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A resident of Borno state has said that Nigeria’s Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari who is being investigated for the extent of his connection with suspected fraudster, Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, alias Hushpuppi, sells cars he seizes from kidnappers and armed robbers in Maiduguri, the state capital.

The resident in a private message to a Nigerian academic and media scholar, Farooq Kperogi also claimed Kyari has enriched himself through proceeds of corruption.

According to the anonymous resident, Kyari is not a millionaire but a billionaire, who has more than 20 properties in a posh area in his state, Borno.

Kperogi said: “Na wa o. This is what someone from Maiduguri sent to my inbox in response to my column. It is unedited and unverified but interesting nonetheless: ‘Everyone in Maiduguri knew that Kyari is extremely rich, he gives out cars, monies and sells those he seized from the kidnappers and armed robbers at some selected car stands in Maiduguri and Abuja, as at now he's building a big plaza along Gombole Road near Giwa Barracks and bought the neighbouring plaza.

‘There's sign post he stood and snapped a picture where street was name after him, that's New GRA or Bama GRA he has more 20 properties there!

‘You can independently find out from those who knows him, he has properties to his named in lagos, abuja etc, I call him super rich, he surpasses IGP Kamseleem.

‘What those kidnappers were saying is very true, I developed interest on what he's doing when I read Evans interview where he said what Abba and his team took from his house was far beyond what they declared....he's not a millionaire but billionaire.

‘He moves in convoys when in Maiduguri and brazenly go round his properties.’"

SaharaReporters had reported how Kperogi also quoted a resident of Borno saying Kyari was building a mansion on Jemina Road of Damboa, with its gate made of glass and steel.

The resident alleged that the police chief offered N70 million to a neighbour who has a house behind his mansion “so he can have his house out of the way to enable him have straight access to the main road from this mansion.”

"Good evening Prof. Just reading your post on the Abba Kyari saga. It didn't come to me as a surprise. Kyari is so super rich for the job he does. He is building a mansion on Jemina road of Damboa, that house is something else. It is the first gigantic double-gated house I'm seeing in Maiduguri, the gate is made of glass and steel.

"He wanted paying (sic) of a neighbour who has a house behind him 70 million naira so he can have his house out of the way to enable him have straight access to the main road from this mansion. And with a couple of people who have told stories implicating him, and them being shut up, it doesn't come as a surprise at all,” Kperogi quoted the Borno resident as saying.

The Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, has recommended the immediate suspension of Kyari, who is also the Head of the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT), from the service of the Nigeria Police Force, pending the investigation of fraud allegations against him.

The IGP, in his letter to the Police Service Commission, dated 31st July, 2021, noted that the recommendation for the suspension of the officer, is in line with the internal disciplinary processes of the Force.

The United States Attorney’s Office, Central District of California, had issued an arrest warrant against Kyari for his alleged links to Hushpuppi, who is standing trial for various offences that include internet fraud and money laundering.

Hushpuppi has since pleaded guilty to the charges and, if convicted, risks a 20-year-jail term, three-year supervision upon completion of jail term and monetary restitution to the tune of $500,000 or more.

US court documents also outlined a dispute Hushpuppi had with a member of his gang, which allegedly prompted him to arrange to have an individual identified as ‘co-conspirator’ Kelly Chibuzor Vincent, jailed in Nigeria by DCP Kyari.

According to the affidavit, “Kyari is a highly decorated deputy commissioner of the Nigeria Police Force who is alleged to have arranged for Vincent to be arrested and jailed at Abbas’ behest, and then sent Abbas photographs of Vincent after his arrest.

“Kyari also allegedly sent Abbas bank account details for an account into which Abbas could deposit payment for Vincent’s arrest and imprisonment.”

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The suspension of the embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police and Head of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) of the Nigeria Police Force, Abba Kyari has received commendations, but with comments made by Nigerians that his trial in the United States should follow immediately.

