Comrade Ayuba Wabba, President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), is currently leading union members to the Kaduna State Government House.
This is after Governor Nasir El-Rufai declared the labour leader and others wanted for “economic sabotage” and attack on public infrastructure.
A massive crowd of protesters , led by Wabba, is marching through Waff road in Kaduna and heading towards the government house chanting anti-el- rufai songs. A showdown may be Imminent.
President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC),Comrade Ayuba Wabba has been declared wanted by Malam Nasir El-Rufai, governor of Kaduna State for economic sabotage .
Recall that Wabba was last seen publicly in Kaduna where he led members of NLC on a protest against policies of El-Rufai’s administration.
NLC had led members of affiliate unions on a protest that crippled economic activities in Kaduna.
Banks, hospital, train station, airport were shut while the state was plunged into darkness as electricity workers also joined the mass action.
In a tweet on Tuesday, the Kaduna governor said NLC leaders had been declared wanted for economic sabotage and attacks on public infrastructure.
“KADUNA UPDATE: Ayuba Wabba & others of @NLCHeadquarters declared wanted for economic sabotage & attacks on public infrastructure under Miscellaneous Offences Act. Anyone that knows where he is hiding should send a message to @MOJKaduna KDSG. There will be a handsome reward!
Addressing members of the unions at the NLC Secretariat on Monday, Wabba emphasised that the organised labour would not back down until the demands are acceded to by the governor.
According to him; “The decision has been communicated to all security agencies of the government. It is the beginning of the struggle of labour and we hope our politicians will cooperate with us to ensure we protect our democracy by delivering its dividends to the citizens including workers.”
“Organised labour is in Kaduna to tell the world the truth of what the workers, pensioners, students and other citizens in the state are going through besides the lies being peddled by media platforms on El-Rufai’s payroll.
“The situation of the workers in the state is so pathetic that thousands of them have been laid off from their sources of livelihood without the state government making any effort to pay them their entitlements.
“Worst still, El-Rufai has gone further to increase school fees in public state school thereby making the children of those sacked from their working place without payment to become dropouts.
“It is only Kaduna State out of the other states in the country that throws workers out of their jobs without any regards for the labour law and that is why we are here.”
The entire Kaduna State was grounded on Monday as the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) enforced his warning strike in the state.
The labour unions had declared the strike action as a way of compelling Governor Nasir El-Rufai to reverse the recent mass sack of civil servants.
The first day of a 5-day warning strike embarked upon by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Kaduna State, recorded mass disruption of economic and social activities as banks, schools, hospitals, railways and other essential services remained shut.
The state also recorded the second day of blackout yesterday since electricity supply was cut off in the early hours of Sunday.
The labour unions had declared the strike action as a way of compelling Governor Nasir El-Rufai to reverse the recent mass sack of civil servants in the state.
At least 14 affiliated unions of the NLC including the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), the National Union of Electricity Employees of Nigeria (NUEE), National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions Employees (NUBIFIE), the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) and the Nigeria Union of Railway Workers among others joined the procession of the strike, which started from NLC secretariat in Kaduna at 7 am chanted solidarity songs, displaying placards with various inscriptions.
Other unions that joined the procession include the National Association of Nurses and Midwives, Aviation workers Union, Construction Union, National Union of Local Government Employees among others. The aviation unions under the aegis of the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE), National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) and Association of Nigeria Aviation Professionals (ANAP) were also part of the strike action.
Enforcement officers of the unions had locked up the gates of Kaduna State secretariat as well as other premises housing civil servants including the Obasanjo House on Monday morning.
The secretariat was later forced open by security agencies even though civil servants, who were caught between the fears of disobeying the government or the labour unions, only loitered about.
There was heavy security presence at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim House on Monday as men of the Police Operation Yaki units, soldiers, Kaduna State Vigilante Service (KADVIS) and the Federal Road Service Corps (FRSC) were deployed at the main gate of the Government House.
Addressing members of the unions at the NLC secretariat, the National President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, emphasised that there will be no retreat nor surrender by the organised labour to ensure their demands are acceded to by the governor.
