said all the President Muhammadu Buhari should fight corruption entirely and not one sided where APC’s are sacred cows while other parties are corrupt, insisting that if the corruption fight is one sided, therefore the President is partial , appealing that justice , love and equity should be enthroned in the country for Divine promotion and elevation from God to be manifest.

He further encouraged those under intimidation and abject poverty that God will uplift them and change their situations if only they believe in the anointing of Jesus Christ on them for accelerated promotion and elevation.
Obimma warned those suppressing the poor and deprived yet they answer Honourable, wondering which kind of Honourable they were yet thrive in injustice and corruption and all sorts of evil , and temporary forgetting that God has the solution to every situation.

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More facts have emerged on how Rose Chukwu, an in­digene of Ebonyi State who was kidnapped, converted to Islam and forced to marry one Olatunji Sulyman from Kwara state.
Rose in an interview with The AU­THORITY in Abuja, revealed that she was made to loss her senses immedi­ately she drank a concoction given to her by an Islamic cleric-Alfa.
She revealed that the first few days she want to see Sulyman in Kwara State, she was taken to the Alfa who gave her the concoction to drink, after­wards she could not remember, nor call her family members again for a period of over 7 years.
According to her, it was when the concoction was beginning to lose its potency that she remembered that the people she was living all these years was not her family members. She then began to remember her family mem­bers and began to make moves to re­unite with her family.
Rose revealed that: “I was invited to Kwara State by Tunji. When I got there, he was just a friend. They then told me to visit one Alfa and that it is a process of turning me into a Muslim. I was shocked by the whole thing. All I could remember was that the Alfa gave me a concoction (agbo) which I drank. After that everything changed. I did not go home, I did not call home and I did not even have anything to do with my fam­ily for over 7 years.
“So, after everything started making sense to me, I then started looking for my sister and was planning to leave.
“When they discovered that I was planning to leave, they now told me that they want to get married to me and I insisted that I was not interested in the marriage.
“On December 12, last year, Tunji’s father called me and told me that he wanted me to stay. Because I was al­ready planning of leaving, consider­ing that I was the only person there, I cannot force my way even if I wanted to. I don’t have any family member in Kwara State, they are the only people I know there. I severally told Tunji that I was going to leave. But he usually re­plies me that I cannot leave in peace but rather in pieces. He vowed that ei­ther my people would come and carry my coffin or I would remain there. I know that he will make true his threat. I decided to lie low and strategies on whatever I want to do.”
She further explained that: “On De­cember 16, Tunji’s father called me again to the family house that there is an emergency. When I got there, ev­erybody was seated including the Alfa. They said that they wanted to marry me formally in an Islamic way. I told them that it was not possible because none of my family members was there. They said that it was not necessary that one Tunji’s uncle is going to stand for me. They then brought the man to stand for me as my father. I was in so much agony and told them that I am not going to be a party to this. One of his uncle then called me and advised me that the best thing I will do is to do whatever they told me to do, if not they may kill me. I was afraid for my life and that of my children. All that I could do was to do all that they wanted.
“After the marriage that day, I then left the place. But on December 20, Tunji then got married to another lady and on December 27, they left for Dubai for honey moon. I then picked all my things and my children and left.”
What amazed Rose most, according to her, was how the Tunji sent the po­lice to trail her wherever she ran to.
“His parents informed him that I have left. He then came back and start­ed using the police to threaten all my family members. He used the police to come and arrest my mother and my younger brother and everybody that was close to me. To my surprise, the police were just doing his biddings.
“When I discovered that my life and that of my children are not safe, I then relocated to Enugu. But to my utmost surprised, on January 27, I was in my house when some two gentlemen came in that they were from the FCT Police Command. They said that they came for my arrest. I then called my neigh­bours and told them to take care of my children and that they should not release them to anybody even if they come in the form of police. When they took me to the police command in Enugu, they police said that they or­der given to them was to lock me up. But after heated argument, they then rented a hotel for me to stay near the police command and the following day, they took me and my children back to Abuja.
“On reaching Abuja, they were plan­ning to detain me when my lawyer arrived and they left me on bail. They ordered the police man to follow me to my brother’s place where I was staying.
When I returned to the FCT com­mand the following day, they told me to go back and return the on Monday which I did. When I came, to told me to go back and bring my children in­sisting that, that was the instruction of the Commissioner of Police.
When I brought them, my child was kidnapped in the presence of the po­lice and they did nothing about it,” she noted.
However, Rose’s mother, Edit Chukwu, has raised the alarm that the acclaimed husband of her daugh­ter, Olatunji has for several days been threatening life.
She therefore called on the federal government and well meaning Nigeri­ans to protect her and her family from extinction as he has vowed to eliminate them.
“I am calling on the government and all well meaning Nigerians to come to my aid as strange people hover around my house in odd hours. I don’t feel safe.
“Tunji did not marry my daughter. Nobody gave her to him. He did not know where I came from . He is saying that I came from Adamawa, but that is not true,” she reiterated.


http://authorityngr.com/2017/02/I-lost-my-senses-after-an-Alfa-gave-me-some-concortions-to-drink--Ms--Chukwu/

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja and presided over by Honourable Justice Nyako, on Mondy, 13th February, 2017, granted an INTERIM INJUNCTION restraining the Inspector-General of Police from removing MISS ROSE PETER CHUKWU from the jurisdiction of the Court pending the hearing and final determination of the Originating Motion on Notice.

Recall that the young lady from Ebonyi State was abducted by One Alhaji Olatunji Buhari Sulyman, who is the current APC Spokesman in Kwara State. The victim was abducted by the APC Chieftain since 2010 and forcefully converted to Islam and married off while her people were looking for her. She only regained her freedom in 2017 and was relocated to Enugu State for her safety. However, the influential APC Spokesman of Kwara State who promised to deal with the victim and her entire family members has been trying all the tricks in the book, using the Nigerian Police, to forcefully recapture his victim and reconvert her again.


See photos of the Certified True Copies (C.T.C.) of the enrolled Court Order.

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja and presided over by Honourable Justice Nyako, on Mondy, 13th February, 2017, granted an INTERIM INJUNCTION restraining the Inspector-General of Police from removing MISS ROSE PETER CHUKWU from the jurisdiction of the Court pending the hearing and final determination of the Originating Motion on Notice. Moving the EX-PARTE Motion, the Counsel to the Applicant, Barrister JOHNMARY C. JIDEOBI, prayed the Court, on behalf of the Applicant, for;

1.AN INTERIM INJUNCTION OF THIS Honourable Court restraining the 1st and 4th Respondents, jointly and severally, either by themselves, their agents, assigns, privies, surrogates, subordinates, Commands, or any other person or persons, howsoever named, acting under their directives, command or in their employ, acting from whatever part of Nigeria, from attempting to remove or removing the Applicant herein, by whatever means howsoever described or contrived, out of the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court pending the hearing and final disposal of the Originating Motion herein, or such other longer period as this Honourable Court may deem appropriate to order in the entire circumstances of this case, for the safety and preservation of the life and limb of the Applicant (which is gravely under threat).

In granting the application, the Court equally acceded to the Applicant's prayer for;

1.AN ORDER of this Honourable Court granting leave to the Applicant to issue and serve the Originating Motion and all other accompanying processes in this suit on the 2nd Respondent in Ilorin, Kwara State outside the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court at the following specific address;
Alhaji Olatunji Sulyman,
G50 Balogun Gambari Palace,
Ilorin, Kwara State.

The Court adjourned the matter to 27th March, 2017 for mention.

Recall that the family had earlier cried out in a petition to the Inspector-General of Police.

Below is a full copy of the Family's petition to the Inspector-General of Police;

THE FALSE IMPRISONMENT, FORCED ISLAMIC MARRIAGE AND FORCEFUL CONVERSION FROM CHRISTIANITY TO ISLAMIC RELIGION OF MISS ROSE PETER CHUKWU BY ONE ALHAJI OLATUNJI SULYMAN: A CALL FOR URGENT INVESTIGATION BY YOUR OFFICE

The above subject-matter refers.
We have been consulted and our services retained by the family of Miss ROSE PETER CHUKWUKU, an indigene of Ebonyi State of Nigeria but resident in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja prior to her disappearance.
Our client went missing some time in 2010 when she was last seen by her family. It was only in 2016 that the family of our client got a call from her whereupon she narrated her ordeal in the hands of one ALHAJI OLATUNJI SULYMAN whom she went to visit in Ilorin Kwara State and never returned.

Upon her miraculous escape from her captor, our client narrated her ordeal and painted a gory picture of how she was forced to take a concoction administered by a Muslim Cleric (Alfa) as part of the initiation process into the Islamic religion. After the said concoction was forcefully administered on her, her orientation totally changed and she saw herself doing only the bidding of her captor and his relatives.
This petition to your highly esteemed office is to specifically invite you to probe the roles played by the Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory (F.C.T.) Command, who deployed the men under his Command, to far away Enugu State on a mission that our client believes is aimed at forcefully handing her over to her abductors for purposes of re-converting her into Islamic religion and perpetuating the purported Islamic marriage to ALHAJI OLATUNJI SULYMAN.

We feel gravely bothered that the Nigerian Police instituted to protect rights amply conferred by the Constitution would be seen acting in circumstances suggesting an unfortunate collusion with a citizen to undermine the very constitutional rights the Force is created to protect. This has compelled us to join the Nigerian Police Force, the Inspector-General of Police and the F.C.T. Police Commissioner in a fundamental Human Rights suit instituted on our client’s behalf, at the Federal High Court, Abuja, in seeking damages for her rights that have been grossly trampled upon. A copy of the said Human Rights suit is hereby annexed as “Annexure GPC1” for your kind perusal.

We note with concern the mounting judgment debts against the Nigerian Police establishment and it is against that background that it becomes pertinent that your office takes urgent steps to speedily determine those officers within the Nigerian Police Force whose unprofessional conducts are mulcting the Nigerian Police Force into avoidable judgment debts thereby making a piecemeal of the current effort your admirable leadership is making to give our Police a new image that Nigerians crave for.

