OK, so, the latest #yarn from @DrIsaPantami boils down to this: In 2019, when he was glorifying the #Taliban & #AlQuaeda & wishing them victory & glorifying #Jihad he was young. Mind you, in 2019, Pantami was DG of @NITDANigeria

#PantamiIsATerrorist

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It is impressive how we have travelled from the empty bluster of "I will rake you over the coals of crooked courts" to "I was a terrorist preacher before I was 13 yes old."

That is security under @MBuhari. What wld have happened if Pantami were to be #IPOB?

#PantamiIsATerrorist
#Watchout: In the next few days, @FMICNigeria, Lai Mohammed, will address a press conference in which he will tell us how glorifying Taliban & Al-Quaeda, calling for mass culling of "Infidels" & #WeepyPreachy #BokoHaram sermonising, is better than #IPOB.

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By the way, who else noticed that this @daily_trust story doesn't have a by-line?

#PantamiIsATerrorist

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Clearly, in the graduate school of #WeepyPreachy terror which he attended, @DrIsaPantami never learnt that when u are in a hole, u stop digging.

#PantamiIsATerrorist
It's reassuring to see the crowd of @DrIsaPantami's defenders & what they are willing to own. They own his #WeepyPreachy lines supporting:

#Taliban
#AlQuaeda
#BokoHaram
#GlobalJihad
#CullingInfidels

That's devotion.

#PantamiIsATerrorist
There's a way to resolve this matter: why doesn't @MBuhari create a Federal Ministry for Jihadist Terror. He can appoint Pantami to head it. Finish. That will optimise his skills & he will no longer have need to trend #Hashtags

#PantamiIsATerrorist

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"There are claims that the promoters of the pro-Pantami campaign are luring critical voices on social media with slush cash, believed to be state resources."

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This is the footprint of the campaign to keep an evident #WeepyPreachy terror purveyor in govt

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On 1 Feb, Inspector General of @PoliceNG, Moh'd Adamu, attained 35 yrs in service & retired. By operation of law, he became ineligible to be a police officer in #Nigeria. Today, @MBuhari claims to have recalled & then extended his tenure by 3 months.

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To be clear, the president, as appointing authority, has the power to appoint someone in acting capacity to fill a vacancy. But that power is not at large. You can't appoint in acting capacity, someone who is ineligible to hold the substantive position or exercise those powers.
Having retired from @PoliceNG by operation of law, IGP Adamu is now ineligible to be a police officer in #Nigeria. Being as such ineligible to do the job of a police officer, he cannot act or be extended as Inspector-General of Police. Whatever he does from here on is unlawful.
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4 Feb
A few ppl are asking for a steer on the news that @MBuhari has nominated #Nigeria's immediate past #ServiceChiefs to be non-career ambassadors. Some are worried that a diplomatic passport may grant them roving impunity. So, let me explain briefly [THREAD]

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Briefly, this isn't exactly good news for the former #ServiceChiefs. To begin with, to enjoy #SovereignImmunity (that's what it's called) in international law, they have to be accredited to another sovereign as Nigeria's ambassadors. Carrying a diplomatic passport isn't enough
Separately, that other country has to agree to accredit them. I suspect with the record of at least some of them, few credible countries will do so. They cld, of course, be accredited to Myanmar's Generals or to Putin's Russia or to Venezuela or Zimbabwe.
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Yesterday, Sierra Leone's Supreme Court summarily convicted lawyer & blogger, @Soe_Marrah, for criticising a decision of the court in a #socialmedia post. The circumstances of this case are so outrageous, it is necessary to tell the story

#StandWithAugustineMarrah
Following @Soe_Marrah's post, the Supreme Court extraordinarily issued a #benchwarrant suspending his rights of practice before courts in Sierra Leone & suspending the arrest of lawyers in court premises. They declared him #WantedDeadOrAlive
The irony is that this order was issued on the same day that Sierra Leone's @PresidentBio abolished the crime of criminal defamation in Sierra Leone.

The only people who failed to notice were the Justices of Sierra Leone's Supreme Court.
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Well, @inecnigeria just got more interesting. @YIAGA u see the problem?

Surely if "Independent" in @inecnigeria means anything, these guys will look to find a more suitable job for @Laurestar than REC. What is she going to do now, delete her tweets?!
Whoever nominated @Laurestar to become an @inecnigeria commissioner is a cynical #NeverDoWell & if @NGRSenate proceeds to even consider the nomination, we shd all kiss #goodbye to elections in #Nigeria

Mind u, there lots of vacancies to fill in @inecnigeria in the next 6 months
It seems clear that @NigeriaGov has no plans to see an end to these protests anytime soon or a return to a governable country. To #EndSARS & #SarsMustend, we probably have to add #CancelLaurestar & #RejectLauretta. This is wilful...!!
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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
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
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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.
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