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Rivers Speaker Promises Life Changing Laws
The Speaker, Rivers State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon Tonye Harry, says Rivers people would witness more effective oversight functions and laws that will change their lives in the next dispensation of government.
Harry stated this in an interview with The Tide at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa.
The Speaker noted that the oversight functions of the present legislature in the state provided a lee-way for the executive arm to record many success, saying that laws such as the marching ground law on landlords and community youths brought relief to Rivers people.
“When re-elected, I will ensure that laws that will change the lives of Rivers people, especially the type that will be like the marching ground law will be enacted”, Harry said.
The state chief lawmaker who commented on the just-concluded Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primaries, described the exercise very free and fair, adding that delegates expressed their views through their voters.
He denied reports that candidates were imposed on the people as insinuated by some people. Rather, he said in some areas where there is consensus, people feel it’s imposition”, adding that consensus is part of election process.
Harry said that Governor Chibuike Amaechi contested the primaries with three aspirants including Sir Celestine Omehia, adding that he was not aware of Omehia’s withdrawal from the race as his name came up at Abuja.
On the allegation by Prince Chibudom Nwuche former Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives that Chief G.U. Ake, state PDP chairman manipulated the Rivers West Senatorial primaries in favour of his younger brother, Senator Wilson Ake, Harry said Chief Ake was not at Ahoada that fateful day.
“The state party chairman was not even at Ahoada that day of the primaries. I was at Ahoada myself and I did not see the party chairman”, he declared and enjoined all those who lost in the primaries to come together and join hands to move the party to another level, particularly during forthcoming general elections.
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Delta Attorney-General Laments Hike In Human Trafficking
Delta State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Ekemejero Ohwovoriole (SAN) has lamented the increasing rate of human trafficking, especially the girl child in the state.
Ohwovoriole decried the increase in his office in Asaba when the zonal commander of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Mr Nduka Nwawenne paid him a courtesy visit.
The Attorney-General stated that it was against the dignity of the state and disheartening to see that Delta State now ranked first in human trafficking, overtaking Edo State.
He stressed the need for stakeholders to tackle the menace, adding that if it was one single victim that was rescued, they would be rewarded for their efforts.
Ohwovoriole stated that young girls were the most vulnerable ones in the issue of human trafficking, stressing that children from poor family backgrounds also fall victim to human trafficking.
While saying that their request for an office space in the state would be looked into, to see how the government could be of assistance to them, he assured them of his ministry’s partnership in the fight against human trafficking.
He said that the Task Force on human trafficking and irregular migration, which he chairs, should be having regular meetings.
Earlier, the Zonal Commander of Naptip, Mr. Nwawenne informed the commissioner that Delta state had overtaken Edo state as the foremost state in human trafficking in nigeria.
He told the Attorney-General that their Zonal Command was the first to be established in Nigeria because of the prevailing issues of human trafficking in the area, noting that ika south was the highest in cases of human trafficking as a result of its proximity with edo state.
Nwawenne appealed to the Commissioner and the State Government to provide office accommodation for their officials to operate in Asaba.
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Army Arrests 50 Foreigners, Others For Job Racketeering
The Nigerian Army said it has arrested 50 suspects, including foreigners, for alleged international job racketeering in Lagos.
The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig. Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, who addressed journalists in Abuja, on Wednesday, said the suspects were arrested during an operation jointly conducted by the Army and the Nigeria Immigration Service.
He also disclosed that no fewer than 13 criminals were killed and 88 arrested during various operations across 20 states of the federation.
Among those arrested include 50 suspects comprising foreigners who were nabbed for alleged International job racketeering.
Onyema said, “In the South-West region, on November 2, 2023, troops of 9 Brigade Nigerian Army in conjunction with personnel of Nigerian Immigration Service, Lagos State Command, conducted a raid operation on a suspected criminal hideout at Ifako Ijaye.
“During the operation, 50 suspects, including foreigners who specialise in international job racketeering, were arrested. In a similar development same day, the same troops arrested two suspects at a hotel in Ogba in the Ikeja LGA.
“The arrest was in connection with the murder of one Mallam Idris Ardo, the Ardo of Panya Village in Plateau State. Preliminary investigation revealed that one of the arrested suspects masterminded the killing of Ardo and fled the community since the incident occurred.”
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