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UN honours late Kofi Annan, says world lost its moral voice

UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has paid tribute to the late former Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, who passed away on Aug. 18, 2018, at the age of 80.
Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the Secretary-General, remembered the late global icon at a new conference at UN headquarters in New York, on Wednesday.
The UN Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) quoted Dujarric as saying,“ as some of you know, today marks three years since we lost Kofi Annan, our former secretary-general.
“As the current secretary-general said, Kofi was both one-of-a-kind and one of us, a man who embodied UN values and made all of us proud to call ourselves his colleagues and friends.
“We remember him today and every day.’’
Also, Dujarric said Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said that, on this day three years ago, the world lost one of its ‘moral voices’.
Born in Kumasi, Ghana, on April 8 of 1938, Kofi Annan was the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, serving from 1997 to 2006, and was the first to emerge from the ranks of United Nations staff.
As secretary-general, one of Annan’s main priorities was a comprehensive programme of reform aimed at revitalising the United Nations and making the international system more effective.
He was a constant advocate for human rights, the rule of law, the Millennium Development Goals and Africa, and sought to bring the organisation closer to the global public, by forging ties with civil society, the private sector and other partners.
At Annan’s initiative, UN peacekeeping was strengthened in ways that enabled the United Nations to cope with a rapid rise in the number of operations and personnel. (NAN)
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The Allied Peoples Movement (APM) in Osun State has raised concerns over the alleged recruitment of members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) into the state’s Amotekun Corps, claiming it threatens the safety of opposition members.
In a statement issued on Friday, APM Chairman, Mr. Adewale Adebayo, criticized the recruitment process, alleging that non-PDP applicants were deliberately screened out. He warned that Amotekun, originally created to enhance security, was being turned into a political tool.
“We are disturbed by the protest by well-meaning Osun residents who applied but were deliberately excluded because they are not PDP members,” Adebayo stated.
He further alleged that over 1,000 PDP members had been recruited into the corps, describing it as an attempt to silence opposition voices. According to him, the recruitment exercise was merely a formality to cover up a pre-arranged selection process favoring ruling party members.
APM has called for the resignation of the Corps Commandant and Field Commandant of Amotekun, demanding an apology to the affected applicants and the people of the state. The party insisted that the security outfit must remain apolitical to maintain public trust.
Neither the Osun State Government nor the leadership of Amotekun has responded to the allegations as of the time of this report.
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