Former President of Ijaw Youth Council(IYC),Dr.Chris Ekiyor has
refuted allegation in some quarters that 18 Ex-Militants undergoing
Post amnesty training in South Africa were thrown out of their hotel
for lack of funds.
According to Ekiyor, the Amnestyoffice headed by Kingsley Kuku has
always met the needs of ex-militants under any of its training
programmes both within and outside the country.Hence, it is not
possible that Ex-militants in far-away South Africa will bestarved of
funds.
Stating further, Ekiyor condemned what he termed the resort of the
Ex-militants to blackmail the ongoing effort of Government at training
ex-militants for onward assimilation into the society.
“ It is pure blackmail, nobodyejected the 18 Ex-militants from the
hotel they were lodged. They checked out of the hotel in protest for a
five star accommodation which contradicts everysense of a academic
pursuit,” Ekiyor stated.
Stating further, Ekiyor emphasized that the ex-militants should be
grateful to government instead of resorting to cheapblackmail.
According to him, there are many university graduates from the Niger
Delta region who are roaming University roaming the streets in search
of jobs.
“ There are many University graduatesfrom the Niger Delta who have
good grades and are roaming the streets. Insteadof the Ex-militants to
be grateful to government for such a rare opportunitythey are trying
to blackmail it,” Ekiyor noted.
However, Ekiyor who said he is intouch with the Amnesty office
disclosed that kuku has vowed to get to the root of the matter and
ensure it is notswept under the carpet.
Ekiyor also disclosed that someofficials of the amnesty office are
already in South Africa to unravel thecause of the matter.
The attention of the Federal Inland Revenue Service has been drawn to news stories reported in several newspapers today, Monday 31st October 2011, stating that the agency is in disagreement with the Federal Government on the planned removal oil subsidy.
They were various strands of the same report in several dailies, suggesting that there is a crack within government over the economic policy direction of the Federal Government.
The FIRS wishes to state that as agency of the Federal Government, the question of disagreement with the policy direction of the Federal Government is not plausible, nor could it be comtemplated.
Contrary to insinuations in the media, Mrs. Okauru was neither at the meeting held on Friday, October 28, 2011 nor was she in Abuja on that day as she was on another official assignment. No discussions have ever taken place on the issue in question.
The Coordinating Director, Corporate Development Group, Mr. Osy Chuke represented the Executive Chairman, Ifueko Omoigui Okauru at the House of Representative Committee’s meeting on the 2012-2015 Medium-Term Fiscal Framework and 2012 Fiscal Strategic Plan held on Friday, October 28, 2011 but no discussion took place. Rather, members of the House Committee specifically requested for Revenue estimates to be provided and presented on Monday, October 31, 2011.
The FIRS wishes to restate that as an agency of the Federal Government it is working, in unison, with President Goodluck Jonathan and all members of his dedicated team to institute and implement policies and programmes that will provide sustainable revenue for the development of our country.
A very strong northern football cabal which though has made up its mind to support the engagement of Stephen Keshi are insisting that the Eagles gaffer cannot have the freehand to choose his assistant so as to take care of the interest of the region.
The cabal that has silently been in the control of Nigerian football for decades have ruled out the combination of Keshi and Sunday Oliseh. Their reason? Keshi’s assistant must be a northerner and that is why they are zeroing on former Super Eagles assistant coach, Daniel Amokachie.
Even the choice of Amokachie was a reluctant one. He is seen as an ‘infidel’ and he is one of the available coaches of northern background who has the profile to fix the bill at that level for now.
Rather than dwell on the quality of the coaches to handle the Super Eagles after the sack of Siasia, the cabal have reduced the issue to regional sentiments in deciding the very sensitive issue such that the north must be represented in the coaching crew of the senior national team.
The members of the cabal in order to have their way tacitly ran the script to give the technical committee led by Christopher Green a pass mark publicly to facilitate the plan.
It was the decision that, should the NFF finally decide on engaging Steven Okechukwu Keshi as the Chief Coach of the Super Eagles, his immediate assistant must be somebody from the North and the person they have proposed is Daniel Amokachi, said our source.
According to the board member who spoke on confidentiality and anonymity, it was declared that the whole technical crew cannot come from the same region as the North must be represented. This is why Oliseh and Keshi cannot and should not get the job.
