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PoliticsFashola : In The Ligth Of Western Press by seunkom1(op): 6:10pm On Oct 26, 2014
In a piece titled “Meet The Man Who
Tamed Nigeria’s Most Lawless City”, UK
Telegraph chronicles how Governor
Fashola came into office and transformed
Lagos and also how he effectively
managed the Ebola epidermic in the state.
Read below…
He famously claims to be “just
doing his job”. But in a land
where politicians are known for
doing anything but, that alone
has been enough to make
Babatunde Fashola, boss of the
vast Nigerian city of Lagos, a
very popular man.
Confounding the image of Nigerian
leaders as corrupt and incompetent, the
51-year-old governor has won near-
celebrity status for transforming west
Africa’s biggest city, cleaing up its crime-
ridden slums and declaring war on corrupt
police and civil servants.
Next month, he will come to London to
meet business leaders and Mayor Boris
Johnson’s officials, wooing investors with
talk of how he has spent the last seven
years building new transport hubs and
gleaming business parks.
Yet arguably his biggest achievement in
office took place just last week, and was
done without a bulldozer in sight. That
was when his country was officially
declared free of Ebola , which first spread
to Nigeria three months ago when Patrick
Sawyer, an infected Liberian diplomat,
flew into Lagos airport.
Health officials had long feared that the
outbreak, which has already claimed
nearly 5,000 lives elsewhere in west
Africa, would reach catastrophic
proportions were it to spread through
Lagos. One of the largest cities in the
world, it is home to an estimated 17
million people, many of them living in
sprawling shanty towns that would have
become vast reservoirs for infection. To
make matters worse, when the outbreak
first happened, medics were on strike.
Instead, Mr Fashola turned a looming
disaster into a public health and PR
triumph. Breaking off from a trip
overseas, he took personal charge of the
operation to track down and quarantine
nearly 1,000 people feared to have been
infected since Mr Sawyer’s arrival.
Last week, what would have been a
formidably complex operation in any
country came to a successful end, when
the World Health Organisation announced
that since Nigeria had had no new cases
for six weeks, it was now officially rid of
the virus.
“This is a spectacular success story,”
said Rui Gama Vaz, a WHO spokesman,
who prompted an applause when he
broke the news at a press conference in
Nigeria on Tuesday. “It shows that Ebola
can be contained.
The WHO announcement was a rare
glimmer of hope in the fight against Ebola,
and even rarer vote of confidence in a
branch of the Nigerian government, which
was heavily criticised over its response to
the abduction of more than 200
schoolgirls by the Boko Haram insurgent
group in April. As a columninst in Nigeria’s
Leadership newspaper put it last week:
“For once, we did not underachieve.”
For Mr Fashola’s many supporters, it is
also yet more proof that the 51-year-old
ex-lawyer is a future president in the
making, a much-needed technocrat in a
country dominated far too long by ageing
“Big Men” and ex-generals.
“He is the best governor we have ever
had,” said Odun Babalola, a Lagos-based
pension fund portfolio manager. “He’s
made a lot of progress in schools,
railways, and infrastructure, and unlike a
lot of politicians, who are corrupt, he’s a
good administrator.”
True, the successful tackling of the Ebola
outbreak was not Mr Fashola’s doing
alone. For a start, the doctor’s strike that
was under way when Mr Sawyer
collapsed at Lagos airport turned out to
be a blessing in disguise. Rather than
being taken to one of Lagos’s vast public
hospitals, where he might have languished
for hours and infected numerous fellow
patients and staff, he was instead
admitted to a private clinic. There he was
seen by a sharp-eyed consultant, Stella
Adadevoh, who spotted that his
symptoms were not malaria as had been
first thought.
She then alerted the Nigerian health
ministry, and along with other doctors
physically restrained Sawyer when he
became aggressive and tried to leave the
hospital to fly to another Nigerian city.
