A body has been recovered from the wreckage of a plane which crashed into the English Channel with Cardiff City striker Emiliano Sala on board.
The plane flying from Nantes, France to Cardiff on January 21 went missing with the new £15million signing Sala and pilot David Ibbotson, 59, inside.
It remains unclear whether the body is that of the Argentine forward or Mr Ibbotson but a full examination by a coroner in Portland, Dorset, is due to take place.
Remotely operated Vehicles (ROVs) were used in 'challenging conditions' to pull the body out of the water 'in as dignified a way as possible', the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said on Wednesday night.
The Piper Malibu aircraft remains more than 200 feet below water and is 21 miles off the coast of Guernsey in the English Channel as poor weather conditions stopped efforts to recover it.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said: 'Following extensive visual examination of the accident site using the remotely operated vehicle (ROV), it was decided to attempt recovery operations.
'In challenging conditions, the AAIB and its specialist contractors successfully recovered the body previously seen amidst the wreckage. The operation was carried out in as dignified a way as possible and the families were kept informed of progress.'
She was quick to like a steamy shirtless snap of her rumoured beau Liam Payne, amid claims they're having a mind-blowing' time together.
And Naomi Campbell, 48, reportedly took the very same image of the former One Direction star, 25, during a couples' workout on Tuesday.
A source told The Sun: 'The fact they are working out in the gym as a couple shows they're actually taking things to the next level.'
The insider added: 'Not everyone would get on board with Liam's quirky ways, but it seems Naomi was only too keen to join in by taking the picture of him with chains draped round his neck.
And the fact they're working out together proves the romance is more serious than anyone thought', they added.
The supermodel's personal trainer Joe Holder shared an Instagram clip of her engaging in an intense work out session, before posting a snap of his shoes beside lifting chains - similar to the equipment around Liam's neck.
Within an hour, the Bedroom Floor singer's sexy shot had garnered more than 281,000 likes - with Naomi being one of the fans.
A middle-aged man, Daniel Okafor, on Wednesday committed suicide after allegedly pouring substance suspected to be acid on his wife in Nsugbe, Anambra state.
The deceased, a native of the town, was said to have taken his life around 2.30am after consuming the same deadly substance he attacked her wife with.
The Nation learnt that the deceased had accused the wife, Paulina Okafor of using their son as the next of kin for the house she built.
A resident who refused to disclose his name said: “The man attacked his wife after she built a house and used their son as the next of kin.
“When the man found out, he could not take it, so he decided to pour her acid. He also drank the acid as well.
“The man died this morning while his wife is currently hospitalized at an undisclosed clinic.”
Confirming the incident, the state police spokesperson, Haruna Mohammed, said the body of the deceased had been deposited at the morgue.
“On 06/02/2019 at about 03:am, there was a report at 3-3 Police Station Onitsha that one Daniel Okafor ‘m’ of Nsugbe allegedly poured some chemical substance suspected to be acid on his wife, one Mrs Paulina Okafor ‘f’ of same address.
“Following the report, Police detectives attached to 3-3 Division visited the scene and rushed the victim to Immaculate Heart Hospital Onitsha for treatment.
“Consequently, the suspect also looked very sick and was equally rushed to Multi Care Hospital for medical attention.
“The doctor confirmed that the suspect seems to have drunk some quantities of the chemical he allegedly poured on his wife.”
Mohammed added the victim was later certified dead by a doctor while receiving treatment, adding that his corpse was deposited at Apex mortuary for autopsy.
“Meanwhile, the wife is responding to treatment and case is under investigation to ascertain circumstances surrounding the incident,” he added.
A Bus Rapid Transit vehicle belonging to Primero Transport Services Limited knocked down 18-year-old Adanne Isaac and killed her on January 27, 2019.
Punch Metro gathered that Adanne, who had gone to grind pepper somewhere around the Irawo bus stop, was on her way home to change her clothes that were stained by pepper when one of the BRT buses plying the route knocked her down as she attempted to cross the dedicated BRT lane.
It was learnt that the driver of the bus fled the scene of the accident when some angry people, who were pained by the loss of life, descended on the bus and attempted to set it ablaze.
