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By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
ABUJA — The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta, has ordered the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, to appear before him tomorrow to explain why he should not be committed to prison over his persistent refusal to respect court orders.
The court summon was sequel to a Form 49, a contempt of court proceeding initiated against the Police boss by Lagos-based human rights activist and constitutional lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN.
Abubakar was accused by Falana of disobeying the judgments of three separate High Courts in Abuja which barred police from intervening in the activities of a Non-Governmental Organisation, NGO, the Peace Corps of Nigeria.
Specifically, the Inspector General was said to have bluntly refused to lift the purported ban placed by the police on Peace Corps since 2009, in spite of declarative orders by various courts of competent jurisdictions.
Consequently, aside asking the court to hand a two-year jail sentence to the IG to serve as an example to others in positions of authority, Falana further persuaded the court to invite the IG to appear and explain to the Chief Judge why the court orders were not obeyed.
A Federal High Court had on September 29, 2011, prohibited the Inspector General of Police, his officers, men, privies and agents from proscribing, harassing, intimidating or in any manner violating the fundamental rights of the Peace Corps of Nigeria, being a registered entity in the country.
The police was, however, alleged to have ignored the court verdict and continued to clamp down on the lawful activities of the corps with indiscriminate arrest of its officers and closure of its offices in the states of the federation.
Falana also claimed that Form 48, being a notice of consequences of disobeying a lawful court order served on police since last year, was ignored, a situation he said prompted the contempt charge upon which the court had ordered the IG to appear.
Similarly, national commandant of the Peace Corps, Ambassador Dickson Akoh, at a media briefing in Abuja at the weekend, confirmed that more of his men had been arrested by police, while official vehicles were seized in addition to closure of their offices, contrary to subsisting court orders.
Akoh told newsmen that police commissioners in the states were claiming that the Inspector General of Police had not given them orders to allow the operations of Peace Corps in line with existing court judgments.
The commandant described the action of police as uncivilized, barbaric, provoking and unwarranted, noting that the police had not appealed against the various judgment that barred it from stopping Peace Corps operations in the country.

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
ABUJA — The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta, has ordered the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, to appear before him tomorrow to explain why he should not be committed to prison over his persistent refusal to respect court orders.
The court summon was sequel to a Form 49, a contempt of court proceeding initiated against the Police boss by Lagos-based human rights activist and constitutional lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN.
Abubakar was accused by Falana of disobeying the judgments of three separate High Courts in Abuja which barred police from intervening in the activities of a Non-Governmental Organisation, NGO, the Peace Corps of Nigeria.
Specifically, the Inspector General was said to have bluntly refused to lift the purported ban placed by the police on Peace Corps since 2009, in spite of declarative orders by various courts of competent jurisdictions.
Consequently, aside asking the court to hand a two-year jail sentence to the IG to serve as an example to others in positions of authority, Falana further persuaded the court to invite the IG to appear and explain to the Chief Judge why the court orders were not obeyed.
A Federal High Court had on September 29, 2011, prohibited the Inspector General of Police, his officers, men, privies and agents from proscribing, harassing, intimidating or in any manner violating the fundamental rights of the Peace Corps of Nigeria, being a registered entity in the country.
The police was, however, alleged to have ignored the court verdict and continued to clamp down on the lawful activities of the corps with indiscriminate arrest of its officers and closure of its offices in the states of the federation.
Falana also claimed that Form 48, being a notice of consequences of disobeying a lawful court order served on police since last year, was ignored, a situation he said prompted the contempt charge upon which the court had ordered the IG to appear.
Similarly, national commandant of the Peace Corps, Ambassador Dickson Akoh, at a media briefing in Abuja at the weekend, confirmed that more of his men had been arrested by police, while official vehicles were seized in addition to closure of their offices, contrary to subsisting court orders.
Akoh told newsmen that police commissioners in the states were claiming that the Inspector General of Police had not given them orders to allow the operations of Peace Corps in line with existing court judgments.
The commandant described the action of police as uncivilized, barbaric, provoking and unwarranted, noting that the police had not appealed against the various judgment that barred it from stopping Peace Corps operations in the country.

banjeezay:
LA click LA bend, ebora owu at 80 will floor any of ur biafra giant from the yeast

it's not easy to pretend as if Obasanjo is not relevant, irrespective of his shortcomings.... He is still my most respected politician in Africa after late. Mandela

pokipoki:
It is still better than been a stark illiterate.
Like I previously mentioned, you are dumb and very foolish.
21st century has no place for start illiterate, so I will advise you to get a formal education.
Thanks

You are now sounding like a crying baby that you really are, pele

ANASIBERI:
they should stop using uniform

they should be wearing mofti ba?