Her quick thinking help stop the virus
being spread more widely, but also cost
her her life: she caught Ebola herself
while treating Mr Sawyer, and has now
been recommended for a national award.
But even by the time Mr Sawyer had been
isolated, the virus was already on the
loose. Knowing that he had passed
through one of the busiest airports in
west Africa, health officials had to try to
track down every single person who had
potentially been infected by him, including
the other passengers on his flight. The list
started at 281 people and grew to nearly
1,000. as eight others whom he turned
out to have passed the virus to
subsequently died.
That was where Mr Fashola stepped in.
He broke off from a pilgrimage to Mecca,
flew home and then helped set up an
Ebola Emergency Operations Centre,
which spearheaded the mammoth task of
monitoring all those potentially infected. A
team of 2,000 officials were trained for
the task, who ended up knocking on
26,000 doors. At one point the governor
was being briefed up to ten times a day
by disease control experts. He made a
point of visiting the country’s Ebola
treatment centre, a way of
communicating to the Nigerian public that
they should not panic needlessly.
“Command and control is very important
in fighting disease outbreaks, and he
provided effective leadership,” said Dr
Ike Anya, a London-based Nigerian public
health expert. “He also said exactly the
right things, urging for the need to keep
calm. Regardless of whether you support
his politics, he has been very effective as
a governor and I would be happy to see
him stand for leadership.”
Born into a prominent Muslim family but
married to a Christian, Mr Fashola trained
as a lawyer and went into politics after
being appointed chief of staff by the
previous Lagos governor, Asiwaju Tinubu,
a powerful politician often described as
Mr Fashola’s “Godfather”. But while he
has long enjoyed the backing of a political
“Big Man”, is his role as a rare defender
of Nigeria’s “Little Men” that has won him
most support.
Once, while driving through Lagos in his
convoy, he famously stopped an army
colonel who was driving illegally in one of
the governor’s newly-built bus lanes,
berating him in front of television
cameras.
“The bus is for those who cannot afford
to buy cars,” he said. “I want a zero
tolerance of lawlesness, and those who
don’t want to comply can leave our
state.”
It was one of the first times Nigerians had
ever seen a civil servant confronting a
member of the security forces, whose
fondness for committing crime rather than
fighting it has long contributed to Lagos’s
legendary reputation for lawlessness.
Armed robberies – sometimes by
moonlighting police – used to be so
common that few people ventured out
after dark. Foreign businessmen would
routinely travel with armed escorts, and
the few willing to live there would stay
mainly in a heavily-guarded diplomatic
area called Victoria Island, a rough
equivalent to Baghdad’s Green Zone. Add
to that the suffocating smog, widespread
squalor and regular three-hour traffic
jams, and it was no suprise that the city
had a reputation as one of the worst
places in the world to live.
Today, much of the problems remain. But
members of the vast Nigerian diaspora
say they now notice big changes
whenever they go back. “When you
return you see an absolute difference –
things have improved 100 per cent,” said
Nels Abbey, a London-based Nigerian
journalist and businessman. “Traffic is not
what it used to be, bus lanes have been
introduced, and it feels a lot safer.
Fashola has been like a Tory mayor for
Lagos – he is trying to make it attractive
to the well-off.”
Styling himself as Lagos’s answer to Boris
Johnson has not endeared him to
everyone. As well as laying plans for a
vast offshore business park intended as
an “African Dubai”, he has accelerated
programs to clear the ever-expanding
shanty towns, ordering their occupants to
return to their homes in Nigeria’s poorest
east and north. That has led to criticism
from human rights groups, although
others say it is hard to see how Lagos
will ever improve otherwise. “Do I
endorse it?” said Mr Nels. “I am afraid it
is a bit of a necessary evil.”