“The national team technical crew should be regionally balanced, we are of the opinion that should Keshi be given the job, naturally his assistant must come from the North. Everything must be done to make Sunday Oliseh not to emerge.”
On how to counter the argument in favour of a Steven Keshi and Sunday Oliseh combination, a section of the media will be made to run negative campaigns against Oliseh’s person.
My source added, “currently, on paper, Oliseh has a more qualified coaching certificate than Daniel Amokachie, but the thing is not about paper qualification. Once Keshi and Oliseh get the job and they get it right, the north will be boxed out for a long time.
The board is expected to make an announcement on Wednesday (tomorrow) on who the next Super Eagles coaches would be. Samson Siasia was given the boot last week Friday for failing to lead the Super Eagles to next year’s Africa Cup of Nations which they claimed contravened the agreement they had with him in his contract.
It will be recalled that the same cabal had rationalised that since Taiwo Ogunjobi as secretary general was from the south west, and Sani Abdullahi Lulu was from the north central, the coach must be from the east which was why Christian Chukwu was brought in.
As soon as Siasia was also employed, the same cabal insisted on the choice of Salisu Yusuf, a northerner, as one of his assistants. The same cabal forced coach Bala Nikyu on Uche Eucharia after a more cerebral Monsur Abdullahi was edged out because he is Fulani not a hausaman. The same principle brought Manu Garba into the national team.
“Though, the NFF board had said that the technical committee will be meeting today to decide who the next coach of the Super Eagles would be. I can confirm it is just a routine exercise as they have already teleguided how the structure of the team would be,” said our source.
It is the reading of the script between the lines that informed why chief Adegboyega Onigbinde was touted to have offered to resign from the technical committee. He does not want his name dragged to rubber stamp what he thinks is wrong. However, the Modakeke chief has been under some silent pressure not to leave. His resignation is calculated is sending the wrong signals. However, his resignation has been accepted by the NFF.
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has welcomed the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, delivered today in Abuja at the Court of Appeal, which upheld his election as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The President in a statement signed by his Special Adviser (Media and Publicity), Dr. Reuben Abati, described the judgment as a triumph for democracy and an affirmation of the sovereignty of the Nigerian people.
He praised the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and its Presidential Candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, for their respect for the rule of law and the Constitution, saying their recourse to judicial review of their grievances affirms their faith in the nation’s judiciary.
Extending the hands of fellowship to the CPC and General Buhari, the President called on them to accept the decision of the tribunal, put the past behind them and support his administration’s efforts to transform the nation.
“From this day, let us move forward together as we work to deepen the democratic content of our polity and build a nation of our collective desire,” the President said, adding, “The judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal is a victory for all Nigerians”.
President Jonathan expressed his appreciation to all Nigerians for their steadfastness and support, stating “the resolve of his administration to continue to provide good governance, anchored on the strong foundations of honesty, transparency, hardwork and fairness to all”.
It’s not so much we are witnessing history unfold, as it is Washington’s hypocrisy unravel before our eyes.
Washington is infested with busy-bodies who run from one briefing to the next, one press conference to the next, in a drive to conduct their symphonies of policy and media in a desperate bid to remain relevant. Some try harder than others. Inside the beltway, original ideas, humility, honor and integrity are somewhat hard to come by these days.
They are the high-flying political class in the United States, an elite tribe who are so detached from reality that it’s become an almost embarrassment to watch. The Orwellian doublespeak which is now coming out the State Department’s office of nation-building is hitting new highs.
They grandstanded on the TV, and fawned Tunisia and Egypt during the celebrated Arab Spring. Then they ordered Libya and Syria to ‘show restraint and let democracy take it’s natural course’.
Even if – armed insurgents were burning down government buildings in Tripoli, and or firing upon and killing police in Syria.
Obama confidently that other governments “must be responsive for their citizens aspirations”.
Even if – those citizens are being backed and financed by the US State Department, Whitehall, Élysée Palace and allies Qatar.
Hillary Clinton ordered Libya to “respect the universal rights of its own people, including the right to free expression and assembly.”
Even if – her own government cannot even manage to cater for this right any more, even in the United States of America.
Watch this video and you will have a decent idea of what hypocrisy means today in the US:
In the US, the erosion of our basic rights provided by the Bill of Rights and US Constitution has been a long and painful process.
