1. Let it be known that the Church is presently not considering anything as regards the removal of the law of celibacy from the Catholic priesthood. The present noise surrounding that is the wishful thinking of some people and a deliberate misrepresentation of the words of the incoming Secretary of the Vatican State.
2. Priestly celibacy has been objected to for many reasons both insofar as it is an ideal for the priest to live by and as it is a law imposed by the Church. Those who argue against the celibacy as law do so in the name of the gospel: Jesus called married men for the sake of the gospel, promulgated no precepts, posited no necessary connection between priesthood and celibacy. It has been criticized for practical reasons as well as ecumenical reasons. It has also been criticized as a denial of freedom. I do not wish to bore you with a detailed discussion of these criticism but would just like to say that the law of celibacy in the Catholic priesthood does not take away freedom. Anyone who commits himself to the priestly ministry in the Catholic Church does so by an act of freedom. One of the questions directed to the candidate(s) at ordination clearly indicates this fact.
3. What most people have not really put into consideration is the way in which Jesus Christ willed that his priests should live. This is the basic issue in the whole debate: the will of Christ as manifested in the gospel. Thus, the link between priesthood and celibacy was established first in Christ himself. The indisputable fact of the celibacy of Christ shows that, in its most perfect realization, the priesthood entails the renunciation of marriage. Celibacy pertains to the mystery of the Incarnation. If we consider God's dispensation, we discover that the mission of Christ makes celibacy appropriate. The incarnate Word came to bring God close to mankind and to reveal God's love for all men. Had he chosen to marry, he would have ushered into his life a particular love which would have concealed and hampered his universal love. His predilection for one woman would have put a distance between him and other women. Because he had no children of his own, he was able to love all the little children with a heart totally open, without preference. Thanks to celibacy, Jesus was able to enjoy the greatest closeness to every man, woman, and child. He was in a position to be the man for all.
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If you are a frequent visitor to this site, you must have come across the story of Nigerian actor and gospel singer Moses Efret who allegedly impregnated a lady in the United States after his marriage of several years remains childless. Though the actor has debunked the story, News In Nigeria told you last week that the story is exclusively true.
The lady at the center of this story, the pregnant girlfriend of Moses Efret has released some shocking photos of herself with the married actor.
The most shocking is the intimate bedroom photo that clearly revealed the face of Moses Efret and the lady in question.
Our source has finally gotten in contact with Moses Efret‘s baby mama. However she has released few pictures and a video but she said she doesn’t want her face to be all over the net. She wants us to proof to you guys the gist is legitimate. Moses Efret Attempts Suicide
Nigerian actor Moses Efret attempted suicide last weekend, he was rushed to the hospital after his wife attacked him for giving his baby mother help. Of course he ran to the bathroom overdosed himself with some pills and went unconscious till the next day when he gained consciousness.
This wahala is too much.
The two ladies in Moses Efret’s life are both Cameroonians living in Maryland.
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DRIVING home through the darkness on September 6th towards Nigeria’s main oil city, Port Harcourt, Archbishop Ignatius Kattey and his wife had no idea that an armed gang was about to nab them. Yet it was not an extraordinary event. The kidnap of Nigeria’s second-ranking Anglican cleric, whose wife has since been freed, was just another instance, albeit at a higher level than usual, of a crime that residents of the swampy Niger Delta have become grimly accustomed to.
Kidnapping in the oil region is invariably for ransom. Foreign oilmen used to be the usual targets, but rich Nigerian businessmen, prominent academics and even footballers have become increasingly vulnerable. The kidnap menace has also got a lot worse this year in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city and its economic hub.
There are so many abductions across the country nowadays that they rarely get into the news. During the first half of 2013, Nigeria had the most kidnap attempts in the world, accounting for 26% of all such recorded incidents. Mexico was second with 10%, and Pakistan third with 7%, reckons NYA International, a London-based firm that gathers intelligence on crime.
