“I have done what I could in six years, I’m moving on. I don’t want to go back. The truth is, if I had wanted to go back, the dethronement letter was so badly written, it was not done professionally. The easiest thing is just to go to court.” These are the words of the deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II in a video that is circulating on social media. Sanusi observed that the dethronement letter sent by the Kano government was poorly written and could have made it easy for him to proceed to the court to challenge it. “It’s simple, fair hearing, ‘did you query him? Did you ask him to defend himself? Did you even call him to ask him any question?’ That’s all but I think we should go on to a new phase in life.” Sanusi said it could be difficult for him, but his removal is not an issue as he has no reason to be sad or depressed.
A 30-year old man, Mohamed Gundarre, who was reported in most of the social and conventional media yesterday, March 12 to have attacked President Muhammadu Buhari in Argungu, Kebbi State, has said that he was so excited to see the President he had always loved to meet that he did not know when he charged at him simply to embrace him, thereby breaching protocol.
Reacting to the media reports at a press conference today, March 13 in Birnin Kebbi, Mohamed Gundarre confessed that he had always been emotionally attached to the President’s outstanding virtues of honesty and attempted to shake him when he was prevented by the security.
The man, who is a graduate of Public Administration from Usman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto however apologized for the breach of protocol even as he denied the media report that he was shot and tortured by the security operatives.
“My name is Mohammed Jamilu Gunddare from Birnin Kebbi Local Government Area of Kebbi state.
“Yesterday was a different day for me because as a graduate of Public Administration who graduated with 2nd Class Lower, It took me a lot of courage and dreams to attempt to get to Mr President despite the fact that there was tight security architecture within the venue.
“I am sorry for the disturbances I caused; it was emotional love I have for Mr. President, the person whom I know is nurtured with integrity and honesty and he is incorruptible and right driven.
“No Nigerian and even beyond has never questioned the consistency and integrity honesty and righteous disposition of the President on either national issue or even his own personal life.
“He has worked as Military Administrator, Minister, Military Head of State and civilian President by all accounts no case of corruption had been attributable to him.
“From the time he became the President no one has ever questioned whether the national resources was squandered by the President.”
Mohamed Gundarre stressed that he had no ulterior motive when he attempted to move close to the President and shake him during a photo session at the agriculture show, one of the events for the 2020 Argungu fishing festival.
He said that he was simply overwhelmed by the President’s virtues and raved to shake him. ‘Even if I was dead yesterday I would have been contented that I have achieved my mission to move close to Mr. President and touch him one on one.
“You know that emotional love can divert and taint your total faculty of reasoning and that was what really happened yesterday.
“I was told about the misinterpretation of my action in the media although I was not opportuned to view the clip.
“Please, I am alive, the DSS did not torture me. Nobody has tortured me apart from what happened at the venue when I was forced to the car.”
He said that he had met the Kebbi state Governor, Atiku Bagudu in 2010 when he was a Senator and it has not been easy for him to have access to the Governor.
Mohamed Gundarre said that he was not a beggar, though currently unemployed, adding that he is comfortabke and believed in working hard to fend for himself and the family.
“When the DSS got to my house, they even asked me who built the house for me. I have always believed that by struggle I can achieve anything”
He appealed to the President not to derail in his good work at repositioning the country for the better.
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu has given a technical knock-out to the recently formed regional security outfit known as Amoteku in the Southwest, asking all parts of Nigeria to key into community policing system that has been introduced.
Addressing strategic police managers today, March 13 at a crucial meeting in Abuja, the police boss appealed to all citizens and particularly, the State Governors to continue to support and partner with the mainstream police organization to implement the community policing strategy across the country.
“It is only when we present a common front that we can, as a people, defeat our common enemy who are the bandits, kidnappers, and armed robbers that are testing our will and attempting to alter our values for peace and security.”
“I wish to assure the citizens that with their cooperation and the blessing of the Almighty Allah (SWT) we shall continue to initiate strategies and undertake coordinated operations that are directed at taking the battle to the door steps of the criminal elements. This has been our strategic approach and it has been effective in decimating the bandits, kidnappers and other violent criminals who have been taking advantage of the natural topography of our nation to threaten our security.”
The Inspector General said that at no time had Nigeria requires the dedication, commitment, resilience and professionalism of the police than now. Consequently, even as he charged police strategic managers to continue to provide courageous and knowledge-driven leadership that is required to advance the attainment of the internal security mandate of the Force.
