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  • ‘Causes ‘ll determine remedies for men’s poor libido’

    ‘Causes ‘ll determine remedies for men’s poor libido’

    As we age, our energy, stamina and virility level reduces. Many men have problems with their sexual lives, which we will rather not admit because of our ego. But it is high time we did so, as there are effective natural remedies guaranteed to reverse such problems.

    Indeed, of what use is it for your “third leg” to fail to perform adequately on the field of play and when it matters most. This could be most embarrassing not only for you but equally for your woman. That is why you must ensure it does not happen to you at all and or not again.

    The good news for men is that nature has provided us with several herbs to help men suffering low sex drive/low libido, weak erection, premature ejaculation and others.

    There are herbs in nature’s pharmacy for increasing and stabilising testosterone production and others that soothe and calm nerves. Most of them are essential in increasing the men’s libido and are available in my stable.

    A man should consult his physician/healthcare provider before taking any herbal supplements. This is because one needs to understand the cause and health profile of a man before providing solution. For instance, prolonged stress and poor circulation are common causes of diminished libido in men. Not only will Korean ginseng (paxan ginseng) increase your blood circulation, but it also has the added benefit of working on your central nervous system to calm nerves and quiet anxiety. It is the most commonly prescribed treatment for low sex drive in men in Japan and China. Korean ginseng is available in standardised powder, tablet and tincture form.

    A less common cause of low sex drive is low testosterone production. Wild oats will increase its production. There is also the extract from wild oat straw, avena sativa, which will free up and increase your circulation of testosterone. Read labels, many extracts available lack the essential active ingredient avenacosides. Stinging nettle root will work in conjunction with wild oats and avena sativa by keeping your testosterone in an active form and available for use. Nervines are a group herbs that work directly on the central nervous system. They can bring you to a more relaxed state of mind, which is required for a healthy sexual libido. Herbal aphrodisiacs increase sexual arousal and desire, usually in a short amount of time.The strongest natural aphrodisiac available is yohimbe. Take caution when taking this herb. It works so quickly that it can have a sharp and sudden change in blood pressure.

    Other, more subtle herbal aphrodisiacs include sarsaparilla, horny goat weed, damiana and maca. You can also increase your sex drive by including zinc and kelp into your diet, which are also aphrodisiacs.These are what helped our forefathers to maintain great virility despite old age. They are what they took from time to time to enhance performance. The secret of how they impress their many wives and concubines. You can also benefit from the secret and surely change your sexual life for the better. These herbs are good for intense sexual pleasure and stamina for repeat pleasurable performances, not stimulants; they are very natural, effective and highly guaranteed to work.

  • Only a party’s leadership can determine existence or proof of division

    The narrow interpretation suggested by learned Appellant counsel, it was contended, is legally infeasible. Learned counsel inter-alia relied on Victor Adegoke Adewunmi Anor v.The Attorney General of Ekiti State & 6 Ors (2002) 1 SCNJ 27 at 49, Mobil Oil Nig (Ltd) V. Federal Board of Internal Revenue (1977) 3535; (1977) LPELR-SC.488/75, and Nafiu Rabiu V. Kano State (1980) 8-11 SC 130; (1980) LPELR-2936(SC) inemphasising that the Appellant does not come within the exception created under Section 68(1) (g) of the Constitution.

    The Court stated that the narrow issue to determine in the appeal, is whether or not the two Courts below are right in holding that, by virtue of Section 68(1) (a) and (g) and 222(a) (e) and (f) of the 1999 Constitution as amended, the division at the State level the Appellant relies upon indeed entitles him to abandon the party that sponsored him, the Labour Party, for another, the Action Congress of Nigeria, (ACN) and retain his seat inspite of the defection. The Court further stated that both lower Courts answered this overriding question in the negative. They are said to be concurrent in their findings. Given the facts available to the two Courts and the law applicable to these facts, it their decision that Appellant’s defection to the Action Congress of Nigeria does not come within the purview of the law. the Court held that Learned counsel to the Respondents are correct that the Supreme Court remains hesitant to interfere with such concurrent findings of fact and does so only if same are shown, notwithstanding their being concurrent, to be perverse. See UBN Plc V. Chimaeze (2014) LPELR-SC 204/2006, Atolagbe V. Shorun (1985) LPELR-592(SC). The Court held that theAppellant can succeed only if he demonstrates that the two Courts below have, in arriving at theirconcurrent decisions, either ignored facts,incorrectly applied any principle to correctlyascertained facts, took into consideration irrelevantmatters or excluded such other matters which arerelevant to their findings and, in addition, theinjustice the concurrent decisions in thecircumstance occasion.

