Meanwhile, in Nigeria: Naval ratings beat, strip lady naked

[chanchaga]

Redeployment means nothing. Please do not get excited. Justice is important. I am not sure anything will come out of this case but I desperately want to be wrong on this. So that someone will tell me that "I told you so".

[tonsoyo]

Originally Posted by Mikky jaga

Tonsoyo, since you love bullshit so much, can you please enlighten us more here?

Please provide a name of a former GOC that was posted to Director of planning at the Defence Headquarters in a redeployment and it was a normal deployment and not a sanction. I am willing to learn, please.

Did you read this part of the report:

"Rear Admiral Good Omo-ohwo Akpollo, formerly the Deputy Commandant, Armed Forces Command & Staff College (AFCSC), Jaji takes over as DHQ Chief of Administration; Rear Admiral Ekwere Udoh Ekwere, formerly Admiral Superintendent Ordinance Depot is now FOC, Naval Training Command while Rear Admiral Bodunrin Adisa Raji, formerly FOC Eastern Naval Command is now the Deputy Commandant, AFCSC, Jaji"


Was Rear Admiral Bodunrin Raji also sanctioned because of Uzoma?

It is even better as a Director of Planning than a Deputy Commandant, it is a useless position.

Many GOCs have been moved from that position to obscurity several times in Nigeria history, those postings are political.

Most postings being done under Yar'Adua's regime are vindictive and also for security purposes.

Many people of Southern extraction have suffered untold oppression since Yar'Adua, especially Yorubas. They did the same thing in foreign missions.

This has nothing to do with Uzoma.

[Ewuro]

Originally Posted by Mikky jaga

Tonsoyo, since you love bullshit so much, can you please enlighten us more here?

Please provide a name of a former GOC that was posted to Director of planning at the Defence Headquarters in a redeployment and it was a normal deployment and not a sanction. I am willing to learn, please.

Igboamaeze is of the opinion that the Director of planning, the new position of Rear admiral Arogundade could be a position of lucre where juicy contracts are awarded. I do not know for sure.
#938

Not quite Sir. In public service generally, the head of Planning is in charge of CONTRACTS. That translates to putting Arogundade in a position of lucre and influence.

[tonsoyo]

Originally Posted by Ewuro

Igboamaeze is of the opinion that the Director of planning, the new position of Rear admiral Arogundade could be a position of lucre where juicy contracts are awarded. I do not know for sure.
#938

I think that post is funny, it is not unexpected coming from that clown. Na only CONTRACT the ALABA TRADER see for the posting?

Since when do the Director of Planning handles contract anyway, I think that is a job for Director of Administration except where the position if fused as the Director of Planning and Administration.

[tonsoyo]

Further Ewuro these are the Departments of the Naval HQ:

Training and Operations
Policy and Plans
Logistics
Accounts & Budget
Administration
Engineering

Administration handles contract. He is in Policy and Planning, dry department.

[Ewuro]

Originally Posted by tonsoyo

Further Ewuro these are the Departments of the Naval HQ:

Training and Operations
Policy and Plans
Logistics
Accounts & Budget
Administration
Engineering

Administration handles contract. He is in Policy and Planning, dry department.

Tonsoyo,
Arogundade is going to defence HQ and not navy HQ.

[Mikky jaga]

Originally Posted by Ewuro

Tonsoyo,
Arogundade is going to defence HQ and not navy HQ.

Tonsoyo is full of bullshit. He does not aim before he fires. The Arogundade boy is going to be a lowly officer in the Defence Hq, unlike before when he was the Alpha and Omega as the FOC.

Arogundade, Yessir!!

Let me have your report before tomorrow morning. Yessir!!

[Igboamaeze]

Originally Posted by tonsoyo

I think that post is funny, it is not unexpected coming from that clown. Na only CONTRACT the ALABA TRADER see for the posting?

Since when do the Director of Planning handles contract anyway, I think that is a job for Director of Administration except where the position if fused as the Director of Planning and Administration.

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How on earth do I tell a drone like you that I hold you in contempt? If ur devilish mission on NVS is not clear to anyone on NVS by now, it is simply becuase, as always, the herd moves in group.

