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Building the next generation of sharp shooters

Organisers of The Swing Man Camp held over the weekend in Rowe, Park Lagos have said that it will help address the dearth of shooters in basketball in the country.

Taye Adeniyi and Shola Ogunade, both former mem-bers of the national female team, D’Tigress explained that the camp was meant to teach aspiring basketball players the basics at becoming good shooters.

“We have taken time to study the factors militating against the performances of our basket-ball teams and one of such is the dearth of sharp shooters, so we decided to put up this camp so as to help change the situation” said Adeniyi who is currently an assistant coach with Dolphins female basketball team.Over 100 participants and ten coaches took part in the 3- day exercise, which saw some of the outstanding campers rewarded for their efforts.

Outstanding players

Ogusewe Olakunle was voted the Most Valuable Player (male) while Ijeoma Onwuek-we emerged the female MVP.

Others who received awards include the duo of Adeniji Timileyin and Yusuf Obatilewa who were dubbed the Best Aspiring Shooters in the camp.Pleased with the success of the programme, Adeniyi said she hopes to make the camp a regular one where more players will be taught the needed lessons to improve on their game.”I am very happy that we put something good together in our first year. One thing you need to be a good shooter of the ball is confidence, and I’m very happy that the coaches have been able to work on the children’s confidence. With regular practice which is another key factor, I am sure they will all do well.” She said.

Adeniyi and Ogunade also called on those willing to uplift the game of basketball to come on board to support the noble course.

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Els hails ‘incredible’ fifth South African Open win

Els hails ‘incredible’ fifth South African Open win

Ernie Els has won more than 60 individual trophies around the world including three major championships but his victory at the 100th South African Open ranks among the most memorable of his glittering career.

The 41-year-old thwarted a strong finish from good friend and fellow South African Retief Goosen to secure a one-shot triumph in the European Tour event at the Durban Country Club on Sunday.

Els claimed his fifth victory in the tournament thanks to a closing 66 and Goosen stayed hot on his heels until the end with a matching six-under-par effort in the final round.

“It was one of the most incredible days I’ve ever had in my 20 years as a professional golfer,” the world number 12 told his official website (www.ernieels.com) on Monday.

“In the morning round we shot a better-ball score of something like 58 and the lead changed hands quite a few times. This win really means a lot to me.

“Sunday was (always) going to be a long day but I was looking forward to another battle with my old friend Retief. He’s a great player and I knew he would come at me hard.”

Heavy rain meant organisers reduced the competition to 70 holes after the weather rendered the par-three fourth unplayable.

The decision meant Sunday’s final two rounds were contested on a par-69 course instead of par-72.

“I’ve been playing at Durban Country Club for a lot of years now,” said Els after adding to his South African Open victories of 1992, 1996, 1998 and 2006. “It is a great layout and a great place to play golf.

“The home fans really encourage me. I feel a special bond with them, they always keep me going whenever I need support.

“It was a great championship for South African golf,” added Els in a reference to the third and fourth place finishes of British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel.

“Of course all wins are special but this means more than most as it is our national championship.”

Els, winner of the U.S. Open in 1994 and 1997 and the British Open in 2002, ended a two-year victory drought by lifting the WGC-CA Championship in Miami in March.

He triumphed again at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando at the end of March but had to wait until the PGA Grand Slam of Golf in Bermuda in October for his next win.

“It was in many ways a season of two different halves for me,” said Els. “I came out of the blocks pretty fast and won twice in March during the Florida swing but after the U.S. Open (in June) my game went off the boil for most of the summer.

“I must admit it was a struggle to get things back on track but during the last five or six weeks of the season there were signs the hard work I’d been putting in was starting to pay off.”

REUTERS

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Sports prostitutes

Sports prostitutes

I found Honest
Man’s online comment on last week’s column interesting and encouraging.
Readers of this column know that I don’t usually respond to comments,
but I found this particular comment instructive, hence the need for us
to ride on its wave today. I thank you all for your comments.

The title may seem
repulsive, but that is one of the best ways to describe some of the
so-called sports administrators in this country today. But before I am
totally misunderstood, prostitution is not all about sex, it is also
about human beings degrading talents and potentials for money.

