09/01/18

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The federal government has sited police Academy in Anambra state, saying the aim is to fight insecurity and unemployment in the Southeast

Federal government’s delegation led by Arc Okey Johnson Imoatu, visited the site at Umuchukwu, in Orumba south local government area of the state at the weekend.

The donor of the recently approved Police College and Academy in Anambra State, Dr Godwin Maduka, said it was a good development for Southeast.

He said the federal government would use institutions to create employment for young people in the south east region.

Maduka, a United State’s medical doctor and pain manager, said it would help youths and other school leavers who had no meaningful employment to enroll and sharpen their skills that would help them to be absorbed in the police force.

Maduka, said the academy would also help to phase out crime through the use of modern crime fighting techniques.

According to him, “I decided to attract this project to Umuchukwu as a way of helping youths gain employment and also fight corruption in our society”

“The project would be sitting on 50 hectares of land which I have already procured as you see, and from the inspection which we have undertaken today with members of the police service commission, you can see that they are pleased with the arrangement so far,” Maduka said.

The leader of the Federal government delegation of the police service commission, Arc Okey Johnson Imoatu ,said it was a project both the state and local government could not initiate.

Imoatu, who is the chief consultant of the commission expressed happiness at the project.

According to him , “What the state and local government could not do, Dr Maduka has single handedly done.”

He described it as a worthy project that would help in intelligence gathering and also enhance the work of the police force in carrying out their jobs efficiently.
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The Public Complaints Commission has solicited purposeful partnership with the Nigeria Police on addressing complaints and disputes efficiently.

Mr Samben Nwosu, the commissioner of the commission in Anambra, made the plea when he visited Mr Garba Umar, Commissioner of Police in Awka on Saturday.

Nwosu said that the commission “is a grievance-handling body insulated from politics with independent status.

“It also plays the role of a watchman receiving complaints from aggrieved persons who have suffered any form of administrative wrong’’.

He said that his visit to the police commissioner was to acquaint him with his appointment and to seek his cooperation for synergy.

“PCC has powers to investigate matters and recommend corrective measures and produce results.

“In this way, the commission has been able to give redress, douse tension and assuage the aggrieved through its timely intervention,’’ he said.

Nwosu also said that there were salient areas where mutual collaboration would help to improve the operations of the two organisations; and by extension, the larger society.

“It will be appreciated if police personnel are deployed at the commission’s behest, from time to time, as it administers and delivers promptly its services to the public.

“We count on your spirit of cooperation, may I humbly request that you hesitate not to refer cases outside your jurisdiction to the commission for redress,’’ he said.

In his response, Umar promised to assign direct posting of police officers to the commission to ensure peace, order and security.

The police commissioner also pleaded with Nwosu to prepare a public lecture he would present to state police command for more enlightenment on the roles and importance of PCC.
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Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has clarified a comment which he was reported to have made while speaking at an event organised by the Not-Too-Young-To-Run Movement.

Ekweremadu, speaking on Thursday was quoted to have said: “I’m in total touch with my people and that is why if I want to remain in Senate forever, I will.”

The Deputy Senate President on Friday said the statement is “misrepresenting” him and such “boastful attitude” attributed to him is not in his character.

He explained through his Facebook that as a mentor to the young people, there is a need to start from the grassroots by relating closely with their immediate constituencies to achieve their political dreams.

He said, “My advice was taken out of context. I have always seized opportunities of meeting the youth and other aspiring politicians, who consult me on their political ambitions against the erroneous notion that they must have a godfather in Abuja or the party to succeed in politics.

“Much as I played a key role in ensuring that the Not-Too-Young-To-Run Bill succeeded and even wanted 18 years as age qualification to run for office, I have always advised my mentees that it is erroneous to hope to win elections relying only on the fact that they are young.

“I always advise them to start from somewhere, preferably the grassroots and remain with people even when elected. In my case, I served as Chairman of my age grade association at ten and served so many years as the President of my community’s town union before serving as the pioneer Chairman of my Local Government Area (LGA), etc.

“So, I used the opportunity of the public dialogue themed ‘Youth Candidacy and the Future of Nigeria Beyond 2019’ organised by the Not-Too-Young-To-Run movement to share my personal experience, reiterating that the secret of my political staying power lies in relating closely with my constituents, making myself accessible to them, and ensuring justice and equity in the distribution of opportunities and development projects.

“I said that so long as I continued on this path, my people would always want me to run, ready to re-elect me as many times as I am willing to present myself. This is a verifiable fact.

“This is despite the fact that my town, Mpu, is the smallest in my LGA, and my LGA is the least in Enugu West Senatorial. And that is the more reason I remain humble about it and most grateful to my people, who are my primary employers and above all to God to whom all power belongs, and whose grace has no doubt brought me this far”, the statement added.

