Lere Ojedokun, M.Comm; Adv Dip; AMNIPR

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[Lere Ojedokun, M.Comm; Adv Dip; AMNIPR @doklere]

With a new helmsman at Ministry of Power, no electricity in Liberty Estate Ikola-Ilumo, Ipaja Lagos since Thursday's evening. No explanation, no accountability @JosephOTegbe @Electricity24NG @officialABAT @officialSKSM @IkejaElectric @ConsumerReports @fccpcnigeria @NERCNG

[Lere Ojedokun, M.Comm; Adv Dip; AMNIPR @doklere]

Until South Africa's Chief Justice issued a recent declaration banning xenophobic attacks and murder of foreign nationals, RSA govt compromised on the tenets of justice, dignity and equality. We demand probe @UN @UNHumanRights @GovernmentZA

[Lere Ojedokun, M.Comm; Adv Dip; AMNIPR @doklere]

@Pharmacio001 FG, states and LGAs have been receiving more money under President Tinubu-led administration but impact has been less visible. Quality of lives of Nigerians continues to worsen as transparency and accountability in public finance administration have yet to be accorded priority.

[Lere Ojedokun, M.Comm; Adv Dip; AMNIPR @doklere]

Congratulations sir @KunleElebute
on your appointment as Chairman of Governing Board of Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria. Your appointment is another testament of your over 4 decades of commitment to excellent career, professionalism and leadership. I pray for your success

[Lere Ojedokun, M.Comm; Adv Dip; AMNIPR @doklere]

@Simi4Reps @tundefashola @theplatformng An uncommon leader, a strategist and a deep thinker, BRF combines the finesse of scholarship, brilliance, administrative & leadership quality. Though not a staffer of LASG, working on some govt projects as a Team Lead at Chain Reactions gave me an understanding of his personality

[Lere Ojedokun, M.Comm; Adv Dip; AMNIPR @doklere]

For over 24 hours @IkejaElectric has thrown Ikola-Ilumo, Ipaja, Lagos & adjourning communities into darkness @JosephOTegbe @NERCNG
We were denied opportunity to celebrate #June12 dividend of democracy @officialABAT @officialSKSM

[Lere Ojedokun, M.Comm; Adv Dip; AMNIPR @doklere]

EFCC's prosecution of ex-Aviation Minister Sirika and collaborators in Nigeria Air's scam should also find out why @flyethiopian mgmt didn't raise objection to using its airplane to swindle Nigeria @officialEFCC
@LOFagbemi @OfficialDSSNG
@fkeyamo
https://t.co/AjMaA9zyqI

[Lere Ojedokun, M.Comm; Adv Dip; AMNIPR @doklere]

Our security forces must be adequately armed with superior weapons and intelligence, logistics and personnel welfare prioritised to defeat terrorism, banditry, kidnapping and criminality @officialABAT @officialSKSM @DHQNigeria @HQNigerianArmy @PoliceNG @OfficialDSSNG @NSCDCrops

[Lere Ojedokun, M.Comm; Adv Dip; AMNIPR @doklere]

FG & Kwara State Govt need to  deploy troops to safeguard deserted communities and begin immediate engagement with fleeing residents to return home. This will be on the premise of adequate security protection for the people @officialABAT @OfficialDSSNG @PoliceNG @DHQNigeria

[Lere Ojedokun, M.Comm; Adv Dip; AMNIPR @doklere]

The danger of not securing communities abandoned by fleeing residents will make it easier for terrorists to establish territorial occupation, build permanent operational bases where they will be launching more attacks on other communities @officialABAT @officialSKSM @DHQNigeria

[Lere Ojedokun, M.Comm; Adv Dip; AMNIPR @doklere]

"Only one man left in Owa Onire, home of West Africa’s highest waterfall"
Above headline is not only scary, it's a timely warning of a bigger problem in our hands. 28 communities are reportedly deserted by residents
@officialABAT @officialSKSM
https://t.co/t2gq1HhmjX

[Lere Ojedokun, M.Comm; Adv Dip; AMNIPR @doklere]

Fed Govt has clearly lost hold on domestic gas supply efficiency @PBATMediaCentre
https://t.co/8UfvrJCZST

[Lere Ojedokun, M.Comm; Adv Dip; AMNIPR @doklere]

@gsbabatunde Lodge a formal complaint with the Nigeria Police Force Complaint Response Unit (NPF-CRU). Submit it to [email protected] or [email protected], SMS/ WhatsApp: [phone]
by providing full details of what happened @PoliceNG IGP @TunjiDisu1 It'll be treated

[G. S. Babatunde🌕 @gsbabatunde]

QUESTION???

I am a solar installer and i had a job to install solar at festac and i load my Sienna bus with the solar materials

On my way going, the Police stopped me on the way and they ask me for the receipt of everything in my sienna and i showed them, so they demand they want to search my bag, which is my cross bag around my neck and they found my full note of receipt that carries my business name and thats where i give out receipts to customers and they ask me if the business is registered and i should show them my CAC certificate

Atanda, I told them my business is not registered and they said i have commited a crime and if they take it up, i may pay up to 500k as fine to the Government and we had ro bragain and i drop 40k so they can let me go cos the customer is waiting for me.

So i need to know in case of next time.
Atanda, is it crime to operate a business that doesn't have CAC in Nigeria and does the Police have the right to arrest me because i operate a business that is not registered with CAC.

