British-Nigerian international and Torino defender Ola Aina, has joined newly-promoted English Premier League side Fulham, on loan.
Aina’s loan move is ahead of Fulham’s opening match today against FA champions Arsenal.
Aina, who expressed happiness to return to London where he was born and raised could remain in Fulham permanently if should the club side choose that option, as it is open to them.
“It feels amazing to be back closer to my family, back in the capital,” Aina told the club’s media channel.
“There’s a great bunch of lads here. I’m really good friends with Big Hec (Michael Hector) and Josh Onomah.” he said.
Having grown in in skills at the neighbouring Chelsea’s youth system, Aina spent the last two seasons with Torino and played 69 times with his versatility allowing him to play on either flank.
“I feel very comfortable on either foot. I can fill in wherever needs be.
“I’d say I’m pretty quick and I like to attack, but I also like to help the team and do the dirty work as much as I can”, he added.
Aina’s signing follows the capture of midfielder Harrison Reed, goalkeeper Alphonse Areola, right-back Kenny Tete and midfielder Mario Lemina and left-back Antonee Robinson.
Former Deputy Governor of Ògùn State, Chief Mrs Yetunde Onanuga celebrates Diamond Jubilee in Lagos.
The immediate past Deputy Governor of Ogun State, Yetunde Onanuga has been praised for her high degree of dedication and commitment to the development of Ogun State as she turns 60.
At a ceremony held at Onanuga’s Lagos residence on Friday, former Governor of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, described his former deputy as selfless.
Amosun, who currently represents the people of Ogun Central at the Senate, said Onanuga’s service impacted on the unprecedented development Ogun State witnessed during his administration.
Also, the former Secretary to the State Government (SSG) during the Amosun administration, Taiwo Adeoluwa, who spoke on behalf of all executive members of the 2015 – 2019 Ogun State Government, appreciated the enormous contributions of the former deputy governor in the development of the gateway state.
He stated that looking at the history of Ogun State, Mrs Onanuga will always be remembered for everything she has done towards the empowerment of women and young girls across the State.
Present at the ceremony include former First Lady in the state, Olufunso Amosun; Hon Micky Kassim, a former member of the House of Representatives from Ogun State, members of the Amosun-led administration including former commissioners: Ms Segun Abiodun, Ms Adenrele Adesina, Mr. Wale Osinowo; and a former General Manager, Ogun State Property and Investment Corporation (OPIC), Mr. ‘Jide Odusolu. Chief Sola Adeeyo and Mr Remi Adetayo were also present.
A file photo of an officer of the Nigerian Police Force.
Lagos State Police Command Friday declined any further comments on the alleged illegal detention of late Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola’s two sons, Kassim and Aliyu, who were arrested and detained over the September 2 robbery incident which took place at the residence of late politician in Ikeja.
They were said to have been detained, following a complaint that was lodged by their step-mother, Adebisi Abiola, after the robbery incident.
But, reacting to the suit instituted by Abiola’s sons, Public Relations Officer of Lagos State Police Command, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said: “On MKO Abiola’s Sons’ Arrest: We will be silent for now because the matter is subject of litigation. We will react as when due.”
In another development, Chairman of the Police Trust Fund (PTF) and former Inspector General of Police, Sulaiman Abba, has inspected some of the dilapidated Police Barracks and facilities in Lagos State.
The former police boss, who was accompanied by Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu; Commissioner of Police in charge of Works, Department of Logistics and Supply, Aliyu Abubakar; Area Commander Area A Lion Building, Bode Ojajuni, among others, went round to see the bad condition of Obalende and Ije Barracks at Obalende area and Mopol 20 Police Barracks and the Police College at Ikeja.
While inspecting the deplorable condition of the barracks, Abba assured the police personnel and their families of President Muhammadu Buhari’s commitment to improve their welfare and living conditions with a view to getting the best service delivery from them.
He reaffirmed the Buhari administration’s determination to kick-start the Trust Fund to improve the welfare of the personnel of the Nigeria Police, especially in the areas of trainings, welfare, logistics and a host of others, for more reinforced internal security of the country.
