amebo101: The Blackface rant earlier today about the planned protest led by 2face Idibia on February 5, 2017 seems to have encouraged more Nigerians to support the peaceful protest. At the moment, 2face Idibia is a trending topic on Nigerian Twitter with more and more Nigerians encouraging and supporting the protest. See what they are saying in tweets below
ijebuloaded: Nigeria's Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Monday, accused the Nigerian Police Force and judges for keeping suspects in prison custody longer than is legally permissible without trial. The Vice President made the accusation during the opening ceremony of the two-day Stakeholders’ Summit organized by the Lagos State Ministry of Justice, where he was represented by Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice.
At the summit, holding at Eko Convention Centre, Eko Hotels in Lagos, the Vice President said suspects are kept in prison custody for as long as three years without being charged to court. The situation, he explained, has left over 47,000 suspects still awaiting trial in prisons across the country.
“As at 2017, we have 47,229 "unsentenced" detainees awaiting trial out of a total prison population of 67,586. It may interest you to know that Lagos State has the highest number of unsentenced detainees in Nigeria, according to a recent statistic released by the National Bureau of Statistics and Nigerian Prison Service released in 2015,” said the Vice President.
He noted that 85.9 percent of the Lagos State prison population is made up of yet-to-be-charged detainees, adding that the time spent in detention is dependent on the length of proceedings, which are usually extended because of incessant adjournment or lack of diligence by investigators.
As solutions to lengthy prison custody periods, the Vice President called on the judiciary to embrace a daily trial system and sanction lawyers, who deliberately delay proceedings with the intention of stalling trial. He urged the judges and other relevant stakeholders in justice administration to diligently discharge their duties.
“If we can agree that these problems are against our collective interests as practitioners and stakeholders, then we must make a firm commitment to tackle the problems by changing our attitude and standing up for what is right,” he said.
The Vice President, who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, also accused some judges of sitting for less than three and half hours.
“They will not sit on time and before 3:30pm; they would rise. Such behavior from judges must stop” he said.
Mr. Osinbajo commended Lagos State for the progress made by its judicial system, saying the summit represents an indication of commitment towards building a world class judiciary.
Another speaker at the summit, Mr. Olawale Fapohunda, Managing Partner, Legal Resources Consortium, noted that Lagos State prisons are overcrowded. According to Fapohunda, Ikoyi Prison has a capacity of 800 but holds 2,299 inmates. Badagry Prison, he noted, has a capacity of 130, but holds 375 inmates, while Kirikiri Medium Prison, built to accommodate 1,700 inmates, now holds 2,735.
auntysimbiat: Despite the huge criticisms he's getting, 2face Idibia is not backing down from the planned February 5, 2017 nationwide protest. He has just addressed the issue with his fans on Facebook live a few minutes ago saying the protest will go on as planned. In the 11-minute long video, 2fcae Idibia says,
'I will no longer be quiet. I'm just a musician with a point of view and the ear of my fans. I have dedicated my time and resources to peace building, voter education towards peaceful elections and youth engagement in governance in Nigeria. This march is about demanding that our leaders connect with all the people of Nigeria'.
NuclearWinter: This man has not factored in the fact that zombies are dropping dead like flies due to hunger or having their brains reseted to original factory settings
yuslik: I no know wetin plenty Nigerians want sef! Come and protest now they won't. Shut up then and let Bubu do his time, they won't, wetin! But on a serious note, I am not quite taken with the time table doled out.
Naijalabel: In an interview with PUNCH, Prof Kperogi rubbish buhari's intergrity
Punch news : "Isn’t that a serious indictment against a man considered as ‘Mr. Integrity’? Has Buhari lost his integrity?"
Prof Farook Kperogi : "Perhaps Buhari never had any integrity to start with. It was our desperation for a hero that caused us to dress him in borrowed robes.
What man of integrity would lie that he took a bank loan to buy his presidential nomination form while two of his children were enrolled in a United Kingdom university?
What man of integrity would have a multimillion-naira house in Abuja but lied that he had modest houses only in Daura, Kaduna, and Kano?
What man of integrity would be afraid to publicly and transparently declare his assets after promising to do so?
What man of integrity chooses to be the sole signatory to his presidential campaign’s bank account to which millions of poor, struggling Nigerians donated tens of millions of naira and not give an account of how he spent the money?
What man of integrity perpetually surrounds himself with corrupt people and, worse still, defends their corruption?
People who are intimate with President Buhari told me several months ago in the heat of my unrestrained enthusiasm over his emergence as president that he was morally and temperamentally unsuited to fight corruption.
They said the undue premium the president places on ‘personal loyalty’ causes him to ignore, excuse, and even defend the corruption of his close associates. I was regaled with troubling tales of the mind-boggling corruption against close, loyal aides that he swept under the carpet at the PTF (Petroleum Trust Fund), The Buhari Organisation, and at the defunct CPC (Congress for Progressive Change).
They say likes attract. You can’t be a man of integrity and continually surround yourself with corrupt people. I can go on; but it is obvious that Buhari isn’t the man of integrity he has been alleged to be.
cheaphost: Pastor Chris Okafor of Mountain of Liberation and Miracle Ministries (MLMM) has come out boldly to condemn the attack by fulani herdsmen on Christians nationwide and he has come out to ask Christians to defend themselves against the rampaging Fulani herdsmen. He said "If a thief coming to your house to kill you, won't you kill the thief if you have your way?". This is cominf few weeks after Apostle Suleiman made similar remarks which has attracted praise and condemnation from different quarters.
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