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Koei Warriors Retrospective Part 8: Dynasty Warriors 5 Spinoffs (Empires/Vol. 2/Mahjong/DS/Online)

Dynasty Warriors 5 Empires (真・三國無双4 Empires) Platforms: PlayStation 2, Xbox 360 Release dates: Japan: 23 March 2006 USA: 28 March 2006 Europe: 23 June 2006

Now that Koei had established the Warriors game franchise, the spinoffs would continue being rolled out by the quarter as they continued refining old concepts and experimenting with new ones, even in the midst of a transition between console generations.

What spinoffs would be inspired by the peak of the classic Warriors games? Let's jump into the spinoffs for Dynasty Warriors 5.

Dynasty Warriors 5 Empires

Where DW4E experimented with the hybrid simulation/hack-and-slash format, DW5E refined the format and put more control of the kingdom to the player.

Empire Mode now allows you to select from six scenarios to start off, one of them being the fictional scenario that assigns officers and kingdoms randomly. After selecting your kingdom, there are more settings that you can choose from; aside from the map switching and the difficulty, you can choose whether you want to carry over character experience earned throughout this game, a time limit of 200 turns (50 years), have edit officers appear in the playthrough, how you annex a kingdom (by occupying their capital directly or after isolating it), officer limits or officer deaths (enabling this will allow you to execute captured officers but officers will die of old age 90 years after their debut in historical scenarios).

In the Political/Strategy phase, you now have the option to pick your own policies in the form of strategy cards instead of consulting your officers for two policies. Having different officers in your kingdom will allow them to suggest different strategies, and if you pick an officer's set of policies with a policy you haven't used before, a new strategy card can be unlocked. Consulting an officer or picking a policy takes up an order/move; you start off with one and you can get up to five as you keep conquering territories and getting appointed to higher positions. Depending on your situation, it may be more advantageous for you to consult an officer as you can use two policies for the price of one.

Moving onto the Battle phase. When you invade or defend a territory, you can deploy a relief general and/or lieutenant who will appear as reinforcements during the battle. Before you begin the battle, you can also employ tactics obtained during the Strategy phase whereas in the last game, tactics selected through consultation are valid for that turn's Battle phase only. Some tactics are implemented for the entire battle (like time limits or reinforcement speeds) while other tactics are activated in the Pause menu after being equipped (like launching fire attacks or rallying your troops).

As you increase your weaponsmithing skills, you can unlock stronger weapons for your characters. After each battle, you can upgrade your player officer's weapon with attributes gained during it. Fourth weapons are initially unlocked by reaching tech level 4 (for a character's weapon class) and obtaining 500 KOs in battle. In subsequent playthroughs, you only need to reach tech level 4 to unlock it if you decide to carry over player experience.

Items are no longer restocked after a certain amount of turns, but they need to be manufactured by spending money. There are three new items exclusive to this game and there are four items that are exclusively obtained through trading; after capturing Xiliang, Jiaozhi, Nanman and Beiping, you can spam the trade commands and you can get an exclusive item from there.

During battle, you can order your officers to attack or defend a base or officer through the Unit Info menu. You can also use the d-pad to order all your officers to attack (up), defend (down), gather (left) or do whatever they like (right).

Each scenario will have its own event battles. Aside from the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Hulao Gate and Chibi, there are two new event battles set in Guandu and Yiling. The Battle of Yiling is triggered as a second event battle in the Flames Over Chibi scenario, while the Divided Land scenario does not have any event battles.

Free Mode is also included in this game and in this mode, you can play any invasion/defence scenario or event battle with any ally and enemy lineup you choose, even though you are still limited to the limited general/lieutenant lineup. I think it's an essential mode for Empires games because this mode truly allows you to embrace the sandbox nature of the game outside of the randomised kingdom lineups of Empire Mode.

When you boot the game for the first time with DW5/XL data on your memory card, you can unlock some bonuses from the start. Playable characters are unlocked in Free Mode, the first 96 posters in the gallery are unlocked (2 for each playable character), you have all the basic items at level 10, all outfits in Edit Mode and your settings from the vanilla game. In addition, your custom characters in XL can also be ported over to Empires. This functionality is part of the reason why I would have liked to see Edit Mode continue in future games so that I don't have to waste time creating a bunch of characters in Empires when I already have some I can import from the vanilla game.

This game also has an Xbox 360 port which once again, supports 720p and 5.1ch Dolby Digital sound. Unlike 5 Special, 5 Empires is the first Xbox 360 port to be available in the West. Additionally, background music from older games is also available and you can select a game's playlist to prioritise in battle. The encyclopedia from the vanilla game is included in Empires as well.

Dynasty Warriors 5 Empires improves on 4 Empires and makes it the definitive Empires experience for its time. Samurai Warriors would begin an Empires spinoff of its own by using this game as a base. If you played both this game and Samurai Warriors 2 Empires, you will definitely see how the latter game was influenced by the former.

