The Kaduna State Police Command, said it arrested seven suspected cattle rustlers and recovered 273 livestock in Iche Village near Kasuwan Magani in Kajuru Local Government area of Kaduna state on Nov. 19.

The Deputy Commissioner (DCP) Department of Finance and Administration, Kaduna Command, Onah Sunny made the disclosure at a press conference on Wednesday in Kaduna. Sunny said the success recorded, was the success of Community policing.

“It is very important to let you know that, we are here today to showcase the remarkable achievements the Kaduna state Police Command recorded yesterday (Tuesday) by recovering 246 Cows and 27 sheep.

“The animals were suspected to have been rustled, and the arrest of seven suspects in connection to the crime,” he said.

According to him, the feat was achieved through community willingness to ensure safety and security of lives and property of well-meaning citizens of the state. Sunny said the Kaduna Command received reliable information that there were suspected rustlers trying to move rustled cattle in large numbers to location yet to be ascertained.

“On receipt of the information, the Command immediately swung into action and intercepted the cattle and sheep around Iche Village near Kasuwan Magani in Kajuru Local Government Area of the state. The operatives equally arrested the seven suspects, who are currently assisting Police in their investigation.

“Let me call on the Public in the State to rededicate themselves to the concept of civic responsibility to demonstrate personal and collective commitment in assisting the Police with timely and reliable information to be able to sustain the gain recorded and improve security in our communities in general.

“I want to assure you that the suspects will be prosecuted accordingly upon completion of investigation and the cattle will be handed over to the real owners with verifiable proof of ownership,” Sunny said.

The Centre for Social Justice on Wednesday faulted the 2020 budget presented by President Muhammadu Buhari to the National Assembly, stating that the fiscal document contained about N150.07bn expenditures that are “frivolous, inappropriate, unclear and wasteful.”

The group stated this in a report made available to our Correspondent by its Lead Director, Eze Onyekpere.

The report analysed the 2020 budget of about N10.33trn, which is currently before the National Assembly.

The group in the report called on the lawmakers to critically review the fiscal document in order to remove “all the expenditures that would not impact positively on the lives of the people.”

It recommended that many expenditure in the budget should either be slashed for being “too high” or removed for “being duplicated” in the expenditure of another agency of government.

Onyekpere noted if the recommendations of the report are implemented, it would save the country about N150.77bn.

Speaking on the report, he said that at a time when Nigeria has been rated as the poverty capital of the world,every item of expenditure in the federal budget should reflect the best value for money.

He said, “The executive budget is still suffused with projects described as meaningless jargons, words that have no fixed meaning, duplication of projects under different names; projects without locations and others that have nothing to do with the mandate of the ministry, department or agency which they are proposed.

“When the Ministry of Agriculture has a project on the promotion and development of the rice or wheat value chain, what exactly is the deliverable.

“The use of loose words like empowerment, capacity building, skills acquisition and upgrading without a contextual description of what the expenditure will achieve is simply not the terminal at to expend public resources.

“When the Nigerian Stores Products Research Institute in Ilorin is engaged in the construction of solar motorised boreholes in selected locations in the six geopolitical zones, supply of operations utility vehicles, tricycles, upgrade of stadia, an alarm cell should go off.

“What is the mandate of the research institute and how will the foregoing facilitate the realisation of that mandate.

He added, “Ministries like works and housing, water resources are suffused with too many projects which available resources cannot support and therefore the resources are so thinly spread.

“It is inappropriate to continue wasting money on projects that will not deliver results due to very thin funding. The funds are wasted and the people service no value.”

Giving a breakdown of some of the expenses that made up the unclear expenditure, the report said in the state house for instance, the sum of N526.23m which was allocated for replacement of vehicle spare parts and tyres was bogus and should be reduced by 50 per cent to N263.11m.

It added that the N4.06bn which was also budgeted for annual routine maintenance of the villa should be reduced by 50 per cent to N2.03bn.

“Annual routine maintenance cannot cost so much. And there is a second sum for maintenance of office and residential quarters.

The report also stated that the huge vote of N652.26m for concession of Ajaokuta Steel Company should be removed as such fund was not needed to concession the project.

A Lagos-based trader, Mrs Amuda Adeleke, Tuesday filed a suit at a Federal High Court in Lagos, against former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki for allegedly using her picture on campaign billboards without her consent.

Saraki was the Director-General of the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation for the 2019 General Election.

Joined in the suit marked FHC/L/CS/./19, are the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku, who was the party’s presidential flag bearer, and his running mate, Mr. Peter Obi.

Amuda, in the suit filed by her counsel, Kingsley Iheakaram, is claiming N45 million from the respondents jointly and severally as compensation for the “unlawful, unauthorised and unconstitutional use of her image by the respondents.”

The applicant is also seeking an order of the court directing the immediate withdrawal and destruction of the campaign materials containing her unauthorised images anywhere within and outside Nigeria.

She is also seeking a court declaration that the alleged unauthorised “use, publication and display of her image as advertisement” by Saraki as head of the Atiku, Obi Presidential Campaign Organisation constitutes a breach and an infringement of her fundamental right to privacy as enshrined, guaranteed and provided for in the 1999 Constitution.

The applicant in an affidavit in support of the Originating Motion averred that last December 4, agents of the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation (AACO) under the leadership of Dr. Bukola Saraki led a campaign on behalf of Atiku and Obi to Oyin Jolayemi Street Victoria Island, Lagos, to draw support for the candidacy of Atiku and Obi in the 2019 presidential race.