It can also be
correctly described as the use of skills or ability, in a way that is
considered unworthy, meaningless, fruitless and stupid, usually for
financial gain. This is what is going on in Nigerian sports today. Only
a few genuine and committed administrators are sincere about developing
sports.

Last week, we said inter-alia and I quote:

“A critical
assessment of football, table tennis, tennis and boxing, may offer us a
vivid picture of the unfortunate situation the country has been
shamefully situated. Football like most other sports in Nigeria is all
about noise and negative motions. Football management in Nigeria has
been so compromised that it will take the divine intervention of God
Almighty for the beautiful game to be rescued from the grip of the
cabal who seem to be in charge presently – albeit, illegitimately.

Whereas billions of
tax payers’ monies are being INTENTIONALLY wasted on football
promotion, the foundation on which the PYRAMID of football development
is built, has been stupidly and ignorantly ignored. This has been
responsible for the spate of age falsification at the age-grade
level… no developmental structure put in place, that can encourage
our children who have been naturally and divinely endowed with massive
potentials, not only to pursue football playing as a career, but also
aspire to become future leaders of this Country, using the values of
football as a platform.” The words intentionally and pyramid were
highlighted in this write up for several reasons, permit me to explain.
The truth of the matter is that it is not as if those in charge of
sports administration in Nigeria are absolutely ignorant of what to do,
especially at the grassroots level. Exactly four years ago, the
erstwhile President of the Nigerian Schools Sports Federation (NSSF),
was invited to attend a training programme organized by the
International Confederation of Futebol de Salao (ICFDS), for coaches
and franchisees of the Brazilian Soccer Schools. I facilitated his
attendance, so that he would have a first-hand experience of the
methodologies put in place in Europe, Asia, North and South America,
for early identification of talents, supported by relevant/functional
training, aimed primarily at grooming the identified talents, from 6
MONTHS old children to those of 17 YEARS. Yes, 6 MONTHS old children,
it was no mistake. The programme for them is called SOCATOTS.

A fragile pyramid
We were together in Leeds for the one-week programme. I assumed that on
arrival back home, the next thing was to look into how we would
actualize the reasons for which we invited the NSSF President to the
training programme. I was wrong. What followed was a Schools’ Sports
Festival, sponsored by Babatunde Raji Fashola. Would the reader say he
did not know what to do, or that he did not have access to funds?

Whereas we can
refer to a very fragile and sick PYRAMID in place for football, there
is alarmingly, nothing like that for so many other sports. Not even
Basketball or Table Tennis, or even Wrestling – that is the cheapest of
all the sports in Nigeria. Cheapest, because it does not require big
budget for equipment and kits. Even the space needed for the game is
available naturally.

Is it any surprise
that boxing is no longer a source of pride and glory to Nigeria? It
should not at all. There is absolutely nothing at the grassroots –
apart from the individual efforts of a few committed individuals like
Coach Joe Mensah, to develop Boxing in Nigeria.

Whereas in nations
like Cuba, Brazil, the U.S.A., Asia and some European nations, children
are introduced to this combat sport from the age-grade level, there is
nothing like that here. There is no mention of combat sports in our
schools sports, so it is not possible for us to catch them young.
Meanwhile, boxing like wrestling, is another natural game we play in
this part of the world.

Parents with male children within the 2-7 age bracket will attest to this.

Watch those
children settle scores amongst themselves, it is either via boxing or
wrestling and it is the younger ones who will always throw the first
punch or grab the neck or leg of the older ones.

Please visit our National Stadiums – either in Lagos or Abuja, and check what we refer to as the boxing gym.

You will either
laugh or cry, depending on your emotional strength and your passion for
the game. Is there any state-of-the-art boxing gymnasium anywhere in
this great nation? How many boxing trainers and coaches, recognised by
any of the world boxing bodies, can we boast of in Nigeria?

Permit us to end
this write-up on a very positive note. I observe that it is only when
we find ourselves in a “box” or very tight corner that we remember to
bring God into the matter. No one seems to remember Him now, especially
as the year is fast running to an end. But when there is the need for
Nigeria to qualify for a Continental or Global competition, we call on
Him to help us. We even fast and hold vigils.

