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Monday, 2 April 2018

Church of England to consider 'animal baptism' - Risingsuntv

April 02, 2018 0
Church of England to consider 'animal baptism' - Risingsuntv

The Church of England is poised to consider the baptism of animals for the first time, it was announced today.

The ruling General Synod, which is next scheduled to meet in July, will consider an advisory report compiled by a panel of bishops and others entitled
All of God's Creation.

Synod members will be asked to consider the
implications of introducing a liturgy for pets 'in the
light of an emerging consensus about the value of the environment and an increasing consciousness of animal sentience and awareness', the report says.

Charles Deluvio/Unsplash
Could the Church of England baptise animals?

Speaking at a press conference to highlight the report's main findings, Rt Revd James Graham, the committee chair, said: 'The kingdom of God is
about renewing all of creation, including the created order. It would be possible, therefore, to envisage a situation where dogs and cats and other
pets could be ceremonially sprinkled with water to symbolise their full inclusion in the renewal of all
things.'

Pressed on whether this could be described as 'animal baptism', the Bishop said: 'In a manner of speaking, it might be seen that way by some.'


He added: 'In the past we have seen humankind as
in some way distinctive, special and set apart. Now science advises us that many characteristics we once believed to be limited to men and women are
shared with other species, including kindness and empathy. The Christian god is surely one who will welcome any created being with these characteristics fully into his kingdom.'

'After all, look at what I have in common with monkeys and chimpanzees – we're all primates,' the bishop joked, as an unamused press corps sat
stony-faced in front of him.

Asked how animals would be able to make
baptismal vows, Bishop James said: 'It's amazing what animals can do. I've trained my dog to play Widor's Toccata at weddings, and if you weren't
looking, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference in quality from that of many regular human organists. It's just a bit tricky cleaning between the
pedals afterwards.'

The report was attached by conservative Anglicans
as being 'Anglicanism at its most wishy-washy'.

A spokesman for a group which claims to be more conservative than anyone else said: 'What is it again? Whatever it is, we're against it. We're always against. Now look, I've got to go as this probably means I am out of communion with you.'


But a spokesperson for a liberal group said: 'How lovely! What a nice idea. Actually, between you and me, we've been doing this in our parish for years.

We use milk for cats though, otherwise they tend to scratch. And we had terrible trouble when someone's pet spider escaped down the font overflow hole.'

Winnie Madikizela- Mandela Is Dead at 81; Fought Apartheid - Risingsuntv

April 02, 2018 0
Winnie Madikizela- Mandela Is Dead at 81; Fought Apartheid - Risingsuntv
Nelson Mandela with Winnie Madikizela-
Mandela after his release from a South
Africa prison in 1990. She often acted as a
conduit to his followers during his
imprisonment. They divorced in 1996.

Greg English/Associated Press
By Alan Cowell April 2, 2018
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, whose hallowed
place in the pantheon of South Africa’s
liberators was eroded by scandal over
corruption, kidnapping, murder and the
adulterous implosion of her fabled marriage
to Nelson Mandela , died early Monday in
Johannesburg. She was 81.


Her death, at the Netcare Milpark Hospital,
was announced by her spokesman, Victor
Dlamini. He said in a statement that she died
“after a long illness, for which she had been
in and out of hospital since the start of the
year.”

The South African Broadcasting Corporation
said she was admitted to the hospital over
the weekend complaining of the flu after she
attended a church service on Friday. She had
been treated for diabetes and underwent
major surgeries as her health began failing
over the last several years.
Charming, intelligent, complex, fiery and
eloquent, Ms. Madikizela-Mandela
(Madikizela was her surname at birth) was
inevitably known to most of the world
through her marriage to the revered Mr.


Mandela. It was a bond that endured
ambiguously: She derived a vaunted status
from their shared struggle, yet she chafed at
being defined by him.
Ms. Madikizela-Mandela was cheered by
supporters after appearing in court in
Krugersdorp, South Africa, in 1986. She
commanded a natural constituency of her
own among South Africa’s poor and
dispossessed.