Adanne’s lover, Daniel Ondor, who said he spoke to the deceased earlier that day, added that he fainted when he got to the scene of the accident and realised that Adanne was the victim.
The Benue State indigene stated, “I was home when she called me that she wanted to follow her aunt to the church. When they came back from the church, she informed me that she needed to cook for her aunt. So, she went to grind the pepper and in the process, the pepper poured on her clothes and that was what made her to decide to go back home to change her clothes.
“She was on her way home for the change of clothes when the BRT bus knocked her down as she attempted to cross the road.
“Immediately the accident happened, the driver abandoned the bus and ran away. People around the accident scene took her phone, found my number stored on it as ‘My Love’ and called to inform me to come to the scene to identify her body. And when I got there and found out that the corpse was that of my girlfriend, I fainted.
“What I saw was very bad; the bus had tore her into pieces and till date, I am still in shock. I really sympathise with her family and Ì have been with them until they will take her remains to the village.”
The deceased’s stepbrother, Martins, said the management of Primero Transport Services Limited had contacted the family, offered assistance for the burial arrangements of the victim and promised insurance compensation after the burial.
Martins stated, “Somebody at the scene of the accident informed us that a girl was knocked down by a BRT bus. When they mentioned her name as Addane Isaac, I immediately told them that she was my stepsister. The following day, my younger brother and I went to the scene of the accident and we were directed to the police station in charge of the case.
“When we got there, the police called the management of the BRT firm and the representatives came. They promised that in line with the company’s policy, they were going to assist us to take her corpse home. So, they gave us N200,000 for the burial arrangements and also promised to compensate us from the insurance cover after the burial.
“We have informed our parents and our plan is to take her remains to our village in Ebonyi State. I feel very bad; her death was very painful; she was 18 years old and just finished her secondary school education.”
The Chief Security Officer, Primero Transport Services Limited, Cletus Okodolor, while commiserating with the family of the deceased, said the driver accidentally knocked down Adanne, who had crossed the BRT corridor without looking properly.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Chike Oti, who confirmed the accident to Punch correspondent, said the command had commenced investigation into the matter
The Mayor of the City of Toronto, John Tory, has proclaimed every February 6 as Bob Marley Day.
Bob Marley was a Jamaican singer and songwriter who created a mix of reggae, rocksteady and ska in his musical compositions.
He died on May 11, 1981 at the age of 36 from skin cancer. The Mayor made a tweet which was accompanied by a photo of the proclamation through his official Twitter handle.
He wrote, “Proud to proclaim today Bob Marley Day in the City of Toronto. This Toronto tradition pays tribute to Bob Marley’s legacy of peace, harmony and the unity of humankind.
”His music lives on today and is a guide towards a world united – one love. #BobMarley #BobMarleyDay.“
The official proclamation reads, “WHEREAS each year on February 6, we honor the legacy of Robert (Bob) Nesta Marley. He began his career with the wailers and song became known for his distinctive songwriting and vocal style.
“Marley sang of tolerance and love. He became one of the greatest ambassadors of peace the world has seen. He encouraged us to live in harmony, chronicle our own destiny and stand up to what is right.
“Today, his music lives in and appeals to people of all cultures and guides them towards a world united – One People – One Love.
“Now therefore, I, Mayor John Tory, on behalf of Toronto city council, do hereby proclaim February 6, 2019 as “Bob Marley Day“ in the city of Toronto.“
He also tweeted that “The Toronto Sign will be lit in green, black and yellow today to celebrate Bob Marley Day in the City of Toronto. #BobMarley #BobMarleyDay.“
Justice Olabisi Akinlade of the Lagos State High Court, on Wednesday, sentenced the Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Boundary/Ayetoro unit in Lagos, Saheed Arogundade, to death by hanging for killing a police officer.
Justice Akinlade convicted Arogundade after finding him guilty of conspiracy and murder of the officer, Gbenga Oladipupo.
Saheed was charged alongside five others on two counts of conspiracy and murder.
The other defendants were Mustapha Layeni, Adebayo Abdullahi, Seyi Pabiekun, Sikiru Rufai and Yusuf Arogundade.
