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The choice of Atlanta in the United States of America for this pentecostal rascality and mother of all scams must have a purpose. 

We must not forget that during 2020 Covid 19 lock down, Apostle Johnson Suleiman had a divine visitation and the lock down became a blessing in disguise for our beloved, who came to town with the testimony of his 2nd jet and therefore wished that the world will remain locked down.

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The exuberance not withstanding it was nothing short of a visitation. But for lack of communication skills and information management he had the crisis that followed a divine visitation. Wisdom is required to transmit divine massages at human frequency by everyone of us parading ourselves on the pulpit. 

Money is the need of our post Covid world, and with the threat of another wave, we all will do well to have enough to store up for the days ahead. A smart mind you will agree with me must take advantage of global vulnerability. 

I reached out to Apostle on the saga of his Covid-19 private jet and found his admittance a reflection of maturity for which he tendered apology to Nigerians and the global village at large, on that he had my respect, this we all must keep earning from one another on this side of time. 

I am however amazed that this greater assault to the integrity of God and his word will draw his irk. I am not a church policeman, nobody, but the devil is, he is the fault finder of the brethren for the purpose of fulfilling his ministry as our accuser.

But I owe it a duty to Christ, His word and the Church to point out any contemporary charismatic act that are inconsistent with the Bible contextually, interpretation wise and application. As usual, I reached out again to him on his moment of pulpit rascality. He responded in a manner that left me with no option than to come public, he blocked my channel of engagement to be able to continue with our chat on the issue.

Hence, I am writing this to him and all who must have fallen for this gimmicks at exalting Mammon on the altar of the living God. It is important for us as Christians to understand the divine ordination and protocol of blessing, by going to the beginning, another principle that Jesus exposed to us; "it was not so in the beginning", when the pharises were in conflict of knowledge, which he applied, dealing with their question on marriage. 

Gen 1:26-29, told us the plan and purpose of God for creating man and revealed the secret of dominion mandate as the seed. He made man to be fruitful and to multiply, with capacity to replenish. 

Gen 2:15 (KJV):  

"And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it."

After man was placed in the garden, he was commissioned for the protocol of his ordination to be fruitful, he must keep the garden and dress it, to have fruits of it to eat. Work is not a punishment. It is a protocol of creation, for eco system management, it was set in place before the fall, though it became harder after the fall. 

God enforced the same principle in the days of manna, he could have made it to fall at the camp near their doors, but he rained it in the field for every bread winner to go and harvest daily provisions for the family. 

Exodus 16:4 (KJV):  

"Then said the Lord unto Moses, behold, I will rain bread (blessings) from heaven (known source) for you; and the people SHALL GO OUT (to work) and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or not". 

The protocol of creation forbids gathering after work, work must come first and reward for work will follow. 

No passage of the scriptures brought it home like 2 King 4:1-7, where on of the most divinely qualified class of people for alms been a widow found herself in debt, Elisha did no such thing as asking her to open her bag and she will find money, but the question posed to her answer it all, what do you have in your house? In other word, what is your trade or business? Then miracle of business capacity expansion was birthed through prophetic counsel. Note, he never told her what will happen. 

Understanding the protocol of work as a divine prelude to blessings, the Apostle Paul said, he that doesn't work, let him not eat. 

2 Thesalonian 3:10 (KJV):  

"For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat." 

As Christians God's word is our standard and Jesus is our best model of operation. It was Apostle Paul who said, "be ye followers of me as I am of Christ". His analogy is born out of the typology of construction, wherein conner stones are set and rope tied to them to get every block that will be set aligned with the conner stones, each of us as blocks must align with Christ, the conner stone in God's ongoing building project. Apostle Johnson Suleiman or any other, has responsibilities to me, the body and Christ at pointing out our mistakes, offences, error or sins if any is found. 

Johnson Suleiman cited Matthew 17:27 (KJV): "Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened its mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee."

A close look at the verse reveals their needs, which was money to pay their taxes. Jesus turned to Peter in consciousness of divine ordination for fruitfulness through the protocol of work. 

Go thou to the sea, the sea of course is work place for Peter who was a fisherman. Was he to go there to beg? No! 

He was clearly instructed he was going there to work; "cast an hook and take up the fish that first cometh up", it was going to be a day of blessing, but work is the protocol to it, it won't be a toiling like he has known in the past, rather a day of little work for so much blessings, "but he gat to work" like the Americans would say. 

Jesus is a miracle worker, our model for the miraculous. Why did Jesus not command the money to be put in their pockets and pulses so he could simply ask them to reach for it?

I will like to know if offering was collected in that church for any reason that day, if that was done then credence is lent to my position on this even by common sense. The Angel transferring money into people's accounts probably was not given the church's own?

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Some decades ago as a teenager a village brother based in Lagos had taken me to the late Victor Okafor's birthday bash somewhere in Ihiala, Anambra state, during Yuletide. Victor Okafor (may his generous soul rest in peace!) was the popular 'Eze-ego' who used his wealth to develop his village in Ihiala -- tarring roads, fixing street lights and constructing houses for the poor and borehole for the community. The birthday was an annual feast featuring the rich and powerful from afar and near. In that year's edition under reference it was a rich colourful all-night party featuring live bands (Oliver De Coque, King Sunny Ade, Shina Peters etc). There were so much fun to remember for, so much to eat and drink that everyone must have gone home at dawn down and satisfied.

SOC Okenwa

The late handsome 'Eze-ego' (king of money) was then one of the youngest and richest men from his community. And he displayed his wealth without complex touching lives and making himself heard loud and clear. He built an edifice befitting his status and made friends across ethnic lines. During the Xmas season he distributed bags of rice, goats, groundnut oil, money to the needy. And donated soccer cup and played football in the village with the youths.

 

As we watched great musicians entertaining the mammoth crowd, wining and dining happily, I was struck by the display of opulence that I had wished silently that I became rich and powerful too! Money 'rained' all night long speaking every language you could think of as it were. Dollars, Pounds, Naira flew in different directions as friends and associates threw wads of local and foreign currencies on the late business mogul based in Lagos as he danced with his beautiful wife, Nkechi.

