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  • Proposed amnesty for terrorists

    Proposed amnesty for terrorists

    SIR: I have monitored the declining government of Goodluck Jonathan with a sense of dread, horror and prayers for a change. I have also criticized the woeful economic and security measures by the government yet hoping for the best result at the end of the day. It is to my deepest chagrin and utter dismay that the government has shown its weakness/reluctance to adequately protect lives through the ultimate act of political abuse of the legal terms ‘amnesty”

    Do they (Nigerian government) even know the full legal ramification of amnesty? For the sake of clarity, “amnesty is a pardon extended by the government to a group or class of persons, usually for a political offence; the act of a sovereign power officially forgiving certain classes of persons who are subject to trial but have not yet been convicted. It includes more than pardon, in as much as it obliterates all legal remembrance of the offence”. Countless lives have been lost, properties destroyed, economic development halted, children rendered orphans and the government has the effrontery to term it a political offence? This is a crime against humanity! Their actions go beyond greed and selfishness to pure wickedness. What amnesty can you possibly offer a man whose beliefs are rooted in matters of faith and he is ready to die alongside that belief?

    How can you reach a state of pardon with a faceless person? What of the ties to other terrorist organizations? How do you hope to handle and sever it? Has the government considered these questions?

    There is more to this amnesty bid than the government is letting on and if the rumours of political settlement for a second tenure is to be believed, then not only am I hugely disappointed, I call for our collective intervention to stop this travesty! I watched the video, saw the bodies and felt the heartfelt cries of the families, how can the government turn a blind eye to such heart breaking plight?

    For the sake of families that have been emotionally paralyzed, innocent lives, dreams that have been cut short and economic retardation, I ask the government to abandon this weak attempt and concentrate on protecting lives while bringing the culprits to face the full brunt of the law because that is what justice is all about. Amnesty programs are expensive, the money can be channelled to victims, their families, and development

    In the alternative, I call on the intervention of the legislative arm to put up laws for conditions to the grant of amnesty and the judiciary to sanction the application of the privilege. If this prerogative is left in the hands of the executive alone, the abuse can lead to more anarchy, chaos and distraction from economic progress.

    David Smock rightly noted, “The downside of it is the impunity that it implies; that people can commit atrocities and say that they will only stop if they are given amnesty…”

     

    • Jennifer Heaven Mogekwu Mike

    University of Exeter UK.

  • Tilting the scale of judicial reforms

    Tilting the scale of judicial reforms

    SIR: Recent occurrences in the Nigerian judiciary under the current Chief Justice of Nigeria has confirmed in a big way that it may no longer be business as usual. Since the assumption of office as Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Hon. Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar, GCON has demonstrated the will to restore public confidence in the judicial arm. The loss of public confidence in the courts has exposed the judicial system to public distrust, thus the tendency to view every judicial decision as a product of some ‘behind the scene’ orchestrations, no matter how legally justifiable such decision may be.

    The height of public distrust in the system was once again manifested a couple of months ago given the public deprecation that greeted the judgment of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting in Abuja in the John Yakubu Yusuf police pension fraud case. This was despite the fact that the decision had a legal basis.

    For a judicial system that is so engrossed in a crisis of integrity, the current reforms being carried out by the NJC under Justice Mukhtar’s chairmanship is to say the least commendable. The suspension of two High Court judges for judicial misconduct has without doubt sent signals to the appropriate quarters that things may not continue to be as they were.

    However, the ends of the reforms would be defeated if the big stick of the NJC is only wielded against those judicial officers that are found wanting in the discharge of their duties. To encourage judicial purity, the NJC must also introduce a means of rewarding judges that have displayed exceptional judicial honesty and bravery. Hunting those who have sinned while losing sight of the saints would only tilt the scale of reformation towards one side than the other.

    High Court judges in this country who have demonstrated a very high sense of judicial gallantry in the discharge of their duties should be rewarded. Such judges should not be allowed to rot on the High Court Bench. The much desired sanity in the judicial system could only be attained when honest and brave judges are allowed to climb the judicial ladder to the peak.

    Specifically, Hon. Justice J.O.K Oyewole of the High Court of Lagos State is an easy reference. The learned judge who was said to have been tipped for elevation to the Court of Appeal on account of his bravery during the Bode George case had since remained on the High Court bench, nobody seems to talk about that.