Another big achievement has been
increasing tax revenues, vital in a city
where the GDP of $43 billion makes it the
fifth-biggest economy in sub-Saharan
Africa. Mr Fashola has tried to sweeten
the pill by putting up signs on all new
infrasructure projects, saying “paid for
by your taxes”. It is a rare
acknowledgement of gratitude in a
country where a guaranteed stream of
state oil wealth has historically allowed
rulers to remain aloof from the ruled.
However, despite being relected with 80
per cent of the vote in 2011, the main
hailed as Nigeria’s brightest political hope
in years is far from guaranteed a life in
office. Having served two terms in office
already, he is not allowed to run as Lagos
governor again. And as a member of a
minority tribe and the country’s
opposition All Progressives Congress, he
currently lacks the political backing to go
head to head against Goodluck Jonathan
in next year’s elections.
In the meantime, fresh from ridding Lagos
of Ebola, he is focusing on an arguably
even tougher challenge, launching a new
initiative to stop motorists stuck in traffic
jams from blasting their horns all day. As
he put it: “If we can overcome Ebola,
then we can overcome noise pollution.”
Culled from UK Telegraph…
PoliticsThe Prominence Of Fashola by seunkom1(op): 5:55pm On Oct 26, 2014
In a piece titled “Meet The Man Who
Tamed Nigeria’s Most Lawless City”, UK
Telegraph chronicles how Governor
Fashola came into office and transformed
Lagos and also how he effectively
managed the Ebola epidermic in the state.
Read below…
He famously claims to be “just
doing his job”. But in a land
where politicians are known for
doing anything but, that alone
has been enough to make
Babatunde Fashola, boss of the
vast Nigerian city of Lagos, a
very popular man.
Confounding the image of Nigerian
leaders as corrupt and incompetent, the
51-year-old governor has won near-
celebrity status for transforming west
Africa’s biggest city, cleaing up its crime-
ridden slums and declaring war on corrupt
police and civil servants.
Next month, he will come to London to
meet business leaders and Mayor Boris
Johnson’s officials, wooing investors with
talk of how he has spent the last seven
years building new transport hubs and
gleaming business parks.
Yet arguably his biggest achievement in
office took place just last week, and was
done without a bulldozer in sight. That
was when his country was officially
declared free of Ebola , which first spread
to Nigeria three months ago when Patrick
Sawyer, an infected Liberian diplomat,
flew into Lagos airport.
Health officials had long feared that the
outbreak, which has already claimed
nearly 5,000 lives elsewhere in west
Africa, would reach catastrophic
proportions were it to spread through
Lagos. One of the largest cities in the
world, it is home to an estimated 17
million people, many of them living in
sprawling shanty towns that would have
become vast reservoirs for infection. To
make matters worse, when the outbreak
first happened, medics were on strike.
Instead, Mr Fashola turned a looming
disaster into a public health and PR
triumph. Breaking off from a trip
overseas, he took personal charge of the
operation to track down and quarantine
nearly 1,000 people feared to have been
infected since Mr Sawyer’s arrival.
Last week, what would have been a
formidably complex operation in any
country came to a successful end, when
the World Health Organisation announced
that since Nigeria had had no new cases
for six weeks, it was now officially rid of
the virus.
“This is a spectacular success story,”
said Rui Gama Vaz, a WHO spokesman,
who prompted an applause when he
broke the news at a press conference in
Nigeria on Tuesday. “It shows that Ebola
can be contained.
The WHO announcement was a rare
glimmer of hope in the fight against Ebola,
and even rarer vote of confidence in a
branch of the Nigerian government, which
was heavily criticised over its response to
the abduction of more than 200
schoolgirls by the Boko Haram insurgent
group in April. As a columninst in Nigeria’s
Leadership newspaper put it last week:
“For once, we did not underachieve.”
For Mr Fashola’s many supporters, it is
also yet more proof that the 51-year-old
ex-lawyer is a future president in the
making, a much-needed technocrat in a
country dominated far too long by ageing
“Big Men” and ex-generals.