The Police Service Commission (PSC) disclosed on Sunday that it had suspended the police chief in a statement issued by the spokesperson for the commission, Ikechukwu Ani.

Kyari was implicated in a $1.1 million fraud by the infamous cyber fraudster, Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, popularly known as Hushpuppi last Tuesday in the US.

According to the US Department of Justice, officials revealed in court filings that Hushpuppi disclosed during interrogation that he gave bribes to Nigeria’s police chief, Kyari, to have one of his rivals arrested and jailed in Nigeria following a dispute over a $1.1 million fraudulently taken from a Qatari businessperson.

“Abba Kyari’s suspension took effect from Saturday, July 31st 2021 and would subsist pending the outcome of the investigation in respect of his indictment by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States.

“The Commission has also directed the Inspector General of Police to furnish it with information on further development on the matter for necessary further action,” the statement by Ani said.

Reacting, Nigerians flooded social media with comments, largely noting that Kyari’s suspension was not enough, and that he should swiftly be taken to the US to face trial.

Most of the people who commented as scooped on Facebook believed that the Nigerian government may soon sweep the case under the carpet,.

According to Great Ness, “Criminal in police uniform! The end of the road has finally come. Before Nigerian Government suspended him, they must have confirmed it by themselves.”

Precious Anyanwu said, “That is not enough. He should as a matter of urgency submit himself to the FBI for interrogation and subsequent investigation. If he is innocent, then he will be let off the hook of Abbas allegations.

“Clean heart fears no accusation! When our dearest Allen Onyema was alleged to have been an accomplice to a crime, he travelled to the USA and was discharged of that. Why all this noise on social media to the extent of our Northern brothers tribalising crime. It's so annoying?”

Nweke Tobechukwu commented, “They want to use the word SUSPENSION to deceive FBI, NO WAY. He should quickly go and answer FBI immediately, there is no harm in complying.”

“Suspension only is not enough, please extradition is much better. Jazz (Juju) no fit work with FBI,” Ezinne Osisioma Ozoumeh said.

“The only time Nigerian government acts on real corruption case is when it goes international and has no place to hide the one wo committed the crime,” Emeka Okonkwo said. “They are being forced to do what they don't want to do.”

Prince Dami said, “Free flight is waiting for you. Suspension is not necessary in this case. He must be dismissed and jailed alongside his brother in crime!!!”

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Several acts of impunity have historically been linked with Nigeria’s Sate Security Service, SSS (aka DSS). SSS is organised, designed, programmed and weaponised to protect the state and oppress the people, just like the Nazi Schutzstaffel. To achieve its core remit of state protection the Nigerian state equips the organisation with Gestapo style designed guns, eyeshades, Teflon suites, and detention fortresses in desperate attempt to emulate the Nazi Reich. Its operatives are constantly equipped by their power drunk bosses with instructions to disobey perceived unfavourable court orders, imbibe and exhibit attitudes of intimidation and always act and be seen to act above the law; all in the attempt to copy Schutzstaffel- German SS; which was prepared to carry out state security services with the least modicum of regard for legal restraint. 

 Put succinctly, SSS(DSS) operatives are trained, managed and steered to act as enemies and oppressors of the people, and constantly reminded that overtly or covertly, they are protectors of state power and coercion, and sworn enemies of human rights activists, journalists, social media users, and freedom fighters.  

 

Formerly known as National Security Organisation (NSO) and previously headed by Colonel Abdullahi Mohammed (1976-1979), Umaru Shinkafi (1973-1983) and Mohammed Lawal Rafindadi (1973-1983), the organisation has a culture of torture and intimidation of human rights activists, freedom fighters and journalists in attempt to silence them. 

 

Rafindadi's tenure as head of the Nigerian Gestapo (aka SSS) lasted during the first administration of General Muhammadu Buhari between 1984 and 1985. Within the period, the organization was responsible for holding several innocent Nigerians in detention without trial just like today's SSS (DSS). Under Rafindadi’s leadership of the gang, FAS, reports that NSO was given sharp oppressive powers and armed with decrees 2 and 4 which empowered it to detain indefinitely without trial and torture uncompromising journalists. 