Those of us in Save
Nigerian Sports Initiative (SANSI), do not believe it should be so.
Please join us as we thank Him for all He has done for Nigerian Sports
this year. Then pray that God should continue to uproot all the plants
He has planted in Nigerian Sports, so that the year 2011 will mark the
beginning of a decade of genuine, sincere, transparent, effective and
functional sports development in this great nation.

2011 will also
usher in God-fearing sports administrators/managers, who will effect
the changes sports loving Nigerians are clamouring for. Please say Amen.

Thank you.

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Globacom complains over loss of sponsorship rights

Globacom complains over loss of sponsorship rights

The decision of the
Nigeria Premier League (NPL) to hand sponsorship rights of its premier
league to telecommunications company, MTN Nigeria, has set the stage
for conflict with Globacom, the former sponsors who bankrolled the
league for the last five years.

The League said MTN
was willing to provide N550 million as take-off money. It added that
the amount will increase by 10 per cent annually with the total after
four years amounting to N2.6 billion. Globacom on the otherhand offered
N2 billion for four years with a start off sum of N450 million.

Last Friday in Lagos, Mohammed Jameel, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Globacom, described the action of the NPL as injustice.

“What they have
done amounts to injustice. The announcement of MTN as winner of the bid
was a big shock to us. It was a big blow. It was a surprise to us that
MTN were declared winner because we did not go into bidding with them.
It was Total Promotions that we knew were bidding against us. It was
only in the front of the press that we got to know that it was MTN that
had won. It is complete injustice. The entire process was done in a
wishy-washy way; there was no proper documentation at all,” Jameel said.

“NPL in a hurry”

Jameel said the bid
process was engineered to arrive at a particular outcome noting that
for an organisation to present a proper bid, it needs to know who it
was competing against.

“We asked the bid
committee whether Total Promotions was bidding on its own and whether
if it wins the bid, it could resell the right to another party but we
got no response,” he said.

Jameel disputed the
figure attributed to his organisation saying “On Wednesday when the
bids were formally opened, the bid committee said what we presented was
too low that we should improve on it. We asked for time to enable us
confer with management.”

He said officials
of his organisation were shocked when on Thursday after they had put
their new offer, which he said stood at three billion naira, the NPL
officials rather than hold discussions with them, went ahead and called
a press conference around 2:30 pm where they announced that MTN had won
the bid. He stated that what emerged from the action of the NPL
officials was that they were in a hurry to close the matter.

“We did not offer
N2 billion. Our final offer was N3 billion. We submitted the bid at
their office by ten minutes past four in the afternoon and it was duly
received and acknowledged by an official of the organisation. We do not
have any other bid with the NPL. I challenge the NPL to produce any
document where we offered two billion naira,” Jameel said.

The Globacom,
officer said the last has not been heard of the matter disclosing that
his organisation will petition the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF)
and the National Sports Commission (NSC) to get NPL to do the right
thing.

No wrongdoing

When confronted the
league with Jameel’s allegations, Shehu Gusau, the NPL official who
chaired the bid committee, said he and his colleagues had been above
board in their dealings.

“We gave both
parties equal opportunity and the party with the best bid won. We did
not set out to favour one party to the detriment of the other.” On
Glo’s N3 billion bid, he said it was received well after the entire
process had ended.

“We received that
bid nearly two hours after the announcement had been made. They took
the bid to our office and the official they met called me to inform me
about it. I asked him to receive it and record the time it was
submitted. If you look at the time on the document, it says we received
it at 4:10 pm, which was after we had announced a winner.” He
explained. As both parties trade blames, the NFF has come out to
describe the bid exercise as less than satisfactory. At the weekend,
Demola Olajire, its head of media, described the decision to award
sponsorship rights to MTN as “unacceptable”, expressing displeasure
that the NPL did not carry it along during the exercise.

The NFF wondered
why the NPL, which is yet to sort out its leadership issues, should
enter into a long term relationship with a corporate organisation.

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Edo Assembly recalls sacked Speaker

Edo Assembly recalls sacked Speaker

The protracted
leadership tussle that has hitherto turned the Edo State House of
Assembly into a one-party assembly might soon end as the house
yesterday recalled four of its members who were suspended in February
this year.

The suspended
legislators including the erstwhile Speaker, Zakawanu Garuba (Etsako
West I) were suspended for allegedly using dangerous weapons in the
forceful change of the House’ leadership on February 22, 2010.

