₦airaland Forum

Taiw: This is a good step frm the lagos state Governor.The only part of the law i dont like is the forfeiture of ur vechicle to the state. For what na?

To be sold off cheap to a 'Fashol/Tinubu' crony.

adasi678: Fashola is a funny governor.I agreed with all the law except the part that says there should be no eating.I think the governor is heartless.he can seat at the back of his car and driver drives him and eats.you are talking of state where traffic can hold you several hours.I haven't heard of that kind if law in the whole world ans I can say I have travelled far and wide around the world.Auto makers even provide cup holder and cooler inside cars to make driving convenient.I couldn't think about all the time I have a doctor's prescription and is mandated that I have to take the drug before eating and locked down on 3rd mainland bridge for hours.This is democracy not military ruling.fashola started from somewhere and so he should look bad.

As ypu said - he's heartless.

And as correctly stated - such 'absurd' laws dont exist anywhere in the world.

Rochas appears to be a wiccked dictator in the making - Imo indigenes can expect 'Fashola's' policies in their state soon.

manny4life: Exactly! Nothing wrong with borrowed money, only fear is in case of default, that is when Lagosians will understand.



That was addressed in the report - domestic and foreign debt.

Lagos is not broke - it just has huge debts it cannot repay without heavy taxation of Lagosians or through direct extortion of groups such as motorists.

US is not broke - it just has huge debts it cannot repay without heavy taxation of the masses.

Anyway, seems Fashola doesn't actually know how much is owed and to whom.
He's made some very vague statements that are worrying.

If the money is owed to private banks/institutions then they are the real owners of lagos.

When you mortgage a house or even a Nigerian state, you dont own the property until the whole amount is repayed.

Civil war looms . . . the US back the army in Egypt.

The African First Ladies Peace Mission, an organisation for which purpose Dame Patience Jonathan and her predecessor, Hajiya Turai Yar'adua, have dragged themselves to court over a parcel of land in Abuja, is not a legal entity in the eyes of the Nigerian law, Sunday Trust can reveal.

Checks at the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in Abuja revealed that the African First Ladies Peace Mission is not registered, either as a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) or a commercial entity, hence it should not have been allocated any parcel of land in Abuja or in any other part of Nigeria.

A letter dated August 3, 2012 with Reference No.RG0/9/VOL.XXXI/0952 and signed by Aisha Tijjani Tumsah on behalf of the CAC's Registrar-General, in reaction to our reporter's enquiries says, "We were unable to find evidence of registration for the above named company in our records, but to enable us investigate further, we shall require a photocopy of the Certificate of Registration number of the company."

It was not clear if the organisation was registered in any other name as at press time.

The First Ladies Peace Mission, established in 1997, is an association made up of the wives of presidents of Africa with the objective of facilitating "the flow of authentic conversations and ideas that will create powerful new paradigm for the African Woman."

Ahead of its summit in Abuja, which held last month, there was a tussle between Dame Patience and Hajiya Turai over a parcel of land said to have been allocated to the mission in 2008, but was later handed over to Turai's NGO - The Registered Trustee of Women and Youth Empowerment Foundation, WYEF. But it was revoked by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed, and re-awarded to Patience Jonathan for the construction of a secretariat of the "African First Ladies Peace Mission." The piece of land is located on Plot 1347 at the Cadastral Zone A00, Abuja.

Two senior lawyers, Mallam Yahaya Mahmoud, SAN, and Barrister Festus Okoye, told Sunday Trust at the weekend that if the African First Ladies Peace Mission was not registered in Nigerian as a legal entity, then it was illegal to allocate land to it.

Mahmoud, said, "Certificates and Rights of Occupancy are issued persons or organisations duly registered. If your search at Corporate Affairs shows that an NGO by whatever name or affiliation is not registered, such a body cannot be given a valid title or right of occupancy."

Okoye said, "The reason why you register organisations as legal entities is that they can sue or be sued in courts of law. But if an organisation is not registered, it cannot be sued in case of a dispute. If it is registered in any other part of the world, you can only take it to court in that part of the world, but you can't sue it over a property in Nigeria, if it is not registered in Nigeria."

When Sunday Trust contacted the Office of the First Lady to find out in what name it was registered with the CAC, Dame Patience's spokesman, Mr Ayo Osinlo said, the First Lady inherited the organisation from her predecessor and there may not have been need to register it in Nigeria.