“The decision has been communicated to all security agencies of the government. It is the beginning of the struggle of labour and we hope our politicians will cooperate with us to ensure we protect our democracy by delivering its dividends to the citizens including workers.”
Wabba stated that more than 90 per cent of Nigerians are living in abject poverty, which was why insecurity and other social vices have increased in the country.
His words; “Organised labour is in Kaduna to tell the world the truth of what the workers, pensioners, students and other citizens in the state are going through besides the lies being peddled by media platforms on El-Rufai’s payroll.
“The situation of the workers in the state is so pathetic that thousands of them have been laid off from their sources of livelihood without the state government making any effort to pay them their entitlements.
“Worst still, El-Rufai has gone further to increase school fees in public state school thereby making the children of those sacked from their working place without payment to become dropouts.”
The labour leader lamented that workers in the state were being sacked from their jobs without following due process, adding that no constituted labour union was contacted by Governor El-Rufai before taking the action.
“It is only Kaduna State out of the other states in the country that throws workers out of their jobs without any regards for the labour law and that is why we are here,” he said.
He explained that political elites are elected to respect the law of the land and uphold the provisions of the land, lamenting, “Here, we have a governor that is not respecting the law but violating the law with impunity.
“He has sacked thousands of workers in the state. Over 20,000 workers in the state have not been paid their April salary.
“The unfortunate downsizing of workforce in Kaduna State was not done in accordance with the statutory Labour law, with the keen examination of its activities from 2017 till date, over 50, 000 workers were affected.”
Our correspondent reports that the procession of affiliated labour unions led by the NLC president marched through Independence Way to the Kaduna State House of Assembly chanting solidarity songs but they met a deserted House of Assembly.
The procession caused heavy traffic gridlock as motorists pushed their way through the crowd to get to their destinations.
It was business as usual for Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai even as labour officials went around the metropolis to enforce compliance with the strike action.
The governor had tweeted that the state’s Commissioner for Local Government, Ja’afaru Sani was to appear Monday morning on Channels TV where he insisted that the state government pays minimum wage.
At 1 pm, El-Rufai tweeted that the state’s Executive Council was holding its regular weekly meeting with himself presiding but did not mention the strike action.
The state government last night asked all workers from level 14 and above to resume work or face sanctions.
A statement by the Special Adviser on Media and Communication to the governor, Mr. Muyiwa Adekeye warned that “government is documenting all these violations of the Miscellaneous Offences Act and the Trade Union Act.”
He said the Kaduna State Government has noted that the conditions that compelled its decision to right-size its work force have not been altered by the NLC’s “campaign of economic and social sabotage”.
He pointed out that government’s resolve “is only reinforced by the desperate actions undertaken by the NLC to unlawful trespass on government facilities, and prevent officers from signing attendance registers.”
He added that, “Despite these actions, the state government has guaranteed access to the State Secretariat and other government offices.
“The government intends to continue running its operations in service to the people, despite the futile efforts of the NLC to impede it.
Adekeye said the government welcomed the visit by leaders of the Trade Union Congress to the Head of Service, Bariatu Y. Mohammed. Hajiya Bariatu has reported on the constructive attitude of the TUC delegation led by Barrister Musa Lawal, its Secretary-General,’’ he said.
He said the TUC team included Comrade Isa Mohammed of PENGASSAN, Comrade Bulama Haruna, Comrade Ebere Okpara, Comrade Yunusa Zubairu, Comrade Aliyu Yunusa and members of the Kaduna State Executive of the TUC.
Residents of Kaduna State were yesterday stranded at various banks and the train station at Rigasa, which remained closed following the 5-day warning strike.
Our correspondents report that though the National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions Employees have decided to join the strike, bank staff remained within the banking halls even though services were suspended.
A customer at one of the banks, Mustapha Mohammed, said he came to the bank for documentation but was not able to do so due to the strike action.
“It was inconvenient for me to come all the way from Millennium City only to find that the banks were closed. But then, what can I do since they are fighting for their rights?
“The government should see the need to call for a consensus,” he said.
On her part, Ladi Bulus, who came to the bank to pay her children’s school fees urged the government to have a listening ear to bring a quick end to the situation.
