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The Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, has stated that anyone with evidence against the Chairman of the Lagos State Parks and Garages Association, Musiliu Akinsaya, popularly known as Mc Oluomo, can file a case of attack against him.
He made this known in his response to a Twitter user, AjammaS, via his Twitter handle on Tuesday morning.
The tweep, AjammaS, claimed Adejobi and the police failed to protect voters during the election after he asked people to take MC Oluomo’s remark about Igbo in a viral video as a joke and assured them of safety during the election.
AjammaS wrote, “Sir, you are also guilty, if I may say. This is what you said in the TV interview, and I quote. ‘MC Oluomo threat is a joke, let’s take it as a joke until he perfected [sic] the threat. I urge everyone to go out and cast their votes.”
“Now Nigerians heed to your calls and went out to cast their votes and unfortunately you failed to protect them as you promised. They were attacked by MC Oluomo and his boys, some were murdered, brutalised, blinded, some are currently receiving treatment in different hospitals.”
Adejobi responded by asking the tweep to file an attack case against Oluomo if he had evidence of attacks against him, adding that Oluomo lacks immunity.
He said, “You can take the case of attack up with MC if you have a case or evidence of attacks against him. Many people and lawyers, even the deputy gov of Lagos, have said it severally. He has no immunity, so if you have a case of attack against him, take it up.”
“There is no need to pass judgement or do trial on Twitter. Very simple. Many of you just follow others to raise this issue on Twitter.”
The Force PRO had described the threat by MC Oluomo against Igbo as a joke when a video had surfaced online of MC Oluomo threatening Igbo in Lagos State against voting for another political party except for the All Progressives Congress in the state governorship election.
Oluomo said Igbo who would not vote for the APC should sit at home.
Reacting to the video on Channels TV, Adejobi said, “I saw a video of MC Oluomo with one Mama Chidinma – an Igbo woman – debunking that threat; that it’s not true, it’s just a joke he was making with a particular woman. So, let us take it as a joke, like he said.
“But, nobody has the right and audacity to tell Nigerians not to come out and vote; it’s not allowed and not proper. MC Oluomo has come out to debunk it, so let’s leave it that it’s not true. The Commissioner of Police in Lagos has debunked it and MC Oluomo himself has done the same, so Lagosians should go out and vote for the candidate of their choice.”
The Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Obafemi Hamzat, had said that MC Oluomo, a staunch supporter of the APC, and the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, must pay if he is found guilty of breaking the law during the just-concluded elections in the state.
Although the deputy governor said he was not calling for the arrest of anybody, he said the facts should be examined and “if in truth he (MC Oluomo) has broken the law, he must pay for it.”
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Amanda Zurawski’s water broke at 17 weeks, far too early for the fetus to survive, but doctors in Texas initially refused to terminate her pregnancy, causing the woman to end up in an ICU with an infection and lose a fallopian tube.
“I cannot adequately put into words the trauma and despair that comes with waiting to either lose your own life, your child’s life, or both,” the 35-year-old said.
Zurawski and several other women who sued the conservative US state after they were denied abortions despite serious health complications voiced their grief and trauma Tuesday, as they sought clarity on the new laws
The lawsuit, filed late Monday, is the first such complaint filed by women who have been denied terminations since the US Supreme Court overturned abortion rights in June, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights, which represents them.
It “includes devastating, first-hand accounts of women’s lives almost lost after they were denied the health care they needed,” said Vice President Kamala Harris, who gave them her support in a statement Tuesday.
The women wanted to carry their pregnancies to term but discovered during medical examinations that their fetuses were not viable.
In their complaint, they claim that their doctors refused to perform abortions despite the risks of hemorrhage and infection.
In Zurawski’s case, medics finally performed an abortion three days later, after she had developed an infection and had to have one of her fallopian tubes removed.
“I needed an abortion to protect my life and to protect the lives of my future babies that I dream and hope I can still have,” she said.
The women blame those refusals on the various laws prohibiting abortions in conservative Texas, one of which provides for up to 99 years in prison for doctors who defy the ban.
