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Monrovia — The National Civil Society Council of Liberia (NSCL) has called on the National Elections Commission to give reasons behind the delay in certificating Madam Botoe Kanneh who was projected as winner by top media institutions and observers of the senatorial race in Gbarpolu County.
Madam Kanneh, the lone female candidate in the race had to overcome multiple hurdles during the elections as she and her group of supporters were allegedly attacked by the all-male Poro Society during a rescheduled polls in Nomodatanau, a major town in the county’s third electoral district in December 2020. Madam Kanneh and her team have said the maltreatments was a plot to weaken her chances of winning the race.
The election in the town had been rescheduled when the Paramount Chief there, allegedly ceased the ballot boxes for some unexplained reasons.
The rescheduled election was finally held in January this year and Kanneh was projected to win Gbarpolu County as per results from the NEC tally sheets given to candidates’ representatives.
However, since the election, the NEC has not made any official declaration on the election in Gbarpolu.
Speaking at an event marking the celebration of International Women’s Day on Monday, the Chairperson of the NSCL, Madam Loretta Pope-Kai said the delay in Kanneh’s certification is infringing on her rights and called on the government to separate the traditional society from political processes.

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As Nigeria’s economy continues to drift from oil and gas to digital economy and data technology, the Director-General (DG) of National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Dr. Kashifu Inuwa, has called on both chambers of the National Assembly to repeal the NITDA Act of 2007.

Dr. Inuwa made this call Thursday evening, while playing host to the Senate Committee Chairman on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Surajudeen Ajibola Bashiru at NITDA headquarters, Abuja.

According to Inuwa, the NITDA Act, which was signed in 2007, has become obsolete, irrelevant and unfit to assist Nigeria achieve her objectives of digital economy and green energy policies.

He added that, the agency was already on the right pedestal to make information and data technology, artificial intelligence development and other components of digital economy work for Nigeria, but expressed fears and worries that such policies would not work without an enabling laws, such as repealing the NITDA Act.

“We need a law to help us institutionalize and make it work. Even some of the vocabularies used in that law are obsolete and no longer in use. We need to change a lot of things and we need to do that as soon as possible, to enable us succeed in the area of green energy and information technology.

“We see IT or digital devices as enabling everything we do. About 80% of what we do everyday is powered by digital technology.

“How do we use artificial intelligence to improve our farm products and how to predict and share information about our farm. It is through the technology made available to us”, Inuwa said.

He said the agency was already working with the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and relevant authorities, to submit a clean amendment Bill to the National Assembly for legislative work.

When repealed, the new NITDA Act would guarantee the safety of personal data of Nigerians as well as empowering NITDA in implementing the digital economy and data technology.

The law would also give the agency the capacity to regulate information technology based on Federal Government’s objectives, while promoting local and indigenous products and making Nigeria a hub for innovations.

Earlier, the Spokesman of the Senate, Senator Bashiru expressed satisfaction, on behalf of the Senate, over the progress made by NITDA in information technology and digital economy.

The lawmaker, while assuring the agency of possible collaborations in its duties, also alluded to the need for an enabling law to allow the agency function optimally.

“The 9th Senate would not hesitate to work with any agency that is willing to help the country move.

“We have a country that the population is growing and it is projected that in the next 10 years it would overshoot. The areas of green energy, ecosystem and agricultural productivity would be a great challenge, if we do not plan ahead. We look forward to your agency to assist in information technology by giving the needed guide for the growth of agriculture and our national economy.

“We should be net exporters of foods and not to he relying on other countries for food productions”, the lawmaker said.

Senator Bashiru also charged the DG to stern the capacity of his organization to be able to match the workforce needed for the education of the younger generations and in meeting up with the global trend of digital technology.

NITDA was established by President Olusegun Obasanjo in year 2001, as a hub for developing information technology for Nigeria. The agency, under the Ministry of Communication and Digital Economy, is expected to champion the roadmap for the implementation of digital economy policy of the Federal Government.

Gunmen have attacked a school in northwestern Nigeria and kidnapped at least 30 students just weeks after a similar attack in the region, authorities said Friday. The latest abduction took place late Thursday night at the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka, in the Igabi local government area of Kaduna state, police said.

“About 30 students, a mix of males and females, are yet to be accounted for,” the state’s commissioner for International Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, said in a statement. Several staff of the school were also kidnapped, he added.

