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Education / Re: Quantitative Reasoning For Primary 4 Textbook by owji: 1:40pm On Mar 21, 2017
gud4dbest:

simple:139*3=417
258*2=516 so no 1 is 113*5=565,d missing no is 6.qns 2 is 996 divided by 3 =332 so d missing no is 3 etc


nice try

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Jobs/Vacancies / Re: Peace Corps Of Nigeria Training Camp by owji: 12:47pm On Mar 21, 2017
No one will fall for the peace scam again

the peace corp has 1.4 billion naira in UBA bank, the money that has been pretentiously collected from gullible youths and employment seekers in Nigeria. In exchange, peace corps promise all of them employment (after yeye training), even when the peace corp don't have the power to do so. undecided

eventually IF (which i doubt very much) the FG assented to the yeye bill, will all those gullible ppl that have paid be employed by FG? Answer is NO!!

PPl (in hundreds of thousand) keep bringing in money to peace corp in exchange for gainful employment while Dickson Akoh and other trustees that registered peace corp at CAC as NGO keeps smiling to the bank ..

So, this is a form of 419, obtaining under false pretense, just like they did years back in federal task force.
Crime / Re: Does Peace Corps Boss Deserve This Humilations? by owji: 12:46pm On Mar 21, 2017
okrote4real:
The recent clamp down by the Nigerian Police has been seen by Nigerians as a way of threatning and bullying The Nigerian Peace Corps, established in 1994 by Mr. Dickson Akoh, who has already forwarded a bill to the Senate and it is waiting the assent of the President.

He was arraigned today but due to thw fact that a date has not been fixed to hear his case, he was remanded.

A flashback would see how the Nigerian Police allegedly fought with now Road safety and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps before they are recognised.
Do you see history repeating itself?

The Organization that has existed for 18 years has been a voluntary one with few membership until recently when a bill to make it a government agency under the Ministry of Interior was sent to the National Assembly.

No one will fall for the peace scam again grin

the peace corp has 1.4 billion naira in UBA bank, the money that has been pretentiously collected from gullible youths and employment seekers in Nigeria. In exchange, peace corps promise all of them employment (after yeye training), even when the peace corp don't have the power to do so.

eventually IF (which i doubt very much) the FG assented to the yeye bill, will all those gullible ppl that have paid be employed by FG? Answer is NO!!

PPl (in hundreds of thousand) keep bringing in money to peace corp in exchange for gainful employment while Dickson Akoh and other trustees that registered peace corp at CAC as NGO keeps smiling to the bank ..

So, this is a form of 419, obtaining under false pretense, just like they did years back in federal task force.
Politics / Re: While The Naked Dance Of Shame By The Nigerian Police Against Pcn Lasted by owji: 3:25pm On Mar 19, 2017
Daveed4Jesus:
WHILE THE NAKED DANCE OF SHAME BY THE NIGERIAN POLICE AGAINST PCN LASTED

When as a mere agency of government, you translated yourself into a quasi federal government and mischievously invade a law abiding Organisation as the Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN), you will surely be in a state of mental retardation and apparent confusion when called upon to present a case buttressing the huge illegality perpetrated by ur agency
what next is expected apart from printing the organisation's bank transactions since 2002 till date and frivolously tag it as charges. That the erroneous 90 count charge aberrantly has 87 bordering on the Corps legitimate financial transactions since 2002 glaringly points to the facts that, the police authority have no substantial case against the Corps and its National Commandant.

Let it be known that, the voluntary payment interested Officers make to the organisation's account are meant to be spent on purchases of useful items from time to time and not meant to be laid dormant in the account awaiting police vetting
From every intent without prejudice, if the Nigerian Police and its cohorts can maintain half of the financial prudence and transparency the National Commandant and the National Executive Officers of the noble Organisation called PEACE CORPS OF NIGERIA thrive in, the Nigerian Police would have had its battered and financially dented image redeemed many years ago.

