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The Senate thinks thy are above the LAW ,but soon Nigerians will start to tell u without the LAW we are nothing

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The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, has given the Director of Public Prosecutions of the Federation and the police a two-week ultimatum to prefer charges against suspects, who allegedly forged the Senate Standing Orders used for the proclamation of the current 8th Senate, The PUNCH has learnt.

The Senate Standing Orders 2015, alleged to be a forged version of the 2011 version, was used for the leadership election of the Senate, which produced Dr. Bukola Saraki as the Senate President and Ike Ekweremadu as his deputy, shortly after the 8th Senate was proclaimed on June 9, 2015.

Top sources in the Federal Ministry of Justice and the police headquarters confirmed that Malami had given the police and the DPP of the Federation, Mr. Mohammed Diri, two weeks to file charges against the suspected forgers.

It was learnt that Malami called for the file on the case last week and found out that the ministry had since July 29, 2015, some months before his appointment, recommended the prosecution of the yet-to-be-identified suspects.

The minister was also said to have discovered in the file that the ministry had requested the police to further investigate the case in order to unravel the suspects and the roles played by them in the case.

The sources confirmed that the suspects would be charged with criminal conspiracy, forgery, breach of official trust and unlawful assembly said to have contravened various provisions of Penal Code in about one or two weeks.

This confirmed The PUNCH’s exclusive story published on April 4, 2016, that the Director of Public Prosecutions of the Federation, had, on July 29, 2015, issued a legal advice for the prosecution of the suspects after considering the report of investigation submitted to him by the police.

The PUNCH had reported that the legal advice, addressed to the Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Criminal Investigation Department of the Force Headquarters, Dan’Azumi Doma, was received by the recipient’s office on July 29, 2015, the same date it was issued by the DPPF.

The document showed that it was issued in response to the report of police investigation, with reference number CB: 3514/XFQ/ABJ/Vol./23/17, which was sent to the Ministry of Justice by Doma, quoting the number given to the case by the police as FHQ/X/ABJ/SEB/365/2015.

The legal advice as reported by The PUNCH had sought further police investigation to unravel who played what roles in the forgery case in order to identify who to prosecute for flouting the various provisions of the Penal Code.

“When the minister saw all these in the file, he had to call on the officers in charge of the case and asked them to liaise with the police and come up with the charges within two weeks,” the source said.

One of the sources said the minister was patiently taking his time to take decision on the case because “he is aware that there are a lot of vested interests that are out to frustrate the case.”

The source added, “But I can assure you, in one or two weeks’ time, the minister’s decision on the case is going to be made known to the public and you will be impressed.”

Our correspondent had sighted the legal advice issued by the Federal Ministry of Justice with reference number, DPPA/ADV/258/15, recommending that some suspects, whom the police refused to name in their investigative report, should be prosecuted.

The legal opinion, which analysed the evidence thrown up by the police investigation, had indicated that the “leadership election, based on the forged document, cannot stand and it is null and void”.

The legal advice added, “Further investigation should reveal:

“Who authorised the promulgation of the Senate Standing Order 2015?

“Who published the Senate Standing Order 2015?

“Who approved the Senate Standing Order 2015?

“Who paid for the publishing of the Senate Standing Order 2015? and

“Who distributed the Senate Standing Order 2015?”

In addition, the legal advice recommended the yet-to-be-identified suspects to be prosecuted “for criminal conspiracy, contrary to provision of Section 97 of the Penal Code; forgery, contrary to Section 99 of Penal Code; breach of official trust and unlawful assembly contrary to Section 102 of the Penal Code.”

The legal advice also recommended that the various versions of the Senate Standing Orders since 1999 should be collected as part of evidence needed for the prosecution of the case.

When contacted on Sunday, Malami’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Salihu Isah, said he had no information on the case and requested to be given time to find out.

“I have not received any briefing on it. Give me some time to make inquiries about it,” Isah said.

The Force Public Relations Officer, Bisi Kolawole, an Assistant Commissioner of Police, did not respond to calls put across to her mobile by our correspondent on Sunday.

The police had investigated the alleged forgery of the Senate Orders following a petition by Senator Sulaiman Hunkuyi of the All Progressives Congress from Kaduna State.

The petition had alleged that some parts of the 2015 Senate Order were different from the one ratified by the 6th Senate and was used by the 7th Senate, as Standing Orders 2011.

The police had, during their investigation on July 6, questioned some members of the 7th and the 8th Senate as well as some management employees of the Senate, including the Clerk of the National Assembly, Alhaji Salisu Maikasuwa.

It was alleged that the 2011 version of the Senate Orders was secretly altered by some individuals to produce the 2015 edition.

The 13-page police report of the police investigation had confirmed that the amendment to the 2011 version of the Senate Standing Order to produce the 2015 edition was “criminally” done as it was carried out by only a group of senators.

The police report, however, failed to indict any particular person and also did not recommend anybody for prosecution.

