APC Says Flagbearer Audu Will Return N11 Billion Loot If Elected Kogi Governor

L-R: National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former governor of Kogi State, Audu Abubakar, an identified member of the APC and Chief Bisi Akande one of the leaders of the APC during a meeting with President Elect, General Muhammadu Buhari before the May 29 inauguration 

 

The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Kogi State Chapter Alhaji Hadi Ametuo has appealed to Kogi State citizens to elect his party’s gubernatorial candidate Prince Abubakar Audu promising that the N11 billion allegedly embezzled by the former governor while in office will be returned to the state.

Ametuo made the appeal while addressing newsmen after the Eid el-Kabir 2015 prayers. He rated Prince Audu Abubakar’s first term in the office more than the current government of Capt. Idris Wada. He said that Prince Abubakar Audu deserves the votes of the people of Kogi state due to his experience and achievements in his first time at the Lugard House.
While responding to questions from the press men regarding Audu’s N11 billion naira EFCC case, he said
“Nobody is a saint. No governor can claim he has not done any malpractice or stolen anything during his time in the office, we heard of Saraki case, even Tinubu is being accused of stolen funds but the truth is that Prince Abubakar Audu has pledged to return the money to the Kogi treasury when he gets elected on the November 21st, yes he will return the N11 billion naira or even more than that and that will add to the Kogi economy.”
Prince Abubakar Audu is being prosecuted by the EFCC for misappropriating N11 billion of the states’s funds while he was governor between 1999 and 2003.
The EFCC is prosecuting Prince Audu Abubakar and his co-accused for offences bordering on criminal breach of trust and misappropriation of public funds to tune of N10,965,837,040 (Ten billion, Nine hundred and Sixty Five Million, Eight Hundred and Thirty Seven Thousand and Forty Naira) they were arraigned on March 18, 2013 on a 36-count charge.
Asked if he is aware of the sufferings and deaths the stolen funds has brought to the people of Kogi State, he said, they will not have to suffer any more if they elect Audu on November 21, 2015.
 

Our Electricity Bills Higher Than House Rent ─ Residents in Lagos State

Residents of the Apapa-Iganmu and the Ifelodun local council development areas of Lagos State on Friday marched in protest to the Eko Electricity Distribution Company in Ijora-Badia over what they described as crazy bills served by the company on them.

The residents told Punch that their electricity bills were higher than their house rents. The residents displayed placards and sang solidarity songs to the distribution company, demanding an explanation from the authorities on why such bills should be given to them.

The protesters, who marched from Amusu Street, went through the Gaskiya Road, calling on shop owners and other stakeholders to join them.

One of the residents, Kamoru Wole, said some tenants paid as much as N5,000 as electricity bill on a monthly basis, which was higher than the house rent which was N1,500 per month. He said, 

“Badia and Amukoko are low-profile populated areas, and we paid as low as N1,500 for rent. It is a residential area with just a few people engaging in petty commercial activities. Yet, this is an area where the electricity per room is as high as N5,000. 

“This is robbery by workers of the distribution company. Our electricity bills are higher than our house rents. We do not use air-conditioners; so where did the company get the high bills?”

The residents, who read a protest letter on the distribution company premises, urged the management to address the anomalies in the bills to prevent 

“crises when the company workers would be sharing the next bills”.

The letter reads in part, 

“The residents of these communities register our displeasure over the abnormal and arbitrary bill given to us a monthly basis by the distribution company in the Badia sub-station. 

“We cry for the intervention of the management because our persistent appeals have fallen on the deaf ears of the junior workers. They have taken us for a ride simply because they consider us as some of the lowly placed in the society. 

“This act is inhuman and condemnable. It has become the habit of the workers of the distribution company to increase the electricity bills of residents on a monthly basis without any justification.”

One of the landlords, identified only as Adedayo, said the distribution company should cancel all the past debts of the residents. He said, 

“The pre-paid meters should also be supplied en mass to curb the menace of crazy billings.”

An official of the distribution company, who identified himself as N.A. Adebayo, assured the residents that their demands would be looked into. He said, 

“The management is going to look into your demands. We will get back to you soon.”

Photos: Buhari Visits Victims of the Nyanya and Kuje Bomb Explosion, Orders Payment of Medical Bills

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday visited survivors of Friday’s night bomb attacks in Nyanya and Kuje in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

A statement signed by Mr Femi Adesina, the president’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, said Buhari was at the Trauma Centre, National Hospital, Abuja and wished the injured victims speedy recovery.

The statement was issued to newsmen in Abuja,

President Muhammadu Buhari Sunday in Abuja took succour to survivors of Friday night’s bomb attacks on Nyanya and Kuje in the Federal Capital Territory.

On a visit to the survivors of the attack who are receiving treatment at the Trauma Centre of the National Hospital, President Buhari wished them full and speedy recovery.

The President reassured the survivors that the Federal Government will take full responsibility for settling their medical bills.

He also directed his Chief of Staff, Mallam Abba Kyari to settle the N268,790.00 medical bill of a young girl in the Paediatric Ward of the hospital.

The girl’s mother, Deborah Stephen, had broken into tears on seeing President Buhari. She told him that her daughter had been shot by armed robbers who raided their home and that the family could not afford the medical bills.

The President who was accompanied by his personal aides and Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, visited the intensive care unit, the paediatric unit and general wards of the National Hospital.