Mr Garuba alongside
his former deputy, Levis Aigbogun (Ovia North East I), former Majority
Leader, Frank Okiye (Esan North East I) and Blessing Agbebaku (Owan
West) were however asked to apologise to the assembly and withdraw
their cases from the court.

Spirit of the yuletide season

Majority Leader of
the House, Philip Shaibu who moved the motion for the recall of the
suspended members, explained that the decision to recall the members
was in line with the spirit of the yuletide season as well as the
spirit of unity to strengthen the nation’s democracy.

The motion which
was seconded by the Deputy Speaker, Paul Ohonbamu, however listed
conditions that must be met before they could be fully re-admitted into
the House.

According to him,
Mr Zakawanu and his colleagues “must withdraw all cases in court
instituted by them against the Edo State House of Assembly or any
member thereof.

“They must formally
apologize to the House in writing, for their roles in the fracas on the
floor of the House on Monday, February 22, 2010.

“They must sign an undertaking with the State Commissioner of police, to be of good behaviour thereafter.” He said.

Meanwhile, the
House in a plenary session on Monday, swore-in the member-elect
representing Igueben constituency, Steven Idehenre of Action Congress
of Nigeria (ACN) who was declared winner of the election held on April
14 by the Appeal Court last week.

The relevant oaths
were administered by the Clerk of the House, Egbe Evbuomwan under the
watchful eyes of the Speaker, Bright Omokhodion and other members.

The House also
cleared two commissioner nominees. They are Francis Osakpamwan
Evbuomwan and Ojeabu Ochei Callistus who were sent by the Governor of
the state, Adams Oshiomhole for screening and confirmation.

Court fixes date for case on zoning

Court fixes date for case on zoning

The issue of zoning
within the People Democratic Party (PDP), may not yet be over as an
Abuja High Court yesterday, fixed January 4, 2011 to hear the
preliminary objection in a fresh suit filed by some members of the
party.

The suit is seeking
an order of the court to stop the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) from accepting President Goodluck Jonathan as PDP’s
presidential candidate for the 2011 presidential election.

Yahaya Kwande,
Dubem Onyia and Lawal Kaita, in an affidavit in support of their
motion, said they are card carrying and financial members of the party
and asked the court to restrain PDP and its national chairman,
Okwesileze Nwodo from presenting President Jonathan as their candidate
for the said election.

Defendants are PDP National Chairman, Okwesileze Nwodo, Mr. Jonathan and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Specifically, they
said according to sections 13 and 15(a), (c) and (f) of the 3rd
schedule of the country’s constitution of 1999, section 86(1) and (2)
and 67(9) and (10) of the Electoral Act, 2010, INEC is bound to compel
PDP to comply with the provisions of Article 7.2(c) of its
constitution, 2009 as recently amended.

They also want the
court to declare that by virtue of the provisions of sections 14(3) and
223(2)(b) of the 1999 constitution, section 87(9) and (10) of the
Electoral Act 2010 and Articles 2and 7.2 (c) of PDP’s constitution and
the resolution of the National Caucus of the party reached on December
2, 2002, President Jonathan, not being a northerner cannot contest the
2011 presidential election on PDP’s platform.

No to Jonathan

Furthermore, they
are asking the court to declare that PDP is bound to allow a candidate
from the Northern geo-political zone to contest for presidency in 2011
presidential election so as to complete the Zone’s eight years slot in
producing candidate for the election into the office of the president,
adding that the National Working Committee of the party cannot by its
decision override the resolution of the National Caucus which is a
superior organ to it, in the party’s hierarchy.

“The resolution of
the National Caucus of the 1st Defendant of December 2, 2002, the 4th
Defendant is bound to reject any candidate presented by the 1st
Defendant including the 3rd Defendant in contravention of and total
disregard to the provision of Article 7.2(c) of the 1st Defendant’s
Constitution”, the plaintiffs want the court to declare.

In a 35-paragraph
affidavit in support of the plaintiff’s amended charge and deposed to
by one of the plaintiffs, Dubem Onyia, the plaintiffs averred that late
President Yar’adua, from the North West geopolitical zone became
president in May 2007 on the platform of the PDP,

pursuant to a
binding zoning arrangement of the PDP which is consistent with the
federal character policy entrenched in sections 14(3) and 223(2)(b) of
the constitution.