According to him, "The African First Ladies Peace Mission is a voluntary continental organisation, which was inherited from former First Lady Turai Yar'adua. The organisation meets from one African country to another, but in 2008 it decided to have a secretariat in Nigeria. The land in question was allocated to it. We need to ask lawyers if it should be registered in Nigeria, but the First Lady only inherited the land from her predecessors. If it was not registered, you can't blame the First Lady."

Issues relating to the transfer of the ownership of the land from the AFLPM and Turai's NGO is in court at the moment.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201208120185.html

News has been democratised. Days are gone when journalists and editors decide what news is worthy. Everybody has become his or her own editor and reporter. Enter the digital age. Newspaper industry tumultuously struggles to remain relevant in the face of current realities.

Like newspapers, other traditional media are experiencing downturns in their businesses daily.

At a forum in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, Mrs. Iquo Uko, executive director at Nestle Nigeria Plc noted that even the outdoor media is threatened by digital onslaught. She observed that as youths engage in chatting and pinging, they hardly look up to see the billboard hoardings. On the other side advertising industry billings in recent times has also witnessed a steady drop.

Every year, newspapers embrace the web in different dimension to remain relevant. Online editions are created as social media continues to open floodgates for innovation in online content creation and distribution. As Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other networks emerge as trusted and often referenced newsfeeds, providing consumers access to information on the go as they happen, there arose an urgent need for newspapers to do something new and revolutionary to sustain a loyal readership, reconnect with those who may have moved elsewhere, and also attract a new generation of readers. Today most if not all maintain accounts with these social networks through which some class of readers are harvested.

As costs of production and logistics sky rocket, circulation dramatically drops, advert revenues steadily on the downward slope as businesses take their brands to the new media, the touch points for the youth market, and some media houses close shops, layoffs become widespread, the future of newspapers and magazines is seriously threatened.

Today newspapers are experimenting with social tools to source and share information and also to create and cultivate an active community that connects the media property to various social networks.

Aside this development, THISDAY Newspapers, as a premium Nigerian brand, has gone ahead to develop applications for mobile devices on Blackberry, Nokia phones, Ipad and Android devices providing its readers multichannel as well as alternative income stream for the medium.

Mr. Olumide of Nokia West Africa says of THISDAY’s initiative: “I am not surprised that the newspaper has gone ahead and done applications for themselves. It is an amazing experience to be on the Nokia Store. For Nigerians and Nigerians in Diaspora it is an initiative that would put them on the global map.”

For the outdoor advertising, President of Outdoor Advertising Association of Nigeria (OAAN), Mr. Charles Chiejina said but for over regulation by state governments which forces brand owners to find alternative medium to expose their brands, new media do not pose any threat to home advertising.

In his words “Billboards have that dominating presence that you can see very well anytime. In social media you can only see it on your phone. How many people have opportunity of seeing something colourful on the phone? What happens if there is no light? OOH comes in various ways: brand activation, signs everywhere. And with innovations like LED which is like TV, OOH lights up the environment.”

For the advertising agencies, president of Association of Advertising Agencies of Nigeria (AAAN), Mrs. Bunmi Oke says her members are bracing up to current realities.

In her words “AAAN agencies are re-strategising and developing service extensions to include new media such as digital advertising services for new media such as mobile telephone media, social media many other on - line media services including website designs amongst others. Some agencies now have in-house capabilities or outsource such services in a collaborative manner.”

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/traditional-media-response-to-digital-onslaught/122113/?

kuzzieOtiz: Traitor. Snake. Judas.

Leave Mohammed Mo alone - He's British!

mukina2: Nigeria was disqualified

Lol - so we no even finish,

Chai . . .

Aboki - well done ohh,

mukina2: now moved up

At best - 2nd to last.

Ohh . ohurugu na niaja !

Come on christine

Race over - - - - nice work USA

mukina2: currently running second to last

Last - always!!!

Nigeria carry last again . . . .

I'm a jamaican tonight - thanks,

Boko Haram, a group styled on the Taliban, is waging an insurgency . . . . .

These 'Yankee' reporters making Nigeria sound like Syria.

I dont think we are at that stage yet - Yanks!

Boko Haram is affecting the 'Church Business' . . .

These priests/bishops/pastors/prophets etc may have to consider relocating online - or getting a proper job.

