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  • Tiv vs Jukun crisis: Group writes TY Danjuma over incessant killings by own militias

    The Middle Belt Reformers Movement (MBRM) has written elder statesman and former Army Chief of Army Staff, General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (rtd), over the incessant killings by some persons believed to be Jukun militias in Taraba and Benue States.

     

    The middle belt group said there is an obvious agenda by Jukun ethnic group to wipe others from the face of the earth, especially Benue natives.

     

    The warning came barely three days after three Benue students and a staff of the Federal University, Wukari were killed by some suspected Jukun militias, thus, leading to the closure of the institution by the management.

     

    In the letter addressed to Gen. Danjuma (rtd) and obtained by our reporter on Friday, the middle belt group frowned at what it tagged as ‘conspiratorial silence’ of the elder statesman on the killing of Benue people in Taraba by Jukun militias.

     

    The letter entitled: “TY Danjuma: It is Time To Check Your Conscience: An Open Letter” and jointly signed by Prince Aduku Obi, President, Middle Belt Reformers’ Movement and Alli Ahmed, Secretary-General, called on the elder statesman to speak out over the wanton killings in the state.

     

    The letter reads: “We are most obliged at the beginning of August, a new month, to send you fraternal greetings, as supposed elder statesman, former Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and Defence Minister, Chairman, Nigerian Christian Elders Forum (NCEF), UN-recognized international investor, prominent son of Nigeria’s Middle Belt region and now born-again as we have been made to believe.

     

    “Members of the Middle Belt Reformers Movement (MBRM) holds you in very high esteem in this part of the region. There is no doubt that we are proud of you for exemplifying our proud geographical and cultural heritage, the Almighty God Himself has bequeathed to us through our ancestors.

     

    “When we look around and see your likes still alive, we feel protected. We feel secured against all forces of destruction obsessed with blighting the cordiality we have enjoyed by wishing to sow the seed of discord to forcefully break the chain of our communality relished for decades.

     

    “The Middle Belt region is a microcosm of Nigeria in the sense that outside the Igbos and a few other tribes, every other ethnicity from the nearly 500 ethnic nationalities in our cherished country have aboriginal roots in this region.

     

    “Needless to remind you, this region is a complex mix of ethno-religious identities which have co-existed in peace and harmony, a tradition we have inherited from our forefathers.

     

    “Whatever peace we savoured before today, if we recount now is because elders and leaders like you, alongside a few others such as late Chief Solomon Lar, Amb. Yahaya Kwande, Wantaregh Paul Unongo and hordes of others have been tutuledged by our progenitors on these templates of peaceful co-existence.

     

    “Therefore, we are always elated and bestrode the land proudly when you particularly galvanise other eminent Nigerians to raise a voice at our behest on issues affecting us.

     

    “Not long ago, when the British Parliament’s Committee invited you or the NCEF to address it on the alleged plots of Islamisation of Nigeria and the alleged religious persecution of Christians in the predominantly Christian Middle Belt, we were extremely excited. Your vocality on this issue was trenchantly touchy.

     

    “At least, we knew instantaneously that we have leaders who, like the late Captain Thomas Sankara, former Military Head of State of Burkina Faso, once asserted; can raise a voice for the voiceless in the region.

     

    “Sir, but we are feeling disappointed with you at the moment. We feel whatever “war” you launched against alleged killings by herdsmen, Fulanis, Hausas or allied groups, in which you postured as so “concerned” and led leaders of your ilk in remonstrations for us have piled into insignificance with your comfortable passivity on the resurgence of the Jukun/ Tiv crisis, which is ongoing.

     

    “Middle Belt Reformers Movement is sufficiently convinced and prompted to address you in an open epistle because unlike what your actions have taught us, your obvious and conspiratorial silence on the killing of Tiv people in Taraba state by your Jukun kinsmen to near genocidal levels indicates your acquisance.

     

    “General Sir, you had every opportunity to halt the crisis at it’s embryonic stage, hence it started in Kente, a Jukun community in Wukari LGA, the traditional headquarters of JukunKingdom.

     

    “We are not out to distribute blames to any of the warring factions. But just imagine what your initial word of caution to your Jukun kinsmen or any other group in Taraba state would have done in calming down frayed nerves to halt the conflagrations, save lost lives and the quantum of destruction of properties?