Nigerians followed with dismay the massive corruption case with one of the former IGP Balogun, and since then would want what nearly has become the trademark of the police authority (corruption) to be sorted out within the police. Nigerians no more count it worth discussing when it comes to the Nigerian Police and financial mismanagement cum corruption.

THE CASE IS NOT ABOUT FINANCIAL
MISMANAGEMENT OR CONVERT MILITARY TRAINING, IT IS OBVIOUSLY A CASE BURN OUT OF INTER AGENCY ENVY, THE DETERMINATION TO FRUSTRATE THE SOON TO BE ASSENTED NIGERIAN PEACE CORPS BILL IS WHAT LED TO THIS EMBARRASSING NAKED DANCE BY THE NIGERIAN
POLICE AND ITS KIND


Stop crying and bringing in yeye publications. No one will fall for the peace scam again grin grin grin

the peace corp has 1.4 billion naira in UBA bank, the money that has been pretentiously collected from gullible youths and employment seekers in Nigeria. In exchange, peace corps promise all of them employment (after yeye training), even when the peace corp don't have the power to do so. undecided

eventually IF (which i doubt very much) the FG assented to the yeye bill, will all those gullible ppl that have paid be employed by FG? Answer is NO!!

PPl (in hundreds of thousand) keep bringing in money to peace corp in exchange for gainful employment while Dickson Akoh and other trustees that registered peace corp at CAC as NGO keeps smiling to the bank ..

So, this is a form of 419, obtaining under false pretense, just like they did years back in federal task force.
Politics / Re: Why We Ordered Police, DSS To Justify Attack On Peace Corps – Justice Kolawole by owji: 3:22pm On Mar 19, 2017
Stop crying and bringing in yeye publications. No one will fall for the peace scam again grin grin grin

the peace corp has 1.4 billion naira in UBA bank, the money that has been pretentiously collected from gullible youths and employment seekers in Nigeria. In exchange, peace corps promise all of them employment (after yeye training), even when the peace corp don't have the power to do so. undecided

eventually IF (which i doubt very much) the FG assented to the yeye bill, will all those gullible ppl that have paid be employed by FG? Answer is NO!!

PPl (in hundreds of thousand) keep bringing in money to peace corp in exchange for gainful employment while Dickson Akoh and other trustees that registered peace corp at CAC as NGO keeps smiling to the bank ..

So, this is a form of 419, obtaining under false pretense, just like they did years back in federal task force.

Daveed4Jesus:
Why we ordered Police, DSS to justify attack on Peace Corps – Justice Kolawole

An Abuja Federal High Court has explained why it gave the Inspector General of Police, the National Security Adviser, and the Director General of Department of State Security Services, DSS, ultimatum to justify the clampdown on the Peace Corps of Nigeria.
The Justice Gabriel Kolawole-led court had on Thursday issued a 12-day ultimatum to IGP, DG of DSS and NSA to defend the recent attack on Peace Corps.

Justice Kolawole ordered in his ex-parte that they should defend the arrest and detention of the National Commandant of Peace Corps, Amb (Dr) Dickson Akoh and 49 other members of the corps.

The judge while delivering ruling in an ex-parte motion filed by the Incorporated Trustees of PCN and obtained by DAILY POST, held that the DSS, Police and NSA must justify in their affidavit evidence why previous judgements of the court in favour of Peace Corps were not complied with.

In the ruling that followed submissions of the former Attorney General of the Federation, Kanu Agabi for the applicant, Justice Kolawole said he was tempted to grant the prayers of the applicant in the ex parte motion and in view of previous judgements delivered by the court, but decided to give the defendants until March 28, 2017, to enable them respond in affidavit evidence to the brazen breach of fundamental rights of the applicants.

According to the judge, when he perused through several judgments of the court which had affirmed Peace Corps as a registered body by the Federal Government, and which had earlier restrained the defendants from “molesting, intimidating and harassing the applicants,” he was at a loss as to why the defendants chose to ignore the judgments in spite of letters from the AGF for compliance.
He frowned at the use of the so called “intelligence report” to cause infraction to the fundamental rights of Nigerian citizens, as guaranteed under the 1999 Constitution.
In view of this, Justice Kolawole vowed that the court shall not surrender it’s constitutional role of protecting the citizen.