 

Buhari held his overthrown politicians collectively responsible for the economic mess under his watch and employed NSO to detain them without trial. Whenever there were some resemblances of trial, basic tenet of the rule of law was jettisoned, as the accused was assumed guilty until proved innocent rather than innocent until proved guilty. Journalists and media organizations were regularly harassed by NSO operatives and interest groups whose members dared to criticize the government openly or engage in demonstrations or strikes, were proscribed. 

 

However, in August 1985, a military coup toppled the lawless totalitarian military regime of the Daura born homosapien, and the coupists led by Ibrahim Babangida placed Rafindadi in solitary confinement for 40 months (FAS). In 1986 Babangida issued Decree Number 19 which dissolved the NSO and restructured Nigeria's security services into three security organisations, namely, the Defence Intelligence Agency; the National Intelligence Agency; and the State Security Service (SSS), and section 315 of the 1999 constitution incorporated the decree into the constitution. 

Nevertheless, nothing changed as Babangida’s regime continued to act arbitrarily and with impunity and used SSS to arrest and incarcerate several innocent citizens who were subjected to physical assault and all sorts of degrading treatments. "Human rights remained substantially circumscribed, decree Number 2 remained in place, and numerous citizens were incarcerated under it". Despite having annulled Decree Number 4 the government had several brushes with media organisations. In 1988, Newswatch magazine was proscribed for six months, and journalists and civil rights activists continued to be harassed by SSS. Most significantly on October 19, 1986, “foremost journalist and one of the founding editors of Newswatch magazine was assassinated via a parcel bo

mb inside his Lagos home”. From November to December 1997, SSS notoriously arrested journalists- Fakeye, Jenkins Alumona, and Onome Osifo-Whiskey, former managing editor of Tell magazine, just to name a few. 

 

Fast forward to the present regime and second stint of Buhari; SSS has remained largely lawless, draconian, authoritarian in approach and dreaded by the citizenry. Its operatives are still trained to behave in manners that conjure the brutality of Rafindadi, the inhumanity of the Abacha and Babangida juntas, and the authoritarian and totalitarian outlook of Buhari's first stint. 

 

SSS (aka-DSS) is largely, a vestige of authoritarian military dictatorships in Nigeria, and remains proactively lawless. It operates above the law and continuously disobeys and circumvents court orders with the active connivance of the attorney general’s office. Its current operations and tactics (2015-2021) remain anti-people, anti-democracy and anti-rule of law, just like former Nazi Germany’s Schutzstaffel, which it copies. The organisation as currently constituted and operated, has no place in a democratic society. The group is an imprint, reminder, impression, and souvenir of colonial and pre-colonial slave powers. But their current operatives, administrators and directors seem to be happy with that. 

 

They remain conditioned and determined to continue to operate with impunity, as they enjoy freedom from punishment. Most recently SSS is now believed to be involved in rendition and safe keeping of the trophy of rendition; hooding and chaining suspects; taking over the management of court chambers and premises; and before I forget, taking over and blockading the National Assembly; all in the attempt to overdo the Schutzstaffel, its mentor and model. Could someone please remind them that Schutzstaffel is now forever dumped onto German graveyard of infamy. 

 

It is now time to give #SSS aka DSS, the #endsars treatment. The organisation should be abrogated forthwith. This will need the amendment of the 1999 constitution as amended, to delete the lawless organisation from the already jaundiced constitution. The ethnicization of this ungodly company, coupled with infusion of Buhari regime’s well-known traits of religious bigotry, injustice and nepotism, into their mental constructs, make the deletion, even more urgent.

 

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Indian social media platform, Koo, has featured President Muhammadu Buhari on its social media advert page for Nigeria, in what appears to be the President becoming a special brand ambassador to the medium.