     

    “But Sir, while you were very vocal in accusing Fulani herdsmen, including the Army, your primary constituency of complicity in the alleged coercive execution of Islamisation agenda on Jukuns in Taraba state, you are curiously and suspiciously mute on what your kinsmen are doing in the vicious extermination of Tiv people and other ethnic groups in the state.

     

    “MBRM is pained to approach you in this manner because your silence over the nearly three months killings before your nose does not give a positive testimony about anything you have been clamoring about herdsmen killings in the same state. Only an unwise man would ignore his burning house and rush to quench the fire on his neighbor’s roof.

     

    “We are concerned that your silence ennobled your warring kinsmen to satanically puncture the serenity and sacredness of Federal University, Wukari (FUW) a few days back. In the onslaught, three persons were killed and all of them of Tiv ethnicity. Yet, you are still quiet.

     

    “This singular action has portrayed your Jukun kinsmen as the untamed, wild and berserk aggressors. It is because you have reclined from cautioning them against the evil they are visiting on their fraternity in Taraba state, in the Middle Belt region.

     

    “May the souls of the victims, particularly, Mr. Msughter Vihior, a FUW’s 100 Level student of Microbiology; Mr. Mark Tsav, a security officer and the third victim gruesomely murdered at the varsity campus, when Jukun militias invaded the institution. Same condolences go to families of our brothers and sisters who have lost their lives in the prolonged internecine squabble, and may their souls Rest in Perfect Peace, amen!

     

    “Sir, so, when would you make a statement on the ongoing crisis between the Tivs and the Jukuns in Taraba, your home state? Please, do not compel us into believing it is only the alleged Fulani herdsmen killings are deserving of your attention or sermonisation around the world.

     

    “Both your national and international image is now at stake by your deliberate silence over your kinsmen’s extermination of another ethnic group in your state. We all know how you were extremely vocal when Fulanis were reportedly involved.

     

    “We are worried about your unpretentious silence on these killings, especially when your voice ought to count more and should sound loudest now that your very own brothers are involved. Or do we believe the killings in Taraba state have not been brought to your notice yet?

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    “Yet, Barr. Benjamin Bako, President, Jukun Development Association (JUDA) spews everything in promotion of the crisis and killings. Apparently, he looks unto to you or rather emboldened by your silence to urge your kinsmen into more killings. But have you ever cautioned him?

     

    “We expect you to voice out in the next few days, if indeed, you are not the unseen or veiled force behind the Jukun massacres of other tribes for territorial expansion and rebranding of Taraba, as an exclusive Jukun state. The three persons killed at FUW by Jukun youths/ militias are all Christians.

     

    “And be reminded that when you eventually address Nigerians and the world to explain the massacres, let’s know whether it is JUKUNISATION of other tribes in Taraba state or what exactly is the agenda of your kinsmen.

     

    “Or do we believe it is your plot in collusion with your kinsmen to territorially “Islamize” the Tiv people ancestrally domiciled in Taraba State?

     

    “Lastly, let us remind you that world- wide, the TY Danjuma Family is on the international Investment portfolio as a signatory to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN- PRI). The UN- PRI prides a unique status as a global network of investors attuned to the ideals of promoting environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues within it’s investment platforms. It’s odd for you to belong to this reverred international body, yet “supervise” your kinsmen kill other ethnic groups within your home state, and cause social dislocation, pains and sorrows, while you enjoy the convenience of silence.

     

    “Gen. TY Danjuma, it is time to speak to your conscience on the Jukun/ Tiv crisis and killings. Our people say, a stitch in time, saves nine. If not, we fear your hard earned positive reputation is almost going extinct at the octogenarian age of 80? It’s not good enough! Please speak out now!

     

    “We appreciate your patience for reading this open letter to you. And thank you, very much, Sir.”

     

  • What kind of elders?

    When British philosopher David Hume asserted that the “corruption of the best produces the worst,” he was telling us how religion can corrode the soul. He may have written those lines centuries back. They however point inquisitorial fingers at an impostor Christian assemblage that goes by the name National Christian Elders Forum.