    The efforts at sanitising the judiciary are commendable but the war against judicial ungodliness could only be won if judicial courage and honesty is also rewarded. This is the only means by which the scale could be balanced.

     

    • Vincent Adodo, Esq.

    Ilorin, Kwara State

  • ACN: A beacon in the dark

    ACN: A beacon in the dark

    SIR: There is a broad consensus among Nigerians that the problem of our country is largely due to failure of leadership. In a competition, the team that desires to win must field its bests. But our country has rarely fielded its most capable hands. It has largely been governed by individuals who are nowhere near the best we could produce. With all the great minds the country can boast of, why is it that we are still governed mostly by individuals who could at best be described as average. Why is it that our best minds hardly make it to power, do we have a fondness for drab leaders, for mediocrity?

    There is indeed the existence in the country of a cabal or rather kingmakers. These individuals who are entrenched in critical sectors of the society to a large extent determine who makes it to power and who does not. They are able to exercise this influence due to our weak electoral system and judiciary, and the ignorance of a large percentage of the electorate. And who do they support to power, what is their criterion?

    The kingmakers are largely concerned with the protection of their interests. Unfortunately, these interests mostly conflict with that of the majority of the citizenry. They therefore search for and enthrone individuals who could be trusted to maintain the status quo, persons that would dance to their tune, weak characters, average souls. This is exactly why the country boasts of many nationally and internationally acclaimed administrators, technocrats, great minds, etc. who nevertheless have been unable to make it to office. The situation is indeed depressing, it seems like the country is blanketed by a dark cloud. But in the midst of the darkness I see a beacon.

    There exist outstanding governments and governors in quite a few states of the federation. Besides one or two other states, the rest of them reside in those controlled by the ACN. There is this sophistication about the ACN governors. They represent a departure from the crudity and shallowness that so characterize our polity. Their commitment to bettering the lives of their people is clearly demonstrated in their deeds. My memory of Benin City , for instance, used to be that of an 18th century kingdom that has successfully resisted modernization. When I passed that city recently, there was no denying the fact that there exists a government there, and that the government is working.

    The positive attributes are, however, not limited to the governors but also extend to many other political office holders from the party including my own Senator Chris Ngige. This category of politicians actually represents the real breath of fresh air in the polity. But how come the party field mostly quality candidates?

    While the leaders of the ACN are no petty Nigerians –in fact, some rank among the best the country can boast of, they, however, cannot be grouped among the kingmakers. They do not control the country’s resources or power and consequently cannot seriously hope to win elections through malpractice. To win the party must field the best candidates. But they put forward quality candidates not just to win elections but because of their commitment to excellence. Very fortunately the party’s leaders are mostly credible and patriotic Nigerians whose interests seem to coincide with that of the majority of the citizenry. Like most Nigerians they sincerely yearn for good leadership. They are mostly progressive-minded.

    When I consider some politicians that the ACN has produced, I get the feeling that there’s still hope for the country. If we work hard and make the right choices we could still overcome our leadership crisis. For the moment, the party appears to be the most credible route to our promise land and I wish it all the best as it holds its special national convention on April 18.

     

    • Nnoli Chidiebere

    Aba, Abia State.

  • Lady Thatcher and Africa

    Lady Thatcher and Africa

    SIR: The late Lady Margaret Hilda Thatcher who died last week in Britain at the age of 87 years will be remembered for a very long time in British political history. From a humble background as a grocer’s daughter, she became the first female Prime Minister in Britain. Added to this unique achievement, she had the distinction of being the longest serving British Prime Minister in the twentieth century. Although not known to be a political tactician in the mode of leaders like Wilson Churchill and Harold Wilson, she achieved what these two leaders cold not achieve by wining three consecutive general elections.

    The actions of the late Lady Thatcher when she was in power were felt not only in her country but throughout the world. Her domestic policies were based on her rabid disdain for socialism. She revived the comatose British economy and many of her admirers said that she put ‘Great’ back into Great Britain. She led Britain against all odds to regain Falkland Island from Argentina and won the hearts of many people by pruning the power of the unruly British Trade Unions. On the other side of the coin she created inequality and polarized people of Great Britain.

