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Nscdc destroys illegal refineries in Rivers

Determined to put an end to oil theft and pipeline vandalisation in the Niger Delta region and the entire country, the Rivers State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, has set ablaze several illegal refineries in Rivers State.

The NSCDC had during its operations in Bonny and Asari-Toru Local Government Area of the state discovered about 10 illegal refineries and products worth N50m.

The Assistant Commandant General of NSCDC, Zone E, Mohammad Hassan Lapai, who led an operation into the creeks in the state on Tuesday for about seven hours, ordered the destruction of four different dump sites used for illegal refining.

Some of the illegal oil refining sites set ablaze are Brekete Fishing Port in Bonny Local Government Area where about 14 tanks loaded with 10,000 litres of refined products each were burnt and Okpoma Kiri in Asari-Toru Local Government Area.

Three tanks fully loaded with petroleum products were also destroyed by operatives of the NSCDC within the same local government area.

Speaking with newsmen shortly after the operation, Lapai vowed that such visits to the creeks would be made a routine until the activities of oil thieves were brought under control.

Explaining that it was the duty of the security outfit to curb the activities of oil thieves, the assistant commandant general of the NSCDC described the operation into the creeks as a huge success.

Lapai pointed out that the responsibility of the security outfit had gone beyond pipeline surveillance, adding that the search for bunkerers was part of the tasks they must accomplish.

He maintained that the NSCDC would never compromise its status and standard with those involved in oil bunkering and would continue to fight oil bunkering until the menace was eliminated from the Niger Delta and Nigeria in general.

“This year alone, we have destroyed over 48 illegal bunkering refineries. We are very grateful to the local communities and our sister agencies for their cooperation in this fight.

“There has been a serious synergy and this has helped us to destroy about 10 illegal refineries in Rivers State this week alone. With the help of the new government at the federal level, the challenges we are facing in this fight will be faced squarely. This fight is going to be consistent.

“This force does not compromise. So, we promise that we will surely stamp out oil bunkering from the creeks. We are out to tackle it head-on. We have the courage and will ensure that oil thieves, pipeline vandals and illegal refineries are completely wiped out,” Lapai stressed.

He, however, urged those involved in oil bunkering and pipeline vandalisation to look for a legal way for survival, warning that it will not be business as usual again.

According to him, “We have destroyed about 17 tanks fully loaded in the sites we visited today. Each of the tanks contains 10,000 litres of the products worth N50m.

“I have already directed the commander in Rivers State, Ms Helen Amachree that this is going to be a routine affair now. We will be going from one creek to another to make sure that we exterminate the criminal elements.”

Also, the Commander of NSCDC Rivers State Command, Amachree, recalled that the command had impounded over 300 vehicles including tankers for illegal oil bunkering.

Amachree said that some of the cases on the trucks impounded and some persons that were arrested were already in court.

According to her, “We have seized not less than 300 vehicles that were loaded with illegal oil products by oil thieves.

“Some of them were loaded with some refined products while others were loaded with crude oil when our men caught them and our lawyers have charged some of the persons arrested in connection to that to court.”

Governors, stop killing Nigerian children - Olabisi Deji-Folutile

This is a picture of a so-called block of classrooms for some hapless Nigerian children. It’s a school building for children whose parents are obviously not members of the nation’s political class. Their parents are probably hard-working, but hard work is not wealth. This is a popular proverb in this part of the world. 

Of course, one would have thought school buildings like these should only be in war-torn countries or the poorest countries of the world. But then, they are right here in Nigeria- the world’s sixth largest producer of oil.

Interestingly, the state where this school building is situated has refused to access the money that the Federal Government allocated to it to build schools. The money is currently lying idle at the Central Bank of Nigeria.

This state is not alone. Several others have billions of naira with the CBN and their governors have simply refused to access the money. Can you beat that? Right now, state governments are being begged to come and access the over N58bn that is available for building schools and uplifting basic education in general in the country.

This is a yearly ritual. Last Thursday, the Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission, Dr. Dikko Suleiman,   was literally begging state governors to come and access the billions of naira belonging to their states.

According to him, though the money was supposed to be used to correct infrastructural decay in public schools, many states have refused to access it.

The Universal Basic Education Programme is a strategy to achieve the goal of Education For All. Although, the financing of basic education   should mainly be the responsibility of states and local governments, the Federal Government decided to intervene in the provision of basic education with two per cent of its Consolidated Revenue Fund.

It enacted the UBE Act in 2004. The law makes provision for the establishment of an education commission saddled with the responsibility of coordinating the implementation of the programme at the state and local government levels through the State Universal Basic Education Board.