    This is a body I should ignore, except that they claim two important fidelities. One, they say they are Christian, which might even get a pass into insignificance since we have too many such groups around. To claim to be Christian does not necessarily grant anyone immunity against the working of the devil, according to scriptures. Many will say I am Lord the Christ, said the Lord. But this group is a band of elders.

    If, on the surface, you look at the members, you will grant them their right to age. Theophilus Danjuma, for instance, is no doubt an old man. With his grey hair and his slow, if majestic walk, we cannot doubt that his is. Ditto Zamani Lekwot, Ezeife and a few others who are in their hoary years.

    What irks is the combination of Christian and elders, and that is the imperious audacity of that assemblage. In a sense, they are making themselves into the aristocracy of the faith. If they remained there, it would be acceptable, if not right. They are, after all, entitled to their own grandiosity and pious delusions.

    But when they want to impose their worldviews on the rest of us, especially on the political front, they will have to be held to account. They did that recently when the Christian Association of Nigeria paid a visit to President Muhammadu Buhari to congratulate him on his victory in the election.

    They said through its chairman, Solomon Asemota, that the visit was an endorsement. They said it was premature and that the visit did not take cognisance of Atiku’s objection to the polls result that he is now challenging in the court of law.

    These impostor elders of the Christian faith baffle those who know the scriptures and one or two things about the rule of law and how they cohabit. But more especially if you know that the NCEF is a political group masking as elders of the vineyard.

    If the group says congratulations to the president, what is wrong with that? This writer has never been a fan of CAN, and it has over the few years served as a toady of power. But that is beside the point here. It has the right to congratulate anyone after an election. It is showing its loyalty to law. I don’t accept that you have to bow to any form of constituted authority as some Pentecostals and other faithful say when they interpret Paul in scripture. You only obey when they don’t contradict the will of God. We rather obey God than man, said Paul who, along with his fellow apostles, set their faces against the powers of the day and died doing it.

    According to Asemota, we ought to wait for the courts before doing that. This is hypocrisy. They should have been more subtle if they wanted to hide their love for Atiku and the PDP. They could not.

    Rather than leave the matter at the mere congratulations, they unveiled their rage at Buhari and that he has been complicit  in the killing of Christians in the north. This shows two things. One, that they were against the congratulations because he was not their preferred choice at the polls. They have the right to their democratic choices. But they should not be hypocrites about it. They should have said they were against Buhari. They cannot say they are for the rule of law by cherry-picking the law and institution in the land. If you are for the rule of law, they should accept INEC’s result while awaiting the determination of the court case.

    That means they have to follow due process. In their own case, they want to dictate what process is due and when. If they are against the handling of the killings in the north, that is a different matter and it belonged to a different press statement. This author decries the incompetence with which the Buhari government has handled security in the country. These days it is even worse, as though he has no idea the nation is bowing ever so tragically to slaughter and dark forces.

    He, a general who should lead the way, is reflecting a supine incapacity to secure lives. But that should be different from merely bringing politics into the matter, especially of the partisan type. Men like Danjuma now at a latter day are trying to show that they are against northern domination, or Fulani domination. Did he not make his career in the military by pitching his tent with those he now sees as northern hegemons?

    Danjuma was the man who led soldiers to the western region to put Ironsi to death. Fajuyi said it should not happen. Danjuma and his men should execute him if his host was not spared, he prayed. But Danjuma was the master of the ceremony of the slaughter that dreary dawn. One Hebron Tuti, who denied recently as a general, fired the shot that fell Fajuyi. Both men went, and that day Danjuma, in what was known as the counter-coup, anointed himself as perhaps the most frontal ambassador of the northern hegemon.

    Now he has started crying. He says his people should fight and defend themselves. When he was on the frontline his people seemed immune because their streets were tame with peace. Now, he is turning to wisdom on a latter day. He needs to retrace his erring past, his past of servile soldiery. Is he now in the league of Cardinal Woolsey, who served his king but forgot his God? He was the cardinal in those days of turbulent monarchy in England under the cunning Henry the Eighth, Anne Boleyn, Thomas Cromwell, et al. He said, “If I had served my God as diligently as I have served my king, he would not have abandoned me in my old age.”

