Rivers: Wike Declares War On PDP Chieftain, Demolishes Hotels

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By Fola James

Nyesom Wike, the Governor of Rivers state has wielded the big stick on two hotels whose activities violated the lock down imposed by the state government few days ago.

The state’s helmsman has also declared Princewill Osaroejiji, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s Youth Leader in Eleme Local Government Area wanted and promised a bounty of N5 million on whoever can assist the state in arresting the youth leader.

According to a statement issued in Port Harcourt by Paulinus Nsirim, the state Commissioner for Information and Communications, Governor Wike said the state took the decision to demolish Prudent Hotel, Alode Eleme and Etemeteh Hotel, Onne, to serve as warning to other violators.

The statement also said that Osaroejiji was declared wanted by the state government over his alleged involvement in criminal activities.

Recall that Governor Wike, last week, ordered the closure of all hotels operating in the state as a way of curbing the spread of COVID-19 in the state. (NAN)

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COVID 19: Fear As Sanwo-Olu Mulls Fresh Lock Down

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By Tosin Olatokunbo

Apprehension over another round of lock down in Lagos state has forced residents to stock their homes with essential food items to avoid shortages.

Major and neighbourhood markets were on Saturday and Sunday flooded by residents who are not prepared to face food scarcity.

Governor Babajide Sanwo-olu had yesterday, during the daily press briefing on COVID 19, warned residents to adhere strictly to safety guidelines, failure which the state will be forced to re-impose the stay at home order.

Before partially lifting the six weeks lock down, last Monday, Governor Babajide Sanwo-olu outlined some safety measures to be followed by all residents in the state.

These include social distancing and use of face or nose masks in all public places.

Others include the directive to commercial buses and tricycles operators to reduce the numbers of passengers in their vehicles.

But, Governor Sanwo-Olu has now lamented the indiscriminate disobedience of residents to the directives.

As a responsible government which prizes the welfare citizens, he said the administration could no longer watch its directives being flouted, that except there is a change in attitude, a new lock down order is in the pipeline.

According to him, “If we do not see an improvement in the next couple of days, we would be forced to evoke the very painful decision of bringing the entire system under a lockdown again.

I’m aware that the Presidential Task Force has also made this point and very importantly that the continued maintenance of this ease is only guaranteed when people consistently comply. Let the numbers we have seen this week stand as a warning to all of us because we are monitoring and checking this on a daily basis.

We all must take responsibility, which is what this time demands of us. Government will not shy away from its own responsibilities.”

The governor said the behaviors of residents in public places such as banks, markets, malls and bus stop did not show responsibility on their part to assist the government in containing the spread of COVID 19.

He said commercial bus drivers, particularly have been known to disobey the social distancing order, while compliance in market places have been below average

He said “The yellow buses scored below average but we are working with them. We are certainly not happy with their level of compliance and we are hoping that in the few days ahead we will see significant improvement.”

“I have also given strict instruction to the police to confiscate motorcycles defying this order,” he added, noting that the ban on interstate travel remained active.”

Meanwhile, some residents who spoke with the magazine said the state cannot afford a total lock down a second time because of the untold hardship it will bring on the businesses and social life.

For instance, the initial lock down has caused among others, food shortages, inflation and crimes, they said, adding that another stay could lead to total breakdown of peace and order in the state.

another stay -at-home-order could further lead to a spike in essential food items, taking them beyond the reach of the most vulnerable, analysts have warned.

Orji Kalu Revelation: To Get People Out Of The Way, They Are Framed For Murder

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By Adesina Soyooye

The revelation shocks. But it comes from the horse’s mouth. It comes from a man who says he has seen it all and, according to him, seen and tested a huge dose of injustice.

Orji Uzor Kalu, former Abia State Governor, and now, Senate Majority Chief Whip, says that in Nigeria, people are framed for murder just to get them out of the way.

He made this shocking revelation in a statement he signed on Friday, as soon as the Supreme Court freed him from prison.

Kalu was sentenced to a 12-year prison term on 5th December, 2019, by a Federal High Court, presided over by the Hon. Justice Mohammed Lima. He was dragged to court by the EFCC for alleged fraud and corruption during his tenure as Abia State Governor.

