Dasuki granted Bail Again. Will Buhari obey this time around?

An Abuja High Court has again reaffirmed the bail granted former National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd), and five others in the arm deal trial involving $2.1billion.

Justice Baba Yusuf reaffirmed the bail on Dasuki on the grounds that he (Dasuki) was entitled to it and having been admitted to same since 2015 when the federal government brought charges against him.

Dasuki and five others were re-arraigned before Justice Baba Yusuf on the criminal charges that were transferred from Justice Peter Affen also of an Abuja High Court.

However, after the 22-count charge were read to the six defendants and all pleaded not guilty, counsel to Dasuki, Mr. Ahmed Raji (SAN), applied to the court to reaffirm the bail granted to the ex-NSA even though he has not been allowed to enjoy same since December 2015.

Three different high courts have granted Dasuki bail but the bail orders were not obeyed by the government. He has been in custody since December 2015.

The counsel stated Dasuki had been admitted to bail before he was illegally arrested and detained by the Department of the State Security Services (DSS).

Raji argued that with the transfer of the case from Justice Affen to Justice Baba Yusuf, the DSS had been separated from the matter, adding that the court record indicated that Dasuki was being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and not DSS that had been acting as interloper.

The counsel further said the illegal act of interloper should not be used to divest the court of its power to reaffirm the bail granted Dasuki earlier because he was entitled to it.

He then urged Justice Baba Yusuf to adopt the bail conditions earlier granted Dasuki before Justice Affen and reaffirm same in the interest of justice.

The counsel argued that it was wrong of the prosecution counsel, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs (SAN) to have objected to the reaffirmation of the bail condition on Dasuki, adding that he (Dasuki) had in his possession a judgment of the ECOWAS Court which last year set aside the unlawful detention of the Ex-NSA and also imposed a fine of N15million on the federal government as compensation to his client.

Another Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, who spoke as a friend of the court argued that there was no dispute that Dasuki was granted bail but has not been released by the DSS to enjoy the bail.
The senior counsel described the action of DSS as most unfortunate and urged Justice Yusuf to resist the temptation of being drawn into the illegality of actions of the DSS on Dasuki.

The federal government counsel, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs (SAN) had informed the court that he has no objection to the affirmation of the bail earlier granted to five other defendants in the trial but however urged the judge not to make any pronouncement or order in respect of the bail for Dasuki since he had not been allowed to enjoy any bail.
He said: “Court must not act in vain, there is no point making an order in vain. Dasuki has been in the custody of the DSS since 2015 and is still there till today.”

However in his brief ruling, Justice Yusuf said that it was an undisputable fact that Dasuki being the 2nd defendant in the charge was admitted to bail in 2015 and that it would be in the interest of justice to reaffirm the same bail irrespective of the action of another arm of the security agencies.
The judge adjourned trial in the matter to February 24, 2016.

Others charged along with Dasuki are former Finance Minister of State, Mallam Bashir Yuguda; a former Director of Finance and Administration in the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), Shuaibu Salisu; Dalhatu Investment; Sagir Attahiru Bafarawa and a former Sokoto State governor, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa.

They were charged with corruption and breach of trust contrary to Section 215 of the Penal Code and Section 17B of the EFCC Act 2004.

New Polical Party, ADP to summit Registration forms on Wednesday.

After months of speculation, promoters of  the planned  mega party, Action Democratic Party of Nigeria (ADP) are expected to formally submit forms for registration to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) today.

The new party is being floated by members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), aggrieved members of All Progressives Congress (APC) a number of other political groups.  

A chieftain of the party said officials of ADP will be at INEC at 11 am today. He described the submission of forms for registration as a victory over what he called devious moves by some well placed Nigerians to frustrate the formation of the party.

Daily Sun had recently reported of plots by some forces to frustrate the registration of ADP. 

It was gathered that some influential Nigerians were planning the fall of the mega party even before its expected birth. A security source disclosed that a booby trap had   been set for ADP ahead of its planned registration.

The source explained that earlier strategic meeting planned by key elements behind ADP on December 19, 2016 was frustrated by the same people who want to nail the new party.  According to him, the faces behind the ADP, especially those from the APC do not want to be identified, a development he said has not helped the cause of the planned party.

