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10 — Vanguard, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2020 :Vanguard News I’m a change agent, not a recycled politician, Moghalu tackles Ngige By Clifford Ndujihe L AGOS—THE Presidential candidate of the Young Progressive Party, YPP, in the 2019 election, Professor Kingsley Moghalu has punctured comments by Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige that he failed in his quest to become President of Nigeria because the YPP was “a relativelyunknown party”and he had not served anyone in politics. Among other things, Dr. Ngige also reportedly said that ‘’Moghalu, rather than aspire for the president, would have launched his aspiration by first contesting for the governorship or National Assembly…that’s how the game goes… Dr. Moghalu, my very good friend who was deputy governor of the Central Bank. He said he was going to YPP. I called him and said ‘young man. You have :@vanguardnews :@vanguardnews NEWS HOTLINES: 08052867023, 08052867058 Community Policing: LG chairmen, monarchs, others to recruit, screen 40,000 CPOs By Evelyn Usman L AGOS—MOVE towards recruiting 40,000 Community Policing Officers ,CPOs that will assist the Police in their duties, have begun, as the Lagos State Police Command has set up a screening committee comprising Local Government chairmen , traditional rulers and members of the Police Community Relations Committee, PCRC. When recruited, the constabulary Police are expected to carry out some duties like regular policemen, including wearing police uniforms. Briefing journalists after meeting with members of the screening committee, Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Hakeem Odumosu, explained that the meeting was to sensitize them on the new initiative LG dissolution: Makinde meets IGP, says 'I am trying to prevent chaos in Oyo' ....Informs IGP of court order restraining Police, AGF from By Kingsley Omonobi IBADAN—OYO State Governor, Seyi Makinde has declared that he is trying to prevent chaos in the state over the controversy surrounding the removal of chairmen of local councils. This is just as the Inspector General of Police, IGP Mohammed Abubakar Adamu, assured that whenever he received the court order restraining the Police and the Attorney General from reinstating not carried politics bag. You have not served anybody in politics’. Why would you jump into presidential race; not even for House of Representatives?’ If he had declared for governorship, we would have, maybe appealed to him to go for House of Representatives. So, one has to carry politics bag and learn from his master. You have to learn the art of politics.’ Reacting to the comments of Ngige, yesterday, Moghalu, in a statement said: ‘’Sadly, the tone of these statements by my brother and friend Dr. Chris Ngige reflects his utter contempt and arrogance as a Nigerian politician towards the poor masses and citizens of Nigeria. Our democracy is just a 'game' for him. Being a visionless career politician “carrying politics bag” before graduating to being a political “overlord” is, for some, the whole point of politics. Call for Buhari’s resignation: Abaribe ought to be in correctional centre —Presidency By Johnbosco Agbakwuru A BUJA—THE Presidency yesterday, described the call by the Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe for President Muhammadu Buhari to resign over the alleged security failure in the country as foolish. The Presidency also said that it was the Senator that was supposed to resign from his position and replace the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in Correctional Service for failure to produce the IPOB leader many times in court in line with the bail bond he signed. Reacting to Senator Abaribe’s call for President Buhari to tender his resignation the Presidency in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu said, the call did not represent the opinion of the country. It said, “President Buhari to resign on what basis? Just because some characters think that President Buhari should resign, then they expect him to quit. That call does not represent the opinion of the country. This is the opinion of an arm chair critic, known for making stray comments." the sacked LG chairmen, he would comply. The Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan, on Tuesday, restrained the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), Inspector General of Police, Muhammed Adamu and the sacked 68 chairmen of Local Governments and Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs, from forcefully taking over council offices across the state. •Lagos Police boss meets with screening committee and to ensure that character checks were carried out before recruiting members of the public as Community Policing officers. Odumosu said: “ We are highly elated because they are coming in to assist us. Police can’t work without information. They will serve as our eyes and informants. “ The meeting is about practicality of community policing. It is a sensitization step towards actualizing the Federal Government decision to bring in community policing on board, through the IGP, that special Constabularies will be recruited into the Police. “ It is going to reduce shortage of man power in the police but more importantly it is going to be a symbiotic one. Inflow of information and to make people have sense of belonging. “The modalities for recruitment