    Now, Danjuma, in his old and grizzly years, is now a defender of justice. And what a way to do it. Asemota, who is a SAN, could not even see the barefaced contradiction of his statement. If he wanted justice, he should have known that you don’t merge two contradictory pleas in one. You cannot choose what law to obey. That in itself is a plea to anarchy.

    Paul said elders should not provoke the young. I wonder if the elders know that part of their scripture. But Danjuma and company of renegade elders should pay attention to the words of British writer and novelist that, “There is no such thing as old age; there’s only sorrow.”

    Of Saraki, Fasuan and Fayemi

    While our  Bukola “Eleyinmi” Saraki is still locked in an existential battle in the Senate  to reincarnate his sort of coup of 2015, at home he has no real legacy. It only shows why Otoge became Otope for the people of Kwara State. In a recent visit to the place, my first in about 30 years, I saw no legacy of significance that he and his father bequeathed.

    Fasuan

    Whether it was major roads, schools, the stadium, the Government House and the Government Reserved Area and Kwara Hotels, even the airport, they all were products of the military. They were legacies of George Innih and David Bamgboye. The one thing I saw was the Kwara State University but he had an ego to sate by that: his own. He wanted to name it after himself, but he was resisted. So he did not want to do it for the people but himself. He wanted a landmark he did not desrve.

    This is unlike what Governor Kayode Fayemi did for men of substance in Ekiti State by naming schools after them. One of them was Chief Deji Fasuan, a man who helped build the Western Region, a thinker and technocrat of the first order that is hard to see in these days of easy money and delinquent thinking. Congratulations to Chief Fasuan, thanks to Fayemi.

  • Danjuma, Obasanjo, Ekwerenmadu Statement conspiracy against Buhari, Nigeria – NAMA Boss

     

    Reactions have continued to trail  Lt.General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (Rtd), Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo and Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekwerenmadu.

    The latest is from NAMA Chair former Police Affairs Minister, and 2015 Bauchi Governorship aspirant, Dr. Ibrahim Yakubu Lame, who described their statements as a conspiracy against Pres. Muhammadu Buhari’s government and Nigeria.

    Lt.Gen T.Y.Danjuma has last week posited that Nigerians should defend themselves, following the Herdsmen ravages in some parts of Nigeria, to which the federal government is yet to take decisive action to nib the crisis.

    The former Police Affairs Minister, while interacting with reporters in Bauchi on Wednesday, said “what Gen. Danjuma said is an incitement and call to anarchy”.

    According to Lame, the timing and the venue of his statement at a convocation ceremony where there are young and agitated minds who may be motivated by his statement to take the laws into their hands, was not ideal.

    He also decried the said accusation he made against the Nigerian military as being collaborators in aiding criminals as unfair.

    And advised the federal government to take appropriate action against not only Lt.General Danjuma but any other person promoting hatred and division among Nigerians.

    Lame’s calls for action against T.D.Danjuma are coming on the heels of sound knowledge and support from a leading Nigerian Jurist, Prof. Itse Sagey.

    Besides the two local government chairmen in Taraba state that had affirmed the military action in Taraba state.

    Though Lame was not specific in his charge to Northern leaders, political office holders, and traditional rulers, to call for an emergency meeting that will  take measures to‎ tackle challenges facing the north.

    Lame, the current chairman Board of Directors, National Airspace Management Agency ( NAMA) stated that he was surprised that General Danjuma’s closeness to president Muhammadu Buhari and his government, had chosen to make the statement aimed at undermining Buhari’s government.

    Answering further questions the NAMA chair opined that,the north is being targeted for destruction from all fronts. And what Gen.Danjuma said is a tip of the iceberg.

    He asked the federal government to place the retired general and others on security surveillance and investigate their comments.

    Just as he stressed “the same forces that predicted Nigeria’s disintegration in 2015 are at play and they might be planning to actualise the prediction in 2019”.

    He however appealed to the northern political class to provide good governance that will address issues of poverty and unemployment that was fuelling insecurity in the region.

    It will be recalled that, former President.Obasanjo had written an open letter to Pres.Buhari on the state of the nation.This was followed by the Deputy Senate President,Ike Ekwerenmadu’s said warning of a‎ possible military take over of Nigeria,if things did not go well.