 

Some intervening years later Okafor was involved in a minor auto accident on his way to the village a day or two to Christmas, few kilometres to Ihiala, and he died instantly! Every other person inside the car including his wife and children survived the accident. Then rumours began making the rounds that Victor could have been killed by an evil spirit (agbara) after failing to honour summons from the fetish dark kingdom. According to one of the theories being propounded then someone he 'ate' his money must have taken his complaint to the evil shrine.

 

Another theory was that his wealth was as a result of an evil pact with Lucifer or involvement with ritualism or cultism. No one knew the truth for sure but the late Okafor is still remembered today in Ihiala for his great impact on the lives of the local folks.

 

Recently in Oba, a sleepy town in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, dozens of kilometres from Ihiala, a mother of all burials took place. Obinna Iyiegbu, alias Obi Cubana, held the funeral of his mother who died late last year at a ripe old age. For days running the great event trended globally online. I watched the videos and came out with the impression that money spoke powerfully during the week-long fiesta.

 

Politicians, entertainers (Nollywood greats), businessmen, social media influencers, ordinary and extra-ordinary folks thronged Oba to commiserate with Cubana as he sent his mother six feet below with a golden casket valued at millions of Naira. Indeed it was a colourful rich occasion featuring the mundane, the obscene and the wierd, all embedded in debauchery. 

 

How an otherwise melancholic occasion was effortlessly transformed into a carnival fraught with obscenity beat the imagination of the serious-minded observers.

 

Money was used and abused at will as people competed for space to be seen or for whom would throw more money towards Cubana in appreciation of his much-vaunted munificence or naked demonstration of belonging to the rich elitist club. 

 

In one of the obscene videos ladies (some showing off their professionalism as whores) scrambled for cash at the pool side, skimpily-dressed, as money was thrown inside the swimming pool! Some of them must have swun themselves to riches!

 

Obi Cubana had jetted off reportedly to the Maldives Island for a deserved rest after the moneyed party dressed as a funeral. But before he left our shores the young man (46) had defended his legitimate source of wealth telling whoever cared to listen that his sudden rise to opulent fame was through the dint of hardwork. After his graduation from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Cubana did his NYSC youth service in Abuja and from there he laboured his way to the entrepreneurial top. He invested heavily in hotels and night clubs!

 

Before I stumbled on his profile I had dismissed him wrongly as one of those 'money-miss-road' young Igbo millionaires out to prove their ignorance before a global audience. Undoubtedly many of these ignorant elements abound in Igboland! They believe in two things which they consider utterly significant in life: making money, marriage and making babies. They value neither God nor rules and regulations! For them a good house, car and wife and millions or billions in the bank accounts are enough to guarantee 'paradise' here on earth.

 

Lately criticisms had trailed the money show in Oba. Some of the critics were interrogating the profile of some of the guests that came and displayed their status of millionaires or billionaires. Others were asking about the source of wealth of not only the Cubana of a man but those that 'rained' bundles of freshly-minted legal tenders on the celebrated celebrant. And others (admirers if you like) were busy demanding a cut of the 'soap'; that is, how and where they could make money through ritualism or cultism! 

 

You have these critics too who were of the opinion that instead of the Cubana rich club exhibiting their new-found riches in a supposedly sombre occasion they could have used their wealth to construct hospitals, roads, schools or better still, given scholarships to the indigent children that abound in the town. Perhaps, Cubana is doing these charities but more are required.

 

Well, how anyone makes their money or how they spend same is none of our business. Suffice to say however that the Oba show 'shaming' money or poverty bore a hallmark of misplaced priorities. Obi Cubana may be generous in his dealings with his people but there are many social challenges in his village and town awaiting his attention. Intervening and making things better or life more bearable for the rural folks ought to be his primary preoccupation.

 

Promoting obscenity or get-rich-quick syndrome attitude may not be a source of role model for the restless youths in his town or elsewhere. And now that some misguided youths are bombarding stars and celebrities with probing questions on how to get rich by hook or by crook (cutting the soap or whatever it is called) brother Obi Cubana and his rich friends must provide satisfactory answers to their worries and troubles.

 

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Thugs allegedly loyal to the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, have attacked the former State Commissioner for Transportation, Kayode Opeifa.

SaharaReporters gathered that Opeifa was attacked at his residence at Oyewole Road, Mulero bus stop, Agege on Sunday.

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A source, who witnessed the attack, said the hoodlums came to challenge the former Commissioner for allegedly influencing electorates to vote for the Ward D, Orile Agege Local Council Development Area councilorship candidate of All Progressives Congress in the Saturday’s council election, Wahab Adeoye against Obasa’s candidate, one Afolabi Omotunde of the Young Progressives Party (YPP).

The source said, “Some APC members in the ward led by Obasa were not favourably disposed towards Adeoye and they shifted their support to the candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Afolabi Omotunde, a clear case of anti-party.

“On Saturday, they openly campaigned for the YPP candidate. Opeifa and his team monitored and mounted spirited efforts to prevent rigging hence he became a target

“On Saturday evening, the hoodlums supporting the YPP candidate took the people of Oyewole hostage, attacking people at will. They gathered in front of the house and converged there. They later left. They came back around 3am on Sunday and attacked the residence. They fired gunshots and threw stones and other dangerous weapons at the house.”

Meanwhile, a chieftain of the party has condemned the action of the Assembly Speaker, accusing him of anti-party activities.

Speaking with SaharaReporters, the APC chief said, “It is frightening and terrifying the kind of dangerous dimensions being introduced into the politics of Agege LG and Orile Agege LCDA by the Speaker of the Lagos State House Of Assembly because of his (Obasa) 2023 Lagos West Senatorial ambition. Even though there is nothing wrong in being ambitious but over ambitious could be dangerous.