“I was so frustrated when I came to the bank and saw it was closed. Since last week, I have been trying to pay the fees but due to the queue in and out of the bank, I have not been able to do so. I thought with the strike, the crowd will be less unknown to me, the banks will not open,” she lamented.
At the Rigasa train station, our correspondent observed that a few passengers who bought tickets online to board the 10 am train were stranded when they were told that the railway services have been suspended due to the ongoing strike action.
However, the passengers were told by the management that their tickets remained valid as long as they use them on the day the strike action is called off.
One of the passengers who preferred to remain anonymous said he had bought the ticket around 9 pm on Sunday hoping to resume work in Abuja Monday morning.
He said though he was aware of the strike action and was oblivious of the fact that it would affect federal government agencies and parastatals.
“If they knew they were going to join the strike action then the Nigeria Railway Corporation should have blocked all ticket sales, but to allow us to buy tickets when they know there is no room for refund is extortion.”
Major government hospitals across Kaduna metropolis were shut down on Monday following the ongoing strike action in the state.
Our reporter who visited Yusuf Dantsoho General Hospital and Barau Dikko Teaching hospital in Kaduna observed that the hospital premises were deserted and patients who had medical needs were left stranded.
As at 9:40 am at Yusuf Dantsoho General Hospital, Daily Trust observed that the consulting rooms were locked, male and female wards were also locked while patients on admission were said to have been discharged on Sunday.
The hospital staff were seen in groups within the premises as they discussed the situation while others sat under a tree at the entrance gate.
A patient who identified her name as Maman Aisha said she had brought her granddaughter who recently had surgery for a medical checkup only to be told that hospital staff were on strike.
The situation was the same at Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital where patients were seen leaving the hospital premises because there were no doctors to attend to them.
“We are leaving because the staff and doctors are not here to attend to us,” a patient caregiver was heard lamenting.
Speaking with our correspondent, the Kaduna State NMA Chairman, Dr. Aliyu Sokomba confirmed that the NMA was in support of the strike action even though it is yet to officially declare.
“We have a health workers union that has appealed to us to support them and though we are yet to declare full compliance, we are giving it all the necessary support to ensure it succeeds,” he said.
Some public and private schools in Kaduna have also remained shut. Some private schools had informed parents and guardians to remain home with their wards for safety as they observed the direction of the strike action.
Our correspondent who visited LEA Kagoro Tudun Wada, LEA Chawai Road, LEA Unguwar Sunusi, Government Girls Secondary School, Maimuna Gwarzo as well as LEA Nuhu Bamalli, LEA Saint Augustine, among others, reports that the schools were shut with no pupils or teachers.
A parent, Salisu Suleiman whose children were at home lamented that the strike had affected the educational pursuit of his children adding that, “In as much as we are not in support of the state government’s policies, we are equally not happy with the strike because the whole thing still affects the poor man,” he said.
He urged the government and labour to sheath their swords and move to the negotiating table for the betterment of all
The House of Representatives on Monday hinted that only a paltry nine percentage of billions of dollars spent on armed forces is spent on the purchase of arms to battle insecurity in the country.
The House, through the Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila, gave the hint at a public hearing on a proposed law to compel the thirty six states of the federation, Federal Inland Revenue Service(FIRS), Airlines operating in Nigeria, Nigeria Sovereign Wealth Fund and sundry grants from agencies to provide funding for the Nigerian Army, Navy and Airforce to effectively battle insecurity in the country.
He stated that , “It is my pleasure to speak at the Public Hearing on the Armed Forces Support Trust Fund (Establishment) Bill, 2021 which is being held today. The importance of this bill is evidenced by the dwindling resources available to the Armed Forces of Nigeria to prosecute the various security operations it is involved in. This requires innovative ideas to raise additional funds without placing any burden on Nigerians, in support of the Nigerian military. Thus, the idea of this
This Bill seeks to provide an injection of additional Capital funding for the Armed Forces of Nigeria at a crucial time in our nation. I am sure many of you will wonder why the Armed Forces of Nigeria need an additional financial injection at this time.