But on Friday, the Supreme Court released him, citing lack of jurisdiction on the side of Justice Lima who, at the time he delivered the judgement, had already been elevated to the Court of Appeal. It was based on the elevation that the SC said he had no business going to a lower Court to deliver judgement in Kalu’s case.

The SC ordered a retrial.

At the time of his release, Kalu had already spent five months in prison.

In a statement on release, Kalu, who obviously sees his stint in prison as an injustice said he would, as from now on, dedicate the remaining years of his life to fighting injustice.

He decried the injustices he saw in prison revealing: “Situations where innocent people are falsely charged with murder just to get them out of the way does not dignify our country, and cannot continue.”

Kalu did not, however, disclose how many of such innocent people, framed for murder just to get them out of the way, he met while in prison.

But not a few Nigerians are worried about Kalu’s revelation, and think it is something the Federal Government, the Civil Society and Amnesty International should be interested in.

Covid-19: Oshoala Wins Spanish League With Barcelona, As Spanish Football League Ends Abruptly

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By Akinwale Kasali

The dream of Female Super Eagles Captain, Asisat Oshoala, of winning the Spanish Female Primera Iberdola League has come to reality.

The Spanish Football Association has ended the Spanish Female Iberdola League due to the Coronavirus outbreak which halted all football activities around the World.

The former Arsenal and Liverpool Football Club star secured her maiden league diadem with the Catalans, achieving her dreams in Spain as Barcelona emerged Spanish Primera Iberdrola champions following the abrupt end of the 2019-20 season.

The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RSFF) made attempts to complete the 2019-20 season but the inability to meet the government’s health protocol dashed their hopes, hence the termination.

The announcement saw Oshoala’s team reclaiming the league crown for the first time since 2015 despite being unable to see out their remaining games due to the Covid-19 crisis.

The four time African Women’s Player of the Year made an unsuccessful bid to win a league title in her previous spells in Europe with Liverpool and Arsenal.

The same fate she suffered on her initial loan spell at Barcelona following her move from Chinese Women’s Super League outfit Dalian Quanjian in 2019.

Despite her contributions, scoring eight goals in 11 games, including the Champions League final consolation goal, they could not celebrate a title. So they ended as runners-up last season in the Female UEFA Champions League, where she became the first African Player to score in the final of the coveted tournament.

Since her permanent deal, the 25-year-old has gone on to celebrate her first silverware with the Copa Catalunya last August and helped them to the Supermarket Women’s Cup triumph in February.

Barcelona emerged champions with 59 points from 21 matches and Oshoala made an incredible mark for Luis Cortes’ team as she scored 20 goals in 19 outings.

The development means Barcelona has ended their five-year wait to reclaim the Spanish title and secured the crown without losing a game to become the fifth team to achieve such a feat.

Meanwhile, many club executives are due to meet on Friday to decide on the final promotion places in Spain, as the number of Covid-19 cases and deaths continues to rise across the country.

Imo Hotel Collapse: Developer Says Okorocha Lied; Cries Foul; Asks For Judicial Panel

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By Adesina Soyooye

The ante has been upped in the case of the eight-floor hotel under construction, in Owerri, which suddenly collapsed last week.

The question since then has been: Between the two administrations of former Governors Emeka Ihedioha and Rochas Okorocha, who gave approval for the construction?

While aides of the two former governors have engaged themselves in allegations and counter allegations over whose administration the people should hold responsible for any negligence which led to the tragedy, nothing much was heard from the developer. Not even his identity, or those of the contractors or Consultants were made public. Now, the veil is off, and the angry and frustrated developer is shooting from the hip,

His insistent question: Who dunnit?

He is anxious for an answer, and he suspects foul play.

On Thursday, at a Press Conference in Owerri, addressed by his Counsel, Barr. Soronnadi Njoku, he told his story, and his ordeal.

His name is Mr Chinedu Victor Anujuru, a young high profile international businessman based in France.

Estimated at a cost of about N4.8billion on completion, Anujuru said he was moved by the clarion call from home to Nigerians in the Diaspora, to invest in their country. He chose his state, Imo, and embarked on the hotel project which, on completion, would have provided jobs for the teeming unemployed in the state.

