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Uzodimma Inaugurates APC Liaison Officers For Imo’s 305 INEC Wards

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The Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodimma has inaugurated 305 Ward Liaison Officers for the 305 INEC Wards in Imo State, charging them to defend the achievements of his Shared Prosperity Government.

Performing the ceremony at the Sam Mbakwe Expanded Exco Chambers, Government House, Owerri on Thursday,  November 10, the Governor said their inauguration was a way of enhancing his administration’s inclusiveness, whereby more critical stakeholders are engaged to work and contribute their quota to the Shared Prosperity administration.

He reminded the Officers that before now Imo people were living in fear of insecurity in the rural areas but thanked God that the situation has been brought under control with relative peace now reigning in Imo State.

He said their appointment was also done to sustain the peace that has been achieved by the government in their environment.

The Governor told them that effective the day of their inauguration, they have become “part and parcel of government,” and challenged them “to go there and defend government programmes and activities alongside other party structures already on ground.”

The Governor told them that they are not accountable  to anyone but to him, hence they are “to report straight to his office,” explaining that by their appointments they are members of the Political Bureau.

He however cautioned them not to be disrespectful to their leaders at home, noting, there should not be conflicts in their domains.

He told them that if they need anything or lack anything they should feel free to tell government as government is their own.

Governor Uzodimma challenged them to start work immediately, reminding them that as government liaison officers, they should ensure they “get for government  accurate information of happenings in your wards, shine your eyes to know when enemies want to penetrate their area and bring such to the knowledge of the government so that government will intervene on time.”

The Governor assured them that if they “serve well they will be rewarded well.” 

He also told them that God is the one who institutes government, reminding them that as Liaison officers they are known by every security agency, be it Police, Army or Civil Defence, because they know you are there.

In his acceptance speech on behalf of his colleagues, Barr. Eke Uzoma said they are “elated to be part of the inclusive government and that by the appointment, the Governor has truly returned power to the people.”

He promised that they will put in their best by driving the achievements of the Prosperity Government to the grassroots.

Tension As FUOYE, Family Battle Over Landed Property

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Federal University, Oye Ekiti

By Ayodele Oni

Still trying to settle down for academic work after the end of prolonged strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, (FUOYE) is battling with another issue, which may lead to hostility with host community.

Some family in the host community, Oye Ekiti are laying claim to ownership of land, currently being occupied by the university community.

One of the claimants, the  Oguntuase Family accused FUOYE of encroaching on its land after it gave out substantial portion of the property free of charge to the university.

The spokesman  and secretary of the Oguntuase Family, Mr. Sunday  Oguntuase claimed that the family had conceded 37 hectares out of their property to the federal university.

The issue has generated serious fear and  tension within the university community as some unknown persons place fetish substances at the entrance of the university.

It was learnt that security personnel that were detailed to clear the fettish substances too could not do so.

This situation continued for almost a week before the vice Chancellor of the university, Prof Abayomi Fashina sought an audience with the traditional ruler of the community for possible reconciliation with concerned families.

An Aide to the Vice Chancellor, said all issues regarding land matters have been resolved stressing that the current claim might be a false alarm afterrall.

Special Adviser on Media, Wole Balogun, said “Oye Community and the university management have met and resolved issues relating to landed property of the University and the attacks by some members of Oye community and this means there is peace between the two parties.

“So whoever is now raising allegation of encroachment on their land by the university management may just be rasing false alarm.

“The landed property was given to us by the federal government and if any one is alleging that we intrude on their landed property, such family should approach the appropriate authorities of government.

“We have  also been having some members of Oye community disturbing construction works on going to develop the University and the University management has taken a civil step on this development.”

The aggrieved family also claimed that about 98 percent of  the remaining six hectares left for the family has been acquired,  thereby creating tension and anxiety in the affected areas, as well as the entire town due to large number of those involved.

“Apart from the 37 hectares, we have another 15 Hectares where our cocoa plantation is located but the school had to channel its major road through the land, thereby dividing the land with 9 hectares falling on the school, the remaining 6 hectares is left for the Oguntuase Family.

According to the family spokesman the remaining six hectares are already being encroached by the University.