and their duties are stated in sections 49 and 50 of the Police Acts and Regulations. They are unlike the SPY Police because they are going to be working in the police stations, like regular policemen. They have same rights and privileges of the conventional police. So they may be deployed to work at the counter, or be sent to invite somebody to the station. Okada ban: Maxokada, Gokada ask LASG to rescind decision By Innocent Anaba LAGOS—MAX Okada and GOkada have pleaded with the Lagos State Government to rescind its decision to ban all categories of commercial reinstating sacked chairmen •IG assures of compliance on receipt of court order The Court, presided over by Justice Moshud A.A Abass, also restrained the Commissioner of Police, Oyo State Command, Mr Shina Olukolu and the Oyo State chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Akin Oke from joining in the illegal takeover. The IGP had earlier ordered the Oyo State Police CP Shina Olukolu, to take actions to implement the legal opinion of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) on the sacked local government chairpersons in the state. In a letter addressed to the chairman of the dissolved Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON), Ayodeji Abass- Aleshiloye, the IGP had asked the sacked ALGON chairman to liaise with the Police Commissioner to facilitate a smooth takeover of the local government areas in the state. motorcycles and tricycles, effective February 1, 2020, in six local government areas and nine local council development areas of the state, noting that it would compound the already bad unemployment situation in the country. Mr Tayo Bamidiro, Chief Executive Officer, MAXOkada and Mr Victor Daminabo, Pilot Operations Manager of GOKada, who briefed newsmen in Lagos, yesterday, on the proposed ban of all categories of commercial motorcycles by INSPECTION: From left—Federal Controller of Works, Lagos, Adedamola Kuti; Deputy Project Manager, CGC, Du Yunx Tang, and Director of Federal Highways, South- West, Funsho Adebiyi, during the inspection of on-going rehabilitation of Lagos-Badagry Expressway, in Lagos, Wednesday. the state government, said they were in compliant with Lagos State Transport Sector Reform Law 2018. Bamidiro said: “In communicating the decision to restrict the operations of commercial motorcycles and tricycles in the affected areas, the government’s spokesperson, while responding to a query on whether formalized motorcycle hailing operators are exempted from the ban, the Commissioner for Transportation remarked that “all forms of Motorcycles and Keke Napeps are banned."
Vanguard, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2020 — 11 :Vanguard News :@vanguardnews :@vanguardnews NEWS HOTLINES: 08052867023, 08052867058 DONATION—Senator Ibikunle Amosun (centre) in company of the Controller of Prisons, Victor Benson, acknowledges cheers from the correctional inmates, when he visited the Ibara Centre to donated food items, as part of the activities marking his 62nd Birthday anniversary, yesterday. Photo: Wunmi Akinola. Ogun communities protest incessant attacks, destruction by herdsmen By James Ogunnaike A BEOKUTA— HUNDREDS of farmers from over 12 villages in Oja Odan community in Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State, yesterday, protested the incessant attacks and destruction of their farms by herdsmen and their cattle. The farmers who took their protest to the Palace of the Eselu of Iseluland, Oba Akintunde Akinyemi, alleged that they have also lost farm produce worth millions of naira to the over 8,000 herds of cattle that routinely graze on their farms. They added that one of them was killed, last week, by violent herdsmen, who also cut off one of the hands of the murdered man’s son. Speaking on behalf of the protesting farmers, the Jagun Oba of Iseluland, Chief Festus Olabode Aina, said the herdsmen were intruders from Republic of Niger and Chad. Aina urged the monarch to convey their plights to the state and federal governments for urgent intervention, expressing fear that there could be bloodshed as witnessed in 2007, if the 'peace loving villagers’ patience' thins out and they resort to self defence. He added that the available stream that supplies them water for drinking and domestic purposes has been polluted with cow dungs. He stressed that their women and daughters also suffer dehumanisation, abuse and humiliation in the hands of herdsmen. Responding, Oba Akinyemi lauded the farmers for their peaceful conduct and advised them to continue to be calm, adding that they should not take the laws into their hands. While assuring them that their message would be communicated to the government, the monarch lamented that the herders returned to the community in large numbers when the Benin Republic soldiers vent their anger on them over the border closure and sent them packing from their country. Speaking with newsmen, the Eselu appealed to the government to intervene. “Ever since I have been on the throne, this has always been a problem we have been trying to tame but because of the stubbornness of these herdsmen, they find it difficult to tame them. “The problem has become more tedious because many of them are from Benin Republic and Niger. My people are saying they can’t take it any more. The soldiers in Republic of Benin chased the herdsmen out and they now saw our community as Amotekun: APC chieftain tasks S/West govs