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  • Reps to probe AMCON’s N5.4tr debt profile

    The House of Representatives yesterday resolved to investigate the Asset Management Corporation’ of Nigeria (AMCON) for its huge debt stock, said to be beyond its statutory ceiling.

    It mandated its Committee on Banking and Currency to probe the corporation’s N5.4 trillion debt portfolio as well as the alleged unwillingness of some of the debtors to pay.

    The need for the probe followed a motion presented by Cornelius Nnaji and passed by majority of the members.
    Presenting the motion, the lawmaker said the accumulation of the debts was in excess of its N800 billion debt ceiling.

    He said: “The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) was established 2015 to, among other functions, acquire eligible bank assets from eligible financial institutions and to hold, manage, realise and dispose of eligible bank assets (including the collection of interest, principal and capital due and taking over of collateral securing such assets).

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    “AMCON is currently challenged by difficulties in recovery of debts owed by debtors to the tune of N5.4 trillion.”
    Nnaji said AMCON claimed that 20 individuals/entities were responsible for about 67 per cent of the N5.4 trillion debt portfolio, “an amount which is over 50 per cent of the 2018 budget of Nigeria”.

    He expressed concern that some of the debtors were alleged to be unwilling to pay.

    The motion was not debated but was passed when Deputy Speaker Idlris Wase called for a vote.

    The committee is also to “evaluate the status of the debts and the practical, legal and other strategies for the recovery of the debts, including recommending a timeframe and other options, such as amendment of the AMCON Act”.

    The committee is to report back within three weeks for further legislative action.

  • Lagos to housing partners: deliver or lose contract

    LAGOS State Government has threatened to revoke housing scheme contracts with private partners unless they delivered within the stipulated time.

    Commissioner for Housing Moruf Akinderu-Fatai said this yesterday during a meeting with the private sectors partners and joint venture investors at Alausa, Ikeja.

    Akinderu-Fatai lamented that many investors have not complied with the timeframe stipulated in their contract agreements.

    “Many of the private partners have not met up with the timelines thereby littering the state with many uncompleted housing schemes and causing delays in actualisation of government’s mandate.

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    “All housing schemes that had been contracted out to private sector partners and joint investors are to be completed within the time-frame indicated in the contractual agreements or have them cancelled,” he warned.

    Earlier, the participating investors cited encumbrances, disappointments from funding partners and conflicts with various host communities as major difficulties faced.

    Akinderu-Fatai in his response advised the investors to prove their capabilities and justify the government’s confidence through working out solutions to these challenges.

    “While the government will do its best to intervene in some of the situations, we expect every investor to have engaged in self-audit before coming forward to take up the responsibilities of state housing scheme,” he said.

    According to him, the need to bridge the housing deficit is urgent and cannot wait till eternity to be solved.

    He reaffirmed government’s determination to make more Lagosians homeowners within the next two years, adding “we are committed to delivering our mandate in ensuring that more Lagosians gain access to homeownership irrespective of their ethnicity or political dispensation within the next 24 months. The completion of all ongoing housing schemes is a major strategy which the state intends to deploy in meeting its target.

     

     

     

     

  • How to avoid fire outbreaks, by experts

    THE Lagos State Government in collaboration with safety experts yesterday clearly explained the causes of fire outbreaks and how to avoid them.

    The Director General and Chief Executive Officer, Lagos State Safety Commission, Dr Lanre Mojola said dry weather is a major cause of fires,  but also identified other causes such as storage of petrol in homes and markets, careless disposal of cigarette stubs, adulterated fuel, power surges, petrol tank explosions, electricity sparks and illegal connection of electrical wires.

    He said people should note these causes of fires and ensure they are prevented.

    He spoke during the second Lagos Fire Safety conference organised by the Commission in collaboration with safety experts.

    The conference with the theme, “Fire safety development plan- A sustainable approach” had speakers from the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Nigeria Insurance Association (NIA), Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Federal Fire Service, Nigeria Emmergency Management Agency (NEMA), Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) and the Nigerian Red Cross.

    Represented by Dr Iyabo Phillip’s, Dr Mojola noted that in line with Occupational Safety and Health Acts, employers are mandated to provide proper firefighting equipment, including fire alarm panels, fire extinguishers, fire dampers, fire hydrants as well as ensuring appropriate fire evacuation plans by having designated fire exits and emergency escape routes for the safety of their employees.