Koo placed Buhari’s image on its social media advert with the app promising to provide “exclusive updates from him only on Koo App.”

The app Koo, similar to Twitter, came into the Nigerian market in June. This was soon after the Nigerian government banned Twitter and its operations within the country.

Twitter was banned two days after the platform removed a tweet by President Buhari that threatened to punish regional secessionists in the South-East region of the country.

Koo’s popularity subsequently surged as the official Federal Government social media platforms stopped tweeting and migrated to Koo.

Top government functionaries, presidential aides, agencies, and other pro-government individuals also took to Koo.

According to reports in India, Koo was built following the Asian government’s constant disagreements with Twitter.

Koo co- Founder, Aprameya Radhakrishna, who earlier confirmed that the platform was available in Nigeria, said they were working on adding Nigeria’s local languages.

He said: “A very warm welcome to the official handle of the Government of Nigeria on @kooindia! Spreading wings beyond India now”.

“Koo is now available in Nigeria. We are thinking of enabling the local language there as well. We are considering introducing a local Nigerian language into the Koo app.

“Nigeria is similar to India in terms of language diversity. It has hundreds of regional languages. Koo has a global outlook and will enable micro-blogging in countries that need it the most.”

The Nigerian government had stated that all social media platforms operating in Nigeria must be registered as a business entity locally henceforth. The same condition was laid down as one of the preconditions for the lifting of the ban on Twitter.

The Indian microblogging site has since moved in to cash in on the development, preparing to establish a physical presence in Nigeria while connecting with top influencers.

Within days of the Twitter ban, Koo was available on Apple and Google’s app stores and job openings had been posted on LinkedIn searching for local language speakers.

The latest advertorial of Buhari as the face of Koo in Nigeria was condemned by civil society organisation, Center for Democracy and Development, CDD.

“It’s a shame the #TwitterBan has persisted till now, despite the economic disaster it has proven to be for youths who depend on #twitter for their livelihoods.

“For obvious reasons, we find this ad by #koo, another microblogging platform, both immoral and distasteful. KeepitOn,” CDD tweeted on Sunday.

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Precious Chikwendu, the estranged wife of former aviation minister Femi Fani-Kayode, has told the Court of Appeal in Abuja that her former husband lacks the capacity to cater for their four children.

Chikwendu alleged the oldest among their children has stopped school, and that their young triplets have yet to start schooling.

The former beauty queen and Fani-Kayode have been locked in a child-custody battle following their break-up in August 2020, TheNigeriaLawyer reports.
 
The plaintiff, who demands a monthly payment of N3.5 million for the upkeep of their four sons, had alleged in her suit before an Abuja High Court that Fani-Kayode, “beat her up on several occasions even while she was pregnant.”

Fani-Kayode had, through his lawyer, Adeola Adedipe, applied to Judge Sylvanus Orji of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in Abuja to either strike out the suit or set aside the earlier purported service of the processes filed by Chikwendu on him.
 
But the court dismissed Fani-Kayode’s application and assumed jurisdiction to hear the case, a decision the ex-minister appealed at the Court of Appeal, Abuja.
 
Justice Orji also ordered that a fresh hearing notice along with the originating motion be served on Fani-Kayode.
 
Displeased with the ruling, Fani-Kayode filed a notice of appeal dated March 25, 2021, alleging that the judge denied him a fair hearing.
 
Among his prayers, the former minister urged the Court of Appeal to make an “order remitting this case to the Chief Judge of the FCT High Court for reassignment and determination by another judge”.
 
Responding to the appeal in her filing at the Court of Appeal’s registry, Chikwendu alleged that the former aviation minister has maltreated their four sons since their separation.

In an affidavit dated June 28, 2021, Chikwendu attached photographs purportedly showing Fani-Kayode with his entourage visiting several state governors across Nigeria.
In other photographs, several ladies and the four children could be seen together with Fani-Kayode.
 