Prof. Florence Banku Obi has emerged as the first female Vice Chancellor of University of Calabar.
Obi, an educationist, beat 12 other candidates to clinch the plum job to succeed Prof. Zana Akpagu as the 11th Vice Chancellor at the institution.
The institution’s Chairman of the Governing Council and Pro Chancellor, Nkechi Nwaogu, who spoke after the selection process, described the exercise as transparent, saying it followed the guidelines laid down by Federal Ministry of Education.
Nwaogu explained that Obi’s emergence was a victory for women, adding that the 10th Governing Council looks forward for her to build on the legacies of the outgoing vice chancellor.
“What we assured the university community was that we were going to be transparent, open, fair and just.
“There’s a guideline from the Ministry of Education as to how to conduct interview for the appointment and there were so many parameters we had to look into and that’s exactly what we did.
“What I expect from her is to look at what the outgoing vice chancellor has done, governance is a continuum, start from where he has stopped and ensure there is integration even amongst all the people that contested against her,” Nwaogu said.
In her reaction, Obi, while giving glory to God, promised to run an inclusive administration.
The US Export-Import Bank has reaffirmed its commitment to the growth of the US-African cooperation by constituting Sub-Saharan Advisory Committee for 2020 and 2021.
The committee is composed of pro-investment and pro-business advisors who understand Africa and would be instrumental in growing the US-African cooperation and flows of goods, services and technology.
The Sub-Saharan Advisory Committee is chaired by the Senior Vice President and Director of the Programme on Prosperity and Development at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Daniel Runde.
Other members of the committee include: Chief Executive Officer, Energy and Natural Resource Security, Inc., Derek Campbell; Senior Vice President, African Affairs and President, US-Africa Business Centre, US Chamber of Commerce, Scott Eisner; Founder and Chief Executive Officer, AppsTech, Rebecca Enonchong; Executive Director/Americas Export Finance Head, JPMorgan Chase Bank, Lori Helmers; President and Chief Executive Officer, Corporate Council on Africa, Florizelle Liser, Chairman, AfricaGlobal Schaffer,
Mima Nedelcovych; Principal, The OKPA Co., EE Okpa; Director Customer and Industry Relations, Progress Rail, a Caterpillar Company, Marise Duff Stewart; President – International Business, Acrow Bridge, Paul Sullivan; and Chief Executive Officer, United Bank for Africa (UBA), America, Sola Yomi-Ajayi.
By working to provide funding for trade and development deals in Africa for American companies, the US EXIM Bank could become an increasingly important source of financing for Africa’s critical energy infrastructure.
US companies have important products, experience and expertise in several key segments of the energy value chain that would be extremely beneficial if properly matched with opportunities on the continent.
This is especially relevant to the natural gas value-chain which has become a key priority for most African governments, and for which American technology and services could help transform the continent’s energy industry.
Equally important is the focus given to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) within the committee.
The African Energy Chamber’s own US-Africa Committee has identified the collaboration between US and African SMEs as a major requirement to grow investment and technology transfers between the US and Africa.
Commenting on the latest appointments, a prominent member of the Africa Energy Chamber’s US-Africa Committee, Jude Kearney, said: “The African Energy Chamber notes and welcomes the recent appointment of the US Exim Bank’s Sub-Saharan Advisory Committee.
“The renewed interest and appetite for investing in Africa shown by Exim Bank and other US trade agencies is welcome in Africa, and the continent’s energy sector is listening and open to doing business and making the kind of deals that will propel the continent towards a prosperous future.”
“The African Energy Chamber looks forward to supporting further US involvement in Africa and to developing new ways of working together and pushing for a pro-African investment agenda in the US public and private sectors,” said Kearney, who’s also the former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Service Industries and Finance at the US Department of Commerce during the Clinton Administration and currently President of Kearney Africa Advisors.
On his part, Director of Strategy at the Africa Energy Chamber, Mickael Vogel, said: “We are very proud to see Rebecca Enonchong on this board. She more than anyone understands the challenges of small businesses and has personally built and mentored many such businesses.