Guantanemo Bay . . . . he was picked up whilst browsing nairaland at an internet cafe in Afghanistan where he went for terrorist training.

Or he may be tied up in Beafs basement?

Arrogant man . . . shame on you.

Kaduna – The Kaduna Diocese of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) said on Friday that worshippers’ attendance in its churches has dropped by 30 per cent.

The Diocesan Bishop, Most Rev. Josiah Fearon, after the First Session of the 19th Synod in Kaduna, attributed the poor attendance of faithful to the current national security challenge.

Fearon said the drop in church attendance had also contributed to a 60 per cent drop in financial support to the church through the offering of tithes and the Church fund raising for the development of projects.

He specifically attributed the decline in fortunes to the spate of attacks on Christians during church services.

“A significant number of our members prefer to stay within the safety of their homes rather than go to church and be bombed to death”.

The clergy man said that the security challenge had adversely affected the entire North-East region economically, socially and politically.

Fearon flayed the incessant killings in some part of the Northern states, in spite of pleas from religious leaders, individuals and national and international organisations.

He urged the Federal Government to urgently assist the northern state governments to implement the recommendations of the Sheikh Ahmed Lemu Panel aimed at restoring peace.

The Bishop said the panel had recommended that some form of financial assistance be given to all victims of the April general elections violence.

“This would enable them start all over again, even if on a small scale, it would convince Nigerians that this government is interested in their well-being.”

Fearon decried the indiscriminate display of wealth amidst hunger and recklessness in the spending of money meant for development projects and cautioned that “all these happenings in the face of poverty must stop.”

He also advised political leaders to embrace discipline so as to encourage youths to be useful citizens.

The cleric admonished governors to search their consciences and begin to work for the well being of the electorate.

“Unless there is a definite attitudinal change on the side of our political leaders and politicians, they may not be able to control the present security challenge in the country.” (NAN)

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/bishop-laments-30-drop-in-church-attendance-in-kaduna/?

Na lie . . . Fashola sent the text.

Maybe he sent it to a number in his phone book in error and he's trying to cover up with this bogus story.

I think his phone records for the last 4 years need to be looked into - along with Tinubu.

KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian security forces discovered a bomb-making factory on Saturday in Kano, a northern city that has been plagued by an Islamist insurgency, the secret service said.

Boko Haram, a group styled on the Taliban, is waging an insurgency against President Goodluck Jonathan's government with the avowed aim of carving an Islamic state out of Nigeria, a country of more than 160 million split roughly equally between Christians and Muslims.

The group has killed hundreds in gun and bomb attacks in the past two and a half years, mostly in the predominantly Muslim north, although it has struck central Nigeria and the capital Abuja.

The director of the Kano branch of Nigeria's State Security Services (SSS), Bassey Eteng, said the raid had uncovered 12 improvised bombs and bomb-making chemicals, more than 600 rounds of ammunition, military uniforms and eight AK-47 assault rifles.

"Most of the items recovered were going to be used to mount an attack on Sallah (Muslim holiday), according to our intelligence report," Eteng said.

"There was no casualty of any party during the operations. An investigation to find the terrorists continues."

A military push in the north appears to have weakened the group. However, Jonathan's critics say he relies too much on the military to defeat Boko Haram, rather than addressing northerners' grievances such as poverty and unemployment.

As Boko Haram comes under pressure in its northeastern heartland, its attacks have spread further afield. Suspected Islamists opened fire on Christian worshippers in the central state of Kogi on Monday, killing 19.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-rt-us-nigeria-violence-bombfactorybre87a0cc-20120811,0,5991993.story?

Mohammed Fawehinmi Chambers has condemned what it called President Goodluck Jonathan’s poor handling of the Boko Haram menace, challenging him to either show his competence by terminating Boko Haram within one month and start developing the nation properly, or comply with the Boko Haram request to resign.

In a statement by Mr. Mohammed Fawehinmi, the chambers also asked the President to sack allegedly uncommitted ministers.

The chambers also called on the National Assembly to shun partisan politics and put national interest at heart in the impeachment threat against the President, adding that the purported suggestive increase of five years for every elected or appointed political leader is the most absurd suggestion that ever came alive in the nation’s polity and that this had shown that the ruling party had no plan for the country.

He said: “I read with uncontrollable laughter the insult meted out to Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. What a shame! The docile nature of the President has allowed such an insignificant group of nuisances popularly known as Boko Haram to insult him, thereby insulting the whole nation, by asking him to resign.