This year’s tally of kidnaps is expected to be higher in Nigeria than in 2012 and 2011, when 500 and 475 were recorded respectively, says a security expert. But the true figures may be still higher. “Half of all cases are not reported, with some people preferring to handle matters privately,” he explains. Because people have little faith in the police’s ability to arrest the perpetrators or negotiate with them, the victim’s family invariably resorts to settling quickly with the criminals.
In some of Nigeria’s 36 states there has been progress in tackling the kidnappers. But beefed-up security in some south-eastern states, such as Akwa Ibom and Abia, may have merely pushed the gangs westward to cities such as Lagos, where burgeoning middle-class districts are being increasingly targeted. A flashy car and swanky suit can be enough to catch a villain’s eye. In “express kidnappings”, as they are dubbed, victims are rarely kept for more than a fortnight; most of them are freed, after the cash has been handed over, in three or four days. “It’s a new way of making money in Lagos,” says the security expert. “But now it’s all too easy.”
When Lagos police arrested a gang of ten kidnappers in July, one of them explained that he held his Chinese boss for three days because he felt unfairly treated. He devised a plan with his driver to abduct the boss; they extorted $51,000 from the company. Another man said he kidnapped a friend out of jealousy, keeping him for two days before freeing him for $3,000.
It is against Nigerian law to pay ransoms, but most people and companies cough up, though many deny doing so. Captors usually start with huge demands before being haggled down. Settlements of $12,000-30,000 are standard, though there have been instances of people getting away with as little as $600. The kidnappers who snatched Mike Ozekhome, a human-rights lawyer, in August initially asked for the Nigerian equivalent of $915,000; as The Economist went to press, he and the archbishop were still being held. Until policing improves and people refuse to pay, the scourge of kidnapping will persist—and the best of lawyers and churchmen will be vulnerable.
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Title: The Tragedy of Victory Author: Gen. Godwin Alabi-Isama Publishers: Spectrum Books, Ibadan Year of Publication: 2013 Reviewer: Alfred Ilenre
The Tragedy of Victory is a book written by Brigadier General Alabi Isama, providing the inside knowledge and information about the separatist war in Nigeria from 1967- 1970
Many books have been published on both sides of the war, since the combatants laid down their weapons in 1970. Yet, non has provided vital information about the conception, execution and end of the Nigeria- Biafra war, backed by facts, evidences and witnesses, illustrated with photographs, maps and monuments like the Tragedy of Victory.
What made a great difference in Alabi- Isama’s book is his ability to provide new information backed with hard facts, by refusing to make use of the already over-worked and over-played press releases, resumes, newsletters, interviews, opinion and views produced by both the Nigerian federal government and the Biafran side, made popular by the Nigerian media. The book is the work of a man who is not only just scrupulous but meticulous to the minutest detail in rendering on – the – spot account of the Nigeria – Biafra war in the Atlantic theatre.
As one traverses the pages of the Tragedy of Victory, it becomes very clear that the military, in 1966, plunged head long into the Nigerian political crises of the immediate post – independence era, without realising the gravity nor the complexity of the issues involved. It soon discovered that ethnic bias, tribalism and sectional feelings were not exclusive to the political class; that the pervading societal vices were equally prevalent within the small but unique population of the Armed Forces.
Brigadier – General Alabi Isama was an officer at the 4th Area Command of the Nigeria Army in Benin City, the Midwest capital before the Nigeria – Biafra war broke out in July 1967. He had a stint in the Biafran Army during their two months, occupation of the Midwest from August 9, 1967, until he had an escape route to join the federal troops, taking all forms of dangerous risks:
After the liberation of the Midwest by the federal troops, he was summoned to Lagos by the then Head of State, General Yabubu Gowon, only to find himself at the Kirikiri prison. He was later released and posted to the newly established third Marine Commando Division (3MCDO) as the Chief of Staff under the Command of Col and later Brigadier Benjamin Adekunle. He remained at the war theatre throughout the three years duration of the war. Retired from the Nigerian Army in 1977, Alabi-Isama now lives in the United States of America as a communication consultant.