The devastated developer said he followed all due and legal procedures, got approvals from both the Imo state government, then under Governor Rochas Okorocha, and all concerned agencies, paid all the fees attached to such approvals, hired the best hands in the construction industry for such high profile projects – Engineers, Architects, Consultants.

And yet?

On the collapse of the project, Anujuru is outraged that anybody connected to the Okorocha administration would say that he had no approvals for the project, and began the project on his own. He is also perplexed that anybody could claim that the Okorocha government had asked him to stop work on the project, only for him to resume again as soon as the Governor Emeka Ihedioha administration came on board.

He was, also, shocked when he heard the news that the approval he sought was for a project of six floors, not eight floors.

A source very close to him told this magazine:

“Nothing could be further from the truth. The approval by the Okorocha government was for seven floors and a pent house”

Since the collapse of the building, allegations and counter allegations over whether the developer was given an approval or not have been rife. While some people say Okorocha gave the approval, others say Okorocha not only denied him the approval, but asked that work be stopped, only for him to continue with it when Ihedioha came on board.

Okorocha’s Media aide, Sam Onwuemedo, in defence of his boss, issued a press statement where he said Okorocha denied the developer an approval for the project because he was not able to provide the documents he was asked to provide. He also said the approval sought was for six floors, and not for eight floors. He insisted that when his boss saw that the project had started without his approval, he ordered that work be stopped immediately.

“Onwuemedo: “The truth of the matter is that the government of Rochas never gave approval for that building or project which began in April 2018. They came with the application for approval, but the approval was never given because the government insisted on seeing all the necessary documents.

“In their application, they had talked about six floors. And the government demanded for all the specifications before approval could be given. They were not forthcoming, but went ahead with the project. And when the government saw that the project was going-on, it ordered that it should be stopped.

“That was the situation until Chief Ihedioha’s government came on board. Nobody knew what those concerned told Ihedioha, that made him to ask them to continue with the buiding.”

But those connected to the Ihedioha administration have since denied the allegations, insisting that his administration had nothing to do with the building.

Now, the developer, angry, has dismissed all the claims by Okorocha as untrue. And, he suspects, perhaps, foul play.

He is asking that the Governor Hope Uzodinma Government set up a Judicial Panel to be headed by either a serving or retired Judge of the High Court, to get to the root of the collapse of the building.

At the press conference addressed by Soronnadi, he said that his pain at the loss of lives at the site knows no end, and has now worsened by the lies being told about the project.

Soronnadi: “My client, having acquired the land by way of a registered land instrument dated 31st May 2013, retained the services of Messrs Nadoz Ideas Architects and Developers as Consultants to the project, They produced the working drawing for him, which drawings were registered and approved by Owerri Capital Development Authority. They consist of the architectural drawings, structural drawings, electrical drawings, and mechanical drawings.

“The approval of the OCDA, having been obtained, our client retained a firm of building contractors selected for him by his consultants following a competitive building process that started with 10 construction firms. Indeed, the firm finally retained, Messers Ted Consultants Nig. Ltd, submitted verified proof of their competence to execute the project by showing evidence of successful completion of similar, and even more complex projects.”

Soronnadi revealed that his client being not an engineer, never interfered in the construction, and never spent more than 30 minutes on the site on the very few times he visited. He also said that he received no complaints whatsoever from either OCDA, or the professionals retained to do the job. Nobody complained about the quality or quantity of the materials for the project, he said.

Soronnadi explained that his Client was surprised that after the loss of lives, and hundreds of millions of Naira lost, an “interim report” by the Nigerian Institution of Architects “appear to be highly prejudicial to a fair, impartial and objective of the very important question: Why did the building collapse?”

He submitted that any such report was wrong when his Client, being a full participant in the unfortunate development was not contacted or heard from.

Finally, Soronnadi says his Client wanted nothing more than a Judicial Panel to find out the truth concerning the collapse.

Since Soronnadi’s press conference, there has been no response from the Okorocha camp to contradict him.

Whatever, Imo people are desirous of knowing the truth about the tragedy that claimed, at the last count, 15 lives, shattered dreams, and wasted the developer’s billions of Naira.