Punch Metro learnt that the deceased was killed on April 10, 2010, around 8am at the Gbara junction in the Ayetoro area of Ajegunle, Lagos.
It was gathered that the deceased was stabbed to death by Saheed and his cohorts while on his way to visit his mother on Olayinka Street in the Ayetoro area.
Punch correspondent learnt that the convict and his accomplices killed the deceased for encouraging the operation of tricycles in the area, which the convict noted would reduce the income of the NURTW unit.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged the leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to extend the collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) by three days.
It said its demand is predicated on reports across the nation that “some compromised” INEC officials at the collection centres are deliberately refusing to issue the PVCs to voters thereby frustrating millions of registered voters from getting their voters cards.
A statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday by Kola Ologbondiyan National Publicity Secretary and Director, Media & Publicity PDP Presidential Campaign Organization said the party believes that this deliberate refusal to release the PVCs is part of the wider plot by the APC to disenfranchise millions of Nigerians and frustrate their eagerness to vote out President Muhammadu Buhari at the February 16 Presidential election and elect-in the peoples candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
The League of Patriotic Lawyers has given Edo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Olusegun Odumosu, 24 hours to unravel those behind the torture and insertion of pepper into a lady’s private part in Benin City over alleged stealing of a mobile phone.
Chairman of the platform and former Student Union President of the University of Benin, Mr. Abubakar Yesufu, who said this in a statement, also urged the state Director, Department of State Services, DSS, to be involved in the investigation.
A video of the incident showed the lady being stripped by a group of people, who inserted pepper into her private parts for allegedly stealing a phone.
The lady was heard crying and saying she didn’t steal any phone, while she was being humiliated by the crowd.
Yesufu said: “The League of Patriotic Lawyers has given the Edo State Commissioner of Police 24 hours to arrest and commence prosecution of all the street urchins behind this barbaric, inhuman, wicked, ungodly and unacceptable act, whose video has gone viral on the social media.
“Failure to unravel the perpetrators would lead to serious legal consequences against the various security agencies, especially the Police and Director of DSS in the state. This ungodly act shows that law and order have broken down in Benin.
“We call on the governor, who is undoubtedly unaware of this devilish act, and the Secretary to the State Government, a very hard working and God-fearing man, to ensure that the perpetrators are tracked and punished accordingly.
“We are not concerned about the merit of this case at this moment, but the exhibition of extreme cruelty which is completely alien to our revered culture and tradition.’’
Police operatives on stop and search duty at Nyanya, a satellite town in the FCT, Abuja, have arrested one Tochukwu Nwodo, 32, and his accomplices, Gabriel Ileso, 32, and Michael Damelak, 20, for being in possession of a fabricated pistol and three live ammunition.
The FCT Police Command said the suspects confessed during interrogation that they were on the way to a robbery operation with the firearm, which was allegedly supplied by a dismissed soldier, 32-year-old Friday Audu.
The FCT Commissioner of Police, Bala Ciroma, said two fabricated pistols, 11 rounds of live ammunition, an expended ammunition and some military uniform and accouterments were recovered from them.
While speaking to journalists, Audu, who was dismissed from the army along with over 300 others for mutiny in Maiduguri, Borno State, last year, said he knew nothing about the recovered pistols.
He accused one of his co-suspects, whom he claimed was his friend, of implicating him in the crime. He, however, admitted ownership of the military uniform.
Audu explained the reason he did not return the uniform to the army.
He said, “I was dismissed for mutiny alongside other soldiers in Maiduguri; the military uniform and boots are mine; I kept them in my house in Abuja, while living in Anambra State, where I work as a bodyguard to Governor Willie Obiano.
“It is not true that I was planning to carry out a robbery with the other suspects. I was arrested through one of the suspects, who is my friend."
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection bill, fifteen years after the Bureau for Public Enterprise (BPE) proposed an anti-trust law to checkmate monopoly in the Nigerian economy.
The law seeks to eliminate monopoly and ensure competitive trade in Nigeria.