Toor

pokipoki:
It seems you are not getting the point and i dont blame you for that. It seems you just got access to the internet and decided to talk foolishly without thinking critically.
If you dont know what a forum is, i will educate you.
The while idea of a forum is to ask questions and get informations. Informations based on facts and figures. Not running down people or present information without facts. Going forward, if you don't have facts or proofs, don't answer questions.
Some more formal education will help your cause. Get it and stop been dumb!!!!

Hmmm, nice definition, hope u have gotten your Answer. slowpoke

pokipoki:
I asked a genuine question and I expected a rational answer. It was not complusory you answer my question. So like I previously said, you are really dumb!!! An uneducated fool with access to Internet.
If you don't know what a forum is , I suggest you find out.
Idiot!!!!

Next time it will do you a whole good to carry out ur research by urself<Mr. Educated> as a graduate that you call yourself one would have expected you to use ur Internet for numerous researches to answer questions bothering u, instead of coming here foolishly to ask stupid question that could have better been answered with the aid of Google.com. But u slowpoke lazily wanted a quick answer thereby, making u to cheapishly displaying ur failed and bad nurtured attitude. Having issues with you on a forum like this will only make me a foolish person like you.... I felt really bad to have ever quoted a kid like u.... I'm moving on. And pls don't quote me again, I have got better issues to attend to here.

pokipoki:
Really dumb response. I expected you provide facts backed up with statistics.
For your information, i am not under employment of any sort with the Nigerian government.
Always be objective with your response.

And who are u to start giving u facts, if u are so dumb and blind not to see the truth in ur environment what gives me the assurance that my fact will be taken seriously by u.... I'm not in support of either of the 2 agencies as d case maybe but I want u to begin to use ur brain when condemning or making suggestions......

pokipoki:
My question is why is the government recruiting people into paramilitary organization when it is clear that the Nigerian police force is underfunded and undermanned?
The police should be the only organization in Nigeria that protects it's citizens.

Abeg spare us of this ya useless talk of under funded.... Is either u are a police or a member of ur family is in the force..... What else do police want from the federal government that they haven't gotten.... Oh, u mean that federal government should continue to enrich the Ig, commissioners.... It's obvious that the police is only pain and thereby trying to avoid some taken food from their table.... In not talking of salary and allowances they earn regularly and enormous funds given for equipment that as been looted and mismanaged by previous and current IG...... Do u knw how much this guys earn when they arrest g-boys, some of the even assist in carrying drugs in airports to remit into their bosses ACcounts.... I will stop here, bcs I'm really pissed up

Me don't understand Economics, I have only come to read and learn from experts

izzou:


Very soon, the next generation will only see snakes in pictures

I know a mod who can tell us the species but I won't mention his name.

Just wake me up when we get to the promised Kingdom

Is it not better seeing snakes in pictures than seeing them alive, Ahbi of what benefit is seeing snake to mankind.... I'm suspecting you

Professor Isaaq Oloyede is on for something, now jamb has finally taken over all admission procedures as the name inscribed. No more pume.....only 2 things are involved in the forthcoming jamb exam.... Is either u read well to pass or continue playing bet9ja to fail.... Applicants, it's left to u to choose one.... Gone are the days u hide in one big hall with expo and end up with high score

All this our idiotic politician use to support atleast a club in premier league ooo..... Bolton Stadium that is in league 1 is better than all our stadium as a nation..... Can't they give us something nice?