They added that any attempt by Mr Jonathan to contest the position
of the president under the platform of the PDP will make nonsense of
the federal character principle, noting also that the president is
using the power of incumbency to subdue and influence party leaders to
upturn the resolution reached by the party on December 2, 2002.

Nyako declares for Adamawa gubernatorial race

Nyako declares for Adamawa gubernatorial race

The Adamawa State governor, Murtala
Nyako, has told a gathering of party supporters that he will be running
for re-election. He said this at a meeting of the party convened by the
state chapter of the party under the leadership of Minjiyawa Kugama.
Also, Mr Nyako may presently be the sole candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party. The state party chairman Kugama Minjiyawa declared at
the end of a party meeting held in the state that Mr Nyako is the only
aspirant to have obtained a nomination form from the party secretariat.
Announcing his bid and urging party delegates to support him as he
would be seeking a second term in office, Mr Nyako said he was very
sure of a return to office after the 2011 election.

Mr Nyako who
however is joined in a consolidated suit involving five other state
governors who are contesting the decision of the electoral body to
conduct elections in their states, arguing that their tenure expires on
a later date other than the 2011 election date the electoral wants to
stick by. Mr Nyako told party members that whether the court ruled in
their favor or otherwise, they should be rest assured that he would be
seeking re-election under the party banner.

The state party meeting was
well attended by all the political office holders as well as elected
party members. The state party chairman Mr. Kugama reeled out figures
saying that 135 persons had indicated their interest in contesting for
seats into the state house of assembly, 41 persons for the house of
representative, 15 persons for the senate elections and only one person
for the governorship post.

Controversial aspirants

Mr. Kugama added that all those who got
nomination forms for the governorship race other than the incumbent
obviously did not get it from the state party secretariat and so only
had one aspirant for the office of the governor the incumbent. Among
those seen to have indicated interest for the Adamawa government house
are Aliyu Idi Hong the minister of state foreign affairs; Silas
Zwingina, a former party chairman of the PDP in the state; Joel Madaki
and Buba Marwa, former military governor of Lagos state. Others are Mr.
Nyako’s chief of staff Bello Tukur, and another Nyako aide, Abubakar
Madawaki, the state commissioner of local government and chieftainship
affairs.

You are too weak, Balogun tells Jonathan

You are too weak, Balogun tells Jonathan

Leader of the
opposition coalition within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo
state, Lekan Balogun, has accused President Goodluck Jonathan of being
too weak to defend democracy.

He also issued
seven-day ultimatum to the national leadership of the party to act
right on the protracted crisis within the state chapter of the party or
force the aggrieved members to take action against them.

The Ibadan Chief
and a former Senator in the third republic, who briefed the press on
why none of the known members of the coalition showed up at a PDP
parley with Mr Jonathan in Ibadan last Sunday, said the president is
not demonstrating enough courage to portray himself as a true democrat.

The president was
in Ibadan for a stakeholders’ meeting of the PDP and to also seek the
support of delegates from the South West region for his ambition to
secure the presidential ticket of the party at the forthcoming
convention.

But Mr Balogun said
rather than invite the people of his camp properly, many of them only
got to know about the meeting through casual conversation with party
members.

“There is nothing
wrong in issuing a letter from the Presidency to us the aggrieved
members to invite us to the parley,” Mr Balogun said.

Party crisis

Tracing the crisis
of the party in the state and the consistent failure of the leadership
to right the wrongs responsible for the feud, the coalition leader
predicted that if things continue same way, the party may likely bite
the dust at the next elections.

“I do not know how
the President wants the PDP to win in a state where, for years, the
governor has frustrated the rule of democracy and the rule of law,” he
said.

According to Mr
Balogun, the state governor, Adebayo Alao-Akala, in order to realise
his ambition at all cost, has frustrated all efforts to bring back
peace to the party.

Most frustrating, he noted, was the way the president has allowed himself to be fooled by the governor on the state of things.

He recalled how his
team was able to educate the president on many of the happenings within
the party in the state during a meeting with the stakeholders in Lagos
some last three weeks, but regretted that, despite that, the president
did not issue any official statement on the meeting and issues raised
there, and still held meeting with only a faction when he came to
Ibadan.

