Culpable Operatives Won't Escape Justice, Says Buhari As Anti-SARS
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Okonjo-Iweala Gets More Presidential Push for WTO DG Former finance minister briefs president on bid Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja deploy its entire energy to the President on Media and former Managing Director country, and the world. a hardworking Nigerian. You ensure that she becomes the Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu. (Operations) of the World “I assure you that we will deserve this,’’ he said. President Muhammadu Buhari Director-General of World Okonjo-Iweala is one of two Bank at the Presidential do all that we can to ensure Buhari assured Okonjo- yesterday in Abuja assured Trade Organisation (WTO). candidates contesting for the Villa, Abuja said she deserved that you emerge as the Iweala that he will make Nigeria’s former Minister of This was contained in top position of the multilateral more support to get the top Director-General of WTO, more phone calls, and send Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo- a statement signed by the institution. job because of her profile not only because you are a Iweala, that the country would Senior Special Assistant to Buhari, who received the and diligence in serving the Nigerian, but because you are Continued on page 9 CBN, Refugees Commission Collaborate to Restore Livelihoods in Borno... Page 8 Tuesday 13 October, 2020 Vol 25. No 93118. Price: N250 www.thisdaylive.com T RU N TH & REASO TODAY'S WEATHER ABUJA MAIDUGURI ENUGU KANO LAGOS PORT HARCOURT 25°C-33°C 31°C-31°C 25°C-28°C 27°C-33°C 24C-27°C 20°C-30°C Culpable Operatives Won’t Escape Justice, Says Buhari as Anti-SARS Protests Spread Many feared killed as march turns bloody in Lagos Sanwo-Olu sues for calm Chiemelie Ezeobi, Segun James in Lagos, Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja and Sylvester Idowu in Warri As the protest of high- handedness of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) deepened yesterday despite the disbandment of the police tactical outfit, President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that all those responsible for misconduct or wrongful acts would be brought to justice. The president said the disbandment of the organisation was only a first step to a wholesome reformation of the Police Force. As the president spoke in Abuja, many protesters were feared killed in Lagos with the authorities confirming the death of a policeman and a civilian in Surulere area of Lagos as the #EndSARS protest turned bloody even as the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, who yesterday threw his weight behind the protest against SARS, narrated how his 25-year-old daughter almost lost her life in the hands of SARS operatives. #ENDSARS: POLICE VS PROTESTERS… Continued on page 9 Young protesters defy police water cannon during an #EndSARS protest in Abuja…yesterday asa Abdulsalami-led National Peace Committee Hails Ondo Election...Page 9 2 TUESDAY OCTOBER 13, 2020 • THISDAY TUESDAY OCTOBER 13, 2020 • THISDAY 3 4 TUESDAY OCTOBER 13, 2020 • THISDAY TUESDAY, ͻ˜ͺͺ˾THISDAY 5 Group News Editor Ejiofor Alike NEWS Email [email protected], 08066066268 Bandits Kill Imam, 12 Others in Katsina, Niger Communities Francis Sardauna in Katsina unaccounted for in the affected cumbersome nature of the place. night. In the face-off between the head of Tungan-Makeri alerted and Laleye Dipo in Minna communities. He said: "The bandits attacked THISDAY learnt that the two bandits and the vigilante, some the security operatives but they He said: "The bandits arrived Shau village and killed eight communities attacked are Tasan of the local security operatives (security) claimed they did not No fewer than 13 persons, at Shau village on no fewer people and destroyed many -Kere and Tungan-Makeri. were killed. have fuel in their vehicles. including children, have than 60 motorcycles with each houses, including the vehicle The bandits according to THISDAY gathered that THISDAY was told that been massacred by bandits carrying three armed men about of the village head. Efforts reports, first attacked Tasan angered by their inability to the angry villagers, yesterday in fresh onslaughts on Shau 6 p.m on Sunday and started are ongoing to ensure that -Kere on Saturday night during escape with the cows, the morning deposited the corpses and Ruwangodiya villages shooting indiscriminately. They the perpetrators are brought which they rustled about 200 same set of bandits reportedly of the slain villagers in front of of Faskari Local Government killed eight people, including the to book." cows. mobilised and launched a the office of one of the security Area of Katsina State, as well as Imam of Shau and his assistant. Meanwhile, three people It was learnt that when the ferocious attack on neighbouring agencies in the town. Tasan -Kere and Tungan-Makeri "The bandits also set ablaze have been confirmed killed cows were being rustled the Tungan- Makeri community on