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I was reading all that with hope that something has been done.
I was disappointed. sycophancy is a problem.
Their colleague are organizing I stand with buhari March.

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You are still VERY CONFUSED!

*I never said the Police should/can force you to write a statement.... l only said they can detain you until you make your statement!
Both seem similar and obvious but are actually different things.
Getting a statement off the accused is a process which precedes arrangement in court. Its part of the "preliminary investigation" the Police do, before putting a case before a Judge!
But the accused can refuse to write a statement,... and the Police can "keep investigating" him while in detention, .....until they get a written statement!
Cunny-man die, Cunny-man bury am!

*True, 'Silence during trial' means a plea of "Not guilty" is taken against you by default ....... but that is just "A Plea".
The Judge will still go on with the trial and convict you, despite your silence, since you are already accused (Thats why l said your silence can be interpreted as "acceptance of guilt" in law (Not 'pleading guilty' .........as the two are 'procedurally' different)

*Olisah Metuh is not been forced to write a statement as you people are #Wailing.
He is under investigation (prior to been arraigned in court), writing a statement is part of that investigation and the Police are at Liberty to "continue to investigate him" till he writes his statement!
Cunny-man die, Cunny-man bury am!

Remember when you people said Nnamdi Kanu or Dasuki cannot be re-arrested because a court has ordered their release?
When we told you to "calm down" because Prosecutors are also getting smarter, under this Government of "Zero tolerance for Corruption"!
Now, the "desired" is being achieved without flouting a court order!
Cunny-man die, Cunny-man bury am!

Gone are the days when these Criminals think they can abuse the investigative and court processes.

Finally, while l dont like taking things "personal", l think your "written English and level of grammatical construct" is indicative of your "level and quality" of Education! Very Poor and way below someone l can engage!




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It is good that you agree that the state cannot force a statement out of a detained accused. That is what the EFCC is alleged to be doing now.

Silence during trial is risky and only good if the case is obviously flawed, but it's still a right and the Judge can acquit you if the crime against you cannot be proved despite ur silence.

If you idea of investigation is torture of an accused, then you need to learn more about. The voluntary nature of a statement is foundational. You haven't disproved what fayose is alleging and you don't have access to information more than him. If you have a different claim, present it and quit being ad hominem.
I can see how well you speak the English language.

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You are CONFUSED!

"Accused Right to silence" means "the accused has the right to remain silent ....UNTIL he/she has their LAWYER/LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE PRESENT".

Once your Lawyer is present (to advice you on what to say), you are then obliged to SAY/WRITE based on his "legal advice".

Note: Your Lawyer CANNOT even sit with you or write your statement for you....... but he can advice you BEFORE/AFTER you have made your statement.

Finally, imagine if every accused decides to "REMAIN SILENT FOREVER" (assuming that was to be the intent of that 'right to remain silent'), do you think that will stop a Judge from imposing sentence, ...just because the accused decided to remain mute?
The "law" made these provisions to protect an 'accused' but it is also aware that some accused may try to "abuse it" in order to pervert the course of the law!

Have you heard of the phrase that "Silence implies guilt/acceptance of guilt"?


I hope you will receive this "free education" l have given you and make the best use of it? I paid "good money"for my own education!



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Funny.
I don't think you can educate me more than I have been educated Cos you have no stuffs in ur statement above.
The right to silence is a constitutional right which is in two parts. the constitution section 35 sub 2 deals with it during and after arrest all thru the period of police custody. statement at the police station is discretionary and not a mandatory practice. forget what the police here do. You can keep silent all thru if you think it's not needed to give evidence because the police/prosecutor has all the burden to prove it's case against you and you.
Now section 36 sub 11 has to do with silence during the trial. it mean that the accuses can keep silence during trial. He can decide not to call a witness. and he is not compellable but competent to give evidence at trial.
While silence during plea taking will amount to a plea of not guilty recorded for u.
Mr Metuh is in custody. He has a right to keep silence and not be forced to make any statement what so ever. The EFCC has the burden to prove it's case and not force out evidence from an accused.

