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8 — Vanguard, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2022 VISIT: Ooni of Ife, His Royal Majesty Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II (right) and Founder, Cavista Nigeria, Mr Niyi John Olajide, during the monarch's visit the Lagos-based Home Healthcare Technology firm, yesterday. By James Ogunnaike Aplying BEOKUTA-Motorists the Lagos- Ibadan Expressway were yesterday, stranded for hours, as protesting university students blocked the road in protest against the continued strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of :Vanguard News Ogun Assembly suspends ex-Deputy Speaker, one other lawmaker :@vanguardnews :@vanguardnewsNEWS HOTLINES: 08052867023, 08052867058 ASUU strike: Monarch, others stranded as protesting students block Lagos-Ibadan expressway By James Ogunnaike ABEOKUTA-THE crisis rocking the Ogun State House of Assembly took a new dimension as the Assembly, yesterday, suspended the former Deputy Speaker, Dare Kadiri, who is representing Ijebu North II State Constituency and his Remo North counterpart, Solomon Osho until further notice. The suspension followed the adoption of a resolution, during a plenary presided over by the Speaker, Mr Olakunle Oluomo at the Assembly Complex, Oke- Mosan in Abeokuta. The Speaker said: "Order 6, Rule 19 (2) says that whereof a matter of privilege arises, it shall be taken into consideration immediately; in the note of that, I want to say that I received a resolution by the appropriate number of members of this house raising the issue of Privileges and it read thus", Resolution 131/ OG/2022- suspension of some members for the breach of the Universities, ASUU. The students, who acted under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, blocked the road at the Sagamu Interchange. Caught in the gridlock was the Olowu of Kuta in Osun State, Oba Adekunle provision of the Legislative Houses (Power and Privileges) Act, 2017. "Having found to have severally and contentiously breached the Rights and Privileges of the Ogun State House of Assembly and its Leadership, through violation of the provisions of Section 17 of Legislative Houses (Power and Privileges) Act, 2017, the following members, Mr Oluwadamilare Kadiri (Ijebu North II State Constituency) and Solomon Osho (Remo North Constituency) are, hereby, suspended from the House and its activities forthwith until further notice in line with the provisions of Sections 14 and 15 of the Legislative Houses (Powers and Privileges) Act, 2017. "Since this has been signed by the appropriate number of people, it requires no vote or anything, so they stand suspended." Vanguard reliably gathered that the decision to suspend the two lawmakers was not Oyelude, Tegbosun 111, whose convoy was heading for Lagos. Oba Oyelude, who addressed the students, commended the orderly manner that they conducted themselves. He urged the Federal Government and ASUU to find a way of resolving the unconnected with their roles in exposing the Speaker's alleged fraudulent activities, resulting in his arrest and arraignment by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, last week. An Assembly source, who spoke in confidence, said the Speaker was determined to fight back and this informed why he perfected arrangements with his supporters to suspend the two lawmakers. The source, who spoke to Vanguard under anonymity, said: "The Speaker has vowed to go after all those against him in the House. He addressed his people at Ifo Palace that he is innocent (about EFCC charges) and will use all means to crush his opponents." The EFCC, on September 6, 2022, arraigned Oluomo at a Federal High Court in Lagos on an 11-count charge bordering on N2.475billion money laundering and forgery. Misconduct: Lagos Assembly summons Waterfront Commissioner By Ebunoluwa Sessou LAGOS-THE Lagos State House of Assembly, yesterday, asked the Commissioner for Waterfront, Mr Kabiru Abdullahi to appear before its Committee, on Thursday, following his refusal to honour several invitations by the committee over his ministerial activities. Moving the matter on the floor of the House, yesterday, Chairman of the Committee on Waterfront, Jimoh Wahab described as unacceptable the Commissioner's incessant refusal to honour invitations extended to him by the Committee. Wahab said: "The commissioner is making the assignment difficult for the committee. His ministry is yet to submit documents for the ongoing budget mid-year review. "I want to bring the unacceptable conduct of the Commissioner for Waterfront before the house. Severally, the committee has invited him for some clarification over his ministerial activities but has yet to show up. He is making the assignment of the committee so difficult. "As you all know, the midyear budget review is going on and as at present, the document has not been submitted to the committee. "I would implore the house to give the committee the privilege to carry out an investigation on the activities