The Deputy IGP, Doma, who was said to have signed the report, had recommended that the report be forwarded to the AGF to determine whether a crime had been committed or the alleged offence could be regarded as an internal affair of the Senate.

Source www.punchng.com/Senate-forgery-agf-orders-dpp-try-suspects/

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PUNCH Metro gathered that Eyitayo, who hailed from Oyo State and lived in the Iyana Ipaja area, was arrested on April 4, 2016, by the DSS operatives during an investigation into a syndicate that specialised in cloning the phone numbers of government functionaries.

Our correspondent learnt that at about 2am, the DSS operatives, said to have been accompanied by policemen and soldiers, stormed Aje Street, Pleasure, in the Iyana Ipaja area, in search of one Rilwanu, a suspect.

It was learnt that Rilwanu had gone into hiding, but his wife, whose name had yet to be known, led the operatives to the house of his best friend (Eyitayo), after which the deceased was arrested.

The family claimed that Eyitayo was taken to the DSS office, where he was allegedly tortured until he collapsed, leading to his death.

It was learnt that on April 6, the landlord of Eyitayo’s house, identified simply as Pa Shobiyi, was invited to the DSS Lagos office in Shangisha and was informed that Eyitayo had died.

It was gathered that the family members were later invited on Saturday, April 23, and the news of Eyitayo’s death was broken to them.

Speaking with PUNCH Metro, Eyitayo’s elder brother, Oyetunji, said although Eyitayo was Rilwanu’s friend, his brother did not deserve to be tortured to death because he was not the one the DSS wanted.

Oyetunji added that the deceased was preparing to get married in December 2016.

He said, “We suspect foul play. The DSS did not inform the family until April 23. Why did they hide his death from us? Every time I went there, they said the official handling the matter was not around and I could not see Damilare (Eyitayo). His death is painful. He was set to marry in December 2016.

“He was not a member of any syndicate. He was a friend to Rilwanu, and the suspect had fled knowing what he did. Damilare’s offence was that he was a friend to a suspect. Now, the DSS is begging us to leave everything to God.”

The family lawyer, Babs Animashaun, told PUNCH Metro that the family had submitted a request for a coroner inquest to the Attorney General, Lagos State Ministry of Justice, to know the manner and the cause of Eyitayo’s death.

He said, “We were informed that the deceased was arrested because he was a friend to a suspect that the DSS was interested in arresting. We were also informed that it was the wife of the suspect, after she had been beaten by the gun-wielding officials, that told them her husband was not around and led them to the house of the deceased.

“When the DSS operatives got to the deceased’s house, he was thoroughly beaten before he was taken away. We were informed that the deceased died same day in the DSS custody.

“We hereby request that an inquest be conducted into the circumstances of the death of the deceased to ascertain the cause and manner of death.”

The landlord, Shobiyi, said, “When the DSS officials called me to their office in Shangisha, they said Eyitayo died during interrogation. One of the officials asked me to find the deceased’s family members.

“About three weeks later, his family members were traced and we all went to the DSS office where they heard the news.”

The Lagos State DSS Director, Kunle Ajanaku, told PUNCH Metro that Eyitayo became violent and jumped out of the van.

He added that the DSS officials rushed him to the hospital for care before he died.

He said, “It is regrettable that the man died. We do not engage in extrajudicial killing. When you talk of the best practices in terms of human rights and how we detain suspects, the DSS comes near first.

“This is a syndicate that has been able to clone the phone number of a governor. The state government submitted a petition that all the suspects involved should be arrested and prosecuted.

“Some of the suspects were traced to the deceased’s house. It took surveillance and technicality for weeks to trace his place. Instead of him to cooperate with officials, he resisted and turned violent. When they managed to take him into the vehicle, he struggled and escaped from the van.

“He was pursued and in the process, he fell down twice. As a result of his violence, we handcuffed and chained him. When he was brought to our office here, we saw his condition and rushed him to the hospital. He died while in the hospital.

“We have sent the case file to the Directorate of Public Prosecutions for advice. We are ready to listen to the family. An autopsy will be conducted; we do not have anything to hide.”

Source www.punchng.com/family-tackles-dss-son-dies-agencys-coustody/

The Federal Government has set machinery in motion to uncover those behind the recent bombings of oil installations in the Niger Delta apart from the express directive to the military to halt the return of militancy in the region.

As part of the efforts in security and government circles to identify the masterminds of the attacks on the oil facilities, the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Brig.-Gen. Paul Boroh (retd.), has dispatched a team of investigators to the Niger Delta.

A new militant group in the oil-rich region, the Niger Delta Avengers, has claimed responsibility for the recent attacks on the SPDC platform at Forcados, the Chevron Okan platform at Abiteye in Escravos, and the pipelines transporting crude oil to the Warri and the Kaduna refineries.

The Chief Security Officer to the Amnesty Office, Lt. Col. Olusegun Okungbure, told our correspondent on the telephone on Sunday that the office was working with security agencies in the area of sharing information and intelligence on how to curb the sabotage of oil platforms in the region.

