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  • Okowa hails IGP’s decision to disband SARS

    Okowa hails IGP’s decision to disband SARS

    Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has commended the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, for the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigeria Police Force.

    The governor in a statement personally signed by him, and made available to newsmen on Monday in Asaba, said the disbandment was a decisive response to the legitimate concerns of Nigerians.

    Okowa described the disbandment of the squad as a “welcome development’’, and commended the Police for not suppressing the protests.

    “The Nigerian youth can take pride in the fact that they have won a major victory for the right to free movement and association without let or hindrance,” he said.

    Okowa added that the disbandment was a visible demonstration of how government agencies should respond to the grievances of the people and agitations for justice and good governance in a democracy.

    “Finally, let me say that the IGP should not stop at disbanding SARS. That is but one step in the multiple steps required in carrying out a comprehensive reform of the Nigeria Police Force.

    “Such a reform should cover matters relating to recruitment, training and welfare of the rank and file,” Okowa said.

  • BREAKING: IGP disbands SARS nationwide

    BREAKING: IGP disbands SARS nationwide

    The Inspector General of Police, Adamu Mohammed has announced the immediate disbandment of the special anti-robbery squad (SARS) following nationwide protests over its brutality.

    He made the announcement at a press conference on Sunday afternoon in Abuja.

    The Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba in a statement said the officers of the squad will be redeployed with immediate effect.

    Read full statement below:

    IGP DISSOLVES THE SPECIAL ANTI-ROBBERY SQUAD (SARS)
    · Emplaces other measures to protect the citizens

    In the finest spirit of democratic, citizen-centred and community policing, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, NPM, mni has today, 11th October, 2020, dissolved the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) across the 36 State Police Commands and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) where they hitherto existed.

    The IGP, while noting that the dissolution of SARS is in response to the yearnings of the Nigerian people, observes that by this dissolution, all officers and men of the now defunct Special Anti-robbery Squad are being redeployed with immediate effect.

    The IGP notes that the Force is not oblivious of the ever present need to combat armed robbery, kidnapping and other violent crimes in the country which was before now the core mandate of the erstwhile Squad. He assures that a new policing arrangement to address anticipated policing gaps the dissolution of SARS would cause has been evolved and shall be announced in due course.

    Meanwhile, as part of measures to prevent a re-occurrence of events that gave rise to the dissolution of SARS, a Citizens’ and Strategic Stakeholders’ Forum is being formed to regularly interface with Police leadership at all levels and advise on police activities as they affect the general public.

    In addition, the Force is constituting an Investigation Team which shall include Civil Society Organizations and Human Rights Bodies to work with the Police in investigating alleged cases of human rights violations. The measure, the IGP believes, will enhance transparency and accountability in police services as well as providing a system of deterrence for erring police officers whose action clearly violates the rights of the citizenry.

    The IGP appreciates and commends all citizens particularly those who genuinely express their concerns for a better policing orientation in an organized, patriotic and civil manner. He reaffirms the determination of the Force to bequeath to the country a Police Force and System that is professional in service delivery and most importantly, accountable to the people.

    DCP FRANK MBA
    FORCE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER
    FORCE HEADQUARTERS
    ABUJA

  • Police recruitment: IGP takes case to S’Court, seeks stay of judgment execution

    Police recruitment: IGP takes case to S’Court, seeks stay of judgment execution

    The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu, on Friday approached the Supreme Court urging it to upturn the Wednesday’s judgment of the Court of Appeal which nullified the recruitment of 10,000 constables carried out by him and the Nigeria Police Force in 2019.

    The appellants filed their notice of appeal of three grounds together with an application for stay of execution of the Court of Appeal’s judgment.

    The three-man panel of the Court of Appeal led by Justice Olabisi Ige had unanimously held that the IGP and the NPF lacked the power to recruit the constables.

    It held that it was the Police Service Commission that had the exclusive power to carry out the recruitment and nullified the one executed by the police.

    But the IGP and the NPF through their lawyer, Dr. Alex Izinyon (SAN), had written a letter dated October 2, 2020, to the Chairman of the PSC contending that no step could be taken to enforce the judgment after an appeal and the motion for injunction they had filed against the contested verdict of the Court of Appeal.