Aruwan said the attack was carried out by a large group of “armed bandits,” adding that the military engaged the attackers and were able to take 180 staff and students to safety.

An unspecified number of the students were injured and are receiving medical attention at a military facility. Security forces “are conducting an operation to track the missing students,” Aruwan said.

Nigerian authorities also said that “bandits” were behind the earlier abduction of 279 schoolgirls late last month in the northwest, referring to the groups of armed men who kidnap for money or to press for the release of jailed members of their groups. Those girls were later freed following negotiations with the government, and it is not known whether a ransom was paid.

The Islamic extremist group Boko Haram is also known to kidnap young women and force them into marriage, most notably the 2014 attack on the Chibok secondary school in Borno state. That mass abduction sparked international outcry and prompted the #BringBackOurGirls campaign. Of the 276 girls taken, more than 100 are still missing nearly seven years later.

The latest kidnapping in Osun State Saturday evening, in which passengers plying Ibadan/Akure expressway by Egbu Village Ikire, were violently abducted by criminals at Wasinmi, has continued to generate reactions amongst residents.

The armed men operate from forests, stretching across Osun State, from where they launch attacks, kidnappings, on travellers along the road.

The Police on Saturday claimed those abducted had been rescued, adding that security operatives were on the trail of the kidnappers.

Meanwhile, in early February, six passengers and the driver of a Toyota Sienna bus were abducted along the Ilesa-Akure expressway.

The abductors released three among them and sent them to inform the public about their abduction before the rest were later released after huge amounts were allegedly paid as ransom.

Also in early this year, three Chinese expatriates were abducted at the mining site around Ilesa, in the Osun East senatorial district and regained their freedom a week later after ransom in foreign currency allegedly exchanged hands.

Osun As a Contiguous State

A surge in armed militancy by several armed bandit groups in Nigeria has caused mounting dismay, amid a breakdown of security, in every part of the states across the country.

Recall that the Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, recently issued a 7-day ultimatum to herdsmen to vacate all the forests in the state and announced compulsory registration for proper identification.

Akerodolu, hinged his pronouncement on series of criminal activities in the state, raging from kidnappings, rape, armed robbery among others.

He argued that some of the nefarious activities have been carried out in areas around the forests, in which most of the kidnap victims had identified the forests as where they were held captive and delivered ransoms.

Despite the mixed feelings that trailed Akerodolu’s eviction order, the governor has remained resolute on his decision, deploying men of Ondo State Security Network, codenamed ” Amotekun” to clear the forests of every criminal element, with resultant positive results.

Also, a self-acclaimed Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, had in the couple of weeks issued an ultimatum to criminal elements amongst Fulani herdsmen living in Ibarapa axis of Oyo State and stormed the area to make real his threat at the expiration of the seven-day ultimatum.

This action of Adeyemo led to the eviction of Seriki Fulani of Igangan and many others and consequently emboldened the youths of the area to move to action and devised security strategy to secure their land.

This latest development, according to the experts, in Osun, is a fallout of proactive security measures taken by Oyo and Ondo states.

Kwara govt for safety

As a way of tackling the security and socio-economic challenges occasioned by the migration of some herders from Oyo to Kwara state, Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state hosted his Kwara State counterpart Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazak to a security meeting on Tuesday, March 2.

The meeting involved some traditional rulers, heads of security and top government functionaries from Kwara and Oyo states.

Although, journalists were barred from covering the proceedings of the meeting, the host governor while briefing the press after the meeting said it bothered on the need to beef up the security in both states, while also seeking to provide succour to some internally displaced people occasioned by the sack of herders in the Ibarapa axis of the state.

According to Makinde, the situation that led to the sack of some individuals from some parts of Oyo State has seen internally displaced persons now spreading over neighbouring States with an attendant challenge.

Fallout of proactive security measures by Oyo, Ondo affecting Osun – Expert

Meanwhile, a security expert, Dr Kolawole Adigun, has described the recent surge in kidnappings and other criminal activities in Osun as a fallout of proactive security measures taken by Oyo and Ondo states.

He explained that the two states are direct neighbours to Osun and share boundaries from different fronts, making upward and downward movement of criminals very possible through thick forests.

“These criminals are not finding it easy in Oyo and Ondo by the activities of Amotekun corps and other vigilante groups, who are combing the forests consistently to bring sanity into the security architecture of the states.