     

  • Man ‘sells’ marijuana at NDLEA office

    A FEDERAL High Court in Lagos on Wednesday remanded a man, Ayobiojo Hammed, who was allegedly caught peddling marijuana at the Lagos Command of the National Drug Laws Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

    Justice Sule Hassan kept Hammed, of 7, Moshalashi Street, Empire, Surulere, Lagos, in prison custody following his guilty plea to a one-count charge of unlawfully distributing 630 grammes of the narcotic drug.

    He adjourned till October 11 for review of the facts of the case and sentencing.

    Earlier, NDLEA prosecutor Fingere Dinneys alleged that Hammed was arrested on March 26, while distributing 630 grammes of the substance to some construction workers on the NDLEA’s premises, 4, Shaw Road, Ikoyi, Lagos.

    The court heard that the defendant’s offence infringed Section 20(1)(a) of the NDLEA Act, 2004 and was punishable under Section 20(2)(a) of the same Act.

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    Following Hammed’s plea, his counsel, C. W. Ezeonyeziaku, who stood in for Mrs. Susan Agu, did not oppose the prosecution’s remand application.

    The charge against the defendant marked FHC/L/198c/19, reads: “That you Ayobiojo Hammed, Male, Adult, of 7, Moshalashi Street, Empire Surulere, Lagos on or about 26th March, 2019, at 4, Shaw Road, Ikoyi, Lagos without lawful authority distributed 630 grammes of Cannabis Sativa otherwise known as Marijuana, a narcotic drug similar to Cocaine, LSD and Heroin and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 20(1)(a) and punishable under Section 20(2)(a) of the NDLEA Act 2004”.

  • Mobile Money agent rapes’ colleague to death in Ogun

    A MOBILE money agent, Eniola Adenuga, on Wednesday gave insight into why and how he ‘raped’ his female co-worker Faith Jude to death in their office around Lafenwa area of Abeokuta, Ogun State.

    Adenuga said the girl just joined the company and quickly picked interest in her but added that despite having made countless advances to her with promises of treating her fine, she refused to accept his romantic overtures.

    He added that as the affection for her kept building up, he contemplated seeking to have his way by force and an opportunity provided itself on a particular rainy evening when the victim came to the office to collect the day’s proceeds for their master.

    A subdued Adenuga who spoke with reporters at the Ogun State Police Command headquarters, Eleweran, while being paraded by the police, said he grabbed the girl, wrestled her to the ground and raped her after gagging her.

    He added that he had scarcely concluded the rape  act when the girl died of suffocation.

    The suspect is pleading for mercy,  saying he never meant to kill Faith Jude.

    He said, “I raped her in the shop and she died in the process. I kept her corpse in the store.

    “In early hours of the third day of the incident,  I placed her corpse in front of the shop and went to report at Lafenwa police station that I found a corpse in front of our shop.

    “I had to confess during investigation that I actually covered her mouth with her underwear while I raped her to death.”

    The Deputy Commissioner of Police, Operations, Mr Edward Ajogun, who paraded  Adenuga,

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    said the suspect had on September 19 reported at the  Lafenwa Police division  that he came to his office and found the lifeless body of Jude in front of the office covered with a canopy.

    Ajogun said upon his report,  the detectives from Lafenwa division went to the scene, carried out forensic examination of the place, took picture of the corpse and it was  discovered that there were marks of violence on the deceased body, suggesting she was murdered .

    Ajogun said: “Based on the recovery,  the complainant was professionally interrogated,  and it was discovered that he was the person that actually killed the victim.

    “He confessed to the crime and stated that the deceased, a co-worker came to the shop to collect money for their boss.

    “He took advantage of the heavy downpour on the day to grab the deceased, gagged her mouth with a piece of cloth while he raped her.

    “Having had his way with the girl,  he discovered that she had given up the ghost due to suffocation,” he said.

    According to the Deputy Police Commissioner, the case is being investigated by the Homicide section of the command’s Criminal Investigation Department.

  • How Nigeria can keep the lights on, by experts

    What is wrong with the power sector? Will tariff increase do the magic? Experts discussed these and more at the Power Nigeria Agenda conference and exhibition, which had several dignitaries and government officials in attendance. Deputy News Editor JOSEPH JIBUEZE reports.