    The Court noted that the determination of the dispute the trial Court was approached to resolve turns decisively on the meaning of the word “division” as used by the framers of the proviso to Section 68(1)(g) of the 1999 Constitution as amended. Whereas learned Appellant’s counsel contended that “any division”, in the political party would entitle a person who contested and won an election on the platform of that party to defect to another party and inspite of the defection to retain his seat. Learned counsel to the Respondents’, except the 5th & 7th, on the other hand, argued that the “division” in the State structure of the Labour Party only does not entitle the Appellant to abandone the Labour Party for the (ACN). Not being the kind of “division” that affects the national structures and therefore the corporate existence of the party, learned counsel insisted that the Appellant’s defection does not come within the proviso to Section 68(1) (g) to entitle him to retain his seat in the House of Representatives inspite of his defection to the (ACN) from the Labour Party on which platform he contested and won the seat. The Court held that the position of the Respondents is unassailable. Citing the case of Fedeco V. Goni (1983) LPELR-SC.54/1983

    The Court further held that the principles enunciated by the Supreme Court in the cases of Fedeco V. Goni (1983) LPELR-SC.54/1983 and Abubakar V. AG Federation (2007) 10 NWLR (Pt 1041) 178; LPELR-SC.7/2007, is to the effect that only such factionalisation, fragmentation, splintering or “division” that makes it impossible or impracticable for a political party to function as such will, by virtue of the proviso to Section 68(1) (g), justify a person’s defection to another party and the retention of his seat for the unexpired term in the house inspite of the defection. Otherwise, as rightly held by the Courts below, the defector automatically loses his seat. The Court held that in the instant case, the two Courts are right that the Labour Party that has continued to function as a political party by meeting the conditions associations by virtue of Section 221 and 222 of the Constitutions must necessarily meet, cannot be said to have been so factionalised, fragmented, split or divided to justify the defection of the Appellant to another party and retention of his seat inspite of the defection.

    On the whole the Court found the appeal unmeritorious on the 19th March, 2015 and dismissed same.

     

    •Edited by Law Pavilion

    LawPavilion Citation: (2015) LPELR-24588(SC)

     

    •Concluded

  • ‘2015 election ‘ll determine Nigeria’s fate’

    ‘2015 election ‘ll determine Nigeria’s fate’

    Legal luminary Chief Niyi Akintola (SAN)  spoke with Assistant Editor LEKE SALAUDEEN on the National Conference report, corruption and preparations for next year’s general elections.

    Did the National Conference succeed in addressing the national question?

    The National Conference addressed some of the national problems, not all of them.  If the conference recommendations are fully implemented, it would assist in galvanising the country into the path of progress. For instance, one of the greatest banes of Nigeria is the over concentration of powers in the centre. Like I did say at the plenary of the conference, most countries that disintegrated had problems of over centralisation. A case in point was the old Soviet Union. Before its demise, there was no country that was as coercive, militarised, oppressive and centralised like the old Soviet Union. But, it broke into pieces. Today, we have Russia, Georgia and Ukraine etc.

    That was why each time I watch our political leaders, who are largely illiterates on television or read them on the pages of newspapers, saying Nigeria cannot disintegrate, I laugh at their folly and ignorance. Nigerian leaders don’t read; they don’t appreciate the immediate and remote causes of disintegration of countries like Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Sudan and the like. Take for instance what happened in the United Kingdom (UK) in recently. If not for the timely intervention of political leaders from all shades of opinion, Britain would have broken into two. Look at the type of concessions made by Prime Minister David Cameron. For almost a week the Prime Minister and leaders of opposition were on their kneels begging the Scots, making concessions, devolving executive, legislative and judicial powers to the Scots and the Welsh.

    One of the most instructive lessons of the UK episode was that British political leaders  used the Scots experience as a contact point to address the complaints of Wales and Northern Ireland. They did not wait for them to start their own agitation. Powers were devolved down the ladder because everybody is becoming local champion the world over.

    How do we relate the UK episode to the Nigerian experience?