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You are as dumb as your Mr. Fayose!

In every country in this world, when "arrested", you are obliged to make a WRITTEN STATEMENT in respect of whatever the Police have ALLEGED against you.

Even if you write a single line to say "I DONT KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT".
Your statement is then presented to a JUDGE, in court. This is the first thing a Judge reads about you and any connection to the case.

That is standard procedure, Mr. FOOLISH FAYOSE.


FAYOSE AND HIS LIKES (like the poster above) SHOULD STOP RANTING AND PLAYING TOT HE "GALLERY OF THE FOOLISH ONES".

Nigerians know better.

In no distant time, Fayose and his #EkitiGate Criminals will also have their own day....very soon.



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Where did u learn your own?
where is the accused right to silence?
you people are forgetting your fundamental rights just 8 months into baba's assumption. we still have 3 years and to go o.

chucs:
This stu.pid governor should shut his mouth. Thesame goes to the person who quoted him. Seriously,youths of this country should start reading wide. There is no way this man will come out in a modern world and make such assertions because most people abroad know their law.

If you have a reservation to his statement, we will be happy to have a re-joinder from u. I see you are a broad and you know the law. hope its nigerian law?

arresa:
....but you just refused to show us credible facts to back up your bogus and pedestrian rubbish..

smh @ iPoDs

Somebody hasn't confessed that he lent pmb the money for his campaigns, or did the fund fall from the skies.
Nobody is confessing Cos nobody cares to know now.

jmichlins:
Taa shut up!!! You mean to tell us that Apc used the money meant for of soldiers to finance it's campaign These people don't know the families that lost their dad, husband, brother, sons because of the greed of few men. Apc is no saint but they are better than Pdp. Continue Mr President and don't mind detractors. Time will come when Apc will feel the wrath of justice and until then Pdp should Stfu

Coz you didn't know the unpaid salaries for upto 8 months and still counting now, when the funds were utilized for APC 's campaign.
Ask yourself, if Pdp used the arms money upto that amount and failed, how much did APC use and from where and won?

Impressive.
Good news from the US.

greenpasture:
It shouldn't be necessary for importers to go to Kano for any reason because the documentation system is online. If the CAC can process in Lagos I see no reason why Customs cannot do same.

Regarding purchase of machines the bank will purchase the machines in its own name and transfer ownership after loan obligations have been discharged. The bank will source the FX needed. Banks know where FX is located - believe me.

Regarding the cost of dollars, there is nothing that can be done about that in the short term. There is more dollar outside the normal economy than there is within it. Hence the anti corruption efforts. Over the next year or so I expect a stable dollar rate. With stability comes the ability to make strategic plans.

As regards the kano issue, I just told you the current situation. We both know what is ideal, but that's not what's on ground.
On the preference which u said is given to production. machineries, I thought what u meant before is if you want to do the exchange and transfer through inter - country transfer companies like moneygram. However what you stated above makes me think you want importers to pass through the commercial banks in the purchase procedure. This is not the common way, and it's mainly for those who don't have the purchase money complete with them.
As regards the high price of dollar, instead of decrease in its price which is the normal fallout of a restricted import in any country, it is the opposite. it's because we haven't buffered our internal sector to be self sustained.
Restriction of import should be after we have a viable alternative internally. So in the absence, there is panic buying and a forced one at that.

greenpasture:
There are easily accessible and sensible CBN micro SME 9% loans available for such purposes. Production machinery is also a preferred industry for FX purposes . Someone is going to do very well advising small businesses that need financing and export capabilities. People need to be informed not scared.

we started this discourse on the moving of the customs office down to kano. How it has adversely affected the trade.
we also highlighted the price of dollars currently as against naira, and how buying things abroad has been adversely affected at the point of payment and at the point of clearing.
When u want to transfer fund for the purchase of these machineries, the dollar price remains the same, and you need to travel back and forth to kano n lagos to clear ur goods.
In all these, will u still insist on a preference for raw materials and production machineries.

greenpasture:
I must disagree with your argument.