HUMAN RIGHTS SUIT:

In an originating Motion marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/69/2017, the victim claimed the following reliefs:

1. A SOLEMN DECLARATION of this Honourable Court that the forceful conversion of the Applicant from Christianity to Islamic religion by the 2nd Defendant in the manner detailed in paragraph (4) of the Affidavit evidence accompanying this Originating Motion is a gross violation of the Applicant’s fundamental right to freedom of religion trenchantly consecrated in section 39 (1) of the Amended 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

2. A SOLEMN DECLARATION of this Honourable Court that the Islamic marriage forcefully imposed on the Applicant by the 2nd Defendant in the manner captured in paragraph (4) of the affidavit evidence accompanying this Originating Motion is a gross violation of the Applicant’s fundamental human rights to freedom of religion, thought and conscience entrenched in section 39 (1) of the Amended 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

3. A SOLEMN DECLARATION of this Honourable Court that the unlawful captivity, servitude, isolation from family and relatives foisted on the Applicant by the 2nd Respondent herein, between the year 2010 and 2016, particularly as described in paragraph (4) of the affidavit evidence accompanying the Originating Motion, is a gross violation of the Applicant’s right to dignity of human person trenchantly guaranteed under section 34 (1) (a)and (b) of the Amended 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

4. AN ORDER of this Honourable Court restraining the Defendants jointly and severally, either by themselves or through their surrogates, agents, privies, assigns or any other person howsoever described acting on their behalf from attempting to abduct the Applicant for the purposes of forcefully taking her into captivity and servitude under the control of the 2nd Defendant.

5. AN ORDER of this Honourable Court restraining the Defendants jointly and severally, either by themselves or through their surrogates, agents, privies, assigns or any other person howsoever described acting on their behalf from further attempting to abduct the Applicant for the purposes of forcefully re-converting her to the Islamic religion and foisting the Islamic marriage on the Applicant (contrary to her consent and exercise of her free will) for the benefit of either the 2nd Defendant herein or any other person either in Kwara State or any part of the Federation.

6. AN ORDER of this Honourable Court commanding the 2nd Respondent to pay to the Applicant the sum of One Hundred Million Naira (100, 000,000.00) as damages for the wasted years of her life arising from her unlawful imprisonment, degradation of her humanity and worth in the society, loss of a good marital life which she could have enjoyed, incalculable psychological trauma, loss of a better standard of living if she had the freedom to pursue her higher education and many other irreversible losses visited on the Applicant by the inhuman conducts of the 2nd Respondent herein.

7. AN ORDER of this Honourable Court commanding the 1st , 3rd and 4th Respondents jointly and severally to pay the exemplary damages of One Hundred and Fifty Million Naira (150, 000,000.00) to the Applicant for the their collusion with the 2nd Respondent to overrun the constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights of the Applicant in harassing, intimidating and abduction of the Applicant from her Enugu residence with the purpose of foisting on the Applicant the Islamic religion and Islamic marriage contrary to her conscience and exercise of free will.

A human rights Abuja-based lawyer has warned The APC-led Federal Government of the growing impunity in the land especially as it regards the disobedience of Courts' orders by DSS, EFCC and others.

In an open letter to the National Chairman of the APC, John Oyegun, the Lawyer, the Lawyer, Barrister JOHNMARY CHUKWUKASI JIDEOBI, warned Chief Oyegun that "Power being transient, we must not forget that the Nigerian populace are taking stocks and in the evening of this Administration's tenure, Nigerians will necessarily assess the performance of your great party and one of the cardinal basis of such critical assessment is respect for the Rule of Law".

Below is a full copy of the letter.

OPEN LETTER TO CHIEF JOHN ODIGIE OYEGUN, THE NATIONAL CHAIRMAN OF THE ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS (APC).
DEAR SIR,

IN RE: CITIZENS NNAMDI KANU, COL. SAMBO DASUKI (RTD.) AND IBRAHIM YAQOUB EL ZAKZAKY: THE IMPERATIVE OF ENDING IMPUNITY BEFORE IT ENDS US.

The above subject matter refers.

Recall, Sir, that on the 17th day of December, 2015, the Federal High Court of Nigeria, sitting in Abuja and presided over by the Honourable Justice Ademola J., delivered a considered Ruling in an application brought by Citizen Nnamdi Kanu, the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) against the Department of State Security (DSS). The Court of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, on Tuesday, 3rd October, 2016, declared the arrest and detention of former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, as unlawful and arbitrary. The court also held that the further arrest of Mr. Dasuki by government on November 4, 2016 after he was granted bail by a court of law amounts to a mockery of democracy and the rule of law. An Abuja Division of the Federal High Court in December, 2016 ordered the release of the leader of the Shi’a Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. Not minding that the forty-five (45) day period required for the government to comply with order has elapsed, he is yet to be released.

In a constitutional democracy such as ours where the Constitution reigns supreme, the solemn pronouncement of the Court on any issue submitted for its adjudication is final and must command the unquestionable obedience of all parties to the suit who are bound by such pronouncement. Anything contrariwise represents invitation to anarchy, negates the Rule of Law, challenges entrenched democratic traditions and encyclopedically captures impunity. 

Sir, I wish to sadly bring to your notice that the Order of Court made against the DSS since the 17th day of December, 2015 has not been obeyed. The same goes for the Orders of release made in favour of Col. Dasuki (Rtd) by different courts including the ECOWAS Court and Ibrahim Yaqoub El Zakzaky by Justice Kolawole of the Federal High Court. The statement I am struggling to make is that despite the unequivocal Order of unconditional release made by our various Courts, the State is yet to free the detained persons from custody. Nothing could better define impunity in excelsis than this brazen defiance of a positive solemn Order of a Court of competent jurisdiction; an attitude that has been roundly condemned severally by the Nigerian Supreme Court in tones of decided cases including but not limited to the well-known and often cited case of OJUKWU V. MILITARY GOVERNOR OF LAGOS STATE.

While it is true, Sir, that under our laws you do not hold any Constitutionally-recognized public office however, I have three solid persuasions that compelled me to write you and they are as follows;

(a) You are the National Chairman of the Ruling party, the APC, which promised Nigerians, during the electioneering campaigns, to end impunity if given the opportunity. God being so gracious, Nigerians have given your great party that rare opportunity and they are watching to see what your great party will make out of it.
(b) I am one of the millions of the Nigerian youths who were totally fed up with the Nigerian system under the past administration and who took it upon themselves to spread the message of change during the electioneering campaign in the hope that the prevailing old order of impunity would be buried once our message of change is accepted and the much awaited new order of Constitutionalism and Rule of Law would be speedily enthroned by the APC-led Federal Government. Our voluntary commitment and involvement to the Project of Change at the time was indeed at a grave personal cost and sacrifice which does not call for itemization in this letter. To this extent therefore, I consider myself a stakeholder, in my own wise, in this Change Project.
(c) I am proud to say that I share the same Catholic faith with you, which enjoins us to always make a positive difference in our environment, even in politics, by being Christ-like.

Flowing from the foregoing, you will agree with me, Sir, that a moral burden has crystallized on your shoulders and conscience to demonstrate to Nigerians, by your own showing, that the great party you ably pilot its affairs is indeed sincerely committed to ending impunity in the land in whatever form. The case of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has now presented your great party a golden opportunity to give flesh and blood to one of her campaign promises and walk the talk. By prevailing on the DSS to obey a subsisting valid Court Order against it, your great party will have passed this acid test and successfully shut up the mouths of her detractors. 

Sir, let me be clear on this, the time for you to use your undoubted influence to have Mr. President see reasons why he should make sure that this subsisting Court Order is obeyed by the DSS is now. Indeed, the integrity and dignity of our Constitution (the most sacred document binding us together) is now hanging on the balance. Power being transient, we must not forget that the Nigerian populace are taking stocks and in the evening of this Administration's tenure, Nigerians will necessarily assess the performance of your great party and one of the cardinal basis of such critical assessment is respect for the Rule of Law. Indeed, the prosecutor trying to get even with an accused, like Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, et al, has been described as a barren showmanship.

Finally, over and above party interests, it is my humble but considered view that the responsibility of deepening our democracy and ending impunity in the land is a shared one among all lovers of democracy and indeed all patriotic Nigerians. By so doing, we will be discharging the Constitutional duty imposed on us to act responsibly and live out the ideals of the Constitution. While it seems to be the turn of Citizens Mazi Nnamdi Kanu et al today, who knows whose turn it would be tomorrow. At this trying moment of our nation's history, we all must be guided by wisdom and never shall emotion and sentiment, no matter how intense, be allowed a casting vote in our decisions. Our democracy can only keep us if we keep our democracy. Our laws can only keep us if we keep our laws. History and experience have shown that anybody, no matter how highly placed, might be in need of the Court's protection tomorrow. We must therefore guard the sacred institution of the Judiciary very jealously.

We must learn to 'let justice flow like a stream and righteousness like a river that never goes dry' as enjoined on us by the Sacred Scripture (Amos 5: 24). As you find time to reflect on all this, Sir, I ask Our Blessed Lord to continue to bless you, enlarge your borders, make your tenure even more glorious, grant you soundness of mind and body so that aided by His special grace, we all can work for a more egalitarian and equitable society by courageously bending the arc of justice in favour of the weak, the poor, the oppressed and the less-privileged. It is in doing this that we all will end impunity before it ends us.

Please Sir, do graciously accept the assurances of my highest regards.

Yours in the Service of Humanity,


JOHNMARY CHUKWUKASI JIDEOBI, Esq.

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Seven years after she was allegedly forced into marriage and converted to Islam, Rose Peter Chukwu, then a teen­ager from Ebonyi State, is fighting the worst battle of her life in the hands of the police and her claimed hus­band, Alhaji Olatunji Suly­man, from Kwara State.
Now a mother of two, Rose is detained with her four-year-old daughter by the Police on the alleged directive of her husband. Worse still, the whereabouts of her three-year-old son, who she was detained with in the police station, is un­known.
In the search for freedom, Rose escaped from her husband’s house, and faced with recurring threats, her family took her from the FCT to Enugu.
But on Wednesday, Janu­ary 25, 2017, the police from the FCT Command stormed Enugu, traced Rose and brought her back to Abuja where she is currently under police detention.

