Today's Headlines: Controversy Trails Peter Obi's Alleged Monetary Gift To Rufai Oseni; Insecurity: FCTA Demolishes Hoodlums, Drug Dealers' Den In Asokoro
Controversy trails Peter Obi’s alleged monetary gift to Rufai Oseni
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Controversy has continued to trail the report that the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, Mr Peter Obi allegedly funded the funeral of the late father of Arise TV’s journalist, Mr Rufai Oseni.
A former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, had asked the former Anambra governor to come clean on whether or not he gave monies to Mr Rufai Oseni during the letter’s father’s funeral, a move Reno said has influenced the journalist into making political comments and analysis in favour of Obi.
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Pastor Omokri, in one of the tweets, called on Mr Obi to publicly deny ever-inducing Mr Oseni financially.
He asked Obi if he had sponsored Oseni’s late father’s funeral or not.
“I asked a question that Mr. Peter Obi has NOT answered and has tried to use semantics to dodge.
“My question is this: Did Peter Obi fund the funeral of Mr Rufai Oseni’s father by giving him money in cash or electronic means, either directly or through a third party, and has that influenced Mr. Oseni’s open bias in favour of Peter Obi, whereby Mr. Oseni used the AriseTV platform as a medium to campaign for and launder the image of Mr Peter Obi, and his undisguised personal animosity towards me for my refusal to support Mr Peter Obi’s Presidential ambition,” asked Omokri.
Reacting to Omokri’s questions, Obi said ‘I have never and will never monetarily induce any journalist to speak or write in my favour.’
Insecurity: FCTA demolishes hoodlums’, drug dealers’ den in Asokoro
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Officials of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) on Tuesday, August 29, demolished an illegal market popularly called Kasuan-Dere, a suspected hideout for hoodlums and drug dealers.
Speaking after the demolition, the director FCT Department of Development Control, Mukhtar Galadima said the market on Hassan Musa Katsina Street, near Kpaduma II in Asokoro Extension was becoming a threat to the residents and passerby.
He noted that the place had been turned into an area that criminals activities are carried out despite the relentless efforts of the Administration to sanitize the place.
Galadima said miscreants’ operation in the area was also affecting the aesthetic quality of the entire environment and must not be allowed to continue.
He said: “We had demolished the place about three times but the nuisances continue, this time around we are doing it for the last time and it must stay, we need to sanitize the place and enhance the aesthetic quality of the environment.
“It is also part of the current Administration’s policy of sanitizing the city, this is one area we are starting the exercise. The area has so much to do with security threat, information available to us revealed that there are some miscreants, drug dealers and many other men of the underworld.
Isese: Sowore calls for removal of Kwara CP
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Former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress and human rights activist, Omoyole Sowore, has called for the removal of Ebunoluwa Adelesi as Kwara State Police commissioner.
Sowore said this while reacting to a Punch Online report about a Lagos Federal High Court summoning nine persons, including the Kwara State CP.
All nine persons were summoned for the arrest of Isese activists; Mr. Adegbola Abdulazeez. aka Tani Olorun; Madam Efunsetan Abebi Aniwura Olorisha aka lya Osun, and Chief Ademola Olawoore aka Baba Tede.
Reacting to the post, Sowore called for the removal of Adelesi whom he tagged ‘incompetent.’
Court halts ICPC, EFCC, others from probing Kano anti-graft boss
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A High Court sitting in Kano State on Tuesday issued an interim order restraining the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, and others anti-graft agencies from interrogating the Chairman, Kano Public Complaints and Anti-corruption Commission, Muhuyi Rimin-Gado.
Rimin-Gado secured the court injunction to restrict further meddling into the affairs of the state anti-graft agency barring a last minute to have appeared before the Federal anti-graft agencies.
The EFCC and the Code of Conduct Bureau earlier invited Rimin-Gado alongside a Director of account in the state agency for interrogation.
In a letter signed by the Deputy Director, Cybercrime and Other Related Offences, Muhtar S. Bello, the EFCC invited the Kano anti-graft boss to produce details of its spending between 2019 and 2021.
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