    The letter which was copied the PSC’s lead counsel, Chief Kanu Agabi (SAN), read in part, “In view of the above, and the settled position of the law having regards to these two notices nothing should be done by whatsoever means enforcing the judgment in the circumstances, especially having regards to the National Security and implication under any guise of such enforcement.”

    The judgment of the Court of Appeal delivered on September 30, 2020, had upturned the December 2, 2019, verdict of Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja which had validated the power of the IGP to proceed with the recruitment of 10,000 constables he embarked upon in 2019.

    But faulting the Court of Appeal’s judgment in their notice of appeal, the IGP and the NPF contended that the court “erred in law when they held that the provision of section 71 of the Nigeria Police Regulations 1968 made pursuant to section 46 of the Police Act is inconsistent with the provision of paragraph 30 Part I of the Third Schedule to the 1999 Constitution”.

    They argued that section 71 of the Nigeria Police Regulations 1968 specifically conferred on the IGP “the power and responsibility of enlisting recruit constables”, while the provision of “Paragraph 30 Part I of the Third Schedule to the 1999 Constitution and section 6 of the Police Service Commission (Establishment) Act, 2001, the 1st respondent is empowered to appoint persons to offices in the 1st appellant”.

    The appellant’s lawyer added that the lower court “was on error in its findings that the provision of Section 71 of the Nigerian Police Regulations, 1968 made pursuant to Section 46 of the Police Act is inconsistent with the provision of paragraph 30 Part I of the Third Schedule to the 1999 Constitution”.

    He also faulted the judgment on the grounds that the court erred in law when it held that the IGP and the NPF “are not conferred with powers to enlist recruit constables”

    He also argued that the Court of Appeal erred in law when it held that the PSC was conferred with powers to enlist recruit constables into the NPF by virtue of the provision of paragraph 30 of Paragraph 30, Part I of the Third Schedule to the 1999 Constitution.

    He added, “The unequivocal power conferred the 1st respondent by virtue of paragraph 30, Part I of the Third Schedule to the 1999 Constitution is the power ‘to appoint person into offices in the 1st applicant’ and not one for the enlistment of recruit constables as conferred on the 1st appellant.”

    The appellants are therefore seeking an order of the Supreme Court setting aside the judgment of the Court of Appeal delivered on September 30, 2020, another dismissing the appeal filed by the PSC, and another affirming the judgment of the Federal High Court delivered by the Federal High Court on December 2, 2020.

  • Edo Election: IGP orders restriction of vehicular movement

    Edo Election: IGP orders restriction of vehicular movement

    Ahead of the Governorship election in Edo State slated for Saturday, the Inspector General of Police, IGP Mohammed. Abubakar Adamu on Thursday ordered the restriction of vehicular movement from 11:59 PM on Friday, 18th September to 6 pm Saturday, 19th September.

    This was contained in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja by the Force Public Relations Officer, FPRO, Frank Mba, a Deputy Commissioner of Police DCP.

    The statement explained that this in line with concerted efforts at ensuring public order and safety, during the Gubernatorial election slated for Saturday,

    According to the statement, “the restriction order is informed by the need to prevent the free flow, circulation and use of illicit arms and hard drugs and checkmate the movement of political thugs and touts and other criminally-minded individuals especially from contiguous States from hijacking and disrupting the electoral processes.

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    The IGP enjoined citizens to go out en-masse on the day of the election and vote, noting that the Police and other security agencies have been sufficiently mobilized to provide a safe, secure and conducive environment for the election.

    While regretting any inconveniences the restriction order might cause the citizens, the IGP enjoined the citizens to see the restriction as part of necessary sacrifices towards the enthronement of democracy.

    He, however, warned that the Force would not sit idly by and watch citizens who might want to engage in any criminal act – violent and destructive acts, snatching of ballot boxes, vote-buying, vote selling, hate speeches, and other act(s) capable of compromising the electoral processes.

  • Court adjourns Mailafia’s case against IGP, 2 others

    Court adjourns Mailafia’s case against IGP, 2 others

    A Plateau State High Court sitting in Jos has adjourned until September 29 for ruling, an application for the enforcement of fundamental right of Dr Obadiah Mailafia against the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) and 2 others.

