The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, says he’s running for president in 2023 to better the lots of young Nigerians, Native Reporters gathered
“You’re the youth. It’s your tomorrow. If you make a decision to pop out and defend the process, good for you. Me I’ve lived my life. What I’m doing now, I’m doing it for you,” Mr Atiku said.
The former vice president between 1999-2007 disclosed this in a video shared on his Facebook page on Sunday, in which he was speaking to young Nigerians.
He stated that at this level in his political career, all he was interested by was to “guide you, protect you and defend your interest as long as I’m strong, healthy and alive.”
Mr Abubakar has since 1993 sought five times and failed to be Nigeria’s president, failing at party primary level three times and twice in the main elections.
At 75, Mr Abubakar will contest the 2023 election against the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, the Labour Party’s Peter Obi and several others.
Canadian judge Henry Brown has granted asylum reliefs to Lukmon Owolabi Shoyebo after claiming APC presidential flag bearer Bola Tinubu tried to kill him in Lagos for defecting to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2015.
Mr Shoyebo, a former APC youth leader, operating on a local level, said he incurred the wrath of Mr Tinubu and Bolaji Ayinla, the then House of Representatives member for Mushin II constituency, for decamping to PDP at a time when the party was desperately counting on his support to overthrow the party.
Mr Shoyebo also claimed that an assassination attempt on him on November 18, 2015, resulted in the death of two people at his workplace. The Nigerian asylum seeker also told the Canadian authorities that his relatives were targets of vicious attacks.
“The family claims refugee protection because they fear persecution from a powerful political figure in the All Progressive Congress (APC) and a chief in the Ogboni cult, due to the PA’s (foremost applicant) political opinion,” stated the application presented before Mr Brown
“They also allegedly fear an elected APC member of the Federal House of Representatives for the Mushin II constituency who has in the past joined forces with the Ogboni chief in attempting to harm the PA,” the document added.
Farmers across the 36 states, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), have expressed their readiness to tap the opportunities in cassava and maize value chain as proposed by the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu.
The farmers, under the auspices of Asiwaju Farmers Forum, stated this yesterday in Abuja.
The group said their resolve to tap from the abundant opportunities in staples such as cassava and maize followed Tinubu’s assurance to invest massively in the entire agriculture value chain if elected president next year.
Leader of the group and National Coordinator, Nigerian Farmers Group and Cooperative Society (NFGCS), Mr. Retson Tedheke, said there must be a different approach to tackle the economic challenge for Nigeria to work.
“Our imports must be on how to add value to what we can produce locally, it must be on extra jobs; it must be focused on nothing but managing the evolving rural Nigeria quagmire and turning what is currently becoming a curse to blessing.
“The problem of Nigeria is Nigerians. Our failure as a country is our fault as a people. The USD is not coming down soon. Our hunger is not going away.
We cannot import everything and expect our people to be free from the challenging economic mess we face.
Retired American mental health counselor, Dr Jeffery Guterman, literarily set the Nigerian Twitter sphere on fire, on Tuesday, by referring to Festus Keyamo, spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council and Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Festus Keyanmo as ‘Mr Mugu.’
Mugu is a term used in pidgin to describe a f00l or someone unwise.
Guterman had reacted to Keyamo’s tweet on the viral video of Peter Obi, Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, having one of his aides read out a WhatsApp broadcast against his Presidency.
“Shame on you Festus Keyamo,” he wrote.
In his response, the minister asked the American to stay away from Nigerian politics.
“Mr. Man @JeffreyGuterman, as a hired online mercenary without a Nigerian Permanent Voter’s Card (PVC), may I suggest you stay away from our local politics? I am under restraint from professional bodies to which I belong, hence I have not descended on you with the worst expletives,” he wrote.
Guterman then dropped the bomb.
“I will not stay away from Nigerian politics, Mr. Mugu @fkeyamo. #PeterObiForPresident,” he wrote.
Meanwhile, Nigerian Twitter users have taken to the internet space to express their opinions on this. Below are some of such comments:
@Eganwave said: “Keyamo SAN-Senior Advocate of Nuisance don collect o.”
@chukwuebuker wrote: “Don’t mind the Senior Advocate of Nonsense;he’s a shame to us all. Thank you. @JeffreyGuterman for all you do.”