“The President has disgraced this country enough, he must either show his competence and willingness to work by terminating Boko Haram within one month and start developing the nation properly, or comply with the Boko Haram requests.

“Those who are not willing to work and are interested in their previous domains in foreign countries should go, and be replaced immediately with people who are interested in working for Nigeria. These include Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Minister of Finance/Coordinating Minister of the Economy; Mr. Olusegun Aganga, Minister of Trade and Industry; Mrs. Diezani Allison-Maduke, Minister of Petroleum and Resources; and Prof. Bart Nnaji- Minister of Power.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/fawehinmi-to-jonathan-show-competence-or-resign/

Nice 'Diplomacy' GEJ . . . .

Now deal with the next 'Beast' - Boko Haram

Accra – The Ghanaian Government has rescinded its policy compelling Nigerian businessmen and traders to pay a minimum capital of 300,000 dollars or have their businesses closed.

The policy also mandated the Nigerian businessmen and traders to employ at least five Ghanaian as condition to operate their offices and shops.

Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Ghana, Mr Ademola Onafowokan, made this known to State House correspondents in the advanced team of President Goodluck Jonathan’s visit to Accra.

The President will participate in the funeral rites of Mills scheduled for Friday and meet with Ghana’s new leader, President John Dramani Mahama during his visit to Accra.

Jonathan is expected in Accra on Thursday evening as the head of the Nigerian official delegation to the funeral of late President of Ghana, John Atta-Mills.

Onafowokan said that the controversial capital base and employment requirements had caused a lot of furore for Nigerian businessmen in Ghana before the commission intervened in the matter.

He said that the Federal Government with the Foreign Affairs Ministry had explored possible diplomatic means to stop the discriminatory and unfair trade laws.

The envoy said that it was practically impossible for the Ghanaian authority to drive Nigerian businessmen away because of the pivotal role they played in the economy of that country.

He said that Nigerians had contributed immensely to the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flow of the Ghana economy.

“We have been able to speak with the Ghanaian authorities to drop the issue of 300,000 dollars and for now they are not disturbing any Nigerian.

“As the High Commissioner, I can tell you that. Right now we have spoken to them and everything is calm.

“But even if we did not do that Ghana will not try it.

“If Ghana says the Nigerian businesses should go home, both the big ones and the small ones, the economy of this country will collapse, because maybe only after China, Nigeria is the second biggest investor in terms of FDI in this country

“So they will not drive them away but at the same time when you go to somebody’s place you have to learn to conform.

“These people a few of them do not have the necessary paper and how can you regularise your stay without the necessary paper, and they know your shops, so, that is the major cause,’’ he said.

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Onafowokan, however, underscored the need for Nigerians in Ghana to comply with the ECOWAS and Ghana laws on immigrations.

He said that there were many Nigerians resident in Ghana without Nigerian passport and valid resident permit.

The envoy explained that the ECOWAS Treaty on Free Movement provides that an immigrant to a member state should obtain relevant resident permit after three months of domicile in the country.

“When people come from Nigeria across the border to this place they do not have passport and these people are saying go and regularised your stay, before you can do business and you don’t want to do it, but you want to do it by force

“You are saying ECOWAS, yes ECOWAS Treaty exists but the treaty says 90 days which is three months after which you must regularise your stay.

“But you come in, you don’t want to regularise your stay and you are very heady about it,’’ he said.

The envoy said that the commission was doing its best to educate Nigerians on the importance of having valid paper in any country they travel to.

He also called on the National Orientation Agency to take it as a challenge to educate the people before they travel out of the country.

Onafowokan said about two to three million Nigerians were resident in Ghana among which only 10,000 were registered with the High Commission.

He said that from the information it got from the Board of Trustee of the Nigerian Community in Ghana, about 50,000 members had registered.

The envoy said that Nigerians in that country were law abiding and only a handful were in the prison.

However, a statement issued earlier by Mrs Irene Maamah, the Deputy Head of Mission in the Ghana High Commission in Abuja had also refuted the allegation.

The statement said that the Ghanaian Government denied allegations that ECOWAS citizens in Ghana were expected to pay 300,000 dollars and employ 10 Ghanaians before setting up businesses in the country.