    Mailafia had approached the court seeking for the enforcement of his fundamental right after he was invited by the police to appear before it in August this year for criminal investigation on a matter he is being investigated by the DSS.

    At the hearing, counsel to the applicant, Pius Akubo (SAN), told the court that the application was brought pursuant to section 206 of the fundamental human right dated and filed September 1, 2020.

    Akubo argued that the applicant had already been invited by the DSS in relation to his interview on August 9, 2020 to a local radio station relating to happenings in the North Central part of the country.

    He further submitted that matters concerning internal security were within the purview and jurisdiction of the DSS and further drew the attention of the court to section 2 subsection 3 of National Security Agency’s Act Cap 74 laws of the federation 2004.

    Questioning the business of the respondents (police) in a matter being handled by the DSS, Akubo called the attention of the court to two exhibits titeld om2 and om3, stating that in both, it was evidently clear that the invitation by the respondents were not clear.

    “They did not state anywhere that he committed any offence. They are taking refuge in section 4 of the police Act to perpetrate their infamous Act because no criminal allegation has been raised against the applicant,” he said.

    In his submission, Lukeman Fagbemi, counsel to the respondent, stated that he filed a counter affidavit on behalf of the respondents urging the court to dismiss the applicant’s motion on notice.

    Fagbemi said there was no law which supports a particular person to dispose to an affidavit citing section 115 subsection 3&4 of the evidence Act 2011.

    He said that except the applicant placed something before the court, it would amount to mere speculation adding that section 4 of the Police Act stimulated how the police could conduct its investigation both within and outside the country.

    He thereby urged the court to dismiss the application as the court could not stop the police from investigation.

    The judge, Justice Arum Ashoms, adjourned the mater until September 29, for ruling on application for the enforcement of fundamental right.

  • Court orders IG to produce detained Bayelsa gov candidate

    Court orders IG to produce detained Bayelsa gov candidate

    The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday ordered the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to produce before it on Wednesday a Bayelsa State governorship candidate, Vijah Opuama, who has been detained by the Police since August 15, 2020.

    Opuama, the Liberation Movement’s governorship candidate in the Bayelsa State’s November 16, 2019 election, was said to have been arrested by the Police on the premises of the state’s Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja on August 15, 2020 while waiting for judgment to be delivered on his petition challenging the outcome of the disputed poll.

    Justice Taiwo Taiwo made the order directing the IGP to produce Opuama in court on Wednesday and also directed the Police boss to show cause why the detainee should not be released unconditionally.

    He gave the orders shortly after Opuama’s ex parte application was moved by his lawyer, Mr. Michael Odey, on Monday.

    The judge said although the veracity of the claims contained in Opuama’s application could not be verified until the Police respond to them, it was of concern that the Police could detain the suspect beyond the constitutionally-permitted 24-hour period without granting him an administrative bail or charging him with any offence before any court of competent jurisdiction which he said were many in Abuja.

    He therefore ordered that the respondents (the IGP as the 1st respondent, and the Assistant Commissioner of Police heading the IGP’s Monitoring Unit, as the 2nd defendant) “shall show cause why the applicant should not be released unconditionally”.

    The judge also ordered that “the applicant shall be produced in court on Wednesday, September 2, 2020.”

    Opuama’s wife, Ebikoboere Amaebi, stated in the affidavit filed in support of her husband’s application that she was with the governorship candidate at Wuse Zone 6, Magistrate Court, Abuja, venue of the Bayelsa State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, waiting for the tribunal’s judgment to be delivered in his case, when “some unidentified men” allegedly violently arrested him on August 15, 2020.

    She said her inquiry about who they were and why they were molesting him also drew the fury of the men whom she said hit her “hard” and caused her “severe pain, anguish and suffering”.

    She added, “I have been losing blood since then and I am apprehensive that I may lose my pregnancy over that kick by the Police officers that came to arrest my husband, the applicant.

    “The applicant was arrested that day and whisked away by the Police officers who we later understood were from the office of the 2nd respondent and directly instructed by the 1st and 2nd respondents to effect the arrest.”

    She noted that with the arrest, her husband “who is entitled to be in the tribunal to participate and listen to the judgment in his case, could not be allowed to participate in the proceedings of that August 15, 2020 before the Election Petition Tribunal.”

