The Code of Conduct Tribunal today stood down Senator Saraki's case due to the absence of the prosecuting lawyer, Rotimi Jacobs. He was said to be attending another case at the appeal court this morning while the CCT case was supposed to be on.
As contained in the law, a convicted offender would be liable to life imprisonment if the victim is released or rescued unhurt upon the payment of a ransom while the kidnapper would be compelled to pay back the ransom.
After the news broke out that Governor Fayose of Ekiti went to China and even wrote the Chinese government not to grant President Buhari any loan because he has already recovered looted funds running into billions of dollars, therefore Nigeria can afford not to borrow to finance her budget. This move has generated heated arguments among Nigerians all over the world, especially on the social media. Many agreed with Fayose and others have been lambasting him for taking his criticism of Buhari too far.
Nigeria is not the only country where nomadic pastoralists herdsmen come and go. In Kenya, they have the Maasai herdsmen who have been herding cattle around the Nile Valley area from the days of Joseph in ancient Egypt. Other nations have their own form of pastoralists too. But never in the history of the 20th and 21st Century has the world encountered a scenario such as that which stares Nigeria in the face, whereby Fulani pastoral Herdsmen simultaneously and nationally and almost systematically are wiping out indigenous Nigerians for the benefit of their cattle.