of the commissioner and the ministry since his assumption of office." crisis as the students had stayed long at home doing nothing. But the protesting students, in a statement by the Coordinator, South-West Zone and National Public Relations Officer of NANS, Messrs Adegboye Emmanuel and Giwa Temitope respectively, said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government has failed in its promise to revamp education. The students vowed to mobilise towards shutting down the Presidential Villa if their demands are not met. The statement reads: "There is no point arguing about who is at fault or what is to be done. It is very clear that the ruler underfunds education and the Buhari government is failing in its promise to revamp education. "As it is today, no higher institution in Nigeria is worldclass. Yet, our so-called public servants travel all over the world spending billions of dollars to send their kids abroad for studies. "As major stakeholders in the education sector, we are the ones who can save ourselves. We have monitored the yearnings of students from campus to campus through their social media platforms and also in their public writings. Students all over Nigeria stand with ASUU. Our lecturers suffer the same hardships and maldevelopments we suffer. The staff houses are as bad as the students' hostels. In South Africa, a professor's laboratory is far more equipped than that of any university in Nigeria. "History has been killed and undermined, so we the youths, do not know where we are coming from not to talk of knowing where we are headed. But we will not lament anymore. The new leadership of NANS is here to work with students to achieve our set aims and objectives. We believe that the student movement has its place in history. It is a task that we vow to fulfil. We will never let Nigerian students down." Ondo bans clubbing, okada operations at night By Dayo Johnson AKURE-THE Ondo State government, yesterday, banned night clubbing and night motorcycle operations as a way of curbing crime in the state. The Special Adviser on Security matters, Akogun Adetunji Adeleye, in a statement, stated that the government has ordered the resumed enforcement ban on commercial motorcycle operations and club activities at night. Adeleye said: "All security agencies are hereby enjoined to impound all such motorcycles and vehicles while the owners or riders would be prosecuted. "The Government of Ondo State encourages all vehicle and motorcycle owners to register their vehicles/motorcycles as defaulters would be made to face the full wrath of the law accordingly. "The determination of the administration of Rotimi Akeredolu, to ensure the protection of lives and property of the good people of Ondo State remains a top priority." Ekiti Assembly backs state police, judicial autonomy By Rotimi Ojomoyela ADO-EKITI-THE Ekiti State House of Assembly, yesterday, voted unanimously for the creation of State Police and Judicial Autonomy in the ongoing fifth alteration to the Amendment to the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The Assembly also aligned with the National Assembly on the alteration to stipulated rules on how the principal officers of the Houses of Assembly should be removed from offices to ensure stability in the system. The amended bills were transmitted to the House of Assembly for ratification in March 2022. Speaking with journalists in Ado-Ekiti, shortly after the plenary, the House's Leader of Government Business, Mr Gboyega Aribisogan, said the lawmakers ratified the alteration to the issue of law reform in the country for radical improvement in the quality of laws that will guide the three arms of government. Aribisogan said: "At the plenary today, the assembly approved four areas being considered for an amendment to the 1999 constitution by the National Assembly. What we did was just a concurrence to the amendments and not further alterations to what had been done by the National Assembly. "These include the approval for the Law mandating the state to have state police to improve security across the county. We also approved a law stating the procedure to be followed for the removal of the principal officers of the Houses of Assembly to ensure stability and improve the quality of governance. "The Assembly also unanimously approved the alteration to the constitution allowing State to have a law backing the establishment of State Judicial Council just like the National Judicial Council at the Federal level so that the judiciary can be autonomous. "It also approved the amendment to the proper regulation of the law reform to ensure that quality laws are made to guarantee good legislation and robust governance and equality in the system." 