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Abike Dabiri: Nigeria’s No. 1 Hypocrite

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Abike Dabiri: Nigeria’s No. 1 Hypocrite

By Hashim Suleiman

I just stumbled on Abike’s outburst over her being excused from an edifice that’s not hers nor that of the office she commandeers. It made me wonder a lot because I have a fair idea of who Abike is. The recent one made me finalize her being far from who she portrays she is in the public.

Let me tell you people the usual attitude of some Nigerians who use overzealousness to make themselves relevant owing to the fact that there are very less of competent and strategic Nigerians who have ventured into politics. Can you see the reason why we have always clamored for Nigerians youths who have appropriate knowhow to join politics.

Abike came to the House of Representatives perhaps on such kinds of opportunities resulting from non participation of critical Nigerians and those are the same tactics she used to manipulate the house speakers into appointing her chairperson of critical committees with the latest being committee on diaspora for two consecutive terms. This manipulation could be as easy as mesmerizing people with spoken english.

It was the same tactics she employed in getting her self the job to be the MC for the campaigns of 2015 along with Dino Melaye and the latter did much more better than her with all the humor he brought on board to cover up her non resourceful and tactless commentaries. However, because she knows how to be sheepish around people, she was again able to manipulate to becoming the SA to President on diaspora and subsequently sweet mouthing them into making it an Agency of government. But honestly, I personally don’t see anything spectacular that she brings to that sector that she would be thinking so big or even having the wherewithal to drag people like Dr Isa Ali Pantami.

When it comes to this, it will become incumbent on us to drag her as watchers of the public space who sometimes try to be fair and let people be atleast for the sake of their gender. Abike cannot measure up to what she is trying to drag and the facts must be let out.

First of all, I have always known Abike Dabiri to be a Christian for all I care or at best not even identifying with any religion. However, recently when she was wishing Dele Momodu a birthday message, she automatically transformed into Hajiya Kafayat Abike Dabiri and that is in resemblance to the transformation those political hypocrites exhibit for political exigencies. How then could this person attempt to compare themselves with people who despite holding a critical government office have chosen to stick to their being Islamic scholars, I mean maintaining consistency over who they are. Be the judges here over who has the capabilities of being an absolute LIAR.

Furthermore, the above description of Abike goes contrary to my altercation with her on 3rd November, 2019 when I shared with her an article I had written then over the suitability of Dr Isa Pantami in the 2023 permutations. She got very angry with me and had to block me because she felt it was disgusting if Pantami was going to be vice to Asiwaju Tinubu and that would mean having a Muslim/Muslim ticket. She sounded like someone that is not into Islam very much and here she is trying to transform into Hajiya Kafayat overnight. I don’t get the drift. By the way I still have the excerpts of the chat I had with her.

I consider Abike to be an opportunistic and could claim to whatever to get relevance and such kind of person cannot be trusted. I can challenge her to a public debate over whatever she thinks she knows and she will be shocked how she will be shown she is not close to being the smartest or intelligent Nigerians.

She was also bandying staffs she is working with in her commission and for now we will choose not to enquirer about the process she used in employing them. Whether through advert or a waiver from the appropriate quarters.

Abike should rather keep quiet and enjoy her privileged position before she will use her own hands to expose her non qualification into the things she luckily got.

A word is supposedly enough for the wise they say.

Written by Hashim Suleiman E-mail: oneheartnaija@yahoo.com

Indabosky And The Emperor Of Rivers

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By Tunde Odesola

It’s the peak of perfidy. A whore is missing, a drunk goes in search of her; the degenerate seeks the reprobate. This is how best I can translate the following Yoruba proverb into English without snapping the elastic cord that interweaves meaning and beauty into language: Asewo sonu, omuti nwa; eni ofo nwa eni adanu! Life loves symmetry. The Prophet of Anambra and the Emperor of Rivers, two honorable men radiating symmetric nobility.

For the Igbo, proverb is the palm oil with which words are eaten. Today, I’ll play the agidigbo, a Yoruba drumbeat danced by the wise, understood by the intelligent. But I won’t lose sight of the exactitude of language and the bluntness of truth.

Between 2003 and 2013, I was the Osun State correspondent of PUNCH newspapers. On Saturday, January 23, 2010, I received a phone call from the Alayemore of Ido Osun, His Royal Highness, Oba Aderemi Adeen Adedapo. “I have a potential exclusive for you and I want to serve it to you hot. I know PUNCH loves exclusives. Can you, please, come over, Otunba?” the monarch asked. The kabiyesi jocularly calls me his Otunba, a chief.