     

    Some recommendations

    • Synergy among value chain players critical
    • More investments needed
    • Develop electricity-focused mutual funds/collective investment schemes
    • Enhance customer relations to reduce unpaid bills
    • Close sector’s financial gap, clea r legacy debt, inject private funding
    • Exploit alternative energy sources
    • Meter all consumers before tariff increase
    • Sustainable model for energy production, consumption needed

     

    DESPITE being the largest economy in sub-Saharan Africa, Nigeria’s economic growth has been constrained by power sector limitations.

    The country is endowed with large oil, gas, hydro and solar resource, with the potential to generate 12,522 megawatts (MW) of electric power from existing plants.

    However, it is only able to generate between 4,000 to 7,000 megawatts (MW), sometimes below 4,000 MW, which is grossly insufficient.

    The problem has been attributed to challenges in the generation/distribution chain.

    In a bid to address it, the Federal Government divested its interest in the six power generating companies (GenCos), while 60 per cent of its shares in the 11 distribution companies (DisCos) were sold to private operators.

    Despite the privatisation, the Federal Government’s financial intervention in the industry has risen to N1.5trillion, according to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo. Yet, the problems persist.

    At the 2019 Power Nigeria Exhibition and Conference in Lagos, organsed by Informa Markets, experts said more investments and funding are needed.

    Dangote Industries Power and Energy Strategy Head Dr Damola Omole said merely increasing electricity tariff would not solve the sector’s problems.

    He said consumers should be metered before effecting tariff increase, adding that estimated billing was generally unfair.

    Omole, a penalist in one of yesterday’s sessions, urged the government to intensify efforts to encourage more players to invest in the sector.

    He urged government to look into the issue of supply and cost of gas to the thermal power plants.

    He said there was the need to reduce the over N7.5 trillion lost annually to irregular power supply.

    He was of the view that the country’s manufacturing sector was worst hit by the irregular supply.

    According to Omole, some 17 million small and medium scale businesses spend over N2 trillion annually on generators.

    Omole said: “Manufacturers only get seven hours of supply on average, with the balance of over two-third self-sourced.

    “Grid supply should be 20,000MW for manufacturing sector to thrive, but supply is currently less than 4,000MW.

    “Grid power supply is irregular and unpredictable for manufacturing processes.”

    Omole explained that electricity consumed through alternative means cost N78 per kilowatt while supply from the grid was at N32 per kilowatt.

    This, he said, increases the cost of production for manufacturers.

    Power shortage has a ripple effect, Omole said. It results in reduced production, job losses, and outright closure of factories or relocation to other African countries where power supply is stable.

    The consequences, he pointed out, are job losses and a weak economy.

    Omole said the power sector reforms failed to yield the desired result due to generating companies’ alleged failure.

    He said the lack of synergy among the players in the energy value chain resulted in over 2,000MW of electricity not being supplied to end users.

    Omole also decried the lack of industrial clusters across the country, which he said would have enabled manufacturers compete with their contemporaries.

    He said: “Energy strategy is built around energy efficiencies and this is part of our response as stakeholders to the challenge of moving Nigeria to a more sustainable model for energy production and consumption.

    “The Nigerian power sector requires investment, technical changes and policy dialogues to promote efficiencies.

    “With an integrated view of reducing energy consumption whilst ensuring efficient energy production, the scope of the Nigerian energy strategy will be defined in such a way that the focus on energy generation, distribution and transmission will promote sustainability in the use of energy.”

    Director of Procurement at the Federal Ministry of Power, Ahmed Abdu, an engineer, believes the current power generation capacity as impressive.

    He said: “It is indeed unfortunate that the power sector was neglected in the past.

    “However, when the negative effects of this became evident, the government re-strategised, creating a momentum for improvement in the sector.

    “Investment in the procurement process of the sector has impacted projects in the industry.

    “Our current power generation capacity is impressive, with a distribution network of 5,000 Megawatts and a transmission network of the 7,000 Megawatts of electricity.”

     

    Wanted: more funding

     

    Experts highlighted the need for adequate financing of the energy sector.

    They shed light on the reforms needed in the energy sector to attain its full potential and yield returns on investments.