    On the world stage, she earned the title of ‘Iron Lady’ from the Russians because of her bellicose stand on many international issues. She was unapologetically pro-America and supported Ronald Reagan on many international issues. In Europe she was an irritant to many of her fellow heads of government because she liked to force her views down the throats of others.

    Despite the adulations and praises heaped on her after her demise, many people especially in her own country had nothing but odium for her memory. There were jubilations in many towns in Britain when her death was announced. This is the first time the death of any leader in Britain is celebrated. This is reminiscent of the jubilations that followed the death of Sani Abacha in Nigeria in1998.

    In Africa, although there were no open celebrations of her death but many people will no doubt have a sour memory of her because of her unhelpful policies on Africa when she was in power. When she became Prime Minister in 1979, the independence of Southern Rhodesia and the liquidation of the heinous apartheid regime in South Africa were the intractable problems facing African leaders.

    She showed unbiased sympathy towards the minority white settlers. Instead of recognizing the genuine nationalists, Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, she aligned herself and her government with Ian Smith/Muzorewa scheme in which the puppet Muzorewa would be the Prime Minister while the real power would still remain with white minority.

    To her eternal shame, she did everything within her power to prevent the dismantling of the heinous apartheid regime in South Africa. She considered the genuine leaders of South Africa including the revered Nelson Mandela as terrorists. Her greatest damage to the struggle against apartheid was her persistent and vocal opposition to the imposition of economic sanctions against South Africa. In 1985 she vetoed the proposed European Community sanctions against South Africa.

    Like her stand on Southern Rhodesia, she was isolated from the rest of the world because of her romance with apartheid regime of South Africa. Despite her support of the heinous apartheid regime, the regime collapsed like a pack of card even when she was still the Prime Minister of Britain

    Most writers on the political life of the late Lady Thatcher agreed that her defining characteristics as a politician was a need for enemies. She chose these enemies and demolished them as she did to Ted Heath her former boss, Arthur Scargill the leaders of the Miners Union and the woolly form of socialism practiced in the sixties by the British Labour party, The late Lady Thatcher tried to have her way on Southern Rhodesia and South Africa but she was flatly defeated as a result of the concerted efforts of the rest of the world

     

    • Prof. Olabode Lucas

    Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti

  • Letter to Inspector General of Police

    Letter to Inspector General of Police

    SIR: I, like many people in Nigeria, heaved a sigh of relief when you were appointed the Inspector General of Police. Within a few days you ordered the removal of police roadblocks through which policemen had been bleeding the civilian population with illegal road tolls and taxes, and you moved around the fat-cat Commissioners of Police into whose pockets these illegal tolls and taxes usually found their way.

    You have generally been an IGP who addresses issues the way a thoughtful IGP should, indicating considerable analytical thought in your words and actions. I was however shocked to know that you recently authorised your Commissioners of Police to crack down on all vehicles with tinted windscreens, as if buying a car with tinted glasses is a crime in Nigeria. If it is a crime, and since most of such cars are imported, should the Nigeria Customs not prohibit the importation of cars with tinted windscreens? In your opinion, is there a difference between factory-tinted car glasses and glass-tints applied locally in Nigeria? Finally is there any empirical evidence linking crime and use of vehicles with tinted glasses?

    I ask these questions because in the past two weeks, those of us living in the South-east and South-south states have been besieged by hordes of police men mounting road blocks, stopping cars and extorting money from motorists whose cars have tinted windscreens. Between March 29 and April 10, I was stopped about 20 times while travelling through Enugu, Anambra, Imo, Abia and Rivers States. In each case I patiently showed the police men the letter I had from Police Force Headquarters in Abuja dated December 14, 2007, permitting me to use a car with tinted windscreens. Each time, I was told that the new directive from the IGP made no allowance for such letters and that my vehicle would be seized unless a paid a substantial amount for its freedom. In most cases I was delayed for about 15 minutes and allowed to go when I paid a token toll of five hundred naira. In Port Harcourt I was threatened with being taken to the mobile court. When I asked to taken to the mobile court, the police man let me go “on compassionate grounds of age”.

    I was using my SUV with factory-tinted windscreens in the USA before I shipped it to Nigeria in 2007. I subsequently obtained the authorisation letter from Police Headquarters in 2007 and have been using the vehicle ever since I returned to Nigeria in 2009. With your new instruction, what am I supposed to do? How do approach the impossible task of removing the factory tint from the glasses? Do I now buy plain windscreen glasses to replace the six tinted windscreens in my car? At what cost and to what avail?