The Tragedy of Victory is compartmentalised into three parts. In part one, the author in a chronological order narrated the story of his early life. The only son of a mother in a polygamous inter-tribal marriage. His mother from Ilorin and his father from Ukwuani, an authentic ethnic minority tribe, linguistically related to the Igbo tribe and culturally linked to the Edo tribe. He decided to join the Nigerian Army at the age of 20, on leaving the high school against his mother’s wish.
The author tabled the records of his military trainings in Nigeria and overseas and his service in the Congo during that country’s national crisis of the early 1960s as a member of the United Nations peace keeping force.
Having a vast knowledge of Nigeria’s pre-and post independence political history, he touched on the contradictions in the Nigerian geo-political system; the beginning of the national political crises; the military coup of January 1966; the rumples within the Armed Forces, the vengeful counter coup of July 1966 that followed; the eventual blood bath and the pogrom against the Igbo race and other southerners in Northern Nigeria and the Igbo exodus to their original homeland in Eastern Region. The blood letting led to the break away of the former Eastern Region from Nigeria, becoming the Republic of Biafra led by Col. Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.
The outcome of the declaration of Biafra was a war between the two sides which started in July 1967.Things started happening in sequence as Biafran soldiers invaded and occupied the Midwestern region. Most of the Midwest Igbo military officers defected to Biafra, while Alabi-Isama made good his planned escape to the federal side on the liberation of the Midwestern region by the Nigerian Army, 2nd Division commanded by the late General Murtala Muhammed, then a colonel.
On joining the 3 MCDO in Calabar after his brief Kirikiri experience, he suggested the idea to attack Port Harcourt from Calabar.The wisdom of the strategic plan to march from Calabar for the liberation of Port Harcourt, a distance of over 400 kilometres, instead of Bonny which was nearer, was a subject of long debates for many days by the war commanders, and at last the Alabi-Isama proposal prevailed.
In part two, Brigadier – General Alabi – Isama related in details the strategic plots and all the ordeals experienced in the liberation of Port Harcourt and all the rivevine cities, including Oron, Eket, Obubra, Ugeb and other major points in the old South Eastern and Rivers states. The role of the Navy and the Air Force in the battle for the capture of Port Harcourt added strength to the exercise.
The book traced the politics behind Brigadier Adekunle’s replacement by the then Brigadier Olusegun Obasanjo. On Obasanjo’s assumption of office at the 3 CMDO, political intrigues came to the war front. Obasanjo was not very good at listening to genuine advice and this led to many wrong orders which claimed the lives of thousands of troops at the Owerri sector.
With both sides tired and exhausted by the fatigue of a baseless war, the final push and fall of Uli- Ihiala, the Biafra last strong hold, hosting the Biafra Headquarter, the Airport and Radio station was a dramatic encounter led by the self-assured General Alani Akinrinade, then a Colonel. His meeting with the sensational Colonel Joe Achuzia, the rugged Biafran Army all-rounder, was a graphic, solemn and sombre affair as both sides laid down their weapons, after over two million people have been killed in an unnecessary war.
At the end of the war, the military embarked on re-organisation, involving itself everywhere into civil administration. Thus intrigues penetrated the Armed Forces as many officers took over the civilian functions for which they were least qualified. The authors talked of the attempt made to blackmail and dent the records of his long years of service in the military and the design to frame him up in the Dimka attempted coup of 1976. He finally withdrew his service from the army by resigning his commission in 1977.
By the time he left the army 36 years ago, the military had been divided into two groups, the group that believed in professionalism and the political group that believed in coup making festivals and the hustle to amass wealth.