See cloth like peace corps uniform

owji:
Nigeria peace corps ,please stop this charade. Nigeria Peace corps keep referring USA having peace corps too but
the peace corps in USA is a voluntary program and not avenue to create employment for USA citizens. Will you have the fed
govt to start creating phony ministries, parastatals, paramilitaries every now and then just to employ all youths?
that is NOT possible. In my own opinion the govt should create an enabling environment (soft
loans,infrastructure, power,laws etc) for youths to be self employed, govt cant possibly employ all youths.

I pity those gullible ppl like myself and other ppl that have already dolled out money to the Peace corps.

I think the peace corp should better continue as voluntary organization and keep collecting their 45k and above
for training etc.

You keep on selling recruitment forms and training ppl (in hundreds of thousands) and also promise them
employment,Now.it is the same commandant general of Nigeria Peace Corps that said that at the eventual assent
by PMB the ratio of commissioned officer to voluntary officer will be 20%-80% (20 for officers & 80 for
voluntary office). Just imagine!, and you have already promised employment to all ppl that have enrolled.

You keep hiding under the disguise of generating employment for the youth & you think PMB cant read between
the lines!, more so you keep selling recruitment form to older ppl (40yrs and above)...is a man of 40 years and
above still a youth??.

i will keep telling ppl that they should not pay any 5k for recruitment form or 45k for some phony training. when
the federal government takes over fully there wont be need to pay for training or to buy recruitment form. Note
that there are still other fees to be paid.

WHAT IS THE JOB OF PEACE CORP IN NIGERIA
1. to promote peace in Nigeria (like the other military/paramilitary outfits have been promoting war)
2. to engage 800,000 youths in meaningful employment (Nigeria army and navy combined don't have up to
600,000 officers) grin
3. to end insurgency (without arms. na juju dem wan use grin
4. to curb cultism in secondary school and university grin
5. to curb exam malpractices. undecided undecided

and most importantly for the officers to be getting paid by the fed govt grin grin
see, the Peace corps don't have the interest of the country at heart, what they hungry for is SALARY!!! another
avenue to waste govt resources.

Nigeria peace corp should never be institutionalized just to MANAGE youth unemployment, It is wrong. Yes, it
may reduce unemployment (as fringe benefit) of the youths for a while. That should not be the main reason for
creating peace corp.

Were the NPF, Nigerian Army, Navy, FRSC etc created to tackle youth unemployment? your answer is as good as
mine.
Npower, YOUWIN and the likes are already in place for unemployed youths to be engaged with atleast.

Again, Nigeria peace corps should stop this charade.
A word is enough for the wise

with npower, can u say u are gainfully employed.... The plain truth is most of the guys condemning this are 1 . many wanted to join but couldn't afford the 40k 2.many are just jealous of their friends that did it, and will feel very bad hearing that what the fellow invested on some years back have finally materialized........ U guys should stop talking like the minister of finance in Nigeria... Let it get into ur skulls, that u don't have a say when it comes to such issues.... You will only give yourselves hypertension and stroke and die off..... Those that paid the 40k, did it in good faith and it's their ability to predict the future..... Very few of u idiots crying that d bill should not be signed is aware of what we can respect of people s opinion.... If most of u are so intelligent and know how to manage funds as most of u a claimed, alot of u have suddenly became minister of works, minister of finance,, and agriculture in ur respective homes. One will think with ur wealth of knowledge in economics and the likes, would have made u wealthy and be self employed but instead majority of u still wallow in ardent poverty. Ur busy body and hatred for human development won't let u be..... I really hate typing this long.... Pls don't quote me... Just use ur brain to assemble all that is written

dominique:
My father doesn't defraud broke job seekers. If he does, yes I will. Why are Nigerians so sentimental like this? Scammers are people's relations. so because they have children, spouses or sibblings somewhere, they should be left to swindle unsuspecting people right?

ur dad is apparently a green snake under d green glass, but posterity will soon catch up with him, trust me

Nukualofa:
Shut up. Dickson akor is a fraudster and a fornicator.

He should be in jail



Shut up once again

gosh, dude u are just pretty rude for my liking.... What da bleep is wrong with u and progress, if it was your father that was the commander, would u have been spitting this trash here.... Now come to think of it, weather the bill is signed to law or not it has no negative or positive to ur life right..... I will believe u and take u serious if u could manage to state 5 negative effect of this bill of signed and 5 positive effect to ur life if not signed.... Think and stop been selfish....

owji:
So much can be deduced from your comnent.

