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Wednesday, August 21, 2019
OPINION: SEN. DR. JONAH DAVID JANG’S SALIENT PROBLEMS AND ENEMIES UNVEILING, AS HE FACES TRIAL. THE AVOIDABLE
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OPINION: SEN. DR. JONAH DAVID JANG’S SALIENT PROBLEMS AND ENEMIES UNVEILING, AS HE FACES TRIAL. THE AVOIDABLE
By: Valentine Adese (JP),
Former governor of Plateau State and the immediate past Senator that represented Plateau North Senatorial District, Senator, Dr. Jonah David Jang, may be facing trial at the hands of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) at the Plateau State High Court of Justice, for alleged corruption and misappropriation of Plateau State funds during his tenure, but the trial has began to expose and unveil several other problems of the then governor and some enemies within.
It is strange to observe that, as the trial of Sen. Jang by the EFCC continues, the evidence been elicited from the witnesses have began to show that, Sen. Jang, seems not to know his fellow accused person properly. It is also indicating that he seems not to have had direct dealings with him all through his tenure, as the then governor of Plateau State.
SEN. DR. JANG
Worrisome also is that, the evidence been elicited indicates that some of his trusted former appointees/aides may have been working directly with his fellow accused person, throughout his 8 years, as governor of Plateau State, with him not been aware until the trial of the duo.
Furthermore, the listening audience at the Court, are thrilled by some evidence from a star witness of the EFCC that, the money been complained of that is allegedly, running into Billions of Naira, were never found in Sen. Jang’s home or in any of his personal accounts. Neither were they found in any of his transactions in his numerous Bank Accounts.
The witness also under cross examination from Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), Counsel to the Defendants (Sen. Jang and another) has told the Court that, under investigation, he never found the alleged sum in any Account owned by any of Sen. Jang’s family members homes or children in any of their transactions with their various Banks.
From the on-going trial, Sen. Jang, seems to have just realized that he had trusted a lot of his appointees/aides blindly since, he never placed proper checks on them.
The trial has further exposed to the Senator Dr. that, he failed to check or evaluate his battles, conflicts and wars properly, while he was a governor and a serving Senator, as his former appointees/aides, have began to make peace with some of his perceived enemies, antagonists, opponents, foes or rivals in the political waters in the state with 2023 election as target.
SEN. JANG (FORMER GOV. PLATEAU STATE)
It must therefore not be a thing of surprise to the embattled Senator that, while he is on trial for all his then team of State Executives, many have failed to turn up in the Court to demonstrate solidarity or sympathize with his new state.
It is a sad fact that, while his team of Counsels are having sleepless night to see how the former governor/Senator would regain his freedom and legally escape the gates of prison, some of his former appointee/aides have been busy, celebrating the last Sallah holidays, cheerful and joyously making merry.
The lesson to be learned here is that, in the laws of power, the superior and leader must remain a leader and be respect as such.
The current focus of most of the former appointees/aides of Sen. Dr. Jonah David Jang on 2023 election, though has been condemned and described as selfish, still remains a wrong way to go and avoidable for now, as the leader is carrying the peoples’ cross and that of the Middle-Belt zone.
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Tuesday, August 20, 2019
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19th August 2019
Gyang Bere, Jos
Plateau State Governorship Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Gen. Jeremiah Useni has urged members of the PDP to work assiduously towards recovering mandate in the tribunal to unite and strengthen the party in the state.
Useni in a press statement signed by his Media Consultant, Yiljap Abraham refuted claims published in Daily Sun Newspapers that he signed to collect the 2019 presidential funds for Plateau and the money was discovered in the Account of the state Party Chairman, Hon Damishi Sango.
“The Daily Sun publication, captioned “Plateau PDP crisis: NWC steps in” contains some factual errors that require correction.
“The PDP Governorship Candidate Senator (General) Jeremiah Useni was indeed one of the three signatories in the collection of funds and the template for the presidential election.
“It is false to allege that after the General had signed for the money, he then “discovered” that the money was in Sango’s bank account. General Useni is not a newcomer to appropriate modalities for financial transactions.
“It is also incorrect to allege that PDP “major stakeholders who would have helped to ensure victory of the party” were denied access to General Useni by the party Chairman, Hon Damishi Sango.
“General Useni has deliberately chosen to maintain a posture of self-control on these matters of election, party leadership and some deep comments on the media because of the need to strengthen the unity of the party and to focus on giving every required attention to our noble legal quest to reclaim our mandate through all the petitions that have been filed at the various tribunals.”
Yiljap said Useni has avoided distractions by not joining issues with some individuals and groups that have sometimes shown unrivalled intemperance in their commentaries.
He explained that General Useni has sustained a practically open door policy both as a personal principle and for the good of the party, adding that ” There is no counting of the number of people that troop to his residences always to meet with him on matters touching on state or party interest.
“General Useni has always been available. His doors have always been open. It is impossible to allow anyone else dictate to him who he should see or not see. He can make up his mind on what is right and proper. In this wise, no “major stakeholders of the party” have been denied access to him as alleged.