@ReusSegun: “Vawulence pro max activated my the Yankee OBIdient. Omo this man just Dey gimme joy, he said “Mr Mugu””
@WazobiaUnited: “May Posterity favour you and yours Jeff. Lend your voice to a better Humanity. Nigerians appreciate your input. Don’t mind the Senior Advocate of Nuisance.”
@Nemonwa: “Is the Mr. Mugu for me. Don’t mind the Mugu claiming SAN”
@LuqmanTI_2: “Jeffrey next time call him mr senior advocate of nonsense.”
When ‘Mr Mugu’ was trending at number one on Twitter, Guterman posted a screenshot and wrote, “Keep it trending”
The Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has apologised to Christian clerics over the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress. He also appealed to them to help talk to their followers about the need to forgive and give the party a chance. This was contained in a statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Richard Olatunde, on Monday.
According to the statement, the Chairman of the Southern Governors’ Forum spoke on Sunday at the 40th Holy Ghost Convention Dinner of The Sword of the Spirit Ministries held at the International Conference Centre, University of Ibadan. The governor hinged his call for understanding on the need for power to return to the southern part of the country after eight years in the northern part.
He said, “I understand our feelings because I am one of you. I am a Christian. All of us here are worried. What will be our gain, and that, why is my party, the APC, throwing up a Muslim-Muslim ticket?
“It has been a real issue for all of us; even members of the party. We have debated it, fought it and done so many things about it. I have always said to people, that my fight was for a Southern President. Now it has come to the South-West, will I now throw the baby away with the bathwater? Can I, in all honesty, do it? Should I, in all honesty, do it?
“We call it a matter of coincidence. It is a matter of conscience. All of us are here, why don’t we look at it from one angle? The buck stops on the table of the President. Do we have a capable hand who can manage the affairs if given the opportunity? Do you have a man who is bold enough to challenge incursions into our land? That is it.
“All of us here have lived together for years, and we didn’t allow religion to cause a fight among us. We have Muslims in our families and there is no fight. We have many leaders in Yoruba land who have both Muslims and Christians in their families and there is no fight.
When on Thursday, September 8, 2022, Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II passed on into ancestor-hood, I was not particularly moved. I like England. I schooled and worked there and those years were some of the best of my life. The English people are by far some of the most decent peoples on planet Earth.
However, I am rather indifferent about their monarch. I did not like or dislike Queen Elizabeth II. The only thing I can think of that I admire in her is her stoicism. Her ability to take pain and pleasure with equanimity. She is the epitome of duty and a stiff upper lip.
But I doubt that I bothered much about her and her goings on. I was just aloof.
So, while I was not one of those mourning, it was not because I had some grudge against the House of Windsor. No. It is just that the House of Ginuwa (the first Olu of Warri), mattered more to me than Buckingham Palace.
The above not withstanding, I was absolutely mortified by the hideous and historically inaccurate things that were said about the Queen and her family by a Nigerian woman living in America, whose name I will not dignify by mentioning.
I later got to find out that this woman has other issues, which made me understand her bitterness better, though I still vehemently reject her indecorous words.
She was one of the people who famously celebrated the death of TB Joshua and called him all sorts of unprintable names when he died. So it is no big surprise that she has turned her vitriol in the direction of the late Queen.
And so now, let me tackle what the death of Queen Elizabeth II reveals about Biafra. It shows us as a people not aware of our history, and because we are not aware of our own history, we have distorted it, such that propaganda and pseudo history has been orally passed down from one generation to the other, feeding unfounded bitterness that is destroying those who harbour it, and having no effect on those against whom they are embittered.
That is why some people believe they were just sitting down minding their business and Hausa people came to fight them (all Northerners are Hausa to some people) because they hate them. There was absolutely no provocation, or igniting events that preceded the Nigerian Civil War. Hausa people just woke up on the wrong side of the bed and for some strange reason decided to pounce on the people of Eastern Nigeria.
But of course, that is not what happened. However, because we do not write our history, and even worse, we have refused to teach it in our schools, there are millions of people who believe this version of events. In fact, they swear by it.
One fellow named Uche Nnaya even tweeted at me that the Igbos of Southeast Nigeria had a right to rail against the British monarch and the rest of Nigeria, because “you can’t push people to the wall and dictate how they react.”
