The Pacesetter Frontier Magazine

Category: Crime

  • Legalise rights to keep and bear firearms for defence – AVM Ararile

     

    The Ovie of Umiaghwa-Abraka Kingdom, Delta State,  HRH Air Vice Marshal Lucky  Ararile (retd),  has said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government has failed  to secure lives and property in the country, urging the National Assembly to legislate into existence the rights of Nigerians to bear arms for self defence.

     

    The monarch, yesterday, in his keynote address at the 12th conference of the Urhobo Historical Society, UHS, at  the Urhobo Cultural Centre, Uvwiamuge, Agbarho, Delta State, also called on the Federal Government to begin the process of evicting foreign Fulanis largely at the root of crime, kidnapping in the country.

     

    He said:“The primary purpose of government is the preservation of lives and property. The current government has failed to provide these.

     

    “This government must start the process of disarming and expelling these criminals. ECOWAS protocol cannot be used as an excuse. After all, when our economic interests were threatened by smuggling along our borders, we closed them.

     

    “If the government is unwilling to expel them, Nigerians should be allowed to bear arms to defend themselves.

     

    “The Minister of Defence has implicitly confirmed the rights of Nigerians to defend themselves. I add my voice to that of General T. Y. Danjuma (retd) that Nigerians must organise to defend themselves and the National Assembly must legislate the rights of Nigerians to bear arms since foreigners do so unchallenged by the security agencies.”

     

    Calling for restructuring of Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, the apex Urhobo platform, to include security of Urhobo communities as a cardinal focus of the body, the monarch among others also called for creation of a robust security outfit across Urhobo lands to be known as Delta Central Security Network, DCSN, adding that it should be established in alliances with neighbouring ethnic nationalities that share common vision.

     

    Earlier in his address, President of UHS, Dr. Aruegodore Oyiborhoro, said the body was formed in 1998 to document the history, culture and lifestyle of the Urhobo people, adding that in the 20 years of the existence of the body, it had published five books.

     

    Member representing Ughelli/Udu federal constituency in the House of Representatives, Francis Waive, who was the guest of honour, said all sections of the country should continue to push for fiscal federalism, commending the keynote speaker for his address.

     

     

     

    Source: www.vanguardngr.com

     

     

  • Cubana Scandal: Igbo youths fume.

     

    Angry Igbo youths, yesterday, accused the Federal Government of deliberately arresting successful Igbo sons for selfish and political motives.

     

    Their anger followed the recent arrest of Igbo billionaire entertainer, Obinna Iyiegbu, popularly known as Obi Cubana, by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged money laundering and tax evasion.

     

    In a statement by the Coalition of South East Youth Leaders (COSEYL), signed by its President, Goodluck Ibem, and released to newsmen in Owerri, the youths viewed the arrest and that of other prominent politicians earlier arrested by the commission and other federal government security agencies as an insult to Ndigbo.

     

    It stated: “The arrest of Obi is another version of President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-Igbo policies. We can now confirm that any Igbo man who succeeds in business or a philanthropist who helps his brothers is an enemy of the present administration.

     

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    “Just a few days ago, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim was arrested, an Igbo man, the residence of a Supreme Court Justice was invaded by EFCC, an Igbo woman, and, today, Obi Cubana was also arrested because he is an Igbo man. The entire scenario confirms that this is complete ethnic profiling by the federal government.

     

    “It is still fresh in our minds how the federal government victimised an Igbo son who owned Ibeto cement, so that a northerner will be the only one in-charge of the business in Nigeria. The business of victimising and intimidating Ndigbo is still fully on, we have seen it.

     

    “Obi Cubana is not a politician nor a government contractor, but a legitimate businessman of great repute, who has invested so much in human capital. What is his offence to be embarrassed by EFCC.

     

    “The reason for his arrest by EFCC is just a flimsy excuse by the EFCC to insult and embarrass the integrity of the Igbo nation.

     

    “The EFCC claimed he was arrested because of money laundering and tax evasion. Now, how many Fulani cattle dealers and businessmen pay tax in Nigeria.

     

    “The main people who are money launderers in Nigeria are Fulani businessmen. They keep large sums of money running into over N200,000,000 in their houses. They carry such an amount of money in cash to buy cows and transact other businesses.

     

    “Over 80 percent of Fulani and Hausa businessmen do not have any bank account. Now who is the real money launderer here if not the Fulani businessmen.

     

    “Obi Cubana is just a victim because he has been seen with some politicians who visited him in his house, so people within the corridors of power now see him as a threat who may sponsor his Igbo brother in the 2023 presidential election.

     

    “We warn the EFCC to stop the intimidation and harassment of prominent Igbo sons and daughters under the guise of fighting corruption. If the EFCC claims they are looking for those evading tax and laundering money, they should go and arrest cattle dealers, tomatoes and carrots dealers from the North. So many of them do not even know what tax is and what is called a bank account,” Ibem stated.

     

    Wondering why the commission would delve into matters of tax evasion, Ibem said: “EFCC is not an agency that collects tax on behalf of the government. For the EFCC to dabble into a matter that is not its constitutional responsibility confirms a sinister motive and plot by the FG to embarrass and intimidate the Igbo nation.

     

    “The Federal Government should leave Ndigbo alone and concentrate on its responsibility of governance. The present administration has victimised Ndigbo enough and it has to stop.

     

    “We demand immediate unconditional release of Obinna Iyiegbu and warn the EFCC to stop insulting the sensibility of the Igbo nation,” he said.

     

     

     

     

     

    Source: www.sunnewsonline.com

  • Former Enugu High Court judge Stanley Nnaji assassinated by gunmen

    Barely twenty four hours after a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Ahmed Gulak, was shot dead in Owerri, Imo state, a former Enugu State High Court Judge, Justice Stanley Nnaji, Sunday evening, was reportedly assassinated by yet to be identified gunmen in Enugu.

    Confirming the report in a statement, the Enugu State Police Command could not identify the victim as a former Judge.

    Titled, ‘Murder of an unidentified man: CP orders full-scale manhunt of assailants, says they must be fished out and brought to book’, the statement reads:

    “The Commissioner of Police, Enugu State Command, CP Mohammed Aliyu, has ordered the launch of a full-scale manhunt for yet-to-be-identified armed assailants, alleged to have trailed and shot dead an unidentified man driving in a Mercedes Benz Jeep, which they carted away, along Ebeano Tunnel, Enugu, on Sunday, 30/05/2021 at about 1700hrs.

    “The victim, whose true identity is yet to be known, was rushed to the hospital, where he was confirmed dead by doctors on duty and deposited in the mortuary for autopsy.”

    Source: Vanguard