These laws allow for limited exceptions in case of medical emergencies, such as the threat of death or serious disability to the mother — but the plaintiffs say they are too vague and ask the courts to “clarify the scope of the exception.”
Another plaintiff, Lauren Miller, was pregnant with twins when she learned that one of the two fetuses was not viable.
Despite the risks to her own health and to the development of the other fetus, medical staff would not perform an abortion on the nonviable fetus.
“It was like they were afraid that they would be arrested just for saying the word abortion out loud,” she said at the press conference.
She had to travel to Colorado, at her own expense, to get the procedure. “I just wanted to curl up and cry and mourn but I couldn’t because we had to scramble to make plans to travel out of state for an abortion to give baby A and myself the best chance of surviving this pregnancy.”
Still pregnant, she is due at the end of the month.
Anna Zargarian said she also was told her water had broken early.
“My heart broke into a million pieces,” the 33-year-old told the press conference.
Like Miller, she had to travel to Colorado to receive care. The flight, she said, was “one of the most terrifying experiences of my life. It was like Russian roulette, knowing I was a risk of infection, hemorrhaging or going into labor at any moment.”
At 18 weeks of pregnancy, Lauren Hall discovered that her fetus had no skull and would not survive. She had to travel to Seattle to have the pregnancy terminated.
The trip, she said at the press conference, was a “complete blur. But I remember protesters calling us killers, waving posters with pictures of dead babies at us.”
She is pregnant again now, she said — but she fears everything.
“While I was calm during my previous pregnancy I now compulsively look up every ache and pain, terrified that I will find myself in this unbearable situation,” the 28-year-old said.
“It kills me that my own state does not seem to care if I live or die.”
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called the details “shameful and unacceptable.”
“Horrifying details of needless pain,” the spokeswoman for Democratic President Joe Biden said in a statement. “All because of extreme efforts by Republican officials to take away a woman’s right to choose.”
(AFP)
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…says union not part of strike
The Congress of University Academics has expressed its disappointment with the Federal Government, especially the Ministry of Labour and Employment, over the non-payment of its members’ withheld salaries “even when the government knew that the union did not call for strike action and its members were not involved in the strike action that lasted for eight months and which shut down the university system nationwide.”
CONUA, in a statement on Tuesday, signed by its National President, Secretary and Publicity Secretary, Dr Niyi Sunmonu, Dr Henry Oripeloye and Dr Ernest Nwoke, respectively, said it was wrong for the FG to lump CONUA with members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities who went on eight months strike between February and October, 2022.
The new union of lecturers thereby viewed to sue FG for withholding its members’ salaries.
The statement partly read, “CONUA formally made its non-involvement in the strike known to the Federal Government in a letter addressed to the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, in April 2022.
“In the letter, we made it clear that because CONUA constituted a separate and independent union in the university system, our members did not call for any strike. This was followed by a Press Conference in Abuja on August 19, 2022 at which it was categorically stated that CONUA was not part of any ongoing strike, and that the “No Work No Pay” principle ought not to apply to members of the union.
“CONUA’s expectation is that, due to the express and categorical declaration, the government would seamlessly release our members’ outstanding salaries when it resumed the payment of salaries to all university staff in October 2022. But to our dismay, CONUA members were also paid pro-rata salaries in complete disregard to the fact that we were indeed shut out of duties by the strike.
“Subsequently, we wrote to the Accountant-General of the Federatıon and the Ministry of Labour and Employment reminding them that it was an error to lump our members with those that declared and embarked on strike action. It was yet another shock for the outstanding backlog of salaries not to have been paid to our members along with the November 2022 salary.”
CONUA said the non-payment of “our withheld salaries” contravenes Section 43 (1b) of the Trade Disputes Act CAP. T8, which stated that “where any employer locks out his workers, the workers shall be entitled to wages and any other applicable remunerations for the period of the lock-out and the period of the lock-out shall not prejudicially affect any rights of the workers being rights dependent on the continuity of period of employment.”
“This provision is consistent with global best practices,” it added.
“From the foregoing and as a law-abiding union that pledged to do things differently, we have resolved to seek legal redress of the illegal withholding of our legitimate salaries by taking the matter to court in consonance with the rights enshrined in our laws,” the union said.