Mohammed Adamu said that the recent incidents of armed banditry, kidnapping and armed robbery most especially in Kaduna, Niger, Kogi, Katsina and Zamfara States have prompted the need for the full and speedy roll-out of the Community Policing strategy across the country.
He said that as conceptualized, formulated, and approved by the Government, the current effort will be citizen-centered and driven by members of each community.
The plan, he said, will involve the setting up of Community Policing Committees (CPCs) at the Ward, Local Government, and State levels including the Federal Capital Territory, adding that the Committees, when inaugurated, are to identify credible and suitable citizens from across each locality for appointment as Special Constables who will serve as Community Policing Officers (CPOs).
“The Committees are also expected to identify the security challenges peculiar to their communities and partner with the local police in formulating plans that would mitigate the challenges. The Community Policing Officers are to deal with and resolve low-level security issues without necessarily resorting to Police Stations unless the issue is of serious legal and security consequences and require police intervention. The idea is to improve the capacity of communities to develop solutions to local security problems working closely with their local police.
“It is our projection that when fully operational, the citizens would be in control of their security with the guidance of the Police and the Community Policing Committees, while the Nigeria Police would then concentrate on the management of violent and other highly organized crimes with a view to pro-actively responding to them in a manner that engender public confidence, trust, and public satisfaction in police service delivery.
“Faced with increasingly sophisticated and enterprising criminal threats, our Community Policing approach recognizes that the Police alone, as a law enforcement agency, does not have the exclusive capacity to solely manage the security threats. Thus, a multi-agency and citizens-driven approach remains the most potent strategy to deal with the current trends of crime.
“The success of the community policing initiative in Nigeria, like in other policing climes, depends largely on the extent to which strategic police managers, particularly, State Commissioners of Police, Area Commanders and Divisional Police Officers understand its concept and practice. This conference shall therefore, dwell extensively on exposing senior police officers to the concept and the implementation plan of the Community Policing Strategy.
“In the course of this meeting, therefore, the specific roles of Police managers at various command levels and other strategic actors in the implementation process shall also be clearly delineated. The senior officers here seated shall also be adequately briefed on the modalities for the vetting and certification of personalities that will be members of the Community Policing Committees. This is with a view to ensuring that only credible and suitable persons are appointed into the Committee.
File photo: Wole Soyinka | PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty Images)
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has described Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, who dethroned Muhammadu Sanusi II from the throne as Emir of Kano, as authoritarianism of the crudest temper.
He also described the governor as the most notorious public face of disorder being propelled by the immunity he enjoys.
Professor Soyinka, who was reacting to the dethronement of Sanusi in a statement, explained that confidence in immunity has catapulted Sanusi’s tormentor to the ranks of the most notorious public faces of the disorder that the deposed emir Sanusi strove to eradicate.
The Professor said it is a pity that Ganduje lacked friends who could have saved him from himself, adding: “insofar as one can acknowledge certain valued elements in traditional institutions, the man he thinks he has humiliated has demonstrated that he is one of the greatest reformers even of the feudal order. That is beyond question, a position publicly manifested in both act and pronouncements.
“By contrast, Ganduje’s conduct, apart from the innate travesty of justice in this recent move, is on a par with the repudiated colonial order, one that out-feudalized feudalism itself, and is synonymous with authoritarianism of the crudest temper.”
He said of Sanusi Lamido: “unblinking, he trod on the interests of powerful beneficiaries of a worm-infested sector and, in the process, created permanent enemies. By contrast, confidence in immunity has catapulted his tormentor to the ranks of the most notorious public faces of the disorder that Sanusi strove to eradicate. Obviously, vengeance lay in wait, and he was not unaware of it. The signs were omnipresent and Sanusi acknowledged their imminence.
“Most important of all, and most pertinently for the nation, Sanusi was one of the early warning voices against religious extremism whose bitter fruits the nation is currently reaping.
The new President of Guinea Bissau, Oumarou Sissoco Embalo has said that with the decision of the country’s courts to give legitimacy to his victory, all matters are now settled, and he now had the support of virtually all the political forces in the country.
President Oumarou Embalo, who spoke today, March 13, when he visited President Muhammadu Buhari at the Aso Rock Presidential vial, Abuja, stressed that the controversies that dodged his election have been put behind and everybody’s hand is on deck to take the country to the greater height.