He said, “I should state that, judicially speaking, there is nothing magical about intelligence/security reports that a court of law should upon its being mentioned, turn its tail and shirk from its constitutional duty to uphold the constitution and protect the rights of citizens, because, by the provisions of Section 36, there is no legal impediment that can prevent a court of law before whom a so called intelligence/security report is being brandished by agents of the state to justify an infraction of any of the rights guaranteed by the constitution.

“To allow this phenomena to take a firm root in our legal system by law enforcement agents, is to aid the gradual erosion of the foundation and efficacy of the constitution, and where that is allowed, we can as well bid a farewell to the concept of constitutional democracy, which in all civilized system, is firmly rooted in the principle of rule of law, which make government accountable to the people.”
See attachment below:

http://dailypost.ng/2017/03/19/ordered-police-dss-justify-attack-peace-corps-justice-kolawole/
Politics / Re: Why We Ordered Police, DSS To Justify Attack On Peace Corps – Justice Kolawole by owji: 3:21pm On Mar 19, 2017
Daveed4Jesus:
mode, Mbok!!....do justice to this thread.

Stop crying and bringing in yeye publications. No one will fall for the peace scam again grin grin grin

the peace corp has 1.4 billion naira in UBA bank, the money that has been pretentiously collected from gullible youths and employment seekers in Nigeria. In exchange, peace corps promise all of them employment (after yeye training), even when the peace corp don't have the power to do so. undecided

eventually IF (which i doubt very much) the FG assented to the yeye bill, will all those gullible ppl that have paid be employed by FG? Answer is NO!!

PPl (in hundreds of thousand) keep bringing in money to peace corp in exchange for gainful employment while Dickson Akoh and other trustees that registered peace corp at CAC as NGO keeps smiling to the bank ..

So, this is a form of 419, obtaining under false pretense, just like they did years back in federal task force.
Politics / Re: While The Naked Dance Of Shame By The Nigerian Police Against Pcn Lasted by owji: 9:25am On Mar 19, 2017
anpipac:
YOU ARE A SATANIC LIAR.

YOU ARE THE ONE THAT JUST LIED.
I DID THERE SHITTY TRAINING MANY YEARS BACK SO I KNOW WHAT GOES ON ON THE INSIDE....PISS CUP OF CORRUPTION grin
Politics / Re: While The Naked Dance Of Shame By The Nigerian Police Against Pcn Lasted by owji: 9:24am On Mar 19, 2017
Daveed4Jesus:


u did boy!!... its an NGO, form is 1,500#, camp registration s 40,000#. pls don't quote me again.

Nigeria peace corps ,please stop this charade. Nigeria Peace corps keep referring USA having peace corps too but the peace corps in USA is a voluntary program and not avenue to create employment for USA citizens. Will you have the fed govt to start creating phony ministries, parastatals, paramilitaries every now and then just to employ all youths? that is NOT possible. In my own opinion the govt should create an enabling environment (soft loans,infrastructure, power,laws etc) for youths to be self employed, govt cant possibly employ all youths.

I pity those gullible ppl like myself and other ppl that have already dolled out money to the Peace corps. I think the peace corp should better continue as voluntary organization and keep collecting their 45k and above for training etc from ppl whom are willing and dont hide under youth employment .

You keep on selling recruitment forms and training ppl (in hundreds of thousands) and also promise them
employment. Now,it is the same commandant general of Nigeria Peace Corps that said that at the eventual assent
by PMB the ratio of commissioned officer to voluntary officer will be 20%-80% (20 for officers & 80 for
voluntary office). Just imagine!, and you have already promised employment to all ppl that have enrolled.

You keep hiding under the disguise of generating employment for the youth & you think PMB cant read between
the lines!, more so you keep selling recruitment form to older ppl (40yrs and above)...is a man of 40 years and
above still a youth??.

i will keep telling ppl that they should not pay any 5k for recruitment form or 45k for some phony training. when
the federal government takes over fully there wont be need to pay for training or to buy recruitment form. Note
that there are still other fees to be paid.