Associated Press
Ms. Madikizela-Mandela commanded a
natural constituency of her own among
South Africa’s poor and dispossessed, and
the post-apartheid leaders who followed Mr.
Mandela could never ignore her appeal to a
broad segment of society. In April 2016, the
government of President Jacob G. Zuma gave
Ms. Madikizela-Mandela one of the country’s
highest honors: the Order of Luthuli, given,
in part, for contributions to the struggle for
democracy.


Ms. Madikizela-Mandela retained a political
presence as a member of Parliament,
representing the dominant African National
Congress, and she insisted on a kind of
primacy in Mr. Mandela’s life, no matter
their estrangement.


“Nobody knows him better than I do,” she
told a British interviewer in 2013.
Increasingly, though, Ms. Madikizela-
Mandela resented the notion that her anti-
apartheid credentials had been eclipsed by
her husband’s global stature and celebrity,
and she struggled in vain in later years to be
regarded again as the “mother of the
nation,” a sobriquet acquired during the
long years of Mr. Mandela’s imprisonment.


She insisted that her contribution had been
wrongly depicted as a pale shadow of his.
“I am not Mandela’s product,” she told an
interviewer. “I am the product of the masses
of my country and the product of my
enemy” — references to South Africa’s white
rulers under apartheid and to her burning
hatred of them, rooted in her own years of
mistreatment, incarceration and banishment.


Conduit to Her Husband
While Mr. Mandela was held at the Robben
Island penal settlement, off Cape Town,
where he spent most of his 27 years in jail,
Ms. Madikizela-Mandela acted as the main
conduit to his followers, who hungered for
every clue to his thinking and well-being.


The flow of information was meager,
however: Her visits there were rare, and she
was never allowed physical contact with him.


Ms. Madikizela-Mandela attended her
husband’s trial in Pretoria, South Africa, in
1962. Associated Press
In time, her reputation became scarred by
accusations of extreme brutality toward
suspected turncoats, misbehavior and
indiscretion in her private life, and a
radicalism that seemed at odds with Mr.
Mandela’s quest for racial inclusiveness.
She nevertheless sought to remain in his
orbit. She was at his side, brandishing a
victor’s clenched fist salute, when he was
finally released from prison in February
1990.


At his funeral, in December 2013, she
appeared by his coffin in mourning black —
positioning herself almost as if she were the
grieving first lady — even though Mr.
Mandela had married Graça Machel, the
widow of the former Mozambican president
Samora Machel, in 1998, on his 80th
birthday, six years after separating from Ms.

Madikizela-Mandela and two years after
their divorce. It was Mr. Mandela’s third
marriage.

In 2016, Ms. Madikizela-Mandela began legal
efforts to secure the ownership of Mr.
Mandela’s home in his ancestral village of
Qunu. She contended that their marriage had
never been lawfully dissolved and that she
was therefore entitled to the house, which
Mr. Mandela had bequeathed to his
descendants. High Court judges rejected that
argument in April. After learning that she
had lost the case, she was hospitalized.
Her lawyers said she would appeal the High
Court judgment.


‘She Who Must Endure’
Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela was
born to a noble family of the Xhosa-speaking
Pondo tribe in Transkei. Her first name,
Nomzamo, means “she who must endure
trials.”


Her birth date was Sept. 26, 1936, according
to the Nelson Mandela Foundation and many
other sources, although earlier accounts gave
the year as 1934.

Her father, Columbus, was a senior official in
the so-called homeland of Transkei,
according to South African History Online ,
an unofficial archive, which described her as
the fourth of eight children. (Other accounts
say her family was larger.) Her mother,
Gertrude, was a teacher who died when
Winnie was 8, the archive said.


