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January 12, 2024 Navy Hands Over Rivers Oil Thieves to EFCC
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Navy Hands Over Rivers Oil Thieves to EFCC

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission; EFCC has  commenced investigations into the activities of eight suspected oil thieves in Rivers State. The suspects were handed over to the Port Harcourt Zonal Command of the EFCC by the Nigerian Navy Forward Operating Base in Rivers State, on Wednesday January 10, 2024.

The EFCC in a statement on its website noted that the suspects were arrested with an unquantified amount of illegally acquired Automotive Gas Oil, also known as diesel, along Bonny Channel.

According to the Naval Hand-Over Officer, Lieutenant Commander G.Y. Gwaza, the vessel, MV Cabrini, and her eight crew members were arrested during an operation on November 8, 2023.

Gwaza said the suspected oil thieves were handed over to the EFCC for further investigation and possible prosecution.

In response, Chief Superintendent of the EFCC, Itoro Levi, who received the suspects on behalf of the EFCC, assured that thorough and professional investigations would be carried out in the case.

She also thanked the Navy for its collaborative efforts with the anti-graft agency.

January 11, 2024 Borno State Sets up Panel to Quell Herders/Farmers Crisis
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Borno State Sets up Panel to Quell Herders/Farmers Crisis

Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum, has set up a panel to broker peace in the perennial farmers/herders’ conflict that has claimed lives and property in the state.

According to him, the farmers/herders’ conflict over pastures and water points could be resolved through the constitution of a peace committee. Convening the peace committee, yesterday, in Gambouru/Ngala, Zulum disclosed: “Today’s inauguration of the committee was to foster peace and harmony among the warring farmers and pastoralists in the Lake Chad Basin.”

The governor said the committee was to investigate the causes of conflicts between farmers and herders in the state.

“You are to re-establish the defunct cattle routes and identify grazing reserves, which have not been adequately utilised,” he said, adding that the committee’s recommendations would guide the government in addressing the root of the conflict.

The committee led by Tijjani Guzamala, the Special Adviser-designate, comprises representatives of the police, Department of State Services (DSS), Emirate Councils, Miyetti Allah, Alhaya Association and the Governor’s Office. He noted that the peace deal was, however, reached after weeks of tension and uncertainty in the various communities in the basin.

While commending the warring parties, Zulum urged the farmers and herders to shun all acts that could lead to further conflict among them. The governor, therefore, assured that the government would take necessary measures to prevent further clashes between herders and farmers in the state.

January 11, 2024 Diri Condemns Award of Pipeline Protection Contract to Private Companies as Against Nigerian Navy
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Diri Condemns Award of Pipeline Protection Contract to Private Companies as Against Nigerian Navy

The Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, has criticised the Federal Government’s maritime protection policy of engaging private security firms to secure the maritime environment as against the Nigerian Navy.

He called on the Federal Government to review the security strategy, saying it was a policy decision the government would later regret to have adopted in its effort to secure economic assets in the nation’s territorial domain.

Diri stated this during a courtesy visit to him by the Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla, at Government House in Yenagoa, on Monday.

The Nigerian Navy authorities has continually engaged in a war of words with the management of Tantita Security Services Limited, a private security outfit belonging to a former militant leader in the Niger Delta, Mr Government Ekpemupolo, a.k.a Tompolo, over security operations around the country’s oil assets since the Federal Government awarded a multi-billion naira pipeline surveillance contract to the firm.

Diri expressed concerns that the continued use of such unconventional security agents might cause greater security challenges shortly, and called for the strengthening of the Nigerian Navy to perform its constitutional responsibility.

January 11, 2024 Olu Agunloye Remanded in Kuje Prison Over Mambilla Power Project
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Olu Agunloye Remanded in Kuje Prison Over Mambilla Power Project

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned the former Minister of Power and Steel, Mr Olu Agunloye, before Justice Donatus Okorowo of the Federal High court, over allegations of fraud.
Mr Agunloye was brought before the court on Wednesday where he pleaded not guilty to the charges read against him.

The Judge ordered that he be remanded in Kuje Correctional center, pending when the bail would be granted.

The EFCC in December 2023, declared Agunloye wanted on an alleged case of forgery and corruption. In a communique shared by the Commission on X and its website, the former minister’s image was displayed with a message urging the public to provide information that could lead to his arrest.

Shortly after the EFCC’s alert, Agunloye was apprehended and detained.

The minister who served under President Olusegun Obasanjo’s government (1999-2003), was being quizzed in connection with the Mambilla hydro power project.

Obasanjo had accused him of fraudulently awarding the contract for the project without the Federal Executive Council (FEC) approval, an allegation which Agunloye denied rather claiming the former president was distorting facts.

Meanwhile, Agunloye’s travails has generated a lot of reactions from Nigerians. Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka while weighing-in on the matter, questioned the EFCC’s action.
In his statement titled – “In pursuit of justice, productivity, under the rule of law,” Soyinka argued that the practice of citizen detention at the whim of either religious blackmail or secular arrogation demands curtailment at source, most especially when exercised in defiance of the law, and the pronouncements of its agencies.

“The immediate provocation for these reflections is the ongoing predicament of a former Minister of Power, Dr. Olu Agunloye, currently detained by the EFCC, in total contempt of sense and justice, or indeed, basic humane considerations. We shall not go into the merit or demerits of the charges raised against him over a 16-year-old project that bears the name Mambilla. –that is the business of the law courts,” Soyinka wrote.

“Our concern at this moment is however only partially on the basis of individual fundamental human rights. Most fortuitously, the detention of any former public servant under circumstances such as Agunloye also provokes the question: how is public interest – such as the pursuit of justice – served by such an arbitrary exercise of power?’’

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