I educated you on NJC elsewhere. I am educating you once more on the structure of the public service. True, I am not sure how they do it in the Armed Forces, but I am CERTAIN that the Dept of Planning (Research and Statistics) is the Secretariat of Tenders in addition to other important schedules (U can contact arogundade immediately for a piece of the action in consideration for your satanic defence).

In any case, being in charge of any dept in the Defence Hqtrs is indeed a lucrative position. For someone who should be cooling his dry ass in prison for brutalising an innocent young woman, your friend and brother, Arogundade is indeed in a position of lucre and influence.

Finally, I have told you how painful it is for me to join issues with an internet loafer of ur specie. You can fool the herd on NVS, but Igboamaeze is just beyond you.

And you know it...

[Mikky jaga]

Originally Posted by Igboamaeze

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How on earth do I tell a drone like you that I hold you in contempt? If ur devilish mission on NVS is not clear to anyone on NVS by now, it is simply becuase, as always, the herd moves in group.

I educated you on NJC elsewhere. I am educating you once more on the structure of the public service. True, I am not sure how they do it in the Armed Forces, but I am CERTAIN that the Dept of Planning (Research and Statistics) is the Secretariat of Tenders in addition to other important schedules (U can contact arogundade immediately for a piece of the action in consideration for your satanic defence).

In any case, being in charge of any dept in the Defence Hqtrs is indeed a lucrative position. For someone who should be cooling his dry ass in prison for brutalising an innocent young woman, your friend and brother, Arogundade is indeed in a position of lucre and influence.

Finally, I have told you how painful it is for me to join issues with an internet loafer of ur specie. You can fool the herd on NVS, but Igboamaeze is just beyond you.

And you know it...

What has all these got to do with being an Alaba trader? If actually, you are the one that composed this reply, then you must be wasting your talents away. I will advise you to find something else doing, like being a Village Headmaster, for example. You will surely impress many local folks with you vocabulary.

It's an advice, anyway!!

[Igboamaeze]

Originally Posted by Mikky jaga

What has all these got to do with being an Alaba trader? If actually, you are the one that composed this reply, then you must be wasting your talents away. I will advise you to find something else doing, like being a Village Headmaster, for example. You will surely impress many local folks with you vocabulary.

It's an advice, anyway!!

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Mikky, Compare my post with yours above it (Post #947) and see the connection.

I took you for one of the discerning persons on NVS, but your post above is unfortunate, unintelligent, infra-dig and most disappointing.

How on earth do I tell a drone like you that I hold you in contempt? If ur devilish mission on NVS is not clear to anyone on NVS by now, it is simply because, as always, the herd moves in group.

Rule #1: Whenever your post is thanked by tonsoyo or Ewuro, know that you are a member of the herd.

Right from my first day on NVS, I have tried, as of principle, to maintain an independence of opinion. I have never taken a view to curry favour or to be thanked by a gang of attention-seeking internet mob. Right or wrong, I get my points accross. That is what I cherish most.

Igboamaeze is not a crowd pleaser. And they know it...

[seguno2]

Assault: Uzoma Okere wins round one

Tony Amokeodo


JUSTICE Opeyemi Oke of a Lagos High Court, on Wednesday, dismissed the preliminary objection of Rear Admiral Harry Arogundade and the Nigerian Navy, challenging the jurisdiction of the court to hear a suit by Miss Uzoma Okere.

The lady was reportedly assaulted by six naval ratings attached to the convoy of Arogundade on November 3, 2008 on Muri Okunola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Okere and Abdulahi Abdulazeez had dragged Arogundade, NN and Unknown Naval Ratings to court and demanded N100m damages.

But the defendants had filed objection, claiming that the court lacked the jurisdiction to hear the suit.

In her ruling, Justice Oke held that a prima facie case had been established against Arogundade, NN and Unknown Naval Ratings.

The judge also awarded N25,000 costs against the defendants.

Justice Oke also berated Arogundade and other defendants for wasting the time of the court, saying that the objection lacked merit.

