Femi Aborisade's Blog

"‎It is really the crude manner by which the security agency(ies), as the case may be, went about the invasion that is wrong. From constitutional provisions, nothing stops anti graft agencies from bringing to book, by following due process, any person, public officer or not, in the alleged commission of a crime, where the relevant control bodies, such as the NJC fails, neglects or refuses to exercise disciplinary control. But the failure of NJC to act does not justify SSS/DSS from usurping the roles of regular Police and/or the anti graft agencies created MORE OR less out of the NPF. The reported roles of the DSS/SSS MERELY CONFIRM that the invasion is more a political act of impunity rather than a demonstration of commitment to the fight against corruption. A regime that elects to be deaf and dumb to allegations of corruption by relations-dominated cabinet should not be applauded when it humiliates a co-equal arm of govt. The repression of Supreme Court justices by the EXECUTIVE ...

At the 2016 Annual General Conference of the NBA, the  newly elected  NBA President  Abubakar  Mahmood, in his personal capacity, ad vocated that the EFCC should be stripped of its prosecutorial powers . The EFCC leadership has angrily reacted to that proposal and resorted to a  generalized attack  against lawyers, calling them  “rogues and vultures”. Leaving aside the undesirable  intolerance and  personal attacks  against the NBA president and lawyers by  the EFCC  leadership , the real issue thrown up by the NBA President is: what should be the desired architecture  of the  relationship between

The APC-led Federal Government has demonstrated beyond doubt that it lacks the perspectives, programme, policies and capacity to take Nigeria out of crushing poverty to a life of comfort. The pronouncements and actions of Government have conclusively confirmed that under the APC-led Federal Government, pit of poverty into which the PDP threw Nigeria would be deepened rather than being attenuated. The central programme of genuine change required in Nigeria today is a programme directed at bringing about income redistribution, by which looted resources would be seized from the Nigerian rotten wealthy class and placed at improving the living standards of ordinary people. A programme of income redistribution in the context of Nigeria today would involve:

HUMAN right activist and lawyer, Comrade Femi Aborisade, yesterday, condemned the sack of a female lecturer, Dr. Adenike Ogunshe, by management of the University of Ibadan (UI), describing it as unjust, unlawful and wrongful. In a letter to UI Registrar and Secretary to Council, Aborisade explained that the lecturer on June 23, 2016 received her termination letter from the University Council, despite her appeal, which pointed out several issues of unfairness.

By Femi Aborisade [1] Labour Consultant and Attorney-at-Law 09093536706 Or 08091371874 aborisadefemi@gmail.com Introduction The current economic crisis weighing down Nigeria is caused and fuelled by two main factors: 1.       The greed of the rulers, and 2.       The ruling class surrender to IMF-World Bank dictates. Looked at from the precincts of the perspectives and ideas of the ruling class, the future is grim and society is doomed and hopeless. The facts presented are aimed at justifying imposition of austerity measures and not to explain the causes of the crisis. For example, the emphasis today is to highlight the collapse in oil price in the international market and alarming rising production costs. Nothing is said about the composition of the cost components, the disproportional high levels of income of the top management compared to the workers at the lowest levels. Nothing is said about the exclusion ...

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It is more rewarding to examine the question of police officers engaging in private business, including being commercial vehicle drivers, not just from the narrow precinct of the law but also from a broader sociological standpoint. Therefore, I examine the question from both the legal and sociological (as well as economic) perspectives.

The Position Of Law On Immunity For Public Officers And My Opinion Section 308 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, as amended, makes provisions for immunity. This section provides that no civil or criminal proceedings shall be brought against persons holding the offices of President, Vice-President, Governor or Deputy Governor during the tenure of their offices, except in civil cases in which they are nominal parties. The section expressly provides that no court process shall be issued requiring or compelling the attendance of the listed officers. Also, the named officers, for as long as they occupy the named offices, shall not be arrested or imprisoned for any criminal offence.

On 4 th June 2016, the Federal Government published the values of recovered cash loot, various sums involved in final forfeitures, interim forfeitures in local and foreign currencies and a list of 239 non-cash loot comprising farmlands, plots of land, vehicles, maritime vessels, completed and uncompleted buildings, between 29 May 2015 and 25 May 2016. However, the identities of persons from whom the recoveries and forfeitures were made were not disclosed, contrary to repeated promises made by the regime to name and shame former public officers who had looted public vaults.