To access the Federal Government intervention fund, states are expected to provide a similar grant of the amount they intend to draw to boost infrastructure in their schools. In other words, if any state wants to access N1bn from the fund, it will be required to provide a counterpart fund of N1 bn.

Besides, the state will also provide an action plan, that is, the projects it will spend the money on and the benefits to be derived from them. But for reasons best known to them, a lot of states have refused to access this free fund. Some have not even drawn from it since 2008.

According to UBEC, only seven states have so far complied with UBEC’s criteria and successfully received their grants in full. They are Sokoto, Katsina, Kano, Gombe, Taraba Anambra and Imo states.

Also, a report on access and utilisation of Special Education Fund between 2009 and 2012 shows that 13 states accessed the fund in 2012; 24 including the FCT in 2011; 32 and FCT in 2010 as well as 34 states and FCT in 2009.

The report categorises states as performers, chronic non-performers, woeful non-performers and non-performers. The chronic non-performing states have only accessed less than 50 per cent of what belongs to them. They include Osun, Borno, Jigawa, Rivers, Delta, Ondo, Akwa Ibom, Edo and Ekiti states. Interestingly, some of these states are oil producing states enjoying special derivation formula.

The woeful non-performers are Ogun, Oyo, Nasarawa, Kogi and Abia states. These states have only accessed 22 per cent of the fund available for their use. The non-performers are Benue, Enugu and Ebonyi states which have only accessed 18 per cent of their money.

How can anyone justify a situation where billions of naira meant to expand access and improve the quality of basic education delivery is deliberately left un-utilised, while the problems facing effective basic education delivery stare at us?

Why should any   governor feel comfortable seeing innocent kids study in dilapidated structures that may collapse on them and yet fail to access billions of Naira that could readily   be used to build new classrooms?   Why   should any governor prefer to see money belonging to its state rot in a CBN account when there are several laudable projects that could be executed with the money? I just don’t   understand the logic.But one thing is obvious. UBEC demands transparency from any state that wants to utilise its funds. The commission also inspects projects to make sure that they are in line with the intended action plan.

I believe this is where many of the governors have problems. They don’t want to be accountable.   They don’t want to be transparent. They prefer to collect the money and spend it without being monitored. They want to award spurious contracts and cover their tracks. They want to misappropriate the money and ‘clean their mouths.’ They want to divert the fund to finance other projects that catch their fancy even if those projects won’t have direct impact on the children. And since they can’t do all these because of the stringent conditions for accessing the funds, they prefer to allow the money to lie idle at the CBN.

I doubt if any of these governors would   leave a dime with the CBN if UBEC decides to cancel all the conditions attached to accessing the money. They are likely to take everything that is available and probably ask for more like Oliver Twist.

It’s time for our leaders to stop being greedy and selfish. They should stop allowing other children to die needless deaths when their own children are safe and well. It doesn’t make sense for them to keep shedding crocodile tears for innocent children that die when they can prevent most of these deaths.

Several countries of the world fund education by a combination of support from the national, state and local tiers of government. Japan, Singapore and other Asian countries spend averagely six per cent of their GDP on education. Public schools are funded by combination of supports from the national, municipal and prefectural governments. This thing works in other places and should work here too.

We’ve had countless reports of school buildings collapsing and killing pupils. The latest was the one that happened in Jos, Plateau State, killing 10 pupils, last week. These are unnecessary deaths. Our governors should therefore as a matter of urgency access available funds to provide a decent environment for Nigerian children to learn.

Education is a basic right of every citizen. Our governors should also be reminded that allowing children to die unnecessarily is murderous. And there is a punishment for shedding innocent blood.

But beyond this, I think the law setting up the UBEC should be reviewed to make it compulsory for states to access their funds within a particular period of time. Any state that fails to do so should be sanctioned. The Federal Government may also give incentives to states that access their funds regularly to encourage others to follow their examples.

Police dismiss killer cop, arraign him for murder

The Lagos State Police Command has dismissed killer police corporal, Aremu Musiliu, for opening fire on a couple in Ijegun, Alimosho, Lagos State.

The 28-year-old was arraigned on Friday before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrate’s Court on two counts of murder and causing grievous body harm.

The PUNCH had reported that Museliu and some other policemen attached to the Isheri Osun Police Station had mounted a checkpoint on Wednesday at the Obalagbe bus stop, Ijegun Road.

The men were reportedly extorting some tricycle operators in the area, when the victims, Mr. Godwin Ekpo and his wife, Idongesit, were returning from a church programme in their tricycle.

