GOV SHETTIMA: Term Fulani Herdsmen Insulting? No it is Not!

Gov Shettima,

Tends to be angry over the acronym “Fulani herdsmen” which  is not an insult in my humble view even though he thinks it is, click.

 https://www.thecable.ng/stop-politicising-herdsmen-killings-northern-govs-warn

 Far from being an insult it seeks to identify a form of trade and the people. We identify other groups as “Igbo traders”  “Aba Traders” “Onitsha traders”.  Not insulting.  Igbos enjoy trading activities.  We also identify a group as “Niger Delta militants”.  Not an insult it stands to represent agitations for resource control.   Yet another example if you wanted  $500 (Five hundred USD) exchanged for N= to give pocket money to kids you would probably say to your Domestic Aide please call me the “Mallam to change money”.

It is for this we may classify scholars into the following groups:

1.   Harvard Scholar

2.   Cambridge, Oxford

3.   Georgetown Scholar

4.   Yale, Stanford and so on.

If you were an Alum of Ife, as I believe some are you could be identified as "Great Ife" or "Great UNIBEN" for University of Benin or Great Akokites  and UNN  must have a special acronym.

Your Excellency feels anger over what if I may ask? That Herdsmen of Fulani stock invade farmlands, kill farm owners and maim their family members and rape our poor women and girls.  God forbids if your daughter was a victim which not even your enemies would wish you, won’t you ensure the marauders   and murderers be brought to justice and soon and the farmers and families adequately compensated by government?.

Should Govs from Northern States feel  anger? What  of  the victims of Fulani herdsmen?. Don't be Mad at the Victims but rather the Perpetrators!

Please

Attorney Carol Ajie

Sanctions for Corrupt Judges: Candide-Johnson Takes a Lagos Judge Down: GOOD GOOD

Sanctions for corrupt Judges

THE GUARDIAN

By Editorial Board   |   30 April 2016   |   3:16 am

The recent sanction carried out by the National Judicial Council (NJC) on Justice Idris Evuti and Justice Tanko Usman of the Niger State High Court for allegedly falsifying their dates of birth, and on Justice O. Gbajabiamila of the Lagos State High Court for delaying delivery of judgment for about two years, is a courageous and commendable action. Coming on the heels of the Federal Government’s anti-corruption drive, and especially on the sanitisation of the judiciary, the NJC has candidly matched action with the forceful declaration made by the Attorney-General of the Federation to deal with unscrupulous elements on the Bench.
With this level of commitment to ridding the judiciary of odium and impropriety, the confidence the people once had in the citadel of justice would be re-built.

Based on petitions filed to the NJC by Mohammed Idris Eggun against Justices Evuti and Usman of the Niger State High Court over falsification of their dates of birth, the fact-finding committee set up by the NJC found that Justice Evuti used three different dates of birth in service (September 15, 1950, April 10, 1953, April 1, 1951), while Justice Usman was still in service when he should have retired.

As for Justice Gbajabiamila, a petition filed by Mr. C. A. Candide-Johnson (SAN) alleged that, among other misconducts, the former delivered judgment in a suit 22 months after written addresses were adopted by counsel, and 35 months after close of evidence, and did not publish a copy of the judgment he delivered on December 24, 2013 until 40 days after. All these allegations are contrary to the 1999 Constitution and rules of the Revised Code of Conduct for Judicial Officers.

As a penalty for these cases of misconduct, some of which border on criminality, the NJC committee recommended the compulsory retirement of Evuti with immediate effect as well as the deduction from his gratuity all salaries received by him from September 2015 to date. With respect to Usman, it only recommended the deduction from his gratuity all salaries received by him from June 2015, since it already accepted his retirement with effect from March 1, 2016, whilst it recommended the compulsory retirement of Gbajabiamila.

By their misconduct in service, these judges put themselves in positions and circumstances that compromised their professional integrity and expected personal moral character. Age falsification has been known to be an affliction of civil servants and public officers. Apart from presenting an inauthentic state of affairs that is injurious to history, the altered ages of the judges robbed the state of its resources and funds. By reducing their dates of birth, the judges stole from the state, and denied others the benefits that would have come to them.

On the other hand, Gbajabiamila’s action is representative of the wanton miscarriage of justice by unscrupulous judicial officers, who in recent times, have tarnished the image of the noble profession. That Justice Gbajabiamila would delay delivery of judgment for 35 months after close of evidence is an indication of how deep the dereliction of duty is being accommodated by some judges. It brings out in bold relief the many unspoken incidents of injustice, poor management and utter disregard for constitutional provisions by those who ought to be its most faithful custodians.

Whilst it could be argued in certain quarters that, as public officers, judges are susceptible to the same moral currents pervading the general public order, their position represents the significant minority that should of necessity be the moral compass of the society. Notwithstanding the misunderstood idea of impartiality that separates law from morals, judges are custodians of public morality which the law seeks to uphold. The dispensation of justice which forms a cardinal function of the judge would be virtually impossible if the judge possesses no moral sense. The concept of a good dispenser of justice that is said to be an immoral and an unethical person is a contradiction in terms. A judge or jurist cannot be a good administrator of the law if he is not a morally conscious individual. He is a moral light for the society.

The bold action of the NJC to restore the integrity of the judiciary is commendable. As more and more questionable elements are sanctioned, the insidious moral decadence that has crept into the judiciary would begin to gradually fall until it finally disappears.

These isolated cases may suggest that the NJC is assuring Nigerians of its resolve to act decisively on cases of judicial abuse. However, as it carries out its respectable role as the highest judicial body in the country, the NJC must not fall into the temptation of politicising its actions. It should diligently and promptly act on reports that should come not only from senior and influential lawyers but also from ordinary citizens, through the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and other groups representing the citizens. As this newspaper has always admonished, it is not enough to sanction the judges, the logical end of the misconduct, which is appropriate legal action, should be followed through. Erring judges should be prosecuted and be made to serve the required terms of conviction if found guilty.

