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Borno: NGO trains 30 repentant insurgent wives on livelihood skills
Borno: NGO trains 30 repentant insurgent wives on livelihood skills
By: Olatunji Omirin
As part of its numerous contributions to rebuild and reposition Borno State for post-insurgency prosperity, a Maiduguri-based NGO, Allamin Foundation for Peace and Development, has trained 30 vulnerable women affected by the Boko Haram violent conflict on various vocational skills in four local government areas of the state.
The Executive Director of the Foundation, Hajiya Hamsatu Allamin, who made the announcement, said the beneficiaries of the training would be given business startup kits to enable them to earn a living.
She was speaking during a stakeholder meeting with the theme “Training of Stakeholders on Peacebuilding, Reconciliation, and Reintegration”, which was held in Maiduguri recently.
Hamsatu Allamin called for an all-inclusive program that would capture the wives of repentant insurgents with the intervention of the government, noting that the women are in dire need of succor.
The Executive Director disclosed that her NGO has hired Islamic scholars who are ready to deradicalize another batch of 30 wives of top insurgent leaders to change their concepts about society.
“We are trying to complement what the government is doing to close the gap between men and women in terms of benefiting from interventions,” she said, lamenting, “Many of these women are silent because they never benefit from any intervention from the government. These are wives of commanders of Boko Haram who have seen it all.”
Hamsatu Allamin said, “These are violent women who have seen how their husbands committed crimes of murder and drank blood before they all were killed in the bush.”
She continued: “So, these women never knew that what their late husbands were doing was wrong until we told them.
“Now we focus on these women to deradicalize them and to empower them economically with livelihood skills,” the ED said, adding, “We don’t want these women to go back to the bush again.”
She said, “If we fail to enlighten them, we might be sitting on a keg of gunpowder.
“They have truly repented, and that is why we are going to train and equip them so that they send their children to school and take adequate care for them.
Also speaking, BOT member Allamin Foundation Hajiya Ashia Wakilbe called on governments to ensure women at the various levels are empowered in society so that it can be better.
The 30 women were drawn from Jere, Mafa, Konduga, and Maiduguri Metropolitan Councils.
Borno: NGO trains 30 repentant insurgent wives on livelihood skills.
Police arrest INEC officials, recover election materials in Taraba by-election
By: Zagazola Makama
The Police Command in Taraba has arrested some Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials and recovered election materials allegedly diverted during the by-election for Karim Lamido I Constituency of the State House of Assembly.
Sources told Zagazola Makama that on Sunday that the arrests followed credible intelligence provided by party agents.
The sources said the incident occurred on Aug. 16 at about 2:20 p.m. when a team of policemen intercepted the suspects at a private residence in Angwan Sarkin Panya village.
Those arrested included Gideon Amos, 49, an Assistant Presiding Officer II assigned to Polling Unit 16, Angwan Yusuf Dogo, Bikwin Ward, and two others identified as Matthew Jayi, 47, and Tiasama Mathias Musa, 32.
The suspects allegedly diverted materials meant for three polling units PU 005 Gandara, PU 016 Angwan Yusuf Dogo, and PU 029 Angwan Sarkin Primary School — to the residence.
Items recovered from them included three ballot boxes, two BIVAS machines, 19 booklets and 20 pieces of ballot papers, two stamp pads with ink, one marker, and two result sheets.
The sources also disclosed that in the process of resisting the diversion, a police officer on election duty, PC Christian Garba, had his uniform forcibly removed by hoodlums who fled with it.
The sources added that voting had ended in most polling units and collation of results was in progress while investigations into the incident were ongoing.
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Police intercept 107 suspected thugs, recover arms during Kano re-run elections
By: Zagazola Makama
The Kano State Police Command says it has intercepted 107 suspected political thugs and recovered arms and dangerous weapons during the ongoing re-run and by-elections in the state.
Sources told Zagazola Makama that the operation, conducted on Aug. 16 at about 11:00 a.m., followed credible intelligence and was carried out jointly with the military, DSS and other security services.
It was gathered that 20 vehicles conveying the suspected thugs, believed to have been imported from neighbouring states, were intercepted across the affected local government areas.
Items recovered from the suspects included four locally fabricated rifles, axes, cutlasses, daggers, swords, and sticks.
Security sources said the elections in the affected areas were marred by violence, thuggery, stuffing of thumb-printed ballot papers, threats, and intimidation of voters, as well as alleged inducement of electorates by government officials.
The sources added that operations were still ongoing to restore peace and ensure the credibility of the electoral process.
Police intercept 107 suspected thugs, recover arms during Kano re-run elections
Zulum, Others Present as Borno Acting Chief of Staff Buries Mother
By: Our Reporter
Borno State Governor Babagana Umara Zulum, Deputy Governor Umar Usman Kadafur, and Secretary to the State Government Alhaji Bukar Tijani, among many dignitaries, attended the funeral prayer of the mother of the acting Chief of Staff, Dr Babagana Mallumbe, Hajja Bintu, in Maiduguri.
Late Hajja Bintu Mohammed died on Friday at a hospital in Abuja after a brief illness at the age of 75, leaving behind five children.
The funeral prayer was led by the Chief Imam of Borno, Zannah Laisu Ibrahim, on Saturday evening.
Governor Zulum, accompanied by his deputy Umar Kadafur, were among the family members and associates at the Muhammadu Buhari International Airport to receive the body of late Hajja Bintu earlier before the funeral prayer.
The funeral was also attended by various officials, including National and State Assembly members, cabinet members, heads of government agencies, local government officials, friends and family members.
Zulum, Others Present as Borno Acting Chief of Staff Buries Mother
Police arrest INEC officials, recover election materials in Taraba by-election
Police intercept 107 suspected thugs, recover arms during Kano re-run elections
Zulum, Others Present as Borno Acting Chief of Staff Buries Mother
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