to ensure workability LAGOS—A member of the Lagos Governor’s Advisory Council, GAC, Chief Lanre Razak, has thrown his weight behind the South-West security outfit codenamed: 'Operation Amotekun', saying its establishment was long overdue for security of lives and property in the zone. Speaking in Lagos yesterday, the chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, however, asked the South-West Governors, who initiated the move to do everything possible within the law to ensure its workability because of its importance to the security of the citizenry. Razak said the security situation in the country calls for more hands on deck to complement Federal Government’s efforts at curbing the menace, adding that Amotekun is not out to usurp the duties of the regular security agencies in the country. According to him, since bandits and criminals are not spirits but humans living within the community, it would be easier for the local outfit to identify them and their hideouts, fish them out and hand them over to the regular security agencies for appropriate actions. an alternative. “They are now destroying our crops, raping our women, maiming our men among others. So, as a matter of fact, I am appealing to the government to please come to the aid of my people as a matter of urgency.” The Ogun State Police Command said it is aware of the community’s protest and assured that there would be security beef up in the area to support those already on ground to ensure safety for the villagers and farmers. Speaking through the Command’s Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, it added that the Police would continue to put measures in place to prevent breakdown of law and order in that part of the state. Osun approves Prince Oyetunde Ojo as new Olona of Ada O SOGBO—THE State Executive Council, at its meeting of Monday, January 27, 2020, approved the appointment of Prince (Dr) Oyetunde Olumuyiwa Ojo as the Olona of Ada in Boripe North Local Council Development Area of the State. The stool became vacant with the demise of Oba Abimbola Olalekan, Abioye II on 4th April, 2019. The Olona of Ada stool has a 1981 registered Chieftaincy Declaration and the newly appointed Olona hails from the Adeitan Ruling House which is the next in the order of rotation to occupy the stool. The new Olona of Ada is a member of the State Council of Obas and his appointment brings the number of monarchs approved by the Oyetola administration to five. 2023 Presidency: I’ll make my intentions known soon —Bode George By Dapo Akinrefon L AGOS—FORMER Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olabode George, yesterday, said he would soon declare his intentions on whether or not he would contest the 2023 presidential election. George, who said he has the requisite knowledge and experience to make the country better, spoke when some youth groups paid him a solidarity visit at his Lugard office in Lagos. According to George, many Nigerians mooted the idea of presidency to him but he said he is still keeping his cards to his chest The PDP chieftain, who disclosed that pressure is being mounted on him to run in 2023, noted that he is more focused on stabilising and uniting the country. His words: “Yes, people mooted that idea of FG Agric programme: Choice of Ogun, testimony of our policy on agriculture —Abiodun By James Ogunnaike A BEOKUTA—OGUN State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has described the choice of the state to pioneer the Federal Government programme on agriculture in the South- West region of the country as a testimony to his administration’s policy on agriculture, which he said was aimed at ensuring food security and provision of employment. Abiodun, who stated this while receiving the Minister of Agriculture, Alhaji Mohammed Sabo Nanono in his office at Oke- Mosan, Abeokuta, said the state has potentials for the cultivation of food and cash presidential or no presidential but I keep my card to my chest. People mooted it, initially we played and laughed over it but you see 2023 is a long haul from now and if people are wishing you well and are showing such good things to you, you don’t deflect it but time will tell.” Urging focus on addressing the challenges facing the county, he continued: “We know there are managers now. Our major concern should be what role are they playing? How well are they managing the resources of the country? “2023 is still a long time from now, that is about three years from now. Who knows who would even be alive by then? So, let us do the needful first and stabilize the platform on which you are going to move. “So, I want to thank those who have mooted the idea of presidency and those who have spoken about it, but it is not tomorrow, it is not next week." crops including cocoa, cotton, and palm oil among others. Alhaji Nanono had earlier told the governor that the state has been chosen to serve as a pioneer in the South-West for the Federal Government mechanisation programme for the production of cocoa and rice in the country. According to the Minister, “Ogun is one of the states in the South-West that we have interest in, in two vital areas of cocoa, rice production and also in agricultural mechanisation which is going to affect 632 local government areas across the country. We will consider Ogun as one of the states that will be the pioneer in the South-West,” he noted.
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