Update: Two Die, Nmillions Are Lost In Moniya Fire Disaster

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May 9, 2020

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By Akinwale Kasali

Two people lost their lives in a fire outbreak at the popular Moniya Market, Akinyele Local Government Area of Ibadan, Oyo State Capital. Also gone in the tongues of fire are shops and vehicles which cost have been put at hundreds of millions of Naira.

The fire was started when a tanker ladened with diesel fell around the Moniya area of Ibadan and burst into flames.

The incident forced traders, commuters and residents of the area to scamper to safety as the inferno continued to increase in intensity, destroying everything on its way.

Men of the Oyo State Fire Service arrived the scene to curtail the spread of the fire even as traders and sympathizers battled to, also, put out the fire.

An eyewitnesses, Tunde Adedayo, said that officials of the State Fire Service arrived at the scene about 35 minutes after the fire started, stressing that immediately the tanker laden truck fell off, there was a loud blast, which was followed immediately by a huge ball of fire with thick cloud of smoke while the fire kept razing every item on its path.

“The diesel tanker had skidded and people started running up and down. There was confusion everywhere and people were crying for help.

“No one could move near the fire and everybody was running for safety,’’ Adedayo said.

Another account by another eyewitness revealed that the tanker conveying diesel lost control while descending the slope beside a filling station at Moniya, crashing into a vehicle travelling to Ogbomoso.

It was gathered that several shops, cars, motorcycles, excavator, including the motor park close to Akinyele Local Government Area headquarters were destroyed by the inferno.

Adewuyi Moshood, the Chief Fire Officer in Oyo State Fire Service, disclosed that his men arrived at the scene in good time considering the distance they covered to get to the spot of the incident.

“The fire started when a fully laden tanker conveying diesel lost control while descending the slope beside a filling station at Moniya.

“The brake failed and the vehicle crashed on a vehicle going to Ogbomoso.

“One passenger, who was trapped in the vehicle got burnt, One other life was also lost but we are yet to determine the number of casualties in the incident,’’ Moshood said.

Covid-19: FIFA Approves Five Substitutions During Matches

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By Akinwale Kasali

World Football governing body, Federation International Football Association, FIFA, has approved the use of Five Substitutions during football matches.

This became necessary following the Coronavirus Pandemic, which has halted football activities around the world.

FIFA President, Gianni Infantino, said that football teams will be allowed to use five substitutes when play resumes after the coronavirus pandemic. The sport’s law-making body announced on Friday, May 8th, 2020.

The International Football Association Board said in a statement that it had agreed to a proposal by FIFA for a temporary change to the rules “to protect player welfare”.

Teams face likely fixture congestion in a packed calendar as they attempt to make up for lost time when play can resume.

The layoff is expected to have an impact on player fitness levels too.

It also said that competitions which were using video assistant referee would be allowed to drop it for the time being.

The change will apply to competitions scheduled to be completed by 31 December, although FIFA and IFAB left open the possibility that the period could be extended.

While teams will be able to make five substitutions, “to avoid disruption to the game, each team will only have three opportunities to make substitutions” as well as at half time or before extra time.

In competitions that allow an additional substitution in extra time, teams will have an additional substitution opportunity.

The previous limit on outfield substitutes for top-level competitions has been three in regulation time.

The IFAB said the change had been made “as matches may be played in a condensed period in different weather conditions, both of which could have impacts on player welfare.”

It added that “the decision on whether to apply this temporary amendment will remain at the discretion of each individual competition organiser.”

It said that, together with FIFA, it “will determine at a later stage whether this temporary amendment would need to be extended further.

That means the measure could be maintained for the whole of the 2020-21 season and right through to the next European Championship, which was postponed by a year until June and July 2021 because of the pandemic.

“If the measure is still in force, UEFA could then adopt it for the Euro,” a source said.

It remains to be seen if the measure could be left in place permanently, but doing so may play into the hands of the wealthiest clubs with the largest squads and greatest strength in depth.

Breaking: Popular Moniya Market In Ibadan On Fire

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May 8, 2020

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By Akinwale Kasali

There was pandemonium at Akinyele Local Government in Ibadan, Oyo State Capital, as the popular Moniya Market was on fire.

People were scampering for safety as the fire could not be curtailed by the market men and women, with the Youths pouring water mixed with detergent to quench the fire, but it was an effort in futility.