Really? But do those who hold such views not know that some other persons were FIRST pushed to the wall? Uche’s response will also justify how those who were first pushed to the wall reacted.
We cannot keep holding grudges as if other people do not have their own grudges that they have let go for the peace and unity of this country called Nigeria.
My great uncle, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, was shot and killed in the street by Major Chris Anuforo on January 15, 1966. Ironically, I went to school with Anuforo’s son. Should my people carry that grudge forever?
Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was shot on the street like a common criminal by Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna. Ifeajuna tried to deny it, and claimed that Alhaji Balewa died from an asthma attack, until his body was taken to LUTH and examined by the then minister for health, Dr. Moses Majekodunmi. It was established that the body was riddled with bullets in a front page story in Daily Times, written by Segun Osoba, who later became the Governor of Ogun. He is still alive.
This was an incorruptible gentleman. He lived a very ascetic life. Materialism was FAR from him. He was an author. His book, Shaihu Umar, was the first novel written in Hausa. He surrounded himself with Southerners (in hindsight, was that a mistake?). His best friend was Matthew Mbu. Should the Tafawa-Balewa family and the people of Bauchi, where he was from, hold a grudge forever?
I could go on and on and list the people killed on January 15, 1966, and the identities of their killers, but that would just be reopening old wounds. These are historical facts, which some people deny and pretend as if the Civil War happened in a vacuum.
So, please let us stop pretending as if the late Queen Elizabeth II came to Nigeria and ignited a war. The Nigerian Civil War was ignited by a series of unfortunate events that began with the cold blooded murder of 22 people from the Northern, Western, and Mid Western regions by people of mostly Eastern region origin, which led to a counter coup by Northern Nigerian military officers on July 29, 1966, and the unfortunate pogrom of 66-67.
Many people now spewing vitriol against the late Queen Elizabeth II for her alleged role in the Nigerian Civil War conveniently forget that between August 9, 1967 and September 20, 1967, Biafran forces invaded and occupied the Midwest region, and named Albert Nwazu Okonkwo, as military Governor of the Midwest. A number of non Igbo speaking Mid-Westerners lost their lives during the Biafran occupation of the Midwest.
After the Midwest was liberated by forces led by colonels Murtala Muhammed and Benjamin Adekunle, more Mid-Westerners, this time those linguistically linked to the Igbo (especially in the Asaba axis), were killed. Please research it before you insult me.
I need to add that the killings by the liberating forces were worse than the killings of the Biafrans, and should truly have been declared war crimes.
Yet, in that same Midwest, we accepted Nigerians of Southeast origin back after the war. We did not seize their properties in the abandoned property saga that occurred in the Port Harcourt area and its environs. We let bygones be bygones.
The truth of the matter is that If the January 15, 1966 coup had never happened, it is most unlikely that the Nigerian Civil War would have occurred. The perpetrators of that coup opened a Pandora’s Box that the rest of Nigeria are still suffering from today!
There was wild jubilation all over Nigeria after that coup, because Nigerians believed it was a patriotic and nationalistic coup. Then the names of those killed were announced over the radio, and it was discovered that only people from the North, West and Midwest were killed, but NOBODY from the East was killed, whereas the vast majority of those who carried out the coup were from the East.
That is the remote cause of the Nigerian Civil War. We will remember it. We will also teach it to our children, so that it does not reoccur.
So, to just keep nursing grudges and reopening old wounds will do no one any good. You can bully others into submission, but you cannot do it to Reno Omokri. I know history and I am a meticulous record keeper!
It is only those who are ignorant about how the British government works that will blame the late Queen for the actions of the British government. She was a titular and ceremonial head of state, whose actions were limited to appointing the candidate who has won election directly or indirectly as prime minister, and declaring open the parliament. She was a symbol. She was not the initiator of the policies of the British government.
And even the British government are not to blame for the Nigerian Civil War. We must learn to take responsibility for our own actions. That war was the result of the ill advised January 15, 1966 coup.
The coup itself was led by Majors Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna. It was executed by the following persons:
Of these seven people, only one, Adewale Ademoyega, was non Igbo. The rest were all Igbo, although Major Nzeogwu was what was referred to at that time as Midwest Igbo (later colloquially referred to as Bendel Igbo and now as Delta Igbo). Major Donatus Okafor’s mother was Tiv. However, his father was Igbo.