The fact based on appropriation records is that about 91% of the current funding to the Armed Forces go on recurrent overhead, salaries and welfare, leaving only 9% for capital purchases. This reality has prompted this 9th House of Representatives to seek a way of providing funds that will be focused on the Capital needs and training of our Armed Forces. Nigeria’s expenditure on military hardware and training in the last five years hovers between a paltry nine to eleven percent of the total annual budgetary allocation to the Armed Forces
This is grossly incapable of empowering the military to face the security challenges in the country especially the insurgency in the North East. To succeed in this fight, the Armed Forces of Nigeria requires more funding for modern weapons and required trainings. Spending on military hardware must definitely increase to support the zeal and commitment already being exhibited by our soldiers.
The Armed Forces Support Trust Fund (Establishment) Bill, 2021 is a time limited endeavour to upgrade the equipment infrastructure of our Armed Forces in a deliberate manner that will better position them to be more effective in securing the nation.
The myriad of security challenges facing the country has continued to dwarf every developmental effort put in by the government”,
According to the helmsman of the Green Chamber, “ Indeed, development is at the heart of security and as Kofi Annan puts it, “Development and security are inextricably linked.” If Nigeria must develop, we need to get our security estate right by ensuring that our military is adequately equipped and well- trained.
This requires funding which cannot be sourced solely through the annual budget provisions.
This Bill has been crafted in ways that does not impose any direct additional burden on Nigerian citizens and businesses, but creatively make funds available through deductions from statutory receipts of the Federal Government as well as voluntary donations”.
Distinguished colleagues, ladies and gentlemen; I am happy to support this Bill because it will help reposition our military capabilities in ways that can only strengthen our National security. I agree that the solutions to our insecurity as a nation will not only be by military powers alone; but also, by non-military engagement “
That is why next week, the House of Representatives is hosting a Five-Day Special Summit on National Security. This Summit will take an All-Nation and All-Government approach by examining extensively non-military solutions to our insecurity. From challenges with Food security, Environmental changes, Economic development, Criminal Justice reform and other non-kinetic engagements.
“But even with these extensive and wider examination of our security challenges; we cannot exclude the need for and benefit of a well-equipped and better trained military in the fight against all forms of insecurity.
It is a historic fact that countries during war times, do not fund their military through regular appropriation alone.
From the USA, to the United Kingdom and all Western powers; their military was funded through extra budgetary means during periods of war. Nigeria is at war against insurgency, terrorism, kidnapping and all manner of insecurity; hence the need to uplift the resources available to our Armed Services to enable them procure the best tools to help win this war. So, what we seek to do in this Bill is not new or unique to us as a nation
The solution to our security challenges requires asymmetric actions across many policy areas. This is what we have tried to do as the representatives of the people.
The concept of a Trust fund already exists for the Nigerian Police. It only makes sense to also bolster our military capability as well through this unique vehicle. In this Bill; the Board of the Trust Fund is full of eminent Nigerians from all walks of life; this should give confidence to all of the depth of knowledge and experience that will be available to manage this fund. The National Assembly will equally play its part in oversighting this work of this Trust Fund.
Nigerian Defence Headquarters on Monday, revealed that at least $2 billion dollars (about N826 billion), would be needed yearly, to tackle the worsening insecurity in the country.
The Director of Production, Defence Headquarters, Air Vice Marshall M. A. Yakubu, who made the disclosure during the public hearing on the Armed Forces Support Trust Fund Bill said even the sources of funding which the Bill prescribes were insufficient to address the problem.
The public hearing was organized by the House of Representatives Committee on Defence.
Yakubu said the projection for the funding for the Bill is about N100 billion per year.
This, he said, was still inadequate even if it is eventually achieved when the Bill becomes law.
“I have been a defence attache with the United States from 2014 to 2017. I have been a Director of Procurement at the headquarters of the Nigerian Airforce for another two years. I have been a chief of logistics also at the headquarters Nigerian Airforce for another two years. So I am fully conversant with what it takes to run the affairs of a fighting airforce. I also understand the limitations we have in Nigeria and what it should have been. I want you to understand how large is this problem we are trying to address before I make my point.
