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11/30/19

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Bigamy: ASD Daughter's Marriage, Mulan and Abubakar Musa Abubakar By Dr Muhammad Bashir Maru

'Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.'' – Benjamin Franklin

From the very origins and cradle of humanity, injustice has always reared its ugly head to crush and oppress those perceived to be of less social standing and thus the fight for justice has raged on through the ages. Little wonder the immortal words of Benjamin Franklin remain as empirically practicable today as it was decades ago when he muttered them and even before the words found life from his oscillating tongue centuries back. These pricking words are the prods that guide us today as we cry out for impartial justice for Abubakar Musa Abubakar who is being persecuted consistently by Alhaji Sani Dauda (ASD), former Chairman of Peugeot Automobile Nigeria Limited.

In the Nigeria of yesteryears opulent individual like ASD lorded over others like a czar of a medieval fiefdom; having their wishes, whims and caprices foisted on the generality of the people. This was indeed a dark and gloomy period when he and his ilk had their words as laws and any attempt to challenge or oppose their ambition would be seen as a sacrilege with a resultant mobilization of their foot soldiers to bully, coarse, harass, intimidate and humiliate those who dared to oppose them. In these repugnant dark days, it was believed that some rogue law enforcement agents, compromised media influencers and corrupt judges were whispered to be on his payroll and always willing to do his bidding. It can thus be inferred that was the very reason his types got away with so much impunity.

Though the businessman still wallows in the euphoria of the past, but what he has failed to realize is that the ground has shifted beneath him, and that in the New Nigeria of today no one is above the law.

In the lines of the ancient adage; ''A leopard never changes its spots'' and so true for ASD's apparent impunity which has remerged in this recent episode hence the resort to contempt of Court and judicial abuse all in a bid to placate his daughter Nasiba Sani Dauda, shield his Son Shehu Sani Dauda, a sharia court Judge Alkali Murtala Nasir Al-Misiry and one Abdullahi Kaloma. Together, they jointly committed criminal conspiracy, abetment of an offence, criminal assault, wrongful confinement and restraint, false imprisonment, voluntary causing of harm, enticement of a married woman, bigamy, re-marriage with concealment of former marriage in defiance of an existing judgment of the Kawo Upper Sharia Court, Kaduna in a case between Abubakar Musa Abubakar Vs. Nasiba Sani Dauda contrary to sections 45, 46, 58, 217, 229, 230, 239, 365, 366 and 369 respectively of the panel code law of Kaduna State, Nigeria.

As one would expect that his recent entanglement with Abubakar Musa Abubakar a supposed son-in-law is nothing new and certainly he is not likely going to be the last person to undergo such a harrowing experience from irresponsible prying except the businessman is stopped in his tracks by the grilling mechanism of justice.

Now, the same scenario is being re-enacted with Abubakar Musa Abubakar, who married Nasiba Sani Dauda on the 24th December, 2016. It will be recalled that the marriage started on the foundation of love, peace and harmony until few months into the marriage when the father of Nasiba - Alhaji Sani Dauda - began undue interference in the family affairs of the couple on a daily basis and subsequently instructed his daughter against her will to abscond from the marriage for reasons not yet clear to discerning minds. All entreaties to ASD to return Nasiba to her matrimonial home fell on deaf ears, but he instead forced Nasiba to institute a case of Khul' (request for divorce) before Grade 1 Sharia Court, Tudun Wada, Kaduna where a controversial judgment was obtained and a dissolution of the marriage was pronounced without recourse to principles of nemo iudex in causa sua and audi alteram partem to the concerned parties.

However, Abubakar Musa Abubakar not satisfied with the judgment of the lower court obtained a stay of execution order from the Upper Sharia Court, Kawo, Kaduna which was served on the respondent and subsequently appealed the travesty of justice of the lower court at the Upper Sharia Court which gave judgment in favour Abubakar Musa Abubakar by quashing and setting aside the judgment of the lower court for lacks of jurisdiction. Both the stay of execution order notice and the substantive judgment of the Upper Sharia Court were properly served on the respondent (Nasiba). It is the only prevailing judgment that exists till this day.

The arrest and detention of Alhaji Sani Dauda and others for abetment of an offence, remarriage with marriage concealment, criminal assault among other charges goes further to show that President Muhammadu Buhari's next level agenda will not tolerate lawlessness from any quarters and that justice is truly blind but fair and balanced to all manner of people. The action of ASD is capable of triggering series of unpleasant events such breach to peace, chaos, turmoil etc. Above all it is an affront to the judiciary, rule of law and attempt to denigrate sharia law. How can anyone who called himself Muslim marry off another man's wife?

In condemning the injustice and high handedness being propelled by ASD, let this turn of justice signal a warning knell to all that; gone are the days when individuals because of their economic powers can do as they wish by pocketing law enforcement officers and conniving with rogues members of the judiciary to do as they please. His arrest and detention has sent an unmistakable warning to unrepentant law breakers that there is now a new Sherriff in town and that their excesses will no longer be tolerated. All eyes are now on the judiciary on whether they will look the other way while the temple of justice is being desecrated through repeated abuse of judicial processes and contempt of Court proceedings.