WHAT IS THE JOB OF PEACE CORP IN NIGERIA
1. to promote peace in Nigeria (like the other military/paramilitary outfits have been promoting war)
2. to engage 800,000 youths in meaningful employment (Nigeria army and navy combined don't have up to
600,000 officers) grin
3. to end insurgency (without arms. na juju dem wan use grin
4. to curb cultism in secondary school and university grin
5. to curb exam malpractices. undecided undecided

and most importantly for the officers to be getting paid by the fed govt grin grin

see, the Peace corps don't have the interest of the country at heart, what they hungry for is SALARY!!! another
avenue to waste govt resources.

Nigeria peace corp should never be institutionalized just to MANAGE youth unemployment, It is wrong. Yes, it
may reduce unemployment (as fringe benefit) of the youths for a while. That should not be the main reason for
creating peace corp.

Were the NPF, Nigerian Army, Navy, FRSC etc created to tackle youth unemployment? your answer is as good as
mine.

Npower, YOUWIN and the likes are already in place for unemployed youths to be engaged with atleast. Again, Nigeria peace corps should stop this charade. A word is enough for the wise

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Romance / Re: Guys, If She Possesses Any Of These Traits, Pls Take Her To Your Moma Asap. by owji: 12:08pm On Mar 18, 2017
lol at your post.
u no knw say some girls can pretend well.
dont be fooled by all this yeye gestures.
dont say I dont warn una



firstking01:
1. At her first visit of your house she was very observant and complained of how unkept some of the places are and helped you to tidy it asap.


2. She hates you spending unnecesarilly eating outside...she prefers she always cook for you.


3. She doesn't allow you to waste your money on laundry...she encourages you to do it yourself or she does it herself atimes.


4. She most atimes pays for the meal whenever you take her out on a date.

5. She ask of your mum and siblings quite often.

6. She doesn't always allow you to be the first to call, not only that, upon her seeing your missed calls she doesn't hesitate to call you back instead of flashing you.


7. If you are a salary earner, she encourages you to set up a business as a back up plan should incase you are layed off by halliburton, schlumberger, total E and p, drillog, NLNG, cos she understands the way coys drops staff these days is just alarming.


8. She's not a lazy woman nor liability...she's always open to new developments and gives you a lucrative idea and always wants to work whenever the opportunity presents itself.


9. She doesn't just wake up and make plans on her own without making you part of the plans.


10. She doesn't appear aloof to you just like that without something in her hands, could be bole, fruits....most times she dashed into the boutique and buy you some nice shirts, boxers and a pair of shoe since she knows your sizeundecided


11. She doesn't wear provocative or revealing outfits, she's modest in her dressingundecided


12. She's not a phone freak...she knows when to touch her phone and when to get busy.


13. She seldomly go jealous at her sight of you with another girl, instead she'd lovingly and jokingly wanna know who she is, instead of ranting like a drammer queen.


14. She's faithful to a fault.


15. She can sing you into sleeping in her arms especially if she offends you, me i love this one eh grin.


16. She doesn't joke with church.


17. She has a blissing relationship with her colleagues both in church and in the office/school.


18. She's not a psycopath.


19. She doesn't believe in make ups, hence she knows she's not man hunting, it's only you she knows and haveundecided


20. She loves yousmiley...



I hope we still have ladies who possess these qualities, yeah, i'm optimistic we still do have such ladies, i 've encountered a few tho, so, don't tell me to go gather clay and mould one myself...the thing is, most times our taste outweighs us there by making us to not see them when they come our way.