Dynasty Warriors Vol. 2

Dynasty Warriors Vol. 2 (真・三國無双 2nd Evolution) Platforms: PlayStation Portable Release dates: Japan: 23 March 2006 USA: 24 October 2006 Europe: 17 November 2006

Like how 5 Empires was an improvement on the last Empires game, Dynasty Warriors Vol. 2 was an improvement on the first PSP game. This game finally gets a moniker to differentiate it from the other games, though it's very easy to mistake this game as Dynasty Warriors 2 when it's actually Dynasty Warriors Vol. 2 or 2nd Evolution. As is obvious, character designs and movesets are taken from Dynasty Warriors 5.

Once again, Musou Mode is defined by kingdom, but there is a bit of a twist. Each kingdom's Musou Mode is divided into four paths, the first three being five stages long and the final path being four stages long. The first stage of the second path is unlocked after clearing a Musou Mode once, while the first stage of the final path is unlocked after clearing the final stage of the third path (with 100% completion in Wei's story). Most stages have two victory conditions you can choose to clear the battle. For example, for the Yellow Turban Rebellion, you can defeat Zhang Jiao or occupy all five altars to win the battle. Achieving the former condition will take you on one path and achieving the latter condition will take you on another. Thanks to this, you don't have to pursue Lu Bu at Sishui Gate or Hulao Gate.

Free Mode allows you to play a pseudo-Musou Mode of up to 8 stages, with all the battles divided into 8 eras. It is also in this mode where you can play stages for the Other characters, with each faction (including Zuo Ci) receiving two stages each. Because of the way the Other stages are grouped in the eras however, you can only play 6 of them in succession and not 8. Those stages are unlocked by achieving 100% completion in stages against the Other factions to unlock the first stage, then achieve 100% in that unlocked stage to unlock the second stage. Zuo Ci is unlocked by achieving 100% in eight Other stages. Only Easy, Normal and Hard difficulties are offered with no Chaos option available.

Open fields are either allied or enemy territory and not the reappearing patrol battles they were in the last game. This means that if a unit goes onto an open field that belongs to the other side, they start with one less bar.

Areas are not liberated until both the enemy morale runs out and all enemy unit leaders are defeated. Some people may see it as a drain if they find it hard to defeat unit leaders, but as someone who likes playing on Easy and defeating all officers on the battlefield, it's a plus.

Attack and defence bases are introduced as additional area types. They have a base morale of 2, but they also raise the morale of neighbouring areas belonging to that base's side. I've seen areas that are linked to three bases, but never four if I remember correctly.

Villages and treasure troves are new area types as well. In a village, you will have 60 seconds to complete a mission and liberate it, which involves killing bandits or protecting villagers. When you clear the mission, you can obtain some supplies and recover your health, Musou and Rage. Treasure troves are hidden in battlefields and there will be a high-level guest officer guarding it. Defeating that guest officer quickly will add them to your list of officers, which is easier than just leaving it to chance like in the last game. Completing the village and treasure trove missions (along with satisfying both victory conditions) are the key to gaining 100% on a stage.

Mountains and rivers are also included in this game, but this time, there are also steep mountains and deep rivers that cannot be crossed at all unless you have a Ranger or Ferryman among your officers or a mount with the Climber or Swimmer ability.

The bow function from the previous game is removed as the R button now serves to activate Musou Rage when the bar is full. Levels no longer determine what attacks you can perform as it is now determined by your weapon.

Yes, like in the main game, you can now have up to 8 weapons and mounts to equip into battle. There are no fourth weapons in this game, but you can work towards obtaining a strong third weapon. Elements are also determined by the weapon and weapons can have up to 5 attributes and support for Evolution Attacks. Mounts, namely horses and elephants, can be obtained during battle and some of them also come with an ability as well depending on their reputation. Mounts are developed as you continue to use them. There are also four special horses that can be obtained in the game as well. Most mounts except for the special ones will rear up when attempting to trample enemies other than soldiers or maybe even base captains (depending on the background of the mount), but all horses will rear up when attempting to trample the enemy commander.

Moving onto officers now and the system has received a few tweaks. Not all officers will have activatable skills, but officers can have up to three abilities. At the end of each battle, you are given growth points to distribute to officers, which will raise their rank, stat buffs and unlock skills. Characters' control values will also develop with their other stats, so you will be able to equip up to two playable and/or guest officers per battle.

Guest officers are unlocked in treasure trove missions, with officers coming from Samurai Warriors 2, Water Margin, the early Han period (characters like Liu Bang and Xiang Yu also being featured in an old Koei game for the SNES, namely Rise of the Phoenix 項劉記) and others such as Jiang Taigong (aka Taigong Wang), Genghis Khan, Yu Ji and Hua Tuo. Li Shi Shi and Cai Wenji have been removed in this game. There are a total of 300 officers to be collected.

