Dear All,

Please vote for me. I am standing as a candidate for One Young World. One Young World is a platform where I will be able to represent the youth of today and address the challenges facing the world today.
Please vote for me, so that I can become a delegate in February 2010:

http://apps.facebook.com/oywcandidates/entry/384/


Thanking you in anticipation.

Sincerely,
Wajahat Nassar

Dear All,
I have started a new project Online Model UN, the first training session has been planned on 11 July 2009.
The first conference will be held online from 15 to 18th July 2009.
Please send an email of interest to wajahat.nassar@gmail.com by 10th of July 2009.

Thank you

Yours sincerely,
Wajahat Nassar

Nom = El Alami Mohamed Pays = Maroc 24 JUIN 2009


Considérée comme une autre dimension qu’on doit ajouter aux trois autres dimensions qui façonnent la vie sur le globe, le Temps constitue depuis le début de la vie une contrainte, un espace restreint , limité qui pèse lourdement et sur l’individu et sur la collectivité , qui l’écrase ,qui l’empêche de vivre tranquillement et ce à cause de repérages, de mesures que l’Homme lui-même a inventé pour tenter d’apprivoiser ce t Temps qui démontre la faiblesse et la vulnérabilité des créatures . Cette notion fondamentale représentée comme un espace infini ,est en réalité l’élément qui forme la vie ,les phases successives du cycle de passage ,et l’action des créatures.

La notion du Temps est compliquée. Si on jette un coup d’œil sur les divisions et les subdivisions des temps en conjugaison ,par exemple , on se rendra compte que cela nécessite bien des efforts pour maitriser les formes verbales , les méthodes de la conjugaison suivant les phrases ,les modes ,les relations entre les divers composants d’un énoncé et la visée du locuteur ,de l’interlocuteur , la nature du canal , de sa forme et la visée de la phrase.

Les ères géologiques qui s’étalent sur des millions d’années démontrent que cette notion est si vaste qu’elle peut engloutir , faire disparaitre le passage des créatures sur terre comme disparait une goutte d’eau dans un océan gigantesque.

Le souci pour beaucoup est de comment retarder , ou éliminer les traces de vieillissement. Les rides sont les effets du temps qui se font apparaitre sur le visage de l’Homme. Les procédés naturels, pharmaceutiques,…. Pour s’en débarrasser sont multiples. L’Homme , lorsqu’il est né ,ou bien lorsqu’il fait son apparition sur cette planète bleue enchantée ,il dispose d’un capitale si précieux ,si cher et qu’il doit bien gérer durant son passage temporaire sur la Terre. Cette bonne gestion lui permettra d’éviter le désordre dans lequel souffrent tant de personnes. Mais il faut comprendre que la jeunesse , la vitalité de l’esprit , du cœur restent jusqu’au bout , mais la beauté des formes se fanent comme se fanent les fleurs . La beauté est une merveilleuse notion . l’Homme se penche vers tout ce qui est beau , mais , il y aune beauté abstraite , qui ne se fait remarquer que par les actes , les paroles et les comportements , qui rendent l’être et son passage sur terre , gravés dans les mémoires , inoubliables. Le Temps donc est le Capitale de tout un chacun. Un bébé , est né ,avec , par exemple , un capitale de 75 ans , 8 mois , 28 jours , 5 heures , 14 secondes ,7 centièmes…. Dés son arrivée, le compte à rebours commence, comme une fusée qui s’apprête à être lancée vers l’espace.

Le chronomètre ne s’arrête pas . Même lorsque l’activité de cet enfant s’arrête ,le chronomètre ,lui ne se tarit pas. Chaque seconde compte, chaque minute, chaque heure a sa propre valeur , incalculable, inestimable et irrécupérable car le temps n’est pas de l’or , mais c’est plus que ce métal jaune brillant qui a fasciné ,et qui fascine les gens , c’est le plus précieux conception dont dispose l’être.