ANSWER:

While operating an unregistered business name is an offense under CAMA, the Nigeria Police Force does not have the administrative or legal authority to enforce CAC compliance on the highway.

It is not a type of crime that deals with arrest in person for business owners

The regulatory body empowered to enforce, investigate, and seal up businesses over CAC defaults is the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) itself, sometimes in conjunction with specialized federal task forces. A regular police officer on a stop and search cannot act as a CAC compliance officer.

So. The POLICE do not have the power on their own to enforce CAC compliance until the CAC team calls for their help, to help seal up a business place

The police extorted you in this case.

Under Section 863(1) of the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) 2020,

The fine for operating business that is not registered is just a fine of 200 naira per day and it continues to add up per day till the day you register the business.

So, it's not something difficult as that especially for small business owners which we call SME.

From the day CAC takes the matter up with you

You pay fine if 200 naira per day only.

Chai
But if you have evidence of the extortion from the POLICE, you can take up the case

But evidence go hard without video record

Ignorance of the law is no excuse

CREDIT: THE PEOPLE'S PARLIAMENT

[Lere Ojedokun, M.Comm; Adv Dip; AMNIPR @doklere]

Good to have HE @LuckyAiyedatiwa on set with @seunokin @channelstv Politics today #uniteagainstterror

[Lere Ojedokun, M.Comm; Adv Dip; AMNIPR @doklere]

Cooking gas prices surge despite higher domestic supply https://t.co/lfzuTOy1yD

[Lere Ojedokun, M.Comm; Adv Dip; AMNIPR @doklere]

@onu_slim He is the 'most qualified candidate' for the Senate in 2027, which APC has found for Kogi Central.

[Slim @onu_slim]

The Kogi Kleptocrat: A Verdict on Eight Years of Organised Looting

Yahaya Bello governed Kogi State for eight years. He left behind a state bled dry, workers unpaid, investors scared off, and a trail of corruption charges so enormous they read like a national emergency.

Start with the money. The EFCC accused Bello of misappropriating N80.2 billion belonging to Kogi State while in office.  That alone should have been enough to define his legacy. It wasn’t enough for Bello. The EFCC filed fresh corruption charges accusing him of dishonestly diverting more than N110 billion from the Kogi State Government’s treasury across his eight-year tenure. Two separate courts with separate astronomical figures for only one man. The charges allege he used diverted state funds to acquire properties in choice areas of Abuja and in Dubai including a N950 million property in Maitama bought with public money in 2023. 

Then there is what he did to workers. The Nigeria Labour Congress told Bello to his face that his administration owed workers between eight and 39 months of salary arrears. Let that sink in. Thirty-nine. Over 7,000 teachers in Kogi’s public primary and junior secondary schools were owed salary arrears spanning 39 months, with some of them reduced to begging just to feed themselves and their families.  Meanwhile, the only category of salary earners paid up to date under his administration were his own political appointees. 

When bailout funds arrived from the federal government to fix this crisis, Bello turned them into a personal treasure chest. A portion of the federal bailout fund meant to offset wage arrears was discovered sitting in a secret bank account generating interest and when the EFCC found it, the Kogi State government denied ownership of the money. They denied their own bailout funds rather than pay their workers.

On political terror, Bello was unapologetic. The SDP accused the APC under Bello of state-sponsored terrorism subjecting opposition members to violence, sporadic gunshots, arsons, and the disappearance of party supporters  ahead of the 2023 governorship election. Kogi lawyers petitioned the United Nations and the United States government, calling on the international community to hold Bello accountable for alleged extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests, and political intimidation of citizens. He personally drove a state-crested vehicle to obstruct the SDP candidate’s entry into Kogi, and ordered excavators to destroy the access road leading to Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduagha. 

On investment, he finished the job. BUA Group announced it would no longer invest in Kogi State due to the government’s failure to address land access issues, while Bello’s closure of Dangote Cement scared off other intending investors. A state sitting on some of the richest solid mineral deposits in Nigeria, watching capital flee because the man in charge governed through chaos and impunity.

After all of this, Bello resisted arrest for months, skipping court appearances repeatedly, until the EFCC eventually arrested him in the EFCC car park.

Eight years. N190 billion in fraud allegations. Thirty-nine months of unpaid salaries. Teachers begging on the streets. Investors running. Opposition members killed and harassed. And a man who still had the audacity to call it governance.

Kogi deserved better. It still does.

[Lere Ojedokun, M.Comm; Adv Dip; AMNIPR @doklere]

Cooking gas out of reach for families amidst FG's inability to lower cost of living, tame hardship @officialABAT @officialSKSM @PBATMediaCentre @sowore @obyezeks
https://t.co/lfzuTOy1yD

[Lere Ojedokun, M.Comm; Adv Dip; AMNIPR @doklere]

Amidst worsening security situation in Nigeria, costs of living including food items, grocery, transportation, cooking gas & services have increasingly skyrocketed as politicians abandon governance & electorate for 2027 elections' pitch
https://t.co/lZyYcC8hVH

[Lere Ojedokun, M.Comm; Adv Dip; AMNIPR @doklere]

Abducted little children & teachers of Esiele-Ahoro schools in Oriire LG Ogbomoso Oyo State continue to cry, groan in pain, unfed in the forest while politicians gladiate at televised party primaries. Rescue action @officialABAT @officialSKSM @DHQNigeria @PoliceNG @OfficialDSSNG