Northerners | InsideOjodu https://www.insideojodu.com ...conecting the community Wed, 13 Jul 2022 19:32:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.10 http://www.insideojodu.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/favicon.ico Northerners | InsideOjodu https://www.insideojodu.com 32 32 Lagos Assembly denies secret passage of Sharia Bill to get Northerners support for Tinubu https://www.insideojodu.com/lagos-assembly-denies-secret-passage-of-sharia-bill-to-get-northerners-support-for-tinubu/ https://www.insideojodu.com/lagos-assembly-denies-secret-passage-of-sharia-bill-to-get-northerners-support-for-tinubu/#respond Wed, 13 Jul 2022 19:32:46 +0000 https://www.insideojodu.com/?p=32514 The Lagos House of Assembly has denied a report that it secretly passed a…

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The Lagos House of Assembly has denied a report that it secretly passed a Sharia Bill to get Northerners support for the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

The Chairman, House Committee on Information, Security and Strategy, Setonji David, made this known in a statement on Wednesday.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that an online media had reported that the assembly hurriedly passed a bill to set up Sharia courts, paving way for Sharia law in Lagos state which had been signed into law by the current state governor.

David, representing Badagry II, said the report was a mere figment of the imagination of the writer and a total lie from the pit of hell.

The spokesperson said no informed person should believe such lies against the assembly that was above the common standard of excellence, adding that the news was far from the reality.

He said: “The attention of the Lagos state house of assembly has been drawn to a malicious and unfounded report making the rounds on social media.

“That the assembly has secretly passed a sharia law in a deal to get Northern support for Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate.

“We will not have dignified the writer of this hate speech but in order to set the records straight, this is a mere figment of the imagination of the writer and a total lie from the pit of hell.

“No informed person should believe this lie against the assembly that is above the common standard of excellence. The news is far from reality.

“Some people are just mischievous. Spreading all sorts of untrue stuff. Is it possible to pass a law under cover?

“The process of law making is universal and very open. You cannot pass a law without subjecting it to public hearing in Lagos state.”

David urged residents of the state and Nigerians as a whole to take the peddlers of this unfounded report as uninformed, and uneducated people who needed to be schooled about the law making process.

He said Tinubu was a fast selling product across the country and does not need any law from the state to further endear him to all Nigerians.

The lawmaker said by the special grace of God, Tinubu would emerge winner of the 2023 presidential election to the shame of purveyors of the hate news.

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Lagos arresting and humiliating northern youths, Arewa youth forum alleges https://www.insideojodu.com/lagos-arresting-and-humiliating-northern-youths-arewa-youth-forum-alleges/ https://www.insideojodu.com/lagos-arresting-and-humiliating-northern-youths-arewa-youth-forum-alleges/#respond Tue, 10 Dec 2019 08:41:42 +0000 https://www.insideojodu.com/?p=9336 The Arewa Youths Consultative Forum has accused the Lagos State Government of humiliating and…

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The Arewa Youths Consultative Forum has accused the Lagos State Government of humiliating and carrying out indiscriminate arrest of northerners in Lagos.

The group claimed that officials of the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences were harassing commercial motorcyclists who were mainly northerners.

The AYCF in a statement on Monday by its President, Alhaji Yerima Shettima, said the task force had been invading homes of northerners and taking away their motorcycles, warning that this might spark reprisals against southerners in the North.

The group said, “We reliably gathered that using Gestapo style,  the Lagos Task Force officials have been invading homes of northerners in Lagos in ungodly hours of the night and carting away motorcycles while forcefully abducting the occupants and hauling them into detention.

“We dare say we have not seen this kind of impunity against northerners in recent years. It is even strange that this is coming from the South-West, a zone that expects the North to hand over the Presidency to it in 2023.”

Shettima asked the Lagos State Government and the task force to explain the legal and constitutional basis for their action, noting that many northerners in Oshodi were harassed and arrested.

He added, “We are deeply disturbed by this rather uncivilised conduct in the 21st century, happening in a supposedly cosmopolitan city like Lagos.”

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