The Sokoto State government has set aside the sum of N170 million to feed the poor during this year’s Ramadan fasting, which began yesterday.
Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal who spoke at a fund raising event organized by Sokoto branch of the Izala Islamic group, said that the measure is aimed at bringing succour to the less privileged members of the society..
The governor, who was represented by the Head of Service, Alhaji Bature Muhammed Shinkafi, said he would continue with the Ramadan feeding programme of his predecessor.
The governor directed the Ministry of Religious Affairs to take action on the matter. He acknowledged efforts being made by the Izala group in Islamic propagation and other religious activities across the state. [myad]
A Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed July 1 for judgment in the money laundering trial of a former Minister of Aviation and the immediate Director of media and Publicity for the Presidential campaign Council of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Femi Fani-Kayode. Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia adjourned the case to July 1 following the absence of the lead prosecuting counsel, Mr Festus Keyamo.
When a lawyer announced appearance for Keyamo today, the judge insisted that Keyamo should appear to handle the case. Keyamo has been prosecuting the case.
Ofili-Ajumogobia had on May 5 fixed June 18 for judgment following adoption of final written addresses and summary arguments by lawyers to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as well as that of the accused.
Fani-Kayode, whose trial began in 2008 before Justice Ramat Mohammed, was arraigned by the EFCC to have laundered about N100 million while he was the Minister of Culture and Tourism and subsequently, Aviation Minister. The allegedly laundered sum was, however, reduced to N2.1million on Nov. 17, 2014 after Ofili-Ajumogobia dismissed 38 out of the 40-count levelled against Fani-Kayode for want of proof.
The EFCC prosecutor, Keyamo, while urging the court to uphold the remaining two counts and to accordingly convict Fani-Kayode, said the former minister had failed to exonerate himself of the allegations. Keyamo pointed out that the object of the charge was that Fani-Kayode transacted in cash sums above N500,000, which was the threshold stipulated by the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act.
Keyamo had argued that Fani-Kayode had admitted making such transactions in his confessional statement of Dec. 22, 2008 made to the EFCC. He said: “In this statement, he admitted that he transacted in cash above N500,000. My Lord, this statement went in without objection by the accused person and the statement was voluntary.
“With the combination of this confessional statement and the statement of the IPO that investigated the allegation, we rely on all of this to submit that we have discharged our burden that monies were received by the accused person in cash and were not done through any financial institution.”
Keyamo had argued that the prosecution had discharged its duty once it established that Fani-Kayode transacted in large sums above the Money Laundering threshold, adding that it was left for Fani-Kayode to explain the source of the money. “Once you cannot explain the source of the large sum of money found on you, you are guilty of money laundering. If the prosecution must show where the money is coming from, then the whole essence of the money laundering law is defeated.
“It is not in all cases that the burden of proof lies on the prosecution; the burden at this point shifts to the accused person,” Keyamo argued. He further argued that the court should not simply believe that the large sums in cash that Fani-Kayode allegedly transacted, were proceeds of his father’s estate, saying the accused should have called the tenant who paid the money as rent to testify in court and back it up with his statement of account.
But Fani-Kayode’s lawyer, Mr Ifedayo Adedipe (SAN), in his summary argument, maintained that Fani-Kayode made no confession to the EFCC, adding that the anti-graft agency failed to show that Fani-Kayode actually accepted a cash sum of N1million as alleged.
Adedipe said the EFCC also failed to show to the court the person who handed the cash sum to the accused person. He said for the case of the prosecution to succeed, it had to be proven beyond reasonable doubts. “My Lord, it is our submission that the accused does not have to prove his innocence; it is the prosecution that must prove its case beyond all reasonable doubts.
“In this particular case, the prosecution has failed to give the evidence of acceptance of N1million; in the entire trial none of the witnesses brought by the prosecution gave evidence of giving the accused cash,” Adedipe said. The lawyer said the defence had raised plenty doubts in the mind of the court regarding the veracity of the testimony of the EFCC witness, Supo Agbaje, who was earlier declared wanted by the EFCC and subsequently listed as a prosecution witness.
