Knocks Trail Akpabio's Statement On Senators Getting 'Holiday Allowance'

Knocks Trail Akpabio's Statement On Senators Getting 'Holiday Allowance'

Nigerians have taken to social media to knock the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio after he revealed that senators have been sent money to enable them to enjoy their holiday.

In the viral video posted on Wednesday morning, Akpabio was heard saying the National Assembly Clerk has disbursed funds to all senators to enjoy to enable them to enjoy their holiday.

 "In order to enable all of us to enjoy our holidays, a token has been sent to our various accounts by the clerk of the national assembly.” 

Not long after Akpabio made this statement and after deliberating with some of his colleagues, Akpabio withdrew his statement, saying instead 'prayers have been sent to mailboxes of respective senators.

"I withdraw that statement. To allow you to enjoy your holiday, the Senate President has sent prayers to your mailboxes to assist you to go on a safe journey and return."

Nigerians on social media have since begun to knock Senator Akpabio and the leadership of the country.

Reacting, a Netizen, Uyi Samuel tweeted: They keep sharing money meanwhile Nigerians are suffering this is an Act of wickedness."

Bashiru Akanbi: "We don't have leaders, but politicians. The earliest we recognise these men are leaches and parasites to this blessed nation the better we have a chance in moving ahead."

Ernest Rutherford also tweeted: "The annoying part is that these bunch of thieves just sit down in the hall doing nothing, year in and year out, and still share tax payer's money at every given opportunity."

Kassandra Ugochukwu tweeted: "The era of 'Ghana Must Go bags' are over, the APC era is for tokens in their bank accounts or emails... It's no wonder they no longer fight on the floor of the house and none of them brings in thugs or hijacks the mace to his village...It all Rubber Stamps or Paper marks."

Rotimi Ebenezer wrote: "Nigerian politicians and corruption were just 5&6. He change it when he realise he was still on national tv! God bless Nigeria."

Also reacting, IAmGtreal tweeted: "Disgraceful conduct in the Senate house, rowdy and unorganised."

Taymee also tweeted: "No worries, we deserve all the despair and suffering until we get sense by force ..the electorate is more than the elected yet the elected eat better than the electorate... Nigeria is unreal!."

Another Twitter user who simply goes by the name Peace on the social networking app tweeted: "Just look at this shameless Nig senators. Meanwhile, people can’t even afford to put on a generator from 7-10 pm again. A shame."

Smiling Judge also tweeted: "Absurd, it’s a pity we’re in such a dilemma."

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Posted by Sports life August 10, 2023

Mohamed Bazoum, the democratically elected president of Niger, said he is being kept isolated and forced to eat dry rice and pasta by the military junta who overthrew him and are refusing to bow to international pressure to cede power.

Mohamed Bazoum, the democratically elected president of Niger, said he is being kept isolated and forced to eat dry rice and pasta by the military junta who overthrew him and are refusing to bow to international pressure to cede power.

In a series of text messages to a friend reportedly seen by CNN, Bazoum said he has been “deprived of all human contact” since Friday, with no one supplying him food or medicine.

Bazoum said he has been living without electricity for a week, a normal occurrence for all Nigeriens after Nigeria cut off electric power in response to the coup.

Bazoum says all of the perishable food he was supplied with has since gone bad, and he is now eating dry pasta and rice.

Though denied the chance to speak with acting US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland during her visit to Niamey, the Nigerien capital, on Monday, Bazoum has been in contact with the outside world.  

Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou, the prime minister in Bazoum’s government, told French TV that the president was in good spirits despite being held in a “catastrophic situation.”

Nuland’s meeting on Monday with senior coup leaders lasted more than two hours, consisting of “extremely frank and at times quite difficult” conversations. A Tuesday face-to-face meeting that was supposed to take place in Niamey between the junta and representatives from the United Nations, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was canceled at short notice.

Junta leaders said in a letter that postponement of the meeting was “necessary” in “this atmosphere of threatened aggression against Niger.”

However, Mahamadou, Bazoum’s prime minister, told French state-funded broadcaster TV5-Monde that the junta would like to continue dialogue with ECOWAS, the bloc that has been leading the regional response to the political crisis in Niger.

ECOWAS leaders are due to meet on Thursday in Nigeria to discuss the coup, though specifics regarding the gathering remain unclear.

The regional bloc had given the junta one week to return to their barracks and reinstall Bazoum, but that deadline came and went on Sunday without any change.

Posted by Sports life August 10, 2023

Akpabio Says Money Has Been Sent To Senators For Holiday In Viral Video

Akpabio Says Money Has Been Sent To Senators For Holiday In Viral Video 

In a viral video shared on Wednesday morning, the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, revealed that money had been sent to all Senators by the clerk of the National Assembly to enjoy their holiday.

Addressing his colleagues before the adjournment motion was moved, Akpabio said money has been sent by the clerk of the National Assembly to the senators to enjoy their holidays.

Speaking in the video, he said, “In order to enable all of us to enjoy our holidays, a token has been sent to our various accounts by the clerk of the national assembly.” 

After deliberation with his colleagues, after he made the statement on the holiday token, he said, “I withdraw that statement. 

“In order to allow you to enjoy your holiday, the senate president has sent prayers to your mailboxes to assist you to go on a safe journey and return.”

Posted by Sports life August 10, 2023

Mob Beats Lagos Policeman Unconscious For Pushing Man Into BRT Lane

Mob Beats Lagos Policeman Unconscious For Pushing Man Into BRT Lane

A mob beat a yet-to-be-identified policeman to a stupor after a man identified simply as Yusuf was rammed by a BRT vehicle from the impact of being allegedly pushed by policemen in the Ketu area of Lagos State.

The PUNCH gathered from eyewitnesses at the scene that the policeman and his colleagues were attempting to dispossess Yusuf of his vehicle when he got pushed into the BRT lane.

In the process, one of the BRT buses plying the lane inward Lagos rammed into Yusuf who collapsed due to the impact of the crash.

Speaking with our correspondent, an eyewitness, who does not want her name mentioned, said the policemen were responsible for Yusuf’s ordeal, adding that he sustained varying degrees of injury as a result of the incident. 

“The policemen caused this; they were the ones that were trying to dispossess the man of his vehicle and while trying to push the man out of the vehicle, they pushed him on the BRT lane and an incoming bus ran into the man,” the eyewitness said. 

Another eyewitness, whose name could not be ascertained as he hastily spoke with our correspondent when the scene got rowdy, said the policemen, after realising that Yusuf had been crushed by the BRT, attempted to flee the scene but an angry mob apprehended one of them. 

He said, “It was people that beat the policeman till he fainted. He has not died because I still observed that he was breathing. People were annoyed about what they did to that man. 

“The man sustained serious injuries, look at him lying unconscious on the floor and his blood on the road.”

Credit: Deji Lambo

Posted by Sports life August 10, 2023