    I write you on behalf of millions of Nigerians who have vehicles with factory-tinted windscreens to reconsider that crackdown on such factory-tinted glasses. It is not as if we went out to a glass technician and asked for the windscreens to be tinted and can thus remove them as and when we like. I, like most of my compatriots in this dilemma, cannot afford the N200,000 to N300,000 it will cost to replace these windscreens. In any case your police men should do their work well; kidnappers do not keep their victims in the front or back seats of tinted vehicles. They put them in the booths or trunks of vehicles.

     

    • Dr. Emmanuel Nwokolo,

    Port Harcourt

     

  • Police ban on cars with tinted glasses

    SIR: The recent ban on use of tinted windshields for all car owners by the Inspector General of Police appears to be another avenue by the police authorities to extort Nigerians. While I’m not engaging on any campaign of calumny against the police, or trying to dent already battered image of the force, my personal experience has given me every reason to doubt the sincerity of the police that the ban is based on security reasons. I have observed that since the ban by the IGP, policemen across the country have embarked on an aggressive enforcement of the ban.

    My encounter with the police occurred on Sunday April 7, when I was stopped on the road by a team of policemen on grounds that I was driving a tinted vehicle. All efforts to explain to them that my vehicle has a factory-fitted tinted windshields fell on deaf ears. Eventually, I was allowed to go when it became clear to the policemen that I won’t part with any “tip”. Nevertheless, I enquired how I could obtain the permit and the policemen said only the IGP at the force headquarters in Abuja could grant such request.

    On arrival at the force headquarters for guidelines on how to obtain the permit, the policemen at the gate told me that I need to produce my vehicle particulars and pay N25,000 to get the permit! To my consternation, two other persons willing to pay for the permit were promptly attended to and granted access into the building by these policemen.

    Whereas it would be preposterous to blame the police authorities for the action of these policemen who demanded money for the permit, the negative antecedents of the force, coupled with the avoidance of clear guidelines on how to obtain the permit has given rooms for suspicions. Thus, certain salient questions require urgent answers from the Nigerian Police. Why should Nigerians pay to obtain these permits? If the reasons for the ban are security related, why would police authorities collect money and issue permit without any security check on the vehicle or the owner?

    Can the pronouncement of the IGP, which would affect all Nigerians become a law without legislation? Is the pronouncement by IGP a subtle ban on the importation of cars with factory fitted tinted windshields? Is the police now a revenue generating organisation? Where will these monies go to?

    It is not enough for the IGP to announce a ban. He should also let Nigerians know the procedures and modalities of obtaining a permit, especially by those whose cars have factory tints. The police have a duty to protect its integrity by ensuring that its directives are unambiguous.

    • Ayo Martins

    Utako, Abuja

  • Who wants the National Theatre sold?

    SIR: The report in the media that the Federal Government is moving to turn the National Arts Theatre, Iganmu-Lagos, to a five-star hotel is appalling, disappointing and defeats the spirit behind the building of this great monument.

    The National Arts Theatre built in the 1970s to celebrate the Festival of Arts and Culture, popularly referred to as FESTAC ’77, to showcase, promote and preserve Nigeria and by extension Africa’s arts and rich cultural heritage must not be allowed to die. Truly this historical edifice has been neglected and practically abandoned by every successive government to the detriment of our rich cultural heritage, young and talented artists. We cannot continue to wipe away our history because a few amongst us has refused to get it right. What the masterminds of this National Theatre conversion is telling Nigerians is that we may not have the edifice to point to our children and grand children when telling them the story of FESTAC ’77.

    The National Theatre complex is a cultural edifice belonging to the people of Nigeria and must be protected by the Federal Government on behalf of the people. It is just because our tourism ministry is not thinking positively that the place is lying comatose. It is in this edifice, in the mid 1980s, that I, with others in my student days watched live a popular Nigerian play by Ola Rotimi, The Gods Are Not To Blame. Why would a country like Nigeria not know that it is very vital for us to have such a complex and equally put it in use for the benefit of the people?