Un jour qui passe sans rien faire est perdu. Une journée perdue à faire des banalités , des turpitudes ou des futilités est une catastrophe qui s’enregistre au chapitre sombre de la vie.

L’organisation du temps pour mieux en profiter est un art que la plupart des gens ne connaissent pas surtout dans les pays en développement ou l’anarchie ,la pagaille remportent la victoire sur une gestion raisonnable de ce bien précieux. Les gens , tentent par tous les moyens de (tuer ) le temps ; les adultes perdent des heures et des heures devant les écrans tv , ou bien dans les cafés à parler d’autrui ou à jouer , les enfants , pour une partie importante , passe les heures les journées dans les rues . Il faut dire qu’il y a ici un avantage ,c’est celui de jouir de la vie sans avoir trop de soucis ,mais en contrepartie on a beaucoup à perdre.

Les vacances sont le moment ou l’on perd le plus de temps. Il est vital de se reposer , de voyager , de se divertir suivant des modes acceptées ; mais par contre il ne faut pas que cela nous empêche de nous instruire , de nous cultiver , de nous épanouir en tant qu’ êtres humains ,penseurs ,qui raisonnent. Si l’on s’intéresse uniquement à satisfaire nos désirs , à nous gaver de plaisir … on sera donc comme les animaux , des bestiaux , qui jouissent de paitre , de se reproduire , de jouer dans une immense prairie , mais qui ne pensent plus à ce qu’ils les attend , à savoir de passer dans la boucherie pour nourrir les hommes. Donc , il faut donner un sens au vacances , à nos vies en l’investissant dans des actes judicieuses, utiles , capables de nous être un honneur .

Chacun de nous sera questionné sur sa vie , qu’est ce qu’il l’en a fait , sur son corps en quoi il fut affaibli , sur son argent d’où il l’ a gagné et ou il l’a dépensé, sur son savoir en quoi il s’en est servi.

Le prophète ,Mohammad , que la paix d’Allah soit sur lui , nous disait de profitez-pour faire de bonnes actes- de notre jeunesse avant la vieillesse , de notre richesse avant la pauvreté , de notre santé avant de tomber malade, de notre oisiveté avant que nous ne soyons occupés ,de notre vie avant la mort. Essayons donc de bénéficier de notre temps. Et que Dieu nous conduit vers le droit chemin.

Des sub-sahariens malheureux

Beaucoup d'immigrés africains sont arrivés au nord du Maroc présentement . Cela m'attriste tant de les voir flaner ,mendier , dormir dehors. Avec leurs figures , ils me font les souffrances qu'ils ont du vivre , traverser ,quitter pour se trouver une meilleure vis en europe. L'espagne est el dorado pour ces jeunes . Hélas que la condition de vie en afrique pousse des miliers d'hommes , de femmes et de mineurs à fuir leurs patries. J'éspére que le Maroc , L'europe et l'Afrique arriveront à trouver des solutions et des politiques concrétes susceptibles d'en finir avec les calamités que vivent ces gens qui doivent mendier ou chercher de petits boulots ,ou métiers peu productifs pour subsister en attendant une occasion qui vien ou non pour se risquer la vie pour arriver en europe , ou mourir sous les coups des vagues de l'Océan , ces vagues qui sont si furieuses à cause des nombreux corps qu'elles ont embrassé.

L'Immigration ne pourra jamais remplacer un vrai développement local en Afrique. Instaurer la démocratie et agir pour que les richeses africaines contribuent à l'amélioration de la vie quotidienne des habitants du continent Africain. Il est triste que nos fréres continuent de souffrir pour réaliser un réve , une illusion qui malheureusement se trouve si loin , ou qui est , dommage encore , n'est pas la.