Since the outbreak of this imbroglio and its escalation in the public domain, ASD albeit clandestinely has been sponsoring groups and individuals as face-saving measures to sell false narratives through media propaganda that portray him and his darling daughter as the victims rather than the perpetrators of this heinous crime against God and humanity. One of such groups is Muslim Lawyers Association of Nigeria, Kaduna State Chapter, an organisation that should be neutral in a matter that involves two contending parties both of who are Muslims or at best side with the truth but instead they came out disgracefully to pitch tent with the culprits (ASD and Others) who intentionally and knowingly desecrate Islamic Sharia laid down tenets of marriage by abetting bigamy. By this act, MULAN Kaduna State chapter has shown that their conscience is available for auction to the highest bidder, how low can an organization sink that prides itself as noble?

Abubakar Musa Abubakar should be applauded by all and sundry for towing the path of honour in seeking redress and restraining his relations, associates and thousands of followers from taking laws into their hand and for his abiding faith in our country's judicial system. Abubakar has never been accused of any wrong doing and he is well known as an honest, hardworking and unassuming gentleman who cannot even hurt a fly. In the face of provocation, intimidation, emotional hurt, blackmail, unwarranted media attack, defamation, criminal assault to relatives and threat to life among others, Abubakar Musa Abubakar has remained unmoved and consistently determined to get justice via the constitutionally guaranteed means.

Let’s hope that at the end of it all, justice will be served impartially, because anything other than that will be equal to encouraging self-help, stamping of lawlessness and an unequivocal invitation to disorderliness. A society that gives justice to only selected few is a fertile ground for anarchy. Let those who have ears take a heed.

We must not forget the reverberating cry of Ernesto Che Guevera to wit ''If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine'' it is this that spur true patriots on an eternal vigil as the vanguards for justice and equity for all.

Dr Maru wites from Abuja, can be reached at dr.bash007@yahoo.com

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Nigerian Publications Give More Attention To APC, PDP, Relegate Others To Background

APC vs PDP cartoon

A new report by the International Press Centre has shown that most media publication focuses reportage on the ruling All Progressives Congress and the main opposition, Peoples Democratic Party.

The IPC noted that the report, which represents a part of the post-election coverage and reportage of the electoral process and democratic governance issues, has established that media reporting continues to be skewed in favour of the two leading political parties.

The report covers the outcome of the monitoring of 12 print and online newspapers in the said period.

The monitored newspapers include PUNCH, Guardian, Daily Sun, Vanguard, ThisDay, Nigerian Tribune, The Nation, Leadership, Daily Trust, Blue Print (online version), TheCable (published online only) and the Premium Times (published online only).

Also monitored was the twitter handle and website of the Independent National Electoral Commission.

According to the IPC, the two major political parties were reported a combined 92.32 per cent of the total media coverage given all the political parties.

“While APC got 781 media mentions amounting to 48.39 per cent, PDP got 709 mentions which accounts for 43.93 per cent.

“Out of all the other 89 parties, only 27 parties, representing eight per cent, had media coverage and this showed a consistent pattern as had been witnessed in previous media monitoring that focus on the pre-elections and the election period.

“The two other political parties that came third and fourth in the scale of media coverage are much far behind in terms of the scope of media coverage they got.

“While the Social Democratic Party got 32 mentions or two per cent, the All Progressives Grand Alliance got 30 mentions at 1.86 per cent,” the report shows.

Executive Director of IPC, Lanre Arogundade, urged media owners and reporters to be sensitive in their reportage, abide by the ethics of the profession and also be inclusive in their report.

He said, “In dealing with these issues, it is our contention that the media must continue to be ethical and conflict sensitive in their reportage.

“Thus, the report serves as a reminder to the media on their role in preventing insecurity and violence during and after elections through fact-based, independent, transparent, accountable and impartial reporting.

“There is the need for INEC to conduct an administrative appraisal on its information dissemination strategies, both in the mainstream and on social media platforms.”

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530 Million Africans Risk Being Without Energy

IEA's executive director, Fatih Birol

IEA's executive director, Fatih Birol City A.M

The International Energy Agency said in its 2019 African Energy Outlook that 530 million persons in Sub-Saharan Africa will be left without electricity if the continent’s leaders do not change their electricity strategy.

The agency said policy makers in the continent do not have a predetermined path towards providing power to all citizens.

IEA boss, Fatih Birol, said the continent had the opportunity to become the fastest growing energy producing hub as a result of the number of natural and renewable resources within its atmosphere.

He said the continent could achieve this with less carbon footprint than the developed world.

Birol said, “Africa has a unique opportunity to pursue a much less carbon-intensive development path than many other parts of the world.

“To achieve this, it has to take advantage of the huge potential that solar, wind, hydropower provide.”

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Maiduguri Prison Officials Bar Red Cross Team From Visiting Charles Okah

Charles Okah

Officials of Maiduguri Maximum Security Prison (now Correctional Service) on Thursday turned back a foreign delegate sent from the International Committee of Red Cross to visit Charles Okah.