“Ondo, especially, is doing well in securing forests across the state, that is why there is a drastic drop in the rate of kidnappings around the state in recent times.

“As a result of this development, there is an onward movement of these criminals downward, you know Osun is contiguous to both states, and share boundaries from different axis.

“These bandits are returning to their former hideouts around Imesi-ile, Ibokun and the tick forest between Gbongan and Ikire, specifically Wasimi area.

“Osun government must be proactive and sensitive to the trend of insecurity within the geo-political zone; there should be robust security tactics to sustain efforts of the past and keep the state safe.

“The government in the state is not being proactive on the issue of security in comparison with the last administration, I don’t see the SA on security and the so-called Amotekun in the state as being serious.

“Governor Oyetola should know that security is too important to be left in the hands of mediocre and weaklings for political consideration, it is an integral part of governance”, he said.

A key piece of the mystery around the arrest of the man who inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda” became clear Friday when a pastor told a court in Kigali, Rwanda, that he worked with someone from the Rwanda Investigation Bureau to trick Paul Rusesabagina onto a private plane from Dubai.

The pastor, Constantin Niyomwungere, alleged that Rusesabagina, who faces terror-related charges, had acknowledged that rebels backed by his opposition platform had killed Rwandans.

“Myself, the pilot and cabin crew knew we were coming to Kigali. The only person who didn’t know where we were headed was Paul,” Niyomwungere said.

The 66-year-old Rusesabagina, once praised for saving hundreds of ethnic Tutsis from Rwanda’s 1994 genocide while a hotel manager, now faces nine charges, including the formation of an irregular armed group; membership in a terrorist group; financing terrorism; and murder, abduction and armed robbery as an act of terrorism.

If convicted, he could face more than 20 years in prison.

The case of Rusesabagina, a Belgian citizen and U.S. resident and outspoken critic of longtime Rwandan President Paul Kagame, has drawn international concern. Rusesabagina disappeared in August during a visit to Dubai and was paraded in handcuffs days later in Rwanda.

His family asserts that the charges against him are politically motivated. Rusesabagina asserts that he was kidnapped. Rwanda’s president had hinted that Rusesabagina had been tricked into boarding a flight to Rwanda, a country he left in 1996.

In court on Friday, Rusesabagina denounced the pastor Niyomwungere, whom he has said “betrayed” him.

Niyomwungere said an unnamed person connected him with Rusesabagina in 2017 in Brussels, and they become friends.

He said that in one conversation, Rusesabagina admitted that rebels backed by his opposition platform were responsible for an attack inside Rwanda. The pastor alleged that Rusesabagina showed no remorse.

Niyomwungere said last year he started working on a plan with the Rwanda Investigation Bureau to capture Rusesabagina. “I prayed to God to give me courage and arrest this man. I prayed for a month,” he said.

Opportunity came when Rusesabagina said he planned to travel to Burundi, which neighbors Rwanda. Niyomwungere said he alerted the Rwanda Investigation Bureau contact.

Rwanda’s government has alleged that Rusesabagina was going to Burundi to coordinate with armed groups based there and in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo.

On Friday, Rusesabagina said all his rights have been taken away, and his international lawyers have been refused. Rwanda’s attorney general last month said in a video accidentally sent to al-Jazeera that authorities had intercepted messages between Rusesabagina and his legal team.

“How can you say my rights have been respected when I spent the first three days of captivity at an unknown location, blindfolded, tied legs and hands?” Rusesabagina asked.

When the trial resumes Wednesday, the court will rule on whether Rusesabagina was kidnapped and is in Rwanda illegally. The court earlier rejected his argument that a Rwandan court cannot try him because he is no longer a citizen.

Rusesabagina’s family says he has no chance at a fair trial because of his outspoken criticism of Kagame and human rights abuses. They fear he might die behind bars from poor health.

The presidency has suggested that influential persons were engaging in illicit trade in Zamfara State.

The government said jets were used to transport arms to bandits and move gold illegally out of Nigeria.

Garba Shehu, presidential spokesperson, told BBC Hausa these were part of the reasons a no-fly zone was declared.

“Jets are being used to pick up gold mined in some parts of Zamfara and exported.

“There is a Nigerian gold market in Dubai. The government is losing, the people of this country are losing”, he said.

On Tuesday, National Security Adviser, Maj. Gen. Babagana Monguno (rtd) announced the ban on non-military aerial movement in Zamfara.