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Mr Abraham Gbileeka, the General Manager of Benue Urban Development Board, says the board has marked no fewer than 300 buildings that contravened law for demolition in Makurdi.
He said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Makurdi that most of the affected structures were built on water channels.
“It’s true that people are building on water channels and it is our responsibility as a board to stop them; the only action we have to sustain the right thing.
“Once we discover that you have not received a legitimate approval from the board and you have gone ahead to build, we serve you a notice which will lead to demolition.
“So, at the moment, we already have 300 houses marked for demolition in Makurdi alone,’’ he said.
The general manager also said that the structures marked for demolition were not only built on water canals, but lack government approval.
Gbilekaa said that areas that would be affected “are Nyiman extension, Achussa, Genabe, Owner Occupier, Wadata and High-level, Naka Road and some communities in North Bank.’’
He, however, explained that marking a house does not necessarily lead to demolition as houses were marked sometimes because they have no records with the board.
Gbilekaa warned the residents of the state against raising illegal structures that such buildings stand the risk of being demolished.
He also advised them to ensure that due process was followed when obtaining approval for their structures. LR News
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A Community leader in Jama’are Local Government area of Bauchi State, Alhaji Lawal Mohammed, says lack of safe water, inadequate sanitation and hygiene facilities affect children’s learning processes.
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Mohammed said this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Azare, Katagum Local Government headquarters on Saturday.
“We lack safe water in our communities, schools and the health facilities which affects learning process of children.”
According to him, water scarcity in communities prevents many young children, especially girls, from attending school and receiving education.
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“They are expected not only to assist their mothers to fetch water, but also to help with household chores that are made more time-intensive because of the lack of readily available water.
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“Furthermore, the lack of clean water means the absence of sanitary facilities and latrines in schools, and so once puberty hits, this has a more serious impact on female children.
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“In terms of lost educational opportunity, school attendance drops or children skip class attendance day by day.”
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According to him, inadequate safe water, sanitation and hygiene facilities affect the education, health, safety, and quality of life of children as children under the age of five die each year from diarrhoea.
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“Children in our communities go to schools which have no drinking water or clean latrines — basic things that many of us take for granted.
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“Every child has the right to be in a school that offers safe water, healthy sanitation and hygiene education.”
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Mohammed stressed that providing quality water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in schools would reduce hygiene-related diseases and could help curb the schools days missed daily due to fatigue occasioned by search for water.
According to him, girls are reluctant to continue their schooling when toilets and washing facilities are not private, safe, clean, or simply not available.
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The community leader, therefore, urged government, policy makers, school administrators, communities and parents to ensure that all children go to a school with child-friendly water, sanitation and hygiene facilities.
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He also urged decision-makers and key stakeholders to increase investment for WASH in schools, with the participation of communities, civil society, the media, students and children themselves.
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He said providing WASH facilities in schools would improve access to primary education, reduce child mortality and halve the proportion of people without access to safe water and basic sanitation.
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Mohammed commended the Network for Civil Society Organisations in Water and Sanitation (NEWSAN) and WaterAid Nigeria for launching the vote4WASH campaign, adding that it would go a long way in the quest for the provision of WASH facilities in the communities. LR News
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The 16 per cent Value-Added Tax (VAT) imposed on petroleum products in Kenya by the National Treasury took effect from Saturday.
The Finance minister, Mr Henry Rotich, said on Friday evening that the fuel tax will be implemented starting September 1 even after parliament on Wednesday voted to delay it by two more years.
Lawmakers amended the Finance Bill, 2018, in a move to cushion poor households from an increase in the cost of living as the VAT on petroleum products would cause a rise in commodity prices and transport.
But to be enforced, President Uhuru Kenyatta needs to sign it into law.
“The transition period for the exemption of the petroleum products granted in September 2016 will therefore expire on August 31, 2018, after which the products will attract VAT at the rate of 16 per cent,” Mr Rotich said.
This will see pump prices for petrol and diesel go up by 10 per cent with kerosene costs increasing by 12 per cent.
In Nairobi, a litre of petrol will retail at $1.25, diesel at $1.12 and kerosene at $0.95.
Treasury says the levies it will collect will prevent a deficit in the 2018/2019 budget.
“If the measure is not implemented, it will create a shortfall in the budget for the current fiscal year, which will therefore require alternative financing either through borrowing or additional tax measures including reviewing the current VAT rate upwards to 18 per cent, like the other EAC countries, in order to plug the shortfall,” Mr Rotich said.
Treasury, however, says it will work with relevant energy stakeholders to ensure that the interests of consumers, investors and stakeholders are protected in order to avoid escalation of petroleum pump prices.
“Under the current VAT Act, most of the VAT associated with petroleum products is not claimable due to the exempt status of the products. However, under this new regime, the ability of the VAT registered taxpayers to recover input VAT will therefore lower their cost base and as such, they should be able to retain reasonable margins on their petroleum pump prices,” Mr Rotich argued. LR News
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