In part three, Brigadier General Alabi-Isama simply made a critique of “ My Command” a book written in 1980 by General Obasanjo who took over the command of the 3CMDO after Brigadier Adekunle, six months to the end of the war. After his review and analysis of the book, backed up with documents, memos, and pictures, “My Command” looked more like a package of made-up stories and fibs told for self esteem
Demonstrating with maps and statistics, the author observed the inherent incompatibility in the Nigerian formation created by the British. The northern regional government occupied a land area and population, bigger than the whole area occupied by the governments of the Eastern, Midwestern and Western Nigeria put together.
The author no doubt was very emotional while relating certain aspects of the events that happened during the war, which is understandable. One cannot help being emotional while relating a situation where you see colleagues you had just spoken to or even shared the same dinning pit shot dead the next moment, from bullets, fired by fellow Nigerians turned enemy in a war that was virtually needless. How the Ijaw nationalist Adaka Boro died was particularly a painful incident, evoking emotion.
Alabi- Isama highly elevated, valued and commended the role played by the Nigerian womanhood during the war. So many of them, young and old, volunteered as intelligence gatherers between the war borders. Some lived to tell the story, while so many others paid the supreme sacrifice.
The author paid a merited posthumous tribute to the late Ken Saro – Wiwa, the matyred Ogoni self determination and environmental rights intellectual and activist, who he mentioned worked hard effectively to organise the civilian population in support of the federal troops in the liberated areas throughout the war.
At the launch of the book on July 18, 2013, which was attended by many important persons at the NIIA in Lagos, the sight of many of the retired soldiers and officers was very pathetic, some came on wheel chair, many looking frail and many others struck by total or partial stroke, shaking with the wasting ailment of Parkinson diseases, abandoned in misery, after fighting a bloody war for ‘unity.’
Said Alabi-Isama, “Sometimes I begin to wonder if the Nzeogwu/Ifeajuna January 1966 coup was worth it and when we all got there, what good came out of it for the people other than to some opportunists at the expense of the masses.”
The book is coming at a time military rule all over the world has been condemned and discredited, even by the military rulers themselves.
The whole narrative portrayed the military adventure into politics in 1966 as a mission in self annihilation. Lacking the basic skills for civil administration, as soon as the coup plotters succeeded in dismissing the politicians from power, the hard core civil servants seized the rein of authority from them and started creating wealth for themselves and their favourites. The Tragedy of Victory published 43 years after the end of the Nigeria- Biafra war is a book for the younger generation who were not born or were toddlers during the war; many of them now holding responsible positions in the private and public sectors of the Nigerian establishment. They deserve to know about what happened in order to avoid past mistakes in planning for the future.
Before the military intervention in 1966, members of the Nigerian political class had sufficiently discredited themselves. Once again, Nigerian politicians are behaving in a way that suggests to members of the public; “get what you can, today, for there may be no tomorrow”.
What the Alabi- Isama book has eloquently told the Nigerian nation in the Tragedy of Victory is the cold fact that Nigeria is working but doing the wrong job; that the country is solving the problems of its socio-economic theory base but arriving at answers with the wrong formulas; that we are moving but advancing on the wrong road, leading to a wrong destination
Rich in details, the book did not just reel out only grievances by telling readers about what went wrong in Nigeria, but it also produced an outline on how to get about solving the problems, stressing on restructuring. The Tragedy of Victory is a book any body that cares about the future of Nigeria should read and think.
•Ilenre is Secretary General, Ethnic Minority and Indigenous Rights Organization of Africa (EMIROAF)
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The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has advised former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Ahmed Nasir El-Rufai, to “go to psychiatric hospital for serious mental examination.”
The advice was contained in a statement released in Abuja today and jointly signed by Head of TEKAN/ECWA Block in CAN, Rev. (Dr.) Emmanuel Dziggau, and CAN’s National Director (Research, Planning & Strategy), Elder Sunday Oibe. It followed El-Rufai’s unprovoked attack on CAN President, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, in an interview he granted Saturday Sun.