Bi ise o ba p’eni, enikan kii p’ese goes a Yoruba proverb that teaches industry. The journey between Osogbo and Ido Osun is the distance between the nose and the mouth.

In a jiffy, I was in Ido Osun. I prostrated. The US-trained architect turned king said, “There’s something brewing at the Osun aerodrome. That’s why I called you. I’ve sent my security officers there on reconnaissance.”

The security men arrived while the king was holding court with his real chiefs. I’m not a fake chief, either. They conferred with the king, who rose, took me inside an inner room and disclosed to me that some people had built some shacks at the aerodrome where they carry out suspected sinister activities nightly. Because it was already afternoon, the king suggested we visit the aerodrome the next morning. But I convinced him that we should storm the aerodrome right away. Within me, I knew leaving the story till the next day was a huge threat to my exclusive hold.

So, an armed five-vehicle convoy of the king drove in front while I drove behind en route to the aerodrome that was used for airlifting West African soldiers to the Second World War.

‘Rua ba su yami banza’ is a Hausa proverb that says ‘water doesn’t get bitter without a cause’. At the aerodrome, we came to a dense vegetation demarcated by palm fronds and a strip of red cloth. Everybody disembarked. There were three shacks within the demarcation. Two guards and I cut the palm fronds and red cloth leading to the biggest shack. We broke the door and stepped into a lightless worship centre that was draped in red cloth. We ransacked everywhere. On the altar was a confin that was also draped in red cloth. A guard and I opened the coffin.

The evil-smelling skeleton of a decomposed corpse stared back at us with millions of maggots swarming it.

At this juncture, word had reached worshippers in Osogbo that some invaders were rampaging their temple. Led by a woman, the worshippers rushed in and met us at work. The presence of the king, however, neutralised them. Nonetheless, they challenged us for disturbing their leader sleeping in his bed.

It got dark. The news filtered into town. I sent my story, pictures and a feature at the scene. My story led SUNDAY PUNCH the following day. The worshippers’ church headquarters in the Akindeko area of Osogbo was burnt by a mob while the police arrested leaders of the church.

Religion and politics, two human endeavors that should catalyse peace, progress and development, are, unfortunately, the Achilles heels of Nigeria’s accursed fate. Like the whore and the drunk, it’s the degenerates and the reprobates that have found themselves on the pulpit and in government houses across the land.

More than ever before in the history of Nigeria, shylocks in cassocks have taken over the pulpits, indoctrinating the masses wrongly by turning the Holy Bible upside down while the Christian Association of Nigeria watches. Nobody, not even the government, is ready to protect the citizenry from mammon pastors who smash their members against walls and chairs in the name of miracles. These merchandising pastors are everywhere; there’s a bearded one in the Egbe area of Lagos, who killed over 110 persons in one day but walks a free man today.

The charlatans aren’t in Christendom alone. Islam also has its share of merchants clerics who chain and shave people in the guise of healing and teaching. Sadly, tricksters of the two faiths capitalise on the ignorance, fears and desperation of the masses to control and exploit them.

The holy Prophet of Anambra, whose intelligence outweighs a grain of millet, has moved spirituality to high heavens. The light-skinned ex-commoner calls himself a lion who is greater than his father, Jesus Claist. Probably, the prophet didn’t attend primary school to learn how to pronounce the letter ‘r’.

I watched many videos of the wrestling prophet. But two bled my heart. In the first video, the ‘Lion Itself’ raised a dead woman. In the second video, the Liquid Metal physically outpunched a self-confessed disciple of Satan. In raising the dead, the Indabosky lay on the female ‘corpse’. And his intelligent congregation shouted halleluyah!

As it was with the worshippers at the Osun aerodrome, who were manipulated, the Anambra priest, who boastfully calls himself various undecipherable names, beats, slaps, punches, headbutts and slams worshippers in absurd miracles.

A couple of sorcerers have called Pawoseh a fake and challenged him to an open contest. Responding to one of his challengers, the lion of Anambra said two corpses should be provided for him and his challenger, and he who raises his own dead is the powerful one.

If he truly possesses the power to raise the dead, Indabosky should visit isolation centres across the country and heal coronavirus patients, he shouldn’t waste his anointing on raising the dead.

