As government is more responsible for all spheres of our nation's development including safety infrastructures of which the security of life and properties is crucial directly to the human dynamics; funding of security must not be left to the government alone.
Rev. Peter Omofoye Chairman Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC) Oyo State Police Command made the declarations at the inauguration of the Saki Police Area Command PCRC.at Saki.
Frown at the security breaches in the country the cleric observed that though protection of citizenry is enshrined in 1999 constitution as a statutory duty of government and with various cases of insurgences, militancy,terrorism, kidnapping, corruption, institutional indiscipline,miscreants. thuggery, misconception and violence.
All hands must be on deck. Omofoye however emphasized that all our basic agents of socialisation must be employed to grooming our youths the leaders of tomorrow with imbibed sense of safety and consciousness for security hence the need for us as a nation to go back to the root of community policing, good parenting, education with moral,organizational and professional ethics, good governance and religion pragmatism must as well be pursued by all stakeholders.
According to the state PCRC boss Omofoye,"entrenchments of those in our core values will promotes functionality of all spheres of our development'.
All these will help us as a nation to realise the basic amenities for functional infrastructure as fundamental to security and safety of all.
While commended the Oyo State Police Commissioner Abiodun Odude initiatives on the more formation of police area command for the state, Omofoye described the commissioner as visionary and expert in community policing scheme.
Eulogized the Oyo States Police boss Odude for his operational tactics that enable the police to nip crimes in the bud and help in the reduction of crimes rate in the state.
He however reiterated his organization PCRC commitment towards the upliftment of Nigeria police in the country and Oyo StateState in general.
Omofoye then tasked his members statewide to strives and give adequate support to the police and warned them to stay clear of any acts that can bring disrepute to the image of PCRC. He later hands over the Saki new executive officers to the Saki Police Area Commander ACP. Bosso.
In his address. ACP. Audu Garba Bosso commended PCRC for there vital and timely information and described them as "body of very respectable peoples',and urged the six division under his area command not to relent efforts in there responsibility
He called for more collective support in area of logistics and parameters fencing of the area command headquarters.
Earlier in his welcome address. Chief Adejumo Adetola Chairman Saki PCRC enumerated his organization achievement which includes renovation of building with furnitures for the police area command and as well creating a peacpeaceful environment with co-existence amongst the public, farmers, herdsmen and police.
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Saturday 11 August 2018
Trouble looms for APC as Ortom threatens Oshiomhole with N10bn suit
The governor of Benue state, Samuel Ortom, has threatened to institute a N10 billion suit against Adams Oshiomhole, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), for alleged defamation of his character and libel. Ortom in a letter through his lawyers to the APC chairman referred to various interviews and media briefings in which Oshiomhole allegedly attempted to bringhis name into disrepute and shame.
The letter read: “Recall that on Friday, July 27, you did cause a sponsored press conference to be aired on multiple television and radio stations which was also widely circulated in the print and social media.
“In the said sponsored press conference which was entirely centered on the person of Governor Samuel Ortom, you made very astonishing, unsubstantiated, wild and wide allegations against our client relating to the issue of allocation and payment of salaries, security votes expenditure and the insecurity in Benue state.
“It is the aggregate of your allegations that our client has confessed to sharing Benue State money with party leaders and that despite collection of bail out and Paris Club refund monies, Gov. Ortom has not and is not paying salaries… the vicious circle of poverty in Benue State has been deepened under Gov. Ortom.
“By deducible analysis, it is also your allegation that our client is responsible for the killings in Benue State specifically the unfortunate killing of 2 Catholic priests and their parishioners in Mbalom community which sad event occurred on the morning of 24th April, 2018.
“It is noteworthy that in the entire web of false accusations that you weaved against our client, you could not bring yourself to mention a single Benue person or any other person for that matter from whom you sourced your false narratives. For the records, the principles of law grounding liability for defamation and libel do not exculpate tale bearers from liability for the reason that the tales they bear are not original to them.