Incidentally, some Igbos unwisely try to deny that Nzeogwu was Igbo, and call him ‘your South-South’ brother. Unknown to them, the more they do this, the more they make non Igbos feel that those specific Igbos who say they have learned very little since the civil war.
22 people were killed during the coup, including
1. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa 2. Ahmadu Bello 3. Ahmed Ben Musa 4. Hafsatu Bello 5. Ahmed Pategi 6. Samuel Ladoke Akintola 7. Festus Okotie-Eboh 8. Brig. Samuel Ademulegun 9. Brig. Zakariya Maimalari 10. Col. Ralph Shodeinde 11. Col. Kur Mohammed 12. Lt. Col. Abogo Largema 13. Lt. Col. James Pam 14. Lt. Col. Arthur Unegbe 15. Sergeant Daramola Oyegoke 16. Mrs Latifat Ademulegun 17. Zarumi Sardauna 18. PC Yohana Garkawa 19. Lance Corporal Musa Nimzo 20. PC Akpan Anduka 21. PC Hagai Lai 22. Philip Lewande
As is clear from the list above, none of them were from the then Eastern Nigeria.
After the coup, Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi took over. Rightly, or wrongly, the rest of the nation felt that a coup carried out by overwhelmingly Eastern officers, and of which the victims were entirely non Easterners, and which supplanted a Northern minority leader (Tafawa-Balewa), with an Igbo leader, (Aguiyi-Ironsi) was a set up.
However, Major General Aguiyi-Ironsi’s promise to try the coup plotters placated the rest of the country. Sadly, the plotters were jailed, but were never tried. And the immediate cause of the July 29, 1966 counter coup was when rumours circulated that the coup plotters had been receiving full salaries in jail and were to be promoted.
These are facts that we all should address, rather than blaming the late Queen Elizabeth II for a war she did not cause, nor had anyway of stopping. And if we do not learn from our history, there is every possibility that another war might erupt in Nigeria.
The Biafrans inflicted a very harsh occupation on present day Rivers, Cross Rivers and Akwa-Ibom, as well as present day Delta and Edo before they were flushed out by federal forces. The Bayelsa area escaped the brunt of Biafran occupation due to the fight back from Isaac Adaka Boro. They invaded Ore and hundreds of soldiers and civilians died. There is still a Yoruba proverb about the amount of people that died in Ore. Ask a Yoruba person to tell you the meaning of ‘o le ku ija Ore.
We have all forgiven and moved on. Yet, you want to reopen these old wounds and make them cancerous by blaming Queen Elizabeth II 50 years after the war?
And when you point this out, the very same people castigating the late Queen will accuse you of creating ethnic tension? Do you want to be victims and victors at the same time? Leave the woman and her family to grieve in peace. By celebrating the Queen’s death, you are giving Nigeria a very nasty reputation that will affect all of us and not only you. We cannot afford to be seen as a nation with anti British and American sentiments, when we are not able to get a better deal from China and Russia.
This is the tale of the primary oil war, which changed into fought withinside the nineteenth century, withinside the vicinity that have become Nigeria.
All thru the nineteenth century, palm oil turned into rather sought-after via way of means of the British, to be used as an business lubricant for machinery. Remember that Britain become the world’s first industrialised nation, so that they wanted sources consisting of palm oil to hold that.
Palm oil, of course, is a tropical plant, that’s local to the Niger Delta. Malaysia’s dominance got here a century later. By 1870, palm oil had changed slaves as the principle export of the Niger Delta, the location which changed into as soon as called the Slave Coast. At first, maximum of the exchange withinside the oil palm turned into uncoordinated, with natives promoting to people who gave them the nice offers. Native chiefs together with former slave, Jaja of Opobo have become immensely rich due to oil palm. With this wealth got here impact.
However, a number of the Europeans, there has been opposition for who might get preferential get entry to to the rewarding oil palm exchange. In 1879, George Goldie shaped the United African Company (UAC), which changed into modelled on the previous East India Company. Goldie efficiently took manipulate of the Lower Niger River. By 1884, his business enterprise had 30 buying and selling posts alongside the Lower Niger. This monopoly gave the British a sturdy hand towards the French and Germans withinside the 1884 Berlin Conference. The British were given the region that the UAC operated in, covered of their sphere of have an impact on after the Berlin Conference.