By that singular
act, the president, according to him, has already conceded votes of
members of the coalition who, by the provisions of the party’s
constitution, will participate at the party’s primaries next year.

“Obviously, the President has not addressed the stakeholders on Sunday.

He had only played to the gallery of the governor.

“That will mean a
lot to the president and the party for the 2011 election. The President
will lose the votes of our members who, by the virtue of being members
of the National Assembly and the state House of Assembly currently,
will vote at the primaries. This also means that the governor will not
return in 2011. For us, his second coming is not negotiable. He won’t
come.

We will not compromise anything on that.

“For aligning with the undemocratic elements in the state, the
President will have to work hard to show the people that he is truly a
democrat and he is truly committed to democratic principles,” he
submitted.

Court discharges Chukwumerije as Kalu’s surety

Court discharges Chukwumerije as Kalu’s surety

A federal high court in Abuja, yesterday, discharged
Uche Chukwumerije, a senator and a traditional ruler, Eze Gaius
Ihejiamaizu, as sureties for the former governor of Abia State, Orji
Uzor Kalu, because they claimed that they no longer had confidence in
him. Mr Chukwumerije and Mr Ihejiamaizu approached the court to vacate
their pledges over Mr Kalu. At the resumed hearing of the matter,
Kelvin Emeka Okoro, counsel to the senator, and Onyedika Offor, lawyer
to the traditional ruler, in their application, told the court that
section 134 of the Criminal Procedure Act (CPA), allows a surety to
withdraw at any stage.

“The surety at any time can apply to the court to
discharge the cognizance he entered as it affects him.” Adding, that
the court should discharge their clients as sureties.

Counsel to Mr Kalu, Awa Kalu, did not object to their
withdrawal, but said having regard to sections 122 of the CPA, the
judge may consider whether it is still desirable to retain traditional
ruler as surety in the matter. “Since the date of arraignment, the
first accused has been appearing before the court, his appearance today
is 32nd.” The lawyer said Mr. kalu has demonstrated unequivocally, his
wiliness to appear before the court and face his trial.” Having regard
to the fact that the accused has never fail to appear, the court may
bend the rules requiring a traditional ruler or senator and grant him
bail on self recognizance. He is a former governor of Abia state and
understand the consequences of failing to come to court.”

Rulings

Ruling on the application, Adamu Bello discharged
Messrs. Chukwumerije and Ihejiamaizu as sureties to Mr Kalu and asked
him to look for a surety to replace Mr. Chukwumerije while he waived
the requirement of the traditional ruler to be a surety in the matter,
and adjourned the matter to April 18, 2011 for mention.

Mr Ihajiamaize, in an affidavit, said: “…Sometime
in July 2007, I stood as surety to the first accused person [Orji Uzor
Kalu] in this charge. That part of the bail condition included the
deposit of my certificate of recognition as a traditional ruler [Eze]
in Abia State issued on November 16, 1998 by the state government. That
I entered as surety to the accused person because of the confidence I
had in him then. I no longer have confidence in the first accused
person and will not stand as surety for him anymore. That for now the
first accused and myself have not been associating with each other and
I can no longer vouch for him, being unaware of his movements and
actions. That it would be in the interest of justice to discharge me as
a surety to the first accused person and return my said certificate of
recognition to me.” The EFCC had slamed a 107-count charge of
money-laundering against Mr Kalu, including mismanaging over N5billion
belonging to the Abia State government.

Two other accused persons standing trial alongside Mr Kalu including Ude Jones Udeogu and Slok Nigeria Limited.

Edo Assembly recalls sacked Speaker

Edo Assembly recalls sacked Speaker

Spirit of the yuletide season

The motion which
was seconded by the Deputy Speaker, Paul Ohonbamu, however listed
conditions that must be met before they could be fully re-admitted into
the House.

According to him,
Mr Zakawanu and his colleagues “must withdraw all cases in court
instituted by them against the Edo State House of Assembly or any
member thereof.

“They must formally
apologize to the House in writing, for their roles in the fracas on the
floor of the House on Monday, February 22, 2010.

“They must sign an undertaking with the State Commissioner of police, to be of good behaviour thereafter.” He said.

The relevant oaths
were administered by the Clerk of the House, Egbe Evbuomwan under the
watchful eyes of the Speaker, Bright Omokhodion and other members.