“With her you know you have someone who will work towards making America a good partner of the African business community and ensuring that civil society is not left behind. She is an inspiration for so many women in business.”
“We are grateful that our own C. Derek Campbell will add value to this work.
“Derek has a proven track-record on issues that concern trade with Africa and also on Energy Security.
“Advancing and protecting Africa’s energy sector, empowering Africans and openings doors for so many that he has never met has been the work of his life,” noted the Executive Chairman at the African Energy Chamber, NJ Ayuk.
The increased attention given to SMEs on both sides of the Atlantic is extremely encouraging for the future of US-African cooperation and its ability to create jobs and value for both regions.
Olugbenga Olaleye gets Ogun Internal Revenue Service (OGIRS) Chairman position.
Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has appointed Mr. Olugbenga Anthony Olaleye as the new chairman for the State Internal Revenue Service, OGIRS.
A renowned accountant, auditor, mortgage banker and tax consultant, a statement by the Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr Kunle Somorin, said the new OGIRS boss, comes to the job with practice experience spanning more than 34 years.
Somorin said the new OGIRS chairman, “started his career with extensive exposure in Accounting, Audit, and Tax Management Consulting with international firms of Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Arthur Andersen (now KPMG in Nigeria).
“A distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA), a Fellow of the Chartered Taxation Institute of Nigeria (FCTI) and a John Maxwell (JMT) certified coach. A well-trained Tax, Accounting and Management professional with highly rated qualifications and professional practice and licenses from relevant professional bodies, Mr Olaleye had his first degree in 1984 from the University of Calabar and was the best graduating student for in Mathematic/Education Department. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1989, became a Fellow of ICAN in 1997. He became a Fellow of the Chartered Taxation Institute (FCTI) of Nigeria in 2011. He had two international mini-MBA Certifications from CWC School for Energy and American Management Association (AMA), USA.
Gbenga has attended various international and in-country Management Development Programmes with renowned organisations such as Lagos Business School (LBS), Management Centre Europe (MCE), PetroSkills USA, to mention a few, ”, the statements further reads.
Mr Olaleye spent 12-year career with Diageo Plc, the parent company of Guinness Nigeria Plc (GNPlc), working across Africa and the United Kingdom, which further gave him deep and extensive international experience. He was the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of South Atlantic Petroleum Ltd. (SAPETRO), an indigenous Upstream Oil & Gas company in Nigeria for over 6 years to April 2016.
His major skills cover almost all areas of Accounting, Auditing, Taxation, Management Consulting, Corporate Finance, Receiverships & Liquidations, Project Evaluation, Risk Management, Internal Audit, Controls & Compliance, Strategic Planning and People Development. He is also culturally sensitive to enabling environment and the people.
The Governor wishes Mr Gbenga Olaleye a successful tenure as OGIRS chairman.
A new dimension has been introduced into the recent robbery incident that took place at the residence of late Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola as two sons of the late business mogul, Kassim and Aliyu, have approached a Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja for the enforcement of their fundamental rights.
Kassim and Aliyu were arrested and detained over the robbery incident which took place on September 2, following a complaint that was lodged by their step-mother, Adebisi Abiola, after the robbery incident.
They told the court that they were discriminatorily singled out as a result of a complaint by their step-mother, which accused them of complicity in the robbery.
The duo had applied for the enforcement of their rights to personal liberty, dignity of person, right to private and family life, as well as right to freedom of movement, praying the court that they were unlawfully arrested and detained at the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Ikeja.
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, was cited as the sole Respondent in the suit, which the Applicants filed through their lawyer and human rights activist, Mike Ozekhome, SAN.
They prayed the court to specifically declare that: “The arrest without warrant and subsequent and continuous dehumanisation and detention of the Applicants since the 2nd September, 2020, by operatives of the Respondent on the alleged Complaint of one Mrs. Adebisi Abiola, is illegal, unlawful, wrongful and constitutes a blatant violation of the Applicants’ fundamental rights as enshrined in Section 35 (1) (4) & (6), 37, 41 (1), 44 (1) and 46(1) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as altered, Sections 2, 3(1) (2), 17(1) (2), 18 (1) (2) (3), 19, 21 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law, Lagos State, 2015, and Articles 5, 6 & 14 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights Ratification and Enforcement Act Cap A9, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.