    They also discussed how lack of access to capital is hindering the electricity sector.

    Also highlighted were frameworks for assisting companies with funding requests, as well as risk mitigation tools in projects or expansions.

    Speakers highlighted the need for electricity-focused mutual funds/collective investment schemes, and how lending rates can be improved.

    Ekiti State Commissioner for Infrastructure & Public Utilities, Bamidele Faparusi, who opened the event on Tuesday, called for collaborative efforts between the government, private sector and end-users.

    Faparusi explained how good customer relationships are essential.

    Using Ekiti as a case study, he said: “Improving the power sector in Nigeria calls for collaborative effort between the government, private sector and end users.

    “Unpaid electricity bills affect the proper running of the sector, hence, a need for DisCos to build trust and maintain good relationships with the end users so as to minimise default in payments and address power issues.

    “In addition, huge financial investments should be made in distribution networks to attain smartness and profitability while regulatory agencies should ensure compliance with stipulated rules and guidelines.”

    FBNQuest Merchant Bank Energy and Natural Resources Head, Rolake Akinkugbe-Filani, said there was a huge financial gap in the sector that must be urgently addressed.

    She said: “The Nigerian Power Sector needs to rid itself of legacy debt of over N300billion if any progress is to be made.

    “There is a need for private funding to be injected into the system and for an urgent shift in the funding landscape from investment banks to SME initiatives.

    “Private sector investment could come in terms of advisory, capacity building for project developers as well as financing for capital projects.”

    The organisers said Power Nigeria Agenda exists to serve the West African and Nigerian energy market, and has become an annual hub for suppliers to meet buyers.

    Informa Market Group Exhibition Director Gareth Rapley said the event was organised to find solutions to the challenges facing the power sector.

    According to him, the energy problem was not peculiar to Nigeria and could be overcome with collaboration between the government and the private sector.

    He said the conference, which ends today, was an opportunity for players in the energy sector to exchange ideas on how best to address the issues confronting the sector.

  • A death so gory!

    A DEATH so gory!  A death so senseless!  A death so diminishing, pushing savages to be savage with envy!

    Pondering the gruesome hacking of Navy Commander Oluwayemisi Ogundana, you begin to wonder where R.M. Ballantyne, in his The Coral Island (1858), got the fib that humankind was essentially good.

    Or how it took two World Wars, of epic madness and gargantuan slaughter, before William Golding plotted his Lord of the Flies (1954), which at last conceded human beings perhaps are worse than beasts, with their wanton propensity to destroy life they cannot not create.

    How can the Ogundana murder happen in 21st century Nigeria, in a military education facility to boot, and you still doubt that Golding was right and Ballantyne was wrong; and that the human is essentially evil?  Well, that would appear a tad too sweeping for there are still very decent human beings.  But isn’t the chain as strong as its weakest parts?

    The suspect killer of Navy Commander Ogundana, reportedly now under arrest, is said to have confessed that he indeed killed her, because she shoved him off an illicit gravy, as chair of the Armed Forces Command Secondary School (AFCSC), Jaji, Kaduna State., Parent-Teacher Association (PTA)!

    Pray, what deal, no matter how sweet, is worth taking life?  But even if you must indulge in such abomination, must you kill a person in her bedroom, chop her body into bits — just imagine the excruciating pains of the dying and the fearsome bestiality of the killer! — pack the grisly cargo in a bag; and drop the odious bag inside a shallow well?

    Good God! Does blood run through the veins of this alleged killer and his accomplices?

    As if that was not grim enough, the suspects must sell off her car, and pretend none the wiser as the school authorities launched a search party for their quarry?

    This is even one moment you tend to be angry at the slow grinding of justice.  If the man has really confessed, and his co-suspects are already nabbed, why the wait?  Still, it is the procedure; and as civilized people, we must bear with it — fair enough!

    Let the military authorities painstakingly investigate this murder and bring the beasts responsible swiftly to justice.  Humankind is far better off without those dregs!

    What soulless killing!  What savagery!

  • Teach them, El Rufai

    GOVERNOR Nasir El Rufai of Kaduna State, on Monday, enrolled his six-year-old son, Abubakar, into Primary One at the Capital School Malali, Kaduna, a public school, in fulfillment of a promise he made in 2017.