Firstly, You might be a midget or a half man.

Secondly, you r nt fit to be in a leadership position,

Thirdly, you are selfish & largely uncultured.

Lastly, you r probably a member of peace corps in Nigeria.

I almost ignored your selfish & impertinent writeup. But I think you should borrow some common sense from ppl who are more educated, informed regarding such issue as being trashed in this topic.

So, according to you OR according to your unintelligent idea that you wrote up there....Nigeria peace corp should be created JUST for the masses/youth to benefit from the 'common wealth' please define ur 'common wealth ' oh biko ... Oh boy ! I want to believe you are smarter and educated than that.

I thought of it that you must be dumb goat not to have used your brain in the first place.. How many of thoes that paid approached u for the said money been collected for the camp..... U talked about me been selfish.... Had it been u had mentioned it that u were incapacitated to join due to ur financial constraints, maybe I wouldn't have talked to u d way I did, instead u hid under the presence of a human right activist. Axin, I can't just fathom how it's been ur headache how people have chosen to spend their hard earned money.... I don't just get.... And please, remain in ur foolish being and stop quoting me.

He Don do nao..... Haba

Is Baba so broke that he can't help to renovate and furnish that hall/class as d case may be?

Author: Jerrywright Ukwu, Nnenna Ibeh
- The leader of the indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has been receiving visitors at Kuje prison

- Some prominent Nigerians visited the IPOB leader on Tuesday, February 28

- They were led by former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Dr Chukwuma Soludo

The leader of the indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu played host to some prominent Nigerians on Tuesday, February 28.
Former CBN governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo and renowned economist, Dr Pat Utomi led the delegation to Kuje prison, where Kanu is currently in detention.
While the purpose of the visit is not yet clear at the time of this report, NAIJ.com gathered that the visit was made under the umbrella of Nzuko Umuna, a coalition of Igbo group.
Nnadi said: "We have announced a process, on January 1, 2017, the LNC rolled out a registration of three million volunteers who want a referendum."
"The matter now is how to put a date for the referendum and go to vote."

Below is a full list of the delegation:

1. Chukwuma Soludo - Former CBN governor

2. Pat Utomi - Renowned economist

3. Tony Nnadi - Secretary general of LNC

4. Udenta Udenta - National secretary of Alliance Democracy

Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has take a new dimension to celebrate his 80th birthday .

Daily Trust reports that the ex-president took the train of celebration to some public-school students at his Ibogun village, near Ifo, Ogun state. He was spotted in a reading session with them. This is part of activities to mark his 80th birthday celebrations.He was in the company of his wife, Bola and some of his close allies as they were received by the school children drawn from Berly Chrysolite school (primary and secondary), Ewupe, Baptist Day school, Ibogun and baptist day school, Idi aga among others.

As at time of this report, the former president was telling a popular fable of the legendary tortoise.

Every celebration day carries its own promise..... Even if we are celebrating world sex they our politicians will still make a promise.... Politics and proves are like 5 & 6

owji:
Nigeria peace corps ,please stop this charade. They keep referring USA having peace corps too but the peace
corps in USA is a voluntary program and not avenue to create employment for USA citizen.
I pity those gullible ppl like myself and other ppl that have already dolled out money to the Peace corps.
I think the peace corp should better continue as voluntary organization and keep collecting their 45k and above
for training etc.
You keep on selling recruitment forms and training ppl (in hundreds of thousands) and also promise them
employment,Now.it is the same commandant general of Nigeria Peace Corps that said that at the eventual assent
by PMB the ratio of commissioned officer to voluntary officer will be 20%-80% (20 for officers & 80 for
voluntary office). Just imagine!, and you have already promised employment to all ppl that have enrolled.
You keep hiding under the disguise of generating employment for the youth & you think PMB cant read between
the lines!, more so you keep selling recruitment form to older ppl (40yrs and above)...is a man of 40 years and
above still a youth??.
i will keep telling ppl that they should not pay any 5k for recruitment form or 45k for some phony training. when
the federal government takes over fully there wont be need to pay for training or to buy recruitment form. Note
that there are still other fees to be paid.
WHAT IS THE JOB OF PEACE CORP IN NIGERIA
1. to promote peace in Nigeria (like the other military/paramilitary outfits have been promoting war) cheesy
2. to engage 800,000 youths in meaningful employment (Nigeria army and navy combined don't have up to
600,000 officers) grin
3. to end insurgency (without arms. na juju dem wan use? ) grin
4. to curb cultism in secondary school and university. undecided
5. to curb exam malpractices. undecided
and most importantly for the officers to be getting paid by the fed govt. grin grin grin
see, the Peace corps don't have the interest of the country at heart, what they hungry for is SALARY!!! another
avenue to waste govt resources.
Again, Nigeria peace corps should stop this charade.
A word is enough for the wise