The fire incident reportedly started over forty five minutes ago as as filling in this report after a petrol tanker fell, with it’s content littering the market, however leading to the fire out real.

Men of the fire service have not arrived the scene of the accident as at the time of this report.

Shops and other valuables have been reportedly destroyed in the fire incident.

Details later…

The Complete Story Behind Kalu’s Release; Angry EFCC Takes Him Back To Court; Storms Senate Tuesday

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By Adesina Soyooye

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is angry. Its anger stems from the upturning of the conviction of Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, Friday, by the Supreme Court.

Kalu, a two-time Governor of Abia State, and Senate Chief Whip, in the 9th Assembly, was on December 5, 2019, convicted, and sentenced to a 12-year imprisonment by the Hon. Justice Mohammed Lima of the Federal High Court Lagos. The Court, also, ordered him to forfeit his assets in his multi-billion Naira company, Slok, to the Federal Government.

The EFCC had, successfully, prosecuted Kalu over alleged fraudulent enrichment and corruption, during his tenure as Abia Governor.

But Kalu had appealed to the Supreme Court, insisting that Lima lacked jurisdiction over the case.

In appealing the conviction, Kalu’s Counsel relied on the Constitution of the Federal Republic, which over-rode Justice Lima’ judgement as against a pronouncement by the National Assembly.

To stop the scandalous delays in cases, due to the elevation of a presiding Judge, retirement, or death, which usually meant that the case, would automatically start afresh – even if it had been concluded, and remained only the reading of the judgement – the NASS had made a pronouncement which states that if a trial Judge is elevated, the Judge is permitted to go back to the lower court, continue with the case, and deliver the judgement.

In the instant case, Justice Lima was elevated to the Appeal Court, just before he delivered the judgement. But, based on the NASS pronouncement, he was permitted to go to the lower court and deliver the Judgement.

Here’s the irony, and why on hearing the SC. judgement, a high profile lawyer quipped “The law is indeed an ass”. It was Kalu’s Counsel, Chief Gordy Uche, SAN, who on June 26, 2018, wrote to the President of the Court of Appeal, requesting that Justice Lima be allowed to continue with the case, even though he had been elevated to the Court of Appeal. He cited the number of years the case has lasted in Court as a reason why Lima should continue. The case was filed since 2007!

His request was granted. So Lima, even though elevated to the Court of Appeal, continued with the case at the Federal High Court. The granting of Kalu’s request has turned out to be the prosecution’s nemesis.

Here’s why.

The NASS pronouncement is inferior to the Constitution of the Federal Republic, which the Supreme Court relied on to free an excited Kalu, after five months in prison.

He was, however, not acquitted. The SC ordered a fresh trial at the lower Court, an order that has given the EFCC a fresh chance which it has grabbed with two hands and two legs.

The EFCC cried foul, faulting the Supreme Court for setting Kalu free

Dismissing the judgment as “unfortunate and a technical ambush”, the EFCC expressed its readiness to begin the immediate prosecution of Kalu in Court as ordered by the SC.

In a statement signed by its Head of Media and Publicity, Mr. Dele Oyewale, the Commission said:

“The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) has been drawn to the judgment of the Supreme Court nullifying the trial of a former governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu , his firm, Slok Nigeria Limited and Jones Udeogu, a former Director of Finance and Account of Abia State Government and ordering their fresh trial at the lower court.

“The apex court based its verdict on the grounds that Justice Mohammed Lima, who convicted Kalu and others had been elevated to the Court of Appeal before the judgment and returned to the lower court to deliver the judgment which it considered as illegal.

“The EFCC considers the judgment of the apex court as quite unfortunate. It is a technical ambush against the trial of the former governor.

“The Commission is prepared for a fresh and immediate trial of the case because its evidences against Kalu and others are overwhelming.

”The corruption charges against Kalu still subsist because the Supreme Court did not acquit him of them.

“The entire prosecutorial machinery of the EFCC would be launched in a fresh trial where justice is bound to be served in due course.”

Meanwhile, Senator Kalu is excited by the freedom given him by the SC.

Looking beyond the upcoming trial, Kalu, in a release, where he said he has learnt his lesson, said he was looking forward to joining his colleagues at the Senate.