9-11 gave us the naziesque Patriot Acts I & II – two bills which have achieved nothing since their inception, and yet, are still as enthusiastically championed by Barack Obama as they were by GW Bush.
The anti-war demonstrations of 2003 gave us “free speech zones”, in country where freedom to assemble, where and when you want, used to be a god-given inalienable right. Now its a mere privilege.
The G20 demonstrations of 2009 gave us police brutality on a mass militarized scale, not seen before domestically. Thousands of paramilitary police where shipped in to Pittsburgh, sound canons were deployed and students were chased down, tear gassed and beaten in what came to known as forced compliance.
Even an obvious avant garde demonstration, a silent disco at the Jefferson Memorial saw police beat and injure Americans who were only trying to test the vital signs of a US Constitution in critical condition.
What elite political performers like Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton are really saying to the governments of Libya, and now Syria, and later to Algeria and Iran- is that you cannot put down an armed insurrection in your countries, but in the US we reserve the right to beat and shoot our own citizens, and arrested without charges- if they attempt to demonstrate in public.
In other words, “Do as we say, not as we do.”
President Obama will have the world believe that America is less brutal to its own citizens than the rest of the world, but as hundreds of thousands of people in the Occupy Movement now get their first taste of civil disobedience, it is inevitable that some will be unlucky enough to get the hard end of the state’s velvet fist. Indeed, Scott Olsen found this out the hard way in Oakland this week.
And the Occupy Movement will also learn very quickly that we cannot ignore the rights which our US political elite have been denying the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and Libya for all these years now- and expect to be afforded those same rights by the same criminal US government here at home.
We are witnessing a culture in decline- a people who for the most part, are having trouble remembering what made it unique in the first place, and so many who can think of nothing more frightening than to be called to live up to any of those ideals – who forgot what freedom actually is.
The level of Washington’s hypocrisy, its arrogance – has never been on display so vividly as it is today. It’s a clear indication of a society in decline.
What will surely accelerate this decline is a mass chunk of Americans who still to this day, remain unaware that these changes in society have even taken place. And more to the point, too many are ever willing to profit, or make their daily crust from this hyper-security police state. This is one of the signs of a civilization in decline.
Our celebrity politicians have permanently lost touch with reality, and sadly, this tribe will never come back to the source of liberty.
It’s high time for Americans to stop making excuses for the lobbyists, the wars, the pork, the bailouts- and for selling out the principles which once made it an inspiration to so many others around the world. Stop making excuses for elite bureaucrats and Wall Street tycoons.
At a watershed moment in history, it can go both ways, so you only get one shot to make it right.
There were random gunshots Monday on the outskirts of Mayom County in South Sudan’s oil-rich Unity State, where rebels clashed with the army on Saturday.
The weekend incident was the bloodiest rebel fighting since the July independence, civilians on the ground said.
South Sudan Liberation Army (SSLA) rebels, formerly led by Peter Gatdet, attacked Mayom in the early hours of Saturday, and over 80 were killed in the subsequent clash with the regular forces.
“There were heavy guns firing in the forest,” Mr Peter Gargwin, a victim of the fighting who said he lost one of his relatives, said.
“There is still maybe fighting there,” he said.
Gatdet struck a deal with the government recently and returned to Juba.
Some of Mr Gatdet’s senior officers, who rejected the deal and accused him of accepting bribes from Juba, were behind the Saturday violence, according to the Unity State Information minister, Mr Gideon Gatpan.
Mr Gatpan said Monday “the army is still following up with those renegades in their hideouts and we have no serious incident”.
He asserted there was calm in Mayom which, together with the neighbouring Mankien County, have been apparent strongholds and hideouts for the rebels since March.
The gubernatorial election of 2007 in Abia State brought about the victory of the then Progressive Peoples Alliance [PPA] gubernatorial candidate as the Governor of Abia State and also propelled the promise of another South East based political party. Along with the political victory came the accustomed outcry that the victory had been a rigged victory by the then outgoing governor and owner of the PPA, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu. In particular, the then new governor was charged/accused of being a stooge of Orji Uzor Kalu by the people of Abia – in what was widely believed a move to hold the State finances hostage for the then former governor.