2023: Whoever God appoints must provide necessities —Methodist Bishop By Providence Ayanfeoluwa LAGOS-THE Bishop, Metropolitan Diocese of Ikeja, Rev. Stephen Adegbite, weekend, said that whoever God appoints in 2023 to lead Nigeria must fear God and provide the basic necessities of life for the people. This came as the Church honoured a former Military Administrator of Lagos and Imo states, late Rear Admiral Ndubisi Kanu, with a posthumous award in recognition of his meritorious service and contribution to the growth and development of the diocese. Adegbite, who spoke with the media during the 5th Diocesan Harvest and Anniversary Thanksgiving and Conferment of Awards Service held at the Methodist Cathedral of Peace and Excellence, Opebi, Ikeja with the theme: "Harvest of God's Faithfulness," said that Kanu was like a father to him since he first met him and his wife in 1996. His words: "We are not going to declare for any candidate, we are not going to tell people who to vote, if we do that then we don't know what we are doing. The church is not in partisan politics, the church is a father to the nation and anyone that emerges as president of Nigeria would be supported by the •As church honours late Ndubuisi Kanu church. "Good governance is what we are asking for, I just came from Germany, and we see what people are doing we can do better. I was in Doha Airport and I was asking, the people that built this airport are from heaven? What kind of airport do you put for us in Muritala Airport? Even the new one they said they have built is nothing. Eulogising the late Ndubusi Kanu, the cleric said: "Late Kanu was a very good friend of mine. Though the age difference was so much the man and the wife decided to adopt me as one of their children and that has been the relationship for the last 26 years." It's a huge recognition — GLADYS KANU In her remarks, the wife of late Kanu, Gladys Kanu, said: "We've known the bishop for 26 years and we have been part of the church. So, I am very happy that everything is going well in the diocese. My husband contributed a lot to this diocese and organisations, including NADECO and the Ohanaeze Ndigbo. So, this award is a recognition of his contributions and we are happy about this. It's a big recognition.
VANGUARD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2022 — 9 :Vanguard News Ohanaeze to Buhari: Ndigbo need justice, equity, fairness • By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Chidi Nkwopara, Chinonso Alozie, Ugochukwu Alaribe & Steve Oko OWERRI—APEX Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, yesterday, told President Muhammadu Buhari that the Igbo Nation is committed to the Nigerian project and desires a country that provides the South-East people the platform and opportunities to contribute their utmost best to the growth of Nigeria. The organisation also told the President that Ndigbo, both at home and in the Diaspora, seek justice, equity and fairness, adding that going by their historical antecedents, they can claim to be the most federating unit in the country. President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Ambassador George Obiozor, stated this at the luncheon reception for President Buhari, during his one day official visit to Imo State. Obiozor told the President that insecurity and infrastructural decay are among the greatest challenges facing the zone. He said: “Mr. President, I wish to reiterate, and I speak on behalf of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, both at home and in the Diaspora, that our people are committed to the Nigerian project, that we desire a country that provides us the platform and opportunities to contribute our utmost best to the growth of our fatherland. “We seek justice, equity and fairness and, going by our historical antecedents, we are in every part of Nigeria and, therefore, can claim to be the most federating unit in this country.” Speaking further, Professor Obiozor said: “It gives me great pleasure to, once again, welcome Mr. President to Owerri, the hearland of the Igbo Nation. “I recall that on Thursday, September, 9, 2021, in this same venue, I presented an address to Mr. President on a wide range of issues of concern to our people and zone. And so much has :@vanguardnews :@vanguardnews NEWS HOTLINES: 08052867023, 08052867058 COMMISSIONING—From left: Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Ahmed Wase; Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State; President Muhammadu Buhari, and Deputy President of the Senate, Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege, during the commissioning of the dualised 35-km Owerri-Orlu road, yesterday. happened since your last visit to Imo State. “It is important to inform Mr. President that although our people are doing their utmost best to confront the plethora of challenges, the one that is of the greatest importance for the southeast political zone is the issue of security and infrastructure. “Your Excellency, Mr. President, it is my pleasure to acknowledge with appreciation and immense gratitude, your encouragement and support to the Government of the South East towards the development and growth of the South Eastern By Ikechukwu Nnochiri A BUJA—FORMER Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, who is currently