“There is also no gainsaying the fact that the false allegations you have leveled against our client are weighty and same would have demanded a greater degree of circumspection, sobriety and deep reflection from you before rushing to the public domain.
“For one who is purportedly schooled, it is taken for granted that you are fully abreast of the legal obligation and implication that he who asserts has a corresponding burden to prove. Regrettably, in your case you spoke not to records but to base political sentiments.
“Therefore, the only inference to draw is that your unproven allegation was informed by a dangerously cultivated, albeit unwarranted malice against our client. In the circumstance, we have our client’s instruction to place before you the following demands:
“A letter of retraction/apology addressed to our client in respect of the false, defamatory and libelous statement made against him in the sponsored press conference herein complained of.
“That the said retraction/apology be simultaneously published in the Sunday edition of 10 National Dailies circulating within Benue State as well as a paid advertorial to the same effect on the prime time beats of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Channels Tv, TVC News, African Independent Television (AIT), Independent Television (ITV) Benin, Radio Nigeria, Radio Benue and Harvest FM, Makurdi.
“An undertaking not to indulge in any such false publication against our client in future and the payment of N10,000,000,000. (Ten Billion Naira) only to our client as punitive, general, exemplary and aggravated damages. We have our client’s express instruction that the terms above be met within 7 days of receipt of this letter.
"It is the further instruction of our client that in the event of any failure, refusal or neglect to conform to the terms set out above, he would be left with no option than to commence appropriate legal proceedings against you in the law Court.”
It will be recalls that the newly elected speaker of the Benue House of Assembly, Titus Ugba, on Saturday, August 4, revealed that Ortom might be heading to court to clear his name of corruption allegations.
Ugba, who spoke with selected journalists at the 2018 edition of a meeting of the conference of 36 speakers of state Houses of Assembly, wondered why the allegations of corruption against Ortom began after the governor's defection from the APC.
He also raised alarm over the alleged withdrawal of security agents from the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps in the state saying attacks by bandits had continued unabated.
Reacting to a question from journalist the allegation that Ortom mismanaged funds that came from the federal government, the speaker said Oshiomhole, the national chairman of the APC, lied.
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Mum sleeps with son to have child for her second husband
A woman in Benue state has been accused of sleeping with her biological son in order to have a child for her second husband.
Veronica Iorshe, 47, from Howe, Ugee council ward in Benue state slept with her son from her previous marriage so as to bear children for her second husband, Sebastian Iorshe, 44, from Aliade, all in the same Gwer east local government area of the same state.
Veronica had been married to her second husband for eight years without a child. However she had a son grown up son from her previous marriage that was short lived as her husband had died in a motor accident early in the marriage thus making a widow.
Veronica Iorshe and her son Simon Hon
Her second husband Sebastian too had lost his first wife to death but unfortunately they had no child between them before her death. The widow and widower met in the course of doing business and decided to have relationship which led to their marriage. Veronica went into the union with her 26-year-old son Simon.
After years of marriage to Sebastian, his family started raising eyebrows that Veronica is training her son with their son’s wealth.
Meanwhile, Veronica said she had suggested they go for a medical checkup to ascertain who has problem with procreation between them but her husband declined. She then decided to test if she is the one with fault. Thus she came up with a plan and lured her son into sleeping with her in a one-room apartment she got for him in Lafia, Nasarawa state when her mother-in-law moved in with them and was frustrating her son. They got at it between the moths of March and April. Yes, she is fertile, so she went to her husband with the news of her pregnancy. Expecting her husband to be glad about the news, the man raised an alarm that he is not responsible for the pregnancy. He claimed that the last time he slept with her was in February, they visited a hospital where it was discovered that the man is suffering from low sperm count and as such cannot impregnate a woman. Secondly, if truly he met with her last in February, he cannot be responsible for a pregnancy conceived in March and the bubble burst.
Veronica later confessed that she actually slept with her son to save his marriage. She lamented that she did it out of love for Sebastian.
The husband has sent her packing, she has relocated with her son to Makurdi and she decided to keep the baby since according to her, “it is blood within my blood.”
