However, there is a need for legislative reform such that, among other things, the damages which a public institution has to pay to whistle blowers like Ibirogba should be borne personally, collectively and/or individually, by those who constitute the Management and/or Governing Council and who knowingly participated, aided, condoned or allowed the looting, dissipation, mismanagement and/or waste of public funds, rather than the monetary penalties being taken from public treasury.

The issue of extra judicial executions by the Nigerian police has, for quite some time, been on the front burner of national discourse and despite denials by the Police High Command the ugly trend has continued unabated with many public health institutions raising alarm over alleged harassment, intimidation, and highhandedness of police officers in their bid to off load the victims of their mass executions.

WARRI—OVER 350 communities, which are victims of the Bonga oil spill in Bayelsa State and negatively impacted have given Shell Nigeria Exploration Company, SNEPCO, a 14-day ultimatum to compensate them for their operations in the Niger Delta region or will be shut down.

BENIN—A legal practitioner, Bola Amaye and two of his siblings, Fome Amaye and Shola Amaye, have been arraigned before an Oredo Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Benin, Edo State over alleged stealing of documents of property belonging to late Engineer Samuel Amaye.

ASABA—PROCEEDINGS at the Delta State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, has been stalled following three fresh applications by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, seeking details of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC officials being summoned by the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Delta State in the April 11 election, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor to testify at the tribunal.