“He is the best governor we have ever
had,” said Odun Babalola, a Lagos-based
pension fund portfolio manager. “He’s
made a lot of progress in schools,
railways, and infrastructure, and unlike a
lot of politicians, who are corrupt, he’s a
good administrator.”
True, the successful tackling of the Ebola
outbreak was not Mr Fashola’s doing
alone. For a start, the doctor’s strike that
was under way when Mr Sawyer
collapsed at Lagos airport turned out to
be a blessing in disguise. Rather than
being taken to one of Lagos’s vast public
hospitals, where he might have languished
for hours and infected numerous fellow
patients and staff, he was instead
admitted to a private clinic. There he was
seen by a sharp-eyed consultant, Stella
Adadevoh, who spotted that his
symptoms were not malaria as had been
first thought.
She then alerted the Nigerian health
ministry, and along with other doctors
physically restrained Sawyer when he
became aggressive and tried to leave the
hospital to fly to another Nigerian city.
Her quick thinking help stop the virus
being spread more widely, but also cost
her her life: she caught Ebola herself
while treating Mr Sawyer, and has now
been recommended for a national award.
But even by the time Mr Sawyer had been
isolated, the virus was already on the
loose. Knowing that he had passed
through one of the busiest airports in
west Africa, health officials had to try to
track down every single person who had
potentially been infected by him, including
the other passengers on his flight. The list
started at 281 people and grew to nearly
1,000. as eight others whom he turned
out to have passed the virus to
subsequently died.
That was where Mr Fashola stepped in.
He broke off from a pilgrimage to Mecca,
flew home and then helped set up an
Ebola Emergency Operations Centre,
which spearheaded the mammoth task of
monitoring all those potentially infected. A
team of 2,000 officials were trained for
the task, who ended up knocking on
26,000 doors. At one point the governor
was being briefed up to ten times a day
by disease control experts. He made a
point of visiting the country’s Ebola
treatment centre, a way of
communicating to the Nigerian public that
they should not panic needlessly.
“Command and control is very important
in fighting disease outbreaks, and he
provided effective leadership,” said Dr
Ike Anya, a London-based Nigerian public
health expert. “He also said exactly the
right things, urging for the need to keep
calm. Regardless of whether you support
his politics, he has been very effective as
a governor and I would be happy to see
him stand for leadership.”
Born into a prominent Muslim family but
married to a Christian, Mr Fashola trained
as a lawyer and went into politics after
being appointed chief of staff by the
previous Lagos governor, Asiwaju Tinubu,
a powerful politician often described as
Mr Fashola’s “Godfather”. But while he
has long enjoyed the backing of a political
“Big Man”, is his role as a rare defender
of Nigeria’s “Little Men” that has won him
most support.
Once, while driving through Lagos in his
convoy, he famously stopped an army
colonel who was driving illegally in one of
the governor’s newly-built bus lanes,
berating him in front of television
cameras.
“The bus is for those who cannot afford
to buy cars,” he said. “I want a zero
tolerance of lawlesness, and those who
don’t want to comply can leave our
state.”
It was one of the first times Nigerians had
ever seen a civil servant confronting a
member of the security forces, whose
fondness for committing crime rather than
fighting it has long contributed to Lagos’s
legendary reputation for lawlessness.
Armed robberies – sometimes by
moonlighting police – used to be so
common that few people ventured out
after dark. Foreign businessmen would
routinely travel with armed escorts, and
the few willing to live there would stay
mainly in a heavily-guarded diplomatic
area called Victoria Island, a rough
equivalent to Baghdad’s Green Zone. Add
to that the suffocating smog, widespread
squalor and regular three-hour traffic
jams, and it was no suprise that the city
had a reputation as one of the worst
places in the world to live.
Today, much of the problems remain. But
members of the vast Nigerian diaspora
say they now notice big changes
whenever they go back. “When you
return you see an absolute difference –
things have improved 100 per cent,” said
Nels Abbey, a London-based Nigerian
journalist and businessman. “Traffic is not
what it used to be, bus lanes have been
introduced, and it feels a lot safer.