Have a fulfilling weekend y'all.
Religion / Re: Lady Lays Curse On Stephanie Otobo, Begs Apostle Suleman For Help by owji: 6:39pm On Mar 15, 2017
seyi360:

She even ridiculously claims the Apostle promised her marriage , who does that to a striper? With the numerous responsible, decent and Godly women he has access to.

beauty is in the eyes of the beholder lol

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Politics / Re: FG Slams 90-count Criminal Charge On Peace Corps by owji: 5:41pm On Mar 15, 2017
Nigeria peace corps ,please stop this charade. Nigeria Peace corps keep referring USA having peace corps too but the peace corps in USA is a voluntary program and not avenue to create employment for USA citizens. Will you have the fed govt to start creating phony ministries, parastatals, paramilitaries every now and then just to employ all youths? that is NOT possible. In my own opinion the govt should create an enabling environment (soft loans,infrastructure, power,laws etc) for youths to be self employed, govt cant possibly employ all youths.

I pity those gullible ppl like myself and other ppl that have already dolled out money to the Peace corps. I think the peace corp should better continue as voluntary organization and keep collecting their 45k and above for training etc from ppl whom are willing and dont hide under youth employment .

You keep on selling recruitment forms and training ppl (in hundreds of thousands) and also promise them
employment. Now,it is the same commandant general of Nigeria Peace Corps that said that at the eventual assent
by PMB the ratio of commissioned officer to voluntary officer will be 20%-80% (20 for officers & 80 for
voluntary office). Just imagine!, and you have already promised employment to all ppl that have enrolled.

You keep hiding under the disguise of generating employment for the youth & you think PMB cant read between
the lines!, more so you keep selling recruitment form to older ppl (40yrs and above)...is a man of 40 years and
above still a youth??.

i will keep telling ppl that they should not pay any 5k for recruitment form or 45k for some phony training. when
the federal government takes over fully there wont be need to pay for training or to buy recruitment form. Note
that there are still other fees to be paid.

WHAT IS THE JOB OF PEACE CORP IN NIGERIA
1. to promote peace in Nigeria (like the other military/paramilitary outfits have been promoting war)
2. to engage 800,000 youths in meaningful employment (Nigeria army and navy combined don't have up to
600,000 officers) grin
3. to end insurgency (without arms. na juju dem wan use grin
4. to curb cultism in secondary school and university grin
5. to curb exam malpractices. undecided undecided

and most importantly for the officers to be getting paid by the fed govt grin grin

see, the Peace corps don't have the interest of the country at heart, what they hungry for is SALARY!!! another
avenue to waste govt resources.

Nigeria peace corp should never be institutionalized just to MANAGE youth unemployment, It is wrong. Yes, it
may reduce unemployment (as fringe benefit) of the youths for a while. That should not be the main reason for
creating peace corp.

Were the NPF, Nigerian Army, Navy, FRSC etc created to tackle youth unemployment? your answer is as good as
mine.

Npower, YOUWIN and the likes are already in place for unemployed youths to be engaged with atleast. Again, Nigeria peace corps should stop this charade. A word is enough for the wise


UGWENNA:



There is no confusion here except the one born out of your misunderstanding of your abused mind.
A bill must be signed into law after passage by NASS b4 the law can recognise and protects its operation or operators.
Politics / Re: Peace Corps And The Imminent Demystification Of Its Foes by owji: 4:48pm On Mar 13, 2017
DocHMD:
owji,. you sound like you have a vested interest in this case. Are you a police man? Does their bread being buttered ensure that your rots?

Listen to me Pygmy. During the days when i finished NYSC many years ago, i subscribed to the peace corp shit. i was looking for employment by all means then. They told me that the federal govt will soon approve them so i subscribed (8yrs ago). You need to to see how they fleece ppl of their money with the pretense that the fed govt will approve them soon and all recruits will be employed by FG.

No salary, no stipend, in fact u r still required to pay some sort of dues to the corps. We should not let these nonsense continue any longer.

Yes!i m determined to let all those who care to listen know what the peace corps is all about, which is a sham.