He added: “My Lord, reasonable doubt exists as to what happened and that doubt should be resolved in favour of the accused. “Do we believe Agbaje, a man fighting for his liberty, who was remanded? “Reasonable doubt exists in the testimony given by Supo Agbaje, who was declared wanted by the EFCC and later used as a witness.”
Adedipe, while urging the court to discharge and acquit Fani-Kayode, said the EFCC had no case against him, but was only striving to “show to the world that we have caught a big fish; but My Lord, there is no big fish here.” [myad]
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has secured the approval of the state House of Assembly to borrow N10 Billion to enable him to pay salary arrears of state government workers, which he inherited from his predecessor, Gabriel Suswam. Part of the loan would also be used to attend to other pressing state matters.
A member of the Assembly, Joseph Ojobo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), moved the motion for the approval of the loan and was seconded by Ianna Jato also of the PDP.
The Speaker, Terkimbi Ikyange, commended the members for their contributions to the loan debate.
Speaking with journalists after the session, Bem Mngutyo of the All Progressives Congress (APC), representing Tarka State Constituency, said the decision was to enable the government to perform its statutory functions.
“Ours is to see how the government can move forward. The state is in a precarious situation, where salaries are not paid,” the former Benue State Nigerian Union of Journalists chairman noted.
“Even if borrowing is not the best approach, it is pertinent to know that the best thing to do now is to borrow. Perhaps, we can step up ways of our Internally Generated Revenue because our situation seems to be worse than states that were created after Benue.” [myad]
In August 2013, I lost my mother and we needed to do her funeral. So, I sent (Muhammadu) Buhari an invitation card. The service was in Lagos and lo and behold, before the service started, he drove in. It was a pleasant surprise. It was a Christian service and he sat through it. Those who had said that he was a religious bigot were shocked.
This was a Muslim man that came for a Christian service and attended the full service and yet they were saying he was a religious bigot. So, that act cemented our relationship because after the event, I phoned him the next day and thanked him but he said he was the one that should be grateful because he had never given me a kobo and yet I always gave him all the support. He said there were people that could pay me millions of naira for such support but I had decided to pitch my tent with somebody that could not give me anything. So, that cemented our relationship.
Special adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina spoke in a special interview he granted SAHARA TV. Please read the full text:
Are you excited about your appointment?
Well, it is a call to service and one should be thankful when called to serve one’s country.
With this appointment will you be switching sides that is, from scrutinising the government to defending the government?
Let me first of all examine what you said, that I will switch sides from scrutinising to defending the government. No. The scrutinising part will still be part of my duty. Before I can speak for the government, I must first scrutinise the decisions and the policies and then make an input before I can then defend. So, it is not a total switch. There must still be a lot of scrutinising because anything I am going to defend, I have got to be able to understand it, agree with it and see the rationale behind it before I can defend it. So, it is not a total switch.
So, what if you do not agree with a policy? How will you approach it?
If I don’t agree with a policy, I will first ask for an explanation and when I am given the explanation, I will make my input. But then, my input does not have to override what may be in the public interest or what is in the interest of the larger number of people. My opinion might not necessarily be the correct one. So, when such challenges come, you have to weigh it and say, is it in the larger interest of the people, is it in the interest of the country? Will it eventually result in a better standard of living for the people? That is the way to look at it. It doesn’t have to be something I must agree with all the time. I should be able to appraise the decisions that have been made and seek to understand them and then make my contribution as necessary.
There are reports that you know President Muhammadu Buhari very closely. What is your relationship with him?
I will say yes. The President is somebody that I have admired for a long time since he was a military ruler. When he was a military ruler, I was already in my third year in the university. So, I can say I knew him and his style and I liked it. I felt sorry when his government was overthrown. So, when he came back into partisan politics in 2003, it was something that was very exciting for me and since then, I have been supporting him. I am a journalist and I write a weekly column. I have been pointing Nigerians in his direction since 2003. And whenever I wrote anything in his (Buhari’s) support, he would call me on the phone and we would discuss and he would thank me. I remember in 2009 or thereabout when Prof. Tam David-West wrote a book on Buhari and it was to be presented at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs. I was the master of ceremony of the occasion so we got to speak and know each other better. That was the first time I would meet him (Buhari) in person. Thereafter, he ran for President in 2011 and I still wrote in my column that I thought he was the best person to rule Nigeria and bring a change. Whenever I wrote those things, he would call me and he would thank me and we would talk.
