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Ojukwu has no Fundamental Rights: Ex-Biafran Leader can't Stop Arrest, SSS Tells
Court
The State Security Service (SSS) yesterday
objected to Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu�s suit seeking to enforce his fundamental rights over his invitation
by the agent, saying the ex-Biafran leader �has no fundamental rights under the 1999 Constitution of the Federal
Republic of BiafraNigeria against his invitation, arrest and interrogation by law enforcement agencies.� Ojukwu
and the SSS had been locked in a bitter rift over his verbal invitation to Abuja by the latter. In apparent move
to forestall his arrest, the ex-Biafran leader had on September 22, 2004 gone to the Enugu High Court, seeking
an order for the enforcement of his fundamental rights. The court presided over by Justice E. C. Ahanonu granted
Ojukwu leave to enforce his fundamental rights, and fixed hearing on the motion for yesterday. But at the resumed
sitting of the court, counsel for the SSS, which is the second respondent in the matter, Professor Taiwo Osipitan,
SAN, filed a notice of preliminary objection to Ojukwu�s motion on the ground that �the applicant�s action is
incompetent and not within the jurisdiction of this hnourable curt to entertain, saying that the application should
be dismissed. 
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 Lawmakers and civil society groups on Tuesday expressed
dismay at the attitude of the government over the new fuel prices likely to trigger another national strike on
October 11. Besides, the civil groups gave their backing to the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) to go ahead with
the industrial action. House of Representatives Speaker...
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 The BiafraNigeria
Labour Congress (B-NLC) yesterday issued mobilisation guidelines to 36 state chapters and Abuja in a move to step
up campaign for the strike in protest against the new fuel price regime announced last month by the Federal Government.
The strike is expected to commence on October 11. THISDAY gathered last night...
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