She said, “I hold that the Notice of Preliminary objection and the grounds upon which same is brought is mere waste of the time of the court and it is brought in bad faith to delay the hearing of the applicants‘ suit for the enforcement of their fundamental human rights.

“I hold that the preliminary objection has no leg on which to stand or knee caps to crawl before this court. It is hereby dismissed with N25,000 costs against the respondents.”

The judge further held that Okere and Abdulazeez had duly complied with the provisions of Order 1 Rule 2 (3) of the Fundamental Rights (Enforcement Procedure) Rules 1979.

She further held that since the court was satisfied that a prima facie case had been made, the court had no alternative than to grant leave to the plaintiffs to enforce their rights.

She said, “I have exercised my discretion on this application for leave for the enforcement of applicants’ fundamental rights judiciously and judicially, that a prima facie case has been made.

“I further hold that the applicants did comply with the preliminary steps for the enforcement of their fundamental rights.”

Regarding the issue of service, which the NN and Unknown Naval Ratings claimed was not properly effected, the court held that the defendants had been duly served with the originating summons, affidavit in support and the verifying affidavit.

The court also held that the contention of the defendants that the NN was not served with the originating summons at its headquarters at Plot 1092, Mohammed Buhari Way, Area 7, Garki, Abuja, was misconceived.

She pointed out that the NN and Unknown Naval Ratings were aware of the suit having been served through their Lagos office and represented by a lawyer.

The court held that the Lagos office of the NN had the responsibility to pass the information to the defendants, saying that to declare otherwise would only make a ridicule of the law.

Justice Oke later adjourned the case till March 18.

[seguno2]

Assault: Uzoma Okere wins round one

Tony Amokeodo


JUSTICE Opeyemi Oke of a Lagos High Court, on Wednesday, dismissed the preliminary objection of Rear Admiral Harry Arogundade and the Nigerian Navy, challenging the jurisdiction of the court to hear a suit by Miss Uzoma Okere.

The lady was reportedly assaulted by six naval ratings attached to the convoy of Arogundade on November 3, 2008 on Muri Okunola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Okere and Abdulahi Abdulazeez had dragged Arogundade, NN and Unknown Naval Ratings to court and demanded N100m damages.

But the defendants had filed objection, claiming that the court lacked the jurisdiction to hear the suit.

In her ruling, Justice Oke held that a prima facie case had been established against Arogundade, NN and Unknown Naval Ratings.

The judge also awarded N25,000 costs against the defendants.

Justice Oke also berated Arogundade and other defendants for wasting the time of the court, saying that the objection lacked merit.

She said, “I hold that the Notice of Preliminary objection and the grounds upon which same is brought is mere waste of the time of the court and it is brought in bad faith to delay the hearing of the applicants‘ suit for the enforcement of their fundamental human rights.

“I hold that the preliminary objection has no leg on which to stand or knee caps to crawl before this court. It is hereby dismissed with N25,000 costs against the respondents.”

The judge further held that Okere and Abdulazeez had duly complied with the provisions of Order 1 Rule 2 (3) of the Fundamental Rights (Enforcement Procedure) Rules 1979.

She further held that since the court was satisfied that a prima facie case had been made, the court had no alternative than to grant leave to the plaintiffs to enforce their rights.

She said, “I have exercised my discretion on this application for leave for the enforcement of applicants’ fundamental rights judiciously and judicially, that a prima facie case has been made.

“I further hold that the applicants did comply with the preliminary steps for the enforcement of their fundamental rights.”

Regarding the issue of service, which the NN and Unknown Naval Ratings claimed was not properly effected, the court held that the defendants had been duly served with the originating summons, affidavit in support and the verifying affidavit.

The court also held that the contention of the defendants that the NN was not served with the originating summons at its headquarters at Plot 1092, Mohammed Buhari Way, Area 7, Garki, Abuja, was misconceived.

She pointed out that the NN and Unknown Naval Ratings were aware of the suit having been served through their Lagos office and represented by a lawyer.

The court held that the Lagos office of the NN had the responsibility to pass the information to the defendants, saying that to declare otherwise would only make a ridicule of the law.