There is also a ban on all mining activities in the North-West state.

Buhari ordered massive deployment of military assets to restore normalcy.

The state faces a serious banditry challenge. Hundreds have been kidnapped and scores killed in 2021 alone.

Ana amfani da jirage wajen kai wa ‘yan ta’adda makamai a Zamfara – Fadar Shugaba Buhari pic.twitter.com/ZQC1LXH51Z

— BBC News Hausa (@bbchausa) March 3, 2021

Pastor Bulus Yakuru of the Church of the Brethren (EYN) has been freed by Boko Haram.

It was gathered that the agency and the Kalthum Foundation for Peace negotiated his release.

The cleric regained freedom on the day he was to be executed.

Yakuru was abducted on Christmas Eve, when insurgents attacked Pemi village in Borno State. No fewer than six people were murdered.

Yakuru, in a video, appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari, Governor Babagana Zulum and the Christian leadership to intervene.

CAN President, Rev. Samson Ayokunle, stated that Yakuru’s case was a litmus test for the new Service Chiefs. Ayokunle said he should not end like Rev. Lawan Andimi.

In January 2020, Boko Haram murdered Andimi. He was District Chairman of the EYN and CAN Chairman of Michika LGA in Adamawa State.

At least 20 people have been confirmed dead and over 30 others injured in a car bomb blast in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Friday night.

According to the police, a car packed with explosives detonated at Luul Yemeny restaurant, claiming the lives.

Heavy gunfire followed the explosion, according to reports by CNN.

“Plumes of white smoke covered the city after the enormous explosion followed by gunfire,” said witness Liban Yusuf.

Terror group Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attack through a statement posted on its affiliated sites.

This comes less than a month after another car bomb was detonated near the Somalian presidential palace.

Fears have gripped the Horn of Africa country after the government failed to conduct elections following the expiry of  President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo’s term on February 8.

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned Peiter Borremans and Nkechi Borremans before Justice E. A. Obile of the Federal High Court, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

The Dutch couple were arraigned, alongside Lagon Trade Limited, on two-count charges bordering on conspiracy and obtaining by false pretences.

The money, received by false pretext, was an advance payment for the purchase of a Marine Tanker Vessel.

The offence run afoul of Section 1(1) (a) and (2) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.

N. A. Dodo, the prosecuting counsel, prayed the court for a date for commencement of trial and sought their remand in a Correctional Centre.

C. A. Okowanya, defence counsel, informed the court of oral applications for the bail and prayed they be remanded in EFCC custody due to the second wave of COVID-19.

Justice Obile adjourned the matter until March 31, 2021, and remanded the defendants in EFCC custody.

Police in Cross River State has confirmed that two policemen were shot dead on Wednesday morning at Obubra local government area of the state.

A press statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Irene Ugbo said the Command wished to clarify information circulating in news media.

The PPRO said the Command condemns the unfortunate attack on policemen by unknown gunmen at a checkpoint in Obubra local government, in the early hours of Wednesday.

She said contrary to rumours that six policemen died in the attack, only two officers actually lost their lives.

“The Command hereby refutes the trending news making the rounds in some quarters that six policemen were killed in the said attack. The press statement is hereby issued to clear the air that two policemen lost their lives, one injured and responding to treatment

“Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP S. K. Akande calls for calm while frantic effort is ongoing to get to the root of this incident.

“The Command enjoins residents and well meaningful Cross Riverians to view security as a collective venture by sharing genuine information with the police.

“We are resolute to making Cross River State peaceful for all and confront this security monster in the state headlong please’ the statement added.

Vision Ethiopia, a non-partisan association of Ethiopian scholars and professionals, expresses its unequivocal disapprobation of the recent disinformation campaign waged against the interest of the people of Ethiopia by the Western media, certain humanitarian organizations, and some branches of the US government and the European Union.

While we fully appreciate the engagement of the United States and other organizations to work with the Ethiopian government to achieve a peaceful solution to the crises in the Tigray region and to conduct untarnished investigation into any reports of human rights violations, we are deeply concerned by the lack of balance and objectivity in the reporting of the facts on the ground. A case in point is the recent statement issued by the US State Department [1] that levels unfounded and unsubstantiated allegations, singling out the Amhara people as perpetrators and invaders, in a blatant violation of the sovereignty of the country.