ICPC Scrutinizes Constituency Projects Of Lawmakers

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By Ayodele Oni

As part of its over sight functions, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), has kicked off tracking of 33 constituency projects execution in Ondo state.

The projects, under scrutiny are those facilitated by some of the Senators and House of Representatives members from the State.

The exercise, which started on Tuesday at Ile-Oluji, Ikare-Akoko and Oka-Akoko in the South and North Senatorial Districts of Ondo state, aims to investigate fraudulent procurement practices in the award of contracts for the selected projects.

Mr. Osove Andrew, the Assistant Chief Superintendent Investigation, ICPC, who led the team to Ondo state, explained that the exercise was to ensure that all government funded projects are executed fully to their specifications and to make recoveries where the project costs are inflated by contractors or are poorly executed.

“The first project we visited at Ile-Oluji was an empowerment project that are already done. So to capture that kind of the project is not that very easy, but from the list, people that took the motorcycles were 124 and we can actually call them to ascertain, to make sure that they actually took the delivery of the motorcycles.

“Also the second project we visited which was the construction of fence of Muslim Primary School Ilepa, Ikare-Akoko, we can see that the fencing is good. But the gate has two bridges which need to be addressed.

“While the third project, road work  in Oka-Akoko is still under construction. One of the things that is of concern is that the contractor has over short his expected date of completion.

“But from the information we’ve gotten from the agency supervising the project, they told us that he has re mobilized to site last month and we are hoping that they will continue and complete the job.

“Above all, the essence of this exercise is basically to ensure that federal government projects assigned to communities have value for money.

“Value for money in the sense that, when project are signed they are done to specification and they are beneficial to community as expected at the point of allotment of those projects.

“So when projects are not done, when they are done, but not to specifications, those are the issue we are here to address.”

Clement Akerele, Chairman, Owese Community Development Committee, who spoke with journalists on behalf of the Oka-Akoko community said “actually this road project started  long time ago and we have been expecting its completion.

“The road leads to the Federal Medical Centre Annex in Oka. The condition of the road is too bad, we do find it difficult to transport patient to the hospital.

“We are appealing to the contractor handling the road project to gear up to complete the road for us, the road is giving us difficulties, we cannot transport patient from our community here to the FMC Annex in Oka.”

Lagos/Ibadan Expressway: Police Move On Kidnappers Ahead Xmas

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Kidnappers Arrested in Zaria

The Ogun and Oyo state police commands have assured commuters plying the Lagos-Ibadan expressway of their efforts to curtail the activities of kidnappers on the ever-busy highway.

The magazine had earlier reported the fear of Nigerians on the danger posed by the criminals who have stepped up their nefarious activities on one of the busiest highways in Africa.

Last month, suspected kidnappers abducted some motorists, among them a former deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan.

The don has since been released after paying over N50 million ransom, but other victims remain in the net of the kidnappers.

More Nigerians were however gripped with fear on Tuesday after suspected kidnappers attacked a commercial coastal bus very close to the Sagamu Interchange.

Not a few motorists plying the road have vowed to stop traveling on the road until it becomes kidnappers-free.

Speaking on Thursday, the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the police commands in the two states are now collaborating to deal with the kidnappers and other criminals posing dangers to people on the road.

He explained that the police had earlier chased the kidnappers away but they returned recently to cause problems for motorists.

According to him, “I am only sure of the attack on Tuesday. But as I am talking to you, the Ogun and Oyo states Commissioners for Police are on the road for on-the-spot-assessment. We are there now; we are brainstorming on how best to solve the insecurity on that road.

“Don’t forget that these hoodlums used to be on the road until last year when our officers attacked and killed some of them and recovered three Ak-47 rifles from them, while some escaped with injuries.

“It was those that escaped with gunshot injuries that regrouped, and they have started launching attacks now; but we will never allow them.”

The criminals are expected to step up their activities ahead of the festive period, according to security experts, the police must ensure constant patrol of the stretch of the highway day and night to keep the kidnappers away.

Twitter: Musk Hints Of Bankruptcy One Month After Takeover

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Elon Musk, the new owner of the social interacting platform, Twitter has disclosed that the company could file for bankruptcy within a year.

