I, Amb. Alvan is a living witness to the bad state of this ROAD......Imo Women Threaten To Go Unclad Over Failed Roads

Residents of Nekede, Eziobodo and Ihiagwa communities in Owerri
West Local Government Area of Imo State have threatened to go
Unclad in protest over the terrible condition of roads in the area.
The aggrieved villagers, who were mostly women, said they would
take to the street to protest what they called government’s
indifference to the plight of the people, saying the three
communities had been cut off from the entire state.
They said despite the fact that the communities jointly played host
to two federal tertiary institutions namely Federal Polytechnic,
Nekede and Federal University of Technology, and other Federal
Government’s institutions, with the attendant high vehicular
movements, the federal and the state governments have remained
non-challant to the people’s ordeal.
Speaking with journalists, spokesperson of the women, Lady
Mariam Oziri, said: “We decided to do something absurd to attract
the attention of the insensitive government and if nothing is done,
we will mobilize women and march Unclad to the Government
House.
“We are tired of excuses every year. The state government has
been playing hide and seek with one contractor who was said to
have been awarded the contract by the previous administration
and each year the road continues to deteriorate and this has
affected commerce and exposed residents to untold hardship.”
Lady Oziri said the deplorable condition of the roads had forced
motorists to hike transport fares thereby multiplying the woes of
the people, especially students of the two higher institutions in the
area.
The construction of the Nekede-Ihiagwa Road was earlier engulfed
in controversy as the contractor, Hadel and Enic, dragged the state
government to court when Governor Rochas Okorocha revoked the
contract.
However, the contractor had severally denied reports that the
pending suit was responsible for the delay in the construction of
the road.
An inside source in the Government House, who pleaded
anonymity, told Daily Sun that the contract for the construction of
the road had been awarded, adding that work would commence on
the road immediately after the rains.

GAY PRACTICE in our PRISONS. Keyamo Petitions Prisons Over Attempt To Sodomise Charles Okah

31 Jul 2013
Lagos lawyer, Festus keyamo, has written
a petition to the Comptroller General of
Nigeria Prisons, over allegations of acts of
sodomy taking place in Kuje Prison, in the
Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
In the petition dated Tuesday, Keyamo
complained that his client, Mr Charles
Okah, elder brother of jailed Henry Okah,
was almost Molested by some prison
officials on the pretext that they wanted
to confirm if he had stuffed some
substance in his anus.
According to the petition, “On
Wednesday, 3rd July, 2013, at about 6.30
am, some prison warders, specifically Mr.
Isah Musa (the chief clerk), Mr. Tanko
Gokuje, (the assistant yard master) and
three (3) other prison warders
(hereinafter referred to as the culprits)
entered our client’s cell (No.1) and
demanded to search his anus because
they claimed they had information that he
was hiding ‘incriminating’ materials
therein. Before entering his cell, they
made sure all other inmates were locked
up in their cells.”
The lawyer maintained that although
his client protested the so-called
examination, the warders
overwhelmed him in the cell, and when
he eventually allowed the examination
to be carried out, he saw Musa, the
chief clerk, undressing, armed with a
full and “sustained” Attention of his
organ, forcing him (Okah) to raise the
alarm, calling for help.
According to the petition, Okah had heard
of such acts of sodomy within the prison
among other inmates. But until that
fateful morning, he had not experienced
it.
In his words: “Having heard from other
inmates in the past that this is a known
pattern used by warders to sodomise
inmates, our client initially resisted the
attempt, but was forced to succumb after
much pressure and insistence by the
culprits.
“However, having succumbed, to the utter
shock and dismay of our client, he saw
that Mr. Isah Musa pulled off his clothes
and with the sustained Attention
attempted to carry out the acts of
sodomy on him. To achieve this, our
client was then held to the ground by Mr.
Tanko Gokuje and three (3) other warders.
Our client had to intensify his struggle
and resistance to prevent the completion
of the criminal act. Our client screamed
for help and this was heard by other
inmates.”
Keyamo said although the report of the
incident was made, the prison authorities
led by DCP Felix Lawrence, pleaded with
Okah not to formalise the complaint and
urged him to “kill the report”.
The lawyer noted that “this criminal act
has been reported as a common and
recurring phenomenon in the Nigerian
prisons. It simply shows the despicable
level of moral decadence of the officers
who are paid to take charge of prison
inmates.”
While urging the Comptroller General of
Prisons to investigate the allegation,
Keyamo called for the application of
“appropriate sanctions” on those found
wanton in the case.

Gay People Should be absorbed in the society. -Pope Francis

The Pope's position on gay people appears
to contrast with that of his predecessors.
Pope Francis has said gay people should not
be judged or marginalised.
Speaking to reporters on a flight back from
Brazil, he said: "If a person is gay and seeks
God and has good will, who am I to judge
him?"
The Pope's remarks are being seen as much
more conciliatory than his predecessor's
position on the issue.
Turning to the issue of women priests, he
said the Church had spoken and had
said"no", but the role of women should not
be restricted.
"We cannot limit the role of women in the
Church to altar girls or the president of a
charity, there must be more," he said in a
wide-ranging interview with Vatican
journalists.
Five months after he took over from Pope
Benedict, he said gay people should be fully
accepted in society.
""The Catechism of the Catholic Church
explains this very well," Pope Francis said.
"It says they should not be marginalised
because of this but that they must be
integrated into society."
But he condemned what he described as
lobbying by gay people.
"The problem is not having this orientation,"
he said. "We must be brothers. The problem
is lobbying by this orientation, or lobbies of
greedy people, political lobbies, Masonic
lobbies, so many lobbies. This is the worse
problem."