    Amaebi said her husband was only later told that he was arrested over “a petition written against him for recording a phone call” received by him “sometime back from a caller who identified himself in the phone as Benson Agadaga, Chief of Staff”.

    Denying the allegation, Amaebi maintained that “there is no offence known to law as recording a phone call received from a caller”.

    She said her husband had, since his arrest, not been charged with any offence and that his lawyer had applied to the IGP for his bail “but was not even dignified with a reply”.

    She said her husband “is being persecuted for filing election petition before the Bayelsa State Governorship Election tribunal sitting in Abuja”, adding that his “arrest and detention” were “a calculated attempt to prevent him from campaigning and participating in the fresh Governorship election of Bayelsa State as ordered by the Election Petition Tribunal.”

    It will be recalled that although Opuama’s petition was dismissed by the tribunal in the August 15, 2020 judgment, the election of Governor Duoye Diri, who is of the Peoples Democratic Party, was nullified with a fresh poll ordered to be held within 90 days by a subsequent judgment of the tribunal delivered on the petition by Advanced Nigeria Democratic Party on August 17, 2020.

    Governor Diri had appealed against the tribunal’s judgment, but the Court of Appeal in Abuja has yet to fix a date for hearing.

  • IGP issues fresh warnings, says politicians arming thugs for Edo, Ondo polls

    IGP issues fresh warnings, says politicians arming thugs for Edo, Ondo polls

    The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has raised the alarm over the ongoing arming and movement of thugs by politicians in preparation for the governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states.

    Force Public Relations Officer, DCP Frank Mba in a statement said, “The IGP gave the warning having reviewed the Election Security Threat Assessment Reports submitted by the Commissioners of Police from both States in a meeting held Tuesday, 25th August 2020.

    He said, “The Election Security Threat Analysis reveals amongst other indicators: arming and movement of political thugs, use of inciting statements during political campaigns, high likelihood of violence and possible cross attack by political opponents.

    Others are ‘misinformation/disinformation aimed at heating-up of the polity and deliberate efforts at delegitimizing government institutions involved in the electoral processes.

    ‘The IGP has therefore ordered the Commissioners of Police in the two States – Edo and Ondo – to rejig their preparations for the elections to accommodate and address the threats and emerging trends as contained in the security report” The statement added that “The Force leadership is evolving customized security architecture to protect the people and ensure hitch-free elections.

    “The IGP, however, warns politicians and their supporters in Edo and Ondo that the Force will not hesitate to bring the full weight of the law on anyone or group, irrespective of status that may want to sabotage the security arrangement being emplaced for the elections”.

    “Meanwhile, the IGP assures Nigerians, particularly the people of Edo and Ondo States that the Force remains committed to protecting the sanctity of the ballot in the country. “He reiterates that the Police will be neutral, apolitical and will work assiduously with all stakeholders in ensuring a level playing ground for all in the elections.”

  • Insecurity: Sudanese, Nigeriens, Malians amongst arrested bandits in Nigeria – IGP

    Insecurity: Sudanese, Nigeriens, Malians amongst arrested bandits in Nigeria – IGP

    The Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Adamu, has said that the lingering banditry in the North-West and North-Central Nigeria has an international dimension.

    Adamu said this during a town-hall meeting on peace and security held on Wednesday in Zuru, Kebbi State.

    “We have realised that most of the banditry has an international dimension. The bandits come from outside the country. We arrested Sudanese, Nigeriens and Malians, among other nationals.

    “Also we believe that because of what is happening in the North-East and the fact that the military troops are doing a great job in the fight against insurgency there, most of the bandits are running toward the North-West of the country and we have evidence.

    “When we operated in Kaduna, Birnin Gwari, where we attacked a group of bandits, we realised that most of them came from Islamic State of West Africa, who are terrorists, kidnapping for ransom.

    “So, the issue is not at the level you are looking at it, it is a big issue and we must work together to address it.

    “This is why President Muhammadu Buhari does not rest because of these complaints coming from the North-West

    and North-Central on banditry,” the IGP said.

    Adamu urged every Nigerian to see the fight against insecurity as a collective responsibility.