In the interview published yesterday, El-Rufai said: “Look, Pastor Oritsejafor is the propaganda chief of the PDP. He lacks credibility . . . He is not a religious leader. He is a religious pretender. From his statements, he is a bigot, he is an ethnic irredentist and no one should take him seriously. It is sad that such a person is the head of CAN. So, he can say whatever he wants to say but we know who he is working for, we know who gave him his private jet. So, why should we worry about someone like that? He has zero credibility.”
Part of CAN’s statement read: “Who is El-Rufai to talk about credibility in Nigeria? It is laughable for an individual like El-Rufai looking for relevance to be alluding to Ayo’s credibility. If Pastor Ayo doesn’t have credibility, who else have credibility in Nigeria of today? Is it El-Rufai?
“The fact that El-Rufai in his tweets abused our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ and Christians ignored him doesn’t give him the impetus to make unguarded comments about Pastor Ayo who is the leader of Christians in Nigeria. As Christians, we respect other faith and never have we abused the Sultan of Sokoto and President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III who is the leader of Muslims in Nigeria. The fact that Christians are not violent doesn’t mean he should go far with his utterances. He is not in a position to tell us who should be the leader of Christians in Nigeria.
“If El-Rufai doesn’t have a father who should have properly brought him up and for which reason he started using gutter language to abuse Jesus Christ and Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, he should go to psychiatric hospital for serious mental examination. This is a task we are giving his friends and relatives. His brain should be examined because it seems something is wrong. We can no longer fold our hands and allow Christian leaders to be abused by no person than El-Rufai. We can no longer take it; enough is enough. Anytime he abuses Christian leaders and Jesus Christ, we Chrisians will let him know that he has many forces to contend with.
“We want to let General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) know that his problem with the country is El-Rufai. It was this same El-Rufai that was abusing Buhari when he was in the cabinet of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo that is now fighting ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Obasanjo and all the fingers that fed him just because he has lost out of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), hoping that when Buhari becomes President in 2015, he would be given a job. Buhari should know that El-Rufai is a political liability who is looking for survival. Any politician who allows El-Rufai around him will always fail election, even before campaigns. Nobody will like to be associated with a political liability.
“If not for government, who is El-Rufai? If El-Rufai is broke, he should go and beg Jonathan to give him job. But it shouldn't be through blackmail! Pastor Ayo is not his problem.
“We are giving El-Rufai seven days ultimatum to inform Nigerians and the world the person he claims to know that gave Pastor Ayo his private Jet. If he fails to do that, we will open up on him and his dirty life. El-Rufai stinks to the highest heaven. He is morally depraved and lacks credibility. This was the man who mismanaged the FCT administration and allocated plots of land to his cronies and girlfriends and mistresses. What credibility has a man who as FCT Minister was paying salaries to a female member of the NYSC?
“We want to make it enequivocally clear that Pastor Ayo is not in PDP, he’s not a politician and so cannot be a propaganda machinery of PDP as erroneously alleged by El-Rufai. Pastor Ayo is a religious leader and he remains so.”
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has given the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) up till September 17 to submit its list of candidate for the Anambra Governorship poll in November.
Two candidates-Tony Nwoye and Dr. Andy Uba- had emerged from parallel primaries conducted by two different state executive committees of the party.
While Uba emerged as the candidate of the INEC recognized Ejike Oguebego faction of the PDP in Anambra State, Nwoye secured his ticket from Ken Emekayi’s faction which was endorsed by the National Secretariat of the party.
Although the National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has, however, forwarded Nwoye’s name to the INEC on August 29th, the electoral agency has reservation in collecting his nomination form.
But in a letter signed by the INEC Secretary, Mrs. Augusta C. Ogakwu, the INEC gave the PDP up till September 17 to resolve the stalemate.
The letter was copied to other parties participating in the Anambra poll despite the fact that they have no issue with their candidates.