So, eventually, in August 2013, I lost my mother and we needed to do her funeral. So, I sent Buhari an invitation card. The service was in Lagos and lo and behold, before the service started, he drove in. It was a pleasant surprise. It was a Christian service and he sat through it. Those who had said that he was a religious bigot were shocked. This was a Muslim man that came for a Christian service and attended the full service and yet they were saying he was a religious bigot. So, that act cemented our relationship because after the event, I phoned him the next day and thanked him but he said he was the one that should be grateful because he had never given me a kobo and yet I always gave him all the support. He said there were people that could pay me millions of naira for such support but I had decided to pitch my tent with somebody that could not give me anything. So, that cemented our relationship.
You know, in 2011, he said he would not contest the Presidency again but in the run up to the 2015 election, I felt he should still run and I wrote that the fact that he said in 2011 that he would not run again could not be carved in concrete and he could change his mind if he wanted and the rest, they say, is history. He changed his mind, he ran and he won. Significantly, on the night that he was declared the winner, my phone rang around midnight and one of our leaders in the media called and said, ‘Please hold on for Gen. Muhammadu Buhari’. I was shocked and when he spoke to me, he said he appreciated my support throughout the campaigns and now that victory had come his way, he just wanted to say thank you. So, that was how it played out.
How did you get the appointment? Did he call you or were you interviewed?
After he had been declared winner and after he had called me on the telephone, I deliberately stayed away from him for two reasons. The first was because I knew he would be under a lot of pressure. A lot of people would be calling to congratulate him and probably seeking one thing or the other. So, I think from that night, which was March 31, I deliberately stayed away from him because I did not want to add to the pressure that would be on him and secondly, I didn’t want it to be that I was seeking a position in his government. I am a born again Christian and I want anything that happens or comes my way to be what God has ordained. I don’t push anything; I don’t lobby for anything so I kept my distance from him. But then, people around him kept talking to me and kept telling me that they believed I was the best person to be the spokesman for the incoming President. However, I did not give any commitment for two reasons. The first, as I said earlier, was that I didn’t want to lobby and secondly, I have a job that I enjoy doing: Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of one of the leading newspapers in the country, The Sun, and then I was also the President of the Nigeria Guild of Editors. Those are high calibre jobs and responsibilities. So, I wasn’t looking for a job but then people around me kept talking to me till eventually, there was some sort of interview but I would not say it was a direct interview but people singled me out to say, ‘Well, if you are invited to serve in government, will you serve?’. My conviction had always been that I would never serve in a government except one headed by Muhammadu Buhari. So, when they singled me out, I told them I didn’t think I wanted to serve in the government but since it is Muhammadu Buhari, I will consider it. But I also reminded them that I also have a job and I have to consult with my publisher (Orji Uzor Kalu) and I have to seek his blessings. Reluctantly too, my publisher gave his blessings. He told me that they would not know the sacrifice he had made by letting me go but since it is a service to the country, I have his blessings. So, I got back to them and told them yes, that I had sought my publisher’s blessing and the next I heard was the announcement that I had been appointed Special Adviser on Media and Publicity.
You will be going into the job in a changing media landscape. You will grapple with the social media and the traditional media. How do you hope to navigate these two worlds?
I would rather refer to the social media as digital media because the social media is just a variant of the digital media. Nobody can do anything successfully in the media today without factoring in the digital media. The social media, the digital media and every other thing will be used together. You would have seen the role they played in the campaigns. You could feel the pulse of the electorate and could already discern the direction the election would follow by merely following the digital media, particularly the social aspect of that digital media. It played a major role in the campaigns and there is no way you are going to ignore it. The traditional media has its place because there are people who are still glued to it. But the younger generation uses the digital media so you then need to use all the avenues to reach the people.