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Wednesday 8 August 2018
Strike imminent as ASUU rejects Babalakin-led renegotiation team
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has rejected Wale Babalakin as the chairman of the government renegotiating team for the 2009 ASUU/Federal Government of Nigeria Agreement.
The union on Tuesday, August 7, said the renegotiation had collapsed over the alleged arrogance of Babalakin, who was said to have made a mockery of the renegotiation process.
ASUU had said that anything could happen if nothing was done about a letter written to the minister of education, Adamu Adamu, over the development.
The agreement by the union was reached at the end of its three-day national executive council meeting at the University of Calabar.
Speaking on the crisis, the national president of the union, Biodun Ogunyemi, described Babalakin as a stumbling block in the renegotiation process.
Ogunyemi said: “Recall that in January 2017, the NEC meeting of ASUU held at Bayero University, Kano, welcomed the reconstitution of the government renegotiation team to enter into a renegotiation of the 2009 ASUU/FGN Agreement, which was long overdue."
“The renegotiation commenced in March 2017. At the inauguration of the committee, the Minister of Education declared that he expected the renegotiation to be completed within six weeks. Since then, for over 14 months, our union has had a series of negotiation meetings but it has been a fruitless exercise.
“The chairman of the Government Renegotiating Team, Dr Wale Babalakin, has constituted himself into a stumbling block in the process of the renegotiation. He has arrogantly exhibited the I-know-it-all attitude and also conducted himself as a judge, instead of a negotiator.
“With unwarranted arrogance, he has disregarded the cardinal principles of collective bargaining, deliberately slowed the process and made a mockery of the core tenets of industrial democracy. He has arrogated to himself the power to decide matters that should be collectively debated, analysed, and agreed upon by the two parties.
“He has also consistently attempted to substitute core constitutional provisions of Nigeria on education, including university education, by market principles of trading in and purchasing higher education, putting Nigerian children in debt in order to acquire higher education. This situation is not acceptable to the union.
“ASUU has tried through several entreaties to make him see reason and return to the path of collective bargaining and respect for the constitutional provisions on education to no avail. Since March 2017, a period of over fourteen (14) months, the discussion has hovered only on funding and Babalakin’s insistence that a tuition regime must be introduced into the public universities in Nigeria," Ogunyemi said.
The ASUU national president said that the executive council has approved the decision of the ASUU team to withdraw from the re-negotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU Agreement.
He said this is as a result of Babalakin’s insistence on the commercialisation of tertiary education in the country.
Meanwhile, workers at the Ibarapa Polytechnic, Eruwa, on Wednesday, July 18, commenced an indefinite strike over non-payment of salaries, poor welfare and non-accreditation of courses.
Three unions in the institution are involved in the strike.
They are the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnics (SSANIP), Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) and Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP).
Ibarapa Polytechnic is the fifth institution out of the six owned by the Oyo state government to join an indefinite strike declared by the unions.
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Court refuses to stop Adeleke as Osun PDP governorship candidate
Justice David Oladimeji of Osun state high court has dismissed the suit seeking to stop Senator Ademola Adeleke as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the September 22 primary election.
The suit seeking an order of the court to stop Adeleke as the candidate of the PDP because he did not have the required educational certificate to contest the poll was filed by two PDP members, Rasheed Olabayo and Idowu Oluwaseun.
Justice Oladimeji said that found out that the first defendant was educated up to secondary school level and that the plaintiffs also admitted this in their affidavit.
He, however, added that the documents submitted by Adeleke contained some serious and damaging irregularities but added that the plaintiffs did not raise the issue of forgery in the origination summon and failed to prove that the documents were forged.
Meanwhile,two delegates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun state filed a fresh suit against Senator Ademola Adeleke, who emerged as the governorship candidate of the party.
The delegates, Olagboye Adedamola and Oyetunji Suredi filed the suit on Tuesday at the Osun State High Court in Osogbo over the testimonial and statement of result presented by the lawmaker to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) which they claimed were fake documents.
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