Tag: detention

Tinubu finally reveals why he kept Emefiele in detention

President Bola Tinubu on Friday revealed the reason he suspended Mr Godwin Emefiele as governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and put him in detention. According to President Tinubu Nigeria’s financial system under the leadership of Governor Emefiele was rotten with many Nigerians outside the country in difficult straits remitting funds through the banking sector.

President Tinubu and Godwin Emefiele Tinubu spoke during a town hall meeting with Nigerians in Paris, France organized on the sidelines of his visit to Paris, France for the New Global Financing Pact Summit. Recall that Tinubu suspended the CBN governor and ordered a probe of his office. Emefiele was subsequently arrested and ferried from Lagos to Abuja where he has remained incommunicado in the custody of the Department of State Services. According to Tinubu, many Nigerians abroad were unable to send money to their relatives because of the multiple exchange rates, saying all that have become a thing of the past. “Then the financial system was rotten. Few people making bags of our money and then you yourself, stopped sending money home to our poor parents. Several windows… but that is gone now, is gone. “The man is in the hands of authorities, something is being done about that, they will sort themselves out.”

Again, Nnamdi Kanu’s family cries out over his detention by FG

Again, Nnamdi Kanu's family, lawyer cry out over his detention by FG

The family of detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, has expressed concerns over the refusal to release him despite court judgements ordering his release. Kanu’s brother, Prince Emmanuel who said Kanu needed urgent medical attention believes that his brother is only being illegally held for a stay of execution and not for any criminal charge. According to Emmanuel while speaking with newsmen on Thursday in Abia State, Since the courts have found Kanu not guilty of the charges brought against him by the Federal Government, there is no reason to continue detaining him and he should be released. He said, “My brother needs urgent ear surgery as recommended by the medical team of the Department of State Services, DSS, but I’m surprised that the same DSS has refused to give Kanu’s personal physicians access to him when they came to see him on Tuesday.” “There is no charge holding Nnamdi Kanu, it’s only stay of execution. ” There is no charge keeping Nnamdi Kanu in detention. He is only being held for civil proceedings, not for any criminal charge. “This is unheard of anywhere in the world. It’s complete injustice. The world should be aware of this, and the family is crying out for justice!” Recall that Kanu’s Special Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, had on Wednesday called out DSS for stopping his client’s physicians from accessing him for medical examination. The family’s medical team also claimed that after getting clearance, was already on its way to Kanu’s cell on Tuesday when a certain DSS personnel stopped them midway claiming the visit was not scheduled.

cries detention Family Kanus Nnamdi

British government tenders apology to Peter Obi over illegal detention

UK government apologize to Peter Obi illegal detention

The British government has tendered an apology to the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi after he was wrongly fully detained by an immigration officer who had mistaken him for someone who impersonated him to commit some crimes.

It was also gathered from a statement released on the Labor Party website that the UK govt expressed that the unsavoury treatment had been totally unacceptable. “Frankly, the Immigration Official’s action – has been appalling – and we are sorry,” they quoted. Recall that the ex-Anambra governor was detained and questioned for a duplication violation, according to Diran Onifade, the party’s campaign council spokesman, who disclosed in a statement released on Wednesday, April 12. On Good Friday, April 7, 2023, Obi landed at Heathrow Airport in London from Nigeria and was confronted by immigration officers. He was given a detention note and instructed to move aside by the officials while he waited in line for the required airport procedures. Onifade said: “He was questioned for a long time and it was very strange for a man who lived for over a decade in that country. Since the impersonator is still at large, the scenario is unimaginable as Obi could be implicated in a series of forbidden acts and even be framed in a manner that could be a huge embarrassment to him, his family, his party, the obidient Movement, and indeed Nigeria, where he currently and indisputably remains the conscience of the people. The immigration officials who were also taken aback at the reaction of the people were forced to reveal that Obi was being questioned for a ‘DUPLICATION offense’ meaning that someone has been impersonating him in London. The high implication of the offense is that the impersonator could be committing all kinds of weighty crimes and other dubious acts and it would be recorded in Obi’s name.”

APOLOGY BRITISH detention GOVERNMENT illegal Obi PETER Tenders

Portable drops track about detention experience three days after release (Video)

Beleaguered musician, Portable has released a new track, ‘Federal Government Liability’, in which he sings about his time in detention.

The singer, who is always finding himself in a fix, had been entrapped by the law after he resisted arrest. He was, three days later, arrested, detained, arraigned and after trials, granted bail. Portable, in his latest song, sang about how he had been made to spend days in cell and how his grace had prevailed. A part of the lyrics read: “I am a child of Grace. Latest glory. From star to the eagle, come and see grace wey no dey disgrace. They carried me to prison but I didn’t collect their cloth. They did not sew cloth for me. Leave me alone. I am not a prisoner.” Watch the video below:

days detention drops Experience Portable release track Video

Portable arrested by police, to spend days in detention

Ogun state police command has arrested the controversial singer, Habeeb Okikiola, better known as Portable after his initial resistance.

It would be recalled that the singer had raised alarm after the officers came to his bar to whisk him away. He had demanded to know why the wanted to arrest him and refused to follow the men to their station. Portable had later claimed that the officers had been sent by a Yahoo boy who wanted him arrested. Following the whole drama, he was slammed with a 72 hour ultimatum which elapsed today.

It was gleaned from sources online that he has now been arrested by the police division in Ogun and is to stay in detention for 72 hours. Speaking to the press, Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer verified the arrest and said that he is currently in cell at the state headquarters of the police in Eleweran, Abeokuta. He also added that the street-hop musician was arrested after disregarding five invitations.

arrested days detention police Portable spend