Expressing his appreciation of the President's visit, the Chief Medical Director of the National Hospital, Dr Jafaru Momoh said that it will help the patients’ recovery by giving them a greater psychological sense of being valued and loved by their country.

I Murdered My Father for Scolding Me After I Smoked Four Wraps of Indian Hemp ─ Son

Thirty-five-year-old Nelson, who stabbed his father, Sunday Oamen, to death, in Abesan Estate, in the Ipaja area of Lagos State, has said he did it because his father always scolded him. Oamen, who is currently being detained at the State Department of Criminal Investigation, Yaba, told Punch on Wednesday that he had smoked four wraps of Indian hemp before committing the crime.

He faulted his parents for not giving him enough training, adding that he hated them for always talking down on him. Our correspondent had reported last week Monday that Nelson, a suspected drug addict, stabbed his 75-year-old father to death on Friday, September 23.

It was reported that the deceased, a retired worker in a company in the Apapa area of the state, was battling with stroke and always stayed indoors at the time of the incident. Nelson was reported to have sneaked into the house and stabbed his father to death with a broken bottle.

He was said to have covered his corpse with a blanket and fled the house. Residents told our correspondent that the suspect, who always fomented trouble in the community, escaped with the heart of his father. On Wednesday, our correspondent reported that the suspect voluntarily turned himself in to the police.

During a chat with PUNCH Metro, Nelson said he surrendered himself to the police because he lost his peace after killing his father. The Edo State indigene said he had always fought with his father before things went awry on the fateful day. He said, 

“I am the fourth child in a family of eight children. I have had several fights with my dad in the past. There was a time I confronted him that I had been going through a lot of challenges in life and I needed help, but he said I should sit at home and he would be feeding me. I was angry because he wanted me to be dependent on him and I needed to fend for myself. 

“My parents knew that I smoke hemp and it sometimes affected my behaviour. They asked me to quit it, and I did for some time. People advised them to take me for medical care, but they said they did not have the money. 

“I became addicted to hemp about six months ago. On Thursday night, a day preceding the incident, I had gone to a joint where I smoked four wraps of hemp. I bought each for N50. 

“On Friday, around 11am, I was sitting outside the house when I started feeling restless and a spirit told me to go inside and kill my father. I went in through the window and when I got to where he was lying, I stabbed him in the neck and chest.”

He said after committing the act, he ran away because he was overcome with guilt. Nelson, who dropped out of primary school, denied removing his father’s heart, adding that after killing his father, his eyes became opened.

“The spirit that pushed me to kill my father began to tell me that I will not have rest until I report myself to the police. When I could no longer bear it, I decided to report to the police. 

“It is not my fault. Whenever I talk to my parents, they always scolded me. And sometimes, I felt they were not my parents. I killed my father because he always chastised me and because I lost control of my senses. 

“If I get out of this mess, I will surrender my life to Jesus. But if not, I resign myself to fate,” he added.

Our correspondent learnt that the police would soon charge the suspect to court for the offence.

But a police source said the suspect’s family was becoming hesitant in giving their full support to the prosecution. He said, 

“Some members of the family want him to face the consequence of his action, but they are also considering the implication on their mother who had become old and might not want to suffer double tragedies. 

“However, the police will prosecute him. It is a straightforward murder case.”

Horrific photos from Abuja bomb blast last night (very graphic) Viewers Discretion is Highly Advised Please

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A Military man achieved what you could not, Sylva mocks Oshiomhole

Newly-elected flag-bearer of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the December 5 Governorship Election in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva has berated the Edo state governor, Adams Oshiomhole for failing to conduct a peaceful and credible primary election of the party.

Sylva who spoke shortly after he was declared winner of the primary said, “It’s been a long walk and I am very happy today to accept the victory that you have given to me for the second time. This is only the beginning of the journey. Today I have seen that we politicians have a lot to learn from the military, what a serving Governor of Edo state of this country was incapable of doing just just a few days ago has been achieved by a retired general and his team.

“This tells you that we have a lot to learn about the military. I want to thank the security agencies that have been present since yesterday night until now and have kept the peace and make sure that this primary are rancour free,” he stated.

It will be recalled that Oshiomhole had berated Sylva for allegedly truncating the electoral process during an earlier APC governorship primaries in the state while Sylva described Oshiomhole’s words as a deliberate “act of mischief” and “lies”.

Shortly after that disputed election, the National Working Committee, NWC, of the APC replaced the Edo State Governor with Brig-Gen. Mansur Dan Ali (retd.) as Chairman of the Bayelsa gubernatorial primary election committee.

NEMA confirms 15 people killed, 41 injured in Abuja multiple bomb attacks

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has confirmed that it has so far counted 15 corpses and 41 injured persons after the multiple explosions that rocked Nyanya and Kuje areas of Abuja, Federal Capital Territory.

The agency in a statement Saturday morning by its spokesman, Sani Datti also disclosed that the injured persons were evacuated to Nyanya, Asokoro General Hospitals and National Hospital Abuja.

Meanwhile pieces of human flesh litter the scenes of the unfortunate act.

The attack suspected to have been carried out by the Boko Haram Terror sect happened at the Jikwoyi Park, Nyanya, on the popular Abuja-Keffi Expressway while in Kuje two explosions targeted a police station and a market.

Recall that the Nigerian Army has been celebrating the decimation of the Boko Haram.

Residents of the FCT can be seen on Saturday gathering and discussing the fear of Boko Haram’s return to the capital city while others took to social media to call for an immediate action by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.