Justice Oke later adjourned the case till March 18.

http://www.punchng.com/article_comme...00903124322576

[bob]

regrouping after a rebel attack.

[Dapxin]

from twitterfeed:

234nextLagos/Nigeria - State high court stalls hearing on Navy’s appeal to cross examine Uzoma Okere, who was assaulted by Naval ratings
about 2 hours ago from web

[Dapxin]

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?t...00912141413478

Uzoma Okere: Too long a road to justice

Olalekan Adetayo



By the time Justice Opeyemi Oke of a Lagos High Court delivers judgment in a N100m assault suit instituted by Miss Uzoma Okere and her friend, Abdulahi Abdulazeez, against Rear Admiral Harry Arogundade, the Nigerian Navy and four naval ratings, the case would have been on for more than 14 months.

Oke is billed to deliver judgment in the suit filed on behalf of the plaintiffs by an agency of the Lagos State Ministry of Justice, Office of Public Defender, and Mr. Olaniran Obele of the firm of Ikeyi and Arifayan on January 24, 2010.

The alleged assault happened in broad daylight at Muri Okunola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos on November 3, 2008. Okere was on her way to Mile 2 from Lagos Island where she worked.

The lady was later discovered to be a daughter of the Sergeant-At-Arms of the National Assembly, Col. Emmanuel Okere (rtd).

In the process of clearing the way for their boss whose convoy was stuck in a traffic jam like every other person, six armed naval ratings attached to Arogundade reportedly went berserk. They allegedly beat up Okere who was driving a Mitsubishi Colt car marked MQ 34 KJA at the time and stripped her naked in the full glare of other road users.

By the time the madness ended, the lady, who was forcibly handcuffed, was left with a battered face, blood-shot eyes and bruises all over her body. She was immediately admitted and treated at Kamorass Hospital, not too far from the scene of the bloody encounter.

The rampaging naval ratings reportedly hit the lady with their gun butts and beat her with horsewhip.

They also allegedly attacked Abdulazeez, who was in the car with her, for attempting to come to her rescue.

Arogundade was said to be inside a Peugeot 406 car marked NN 357 A 02 at the time of the incident. Instead of apprehending his men, the naval officer was alleged to have blamed the lady for holding on to the ratings‘ uniforms while they were beating her.

The victim, while relaying her bitter experience to our correspondent on the telephone from her hospital bed said, “We were all in the traffic. I heard a siren behind me. One of them came out to control the traffic. I was moving to the left when he suddenly pulled me out. They dragged me into the house and tore my clothes. I was beaten up mercilessly. My head is really swollen with bruises all over me.”

She added that she managed to get her colleagues to call her father to speak with the Rear Admiral on phone.

“My father spoke with the man on the phone later but he told him that I was fighting with his men. They would have beaten the two other ladies in my car like they did to my male colleague if not for the fact that they are pregnant,” she added.

But the Nigerian Navy attributed the incident to provocation from the victim. Addressing journalists in Abuja, the Director of Information, Nigerian Navy, Commodore David Naibada, alleged that Okere provoked one of the naval ratings when she stepped out of her car that was in front of the admiral‘s convoy and seized the horsewhip he was holding.

Naibada accused the victim of making up stories to embarrass the admiral “who incidentally was a junior officer to her father when the duo were in the military school together.”

But Okere, at a joint press conference organised by the Real Woman Foundation and Women Arise in Lagos, said the naval spokesman did not tell the truth.She said the ratings started beating her before she managed to step down from her car.

Okere said, “It will take a mad man to snatch a horsewhip from an armed man and start beating the armed man. I am not a mad person and so I could not have done that.

“The guys beat me while I was still inside the car. I don‘t know what emboldened me to drag the injustice they meted out on me with them, what I know is that they wronged me and I won‘t take it.”

But an associate of the Rear Admiral, Mr. Lanre Osodi, who claimed to be with Arogundade when the case was reported to him, claimed that Okere confirmed to the rear admiral that she snatched a ratings horsewhip.

Oshodi, in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents, however, said that he relied on the account of the incident narrated to the naval boss by the ratings when they dragged the victim to him inside the house.