“The appellant (Fani-Kayode) employs nannies and different women whom I reasonably believe to be his girlfriends, and posts pictures of them together on various social media platforms all in a bid to spite me,” the court documents filed by Ms Chikwendu’s lawyer, Terkaa Aondo, read in part.
 
She accused Fani-Kayode of denying her access to their children since August 2, 2020, using security officials attached to him.

Chikwendu added that the former minister is fond of travelling and leaving the children at the mercy of his girlfriends and nannies, saying for that reason, he is unfit to take care of the four children.

“That I am worried about my children’s education status as my first son was stopped from going to school since August 2020, and the triplets who are due for school are not in school or given an education access.
 
“That as a young mother, I have been traumatised and physically assaulted by the appellant who is all out in a bid to forcefully take away the children from me and further delay this appeal.
 
“That there is a need that I preserve my right and interest and that of my children who are minors.”
 
She also alleged that should there be further delay in granting her application, the former minister “may make good his threat of relocating my four children out of the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court in which I will be denied a chance of ever seeing them again”.

Fani-Kayode has yet to file his response to the allegations.
The ex-minister and Chikwendu, who is a former beauty queen, got together around 2015 and subsequently welcomed a son in 2016. The couple welcomed a set of triplets in May 2018.
 

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Pelumi Olajengbesi, a prominent member of the legal team of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, has said the investigation into the fraud allegations against the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari should be open and transparent.

The legal practitioner, in a statement issued to SaharaReporters on Sunday, said journalists must also been given full access to the proceedings for the sake of posterity.

“It is therefore a demand in the interest of justice that the conduct of the investigations be transparent and open, with full press access. The Nigeria Police Force should know that Nigerians are struggling to trust the process and in view of this, the Press must be allowed unfettered access to its proceedings for record and posterity sake, too,” he said.

The Police Service Commission had suspended the embattled police chief, Kyari, with the suspension to take effect from Saturday, July 31.

According to the spokesperson for the commission, Ikechukwu Ani, the suspension will “subsist pending the outcome of the investigation in respect of his indictment by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States”.

Kyari’s suspension followed a recommendation by the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Usman Alkali Baba, that the embattled police chief should be suspended immediately from the police force pending investigation into fraud allegations against him.

The IGP, in his letter to the Police Service Commission, dated 31st July, 2021, noted that the recommendation for the suspension of the officer, is in line with the internal disciplinary processes of the Force.

The United States Attorney’s Office, Central District of California, had issued an arrest warrant against Kyari for his alleged links to the suspected fraudster, Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, alias Hushpuppi, who is standing trial for various offences that include internet fraud and money laundering.
 
Hushpuppi has since pleaded guilty to the charges and, if convicted, risks a 20-year-jail term, three-year supervision upon completion of jail term, and monetary restitution to the tune of $500,000 or more.

A Special Investigation Panel (SIP), comprising four senior police officers, headed by Deputy Inspector General of Police Joseph Egbunike, will investigate the allegations against Kyari.

Olajengbensi, therefore, commended the Police Inspector-General, Bala, for “recommending the immediate suspension of DCP Abba Kyari and the immediate confirmation of same by the Police Service Commission pending the determination of his guilt or innocence”.

He continued, “Indeed, it is rather uncommon in our experience as a people to find such spine and resolve in our hero-worship climate where a few persons are revered above the law and due process. IGP Usman Bala has demonstrated appreciable commitment to the resolution of this matter in the interest of truth and justice and must now see that he stands steadfast to this path even in the face of expected pressure to do otherwise.
 
“DCP Abba Kyari who had hitherto assumed a rather amused and dismissive approach to the serious allegations against his person and office, must take good advantage to clear his name by making himself available for the investigations to allow the Nigeria Police Force to run a fine comb through the allegations brought forward against his person before the SIP led by Deputy Inspector-General Joseph Egbunike.
 