Olodumare oooo, so u are these wise and and you are not yet in the position of leadership in this country ..... U type so foolishly ...... After all, it's better for ur politicians (the Elite) to remain at the top to share our common wealth without doing anything meaningful ? But it is a sin for the masses (class u and ur family and friends belong) to benefit from such without doing anything..... The masses must continue to suffer pain b4 they could earn a drip from our common wealth... The thunder that will fire u their is still doing press up ehn..... Ode oshi. Ba brain....... Fela sang it in one of his songs noa..... Suffer suffer.... Suffering and smiling

Ojonetesy:
I wonder why some of you are just disturbing yourselves for nothing.
NOBODY IS FORCING ANYBODY TO JOIN THE NIGERIA PEACE CORPS.
Everybody must not join.
They said the same thing to Civil defence which made some of us to ignore them. But the same people that made us not to join Civil defence, went and payed #500,000 plus, after president Obasanjo assented to it, for their relatives to join.
Anybody that don't want to join, should just face his or her work and business.
The more you critisize Peace corps the more Millions of people are trooping there to get the forms and pay the #40,000 for uniforms and etc, because if you don't learn your lessons from Civil defence time, you will never learn anything.
How much is #40,000 that you will not allow Nigerians drink water...
Those of you waiting for the presidential assent before joining, hahaha... I laughed in capital letters, because you need to go and ask other organisations some questions.
You criticised Peace Corps, it passed first reading, second reading, third reading, and now on the president table. And if he does not assent to it, 2/3 of the legislator votes can assent to it and legalise it...period.
To the unemployed youths out there... The society will not help you when you are suffering, so don't allow anybody to fool u just as they did to us during Civil defence era. Grab any job opportunity available,inorder to help yourself and your family, for those telling you that it's a scam, they will never borrow you any money if you are in need of money. Some of them have cars, they will never give you a lift.
#40,000 is not up to the amount you payed in school, it's not upto the amount you have been paying to re-write WAEC every year (to those who have been falling victim of waec)
You should not expect the commandant to fund it from his pocket, it's not yet assented to.
So, if you love yourselves, just close eyes and go for it. And if you can't go for it, just relax and find something else to do. Millions of people have joined, but, Everybody must not join Peace Corps.
If the President or 2/3 legislatures have finally assented to it, don't say; hard-i-know.

500k pain u? Many are paying as high as 750k and are still getting duped..... Like Yoruba will say..... U don't look at the noise in the market rather u should concentrate on what brought you to the market..... Those People condemning peace corps today will end up begging to pay their wayin, in Future.... Mark my words!

Touch and die

Iranu Abasha, how will he explain the physics to his children in future.... Expecially when showing them his graduation pictures. Person wey no bleach never see certificate talk less of u wey bleach.

Yoruba got guts sha

falconey:
see specs are we in 2005? if he pass #10k I no buy!!!!

if he pass 4500 count me out

Firstcitizen:
Idiagbon was the face of Buhari's military government. The failings of that government was blamed on Buhari.

If Osinbajo fails as a temporary face of this government Buhari picks up the blame. Now things are improving a bit, many mischief makers who do not wish Nigeria well are praising only Osinbajo.

Shows that Buhari is hated for his anti corruption stance and a large chunk of Nigerians cannot wait for corruption to return. Thieves!

Bro, Buhari is hated for many reasons not limited to his anti corruption stance.... It will do u alot good if u could spread u thinking falsity across the line

Her birthday no dey finish?