Ita Enang, senior special assistant to the president on national assembly (senate), disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. He said the new law repeals the Consumer Protection Council Act and sections 118-128 of the Investment and Securities Act.
The new act establishes the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission as well as the Consumer Protection Tribunal to try violations.
“The law is to promote economic efficiency, maintain competitive market in the Nigerian economy, protect the Nigerian economy, protect the interest and welfare of consumers by providing consumers with wide variety of quality products at competitive prices as well as prohibit restrictive or unfair business practices in the Nigerian economy,”Enang said.
“This act has accordingly, upon assent been remitted to the national assembly/appropriate authorities as law of the federation.”
Enang said the functions of the commission are to:
- Initiate broad based policies and review economic activities in Nigeria to identify anti-competitive, anti-consumer protection and restrictive practices which may adversely affect the economic interest of consumers and make rules and regulations under this Act and any other enactment with regards to competitions and protection of consumers.
- Advise the federal government generally on national policies and matters pertaining to all goods and services and on the determination of national norms and standards relating to competition and consumer protection.
- Report annually on market practices and the implications for consumer choice and competition in the consumer market.
- Eliminate anti-competitive agreements, misleading, unfair, deceptive or unconscionable marketing, trading and business practices.
- Resolve disputes or complaints, issue directives and apply sanctions where necessary.
- Create public awareness through seminars, workshops, studies and make available information with regard to the exercise of its powers and performance of its functions to the public.
- Regulate and seek ways and means of removing or eliminating from the market, hazardous goods and services, including emission, untested, controversial, emerging or new technologies, products or devices whatsoever, and cause offenders to replace such goods or services with safer and more appropriate alternatives.
- Publish, from time to time, list of goods and services whose consumption and sale have been banned, withdrawn, restricted or are not approved by the federal government or foreign governments.
- Encourage trade, industry and professional associations to develop and enforce in their various fields quality standards designed to safeguard the interest of consumers.
Newport goalkeeper Joe Day quickly put their famous win over Middlesbrough behind him as he sprinted off at the final whistle to be with his wife as she gave birth to twin girls.
The 28-year-old helped the League Two side deliver a huge upset - setting up an FA Cup fifth-round clash with Manchester City - before running into the Rodney Parade dressing room to dash off to be with his new family.
Day rushed away to join his wife - with manager Michael Flynn's praise for his "professionalism" ringing in his ears - who gave birth to baby girls during the first half and half-time of Tuesday night's tie.
A picture shared on Twitter put the birth times at 8.13 and 8.35 - with the game kicking off at 7.45.
The club posted a tweet yesterday morning congratulating the stopper and revealing mum Lizzie and the girls are "all healthy and looking forward to the fifth round".
Flynn had earlier praised Day for staying focused on the game, saying: "The professional he is, he turned his phone off. I didn’t hide it, believe it or not, he turned his phone off.
"As soon as the game was over and we’d won, he said thank you so much gaffer, ‘can I go please?’ I said, 'of course you can, do you need a lift?’."
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Office, has arraigned Abayomi Samuel Onajala and Adewunmi Yetunde Iyabo before Justice L. P. Lifu of the Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo, on a five-count charge bordering on conspiracy and money laundering.
One of the counts reads: “That you,
Abayomi Samuel Onajala and Adewunmi Yetunde Iyabo (Ayo George and Tunde Benjamin both at large) on or about March 25, 2018 at Ile-Ife within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, conspired to directly take possession of money, from United States of America, which to your knowledge were proceeds of unlawful act to wit: Money Laundering and thereby committed an offence...”
They pleaded “not guilty” to the charges.
Prosecuting counsel, Sanusi Galadanchi, informed the court that his witnesses were in court and that he was ready to proceed with the trial.
However, counsel for the first defendant, A.A. Bayo, told the court that he was not ready for trial because “the extra-judicial statement in the proof of evidence is not clear and therefore needs a clearer copy”.
He thereafter moved his application praying the court to grant the first defendant bail. Counsel for the second defendant, Joseph Adeoye also aligned himself with Bayo.
Justice Lifu, granted the defendants bail in the sum of N5 million and two sureties in like sum. One of the sureties must be a civil servant not below grade level 14 and the other surety must be a land owner within Osogbo, Osun State.