You hide the most salient point you make well inside your treatise. It is this - igbos have high exposure to the government's policies as they are the largest importers. You might also have correctly added that they are also prominent in retail.

This government is attempted the largest social engineering exercise ever undertaken in Nigeria's history; getting Nigerians to reappraise the true meaning of value creation. This means that Nigeria must move away from importation to production. I know that you understand this which is why the points you raise are curious. Nigeria has at best four months import cover in dollar terms. With oil prices plummeting it is entirely reasonably that the demand side is immediately prioritised and addressed (with the addition of palliative efforts for the most vulnerable) while medium and long term supply side efforts are encouraged.

You talk about the destruction of the Oshodi market in standalone terms without mentioning the evolution of such measures in Lagos since 1999. If you had done so, then it would not appear as sectional as you make it sound. We've had block makers protest the beautification of underpasses, okada protest their ban from highways, we've had houses demolished on the Lagos badagry expressway. All this because Lagos is taking in 600,000 people per annum. If Lagos is to continue to carry the dreams and aspirations of its inhabitants it must reinvent itself. This will come at a cost. Lagos cannot build future prosperity on spontaneous shanty town development.

The igbo are particularly well positioned for the new Nigeria. There are hectares of oil palm lying fallow in the SE as sons of farmers head to the city to trade. Oil palm prices are historically more robust than crude oil; Nigeria cannot even meet internal demand. Aba and other city only need a few production based incubators to help the garment and footwear industries build valid business models for the export market. Nigeria is being reinvented and we will all hurt for a while. Services such as banking are set for a historic bath. Nigerians need to familiarise themselves with the MTEF and the 2016 budget in order to align themselves with the new realities. Raising the spectre of tribal discrimination does not serve the interest of the Nigerian people, even if it makes good arm chair reading. With respect.

The garment n footwear industries in aba needs imported machines and garments types not made or found in Nigeria. Wouldn't you have advised Govt to take that into consideration, instead of a ur total affirmation?

Bigprozzie:
Ill informed, mostly asinine sub analysis by an attention seeker


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No decent Nigerian cares if any set of people are disproportionately affected.

1. The customs must be sanitized, Nigeria loses billions of dollars because of the corruption in the body. Importation of goods should not be the mainstay of the economy. Those brilliant igbos should start manufacturing the products they are currently importing

What of the raw materials needed for our local industries?
plans to reduce importation has always been waived with regards to importation of raw materials. That's why we have various import duties on goods depending on their availability and industrial needs. It ought not to be a blanket prohibitory policy.

I heard he has been released.

Op. I recommend for u "making marriage work" by Joyce meyer.

Good penmanship

Let's see if this ruling will be obeyed by the EFCC/FG

And Prof. Sagay didn't say anything about the current military styled government.

Don't support dictatorial tendencies anywhere. even in the name of fighting corruption.
The law is for all

ThePassingShot:
This has nothing to do with Buhari.

DSS man is a very badt guy. He has arranged many charges for Kanu and only charging him piece-meal instead of charging him once. In that way, Kanu will hardly escape from his grip easily.

Trust me, if this new judge releases Kanu, Daura already has other charges lined up to charge KAnu with.

It's the reason he got permission to hold him for 90 days. That way, he has not disrespected any court order.

PassingShot

the way you distinguished the DSS from the FG is legendary.
like 6 and half -a - dozen.

tuale4u:
K

B4 christmas. It was clearly stated.

Egbon, how market?

So where are we now?

IbokUtoroh:
Ok d refinery is up n running, can we now have fuel!
how will d refinery get its crude knowing fully well most of the pipelines supplying crude to this facility has long been vandalised.
i dont know who birth dis idea of buildng a refinery at a location whr thr is no port, waterway nor available resources!