Indabosky has brought enough shame to the body of Christ such that CAN can’t continue to keep silent. It should worry CAN that someone who calls himself a Christian prophet is mostly seen spraying money, preaching war and violence. Validating the prophetic circus, a university awarded Liquid Metal an honorary doctorate degree to complete the cycle.

On the same edifying frequency with the Anambra prophet is the emperor of rivers. A few days ago, the wicked emperor became the law, the gavel and hangman.

A citizen had allegedly breached the law of social distancing by opening up his space to merriment. Instead of allowing the law to take its course, the emperor, whose name is the short form of ‘wicked’, threw out the citizen with the bathwater and demolished the gourd. Ridiculously, the emperor proclaims himself as an apostle of the law. But his action glorifies wickedness in law.

Not too long ago, the grunting emperor publicly abused a traditional ruler, calling him unprintable names during a meeting with traditional rulers in his kingdom. Calling the traditional ruler a boy and a sycophant, who ran errands some years back, the emperor threatened to sack any traditional ruler caught not clutching his sceptre at meetings.

Just like the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission incurred N10m fine against the Federal Government in the SIM card saga involving President Muhammadu Buhari’s daughter, Hanan, the guttural emperor will incur a fine against his kingdom over his latest ruthlessness – at the fullness of time.

Sadly, however, the responsibility of paying the fines incurred by the EFCC and the emperor will be borne by the masses. That’s the tragedy of a people eternally abused by priests and politicians.

Written by Tunde Odesola and first published in The PUNCH on Monday, May 25, 2020. Email: tundeodes2003@yahoo.com

Bar. Sowemimo Felicitates With Pa Clark At 93

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Bar. Sowemimo Felicitates With Pa Clark At 93

An Abuja based Lawyer and Director of Swift Publishing Company Limited, Bar. Oludotun Sowemimo has extolled the virtues of Nigeria’s former Information Minister, Chief Edwin Clark on the occasion of his 93rd birthday anniversary.

Bar. Oludotun Sowemimo described the nonagenarian as a father, grandfather, great grandfather, Elder statesman, iconic and quintessential who doesn’t hesitate to speak his mind on national issues.

“Chief Clark is a leader, a fearless crusader, educationist, philanthropist, legal luminary, the conscience of the South-South, a politician with track records of service and a national colossus whose sense of unity is anchored on true federalism, Bar. Sowemimo said.

Chief Edwin Clark

He further said that the Edwin Clark University Kiagbodo which he founded is a legacy of service and dedication which define his personality. Clark’s life is a book, a history of dedication. He is an enigma still unfolding.

“As one of the founders of  PANDEF and a staunch supporter of  the Amnesty  and Rehabilitation  programme  that brought Peace to the Niger Delta region  amidst  the threat of  economic  chaos in the oil and  gas sector, Chief Clark remains a detribalized leader with a great sense of humor, intelligence, witty who believes  in the unity of Nigeria as a nation.

“While felicitating with you on this joyous occasion, accept my best wishes and deepest goodwill, the statement concluded.

By-Election: Niger Delta Defenders’ Forum Endorses Former Gov. Dickson

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By-Election: Niger Delta Defenders’ Forum Endorses Former Gov. Dickson

Coordinator of Niger Delta Defenders’ Forum, Mr. Kokobaiye Abeki has endorsed former Governor of Bayelsa State, Henry Seriake Dickson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as its Senatorial Candidate for the fourth coming Bayelsa West Bye election.

Mr Abeki who disclosed this while speaking to newsmen at Top-Rank Hotel Yenagoa, shortly after a closed door meeting with constituency and local government coordinators of Ekeremor and Sagbama, declared that “my people will speak again with their PVCs at the ballot as they did in 2012 and 2015”, informing that he has already directed his members and followers across the both local governments to cast their votes for Former Gov.Dickson.

He added that, “We cannot fail to acknowledge the giant imprints of Rt. Hon. Dickson’s administration as governor of Bayelsa State.”

According Mr. Abeki, former Gov. Dickson who was Legal Adviser, to Ijaw National Congress (INC), one time Attorney-General of Bayelsa State, Ranking Member of the Green Movement, Chaired many Committees and Co-chaired others and sponsored several peoples oriented Bills at the National Assembly has vast experience with robust contributions on national issues

“From building durable roads to providing affordable housing and qualitative healthcare, created amazing opportunities for our young ones, in providing them with gainful employment including numerous achievements in education, health, judiciary, agriculture among other critical sectors.