Okah, who is registered with the organisation as a political Prisoner and serving life sentence at the Maiduguri prison, had in March 2019 written a three-part article titled 'Sodomy of Children in Maiduguri Prison and the ICRC Conspiracy of Silence', which was exclusively reported by SaharaReporters.

The article, which exposed the sexual abuse of an 11-year-old mentally-challenged child detainee called Goni Ali Shettima and about 105 other children, didn't go well with officials of the prison.

Before Okah’s incidence, the ICRC had a mandate to visit and follow up with political prisoners and detainees to ascertain their wellbeing and had been doing so unhindered.

The prison officials do not want Okah to further reveal their illegal activities.

“Fearing that Okah would reveal to the visiting Red Cross team the extortion of Boko Haram detainees by the Chief Warder, Adamu Potiskum, who rents to them the few government-provided beds on a rotational basis, the ICRC were then refused access to Okah which is against international best practices and a gross breach of his fundamental human rights.

“The ICRC may have made a formal complaint in Abuja against the Maiduguri Prison which led to a meeting at the office of the Controller, Borno State Command,” a source told SaharaReporters.

It was learnt that Okah had wanted to seek the intervention of the ICRC in prevailing on the Federal Government of Nigeria through its Attorney-General of the Federation to impress on the Court of Appeal, Abuja, to grant him a hearing date for his appeal application filled since 2018.

Okah's deteriorating health and the refusal of the Court of Appeal, who had asked Okah's lawyers for a bribe of N300,000 before a date can be arranged, is a source of grave concern to the ICRC.

A date for the suit with the appeal number CA/A/494c/2018 between Okah (appellant) and the Federal Republic of Nigeria (respondent) was initially given but was adjourned indefinitely under the excuse that the Court of Appeal was overwhelmed with election petition cases.

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Motorcycle Rider In Bayelsa Demands N150m Compensation From Army Over Assault

David Obebadol, a commercial motorcycle rider in Bayelsa State on Friday sent a protest letter to the authorities of the Nigerian Army over an assault on him by a military personnel identified as Lance Corporal John Efele attached to Shell Petroleum Development Company, Kolo Creek Flow Station.

According to the letter written by counsel to the victim, Aluzu Augustine, the authorities of the Nigerian Army had been “dancing” over the plight of David Obebadol with the claim that the accused is suffering from mental instability.

Augustine stated in the letter that the Nigerian Army had been given a one-month ultimatum to compensate the victim for his rights which was violated by Efele.

In the letter, Obebadol is seeking a compensation of ₦150m among other things.

The letter reads, "We are privy to the reply of the Nigerian Army herein referred to as "the Army" to our client through the National Human Rights Commission in Bayelsa State in a letter dated October 17, 2019 with reference number 16/BOE/EI/300/24 in which the Army acknowledged gross human rights violation of our client on June 13, 2019 by a soldier under its employ.

"The Army further states that the soldier had a history of mental instability.

"It is clear from the said letter that the Army is dancing on the plight of our client in their bid to cover up the act of gross unprofessionalism by Lance Corporal John Efele under the blanket statement of "mental instability" with no specification as to the exact type of mental illness he is suffering from.

"It is based on the above that it is now pertinent to put certain facts in proper perspectives."

Efele had violently assaulted the victim with a razor blade, cutting the scalp of his head and deliberately inflicting injuries on his head and other vital parts of his body.

Before cutting the scalp of the victim's head, Obebadol was ordered to sit on the floor by another Army officer at the SPDC Kolo Creek Flow station.

They were both alleged to have poured water all over the victim's body and subjected him to severe flogging at the same time with a cable wire.

The victim was admitted at FMC Yenagoa where he underwent medical treatment at his own expense.

The Army, however, denied the involvement of the soldiers deployed to the SPDC facility at Kolo Creek Flow Station in the physical abuse.

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BREAKING: Bandits Kill Two Policemen, Kidnap Seven Persons In Adamawa

Suspected kidnappers have killed two policemen on patrol and kidnapped seven persons in Adamawa State.

Chairman of Mubi South Local Government Area, Ahmadu Dahiru, disclosed this on Saturday in Gyala, stressing that the area was under siege.

He called on the Nigerian Government to rise to the challenge of kidnapping and banditry around communities sharing common border with Cameroon.

Gyala town in Mubi South LGA, is five kilometres from Cameroon.

He said people of his area were living under constant threat from Kidnappers, stressing that kidnapping was almost a daily occurrence in Gyala.

He said, "Five people were kidnapped in Kwaja, while two others were picked in Sahuda all in the preceding week.

"Worst still, last Tuesday, two policemen were killed in Gyala.

"They (kidnappers) are hiding on top of these hills from where they launch attacks at will.

"We're therefore pleading with the government to intervene and save our people from Kidnappers."

The state police command through its spokesperson, DSP Suleiman Nguroje, confirmed the killing of the two policemen.

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Many Injured In Hauge Stabbing Attacks

Police in the Hague, Netherlands, say multiple people have been injured in a stabbing incident in the Dutch city’s main shopping street.

This is coming after a similar incident, which the police are calling a terrorist attack claimed two lives on Friday in London.

The police said in a statement that emergency services were already at the scene.

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