  • Prosecute Ardo Bulama for treason now, NCEF petitions IGP

    Prosecute Ardo Bulama for treason now, NCEF petitions IGP

    The National Christian Elders Forum, NCEF, has petitioned the Inspector General of Police over an alleged call by one Ardo Bulama who swore that all the indigenous ethnic nationalities in southern Kaduna and all the Christians in Nigeria shall be killed.

     

    The NCEF petition titled: “NCEF Responds with Petition to Inspector General of Police; Ardo Bulama must be arrested and prosecuted for treasonable felony,” and signed by NCEF chairman, Elder Solomon Asemota, SAN, on behalf of eminent Nigerian Christian elders including Gen. Joshua Dogonyaro (rtd) (Vice-Chairman), Prof. Joseph Otubu, Dr. (Mrs) Kate Okpareke, Dr. Ayo Abifarin, Gen. Zamani Lekwot (rtd), Elder Moses Ihonde, Elder Nat Okoro, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (rtd), Elder Matthew Owojaiye, Hon. Justice Kalajine Anigbogu (rtd), Elder Shyngle Wigwe, DIG P. L. Dabup, Sir John W. Bagu, Dr. Saleh Hussaini, Elder Michael Orobator, Hon. Justice James Ogebe (rtd), Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, Dame Priscilla Kuye, Dr. S. D. Gani, Mrs. Osaretin Demuren, Prof. Yussuf Turaki, Lady Mariam Yunusa, Prof. (Mrs) Deborah Enilo Ajakaiye, HRM Oba Dokun Thompson, Dr. Taiwo Idemudia (Diaspora) and Pastor Bosun Emmanuel (Secretary) alleging that Ardo Bulama claimed that Fulani own all the land and none of the other ethnic nationalities will farm because “we will sit in your farms and anyone who comes out we will kill him.”

     

    In the nine-page petition, NCEF made the following recommendations to the Inspector General of Police: “That Ardo Bulama should be arrested, investigated, and prosecuted for incitement to violence, hate speech and treasonable felony in that he is canvassing genocide against Christians and other Nigerians in Kaduna State that could consume Nigeria;

     

    “That until the Constitution is amended through legal processes, the Nigeria Police will protect the lives and properties of all Nigerians notwithstanding what the Quran enjoins all Muslims to do;

     

    “Through the Inspectot General of Police, we say that the C-in-C knows as a fact that Taqiyya (lying) is permitted in Islam especially concerning non-Muslims, as it can be said that Christians in Nigeria pose no threat to the lives of Muslim, Taqiyya should be suspended for the sake of peace, unity and good government;

     

    “The Inspector General is encouraged to reduce personnel for institutionalized powers for better policing of Nigeria such as declining interference in the day to day Police activities in the States as to whom to protect and not to protect. After all Nigeria is a Federation of 36 States and one Federal Capital Territory that are semi-autonomous,” NCEF enjoined.

     

    Below is the transcript of the message of Ardo Bulama, translated from Hausa into English: “Both the infidels in Kasuwan Magani, infidels in Laduga, infidels in Kachiya, infidels in Gwanin Gora, infidels in Kafanchan and all the infidels in southern Nigeria. The infidels in southern Kaduna State we are informing you with a loud voice we that are Fulanis, you think you will try us? I swear, I swear, I swear, we are telling you with a loud voice that we are going to follow you right into your houses, and kill you. If you touch our people we will not forgive you we are telling you the government of Kaduna state. Especially you El-Rufai, be patient and leave us with them. They are the ones that said we are more powerful than them. We are Fulanis and we know the forest, we know the city, we spend time in the city, we know their secret, they don’t know our secret.

     

    I swear any Fulani that knows he is prepared should come out, he should come out with his strength and with the strength of Allah we will join hands and fight these infidels, infidels that hate Islam we will kill them and burn their houses and burn their food, we will kill them the way hunters kill wild animals, the way hunters kill, we will follow them even to their rooms and slaughter them and any law enforcement agent that comes there we have no concern with him if he says he will disturb us we will finish with him no matter who he is even if it is Buratai. We Fulani, what has been done to us in Kasuwan Magani and Laduga and across North, South, East, West, we have already laid our ambush.