facing trial in the United Kingdom, yesterday, asked the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, to dismiss a suit seeking to halt the transmission of the bio-data of his alleged organ harvest victim, David Ukpo, to the court in London. Ukpo had alleged that Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, sponsored his trip to UK for the purpose of harvesting his organ. This came, as a woman, Annastasia Olamma, has offered to donate her kidney to Sonia, daughter of Ike Ekweremadu, after she publicly asked for help. In a motion he filed through his lawyers, Ukpo further alleged that Ekweremadu and his wife violated his fundamental human rights when they secured an order from the court in Nigeria for his personal information to be forwarded to the Uxbridge Magistrate Court, in the UK, without his consent. Ukpo decried that the court, presided by Justice Inyang Ekwo, on July 1, without hearing from him, ordered the National TERRORISM CHARGE: Appeal Court reserves judgment on Kanu’s trial By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA—THE Court of Appeal, sitting in Abuja, yesterday, reserved its judgment on an appeal the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB, Nnamdi Kanu, filed to quash the terrorism and treasonable felony charge the Federal Government preferred against him. The IPoB leader, who is currently facing trial before the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, had, through his team of lawyers, led by Mike Ozekhome, approached the appellate court to query the legal competence of the charge pending against him. He specifically prayed the appellate court to review the April 8 ruling of the trial court, which struck out only eight out of the 15-count charge. Insisting that the charge FG entered against him had no basis in law, Kanu, in his appeal dated April 29 and marked CA/ABJ/CR/ 625/2022, applied to be discharged and acquitted. Kanu also urged the appellate court to order his release on bail, pending the determination of his appeal. Though the appeal was initially fixed for October 11, however, following an application the zone. “The people of Imo State particularly and Igbo land in general commend you for your act of magnanimity. We also equally want to state categorically and as you have seen in the projects you have just commissioned and those you commissioned one year ago that the Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma is indeed a committed governor, development- focused, transformation governor and a statesman.” He presented to the President, a booklet titled, “Journey so far”, which is a compilation of his public speeches as President General embattled IPOB leader filed for abridgement of time, the appellate court brought the matter forward for hearing. When the matter was called up, yesterday, a three-man panel led by Justice Jummai Hanatu, said it had no need to delve into the issue of bail since the substantive appeal was ripe for hearing. Arguing the appeal, Ozekhome alleged that his client was forcefully abducted from Kenya and illegally renditioned back to the country. He told the court that his client was first arraigned on December 23, 2015 and was later granted bail on April 25, 2017. “My lords, he was enjoying this bail without breaching the terms. However, he was in his ancestral home when agents of the Respondent invaded his home in September 2017. He barely escaped alive by sheer providence and found himself first in Isreal and later in London. “When the Appellant travelled from London to Kenya, agents of the Respondents, on June 27, 2021, forcefully abducted the Appellant, tortured and renditioned him back to the country without following any extradition process”, Ozekhome submitted. He argued that under the Doctrine of Speciality as provided for in section 15 of the Extradition of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide. Meantime, as the President visited Imo, government commercial activities were shutdown completely in the southeast following the sit-athome order issued by the leadership of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB, to mark the appearance of its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in court. In Owerri municipality and other major cities in the southeast, all the filling stations, commercial banks, courts, motor parks, markets, street shops government offices, including the Federal and State Secretariats, did not open for business. Similarly, none of the news stands was operational, as all the vendors retired to their respective homes. Act, FG, ought to have proceeded to try Kanu on the five-count charge he was initially facing before he escaped from the country. He argued that Kenya, being the country from where Kanu was arrested and extraordinarily renditioned back to Nigeria, ought to have authorised his extradition. “This allegation of his forceful abduction and rendition was never denied by the Respondent. “More so my lords, the charge appears to give the lower court a global