“The barbarism and the gangsterism displayed on Saturday, 24th of July, 2021 by Hon. Mudashiru Obasa's gangsters during the LG/LCDA poll is despicable, dishonourable and mindless. In Agege LG and Orile Agege LCDA, the unwarranted attack on the people of the area leaves a sour taste in the mouth of the people. His ambition of becoming Lagos West Senator in 2023 is an ambition taken too far. He should know that his ambition is nor worth a single life of anybody.

“How could he be so greedy to the extent of imposing himself on the people by force. He disrupted the peace enjoyed in Ojokoro LCDA, as a result of his over-zealousness by working against the People's favourite. Now things are no longer at peace in Ojokoro LCDA, due to his reckless ambition. What happened in Ojokoro LCDA is Personal Interest Supremacy, not Party Supremacy.

“We implore the party leaders across Lagos state, to do their survey before selecting Candidates. Let the People wish and will prevail. Too much of Personal Interest in selecting APC Candidates caused the voters apathy in the just concluded LG/LCDA poll throughout Lagos State. Let’s be watchful, 2023 general is around the corner, and people are watching all the shenanigans happening in Lagos. In a nutshell, personal interest, supercede General Interest in selecting Candidates in APC.

“He (Obasa) tried to impose candidates at IBA LCDA, but they clipped his wings and some other LGs and LCDAs. The wanton destruction and carnage inflicted on people at Orile Agege by the cultists working for him is enough for him to be sanctioned by the party. After his failed attempt to foist a cult member by name Omotunde Afolabi Abdulkareem on the people, he took him to Youth Progressive Party (YPP), to contest, but failed woefully.

“The aftermath of his failure was to unleash an APC member called  ALASHE, who happens to be the Special Adviser on Budget to Orile Agege LCDA. He (Alashe) is an Exco in Ward D, Orile Agege LCDA and also the leader of the cultist to perpetrate the heinous act, by destroying properties belonging to the APC candidate that ran against his (Obasa) YPP candidate. How on earth will a cultist be given so much chance in a progressive party. Its barbaric, absurd and abysmal to the Progress of All Progressive Congress (APC).

“It's a big slap on the APC leaders face across Lagos state, that the number three citizen of Lagos state, who is heading the affairs of the legislative arm is working against the party that brought him to limelight. Dr Kayode Opeifa who he (Obasa) is fighting against, stands shoulder above him in all ramifications.

“Obasa can only force himself on the party and not on the people. Obasa needs to be reminded that 2023 elections is not going to be conducted by LASIEC but INEC. Asiwaju Bola Tinubu did not attain the status he is today, through brigands and thuggery. I'm of the view that Obasa will bear the full responsibility for his irresponsibility in due time. What you cannot achieve through peaceful means cannot be gotten through violent methods.”

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The People Democratic Party (PDP) Governors' forum has asked the National Assembly and the Independent National Electoral Commission to ensure that the results of the 2023 general elections are transmitted electronically.

The forum accused President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration and the All Progressives Congress of turning the Presidential Villa to the new APC headquarters.

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The statement was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of the 11th meeting of the PDP governors in Bauchi State on Monday.

The governors, who deliberated on the state of the nation, disclosed that the Aso Rock Villa had now turned to “where coerced PDP members are being paraded at intervals.” 

The forum said, “The governors condemned Mr President and APC for turning the Presidential Villa that belongs to all Nigerians into the new APC headquarters, where coerced PDP members are being paraded at intervals.”

The PDP governors called on the National Assembly to entrench the electronic transmission of results of elections in the nation’s electoral jurisprudence.

The forum said, "On the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, the governors identified with the need for a free, fair and credible election in the country and called on the National Assembly to entrench electronic transmission of results of elections in the nation’s electoral jurisprudence.

"We request the Independent National Electoral Commission, the only body empowered by the constitution to conduct elections, to deploy appropriate technologies necessary to ensure that the vote of every Nigerian is counted and made to count.”

The governors also advised that political parties should be allowed to decide whether to use direct or indirect method of conducting primaries as part of internal democracy in political parties.

"The meeting condemned, once again, the use of under-hand tactics to arm-twist some PDP governors and other stakeholders to join the APC; a political party that has wrecked Nigeria's economy, turned Nigeria into a killing field and has nothing to offer Nigerians but misery and bad governance," the forum added.

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Aloy Ejimakor, counsel to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has dragged the Nigerian and Kenyan governments to the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights, demanding accountability over the torture and extraordinary rendition of Kanu.

Ejimakor in a release obtained by SaharaReporters on Monday noted that one of the reliefs being sought is that Kanu must be restored to his state of being before the rendition, which in this case is the United Kingdom.

The lawyer added that Kanu travelled to Kenya on his British passport and was duly admitted as such and as a free man.

Ejimakor said, “A few days ago, I commenced a continental legal action against Nigeria and Kenya before the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights, demanding accountability for the extraordinary rendition of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

“Jurisdiction lies with the Commission because Nigeria and Kenya are State Parties to the African Charter; and Nigeria even took a step further to domesticate the Charter, thus making it part of her municipal laws. See Also Breaking News BREAKING: Court Adjourns Nnamdi Kanu's Trial As Nigeria's Secret Police Fail To Produce Him In Court 0 Comments 7 Hours Ago

“Both countries also have extradition laws that prohibit this sort of reprehensible conduct that saw Kanu to Nigeria. More particularly, extraordinary rendition is expressly prohibited under the African Charter, where It provides in pertinent part that “A State may not transfer (e.g. deport, expel, remove, extradite) an individual to the custody of another State unless it is prescribed by law and in accordance with due process and other international human rights obligations. Extraordinary rendition, or any other transfer, without due process is prohibited”.

“A victim of extraordinary rendition is entitled to remedies mandated by the Charter. Therefore, among many other reliefs, I requested that Kanu be restored to his state of being before the rendition, which state of being was that he travelled to Kenya on his British passport and was duly admitted as such and as a free man.

“Further, that no valid territorial jurisdiction can issue from an act of extraordinary rendition because Kanu is, technically speaking, still in Kenya. And that the Nigerian bench warrant standing against Kanu is, in the absence of any successful extradition proceedings in Kenya, invalid to arrest in Kenya.