NIGERIAN FARMERS: TEST RUN RECOMMENDED RECIPE

Friday, 29 April 2016

How To Drive Away Fulani Herdsmen Without Firing A Shot.

C.V.Akuta Media cannot independently confirm the story below.  Sourced from a WhatsApp forum.

The Ihiagwa and Nekede Communities women recipe for marauding Fulani herdsmen.

Nekede and Ihiagwa are 2 neighboring communities in Owerri hosting the Federal Polytechnic Nekede and Federal University of Technology Owerri.

Sometime last year, the activities of these Fulani herdsmen became so unbearable with destruction of farms and rape. The women gathered and thought of what to do to stop these killer Fulani herdsmen wielding AK 47. In contrast, the women had no gun, knife nor any other weapon but their brains.

They came together and reasoned what to do to drive them from their communities without firing a shot. They agreed and tasked every woman in the communities to contribute 1 derica cup of grounded pepper each. They brought the pepper together and organized themselves in groups in the night to spread the peppers across all the farms in Nekede and Ihiagwa. The following morning, the marauders came as usual with their cows. Low and behold in less than 30 minutes they lost 15 cows because when cows smell or ingest pepper, they die. Immediately the Fulani herdsmen fled with their remaining cows and sanity returned to Nekede and Ihiagwa.

Now that these marauders have been emboldened to attack Igboland with impunity, let every true son and daughter of Ala Igbo come together and contribute 1 cup of grounded pepper. If you are not in Igboland, you can sponsor 5 cups of pepper to be spread across all farmland in Igboland. We can drive them away without firing a shot. If their cows die enmass while grazing on our farmlands, they will leave our land in peace.

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Posted by Chinedu Vincent Akuta at 02:02

GOP ESTABLISHMENT THAWS TOWARD TRUMP

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John Cornyn, who once called Trump an "albatross" -- are suddenly singing a different tune, CNN's Manu Raju and Deirdre Walsh report. "I think he could change the electoral map in ways we haven't seen before," Cornyn said when asked whether he was worried about Trump's impact down ticket. "This disrupts the usual Republican vs. Democrat, conservative vs. liberal paradigm, and I think we don't know how this will all play out. I think it will be OK." He's not alone in accepting Trump as the GOP standard-bearer. "Many of us who have expressed concerns are reconciling ourselves to the fact that in all likelihood he will be the eventual nominee," said Rep. Mark Sanford of South Carolina. Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker called Trump's foreign policy speech earlier this week "very thoughtful" -- and the two spoke on the phone Thursday morning, Trump told a crowd in Evansville.  John Boehner calls Ted Cruz 'Lucifer in the flesh' John Boehner is free from the rhetorical shackles that come with the House speaker's gavel, and he's revealing how he really feels about Ted Cruz -- the man who pushed conservatives toward a shutdown under Boehner's leadership. "Lucifer in the flesh," Boehner told Stanford's David Kennedy, a history professor emeritus, according to the Stanford Daily. "I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a b---- in my life." Boehner also said he was "texting buddies" with Donald Trump and friends with former House colleague and fellow Ohioan John Kasich. Cruz hit back. He told reporters: "The interesting thing is I've never worked with John Boehner. I don't know the man," Cruz said. 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Straight Up "I've learned never to say never. But this was my chance. This was the chance, and I ran into a storm." -- Jeb Bush to CNN's Jamie Gangel, admitting that 2016 was likely his only chance at being elected president.   Last Call In first interview, Jeb Bush calls for contested convention A reflective Jeb Bush said he had no regrets about his failed presidential bid, saying in his first interview since leaving the race that Donald Trump could still lose the nomination fight. "There's a possibility that he won't get 50% on the first ballot," Bush told CNN's Jamie Gangel. "And if he doesn't do that, there are a whole lot of people who don't believe he's the proper guy." The question Jeb wouldn't answer: Bush wouldn't say whether he would support Trump as the nominee in November, though he added there's no way he would vote for Hillary Clinton. When asked repeatedly how he would vote if Trump became the nominee, Bush responded, "I'm hopeful he won't be." Bush had harsh words for the press, which he labeled an "accomplice" of Trump and blamed for a "despicable," ratings-driven approach to news. Bush said that he could have done little to change the outcome in a wild presidential race. "I've concluded that whatever mistakes I made -- and I certainly made them -- probably wouldn't have changed the outcome. Because I'm not going to change who I am," he said. "It gives me some comfort." Is the Cruz-Kasich divide-and-conquer deal backfiring in Indiana? Bloomberg's Michael C. Bender and Mark Niquette report from the site of a canceled John Kasich event -- which some Hoosier Kasich supporters didn't know was canceled -- that Ted Cruz isn't easily consolidating all voters who might be hesitant about Trump. The money quote: “People who were supporting Kasich have been coming into the office to pick up Trump signs,” said Laura Campbell, Republican chairwoman of Hamilton County, where residents earn more money than anyone else in the state. “People are not happy here with that alliance.” Cruz's Indiana strategy is to throw everything -- including a running mate -- against the wall and see what sticks. From CNN's Theodore Schleifer and myself. Merkley: Sanders should drop out if ... A big story from Manu Raju: Bernie Sanders' lone supporter in the Senate says the Vermont senator should end his presidential campaign if he's losing to Hillary Clinton after the primary season concludes in June, breaking sharply with the candidate who is vowing to take his insurgent bid to the party convention in Philadelphia. In an interview with CNN, Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley argued that the party should be united heading into the July convention. 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