jurisdiction over offences that were allegedly committed by the Appellant, without specifying the location or date the said offences were committed. “There was no need for the lower court to have retained the remaining seven-count charge. “We are, therefore, urging my lords to strike out the remaining counts and hold that the Respondent has not established any prima-facie case against the Appellant for which he could be tried”, Ozekhome added. Meanwhile, FG, through its lawyer, Mr. David Kaswe, urged the court to dismiss the appeal for want of merit. He maintained that the IPOB leader was brought back to the country by due process of the law. He argued that the charge has been amended seven times owing to the conduct of the Appellant. Alleged organ harvesting: Ekweremadu asks court to dismiss Ukpo’s suit ....As lady offers to donate kidney after Ekweremadu’s daughter called for help Identity Management Commission, NIMC, and the Comptroller-General of Nigerian Immigration Service, to provide the Certified True Copy, CTC, of his bio-data and bank opening details to Ekweremadu. He noted that Justice Ekwo, in a subsequent ruling on July 6, directed that the bio-data should be forwarded to the Attorney- General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar “My lords, it took four years and huge resources to get the Respondent arrested and brought back to face the charges against him. “The Prosecution is ever willing and eager to proceed with trial of the Appellant. “We are saying that the trial court was even wrong to have struck out the eight counts as it did. “It is only after FG has produced all its witnesses and tendered its evidence that the Appellant could claim that no prima-facie case was established. “Finally, we urge this court to dismiss the appeal for lacking in merit”, Kaswe added. After it had listened to both sides, the panel said it would communicate the judgment date. It will be recalled that trial Justice Binta Nyako had on April 8, struck out eight counts of the charge on the premise that they were mere repetitions that did not disclose any offence that could be sustained by the proof of evidence before the court. FG had in the counts that were struck out, alleged that Kanu had through his broadcasts, incited members of the public to not only stage a violent revolution, but to attack police officers and also destroy public facilities in Lagos State. Malami, for same to be transmitted to the court in the UK. While querying the jurisdiction of the court to issue such orders, Ukpo, argued that Ekweremadu and his wife ought to have joined him and the AGF, Malami, as necessary parties in the matter. He argued that reliefs the court granted, were against his fundamental and civic rights to privacy, guaranteed under section 37 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended. However, at the resumed proceedings in the matter on Tuesday, Ekweremadu, through his lawyer, Eyitayo Fatigun, SAN, told the court that he filed a counter affidavit for the dismissal of Ukpo’s suit which he described as baseless. The embattled lawmaker argued that the alleged organ harvest victim had no basis to entertain any fear in the release of his visa application information and his bank account opening package, unless he lied about his real age. In the counter affidavit that was deposed to by his immediate younger brother, Bright, Ekweremadu, maintained that what the court ordered to be transmitted to London was Ukpo’s bank account opening package and the information he supplied in his visa application request. Besides, he noted that the order of the court had since been complied with as the required documents have since been transmitted to two different courts in the UK. He argued that it was already late to reverse a valid order of the court that had since been executed. Consequently, Ekweremadu urged the court to dismiss the suit for being frivolous, an abuse of court process and for lacking in merit. Meanwhile, Ukpo’s lawyer, Mr Ojonugwa Oguche, prayed for an adjournment to enable him to respond to the counter-affidavit, a prayer that was granted by Justice Ekwo. The case was subsequently adjourned till September 20 for hearing. Lady offers to donate kidney This development came hours after Sonia took to social media to appeal to the public to save her from the life-threatening battle with kidney disease. Sonia revealed that she was diagnosed with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) nephrotic syndrome, in 2019, making her to drop out of graduate school. However, hours after her appeal, Olamma, on her Facebook page, said she is ready to donate her kidney to the daughter of the former deputy senate president. She said her kidney is healthy, adding that she had sent a message conveying her proposition to Sonia. “I want to donate one of my kidneys to Sonia Ekweremadu to save her life. I have made up my mind to do this to prove women can help women,” she wrote on Facebook.
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