REPS INDICT HAJJ COMMISSION OVER N90BN SIUBSIDY. (PHOTO).

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 Reps indict Hajj commission over N90bn subsidy The House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria over the 2024 Hajj exercise has found the commission guilty of several infractions. Chaired by the member representing Jibia/Kaita Federal Constituency in Katsina State, Sada Soli, the committee has submitted its report, outlining its findings and recommending reforms to prevent similar issues in future Hajj operations. At a plenary on July 14, 2024, presided over by Speaker Tajudeen Abbas, the House set up the ad hoc committee to probe the operations of NAHCON and the Federal Capital Territory Administration Muslim Pilgrims Board following a motion sponsored by Mr. Omar Bio, representing Buruten/Kaima Federal Constituency of Kwara State. In May 2024, the Bola Tinubu-led government provided a N90bn subsidy for the Hajj exercise. This move sparked discontent among many Nigerians, particularly in light of the ongoing hardships exacerbated...
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LAGOS COURT FREES DR OLALEYE OVER DEFILEMENT OF MINOR CASE. (PHOTO).

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 Lagos Court Frees Dr Olaleye Over Defilement Of Minor Case


The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos has acquitted and discharged the Medical Director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, Dr Olufemi Olaleye.


The court upturned the decision of the Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court which had sentenced Dr Olaleye, to life imprisonment for defiling his wife’s 16-year-old niece.


Justice Olukayode Bada who read the lead judgment which was adopted by the two other justices on the panel held that the trial court erred in convicting Dr Olaleye based on “tainted” and ‘unreliable’ evidence of his estranged wife, Oluremi and the alleged survivor (names withheld).


The other members of the panel were Justice Mohammed Ibrahim Sirajo and Justice Folasade Ayodeji Ojo.


The appellate court said there were material contradictions in the evidence gathered by the prosecution which should not have been relied on by the lower court.


The court also faulted some other parts of the evidence of the prosecution during the trial, which was from a child forensic specialist, a medical doctor from the Mirabel centre and the investigating officer, which were found to be “worthless”


For the appellate court, the trial judge, Justice Rahman Oshodi also descended in the arena and interfered in the proceedings to bridge what it described as “the yawning gaps in the prosecution’s case”.


In the judgment, the court of appeal also queried why the prosecution failed to present material witnesses such as two family members who were said to have witnessed the appellants alleged confession.


The court added that a trial within trial ought to have been conducted during trial to verify the voluntariness of the appellant’s confessional statements while in police custody, especially as he said he made it under duress after he had been detained for six days.


The court of appeal determined all five issues of appeal against the prosecution and in favour of the appellant.

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