No!i am not a police man. i m a full time staff at WAPCO PLC.
Thank you.
Politics / Re: Peace Corps And The Imminent Demystification Of Its Foes by owji: 2:08pm On Mar 13, 2017
Nigeria peace corps ,please stop this charade. Nigeria Peace corps keep referring USA having peace corps too but the peace corps in USA is a voluntary program and not avenue to create employment for USA citizens. Will you have the fed govt to start creating phony ministries, parastatals, paramilitaries every now and then just to employ all youths? that is NOT possible. In my own opinion the govt should create an enabling environment (soft loans,infrastructure, power,laws etc) for youths to be self employed, govt cant possibly employ all youths.

I pity those gullible ppl like myself and other ppl that have already dolled out money to the Peace corps. I think the peace corp should better continue as voluntary organization and keep collecting their 45k and above for training etc from ppl whom are willing and dont hide under youth employment .

You keep on selling recruitment forms and training ppl (in hundreds of thousands) and also promise them
employment. Now,it is the same commandant general of Nigeria Peace Corps that said that at the eventual assent
by PMB the ratio of commissioned officer to voluntary officer will be 20%-80% (20 for officers & 80 for
voluntary office). Just imagine!, and you have already promised employment to all ppl that have enrolled.

You keep hiding under the disguise of generating employment for the youth & you think PMB cant read between
the lines!, more so you keep selling recruitment form to older ppl (40yrs and above)...is a man of 40 years and
above still a youth??.

i will keep telling ppl that they should not pay any 5k for recruitment form or 45k for some phony training. when
the federal government takes over fully there wont be need to pay for training or to buy recruitment form. Note
that there are still other fees to be paid.

WHAT IS THE JOB OF PEACE CORP IN NIGERIA
1. to promote peace in Nigeria (like the other military/paramilitary outfits have been promoting war)
2. to engage 800,000 youths in meaningful employment (Nigeria army and navy combined don't have up to
600,000 officers) grin
3. to end insurgency (without arms. na juju dem wan use grin
4. to curb cultism in secondary school and university grin
5. to curb exam malpractices. undecided undecided

and most importantly for the officers to be getting paid by the fed govt grin grin

see, the Peace corps don't have the interest of the country at heart, what they hungry for is SALARY!!! another
avenue to waste govt resources.

Nigeria peace corp should never be institutionalized just to MANAGE youth unemployment, It is wrong. Yes, it
may reduce unemployment (as fringe benefit) of the youths for a while. That should not be the main reason for
creating peace corp.

Were the NPF, Nigerian Army, Navy, FRSC etc created to tackle youth unemployment? your answer is as good as
mine.

Npower, YOUWIN and the likes are already in place for unemployed youths to be engaged with atleast. Again, Nigeria peace corps should stop this charade. A word is enough for the wise









Daveed4Jesus:
‘’A Masquerade that Dances for too long at the Market Square, Stands the Risk of being De-robed’’—-African Proverb

The protracted animosity between the Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN) and its opponents, which recently climaxed in the crude invasion of its new corporate headquarters situated opposite Jabi Lake, Abuja on Tuesday, 28th 2017 and the arrest of the National Commandant, Ambassador (Dr) Dickson A. O. Akoh and forty nine officers of the Corps, is currently on the course of re-launching the Corps into national reckoning through the demystification of its implacable foes.


Putting the same issue in a different perspective, the recent institutionalization of a N2billion suit against the Police and the Department of State Service (DSS) at the Federal High Court, Abuja, has put the Corps in a vantage position or better still, on an unstoppable march to finally exposing the hypocrisy nay double standards of its opponents, who have over the years cruelly conspired to make its existence one long hell of frustration; an existence that has been characterized by brutalization, constant harassments, arrests and above all, illegal detention of its officers, most especially its National Commandant, Akoh, who like the Late legal luminary, Gani Fawehinmi, has been in and out of detention several times over. Happily enough, through this process, Akoh has been toughened so much so that he has developed a thick skin to all the shenanigans of his opponents.