    By enrolling his son in the public school, El Rufai seeks to reinvent his cantankerous repute on charitable footing. To succeed, he needs empathy and media mention; these he is getting in dubious overload.

    For instance, the social media debates the imperative of his widely publicised visit to his son’s school and the suspicious photo ops; so doing, El Rufai scuds to acclaim on a slippery scallop shell, the heraldic shield of the random politician’s crafty origins.

    In 2017, the Kaduna governor reportedly vowed in a state broadcast, to enroll his child in a public school when he clocks six.

    He said: “As we make progress, we will require our senior officials to enroll their children in public schools. And I will by personal example ensure that my son that will be six years of age in 2019 will be enrolled in a public school in Kaduna State, by God’s grace.”

    Shortly after he enrolled his child, El Rufai explained to newsmen: “I made that commitment because I believe that it is only when all political leaders have their children in public schools that we will pay due attention to quality of public education.”

    Mother of the child, Ummi, described her husband’s action as “a strong message to our leaders and the elites, that we need to start making things work from within our homes.

    “By the time we start attending public hospitals and send our children to public schools, the system will get better,” she said.

    On his part, little Abubakar said: “I am sad that I will miss my old school, my friends and my teachers. But I have to help my father keep his promise.”

    Vintage El Rufai. His statement resonates harmoniously with his wife and son’s thus fulfilling the purpose of his craftily scripted political high drama. Some of the circulated pictures of his latest manoeuvre show him in various poses with his son. There is one in which he spots a dreamy mien staring at six-year-old Abubakar, while the latter stares beyond the governor, pulling at his bag strap.

    That shot, among others, was carefully chosen to portray the governor as a bleeding Goliath, eager to immerse in his people’s plight.

    Whatever his critics’ argument against him, El Rufai has stolen some thunder. His action depicts classic artifice. But praiseworthy artifice, given the ignorance of his audience in the theatre of the blind.

    El Rufai’s action no doubt intones the flurry of a jazzy altarpiece. In the garish epiphany, the governor invades our picture plane, seeking to dominate the public eye and mind. Does he?

    Having attracted condemnation via his recent rants up north and in Lagos, El Rufai drifts like flotsam against the elements of Nigeria’s political deep; eventually, he hopes to bathe in propitious sunlight.

    The Kaduna governor understands that the most essential skill in political theatre is artifice. Political leaders, who deploy artifice to create a sense of faux intimacy with citizens, hardly need to be sincere or competent. All they need is an inspiring personal narrative.

    Honesty becomes tangential in their quest for empathy and appeal. The emotive quality of the narrative is, however, paramount.

    Those incapable of artifice are deemed unworthy of the people’s votes. They are considered ‘unreal.’ Their unreality, however, is never solely a function of their inability to deploy artifice to political and personal advantage but a consequence of their self-deceit.

    While El Rufai betrays studious mathematical calculation in quest of higher political office in 2023, the members of the idle Presidential Aspirants Coming Together (PACT), for instance, careen in self-deception or what some public commentator rightly identified as ‘elite naivete.’

    The supposedly intelligent, vibrant youths, who vowed to make PACT a platform on which the best and most acceptable aspirants, are backed by all to fly the youth’s presidential flag in 2019 against the might of Nigeria’s behemoth parties, are disconcertingly quiet few months after they got outclassed and out-played in Nigeria’s general elections.

    For all their presumed depth, the PACT collective crumbled as the ‘young’ aspirants bickered and whined like clueless youngsters over a kite. Selfishness, greed and immaturity hampered their bid to gift Nigeria with what could have been an inspiring team of bright, spirited candidates or a semblance of it.

    Forget PACT, where are the likes of Kingsley Moghalu? Of course, their apologists would claim that they are quietly impacting lives, raising protégés. But of what use is their influence and mentorship, where their impact resonates like the tired drizzle atop an ocean of filth?

    Moghalu and PACT may learn a manoeuvre or two from the likes of El Rufai. Agreed, artifice is hardly the way to go, but they need to get off their high horse and engage with people at the grassroots, purposefully.

    The ones whose votes would determine their fates as aspirants and self-proclaimed Messiahs are never present at TEDtalk events. They are never part of the ‘elite’ and ‘sophisticated’ audience of ‘26, 000’ that crowd the seats at The Platform, their elite talk-shop.