Recul de la production de stupéfiants dans le monde

UN récent rapport de l'ONU fait état d'un recul net de la production et de la consommation de stupéfiants dans le monde.Les superficies cultivées avec ces substances hallucinogénes se sont diminuées en plusieurs pays. Mais ,l'Ecstasy , qui est une substance trés dangereuse a connu une hausse en production au Canada. Je pensais que la pauvreté ,la marginalisation , l'isolement et l'analphabétisme étaient les vecteurs qui encourageaient de type d'activités illégales, mais les raisons pour une personne ou une région se dirige vers une telle industrie est principalement la recherche d'un gain rapide , facile , sans effort. J'éspére que le canada fournisse d'avantage d'effort pour en finir avec la production d'ecstazy qui menace non seulement la jeunesse canadienne ,mais la jeunesse partout , car les frontiéres n'éxistent que sur les cartes. Maintenat , on est conscient que des résultats concrets sont réalisés en matiére de lutte conre ce fléau qui brise la vie de millions de gens et de familles.

As promised, here are some of the scenes from Penang. If you wanna see more of this, go on to my album on Facebook. Of course, u have to add me first. Here's the link to my Facebook, MY FACEBOOK.

Will be off to Penang, this Monday (June 1st - 8th) for the study induction and orientation. Yes, people, I'm back to school! Going to further study on Political Science. I can't give up my career but yet I would like to expand the wisdom in me, so I took USM's Distance Education Programme.

Don't worry, you'll be seeing me religiously here in KL, because the study centre is just nearby... So, I can juggle between work, study and play! Huh!

In the meantime, I would like to thank my boss, Mr. Zainul Arifin Mohammed Isa for letting me pursuing the study while working. Your advice and support is very much appreciated. Anyway, congratulations on the new post. Mr. Zainul will be the next NSTP Group Editor in Chief!

So, do motivate me, people! Really need you guys to be my inspiration! I think, that's all for now, pics of Penang will be uploaded after the hectic week! See you guys soon!

If you guys still remember that I used to ramble around of having my own DSLR camera way back, I think around December or January, if I'm not mistaken. And yet, I managed to get my own DSLR last Sunday.

I bought an Olympus E-420, followed my own instinct despite of heavily arguments and forces from people asking me to buy either Nikon or Canon.

But still, I like Olympus the most because of it compact size of DSLR and cool live view feature (even though, knowing that I'm so not gonna use that feature)!

Anyway, below is the sample of the pixs taken! Yeah, I know that I need to polish up my skill, but then tunjur ajarku SIFU!! Chewie.. chewie...

Vous avez probablement déjà entendu cette citation de Mary Kay Ash*, qui dit ceci: « Il existe trois types d’individus dans ce monde: ceux qui font qu’il se passe quelque chose, ceux qui regardent ce qui se passe et ceux qui se demandent ce qui s’est passé. Nous avons tous le choix...» Et, vous, quel genre d’individus êtes-vous? Qui voulez-vous être vraiment ?

Ce que nous révèle ici l'auteure, c’est qu’en réalité la première catégorie d’individus dispose d’une plus vaste gamme de choix que la deuxième et la troisième car ils ont pris la décision d’agir sur ce qu’ils souhaitent réaliser. Les seconds regardent sans s’impliquer tandis que les derniers se rendent compte a postériori qu’ils ont manqué quelque chose.

Les troisièmes sont par la force des choses les plus contraints à se laisser emporter et à suivre le mouvement des autres, sans avoir le contrôle sur les événements. Déstabilisés par le changement qu’ils n’ont pas vu venir, ils réagissent après coup. Ils peuvent avoir le sentiment d’avoir été dupés ou que les choses leur ont échappé. Leur capacité d’action, leur marge de manœuvre se trouvent limitées par l’inattention dont ils ont fait preuve. Mais, où étaient-ils quand les choses se passaient?

• Les seconds sont spectateurs d’un mouvement, produit par les autres. Ils préfèrent l’observer plutôt que le créer. Idéalement, ils peuvent apprendre des erreurs des autres et éviter de les reproduire. Si le mouvement correspond à leurs valeurs, ils suivent, y adhérent, sinon ils choisissent une autre direction ou s’opposent à ce qui ne leur convient pas. Ils peuvent aussi payer le prix de leur passivité par le regret, la frustration, « j’aurais pu, si j’avais su… ». Il existe autant de limites que l’on est capable de s’en créer.