“The Special Investigation Panel (SIP) must undertake the task before them with a sense of duty and loyalty only to the truth. It must rid itself of bias considerations for, favourable or unfavourable disposition to DCP Kyari while equally availing him ample opportunity to make representation of his defence against the allegations against him.
 
“The very image of the Nigeria Police Force, particularly its ethos and claims to be corruption-free is being examined by the watchful public at national and international levels. IGP Usman Alkali Bala thus have an uphill task to dutifully acquit itself in this matter and in doing so, help save the reputation of the Nigeria Police Force.”
 

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The Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Usman Alkali Baba, has recommended the immediate suspension of DCP Abba Kyari, the Head of the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT), from the service of the Nigeria Police Force, pending fraud allegations against him. 

The IGP, in his letter to the Police Service Commission, dated 31st July, 2021, noted that the recommendation for the suspension of the officer, is in line with the internal disciplinary processes of the Force. 

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This was disclosed in a statement on Sunday with Ref No. CZ.5300/FPRD/FHQ/ABJ/VOL.4/26 by the Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba.

The United States Attorney’s Office, Central District of California, had issued an arrest warrant against Kyari for his alleged links to the suspected fraudster, Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, alias Hushpuppi, who is standing trial for various offences that include internet fraud and money laundering.

Hushpuppi has since pleaded guilty to the charges and, if convicted, risks a 20-year-jail term, three-year supervision upon completion of jail term, and monetary restitution to the tune of $500,000 or more.

US court documents outlined a dispute among members of the Hushpuppi conspiracy, which allegedly prompted him to arrange to have an individual identified as ‘co-conspirator’ Kelly Chibuzor Vincent, jailed in Nigeria by DCP Kyari.

According to the affidavit, “Kyari is a highly decorated deputy commissioner of the Nigeria Police Force who is alleged to have arranged for Vincent to be arrested and jailed at Abbas’ behest, and then sent Abbas photographs of Vincent after his arrest.

“Kyari also allegedly sent Abbas bank account details for an account into which Abbas could deposit payment for Vincent’s arrest and imprisonment.”

The statement by the Nigeria Police said, "The IGP further noted that the suspension is also expected to create an enabling environment for the NPF Special Investigation Panel to carry out its investigations into the weighty allegations against DCP Abba Kyari without interference. The suspension is without prejudice to the constitutional presumption of innocence in favour of the officer. 

"The Special Investigation Panel (SIP), comprising four (4) Senior Police Officers, is headed by DIG Joseph Egbunike, the Deputy Inspector General of Police in-charge of the Force Criminal Investigations Department (FCID). The SIP, inter alia, is to undertake a detailed review of all the allegations against DCP Abba Kyari by the US Government as contained in relevant documents that have been availed the NPF by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The SIP is also to obtain detailed representation of DCP Abba Kyari to all the allegations levelled against him, conduct further investigations as it deems fit, and submit recommendations to guide further actions by the Force leadership on the matter. 

"Meanwhile, the IGP has reaffirmed the commitment of the Force to the Rule of Law and assured the public of the sanctity of the probe as well as the absolute respect for the rights and privileges of the officer throughout the period of the investigations."

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A human rights group, Talakawa’s Parliament has condemned the extrajudicial killing of 5 Nigerians allegedly accused of kidnapping in the Owan East Local Government Area of Edo State by some members of Owan East Vigilante Group.

The group gave the police 72 hours to fish out the vigilantes responsible for the jungle justice. 

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This was disclosed at the weekend in a press release signed by the Speaker and Spiritual Leader Marxist of the group, Kola Edokpayi, and Secretary, Comrade Imasuen Wilson Osawaru.

According to the statement, the five persons beaten and burnt to death by the vigilantes were later discovered to be labourers. 

The statement read, “The five Nigerians that were later discovered to be labourers were arrested, beaten and burnt to death by some members of a local vigilante group and hunters who accused the kidnap suspects of being responsible for the series of kidnappings at Otuo-Afuze Road, Owan East Local Government Area, even when they were not found with arms allegedly used for the kidnapping operation. We are yet to know the person that was allegedly kidnapped.”

