₦airaland Forum

tunwumi:
I'm sure the judge has gotten another job

The Speaker of the Osun State House of Assembly, Mr. Najeem Salaam, said on Thursday that Justice Folahanmi Oloyede, who wrote a petition calling for the impeachment of Governor Rauf Aregbesola, had expressed her readiness to defend her allegations against the governor.

The Speaker said this in a statement made available to our correspondent in Osogbo, through his media aide, Mr. Goke Butika.

The Speaker, who is a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress like the governor, stated that the assembly had written to Aregbesola demanding his response to the allegations levelled against him by the petitioner.

He said, “The onus of proof lies on the petitioner who has expressed her readiness to defend her allegations before the parliamentarians against Governor Aregbesola’s response would also be awaited for the sake of fair hearing.

“The legislature has elected to give Justice Oloyede’s petition a critical attention, because she is a serving judge in the state, and justice demands that her allegations be given a look for she holds a prime position in the judiciary, an arm of government, in the state.

“The House of Assembly has asked Governor Rauf Aregbesola to forward his response on the allegations raised by Justice Oloyede Folahanmi of Osun State High Court, having made a copy of the petition available to him on Wednesday by the Office of the Speaker.”

Salaam admitted that the state had a problem paying its workers but urged members of the opposition and critics of the Aregbesola administration to stop blackmailing the governor.

He appealed to them to channel their grievances in a peaceful manner so as not to disturb the peace of the state.

He said that the House was always ready to interface between the people and the government without compromising the independence of the legislature, as guaranteed by the constitution.

“The parliament, under my watch, would not be stampeded on any issue before it; thoroughness would be deployed into the facts presented without prejudice. For the House of Assembly is a shrine of democracy where democratic values and ethos must be upheld.

“Yes, we have challenges in our nation, and our state is not immune against the hydra-headed challenges, but with the coordinated responses of the government at all levels, as it is ongoing, those challenges would soon be history.”

The judge, who is serving in the Osun State Judiciary, had sent a petition to the House of Assembly over the issue of the non-payment of almost eight months salaries in the state.

The judge’s petition read in part, ‘’Consequently, the admitted inability of Mr. Governor and his deputy to pay pensions, salaries and allowances for periods ranging from eight to 11 months now, as a consequence of their own decision to accumulate debts beyond the capacity of the state’s internally generated revenue, whilst the very ‘actors’, Mr. Governor and his deputy, continue to enjoy their security allowances in hundreds of millions, is a violation of their oaths of office.

“Their action in this respect is as illegal as it is immoral and unconscionable. It is an evidence of their inability to discharge the functions of their office. There is, therefore, no legal or moral basis for their continued stay in office.

‘’To this end and for this reason, I am sure other well -meaning and concerned members of the Osun community are hereby calling on honourable members of the state House of Assembly to pick up the gauntlet and redeem themselves by giving effect to the provisions of Sections 128 and 129 of the Constitution which empower them to investigate and bring to justice, all those who have corruptly enriched themselves at the expense of Osun and her people.’’

Meanwhile, the Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice on Thursday staged a fresh protest in Osogbo demanding Aregbesola and his deputy’s resignation over their inability to pay workers for the past seven months.

The Chairman of the CHRSJ, Mr. Adeniyi Sulaiman, in an interview with journalists after the protest, called on security agencies in the state to ensure the safety of Justice Oloyede, who petitioned the House of Assembly to impeach Aregbesola.

The protesters also called on the state lawmakers to begin impeachment process against the governor and his deputy, Mrs. Titilayo Laoye-Tomori, saying Aregbesola had committed many impeachable offences.

Sulaiman said apart from the non-payment of workers’ salaries, the governor also committed other offences such as spending without appropriation and spending the state’s resources on elections in other states.

He said, “Aregbesola has plunged Osun State into financial crisis due to the reckless spending without legislative approval provision. These, among others, are reasons for the state’s inability to pay workers for seven to eight months.

“The illegal purchase of helicopter and the use of the same for the use of the governor and members of his family; the spending of the state’s resources on elections in Ondo, Ekiti and Kogi states, in the name of supporting the candidates of the APC, is criminal. Based on these, Aregbesola should be impeached and removed.

“We throw our weight behind the position of Justice Folahanmi who called on the House of Assembly to investigate the alleged mismanagement of the state’s financial resources by Aregbesola’s administration.

“We are also calling on security agents to beef up security around Justice Folahanmi, because some people may be making attempts on her life because of her boldness,” he added.

rexzqcom:
Excluding annual salary.

rexzqcom:
So, these figures are only allowances for each person. Monthly, annual salaries not included.

freedom96:
Hmm.The same pdp guys that were shouting Northerners have born to rule ideology are now happy that these same northerners occupy three out of four topmost governmental positions.And all of them muslims also.