     

  • Between OBJ and GEJ and others in-between (I)

    Between OBJ and GEJ and others in-between (I)

    Last weekend, Leadership (December 21) published a story in which it quoted former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, (OBJ) as saying on his Facebook wall on December 20 that, following his controversial December 2 letter to President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ) which he ominously titled “Before it is too late”, it was time Nigerians turned on the heat in the polity so that only the best party should win the next general elections in 2015.

    “It is now time,” the newspaper quoted him as saying, “to turn up the heat. May the best party win.” In the light of his letter in which he admonished his estranged benefactor and godson to shape up or ship out, Obasanjo’s call for Nigerians to turn on the heat was clearly his coded way of asking Nigerians to throw out the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the next elections, the very party that gave him the platform to rule the country as its first elected president since 1985 and a party which he once boasted will rule Nigeria for a long, long time, if not forever.

    His call for Nigerians to turn up the heat also looked, at least to me, like a call on the select Nigerian leaders – Generals Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, Abdulsalami Abubakar and Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma and Dr Alex Ekwueme with whom he said he had shared the content of his letter and who he also said shared his concerns – to speak out in his support.

    So far none has and it’s highly unlikely that anyone of them will. Up till now the only one among them who has said anything about the letter is General Danjuma and he has categorically said he will not criticise GEJ in the open. “I have complete and unimpeded access to the president,” he said in a goodwill message to the 6th Abuja Festival of Praise on the night of December 20 in response to what he said have been repeated calls by the press for him to say something about the letter, “and if I have anything to say to him, I will do so face to face. These are difficult times and we must be careful, especially as leaders on what we say in public.”

    The general’s argument of unimpeded access to the president precluding his speaking out does not look quite tenable; in November 2003 he spoke out against Obasanjo as a president that he said he found out was under the spell of a cult-like clique. At that time he had just left Obasanjo’s administration as the defense minister and he had complete and unimpeded access to the Obasanjo.

    Five years later, he said even more terrible things about his former friend and boss. In an interview with The Guardian (February 17, 2008) marking his 70th birthday he condemned Obasanjo as “the most toxic leader that Nigeria has produced so far.” The country, he said, “took him out of jail and made him a president; he abused Nigeria, he deceived Nigeria and he deserves a second term in prison and we will make sure he ends up there.”

    By then Obasanjo was, of course, no longer president but, on General Danjuma’s own contention, his friend still ruled Nigeria by proxy “through Yar’Adua, his puppet.” At the time Danjuma still had complete and unimpeded access to his friend and to President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.

    So if the general has rejected calls for him to speak out on Obasanjo’s letter, it would not be because you speak truth to power only when you do not have complete and unimpeded access to those in power.

    In any case his attack on Obasanjo back in 2003 would not be the first time he’s spoken out against those in power even when they were completely accessible to him. There has to be other reasons for his reticence this time, probably foremost of which is his well publicised falling out with Obasanjo over the former president’s successful move to partially take away the oil well the general had been allocated by the late military head of state, General Sani Abacha, an oil well which has since proved one of the most lucrative in the country.

    As for Generals Babangida and Abubakar and Chief Ekwueme, they too, like General Danjuma, are more likely than not to maintain strategic silence, strategic because while they know much of what Obasanjo said in his letter is true, as we shall see next week, God willing, they do not want to offend or embarrass President Jonathan with whose government they’ve been doing good and brisk business in many sectors of the economy.

    Their strategic silence is also probably because they believe Obasanjo lacks the moral authority to condemn the president for all the offences he has charged the president with, not least of all the charges of bad faith and divisiveness. For, make no mistake about it, before Jonathan came along, Obasanjo was the most divisive president we’ve had in this country and someone whose word you took to your bank at your own peril, as I have tried to show in innumerable articles I have written about the man on these pages and elsewhere, one of which I shall reproduce on these pages in two weeks time, God willing, for its relevance to the ongoing controversy about his letter even though mine was written eleven years ago.

    The point of all this is that clearly Obasanjo is on his own in this letter writing business as a strategy of wrong footing President Jonathan. Worse for him, it seems the heat he wants President Jonathan and the PDP to be subjected to has been turned on him, first, from a quarter he – and probably most Nigerians, including this reporter – least expected and, second, from the reply to his letter by his erstwhile godson.