• Les premiers sont des leaders car ils se donnent une direction qui correspond à leurs aspirations. Ils décident de conduire plutôt que de se laisser conduire….. Leur volonté d’agir leur procure une longueur d’avance, ils voient des opportunités avant les autres. Ils n’attendent pas que le changement se fasse, ils le provoquent, ils le créent ! En agissant, ils expérimentent un terrain connu ou totalement nouveau; les défis sont présents, mais ils peuvent se préparer, s’ajuster à partir du moment où ils en ont pris conscience. Ils sont responsables de leurs actes et leurs erreurs sont autant d’occasions d’apprentissages.
Vouloir réaliser un rêve, un projet, transformer une idée en action, prendre la décision d’agir, s’engager avec courage, motivation, confiance et détermination, voilà ce qu’il faut pour prendre sa destinée en main et devenir leader de sa propre vie.

* Entrepreneure américaine (1918-2001)

Mars 2009

The deaths and killings of Nigerians in Diaspora are lamentable, but if back home in Nigeria fellow citizens are treated like animals, where is our locus to demand and expect decent treatment from foreigners abroad?



When a friend was telling me the story of a Nigerian beaten to pulp a Polish Embassy, my mind expected another disheartening story of innocent Nigerians whose only crime was to find themselves as economic migrants in a foreign land suffering ill-treatment and brutality from another western country.



But lo and behold, it was Mr Rasaq Salami, an Abuja-based businessman, who left his home in the early hours of Friday, March 20, 2009, to visit the Polish Embassy, located in the capital city of his own country, Abuja to retrieve the passport of his friend, Mr Mustapha Bakare which had been submitted for visa.

According to the SUN Newspapers, Soon after stepping into the premises of the Polish Embassy in Abuja, Salami was beaten black and blue by police officers attached to the embassy. After the security operatives finished with him, Salami was taken straight to the Maitama General Hospital where he was still recuperating almost two weeks after his ordeal.


Salami’s story to Sunday Sun was that Nigerian policemen and other security operatives at the embassy premises pounced on him like a common felon. According to him, his trouble started about 1.30 pm when he arrived at the embassy. They knocked at the gate and heard a voice, probably that of the security man, asking them “my friend, who is that knocking on the window?”


“From nowhere, the private security man opened the gate and a police constable started raining abuses on me. I asked him to tell me my sin for which he was insulting me”, he said.


According to him, the angry policeman got annoyed that he dared reply and challenge him and threatened to slap him.


“When I challenged him further that it was not proper for him to slap me without knowing my sin and the purpose of my visit, he held my shirt and dragged me into the compound and started punching and hitting me on the head, kicking me when I fell down on the ground,” he said.


Thoroughly overawed, Salami continued, “When I managed to get up, I headed to the door of the building but the police officer went in, dressed properly and brought out his gun and continued hitting me on my leg with the gun until my leg got broken…They tagged me a criminal and terrorist, and a white man standing by the door urged them to deal with me. When they were done with me, they asked me to walk out of the compound. But already I had fracture on my right leg and I told them I could not stand and so I could not walk. They dragged me out of the gate.”


According to the SUN, the Polish Ambassador Designate, Przemyslaw Niesiolowski, confirmed the incident but denied reports that he supervised his beating and ordered the police to deal with him. He claimed he was not in Abuja at the time the incident occurred but refuted claims by Salami and his friend, Bakare, that they were at the embassy to collect Bakare’s passport but justified the action of the security men against the victim.


It is unfortunate to say the least, that Nigerians would suffer this indignity in their homelands. Before this we hade been regaled with news of deaths and killings of Nigerians in Diaspora. There have been cases of Nigerians killed in Belgium, China, Ukraine and Spain in 2009 alone.