     

    We are there on our feet, no moving back you stupid and useless infidels, even if it is from America you will go and bring your people we are greater than them, even if you plant a nuclear bomb on us it will not explode, even though you throw a bomb at us it will not explode, we with stick we use to rear our cows, we will finish you what we have done to you already is just a tip of the iceberg. If you are hungry take akara and pap we Fulani take milk and what is used to take it. Any Fulani that knows that he is ready we are crying with a loud voice let us come together and keep alive the religion of Islam because infidels are going against us.

     

    You are telling lies that God is ours, you don’t know God you stupid and useless infidels. During Yakowas time you did what you wanted but because this governor El-Rufai is a Muslim you say he is supporting us just so you will know he is not supporting us since you are the ones that looked for our trouble. I swear, I swear, this is the swearing of Muslims, if God allows and permits, we will turn your houses to be non-habitable even your chickens we will kill them, we will burn your houses, and hinder you from moving around. We already know your farms, we know your farms, we know where you sleep. Americans say your name is sorry.

     

    Yes I am Ardo Bulama I have told my entire children, my children, youths Fulani that are well to do we will fight the infidels in southern Kaduna, Laduga is prepared, crossing is also ready. Any law enforcement agent that enters this our fight between Fulani and Christians I swear he is not part of our fight but if he enters we will finish him. We have told you even if it is nuclear you will get from America we are better than you, we with the stick we will finish you even without using guns go and borrow guns and nuclear go and buy any type of ammunition you think you have we will collect them from you and kill you we, we depend on God we don’t depend on any government we depend on God by God’s grace no stupid infidel will disturb us again we have told you I am Ardo Bulama. If you don’t know, I am Ardo Bulama, alias Mareroro, who fears Allah alone not any human, a useless and stupid man, talk less of any infidel that says this land Fulani are not indigenes.

     

    We Fulanis are untouchable, we only fear God alone because of that everyone will be dealt with any one that will not be part of this fight will be dealt with as long as you are Christians. Christians that shit while standing and urinate while standing but you want to be wicked to us. I swear from today, from tomorrow, I will not add to it I will pause here. Anyone that hears this should send to his relative, everybody should hear this announcement with a loud voice. We don’t fight with [alongside] the Government, anyone that looks for our trouble, we will not forgive him because God himself said if someone touches you and you see you can be patient, but if you cannot be patient, revenge with the same measure with what has been done to you so for that we will revenge for what was done to us. Our people were slaughtered, a pregnant woman was slaughtered, the baby was cut old people, children, big people, where not left out.

     

    Our cows, our animals were killed, I swear, I swear you infidels and any place where stupid infidels are, we will kill him and eat their meat. It’s not that we cannot eat his meat we will ask for the infidel’s meat to be fried and we will eat in order to increase in size and increase fats. Thanks be to Allah you have heard this from our Ardo [leader] what he has said, we were delayed in our job of war and we are used to it and we have inherited it. We Fulani wherever it may be, we are ready for any stupidity there are those that use money to do it for the fact that we are now supported and reinforced with war materials. Someone will go and buy cloth and bring to his house but your infidels here in crossing, Kachiya, infidels in Gora, infidels in Guzumi, infidels in Magama.

     

    All of you will go back to Plateau without fear so be prepared. We are already prepared the training you used to do before and the ammunitions you were given bring it all out and fight the Fulani. If you can we are not ready but we depend on God since you say you are not scared and not ashamed we are equal to the task. You don’t know there was a year you said you were Mbashe(?) in a country so now we use the air and not with anything come out, see us we are in the field we have no fear for you people. You killed our people this is the fourth time so now we will fight with you, we are starting in the name of Allah. Thanks be to Allah I am Ardo Bulama I am back.

     

    I swear, I swear you, infidels both male and female child and adult and those not yet born if he is in the womb, we will kill him I am Ardo Bulama. Even if the government interferes in this matter we will only pause for a little time. Even after a thousand years we will meet us and you anyone up to the task I swear he should come to the farm this rainy season except if hunger will kill you, you will have no farms. We will sit in your farms and anyone who comes out we will kill him. Your farms and houses belongs to us whether night or day whether rain or heat we are not afraid we have been observing your movement.