    Today in Nigeria tourism is gradually dying, not because we lack tourist sites, or we do not have things to show but, because the managers of those in the ministry are not positively positioning or investing greatly in the tourism industry. It is said that in Nigeria, the only way people relax is visiting drinking joints and that is why we have more drinking bars, parks and gardens scattered everywhere in Abuja, Lagos, Port-Harcourt, Calabar, Uyo, Enugu, Owerri, Kaduna, Jos, etc.

    No theatres, no cinemas, it is very absurd!

    There were reasons for putting up such national buildings by the Federal Government in the first instance; they worked before until bad management brought them on their knees. It is still possible to bring them on their feet again. It is corruption that we must fight to get back the nation on sound footing.

    • Uzodinma Nwaogbe

    Maitama – Abuja.

  • Amnesty or bribe for peace?

    SIR: The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary defines amnesty as ‘an official statement that allows people who have been put in prison for crimes against the state to go free’ or ‘a period of time during which people can admit to a crime or give up weapons without being punished’. From the above definitions, it follows that we have been misapplying the word.

    Amnesty as it has been used here largely means giving money and other material benefits to troublemakers in exchange for cessation of violence. In other words, a euphemism for ‘bribe for peace’. In a place where injustice and impunity reigns supreme and nearly everything is measured in naira and kobo, this disingenuous tactic is gaining acceptance as the most pragmatic means to appease individuals or groups who seriously threaten to upset the apple cart.

    It is not at all surprising that some persons recently came out boldly to advocate amnesty for the Boko Haram Islamic sect. There have been muted calls for that all along. The advocates mostly from the North have often tried to draw a parallel between the group and the Niger Delta militants. According to some, if the boys from the creeks could be granted amnesty, why not those from the Sahel; what is good for the goose is equally good for gander. For most of them, it matters little what atrocities the sect has perpetrated against fellow citizens; the most important thing is that if other people were paid to halt violence, then there own people must also be paid.

    However, only a mischievous fellow will claim not to see a difference between the two movements. There may not be any need to make that differentiation here for the group seems set to make it themselves. The advocates of ‘monetized amnesty’ must be really naïve if they really thought that that is the solution to the recurring violence in the north. Of course the reality is that the idea is as seething with ulterior motives as it is devoid of any sense of justice. Whenever amnesty is declared, millionaires and perhaps billionaires are bound to emerge.

    Did those calling for amnesty for Boko Haram actually consider their aims? Did the group tell anyone that they’ve done any wrong talk more of being penitent? What the advocates perhaps did not realize is that they in a way imply that the North has been deliberately murdering other Nigerians for over three years either to embarrass the government or extort money from it. Well, Boko Haram seems to have made it clear that they are far from similar to the Niger Delta militants.

    Recent information have it that the group has rejected the proposed amnesty even going on to tell government that it is it not they that is in need of pardon. Their stance should not be surprising to the perceptive. Only a man grossly lacking in insight does not appreciate the ideological cum religious bent of Boko Haram’s agitation and indeed many of the violence in the North. Poverty is not just the problem!

    An unprincipled man believes everyone has a (monetary) price. Boko Haram seems to be saying that they cannot be bought that cheaply. If indeed they have rejected the bribe for peace which amnesty actually represents here, then it shows that they are perhaps more honourable than those advocating pardon for them. Let’s search for a honourable and enduring solution to the problem –that’s if key stakeholders really desire to see an end to it.

     

    • Nnoli Chidiebere

    Aba, Abia State.

  • Bello-Kano missed it on Achebe

    The write-up by your guest columnist, Professor Ibrahim Bello-Kano, on the above subject, in the Sunday 31st March issue of The Nation refers. I would have ignored some of his illogical logic, but for the fact that he is a professor.

    Firstly, he wrote from a sense of hurt ego. His angry reaction to some statements in Achebe’s books was palpable. So, there was no way his write-up could have been intellectually objective. Therefore, I do not regard his comments as scholarly arguments, but mere vituperative outbursts.

    Secondly, his conception of leadership constraints is anything but imaginative. After reading his comments on leadership constraints, I understood why Nigeria, after over half a century of political independence, has remained backward, especially the northern part.

    My thinking was further reinforced by the fact that for a preponderant part of this period, Nigeria was ruled by northern leaders. Every leader must of necessity choose some of the intellectual elite as advisers. And it is these northern intellectuals of Bello-Kano’s ilk who “mis-advised” these northern leaders, thereby orchestrating their misrule for so long.