When the Brits were given the phrases they desired from different Europeans, they started out to cope with the African chiefs. Within years of 1886, Goldie had signed treaties with tribal chiefs alongside the Benue and Niger Rivers while additionally penetrating inland. This circulate inland changed into towards the spirit of verbal agreements that have been made to limition the organisation’s sports to coastal regions.
By 1886, the agency call modified to The National Africa Company and become granted a royal constitution (incorporated). The constitution accredited the business enterprise to manage the Niger Delta and all lands across the banks of the Benue and Niger Rivers. Soon after, the agency turned into once more renamed. The new call turned into Royal Niger Company, which survives, as Unilever, until this day.
To neighborhood chiefs, the Royal Niger Company negotiators had pledged loose alternate withinside the region. Behind, they entered personal contracts on their phrases. Because the (deceitful) personal contracts have been frequently written in English and signed through the nearby chiefs, the British authorities enforced them. So for example, Jaja of Opobo, while he attempted to export palm oil on his own, became pressured into exile for “obstructing commerce”. As an aside, Jaja became “forgiven” in 1891 and allowed to go back home, however he died at the manner returned, poisoned with a cup of tea.
Seeing what took place to Jaja, a few different local rulers started to appearance greater intently on the offers they have been getting from the Royal Nigeria Company. One of such kingdoms became Nembe, whose king, Koko Mingi VIII, ascended the throne in 1889 after being a Christian schoolteacher. Koko Mingi VIII, King Koko for short, like maximum rulers withinside the yard, turned into confronted with the Royal Nigeria Company encroachment. He additionally resented the monopoly loved through the Royal Nigeria Company and attempted to are searching for out beneficial buying and selling phrases, with mainly the Germans in Kamerun (Cameroon).
By 1894, the Royal Nigeria Company more and more more dictated whom the natives may want to exchange with, and denied them direct get right of entry to to their former markets. In overdue 1894, King Koko renounced Christianity and attempted to shape an alliance with Bonny and Okpoma in opposition to the Royal Nigeria Company to take again the exchange. This is enormous due to the fact whilst Okpoma joined up, Bonny refused. A harbinger of the successful “divide and rule” tactic.
On 29 January 1895, King Koko led an assault at the Royal Niger Company’s headquarters, which become in Akassa in today’s Bayelsa state. The pre-sunrise raid had greater than one thousand guys involved. King Koko’s assault succeeded in shooting the base. Losing forty of his guys, King Koko captured 60 white guys as hostages, in addition to lots of goods, ammunition and a Maxim gun. Koko then tried to barter a launch of the hostages in change for being allowed to selected his buying and selling partners. The British refused to barter with Koko, and he had 40 of the hostages killed. A British document claimed that the Nembe humans ate them. On 20 February 1895, Britain’s Royal Navy, beneathneath Admiral Bedford attacked Brass and burned it to the ground. Many Nembe human beings died and smallpox completed off numerous others.
By April 1895, enterprise had lower back to “regular”, regular being the situations that the British desired, and King Koko turned into at the run. Brass turned into fined £500 via way of means of the British, £62,494 (NGN29 million) in today’s money, and the looted guns have been back in addition to the surviving prisoners. After a British Parliamentary Commission sat, King Koko turned into presented phrases of agreement via way of means of the British, which he rejected and disappeared. The British right away declared him an outlaw and supplied a praise of £200 (£26,000; NGN12 million today) for him. He devoted suicide in exile in 1898.
About that time, another “recalcitrant King”, the Oba of Benin, changed into run out of town. The pacification of the Lower Niger become nicely and without a doubt underway. The instant impact of the Brass Oil War become that public opinion in Britain became towards the Royal Nigeria Company, so its constitution turned into revoked in 1899. Following the revoking of its constitution, the Royal Niger Company bought its holdings to the British authorities for £865,000 (£108 million today). That amount, £46,407,250 (NGN 50,386,455,032,400, at today’s alternate rate) turned into efficiently the fee Britain paid, to shop for the territory which became to grow to be called Niger
Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo, has named his former Deputy, Dare Kadiri, as one of those behind his ordeals with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
While maintaining his innocence in the recent EFCC charges against him, Oluomo said “I will want the court to decide because the hyperbolic nature of the petitions written by the impeached former Deputy Speaker, Dare Kadiri was also reflected in the charges.”