However, the Police au­thorities, who were contact­ed by The AUTHORITY on Rose and her children’s ordeal, claimed ignorance of the mat­ter.
The only help that has so far come for Rose and her chil­dren is from lawyers from the chambers of Gold Standard Attorneys, Abuja, led by Mr. Johnmary Jideobi, who have petitioned the Inspector-Gen­eral of Police (IGP) over the ig­noble role of his officers in the notorious saga.
Appeals have also been made to Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State and his Enugu State counterpart, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi as well as other South East governors to rescue Rose and her children from their tormentors.
It is believed that Suly­man, the current spokesman of the All Progressive Con­gress (APC) in Kwara State is using his political influence in the matter.

The AUTHORITY learnt that Rose’s three-year-old son was kidnapped inside the po­lice station in the FCT by her traducers, leaving her with her four-year-old daughter.
Rose’s problems started when she was 17 years old and even now she is 24, she is yet to be out of it.
Moves by the police to free her have allegedly failed be­cause Rose insisted that her son must be returned to her before she could leave the po­lice station.

The AUTHORITY gath­ered that “in a miraculous twist of fate, by mid-Janu­ary, 2017, the victim escaped from the gulag of her captors and consequently, her family members who live in the FCT, relocated her to the South East for her safety.
In what family members described as a dangerous col­lusion between her captors and the FCT Police Command, the young woman was picked up in Enugu on Wednesday, Jan­uary 25, 2017 and hauled back to Abuja by a team of police of­ficers sent from the Abuja Po­lice Command.
Because of the imminent threat to her life, the family lawyers intervened and peti­tioned the Inspector-General of Police and also filed a fun­damental rights action before the Federal High Court where the victim is seeking N150 million damages both against the Police and her captors.
The lawyers’ petition read in part: “We have been con­sulted and our services re­tained by the family of Miss Rose Peter Chukwu, an indi­gene of Ebonyi State but res­ident in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja prior to her disappearance.

“Our client went missing some time in 2010 when she was last seen by her family. It was only in 2016 that the fam­ily of our client got a call from her, whereupon she narrat­ed her ordeal in the hands of one Alhaji Olatunji Sulyman whom she went to visit in Il­orin, Kwara State and never re­turned.
“Upon her miraculous es­cape from her captor, our cli­ent narrated her ordeal and painted a gory picture of how she was forced to take a con­coction administered by a Muslim cleric (Alfa) as part of the initiation process into the Islamic religion. After the said concoction was forcefully ad­ministered on her, her orien­tation totally changed and she saw herself doing only the bid­ding of her captor and his rel­atives.
“This petition to your highly esteemed office is to specifically invite you to probe the roles played by the Com­missioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Com­mand, who deployed the men under his command in Enugu State on a mission that our cli­ent believes is aimed at force­fully handing her over to her abductors for purposes of re-converting her into the Islamic religion and perpetuating the purported Islamic marriage to Sulyman.

“We feel gravely bothered that the Nigeria Police which is instituted to protect rights am­ply conferred by the Constitu­tion, would be seen acting in circumstances suggesting an unfortunate collusion with a citizen to undermine the very constitutional rights the Force is created to protect.
“This has compelled us to join the Nigeria Police Force, the Inspector-General of Po­lice and the FCT Police Com­missioner in a fundamental human rights suit instituted on our client’s behalf, at the Federal High Court, Abuja, in seeking damages for her rights that have been gross­ly trampled upon. A copy of the said suit is hereby annexed as “Annexure GPC1” for your kind perusal.”
However, when contacted, the spokesman of the FCT Po­lice Command, ASP Manzah Anjuguri, said that after care­ful findings he was yet to get to the root of the matter.
Asked whether there was a mild drama in any of the stations in the FCT where a three-year-boy got missing or kidnapped, Manzah said: “As I told you, I have carefully made findings across the command and have not heard anything of this nature. I will keep you updated whenever I get any information about what you are asking for, but as for now, to the best of my knowledge, I have not heard anything of this nature.”


Source: http://authorityngr.com/2017/02/Forced-Marriage-Conversion-to-Islam--Escapee-victim-Rose-Chukwu-daughter-detained

A 2 4 – y e a r – o l d woman, Miss Rose Peter Chukwuku, has told a heart-rending story of how she was allegedly abducted at the age of 17, forcefully converted to Islam and married without her consent. Chukwuku alleged that her friend, Alhaji Olatunji Sulyman, whom she had gone to visit in Kwara State to visit, had forced her into a marriage.

She further alleged that her four-year-old son, who is a product of the alleged forced union, was taken from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command of the Police, by Alhaji Sulyman. The allegations were, however, denied by Sulyman, who insisted that the claims made by her were all false. In an exclusive interview with Sunday Telegraph, Rose said: “When we got (t)here, he laid so many allegations against me, that I stole his car, which I have documents here in my name.

He said I kidnapped his children and used them for money-ritual. He said he opened a shop of N10million for me, and I brought every receipt of every good in my shop that I opened. “And he also said that I broke his safe and took his N2million. When I came there, I confronted him with the allegation, he could not say anything…

“And, I told the police that this is what I have been facing. And they wrote a petition to the Commissioner of Police at the Command, telling him what is happening. I thought with this the police would safeguard my life and those of my children.”

She continued: “But, to my greatest surprise, yesterday (January 30), my children were in my brother’s house…I left them and came to the police station. “On reaching there, they said that I had to go back and bring the children. I tried to explain that it was becoming too stressful for these little children – one is four years and the other is five years.

“When the police insisted I must bring them, I went back to my brother’s house to bring them to the FCT Command. When we got there, we went to meet with the Commissioner of Police, who was preaching peace, asking that I made peace with him (Alhaji Sulyman) for the sake of my children. “And, as an elderly man, I respected him. He asked me for my position on the matter. And I told him that he (Tunji) had tortured me so much, that I’m not ready to spend even a single hour with him. “And, that I was not going to Kwara, because my life is not safe there. To my greatest surprise, when we left there, he (Tunji) went into the office of the CP.

When he came back, he said ‘let’s go, let’s go’.” Rose further disclosed that: “The next thing I was told was that they had already transferred the case to the police authorities in Kwara State. But I told them that I was not going anywhere. I was delaying there to see that my lawyer would come; they said I should go up to see the DC. “When I came down, my son was missing; he (Tunji) took my son and ran away. I went to the DC to report the case and the DC kept calling his number, but he was not picking.

The next thing, his phone was switched-off. “I was telling the DC that if I cannot get justice in the police station; if my son could get missing in a police station, will I even safe going back to Ilorin with him? I cannot find my son, and the police went to the airport this morning (January 31) to check if he boarded the flight to Kwara State, nothing was discovered. My life is not safe at all.”

Meanwhile, Sulyan, whom Sunday Telegraph had sent a text to for response, had called at about 9:30pm on Friday, to acknowledge receipt of the text. Before the several network interruptions, he had said he was not calling to be recorded, but to say this newspaper, which he said is reputable, should not allow itself to be misled. He had maintained his innocence, while picking holes in all the allegations levelled against him by Miss Chukwuku.

He wondered why a responsible man that bought a “Toyota Matrix” worth over N10million could be alleged to have done all of that. He further maintained that he opened a shop for Rose, and could not have done what he was being accused of, more so that two children are a product of the relationship that is now in dispute. This was, as he said, the matter was already before the police and should be allowed to run its course. Several efforts made yesterday, to underscore the importance of his response failed, as his phone kept showing “number busy” throughout the period.

That was shortly after a dropped-call. However, Sunday Telegraph forwarded another text to him yesterday; a reply was still being expected as at the time of filing this report. In the same light, a reply to two text message forwarded to the FCT Police CP, was still being awaited as 6:40pm yesterday.

The PPRO, ASP Anjuguri Manzah, who had called to acknowledge a message from Sunday Telegraph, promised to check the details upon resumption of work. However, Chukwuku has approached a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja with an ex parte motion. In the application filed on January 27, 2017, the applicant is seeking an order of court “granting leave to the Applicant to issue and serve the Originating Motion and all other accompanying processes in this suit on the 2nd Respondent (Sulyman) in Ilorin, Kwara State outside the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court…”

A copy of the originating motion obtained by Sunday Telegraph showed that the applicant, through her counsel, Messrs Emmanuel Ukaegbu Akuma and John- Mary C. Jideobi, is seeking, among other reliefs: “A Solemn Declaration of this Honourable Court that the forceful conversion of the Applicant from Christianity to Islamic religion by the 2nd Defendant in the manner detailed in paragraph 4 of the Affidavit evidence accompanying this originating motion is a gross violation of the Applicant’s fundamental right to freedom of religion trenchantly consecrated in section 39 (1) of the Amended 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

She is also praying the court to compel the 2nd Respondent to pay her the sum of N150 million “as damages for the wasted years of her life arising from her unlawful imprisonment, degradation of her humanity and worth in the society…”

Other Defendants in the suit are the Inspector General of Police (1st), the CP, FCT (3rd), and the Nigerian Police Force (4th). No date has been fixed for the hearing of the originating motion.

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The troubles swirling around the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, may never be over yet as one of his closest Aides, one Alhaji Olatunji Sulyman, is now on the run after kidnapping a four year old boy from the Headquarters of the F.C.T. Police Command on 30th January, 2017. Recall that earlier last week, Sulyman, who abducted and forcefully converted an Ebony State Christian girl (ROSE PETER CHUKWU) to Islamic Religion since 2010, was busted after the lady escaped from her captivity.

While the Police was still investigating the circumstances leading to the abduction and forceful marriage of ROSE PETER CHUKWU under Islamic rite while she was still 17 by Olatunji Sulyman, the said suspect beat all the Police security arrangements and kidnapped the boy at the Headquarters of the F.C.T. Police Command.

Already,the Family of the victim are already crying foul as it is inexplicable how such a degree of security lapse could occur in place as fortified as the Headquarters of the F.C.T. Police Command. Accusing fingers are pointing at the F.C.T. Police Commissioner who is now battling to wriggle out himself from the saga as it was gathered that the Police has mounted a manhunt for the suspect.
As a result, a Law Firm, representing the victim's, GOLD STANDARD ATTORNEYS, has petitioned the F.C.T. Police Commissioner urging him to act fast so as to dispel the growing feelings of his complicity in the matter among the observing public. The Law Firm urged the F.C.T. Police Boss to quickly trace the whereabouts of the missing boy and promptly bring the kidnappers to justice.

