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34—Vanguard, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2020
TRAINING: From left, Rector/Chief Executive, Nigeria College of Aviation Technology,
NCAT, Capt. Abdulsalami Mohammed; Head, Aviation Management School, NCAT, Dr.
Kareem Bakare; General Manager, Kaduna Regional Manager, Nigeria Civil Aviation
Authority, NCAA, and Chairman, League of Airport and Aviation Correspondents, LAAC,
Mr. Segun Koiki, at the LAAC 2020 training at NCAT, Zaria opening ceremony.
Some Nigerians using Ebonyi identity for
recruitment into army— Ebonyi dep gov
By Peter Okutu
A BAKALIKI—EBONYI
State Deputy Governor,
Dr. Kelechi Igwe, yesterday
alleged that some Nigerians
usually take up the identity
of Ebonyi people and take
all the state’s quota in any
army recruitment exercise.
Representing Governor
David Umahi of Ebonyi State
while receiving Brig. Gen.
Henry Akpan, Director in
charge of Army Recruitment,
Resettlement and Reserve,
Ministry of Defence, at Exco
Chambers of the
Government House,
Abakaliki, the deputy
governor decried alleged
shortchanging of the people
of the state in the recruitment
of the Nigerian Army.
He said: “Before our
ascension into office, what
had obtained in the South-
East, particularly in Ebonyi
State, is that our people have
been shortchanged in the
army. They will pull out
enmasse for recruitment and
they would return home
jubilating that they are going
to be recruited into the army,
that the report on them is
favourable for their
engagement in the military.
"At the end, the story will be
that only two or three of them
are engaged and when you
go to look at the list, you will
discover that men from other
regions will answer Ebonyi
State name, take up the
identity of our people and
take the quota that is meant
and reserved for Ebonyi
State.
“We are not happy with
such unpleasant situations
and I believe that our
governor has complained
severally about it. We think
that having men like you and
the Chief of Army Staff will
resolve such intractable
problem that we have been
having in Ebonyi State.”
Earlier, Brig.-Gen. Henry
Akpan, Director in charge of
Army Recruitment,
Resettlement and Reserve,
Ministry of Defence, Abuja
said the Chief of Army Staff
had strategised on how to
tackle the problems facing
the army in the conventional
warfare by ensuring that
anyone recruited into the
system from now onwards
would undergo special and
tough training after
undergoing the normal
recruitment training.
“The normal army that was
trained to engage
particularly in conventional
warfare are having a lot of
problems as you can see in
the North Eastern region.
So, recently, the Chief of
Army instituted Special
Forces concept, a special
skill that you can use to fight
war.
“This special training will
now be integrated in every
Group donates $1.2m medical
equipment to Imo govt
By Chidi
Nkwopara
O WERRI—Governor
Hope Uzodimma of Imo
State has reiterated the
resolve of his administration
to chart a fresh and achievable
roadmap for the development
of the healthcare sector in the
state.
Uzodinma spoke in Owerri,
when he received in
audience, the Chief Medical
Officer, CMO, of American
International Health
Incorporated, Prof. Uche
Nwaneri, after taking delivery
of medical equipment worth
$1.2 million, and a
documentary, “Strategic Plan
to Revitalise the Imo State
Healthcare sector.”
The governor said: “One of
the strongest challenges we
saw when we came in as a
government, is the absence of
an organised medical system
for our people. Speaking with
Prof. Nwaneri a few days ago,
I reiterated that and also laid
emphasis on how best we can
encourage this noble idea to
materialise.”
While stressing the
readiness of his
administration to partner with
the team to ensure that Imo
healthcare system gets off the
ground, Uzodinna, however,
reasoned that it will help the
government check avoidable
recurring deaths, occasioned
by carelessness of the medical
system or the absence of
sound medicare.
Apparently satisfied with
the presentation, Uzodimma
said: “This is good enough
and sufficient to be adopted
as our medical programme
for the state as a government,
because it has taken care of
the rural, the middle income
and urban areas."
Making special reference
to Imo State University
Teaching Hospital, IMSUTH,
Orlu, Uzodinma pledged to
make sure that whatever was
necessary would be done for
its proper accreditation to
training in the Nigerian
army. So, this means that
anybody that is recruited in
the Nigerian Army with
effect from now, will have to
go through that process.
"It is a tough training, it
requires a lot of physical and
mental fitness. So, we need
young men and women who
are physically fit”, he said.
allow Imo sons and
daughters, who have
stagnated for the past 10 to
12 years, to graduate without
further stress.
Speaking earlier, Professor
Nwaneri appreciated
Uzodimma for the
opportunity given them to
contribute to the health needs
of Imo people, while also
making a convincing
presentation for the state to
buy into.
Nwaneri also announced a
donation of medical
equipment worth $1.2 m to
IMSUTH, Orlu.
Rape: WACOL seeks
disciplinary measure against
indicted police officers
By Dennis Agbo
WOMEN
Aids
Collective, WACOL,
has requested that the Police
should immedately
commence disciplinary
measures against indicted
police officers who invaded
WACOL office in Enugu and
butalised its staff over a
reported rape incident.