“We therefore join other stakeholders to urge the great umbrella (PDP) to give him an automatic ticket to represent Bayelsa West Senatorial District at the Senate.

“I want to join other stakeholders to say that Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson’s journey to the Senate should be automatic coronation and not a contest.” Mr Abeki reiterated.

We Didn’t Send Diaspora Commission Packing From Digital Economy Complex – NCC

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We Didn’t Send Diaspora Commission Packing From Digital Economy Complex – NCC

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) said its attention has been drawn to a video making the rounds on social media alleging that the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) was ignominiously thrown out of the NCC building.

In a press release on Sunday signed by the Director, Public Affairs Nigerian Communications Commission, Dr. Henry Nkemadu, he said that it important that the general public is acquiesced with what really transpired with regard to the incident leading to the evacuation of the Diaspora Commission from the NCC building.

The statement read, “Following the completion of the NCC building at Mbora, Abuja designated as NCC Annex and the acute shortage of accommodation space for the staff of the Commission in the NCC Head Office at Maitama, Abuja, the Board of the Commission directed the decongestion of the Head Office Building.

“Some of the Departments of the NCC had started moving to the new Office Complex of Five (5) Floors when discussions were held between the NCC and the Diaspora Commission to enable the Diaspora Commission also to utilise any free offices within the Complex.

“The fifth floor allocated to them had to be used to accommodate other Departments from the NCC Headquarters to ease the congestion.

“NCC’s offer to house NiDCOM was predicated on the long held position of the NCC that agencies of Government will achieve more through strategic collaboration, partnership, synergy and sharing to the extent allowed by relevant laws.

“During this period, the NCC secured approval for the Commissioning of the Office Complex by the President, His Excellency Muhammadu Buhari and the launching of four important projects of the NCC and the renamed Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy (FMC&DE).

“The projects include the launching and unveiling of the Nigerian National Broadband Plan 2020 – 2025; commissioning of the Communications and Digital Economy Complex; launching of the Emergency Communications Centre and Toll-Free number 112; and the flag-off of the Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training.

“These important projects were a culmination of extensive collaboration between NCC and the other Parastatals of the FMC&DE and fittingly the Complex was renamed the COMMUNICATIONS AND DIGITAL ECONOMY COMPLEX in tandem with the new drive of the Federal Government towards a digital economy.

“The NCC has not withdrawn the offer but had hiccups arising from the preparation for the visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to inaugurate the Communications and Digital Economy Complex and launch other projects relating to the mandate of government.

“The Board and Management of the NCC took a decision to ensure that every activity in the building was in line with the Federal Government’s digital agenda.

Incidentally, after the offer of the office spaces to the Diaspora Commission, the Director General (DG), Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa had not visited the Complex to take possession of any of the offices and also the Commission had not started using any of these spaces as offices.

“As is usual in ensuring security and accountability before, during and after presidential visits, the building had to be cleared to allow for only known and identifiable persons to have access within the Complex.

“Therefore the Honourable Minister of the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami could not have sent armed men to drive the staff of the Diaspora Commission out of the Communications and Digital Economy Complex.

“At this time, only NCC Staff were accredited to have access within this premises as required by the security officials. All the properties belonging to the Diaspora Commission are safely warehoused in some of the Offices in the Complex.

“This is contrary to the position of the DG of NDC that the removal of her Commission from the building was punitive. This is not the correct position and we agree with her that there are always challenges in every human activity but the unforeseen challenges that arose in this case are not different but require understanding of all concerned, the statement concluded.

Eid With Aid

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Eid With Aid

By Bala Ibrahim

All over the world, Muslims are celebrating the Eid with the aid of the mask. This is the first time in my life time, to witness the Sallah prayers under the compelling condition of social distancing, and the mandatory measure of worshiping with the mask. The protocol is as weird as it is absurd everywhere. For many of us, this is a novel experience, of observing the festivities without the conventional merriment of fusing for feasting. Coronavirus has come to corrupt the concordant convention.

My wife said the Sallah seems boring, because of the absence of the usual hustle and bustle of the town. Every family is confined to the comfort of it’s house. The regular visits of friends are restricted. The Emir’s cavalcade is curbed, just as the children’s hysteria for fun at the parks is either put on hold, paused, or paralyzed by the fear of the pandemic. The only item around in abundance is the mask, as it becomes the aid to the Eid.

I said to madam, we should be grateful to God that we are amongst those he speared to take stock of the social stress. Some are dead. Some are deformed, while others are in the hospital, struggling for breath through the aid of an aide. Coronavirus has brought us to the era of Eid with the mask as an aid.