The case has been adjourned to February 15, 2019 for trial and the defendants ordered to be remanded in Ilesa Prison pending the perfection of their bail conditions.
Sad story of how a man met his untimely end at the hands of angry villagers in Umuoji area of Anambra state.
The deceased identified as Paschal Chinazor Onyilo, who was a sound/music operator and even worked for the Anambra government, was wrongly labelled a kidnapper and beaten to pulp before he finally gave up the ghost.
It was gathered that last week, Paschal Onyilo, a native of Abatete in Idemili North LGA of Anambra State, was driving to Obosi area to set up his sound equipment for an event.
However on getting to Umuoji, some school children threw stones at his vehicle and caused some damage. He then alighted from the vehicle to accost the kids over the damage. All of them ran away except one boy who was caught by Paschal.
It was learnt that Paschal held the boy and requested that he should take him to his parents as he drove him in his car.
Meanwhile the other children who had escaped – raised an alarm that a certain man had ‘kidnapped’ one of them.
The villagers quickly mobilized themselves, came back and confronted Paschal. They didn’t give him a chance to explain himself and pounced on him immediately, beating mercilessly. His car was also set on fire before he was rescued by the police.
The villagers who saw some political stickers in his car – accused him of being a kidnapper who works for politicians in the state and was looking for children to use for rituals.
By the time help came, Paschal was already unconscious and he was taken to Iyi-Enu Hospital, Ogidi. He was alive after an emergency surgery and was able to narrate what happened to the police and others that visited him in hospital.
Mr. Kayode Egbetokun, a former Chief Security Officer to former Governor Bola Tinubu of Lagos State has been appointed as the Commissioner of Police in Kwara State and will superintend the elections that begin next Saturday.
The Police Service Commission has approved his appointment and deployment along with 36 others.
Their appointment came following a recommendation by the acting Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to the commission.
Details of the approval and deployment are contained in a statement in Abuja by the Commission’s Spokesman, Ikechukwu Ani.
With the approval, CP Mu’azu Zubairu, will take over from Imohimi Edgal as the new Commissioner of Police in Lagos State.
The Commissioners of Police and the states they are deployed in are: “Buba Sanusi, Katsina State; Mohammed Wakili, Kano State; Rabiu Ladodo, Jigawa State; Ahmed Iliyasu, Ogun State; Mu’azu Zubairu, Lagos State; Ibrahim Sabo, Niger State; Alkassam Sanusi, Taraba State; Garba M. Mukaddas, Adamawa State; Omololu Bishi, Benue State; Bola Longe, Nassarawa State; Isaac Akinmoyede, Plateau State; Odumosu Hakeem, Edo State; Olushola David, Bayelsa State; Adeleke Yinka, Delta State; Austin Iwero Agbonlahor, Cross Rivers State; Bashir Makama, Akwa Ibom State; Awosola Awotunde, Ebonyi State; Belel Usman, Rivers State; Bello Makwashi, Gombe State and Abdulrahman Ahmed, Kaduna State.”
According to the Commission, the CPs are expected to proceed immediately to their new Commands ahead of the 2019 general elections.
The Chairman of the Commission, Alhaji Musiliu Smith, charged them to quickly settle at their new posts and ensure that the forthcoming general elections in their various Commands are peaceful, free, fair and transparent.
Following comments by Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna state that any foreigners who may interfere in Nigeria’s electoral process would be returned in “body bag,” the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today threatened to pull out in the peace accord it signed with other political parties.
The Kaduna Governor while appearing on NTA’s Tuesday Live programme, and speaking on the recent statements by the United States, United Kingdom and the European Union to sanction those that may interfere in the coming election, said: “Those that are calling for anyone to come and intervene in Nigeria, we are waiting for the person that would come and intervene, they would go back in body bags.”
But addressing a press conference in Abuja today over the matter, Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary and Director, Media & Publicity PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, said the party considered that the governor’s remark as directly inimical to a peaceful, free and fair election.
He stated that the PDP is therefore left with no option than to consider a review of its signatory in the national peace accord if no action is immediately taken to curb this trend.