    Once upon a time, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, before he became arguably the most trenchant defender of President Obasanjo during his second term, described him as a Mr. Know-It-All and a stooge of not only the much maligned “Fulani caliphate.” Fani-Kayode said Obasanjo was also a stooge of “his Western European backers…and his friends at the IMF and the World Bank.” The man, he concluded, in that clearly malicious article in The Comet (March 18, 2001), since rested, “may end in utter disaster and shame.”

    At the time Fani-Kayode wrote those words not even he in his wildest thoughts could have imagined that the former president’s “disaster and shame” would come in the shape of a daughter who seemed to have benefitted most from being an Obasanjo, namely, Iyabo, a veterinary doctor and a PhD in public health.

    Iyabo is not the first to visit opprobrium upon her father; years ago Gbenga, her brother from the same mother, accused his old man of sleeping with his wife in a sworn affidavit. Being a man apparently with a crocodile skin, the accusation did not appear to “shake his coat”, as we say in local parlance.

    Iyabo’s charge against her father in a letter that was indeed a “red hot exclusive”, as the editors of Vanguard which published it on December 18 described it, must have rattled the man no end. Inspired, as she herself said, by her father’s 18-page letter to President Jonathan, she wrote her old man an 11-page letter dated December 16 in which she accused him of being “a liar, manipulator, a two-faced hypocrite” and a cruel and criminally negligent father and husband. Disaster and shame don’t come any worse than someone your own loins sired and who most people thought was your favourite, saying such unprintable things about you to the whole world, especially at a time you’d picked to fight a critical battle of your life.

    It was a sign of how much he was rattled that he called her while he was visiting in the US where she is now resident to confirm if she could indeed pen such blasphemy. Equally, it was a sign how much shame she must have known she has brought unto her family that she initially denied writing it.

     

     

    Feedback

     

    Re: The persecution of Governor Lamido

    Two weeks ago I promised to publish a very thoughtful reaction to my piece on the subject above last week but didn’t. My apologies. Below is a shortened and edited version of the reaction.

     

    Sir,

    I am yet to see people from the North call out their leaders to account. But instead what we have seen is people demonising Jonathan. I am not saying ‘don’t question Jonathan.’ All I’m saying is, let’s question from home first.

    I am a Muslim and from your name you seem to be one also. So let me use the religion angle.

    Tribal leaders in the desert and outside the Arabian Peninsula came to Prophet Muhammad (SAW) and gave their allegiance to Islam and the Prophet himself agreeing to be ruled by him. Many people say that Islam was spread by the sword. But it only happened because of the leadership of the Prophet and the justice that reigned in Islam. Today many in the West are beginning to understand how Islam was spread.

    If the Prophet was seeking justice outside his kingdom without firstly, trying to clean up his own house, do you think Islam as we know it would have existed? But of course if you are a Muslim you most likely already know all of these. I hope we can do what is right. May God make it easy (for us all).

    Abdul’Aziz ibn Ibrahim

     

    Sir,

    I’m neither your fan nor apologist because I can’t stand your ethno-religious irredentism. But those who attacked you because of Lamido’s article should, if they can read English, read where you said, “This does NOT, of course, mean Lamido’s sons should not be prosecuted & their father exposed as….a hypocrite…”

    Myk Aiyemo – Abuja

    +2348052355655

  • Danjuma, others for awards

    Apan socio-cultural and political group, the Jukun Development Association (JDA), will celebrate former Chief of Staff Lieut-Gen. Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma and six others at its award of excellence.

    Danjuma, who will be going home with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the cause of the Jukun, would be decorated at the gala at the Taraba Liaison office on Victoria Island, Lagos, on Saturday.

    The JDA Chairman, Benjamin Bako, said the awards were part of activities lined up to mark the Jukun Day celebration.

    Bako said the association hoped to raise funds for the proposed JDA secretariat, which will house the national headquarters and an events centre.

    Also to be honoured are the Chairman, Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Mathias Kefas Agbu, Dr. John K. Danjuma, A.A. Abu, D.H. Tukura, the late Terry Vyonku and Liet Col. Agbu D. Kefas (rtd).