In Spain 2007, a Nigerian whose only offence was that he had no resident permit and therefore had to be deported was beaten, injected with what was later known as a tranquilizer with his mouth being closed with a plastic tape and both hands and legs firmly tied with ropes. They loaded him into the plane covering him with a sack thereby preventing him from passengers view. His killers tied his hands and legs with mouth closed and killed as common criminal.


In 2001 - The result of the autopsy of the Nigerian Samson Chukwu, who died during the procedure of a forcible deportation in Granges near Sion does not leave any doubt: The police officers have applied a method for handcuffing the Nigerian, which is well-known for being possibly lethal, and of whose application is warned in the appropriate literature. Forcing the victim to lie on the stomach with the hands cuffed behind the back, including a police officer to press on the thorax, prevented the necessary respiration. This led to the asphyxia of Samson Chukwu.


In 1999, a 25-year-old Nigerian asylum-seeker, Marcus Omofuma suffocated after being gagged and bound during his forced deportation from Vienna to Nigeria, via Sofia, Bulgaria On 15 April, after more than 50 hours of deliberation, Korneuburg Regional Court found the three police officers guilty of the crime of 'negligent manslaughter in particularly dangerous conditions and sentenced them to eight-month suspended prison terms. The verdict was criticized by some civil society groups due to its alleged leniency. Despite the verdicts of guilt, the police officers will continue to serve in the police force.


In March 1999, a Brussels court decided that five gendarmes should stand trial in connection with the death in September 1998 of Semira Adamu, a 20-year-old rejected asylum seeker from Nigeria after an attempt to deport her forcibly from Brussels-National airport led to her death.


Officers pushed her face into a cushion placed on the knees of one of them and pressed down on her back, she began to struggle. The so-called ''cushion technique'' - a method of restraint authorized by the Ministry of Interior at that time but since banned - allowed gendarmes to press a cushion against the mouth, but not the nose. Semira Adamu's face was pressed against the cushion for over 10 minutes and she fell into a coma as her brain became starved of oxygen. She died of a brain haemorrhage later that day.


These deaths and killings of Nigerians in Diaspora are lamentable, but if back home in Nigeria fellow citizens are treated like animals, where is our locus to demand and expect decent treatment from foreigners abroad?

http://www.elombah.com/index. php?option= com_content&view=article&id=632:nigerian- visa-applicant- tortured- at-polish- embassy&catid=25:politics&Itemid=37



from Daniel Elombah
Publisher: www.elombah. com
(A Nigerian Perspective on world affairs)

Nigeria Moves to Address Chronic Power Outages

By WILL CONNORS
LAGOS, Nigeria -- Officials here are embarking on a costly drive to revamp Nigeria's power sector as the government struggles to keep the lights on.

After months of delays and political maneuverings, the government of Africa's largest oil producer approved this month a plan to allocate over $5 billion in emergency funding to repair its power sector. The money is slated to come from the country's excess crude-oil account. It's a huge outlay, accounting for some 40% of the rainy-day fund's current value of $13.5 billion.
Dozens of power lines crisscross an electronics market in Lagos, Nigeria. The government is beginning an overhaul of the country's power sector.

The new spending program underscores a realization among top officials about the extent of Nigeria's power problems. Many analysts consider the lack of reliable power the biggest impediment to economic growth in Nigeria -- bigger even than the estimated annual loss of billions of dollars in oil revenues to smuggling and corruption.

The large majority of Nigerians, over 70% of whom live on less than $1 a day, often go without reliable access to electricity. Those who can afford them operate costly diesel or gasoline-based generators because of daily blackouts. One neighborhood in Lagos recently went without power for a month. Those who can't afford generators use inefficient kerosene lamps.

Big companies like Procter & Gamble Co. and Coca-Cola Co. have resorted to running generators to provide power to 100% of their operations, pushing costs in Nigeria 10% and even 20% higher than in neighboring countries, executives say. Other foreign companies have pulled out of Nigeria, citing high energy costs as one of the primary reasons for doing so.

South Africa, with a third of the population, has more than 10 times the power generating capacity of Nigeria.