“I also requested the Commission to adopt other urgent measures as the Commission sees fit in the circumstances to protect Nnamdi Kanu in the interim. A fact-finding visitation to Nigeria is also in reckoning.” See Also News How Kenyan Operatives Ransacked Nnamdi Kanu's Apartment To Take His UK Passport 0 Comments 1 Week Ago

Ejimakor added that he had stated in his previous press briefings, that he knew Kanu’s trial would be “trial within trial.”

“To those who didn’t fully grasp what it meant, this extant continental legal action will give you a clue. And this is just the beginning. To be sure, any nation that dabbles in extraordinary rendition has unwittingly brought impediments to her territorial jurisdiction. So, Nigeria, whether it admits it or not, has triggered a hornet’s nest that has, for the first time, brought the international legal order to bear on the matter of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu,” he said.

Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja had on Monday adjourned the trial of Kanu to October 21, due to failure of Nigerian Government to produce him in court on Monday.

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The Indigenous People of Biafra has reacted to the failure of the Department of State Services to produce its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, to continue his trial at the Federal High Court, Abuja on Monday.

IPOB stated that the DSS operatives might have killed Kanu in their custody.

The group also lamented that the DSS had denied Kanu’s lawyers and family members to have access to him in detention for the last one week.

IPOB dared the Nigerian government not to joke with its strength, while calling for the release of all those arrested for coming to witness the trial on Monday.

These were contained in a statement by the group’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, made available to SaharaReporters on Monday.

SaharaReporters had reported that Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court adjourned Kanu’s trial to October 21, due to the failure of the Nigerian Government to produce him in court on Monday.

Reacting, IPOB said, “We the global family of Indigenous People of Biafra under the command and leadership of our great leader, Nnamdi Kanu, condemn the seek and hide attitude of the Department of State Services, DSS, and its systematic delay and failure to produce our leader in court today in Abuja.

“This was a deliberate and wicked plot to inflict further torture on our leader who they have kept incommunicado for some days now. In the past seven days, DSS has refused our lawyers and our leader's family members access to him. This is wickedness!

“We are no longer comfortable with this development. We have enough grounds to suspect foul play. With the failure of DSS to produce our leader in court today without any cogent reason and coupled with the torture meted out to him since his abduction in Kenya, we are worried about the safety of our leader.

“The failure of DSS to produce our leader in court today is confirming our fear over the uncertainty concerning his health. Considering his deteriorating health condition since he was kidnapped and the refusal of DSS to grant him access to his personal physicians, it is possible that our leader may have been killed.

“DSS should prove us wrong by producing our leader in court or granting his lawyers and family members access to him. We are running out of patience. Nigeria should not take IPOB for granted. Our leader must not die in detention.

“We also demand unconditional release of all those arrested today in Abuja and other parts of the country for their solidarity with our leader. Nigeria must release them.”

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A Muslim cleric, Idris Oladejo, has revealed why he believed the Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo (Igboho), decided not to escape from the custody of the operatives in Benin Republic, using his native powers.

Oladejo, popularly called Imam Oladejo, said Igboho indeed had the native powers to "disappear" from custody but had refused to do so because of his wife and the love he had for the Yoruba Nation.

Sunday Igboho

The cleric stated, “Sunday Igboho believes in Allah and he hates cheating, especially cheating the Yoruba Nation. He has those powers and they are from Allah. He can’t disappear here because he doesn’t want any problem for his wife, Oodua Nation and Yoruba Nation. He hates problems; he’s a good man and that’s why I love him.”

Oladejo, who had been in Benin Republic since the announcement of Igboho’s arrest last Monday, told journalists that Igboho would go from Benin to Germany and would return to Nigeria in peace later on.

“I pray, I tell my Allah, I tell my God and Almighty Allah can never disappoint me. Sunday Igboho will not be taken back to Nigeria. From Benin Republic, Sunday Igboho will travel back to Germany, and from Germany, Sunday Igboho will come back to Nigeria in peace.”

SaharaReporters recall that Igboho, following the raid on his house by operatives of the Department of State Services, admitted that he had spiritual powers.

Igboho had added that the guns found in his house were “government’s magic,” stating that he only made use of traditional powers for protection.

SaharaReporters had reported last Thursday that the Cour De’appal De Cotonou, Benin Republic, ordered Igboho’s wife to be released while Igboho would remain in custody.

His trial continues today, Monday. 

A source had told SaharaReporters that the activist was not for extradition to Nigeria.

SaharaReporters had reported how Benin Republic police last Monday arrested Igboho at Cardinal Bernardin International Airport in Cotonou, while trying to fly from the country to Germany.

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Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the lead counsel to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has stated that the team of lawyers will activate a “judicial process” to ensure that the Federal High Court in Abuja can hear Kanu’s trial earlier than October 21’s adjournment date.

Ejiofor, in an update he posted on Monday, also noted that the court had allowed Kanu’s friends and family members to visit him in custody.

Nnamdi Kanu

SaharaReporters had earlier today reported that Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja, adjourned the trial of Kanu to October 21, due to the failure of the Nigerian Government to produce him in court on Monday.

Ejiofor had informed the court that there was a pending application before the court to transfer Kanu from the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) to a correctional centre.

Justice Binta Nyako had stated that the trial could not continue in the absence of the IPOB leader.

The court had adjourned to October 21, 2021, for continuation of hearing.

In an update he posted on Monday, Ejiofor said, “Important take-home from today’s proceedings; one, henceforth, our client – Nnamdi Kanu – cannot only be visited by his lawyers, but relatives and friends, provided it is only two persons in every of such visit, on his visiting days.

“It is now an Order of the Court. Anybody within the above classification will be profiled by our Head of Chambers. Two, we will activate the judicial process to ensure that the Court is granted a Fiat to hear this case during the court’s annual vacation that commenced today.

“Three, our discreet findings confirmed that Kanu was not taken out of Abuja to an unknown destination. Kindly ignore the rumour mongers. We will visit him again within the next 48 hours. Kanu will regain his freedom sooner than may be expected.”