As a barefoot child she tended cattle and
learned to make do with very little, in
marked contrast to her later years of free-
spending ostentation. She attended a
Methodist mission school and then the
Hofmeyr School of Social Work in
Johannesburg, where she befriended
Adelaide Tsukudu, the future wife of Oliver
Tambo, a law partner of Mr. Mandela’s who
went on to lead the A.N.C. in exile. She
turned down a scholarship in the United
States, preferring to remain in South Africa
as the first black social worker at the
Baragwanath hospital in Soweto.


The Mandelas were married in June 1958.
Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
One day in 1957, when she was waiting at a
bus stop, Nelson Mandela drove past. “I was
struck by her beauty,” he wrote in his
autobiography, “Long Walk to Freedom.”
Some weeks later, he recalled, “I was at the
office when I popped in to see Oliver and
there was this same young woman.”
Mr. Mandela, approaching 40 and the father
of three, declared on their first date that he
would marry her. Soon he separated from
his first wife, Evelyn Ntoko Mase, a nurse, to
marry Ms. Madikizela-Mandela on June 14,
1958.


Ms. Madikizela-Mandela was thrust into the
limelight in 1964 when her husband was
sentenced to life in prison on charges of
treason. She was officially “banned” under
draconian restrictions intended to make her
a nonperson, unable to work, socialize, move
freely or be quoted in the South African
news media, even as she raised their two
daughters, Zenani and Zindziswa.
In a crackdown in May 1969, five years after
her husband was sent to prison, she was
arrested and held for 17 months, 13 in
solitary confinement. She was beaten and
tortured. The experience, she wrote, was
“what changed me, what brutalized me so
much that I knew what it is to hate.”


After blacks rioted in the segregated
Johannesburg township of Soweto in 1976,
Ms. Madikizela-Mandela was again
imprisoned without trial, this time for five
months. She was then banished to a bleak
township outside the profoundly
conservative white town of Brandfort, in the
Orange Free State.


“I am a living symbol of whatever is
happening in the country,” she wrote in
“Part of My Soul Went With Him,” a memoir
published in 1984 and printed around the
world. “I am a living symbol of the white
man’s fear. I never realized how deeply
embedded this fear is until I came to
Brandfort.”


Contrary to the authorities’ intentions, her
cramped home became a place of pilgrimage
for diplomats and prominent sympathizers,
as well as foreign journalists seeking
interviews.


Ms. Madikizela-Mandela cherished
conversation with outsiders and word of the
world beyond her confines. She scorned
many of her restrictions, using whites-only
public phones and ignoring the segregated
counters at the local liquor store when she
ordered Champagne — gestures that stunned
the area’s whites.


Banishment Took Toll
Still, Ms. Madikizela-Mandela’s exclusion
from what passed as a normal life in South
Africa took a toll, and she began to drink
heavily. During her banishment, moreover,
her land changed. Beginning in late 1984,
young protesters challenged the authorities
with increasing audacity.


The unrest spread,
prompting the white rulers to acknowledge
what they called a “revolutionary climate”
and declare a state of emergency.
When Ms. Madikizela-Mandela returned to
her home in Soweto in 1985, breaking her
banning orders, it was as a far more
bellicose figure, determined to assume
leadership of what became the decisive and
most violent phase of the struggle. As she
saw it, her role was to stiffen the
confrontation with the authorities.


The tactics were harsh.
“Together, hand in hand, with our boxes of
matches and our necklaces, we will liberate
this country,” she told a rally in April 1986.
She was referring to “necklacing,” a form of
sometimes arbitrary execution by fire using
a gas-soaked tire around a supposed traitor’s
neck, and it shocked an older generation of
anti-apartheid campaigners. But her severity
aligned her with the young township radicals
who enforced commitment to the struggle.


Ms. Madikizela-Mandela was surrounded by
supporters in the black township of Kagiso
in 1986. Associated Press
In the late 1980s, Ms. Madikizela-Mandela
allowed the outbuildings around her
residence in Soweto to be used by the so-
called Mandela United Football Club, a
vigilante gang that claimed to be her
bodyguard. It terrorized Soweto, inviting
infamy and prosecution.
In 1991 she was convicted of ordering the
1988 kidnapping of four youths in Soweto.