Not a few twitter users in Nigeria are currently worried over the future of the company following what they described as some erratic decisions taken by the CEO in the last few days.

For instance, some users are not sure they will be able to cope after the new chief executive said some category of users will be charged for using the platform.

Musk took over the company less than a month ago and has taken some actions, including the sack of many employees for being unproductive.

The billionaire on Thursday gathered employees for an impromptu all-hands meeting at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters, giving workers about an hour’s notice. It took place after Musk earlier that morning sent Twitter staff an email, his first company-wide communication since he took over almost two weeks ago. In that note, he ended remote work and warned employees that the “economic picture ahead is dire.”

Most of the questions during the meeting related to his email and the recent string of resignations of company leaders in the wake of last week’s mass layoff, including those heading up internal systems security, privacy and compliance. Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of trust and safety, departed on Thursday.

One employee asked why Musk ended working from home, and the billionaire looked “visibly annoyed,” and “just shut her down” saying that’s the way the company will operate going forward, according to a person at the meeting.

Another employee asked Musk how he plans to deal with attrition at Twitter.

“I don’t know how to answer that, but I can tell you it’s about being hardcore,” Musk said, according to a person who witnessed the meeting. “A small amount of exceptional people who are highly motivated can do better than a smaller group of high achievers with moderate motivations. If you can’t perform hardcore, then Twitter is not for you.”

Musk floated the idea of bankruptcy after being asked by another employee what would happen if his plans to grow company revenue, right now based largely on building out a subscription business, didn’t pan out. One person who witnessed the meeting said people “weren’t expecting that.”

Bankruptcy is typically seen as a last ditch effort by companies, but it could be beneficial to Twitter since Musk loaded it with debt to fund his $44 billion leveraged buyout. Twitter now has more than $10 billion in debt. The interest payments on that may be so high that the company may struggle to meet those obligations, especially if advertisers are pulling back during a weak economy. Even before the deal, Twitter struggled to make a profit.

Bankruptcy would give Musk the chance to cut that debt load, and lower interest payments. The punishment for such a move would be that Twitter’s lenders and bondholders would likely take a large stake in the company, in return for giving up their right to be paid the interest and principal they are owed. The result would, in theory, mean that Musk and other investors in his deal would own a lot less of Twitter, but he could still maintain control.

The richest man in the world hasn’t shied away from the idea of bankruptcy in the past. In June, Musk said he was worried about keeping Tesla out of bankruptcy amid supply-chain issues.

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Attack On Atiku: Victim Dies As Police Step Up Investigation

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Atiku's Convoy Comes Under Heavy Attack In Maidugiri

Amidst the bickering by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over the alleged attack on the convoy of Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Borno state, on Wednesday one of the victims of the attack was said to have died in the hospital.

Mohammed Ali Jajari, the PDP governorship candidate in the state made this known on Friday while speaking on Channels Television, saying other victims of the attack are still in critical conditions after sustaining various degrees of injuries.

The PDP candidate said the deceased died at 9pm on Thursday, even though he did not mention his name.

The PDP candidate was said to have been attacked on his way from the Shehu of Borno’s palace during the party’s campaign rally in the state.

Over 70 people were said to have been injured when Atiku’s convoy came under gun attack by yet-to-be-identified persons.

A slew of vehicles was also destroyed, an incident that is now under investigation according to the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba.

The PDP has called for a thorough investigations into the matter, after it blamed the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC for the attack. The APC has denied the allegations.

Demanding an investigation, Debo Ologunagba, PDP spokesman urged the IGP to investigate the constant attack on its members by the APC hoodlums.

In a statement he issued after the alleged attack on Atiku, Ologunagba said the ruling party is afraid of the overwhelming support the PDP presidential candidate is receiving from Nigerians.

He said the APC cannot stop the momentum by simply unleashing violence on its members.

The statement read in part: “The attack on the PDP Presidential campaign train as it made its way into Maiduguri city amidst thunderous cheers by the people further confirms APC’s frustration, bitter envy and disconcertedness over the overwhelming popularity of the PDP and our Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar in Borno State, the North-East Zone and across the nation; for which the APC has resorted to violence.

