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  • Normalcy returns to Adamawa community

    •Govt relaxes curfew

    Normalcy has returned to Mubi, Adamawa State, following a tighter security to curb killings and the destruction of communication masts in the town.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the joint Army, police and State Security Service (SSS) team in an operation code-named Operation Restore Sanity clamped down on perpetrators of the act.

    NAN also reports that many were arrested and arms, including Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), recovered during the operation.

    The success of the operation prompted the state government to relax the three-day, 24-hour curfew on the town by nine hours.

    Many residents, who spoke to NAN, noted that the development had led to improved security.

    They hoped things would change for the better.

    “We hope and pray that we have seen the last of this calamity which had affected us badly,” Abdul Ibrahim, a resident, said.

    Ibrahim called for further relaxation of the present 6am to 3pm curfew to 6am to 6pm, to enable residents look for means of sustaining themselves.

    Another resident, Joseph Bala, urged the government to further reduce the duration of the curfew.

    He advised other residents to have faith in God and continue to pray for enduring peace in the town and the country.

  • Government relaxes curfew in Adamawa

    Government relaxes curfew in Adamawa

    Normalcy is gradually returning to Mubi in Adamawa, following the security beef up to contain the killing and destruction of communication masts in the town.

    The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the security beef up facilitated a clamp down on the perpetrators of the acts by a joint Army, Police and State Security Service team in an operation code-named “Operation Restore Sanity.”

    NAN also reports that many arrests and recovery of arms, including Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), were also recorded during the operation.

    The success of the operation prompted the state government to relax the three- day, 24-hour curfew on the town by nine hours.

    Many residents of the town, who spoke to NAN, said the development had brought some sense of security to residents of the town and hoped that things would change for the better.

    “We hope and pray that we have seen the last of this calamity which had affected us badly,” Abdul Ibrahim, a resident, said.

     

  • Adamawa: ACN worried over ‘ploy to frustrate’ it right to appeal

    Adamawa: ACN worried over ‘ploy to frustrate’ it right to appeal

    •Party urges NJC to intervene

     

    The Action Congress of Nigeria has (ACN) yesterday expressed concern over what it sees as a deliberate ploy to deny it right to justice and frustrate its right of appeal in the Adamawa Governorship Election Tribunal by the Court of Appeal.

    In a statement in Abuja by its National Publicity Secretary Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party described as curious and worrisome, the fact that as of today the 19th of September (yesterday) a mere three days before the appeal becomes statute barred, the Court of Appeal has neither constituted a panel nor fixed a date for the hearing of the appeal.

    Mindful of Section 285(7) of the Constitution as amended, which says that an appeal from a decision of an Election tribunal or court shall be heard and disposed of within 60 days from the date of the delivery of the judgement of the Tribunal, the party filed and served all processes within the time stipulated by law and by the 5th of September 2012, that is 14 days ago, the Appeal was ripe for hearing.

    Concerned by the silence from the Court of Appeal despite this, two separate letters of reminder were addressed to the Acting President of the Court of Appeal , all to no avail, the party explained.

    In the opinion of the party, the only logical conclusion for this bizarre conduct of the Court of Appeal in this matter is that it deliberately wants to deny the party and its candidate the right to be heard, as it is the law now that once an election petition appeal even without any fault of the Petitioner/ Appellant cannot be heard and determined within 60 days from the date of the delivery of the Tribunal’s judgement -in this case by the 22nd of September 2012- such a petition has ceased to exist and by implication becomes statute barred.

    Nerves are already severely frayed in the country today and the Court of Appeal is advised not to use the excuse of the expiration of 60 days to deny the party and its candidate the right to justice as this will be an invitation to chaos and further erosion of the confidence of the people in Judiciary, which at the moment is not enjoying any rave review, the party warned.

    The party, therefore, calls on the National Judicial Council to prevail on the Court of Appeal not to lend itself to an act of electoral injustice by the forcible imposition of a contrived time lapse on its appeal and proceed immediately to constitute a panel and fix a date for the hearing of the appeal before the expiration of the 60 days allowed by law.