SUMMARIZED COMPUTATION OF MONETARY VALUE IN THE CHARGES IN THE CBN CASES PENDING BEFORE THE FEDERAL HIGH COURT, IBADAN, INVOLVING ALLEGATIONS OF CURRENCY MUTILATION SCAM IN THE COURSE OF BRIQUETTING EXERCISES IN SUIT Nos FHC/IB/31C – 37C/2015 .
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PERPETUAL HEARINGS AND DELAYED JUSTICE IN CORRUPTION CASES IN NIGERIA: CAUSES, EFFECTS AND WAY FORWARD
INTRODUCTION Permit me to thank the leadership of the Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, for inviting me to share ideas on the all important theme of today’s discourse – perpetual hearings and delayed justice on corruption cases in Nigeria: Causes, effects and ways forward. The topic, it must be admitted, is very wide in scope. A meaningful discussion can be undertaken only if the individual discussant restricts his/her inputs to a small aspect of the topic. For this reason, I have chosen to examine the topic, using the suits involving some bank workers (in CBN and six other banks) as a case study. The suits involving these bank workers are usually reported in the media under various captions such as “CBN Currency mutilation scam/fraud”.
"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 ...
REFLECTIONS ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INVESTIGATIVE AND PROSECUTORIAL POWERS OF ANTI-GRAFT AGENCIES
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.
THE RELEVANCE OF THE THOUGHTS OF GANI FAWEHINMI TO AN ECONOMY IN RECESSION AND FIGHTING CORRUPTION TO IMPROVE THE WELFARE OF ORDINARY PEOPLE
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 ...