“A declaration that the arrest and subsequent dehumanisation and the continuous detention of the Applicants since the 2nd September, 2020, by operatives of the Respondent on the alleged Petition/Complaint of one Mrs. Adebisi Abiola, without granting them administrative bail within 24 hours of their arrest, are illegal, wrongful, unlawful and constitutes a blatant violation of fundamental rights as enshrined in Section 35 (1) (4) & (6), 37, 41 (1), 44 (1) and 46(1) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as altered, Sections 2, 3(1) (2), 17(1) (2), 18 (1) (2) (3), 19, 21 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law, Lagos State, 2015, and Articles 5, 6 & 14 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights Ratification and Enforcement Act Cap A9, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.
“A declaration that the Applicants are entitled to public apology and adequate compensation from the Respondent as provided for by section 35(6) and 46(1) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as altered, Sections 2, 3(1) (2), 17(1) (2), 18 (1) (2) (3), 19, 21 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law, Lagos State, 2015, for the blatant violation of the Applicants’ fundamental rights without following the due process of law.
“An order of perpetual injunction restraining the Respondent whether by itself, its agents, employees, operatives, detectives, investigating officer(s), or by whatever name called, from further inviting, arresting or detaining the Applicant on the facts of an alleged Petition/Complaint made by one Mrs Adebisi Abiola, in relation to a purported or alleged robbery incident to which they know absolutely nothing about; and
“An order of this honourable court directing the Respondent and his operatives and agents to release forthwith the Applicants from the detention of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, detention centre of the Respondent.”
Apart from demanding for an apology, the Applicants equally asked for an order to compel the Respondent to pay them N100 million as exemplary damages for the “wanton and grave violation” of their fundamental rights.
In a 21-paragraphed affidavit that was deposed to by Ubong Ikon, a Litigation Clerk in Ozekhome’s Chamber, the Applicants alleged that police officers forcibly broke into their homes and arrested them with seven other people.
“The Applicants were tortured, totally humiliated, dehumanised and terrorised, with a crowd of people swarming the premises to witness the ugly scene in the home of MKO Abiola, the former Presidential aspirant of the Social Democratic Party.”
The Applicants said they were informed that their arrest was as a result of a complaint by their step-mother to the effect that a robbery incident took place in their home.
“That suspected armed men invaded the residence and carted away valuables, including money.
“That the Applicants were thereafter roughly man-handled and bundled into the operatives’ vehicle and sandwiched between fully armed operatives of the Respondent, while one of them drove them like convicted criminals to the office of the Respondent,” they alleged.
It was gathered that the Applicants, who are both self-employed, were arrested at their homes by the police in Lagos State over a robbery incident that was said to have occurred inside premises they share with many other persons.
They told the court that though police had since conducted several searches at their apartments, nothing incriminating or connecting them with any alleged stolen item belonging to their step-mother was found.
Insisting that they were illegally arrested without warrant, the Applicants maintained that police lacked the constitutional rights to keep them in custody for more than 24 hours without an order of a court of competent jurisdiction.
They described the suspicion of their alleged involvement in the robbery as “completely false and malicious in its entirety,” saying the allegation was “meant to disparage their persons and their immediate nuclear family, not being biological children of the Complainant.”
The deponent further averred that the Applicants are also students that are about to travel abroad to the United States of America for further international studies.
“That their being singled out for continuous detention and torment is simply because they are not the biological children of the Complainant, Mrs. Adebisi Abiola, as her own children and aides staying in the same premises were left untouched.
“That the Applicants are in a very pitiable condition of mental agony and psychological depression, having not been in such an environment before and especially as they insist they are innocent of culpability in the alleged robbery.
“That the Applicants are ready and willing to stand trial if and whenever they are arraigned for any offence since investigation has long been concluded by the Respondent’s operatives, but are merely being subjected to ridicule, harassment, degrading treatment and torture,” they further alleged.