Godwin was said to have mistakenly brushed the policemen van while trying to evade them. Museliu was alleged to have opened fire on the couple, after another policeman smashed their windscreen.

While Idongesit died on the spot, her husband, Godwin, sustained serious injuries and was admitted at a general hospital in the state.

Tricycle operators in the community on Thursday took to the street to protest the killing and alleged harassment of tricycle drivers.

Saturday PUNCH learnt that the police authorities had dismissed the cop after he was tried in an orderly room trial.

The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Joe Offor, who confirmed the development, said the suspect’s excuses for misusing his firearm were untenable.

He said, “The orderly room trial was constituted in the early hours of Thursday and the authorities were not satisfied with the excuses he gave for the misuse of his firearms. He has been dismissed.”

Asked what would happen to the other policemen said to have been part of the incident, Offor said investigations were ongoing and any other culprit would be appropriately sanctioned.

“It was a single bullet that killed the woman and wounded the man. There is no way eight policemen could have fired a single bullet.

“But investigations are ongoing and if there is any complicity of any other policeman, we will do the needful,” he added.

Musiliu, in an interview with the press, said he never had the intention of killing the victim.He said he had wanted to stop the driver with a bullet which he aimed at the tyre, adding that the bullet ricocheted the floor and hit Idongesit and her husband. 

He said, “It happened 12am in the night, and there were four of us on duty. We were all in uniform and the Hilux van we used was a police vehicle; we did not use any illegal bus.

“We have the instruction to arrest tricycles and motorcycles that ply our roads late in the night. And that was why we did stop-and-search by that time.

“The man had damaged our vehicle and when I asked him to stop, he continued running. I could not just leave him to run away and there was no way I could stop him. I aimed at the tyre and fired a shot, but I missed.

“The bullet hit the ground and bounced in to hit the woman and her husband. The bullet did not hit the man in the stomach, but the jaw. I did not run. The DC came to pick me around 2am at our division where I was detained.”

The suspect was, however, arraigned on Friday on two counts bordering on murder and causing grievous body harm.

The offences were said to be punishable under sections 221 and 243 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2011.

His plea was not taken for the offence. The police prosecutor, Godwin Osuyi of the Legal Section, Department of State Criminal Investigation, Yaba, in a remand application, said the defendant had already confessed to the crime.

He said Musiliu was arrested with exhibits, caught with a weapon, and identified by witnesses.“There is need for further investigation. We urge the court to remand the defendant in custody for 30 days to enable us to complete all investigations,” he said.

Ex-militants threaten to disrupt activities in A’Ibom Airport, ExxonMobil

Repentant militants under the aegis of Bakassi Freedom Fighters have threatened to disrupt activities at Ibom International Airport, ExxonMobil as well as vandalise pipelines from Frontier Oil Limited in Akwa Ibom.

The group’s spokesperson, Commander Ebong Friday, said that the state government had neglected its members since the time they dropped their arms in the Federal Government Amnesty Programme to pursue peace.

Friday stated this in Eket, Eket Local Government Area of the state at a meeting with his members on Friday.

He stated that the group had given the Akwa Ibom State governor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel one week ultimatum to empower his members in the youth empowerment programme or risk dire consequences.

“It is very unfortunate that the state government is taking us for granted. We dropped our arms in the course of the Presidential Amnesty Programme and chose to embrace peace.

“The Akwa Ibom State Government called for amnesty and we surrendered our arms with an agreement that they would train us and integrate us.

“After we voluntarily dropped our arms to embrace peace so that we could achieve what they had promised us, they turned their backs on us,” he lamented.

Friday said that about 950 members of the group were yet to be integrated and documented in the Federal Government amnesty programmes. He stated that they went to Obubra for training and came back to the state but that the state government had yet to sort them out.

Scrap 60 embassies, ex-diplomats tell Buhari

Some ex-diplomats and experts on international affairs have backed President Muhammadu Buhari’s call for a review of the number of Nigeria’s foreign missions abroad, saying that they should be cut by at least 60.

The experts and ex-diplomats, who said the number of Nigerian missions abroad was too many, disclosed this in separate interviews with our correspondents on Friday.

They said Nigeria’s economy, which has recently been on a downturn, could not sustain its 119 foreign missions.

Buhari recently ordered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to review the number of Nigeria’s foreign missions abroad, which are set to cost the country N34bn in 2015.

Commenting on the issue, former ambassador to Sudan and Morocco, Bola Dada, urged the Federal Government to prune its foreign missions to between 40 and 50 because of the economic downturn.

Dada suggested that the government should only maintain embassies in neighbouring countries and other countries that are strategic to Nigeria’s interests.