     

    You said we don’t have land, the land belongs to God anyone that says the land is his is a liar. Was he given birth to with land in his mother’s womb? We Fulani have shame but we have removed it and kept it aside. You infidels are not trustworthy. Our parents have been telling us but we now know the truth. Our parents were telling us, we held you in truthfulness and confidence and peaceful co-existence, you said it’s not like that.

     

    I, Ardo Bulama, I have children North, South, East, West, up, down, everyone is ready. Not gun, knife, arrow, and all American ammunitions it doesn’t penetrate our body we here its common stick we will use and it works on everybody without using American ammunition. A man who is fit to be called a man doesn’t carry a gun of what effect does it have on a man’s body you will only shoot and be tired we will use stone you will be tired, we will use stone you, will be in the rain not knowing you are in the sun. Kasuwan Magani and crossing and Gwanin Gora all Laduga all the infidels in these areas, we are done with them. Just call yourselves corpses anywhere you go even if it is in Jos, we will follow you and kill you.

     

    Peace be unto you my fellow Fulani. No retreat no surrender.”

     

    Explaining reasons for the Petition to the Inspector General of Police, Elder Asemota who was once in the Nigeria Police Force, said: “You may want to know why this petition is directed to the Inspector General of Police and not the President, Chief Executive and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. We choose to write to you because Solomon Asemota and Mohammed Adamu speak the same language – the law in motion and law in practice.

     

    “The other reason is that the I.G will appreciate it better the question of strong persons and weak institutions. The President and C-in-C has weakened the Constitution and all institutions set out therein based on his preference for supremacy of Islam as contained in the Quran.

     

    “Islam is superior to every other culture, faith, government, and society and that it is ordained by Allah to conquer and dominate them: “And whoever desires a religion other than Islam, it shall not be accepted from him, and in the hereafter he shall be one of the losers.” (Q 3:85); “Ye are the best of Peoples, evolved for mankind.” (Q 3:110); “Non-Muslims are “the most vile of created beings” (Q 98:6) [Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood], in addition to the fact that the President is contending with insurgency taking place in the North.

     

     

    “My dear Inspector General, 60 years ago, the undersigned stood before Senior Magistrate Mason Begho at the Magistrate Court, Ikeja Western Nigeria to prosecute his first criminal case. Magistrate Begho of blessed memory, later became the second Chief Justice of Mid-Western Region of Nigeria now Edo and Delta States.

     

    “In today’s Nigeria, crime has become subjective depending in most cases on where one comes from and the God one worships. The National Christian Elders Forum calls on all Nigerians especially, law enforcement agents and the Intelligence Community to join hands with it for Nigeria to become a Nation in no distant future where, in the word of our Independence Anthem “though tribes and tongues may differ, in brotherhood we stand”.

     

    Inspector General of the Nigerian Police Force of the Federal Republic of Nigeria please, accept the highest regard from the National Christian Elders Forum.

  • [Letters attached] FG backs 17 anti-Obaseki lawmakers, orders IGP to provide them security

    [Letters attached] FG backs 17 anti-Obaseki lawmakers, orders IGP to provide them security

    The Federal Government through the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami has ordered the Inspector General of Police to provide security for the 17 Edo All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers.

    In a letter dated August 5 based on a petition to his office by Idahosa-West Chambers, Malami said the security measure is necessary to prevent the breakdown of law and order.

    The 17 lawmakers backing All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, have been locked in a battle to access the Edo Assembly complex on Ring Road, Benin with seven lawmakers loyal to Governor Godwin Obaseki.

    In the letter to Malami, the Chambers, which represents the 17 APC lawmakers, argued Obaseki has left for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and should not control the Assembly.

    It said “it is legally and politically incorrect to allow a party with minority of the House of Assembly to keep out 17 members-elect of the majority party.

    “This is unconventional and very strange to the legislature worldwide. Above all, it sends a wrong signal to the Nigerian public that votes do not matter and that Governors are above the provisions of the Nigerian Constitution when carrying out their acts or omissions.”

    The Chambers added the newly inaugurated 17 lawmakers should be allowed to carry out their constitutional functions without let or hindrance.

    It appealed to Malami to invoke Section 150 of the 1999 Constitution to arrest the breakdown of law and order in restore “ a functional House of Assembly.”

    Malami, on the strength of the petition, urged the Police Chief to provide security for the inauguration of the lawmakers and their subsequent sittings.

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