“Our Party has information about how agents of certain APC leaders mobilised the thugs with the aim to escalate violence in Maiduguri and prevent the PDP from holding its Presidential Campaign Rally in the State.

“Nigerians witnessed with horror how hundreds of APC’s armed thugs stationed at major roundabouts and intersections in the city of Maiduguri unleashed violence on the PDP Presidential Campaign convoy and innocent citizens going about their lawful activities in a gruesome attack that left over 70 persons gravely injured and hospitalised.

“This attack is consistent with APC’s habitual resort to violence in the face of rejection by the people as also witnessed in the attack on the PDP’s Presidential Campaign Rally in Kaduna State on October 17, 2022.

“APC’s barbaric and anti-social behaviour is contrary to the Peace Accord it signed on September 28, 2022 and constitutes a clear and present danger to democracy, our electoral process and the 2023 general elections.

“It is clear that the APC has since become confused, frenetic and chaotic following the daily mass exodus of its key members into the PDP across the nooks and crannies of the State as witnessed at the PDP Presidential Campaign Rally today in Maiduguri in support of Atiku Abubakar and in clear rejection of the APC Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his running mate, Kashim Shettima,” the PDP spokesma said.

How & Why Beautiful DSS Personnel Committed Suicide By Jumping Into Lagos Lagoon

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By Gideon Njoku

It has happened a number of times. So, when the news broke Thursday that a young lady in her late 20s or early 30s committed suicide by jumping into the Lagos Lagoon from the Third Mainland Bridge, people just sighed and said: “The usual. Signs of the hard times”

But a couple of hours later, when the identity of the young lady became gradually making the rounds, palpable shock was the reaction. It was followed by two simple questions: Why now? What happened?

In fact, the appropriate questions should have been: Why would a young lady, pretty as a rose, good job, with all her life before her choose to die in a most horrendous manner? Why would she kill herself by drowning?

Adetutu Marriage Proposal Event
Adetutu’s Marriage Proposal Event

Tutu, as she was known was a personnel of the Department of State Services, DSS. She worked as a non combatant personnel and had just been promoted to the rank of an Assistant Superintendent.

In addition, she was an award winner, represented the Service in a sporting activity, and had won the Director General’s award of the best non-combatant personnel. Because of her positive activities, she had the rare privilege of posing for a photograph with the  Director General, Yusuf Magaji Bichi, CFR.

As an icing on the cake, she recently got proposed to by her boyfriend. The marriage proposal was at a hotel in Lagos, with a number of her friends and family present. A source said the event  where her boyfriend knelt down and proposed held just last week.

A video of the proposal seen by this reporter showed a beautiful Tutu in a lovely black gown excitedly stretching her finger for her boyfriend, who wore white, and got down on one knee, to slip  the engagement ring on her finger.  Two young people, her joy knew no bounds.

So, what would make her commit suicide a few days later?

An unconfirmed source told this medium that Tutu was dumped by her boyfriend who had just proposed to her. Nobody could say why.

The shocked Uber driver whose passenger she was before she decided to plunge into the lagoon gave an inkling into what the problem was, thus confirming the story that she was dumped by her man.

He said while she was in the car, Tutu was having a very heated argument with a man he seriously felt was her fiancé. It was serious. When they drove up to the Third Mainland Bridge, the Uber driver said Tutu asked him to stop. He did not say if she told him anything. But he said he got down from the car, and plunged into the lagoon.

Hours after the incident, first responders were still scouring the lagoon either to rescue her, or pick her body.

A couple of people are blaming the Uber driver. Why did he stop on the bridge, especially, after he knew she was arguing with her man?, they ask. But others say: “Perish the thought. And they ask: What if she shouted that she was kidnapped by the driver because he refused to stop?

However, not a few people are blaming her. Said one devastated woman who pleaded anonymity: “She was stupid. Why would she commit suicide over a man? What about her family? Didn’t she have family? All she needed was counselling. Let the man go. Her family should not mourn her.”

Another interjected: “Her man would never have peace. Her manner of death will hunt him forever.”

Neither the DSS nor the Lagos State Police Command has issued a statement at the time of filing this report.