What makes this latest onslaught against the PCN really worrisome is that in spite of the weighty allegations of terrorism and stock-pilling of arms leveled against the Corps, the only exhibit the Police could display before the whole world is the official uniform and portrait of the National Commandant. Little wonder, the Police could not summon the courage to charge the officers of the Corps to Court. How sad!
This in turn necessitated the current Court action of the Corps to seek legal redress with a view to exposing to the whole world the inexplicable wickedness of the security agencies against its corporate interest. In a suit, which was instituted by a former Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr. Kanu Agabi (SAN), the plaintiffs, apart from demanding a sum of N2bn as compensation for the embarrassment caused the Peace Corps of Nigeria and its Incorporated Trustees, are also asking the court to declare as illegal, unlawful and unconstitutional, the arrest of Dr. Akoh and other officers of the Corps as well as the sealing off of its Head office in Abuja and offices in the 36 States of the Federation.

In addition to the above reliefs, the applicants also asked the presiding judge, Justice Gabriel Kolawole, to declare that they are entitled to Fundamental Rights, to acquire and own properties, lawful assembly, Freedom of movement, personal liberty and dignity of their human persons, as guaranteed under sections 34, 35, 40, 41, and 43 of the 1999 constitution.
Consequently, the plaintiffs, therefore, applied for an order, compelling the respondents to unseal the Headquarters of the Peace Corps of Nigeria and its offices nationwide and to release properties seized during the “unlawful invasion” of their office.
Similarly, the applicants prayed the court for an order of perpetual injunction, restraining the respondents, their privies or agents, from further sealing the applicants’ office and disrupting their activities, including its meetings and orientation of its members, nationwide.

With this Court action, the Corps, has once again re-affirmed its irrevocable commitment to the rule of law and assured its Staff Officers/volunteers and millions of supporters worldwide that it is determined to explore all legal options available to secure its mandate and above all, to expose the politics of bad belle underpinning the action of its enemies, who hide under the nebulous concept of national security interest to trample on the rights of other Nigerians with reckless impunity.

It is an open secret that the various arms of the nation’s security agencies as presently constituted today harbour a sizeable number of criminally-minded elements. With their long chequered history of brutality, indiscriminate arrests/detention and killing of innocent Nigerians, nobody has called for the proscription of any of these security agencies. So, why the constant haranguing of the Peace Corps of Nigeria, an organization that has the promotion of peace, rendering of community services and neighborhood-watch as its cardinal objectives?
It would be recalled that the Corps had in the past scored three major judicial victories against the Police, with damages running into millions of naira awarded in its favour.

But the Corps had always declined to claim the damages on the grounds that it is the Federal Government that will end up paying it, instead of the lawless individuals who flagrantly abridged the rights of the Corps with absolute nay reprehensible abandon. The past cases that were decided in favour of the Corps include: Suit NO FHC/ABJ/CS/231/2010; Suit NO FHA/ABJ/CS/481/2012, which was delivered on 22nd April, 2012; Suit NO FHC/ABJ/CS/613/07 and a report of Police Investigation into the activities of the Corps dated 25th April 2008, which exonerated the Corps of any criminal activity.

As Nigerians wait patiently for this legal action instituted by the Corps to run its full course, expectations are high that just like its previous resounding victories, the Corps currently stands on an impregnable ground to demystify its opponents in the Court.

Its victory will be a victory for the proponents of the rule of law; a victory against tyranny, oppression and man’s inhumanity to man. Over the years, the security agencies have relied on vile opportunism, unflappable sycophancy and trenchant collaboration of corrupt elements in the society to ride roughshod over innocent Nigerians, but thank God that we are no longer in that era of business-as-usual. With the kind of discipline that President Buhari’s administration is gradually instilling in all Nigerians, the current court action of the Peace Corps of Nigeria has all the potentialities of not only exposing the rot in the nation’s security architecture, but also demystifying those who have vowed to halt the upward mobility of the Corps under Dr. Akoh’s leadership. At least, it will serve as a bitter lesson for other enemies of the Corps who might be waiting in the wings to spring other morbid surprise(s) on the organization. A word, it is often said, is enough for the wise!

– Ochela is a former newspaper editor based in Abuja

http://leadership.ng/news/576843/peace-corps-and-the-imminent-demystification-of-its-foes

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