Every year, how do we get our budget, capital budget specifically? An arbitrary envelope is simply thrown at us. This year for example, your budget cap should be be N20 billion. It does not take into consideration what are the actually needs. What do you need to meet those needs. Now that is one, secondly, we are all aware of the exchange rate fluctuations. We have run into problems where even working with approved budget envelopes, we have gone ahead to sign contracts for procurement of equipment and suddenly the exchange rate collapses on us and we are unable to fund it. We have found ourselves every year running back to the Federal government for interventions. This is not sustainable.
The next thing I want to talk about is the cost of equipment. Talking from the point of view of an Airforce officer, who has been involved in procurement of equipment. Let me give you an example. The procurement of the 12 Super Tucano Aircraft cost approximately $500 million. Now this is a package. The United States would not sell equipment to you and just give you the equipment there. There must be support package for a minimum of three years. There must be training and other things. That total package came to that amount. How many years would it take you to budget?
The maximum we have received from 2017 to date we have received in capital allocation for the airforce was about N44 billion per annum. Convert that at the current exchange rate. How many years do you need to gather 500 million dollars to buy just 12 aircrafts? Look at the expanse of land we are required to cover? Nigeria is over 920, 000 square km. Every inch of the land needs to be covered by either surveillance or capability to attack. Where can you get those equipment to cover this land. Even the northeast alone, how much does it take to maintain even existing aircrafts? Because of this, I sincerely believe that the sources we are considering for this Bill are grossly inadequate. Let us look at it.
Last time about two weeks ago we had a brief discussion of what we intend to generate from this. We are estimating something in the range of N100 billion per annum. Convert that to dollars because virtually all the equipment are imported. This will go nowhere. And it would not address the problem we are seeking to address unless we expand the sources. Nigerians I know are tired of being asked to pay for something. The level of poverty everybody appreciates is severe. However nobody wants to sleep with only one eye closed. Everybody is scared of traveling on the road because of insecurity. Therefore I would urge that all stakeholders must educate citizens to understand the need to sacrifice because if we do not do that to address this problem sincerely speaking would continue to be a mirage.”
He also called for the improvement in the percentage of various areas that are expected to fund the trust fund.
“If we are not able to raise a minimum of $2 billion dollars per annum in the next three years for a start, subsequently maybe we can begin to taper down the percentages. But for a start we need a bulk sum because of many of these manufacturers of equipment require 100 percent down payment to even start production. So you cannot sign a contract example with the US manufacturers and pay 15 percent mobilization as required by the procurement act. Nobody would look at you. Their terms must be followed. Many times we are asked to pay 100 per cent. The example is the super tucano. This one is on government to government. They insisted 100 payment within 30 days. No budgetary allocation would fund that,” he said.
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has said that the decision to ban open grazing is in the best interest of all Nigerians.
The forum also warned that merely banning open grazing will not end the challenges as a large population of violent herders come from neighbouring countries.
This was contained in a statement on Monday in Kaduna, Chairman of the forum and former minister of agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbe said, “The ACF does not see any reason to object to a decision taken in the best interest of all.”
According to him; “The fact of the matter is that the crisis emanates from the belief by most herdsmen that they are free to enter any farm, eat up the crops and rape or kill any one raising objections. Nobody or society can accept that.”
“The current high price of garri is one obvious reason of this behaviour.
“Few cassava farms can grow to maturity or be harvested by the farmers. So food security is already being threatened”, the statement said.
“There is, however, the need to advise the governor’s in all states not to think that merely banning open grazing will end the crisis.
“The bulk of the violent herders are the ones marching in from neighboring African countries in large numbers, thousands at a time and showing no regards to boundaries whether State or regional. They have to be stopped.
Therefore, the Ganduje formula must be adopted to stop the entry into Nigeria of cattle from West Africa”, Ogbe said.
He said the solution is for Nigeria to seek an amendment to article 3 of the ECOWAS Protocols, especially, as regards to free movement of cattle and other livestock without special permits.
Ogbe said, “If this is done, we have over 5million hectatres of land in old grazing reserves left, enough to accommodate over 40 million cows if well grassed and watered.
