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Melaye ‘Kidnapped’ By Unknown Gunmen

  

SAHARA REPORTERS, NEW YORKJUL 26, 2018

     

Dino Melaye,  the senator representing Kogi West at the National Assembly, has been abducted by unknown gunmen. 

Melaye’s abduction was confirmed by Ben Bruce, the senator representing Bayelsa East, on his Twitter page @benmurraybruce on Thursday morning. 

“I have just been informed by Moses Melaye, @dino_melaye’s brother, that Dino has been abducted by unknown persons in a Toyota Sienna that blocked their car and overpowered them on their way to Kogi to answer to Dino’s court case. Lets be on the watch out. Will keep you updated,” Bruce tweeted. 

Earlier on Wednesday, Sentor Melaye was arraigned before an FCT High Court in Abuja on a six-count charge bordering on attempted suicide. 
                                                                                      

Leah Sharibu has not renounced Christianity - Mama Boko Haram

Author: Omotayo Yusuf 

- Mama Boko Haram has said she is working with International Committee of Red Cross to see that Leah Sharibu is released from captivity 

- According to her, Leah has not renounced her Christian faith 

- Leah is one of the abducted Dapchi school girls yet to be rescued from Boko Haram captivity Aisha Wakil, popularly known as Mama Boko Haram, has revealed that she is partnering with the International Committee of Red Cross to rescue Leah Sharibu who was abducted by Boko Haram. 

Sharibu was one of the 112 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram from Girls Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe state. While others were later released, Sharibu was held because she refused to renounce her Christian faith. 

PR Nigeria reports that Mama Taraba said Sharibu has not renounced her Christian faith and that her NGO, Complete Care And Aid Foundation, in collaboration with the Red Cross will see to her release. She said: “I am really worried about Leah and her freedom from Boko Haram is very important to me. Leah did not renounced her religion, that I can assure you and we shall do everything with both the government and the international organisation to ensure she regain her freedom just like her colleagues that were reunited with her families.” Meanwhile, after its plenary on Wednesday, July 4, the house of commons of the United Kingdom (UK) assured the federal government of its supports in ensuring the safe release of Leah Sharibu, one of the Dapchi girls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists in February 2018. 

The United Kingdom has vowed to the federal government that it will support it in its effort to actualise the safe recovery and return of Leah Sharibu, one of the Dapchi girls abducted by Boko Haram terrorists in February 2018. Sharibu, the only Christian, was held back for allegedly refusing to renounce her faith, The Cable reports. The Cable reported that the house of commons (lower chamber of the UK parliament) came to a consensus on Sharibu at its plenary on Wednesday, July 4. 

Read more: https://www.naija.ng/1182084-leah-sharibu-renounced-christianity-mama-boko-haram-details.html?source=notification#1182084

THE NEW IMAGE OF ISREAL

Why Jonathan's govt didn’t save despite oil boom - Okonjo-Iweala.

Author: Wale Akinola

-Former finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has revealed why Jonathan's government failed to save despite oil boom

- President Muhammadu Buhari had repeatedly blamed his inability to deliver on his critical campaign promises on the shortage of funds

- Okonjo-Iweala noted that the then state governors insisted that funds in the Excess Crude Account (ECA) must be shared 

A former minister of finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has linked the failure of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration to save for the rainy day, despite oil boom, to the insistence of state governors that funds in the Excess Crude Account (ECA) must be shared. The Punch reports that Okonjo-Iweala, said as finance minister, with the backing of Jonathan and ex-vice-president Namadi Sambo, she had a running battle with state governors, who insisted that there was no need to save despite that crude oil was selling at $86 per barrel. 

NAIJ.com gathered that the former minister said this in her book, “Fighting Corruption Is Dangerous: The Story Behind the Headlines,” published recently. President Muhammadu Buhari who succeeded Jonathan has been blaming his inability to deliver on his critical campaign promises on the shortage of funds. 

Buhari had lamented that the government was broke due to the failure of the previous administration to save when oil price was high. The country went into an economic recession in 2016. But Okonjo-Iweala, who doubled as coordinating minister for the economy under Jonathan, identified the minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, who was then Rivers state governor and chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF); the national chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, then Edo state governor; and Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun state, as the most strident voices against the proposition to retain funds in the ECA for the rainy day. 