If something goes wrong,dont come back to shout islamization,na una islamise the country,thinking that you'll get tinubu angry

As for me,I no send.

GMB all the way

sarzwizard:


2. His father is Dr.
Abubakar Olusola
Saraki, a one time
Senate president Senate Leader
(1979 – 1983) in Nigeria.


www.naij.com/456207-10-facts-about-new-senate-president-bukola-saraki.html

cc:lalasticlala

lalasticlala:
http://citypeople.com.ng/i/in-pictures-7-female-senators-in-nigerias-8th-national-assembly/

International conspiracy to ensure that Nigeria perpetually at war with itself is behind the recent allegations made by Amnesty International (AI) against the military and some of its top officers involved in the prosecution of the war against the Boko Haram terror sect, Sunday Tribune can authoritatively reveal.

The AI, in its latest report released on Wednesday, 3 June, had accused top Nigerian military brass of gross human rights violation, pushing that they should be tried for crimes.

But sources in the military and those in international diplomacy had revealed to Sunday Tribune that the AI allegations had both political and economic undercurrents, especially coming n the heels of the promise of the G7 to President President Muhammadu Buhari after asking him for a wish list ahead of the G7 summit. The allegations, they revealed, were part of a serious international conspiracy against Nigeria which was carefully weighted by the human rights watch agency to cause serious damage to the Nigerian campaign on terrorism and its sovereignty.

According to some of the sources, who fingered the United States of America as the conspirator-in-chief in the grand plot, spirited efforts had been made to ensure that Nigeria did not survive the predictions by a United States’ agency that the country would break up in 2015.

“They had thought that the country would not survive the 2015 elections or be able to manage the likely crisis that would result there from,” explained a source. “But they were surprised at the way the general election was resolved without any crisis.”

Revealing what transpired further, he said that the United States, particularly, had been critical of Nigeria’s campaign against Boko Haram since the insurgents began their onslaught against the country.

“When the terrorists were killing innocent Nigerians, destroying communities, Amnesty International did not issue any threat or complaint against the terrorists, except when the Nigerian military decided to fight back,” the source with military command experience explained to buttress the conspiracy theory claim against Nigeria.

The source revealed that the AI allegations usually came whenever Nigerian military was making a headway against the terrorists.

“When Nigeria wanted to buy arms from the US to fight Boko Haram, it was at that same period that Amnesty released its so called damning report accusing the military of human rights abuse. The US had turned Nigeria’s request to buy arms from it down citing Amnesty’s allegations as reason for its refusal.”

This new report, sources claimed, was coming on the heels of the promise made by the countries to support President Muhammadu Buhari when he met with the UK Prime Minister David Cameron and US representatives in London shortly before his inauguration.

The Sunday Tribune had exclusively reported in its 31 May edition that President Buhari had met with the British Prime Minister and was promised assistance ahead of the G7 summit. President Buhari was asked to present his wish list. And top of the requests the Nigerian president made, according to sources, was weapons to fight the terrorists.

But just as the military was banking on the realisation of the G7 leaders’ promise, AI released its current report, raising fears that the military may not get the necessary weapon assistance. The sources accused Amnesty International of being deeply involved in the conspiracy.

“It would appear that they just don’t want Nigeria to win the fight against Boko Haram,” a military source lamented. “The implication of all this is that the morale of the soldiers would be low. The military will be demotivated in the war as it won’t know what is human rights abuse and what is not.

“With this kind of report, Amnesty seems to be justifying terrorism,” the source stated.

gbl01:
They own us. I'll give up on the government if they regard the report at all. Wtf is with the west? Using Boko haram yo terrorize us and using Amnesty intl to or vent us from fighting back?/( that's my own theory anyway, might be wrong). I'm forced yo remember George Carlin. Below is a statement from him.


Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice! You have OWNERS! They OWN YOU. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought—and paid for—the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls.
They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want:
They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests.
That’s right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting bleeped by a system that threw them overboard 30 bleeping years ago. They don’t want that!
You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shitty jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street—and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later ‘cause they own this bleeping place! It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it! You, and I, are not in the big club.
By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table has tilted, folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care! Good honest hard-working people; white collar, blue collar it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-working people continue—these are people of modest means—continue to elect these rich rooster suckers who don’t give a Bleep about you….they don’t give a Bleep about you… they don’t give a Bleep about you.
They don’t care about you at all… at all… AT ALL. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes everyday

yinksob002:
Na wa oh. They are really not smiling at all. Anyway, how is your end, trust u are doing great.