Below is a copy of the Law Firm's petition to the F.C.T. Commissioner of Police.


31st January, 2017.
THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE,
FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY,
GARKI (OPPOSITE OLD C.B.N.),
ABUJA.
DEAR SIR,

CRIMINAL PETITION AGAINST ALHAJI OLATUNJI SULYMAN & TWO (2) OTHERS BORDERING ON CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY TO KIDNAP AND KIDNAPPING OF IBRAHIM SULYMAN FROM THE PREMISES OF THE F.C.T. POLICE COMMAND ON 30th JANUARY, 2017; BROUGHT UNDER SECTION 271, 272, 273 AND 277 OF THE PENAL CODE ACT AS APPLICABLE IN THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY, ABUJA.

The above subject matter refers.
We have been consulted and our services retained by the family of Miss ROSE PETER CHUKWUKU, an indigene of Ebonyi State of Nigeria but resident in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja prior to her disappearance.

Recall Sir that on the 30th of January, 2017, you met with MISS ROSE PETER CHUKWU together with her abductor, ALHAJI OLATUNJI SULYMAN in your office over the circumstances surrounding her escape from Kwara State and her subsequent arrest from Enugu back to Abuja by the men under your Command.

Further recall Sir, that as a consequence of the blatant violations of the Constitutional rights of our client (especially that of Fundamental right to Freedom of Religion), we successfully filed a Fundamental Human Rights Enforcement action on the 27th January, 2017 in a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/69/2017 before the Federal High Court, Abuja and eventually notified your office by a letter dated the 27th day of January, 2017 and received by your office on the same day. Recall, Sir, that in the said letter, we attached a copy of the Human Rights Enforcement action already filed before the Federal High Court for your proper guidance.

We note, that after presiding over the case on the 30th January, 2017, you declared in your office that the F.C.T. Command of the Nigerian Police Force does not have the requisite territorial jurisdiction to entertain the matter warranting the transfer of the case file to Kwara State Police Command. Upon the arrival of two Police Officers from Kwara State Police Command (who properly identified themselves to you), the three (3) year old male child of the victim (Our client) was handed over to the Police officers from Kwara by the Investigating Police Officer here in F.C.T. Command.

In a rather bizarre twist of event, the three (3) year old male child of the victim (our client) suddenly disappeared with ALHAJI OLATUNJI SULYMAN from the hands of the police officers from right inside the Headquarters of the F.C.T. Police Command without the police officers in whose custody the male child was kept being able to account for the whereabouts of the three (3) year old male child.

To the extent that the three (3) year old male child of our client disappeared from lawful custody without any trace, without the F.C.T. Police Command and the visiting Kwara State Police Command officers being able to account for the missing child, we have taken the considered view and come to the only reasonable conclusion that our client’s child has been kidnapped. We further hold the considered view that the kidnapping of the now missing child was either facilitated by the men of your command (acting in concert with their counterparts from Kwara State Command) or by an unknown criminal who perpetrated the act right within the F.C.T. Police Command where you superintend. Either of these possible hypotheses does not cast the Nigerian Police Force (F.C.T. Command) in a good light as it raises a big question mark on the professional competence of the Force. This calls for urgent and decisive action from your office so that the already mounting feeling of complicity on your part in this matter will not gain steam and currency among the observing public.

The seriousness with which we view this situation has compelled us to put at the disposal of the Inspector-General of Police (and other relevant stakeholders in the Human/Child’s rights community) a copy of this petition.

PRAYER:
In the light of the foregoing grave concerns justifiably entertained by our client, we are driven to make this unmistakable demand on your office:

1.That the Office of the Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory (F.C.T.) Abuja Command, speedily sets up an investigative panel to unravel the circumstances surrounding the kidnapping of the three (3) year old male child of our client from the custody of the Police within the premises of the F.C.T. Police Command on the 30th of January, 2017.

2.That all the Police officers who are in any way whatsoever found to be complicit in the kidnapping of the three (3) year old of male child of our client be speedily arraigned and prosecuted for the offences covered under sections 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276 & 277 of the Penal Code Act as applicable in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja (all of which border on kidnapping and the consequences flowing therefrom).

3.That the three (3) year old male child of our client (a devastated victim of unlawful abduction) be found and returned to her under Forty-eight (48) hours inclusive of the hour of the service of this petition on your office.

CONCLUSION:
It is our unwavering expectation that your office would robustly rise to the peculiar challenges thrown up by the present situation and demonstrate uncommon professionalism in overall interest of all the concerned parties.

source: http://www.odogwublog.com/2017/02/the-troubles-swirling-around-senate.html
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The troubles swirling around the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, may never be over yet as one of his closest Aides, one Alhaji Olatunji Sulyman, is now on the run after kidnapping a four year old boy from the Headquarters of the F.C.T. Police Command on 30th January, 2017. Recall that earlier last week, Sulyman, who abducted and forcefully converted an Ebony State Christian girl (ROSE PETER CHUKWU) to Islamic Religion since 2010, was busted after the lady escaped from her captivity.

While the Police was still investigating the circumstances leading to the abduction and forceful marriage of ROSE PETER CHUKWU under Islamic rite while she was still 17 by Olatunji Sulyman, the said suspect beat all the Police security arrangements and kidnapped the boy at the Headquarters of the F.C.T. Police Command.

Already,the Family of the victim are already crying foul as it is inexplicable how such a degree of security lapse could occur in place as fortified as the Headquarters of the F.C.T. Police Command. Accusing fingers are pointing at the F.C.T. Police Commissioner who is now battling to wriggle out himself from the saga as it was gathered that the Police has mounted a manhunt for the suspect.
As a result, a Law Firm, representing the victim's, GOLD STANDARD ATTORNEYS, has petitioned the F.C.T. Police Commissioner urging him to act fast so as to dispel the growing feelings of his complicity in the matter among the observing public. The Law Firm urged the F.C.T. Police Boss to quickly trace the whereabouts of the missing boy and promptly bring the kidnappers to justice.

Below is a copy of the Law Firm's petition to the F.C.T. Commissioner of Police.


31st January, 2017.
THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE,
FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY,
GARKI (OPPOSITE OLD C.B.N.),
ABUJA.
DEAR SIR,

CRIMINAL PETITION AGAINST ALHAJI OLATUNJI SULYMAN & TWO (2) OTHERS BORDERING ON CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY TO KIDNAP AND KIDNAPPING OF IBRAHIM SULYMAN FROM THE PREMISES OF THE F.C.T. POLICE COMMAND ON 30th JANUARY, 2017; BROUGHT UNDER SECTION 271, 272, 273 AND 277 OF THE PENAL CODE ACT AS APPLICABLE IN THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY, ABUJA.

The above subject matter refers.
We have been consulted and our services retained by the family of Miss ROSE PETER CHUKWUKU, an indigene of Ebonyi State of Nigeria but resident in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja prior to her disappearance.

Recall Sir that on the 30th of January, 2017, you met with MISS ROSE PETER CHUKWU together with her abductor, ALHAJI OLATUNJI SULYMAN in your office over the circumstances surrounding her escape from Kwara State and her subsequent arrest from Enugu back to Abuja by the men under your Command.

Further recall Sir, that as a consequence of the blatant violations of the Constitutional rights of our client (especially that of Fundamental right to Freedom of Religion), we successfully filed a Fundamental Human Rights Enforcement action on the 27th January, 2017 in a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/69/2017 before the Federal High Court, Abuja and eventually notified your office by a letter dated the 27th day of January, 2017 and received by your office on the same day. Recall, Sir, that in the said letter, we attached a copy of the Human Rights Enforcement action already filed before the Federal High Court for your proper guidance.

We note, that after presiding over the case on the 30th January, 2017, you declared in your office that the F.C.T. Command of the Nigerian Police Force does not have the requisite territorial jurisdiction to entertain the matter warranting the transfer of the case file to Kwara State Police Command. Upon the arrival of two Police Officers from Kwara State Police Command (who properly identified themselves to you), the three (3) year old male child of the victim (Our client) was handed over to the Police officers from Kwara by the Investigating Police Officer here in F.C.T. Command.

In a rather bizarre twist of event, the three (3) year old male child of the victim (our client) suddenly disappeared with ALHAJI OLATUNJI SULYMAN from the hands of the police officers from right inside the Headquarters of the F.C.T. Police Command without the police officers in whose custody the male child was kept being able to account for the whereabouts of the three (3) year old male child.

To the extent that the three (3) year old male child of our client disappeared from lawful custody without any trace, without the F.C.T. Police Command and the visiting Kwara State Police Command officers being able to account for the missing child, we have taken the considered view and come to the only reasonable conclusion that our client’s child has been kidnapped. We further hold the considered view that the kidnapping of the now missing child was either facilitated by the men of your command (acting in concert with their counterparts from Kwara State Command) or by an unknown criminal who perpetrated the act right within the F.C.T. Police Command where you superintend. Either of these possible hypotheses does not cast the Nigerian Police Force (F.C.T. Command) in a good light as it raises a big question mark on the professional competence of the Force. This calls for urgent and decisive action from your office so that the already mounting feeling of complicity on your part in this matter will not gain steam and currency among the observing public.

The seriousness with which we view this situation has compelled us to put at the disposal of the Inspector-General of Police (and other relevant stakeholders in the Human/Child’s rights community) a copy of this petition.

PRAYER:
In the light of the foregoing grave concerns justifiably entertained by our client, we are driven to make this unmistakable demand on your office:

1.That the Office of the Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory (F.C.T.) Abuja Command, speedily sets up an investigative panel to unravel the circumstances surrounding the kidnapping of the three (3) year old male child of our client from the custody of the Police within the premises of the F.C.T. Police Command on the 30th of January, 2017.

2.That all the Police officers who are in any way whatsoever found to be complicit in the kidnapping of the three (3) year old of male child of our client be speedily arraigned and prosecuted for the offences covered under sections 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276 & 277 of the Penal Code Act as applicable in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja (all of which border on kidnapping and the consequences flowing therefrom).

3.That the three (3) year old male child of our client (a devastated victim of unlawful abduction) be found and returned to her under Forty-eight (48) hours inclusive of the hour of the service of this petition on your office.