Four police officers were
alleged to have invaded
WACOL office in Enugu and
brutalised a lawyer with
WACOL earlier this year, in
a bid to compel the women
rights group to withdraw a
petition it made to the police
against a suspected rapist.
Briefing newsmen on the
development, yesterday,
Founding Director of
WACOL, Prof Joy Ezeilo, said
her organisation appreciated
the effort of police in setting
up a panel of investigation
on the police brutality but
wants the police to go further
and discipline the indicted
officers with either suspension
or immediate prosecution.
Ezeilo also threw up the
issue of alleged corruption
and inducement by the
suspected rapist which it said
made the police officers
commit the acts of
intimidation and brutality
against her officers.
She said: “We have no
problem with the police
authority because we always
work with police, but all we
want is to end police brutality
to humanity."
Nsukka youths honour Peace
Mass MD, unveils mascot of
him
By Chinenyeh
Ozor
YOUTHS of Nsukka
cultural affinity have
unveiled the mascot of Chief
Samuel Onyishi, Managing
Director of Peace Mass
Transit, in honour and
appreciation of his
philanthropic gesture in
community development in
Nsukka Local Government
Area of Enugu State.
The mascot positioned in
front of Nsukka town hall,
which he single-handedly
built 12 years ago, would
remain as a symbol to
generations yet unborn of the
magnanimity of Onyishi on
economic development,
education, entrepreneurship
and human capital
development of his kinsmen
in Nsukka and it’s environs.
FG tasked on grassroots
education for innovation,
economic devt
NIGERIA
cannot
achieve sustainable
economic development if it
continues to pay lip service
to grassroots education of
pupils in rural communities.
Founder, Eziokwu
Ebubechuwku Foundation,
EEF, Mr. Ezeukoh
Ebubechukwu, said this
while calling on the Federal
Government to intensify
efforts to revamp and educate
rural communities by setting
qualitative measures to
improve the academic and
learnability standards of the
rural pupils.
Speaking during the
foundation’s second Rural
Outreach at St. Aloysius'
Catholic Primary School, Iloti
Itamapako, Ogun State,
Ebubechukwu, who
expressed concern over the
increasing population of outof-school
children in the
country, also urged the
Federal Government to give
The youths through its
chairman, Chief Chidokwe
Attama, said unveiling the
mascot was to appreciate the
humanitarian gesture of
Chief Onyishi to various
communities of Nkpunano,
Nru, Nguru, Ihe/Owerre in
the local government area.
Attama said Onyishi singlehandedly
built Nsukka town
hall (aka Obu Nsukka) for the
community as an everlasting
legacy for his people, having
earlier built other
developmental projects and
hospital for the community,
empowered over 500
undergraduates of the
community with cash, floated
Samuel Maduka Onyishi
Education Foundation,
SAMOEF, at the Institute of
African Studies, University of
Nigeria, Nsukka where over
5,000 students benefit
annually.
Court quashes N22m suit
against Premier Breweries,
Arthur Eze
By Nwabueze
Okonkwo
ONITSHA—
An
Anambra State High
Court sitting at Ogidi, Idemili
North Local Government
Area, presided over by
Justice Irene Ndigwe has
dismissed a N22 million suit
filed by Al-Kama Commodity
Exchange (Nig) Plc against
Premier Breweries Nigeria
Plc, its owner, Prince Arthur
Eze and five commercial
banks.
Delivering a judgment
yesterday, Justice Ndigwe
noted that after evaluation of
the arguments canvassed by
both parties, the court has to
uphold the submissions of Dr.
Anthony Orunkoya, counsel
to Premier Breweries Plc, the
defendant/judgment debtor.
The trial judge ruled that it
was only when proper
parties are before the court
that the court would assume
jurisdiction to competently
adjudicate on a matter as was
held in the case of Okonta v
Philips (2011) All FWLR (pt
568) 977 SC at 980 – 981,
adding that if the enabling
law provides name for a
juristice or legal personality,
a party must sue or be sued
in that name.
Ndigwe further held that
the court was under a duty to
determine whether the relief
sought in a garnishee
proceeding is the same with
the award contained in the
judgment sought to be
enforced and where there is
variance with award of the
judgment sought to be
enforced with the reliefs in the
garnishee, most particularly
the amount, the court is
under a duty to refuse the
application.
priority to the education
welfare of pupils in public
schools.
He said: “The impact of
education in any economy
cannot be overemphasised.
An educated farmer would
have more contribution and
more innovative ideas to
national growth than one
who’s not educated.
“Federal Government
should make efforts to
revamp the academics of the
rural dwellers and also make
school fun for rural kids.
“Government should put in
qualitative measures to
improve the academics and
learnability of these rural
children, because educating
the rural kids would help to
create an enabling
environment where the
concept of economic
development would matter to
them and will make them
think for generations to come,
rather than their immediate
needs.”