OBI ATTRIBUTES STAMPEDE TRAGEDIES IN OYO, FCT, AND ANAMBRA TO HUNGER AND SYSTEMIC ISSUES. (PHOTO).

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 Peter Obi has blamed hunger and systemic failures for the recent spate of stampedes across the country.  Scores of persons were dead, and many others wounded in the tragic incidents in Ibadan, Oyo State; Okija in Anambra and another one in the nation’s capital of Abuja. The stampedes happened in a space of five days with the last two occurring on Saturday morning during food distribution campaigns. Obi, who was the Labour Party (LP)’s presidential candidate in the 2023 election, said the incidents underline the rising hunger in the country which has led to desperation. “I am deeply saddened and distressed by the tragic loss of lives in desperate searches for food,” Obi, who is a former governor of Anambra State, wrote in a post on his X account Saturday afternoon. “While I will not cast blame but instead appreciate the organizers of these respective events for their kind gestures in providing palliatives and support to society, especially the poor, these tragedies reflect the...

KADUNA COURT JAILS THREE FRAUDSTERS FOR CURRENCY RACKETEERING. (PHOTOS) . #PRESS RELEASE


 Kaduna Court Jails Three Fraudsters for Currency Racketeering

 

Justices J. Aikawa and Hawa'u Buhari of the Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna, have convicted and sentenced three currency racketeers to different jail terms.


The convicts are, Adamu Seidu Abdul, Musa Gideon and Justice Musa. 


They were jailed on Tuesday and Wednesday,  March 19 and 20, 2024, after pleading guilty to one-count charge bordering on currency 

racketeering, following their arraignment by the Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.


The one- count charge against Justice reads: “that you, Justice Musa, sometime in February, 2024 in Kaduna within the Judicial Divison of this Honourable Court,did commit an act to wit: engaged yourself in selling Naira Notes and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 21(4) and punishable under Section 21(1) of the Central Bank of Nigeria Act, 2007”.


They pleaded guilty to the one-count separate charges when they were read to them. Based on their pleas, prosecution counsel, M.E Eimonye and M.U Gadaka urged the court to convict and sentence them accordingly.


Thereafter, Justice Aikawa convicted and sentenced Abdul and Gideon to six months imprisonment while Musa was also convicted and sentenced to six months imprisonment by Justice Buhari.


The convicts' journey to the Correctional Centre began when they were arrested by operatives of the EFCC along Yakubu Gowon way, Kaduna, for currency mutilation and racketeering.

 

More photos below. 



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