CONCLUSION:
It is our unwavering expectation that your office would robustly rise to the peculiar challenges thrown up by the present situation and demonstrate uncommon professionalism in overall interest of all the concerned parties.

source: http://www.odogwublog.com/2017/02/the-troubles-swirling-around-senate.html
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The troubles swirling around the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, may never be over yet as one of his closest Aides, one Alhaji Olatunji Sulyman, is now on the run after kidnapping a four year old boy from the Headquarters of the F.C.T. Police Command on 30th January, 2017. Recall that earlier last week, Sulyman, who abducted and forcefully converted an Ebony State Christian girl (ROSE PETER CHUKWU) to Islamic Religion since 2010, was busted after the lady escaped from her captivity.

While the Police was still investigating the circumstances leading to the abduction and forceful marriage of ROSE PETER CHUKWU under Islamic rite while she was still 17 by Olatunji Sulyman, the said suspect beat all the Police security arrangements and kidnapped the boy at the Headquarters of the F.C.T. Police Command.

Already,the Family of the victim are already crying foul as it is inexplicable how such a degree of security lapse could occur in place as fortified as the Headquarters of the F.C.T. Police Command. Accusing fingers are pointing at the F.C.T. Police Commissioner who is now battling to wriggle out himself from the saga as it was gathered that the Police has mounted a manhunt for the suspect.
As a result, a Law Firm, representing the victim's, GOLD STANDARD ATTORNEYS, has petitioned the F.C.T. Police Commissioner urging him to act fast so as to dispel the growing feelings of his complicity in the matter among the observing public. The Law Firm urged the F.C.T. Police Boss to quickly trace the whereabouts of the missing boy and promptly bring the kidnappers to justice.

Below is a copy of the Law Firm's petition to the F.C.T. Commissioner of Police.


31st January, 2017.
THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE,
FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY,
GARKI (OPPOSITE OLD C.B.N.),
ABUJA.
DEAR SIR,

CRIMINAL PETITION AGAINST ALHAJI OLATUNJI SULYMAN & TWO (2) OTHERS BORDERING ON CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY TO KIDNAP AND KIDNAPPING OF IBRAHIM SULYMAN FROM THE PREMISES OF THE F.C.T. POLICE COMMAND ON 30th JANUARY, 2017; BROUGHT UNDER SECTION 271, 272, 273 AND 277 OF THE PENAL CODE ACT AS APPLICABLE IN THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY, ABUJA.

The above subject matter refers.
We have been consulted and our services retained by the family of Miss ROSE PETER CHUKWUKU, an indigene of Ebonyi State of Nigeria but resident in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja prior to her disappearance.

Recall Sir that on the 30th of January, 2017, you met with MISS ROSE PETER CHUKWU together with her abductor, ALHAJI OLATUNJI SULYMAN in your office over the circumstances surrounding her escape from Kwara State and her subsequent arrest from Enugu back to Abuja by the men under your Command.

Further recall Sir, that as a consequence of the blatant violations of the Constitutional rights of our client (especially that of Fundamental right to Freedom of Religion), we successfully filed a Fundamental Human Rights Enforcement action on the 27th January, 2017 in a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/69/2017 before the Federal High Court, Abuja and eventually notified your office by a letter dated the 27th day of January, 2017 and received by your office on the same day. Recall, Sir, that in the said letter, we attached a copy of the Human Rights Enforcement action already filed before the Federal High Court for your proper guidance.

We note, that after presiding over the case on the 30th January, 2017, you declared in your office that the F.C.T. Command of the Nigerian Police Force does not have the requisite territorial jurisdiction to entertain the matter warranting the transfer of the case file to Kwara State Police Command. Upon the arrival of two Police Officers from Kwara State Police Command (who properly identified themselves to you), the three (3) year old male child of the victim (Our client) was handed over to the Police officers from Kwara by the Investigating Police Officer here in F.C.T. Command.

In a rather bizarre twist of event, the three (3) year old male child of the victim (our client) suddenly disappeared with ALHAJI OLATUNJI SULYMAN from the hands of the police officers from right inside the Headquarters of the F.C.T. Police Command without the police officers in whose custody the male child was kept being able to account for the whereabouts of the three (3) year old male child.

To the extent that the three (3) year old male child of our client disappeared from lawful custody without any trace, without the F.C.T. Police Command and the visiting Kwara State Police Command officers being able to account for the missing child, we have taken the considered view and come to the only reasonable conclusion that our client’s child has been kidnapped. We further hold the considered view that the kidnapping of the now missing child was either facilitated by the men of your command (acting in concert with their counterparts from Kwara State Command) or by an unknown criminal who perpetrated the act right within the F.C.T. Police Command where you superintend. Either of these possible hypotheses does not cast the Nigerian Police Force (F.C.T. Command) in a good light as it raises a big question mark on the professional competence of the Force. This calls for urgent and decisive action from your office so that the already mounting feeling of complicity on your part in this matter will not gain steam and currency among the observing public.

The seriousness with which we view this situation has compelled us to put at the disposal of the Inspector-General of Police (and other relevant stakeholders in the Human/Child’s rights community) a copy of this petition.

PRAYER:
In the light of the foregoing grave concerns justifiably entertained by our client, we are driven to make this unmistakable demand on your office:

1.That the Office of the Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory (F.C.T.) Abuja Command, speedily sets up an investigative panel to unravel the circumstances surrounding the kidnapping of the three (3) year old male child of our client from the custody of the Police within the premises of the F.C.T. Police Command on the 30th of January, 2017.

2.That all the Police officers who are in any way whatsoever found to be complicit in the kidnapping of the three (3) year old of male child of our client be speedily arraigned and prosecuted for the offences covered under sections 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276 & 277 of the Penal Code Act as applicable in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja (all of which border on kidnapping and the consequences flowing therefrom).

3.That the three (3) year old male child of our client (a devastated victim of unlawful abduction) be found and returned to her under Forty-eight (48) hours inclusive of the hour of the service of this petition on your office.

CONCLUSION:
It is our unwavering expectation that your office would robustly rise to the peculiar challenges thrown up by the present situation and demonstrate uncommon professionalism in overall interest of all the concerned parties.

Fifty Million naira bribe allegedly given to some government officials and market leaders in Anambra state has torn Building material International Market Ogidi apart. The traders are alleging that N15,000,000 to the Ezenwankwo leadership and another to Mrs Ilobi , a commissioner as well as others to some other officials including security agents thwarted their elections.

www.odogwublog.com reports that more than five hundred traders today protested what they tagged imposition of President General at the Building material International Market Ogidi , Idemmili North by the leadership of Anambra state Amalgamated Traders Association (AMATAS) led by Chief Okwudili Ezenwankwo.

Some of the protesters marched on to the state Secretariat to the office of the Commissioner for Trade, Commerce, Markets and Wealth creation, Mrs Amaka Ilobi, a lawyer while others marched to the office of the deputy Governor, Dr Nkem Okeke to lay their complaints.
Ilobi left her car and disappeared while the Permanent secretary assured them to take their matter to the right channel. They were still at the office of the Deputy Governor as at press time.

They had earlier boycotted the election of new leadership of Building Materials market Ogidi for non usage of Open secret ballot system against option A4 they adopted accusing the state government of doing nothing about the numerous petitions written them on the impending crisis if option A4 is used for election in the market against other elections that used open secret ballot system.
Addressing newsmen on their mission, the contenders to the said boycotted election Chief Paulinus Aniagboso and Chief Oragwa Paul accused the Ezenwankwo of creating crisis in the Building materials market for dancing to the wishes of the incumbent leadership which has stayed 10 years without account.

They alleged Ezenwankwo and the man he is plotting to continue to led the traders against their wish, Chief Jude Nwankwo (Jolicity) as well as outgoing President General of the market Chief Christian Okafor (Maku) of importing thugs into the election venue hence their insistence to use an alternative venue outside the market for the elections. They said the former Vice President Chief Uzoma Onyemachi is now contesting for the office of Treasurer.
Oragwa who was beaten blue and black with his clothes torn insisted that Jude Nwankwo who was immediate past Treasurer and Christian Okafor outgoing president as well as Amaka Ilobi , commissioner for trade and the DPO of collecting money put together at the range of over N50M differently to thwart the wishes of the people allegedly.

But Oragwa and Aniagboso appealed for a fresh election to be conducted for the traders as the two out of three contenders would not boycott an election yet puppets were sworn in as their leaders in a selection process against their constitution.
They wondered why a particular set of people who impeached a President General Austin Edozie since 2006 would be in leadership for 10 years without rendering any account or getting bored of leading the people even when they have never conducted any meeting for the led.
They lamented that all their petitions to the Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, SSG Prof Solo Chukwulobelu among other principal officers of government to avert the scenario did not yield any fruits. They said lives would have been lost had they not taken bold step to walk away from the market when they did , yet an aspirant was attacked.

They further alleged that there was no electoral body for the elections as they bought the forms from the outgoing Secretary General against the constitution. They wondered why their rejection of option A4 should be rejected by their opponents and the state authorities.
Ezenwankwo had dismissed the allegations but several attempts to have him speak to www.odogwublog.com proved abortive as at press time but he had earlier insisted the election would hold in the market with option A4 against the position of the other two contenders, a position the contenders saw as taking sides with the outgoing team against them.
The purported winner of the election Jude Nwankwo, who is the outgoing Treasurer for 8 years when contacted said he was busy in a meeting and noisy place that he would get back to our reporter.

In the several petitions to the Governor and other stakeholders by their counsel Nworie , Osili and co chambers signed by C.O Osili Esq and another by Lizzy Anyaonu for Elizabeth Anyaonu and Co, they demanded for open secret ballot for the election and for a venue that would assure their security but that was not attended to.

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Governor Dave Umahi and Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Ebonyi and Enugu state respectively as well as the South-East Governors are being called upon to prevail upon the Inspector general of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris to investigate the circumstances surrounding the abduction, conversion to Islam and forceful marriage of a teenager from Ebonyi state, Rose Peter Chukwu to Kwara state since 2010 to one Alhaji Olatunji Sulyman said to be the current Spokesman of the All Progressive Congress, Kwara State Chapter.