The body of one, a 14-year-old named James
Moeketsi Seipei — nicknamed Stompie, a
slang word for a cigarette butt, reflecting his
diminutive stature — was found with his
throat cut.


Ms. Madikizela-Mandela’s chief bodyguard
was convicted of murder. She was sentenced
to six years for kidnapping , but South
Africa’s highest appeals court reduced her
punishment to fines and a suspended one-
year term.


By then her life had begun to unravel. The
United Democratic Front, an umbrella group
of organizations fighting apartheid and
linked to the A.N.C., expelled her. In April
1992, Mr. Mandela, midway through
settlement talks with President F. W. de
Klerk of South Africa, announced that he and
his wife were separating. (She dismissed
suggestions that she had wanted to be known
by the title “first lady.” “I am not the sort of
person to carry beautiful flowers and be an
ornament to everyone,” she said.)


Two years later, Mr. Mandela was elected
president and offered her a minor job as the
deputy minister of arts, culture, science and
technology. But after allegations of influence
peddling, bribetaking and misuse of
government funds, she was forced from
office. In 1996, Mr. Mandela ended their 38-
year marriage, testifying in court that his
wife was having an affair with a colleague.
Only in 1997, at the behest of Archbishop
Desmond M. Tutu at South Africa’s Truth
and Reconciliation Commission , did Ms.
Madikizela-Mandela offer an apology for the
events of the late 1980s. “Things went
horribly wrong,” she said, adding, “For that I
am deeply sorry.”

Ms. Madikizela-Mandela at a 2009 gathering
to honor her former husband, who died four
years later.


Yet the catalog of missteps continued, cast
into sharp relief by her haughty
dismissiveness toward her accusers. In 2003
she was convicted of using her position as
president of the A.N.C. Women’s League to
obtain fraudulent loans; she was sentenced
to five years in prison. But her sentence was
again suspended on appeal, with a judge
finding that she had not gained personally
from the transactions.

To the end, Ms. Madikizela-Mandela
remained a polarizing figure in South Africa,
admired by loyalists who were prepared to
focus on her contribution to ending
apartheid, vilified by critics who foremost
saw her flaws. Few could ignore her
unsettling contradictions, however.


“While there is something of a historical
revisionism happening in some quarters of
our nation these days that brands Nelson
Mandela’s second wife a revolutionary and
heroic figure,” the columnist Verashni Pillay
wrote in the South African newspaper The
Mail and Guardian, “it doesn’t take that
much digging to remember the truly awful
things she has been responsible for.”
Joseph R. Gregory contributed reporting.
Related Coverage

Angry constituents stone Rep in Taraba - Risingsuntv

April 02, 2018 0
Angry constituents stone Rep in Taraba - Risingsuntv

By John Mkom

Jalingo—Some angry constituents, weekend, attacked
Garba Hamman Julde, a member of the House of
Representatives from Taraba State.


Julde, who represents Bali/Gassol federal constituency in
the lower legislative chamber, had been pelted with
stones by the constituents for allegedly being abandoned
for two years.

Hon. Garba Hamman Julde
The lawmaker had presented 11 motorcycles and one car
to the ward executives and local government chairman of
All Progressives Congress, APC, in Bali Local Government
Area when the incident occurred.

He was, however, quickly spirited away by security
operatives but not without sustaining injury in the attack.
An eyewitness, Musa Sandirde, said the lawmaker was
attacked just as he finished a speech and moved to
present keys to the car and motorcycles to Bali
executives.


Sandirde, who said the constituents vowed not to reelect
him in 2019, explained how the lawmaker was attacked,
saying: “Trouble started after he ended his speech at the
rostrum and was making way to present key of the
motorcycles to the beneficiaries.


“There and then, some youths started chanting ‘ba mu
so’ in Hausa, while at the same time throwing sand,
stones and sachet water at him. Police then quickly
intervened and moved him to safety.”