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The paramount ruler of Jaba Kingdom in Kaduna State, Kpop Ham, has been abducted by gunmen in Nasarawa State.

The abduction came barely three weeks after that of the Emir of Kajuru, Alhassan Adamu, in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

He was reportedly abducted on Monday by some yet-to-be identified persons.

The details of the incident are still sketchy at the moment but the spokesperson of the Kaduna State Police Command, Muhammed Jalige, said their colleagues would be contacted in Nasarawa State concerning the incident.

Premium Times reports that Jalige added that the command was yet to receive an official statement about the incident.

Both Kajuru and Jaba are in the troubled southern senatorial distinct of the state where over 100 students of the Bethel Baptist Secondary School were recently kidnapped.

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Kidnappers operating in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, are becoming more daring by the day as they have started collecting ransom from their victims via bank accounts contrary to their usual style of receiving cash.

According to Daily Trust, kidnapping in the last few weeks is rife in Tungan Maje community on the outskirts of the FCT.

The marauders returned to the community on Wednesday, after they had abducted six persons from the area a day earlier.

Other FCT suburbs such as Kuje, Bwari and Abaji have experienced staggered spikes in kidnapping in the last few months.

It was gathered that the kidnappers a few weeks ago picked up their victims, Mrs Aminat Adewuyi and four others at Madalla junction when going on shopping to the popular Ibrahim Babangida Market in Suleja, Niger State.

It was gathered that the victims’ relatives paid ransoms ranging between N500,000 and N1,000,000 to a designated bank account provided by the kidnappers before they secured their freedom.

A brother of Mrs Adewuyi, who did not want his name in print, said while negotiating with them, said the criminals initially demanded N5million from each of their victims.

The kidnappers later agreed to collect N500,000 from Adewuyi’s relatives after two days and much pleas.

The negotiator said the criminals threatened to slaughter the woman if the ransom was not paid within 48 hours and insisted that they preferred collecting the ransom via bank than the usual cash.

Narrating her ordeal, Adewuyi said, “We boarded a bus at a junction opposite SARCO filling station, near the popular NYSC junction in Kubwa when going to Suleja Market.

“Majority of the passengers in the bus alighted at Zuba. The driver wanted to drop off the remaining few passengers also but he managed to take us to Madalla junction – the road that leads to Dakwa.

“But when we got to Madalla junction, the driver said we should board another vehicle going to Suleja. The remaining five of us (women) stop a vehicle calling “Suleja! Suleja!!” and the bus driver settled him and we left.

“Immediately we entered, the driver ‘centrally locked’ all the doors and wound up all the windows. It was that time we knew that all the glasses were tinted. Four of us sat at the back seat, one sat together with a man in front including the driver.

“When they finished whining up the glasses, they brought out guns, knives and bottles of coke, saying we should cooperate. They ordered us to drink the coke mixed with codeine but I insisted I wouldn’t.

“The man in front raised a knife and gave me only codeine to drink but I pretended as if I had taken it. He could not do anything with his weapon because it was so tight in the vehicle.

“Some of the victims who took the coke had started sleeping before we reached the bush where they took us to.

“Despite the fact that I didn’t sleep, I can’t recognise where they took us to. I only know that the vehicle that conveyed us turned left immediately after Kwata (the popular place they are selling meat) before Suleja. Kwata is after Kwankwashe.

“Our vehicle drove into the bush and when it couldn’t go further, because the remaining road was a pathway, three persons that had already been waiting for them with bikes, conveyed us with their bikes into the deep bush.

“There was only one house in that bush. They kept us there and they were giving us bread and sachet water. One of us was released that same day because she had money in her account and transferred it to them immediately, we got there.

“They were already sharpening their knives to slaughter me after two days when they couldn’t get an alert from my husband. It was only God that saved me that day.”

Adewuyi’s husband, at the time, said he had formally reported the matter at the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the Nigerian Police in Jabi.

When contacted, the Spokesperson for the FCT Police Command, ASP Mariam Yusuf, said the command has deployed overt and covert strategies to checkmate criminality within FCT including special Anti-Kidnapping operations.

 

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The Managing Director of the North-East Development Commission (NEDC), Mohammed Goni Alkali, and other top officials of the agency secretly diverted millions of naira and relief materials meant for Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDPs) camps in the region, SaharaReporters has learnt.

An NEDC official told SaharaReporters that the cash, food and relief materials meant for the IDPs were diverted by Alkali and his cronies to their “political associates and followers.”

He stated, “Last year, the Managing Director single-handedly procured all Coronavirus materials and supplies to the tune of N5billion without an approval from the board. Another massive corruption scheme going on is one housing scheme in Maiduguri (Borno State) without the board’s knowledge.

“During this recent Sallah, Alkali and each board member went home with millions of naira whereas the IDPs and others in the North-East region had nothing to eat. Food meant for the displaced persons were also diverted and distributed by Alkali and his cronies as gifts to their political followers in their respective states.

“Alkali is doing all these to back the presidential bid of a former Governor of Borno State, Senator Shettima Kashim. All he is interested in is the politics of 2023. They award bogus sums in contracts without recourse to the approved template. Alkali is using his son who doubles as his personal assistant to carry out all the contracts.”

Another official, who confirmed the infractions, asked President Muhammadu Buhari to direct the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to beam its searchlight on the commission.

“He has bought almost of the media organisations in Nigeria; a group recently defended him and he paid N50million to them for the face-saving public relations done for him.

“One Ambassador Shehu was the person that received the money. His other members have been looking for him around Bauchi and Maiduguri because he refused to share the money he got from the director, according to what they agreed on,” the source revealed.

NEDC was established in 2017, after the bill establishing the commission was passed by the two legislative chambers. On October 25, 2017, Buhari assented to the bill and signed it into an Act.

The core mandate of NEDC, “among other things”, is to “receive and manage funds from allocation of the Federal Account, international donors for the settlement, rehabilitation and reconstruction of roads, houses and business premises of victims of insurgency as well as tackling menace of poverty, illiteracy level, ecological problems and any other related environmental or developmental challenges in the North-East states.”

