Imo: Banning Peaceful Protests, an Affront on The Nigerian Constitution - Olu Owerri

...says, IMHA members, poor students of history. The apex sociocultural organization in Imo East senatorial district, Olu Owerri has berated some members of the Imo House of Assembly for betraying the people of the state at a time of great tragedy against good governance in the state which was hard won but truncated by the supreme court on January 14. Reacting to the motion of the House for banning of peaceful protests and arrest of the INEC Returning officer and Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Prof. Francis Ezeonu for declaring the result of 2019 governorship election in Imo State, the President Chief Martin Opara and Secretary of the organization, Barr. Sylvester Nwogu disowned the house members and reminded them that posterity will reward them for betraying their people for a pot of portage. The group insisted that it is unfortunate that lawmakers who should be custodians of the constitution, will condescend so low to the point of stifling freedom of speech and movement which are guaranteed in the Nigerian Constitution. According to them, " It is not the business of the Imo State House of Assembly; a legislature, to pass a vote of confidence or vote of no confidence on the the Supreme Court; the judiciary. This action exposes the most pathetic level of incompetence, lack of knowledge of the most basic idea of legislative responsibilities and an embarrassment to the executive, whom they have succeeded in portraying as holding them hostage. It is an embarrassment for the Chief Press Secretary of the Supreme Court declared Governor to assume the position of the Imo House of Assembly spokesman, by issues releases to announce that the Assembly called for the arrest of the Resident Electoral Commissioner of INEC, the same man who announced their victories in the same election". The group insisted that the judgement of the Supreme Court remains a setback to the solid foundation of good governance laid in Imo State by the massive election of Hon. Emeka Ihedioha and called on the Supreme Court to have a second look at the errors in calculation and fraudulent misrepresentation that led the Apex Court to such anti people judgement.

OLU OWERRI DEMANDS ACCOUNT OF 3 MONTHS LG ALLOCATION FROM UZODINMA

PRESS RELEASE NON PAYMENT OF SALARIES AND SUSPENSION OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROJECTS: OLU OWERRI DEMANDS ACCOUNT OF 3 MONTHS LG ALLOCATION FROM UZODINMA ...Says Imo Governor lacks the integrity to engage elected Governor Wike in a verbal war. A social cultural organization in Imo State, Olu Owerri has asked Gov. Hope Uzodinma to account for the January, February and March 2020 Local Government allocations, to the people of Imo State or be willing to face protest against the nonpayment of Local Government Staff salaries as well as those of state civil servants since his assumption of office. The call was contained in a release signed by the President General, Chief Martin Opara and made available to newsmen by the organization in Owerri after a situation assessment meeting. The group observed that the 27 LGAs have now become a cash cow for the governor who has turned the monthly allocations to his pocket money, whereas all ongoing projects in the LGAs have been suspended, without any new project to justify the massive withdrawal of Local Government funds in the last three months, using complacent and easily manipulated civil servants who who have their job to protect. According to the release, the rural dwellers are not happy that road grading / maintainance, sporting complexes projects as well as LGA multiple office complexes initiated by the Local Government Areas under former Gov. Ihedioha, were suspended by the incumbent governor without taking up new projects in the LGAs. The group lamented that the era of looting public funds has returned, wondering why the governor has used every opportunity and pronouncements he has made so far to remind the masses of imminent calamity starring them in the face as if that is the essence of the I'll fated and conceived supreme court verdict that foisted him on the people. Finally,Olu Owerri therefore advises the habitually unguarded and prodigious governor to retract his steps in the management of scarce public funds and to refrain from continuing his needless media war with the governor of Rivers state..aka Mr projects who is very busy developing infrastructures and turning the fortunes of the state around and concentrate on his job despite the conspiracy that brought him to Douglas house unlike the popular mandate given to Governor Wike by the people of Rivers state for the second term.

BREAKING: Victor Oliaya Dies At 89

Veteran highlife singer Victor Olaiya has died at the age of 89 at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). His death was confirmed to Channels Television by Michael Odion of Premiere Music, the record label that holds his music repertoire. According to Odion, the Baby Jowo crooner died around noon on Wednesday.

Soldiers allegedly Torture Man To Death Over N50 Egg

Pandemonium descended on the Tina Junction Evening Market in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State, when a young man of 31, Benjamin Arum Izang, met his untimely death after buying a cooked egg at N50 from one lady simply called Blessing. A disagreement had begun between the two in the course of transaction as Blessing alleged that Benjamin refused to pay her. As a result, she rushed down to the Operation Safe Haven (OPSH) army checkpoint at Dutse Uku, where Governor Simon Bako Lalong recently launched a Neighbourhood Peace Tour last month. After reporting to the soldiers at the checkpoint that the young man refused to pay her, one of the soldiers came and dragged the man to the checkpoint. According to an eyewitness, “the man was cruelly tortured in the head, hand and leg with iron rods until he became motionless and unconscious". At that unconscious stage, he was allegedly abandoned where a Good Samaritan eventually rescued him from the checkpoint and rushed him to a nearby clinic where he was later confirmed clinically dead. The matter was thereafter reported to the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) at Nasarawa Gwom Police Station by the community leader and also reported to the Sector Commander in charge of the area. Our source the Guardian gathered that the police rushed and carried out some preliminary investigation, which is yet to be concluded as at press time while the body of the deceased is still in police custody.

