{"id":16369,"date":"2017-10-14T09:47:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T09:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=16369"},"modified":"2017-10-14T09:47:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T09:47:44","slug":"monkey-pox-attack-military-not-responsible-but-internal-security-exercise-is-an-aberration-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=16369","title":{"rendered":"MONKEY POX ATTACK: MILITARY NOT RESPONSIBLE BUT INTERNAL SECURITY EXERCISE IS AN ABERRATION &#8211; Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;&#8230;.we call on the Federal Government to immediately halt the military exercises going on across the Nation i.e. Operation Lafia Dole, Operation Crocodile Smile, Operation Pithon Dance etc Nationwide and replace them with Men of the Nigerian Police Force. It is an aberration for the military to be engaged in the internal security of a Nation. Internal Security of our Nation should be left for the Police to deal with while the military should be saddled with wading off external aggressions and the Boko Haram insurgents. The frustration in the South East geo political region is understandable No wonder the rumour in Abia and Enugu States that the military are spreading monkey pox with vaccines being administered in their medical exercises. We insist the military cannot and are not responsible for monkey pox attack.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Centre for the vulnerable &amp; the underprivileged, <\/strong><strong>(CENTREP).,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>National Office:<\/p>\n<p>Justice House,<\/p>\n<p>No. 114, Udu Road,<\/p>\n<p>Ovwian, Delta State, Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>E-mail: <a href=\"mailto:fjhd_rights@yahoo.com\">fjhd_rights@yahoo.com<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:centrep.rights@gmail.com\">centrep.rights@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Web: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oghenejaborikimi.info\/\">www.oghenejaborikimi.info<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GSM: 08023099637, 08036607603, 08052232328<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>PRESS RELEASE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>We welcome the decision reached by Hon. Justice Abdul-Azeez Anka of the Federal High Court, Lagos permanently forfeiting 56 houses belonging to former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke situate in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja valued at N3.3 billion. We hope that the above verdict would teach public officeholders in our Country how to be selfless while in office as the Law of the land would always expose their misdeeds after they leave office.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>We also use this medium to once again call on the <strong>EFCC<\/strong> and the <strong>ICPC<\/strong> to immediately investigate the alleged $25 billion oil contract scam in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC brought to the fore by the Hon. Minister of State for Petroleum recently. The Minister of State for Petroleum, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu, had petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari, accusing the Group Managing Director of the Corporation Mr. Maikanti Baru amongst other allegations of an oil contract scam worth $25 million. We are seriously taken aback on the attitude of the Presidency as it is treating the above issue as a family affair to the detriment of vulnerable and under privileged Nigerians on one hand, and on the other hand requesting the National Assembly for the approval of N550 billion foreign loan to fund her 2017 Budget barely 2 \u00bd months to the end of the Budget year.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>We are vehemently opposed to the $550 billion foreign loan been canvassed for by the Presidency as same is to the detriment of the down-trodden masses of our Country. We make bold to say that with our consumption based economy presently berthed in the middle of the deep sea of recession, such a loan would work hardship on Nigerians. We therefore call on the Federal Government to block all leakages of financial waste and mismanagement in our economy and replace same with the prudent management and use of all recovered stolen loot from corrupt politicians to fund the 2017 Budget.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>We in Centrep believe that unless we restructure our Country along Regional lines with true fiscal federalism put in place we cannot grow as a Nation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=14698&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>We call on the Federal Government to renovate all the Federal Prisons across the Nation to make them reformative centres as they have transformed gradually over the years from mere prisons to concentration camps reminiscent of the Nazi concentration camps described in Hitler Mien Kamp. For instance the Federal Prison, Warri which was renovated into a prison from a slave camp in the year 1907 meant for 307 inmates now houses close to 2,000 inmates with zero facilities on ground. The feeding and welfare of inmates most of which are awaiting trial are below acceptable human conditions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li>Finally, we call on the Federal Government to immediately halt the military exercises going on across the Nation i.e. Operation Lafia Dole, Operation Crocodile Smile, Operation Pithon Dance etc Nationwide and replace them with Men of the Nigerian Police Force. It is an aberration for the military to be engaged in the internal security of a Nation. Internal Security of our Nation should be left for the Police to deal with while the military should be saddled with wading off external aggressions and the Boko Haram insurgents. The frustration in the South East geo political region is understandable No wonder the rumour in Abia and Enugu States that the military are spreading monkey pox with vaccines being administered in their medical exercises. We insist the military cannot and are not responsible for monkey pox attack.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We therefore urge the Federal Government to immediately halt the further spread of the disease and to put paid to the above rumour that the military are spreading monkey pox through vaccines. In Warri, Udu, Effurun and its environs Parents were seen on Friday, the 13<sup>th<\/sup> day of October, 2017 withdrawing their wards from various Schools on the pretext that military personnel were administering vaccines containing monkey pox on pupils forcefully. We also call on the Delta State Government and the Press to educate our people on the aforesaid virus as the Press has a Constitutional role under Section 22 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, (as amended) to enlighten Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>Long Live Centrep! Long Live Nigeria!!<\/p>\n<p><strong>OGHENEJABOR IKIMI, ESQ.,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0(EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/military-excise.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16370\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/military-excise-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/military-excise-300x264.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/military-excise.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;.we call on the Federal Government to immediately halt the military exercises going on across the Nation i.e. Operation Lafia Dole, Operation Crocodile Smile, Operation Pithon Dance etc Nationwide and replace them with Men of the Nigerian Police Force. 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