The letter, which was exclusively obtained by our correspondent, reads: “Following the conclusion of party primaries on September 2, 2013, political parties are reminded on the following procedures for submission of the list of candidates each political party proposes to sponsor at the election:
“Every political party shall submit the list of the candidates the party proposes to sponsor in Form CF 002 duly signed by the National Chairman and National Secretary of the political party
“The list should be accompanied with a covering letter duly signed by the National Chairman and National Secretary of the political party together with the affidavit of personal particulars of each candidate duly sworn before the prescribed Commissioner for Oaths.
“All submissions to the commission shall first be made to the Department of Elections and Party Monitoring for clearance at the headquarters of the commission at Maitama, Abuja, on or before September 17, 2013.
“No submission made to the commission later than 6.00pm on September 17, 2013 shall be accepted.
“Upon clearance, the submission shall thereafter be forwarded to the Legal Services Department where the submissions shall be acknowledged and copy of the acknowledgement issued to the political party.
“Political parties are particularly advised to note that where there is a court order in respect of the nomination of any candidate the political party shall be guided by the order at the time of submission.”
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Wow! Things happen in Africa o, most traditionalists blame the presence of religion as the source of regression in the continent, but they forget to mention that the absence of Christianity or Islam is the presence of the non-sense traditional religion of voodoo and witch crafty
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There was pandemonium on Saturday at Bridge Head, Onitsha when a female police officer, identified as Inspector Tochukwu was allegedly abused, molested and almost stripped naked by a famous wealthy man.
The much dreaded man, Ngozi Okpagu had also allegedly slapped a commissioner of police last year.
An eye witness who gave his name as Tunde alleged that Offoegbu was on duty when the ‘big man’, who owns a park in Onitsha approached her threatening to facilitate her removal from Onitsha as he did to one Archibong.
“At that point, the female police officer demanded from him what she did that would warrant her removal and in reply he slapped her for daring him. His boys also joined and immediately they tore the female officer’s uniform, almost revealing her nakedness.
“She ran for her life into the police post to avoid the peering eyes of the public. The Area Commander, Benjamin Wordu asked all of them to come to the area police station Onitsha.
“That man cannot be arrested because last time he slapped the CP because of motor park matters and the Governor later closed the park’’, the source further alleged.
When contacted the DPO Fegge where Offoegbu works, Muikdi Shehu said he would not speak on the matter, insisting that the PPRO was the only person authorized to speak.
The PPRO Emeka Chukwuemeka when contacted on phone said he was in Onitsha Area commander and would get back to this reporter on the issue.
CP Balah Nassarawa was said to be out of the state as at the time of filing this report.
However, reacting, the coordinator Campaign for Democracy, Dede Uzor A Uzor demanded for the immediate arrest of the suspect and thorough investigation into the matter.
The group gave the commissioner of police 7 days to arrest the man or face protest.
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…Demands Immediate Unsealing of Secretariats in Obedience of Abuja Court Ruling
The National Chairman of the new Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP), Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, has requested all members of PDP worldwide to embark on seven days fasting and prayers commencing from Monday, 16th of September, 2013.
The call for fasting prayer was contained in copy of news release to The African Opinion signed by the new PDP spokesperson, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka. According the release, “this spiritual intervention is as a result of the concern of the Baraje-led PDP for the plight of parents and our children due to the continued closure of public universities following the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to protest the Federal Government’s failure to keep the agreement it signed with the Union in 2009”.
The complete text of the statement reads:
“Muslims all over the nation and abroad who are PDP members should close their fast by this Friday, 20th of September, 2013, at their places of worship while the Christians should end theirs on Sunday, 22nd September, 2013 at their places of worship.
“It has become imperative to seek the face of God over this matter considering that all efforts to resolve this unwarranted strike have failed woefully and considering the socio-economic damage this strike has caused both parents and our children. We are confident that our resolve to go to God will succeed as the importance of fasting and prayers cannot be over emphasized
To say the least, we are shocked that the government inflicting this monumental hardship on Nigerians is a PDP Government popularly elected by majority of Nigerians and run by a President who was once a University Lecturer. In this regard, we wish to plead with Nigerians for forgiveness on behalf of the PDP Government at the centre, which could have avoided this costly strike. We wish to assure all Nigerians that as a party we will surely find a way to end this shameful situation.