Ologbodiyan added: “Nigerians are still in a shock over comments by the Governor of Kaduna state, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, who declared on national television that members of the global democratic institutions that are working for a peaceful election in Nigeria will return to their countries in body bags. What a threat?
“We call on the international community to immediately impose a travel ban on el-Rufai for this inciting comment against peaceful elections in our country.”
The party also noted what it said is the plot to redeploy, a former Chief Security Officer to APC leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, CP Kayode Egbetokun, as Kwara state Commissioner of Police, “where he has been handed the instruction to incite the people, cause pandemonium and pave the way for outright rigging in favour of President Buhari and all other candidates on the platform of APC.”
According to the party this is in line with plans by the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency and the APC to effect a mass deployment of top security officers, particularly the police, “to intimidate, harass and manhandle Nigerians that will not support the self-succession bid of President Muhammadu Buhari as well as aiding APC thugs to snatch ballot boxes and orchestrate violence in the elections.”
A man has shared the story of how his brother was allegedly shot dead by armed robbers hours after his brother’s wife flaunted some cash on facebook. Taken to the platform, the grieving man wrote;
''I receive this shocking news yesterday. My brother was shot dead by an unknown armed robbers at his resident.This is as a result of his wife’s negligence. His wife posted on her Facebook account these bundles of money he was paid by his company.RIP Enango Gelsthorpe Sege.''
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, has claimed that Nigeria suffers from a deficit of 564 million condoms annually.
To check the trend, AHF says it will distribute over 600,000 condoms across the country as part of activities to commemorate this year’s International Condom Day.
The Advocacy and Marketing Manager of the Foundation, Mr. Steve Aborisade, in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja said the day was set aside to promote the prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infections, HIV and unwanted pregnancies. Happy distribution
A 47-year old housewife, Joy Egeonu has been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly beaten an 11-year nephew of her husband to death on allegation that the deceased stole her N6,500.
The suspect was arrested following a report by the deceased’s mother, Ijeoma Egeonu who reported at Agbado Divisional headquarters that her son who was living with her elder brother and his wife at Opeilu in Agbado was beaten to death \by her brother’s wife over an allegation that the boy, Chibuike Egeonu stole the sum of N6,500 belonging to the said woman.
She stated further that the incident happened on the 3rd of February, 2019 and that the woman took the corpse of the boy to Ifo where she hurriedly buried him.
On the strength of the report, the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Agbado Division, CSP Omonijo Olatunji led his detectives to the scene where the woman was promptly arrested.
On interrogation, the suspect claimed to have suspected the boy as the person who stole her money which prompted her to flog him to the point of Coma.
She further stated that the boy gave up the ghost while she was taken him to the hospital and that it was later discovered that the missing money was taken by her husband and not the deceased as suspected.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to homicide section of the State Criminal investigation and intelligence Department for further investigation.
He equally ordered the arrest of the suspect’s husband who assisted in burying the boy in order to cover the criminal act of his wife.
The European Union Election Observation Mission has said its election observers are impartial, did not interfere in the electoral process and operated according to a strict code of conduct.
The Mission stated that it was invited to monitor the 2019 elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission, adding that this was the sixth time it was observing elections in the country.
The EU EOM said this in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday by its Press and Public Outreach Officer, Sarah Fradgley, in response to the threat by Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai against foreign election monitors in the country.
The Governor had threatened that foreigners including election monitors who intervene in Nigerian affairs “will go back in body bags.”
But the EU said while the security of its observers was of paramount importance, and would remain under constant review, “EU observers will continue their work across the country in the run-up to and beyond February 16 elections.”
It stated, “We are aware of the comments by the Governor of Kaduna about non-interference by foreigners during a talk show on the elections Tuesday 5 February.
“EU election observation missions give commentary and analysis, and make recommendations about the electoral process. EU election observation missions are impartial, do not interfere in the electoral
process, and operate according to a strict code of conduct.
“While the security of EU observers is of paramount importance, and will remain under constant review, EU observers will continue their work across the country in the run-up to – and beyond – the 16 February elections.”