When contacted on the telephone, Arogundade said he could not speak on record until he got a clearance from naval authorities.

Since THE PUNCH exclusively published the story detailing the lady‘s ordeal in the hands of the ratings, the newspaper has been inundated with reactions from its readers both at home and in the Diaspora who felt that the lady’s fundamental rights were unjustly violated.

Since the report, however, our correspondents and columnists have been receiving threat telephone calls from unidentified persons.

Human rights activists and hundreds of the newspapers‘ online readers reacted to the story, describing the act as barbaric and called for the prosecution of the perpetrators.

The reactions came at a time when some concerned Lagosians who witnessed and recorded the dastardly act on a camcoder released its video footage to the public.

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, at a news conference in Lagos said, ”I want to add my voice to the uproar that has been generated by that admiral in the brutalisation of this woman. If that admiral is not prosecuted, civil organisations will institute actions against him.

“This abominable kind of conduct has got to stop. This animal conduct on the part of our uniformed services must end.”

In her reaction, the Director, Gender Development Action, Ms. Ada Agina-Ude, described the assault on the lady as a display of raw power, calling on lawyers, women and human rights activists, to rally round the lady with a view to getting justice.

Another activist, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, while describing the incident as condemnable and barbaric, said all those involved should be brought to book.

Also, the Deputy Director, Women Advocacy and Documentation Research Centre, Mrs. Grace Ketefe, said the naval ratings‘action was against the dignity of a woman.

Other groups that expressed interest in the issue were the Project Alert, the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, the Action Congress and the National Human Rights Commission among others.

After the THE PUNCH’s report, the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), also hosted the victim in his office where he promised the state government‘s support in her quest to get justice.

The Senate Committee on Navy also asked the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice-Admiral Isaiah Ibrahim, to explain the circumstances leading to the harassment

The Senate committee‘s reaction was sequel to the petition by the victim‘s father, urging it to look into the matter with the view to bringing his daughter‘s attackers to justice.

In a petition presented to both the Senate Committees on Navy and Defence, Okere described the attack as unlawful and condemnable.

The Nigerian Navy also ordered an investigation into the incident. Naibada and the Director of Policy, Captain Henry Babalola, while confirming the development, assured Nigerians that anyone found to be directly or remotely connected with the incident would be sanctioned if found guilty.

Okere and Abdulazeez are asking the court to declare the acts of the respondents in torturing and stripping Okere naked as ruthless, brutalising and unlawful and that her arrest without any justification as equally unlawful and unconstitutional.

Oke had earlier held that a prima facie case had been established against Arogundade, the Nigerian Navy and the unknown Naval Ratings.

The judge also awarded N25,000 costs against the defendants. and berated them for wasting the time of the court, saying that their earlier objection lacked merit.

[N.A.R.]

Dapxin
Thanks for keeping tabs on this story. This is the problem with courts worldwide, they take quite a long time to get resolved, especially when defending lawyers can use all kind of gynamics to extend the case. So long as she wins the case at the end of the day, it would have been worth the wait and also it will point to ordinary Nigerians what to do when they get on the wrong side of those mad zombies who call themselves military men. Also the sane ones in the military will take note and stop such nonsense... Possibly.

[I Love Nigeria]

Uzoma Okereke only "offense" was her audacity... she assaulted the fragile egos of those puny uniformed men... by seizing their horsewhip .... instead of just laying down and die... (take a million lashes) and be thrashed by those trash in our national uniforms.How about challenging the those Cameroonian boys in Bakassi to test or compare gallantry?

I find it too irritating, to hear the admiral say, without embarrassment or remorse

"we would have flogged the other women, except that they were pregnant!"

Shame!

But the Nigerian Navy attributed the incident to provocation from the victim. Addressing journalists in Abuja, the Director of Information, Nigerian Navy, Commodore David Naibada, alleged that Okere provoked one of the naval ratings when she stepped out of her car that was in front of the admiral‘s convoy and seized the horsewhip he was holding.

[Dapxin]

13 days to go to the court judgement here....we ll see.