In a statement on Friday after he resumed office, following the perfection of his bail conditions, Oluomo said he was not the Accounting Officer of the Assembly, adding that the House only operates one bank account.
“By law, I am not the Accounting Officer of the House, for emphasis, the House under my leadership operates only one bank account since 2019, through which running costs and allowances are paid directly into the bank accounts of individual Honourable members and staff of the House including the petitioner,” he stated.
Oluomo clarified that “charges 10 and 11 are for the Eighth legislature before I became the Speaker.”
He added that the refusal to honour the initial invitation of the EFCC was because of the method adopted by the anti-graft agency, which he said is against section 36 of the Constitution.
“We challenged it in court, this is in the public domain as it was widely reported but the EFCC refused to wait for the pronouncement in that case before taking further steps, despite having joined issues with us in court.
“I have always been disciplined and upright in my position, conduct and dealings with people, I shall continue to remain myself with truth and honour as my goal. I thank everyone that showed love and concern in the last few days. Thanks and God bless you all,” he submitted.
Ahead of the 2023 presidential elections, the usual bearer of the All Progressives Congress APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday visited the countrywide secretariat of his birthday birthday celebration along his walking mate, Senator Kashim Shettima, and slammed the Labour Party LP Presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi for falsifying financial records to woo gullible Nigerians.
He said; “We aren’t threatened. We are devoted and we’re very happy with ourselves, we’re of an orderly manner, we’re devoted to democratic standards and values; we aren’t bickering in any manner and you realize that. Can you assert that of the alternative parties? We aren’t spewing faux facts and incorrect figures. Can you are saying that of different parties? Well, we’re what we’re, a innovative birthday birthday celebration.
“It is a brand new horizon and we guarantee them that each Nigerian will advantage I am very positive that there can be a clean alternate and we are able to keep improvement in a fast manner.
“Let the election be over. That is one step. We need to follow INEC and rules concerning the elections, while we end that, we are able to unveil to you the ones matters that we’ve for the united states and our objectives, our creed, our dedication ought to be improvement and our dedication to transformation, and our willpower to carry assist to the teeming Nigerians.
“To all of the individuals in attendance that day (of a number one election), we need to mention thank you. We have come collectively as a political celebration and we’ve taken progressivism as our doctrine. We need to be modern in our thinking, our deeds and our goal to serve the united states.
“Yes, I admit that democracy is a challenging, very difficult and tough gadget to manage. We have visible demanding situations left and proper out of doors the global sphere of politics, however we’re decided to make sure that we democratise Nigeria absolutely and stay a beacon of democracy as the biggest kingdom of the black race withinside the world.”
No fewer than 480 police constabularies have protested the alleged non-payment of their 18-month salary in Osun.
The constabularies recruited to complement the police structure by providing intelligence, among others were inaugurated in May 2021 at Police Headquarters, Osun State after their training in April 2021.
The protesting officers who were in their uniforms, converged on the Old-Garage area, marching through Oke-Fia, Alekuwodo before storming the Ola-Iya flyover to press home their demands.
They carried placards with several inscriptions such as: ‘Pay our salary now’; ‘Okada riders are sleeping with our wives’, ‘Pay us our 18-month salary’, ‘pay us’, ‘Our Stipends And Allowances’ and ‘18 months without kobo’ among others.
One of the leaders of the protesting policemen, Constable Tijani Adewale, said despite the non-payment of salaries they are committed to duties stressing that amid their predicament three Constabularies died while on duty. He lamented commercial tricyclists and motorcyclists have snatched their wives due to their inability to provide for them and their children.
“We have gone to the local government, honourable and dignitaries in the state yet no positive result. We lost three persons in Ikire and one in Iree. These people died in the course of discharging their duty.
We are very dutiful even though we have not been paid a dime. Due to unpaid allowances, tricycle and Okada riders have snatched our wives because of their inability to take care of them.” he said
Osun Police Commissioner Olawale Olokode later joined them at the Ola-Iya bridge and ordered them to stop the protest immediately. He assured them that the concerned authorities will intervene in the matter to solve their plights.
“You are embarrassing the force with your protest. You should have channelled your grievances to the appropriate quarters. You are disturbing public peace with this your protests. As far as you are wearing this uniform, we expect you to maintain high discipline as a force man” he said.
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