“We Lost Valuables In Ogun, Osun Inferno – INEC

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Abeoluta INEC office on Fire

By Ayodele Oni

Two Local Government offices of the Independent National Electoral  omission, (INEC) in Ogun and Osun states were Thursday attacked by suspected hoodlums, that set them ablaze.

Affected are offices in Abeokuta South Local Government Area and

in Ede-South Local Government Area of Osun state

It was gathered that the fire started early hours on Thursday but the prompt intervention of fire service department in the state which prevented the incident from spreading from the conference hall, where it started to other sections.

Some hoodlums, suspected to be arsonists had set ablaze an Abeokuta South Local Government’s office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) located at Iyana Mortuary in the Abeokuta metropolis early morning on Thursday.

It was gathered that the hoodlums, about eight in number, had gained entrance into the Abeokuta South INEC office by jumping over the perimeter fence and set the INEC building on fire from the back, having soaked some pieces of foam mattress in petrol and thrown same onto the building at different angles to put up the INEC office in flame.

In Osun, findings at the scene of the incident at Oke-Iresi area of the town, revealed that unknown persons set the building on fire using bread soaked with petroleum otherwise known as bread bomb.

Reacting to the incidents, in a statement, INEC national commissioner for information, Festus Okoye “notes that the attack was carried out by unidentified persons that overpowered the security personnel on duty and set the entire building ablaze.

“The main building and all the Commission’s movable assets in the office were destroyed.

“Materials affected include 904 ballot boxes, 29 voting cubicles, 30 megaphones, 57 election bags, 8 electric power generators and 65,699 uncollected Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs).

“Similarly, the INEC office in Ede South Local Government Area of Osun state was attacked and set ablaze.

“The incident occurred in the early hours of Thursday, 10th of November, 2022 when some unidentified persons attacked the building and set a portion of it ablaze.

“Fortunately, the damage  was limited to a section of the building and only some furniture items were destroyed.”

Two Prominent Igbo Sons Give The Presidency To Tinubu

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Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu

By Charles Igbo

Senator Chimaroke Nnamani: Tinubu, City Boy, is a winner

General Azubuike Ihejirika: After Buhari, another President, most likely from the South-west will take over

Two prominent Igbo sons have said that the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, will win the Presidential election in 2023.

In hard-biting posts in a space of 48 hours, they asked the Igbo to prepare themselves for a Tinubu Presidency.

In their separate posts a PDP Senator, former two-term Governor of Enugu State, Dr Chimaroke Nnamani, and General Azubuike Ihejirika, the first Igbo to be appointed Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff since after the Civil War, lamented the position of the Igbo in National politics, but were quick to say “It is self-inflicted.”

In his post titled Foolish Is Not Igbo,  Ihejirika chided Igbo elders and the elite for misleading those who ought to look up to them, especially, the youths.

He said: ” You can hear some highly placed Igbo leaders/opposition politicians shouting loud and clear that only the South-East has not produced a President since 1999 while all other zones have done so, and that this is injustice and inequity against Igbos and that Nigeria cannot survive without justice and equity.

“That’s like insulting the sensibilities of other members of the Nigerian space, as well as issuing a threat. And those leading this chorus are well educated, very knowledgeable and internationally exposed persons who the less educated and ignorant masses look up to for facts and guidance.

“When the base human emotions, the animal human nature, takes over, intellect and enlightenment is relegated. Such brazen lies are told to whip up rash emotions and victimhood mindset which lead to dishing out insults, abuses and hate speech against some other members of the Nigerian space.

“You cannot win the free-will votes of Nigerians by such method. Or do we think we can go to court, obtain an injunction, then come back to nominate a President which Nigerians must accept without voting, or must vote for, all because “it is our turn”? Meanwhile some other leaders from other parts of the country have been busy building and mobilising grassroot support from across the zones, with a view to gaining their votes in next year’s Presidential election.”

The General said the Igbo have created a monster in its land and must take responsibility. He said: “Now that the monster we created has turned back to attack us,  we must take responsibility with a spirit of forthrightness and atonement in seeking for solution to the problem.”

