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| Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State |
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| Omosehinde Comfort, CEO of ComfyEvents |
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| Engr. Wabote, Executive Secretary, NCDMB |
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| Olubadan Lekan Balogun |
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| Gov Seyi Makinde of Oyo State |
The Association of Anambra State Development Unions (AASDU) Lagos, has show readiness for actions this year as it inaugurated additional committees to drive her 2022 activities, reports ITREALMS.
AASDU President, Chief Sir Amechi Ebeledike made this disclosure on Sunday and said the committees are also to facilitate the alignment of the group's activities with the socio-economic policy of the incoming administration of Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo.
A press statement endorsed by Publicity Secretary Mazi Chidi Abajue and made available to ITREALMS, informed that the new committees with their respective Chairmen are: Elders Committee - Chief Dr. Jossy Egwuatu, Commerce & Market Committee - Chief Chris Eze, Inter-Group Relations Committee - Engr. Ben Egwuda.
Statutory committees earlier inaugurated, he said were the Activities Planning & Implementation Committee - Engr. T. C. Madu, Budget & Finance Committee - Chief Ikenna Okwuma, and Strategic Committee - Chief Fidel Umeh.
Chief Ebeledike therefore charged the committees to come up with action plans and tactics that will be executed in order to reposition AASDU on the track set by her founding fathers.
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has arrested the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Abba Kyari and four other police officers for their involvement in an alleged case of criminal conspiracy, reports ITREALMS.
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| DCP Abba Kyari, arrested over drug deals |
NPF also described their involvement in the tampering with narcotic exhibits, official corruption and sundry unprofessional infractions as discreditable, unethical, and unprofessional conduct.
NPF in a press statement available to ITREALMS and
electronically signed by the Deputy Force Public Relations Officer (DPPRO), CSP
Olumuyiwa Adejobi on Monday afternoon, said the Inspector General of Police
(IGP), Mr. Usman Alkali Baba had ordered immediate transfer of case to NDLEA, urging
NDLEA to investigate indicted officers of the agency.
IGP also decried official corruption and tampering with
exhibits in a case of illicit drug trafficking involving a perpetual
transnational drug cartel.
As said by Adejobi, the arrest of the officers was sequel to
pieces of information received from the leadership of the National Drug Law
Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on 10th February, 2022.
In line with standard administrative procedure of the Force,
he said IGP ordered a high-level, discreet, and in-house investigation into the
allegations.
According to him, “The interim investigations report
revealed that two (2) international drug couriers identified as Chibunna
Patrick Umeibe and Emeka Alphonsus, both males, were arrested at Akanu Ibiam
International Airport, Enugu on the 19th of January, 2022 upon their arrival
from Addis Ababa aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight ET917.
“The arrest led to the recovery of substantial quantity of
powdery substance suspected to be cocaine from the two narcotic couriers. The
operation which was intelligence-driven, was undertaken by a Unit of the Police
Intelligence Response Team (IRT),” he said.
Equally, he said, that though the case and the two suspects
were subsequently transferred to the NDLEA on the 25th January, 2022, the
findings of the in-house investigation ordered by the Inspector General of
Police established reasonable grounds for strong suspicion that the IRT officers
involved in the operation could have been involved in some underhand and
unprofessional dealings as well as official corruption which compromised
ethical standards in their dealings with the suspects and exhibits recovered.
“Beyond this, the Police investigation also established that
the international narcotics cartel involved in this case have strong ties with
some officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Akanu
Ibiam International Airport, Enugu who are on their pay roll. The two arrested
drug couriers confirmed that the modus is for the transnational drug barons to
conspire with the NDLEA officers on duty and send them their pre-boarding
photographs for identification, seamless clearance, and unhindered passage out
of the airport with the narcotics being trafficked.
“The Police investigations report also indicted DCP Abba
Kyari, who had been on suspension for his alleged involvement in a different
fraud case being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI),
for complicity in the allegation of official corruption, tampering with
narcotics exhibit and sundry unprofessional conducts that negate the standard
administrative and investigative protocols of the Force as well as extant
criminal laws. It is to be emphasised that DCP Abba Kyari’s involvement in these
allegation occurred while his suspension from service was subsisting.
“On the strength of the findings of the in-house Police Investigation Panel, the Inspector-General of Police has ordered the immediate arrest and transfer of all the indicted police officers to the NDLEA authorities for conclusive investigation, while appropriate disciplinary actions are also being initiated against them by the Force leadership.
"The
concerned officers include DCP Abba Kyari, ACP Sunday Ubuah, ASP Bawa James,
ASP John Umoru (at large), Inspectors Simon Agrigba and John Nuhu. They have
all been, accordingly, handed over today 14th February, 2022 to the NDLEA
authorities.
“In so doing, IGP also formally requested that the Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency should
ensure the identification, arrest and investigation of the agency’s officers
who have also been found to be colluding with the international drug cartel
involved in this case towards advancing the anti-narcotics agenda of the
federal Government.”
IGP, Adejobi said assured the public of his administration’s
commitment to upholding the tenets and values of policing in line with the
agenda of ethical regeneration, restoration of professional standard,
enhancement of the anti-corruption drive, respect for the rule of law and
inter-agency collaboration in the drive to stabilise the internal security
order of the country.
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| *Suspended DCP Abba Kyari and NDLEA flag |
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| CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, acting PPRO |
The suspended catholic priest, Rev. Fr. James Anelu may be in for more troubles as he is being fingered in a murder of another high-ranking priest in the Benin Archdiocese, late Rev. Fr. Dr. Cyril Ikechukwu Ofoegbu, reports ITREALMS.
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| Late Fr. Ofoegbu and suspended Fr. Anelu ... murder in vatican? |
The greatest merit for Igbos in recent times is not simply the advent of the internet on the surface!
It is the social media aspect of the internet which now allows independent thinkers to challenge the lies of history.
In Nigeria, our little corner of the world, through social media presentations, scholars are now debunking the false stories perpetuated by the Yoruba press (with the help of the north who has always been paranoid about Igbos).
The Yorubas took advantage of their civil war to take-over of the press to rewrite the history of Nigeria as it favors them..., and if you believe them, "every post independence success in Nigeria was Awolowo influenced" and every problem in Nigeria was "instigated by Azikiwe, Ojukwu and the Igbos!"
"The truth is reluctantly coming out" and Igbos are gradually being vindicated!!! In this masterpiece below by Professor Tekena Tamuno, a great historian and former Vice - Chancellor University of Ibadan.
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| Late Prof. Tekena Tamuno |
The problem with writing skewered history is that it equally misinforms its target: Kayode Esho was a great jurist, but Akunne Oputa was the "Socrates" of the Supreme Court. Enahoro was a young editor, but Azikiwe made him that young editor with Osita Agwuna as his assistant, at his paper, the Southern Nigerian Defender in Ibadan, where my own father incidentally started as a rookie before shortly abandoning journalism for the stable berth of the civil service. The myth of Awolowo as building the first this and that does not match the documented economic history of the period.