We believe that it is inopportune and a travesty of justice for the US State Department to put blame on the same people whose suffering has been completely unheeded by successive US administrations, the international community, the Western media and human rights institutions.

As fully documented in our earlier communications, the Amhara people and other members of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church have been victims of genocidal violence [2], committed by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and its terrorist allies, in various parts of the country, including the Amhara ancestral lands of Wolkait,Tegede  and Raya, which had been illegally and forcibly annexed by the TPLF.

As recently as the early days of November 2020, following the treasonous attack by the TPLF on the Northern Command of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF), over one thousand innocent civilians, preponderantly Amharas, were massacred by TPLF cadres in the small town of Mai-Kadra alone [3]. The murderers, after committing the heinous crimes, not only managed to escape to the neighboring country of the Sudan as refugees, but are also now used as the primary source of all the misinformation campaign that the remnants of the TPLF regime are methodically fanning and feeding to the Western media and sympathetic governments. Ironically, the recent Amnesty international report [4], which was alluded to in the US State Department statement and cited by the mainstream media, was mostly based on the accounts and testimonials of these criminals.

Equally troubling is the lack of balance in the coverage of the crisis in Tigray, whose root cause is the brazen and unprovoked attack by the TPLF on the ENDF. It is extremely disheartening and alarming to behold how major newspapers, humanitarian organizations and even the US State Department, conveniently and conspicuously omit this crucial fact in their analysis of the current situation in the region. For example, in its issue of February 26, 2021, the New York Times unashamedly asserted that the government of Ethiopia “launched a surprise military offensive,” going to the extent of contradicting the statement issued by a TPLF spokesperson who had bragged about the lightening preemptive attack they carried out against the ENDF. The New York Times has yet to retract its erroneous reports or regret its misleading accounts!

The TPLF, having lost the unwinnable war that it had started, has predictably embarked on a major public relation offensive, thanks to the enormous amount of aid money the criminal organization had embezzled while in power. TPLF operators, some of whom are prominently planted in international organizations, humanitarian institutions and major news outlets, are using traditional and social media forums in a coordinated fashion to disseminate their disinformation and lies.  Tragically, the TPLF operatives have so far been successful in befuddling the international community, as well as sympathetic governments and institutions, as they had effectively done so done for over three decades of their tyrannical rule. The people of Ethiopia are confident that history will judge those Western media, governments and institutions who stood on the side of a terrorist group that has inflicted immeasurable suffering and committed horrendous atrocities and crimes with impunity against innocent and defenseless civilians.

Manifestly, the spiteful tactics pursued by the criminal TPLF organization include:

Thus far, their wicked tactics and strategies appear to bear fruits, as evidenced by the recent reports of the US State Department, Amnesty International and major media outlets.

We are deeply concerned that uncritical support given to this criminal group by the US State Department and other organizations and institutions will further embolden the group to continue to execute nefarious activities, disrupt the peace in the region, and subject our compatriots in Tigray and the rest of the country to more suffering, violence and bloodshed.

We, therefore, urge the US government and the international community to exercise prudence and not fall to the ploys of the TPLF that has hoodwinked the West for over three decades, while committing atrocious crimes against the people of Ethiopia.

We also call upon editors of all major media institutions to uphold minimally acceptable journalistic standards, and discharge their responsibilities to issue responsible, unbiased, fact-based and untarnished reports.

Board of Directors of Vision Ethiopia
Vision Ethiopia is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization incorporated in Washington, D.C. EIN 81-0729204. http://visionethiopia.org. Email: VisionEthiopia@VisionEthiopia.org

A lawyer, Barr. Roy U. Nwaeze who is an elder brother to the governor of Ebonyi State on Tuesday has accused Fred Udeogu, a leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state of allegedly misleading a bailiff of the Federal High court, Victor Jonathan to lie against serving his client court processes.

Nwaeze, who is a counsel to the factional chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Onyekachi Nwaebonyi, made this known to newsmen while reacting to an allegation that he (Roy) attacked the said bailiffs while trying to serve his client (Nwaebonyi) court processes at the Osborne La Palm Hotel.

Recall that Fred Udeogu led PDP leadership in Ebonyi State had accused the Lawyer, Roy Nwaeze of arresting, attacking the innocent bailiffs of the court, Victor Jonathan while trying to pass the court processes at the Osborne La Palm hotel located along old Enugu road, even when he (Jonathan) had shown them his ID card.

