Lagos seals building after residents ‘dumped waste on flooded street’
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The building is located at 2 Akewukewe street in the Ijesha Surulere area of Lagos.
Tokunbo Wahab, Lagos commissioner for environment and water resources, announced the sanction via a post on X.
On Wednesday, torrential rain in Lagos left most parts of the metropolis and major roads underwater.
Motorists and commuters were also left stranded due to the flooding.
Amid the heavy rainfall, an X user, @Adetutuadeoye3, posted a picture showing a man and a woman holding a trash bin in front of a building.
The X user alleged that the residents dumped the waste in the trash bin inside the flood running through the front of the building.
Responding to the post, Wahab said LAWMA officials would take action.
After some minutes, the commissioner posted pictures showing officials had identified the building and sealed it off.
Bandits demand N300m to free abducted Kaduna judge, kill son
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Some bandits who kidnapped a Kaduna State female judge and her four children were reported to have killed the eldest son while threatening to kill the other children if the ransom demanded was not paid.
The Chief Executive Officer of the House of Justice, Gloria Ballason, who disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, condemned the abduction of the Customary Court judge, Janet Galadima, and her four children as well as the “murder of her 14-year-old son by the terrorists.”
Ballason said Galadima was abducted on the night of Sunday 23 June 2024 along with her four sons at their residence in the state by the hoodlums while her husband, a medical doctor, was away on duty.
“The abductors reported to have been about fifteen, took their captives hostage and demanded a huge sum as ransom. On Tuesday 2 July 2024, the terrorists shot dead the 14-year first son of the Judge when the ransom demanded could not be obtained,” she said.
Ballason, a human rights lawyer, described the murder of Victor, the 14-year-old son of the judge as “grisly and blood-curdling”, stating that no parent deserved the horror of watching their child being killed in such a cold, callous manner.
She called on the Nigerian security agencies, the governor of Kaduna State, the Nigeria Bar Association, and the judiciary to protect the lives of Galadima and her children and ensure justice is served.
Meanwhile, the state chapter of the Nigeria Medical Association in a statement issued by its Public Relations Officer, Dr Shuaibu Joga, condemned the development and urged the security agencies to rise to the occasion.
EFCC, ICPC petitioned over El-Rufai’s alleged N423b fraud
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Kaduna- The Kaduna Citizens Watch for Good Governance (KCWGG), a group, has petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Independent and Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) over the N423 billion allegedly misappropriated by the immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-rufai and his officials.
While addressing a press conference on Wednesday, the Chairman of KCWGG,
Comrade Victor Duniya said the petitions requested for immediate investigations, arrests and prosecutions of El-rufai and his appointees who were involved in alleged mismanagement, siphoning, and some illegal financial and administrative activities while he governed the State for eight years.
While reacting to questions by newsmen on El-Rufai’s recent lawsuit against the State House of Assembly at the Federal High Court, Kaduna, claiming N1billion damages over the probe committee report, Comrade Duniya said, “It is just a delay tactic because justice delayed is justice denied.”
“But we will continue to voice out our protest to ensure that justice is not only done but seen to be done. It is unfortunate that El-Rufai that never obeyed Court order as governor, he is now running to the same court to seek protection”.
“Yesterday, the 2nd of July 2024, we officially lodged petitions at the headquarters of the Economic And Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the zonal office of Independent and Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) Kaduna against the former governor of Kaduna state Mal. Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai and many members of his administration that the Kaduna State House of Assembly Ad-hoc report on sourcing and usage of domestic loans from 29th May 2015 to 29th May 2003 indicted.”
“Our petitions requested for immediate investigations, arrests, and prosecutions of Mal. El-Rufai and his appointees that were involved in mismanagement, siphoning, and many illegal financial and administrative activities contained in the report.”
“Holding the former governor and those that spilled the treasury and shortchanged people’s interest accountable will deter other elected and appointed public officials from mindless looting of public treasury with impunity.We have absolute confidence in the capacity and determination of the anti-graft agencies in combating corruption in Nigeria,” he said.
Corrupt elements planning protest against EFCC – Spokesman
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has raised the alarm that some corrupt elements being investigated are planning a massive protest against the commission.
The commission noted that a group had in the last few days recruited young Nigerians including students to demonstrate against the commission.
The anti-graft agency in a statement on Wednesday by its Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, stated that the campaign against the commission was being portrayed as opposition to the commission’s efforts, particularly regarding the enforcement of cybercrime laws.
Oyewale said, “EFCC wishes to alert the general public on the plan by a shadowy group to instigate a “protest” against the Commission. In the last couple of days, the group has been actively campaigning on social media, recruiting impressionable young Nigerians, including students to take up “arms” against the EFCC.
“This insidious campaign is being promoted as resistance to the operational activities of the Commission especially in respect of the enforcement of the laws dealing with cybercrimes.”
Oyewale said the commission was not against protests, adding that evidence at their disposal showed that corrupt elements under investigation were behind the protest.
He said, “The commission, while not averse to protests by citizens, is alarmed by emerging evidence that suggests a grand design by corrupt elements under investigation or prosecution by the Commission to exploit the so-called protest to orchestrate a national uprising that may threaten the peace and security of our dear nation.”
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