Fashola has been like a Tory mayor for
Lagos – he is trying to make it attractive
to the well-off.”
Styling himself as Lagos’s answer to Boris
Johnson has not endeared him to
everyone. As well as laying plans for a
vast offshore business park intended as
an “African Dubai”, he has accelerated
programs to clear the ever-expanding
shanty towns, ordering their occupants to
return to their homes in Nigeria’s poorest
east and north. That has led to criticism
from human rights groups, although
others say it is hard to see how Lagos
will ever improve otherwise. “Do I
endorse it?” said Mr Nels. “I am afraid it
is a bit of a necessary evil.”
Another big achievement has been
increasing tax revenues, vital in a city
where the GDP of $43 billion makes it the
fifth-biggest economy in sub-Saharan
Africa. Mr Fashola has tried to sweeten
the pill by putting up signs on all new
infrasructure projects, saying “paid for
by your taxes”. It is a rare
acknowledgement of gratitude in a
country where a guaranteed stream of
state oil wealth has historically allowed
rulers to remain aloof from the ruled.
However, despite being relected with 80
per cent of the vote in 2011, the main
hailed as Nigeria’s brightest political hope
in years is far from guaranteed a life in
office. Having served two terms in office
already, he is not allowed to run as Lagos
governor again. And as a member of a
minority tribe and the country’s
opposition All Progressives Congress, he
currently lacks the political backing to go
head to head against Goodluck Jonathan
in next year’s elections.
In the meantime, fresh from ridding Lagos
of Ebola, he is focusing on an arguably
even tougher challenge, launching a new
initiative to stop motorists stuck in traffic
jams from blasting their horns all day. As
he put it: “If we can overcome Ebola,
then we can overcome noise pollution.”
Culled from UK Telegraph…
PoliticsRe: Jonathan Has Assaulted The Sensibilities Of Muslims By Visiting Jerusalem-gumi by seunkom1: 3:54pm On Oct 27, 2013
to b candid, im a christian what the man said is not politically incorrect. No where in christianity are we encouraged to go to isreal for pilgrimage. most of us christian are looking at it from d view that muslim do go to mecca, which i belive we are just imitating, and it doesnt guarantee u eternal life. Besides the injustice jews show to palestinians no God fearing christian will support it.
pls just my view, no tongue lashing.
Jobs/VacanciesRe: Diamond Bank Test by seunkom1: 9:00pm On Oct 02, 2013
pls who has number of DB ABUJA OFFICE, I DID medicals on the 1st of june in abj. but i have not recieve invite . Will they still send 2morrow.
Jobs/VacanciesRe: Diamond Bank Test by seunkom1: 3:35pm On Oct 02, 2013
God will help us , abj hope full, since june 2
PoliticsRe: Onitsha Is Becoming A City Of Trade,Commerce & Industries? by seunkom1:
Skyline of Onitsha city @ bestview, is dis what you call skyline haba, but any way onitsha is one of the most developed cities in Nigeria, but skyline no no no for onitsha yet.
PoliticsRevealed The Pdp Governors Who Voted For Ameachi. By Sule Lamido by seunkom1(op): 8:58pm On Jun 19, 2013
Jigawa Sate Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido,
on Tuesday said nine Peoples Democratic
Party governors voted for the incumbent
chairman of the Nigeria Governors'
Forum, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, at the June 4
election that later divided the forum.
Lamido gave a specific insight into what
happened during the NGF election while
speaking in an interview with the Hausa
Service of the Voice of America
monitored in Abuja, on Tuesday
Speaking specifically about the election of
Ameachi as Chairman, NGF, Lamido said,
"I also voted for Ameachi. Look, in the
PDP, myself, the governor of Kano, the
governor of Niger, the governor of Kebbi,
the governor of Sokoto, the governor of
Kwara, the governor of Rivers, the
governor of Adamawa, nine of us PDP
governors voted for him.