President Oumarou Embalo expressed his country’s deep appreciation for the support it got from Nigeria and President Buhari during “our most difficult moment.”
He praised Nigeria’s role in the region as well as in global politics and urged President Buhari to continue to ensure the survival of democracy in the sub-region.
This was even as President Buhari expressed Nigeria’s recognition and full support for the country, saying: “it is good you have support of West African leaders, President of Senegal Macky Sall and that of Niger, Muhammadu Issoufou who is the Chairman of ECOWAS, behind you. Both leaders have the respect of their countries.
“We, the leaders of West Africa have the duty of ensuring that the sub-region is stabilised politically, economically and security wise. We will do our best to ensure that elections are free and fair and meet democratic expectations.”
President Buhari advised President Oumarou Embalo to always be mindful of his country’s national interest.
zIn these days of high-tech communications, information travels very fast. Be mindful of national interest which is often reflected in economic and political matters.”
Police escort riders on the Vice President’s convoy, 45 year old Inspector Ali Gomina, has been reported dead.
A statement today, March 13, by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, Laolu Akande said that Ali Gomina died in a road accident while on official duty today.
He said that the accident occurred on the road to the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport.
“The Vice President, who is greatly saddened by this occurrence, has aborted the *scheduled* trip.
“The Vice President described Gomina as a diligent, hardworking and serious-minded officer who will be greatly missed by the team. He is survived by his wife, children and relatives.
Governor Nasiru Ahmed el-Rufai of Kaduna State today, March 13, paid a visit on the deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, in his new abode in Awe, Nasarawa State. The two have been childhood friends.
Governor el-Rufai had since offered two important appointments to the the deposed Emir, few hours after he was dethroned and banished from Kano by the government of Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.
One of such appointments was as Chancellor of the Kaduna State University.
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) will soon begin recruitment of fresh staff.
The Service Public Relations Officer, Sunday James, who made this known today, March 13 in a statement in Abuja said that the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB) has approved the recruitment.
James said that the recruitment was approved by the board under its Chairman and Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola.
“The recruitment is going to be on for four weeks from the date of publication. Members of the public are advised to make use of the opportunity and apply,“ he said. He advised the public against patronising fraudulent websites, pointing out that the authentic platform for the exercise is www.nisrecruitment.org.ng “The public are therefore advised to abide by the rules for the recruitment and note that it is free.
The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the release of the dethroned Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, from detention in Awe, a town in Nasarawa State, where he was banished to following his dethronement on Monday.
The interim order following an ex parte application moved by his lead counsel, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN) today, March 13.
The judge also ordered that the order for the release of the deposed monarch should be served on the respondents to the application.
The respondents to the application are, the Inspector-General of Police, Muhammed Adamu; the Director-General of the Department of State Service, Yusuf Bichi; the Attorney-General of Kano State, Ibrahim Muktar, and the Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN).
The judge fixed March 26 for further hearing in the case.
The presidency has dismissed the news making the rounds, with a video clips about a man who attacked President Muhammadu Buhari in Kebbi State as the handiwork of malicious people.
“Malicious people always twist things to give a negative narrative. But they simply dash their heads against the wall. The country moves on.”
In a statement today, March 13, special adviser to the President on media and publicity, Femi Adesina, said that what happened was that after the President had declared open the Argungu Fishing and Cultural Festival in the state, he was going round the arena to inspect rice pyramids on display, and take photographs with farmers, when a young man, so very excited to see his President so close, made an attempt to get to him.
Adesina explained that World over, such attitude of trying to get to the president with excitement would not be allowed by security details.
“The young man was prevented, and he protested that he should be allowed to greet his President.”
The Presidential spokesman wondered that just after the incident, “professional contortionists are making mischief of the event. They are passing the video clip off on social media as an attempt to attack the President.
“Malicious people always twist things to give a negative narrative. But they simply dash their heads against the wall. The country moves on.”
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A 30-year old man, Mohamed Gundarre, who was reported in most of the social and conventional media yesterday, March 12 to have attacked President Muhammadu Buhari in Argungu, Kebbi State, has said that he was so excited to see the President he had always loved to meet that he did not know when he charged at him simply to embrace him, thereby breaching protocol.
Governor Nasiru Ahmed el-Rufai of Kaduna State today, March 13, paid a visit on the deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, in his new abode in Awe, Nasarawa State. The two have been childhood friends.
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) will soon begin recruitment of fresh staff.