When contacted, the Police communities in Rafi Local the vehicle of the village head with several others injured in local vigilante mobilised to Sunday night during which two Public Relations Officer for Niger Government Area of Niger State. and his entire house and many attacks on two communities in recover the cows from the villagers were killed and several State Police Command, ASP The separate attacks on the other houses in the village. the Rafi LGA of Niger State. bandits leading to the bandits others injured. Wasiu Abiodun, told THISDAY: two villages in Katsina State, “After their successful The incidents occurred abandoning the cows and taking It was alleged that while the "I am in a meeting, I will get according to residents, were operation in Shau village, between Saturday and Sunday to their heels. attack was ongoing, the village back to you." perpetrated on Sunday about they mobilised and moved to 6 p.m. when most of the victims Ruwangodiya village where were returning from their farms. they killed two people there." One of the residents, Mr. He lamented that they Aminu Hamisu, who confirmed reported the arrival of the the incident to THISDAY hoodlums to security agencies yesterday, said the bandits killed but that they did not come to the Imam of Shau village and their aid till after the bandits his assistant. killed their people. He said the bandits in a The state Police Public commando-style operation Relations Officer, Mr. Gambo arrived the villages and started Isah, who confirmed the incident shooting sporadically, killing said the bandits killed eight people at sight and razed persons in Shau village and property and rustled unspecified razed several houses and vehicle number of cows belonging to of the village head during the residents. attack. Hamisu explained that Isah, a superintendent of several villagers sustained police, said combined security varying degree of injuries from operatives were drafted to the gunshots with scores of them, area but the hoodlums escaped mostly women and children, still to the nearby forest due to the Edo Assembly Removes Speaker Okiye Adibe Emenyonu in Benin City hearing of members in order to begin the business of the day. The Edo State House of Okhuarobo was said to have NGOZI FOR WTO... Assembly yesterday removed quickly drawn the attention L-R: Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment; Chief Adeniyi Adebayo; former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; the Speaker, Mr. Francis Okiye. of former Okiye to a petition and President Muhammadu Buhari during a visit by the former minister to the president in Abuja....yesterday godwin omoigui The state assembly is made against him and reeled out the up of seven members of the removal motion. Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) The lawmakers accused Okiye who decamped alongside with of financial impropriety. the governor from the All They also suspended Despite Senate’s Intervention, Progressives Congress (APC) to Okiye for three months and PDP, and three APC legislators. set up a committee headed Okiye represents Esan North- by Okhuarobo to probe him East state constituency in the and submit the report to the ASUU Adamant on IPPIS, Strike state assembly. assembly. Okiye was replaced by the The new speaker, Onobun lawmaker representing Esan upon his election, thanked the Lawmakers ask union, FG to shift ground West state Constituency, Mr. members for his emergence. Deji Elumoye in Abuja platform to IPPIS called UTAS, an alternative payment system how the Senate and indeed Marcus Onobun. Onobun has also dissolved which had since been explained for university lecturers. the National Assembly could The removal of Okiye all the standing committees Despite the intervention of to the Senate leadership. He said: "During our intervene to resolve the issues followed a motion moved by and relieved all the appointees the leadership of the Senate, “We told the Senate last meeting we lodged a that were yet outstanding. the Majority Leader of the of the house of their various the Academic Staff Union of leadership in the course of complaint about the forceful House, Mr. Henry Okhuarobo appointments. Nigerian Universities (ASUU) our meeting today about UTAS, introduction of the IPPIS in Lawan said: "We really don't representing Ikpoba Okha state Onobun also constituted a yesterday insisted that its which is home-grown while the universities, which we need this kind of situation where constituency. three-man committee to look members will not enrol in the IPPIS is foreign; we are talking challenged and have been our Universities are shut. Our Okhuarobo’s motion was into financial records of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel about local content. We have challenging since 2013 children are the victims of this. seconded by the member house under the leadership Information System (IPPIS). shown that we are inventors; because there is nowhere in "Therefore, the government representing Akoko-Edo 1 of the former speaker.