“Meanwhile, Alhaji Baraje has set up a four-man Committee with His Excellency, Gov. Babangida Aliyu of Niger State as Chairman to advise the party on the best way to get the Federal Government’s Negotiating Committee and the leadership of ASUU to reach an agreement on the issues at stake and thus end this three-month-old strike. Other members of the Committee are His Excellency, Gov. Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State, Hon. Chinwo Ike, President of UNIPORT Alumni, and Mr. Timi Frank, the PDP National Youth Leader.
“We sincerely solicit the patience of Nigerians while appealing to both the Federal Government and the leadership of ASUU to end this imbroglio so that our children may go back to school instead of engaging in acts inimical to their future. The need for this has become urgent as reports reaching us indicate that many of these students have out of frustration and boredom turned to prostitution, armed robbery and other vices due to the prolonged industrial action.
The Police no Longer Has Any Reason to Seal Our Secretariats
“To the glory of God, contrary to the prayers of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur’s faction of PDP, a Federal High Court in Abuja on13th September, 2013, once again ruled that the Baraje faction of PDP should be allowed to operate without any further harassment or inhibition as it is not breaking any known law. Justice E.S. Chukwu in his ruling held that there was no evidence before the court to show any tardiness on the part of Baraje’s faction as claimed by the Tukur-led faction, which requested it to stop the Baraje-led PDP from operating.
“In view of this ruling, the Police no longer has any valid reason (it never did, anyway) to continue to seal our Secretariats. We, therefore, wish to appeal to President Goodluck Jonathan to save the Police from the plot to ridicule it by using it to perpetrate illegalities such as sealing the lawfully-acquired National Secretariat of PDP and our Secretariats in states like Rivers, Bayelsa, Kaduna and Kwara. The powers that be should as a matter of urgency stop projecting and portraying the Police as a tool of injustice and attack on the perceived political opponents of Mr. President.
“On our own, we will continue to use the Judiciary to prove to Tukur’s faction that the days of running the affairs of our great party with impunity and high-handedness are gone for good. The time has come for him to correctly read the handwriting on the wall and honourably throw in the towel along with his National Working Committee.
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The Anambra State Police Command has arrested 38-year-old wanted kidnap suspect, Okafor, a graduate of Mathematics from the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. Okafor popularly known as Igwe did not only fall afoul of the law as a kidnapper, he also messed up the temple of God by keeping his victims in a church and sharing his loot with the pastor.
Once on a mission to collect N5 million ransom from the family of victim in Asaba, Delta State, he was rounded up by crack policemen and locked up in a cell.
Okafor, however, escaped through the window of the cell to continue his evil trade until the hardworking members of the State Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Anambra ended his reign of terror.
The kidnap kingpin spoke with Sunday Sun: “I graduated from Unizik in 2006 and I studied Mathematics. I did my NYSC in Abuja and I served in NNPC at Berger. After graduation I was going to Ghana to buy clothes to sell in Lagos State.
“I am now involved totally in kidnapping where I make quick money. When I kidnapped I used to take my victims to my church in Awkuzu where the General Overseer, Pastor Nwaezeagu always collects the victims from us and at the end, we would give him his own share. We decided to join the church so that the members would not suspect us that we were keeping some victims we kidnapped inside the church.”
“I was the one who was involved in the kidnapping of the traditional prime minister in Enugu-Ukwu and we collected N50 million from the victim before we released him and I gave Pastor Nwaezeagu his 20 per cent share on that day.
“I kidnapped another woman in Awka and collected N30 million from the family of victim and kept her in the church and, after the family paid the ransom, I released the suspect and I gave Pastor Nwaezeagu the sum of N200,000.” – THE SUN
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