The ADP had planned to hold a strategic meeting in Abuja on December 19, but the meeting was called  off  largely on account of a number of the stakeholders pulling  out.

He disclosed that the main plan of those against ADP was to ensure it did not get off the ground as build up to the 2019 election gathers steam. 

The source said “Those of them who are not already members of the ruling party are to be worked

on to ensure their membership and for those who members of the APC and

are aggrieved, a plan is underway to resolve the grievances and mend

fences”.

According to the security source, a crack team  has already been set up to silently work out ways of shoring up the strength and base of APC in all the six geopolitical zones. 

The source stressed “The APC came to power with a deliberate plan and agenda. Its plan is

not just to get power but to also keep it. This party is not going to

make the mistake of the PDP, which failed to stop the merger of the

legacy parties in 2013. This ruling party surely will defend what it

has got”.

Credit; The Nation Newspaper

Boko Haram kills Eight, Adopts Women and Children from Borno Village, Despite Federal Government claims of defeating Boko Haram.

Eight persons were killed and several women and children abducted by suspected members of Boko Haram terrorists from Dzaku village in Askira/Uba Local Government Area of Borno State.

According to residents of the village, the terrorist invaded the area on Monday evening, killing, carting away women and children including food stuffs.

One of the indigenes of the village, Amos Ali, who resides in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, said some of his relatives who fled to seek refuge with him, said some terrorists who came into Dzaku in two Toyota Hilux vehicles were armed with AK47 rifles and petrol bombs. He added that they wreaked havoc without confrontation.

Ali who said one of his sister was among those abducted by the attackers, lamented that “because of lack of telecommunication service, we later received a distress call from our community yesterday that Boko Haram sect attacked our people and killed eight before abducting several others including my sister.

He added: “We are much worried especially now that the military said it has eliminated the terrorists from the region.”

Askira Uba is in Southern Borno senatorial district and about 180kilometres drive from Maiduguri, the state capital, that is believed to be the birthplace of Boko Haram and had witnessed series of deadly attacks from the sect in the last six year.

When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, Victor Isuku, said he was yet to be informed of the incident but promised that he would get back on getting details from the area.

Meanwhile, following the accidental bombing by the Nigerian Air Force on an internally displaced persons camp (IDP) last week, which led to the death of over 200 persons, the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) has distributed food items to over 25,000 people in Rann, Borno State, where the incident occurred.

The Red Cross has remained undeterred by the unfortunate incident, despite losing six of its staff.
It returned a few days later to continue humanitarian services in Rann and after three days was able to provide succour to more than 25,000 people in the town, which recently buried 234 persons lost in the incident.

The Red Cross, in a statement yesterday by its communications coordinator, Aleksandra Mosimann said: “More than 25,000 people in Rann received food during three days of distribution by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) that ended on Monday.

“The recipients received rice, beans, oil, salt and corn soya blend in quantities that should last for five weeks. The distribution was carried out by the ICRC and community volunteers.”
Mosimann also quoted the Red Cross’ economic security coordinator, Mohammed Sheikh-Ali as saying that “people in Rann were happy to receive food”.

“They have been isolated by rains and poor quality roads since June and running very low on food supplies,” the Red Cross’ coordinator added.

Sheikh-Ali said: “At the beginning of January, we laid sand bags on the road for our trucks to be able to cross. We got 12 trucks full of food to Rann last week on the day of the airstrike, which prevented us from distributing the items.

“As soon as medical evacuations were over, we organised the distribution with the help of the community.”
Last week’s airstrike killed and wounded scores of people, including 20 aid workers from the Nigerian Red Cross Society.

Credit; Thisday Newspapers

Southern Kaduna: 6 College of Education Students Killed By Fulani Herdsmen.

Southern Kaduna: 6 College of Education Students Killed By Fulani Herdsmen.