It said that the Ghana Investment Promotion Commission (GIPC) Act of 1994, stipulates that foreign traders were expected to invest 300,000 dollars in trading activities, employ at least 10 Ghanaians and operate in any commercial area, not a market.

It stated that the Act did not prevent foreigners from trading in Ghana but allowed foreigners to trade on a large-scale while petty trading was reserved for Ghanaians. (NAN)

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/ghana-cancels-policy-on-300000-dollars-capital-base-for-nigerian-traders/

Nice work 'Peter Obi' . . .

THE kidnapped traditional ruler of Ukpo town, in Dunukofia Council of Anambra State, Igwe Robert Eze, has been released.

Eze was said to have been abducted by unknown gunmen on his way to church on Sunday July 29.

A family source said that the traditional ruler was rescued around Ozubulu, Ekwusigo Council from where he was brought home by security agents.

Even though none of the family members agreed to speak on the issue when reporters visited Ukpo yesterday, it was not clear whether any ransom was paid to secure his freedom.



The Police Public Relation Officer, Anambra State Police Command, Raph Uzoikwe, said police had no knowledge of any ransom paid adding that: “We are not aware that any money was paid to get the traditional ruler freed by his captors.”

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=94886:kidnapped-monarch-freed&catid=1:national&Itemid=559

Oya,

Devil ACN Worshipers - come out and defend the Devil Fashola with vigour,

If anyone does not like what I have to say here, they are quite at liberty to hang themselves. Mr Babatunde Fashola—and I once had occasion to defend him (see “Lagos: The writing on the wall” )—has once again demonstrated one of those traits of wickedness for which I have consistently maintained that he is an anti-people governor, no matter what brainwashed members of the public or Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) apologists say. Mr Fashola demolished Makoko without providing any alternative accommodation for the displaced residents.

A statement was even credited to him to the effect that the displaced people are not Lagos indigenes. But they were indigenes during elections. My advice for him this morning will be lifted from the mouth of a fellow governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko: “We have been able to and prove that government can engage the market women in a very useful way to stop guerrilla or street trading. You don’t just bulldoze shacks and send people into deeper poverty.” (see Return of Greatness published by Gaskia Media Ltd). Whenever I look at the so-called model government in Lagos (a government which puts people in Black Maria for hawking, and has uniformed touts in the name of KAI), I find very fuzzy ideological content, a zero tolerance for dissent, and a gruelling emphasis on morbid capitalism. Sincerely, Lagos crumbles when you apply the Awo parameters.

Dr Mimiko brought development to the doorsteps of market women; he built world standard neighbourhood markets right on the same spot where shacks, dirt and mud had reigned, and the market women are paying only N50 per week—and even that is for the maintenance of the market. On the other hand, the Lagos State government simply bulldozes markets (remember the traders in Osodi) and sends people into deeper poverty. Mr Fashola should visit Ondo State and learn how to be people-centred, beyond decorating Onipanu while Bajulaye rots in utter neglect.

Not that the ACN governors are not doing some positive things. For instance, Senator Abiola Ajimobi is currently engaged in road work, and recently finished work on Queen Elizabeth road following a media publication. The governor has also been facing fire from criminals just because he sacked certificate forgers from the civil service, people who should have been prosecuted and jailed for their crime. In his handling of matters following the last flooding incident in Ibadan, Ajimobi demonstrated a clear understanding of the dynamics of poverty and urbanisation, and chose to engage residents of flood-prone areas in meaningful dialogue and moral suasion, while also taking necessary action. Indeed, but for his positive efforts, the latest flooding incident in the city would have been disastrous. In the area of security, Ajimobi has showed some class as well. And in Ekiti, Dr Fayemi has mapped out a unique plan for tourism development in the state, demonstrating considerable knowledge of the intricacies of tourism in his handling of the Ikogosi project.

Now, to return to the Makoko residents. If Mr Fashola is truly a progressive, he would, while protecting the people against themselves, have provided an alternative accommodation for them.The people had to take their protest to the state House of Assembly, and the pictures of the pathetic situation were published in the papers. Evidently, Mr Fashola couldn’t care less, because he is not in their shoes. Unfortunately, he was elected to assist these people. He was elected to make life meaningful for them. He was not elected to prove that he is right all the time.

The people had schools in Makoko. Just where would their children go to school now? The scene I watched on Aljazeera was indeed a very shameful one. A working governor, particularly one on whose behalf the South-West media seems to exist, should have taken the people’s plight as his own personal responsibility.