    The British experience is similar to our local experience. Before President Goodluck Jonathan conceded to the idea of national conference, the tension among the ethnic nationalities was very high. Even now the tension is still there; it is so thick that you can slice it with a knife. If the various complaints of the aggrieved nationalities are not addressed, the life span of Nigeria may not be up to 20 years and God forbid, Nigeria will go the way of Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Sudan.

    What should be done to avert disintegration?

    Nigeria and Mr. President have started on a good note by bringing about the conference. Even though the recommendations are not far reaching enough, but if fully implemented, the political leaders would have succeeded in assuaging the feelings of the aggrieved, at least to some extent. But, if the recommendations are not implemented and the grievances are not addressed, we don’t need the United States or the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to tell us that Nigeria will break into pieces. It is not a prediction; it is an event that will become inevitable. It’s just a matter of time.

    Can we say that Nigeria is a failed state?

    The ominous signs are there. One of the most informed Nigerian leaders is Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State. He is cerebral. He happens to be one of the few leaders that thinks before he speaks on national issues. After the Ekiti election, he posed 13 questions for national discourse, which unfortunately, the sociologists and opinion writers have not addressed. Two days ago, the same Fashola posed two fundamental questions over the national disgrace that was brought on us in far away South Africa through the exportation of $9.3 million by some charlatans in our midst. Rather than address the questions, our National Assembly has been trivialising it, for the purpose of sweeping it under the carpet.

    Corruption has never been this celebrated in the annals of this country. Criminal charges are being withdrawn against rogues, including those from whom several millions of dollars had been recovered. All they need to do to sustain their loot is to join the ruling camp whether at the centre or state level. Many of those who go about claiming to be disciples of Awolowo and Sardauna lack the discipline of these great nationalists. Those leaders were leaders through and through. They were not businessmen. The present crop of leaders double as political leaders and businessmen. Hence, they are the financiers of their political parties. They have their hands in banking, oil and gas, aviation, media, hospitality business and real estate. They have stolen too much for the owners to see (apology to Chinua Achebe).

    Meanwhile, the larger section of the society is suffering. There is injustice everywhere. Injustice is the root cause of Boko Haram insurgence, kidnapping, political thuggery and the rest of the vices we have in this country today. To say Nigeria is approaching the status of a failed state is an understatement. We have only been lucky in Nigeria because when there are crises in one part of the country, the rest of the country remains calm. You can imagine now that we have Boko Haram in our hands, if we have to add Niger Delta militants and Oodua Peoples’ Congress (OPC) political crisis in the Southwest and MASSOB violence in the Southeast, all at the same time, there will be nowhere to run to. Today, everybody is running to the Southwest, especially the political leaders who have relocated their families to Lagos because the Southwest is the safest region in the country. Where will they run to if we are to have similar insurgence in the Southwest? A time will come when there will be a spontaneous crises in all the geo-political zones, if the grievances and complaints associated with over centralisation are not addressed.

    Do you think the general election scheduled for next year would hold, in view of the security challenges in the country?

    It will hold, but it might be the beginning of the end of Nigeria, if votes are not allowed to count. I must say I pity those who don’t have community values in their regions and communities; those who don’t relate with their kith and kin in their places of birth. A time will come when Abuja and Lagos will be too hot for them to stay. They are now thinking they are safe. Unfortunately, for them, they don’t even have feelings for the locals in their host communities.  Anyone in doubt should go down the memory lane and read about what happened to the British and the Asians in Uganda and currently what is happening to British farmers in Zimbabwe.

    The bottom line is that we should address the fundamental issues of poverty, injustice, cheating and the issue of our core value system, which has been jettisoned.

    Are you confident that the INEC would conduct credible elections next year?

    The Yoruba have a say that morning shows the day. When you are talking of credible election, it is not something you situate solely on the door step of the INEC. It is an event that will necessarily need the contribution of all the stakeholders — the political class, the executive, the legislature, the judiciary and the security agencies. Election is a process; it is not one day event. Elections generally are made in Nigeria before the polling day. The INEC is just one out of the many stakeholders involved.

