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Obi Clarifies Position On Subsidy Removal
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EditorThe Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has shed light on his support for the removal of fuel subsidies but gave conditions to be met for the desired result to be achieved.
Obi was said to have spoken to reporters at the Court of Appeal Headquarters, in Abuja, on Tuesday.
This was contained in a statement issued by the Obi-Datti Media Office, in Abuja.
He was quoted as saying that his support for subsidy removal dates back to the Goodluck Jonathan era when he served as a member of the Presidential economic management team.
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Obi said, “If you have followed me very well right from the time I was a member of Jonathan’s economic management team, I consistently maintained that subsidy should be removed because I see it as organized crime. People were just stealing the resources of the country and I showed empirically in my statistical analysis that we are not consuming the amount of fuel they claim we consume.”
The former Anambra state Governor differentiated his idea of Subsidy removal from what is happening in the country now that they are linking him to the two options available to a person having a tooth ache.
He explained that if you approach a dentist to remove a painful tooth, he will apply a local anesthetic to numb the area around the tooth so you do not feel pain.
Noting that it was not the same thing as pulling the tooth forcefully, the pain you feel will be different.
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The LP Presidential candidate further said, “For me, I will go with the approach of the dentist while supporting the removal of the tooth because I wouldn’t want to go through the pain of forceful removal.
“Recall that even when Jonathan wanted to remove it they came up with various relieving policies like SureP and others.
“If you read my manifesto you will see clearly how I planned to remove subsidy, I will govern with the people and show them statistically and empirically what we are getting and how we are deploying it.
“The problem In Nigeria is that when people say let’s go and suffer, let’s go and sacrifice, they don’t see the results of their suffering and their sacrifice.”
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The Israeli Defense Forces, IDF, on Monday said an Israeli drone was shot down over Lebanon on Sunday night.
Writing on Telegram, the IDF said a surface-to-air missile was launched at the drone that was operating in Lebanese airspace, adding that the drone was hit and had landed in Lebanon.
It added that fighter jets struck the missile launch site.
Fighting broke out with Lebanon on Sunday, with the Israeli army announcing that two shells had been fired in the direction of the village of Rosh Hanikra in northern Israel on the Mediterranean Sea.
The Israeli Army attacked the locations from which the shots were fired and fighter jets had also attacked terror infrastructure north-east of Nabatieh, it said.
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VIDEO: First Female Transgender Mosque Opens In Bangladesh
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EditorThe world’s first female transgender mosque has reportedly opened in Bangladesh.
In the video shared by DW, some of the worshippers who transitioned from being males to females were seen observing the Muslim prayers.
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It was further gathered that the land where the mosque was built, was donated by the government. The transgender Muslims expressed excitement over the development, adding that they are happy they will live and be buried like every other person.
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US Man Bags Multiple Deaths Sentence After Paying Mother $2,500 To Rape 5-year-old Daugher[PHOTOS]
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Editor…mother faces 20 years prison for child trafficking
A Georgia man, Jeremy Williams, has been given four death sentences for paying a mother, Kristen Siple, $2,500 to rape her 5-year-old daughter, Kamarie Holland, before murdering the child.
The horrific details of the case sparked widespread outrage.
The emotional trial saw jurors reportedly shed tears upon viewing videos of Williams’ actions.
Williams was convicted of paying Kristen Siple $2,500 to rape and sodomize her daughter.
He filmed the sexual assault and then killed little Kamarie Holland.
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On Dec. 13, 2021, the girl was snatched from her Columbus, Georgia home.
Williams took her to an abandoned ramshackle home where he once lived across the state line in Phenix City, Alabama, and raped, tortured and strangled the child to death.
Siple initially claimed she woke up that day to discover her daughter missing and the front door open.
However, last month, she confessed to selling her daughter to Williams for an hour to sate his sickening desires.
The mum now faces 20 years in prison for sex trafficking.
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“If there’s ever been somebody that’s deserving of the death penalty, it’s Jeremy Williams,” Russell County Sheriff Heath Taylor told reporters.
“He’s another type of evil that we in society just don’t need walking around.”
According to reports, at points during the trial, jurors were sobbing as they watched bodycam footage of cops finding Kamarie’s body in the filthy basement.
They also had to endure videos of the little girl being raped.
Williams is a serial child abuser. He is also a suspect in the brutal murder of an Alabama toddler.
In 2009, he was acquitted of lowering a little boy, aged three, into a bowl of boiling water.
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His ex-wife called him a “soulless” man who was “no longer worth her tears.”.
A woman who was four when she was raped by Williams called him a “monster.”
As the child killer heard the four death sentences pronounced, he was utterly without emotion.
“You don’t deserve life yourself,” Kamarie’s father, Corey Holland, told him at the sentencing. “We don’t have Kamarie and you don’t deserve to see your kids or life.”
The little girl’s sister added: “I don’t understand why someone would hurt her – she was so sweet and caring.”
Williams was also sentenced to life for the production of obscene material of a child and human trafficking, 20 years for conspiracy of human trafficking, and 10 years for abuse of a corpse.
“There’s no reason that baby should be in the ground. I want to remember her, not this joker. Jeremy is not somebody I want to remember in life,” DA Rick Chancey said.
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