    Professor Bello-Kano does not believe that a nation stands or falls on leadership. He does not believe that a leader can rise above his circumstances to do something imaginative in content and transformational in context. His unintellectual analysis of leadership constraints is feudalistic.

    Thirdly and finally, I do not want to believe that a person of Professor Bello-Kano’s academic standing does not read widely. Of course, there are professors who are narrow-minded, just focusing on their area of specialisation and ignorant of the wider world. Otherwise, how can I explain the professor’s lack of sense of history? Does he not know the almost impossible constraints Otto Von Bismarck, the father of the modern German nation faced? Has he not heard what it took Ataturk to construct a secular Turkey? He should read “From the third world to first” The Singapore story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew. There are many other examples. I believe what Professor Bello-Kano needs is a tutorial on “Creative Imagination.”

     

    Rev Osita Obed Onyema,

    email:ositaobed2002@yahoo.co.uk

  • When death sneaked into Ekiti Government House

    As Peter Tosh said in one of his songs “Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die”. Yes truly, nobody wants to die; we always do everything possible to prevent death from visiting us.

    Unfortunately, this monster sneaked into the Ekiti Government House on April 6, and took away our treasured, dependable, dedicated and loyal Adunni Olfunmilayo Olayinka, the deputy governor. Immediately, this sad news spread across the state, demoralisation, disillusionment and sorrow took over the Government House.

    I have known the Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, closely since our student activism days at the University of Lagos (UNILAG. He is very courageous, strong-hearted, and a fearless warrior; but all these qualities failed him this time around. His Excellency broke down and cried like a baby. That was the first time I would see Dr. Fayemi weep uncontrollably. Even when he lost his mother last year, I don’t think he cried like that.

    On the second day, when the governor was making a state-wide broadcast, it got to a point that he could no longer control his emotion. Once again he burst into tears. One can understand why. As he said in his broadcast “I am pained by the exit of our deputy governor who was my ready partner in our collective quest to develop our state. As my dependable ally in the struggle to free Ekiti, she was a consistent bulwark of support, especially through the period of the judicial struggle to reclaim our mandate”.

    Erelu Bisi Fayemi, the first lady of Ekiti State was also devastated and demoralised. In fact she has not been herself since this sad occurrence because they were so close. They did most things in common. Indeed, my wife pointed out when we saw the First Lady and the late Deputy Governor together at the thanksgiving service held in honour of the Chief of Staff to the governor, Chief Yemi Adaramodu, at the pro-cathedral Catholic Church Ilawe-Ekiti late 2010, that she was becoming more interested in politics because of the activities of the duo. They encouraged women in politics and women empowerment.

    The late Deputy Governor even pointed out in one of the interviews she granted the Broadcasting Service of Ekiti State (BSES) during their struggle that it was Erelu Fayemi who made female Deputy Governor a condition to support her husband. Throughout the period of campaigns, legal battles up till Saturday when the Deputy Governor died, the duo worked as partners. One can then understand why Erelu Fayemi is devastated. It is just like losing a twin sister.

    Coming to the Chief of Staff, anyone who is close to the government knows that Adaramodu was the closest person in government to the late Deputy Governor. She always jokingly referred to Adaramodu as “The chief of all staffs, including herself and the Governor”. So, one cannot be flabbergasted to see the Chief of Staff crying the way he did.

    It got to a point that somebody whispered to me that “so man yi o tie le” meaning that so this man is not tough or strong. The belief in many quarters in Ekiti State is that Adaramodu is very tough and unapproachable. Far from it, the Chief of Staff, a brother is compassionate, caring and friendly. That much became evident with the Deputy Governor’s death.

    The death of our beautiful, intelligent and hardworking Deputy Governor is a great loss to the bereaved family, the Fayemi administration, the people of the state and the nation as a whole. Though we have lost a brave and committed Deputy Governor, her work, her message and spirit still live.

    Those of us that she left behind must know that death is an inevitable debt that we must all pay one day. May her soul rest in perfect peace.

    Good night, her Excellency Adunni Olufunmilayo Olayinka.

     

    – Sina Awelewa, Director-General, Broadcasting Service of Ekiti State (BSES)