This year’s Eid has come at a time the coronavirus has caused deaths and devastations to thousands of people globally, including over 200 in Nigeria, one of whom is the former Chief of staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mallam Abba Kyari. As a result, Nigeria, like many countries around the world, was forced to impose movement restrictions, as well as prohibiting the convergence of large gatherings, with a view to arresting the spread of the virus. The situation has brought some hardships and discomfort to many.

The discomfort is not limited to the public, the president is equally affected by the restrictions. PMB had observed the Eid prayers with his family at home in the presidential villa, Abuja, contrary to the convention of travelling to his country home in Daura, where he normally meets with friends and family members. So this year’s end of the Ramadan fast is without the large congregations for prayers and the fun of friends joining forces to feast. The fear of Covid-19, has made the wearing of the mask mandatory, thereby forcing all to have an Eid with the aid of the mask.

For the indefatigable governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, it’s not just an Eid with an aid, but an Eid with additional assignment. Pursuant to his determination to frustrate the spread of the disease, the governor said he would personally patrol the Kano-Kaduna boundary on the day of the Eid, so that nobody from Kano State would sneak into Kaduna state. “I will ensure that I personally visit and patrol the Kaduna-Kano boundary on Sallah day, and I will remain there from morning till night, to see who will dare enter Kaduna State. I will not leave there until late at night”-Governor El-Rufai.

Much as the lockdown has brought inconveniences, along with the added costume of the mask to the regular regalia in the Muslims sallah customs, the stay at home restriction has come with some surprising benefits. People that normally go out visiting others and socializing with new friends, now invest more time and energy looking after themselves and their families. The fear of contracting Covid-19 has made people more health conscious, particularly those that fall in the most vulnerable positions.

Yes, this is the first Sallah festival ever, where the mask is competing with the rosary, as the most important aid during the Eid. May Allah make the subsequent Eids, to come with ease, ameen.

Eid Celebrations: This Is A Moment Of Comfort – Sylva

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Eid Celebrations: This Is A Moment Of Comfort – Sylva

…….As  a tame but significant Eid celebrations begins across the country.

Former governor of Bayelsa State and Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, has sent his warmest felicitations to the Nigerian Muslim Ummah on the occasion of this year’s Eid El-Fitre celebrations.

In a statement released to journalists, in Abuja, by his media aide, Julius Bokoru, Sylva wrote that it was relieving to know that this very important celebration, one that is fundamentally hinged on gratitude, happiness for all that has been afforded us, is coming at a time when a pandemic is attempting to dampen our resolve.

‘Against a backdrop of the COVID-19, I am extremely happy this year’s Eid is shining forth with all the positivity it entails. It is a bright spot and a moment of national comfort too’

Chief Timipre Sylva

This auspicious season, beyond the festivities, can be a time for us all to renew those positive virtues that defines us as a people: love for country, moral consistency, tolerance, sincerity and the spirit of sacrifice.

Sylva thanked Muslims across for the just concluded fasting and prayers which he considers an act of patriotism and service to nation.

SPECIAL FEATURE: One Hundred Days Of Gov Diri’s Prosperity Government

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SPECIAL FEATURE: One Hundred Days Of Gov Diri’s Prosperity Government

FROM THE OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR FOR STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION, DOCUMENTATION AND SPEECH WRITING TO THE GOVERNOR OF BAYELSA STATE

In the last one hundred days the Prosperity Government under the leadership of Governor Douye Diri has done some things which includes;

1) The cutting down in the overhead cost by reducing the number of ministries to about 22.

2) He has also within this period set up committee to ascertain what needs to be done on projects and what is required to complete same .

3) He has also within the period began payment of pensioners their gratuities .

4) The governor has made policies and regulations in the combat of the global pandemic and the reality is clear .

5) He has also signed into law certain profound bills that will regulate the conduct of government business especially when procurement and borrowing is involved.

6) The governor in attempt to give a face lift to the state has begun to implement the master plan by ensuring that such houses that are outside the parameters of the yenagoa master plan are pulled down. This is seen both in Swali, Edepie and kpansia respectively.

7) In terms of engagement he has been engaging many stakeholders with a view to their contributions towards a better government where all shades of opinion are captured as non is a monopoly of knowledge.