Already drama is playing out at the FCT police command as the 3 years old boy of Rose has been kidnapped inside the police station in circumstances depicting unholy collusion between the Police and the Alhaji, leaving her with her 4 years old daughter.
Rose was 17 years old when she was kidnapped and she is now 24 years old and has continued shouting that she would not follow them until her son is produced at the FCT police station.
A team of lawyers from Gold Standard Attorneys Abuja led by Barr Johnmary Jideobi have petitioned the IGP but his officers are conniving to thwart justice.

The Authority gathered that ‘’in miraculous twist of fate, mid January, 2017, the girl escaped from the gulag of her captors and her family members who reside in the F.C.T. decided to relocate her to the Eastern part of the country for the safety of her life. However, in what appears to be a dangerous collusion between the her captor and the F.C.T. Commissioner of Police, the young girl was picked up in Enugu on Wednesday 25th January, 2017 and hauled back to Abuja by a team of police officers deployed from Abuja by the F.C.T. Police Commissioner.

‘’Sensing the imminent threat to her life, the family Lawyer intervened by petitioning the Inspector-General of Police and equally filing a Fundamental Rights Action before the Federal High Court where the victim is seeking the damage of One Hundred and Fifty Million (150, 000, 000.00) damages both against the Police and her captor.

The lawyers petition read thus: ‘’We have been consulted and our services retained by the family of Miss ROSE PETER CHUKWUKU, an indigene of Ebonyi State of Nigeria but resident in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja prior to her disappearance.

‘’Our client went missing some time in 2010 when she was last seen by her family. It was only in 2016 that the family of our client got a call from her whereupon she narrated her ordeal in the hands of one ALHAJI OLATUNJI SULYMAN whom she went to visit in Ilorin Kwara State and never returned.

‘’Upon her miraculous escape from her captor, our client narrated her ordeal and painted a gory picture of how she was forced to take a concoction administered by a Muslim Cleric (Alfa) as part of the initiation process into the Islamic religion. After the said concoction was forcefully administered on her, her orientation totally changed and she saw herself doing only the bidding of her captor and his relatives.

‘’This petition to your highly esteemed office is to specifically invite you to probe the roles played by the Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory (F.C.T.) Command, who deployed the men under his Command, to far away Enugu State on a mission that our client believes is aimed at forcefully handing her over to her abductors for purposes of re-converting her into Islamic religion and perpetuating the purported Islamic marriage to ALHAJI OLATUNJI SULYMAN.

‘’We feel gravely bothered that the Nigerian Police instituted to protect rights amply conferred by the Constitution would be seen acting in circumstances suggesting an unfortunate collusion with a citizen to undermine the very constitutional rights the Force is created to protect. This has compelled us to join the Nigerian Police Force, the Inspector-General of Police and the F.C.T. Police Commissioner in a fundamental Human Rights suit instituted on our client’s behalf, at the Federal High Court, Abuja, in seeking damages for her rights that have been grossly trampled upon. A copy of the said Human Rights suit is hereby annexed as “Annexure GPC1” for your kind perusal.

‘’We note with concern the mounting judgment debts against the Nigerian Police establishment and it is against that background that it becomes pertinent that your office takes urgent steps to speedily determine those officers within the Nigerian Police Force whose unprofessional conducts are mulcting the Nigerian Police Force into avoidable judgment debts thereby making a piecemeal of the current effort your admirable leadership is making to give our Police a new image that Nigerians crave for.


‘’In an originating Motion marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/69/2017, the victim claimed the following reliefs:
A SOLEMN DECLARATION of this Honourable Court that the forceful conversion of the Applicant from Christianity to Islamic religion by the 2nd Defendant in the manner detailed in paragraph (4) of the Affidavit evidence accompanying this Originating Motion is a gross violation of the Applicant’s fundamental right to freedom of religion trenchantly consecrated in section 39 (1) of the Amended 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

A SOLEMN DECLARATION of this Honourable Court that the Islamic marriage forcefully imposed on the Applicant by the 2nd Defendant in the manner captured in paragraph (4) of the affidavit evidence accompanying this Originating Motion is a gross violation of the Applicant’s fundamental human rights to freedom of religion, thought and conscience entrenched in section 39 (1) of the Amended 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

A SOLEMN DECLARATION of this Honourable Court that the unlawful captivity, servitude, isolation from family and relatives foisted on the Applicant by the 2nd Respondent herein, between the year 2010 and 2016, particularly as described in paragraph (4) of the affidavit evidence accompanying the Originating Motion, is a gross violation of the Applicant’s right to dignity of human person trenchantly guaranteed under section 34 (1) (a)and (b) of the Amended 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

AN ORDER of this Honourable Court restraining the Defendants jointly and severally, either by themselves or through their surrogates, agents, privies, assigns or any other person howsoever described acting on their behalf from attempting to abduct the Applicant for the purposes of forcefully taking her into captivity and servitude under the control of the 2nd Defendant.

AN ORDER of this Honourable Court restraining the Defendants jointly and severally, either by themselves or through their surrogates, agents, privies, assigns or any other person howsoever described acting on their behalf from further attempting to abduct the Applicant for the purposes of forcefully re-converting her to the Islamic religion and foisting the Islamic marriage on the Applicant (contrary to her consent and exercise of her free will) for the benefit of either the 2nd Defendant herein or any other person either in Kwara State or any part of the Federation.

AN ORDER of this Honourable Court commanding the 2nd Respondent to pay to the Applicant the sum of One Hundred Million Naira (150, 000,000.00) as damages for the wasted years of her life arising from her unlawful imprisonment, degradation of her humanity and worth in the society, loss of a good marital life which she could have enjoyed, incalculable psychological trauma, loss of a better standard of living if she had the freedom to pursue her higher education and many other irreversible losses visited on the Applicant by the inhuman conducts of the 2nd Respondent herein.

AN ORDER of this Honourable Court commanding the 1st , 3rd and 4th Respondents jointly and severally to pay the exemplary damages of One Hundred and Fifty Million Naira (150, 000,000.00) to the Applicant for the their collusion with the 2nd Respondent to overrun the constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights of the Applicant in harassing, intimidating and abduction of the Applicant from her Enugu residence with the purpose of foisting on the Applicant the Islamic religion and Islamic marriage contrary to her conscience and exercise of free will.

Governor Dave Umahi and Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Ebonyi and Enugu state respectively as well as the South-East Governors are being called upon to prevail upon the Inspector general of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris to investigate the circumstances surrounding the abduction, conversion to Islam and forceful marriage of a teenager from Ebonyi state, Rose Peter Chukwu to Kwara state since 2010 to one Alhaji Olatunji Sulyman said to be the current Spokesman of the All Progressive Congress, Kwara State Chapter.

Already drama is playing out at the FCT police command as the 3 years old boy of Rose has been kidnapped inside the police station by his traducers leaving her with her 4 years old daughter.
Rose was 17 years old when she was kidnapped and she is now 24 years old and has continued shouting that she would not follow them until her son is produced at the FCT police station.
A team of lawyers from Gold Standard Attorneys Abuja led by Barr Johnmary Jideobi have petitioned the IGP but his officers are conniving to thwart justice.

The Authority gathered that ‘’in miraculous twist of fate, mid January, 2017, the girl escaped from the gulag of her captors and her family members who reside in the F.C.T. decided to relocate her to the Eastern part of the country for the safety of her life. However, in what appears to be a dangerous collusion between the her captor and the F.C.T. Commissioner of Police, the young girl was picked up in Enugu on Wednesday 25th January, 2017 and hauled back to Abuja by a team of police officers deployed from Abuja by the F.C.T. Police Commissioner.

‘’Sensing the imminent threat to her life, the family Lawyer intervened by petitioning the Inspector-General of Police and equally filing a Fundamental Rights Action before the Federal High Court where the victim is seeking the damage of One Hundred and Fifty Million (150, 000, 000.00) damages both against the Police and her captor.

The lawyers petition read thus: ‘’We have been consulted and our services retained by the family of Miss ROSE PETER CHUKWUKU, an indigene of Ebonyi State of Nigeria but resident in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja prior to her disappearance.

‘’Our client went missing some time in 2010 when she was last seen by her family. It was only in 2016 that the family of our client got a call from her whereupon she narrated her ordeal in the hands of one ALHAJI OLATUNJI SULYMAN whom she went to visit in Ilorin Kwara State and never returned.

‘’Upon her miraculous escape from her captor, our client narrated her ordeal and painted a gory picture of how she was forced to take a concoction administered by a Muslim Cleric (Alfa) as part of the initiation process into the Islamic religion. After the said concoction was forcefully administered on her, her orientation totally changed and she saw herself doing only the bidding of her captor and his relatives.

‘’This petition to your highly esteemed office is to specifically invite you to probe the roles played by the Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory (F.C.T.) Command, who deployed the men under his Command, to far away Enugu State on a mission that our client believes is aimed at forcefully handing her over to her abductors for purposes of re-converting her into Islamic religion and perpetuating the purported Islamic marriage to ALHAJI OLATUNJI SULYMAN.

‘’We feel gravely bothered that the Nigerian Police instituted to protect rights amply conferred by the Constitution would be seen acting in circumstances suggesting an unfortunate collusion with a citizen to undermine the very constitutional rights the Force is created to protect. This has compelled us to join the Nigerian Police Force, the Inspector-General of Police and the F.C.T. Police Commissioner in a fundamental Human Rights suit instituted on our client’s behalf, at the Federal High Court, Abuja, in seeking damages for her rights that have been grossly trampled upon. A copy of the said Human Rights suit is hereby annexed as “Annexure GPC1” for your kind perusal.

‘’We note with concern the mounting judgment debts against the Nigerian Police establishment and it is against that background that it becomes pertinent that your office takes urgent steps to speedily determine those officers within the Nigerian Police Force whose unprofessional conducts are mulcting the Nigerian Police Force into avoidable judgment debts thereby making a piecemeal of the current effort your admirable leadership is making to give our Police a new image that Nigerians crave for.