“Nevertheless, the party must move on. General Useni therefore makes the following appeal: Let party members and stakeholders restrain their public and media comments and instead give more energy, time, prayers, financial resources, as well as positive media hype toward our collective battle in the tribunals.”
He urged people to maintain greater maturity and commitment in bringing healing, unity and reconciliation in collective party pursuits.
https://www.sunnewsonline.com/useni-urges-pdp-members-to-channel-energy-towards-reclaiming-mandate/
Monday, August 19, 2019
OPINION: THE NIGERIA MIDDLE-BELT’s IDPs AND THE UNREPORTED EFFORTS OF HON. EDWARD G. PWAJOK (SAN)
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OPINION: THE NIGERIA MIDDLE-BELT’s IDPs AND THE UNREPORTED EFFORTS OF HON. EDWARD G. PWAJOK (SAN)
By: Valentine Adese (JP),
It all started as a joke and rumour when indigenes of Nigeria North Central Zone (Middle-Belt) began to cry aloud that they were under attack.
The first hit were the famers in the zone, who could not go near their farms in early 2006 to 2007 across the belt, which led to prices of food stuffs and other produce of the farmers in this zone for over centuries, started becoming scarce and then pulling up prices.
Many farmers at this period under review in the middle belt, started to relocate from their farm houses to various towns/cities, to seek for white collar jobs, which are hardly available.
In late 2008, the states in the Middle-Belt, especially, Plateau, Benue, Nasarawa and Taraba in the North East, began to experience human destructions, as killing of the farmers, who refused to relocate from their farm lands became targets of then unknown invaders.
The peak of the killings in Plateau State was at its zenith during the “Dogo Nahawa Massacre,” where both farmers and non-farmers, men, and women, (old and young) were killed.
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) within the zone continued to swell. In Plateau State, attempt by elected politicians to speak and address the IDPs in a designated area in Barkinladi, led to the death of two valuable sons of the state, Late Distinguished Senator, Dr. Gyang Dantong and Hon. Gyang Fulani.
The Killings continued up to 2014, before a new administration came in for most of the various north central (Middle-Belt) states in 2015.
The victory of most of the politicians, who won their elections during this period were very much based on their political campaign promises that, they would put their lives on the line for the killings in the zone to stop.
Their victory came and passed, but the killings are yet to be abated. The IDPs’ camps have continued to swell without adequate attention to the victims of “unknown provoked silent war of land”.
Non-Governmental Organization (NGOs) have put themselves and their resources on the line to bring hope and happiness to these IDPs, as various governments have also attempted to allocate funds for their welfare, health and education.
In the Middle-Belt, these government assistance and responsibilities seem to be more on paper and verbal speeches without commensurate action.
While justice is delivered in other parts of the country, especially, in the far Northern states and on the same IDP issues that, of the Middle-Belt has only received the granting of an order for joinder to benefit, which was later overruled.
The worst situation the IDPs are facing, especially, in Plateau and Benue States, is that there is no comprehensive data kept by the States or Federal Government with respect to their age, sex, health and educational standard. So, an IDP may get missing without trace especially with the on growing ritual killings in the country.
More to the pains of concerned Nigerians is the fact that, more killings are recorded in the country today, despite, those who promised to put their lives on the line for the people to bring peace in order to abate the killings have won the elections. Facts are that, the killings from reports have now gone circle and the situation have gone beyond the ability of the security operatives, to control.
Could it be interpreted that the Electees have began to fail the people of the Middle-Belt states again.
The killings from findings have jumped from their early Tens to Hundreds of Hundreds and the IDPs have increased into their Thousands. The killings in Agatu in Benue and Barkingladi/Jos South in Plateau States, readily comes to mind, as those killed in these areas have jumped to their Hundreds in recent times.
This is where the efforts of Edward Gyang Pwajok (SAN) from 2007 to 2015 need to be replicated.
E.D PWAJOK SAN
The ability to persuade the Federal Government to identify the perpetrators of the unending killings, the reason for their killings and the need to try them where they commit such heinous crimes, which Pwajok (SAN) had help to establish through the pronouncements of Courts and the Plateau State House of Assembly, as the then Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice need to be replicated and domesticated by the various states in the Middle Belt.
You would recall that in the course of identifying the whereabouts, of late General Ali’s body, his kidnapers or killers, the situation was about to become a military confrontation on the people of Du in Plateau State before caution was exercised, with the intervention of the House of Representatives through the holistic presentation of the matter by Edward Pawjok (SAN), to his colleagues in the 8th Assembly.
It is therefore of human importance, that now that most politicians have won their 2019 elections on several grounds, the people of Nigeria Middle-Belt should hold them responsible and accountable for the welfare, relocation and security of IDPs in the zone.
WHY WE WANT THE TRIBUNAL TO UPHOLD OUR PETITION AND SACK HON. YUSUF ADAMU GAGDI—HON. GOLU, PDP
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