WE REMAIN UNDAUNTED ! AN APPEAL TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO PREVAIL ON THE SENATOR AJIMOBI-LED OYO STATE GOVERNMENT FOR THE IMMEDIATE AND UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE OF THE SEVEN (7) INCARCERATED LABOUR LEADERS AND TO RESCIND THE DECISION TO SELL-OFF  PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN THE STATE UNDER THE PRETENCE OF THE ACCLAIMED  ANTI-PEOPLE POLICY OF  PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP, PPP. Protocols: Members of the State Executive Council of our Union, Dignitaries from the National Headquarters of our Union, members of civil society organisations here present, respected members of our Union and ladies and Gentlemen of the press. Introduction:

AN ASSESSMENT OF PMB/APC FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION IN THE PAST ONE YEAR: THE NEED FOR LEGAL REFORM AND THE CHALLENGE OF OPERATING WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE EXISTING FRAMEWORK OF RULE OF LAW By Femi Aborisade, Esq. The 2015 victory of PMB shows the aversion of the average Nigerian for corruption. However, there is widespread concern that the regime’s fight against corruption should not be a means of political control, to whip opponents in line.

3 rd June 2016   PRESS STATEMENT ON UNCONSTITUTIONAL ARREST AND DETENTION OF NLC LEADERS IN OYO STATE By Femi Aborisade, Esq.

INCLUSIVE SOCIOECONOMIC SPACE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT By Femi Aborisade, Esq [1] . Introduction This paper is structured as follows: Definition of concepts – “inclusive society/social inclusion” and “sustainable development”. Elements of an inclusive society

DOES THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY HAVE POWER TO ALTER BUDGETARY ESTIMATES PREPARED BY THE EXECUTIVE? By Femi Aborisade, Esq.   In this article, I examine a critical aspect of the controversy that surrounded the delay in the passage of the 2016 Budget because of the importance it has for future budgetary processes. The issue of interest here is: at the backdrop of Ministers who disowned aspects of the 2016 Budget which emanated from their various Ministries, could there a limit to the power of the National Assembly in making changes to the annual budgetary estimates prepared by the Executive and placed before the National Assembly for passage? In other words, does the power of the National Assembly lie in either passing or rejecting the Executive’s budgetary estimates or does the National Assembly have the power to alter, either marginally or in its entirety, the budgetary estimates submitted by the Executive arm of government?

PRESS STATEMENT ON SATANIC AND OUTRAGEOUS INCREASE ON PRICE OF PETROL By Femi Aborisade, Esq. The full deregulation of the pricing of petroleum products which has led to the increase in the prices of petrol from the official rate of N86.50 per litre to between N135 and N145 per litre shows that the Buhari/APC Administration is completely anti-people. The Nigerian people should insist that Buhari and the APC have lost the legitimacy to continue to rule. It is clear that the Buhari/APC administration has been hijacked by the cabal in the oil sector. Contrary to Buhari’s declaration that “I belong to everybody. I belong to nobody”, Buhari has shown that he actually belongs to the oil cabal, the politicians who have investment in the oil sector and Western Imperialism who have hijacked him. Buhari is against the welfare interest of ordinary Nigerians.  

THE UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF YAHAYA BELLO BEING SWORN IN AS KOGI STATE GOVERNOR By Femi Aborisade, Esq.   The swearing-in of Yahaya Bello as Governor of Kogi State appears unconstitutional not just because he was sworn-in without a Governor but fundamentally and primarily because he had no validly nominated Deputy Governor. This is because his nominated Deputy Governor publicly rejected his nomination as Deputy Governor. Faleke also claimed he informed INEC to discountenance his name as Deputy to Bello.   Under Section 187(1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, as amended, it would appear that the nomination of Yahaya Bello as Governor was unconstitutional and therefore invalid. If the nomination of Yahaya Bello as Governor was unconstitutional and invalid, it goes without saying that his being sworn-in as Governor (with or without a Deputy) remains equally unconstitutional, invalid, null and void. This is in line with the hallowed p...

27 January 2016 The Chairman Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Plot 436, Zambezi Crescent Maitama District Federal Capital Territory, FCT Abuja. Dear Sir, NOTIFICATION OF COURT JUDGMENT AND DEMAND ON INEC TO OBEY THE JUDGMENT OF THE FEDERAL HIGH COURT (FHC) AND RESTORE THE STATUS OF PRP AS A REGISTERED POLITICAL PARTY IN NIGERIA We are Solicitors to the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) , hereinafter referred to as “Our Client”, on whose behalf and firm instructions we write. 2. The essence of