On his part, Ibrahim Daka, a party executive of Bali LGA,
wondered why the lawmaker would abandon his people
for two years and show up to present a car and
motorcycles to a few people.

He said: “He has completely abandoned the people that
sent him to Abuja. For more than two years, he went
missing, only for him to show up this weekend to say he
was presenting 11 motorcycles and one car to ward and
LGA party chairmen.”


“He did that because election is here and they are the
people who will serve as delegates to elect party
flagbearers again. But the people he abandoned turned
against him and showed their anger.”

Julde could not be reached for comments but one of his
aides who did not want his name mentioned confirmed
the attack.

Kaduna monarch to subjects: Don’t be killed like fools… defend yourselves - Risingsuntv

April 02, 2018 0
Kaduna monarch to subjects: Don’t be killed like fools… defend yourselves - Risingsuntv
Zubairu Gwari, emir of Birnin Gwari in Kaduna state,
has asked his subjects to defend themselves against
suspected bandits invading their communities.


One of the 23 local government areas in Kaduna, Birinin
Gwari has recorded a high level of insecurity in recent
times.

It was in the area that 11 soldiers were killed earlier in
the month.

In an interview with Daily Trust , the first class
traditional ruler said he asked his subjects not to
“behave like fools” and get killed.

Friday, 30 March 2018

Nigeria Will Be Worse Than Somalia Soon -TY Danjuma's Re- Echoes Nnamdi Kanu's Prophecy -Risingsuntv

March 30, 2018 0
Nigeria Will Be Worse Than Somalia Soon -TY Danjuma's Re- Echoes Nnamdi Kanu's Prophecy -Risingsuntv

Nigeria will be worse than Somalia soon -
Danjuma re-echoes Nnamdi Kanu's prophecy.

Defend yourselves or you’ll all die
Nigerian Army is complicit in Fulani terrorism and facilitating their operation

"If you depend on the armed forces to
protect you, you will all die- one by one"

 —TY Danjuma
Former Nigerian Chief of Army Staff and Minister of Defence, Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, has broken ranks
with his Fulani cohorts to warn Nigerians that war is imminent.

Danjuma, who assassinated the first Nigerian Head of State, Aguiyi Ironsi, yesterday, spat fire by calling on Nigerians to rise and defend themselves against attacks by marauding herdsmen in some parts of the country, or continue to suffer casualties.

Danjuma wh re-echoed a
prophecy of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, warned that Somalia will be better than
Nigeria if the ongoing ethnic cleansing is not stopped.

“You must rise to protect yourselves from these people; if you depend on the armed forces to protect you, you will all
die.

“I ask all of you to be on the alert and defend your country,
defend your state,” he admonished.

He said the unnecessary killings, which is akin to an act of ethnic cleansing being perpetuated against the people of
Taraba, specifically, and Nigeria, at large, must stop.

An obviously and visibly angry Danjuma also lampooned the
military authorities by slapping the institution with the
accusation that it is complicit in the violent incidents by providing protection for the killers.

“This ethnic cleansing must stop in Taraba, and it must stop in Nigeria. These killers have been protected by the
military; they cover them and you must be watchful to guide and protect yourselves because you have no other place to
go”.


Speaking at the maiden convocation ceremony of Taraba State University in Jalingo, the Taraba State capital, Danjuma, who received the award of honorary Doctor of Science from the University, lamented that in spite of the cultural diversity in the state, which was supposed to be used as a tool to bring unity among the people, there were armed bandits who come into the state to connive with the military to kill people and cause ethnic cleansing.


Danjuma said when he arrived at the arena of the convocation, he saw a diverse cultural display organised by
Taraba State cultural groups. This, he said, was proof- positive that the state represents Nigeria in all aspects, stressing that there was no need for the killings. The former
Chief of Army Staff then warned that “the ethnic cleansing must stop now otherwise Somalia will be a child’s play”.