    INEC Chairman Professor Attahiru Jega had expressed his commission’s frustration when he said politicians vote money before the election to bribe electoral officers, police, State Security Service, military personnel, traditional rulers, election observers, media houses, opinion writers and political analysts. So, who is left? Who can stand up confidently and say he has not been compromised? We will be asking for too much to expect any miracle from the Jega-led INEC. What do you expect from INEC in a situation where the powers that be rolled out tanks and militarised regions that are opposed to the ruling party, where all opposition leaders are rounded up on the eve of election? Can there be free and fair election in such circumstance? The 2015 election is not about Jega alone, but all of us.

    Are you saying that the elite are promoting corruption?

    When we are talking about corruption in Aviation sector the other time, a particular regional newspaper mobilised all its columnists to defend the fellow accused of improper conduct and official corruption. To them, nobody from that region must be touched even when caught hands down engaging in corrupt practices. That paper has set out to defend people from that region alleged of ignoble conduct. How do you build a nation in that type of set up? It is impossible. Why should we blame Jonathan for failing to fight corruption when supposedly informed people have taken it upon themselves to defend their kiths and kin irrespective of the crime they committed?

    Again when a particular minister was accused of filling up all available space in her ministry with people from her ethnic group which was too glaring for everybody to see, the army of defenders from the same ethnic group saw nothing wrong with it. This underscores the fact that Nigeria cannot survive for long. During the 2011 election, a state in the South-south with 1.3 million voters recorded 1.29 million votes and yet the judiciary certified that result. With this kind of things, there can’t   be free and fair election.

  • ‘Electorate ‘ll determine my fate’

    ‘Electorate ‘ll determine my fate’

    Prof. David Bamgbose is a governorship aspirant in the Accord Party (AP) in Ogun State. He speaks in this interview with SEYI ODEWALE on partisan issues.

    Who is Prof David Bamgbose?

    I’m Prof. David Olusegun Bamgbose, a professor of Educational Administration and Management and the Provost of Yewa Central College of Education. Incidentally, I’m the Chairman of the Association of Private Colleges of Education in Nigeria. I’m also a pastor. I’m an agriculturist and a farmer. You will agree with me that what will revolutionise this country is agriculture. We must go back to the basics.

    We support our educational activities with agriculture. Also, I’m involved in giving back to the society. We have a foundation, Peaceway Care Foundation, where we reach out to the less privileged in the society. We give scholarships to indigent, but brilliant students and orphans.

    But for those we cannot give scholarships to, we make sure that our college charges the lowest tuition in the entire southwest. We have an outreach, Prison outreach, which we are doing in Abeokuta. I am from Ifo Local Government, Constituency II, Ward 7, in Ogun State.

    You seem to have your hands full with all you have mentioned. Why venturing into Politics?

    All the platforms that I have mentioned can only reach out to a negligible size of the population. We believe that, if you leave politics to a certain people, they will see it as their birth right to govern. In fact, there is a culture now where some people see themselves as the political class. They see themselves as the only ones who must aspire to political office. They move from one party to another, recycling themselves. This, to me, is not proper. Our country is fast deteriorating. Do you know that we are near a major war in the north as I speak with you now?

    The level of unemployment in the country is gradually making this country to implode. Why then should we leave governance to these set of people who have caused us so much hardships and pains? There must be a new drive, new idea and new dynamism.

    Yes, they have tried their ideas for 15 years, let us allow people with new ideas, people with proven antecedents; people, who have worked in various levels before come and replicate the good things they have been doing in their private enterprises, which have made them successful. Let them come and replicate those things on a larger scale.

    Let me give you an example, today, almost all the nations of West Africa depend on agriculture. Countries like Ivory Coast depend on agriculture 100 per cent. So is Ghana, which has 90 per cent dependency on agriculture. In Nigeria, we have one of the best climates in the world for agric. In my state, Ogun, ask anybody how much of the state internally generated revenue (IGR), which is about N4billion, comes from agric?

    We just have to do things in a different way and to do that, you need new blood, new personalities. You cannot continue to do things the same way you have been doing them and expect a different result. Even in football, you get good results when you inject new and fresh legs into the field of play. We should allow this to happen on the political turf.

    I want to tell you that 80 per cent to 90 per cent of those in the political terrain are still the same set of people. They have taken it to the level of making it a family business. The father will be a governor and the son wanting to succeed his father.

    But, that is not strange. We have seen it happen in advanced democracies like the United States (US)…

    No problem, but, if such people have been able to give us tangible, progressive and dynamic results, somebody like me would not have bothered coming into politics. I would have concentrated on my business. I will not sit in my office using 50 per cent of my time attending to people applying for jobs because I will know that someone in government is attending to that.

