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4 ex-commissioners, 14 others make cabinet list in Kwara
Four former commissioners and 14 others have been listed as commissioner-nominees in a list sent to Kwara State House of Assembly by Gov. Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq.
This is contained in a letter from the governor and addressed to the Speaker, Mr Yakubu Danladi-Salihu which was read during Monday’s special plenary.
Reading the letter to his colleagues, the speaker said that AbdulRazaq complied with the Section 14, Sub-section 4 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Section 192, Sub-section 125 of the constitution.
The ex-commissioners who made the list are: Saadat Modibbo-Kawu- (Ilorin South), Senior Suleiman (Ilorin West), Olaitan Buraimo (Oyun) and Aliyu Sabi (Baruten).
Others on the list include: Abdulganiyu Abdulazeez, (Asa), Sheu Ndanusa (Edu), Afolasade Kemi (Ekiti) and Dr Segun Ogunsola (Ifelodun).
The list also include Abdulqowiy Olododo (Ilorin East), Hauwa Nuru (Ilorin West), Damilola Yusuf (Isin), Oloruntosin Thomas (Isin) and Bola Olukoju (Irepodun).
Abubakar Abdullahi (Kaiama), John Bello (Moro), Dr Amina Al-Imam (Offa), Dr Mary Ayinde (Oke-Ero) and Usman Yinusa (Patigi) also made the list.
The speaker directed all the nominees to submit 35 copies of their curriculum vitae to the Office of the Clerk before the close of work on Tuesday Aug. 15 for the screening to commence on Aug. 16.
The assembly also approved the governor’s request for the appointment of 10 Special Advisers following a letter it received on Monday.
AbdulRazaq while noting that the action is in accordance with Section 196 Sub-section 1 of the Constitution said that the appointment of loyal and committed individuals with right experience to serve will facilitate smooth and hitch-free governance.
The governor said this was desirable for distribution of dividends of democracy across the the state.
Also, the house urged the governor to direct the State Ministry of Health and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to liaise with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), to urgently embark on a state-wide vaccination of livestock with Anthrax Spore Vaccines.
The call was sequel to a motion on notice titled: “Need for Urgent Control of Community Spread of Anthrax Pandemic in Kwara State ” sponsored by Razaq Owolabi, (APC/ Share/Oke-Ode).
The house implored the state government to direct the Ministry of Communication to embark on massive public awareness and sensitisation of the citizens on information about Anthrax epidemic.
They said the citizens need to be sensitised on how to practise and maintain personal and environmental hygiene as well as proper disposal of dead animals to present outbreak of Anthrax disease in the state.
The lawmakers also stressed the need for both ministries to improve surveillance on activities of cattle rearers and butchers by ensuring that quarantine officers of federal, state and local governments are alive to their responsibilities.
In their various contributions, the legislators who took turn to speak on the symptoms, infection and treatment of Anthrax called for concerted efforts to prevent its outbreak in Kwara.
The Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN has warned against obstructing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from carrying out its lawful duty .
Fagbemi’s warning is contained in a statement in Abuja.
“This is a matter of very grave concern, it is now beyond doubt that the EFCC is given power by the law to invite any person of interest to interact with them in the course of their investigations into any matter, regardless of status.
“Therefore, the least that we can all do when invited, is not to put any obstruction in the way of EFCC, but to honourably answer their invitation.
“A situation where public officials who are themselves subject of protection by law enforcement agents will set up a stratagem of obstruction to the civil and commendable efforts of the EFCC to perform its duty is to say the least, insufferably disquieting’’.
He added that running away from the law will not resolve issues at stake but only exacerbate them.
“Nigeria has a vibrant judicial system that is capable of protecting everyone who follows the rule of law in seeking protection.
“I therefore encourage anyone who has been invited by the EFCC or any other agency to immediately toe the path of decency and civility by honouring such invitation instead of embarking on a temporising self-help and escapism.
“This can only put our country in bad light before the rest of the world’’.
He said institutions of state should be allowed to function effectively and efficiently.
“I stand for the rule of law and will promptly call EFCC, and indeed any other agency to order when there is an indication of any transgressions of the fundamental rights of any Nigerian by any of the agencies’’.
NAN reports that the EFCC had on Wednesday warned members of the public that it was a criminal offence to obstruct officers of the Commission from carrying out their lawful duties.
Section 38(2)(a(b) of the EFCC Establishment Act makes it an offence to prevent officers of the Commission from carrying out their lawful duties. Culprits risk a jail term of not less than five years.
The warning , the EFCC said, became necessary against the background of the increasing tendency by persons and groups under investigation by the Commission to take the laws into their hands by recruiting thugs to obstruct lawful operations of the EFCC.
On several occasions, the anti graft agency said, operatives of the Commission have had to exercise utmost restraint in the face of such provocation to avoid a breakdown of law and order.
Some unknown gunmen have kidnapped Joshua Rogers, the ChannelsTV reporter in Port-Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
Politics Nigeria learnt that Rogers was picked up close to his residence at Rumuosi in Port Harcourt and to an unknown destination by the gunmen around 9pm on Thursday, April 11.
The reporter was driving his official ChannelsTV branded car when the hoodlums accosted, pointed a gun at him and took him away in the same vehicle.
Rogers was said to be returning from his official assignment in Government House after a trip to Andoni for a government event when the incident happened.
Already, the gunmen were said to have contacted his wife and demanded a N30million ransom for bis release.
His cameraman confirmed the incident and appealed to his abductors to set him free unconditionally.
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