So far, what do the media headlines regarding Buhari’s administration say to you about what you are going to be dealing with on the job?
I will tell you it is no tea party. It is going to be a hectic work but then it is going to be me working for somebody that I believe in. So, I guess I will have to throw my all into it. I am under no illusion that the job is going to be easy or a picnic. It will not be. But I will throw my all into it and as long as my principal remains who he is: straight, accountable, focused and someone who wants to effect a change in the country, I guess we will get it done. When you have a good product, the marketing is easier.
Have you spoken with previous government spokesmen like Mr. Reuben Abati and Mr. Segun Adeniyi?
I have spoken with Segun Adeniyi (the late President Umaru Yar’adua’s spokesman); I have spoken with Ima Niboro who was former President Goodluck Jonathan’s first spokesman; but I have not spoken to Reuben Abati.
What advice did they give you?
They gave me an insight into how to do the job successfully. I have spoken with Segun more than once but I have spoken with Ima Niboro just once. I will meet with Segun again and we will talk. [myad]
Pope Francis has blamed human greed for what he called, critical situation that has led to climate change, even as he said that the doomsday predictions can no longer be dismissed, and “the earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.”
The Pope called for urgent political and spiritual conversion of global leaders and individuals in curbing it before it destroys the environment.
In a radically worded letter that was published on Thursday, the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics emphasized that greed is the cause of a situation the mother Earth, which he referred to as “Our Sisiter,” now finds itself in.
“This sister now cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted on her by our irresponsible use and abuse of the goods with which God has endowed her,” Francis writes.
The Pope argued that environmental damage is intimately linked to global inequality.
Meanwhile, the Green activists have hailed the Pope’s widely-trailed intervention as a potential game-changer in the debate over what causes global warming and how to reverse it.
“Everyone, whether religious or secular, can and must respond to this clarion call for bold urgent action,” said Kumi Naido, the international executive director of Greenpeace.
Environmentalists hope the Pope’s message will significantly increase the pressure for binding restrictions on carbon emissions to be agreed at global talks in Paris at the end of this year.
Earlier this year, Pope Francis also addressed the issue of the environment during his visit to the Philippines, which was hit by the super typhoon Haiyan. [myad]
The Governor Nyesom Wike-led government of Rivers State has ordered the sack of 344 employees, comprising lecturers and non-academic staff of Rivers State Polytechnic, Bori.
The appears to be a follow-up to the earlier alarm raised by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the state in April this year that the management of the state polytechnic was employing people without going through due process.
According to PDP in the statement issued in April this year by its state Chairman, Felix Obuah, the party had described as frightening, illegal employment in Rivers State Polytechnic Bori.
He alleged that at least 500 people were secretly employed without going through due process.
“The Chairman, Rivers State Civil Service Commission, Mr. Ngo Martins-Yellowe and the 23 Local Government Caretaker Committee Chairmen are also secretly employing thousands of persons to swell the number of civil servants in government employ and councils, so that the incoming PDP government will battle with the alarming wage bill.
“PDP appreciates the employment of Rivers people, but such employment must follow due process, must not be partisan and without hidden agenda.”
Frowning at what he described as uncalled for, and criminal act by political aides to the governor in connivance with some senior officials of government, Obuah said: “change of guards in governance is a normal tradition and does not mean the end of government or discontinuation of political leadership in the state.”
Speculations are rife that Governor Wike may soon start the process of sacking over 13, 200 teachers employed by former Governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi more than a year ago to teach in primary and secondary schools. [myad]
Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki has warned government agencies that are in the habit of diverting government’s revenue to desist because the Senate would deal with them henceforth.
He particularly referred to federal government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), noting that most of them are not only mismanagement the revenue due to the Federation Account but have failed to remit same, adding that this government will no longer condone such act.