The group frowned on a situation whereby vigilantes who are supposed to assist the police in combating crime will arrest and execute suspects without informing the police, whose job it is to investigate and charge the suspects to court appropriately for trial. 

Talakawa’s Parliament described the killing of the five labourers as jungle justice and genocide which must be condemned by rational people. 

It, however, called on Governor Godwin Obaseki to set the machinery in place for the training of vigilantes bearing arms in the state.

They thereby gave the police 72 hours ultimatum to arrest and prosecute the vigilantes responsible for killing the suspects. 

 

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Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, has said it is a difficult time to be a governor considering the security challenges in his state, and indeed in the country. 

Masari said contrary to what many think that governors are enjoying, they have been having sleepless nights and their phones close to them to receive emergency reports. 

The governor said this during an interview with DW Hausa on Friday.

Katsina State has been a hotbed for banditry and other forms of insecurity. 

Many residents have been killed while many including pupils have kidnapped by bandits for ransom. 

Masari said, “In this difficult time and uncertainty, all the issues of governance have been dominated by security matters from sunset to dawn. I receive security reports at any moment through many channels daily. No sensible leader who has the feelings of his people at heart will be happy in such a situation.

“Governing in this difficult time, I see no joy that people are saying we are enjoying.“

"In this kind of situation, we are having sleepless nights. You only have a few hours to sleep with your phone beneath your ears and whoever calls you at midnight won’t do that to greet you but to tell you a problem that is happening.

“People misunderstood us (governors) as people enjoying themselves. Some people are just assuming things and we must not assume what we think is right because if someone is not in the system, he cannot understand the situation," he added. 

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A former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has spoken about his arrest by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over fraud allegations. 

Saraki, in a statement by his media aide, Yusuph Olaniyonu, however, said he was not arrested but willingly went to the EFCC office to make some clarifications. 

SaharaReporters on Saturday reported that the EFCC held Saraki in its custody over allegations of theft and money laundering.

SaharaReporters had learnt that Saraki was arrested on Saturday and was being interrogated at the Abuja office of the EFCC. See Also Sahara Reporters How Ex-Senate President, Saraki Was Arrested After Wedding Ceremony In Abuja 0 Comments 12 Hours Ago

“Yes, Saraki has been arrested. He is going to be released later tonight and ordered to return again tomorrow. He is being interrogated at the Abuja office,” an authoritative source had told SaharaReporters.

As Senate president between 2015 and 2019, Saraki spent a considerable time facing allegations of corruption and false declaration of assets. He was acquitted by the Supreme Court in June 2018.

Saraki was also the governor of Kwara State for eight years. 

However, Saraki in the statement through Olaniyonu said, “It will be recalled that following the order of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on the Fundamental Human Rights case filed by Dr. Saraki during the period of the former chairman of the EFCC which precluded the commission from investigating him until the matter is dispensed with, the commission at the last hearing on July 14, 2021, pleaded with the judge that the order was preventing them from doing their job. 

"Following this complaint, Dr. Saraki, as a responsible citizen, on his own volition approached EFCC that at the earliest convenient date, he was willing to visit the commission’s office and clarify all issues they might have to raise with him.

“He, therefore, visited the commission’s office on Saturday (31st July) afternoon and also answered some questions.

“He is back home. He was not arrested."

According to Saraki, he has nothing to hide and will continue to make himself available to clarify any issues that require clarifications on his part. 

 

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The digital giant bans the channel from uploading new content for a week over misinformation breaches.

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Frenchman Mourad Aliev refuses to live the ring in the aftermath of his controversial loss to Great Britain's Frazer Clarke.

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Jacinda Ardern says Pacific Islander communities still "suffer and carry the scars" from the policy.

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Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is set to become the first openly transgender athlete to compete in a different gender category to that which they were born at an Olympics.