According to Udeogu “Rather than wait for the motion to be heard and a determination made by the court, the same Roy, changed course and resorted to attacking the innocent bailiffs of the court.

“The motion filed by Roy Nwaeze the governor’s brother was subsisting and pending in court, he muscled his way through the Chief Registrar of the Federal High Court, Mr. Emmanuel Gakko, and made false accusations against the Bailiffs of the court, to the effect that the court processes served on the 1st -3rd Defendants, by the Bailiffs of the court, were no longer served.

“It is unfortunate that the Chief Registrar of the Federal High Court, whom we understand had a previous grouse against the Bailiff who served the court processes, took advantage of the situation to immediately set up a committee to try the said Bailiff in accordance with the dictates of Roy Nwaeze the governor’s brother.

“It is unfortunate that the Chief Registrar of the Federal High Court, who himself is a lawyer, could not wait for the determination of the motion filed by the same Roy Nwaeze, challenging the service of the process of the court, on the 1st -3rd Defendants, before rushing, due to his animosity against the said Bailiff and pressure by Roy Nwaeze, to set up a panel to try the Bailiff.

“The action of the Chief Registrar of the Federal High Court was done in bad faith, and undermines the integrity and jurisdiction of the Federal High Court, before whom the same issue has been brought for adjudication” he noted.

In a swift reaction, Barr. Roy Nwaeze accused Fred Udeogu and his cohorts of rather compelling and misleading the innocent Bailiff to lie against serving his client the court processes at the Osborne La Palm hotel.

According to him: “A petition to an employer to investigate the conduct of his employee cannot be said to constitute an attack, except one is talking about an attack on the integrity of the employee, which isn’t a bad thing to do.

“The PDP had thought that they would be given the opportunity to work further on the seared conscience of the bailiff so that he would continue to lie that he served the court processes on our clients.

“Sadly for them, the bailiff admitted that he never served the processes. The PDP guys who made him lie ought to be filled with immense shame because they’re wicked and unrepentant perverters of justice.

“I could not have made false accusations against the Bailiffs of the court when the same Bailiffs, who are adults and not kids, admitted in the Abakaliki Federal High Court and in the Abuja Federal High Court too that the court processes were never served on the 1st-3rd Defendants.

“I’m seriously appalled that these PDP guys are insisting that the Bailiffs served the processes which the bailiffs have denied serving. This is terrible; they want their lie to be sustained. They should otherwise bury their heads in shame that they misled an innocent bailiff into deposing to a false Affidavit of service, a perjurious act.

“My role there has been to ensure that justice is not perverted. I’m hugely happy that the truths have been revealed. I invited pressmen to take physical interest in the court proceedings by witnessing the same to see how shamelessly criminal some bandits of the truth could be.

“The Federal High Court is a place where justice ought not to be supplanted, and the Chief Registrar is one of the officers of the Court, who should not watch and do nothing when justice is being perverted. As the boss of the bailiff, he has a duty to investigate an allegation of misconduct against his employee or staff.

“He did the right thing by setting up a 3-member committee to investigate the allegation of false claim of service of court processes on some Defendants. He was never there in the Committee where the bailiff admitted that he never served the processes.
Barr. Nwaeze further revealed that the case will come up for hearing in the Federal High Court 5, Abuja on March 15, 2021.

By Reuters Staff

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s president said on Tuesday the arrest of the wife of jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in the United States is a U.S. matter, though he urged authorities north of the border to provide more information on the case.

Emma Coronel Aispuro was arrested at an airport just outside Washington and charged with helping Guzman continue to run his drug cartel during his incarceration.

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told reporters at a regular morning news conference that he hoped the U.S. government would share more information about the arrest.

“It’s a matter that the United States will decide,” he said, speculating that her arrest may be linked to the case of former Mexican Security Minister Genaro Garcia Luna, who was also criminally charged last year in a U.S. court.

Coronel Aispuro, a 31-year-old former beauty queen, was a regular attendee at her husband’s high-profile New York trial two years ago where he was convicted of trafficking tons of drugs into the United States.

She was charged by the U.S. Department of Justice with conspiracy to import drugs including heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine into the United States, and is expected to appear in court in Washington later on Tuesday.

Reporting by David Alire Garcia; editing by Jonathan Oatis

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