    These people in government are however, not giving us the result that we desire. They are not the results that develop our potentials because we have not tapped one per cent of this country’s potentials. Therefore, we need new people with new idea, not age. People with proven results and antecedents, I repeat, we need people who have done that at their private level. I give you an example, we have a college of education that is 12 years old and we have produced over 7,000 graduates, 30 to 40 per cent of them are self employed. It is a teacher-education with entrepreneurial skills and they are proving it in their various fields.

    We can replicate that at a larger level across the state. So, we need good people, for instance, in agriculture, Malaysia came to Nigeria in 1956 to pick the palm tree seedlings, today, that country generates four times what we realise from oil. People think we have money, no. Is it not the royalty that we collect from those oil companies?

    The entire country’s budget is not up to that of New York City in the United States. I am not talking of the state of New York, but the city. The entire budget of all federal universities in Nigeria is not up to that of the Harvard University. And the little that we have, we waste. That little is not our potential; we must create wealth in Nigeria. We must open up the political space and the only way to do that is to bring in people, who have done it at the private level. Not people seeking rent from the government. I mean people who can develop our real sector and move this country forward.

    But those you see as major players on the political scene come from that kind of background. Why have they not replicated their successes on the political terrain?

    I’m zeroing in on primary industry. You cannot develop the tertiary system of education without a sound primary system foundation. In fact, that is the problem with our educational system. Let’s go back to the real sector. The Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina is a man with good intentions, very brilliant, but he is not getting results he’s supposed to get. Has he done it before? Can he point out what he had done in agriculture? If you want to give me clothes, I must see what you are wearing.

    We need people with proven experience in that particular area. Let me also tell you that the mere fact that you a businessman does not qualify you for a political office or appointment. How did you develop? What are your antecedents? Your evolution-who are you? All those things and your character come into play. Do you have character of integrity? Can one or two persons talk about your character where you live? All these are critical to the sustenance of development and achievement from the primary level to tertiary level.

     Some politicians  see you as a political neophyte, who does not have political antecedents. How are you going to cope with this?

    Fortunately for me it is not those politicians that will determine my fortune. It is the electorate. And by the grace of God, we have done a lot to reach out to the people. The political class you are talking about is less than 10 per cent.

    But, it determines the tone of elections…

    No, I don’t thinks so. If you look at the trend today, the people are speaking. They have taken their destinies in their hands. Look at the 2011 elections because of the perception that Governor Fashola performed in Lagos, his party swept all states of the southwest. If the ACN then presented a rat for election, it would have won.

    There were people nobody knew then and they won elections because of their party. But it is not the same scenario now. Look at what happened in Ekiti and Osun states recently. Look at Osun, all Ijeshas voted Aregbesola, about 90 per cent of the votes from Ijesha were for Aregbesola. So it was for Omisore, about 90 per cent of his votes came from Ile-Ife and its environs. Are you telling me that the politicians determined that? Are there no PDP followers in Ilesha? People voted for personalities. So, I am telling you that the politicians will not determine our fate. We are going to bring our agenda to the people through various media and leave the choice to them to make.

    You are contesting for what office and on which platform?

    By the grace of God, I’m vying for the post of governor of Ogun State on the platform of Accord Party in 2015

    Don’t you see this as a tall dream?

    Interestingly, since the declaration of my intention to run there has been a tremendous movement across the state.

    How do you mean?

    People have been trooping out, reaching out to us. The first thing we noticed was that the membership of our party rose by 3,000 per cent in the state within two months. This happened the moment I declared my intention.

    One would have expected you to join the ruling party in the state.

    What do you mean? The APC came in and won from nowhere. Nobody knew ACN before and the people gave them their votes to remove the incumbent. The same incident can be replicated.

    Perhaps it was what happened within the PDP that brought about that?

    I want to tell you that the reason was the perceived performance of Gov. Fashola in Lagos.

  • Last games will determine finalists — Jupiter

    Last games will determine finalists — Jupiter

    Lobi Stars coach, Earnest Jupiter believes all the clubs participating in the ongoing Super 4 pre-season tourney in Kano still stand a chance to qualify for the final.

    Lobi Stars lost 3-1 to Kano Pillars in the second game played at the Sani Abacha Stadium yesterday.