Addressing the chairman of the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Engineer Elias Mbam, and his team when they paid him a courtesy visit in his office, Senator Saraki noted that non-compliance by agencies of government in remitting monies had brought major setbacks in the processes of governance.
He emphasized that the Senate would support government efforts in bringing to justice, any erring agency that indulges in diverting government’s revenue, adding: “monetary revenue and allocation is a serious challenge to our economy. Though, diversification of economy is very important but it is not an overnight issue. We must block every leakage in government revenue.
“We made campaign promises to Nigerians, and we must fulfill all our pledges. It cannot be business as usual. We will do everything within our capacity to elevate the living standard of Nigerians,” he said.
The Senate President had also made it clear on his Twitter handle that the annual wardrobe allowance for each senator is N506,600 per annum, about N2.25 million for their four-year tenure, even as he absolved lawmakers form what he called indiscriminately allocating monies to themselves.
According to him, it is only RMAFC that has the responsibility of fixing their remuneration and that the Commission would soon publish details of their allowances on its website.
“RMAFC was in my office to clarify (that) wardrobe allowance is N506,600 per senator. I have just been informed that RMFAC will be publishing details of allowances on their website.
“With the current challenge we are facing as a nation, RMAFC will be reviewing allowances to reflect the current economic trend. Fixing remuneration is sole responsibility of RMAFC,” the Senate president said.
It would be recalled that media reports had come up with an allegation that a member of House Representatives collects N17.5 million as wardrobe allowance annually, while a senator receives about N21.5 million. [myad]
China has banned civil servants, students and teachers in its mainly Muslim Xinjiang region from fasting during Ramadan and ordered restaurants to stay open.
Most Muslims are required to fast from dawn to dusk during the holy month, which began on Thursday, but China’s ruling Communist party is officially atheist and for years has restricted the practice in Xinjiang, home to the mostly Muslim Uighur minority.
“Food service workplaces will operate normal hours during Ramadan,” said a notice posted last week on the website of the state Food and Drug Administration in Xinjiang’s Jinghe county.
Officials in the region’s Bole county were told: “During Ramadan do not engage in fasting, vigils or other religious activities,” according to a local government website report of a meeting this week.
Each year, the authority’s attempt to ban fasting among Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang receives widespread criticism from rights groups.
Uighur rights groups say China’s restrictions on Islam in Xinjiang have added to ethnic tensions in the region, where clashes have killed hundreds in recent years.
China says it faces a “terrorist threat” in Xinjiang, with officials blaming “religious extremism” for the growing violence.
“China’s goal in prohibiting fasting is to forcibly move Uighurs away from their Muslim culture during Ramadan,” said Dilxat Rexit, a spokesman for the exiled World Uyghur Congress.
“Policies that prohibit religious fasting is a provocation and will only lead to instability and conflict.”
As in previous years, school children were included in directives limiting Ramadan fasting and other religious observances.
The education bureau of Tarbaghatay city, known as Tacheng in Chinese, this month ordered schools to communicate to students that “during Ramadan, ethnic minority students do not fast, do not enter mosques … and do not attend religious activities.” [myad]
“I don’t know if there are demons besetting that place that is making things difficult to work out there. Apart from hoping that things will change in that place, I also feel we should employ prayers for the complex to be restored.
“We all know what Ajaokuta Steel Complex (in Kogi state) stands for, and we are putting it to paper and debate it. By that, I mean the sectoral debate that we have proposed in our legislative agenda.”
These are the words of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara who hosted members of the Kogi State caucus in the House as they paid him a solidarity visit in his office yesterday.
Dogara went on: “we have to engage on issues that affect the people more – like these that you have raised about Ajaokuta. Itemising the economic benefit of the place is the kind of things that I would like to see members canvass for on the floor of the House. We must not joke with this as it affects all of us.
“We must open a legislative debate on Ajaokuta within the first and second week of our resumption to be sponsored by one or all of you so that we can resolve and send our resolution to the executive for implementation.”
Speaker Dogara advised the federal government to put more effort into the resuscitation of the Steel Complex in order to check the problem of unemployment in the country. He assured the group that the House will soon begin interfacing with the executive in its bid to solve the perennial problem bedevilling the steel complex which he described as a platform for the industrialisation of the country.