‘’In an originating Motion marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/69/2017, the victim claimed the following reliefs:
A SOLEMN DECLARATION of this Honourable Court that the forceful conversion of the Applicant from Christianity to Islamic religion by the 2nd Defendant in the manner detailed in paragraph (4) of the Affidavit evidence accompanying this Originating Motion is a gross violation of the Applicant’s fundamental right to freedom of religion trenchantly consecrated in section 39 (1) of the Amended 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

A SOLEMN DECLARATION of this Honourable Court that the Islamic marriage forcefully imposed on the Applicant by the 2nd Defendant in the manner captured in paragraph (4) of the affidavit evidence accompanying this Originating Motion is a gross violation of the Applicant’s fundamental human rights to freedom of religion, thought and conscience entrenched in section 39 (1) of the Amended 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

A SOLEMN DECLARATION of this Honourable Court that the unlawful captivity, servitude, isolation from family and relatives foisted on the Applicant by the 2nd Respondent herein, between the year 2010 and 2016, particularly as described in paragraph (4) of the affidavit evidence accompanying the Originating Motion, is a gross violation of the Applicant’s right to dignity of human person trenchantly guaranteed under section 34 (1) (a)and (b) of the Amended 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

AN ORDER of this Honourable Court restraining the Defendants jointly and severally, either by themselves or through their surrogates, agents, privies, assigns or any other person howsoever described acting on their behalf from attempting to abduct the Applicant for the purposes of forcefully taking her into captivity and servitude under the control of the 2nd Defendant.

AN ORDER of this Honourable Court restraining the Defendants jointly and severally, either by themselves or through their surrogates, agents, privies, assigns or any other person howsoever described acting on their behalf from further attempting to abduct the Applicant for the purposes of forcefully re-converting her to the Islamic religion and foisting the Islamic marriage on the Applicant (contrary to her consent and exercise of her free will) for the benefit of either the 2nd Defendant herein or any other person either in Kwara State or any part of the Federation.

AN ORDER of this Honourable Court commanding the 2nd Respondent to pay to the Applicant the sum of One Hundred Million Naira (150, 000,000.00) as damages for the wasted years of her life arising from her unlawful imprisonment, degradation of her humanity and worth in the society, loss of a good marital life which she could have enjoyed, incalculable psychological trauma, loss of a better standard of living if she had the freedom to pursue her higher education and many other irreversible losses visited on the Applicant by the inhuman conducts of the 2nd Respondent herein.

AN ORDER of this Honourable Court commanding the 1st , 3rd and 4th Respondents jointly and severally to pay the exemplary damages of One Hundred and Fifty Million Naira (150, 000,000.00) to the Applicant for the their collusion with the 2nd Respondent to overrun the constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights of the Applicant in harassing, intimidating and abduction of the Applicant from her Enugu residence with the purpose of foisting on the Applicant the Islamic religion and Islamic marriage contrary to her conscience and exercise of free will.

Another news emanating from Kwara State seems to show that the days of " ESE ORURU" may not go away soon. This was gathered from the petition received at the Office of the Inspector-General of Police to about the abduction (since 2010) of one MISS ROSE PETER CHUKWU who was forcefully converted to the Islamic Religion and forcefully wedded under the Islamic Rite to one ALHAJI OLATUNJI SULYMAN said to be the current Spokesman of the All Progressive Congress, Kwara State Chapter.

In miraculous twist of fate, mid January, 2017, the girl escaped from the gulag of her captors and her family members who reside in the F.C.T. decided to relocate her to the Eastern part of the country for the safety of her life. However, in what appears to be a dangerous collusion between the her captor and the F.C.T. Commissioner of Police, the young girl was picked up in Enugu on Wednesday 25th January, 2017 and hauled back to Abuja by a team of police officers deployed from Abuja by the F.C.T. Police Commissioner.

Sensing the imminent threat to her life, the family Lawyer intervened by petitioning the Inspector-General of Police and equally filing a Fundamental Rights Action before the Federal High Court where the victim is seeking the damage of One Hundred and Fifty Million (150, 000, 000.00) damages both against the Police and her captor.

Below is a full copy of the Family's petition to the Inspector-General of Police;

THE FALSE IMPRISONMENT, FORCED ISLAMIC MARRIAGE AND FORCEFUL CONVERSION FROM CHRISTIANITY TO ISLAMIC RELIGION OF MISS ROSE PETER CHUKWU BY ONE ALHAJI OLATUNJI SULYMAN: A CALL FOR URGENT INVESTIGATION BY YOUR OFFICE

The above subject-matter refers.
We have been consulted and our services retained by the family of Miss ROSE PETER CHUKWUKU, an indigene of Ebonyi State of Nigeria but resident in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja prior to her disappearance.
Our client went missing some time in 2010 when she was last seen by her family. It was only in 2016 that the family of our client got a call from her whereupon she narrated her ordeal in the hands of one ALHAJI OLATUNJI SULYMAN whom she went to visit in Ilorin Kwara State and never returned.

Upon her miraculous escape from her captor, our client narrated her ordeal and painted a gory picture of how she was forced to take a concoction administered by a Muslim Cleric (Alfa) as part of the initiation process into the Islamic religion. After the said concoction was forcefully administered on her, her orientation totally changed and she saw herself doing only the bidding of her captor and his relatives.
This petition to your highly esteemed office is to specifically invite you to probe the roles played by the Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory (F.C.T.) Command, who deployed the men under his Command, to far away Enugu State on a mission that our client believes is aimed at forcefully handing her over to her abductors for purposes of re-converting her into Islamic religion and perpetuating the purported Islamic marriage to ALHAJI OLATUNJI SULYMAN.

We feel gravely bothered that the Nigerian Police instituted to protect rights amply conferred by the Constitution would be seen acting in circumstances suggesting an unfortunate collusion with a citizen to undermine the very constitutional rights the Force is created to protect. This has compelled us to join the Nigerian Police Force, the Inspector-General of Police and the F.C.T. Police Commissioner in a fundamental Human Rights suit instituted on our client’s behalf, at the Federal High Court, Abuja, in seeking damages for her rights that have been grossly trampled upon. A copy of the said Human Rights suit is hereby annexed as “Annexure GPC1” for your kind perusal.

We note with concern the mounting judgment debts against the Nigerian Police establishment and it is against that background that it becomes pertinent that your office takes urgent steps to speedily determine those officers within the Nigerian Police Force whose unprofessional conducts are mulcting the Nigerian Police Force into avoidable judgment debts thereby making a piecemeal of the current effort your admirable leadership is making to give our Police a new image that Nigerians crave for.

HUMAN RIGHTS SUIT:

In an originating Motion marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/69/2017, the victim claimed the following reliefs:

1. A SOLEMN DECLARATION of this Honourable Court that the forceful conversion of the Applicant from Christianity to Islamic religion by the 2nd Defendant in the manner detailed in paragraph (4) of the Affidavit evidence accompanying this Originating Motion is a gross violation of the Applicant’s fundamental right to freedom of religion trenchantly consecrated in section 39 (1) of the Amended 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

2. A SOLEMN DECLARATION of this Honourable Court that the Islamic marriage forcefully imposed on the Applicant by the 2nd Defendant in the manner captured in paragraph (4) of the affidavit evidence accompanying this Originating Motion is a gross violation of the Applicant’s fundamental human rights to freedom of religion, thought and conscience entrenched in section 39 (1) of the Amended 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

3. A SOLEMN DECLARATION of this Honourable Court that the unlawful captivity, servitude, isolation from family and relatives foisted on the Applicant by the 2nd Respondent herein, between the year 2010 and 2016, particularly as described in paragraph (4) of the affidavit evidence accompanying the Originating Motion, is a gross violation of the Applicant’s right to dignity of human person trenchantly guaranteed under section 34 (1) (a)and (b) of the Amended 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

4. AN ORDER of this Honourable Court restraining the Defendants jointly and severally, either by themselves or through their surrogates, agents, privies, assigns or any other person howsoever described acting on their behalf from attempting to abduct the Applicant for the purposes of forcefully taking her into captivity and servitude under the control of the 2nd Defendant.

5. AN ORDER of this Honourable Court restraining the Defendants jointly and severally, either by themselves or through their surrogates, agents, privies, assigns or any other person howsoever described acting on their behalf from further attempting to abduct the Applicant for the purposes of forcefully re-converting her to the Islamic religion and foisting the Islamic marriage on the Applicant (contrary to her consent and exercise of her free will) for the benefit of either the 2nd Defendant herein or any other person either in Kwara State or any part of the Federation.

6. AN ORDER of this Honourable Court commanding the 2nd Respondent to pay to the Applicant the sum of One Hundred Million Naira (100, 000,000.00) as damages for the wasted years of her life arising from her unlawful imprisonment, degradation of her humanity and worth in the society, loss of a good marital life which she could have enjoyed, incalculable psychological trauma, loss of a better standard of living if she had the freedom to pursue her higher education and many other irreversible losses visited on the Applicant by the inhuman conducts of the 2nd Respondent herein.

7. AN ORDER of this Honourable Court commanding the 1st , 3rd and 4th Respondents jointly and severally to pay the exemplary damages of One Hundred and Fifty Million Naira (150, 000,000.00) to the Applicant for the their collusion with the 2nd Respondent to overrun the constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights of the Applicant in harassing, intimidating and abduction of the Applicant from her Enugu residence with the purpose of foisting on the Applicant the Islamic religion and Islamic marriage contrary to her conscience and exercise of free will.

SOURCE: http://www.odogwublog.com/2017/01/abduction-forceful-conversion-to.html

Another news emanating from Kwara State seems to show that the days of " ESE ORURU" may not go away soon. This was gathered from the petition received at the Office of the Inspector-General of Police to about the abduction (since 2010) of one MISS ROSE PETER CHUKWU who was forcefully converted to the Islamic Religion and forcefully wedded under the Islamic Rite to one ALHAJI OLATUNJI SULYMAN said to be the current Spokesman of the All Progressive Congress, Kwara State Chapter.

In miraculous twist of fate, mid January, 2017, the girl escaped from the gulag of her captors and her family members who reside in the F.C.T. decided to relocate her to the Eastern part of the country for the safety of her life. However, in what appears to be a dangerous collusion between the her captor and the F.C.T. Commissioner of Police, the young girl was picked up in Enugu on Wednesday 25th January, 2017 and hauled back to Abuja by a team of police officers deployed from Abuja by the F.C.T. Police Commissioner.

Sensing the imminent threat to her life, the family Lawyer intervened by petitioning the Inspector-General of Police and equally filing a Fundamental Rights Action before the Federal High Court where the victim is seeking the damage of One Hundred and Fifty Million (150, 000, 000.00) damages both against the Police and her captor.