    The Markurdi-based side won their first game against Rangers International of Enugu on Wednesday by 1-0.

    With the outcome of yesterday’s matches, Heartland is leading the table with 4 points, Lobi Stars and Kano Pillars have 3 points while Rangers got only one point.

    “We played well but Pillars won the match. Kano Pillars were under pressure. They lost their first game and they were desperate to win and they won. That is football for you. It is not over yet; all the teams can still reach final. The last match on Saturday will determine who goes to the final,” Jupiter said.

    The last match of the tourney will be played on Saturday while the four clubs take a rest today.

  • SEC board to determine Oteh’s fate

    SEC board to determine Oteh’s fate

    Strong indications emerged yesterday that the new Board of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will determine whether Director-General of the commission, Ms. Arunma Oteh will retain her job.

    Also, the House of Representatives yesterday said there is provision for SEC in the 2013 budget but it only advised the Executive not to release the votes as long as Oteh is in charge of the commission.

    The House is standing by its position that the presidency should relieve Oteh of her appointment.

    The DG of SEC was suspended on June 12, 2012 and recalled by the Federal Government via a letter from the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Anyim Pius Anyim.

    Her recall has created a wedge between the Executive and the House of Representatives apart from protest by SEC employees.

    But for last-minute political manoeuvres, the House threatened not to pass the 2013 budget without the removal of Ms. Oteh by President Goodluck Jonathan.

    It was however learnt that the assurance by the Executive to look into the management of SEC by the DG made the House to soft-pedal on its position on the budget.

    The President was said to have told the National Assembly leadership that he would follow due process on any issue, including the fate of Oteh

    Investigation by our correspondent revealed that the presidency has decided to leave the new board of SEC to determine Oteh’s fate.

    A highly-placed source, who spoke in confidence, said: “The new board, headed by Suleiman Ndanusa, may hold its inaugural sitting on December 26 and 27. After this, the government will forward the report of the House Ad Hoc Committee on Capital Market to the board.

    “There is also an independent report from an international audit firm on SEC which the Board will also consider.

    “The presidency will leave the new board to determine the fate of Oteh in the light of the recommendations of the House in the report. The board can decide to retain or remove her.

    “The attitude of the presidency is that it would not act on the spur of the moment but it would follow due process. President Goodluck Jonathan is conscious of the Act of SEC and he has decided to stick strictly to the law.

    “If he exercises a presidential fiat to remove Oteh without following the law, it is the same Nigerians who will condemn him.”

    The House of Representatives yesterday said contrary to reports, it approved a budget for SEC in the 2013 Appropriation Bill which had been passed into law by the National Assembly.

    The House said it only advised the Executive not to release the approved votes under the present management of SEC being led by Oteh.

    The Chairman of the House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Alhaji Zakary Mohammed, who spoke with our correspondent, said: “Contrary to insinuations, we actually approved a budget for SEC with an advisory to the Executive not to release the votes as long as Oteh is in charge.

    “We based our advice purely on the outcome of our findings and not because of vendetta. First of all, you must take into consideration that we have an oversight role on SEC. We are elected to serve the nation and since we saw that things were wrong in SEC, we drew the attention of the Executive to it.

    “Go and check the budget, you will see that there is appropriation for SEC. But the House is saying that the commission needs management reform.

    “The House and Speaker Aminu Tambuwal and other principal officers do not believe in vendetta at all.”

    The crisis between the House and Oteh followed a public hearing into the activities of the capital market.

    During the hearing, the Chairman of the House Committee on Capital market and Other Institutions, Mr. Herman Hembe, alleged that Oteh was not qualified to be DG of SEC.

    He said the committee also discovered that Oteh allegedly spent N850, 000 on hotel accommodation in one day with N85, 000 on a meal.

    But Oteh took exception to allegations by Hembe that she is not qualified to be the DG of SEC; seconding of two Access Bank employee to SEC; and how she allegedly spent N850, 000 on hotel accommodation in a day with N85, 000 to wit on a meal.

    She said: “This has been a Kangaroo court. Not even in Idi Amin’s Uganda did we have this type of public hearing. You had implied that as a regulator, that by having people on secondment from the private sector, it could undermine the capacity of the regulatory functions of the commission.

    “In asking the SEC to contribute N39m for this public hearing, don’t you think that you are undermining your capacity to carry out your duties?”