    There is no gainsaying that fora like The Platform are pivotal, partially, to the spread of progressive waves of consciousness and political awareness among the youth and supposedly literate voter divide, but at the end, the super-charged debates and inspiring deliberations peter out beyond the walls of their talk-shop, like the drone of dung beetles outside the latrine.

    It’s 2019 and El Rufai presents with ‘lessons’ on political savvy. Let the “youthful disrupters” understand that their usual practice of dismissing the north and the incumbent ruling class as a coven of political illiterates depicts greater naivete and illiteracy on their part.

    It’s about time they got involved with the people. Terrorism, flooding, internal displacement, grinding poverty, among others, present wonderful opportunities for them to sow seeds of hope and acclaim among Nigeria’s vulnerable, voter divide.

    What if Moghalu and the PACT collective summon their savvy and socio-economic capital to renovate and equip Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs), schools and roads across Nigeria’s neglected regions? Imagine the political currency that could afford them en route the 2023 elections?

    Imagine Fela Durotoye on a one month sojourn, in the northeast, bolstering relief efforts with gifts of a honest smile, provisions and scholarships, far from the arena of artifice and applause.

    Imagine Sowore exuding a different kind of spunk and spittle; one that sees him commencing his #RevolutionNow crusade down south by seeking justice and compensation for victims of Chevron Nigeria Ltd (CNL)’s 74-day fire disaster in the Ilaje Local Government area of Ondo State.

    But these would require them to actually engage with disadvantaged folk and communities at the grassroots. It would require that they actually feel. They would rather wait to mount The Platform to speak easy or roll their sleeves on a task with the random labourer and market woman of the sidewalk, for the camera, at election time.

    Yet theirs is a curious form of artifice. But it pales, distressingly, to El Rufai’s enrollment of his ward in a public school. That’s a tactical manoeuvre.

  • Ex-butchers’ chair killed in Bayelsa

    A FORMER chairman of the Bayelsa State Butchers Association (BSBA) Mr. Chibuzor Nwachukwu has been killed in cold blood in Yenagoa, the state capital.

    His killers, suspected to be cultists, were said to have shot him in the head, killing him instantly.

    It was learnt that the assassins laid ambush for Nwachukwu in front of his residence on Ogilo Street, an area notorious for cult activities in the state.

    He was reportedly returning home from the Swali Market at about 8pm on Tuesday when he ran into his killers.

    The 42-year-old Nwachukwu, hailed from Nkanu community in Enugu State and was married with four children.

    A source, who spoke in confidence, said it was a case of assassination, adding that the killers escaped with their victim’s shirt and his android phone.

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    He said, “He was already at the door of his apartment when some boys, who were hiding in the area shot him. They aimed at his head. He was killed in an execution-like style, raising suspicion that it wasn’t a robbery attack.

    “We don’t know the motive behind the killing. He was a former chairman of the butchers association and he left the office after some controversies. It has been long he left his office. So, we won’t say it was the dispute that led to his killing”.

    The Police Public Relations Officer, Bayelsa State Command, Asinim Butswat, confirmed the incident and said policemen visited the crime as part of ongoing investigations to unmask the identities of his killers.

    Butswat said: “On 25 September 2019, at about 20:00 hours, unknown gunmen shot and killed one Chibuzor Nwachukwu ‘m’ 42 years, at Ogilo Street, Yenagoa.”

  • ‘Reckless’ motorcyclist arraigned for murder

    A 28-year old man, Sanya Ajayi was on Wednesday arraigned for murder before a Magistrate Court, Osogbo, the Osun State capital.

    The suspect was arraigned on a two-count charge of reckless driving and murder.

    The prosecutor, Akintunde Jacob, a police inspector, told the court that the accused person committed the offence on September 16, 2019 at Olaiya Junction.

    According to him, the accused person rode an unregistered Bajaj Boxer motorcycle dangerously without regard for traffic rules.

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    He said the reckless riding of the motorcycle by the accused led to the death of a 59-year old man, Fatai Segun Awodoju

    The defence counsel, R.A. Ugu, pleaded for bail for the accused, asking the court to temper justice with mercy.

    In his ruling, the presiding judge, Magistrate Taofeek Badmus, ordered that the accused person be reminded in prison custody.

    He adjourned the case till October 2.