Okungbure stated that a meeting had also been scheduled between officials of the Delta State Government and stakeholders in the area on how to bring the attacks to an end.

He stated, “The Special Adviser has sent people to the region to see if we can identify the perpetrators of this act.

“Secondly, he has also condemned the attacks on all these oil platforms. He has also interfaced with the security agencies for the protection of the pipelines and security in the general area.

“Even as we speak now, we just finished a form of telephone conversation with the JTF Commander, who just returned from Delta State. These are some of the things we are doing.”

Okungbure added that the office had asked the ex-militants, captured under the Amnesty Programne, to assist in fishing out those behind the current attacks on the oil facilities.

He said the current attacks constituted a threat to the reputation of the 30,000 youths captured in the programme.

“We have even tasked the ex-agitators, the ones captured in the programme, that they should be able to fish out these people because their own reputation of embracing peace and accepting amnesty is being threatened by this kind of attacks.

‘‘I think everyone is well aware of the implications,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Defence Headquarters has warned that the military would not tolerate acts that constitute a threat to the nation’s existence.

The Acting Director, Defence Information, Brig. Gen. Rabe Abubakar, said in a statement on Sunday that the military would not condone acts that could cause a breakdown of law and order in the society.

He urged individuals or groups “seeking relevance” to embrace the stipulations of the law and to avoid brigandage.

Abubukar added, “The Defence Headquarters hereby warns that it will not condone any unwholesome acts by persons or group seeking to engage in acts that are capable of causing a breakdown of law and order in any part of the country.

“Citizens are advised to refrain from taking the laws into their hands and avoid actions that may cause a breach to harmonious co-existence.

“The DHQ also wishes to advise the general public to ignore inciting pictures, videos and statements posted on some social media platforms which are now confirmed to be the creation of Photoshop, with the intention of causing disharmony and divisions among different nationalities.”

He assured the citizenry of the determination of the military and the security agencies to sustain the tempo of operations against terrorists, oil thieves, cattle rustlers and other acts of criminality in the society.

The Defence spokesman advised law-abiding citizens to report suspicious persons and objects to the security operatives for immediate action.Senate.

Source www.punchng.com/pipeline-bombings-fg-deploys-teams-unmask-ndelta-avengers/

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That show how incomplete our police are here in ghana instead handcuff him to the bed

Which episode be this?

Those army need to back to sambisa

The authorities of the Nigerian Army have convened a Special Court Martial to try two senior officers of the service, Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Sani and Maj. Gen. Patrick Falola.

It was gathered that because of the status of officers involved in the court martial, the convening order for the court was personally signed by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai.

The members of the court who were sworn in by the Judge Advocate, Col. Saeed Musa, were the Chief of Policy and Plan of the Nigerian Air Force, (President), AVM Iya Abdulahi, Rear Admiral Peter Agba, and Rear Admiral Edwin Enechukwu.

A look at the constitution of the court sitting at the Army Headquarters, Garrison, at the Mogadishu Cantonment, Abuja, showed that no single Major General of the Nigerian Army was included as a member apart from the Judge Advocate whose responsibility “is to serve as a guide to the panel.”

A senior Army officer told our correspondent that the Air Force and Naval top shots were appointed as members of the high profile panel because it was a Special Court Martial.

While Falola was the Commander, 68 Hospital, Lagos, Isah was the Chief of Army Transformation and Innovation Centre until the Army authorities decision to post them for jurisdiction.

The accused persons are being ‘accused of offences bordering on service discipline.’

No specific offences were read out to them during the sitting as the military authorities had not drafted the charges for which the officers were brought to the court on Thursday.

After the swearing in of the officers of the court and the introduction of the counsel for the accused, the court adjourned sitting to May 9, 2016 to commence hearing into the case of Falola.

Shortly after the introduction of the members of the court, the two generals were asked if they had objection to the constitution of the panel to which they all answered in the negative.

A demand by the lead counsel for the prosecution, Lt. Col. Ukpe Ukpe, that the Judge Advocate should also put himself forward for the same procedure as was done by the members of the court was turned down in accordance with the stipulations of military laws.

The President of the court, AVM Gbum assured the parties that the trial would not be delayed in the interest of justice.

Gbum also directed the prosecution to serve the necessary documents on the accused or their defence team at least 24 hours before their arraignment in accordance with constitutional provisions.

The Court’s President’s directive followed an observation by the counsel for Sani, Capt. Chris Anuchem, that the charge sheet, the list of witnesses, the exhibits and other documents had not been served on him and his client to enable him to prepare for his defence as provided for by the law.

Counsel for Falola, Wing Commander Enokela Onyilo-Uloko (retd.), observed that since the court was expected to commence the trial on May 9, 2016, there was enough time to take care of the requirement that the accused be served with necessary documents in order to avoid being ambushed.

Source www.punchng.com/service-discipline-army-court-martials-two-generals/

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