Man Fall Into Coma After Discovering Wife Owned The House They Rented For 10 Years

A man who had leased a loft so his family can live in, has been stunned when following six years, he found that he had been paying house lease to his own better half. Our online source who posted the story stated the man was shocked that the house lease continued expanding after at regular intervals and when he could take it no more, he chose to examine. While making the examination, he found the stunning actuality that his own better half is his proprietor and she had been gathering the whole lease he had been paying. A man leased a house and moved in with his family, After 2 years the lease was expanded, he didn't gripe since he enjoyed the house and condition. After an additional 2 years, run of the mill of the landowner in Lagos, the lease was again expanded and the man couldn't concoct the cash. Weight from the specialist made him hopeless and that point the spouse offered to help, she chose to go get and the husband consented to pay later. He was upbeat saying thanks to God for the life of his better half. An additional 2 years, Another expansion on lease, he was vexed to such an extent that he chose to meet with the landowner for discourse yet the specialist forestalled him. In the wake of doing underground Investigation to uncover who the landowner was, the disclosure stunned him.

Trump Takes His 'Revenge': Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman Is FIRED And Escorted Out Of The White House For Testifying Against The President During The Impeachment Inquiry

President Donald Trump fired Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman from the White House on Friday after the war hero testified against him in the House impeachment inquiry. Vindman was escorted out of the building this afternoon and told his services were no longer needed. 'Today, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman was escorted out of the White House where he has dutifully served his country and his President,' his attorney David Pressman said in a statement. 'He does so having spoken publicly once, and only pursuant to a subpoena from the United States Congress.' He indicated Vindman was fired for his testimony to the House. 'There is no question in the mind of any American why this man's job is over, why this country now has one less soldier serving it at the White House,' Pressman said. Vindman's twin brother Yevgeny Vindman, a National Security Counsel attorney, walked off the White House grounds alongside him although it's not clear if he was also fired, CNN noted. Earlier in the day, the president did not deny the reports of Vindman's imminent dismissal. I'm not happy with him. Am I supposed to be happy with him? I'm not,' he said to reporters at the White House on Friday who asked him about Vindman. Vindman, a National Security Council aide, will be informed as soon as today that he is being reassigned to the Defense Department, The Washington Post reported. Vindman, who received the Purple Heart after being wounded in Iraq, had told officials at the NSC that he intended to take an early exit from that assignment and leave by the end of the month, sources told the newspaper, but Trump wants to make a symbol out of the Army officer now that the president has been acquitted by the Senate.

Patients At Wuhan's Coronavirus Hospital Are Given TURTLES for Dinner After Contracting The Deadly Disease Spread To Humans From Wild Animals

One person in quarantine said his hospital meal included softshell turtle meat. The species is considered highly nutritious in the traditional Chinese medicine. Experts believe the new coronavirus was passed onto humans from wild animals. The contagious disease, which has killed 638 people, was passed onto humans from wild animals - especially bats and snakes - through other animals, experts believe. Chinese scientists today suggested pangolins might be an intermediate host. China has ordered Wuhan to quarantine all confirmed and potential patients.

Christopher Steele Accuses Trump of Making ‘False Claims' About Him

Christopher Steele, the former MI6 officer, who produced the report into Donald Trump’s Kremlin connections, has accused the US president of making false claims about the veracity of the document and exaggerating how much his company was paid for it. Mr Trump renewed his attack on the “fake” dossier during a rambling, angry and vulgar speech following his expected acquittal on impeachment charges by the Republican-controlled Senate. Throwing insults at his political enemies such as Democrats Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi, as well as the head of FBI James Comey who he had fired, and Special Counsel Robert Mueller who investigated him, the president complained of being persecuted by “evil” people. Mr Trump followed up by claiming that the Democrats had paid “millions” for the Steele report. He had previously said the fee had been as much as “$12 million.” The Washington-based firm, Fusion GPS, told Congress that they had paid a total of $168,000 more than two years ago. Mr Steele’s company, Orbis Business Intelligence, tweeted on Friday, “Yesterday @realDonaldTrump made false claims about us. He wildly exaggerated our fees and, contrary to his claims, we have never stated any of our reporting is “fake”. We stand by the integrity of our research on Kremlin interference in the 2016 election and support for Trump". After a prolonged period of silence on the matter, Mr Steele and his company have been publicly defending their work. The former MI6 officer recently presented a six-point rebuttal of criticism made of the methodology of the Trump report by a US Department of Justice inspector general. IND