The NEDC bill was signed into law in October 2017 by President Buhari to replace other initiatives such as the Presidential Initiative on North-East and Victims Support Fund (VSF). He board of management was inaugurated in May 2019.

There have been mass displacements of people in the North-East as a result of the activities of the Boko Haram insurgents, where houses, schools, mosques, churches, farmlands and businesses had been destroyed and people rendered homeless and jobless.

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Aloy Ejimakor, the lawyer to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has stated that the Department of State Services cited “logistics difficulties” as their reason for their inability to produce Kanu in court for trial.

The IPOB leader’s lawyer stated this in an interview after Monday’s terse trial before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court who adjourned Kanu’s trial to October 21, due to the failure of the Nigerian government to produce him in court.

Speaking with SaharaReporters, Ejimakor said, “They (the DSS) gave no valid reason for Kanu not being in court, except to say it lies in their discretion. But the judge disagreed and told them that trial could not commence without the defendant being present.

“The judge also ordered them to grant Kanu’s lawyers access to him twice a week. The matter was adjourned to October 21.

“And considering the impact of the court vacation, the judge indicated that should any issue concerning the case arise during the vacation, we should call the attention of her staff to it so that she can get the permission of the Chief Judge to grant us a hearing unless we don’t mind the vacation judge to hear us. Finally, contrary to expectations, the charges were not amended.

“The motion to transfer him to prison custody was not heard, because the prosecution filed there today in open Court. So, it will be calendared for hearing later.”

When asked whether Kanu’s health might be a reason for his absence in court, the lawyer said, “I don’t know. They kept saying things like logistics difficulties,” Ejimakor added.

SaharaReporters had earlier reported that the Federal Government failed to produce Kanu in court contrary to an order of the Federal High Court.

A new counsel to the federal government, Mohammed Abubakar had stunned the court when he announced that Kanu had not been brought before the court.

He had merely announced that Kanu could not be produced in court due to logistics reasons.

His explanation sparked off hot arguments from one of the counsels to Kanu, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, who accused the DSS of frustrating efforts by lawyers and family members to access the detained Biafra secessionist leader.

Ejiofor had made frantic efforts to move an application for the transfer of his client to poison as a better option to DSS custody.

He had said, "I was informed authoritatively; I am speaking from the bar that Nnamdi Kanu has been taken out of jurisdiction of this court. We have been denied access to Kanu in the last 10 days. We are worried about his safety and don't know why the Federal Government refused to bring him in court."

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The Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution has said it will prosecute Nollywood actor, Yomi Fabiyi, for contempt of court after the latter aired a movie about the facts of a case under judicial consideration.

This was made known by the Director of Public Prosecution in Lagos State, Olayinka Adeyemi, on Monday. 

She told an Ikeja Special Offences Court that Fabiyi produced the controversial movie “Oko Iyabo,” based on the court proceedings of June 24, 2021.

Adeyemi informed the court on Monday that despite warnings during proceedings of June 24 that the matter was sub judice and, therefore, prohibited from public discussion elsewhere, Fabiyi made a movie detailing the facts of the case.

According to her, the movie, which was aired after the proceedings of June 24, breached the Judge’s directives by revealing sensitive information about the case which is before the court.

“Despite the warnings of this honourable court, an actor called Yomi Fabiyi went ahead and made a movie about the facts of this case.

“He used real names of the parties and witnesses in this matter in the movie. Our application is to exclude him, his privies and his agents from proceedings in court.

“He is not in court at the moment but his representatives may be in court. This is contempt of court and we intend to prosecute him and bring him before this court,” she said.

The presiding judge, Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo expressed displeasure with the development and ordered an investigation.

“This case is sub judice and you are not to be making videos and disparaging comments on social media. This needs to be investigated,” the judge said.

Responding to the allegations, the lead defence counsel, Dada Awosika (SAN), said though he was aware of the movie, it was filmed before the criminal case began in court.

“The movie is about the controversy between two artists – Yomi Fabiyi and Iyabo Ojo. I saw the movie on YouTube.

“The two of them are supporters on different sides. Fabiyi is one supporter and Ojo is another supporter.

“This movie is about the controversy between both of them and they are not parties to this case,” Awosika said.

Justice Taiwo reiterated the fact that the allegations against Fabiyi should be investigated by authorities to enable legal actions to be taken against him if he is found culpable.

Meanwhile, the movie which was debuted on YouTube on July 4 was perceived to be based on the rape allegation levelled against Fabiyi's embattled colleague and close friend, Omiyinka Olanrewaju (Baba Ijesha).

‘Oko Iyabo’ is loosely based on Baba Ijesha’s alleged rape saga, his ‘social media trial’ made use of the real names of all the parties involved.

In the infamous movie, Baba Ijesha who is being tried for alleged rape and child sexual molestation was portrayed as being innocent of the charges against him

However, its release was greeted by backlash from viewers and celebrities while many people reported it on Youtube.

Fabiyi was also indefinitely suspended by the umbrella body of Yoruba filmmakers, TAMPAN.

Also suspended was Dele Matti, who co-directed ‘Oko Iyabo’.

Justifying the suspension in its statement, TAMPAN said Fabiyi is “guilty of professional misconduct and unethical practices.”

The association said it arrived at the decision having listened to the detailed defence of Fabiyi who produced and directed the controversial film. They also said, his co-director Matti was also questioned and found guilty of the same offence.

TAMPAN said its Ethic, Conflict and Resolution Committee has found them guilty of professional misconduct and unethical practices.

According to the statement, Matti admitted his fault and regretted his involvement in the film, but Fabiyi insisted that ”it is his fundamental human right to use his creative talent to produce films that will tell his account of the trending issue”.

The committee accused Mr Fabiyi of causing social unrest with the movie and dragging the name of the association in mud.