A source close to him told this magazine that he would storm the Senate chambers next Tuesday for plenary.

Supreme Court, Orders Orji Kalu’s Retrial; Former Governor Dismisses His Ordeal As Made In Nigeria

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By Adesina Soyooye

After a five-month stint in prison, the Supreme Court on Friday, released former Governor of Abia state, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu from his 12-year imprisonment. In releasing him from prison for lack of jurisdiction on the part of Justice Mohammed Liman of the Federal High Court who convicted him on December 5, 2019, the Apex Court ordered a retrial.

Kalu, through his Counsel, had argued that Justice Liman, who delivered the judgement against him, has already been elevated to the Court of Appeal and, so, no longer had any jurisdiction to deliver it.

The Supreme Court, in a unanimous judgement by a seven-man panel, delivered by Hon. Justice Ejembi Eko upheld Kalu’s appeal.

*Kalu, Speaks On Conviction, Calls It Made In Nigeria*

In a statement released by Kalu as soon as he was released, he said he has learnt a lot of lessons in prison, describing it as a typical Made In Nigeria story of injustice, now righted.

Following, the full text of his statement.

“Today, the Supreme Court of Nigeria gave a judgement in my favor, quashing the conviction which the lower court had entered against me. By today’s judgment, the Apex court of our dear country affirmed my right to fair hearing and equal protection of the law.

“The past five months have been quite a profound period for me. As challenging as that period has been, it has provided me an opportunity to learn invaluable lessons about our country, our peoples, our justice system and the true meaning of love. I mean love for family, love for our country and love for humanity.

“I want to use this moment to thank my family, my colleagues, my friends, my supporters, the people of Abia State, and all Nigerians for their unflinching and unwavering confidence and trust in me through the very testing period. We all know today that their prayers have not been in vain. I also use this opportunity to express my gratitude to the Nigerian Correctional Service for the unalloyed professionalism and sincere humanity extended to me by its staff while I was in their custody.

“I must accord a special mention to the Justices of our Supreme Court for their unwavering commitment to rule of law. We all stand reminded of the consistent and strategic relevance of the Nigerian Supreme Court in holding this country together, even in moments of great peril. As far back as in the 1971 case of LAKANMI V. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION, (the Ademola Adetokunbo-led Court) the Nigerian Supreme Court has severally rescued this country from the precipice. Also throughout the dark era of military rule in Nigeria, the Supreme Court neither wavered nor flinched in its commitment to justice and fairness. And despite some moments of distraction and mass hysteria, the Nigerian Supreme Court has remained the veritable compass to the highest ideals of justice attainable in this country.

“This long tradition of the court was exemplified in today’s judgment. I was humbled by the court’s boldness and sense of justice as shown in my case.

Overall, my experience tested and reaffirmed my belief and confidence in our country, Nigeria. My case is a true Nigerian story with a bold MADE-IN-NIGERIA stamp on it. It is a story of initial injustice that was caught and ultimately corrected. It is a story of restoration. It is a story of how a wrong was righted and how justice and truth prevailed in the end. It is a story of the power of hope. My case should teach us all that even though we may not get things right at the first attempt, with patience and dedication, we shall get them right eventually. That is the lesson of my case and that is the lesson of our country – that with dedication and patience, we shall place Nigeria in its rightful place eventually.

“Before I end, I would like to let it be known that the events of the past five months gave me an added perspective on matters of justice and injustice in Nigeria. I have come to know that the course of justice will not be complete if it stopped at my case. It must continue until it touches the lives of millions of Nigerians who face injustice anywhere in this world. I shall be dedicating my time henceforth to ensuring there will be justice for all Nigerians whether they are in Sokoto or Akwa Ibom or in Lagos or Maiduguri or in Jos or Enugu, or wherever they may be. Justice for one man or for a few people will no longer be enough in this country. A system whereby over 70% of all prison inmates population is made up of people awaiting trial cannot be allowed to continue. Situations where innocent people are falsely charged with murder just to get them out of the way does not dignify our country and cannot continue. Justice must now mean justice for all. That is my pledge to Nigerians.

“I look forward to rejoining my colleagues in the Senate as soon as possible.

Thank you and God bless all of you.”