It’s my submission that he definitely needs more time to show his polices and also implement same. Remember given the global pandemic we have a fall in economic activities leading to less receipt from the federation account and this has become a clog in the development wheel as funds are barely enough to cater for the daily running of government. Let us give the government some time to deal with these issues until the economy become more robust again.

Eid-el Fitr: Etsu Nupe Felicitates With Muslims

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Eid-el Fitr: Etsu Nupe Felicitates With Muslims

……Seeks public adherence to COVID-19 guidelines.

The Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar, has advised his subjects and Nigerians to respect all government directives and health guidelines against coronavirus pandemic to curtail its spread.

The Etsu Nupe, who is the Chairman, Council of Traditional Rulers in Niger State, gave the advice in his Sallah message at the Etsu Usman Zaki Juma’at Mosque on Sunday in Bida, Niger state.

The Royal father also appealed for intensifying of prayers by the Muslim ummah and adherents of all religious faith in the country for God’s intervention on the dreaded disease.

Alhaji Abubakar, who emphasised that COVID-19 was real, stressed the need for Muslims to pray and adhere strictly to the preventive measures as they celebrate Eid-El-Fitrl .

The monarch, while congratulating Muslims on the successful completion of the Ramadan Fast and the Sallah celebration, emphasized the need for love among one another and support for the less privileged in the society.

He enjoined Muslims to reflect on the lessons of Ramadan and continue to pray fervently for the nation to overcome Covid 19 and other emerging challenges

According to Etsu Nupe, ” I enjoin Nigerians to adhere striclty to all the safety measures against COVID-19 as advised by the government and health experts such as frequent washing of hands, social distancing and environmental hygiene at all times.

” If this is done by all of us, it will go a long way in curtailing the spread of the virus in our communities and the country at large,” Abubakar said.

He explained that Muslims should use the occasion to rebuild the fabric of national unity and reaffirm Nigeria’s common destiny as an indivisible entity.

The traditional ruler expressed optimism that Nigeria would be the ultimate beneficiary of the spiritual lessons from the celebration.

He added that with prayers and fear of Allah, peaceful coexistence, mutual respect and love, Nigerians would work together and harness the abundant resources as a progressive nation.

The royal father called on the citizens to build bridges of brotherhood to harness the benefits of earthly life and the ultimate purpose of the nation’s unity.

Abubakar appealed to wealthy individuals in the country to assist the less privileged to enable all and sundry to celebrate Eid-fitr with ease.

He said, “God has endowed wealth on people not for themselves and their immediate family, but for the benefit of entire society.

“The present socio-economic predicament that we are now facing requires such assistance from well to do individuals in the country”.

The monarch urged Muslim faithful to continue to pray to God, to assist President Buhari and other elected and appointed leaders to overcome the current challenges bedeviling the nation.

The monarch also charged the people of his domain to send their children to school, to acquire both western and Islamic knowledge.

“It is through education that they can learn how to live a good and displined life.”

Gov Sani Bello Assures Of The Safe Rescue Of Abducted Construction Workers

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Gov Sani Bello Assures Of The Safe Rescue Of Abducted Construction Workers

….TASKS SECURITY OPERATIVES TO ARREST PERPETRATORS

Governor Abubakar Sani Bello has assured that government is doing everything within its power to ensure that Abubakar Ibrahim Jibrin, a staff of the Niger State Ministry of Works and the three staff of a construction company recently abducted by unidentified gunmen from a construction site at Erena community in Shiroro local government are rescued unhurt.

He said government has provided all the needed logistics support to ensure that these people regain their freedom and the criminals brought to face justice.

Governor Sani Bello who maintained that no responsible government will fold it hands and watch some criminal elements hold its people hostage, noted that it is time to take the fight to their hideouts and root them out of the communities, saying enough is enough.

The Governor said government is on top of the situation and the abducted persons would be rescued and reunited with their families within the shortest possible time.

He noted that the abduction of the construction workers from site at a time when the government is aggressively embarking on the construction of some rural roads across the state to make lives easy and enhance economic activities of the people is a deliberate attempt to sabotage government efforts, which will not be tolerated.

The Governor vowed that no amount of banditry activities or criminality in parts of the state will deter the government from achieving its rural roads transformation agenda.

He commended the security agents in the state for their sacrifices so far towards combating the activities of the bandits and other forms of criminality in the state and urged them to go after the perpetrators of this inhuman act.

Governor Sani Bello reassured the people of the state of government’s commitment to the protection of lives and property of the citizens which remains its cardinal responsibility.

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