Below is a full copy of the Family's petition to the Inspector-General of Police;

THE FALSE IMPRISONMENT, FORCED ISLAMIC MARRIAGE AND FORCEFUL CONVERSION FROM CHRISTIANITY TO ISLAMIC RELIGION OF MISS ROSE PETER CHUKWU BY ONE ALHAJI OLATUNJI SULYMAN: A CALL FOR URGENT INVESTIGATION BY YOUR OFFICE

The above subject-matter refers.
We have been consulted and our services retained by the family of Miss ROSE PETER CHUKWUKU, an indigene of Ebonyi State of Nigeria but resident in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja prior to her disappearance.
Our client went missing some time in 2010 when she was last seen by her family. It was only in 2016 that the family of our client got a call from her whereupon she narrated her ordeal in the hands of one ALHAJI OLATUNJI SULYMAN whom she went to visit in Ilorin Kwara State and never returned.

Upon her miraculous escape from her captor, our client narrated her ordeal and painted a gory picture of how she was forced to take a concoction administered by a Muslim Cleric (Alfa) as part of the initiation process into the Islamic religion. After the said concoction was forcefully administered on her, her orientation totally changed and she saw herself doing only the bidding of her captor and his relatives.
This petition to your highly esteemed office is to specifically invite you to probe the roles played by the Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory (F.C.T.) Command, who deployed the men under his Command, to far away Enugu State on a mission that our client believes is aimed at forcefully handing her over to her abductors for purposes of re-converting her into Islamic religion and perpetuating the purported Islamic marriage to ALHAJI OLATUNJI SULYMAN.

We feel gravely bothered that the Nigerian Police instituted to protect rights amply conferred by the Constitution would be seen acting in circumstances suggesting an unfortunate collusion with a citizen to undermine the very constitutional rights the Force is created to protect. This has compelled us to join the Nigerian Police Force, the Inspector-General of Police and the F.C.T. Police Commissioner in a fundamental Human Rights suit instituted on our client’s behalf, at the Federal High Court, Abuja, in seeking damages for her rights that have been grossly trampled upon. A copy of the said Human Rights suit is hereby annexed as “Annexure GPC1” for your kind perusal.

We note with concern the mounting judgment debts against the Nigerian Police establishment and it is against that background that it becomes pertinent that your office takes urgent steps to speedily determine those officers within the Nigerian Police Force whose unprofessional conducts are mulcting the Nigerian Police Force into avoidable judgment debts thereby making a piecemeal of the current effort your admirable leadership is making to give our Police a new image that Nigerians crave for.

HUMAN RIGHTS SUIT:

In an originating Motion marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/69/2017, the victim claimed the following reliefs:

1. A SOLEMN DECLARATION of this Honourable Court that the forceful conversion of the Applicant from Christianity to Islamic religion by the 2nd Defendant in the manner detailed in paragraph (4) of the Affidavit evidence accompanying this Originating Motion is a gross violation of the Applicant’s fundamental right to freedom of religion trenchantly consecrated in section 39 (1) of the Amended 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

2. A SOLEMN DECLARATION of this Honourable Court that the Islamic marriage forcefully imposed on the Applicant by the 2nd Defendant in the manner captured in paragraph (4) of the affidavit evidence accompanying this Originating Motion is a gross violation of the Applicant’s fundamental human rights to freedom of religion, thought and conscience entrenched in section 39 (1) of the Amended 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

3. A SOLEMN DECLARATION of this Honourable Court that the unlawful captivity, servitude, isolation from family and relatives foisted on the Applicant by the 2nd Respondent herein, between the year 2010 and 2016, particularly as described in paragraph (4) of the affidavit evidence accompanying the Originating Motion, is a gross violation of the Applicant’s right to dignity of human person trenchantly guaranteed under section 34 (1) (a)and (b) of the Amended 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

4. AN ORDER of this Honourable Court restraining the Defendants jointly and severally, either by themselves or through their surrogates, agents, privies, assigns or any other person howsoever described acting on their behalf from attempting to abduct the Applicant for the purposes of forcefully taking her into captivity and servitude under the control of the 2nd Defendant.

5. AN ORDER of this Honourable Court restraining the Defendants jointly and severally, either by themselves or through their surrogates, agents, privies, assigns or any other person howsoever described acting on their behalf from further attempting to abduct the Applicant for the purposes of forcefully re-converting her to the Islamic religion and foisting the Islamic marriage on the Applicant (contrary to her consent and exercise of her free will) for the benefit of either the 2nd Defendant herein or any other person either in Kwara State or any part of the Federation.

6. AN ORDER of this Honourable Court commanding the 2nd Respondent to pay to the Applicant the sum of One Hundred Million Naira (100, 000,000.00) as damages for the wasted years of her life arising from her unlawful imprisonment, degradation of her humanity and worth in the society, loss of a good marital life which she could have enjoyed, incalculable psychological trauma, loss of a better standard of living if she had the freedom to pursue her higher education and many other irreversible losses visited on the Applicant by the inhuman conducts of the 2nd Respondent herein.

7. AN ORDER of this Honourable Court commanding the 1st , 3rd and 4th Respondents jointly and severally to pay the exemplary damages of One Hundred and Fifty Million Naira (150, 000,000.00) to the Applicant for the their collusion with the 2nd Respondent to overrun the constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights of the Applicant in harassing, intimidating and abduction of the Applicant from her Enugu residence with the purpose of foisting on the Applicant the Islamic religion and Islamic marriage contrary to her conscience and exercise of free will.



Source: http://www.odogwublog.com/2017/01/abduction-forceful-conversion-to.html

An Abuja based Human Rights Activists, Barrister JOHNMARY CHUKWUKASI JIDEOBI, has descended heavily on the Country' Number one Man for what he termed "continuous silence of Mr. President, in the face of this unparalleled mass butchery by a demented sect" The Lawyer also has some unkind words for Governor El-rufai. Below is his full statement as found on his facebook wall.

DO WE HAVE A NATION? FOR THE KIND ATTENTION OF PRESIDENT BUHARI AND GOVERNOR EL-RUFAI

Few weeks ago, thousands of innocent and unarmed Nigerians were butchered, their farms destroyed and their houses reduced to rubbles in Southern Kaduna, Kaduna State, North-West Nigeria.

The President of Nigeria, who is the Chief Security Officer of the Nation, is yet to offer words of condolences to the bewildered bereaved. He is yet to publicly condemn the blood-chilling atrocities perpetrated by dare-devil elements who are known to and have been paid by the Governor of Kaduna State, El-rufai.

Suffice it to note that one of the reasons advanced by the Presidential Spokesman for the continuous silence of Mr. President, in the face of this unparalleled mass butchery by a demented sect, is that the State Governor was already on top of the situation. This is the same Governor that has paid the devil-incarnates to stop killing and despite the "appeasement money" they continued to massacre innocent citizens while turning the survivors into refugees in their own land.

MY TAKE AWAY: The greatest indictment on President Buhari and Governor El-rufai in these seemingly unending pogrom is that up till the present moment, no single suspect is standing criminal trial before any Court, either Kaduna State High Court or the Kaduna Division of the Federal High Court.
Pray, what kind of country are we running where, weeks, after the decimation of over One Thousand (1,000) citizens by non-state actors, no single soul is standing trial accounting for his atrocities against humanity. One is then forced to ask: are we running a Banana Republic or ghettos where gangsters reign supreme? What sort of democracy do the present leaders (the likes of Buhari and El-rufai) want to bequeath to the youths of today who will take over from them? What exactly is the value placed on a Nigerian life by the Nigerian society and Government, perhaps, two a kobo?

What kind of future are the likes of Buhari and El-rufai envisaging for this great Nation? Are they building a nation where people will be at liberty to cut off people's heads at will and then life goes on without consequences?

WARNING: Yesterday, it was Agatu, Plataeu, Nassarawa, Nimbo in Enugu State and Southern Kaduna. Who knows where it will happen next and who the next victim(s) would be.
In all of this, it must be REMEMBERED that "THE GREATEST INCITEMENT TO CRIME IS THE HOPE/CERTAINTY OF ESCAPING PUNISHMENT".

END: In the end, as leaders and security officers, after rendering our account of stewardship here on earth (or even if we manage to escape earthly justice as usually is the case in the Nigerian Criminal justice system), we will appear, with our stewardship score-card, before the most incorruptible Judge whose judgment alone is flawless, unchanging and eternal. And I rightly imagine that all those who have conspired (using their privileged position) to lure people to their untimely grave (by giving them a FALSE sense of security), would face the awful wrath of God Almighty. In the end, we all are dust and will return to dust. In the end, all earthly power and government authority will come to an end as they are transient and ephemeral. In the end, the souls of the just will enjoy eternally in God's paradise. In the end, the souls of those who have practiced wickedness will find eternal abode with the devil.

PRAYER: May the souls of all those who have lost their lives in circumstances such as the one that prevailed in Southern Kaduna recently find solace, rest, comfort and peace in the bosom of Our God Almighty. And may Our most merciful God be pleased to graciously grant them kind admittance into His kingdom, Amen!

JOHNMARY CHUKWUKASI JIDEOBI, Esq.
24th January, 2017.

Source: https://web.facebook.com/jideobi.johnmary1/posts/1333136406744746

sugarbelly4:
A lady with the name, Rhoda Emmanuel, shared some photos of a burnt Samsung Galaxy phone, on Facebook, and explained how the exploded, nearly burning her son. Read post below


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Source: http://www.latestamebonaija.com/2017/01/lady-explains-how-her-husbands-samsung.html

Madam, I am an attorney dedicated to the protection of Consumer Rights. Inbox me and will sue Samsung and recover damages. Its absolutely a FREE service. truedemocracyfornigeria@gmail.com

igraman:
Hello,
Pls come to my aid.
My Mum died in 2009 and she has money in Skye bank.
Before she began the sickness that eventually led to her death I remember vividly that she sent me to deposit #50000 for her.
Since her demise none of us talked about it until very recently when the four of us met during Christmas.
We are sure she has money there, but we don't know her account details except the account name which is certainly her full name.

I was told if an account is not used for six years, it will be blocked.
Please is there a way we can get her account number, and the balance of the account. also what are the requirements to collect the money.
Thanks.

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