Erosion Control along Nkata Ameke
Through the period starting from his victory in April 2007 till April 2011, Gov Orji battled against the stigma of a stooge and a puppet of the then former governor. Through this effort, the governor abandoned the political party [PPA] bidding him to the then former governor and momentarilydecamping into the All Progressive Grand Alliance [APGA]. His decampment into the APGA last less than a week when the governor dumped the APGA for the mainstream Peoples Democratic Party [PDP].
Bridge Construction along Nkata Ameke
Liberation from the perceived political bondage to the then former and owner of the PPA appears to have yeilded the way for unbonded unleashment of developmental programs for the people of Abia State. But credible information available to 247ureports.com point to an agreement reached between Governor Orji and the 1st Lady of the Nation [Madam Patience Jonathan]. Accordingly, the agreement stipulated that the Gov Orji is to remint the monthly sum of N35million to the 1st Lady for her efforts in bringing/rescuing the Govervor out of the grips of the PPA into the protective grips of the PDP.
Test Driving New Waste Disposal Trucks
The mouthpiece of the Abia State government in celebrating the progressive efforts of the State government under the leadership of Abia State notes that the 1st tebure of the Abia State government was marred bythe governor’s struggle to free the State from the grips of bondage and politicians who have spent their years feeding off the fat of Abia State. The mouthpiece of the State Government, Hon Bonny Iwuoha told 247ureports.com in a telephone conversation that the governor has since mounted the commencement of developmental programs in the State. Particularly, Hon Iwuoha pointed to Healthcare development as one of the areas the governor had embarked upon to improve the living standards of the people of the State.
Development and provision of one hundred and fourty five [145] health centers during the 1st term of Gov Orji is pointed to as one of his progressive efforts in the State. An additional fourty six [46] health centers have been erected within the first 150days of Gov Orji’s 2nd term in office [between May 29 2011 and November 1 2011]. Nineteen [19] health centers are reportedly in the pipeline. In all, a total of two hundred and ten [210] healthcare centers would have been erected by the start or early next year [2012]. As gathered, the 210 healthcare centers, when completed, will have qualified nurses as permanent staff and visiting Doctors, The facilities will also be able to treat minor illness and provide short-term admitance to patients. In addition to the 210 heathcare centers, the Abia State government touts their two new major diagnostic centers – one located in Aba and the other in Umuahia, the State capital. The diagnostic center which is a product of a patnership with an Indian Medical Group [Miture] is said to be ground breaking, in that, it will provide succor to the lower income earners resident in and around Aba and Umuahia. The partnership is managed under the leadership of Prof Mbanaso, an indigene of Abia State.
However closer inquiry into the strides claimed by the Abia State government indicates that the government of Abia State may have been economical with the extent of its progress and/or efforts. On the first level, informed and impartial observers of the affiars in Abia State point to the strides into the healthcare delivery as somewhat political gimmickry. Available information indicates that less than 50% of the commissioned 191 healthcare centers [145+46] have yet to be equiped and are yet operational. It was also learnt that the centers were not primarily an Abia State initiated project. It was part of an Milleniuen Development Goal [MDG] program -of which half of the funding was provided for by the World Bank. The two diagnostic centers are also said to be under a counter-part funding arraignment. The spokesperson for the Abia State government acknowledged that the 210 planned healthcare centers were part of the MDG. He claimed partial knowledge of the details of the healthcare centers by stating that he recently joined the Abia State government.
The industrial revival promised by the Abia State Governor during his campaigns of 2007 and 2011 appears a point to debate in both camps of the political divide. Gov Orji had pledged to boost the industries in Abia State by injecting life into the many defunct industries such as the Golden Breweries, Textile Mills and Glass Industries. To this effort, the Abia State government recently set up a board and a committee to study the feasibilty of revitalizing the mentioned industries within a period of one year. And as gathered, the committee completed their task and submitted its findings and recommendations to the Governor in the form of a proposal. 247ureports.com gathered that the proposal contained plan to create 3,00o new jobs. Also, a South African company has been invited to take over the Golden Breweries and to operate it. The chief spokeperson for the Governor, Hon Iwuoha confirmed the development.
Augumenting the proposed 3,000 creation through the revitalization project is the recent youth empowerment program embarked on in partnership with ASUPEDED for youth skill acquisition programs. The Abia State government will receive N100million monthly from ASUPEDED for the program. As gathered, 10 – 20 youths will be drawn from every ward to participate in the program. But their appear a discrepancy in the expected number of youths to be trained. The spokeman of the governor, Iwuoha placed the number at 4,430 while sources within the ASUPEDED placed the number closer to 2,000.