"This election was for the NGF, not a
candidate for the PDP; there is nothing to
it."
In a veiled reference to the consensus
reached by the Northern Governor Forum
to present Governor Jonah Jang as
consensus candidate.
He said, "For one group to come and say
'this is your leader, let's present him to
the nation'. Things are not done like that.
People forget easily we are all reasonable
people and the PDP was founded by
reasonable people."
Lamido also took a swipe at the party's
leadership over the suspension of Sokoto
State Governor, Aliyu Wamakko.
While describing the suspension of
Wamakko by the Bamanga Tukur-led
National Working Committee as reckless,
he said leaders needed to be circumspect
in taking decisions.
He said, "Any reasonable politician, who
has foresight, knows that doing anything
that will cause trouble for party members
or bring confusion, a leader should avoid
it.
"The suspension of Wamakko was a
mistake that shows a lack of leadership.
Secondly, there was recklessness because
what was his offence?
"The truth is Bamanga Tukur was
defeated in Bauchi or was he not
defeated during the zonal elections in
Bauchi? He was defeated, not so?
"Myself, Wamakko, the governor of Kano
and others came together and said what
they (North East) did was wrong, so we
will not agree; let us go for an election.
"The North East said its consensus
candidate was Babayo. Bamanga Tukur
was brought to us at the convention and
we elected him, even from this, you have
your answer (about the NGF election)."
PoliticsHezbollah In Nigeria by seunkom1(op): 5:39pm On May 31, 2013
SSS smashes Hezbollah terrorist cell in
Kano
From DESMOND MGBOH, Kano

A combined team of the Joint Task Force
(JTF), involving officers of the Nigerian
Army and the Directorate of State
Security (DSS), yesterday, confirmed that
they have smashed a cell of a foreign
terrorist organization, identified as
Hezbollah in Kano and arrested some of
its members who are operating in the
country.
Daily Sun gathered that the smashing of
the terror cell, which particularly shocked
the Lebanese community in the state,
equally led to the seizure of a large cache
of weapons of mass destruction at a
property located at No 3, Gaya Road, off
Bompai Road, Kano. The said property,
according to security officials, belonged to
one Abdul Hassan Taher Fadlalla, a
Lebanese national, who is currently out of
the country.
The Director of the State Security, Mr.
Eteng Bassey and the Brigade
Commander of the 3 Brigade of the
Nigeria Army, Brigadier General Illyasu
Abbah, said they uncovered an
underground bunker in the master
bedroom of the said house after a
painstaking search conducted by security
officers.
Speaking to newsmen at the house, they
disclosed that the weapons discovered
included 11 of 60mm anti-tank weapons,
four of anti-tank mines, two of 122mm
artillery gun ammunition, 76 military
grenade and nine pistols. Also discovered
at the house were 21 RPG bombs, 16 RPG
chargers one RPG tubes, one SMG, two of
SMG magazines, seven AK47 rifles, 44 AK
47 magazines, 103 packs of small
detonators, rocket propelled guns and 11,
433 of 7.62mm ammunition, among other
dangerous weapons.
The security chiefs said: “All the weapons
and ammunition recovered were properly
concealed with several layers of concrete
and placed in coolers, drums and neatly
wrapped bags.” Security sources told Daily
Sun that the discovery of the bunkers did
not come easy as the whole house was
full of decoys and distractions, apart from
the fact that they had reinforced locks
and keys on the doors and windows
leading to the master bedroom, which
had the bunkers.
A source told Daily Sun that the hidden
bunker was eventually discovered with
the help of explosive detectors, which
insistently alerted the security agents to
the effect that there were weapons in the
house, a situation which caused the
security team to tear the ceilings of the
building as well as to dig into the under
ground layers of the house.