The Applicants have also filed an exparte motion and an affidavit of urgency, wherein they prayed the court to hear their case within the ongoing vacation period.
When the case came up on September 11 before Ikeja High Court vacation Judge, Justice Abiola Soladoye, Messrs Chimaobi Onuigbo and Ejieke Onuoha, holding the brief for Ozekhome, prayed the court to grant bail to the detainees due to their poor health and lengthy detention period in SARS dungeon since September 2.
The judge, however, directed that the police commissioner, who is the sole defendant in the matter, be put on notice about the suit. She consequently adjourned the matter to October 15 and ordered that the file be returned to the Assistant Chief Registrar for a re-assignment to a non-vacation judge for hearing.
Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) Obadiah Malaifa.
The Department of State Services (DSS) has summoned for the third time, a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria Dr. Obadiah Mailafia.
Malaifa, a banker turned politician and Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress in the 2019 election, has been in and out of interrogation rooms since he granted an interview where he stated that an unidentified northern governor was the leader of the terrorist group known as Boko Haram.
On August 12 Mailaifa was guest of the DSS at the agency’s office in Jos. He was invited again on the 17th of August 2020 after he refused to back down on his claims.
Malaifa had claimed that weapons were distributed to several parts of the country during the lockdown, adding that terrorists had infiltrated Lagos, comments he later withdrew, stating that he got the information from a third party.
According to the latest invitation letter addressed to Mailafia, which was made available to journalists, the DSS did not reveal the reason for the invitation.
“It is true. I have been invited to their office in Jos. I was asked to appear at 11 am on Monday,” he told Punch.
Last month, Mailafia had approached a High Court in Plateau State for the enforcement of his fundamental rights to personal liberty and fair hearing in a bid to prevent the police from arresting him.
However, it was learnt that the security agents were being prodded by the Federal Government to ensure that the economist is arraigned in court.
The Nation had reported that in a telephone conversation, Mailafia lamented as unfortunate how two security agencies were investigating him at the same time.
“This is one of the reasons why I am in court. I am being invited by the DSS and the police at the same time. It is an abuse of my rights,” he said.
“Please, pray for me. I have reasons to believe that my life is in danger and that some powerful political forces want to silence me forever for speaking the truth.
“For speaking on behalf of the Holy Martyrs — of thousands of innocent children, women, elderly and youths that have been killed in our beloved country,” Mailafia added.
I was watching a cookery program with my younger daughter and her elder brother, whose feigned interest was so easy to see through. He was far more concerned with getting the latest premiership team news on his phone but I chose to ignore this and dragged him into our conversation anyway.
The host of the cookery program, himself a celebrated chef, was praising one of the junior “chefs” (a child who couldn’t have been more than 11 years old) that his pasta dish was one of the best he had ever tasted. Not one of the best made by a child but by anybody, even other chefs. This got me thinking. How did this child make a dish so much better than so-called experts? I turned to my children and asked them a question which I know has a very obvious answer. “What makes adult cooks better than young cooks?” At least generally. And of course they blurted out the obvious, which were all absolutely correct. Adult chefs have more know-how, as a result of age, experience and so on.
I then asked the question which took us to where I actually wanted to go. “Why is it that at times, child cooks produce magically good dishes that blow seasoned chefs totally out of the water? What enables them to achieve this?” Thankfully, they both pretty much got it, so I was saved the agony of spending the rest of the evening agonizing and wondering why I’ve been spending quite so much on their school fees. Still, I tried to explain further and put it in my own words, just to give them greater clarity in understanding.
Children are by nature less held captive by convention. They dare to peer at and are subsequently able to see what adults dare not even take a peek into, all because they (adults) have been taught over time, the combinations that work and those that supposedly don’t.
Sometimes, it goes beyond what they’ve been told though. Experience, which we place so much premium on, may have conditioned their minds to accept what works and what apparently doesn’t. Numerous failed attempts could have evaporated the last drop of adventure in them and whipped them into the line of conventional thinking. Children on the other hand are not constrained by such. To them, anything is possible once they can imagine it. Rather than an uncanny knack of peering at a knotty issue, the best thing children have going for them is actually the opposite. They succeed where adults fail because they just get on with it without any doubt that they will succeed. Unlike adults, they’re not hindered by 1001 reasons of why it won’t work. They just make it happen because they refuse to entertain the thought of it not working.