Reversing the trend of dilapidation of education and educational insfrastructures has posed one of the major challenges to the Abia State government. At present, Abia State houses one of the worse insfrastructural educational amenites in the country – owing largely to the historial management of the schools. The Gov Orji administration in their effort told 247ureports.com that it has launched a program of refurbishing the dilapidated classrooms. It added that the State Ministry of Eucation has launched a teacher re-education program – and provided a HILUX Van for each Local Government Area [LGA] for use to drive to schools within the local government to supervise the Teachers. In addition, the State government embarked on scholarship programs. It gave 25 scholarship award for tertiary institutions to recipients [Abians] studying outside the country – and 50 scholarship awards for tertiary institutions to recipients studying within Nigeria. The 75 scholarship awards were drawn out of the entire population pool of Abians estimated at over 4million equivalent of less than 0.002% of the population pool.
“Particular attention is given by the Abia State Government to the road network problems in Aba. We discovered that there were no drainage. The drainage were converted to dumpsite by traders and nearby residents” – stated Hon Iwuoha in diagnosing the problem in Aba road condition. He mentioned that the Abia State government has decided to take the bull by the horns to tackle the problem. “We have set up a taskforce to address the issue of illegal structures and illegal dumpsites. The taskforce has already began pullind down illegal structures”, added Iwuoha. But critics still point to the efforts of the Orji administration as wanting. One of the more vocal critics told 247ureports.com that “Aba remains a rotten place”. The critic adds that the governor may have constructed some roads in Umuahia but he has clearly abandoned Aba.
The storyline of Abia State in the hands of Gov Orji would not be complete if the recent formation of an audit group is left unhilighted. The Orji administration, immediately following the 2011 re-election victory, constituted a group to “quantifiy” Abia State. The group was tasked with enumerating the etities within Abia State – to enumerate the residential and commercial structures, the number of residents, and the-likes – for the sake of future planning and record keeping. The effort was awarded to an audit firm and mandated to complete the Abia State audit within 6months. Many within the opposition has applauded this effort.
In all, appraising Abia State under the leadership of Gov Orji seems an uneasy task. While the many citizens and residents of Abia State cryout over what they classify as a government that has achieved little in its over 4years in Office, the operators within the Orji administration believe otherwise – thus revealing a discrepancy between the two.
Information from the Tribunal indicates that the 5-man panel has struck-out the petition brought about the the Presidential Candidate under the party of the Congress for Progressive Change [CPC] and former Dictator, General Buhari. The 5-man panel gave the ruling at about 12noon after they sat for the Judgement at minutes after 10am. They dismissed the petition for lack of merit.
Security has been tightened up around the country.
Our notes will be incomplete if we do not pause to invite some reflections upon the recently concluded Local Government elections that took place in Lagos, the economic and financial capital of Nigeria. Lagos states also proudly terms itself as the centre of excellence, whilst that appellation might be disputable and even relegated to the status of commendable aspiration when benchmarked against international standards there is no doubt that Lagos state stands out when compared to other states in Nigeria. With its almost no dependence on revenue from crude oil, good governance, cosmopolitan composition and metropolitan structure, Lagos epitomises one of the dreamlands for experts of international development.
The last time we openly pondered about Lagos was earlier this year towards the general elections, under the title “Made in Lagos for Nigeria” and we observed that the televised gubernatorial debates that took place in Lagos had forcefully placed Lagos state on a level that requires some respect and special consideration. We noted that Lagos is quite a lucky state as none of the candidates on the podium came across as a thug, dullard or a freak and although a few untruths were proffered, they all deserve our applause for behaving with dignity and trying their best to appear competent. In a period littered with uncertainty and doubts that things can really change for the better, one of the many things the Lagos gubernatorial contest showed us is that decent debates like many other simple but necessary things can be conducted in Nigeria and that if well-managed Nigerian politicians too can follow simple rules. Lagos stood out as a model.
