ESRI Demands N500bn Compensation For Lagos Deportees......

Date: 20-08-2013 8:21 pm (10 years ago) | Author: Tony Ladipo
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ESRI Demands N500bn Compensation For Lagos Deportees.............

Vanguard/Nigerian Bulletin

ENUGU
August 20, 2013


The Enugu State Roots Initiative (ESRI) has been seriously miffed by the Lagos state government’s actions in recent weeks. They are full of complaints and condemnation of the actions, and they demand to be compensated accordingly.

They strongly opposed the state’s deportation of Igbo indigenes, the sealing off of the property of former Abia state governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu and frowned at the statements credited to the former Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, saying such statements were capable of bringing about ethnic hatred and a breakdown of law and order.

They also called on Ohanaeze Ndigbo, South East Governors Forum, South East caucus in the National Assembly and Igbo professionals and other groups, to speak up in condemnation of the act.

They want Lagos state to pay an amount of N500 billion to deportees amid other compensations.

A statement signed by the National President of the body, Barrister Joni Icheka; Secretary, Mr. Uche Nwegbo and Treasurer, Barrister Emma Nwodo says: “Apart from paying them the compensation, the state government should also immediately provide them with befitting housing accommodation and publicly apologize for denigrating their personal liberty and smearing the sanctity of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“If the Lagos State Government and their Governor fails to do these things within one month, we will be left with no option than to conclude that it was done with clear negative mind-set and vendetta and we would be left with no option than to take appropriate legal action,” the statement said.



Posted: at 20-08-2013 08:21 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
- papadip at 20-08-2013 11:27 PM (10 years ago)
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Lagos is not alone:

[size=12pt]In 2011 reports show that Gov. Peter Obi deported or relocated 29 beggars to their home states

Anambra Orders Arrest Of Child Beggars....

Leadership

December 4, 2011


The Anambra state government has issued a warning to all street beggars, especially children used by their parents to beg for alms, to vacate the streets or be arrested.

29 of such women who displayed their children as strategy for getting alms have already been arrested in Awka and Onitsha, and repatriated to their home states; Ebonyi and Akwa Ibom states.

The state commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Dr. Ego Cordelia Uzoezie, disclosed Friday in Awka when a middle-aged woman was arrested for begging with nine children at various points in Awka.

Uzoezie said her attention was drawn to the spectacle when one of the children who begged at the Unizik junction, Awka, six-year-old Goodnews Sunday, was hit in the jaw by an Okada rider, while he begged. 

Uzoezie decried the attitude of some parents who used their  children to beg for alms, and warned that after 72 hours any beggar seen in the state would be arrested by the law enforcement agents and the special task force of the ministry of women affairs and social development.[/size]


http://leadership.ng/nga/articles/9600/2011/12/04/anambra_orders_arrest_child_beggars.html
Posted: at 20-08-2013 11:27 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- papadip at 20-08-2013 11:30 PM (10 years ago)
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Rivers sends its destitute to home states, plans another........

PM News

August 5, 2013


Nigeria’s Rivers state government has sent to their home states, some of the 113 beggars and lunatics removed from the streets of Port-Harcourt, the capital city. And the state has warned it will soon embark on another removal exercise.

The Chairman of the committee, Mr Mina Jamabo, said of the 113 beggars, destitute and lunatics removed from the streets,some had been taken to the state’s rehabilitation centres for treatment.
Jamabo said that non-indigenes had since been repatriated to their various states, while the indigenes would be treated by the government until they were fit to re-unite with their families.
Jambo did not give the figure of the destitute sent to their home states.

Mrs Stella Toby, Permanent Secretary in the state’s Ministry of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation however unfurled government fresh plans to remove beggars and destitute from streets in the state.

She made the announcement in an interview with newsmen in Port Harcourt on Monday.

http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/08/05/rivers-sends-its-destitute-to-home-states-plans-another/
Posted: at 20-08-2013 11:30 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- deboalabi262 at 21-08-2013 12:40 AM (10 years ago)
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Na by force to live/stay in Lagos, uhhhhh.... Huh?

Posted: at 21-08-2013 12:40 AM (10 years ago) | Hero
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- oludee1971 at 28-08-2013 12:31 PM (10 years ago)
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Not only in Lagos.Portharcourt or Anambra .It happens also in Abuja FCT severally.I think the Igbo people should keep aside sentiments and face the reality .They should wake up from the slumber of tribal sentiments and self- pity campaign recently embarked upon.
Posted: at 28-08-2013 12:31 PM (10 years ago) | Newbie
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- oludee1971 at 28-08-2013 12:32 PM (10 years ago)
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Not only in Lagos.Portharcourt or Anambra .It happenened also in Abuja FCT severally.I think the Igbo people should keep aside sentiments and face the reality .They should wake up from the slumber of tribal sentiments and self- pity campaign recently embarked upon.Wake up!!!
Posted: at 28-08-2013 12:32 PM (10 years ago) | Newbie
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- Toks-E at 30-08-2013 03:32 AM (10 years ago)
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Jokers

Posted: at 30-08-2013 03:32 AM (10 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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