In that wonderful book, Nudge, by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, we learn that the authorities at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam came up with an ingenious strategy to tackle the problem of careless aiming into the urinals by travellers who patronize their public lavatories. I want to believe they must have already trod the usual route of putting up notices, soliciting the cooperation of their patrons but hadn’t enjoyed much success. They then employed a method which took everybody’s eyes off the problem they were trying to tackle but instead appealed to the little boy within all of us, who doesn’t just love playing games but always wants to win.
A strategically positioned image of a housefly was etched in each urinal and because boys will always be boys, irrespective of their age, their attention shifted to “aiming” at the fly as soon as they saw it. Little did they know, it was simply a nudge for them to aim correctly. Careless shooting which had always left the floor in a terrible mess was reduced by a staggering 80% and essentially became history from that point onwards. Clever, eh? Possibly exasperated having tried so many different strategies and failed, it was time to think out of the box. It was time to try a less frontal and less obvious approach. But was it simple? Very. It’s one of the many things we hear about that makes us ask, “why didn’t I think of that?”
Many a time, we’re better off keeping things simple. In the book, “Good To Great”, the author Professor Jim Collins, came to a conclusion after spending several years tediously researching businesses and trying to understand why some were able to make the leap from good to great. Supported by volumes of largely incontrovertible statistics, he affirmed that those who made the transition from good corporate entities to becoming great organizations were the ones who were wise enough to streamline their operations, narrow their ambitions and aim for simple goals.
They identified what they could do better than everyone else while acknowledging and confronting the brutal facts. Those whose nebulous ambition was just to become “the biggest and the best” never achieved either. The great companies had succeeded in making their company goals simple by removing unnecessary complexities. They managed to focus the attention of their employees in a particular direction. Clear, precise and simple goals did the trick. Oh yes, there were a couple of other things too but to put it in his own words, one of the most critical was an ability to, “Retain faith that you will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties”. He called this the Stockdale Paradox and it’s a notion totally unrelated to baseless optimism. It’s a sturdy belief in oneself even after taking all factors into consideration, that one will succeed.
To parents whose children are still young, my advice is that you allow them to remain in the naïveté that anything is possible for as long as you possibly can. There’s no special place in history kept for those whose mantra is, “forget it, it can’t be done”. Only for those who managed to take us beyond what we ever dared believe possible. It’s time many of us unlearn some of the “facts” that have held us back for so long and quickly acquaint ourselves with truths that can set us free to fly. Great men and women have always emerged from the company of those who said “Yes, I can”.
Changing the nation…one mind at a time.
Oladapo Akande is a Surrey University (UK) English graduate with a Masters in Professional Ethics. He’s an alumnus of the National Institute for Transformation and a two time author; The Last Flight and Shifting Anchors. He writes from Lagos.
A two-year transitional government led by a president chosen by the army has been proposed by Experts appointed by Mali’s military junta on Friday.
AFP reported that the proposed deal was contained in a document that has been submitted to hundreds of participants at a three-day forum in Bamako aimed at mapping a way forward for the troubled country.
The transitional government proposal stated that the president would be a “civil or military personality”.
The ongoing dialogue, which is in its second is between the young officers who overthrew President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on August 18 and civilian representatives, many of whom had taken to the streets to demand for the resignation of the ousted president.
Hours after the August coup, the coup leaders pledged to restore civilian government and stage elections within a “reasonable time”.
However, a major concern for participants at the ongoing forum is how long a transition government should last and what role the army should play. These issues have now divided the discussants at the ongoing talks expected to conclude on Sunday.
While the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has insisted that the junta hand over power within 12 months, an influential imam viewed as the figurehead of the June 5 Movement which waged a protest campaign against Keita Mahmoud Dicko, has also backed a swift return to civilian rule.
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