M23 SAYS HUNDREDS OF BURUNDI SOLDIERS CAPTURED IN LATEST CONGO OFFENSIVE. (PHOTO).
M23 says hundreds of Burundi soldiers captured in latest Congo offensive The Rwanda-backed M23 group has captured hundreds of Burundian soldiers during its latest offensive in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a rebel official said, as clashes continued despite a warning from the Trump administration. Last week M23 entered the strategic town of Uvira near the border with Burundi, less than a week after the presidents of Congo and Rwanda met in Washington with U.S. President Donald Trump and affirmed their commitment to a peace deal known as the Washington Accords. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday that Rwanda's actions in eastern Congo violated the Washington Accords and vowed to "take action to ensure promises made to the President are kept". Rwanda denies supporting M23 and has blamed Congolese and Burundian forces for the renewed fighting. A United Nations group of experts report published in July said Rwanda exercised command and control over t...
The EFCC,Gombe zonal office today July 20th 2016,quizzed the former deputy speaker,Bauchi State H/ouse of Assembly,Hon. Sace A. Dumba,the former caretaker chairman of Dass local government ,Mohammed Suleiman Rabo and former chairman of People's Democratic Party in Dass local government area of the state for sharing about five hundred million naira {N500 million} to twenty local government areas of the State for the re-election of the former president Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 general election.The bribe money was reportedly lavished on PDP stakeholders in all the local government areas of the state by the commissioner for finance,Garba Dahiru,during the administration of Isa Yuguda,the former governor of the State.They admitted to the operatives of EFCC during interrogation that they signed and collected the said amount from Garba as to deliver PDP in all the local government areas of the State.They also told the EFCC that the sharing formular was based on the population of each of the local government in which Bauchi local government collected forty eight million and twenty thousand naira {N48,020,000}, Toro collected thirty two million,four hundred and ninety thousand naira {N32,490,000}, while Ningi local government collected twenty eight million,two hundred and fifty thousand naira {n28,250,000}.
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