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7 Oct, 4 tweets, 3 min read
The @_AfricanUnion has made a fetish of discouraging "unconstitutional changes in government" in #Africa. This past week, the soldiers in Mali have set up an artifice of compliance. Around the continent, though, at least 20 presidents are ex-soldiers. It's #RegimentedDemocracy
Take a look at #African countries in #RegimentedDemocracy ruled by #SoldiersInCivvies:

Angola
Burundi
Chad
Comoros
Congo-Brazzaville
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Guinea Bissau
Mali
Mauritania
Mozambique
Nigeria
Rwanda
Sierra Leone
South Sudan
Sudan
Uganda
Zimbabwe
These are soldiers from liberation movements, insurgencies or regular armies. But this doesn't quite tell the full story. In Madagascar, for instance, @SE_Rajoelina is the son of a soldier. Algeria's transition to Abdelmadjid Tebboune was in the gift #RegimentedDemocracy.
In Togo, Col. Gnassingbe Eyadema 1st killed President Sylvanus Olympio in 1963 b4 toppling his usurper, successor & brother-in-law, Nicolas Grunitzky, 4 yrs later. Since then, Togo has bn an Eyadema piece of real estate supported by soldiers in a #RegimentedDemocracy.

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9 Oct
I have worked & advocated against extra-judicial killings #EJKs by @PoliceNG for over 3 decades. In 2012, when I put out figures on #EJKs by @PoliceNG, the reaction of @NigeriaGov was to order my arrest. Today, we remain on #EndSARS.

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10 yrs ago, @OSFJustice released a rpt on @PoliceNG under the title #CriminalForce. I worked on that. It detailed a culture of wasting human life under a chapter titled "A Human Abbatoir". Despite our best efforts with @policereformNG, few ppl took notice. We're still in #EndSARS ImageImage
In its 2008 rpt, the MD Yusuf Presidential Commission on Police Reform wrote that @PoliceNG was byword for “unlawful arrest & detention, extortion, torture, rape, #EJKs & other forms of brutality."

That report is still on the shelves of the SGF. We are still stuck on #EndSARS Image
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12 Sep
#Nigeria's Attorney-General & Minister of Justice, @MalamiSan, claims to have amended Rules of Professional Conduct (RPC) in the Legal Profession under powers conferred by s.12(4l) of Legal Practitioners Act. There're no such powers? We have a HAGF can't do basic due diligence.
The power to "prepare, and from time to time revise, a statement as to the kind of conduct which the Council considers to be infamous conduct in a professional respect" created in s.11(4) of the Legal Practitioners Act, belongs to the #BarCouncil not to the HAGF.
The #BarCouncil is a statutory body created by s.1 of the Legal Practitioners Act. It comprises 57 persons, made up of:
1. HAGF as president;
2. All state attorneys age metal
3. 20 reps of @NigBarAssoc.

No meeting of the #BarCouncil has bn called in order to amend the RPC
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11 Sep
So, following the supposed #AtyapPeaceAccord, today, 11 Sept, 2020, suspected #ArmedHerders attacked Mañyi-Mashin village, in Zamandabo ward, Atyap Chiefdom, Zangon Kataf LGA in the latest instalment of #SouthernKadunaMassacre

They fled only after #OperationSafeHeaven responded
By then, the attackers had methodically set the settlement of Mañyi-Mashin on fire burning most of the structures & looting & carting away much of what they chose not to burn. They also killed 2 ppl:

Cecilia Ishaya, 62, widow & mother of 6;

& Iliya Sunday, 56, father of 8.
3 days earlier, on 8 Sept, another militia of #ArmedHerders reportedly attacked 3 Atyap youths from Atakmawei village, also in Zamandabo Ward.

They killed Anthony Magaji, 25, final yr HND student with Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic, Zaria;
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6 Sep
Around 02:00 hrs today, 6 Sept, 2020, #ArmedHerders reportedly attacked Buda in Kajuru LGA of Kaduna State, killing at least 3 persons in #SouthernKadunaMassacre:

1. Rev. Alubara Audu, 45, a father of with 5;
2. Adamu Tata, 40, father of 4; & 3. Ishaku Peter, 37, father of 5
In addition, the attackers abducted the following:

1. Sani Peter, 25; &
2. Esther Sani Peter, 20.
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1. Ojo Aminu, 35;
2. Danfulani Makaranta, 37;
3. Namiji Gwamna, 36;
4. Ali Musa, 36; &
5. Grace Mathew, 16.
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1 Sep
Nasir @elrufai has caused to be issued on his behalf a tissue of untruths, #halftruths & falsehoods concerning his brutal persecution of his critics as @GovKaduna. To help his memory, here is a litany of #bodybags of critics who have suffered at his hands

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Gabriel Idibia: journalist with The Union newspaper, dragged to court reportedly for being inquisitive about @elrufai's declared his assets as demanded by law.

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21 Aug
They are asking for #FairHearing. What happened to #FairHearing when he:

1. evicted state civil servants from their Government quarters against a court order

2. demolished the house of my classmate, Inuwa Abdulkadir, #LifeBencher, against a court crder

#ElRufai2020Cancelled
3. demolished Durbar Hotel Kaduna against a court order.

4. demolished ‘Kasuwan Barci’ against a ourt order.

5. demolished the House of Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi against a court order.

#ElRufai2020Cancelled
6. sacked thousands of Kaduna teachers against a court order.

7. disregarded a court order to conduct LG election at a stipulated time & did it at his time.

8. Disregards fines imposed by the courts against his govt

#ElRufai2020Cancelled
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