The statement read: “Mr Yomi Fabiyi deliberately produced/directed a film without a recourse to the ethics of filmmaking thereby engaging in a work of art that is wittingly done to cause a social crisis.

“Except the work of art is a 'Cinema Verite' (a true-life documentary) no one is allowed to use the real name(s) of another person(s) in a feature film. Therefore it is professional misconduct to use a real name(s), stories and factual events of the person(s) without their consent not to talk of plot that is denigrating to that person.”

The association also noted that the story, plot, theme, title, dialogue, names and general content of the film 'Oko Iyabo' is a factual presentation that may give rise to prejudice since the matter is already in court.

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The founder of a South African-based church, Abba Father Ministries, Isaiah Okechukwu has placed one of the pastors sacked by the Living Faith Church Worldwide, aka Winners Chapel, Pastor Godwin Onoruoiza on N100, 000 a month salary for the next 5 years pending when he finds his feet. 

The pastor made this known in a Facebook post on Monday. 

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In the post, he compared Oyedepo's action to that of Nigerian businessman, Obi Cubana and shared a screenshot of his first payment of N100, 000 to Godwin, one of the pastors affected by the mass sacking. 

"This reason why some people are not condemning Bishop David Oyedepo is because he is the Godfather to their spiritual fathers and for that they have become imbeciles who cannot speak up and talk.

"The same godfatherism in politicians lives is the same game that is being played in the church of God.

"Indeed Oyedepo and some of our fathers have a lot to learn from Obi Cubana," he added. 

SaharaReporters had reported how a man who identified himself as a former pastor of Winners Chapel, Peter Godwin, was allegedly sacked for not generating enough money in his branch.

Godwin in a trending video seen by SaharaReporters said he was employed on the 28th of August, 2020.

He claimed he was invited with about 40 of his colleagues by the state pastor on July 1, 2021, and were all sacked over low incomes generated in their branches.

Godwin, however, failed to mention the name of the state.

He said, “Actually, by the special grace of God, our father in this great assembly, Living Faith Church received a mandate from the Lord to plant 10,000 churches in Nigeria and by the special grace of God, I was privileged to be one of the pastors that were employed on the 28th of August, 2020, that was last year.

“So after that, I started working, engaging myself in the work of the Lord. I tried my possible best to make sure I win souls for Christ but unfortunately, on the 1st of July, I received a call that the state pastor wants to see me, so I thought I was the only one. I was surprised, so I went to his office.

“When I got there, I saw other pastors too, over 40 of them, so I joined them. A few minutes later, we were issued a letter. I opened the content of the letter to see what was there and I saw that it was a sack letter."

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Ascribe it to the seeming enduring dysfunctionality of the society.  Call it unbridled impetuosity. Put it down to the cyclic idiocy that preponderates ominously whenever self-aggrandizement takes the centre stage.

Whatever you elect to say, there is no denying the fact that, there has been a sacrilege in the judicial temple in Anambra State. I mean, justice has been despoiled by no other person than the very priest of the temple, Justice A. O. Nwabunike, of High Court 5, Awka. 

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The (dis)honourable judge, having given judgment in Suit No. A/230/2021: Between Senator Ugochukwu Uba V. PDP & 2 Ors, wherein he restrained INEC from recognising Mr. Valentine Ozigbo, as the duly elected Gubernatorial Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 6th November, 2021, Governorship election in Anambra State, proceeded to deny the said Valentine and PDP access to the Court’s record for transmission of the records of Appeal. Meanwhile, throughout the course of the court’s sittings to judgment, Mr. Valentine Ozigbo and PDP, both principal parties in the suit were not served Hearing Notices. Sneaky, is it not?

Sadly, whilst the resolute ignominy persists, time within which Mr. Ozigbo and PDP would compile and transmit the record of appeal is running out. Does anyone require the binoculars of those with the gift of clairvoyance to see through the well-rehearsed judicial treachery? Should there not be a time when every man who takes a stand on high moral principles summon the will to ward off all semblance of evil when his faith in, and knowledge of those principles are tested to the uttermost? Is life itself not full of fiery trials? But did the Maker of Man not imbue him with the divinity to resist evil? What exactly has befallen Justice Nwabunike? Are his moral principles that susceptible to the promptings of the flesh so much that he has got no strength to live as man of truth, and join the company of the free? Shall he remain a slave and a hireling to the cruel taskmasters?

For whatever it is worth, this apparent travesty of justice reinforces Thomas Hobbe’s uncharitable characterization of man in pre-civilization state where life was short, brutish, unpredictable, and survival determined by brute force.  Speaking of unpredictability, was it not Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, a foremost American legal realist who opined that: ‘the prophesies of what the courts would do in fact, and nothing more pretentious’ is what the law is? Has Justice A. O. Nwabunike, of High Court 5, Awka, Anambra State, by his dubious conducts and rascally disposition not validated Holme’s postulation? Yes indeed, he has. For the Court has prophesied, though not according to rule books but in obedience to the whims and caprices of the unholy priest at the temple of justice!

But make no mistake about it, history tells us that Karma always doles out to everyman rewards that approximate to their deeds. If you cannot relate with this, may be your memory would be helped if you refresh yourself with the infamous cases of Justice Wilson Egbo-Egbo, Justice Stanley Nnaji, Justice Chuka Okoli among others, all judges that were sacked because they were financially induced to pervert the course of justice. Is this not the same path Justice Nwabunike is adamantly threading on? Shall he re-trace his steps before sunset? For, strong indeed and pure must be the man who would emerge victorious out of such a trial. But he who does so, enters at once a higher realm of life, where his spiritual eyes are opened to see beautiful things, and then poverty and ruin which seemed inevitable do not come, but a more abiding success comes, and a peaceful heart and quiet conscience. But he who fails does not obtain the promised prosperity and his heart is restless and his conscience troubled.

The right-doer cannot ultimately fail. And, the wrong-doer cannot ultimately succeed. Such is the law which none at least can turn aside or stray. And – it is because justice is at the heart of things – because the Great Law is good – that the man of integrity is superior to fear, and failure, and poverty, and shame, and disgrace.