Reeling out the sequence of events
leading to the arrest of the suspects, the
security chiefs stated that the discoveries
were as a result of an ongoing counter
terrorism investigation by the
Department of the State Services Abuja
spanning over several months.
The security sources noted that the
investigation had confirmed to the
existence of a Hezbollah foreign terrorist
cell in Nigeria. According to the director
of the state security, “the investigation is
ongoing, but what you see here, all these
things you see here, is the handiwork of a
foreign terrorist organization.
They call them, Hezbollah. This is the
handiwork of Hezbollah. What has just
been discovered is a cell of Hezbollah and
what you have seen here is a Hezbollah
armory.”
He also said the suspects had confessed
that the entire arms and ammunition
were targeted at facilities belonging to
Israel and Western interests in Nigeria.
“These arms were said to have been
brought in to use them against Israel
property or Western interest in Nigeria,
but whatever it is, our security forces are
on the heels of the investigation.
The truth of it would come out: If the
arms are for what they claim or if they are
imported to harm our country.” The
discovery, according to the two security
chiefs, followed the arrest of one
Mustapha Fawaz on May 16, 2013 by the
Directorate of State Security. Mustapha
Fawaz, they said, was the co-owner of the
popular Amigo Supermarket as well as the
Wonderland Amusement Park, all in
Abuja.
“Thus, his arrest and confession unveiled
other members of the foreign terrorist
network, which led to the interception of
one member of the syndicate named
Abdullah Tahini, a Lebanese national at
the Mallam Aminu Kano International
Airport with an undeclared amount of $
60, 000 on him en-route Beirut.
On May 26, they subsequently arrested
one Talal Roda, a Lebanese national with
Nigerian passport in the said house at No
3, Gaya Road in Kano, which led to the
search conducted in the house.
The two security chiefs said all the
suspects arrested had confessed that they
underwent a Hezbollah terrorist training,
besides implicating the said Fauzi Fawad.
They described the entire episode as a
serious security matter, pointing out that
the cell, if they had succeeded in their
goals, could have caused a lot of
diplomatic problem for Nigeria, even as
they expressed worry that the terror
group had the capacity to provide support
to the local terrorist group operating in
Nigeria.
Brigadier General Abbah also expressed
anger that the owner of the said house
had deceived the people of his street by
building a mosque in front of his
compound adding that: “At the entrance
(of the compound) you will see something
like a mosque, where people do pray. If
you look out-from the beginning of the
street up to the end of the street-nobody
erected anything like that.
“He (suspect) wants to show people that
yes, he can pray and the people can come
and pray there, while he is amassing
weapons that could destroy the same
people he is gathering in front of his
house to pray,” Abbah said. According to
the General, he could not say how long
the weapons had been kept in the house,
adding that only a weapon expert could
determine exactly how long the weapons
had been kept in the house.
He, however, pointed out that they fired
one of the weapons and it fired very well,
a situation he said signified that the
weapons were in good condition to be put
to use at anytime.
He also disclosed that they were
expecting the members of the National
Assembly and other top policy makers
who were concerned with security and
defence matters in the country, who
would be visiting the state in the next
few days.
“These officials,” he said, ‘would offer
them firsthand information on the
smashing of the terrorist cell and the
discovery of a huge cache of weapons in
the state.”

Culled from sun newspaper
NYSCHelp For Corpers 2012 Batch C Posted To Taraba State by seunkom1(op): 2:04pm On Nov 02, 2012
For as many that will be posted. if u are looking for where to stay over or to take you at the park when you get to jalingo and take you to the orientation camp anytime. call (07054990100, 07061563522, 08170560950) The redeemed christian corpers fellowship. Every one is welcome
CrimeRe: NDLEA Intercepts Martin Ikechukwu With ₦90m ‘Cocaine Cream’ In Lagos by seunkom1: 6:56pm On May 15, 2012
is this a problem, the poor man is just trying to be himself

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