It is a lame and illiterate excuse to say that they are not Lagos people. What Fashola did amounts to pure wickedness, but then this is hardly surprising given his lunatic toll gates, his insistence that he could not afford to make the Lagos State University (LASU) a school for the poor while carrying out a morbid increment in school fees, the discredited Lagos local government polls, the excesses of LASTMA and so on. Perhaps the true test of Fashola’s statesmanship is his handling of the Army officers he recently “arrested” on his BRT lane, an event which his media aide glorified while displaying utter tactlessness (‘’Realising that the game was up...” Which game, media aide?). While the Army colonel kept apologising for his misdeed, the governor kept playing to the gallery, asking pointless questions. Did the governor. a lawyer, consider that the man may have faced an exigency having to do with national security? Had the man committed such an offence in the past? If your wife was dying and there was a traffic gridlock, would you rather maintain your so-called law or take the BRT lane and save her life? There are always extenuating circumstances in life, and a man of wisdom will discern the times.

Despite the man’s humility and apology, Mr Fashola promised to report him to the higher authorities. And yet these people pray for the forgiveness of their sins. The man may have been dismissed now, I don’t know, but I definitely have some sympathy for him, and that has nothing to do with his being a senior army officer. By his conduct, that army colonel definitely proved that he was not a lawless scoundrel. I suspect that he had a compelling reason to use the BRT lane on that day. I know that a lot of people will never take sides with soldiers because of the evil things they did in this country, but we should never get to the point that we think that they are useless. Even in the law courts, a proven thief who shows some remorse is granted some consideration. Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, the House of Reps member currently under fire from his detractors, was said to have shown remorse and cooperated fully with the Georgia authorities after messing up with a client’s money. For that, he was given some consideration. I see nothing wrong with that. I would rather have a man who shows remorse for his misdeeds than a self-righteous beast who will not be appeased. Handlers of the Lagos governor may wish to learn not to play politics with everything.

Beyond this however lie questions of state finance and the future. Is it true that the state’s treasury is being bled dry on a monthly basis in the guise of tax consultancy? Is it true that nearly all of Lagos State is now the property of one man? That would not be progressive, would it? Where do you find such a precedent? What kind of progressivism is that?

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/opinion/45412-lagos-the-unanswered-questions

So when the officer ask's you to 'find him something or do him christmas' and you hand him N200 you face a fine of 10k?

And how is it fair to seize a persons vehicle for an alledged driving violation?

I've now heard it all . . . . . na wa 4 naija!

I blame Fashola/Tinubu for this new level of 'thieving' by govt officials.

We're docile. . .

The Itori Unit Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps on Monday said an errant driver, who attempted to bribe one of its officials with N200 would be fined N10, 000.

The unit also said it seized 50 vehicles and arrested their drivers during a special patrol operations conducted along the Abeokuta-Lagos Expressway on Sunday.

The RS 2.28 Unit Commander, Fatai Bakare, who said this in Itori, Ogun State, said the drivers were arrested for violating different traffic rules.

He however added that one of the arrested drivers, who attempted to bribe an official of the FRSC with N200 would be fined N10, 000 and sanctioned for violating traffic rules.

Bakare said some of the offences committed by the arrested drivers bordered on dangerous driving, violations of caution signs as well as seat belt rules among others.

He said, “Our aim of the patrol is to reduce drastically and if possible phase out accidents and loss of human lives on our roads; we are going to give it our best to achieve our aims. Lives are lost on daily basis due to avoidable accidents, nonchalant attitude, carelessness and total disregard for traffic laws and regulations.

“FRSC Itori Unit Command operationally took off in February 2012 with an accident and emergency unit to take care of the road crash victims. The command carries out a special patrol every weekend, codenamed Operation Save Life.

“Not less than 40 vehicles are booked for various traffic offences, with a view to reducing carnage within the jurisdiction of Itori Unit Command. The Corps Marshal and Chief Executive, Mr. Osita Chidoka, has done everything humanly possible to ensure that road traffic crashes are reduced to the barest minimum.”

Bakare warned that the unit would not spare traffic offenders no matter how highly placed they were in the society.

http://www.punchng.com/metro/driver-to-pay-n10000-fine-for-attempted-bribe/

IBB/Buhari's spies being cast out of Aso Rock?

I wonder.