We implore you to support this leadership as it’s necessary for the success of the House; for, we will not shut our doors to any member”, he said. [myad]
Muslims in Nigeria joined their counterparts around the world today to commence this year’s Ramadan fast, following the declaration of moon-sighting by the President-General, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA and Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, yesterday. This is even as President Muhammadu Buhari, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and other leaders asked Muslims to use the Holy month to pray for peace and development of the country.
The Month of dawn-to-dusk fasting also comprises of intense prayer and nightly feasts otherwise known as iftar.
Addressing newsmen in his palace, the Sultan stated that, Thursday June 18, marks the beginning of Ramadan 1436 A.H, urging Muslims to use the 29 or 30-day period to offer prayer for peace and development of the country.
President Buhari, in a congratulatory message released on his behalf by the Senior Special Assistant (Media and Publicity), Garba Shehu, implored Muslims to seek maximum benefits from the Ramadan period “by being helpful to all manner of people, learning and following the true message of the religion as taught by the Holy Prophet.”
The President in his message directed an appeal to the perpetrators of violence and destruction in the name of Islam all over the world to desist from tarnishing the name of the religion.
“As we make collective efforts to bring to a permanent end the menace of the Boko Haram in the Lake Chad basin countries, let me use this auspicious occasion to appeal to our misguided brothers to drop their arms, embrace peace and seek a better understanding of Islam during this Holy period and beyond,” Buhari said.
The President prayed to Allah to bring peace and harmony to all parts of the country and the world at large.
“I wish all our citizens a blessed Ramadan. Ramadan Kareem Mubarak,” the statement concluded.
Also in a statement released by his media office in Abuja today, Atku said that he was constantly saddened by the frequent explosion of conflicts and violence, which poses threat to the country’s peace.
According to Atiku, Muslim leaders should intensify efforts to eliminate the influence of extremists in the life of Muslims, calling on political leaders to show extra vigilance to stem the growth of extremism.
He expressed sadness that people have been turned to captives of fear because of the spectre of terrorism, even as he called for urgent action to attack the roots of terrorism by attacking the ideology.
To attack the ideology, he explained that innocent Muslim disciples should be shielded from the influences of extremist teachers, who might exploit their ignorance and push them into criminal atrocities.
Atiku also expressed his sadness at how a minority group of misguided bigots are giving innocent Muslims a baggage of negative image.
He, however, advised Muslims to continue to pray for the peace of Nigeria.
In their messages, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode and Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, stressed the need for strict adherence to the dictates of Islam throughout the period.
They also urged Muslim faithful in particular and Nigerians in general to use the Ramadan period to pray for peace and unity to reign in Nigeria.
In a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Habib Aruna, Ambode said Ramadan signifies a month of piety and total abstinence from food and all vices for all believers.
He urged all Muslims to ensure that the abstinence from all vices which is embraced during the period should become an everyday affair because in doing so each person would be at peace with him or herself.
The governor, who also used the occasion to preach peaceful coexistence among all residents of the state, added that it is only in a peaceful atmosphere that all plans and programmes of the present government can be actualized.
“At this critical period of nation building, the lessons of the Holy month of Ramadan must permeate all actions and deeds of the people in such a way that each person serve as his brother’s keeper always”, the governor said.
He said it should also be a period of rededication to the ideals of nation building by the entire citizenry, especially at this period when majority of Nigerians have expressed their choice at the polls for a Change which must be total and all encompassing.
Also, the Speaker, in his Ramadan message through his Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Mr. Musbau Rasak, described the fasting period as a period of sober reflection which gives Muslims opportunity to move closer to Almighty Allah and seek His face in supplication and prayers..
“It is a period of sober reflection, a period we move closer to Almighty Allah in supplication and prayers and a period prayers are answered by Almighty Allah, so it is not only for Muslims alone who should make positive use of this spiritual period but also Nigerians in general irrespective of their religious belief,” the Speaker said. 9myad]
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