THE NATION THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 2012
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lamic and Western education systems; infrastructure deficits; as well as the entrenchment of democratic values. Aliyu said: “The inauguration of this committee is consistent with the commitment of the Forum to the general welfare of the people who have given us the mandate to serve them. Undoubtedly, the primary and fundamental responsibility of leaders is the security and welfare of the people which to us in the forum is sacrosanct. Hence, our focus has remained the promotion of the peace, unity and progress of all the Northern States within the wider national interest of Nigeria. “ It is against this background that the Forum views the recurring insecurity challenges in the Northern States and around the country as serious threats to national stability, unity and development.”
The Committee was also asked to: •liaise with stakeholders in the Northern states, particularly the affected states, and get to the root of the security challenges and proffer solutions; •dialogue with any identified groups with a view to negotiating the way out of the menace; •liaise with the Federal Government and deliberate on the best approach to resolving the security challenges; •work out modalities for reconciling warring parties/communities in the North; •organise meetings and have interactive sessions with stakeholders across the States; Engage experts from the Society for Peace Studies & Practice [SPSPI West African Network on Peace building [WANEPJ and other relevant organizations for further discussion and strategic inputs; •recommend mechanisms for peace building and en-
trenchment of enduring democratic values at the ward local government and state levels; and •design mechanisms to address youth restiveness and unemployment in the region. The committee was also asked to look at White Papers to extract actionable recommendations. Such reports include those of the WammakoIed Northern Governors’ Committee on Security; Northern States Attorneys-General; Sheikh Ahmed Lemu’s on Post Election Violence Probe; Galtimari Report on Security Challenges in North Eastern Nigeria; General Abdulsalami Abubakar and Maitama Sule Report, among others. But, the Association of Northern Youths for the Advancement of Peace, Harmony and Development has described the 41-man committee as a right step in the wrong direction. National President of the
group Comrade Melvin Ejeh spoke in Jos yesterday said: “The 41-man peace committee inaugurated by the Northern Governors’ Forum to tackle the Bokko Haram threat is no doubt a laudable concept but the composition of membership is problematic. “How can you compose a 41man committee with only five women and no youth represented in the committee? All the bomb-bearers and gunmen in the Boko Haram insurgency are youths of under-30. I have never seen a man of 50 years in active participation in Boko Haram. “But going through the list of the committee, you will realise that it is made up of elite who are above 50. What result do you want them to achieve? “The committee is timely and is composed of people of high integrity but I doubt if they can do anything meaningful without representation of northern youths.”
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herited. “It is the coming reforms that will define the path Jega will follow. We have been painstaking in commissioning studies into what we met on ground. We engaged PriewaterhouseCoopers on October 4, 2011 and we are just finalising decisions on the staff and policy audit by this firm. Also, the report of the RERC has been studied severally at different levels in the commission. “Irrespective of the opposition, we are ready to go ahead with the reforms. The reorganisation is not about retrenchment or mass retirement as being feared by ethnic chauvinists outside the system. The INEC chairman has no ethnic agenda or score to settle. But people or staff
will be retooled or retrained as appropriate to place round peg in round hole.” The National Commissioner gave a breakdown of the directors in the commission as follows: Niger(two); Delta(three); Kaduna(two); Sokoto(one); Benue(nine) A n a m b r a ( n i n e ) ; Zamfara(two); Cross River(three); Enugu(one); Kano(one); Plateau(three); Imo(four); Akwa Ibom (three); Bayelsa (two); Kogi (one); Katsina (one); Osun (one); Abia (three); Gombe (one); Kebbi (three); Lagos (two); Edo (three); Ogun (one); Bauchi (two); Jigawa (one); Yobe (one); and Borno (two). A document obtained by our correspondent revealed that PricewaterhouseCoopers had noticed some bureaucratic lapses which ought to be
corrected by INEC before the next general elections. The audit firm’s report reads in part: “Over departmentalised and sectionalised corporate structure. The corporate structure has too many departments, directorates and units, some of which were created to satisfy selfish growth interests and in some cases to prevent discord between staff on the same grade. “Improper grouping of activities and delineation of functions. For instance, benefits and welfare administration are handled by Administration instead of Human Resources at the corporate level “Absence of a strategic thinking role for the commission. The corporate structure did not make provision for a corporate planning and de-
velopment functions whose responsibility will include facilitation of strategic planning process and the co-ordination of the commission’s development initiatives. This creates difficulty in strategic planning and continuous improvement. “Large span of control for the Secretary. 21 heads of departments and directorates report directly to the secretary and this makes supervision of the various functions less effective. “Though the chairman of the commission is the CEO, he is also the Accounting Officer. Several key heads of functions may, therefore, not report directly to the chairman who in the eyes of the public takes direct responsibility over the affairs of the commission.
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but I use Festac because that is where hotels are. “I am not feeling good about it because I didn’t bargain to kill her, in the first instance. It was just unfortunate and an accident.” Ezekiel said: “I am a 300level Accountancy student from Anambra State University, Awka. The morning it happened, he (Nwabufor) called me and told me to come to the hotel and help him bind the girl so that we could dispossess her of her belongings, so I came into the hotel that morning and helped him in binding her. In the process of binding the girl, she tried to struggle and we maltreated and rough handled her and she passed on in the process. “I didn’t hit her with anything; we had no weapon. He (Okwuoma) said he wanted to run with her things. “I have not been doing it; he just called me. I live at Ojo Barracks, not inside the cantonment. Okwuoma was the one who told me about the drug. He asked me to buy Ribena, which I bought from a shop. I was there when she died because when he told me she was not breathing, I touched the girl and told him she was breathing, then I left the hotel. “Later, he called me and said he had not heard from her for a long time and had not seen her online. I was in school when they came on Sunday and arrested me”. Commissioner of Police Umar Manko, who paraded the suspects, said, “On July 22, somewhere in Festac, a young lady
was found in a hotel dead, chained and tied. We were worried. “Somebody called the receptionist of the hotel to say that they should go and take a dead body or “the bastard” away from the room and on getting to the room, the young lady was found dead and her identity not known. “So the police had to trace the killers through that number that called the receptionist, until we got her passport number from the internet. “Through the immigration, we were able to link her up and then established her identity. From the footage of the CCTV, we discovered that two young men came into the hotel with the lady, and came out after a while. So, we started from that number and were able to link the young men we saw on the footage of the CCTV. “They were arrested and they confessed to have killed the young lady. We asked them why and they said they chatted with her on the internet and discovered she was a business woman. So, as she was coming to Lagos to buy her stocks, they felt she would have enough money. One of them gave her a ticket from Abuja to Lagos and gave her accommodation in that hotel. After injecting a drug inside Ribena, they gave her, it knocked her off and so they decided to go into the business she came for but, unfortunately, they could not find much money on her. They struggled with her before she collapsed and was killed in the process. “Both suspects are cousins from Anambra State and we are told it was not the first time they have done it but we have not been able to establish vividly if their victims were killed. “We are trying to go round the other hotels they have used, it is a very long investigation and I think we still have much to uncover but because of insinuations from the press, we felt we won’t keep quiet longer than necessary. That was why we invited the media to parade them,” he said.
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