He said that some of those he dismissed as “loud voices”, believe “so much in Josef Goebbels of Big Lie. Tell the lies boldly and repeatedly, and the masses will believe it to be the truth.

“If some of the Igbo leaders of today continue to rely on such strategy, then we could expect a similar backlash because form of dirty politics breeds violent conflict and destruction.”

On what it will be like in 2023, Ihejirika said:

“President Buhari will soon complete his tenure of office and another President (most likely from the South-west) will take over, and we could again start attacking him with insults, abuses and hate propaganda, which will lead us nowhere and cannot succeed in intimidating the new person to do our biddings.”

Senator Chimaroke in his post titled “The Igbo Insularity and its Yoruba Wahala”, without mentioning names, dismissed the candidacy of both the Presidential candidates of the Labour Party and the Peoples Democratic Party, Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar, respectively.

He said of them and their ambition: “One a pure exercise in self-driven political catharsis, the other a known abuser and denigrator of my people.”

On the position of the Igbo in politics, the Medical Doctor-turned politician noted:

“The Igbo are out of the power echelon of an African State they helped found. Product of self-injury and own goal. We need a restart. Based on a paradigm shift. Careful but calculated risk.”

On what to do, Nnamani advised:

“The Igbo has to retrace the steps of (Michael) Okpara and (Obafemi Awolowo), the United Progressive Grand Alliance. An Igbo-Yoruba Alliance.

“It is not late for the Igbo to reflect on and carefully X-ray the looming reality of a President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.”

Then, the PDP Senator heaped praises on Tinubu and what he sees as his imminent victory.

“A marathon politico Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, City Boy they call him, paid his dues over decades, performed creditably in governance and politics.

“With an A-Game, decades of hardwork, patience, resilience and tenacity. And a lot of swagger and chutzpah, Tinubu is it. A consummate and well navigated City boy. A winner always.

“Only saw him complain once, and probably his last. The rest is history.”

We Are Monitoring Activities Of State Owned Security Outfits – IGP; Says Ebubeagu In Ebonyi Under Investigation

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Alkali Baba Usman - IGP

By Ayodele Oni

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Alkali Usman, has highlighted what can be described as a code of conduct for states owned security outfits.

The IGP declared that activities of Ebubeagu and other state-owned security outfits are being regulated and checked to curb excesses.

He spoke on Thursday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, while featuring in the 57th session of State House Briefing organized by the Presidential Communications Team.

He said that the state-owned security outfits have been created to curb crime and criminality as states were told not to use the outfits for political reasons.

“Ebubuagu in Ebonyi, we have on many occasions, checked their high handedness by arresting and investigating those who have actually gone out of their way to commit crime and we have charged them to court.

“If we can charge our personnel for high handedness and other activities, there is nobody who is going to be exempted.

“If there is any specific case that the police have not gone into concerning those outfits, you mention it; but to the best of our knowledge, theory and practice may differ.”

According to Usman, the outfits should avoid being influenced by either primordial loyalty, inducement or other things in discharging their duties.

He warned that officers of the outfits who derail from their legal duties would be prosecuted.

“Some people go out of their way to do the wrong thing and they will be charged.

“And that is why, if these outfits are created by the governors, we are invited to educate them on the extent of their engagement in crime prevention and control.

“We are checking them; they are also good, bad and ugly; they have their good sides. That is why they needed to be checkmated and we doing that.”

The IG pointed out that the scope of crime prevention was wide; hence everybody was being encouraged to join in community policing.

As preparations for next year’s election are in top gear,  the police boss also advised politicians to shun violence and abide by extant rules and agreements on peaceful conduct of campaigns.

Usman said: “The issue of violence in our politics; it takes two to tango; there are laid down procedures to do rallies and campaigns.

“On our part, we have gone out to appeal to politicians to play the game by the rules; and at the same time, allow us to regulate political campaigns, processions and rallies to avoid clashes and so forth.

“The three things which Civil Society Organisations, (Chaos) have spoken about—involvement of security outfits; I think I have even made announcements and pronouncements even before their letter.

“On the day the peace accord was signed by the political parties, I reiterated and observed that we have not less than 64 security outfits that were created by state governors in different names for different purposes.’’

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