To be forewarned, is to be forearmed.

Francis Ogboona is Anambra based Legal Practitioner

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This article is dedicated with loving concern, to Phillip Yakubu, a child and brave survivor of a horrendous attack by armed Fulani. From the short video on the website of the respected Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), PSJ Nigeria that tells his story little Phillip looks about seven years old at the time. He had been asleep at home on the fateful evening when armed Fulani having invaded his village in the Middle Belt, broke into his home and macheted him across the head and face, and deformed his fingers. He is now left with severe injuries to his right eye, a mangled left hand, and difficulty walking. Phillip’s mother tells us that her little boy is now traumatised, and extremely frightened of the Fulani.  

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Little Phillip is not the only one frightened of the Fulani. The must read 312-page Report titled, “Nigeria’s Silent Slaughter: Genocide In Nigeria And The Implications For The International Community” by PSJ and ICON (another NGO) in June 2020 reveals why Nigerians and the whole world should be frightened of the Fulani, in the same way that the global community had been frightened of the Nazis. Their Report paints a terrifying picture of the Fulani’s genocide agenda against indigenous peoples.

The PSJ-ICON Report released just over a year ago, contains information from many authenticated sources, all in one publication. At the time it was, “Genocide is loading”. Now we can say that the genocide has actually loaded and is full on. Revelations by victims and witnesses are most alarming, and quite distressing. Those carrying out the genocide against indigenous peoples are named: it is the Fulani, and Boko Haram terrorists. The reason is also stated: it is a genocide with Islamic jihad, mainly against Christians but moderate Moslems are also targeted, and it is for land grab by the Fulani, an immigrant and settler people. They are driven by an ethno-religious belief of not only racial superiority, but that the territory of Nigeria has been given to them as prophesied by their 19th century patriarch Usman Dan Fodio, and it became a renewed agenda for them at Nigeria’s Independence in 1960 when Bello the Premier of the Northern Region vowed that Nigeria would be an “estate” of his Fulani people, in his now infamous speech.

Witnesses and survivors report that Fulani armed with AK47s, chanting war songs, “The owners of the land has come and the settlers of the land should leave”, attack villages in the dead of night, or in the evenings, slaughtering and maiming adults, children and infants in a sadistic orgy of bloodletting. They often subject their victims to gruesome torture, and horrendous sexual violence. The Report explains that Fulani (herdsmen) slaughter in order to “purify” and occupy the land, while their Boko Haram counterparts also want to increase their numbers by abducting females and forcing them to produce their children (ie for procreation).

This genocide is being carried out under the eyes of the Buhari-Osinbajo government. During the last general elections in 2019 the duo insisted on retaining power, secured via a questionable Elections Tribunal result, to bring about what they called “the next level”. The PSJ-ICON Report, plus other observers and commentators implicate the current administration, and provide evidence that the genocide has, “The complicity of the Nigerian state in the ongoing Islamic jihadist enterprise”. Buhari is a Fulani Moslem and despite public outcry, has created a Fulani-majority government. Osinbajo is a Yoruba, and both a Professor of Law and Christian Pastor, but he has been openly criticised by his people, for the positions he has chosen to take. In 2019, having denied any genocide, Osinbajo was described by a USA official as, “He lies shamelessly — including this weekend in New York — about the anti-Christian persecution his government is at least tolerating and, at worst, enabling…”

The Report also made it quite clear that the genocide started twenty years ago. That fact is important to retain because that was the time that the so-called “1999 Constitution” of suspect origins was imposed upon Nigerians. The document is a forgery, not made or agreed by Nigerians as it claims, but which enables the Fulani agenda of making Nigeria their “estate”. It impoverishes, as well as renders Nigerians unarmed and defenceless in the face of the advancing killer Fulani and terrorists.

Despite obstacles placed in their way, the process to rescue themselves from that 1999 Constitution by Decommissioning it, was launched by indigenous peoples under the umbrella of the NINAS Movement, via the ORDERLY PROCESS of Constitutional Force Majeure Proclaimed on 16th December 2020. This Strategy involves halting preparations to general elections in 2023 to prevent renewal of the life of that illegitimate “1999 Constitution” that had already been Repudiated by indigenous peoples of the NINAS Territory. Perplexingly, it seems that the UK’s Catriona Laing, High Commissioner to Nigeria may be (inadvertently?) trying to assist the Fulani’s genocide agenda and Islamist terrorism by hindering the NINAS Movement. She was reported to have made some recent comments that the 2023 general elections must go ahead. It was highly unfortunate that Ms Laing said that at a time when Nigeria is a DISPUTED PROJECT, seeking to free itself from the deadly bondage of an illegitimate 1999 Constitution, by way of the non-violent means of suspending those 2023 elections. The genocide and Islamist terrorism in Nigeria has such serious consequences not only for Africa, but also for the UK and Europe, and indeed the world, that it is hoped Britain that has a unique relationship with Nigeria, would consider providing a more experienced diplomat for a critical time such as this.

Given the genocide and Islamist terrorism, this is a period that seems quite likely to bring about Nigeria’s dissolution, and perhaps it should be called Nigeria’s “Silent Slaughter Era” (that started in 1999/2000). With all that we now know, this Era, now under Buhari-Osinbajo, has unleashed an unimaginable depth of cruelty and savagery upon indigenous peoples. For very good reasons, little Phillip Yakubu savaged and mutilated by Fulani, leaving him permanently disabled, wants them gone from his ancestral land. With the hard-hearted denials, and continued push to slaughter and grab others’ land, there is naturally, a rising call that Fulani should be made to return to their own ancestral land. What little Phillip and thousands like him have experienced, is that through the illegitimate 1999 Constitution, the Fulani-led government has created an unfriendly and threatening world.

 

Phillip Yakubu Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzwXVsO5_Zo

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Ndidi Uwechue is a British citizen with Igbo heritage from the Lower Niger Bloc. She is a retired Metropolitan (London) Police Officer, she is a signatory to the Constitutional Force Majeure, and she writes from Abuja.

 

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