General Danjuma’s outburst is coming against the backdrop
of recent violent attacks by killer herdsmen. In the first 10 weeks of 2018 alone, over 1351 people lost their lives ,
largely, as a result of violent killer herdsmen attacks.


Some of these activities have been described as pure criminality. Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari has
been very consistent in his call for peaceful co-existence in the country,m promising to resolve the crisis.

He made a pledge of N100 million to the appeal fund of the university.
While speaking, the visitor, Taraba State University and governor of Taraba State, Darius Ishaku, appreciated the
past governors of the state for initiating the state university.


He said his administration would continue to give priority to
education and the university for a better Taraba.

“The institution has made it possible for many Taraba residents to access tertiary education,” he said, and pledged
government’s support toward making it a model.

Earlier, Prof. Vincent Tenebe, the Vice Chancellor, had commended the state government for its continued support
which had ensured the growth of the university. Tenebe said that 5,900 students from five sets were graduating, and urged them to be good ambassadors of the institution.


If They Fail To Give Us Biafra, Somalia Will Look Like A
Paradise - Nnamdi Kanu (2014)


Jihad has been launched in Nigeria.
Fulani herdsmen must be stopped
before they cause Nigeria to implode.
Avert another war - Danjuma,
Dogonyaro, Lekwot, others warn
Nigerian government

World’s CHRISTIANS in turmoil as Pope 'admits HELL DOES NOT EXIST' - Risingsuntv

March 30, 2018 0
World’s CHRISTIANS in turmoil as Pope 'admits HELL DOES NOT EXIST' - Risingsuntv

MILLIONS of Christians across the world had their faith shaken to its foundations after reports the Pope admitted
HELL DOES NOT EXIST and that bad people simply cease to be.

The devil is REAL: Pope says Satan
MORE INTELLIGENT than mortals
Furious Pope Francis hits out at Vatican
in scathing Christmas message
Pope Francis likens modern migrants to
Saint Joseph and Mary
Popular In the Community
In a jaw-dropping Good Friday ‘revelation’ Pope Francis
reportedly told an Italian journalist that at the moment of death the souls of “sinners” would “disappear”.


Furious Catholics have suggested the claim sounds more akin to atheism than Christianity.
Eugenio Scalfari, 93, said Pope Francis told him: “Hell doesn’t exist, the disappearance of the souls of sinners exists.”


The quotes appeared in Italian newspaper La Republica, a
newspaper co-founded by Mr Scalfari.
Polish priest wishes
Pope early death over
Muslim speech
Pope tells priests not
to preach holy laws at
adulterers

The shock revelation from the spiritual leader of the Roman
Catholic faith overturns more than 2,000 years of orthodoxy.


Conservative Roman Catholics have raged at the Pope for
changing fundamental aspects of the faith set out in the
Bible.


Antonio Socci, a Catholic author, accused the Pope of
heresy and called for his abdication.
Another Vatican spoke on the condition of anonymity: “He’s
a very strange theologian, assuming Scalfari properly
understood what he was saying.


Pope Francis says there's no hell
“He increases confusion among ordinary Catholics, who no
longer know what to believe.”

The expert believes Mr Scalfari over the Vatican because “if
someone traduces your thoughts, you don’t keep inviting
him back.

Mr Scalfari said that the Pope made the explosive remarks in response to a question asking what happened to wicked
souls after death.


The Pope claimed that unrepentant sinners are not punished after death - instead, they just disappear.

Francis and Mr Scalfari, an atheist philosopher, have met
four times before.



On other occasions too, the Vatican has had to issue
clarifications after meetings with Mr Scalfari - who
reportedly reconstructs dialogue from memory without
taking notes or using a recorder.


The Vatican has confirmed that the meeting took place this
time, but insisted it was not an interview.
It said: “No words in quotation marks should be considered
as a faithful transcription of the Holy Father’s words.”


The Times welcomed the Pope’s alleged comments, however: “The Pope’s clarification that there is no such
thing as eternal fire and brimstone even for those who eschew faith should be a reassurance to everyone.”