The on-going genocide in Southern Kaduna, continues to claim more victims with the ambush and murder of a travelling company of students training in the local teachers’ college on Sunday, January 22, 2017.
Audu Maikori, a lawyer and music industry mogul, has taken to micro-blogging website, Twitter to announce the murder of six students of the College of Education in Gidan Waya in Southern Kaduna, the epicentre of the Fulani herdsmen militia.
Over 800 people have been murdered by the Islamist terrorist group in a space of 6 months and the numbers keep increasing as the Muhammadu Buhari administration shows open support for the Fulani killers while casting blame on the Christian communities being massacred by the Islamists.
According to Maikori, one of the victims was a driver to his brother who was travelling with his schoolmates in the College of Education. The group was ambushed and murdered by the Fulani herdsmen.
My driver'syounger brother &5 others students of college of education gidanWaya were ambushed & killed by herdsmen yesterday #SouthernKaduna
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They were in a commercial car going back to school when the driver stopped suddenly under the pretext of checking his engine
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As soon as the car stopped the attackers shot all 6 students but let the driver who is Fulani go. He gave us these details
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Correction: the driver wasn't the one that Informed him. It was another driver who watched what happens
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Governor Nasir El Rufai of Kaduna State has publicly admitted that his government has found the members of the Fulani militia perpetuating the killing in Southern Kaduna and he has paid them a
“compensation” for them to stop the killings. The governor revealed that the militia is made up of Fulani nomads from neighboring Cameroon, Mali, Niger and other countries.
The victims of these murders are Christians and their attackers are on an ethnic and religious cleaning mission , according to the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN.
While Christians leaders have called on
communities under attack to defend themselves against their attackers, Muslim clerics in Kaduna have called for the arrest of Christian religious and political leaders from Kaduna and other parts of the country who have called on Christians to defend themselves against their attackers.
These exchanges have led to an intense political environment
Maikori offered a prescription in the set of tweets announcing this sad incident.
It's a difficult time to be from Kaduna and no one has it easy...I call upon @elrufai & his team to ensure the prosecution of guilty
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When we speak we are viewed as trouble makers by the Govt. Well I have seen the pictures and it's a painful sight
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If the Govt can successfully and expeditiously punish all that are involved we will have peace
#JusticeIsTheMotherOfPeace @elrufai

Credit: The Trent News.

236 people buried after IDP camp bombing by Nigerian jet – Official

A total of 234 people were killed and buried after a Nigerian military jet mistakenly bombed a camp occupied by persons displaced by Boko Haram, an official has said.
The Chairman of Kala-Balge Local Government Area of Borno State, Babagana Malarima, said 234 persons were buried in Rann village, which is in the local government, after the January 17 bombing.
The Nigerian military and the federal government have described the bombing as an accident and expressed solidarity with the victims. An Air Force investigation team has since arrived Borno to investigate the attack.
The military said the jet was meant to target suspected Boko Haram members when it accidentally bombed the camp.
Mr. Malarima said two other injured persons died in the hospital after they were flown by helicopter from the camp.
He disclosed this on Friday when the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, visited Rann.
The council chairman is the first government official to give a major casualty figure after the Doctors without Borders, MSF, announced on the day of the attack that 52 persons died and 120 others injured.
The MSF later said the death toll could be as high as 174.
“We buried 234 corpses in Rann after the bombs were dropped on the IDP camp,” Mr. Malarima said. “We have two others injured persons that died while in hospital in Maiduguri.”
Several of the wounded were flown by helicopter to Maiduguri due to the bad and insecure state of roads that link the Borno Capital with Kala-Balge, where the Rann camp is located.
The council chairman said the families of the dead persons as well as the injured ones are asking for compensation from the Nigerian government.
The victims, mostly Muslims, have not stated the terms of compensation. But in Islam compensation for manslaughter is paid to the tune of 100 camels or its equivalent, which could be about N40 million person.
Should the victims insist on payment by Islamic standard, which is sometimes used in parts of Northern Nigeria, the federal could pay as much as N9.5 billion compensation.

Credit: Premium Times.

The Fulani Republic Of Nigeria (Part 2), By Fani Kayode

THE FULANI REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA (Part 2)

Clearly something has gone horribly wrong and this reinforces my belief that the amalglamation of the northern and southern regions of Nigeria in 1914 was not just a mistake but a demonically-inspired, craftily- contrived and premeditated satanic conspiracy by the British to destroy the greatness and enormous human potentials of the people of the south and the Middle Belt of Nigeria.