The new funding will go toward improving existing grid infrastructure and funding public-private partnerships, the government has said.

Whether the money from the country's windfall oil account will be used properly remains a critical question. The federal power authority, the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, like many of Nigeria's government institutions, has earned a reputation for inefficiency. Critics accuse it of being driven by the financial and political interests of its officials and others in the government.

PHCN officials didn't respond to requests to comment.

The current government estimates the previous administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo spent freely but without oversight, channeling $10 billion to the power sector during his eight-year rule. Most of this money, however, went unaccounted for, and senior lawmakers have recently put the figure of misplaced funds used for the power sector closer to $16 billion.

The current government of President Umaru Yar'Adua made fixing the country's dilapidated power infrastructure a hallmark of his 2007 campaign. But the gap between electricity supply and demand in Africa's most populous country has only worsened since he took over.

This week, seven senior officials from the country's electricity regulatory body, the National Electricity Regulatory Commission, were arrested and charged with fraud, accused of diverting $33 million in state funds for their personal use.

Mr. Yar'Adua has set power production goals of some 6,000 megawatts by the end of this year and 10,000 megawatts by the end of 2010. Few see these goals being met. In 2008, power production dropped on one occasion to as low as 800 megawatts, according to the state power company. Current production is between 2,000 and 3,000 megawatts, according to the government.

"There were three days when no power at all was generated by the Nigerian government," said one official involved in high-level, power-sector reform talks with the government. "The worst part was, nobody at [the government power agency] noticed."

Amid the power crisis, several state governors, in an attempt to bypass the federal bureaucracy in the capital Abuja, have sought private funding to build their own power plants.

The governor of Kwara State, in southwestern Nigeria, has built a small power plant, funding it without federal support. The governor of Rivers State has been in negotiations to wrest control of energy distribution.

A strain of flu never seen before has killed up to 68 people in Mexico and spread to the US. Skip related content

Mexico's government said at least 20 people have died of the disease in central Mexico and that it may also have been responsible for 48 other deaths.

Mexico reported more than 1,000 suspected cases and four possible cases were also seen in Mexicali, right on the border with California. In the US, eight people were infected but recovered, health officials said.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said tests showed the virus from 12 of the Mexican patients was the same genetically as a new strain of swine flu, designated H1N1, seen in eight patients in California and Texas.

Global health officials are not ready to declare a pandemic - a global epidemic of a new and deadly disease such as flu - but the new virus raised fears of a major outbreak.

Mexico's government has cancelled classes for millions of children in its sprawling capital city and surrounding areas. All large public events like concerts were suspended in Mexico City.

Close analysis showed the disease is a never-before-seen mixture of swine, human and avian viruses, according to the US Centrers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Most of the Mexican dead were aged between 25 and 45, a Mexican health official said. Seasonal flu can be more deadly among the very young and the very old but a hallmark of pandemics is that they affect healthy young adults.

Humans can occasionally catch swine flu from pigs but rarely have they been known to pass it on to other people.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090425/twl-flu-outbreak-reaches-us-41f21e0.html

Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Hell was literally let loose in Anambra State on Monday as armed robbers shot and killed over 30 people. The victims who included policemen, commuters and a soldier were felled during a shoot out that lasted for about two hours.
According to eyewitnesses, the armed robbers who operated with one Toyota Hilux, Hiace Commuter and one jeep were on the trail of a bullion van that took off from Onitsha to Nnewi through Oba old road. They were said to have launched an attack on the van within Oba area in Idemili South Local Government Area, Anambra State.
During the shoot out with the police joint patrol team, Daily Sun gathered, passengers in buses and other vehicles that were trapped in the scene fell victim as some of them including three pregnant women were shot dead while others were seriously wounded. Our source said that the hoodlums blocked the expressway by Oba junction new and old roads to avoid disruption before they began the operation.
The bandits were said to have set the bullion van ablaze along with two other vehicles but as at the time of filing this report it was not certain whether they succeeded in breaking the bullion van or not before burning it.
Like demons from hell, Daily Sun was told that the armed robbers ran amock ran wild as stormed Nnobi road towards Oraukwu and Adani shooting indiscriminately at commuters as they made for escape. Our source said that a tipper lorry driver was shot dead in the rampage.
Some of the corpses were deposited at Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH) while others were taken to nearby hospitals as (NAUTH) mortuary was already congested, according to an official of the hospital.
A doctor at NAUTH casualty ward who pleaded anonymity said there were over 15 victims with serious bullet wounds receiving medical attention at the ward.
One commercial bus driver, Mr Ifeanyi whose bus was also attacked near Oraukwu junction said two men and a woman were shot dead in his bus by the armed robbers.
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Fidelis Agbo (CSP) confirmed the incident. According to Mr Agbo three police officers, one soldier and four commuters were feared dead.
He said that the police have spread their dragnet to apprehend the dare-devils as none of the armed robbers was killed during the gun battle.
Meanwhile, two suspected armed robbers were killed and two others seriously wounded in a shoot out with the police along Ogoja Road Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital on Monday bringing to 11 killed in two separate attacks within one week in the state.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Chris Anyanwu said the hoodlums operating with two motorcycles marked QB 780 ZLL and WF 189 ENU had trailed their victim, one Mr. Simon Iseh from a bank to his petrol station and robbed him of the sum of over N1.2 million at gun point.
He said that the hoodlums, after snatching the money were intercepted at Nwokpo junction along Ogoja road while trying to escape with their loot.
He stated that items recovered from the bandits include two locally made pistols, four GSM handset, and some objects suspected to be charms.
Anyanwu gave the names of the suspected armed gang as Ogbonna Sunday from Agbaja Umuhu in Izzi local government area of Ebonyi State and Orji Calistus from Amaorji Nenwe in Agwu local government area of Enugu State while the two that died at the spot were identified as Jude and Ernest.
The robbery victim, Hon Simon Iseh, pioneer Minority Leader of the Ebonyi State House of Assembly, said that he left his house early in the morning to the bank to make some withdrawals but was delayed for some time at the bank.
“I came out of the bank and never suspected anything. I entered my car and drove off not knowing I was being followed.”
“On getting down at the petrol station four boys jumped down from two motorcycles,’ at gun point they asked me to hand over my car keys which I immediately did. Having collected my car keys, they also commanded me to hand over the money I withdrew from the bank. I realized that if I had refused to hand over the money they would possibly shoot me, so I handed over the money to them and immediately, they drove away in the opposite direction heading towards rice mill.”
He said that it was his salesgirls who, perhaps, observed what happened that raised alarm. “Fortunately for me, the Scorpion team of the Ebonyi State police command were driving towards the direction the hoodlum went and we had to alert them of the robbery attack. On sighting the police patrol van they opened fire and the police retaliated leading to the killing of two of the robbers while two others received gun shot wounds.”
The former House of Assembly member said that of the over N1.2 million snatched from him only N795,000 was recovered while the balanced could not be traced as at press time
ASP Anyanwu attributed the recent successes of the state police command to the determination of the force to curb crime in the state, adding that the command would continue to ensure that the state is safe for habitation.

CBNNews.com
April 17, 2009


Watch Low Band CBNNews.com - The Obama administration has announced plans to loosen restrictions on how Americans can visit and do business with Cuba.

The changes mean that Cuban Americans can visit family on the island anytime they want. And they can send as much money as they wish to relatives there.

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro says the U.S.should go further and lift what he calls the cruel trade embargo.

But on the same day the U.S. made its announcement, Cuba denied visas to members of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

The group had planned a trip to the country to evaluate the state of religious freedom in the island nation.

The commission says it will continue to apply for visas.

http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/579832.aspx

Without GOD, our week would be:

Sinday, Mournday, Tearsday, Wasteday,
Thirstday, Fightday & Shatterday.

If you are not ashamed of GOD, pass it on.

Remember seven days WITHOUT GOD makes
one WEAK!!