It was further averred that in the course of the campaign, AACO and and Saraki began to personally engage the individuals, traders entrepreneurs and other citizens on the said street including the plaintiff on their expectations in respect of the forthcoming 2019 general elections.

The plaintiff said during the interactive engagement, most of the individuals in the locality of the campaign including herself pledged support for Atiku and Obi due to the harsh economic situation in the country.

She further stated that during the interaction Saraki and his agents took photographs without informing her that they were going to put them to any use and that she did not think much of it, thinking the first respondent took the picture just to commemorate the event.

Adeleke said that it was afterwards that she started seeing her pictures being used on campaign Bill Boards both in Lagos, Abuja and other places in the country while people strated calling her from different places.

She added that sequel to the infringement on her privacy; she had to take time to explain to friends, relatives and well-wishers who had been inundating her with calls of the true state of affairs in regard to the unauthorised display of her image on billboards.

The plaintiff said all her friends who saw the advert said it portrayed her as a woman stricken by poverty that had lost all hope and was prepared to commit suicide.

However the respondents in their counter affidavit to the suit, while they all denied some of the plaintiff’s averment, said the Atiku and Obi did not meet the plaintiff physically or in any other manner in the course of their campaign in Lagos State and neither took snapshots or photographs with her.

The defendants stated that all matters of electronic/billboards campaigns were contracted out to Messrs AHC Production Limited and so she was contacted and interviewed by that company.

The first and second defendants said they were informed by Mr Tokunbo Omulekulo of the said AHC Productions Limited at the PDP office in Abuja that the name of the applicant is not Mrs Amuda Adeleke, but Tope Olukolu with GSM phone number 08035059775 which is the name she gave to Omulekulo during the interview as contained in the consent agreement she signed with AHC Productions Limited.

The Defendants averred that the applicant was so excited about this possibility of a change of government.

They claimed that the applicant, his friends and neighbours knew that their pictures were going to be used for electronic campaigns for Atiku and Obi and that each person’s used for the electronic campaigns advertisement were duly paid and made to sign an agreement before their photographs and names were used.

They urged the court to dismiss the suit.

Justice Ayokunle Faji fixed January 27, 2020 for further hearing.

THE Kogi State Governor and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Saturday’s governorship election, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, is leading with a very wide margin going by results announced so far by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Governor Bello is ahead of the other 23 candidates with over 200, 000 votes margin in 15 out of the 21 local government areas where results have been officially announced.

Bello got a total of 333,212 votes, followed distantly by Musa Wada of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with 101,469 votes.

The APC candidate’s highest win so far is from Okene Local Government, the council area of the incumbent governor where he got a total of 112,764 votes as against Wada’s 139 votes.

The governor also floored the PDP candidate in the Kabba/Bunu, the LGA of Kola Ologbondiyan, the party’s national spokesman.

APC polled 15,364 votes in Kabba Bunu while Wada who polled 8,084 votes.

So far, INEC is yet to announce results from six LGAs of the 21 LGAs in the state.

The collation officers are reporting that thousands of votes were cancelled as a result of violence in some polling units.

Meanwhile, the governorship candidate of PDP, Engr. Musa Wada and his running mate have rejected the result of the election.

Addressing newsmen in Lokoja on Sunday, he said results were being written to favour the APC.

He alleged that the deputy governor of the state, Chief Edward Onoja alongside security agencies, visited the collation centres where results were changed to favour APC.

He also lamented that APC rigged the election with the result of Kogi Central adding that PDP and him will challenge the result in court.

“The result is not a true reflection of what happened. The people of the state voted for PDP but APC changed the result to favour them.

“Results declared so far by INEC is a written result and we can’t accept that. Every single result was changed and we are going to challenge the election. The election is not a true reflection of what happened in the field.

“I am the candidate of the party and I don’t have to wait till they kill me. I have to cry out to the people of Nigeria to know that APC rigged the election.

UPDATES FROM 14 LG’s AS ANNOUNCED AT THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

OKENE LGA FINAL
APC: 112,764
PDP: 139

ADAVI LGA FINAL
APC: 64,657
PDP: 366

YAGBA/W LGA FINAL
APC: 7,868
PDP: 8,860

KABBA BUNU LG FINAL
APC: 15,364
PDP: 8,084

IDAH LG FINAL
PDP 13,962
APC 4,062

KORTO LG FINAL
APC 14, 097
PDP 9, 404

Senate
APC; 14,168
PDP; 9,786

IJUMU LG FINAL

Governor
Apc 11,425
PDP 7,586

Senate
APC 11,627
PDP 7,647

OLAMABORO LOCAL GOVT FINAL
APC: 16,155
PDP: 8,155

Okehi LGA FINAL.
APC 36,954
PDP 478
SDP 3, 095

Mopamuro FINAL
Governor
APC. 4,953
PDP 3,581

Senate
APC. 4,874
PDP 3,704

YAGBA EAST LGA FINAL

Governor
APC ; 6,735
PDP; 7,546

Senate
APC; 6,633
PDP; 7,745

BASSA FINAL
APC 10,876
PDP 10, 210

AJAOKUTA FINAL
APC-17,952
PDP-5, 565

OGORI MAGONGO LG FINAL
APC -3,678
PDP-2,145
SDP- 244

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