He called on Northern governors to immediately look into this and see the viability, stressing that within those spaces, ranches can be developed for lease to Nigerian herders as an end to the crisis.
“Thereafter any herders found roaming can be penalized. Our ECOWAS neighbours can find ways to deal with their own issues the way they seem fit.
“We can seek support from AfFB, the World Bank, EU or the Kuwait Fund or any source willing to support us in resolving this problem.
Hurling abuses, trading suspicion and threatening warfare as is currently the trend will only produce grief and disaster”, the statement said.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors have called for the restructuring of the country that will see to devolution of more powers and functions to states.
This, was amongst several resolutions reached by the governors who rose from a meeting on Monday in Ibadan, Oyo State.
The meeting, which was presided by the Chairman of the PDP’s Governors’ Forum and Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal also backed the recent resolution by Southern Governors Forum on open grazing saying ranching is the only solution to the persistent herders/farmers clashes in the country.
Tambuwal, in communique at the end of the one-day consultative meeting, advised President Muhammad Buhari to immediately send an executive bill to the National Assembly to amend the country’s Constitution to devolve more powers to the States, with respect to security arrangements culminating in some form of State Policing and the general security architecture.
“In the interim, Mr President should summon an immediate meeting of the Nigerian Police Council, which comprises Mr President and all State Governors and other critical stakeholders to evolve and implement strategies to combat the present threats to our union, especially with respect to policing.”
“the Police Force still remains the appropriate institution to secure our democracy and should not be subjected to personal attacks. The welfare, training, equipment, funding of all security agencies should be given priority.”
Governors at the meeting are Sokoto state governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Governor of Bayelsa, Senator Douye Diri, Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, Governor of Adamawa, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, Enugu state Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, Akwa Ibom, Udoh Emmanuel, Rivers State Governor, Nyesome Wike, Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki and Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State.
Zamfara State was represented by the deputy governor, Mahdi Gusau. States not represented are Abia, Cross River and Taraba.
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State on Monday urged residents of his state to defend themselves against any armed invader.
Ortom made the remark while reacting to questions from journalists on his arrival to Makurdi from Oyo State where he attended the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ meeting, said people need to rise up against unnecessary invasion of their homes.”Our people should defend themselves,” he said.
The governor, who was obviously angry about fresh killings allegedly perpetrated by suspected armed herders in parts of the state, stressed that it was time for people to rise up against such criminality.
Speaking on the Governors meeting, he disclosed that the forum has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to give attention to security.
He said, “We (PDP Governors’) have affirmed our position on the southern Governors’ decision banning open grazing of animals. We hope that we shall join hands together with the president to address the matter. There is no way we can do it without the president because more power is at the centre. We have work to do with the President”.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday grilled the immediate past governor of Kwara, Abdulfatah Ahmed, over alleged diversion of the state’s funds when he served for eight years.
A top official of the commission, who does not want his name in print, hinted newsmen that the former governor honoured an invitation extended to him and he was still being quizzed as at the time of filing this report.
The anti-graft agency’s spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, in a telephone interview with our correspondent confirmed Abdulfatah’s presence at the headquarters of the commission in Abuja.
When asked why he was invited, Uwujaren said he was invited to help the commission in its ongoing investigation. It was unclear whether he would be released this night or not.
Nollywood actor, Olarenwaju Omiyinka popularly known as Baba Ijesha has been granted bail, his lawyer, Adesina Ogunlana, confirmed this today.
Recall that he was detained by police for alleged sexual assault has been granted bail.
He has been granted bail about one hour ago. We are working to perfect the bail. He was granted bail on health grounds. He has not been released. He will be released after his bail conditions have been perfected,” he said.
Among the bail conditions listed by the lawyer for Baba Ijesha’s release are two reliable sureties – one of them must be a level 10 officers, a direct blood relation, and N500,000 bail bond in like sum.
We gathered Baba Ijesha was granted bail when magistrates went around police stations across the State, hearing cases of some suspects.
Ogunlana had in a letter addressed to the Commissioner of Police seeking Baba Ijesha’s bail on Friday that Baba Ijesha is looking abnormally weak and lean.