He said, “I am in total support of the pruning of Nigerian embassies. Even at best of times, Nigeria should not have more than 60 embassies. And now that there is economic downturn in the country, the country should have between 40 and 50 embassies.

“It should not be more than 50. Our economy is in a shambles, we should not pretend all is well. It is quite expensive to maintain an embassy, a lot goes into it.

“In Europe, Nigeria must have embassies in Britain, France, Germany, and Italy. In Arab Gulf states, Saudi Arabia, and one or two others will do. Nigeria must not leave out Japan, China and India in the Asia axis.

“In whatever number the country will eventually pick or retain, the committee responsible for the review must give comprehensible brief on each country to justify having an embassy there.”

A former ambassador to Greece and Australia, Prof. Olu Agbi, also said that “there are a few countries where our interests are minimal and even where Nigerians are not many and where we can reduce our presence there and increase our presence in some other countries.”

He added that the country’s resources cannot adequately maintain its number of foreign missions.Agbi said, “Does Nigeria have enough resources to take care of all the foreign missions? The answer is no. We don’t have the resources. Even when I was an ambassador, we experienced a lot of shortfall in funding. 

Sometimes for about three, four months, ambassadors and staff were not paid their salaries. It was that bad so when you have too many missions, most of our diplomats abroad will be suffering.” 

A professor of International law and jurisprudence, Akin Oyebode, described diplomacy as an expensive venture, noting that “a full complement of an embassy will have the ambassador, the minister counsellor, the first secretary, second secretary, third secretary, immigration attaché for passport, trade attaché, student attaché, apart from consular services for visa and other things. So, it is a very elaborate process.”

He said, “So, we have to rationalise and take a global look at our embassies, shut down some and ask some embassies for multiple accreditations. For instance, an embassy in Turkey can take care of Philippines and Singapore. We reduce the number and increase the accreditation to save cost.

“In Africa, we might retain Addis Ababa because of the African Union; Pretoria or Johannesburg because South Africa is important, and then Ghana. We might not need in Sierra Leone. In the America, you shut some consulates, maybe New York permanent mission and keep Washington DC, we might close down Mexico and Venezuela.”

B’Haram: Ganduje cautions FG over negotiation, lawyers divided

Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has urged the Federal Government to be cautious in its negotiation with the Boko Haram sect.

The governor, who was fielding questions from State House correspondents in Abuja on Friday, expressed fears that the government might end up dealing with a fake faction of the militant sect.

He said, “I hope when we negotiate with them, we are negotiating with the correct people.

“Experience has shown that the group has so many factions and if we are not lucky, we may be dealing with the wrong faction.”

In a related development, lawyers in separate interviews with one of our correspondents, expressed diverse views over President Muhammadu Buhari’s expressed willingness to grant amnesty to Boko Haram in exchange for the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls.

While some lawyers were in support of the move, others expressed pessimism over the offer of amnesty to the insurgents for releasing the over 200 girls who were kidnapped on April 14, 2014.

A civil rights lawyer and social commentator, Mr. Wahab Shittu, identified this time when the Nigerian military appears to be gaining momentum in the fight against Boko Haram as the right time for the government to negotiate with them.

He noted that Nigeria “must ensure it negotiates from a position of strength and not that of weakness.”

He said, “It is the right time because ultimately no matter how prolonged any crisis is, the combatants will get to a negotiation table.

“The primary purpose of any government is the security and welfare of its citizens and if on that score government because of one life decides to negotiate, it is okay because any life lost cannot be replaced.”

Another civil rights lawyer, Mr. Liborous Oshoma, who also supported the move however called on the government to get to the roots of the insurgency to prevent other people from taking up arms against the state in the future.

He said, “Anything that will lead to the release of those girls, that is if they are still together, is welcome. This is not the first time that government is even attempting to use the carrot and stick approach and it is good that the government is not saying that it is going to fold its arms and beg them to come and take amnesty.

“It should be as bait to get to the sponsors of the group. Government should address the root cause of the Boko Haram crisis because if that is not addressed, another group will spring up in the future. It is better to rehabilitate these people than to leave them to continue on this rampage of killing innocent people.”

Mr. Jiti Ogunye, another lawyer, however, noted that it would be dangerous to grant amnesty to Boko Haram on the basis of the release of the Chibok girls if the group has not renounced violence.
 

He therefore described Buhari’s invitation to the group as bait. He said, “They have not repudiated their satanic ideology so if the Chibok girls were released for example and they are granted amnesty on that score, what happens next? Will they stop blowing up people and all that?”