It's for you to see how this country tries to balance natural inequalities

RockMaxi:

What is our problem in this country? We are the same set of people asking the govt to repair, now they have done that we are still shouting that the refinery is analogue based. Will the government be able to give a digitally controlled refinery that will equally satisfied those conditions under 7months.
I think criticism should be constructive and not otherwise.
The OP actually have some mischief up his sleeves when posting this article.

I see that you don't want the truth about this issue. even the ones the government doesn't want to tell you, somebody is telling u free of charge and u want to turn deaf ear.
The OP just told us why decades of refinery repairs hasn't helped us out of this conundrum of fuel scarcity.

sholatech:
She blames the Cbn Governor and not the administration?

Refusing to hit the nail on the head.

Ibime:
You dey mind these Nigerian eediots. Most are illiterates.

May their fathers leave them in debt like PDP did to Nigeria.

A Government that inherits massive debt in the face of dwindling oil revenue has no choice but to state the debt they were left in, especially when the previous Government looted us into debt instead of saving money when oil was $100 pb.

A government can never pay up its debt per tenure. Government is a continuum. GEJ met more debt than is the one currently debated. but it's not a subject of blame.
do u know how much in debt lagos state was as at may 2015?
Do u know how much in debt the US is now, and will be transfered to next government?
When this minister start making these kind of excuses, you start feeling the need to have a minister of petroleum proper and not the president.
This excuse is just a deflection to the question asked, cos he doesn't know what to say.

malachytochukwu:
APC members are yet to understand how PDP managed to take care of some of Nigeria's problems and yet was able to" loot" that much. Confused bunch of people.

Guy, we bear the same name and we reason alike.
APC doesn't know how Pdp took care of so much while looting comfortably. I think it's sublime economics which APC doesn't know of.

efilefun:
Some states in nigeria are really in Stone Age, all those states with little reports just don't know about it not that crime rate there is less, and Lagos got such percentage due to how civilized and updated people living there are

that is a wrong inference.
The crime rate in lagos is high Cos of the population and business activity and the get rich quick syndrome. it's not about civilization or computer age iss.
Also there is reportage of crime because most people in lagos are not from lagos, so as non indigenes, they depend solely on the state agency to have their grievances redressed, unlike in my village where I may have The matter resolved thru the traditional institutions.

I was watching tv yesterday and in one of our nigerian music video, I saw the girl dancing almost naked.
I had to ask myself, "do these popular musician ever marry the girls that do theSe dance for them?"

OP. Why do you bask yourself in misinterpreting the bible just to make front page?
Don't you realise that it will be better for you if a millstone is tied round ur neck and u are Cast into the sea? That is the fate of your type and many of the false teachers who glory in misleading people. The Bible teacher teaches with humility because his knowledge is spirit enabled, not by his own ability or property.
As to the two issues u highlighted, tithe is biblical, and before the law. Also the host of he'll and all contrary spirits are unleashed Cos they know the shortness of time, that's why living righteously and making heaven has become more difficult than it used to be, that's why u need to press into it.
And you need to deal with The pride of life.

omooba969:
I believe it's important to read & dissect the post, only then will you realise that one question needs asking( i.e ) :

Is Sun newspaper culpable knowing that the payment was a compensation?

But 9ja ppl will rather rush to conclusion on reading that money was received & not the purpose of such payment.

They can defend this payment successfully.
they had a cause against the then FG and they received a just compensation.
it's just that we don't want to know why the money was paid, we just want to know where the money came from.

The electorates can also write their will too.

Sanchez01:
Every state and region has its stereotype. Bendel may have been the composition of Benin+Delta, it still does not take away the fact that they were targets of the Eastern region then.
This, I found on wikipedia;



Why Ogbemudia has come out to narrate his ordeal at this point in time is what I don't understand

Apart from stereotype, a town is named by what it does.
The moral sense once u cross the Niger bridge is different. That's what I meant to say.
It's stereotype anyway.