I do not believe in and neither do I respect a man-made, artificial, hybrid, mongrel-state like Nigeria which has forcefully lumped my people together with those that are inherently fascistic and racist, that are culturally and historically inferior, that are intellectually defective and that are nothing more than genocidal maniacs, ethnic vagabonds, wandering herdsmen, cow-loving jihadists and islamic fundamentalists.

We have nothing in common with them physically, spiritually, culturally, historically and genetically. We are indigenous black Africans but they are not. They come from Berber, Taurag and Futan Jalon stòck. They are not and were never from here and neither were they ever part of us.

And neither was there ever one Nigeria in the true sense of the word. That erroneous misconception and misguided notion is nothing but a monumental fraud.

I am an Ife before being a Nigerian. I am a Yoruba before being a Nigerian. I am a southerner before being a Nigerian. I am a Christian before being a Nigerian.

And unlike others I am not prepared to sacrifice my ethnic identity and nationaliy or my religious faith on the alter of a servile, cowering and slavish puppet-state called Nigeria.

I consider those in the international community that seek to compel me and my people, the good people of the south and the Middle Belt, to stay in a united Nigeria where we are nothing but canon-fodder for Islamist terrorists, sport for Janjaweed herdsmen and food for Haramite dogs as nothing but globalist slime.

I consider those from outside our shores that expect us to remain in this debilitating and traumatising zoo and madhouse called Nigeria where we have been systematically reduced to grovelling quislings and shivering slaves as nothing but closet-islamists and neo-imperialist scum.

They have an Obama mindset.  They believe in espousing and accomodating evil and in sleeping with the enemy. They believe in light and darkness merging together as one and in darkness contaminating and overwhelming the light.

They believe in the spreading of death, disease, destruction, suffering, persecution, poverty, barreness, corruption, evil, heartlessness, decay and terror.

I am very different. I have a Trump mindest . I believe in helping my friends and fighting my enemies. I believe in calling a spade a spade. I believe that the essence and purpose of light is not to cohabit with darkness but to identify it, expose it, drive it out and destroy it.

I believe in life, goodness, mecy, justice, charity, love, kindness, courage, faith and a Living God that protects His own and showers His children with peace, blessings, joy, prosperity and abundance.

I believe that radical Islam and those that seek to conquer and subjugate my people by assimilation and the acquisition of political power in the name of ethnic superiority should not be pampered and espoused but rather should be confronted, resisted and destroyed.

Nigeria needs to be restructured or broken. And it is left to us, the real leaders that are prepared to stand up and speak truth to power and that are ready to offer ourselves as the voice of the voiceless, to do it.

We must be bold. We must be strong. We must be brave. We must take our destiny into our own hands.

We must resist the devil and the evil and set ourselves free. The Yoruba deserve better. The Igbo deserve better. The Niger Deltans deserve better. The Mid-Westerners deserve better.

The Middle Belters deserve better. The Christians of the north deserve better. We ALL deserve better.

Better we deserve and, whether our collective oppressors and adversaries accept it or not, one way or the other, better we shall get.

The bottom line is this: our country cannot be described as the Federal Republic of Nigeria but rather the Fulani Republic of Nigeria.

And as long as this remains the case she must either be quickly restructured and given a new name or she must be broken up and carved into two or more pieces. No-one was born to be a slave and no-one was born to rule. May God help and deliver us.

In response to Part 1 of this contribution, Mr. Abraham Ogbodo, a well respected columnist with the Guardian newspaper and one of the most respected and insightful journalists in Nigeria, said the following:

"Sir, I share your pains. But this endless lamentations shall take us nowhere. The Israelis understand so well the Islamic mindset which seeks what it does not or cannot give. The Arabs want always to thrive on thier own terms in the West and elsewhere yet in their enclave a man cannot do as little as renounce Islam for Christianity. Butchering of humans is not an exclusive occupation of one group against another group. If nothing including government intervention is able to stop the butchering of Southerners and Christians in Nigeria by the Fulanis, and since self preservation is not negotiable, I suggest those being butchered should adopt counter-butchering as a defence policy until reason prevails. It is a well known fact that Islam does not spread by persuassion but by conquest and that is not going to change in this generation. From its tiny location in Medina, Islam conquered Saudi Arabia, the Middle East, North Africa and substantial part of Asia. The Jihadist entered Europe and in fact occupied Spain for centuries before they were disloged. But it wasn't so in Turkey where Christianity was obliterated and Islam established. Mordern day Turkey was part of the Eastern Roman Empire with headquarters in Constantinople (Istanbul). It was founded by Emperor Constantine who marked the turning point in the history of Christianity. Today Turkey from where most of the acts of Apostle Paul were derived is all Islam. The Armenians were butchered by the Ottoman army in a brutal quest to obliterate centuries of Christian tradition in Turkey. I even hear that the special cannon equivalent of today's large-impact bomb with which the Sultan sacked Constantinopole was produced by a Burgarian. As it is, Europe, the Americas and Asia as they are today are not open to further Islamic conquest. The only open and soft field remain Christian nations or enclaves in Africa. The earlier we understand this and prepare for ceaseless jihads the better for us. Issues in the Islamic doctrine are hardly determined by engagement; everything is settled with the sword. When the terror is balanced, perhaps there may be peace. It calls for eternal vigilance not only in the sense of endless advocacy but more in terms of specific action plans to put up a formidable military resistance against the sustained carnage. Just my thoughts sir".

I wholeheartedly concur with Ogbodo's observations. Not only has he spoken the truth and hit the nail on the head but he has also spoken the minds of millions.

It is time for those that enjoy to butcher others at the drop of a hat to be reminded of the fact that they do not have a monopoly of violence.

Yet despite all the horror that is being inflicted upon our people by the jihadists and ethnic supremacists in our midst all is not lost.

Comforting were the words of President Donald  J. Trump, the new leader of the free world, at his inauguration on 20th January. He said,

"We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones and UNITE the civilized world against RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISM which we will ERADICATE from THE FACE OF THE EARTH.....
......There should be NO FEAR. We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement. And most importantly, we will be PROTECTED BY GOD."

These words bring hope and give strength. They are deeply encouraging. We needed to hear them and the lifeline and inspiration that they offer now more than ever before.

This is especially so in view of the fact that no less than 14 young pro-Biafran IPOB members were shot dead in the streets of Port Harcourt on January 20th by the Fulani President of the Fulani Republic of Nigeria's security forces simply because they dared to take part in a solidarity rally and peaceful celebration of President Trump's inauguration. They were murdered simply because they supported Trump.

Their blood, together with the blood of the 808 Christians that were butchered by the government-sponsored and protected radical islamist Janjaweed Fulani militias in the sanctity of their homes in Southern Kafanchan on Christmas eve and Christmas day, will not be shed in vain.

It will cry to God in Heaven for vengeance and it  will speak death and destruction into the ranks and lives of our collective oppressors and those that seek to enslave us and keep us in bondage forever. Thus sayest the Spirit of the Lord and that is the counsel and decree of the Ancient of Days.

Permit me to conclude this contribution with an aside. I write the most painful and bitter truths that few dare to write because I do not know tomorrow.

I write what others dare not to write because when my maker calls me home what will I say to Him if I fail to impart the profound knowledge and deep insight that He gave me. What will I do or say when He asks me what I did with the deep secrets and hidden and mystical truths that he asked me to share with my fellow men when I was in the land of the living.

That is why I write: that God will not judge me or decree and declare me a worthless coward before the Hosts of Heaven when my time comes.

I write every essay as if it were my last knowing that those who despise and deny truth and who hate me with a perfect hatred wish me dead or silenced.

Yet even if and when I fall my words will linger and continue to speak powerfully into history and eternity.

Posterity will judge between me and my traducers and I will be vindicated and proved right in the end.

For these are not my words but the words of the Holy Spirit that resides in me and that guides me.

Today, as with every other day, I shall be the servant of truth and the voice of the voiceless, minding not who I offend because I am emboldened and empowered by the knowledge that the Lord is with me and that His word says "to die is Christ and to live is gain". (CONCLUDED).