Pope Francis has previously been criticised for replying,
“Who am I to judge?” - when asked what he thought of
homosexual Christians.

Nnamdi Kanu: Court Overrules Federal Government Of Nigeria - Risingsuntv

March 30, 2018 0
Nnamdi Kanu: Court Overrules Federal Government Of Nigeria - Risingsuntv

March 28, 2018, A Federal High
Court Overruled The Federal Government On The Matter Of
Nnamdi Kanu, The Biafran Leader Who Has Been Missing Since September, 2017 When The Nigerian Army Carried
Out Lethal Operations At His Home At Umuahia In Abia
State.

Since Kanu’s Trial Resumed In October Last Year After
The Military Attack, Kanu Has Neither Be Seen Nor Heard
From.


Relying On Army’s Denials Of Holding Kanu, The Federal
Government Has Since Then Claimed That His
Nonappearance At His Trial Was Enough To Revoke His
Bail And Compel His Three Sureties To Forfeit Their
Bonds.


Conversely, The Lawyers To The Sureties Had
Consistently Advanced The Argument That The Issue Of
The Military Invasion Had To Be Considered First Before
The Issue Of Breach Of Bond Or Kanu’s Trial Can Ever
Arise. But Till This Last Hearing, Counsels Have Never
Had Sufficient Opportunity To Fully Present Their
Arguments.


On February 20, 2018 When The Matter Came Up For
Further Mention, Justice Binta Nyako Of Federal High
Court Abuja Agreed To Severe Kanu’s Case From That Of
His Co-defendants, Which Then Set The Stage For
Treating Kanu’s Case Separately And Perhaps Properly.
On March 28, When The Case Came Up For A Resumed
Hearing, The Attorney General Of The Federation Yet
Again Strongly Argued For Revocation Of Mazi Kanu’s
Bond And Issuance Of Bench Warrant Against Him.
The AGF, Who Was Represented By Bar.
Shuaibu Lanaran,
Further Argued That Kanu’s Sureties ‘did Not Deserve Any
Hearing On The Matter, But Must Produce Kanu Or Face
Sanctions’.


In Opposition, Counsels For The Three Sureties Jointly
Argued That A Forfeiture Proceeding First Requires An
“enrolled” Show Cause Order Before Any Issue Of
Revocation Or Bench Warrant Can Arise.

The Lawyers Told The Court That Their Clients Are Yet To
Be Served With Such Order And Thus The Matter Cannot
Be Said To Be Properly Before The Court. Counsels Cited
Pertinent Statutory And Judicial Authorities.


In A Counter-argument, The AGF Alleged That The
Lawyers Have “conspired” To Raise Technical Defenses
To The Matter, Whereupon The Court Immediately Took
Exception To The Remark And Ordered Labaran To
Apologize To The Lawyers, Which He Did Promptly And
Profusely.


In The End, Justice Nyako Agreed With The Submissions
Of The Lawyers For The Sureties And Ordered The AGF To
Properly And Timely Serve The Sureties With An Order To
Show Cause In Compliance With The Rules Of Procedure.


The Next Hearing Is Scheduled For June 26, 2018, When
Lawyers For The Sureties Will Have The First Opportunity
To Introduce Direct Evidence Of The Army Invasion Of
Kanu’s House, Which Has Been Said To Be The Proximate
Cause Of His Disappearance. If The Court Upholds Their
Argument, Nigerian Army May Be Cited For Contempt And
That Alone Is Likely To Affect The Course Of The Trial In
Kanu’s Favor.


It Will Be Recalled That Mazi Nnamdi Kanu Was Taken On
Bail Last Year On The Bond Of N100 Million Each Provided
By Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, Jewish Rabbi Immanu El
Ben Madu And Tochukwu Uchendu, An Accountant.

The Sureties Were Represented In Court By Barristers Aloy
Ejimakor, Chukwuma Machukwu Umeh (SAN), And FC
Chude.

NAN

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