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Buhari picks nomination form, promises good leadership

By Agency Reporter

Monday, 6 Dec 2010

A Chieftain of the Congress for Progressive Change, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has promised Nigerians better leadership if voted as the country’s president in 2011.


Buhari made the promise in Abuja while picking the party’s expression of interest and presidential nomination forms.


In a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary of CPC, Mr. Dennis Aghanya, which was obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria, Buhari said he would offer the desired leadership if he emerged winner at both the party’s primaries and the general elections.


He thanked Nigerians for their solidarity and support, which, he said, he had enjoyed over the years. Buhari also assured the party members that victory was “definitely theirs’’.


He stressed the need for them to protect their votes so as to ensure that their dream of enthroning good leadership in the country was transformed into reality.


Buhari charged the party’s members to come together to ensure victory at all levels in the general elections.


The party’s National Chairman, Senator Rufai Hanga, assured Buhari of the party’s preparedness “to go into the 2011 general elections with all eyes wide open’’.


He said that the party’s leadership would do everything to fight election rigging and ensure that all votes court in 2011.


The statement quoted the Deputy Chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees, Dr. Sule Hamma, as saying that the party would not go to court after the 2011 general elections as it has resolved to end it all at the poll.


NAN reports that the expression of interest and presidential nomination forms were issued to Buhari by the party`s leadership at the cost of N500,000 and N5m respectively.

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20101206124698

Police boss in custody for murder

By Patience Ogbo

December 5, 2010 11:59PM

A middle-aged man, Femi Best, was on Sunday morning, allegedly shot dead by the Divisional Police Officer of the Olosan Police Station, Mushin, Kayode Ojaleponwa.

According to an eye witness, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the incident happened about 5.30am when Mr Best, who was driving his light blue Nissan Odyssey SUV, ran into the car conveying the police boss and his team at the Fadeyi Bus Stop. Mr Ojaleponwa, dressed in plain clothes, and driving his tinted Honda Accord car, pursued Mr Best as he drove away. Two other plain clothes police officers were also in the car with the police boss. Mr Best, also known as Femi Yahoo, was said to have driven to Onipanu and parked in front of the Onipanu Police Station. Persons at the scene allege that the police boss, on reaching there, brought out his gun and shot Mr Best in the head several times.

Mob reaction

Mr Best’s death caused pandemonium at the police station as heavily armed youth from the Agunbiade area of Shomolu invaded the station in protest of the murder. They also unleashed terror on commuters and other business owners in the area and held police officers hostage for close to one hour before the Rapid Response Squad, from the Alade and Bariga Police Stations, mobilised and disarmed the youth. “About 6.00am, we heard gun shots and the youth, numbering about one thousand, were moving from Agunbiade to Onipanu,” said Tokyo Jide, a resident of Shomulu. “They were chanting war songs that the DPO of the Olosan Police Station had killed Femi Yahoozee. Femi is a well known ‘Yahoo Man’ (Internet scammer) in Shomolu and he also belongs to the Eiye Cult (a secret confraternity). Femi’s girlfriend, who was with him in his jeep when the DPO shot him, said the police car chased them from Mushin down to Onipanu Police Station. She said it was the DPO that shot Femi several times.”

According to Mr Jide, the victim’s girl friend informed his friends and the cultists mobilised and come to the police station. “When the youth came, they saw Femi in a pool of his own blood and the police officers at the station tried to calm the youth that they were not the ones who shot Femi, but the youth will not be calmed,” he said. “They wanted to burn down the station, but the RRS police men arrived the scene and started shooting and throwing [tear gas] canisters into the air. They were able to free the hostage but peace is yet to be restored to Onipanu because the youth said they must revenge the death of their friend.”

Containing the situation

About ten patrol vans, with heavily armed police officers, have been placed at the troubled spot. Police officers have cordoned off the station, while movement in and out of the Onipanu Bus Stop have been restricted. A senior police officer at the scene, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Mr Ojaleponwa has been detained. “The DPO who shot the man has been arrested but I cannot tell you his name, because the case is under investigation,” he said. “Our concern now is to maintain law and order as the youth have threatened to burn down all the police stations at Shomolu. So we have beefed up security. People should not take the laws into their hands because it will cause more problem for the country.”

Frank Mba, the spokesperson for the Lagos Police Command, said the police is investigating the incident. “An officer attached to the command, accused of being the author of the crime, has been arrested and currently assisting investigators with the on-going investigation,” he said. “The body of the deceased has been deposited in a government morgue for autopsy. A team of senior police officers from the Command, led by the CP (Commissioner of Police), Marvel Akpoyibo, has since visited the scene of the incident. While commiserating with the family of the deceased, the Command wishes to reassure all concerned that the investigation into the incident will be swift, discreet and transparent.”

Mr Best is survived by a wife and kids.

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House postpones session with Sanusi

By Emmanuel Ogala

December 6, 2010 02:31PM

Lawmakers have postponed a session with CBN governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, until tomorrow.

Mr. Sanusi was expected to appear before a House of Representatives panel to answer questions regarding his insistence that 25.4% of the nation's overhead cost is spent on the National Assembly.

This is the second time Mr Sanusi's appearance before the law makers has been deferred. He was initially scheduled to appear before the lawmakers on Thursday. The legislators, however, called off that session after keeping the CBN governor waiting for about two hours in the office of the Clerk to the National Assembly. On that day, the lawmakers decided that rather than have the CBN governor appear before members in plenary, he should be made to appear before a select committee. This hearing is what has now been postponed until tomorrow.

Members of the National Assembly are enraged by Mr. Sanusi's assertion that 25.4% of the nation's overhead cost is spent on the national assembly.

Last week Wednesday, members of a Senate panel had tried to browbeat the CBN governor into admitting his numbers were wrong and issuing an apology. He however stood his ground.

It is not clear what the House hopes to achieve by having another hearing into the matter.

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