According to Okonjo-Iweala, the National Economic Council (NEC) meetings used to turn stormy whenever the debate about sharing what was in the ECA came up, noting that only a few governors, such as then governor Peter Obi of Anambra state, supported the argument for saving but their voices were drowned by the majority who insisted that the country was already experiencing the rainy day and the money should be shared.

 Okonjo-Iweala, who had her first stint as finance minister between 2003 and 2006 under former President Olusegun Obasanjo, noted that Obasanjo’s administration created the ECA to solve the problem of Nigeria’s volatile revenue.

Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had previously reported that the former minister of finance under the Goodluck Jonathan's administration, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala revealed the reason she didn't throw in the towel and resign despite all adversities during her two terms as minister.

Dino Melaye's Emotional Speech

'We Know Our Friends In Times Of Adversity', Melaye Says In Long, Emotional Note

BY SAHARA REPORTERSMAY 22, 2018

THE FULL NOTE
Someone once said that rock bottom is good solid ground and a dead-end street is just a place to turn around. In the last few weeks, I have been taken to the good solid ground at the rock bottom and they couldn’t go further. I have been brought to the dead-end street, but with you standing by my side, I have turned around and bounced back to the chagrin of those who sought to seal my lips from speaking out against tyranny, politics of oppression and blackmail.

They unleashed an endless barrage of physical, psychological, metaphysical and emotional torture and assault on me, but through the power of the Most High and you, the good people of Nigeria, we have once again seen the triumph of truth over lies and good over evil.

It was Edmund Burke who was quoted as saying that when bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one … in a contemptible struggle. ‘I am, of all men, a blessed man, to have courageous and dependable people like you as my fellow soldiers in the struggle to free us from the shackles of political strongholds and tyranny.’

The state unleashed its raw power on me and released a 200-man-strong fully-armed policemen on a man without a knife or a bullet. It did this because I called injustice by its name and called for accountability. For this, they sought to break my spirit and destroy me permanently.

In their moment of reign, I was fully shackled. With my hands tied to my back and hurled into a dark solitary confinement waiting for the butchers knife, you, my people, stood by me. You came against a raging fire and stood up against tyranny, lies, filthy lucre, injustice, persecution and greed.

While in the dark and unable to fight for myself, they sought to take my mandate, which you had freely given to me, but you answered back and quenched deceit in its wake. You stood resolute and unflinching and defended your mandate to me.

I thank you from the bottom of my heart. In their attempt to break me, they have made me stronger.

You have strengthened my resolve and hardened my flesh against those who seek to devour and make meat of me. You have once again proved to me the axiom in the saying that ‘in prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.’ I am very grateful. For your sake, I remain unbowed.

I know many of you worry about my safety and life in this new dispensation where life is no longer sacred in Nigeria, but do not be troubled. My bond of love for you, my good people, makes it impossible for me to consider my self-risk, safety, comfort or opportunity in my unflinching commitment to stand up for you, to stand up for truth and if necessary, die for the truth and the emancipation of our people from the chains of poverty and oppression.

Though they raise spurious allegations against me, bear false witness against me, though they seek to frighten me and lure me into their bounty of evil, I will fear no foe. Yes, my traducers and torturers wish that I keep quiet; though they seek to seal my lips, to silence my voice forever, I remain ever more resolute and committed. I am committed to this cause for which I am a politician; the cause of the downtrodden, to speak truth to power and stand against oppression and injustice. On these issues, there will be no compromise. I owe no apologies and I tender none.

Like I have always said, ‘you speak the truth, you die; you don’t speak the truth, you die. I have chosen to speak the truth, dead or alive. Reverend Martin Luther King Jnr. once said, ‘Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it politics? Vanity asks the question: is it popular? But Conscience asks the question: is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor political nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

To my people, I promise you this and this only. I have taken my position; I will not hold back, I will not hold my peace, I will not be shut down, neither will I shut up, not as long as injustice and falsehood continues to reign.

As long as I will live, I will not bow to Baal.