Alas, the same cannot be said of the just concluded Local Government elections wherein voters showed little excitement in participating, a lot of disappointment in most of the incumbent candidates and practically no trust in the challengers. On their own part, contesting and supporting politicians greeted the results with protests and allegations of rigging and other electoral malpractices. Sadly, there were also cases of violence and even loss of lives. Those who orchestrate violence should be ashamed of themselves; mark my words: nothing goes unrewarded in life one day those that do evil to our land will pay for it.
In politics, silence is a statement. With their reluctance and in some cases outright refusal to openly and passionately embrace their sitting Local Government Chairs and councillors, Lagos is speaking and what the people are saying is that they cannot feel or see the impact of those local administrators. Ideally, the Local Government Area politicians should be the ones presenting and defending the instances of their residents to the state and eventually to the national authorities. Many residents don’t even know their local representatives. The newly sworn in Chairs and Councillors need to start a new page in which they prove they can listen to Lagos by connecting with their residents. They need to be active for their people and be seen to be present in their territories.
The main opposition party in Lagos state is yes the PDP but just in case they don’t get it, they need to be told that Lagos does not like them at all. With its deafening silence and active apathy towards the PDP, Lagos is saying again as it has said with its history that it is a state of progressives and wants to continue to be so, to change that a lot needs to be done. In the meantime, just as we tell the PDP not to quash opposition in Nigeria ACN needs to give space to opposition parties in Lagos.
With its behaviour in the elections, Lagos is however also speaking to the ruling party in the state and it is telling the ACN that the people of Lagos do not like to be taken for granted. Something needs to be done about internal democracy an accountability of stewardship. Three of the most essential elements for a successful selection of political candidates are capacity to represent and connect with voters, ability to perform in office and loyalty to ideology and party; any political party missing these points in on its way to disaster. Those with vested interest in the party, from Asiwaju Bola Tinubu at the national level to Mr Kayode Adeniyi at the local level in Anthony Village, need to find a way to synthesise these three elements.
Lagos is also speaking to the electoral regulator and it is telling INEC and co that this democracy needs to make space for independent candidates. It is unfair and undemocratic to force people to shut their nose and to tolerate existing parties when voting or contesting. Many good people are out of politics today because they cannot identify with existing structures. For the benefit of the country we need to find a way to let them in. The desire for a simplified system with a few parties and candidates is understandable but an imposed simplification is ridiculous and annoying. Though it might appear difficult to implement, I am sure my colleague, Prof. Attahiru Jega, understands the benefits the introduction of independent candidates will bring to the system, he has the duty of exploring that option.
Senator Nurudeen Abatemi-Usman representing Kogi Central on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has restated his vow to ensure the transformation of Ebiraland for the benefit of the people before the end of his four-year mandate in the Senate.
Abatemi-Usman, who is the Vice Chairman of Senate Committee on Niger Delta Affairs, made the remark at the palace of the Ohinoyi Anebira in Kaduna, Alhaji Sadiq Obari Isah during his visit to the Ebira community in the state.
In a statement signed by his Media Assistant, Michael Jegede, the Senator was quoted as saying that the people of Kogi Central will have cause to celebrate at the end of his tenure in office.
While enumerating the various steps he has taken so far in his effort to pave way for the growth and development of the zone, the youngest lawmaker in the Red Chamber, told the Ebira people in Kaduna that they will never regret their decision to elect him as their Senator.
“Prior to my election, I was here to seek for your prayers and support. Today, I am here to thank you all for the confidence you have reposed in me by deciding to elect me as your Senator. I want to assure you all that you won’t have any cause to regret your decision,” Abatemi-Usman, a member of African Union Parliament declared.
He added: “I love this job. I am prepared for it. And so, I will not fail to deliver and put smile in your faces. I and my team are working round the clock to bring lasting solution to the protracted water problem in Ebiraland. We are equally not resting on our oars on the issue of Ajaokuta Steel because we know the impact its completion will have on our people and the country at large.”
Responding, the Ohinoyi who said he has been in Kaduna for about 49 years, noted that the Senator’s visit was the first of its kind. The traditional ruler urged Abatemi-Usman to continue with his good work in the Upper Chamber.
Members of Ebira Peoples Association (EPA) Kaduna branch led by their President, Abdulmalik Mohammed, National Association of Ebira Students (NAES) Kadpoly chapter and other Ebira groups in Kaduna were on hand to receive the Senator whom they described as God-sent.