Exclusive to this game are officer combinations, which will give you additional stat boosts. The combinations range from familial bonds to frenemies to mentors and students and so forth. For combinations between two player characters or a player character and a generic officer, playing as one of the characters can take them out of the equation so it will only cost you whatever points the other officer costs. You will definitely need to do this for the combinations of Garden Oath, Illusionist Trio and Strategist Legacy because they involve three player characters and you will not be able to accommodate all three of them within your control point limit.

This game also features a multiplayer (VS) mode for up to 4 players using the PSP's ad-hoc connection capabilities. Game modes include Battle Royal(e), Bombs Away, Sudden Death and Time Attack. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get it working on PPSSPP between my computer and phone (I used to be able to do it before for something else) and nobody has cared enough to post gameplay footage of that mode, however the trailer for this game does have some footage and tutorials for each game are included as well. If there was an option to play against the computer then I might have given this mode a chance. Ad-hoc connections are also used to open rooms to trade officers between players instead of swapping Memory Sticks like it was in the previous game.

As stated at the start, Dynasty Warriors Vol. 2 is more icing on the cake that was the first PSP game. It's another perfect port of the main game cut down for a portable console while also being modestly sized for Memory Sticks. You can fit both of the Dynasty Warriors PSP games or the first game and Samurai Warriors State of War onto a 512 MB card or all three games onto a 1 GB card.

Of course, the argument still remains that cut-down spinoffs like this are wasteful when Koei could have ported whole games to the PSP since other publishers have managed to do so with their games even at the console's launch. You can rest assured that future Warriors games for the PSP would do just that.

Dynasty Warriors Mahjong (Jan Sangoku Musou)

Dynasty Warriors Mahjong (雀・三國無双) Platforms: PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS Release dates: Japan: 23 March 2006 (PS2)/28 September 2006 (PSP/DS)

If there are two things in this world I'll never understand (how to play), it's cricket and mahjong. At least with International Cricket Captain you can just press a few buttons and the game plays itself even if you can't comprehend how a team can win by X amount of runs or Y amount of wickets. As for mahjong, it's really something that people in Asia and first generation-migrants (including older generations) are more familiar with. How could a second-generation migrant like me even know how to play mahjong?

Okay, I did get shown how to play mahjong once, but that was many years ago, and even then, mahjong is different in different places. My family plays the Hong Kong variant of mahjong. Dad likes watching a mahjong competition show from Taiwan that has their own variant of mahjong. And of course, this game uses the Japanese variant of mahjong, also known as RICH! RICH! RICH! mahjong.

This game actually uses the engine from Koei's mahjong game series Mahjong Taikai (麻雀大会), originally released in 1987 for the NEC PC-9800, which lasted longer than the Tandy TRS-80 and its successors (up to 2003 as opposed to 1993) and could run up to Windows 2000 (as opposed to Windows 3.x on the Tandy 1000 and Tandy 3000). Hah! Eat that, Alec and Shanna!

("Okay, my lord!" they replied.)

When you start a new game you're guided to name and create an avatar for your save. There are three play modes, namely Musou Play (無双闘牌), Tournament (雀帝位戦) and Free Play (自由対局). The Data Base shows nothing but your play stats for all characters. Rules for the Open Field rules can be set in the settings. Character descriptions can be seen by waiting on the title screen.

In Musou Play, you go through a sort-of-Musou Mode for Wei, Wu and Shu with six stages each against different characters. Once you've cleared all three Musou Plays once, you unlock the Musou Musou Mode where you play 15 stages against different combos of characters from across the Three Kingdoms. Different stages have different clear conditions.

The Tournament mode has you play in a tournament starting with 32 players, with the top two players from each game advancing to the next round. Different rules apply between tournaments which will loop back after playing eight of them. And finally, Free Play lets you choose which characters to play against along with the rules to play with.

This is as much as I can say about this game because like other Warriors games, the gameplay is the same no matter how you play it. As I said at the start of this section, I'm not familiar with mahjong so this isn't a game I'm going to invest a lot of time in. This game is the first unique Warriors game/spinoff to not be localised for the West, which is fair in this case but not for others (such as 5 Special). The original PS2 release was also the same day that Vol. 2 was released in Japan. I'd complain about it, but then you have to wonder how much effort was needed to make a Warriors mahjong game using the engine from a mahjong game you've already made.

Dynasty Warriors DS: Fighter's Battle

Dynasty Warriors DS: Fighter's Battle (真・三國無双DS��ァイターズバトル) Platforms: Nintendo DS Release dates: Japan: 5 April 2007 USA: 24 July 2007 Europe: 31 August 2007

(The Koei Tecmo Wiki got the Western dates wrong and I almost fell for it had I not checked Wikipedia and other sources to confirm them.)

The first Dynasty Warriors PSP game takes up 150 MB on a UMD that can hold up to 900 MB or 1.8 MB of data depending on whether it's a single or dual layer disc. Nintendo DS Game Cards can be up to 512 MB in size. With this game using 128 MB cards, could it have been possible to port the PSP game's functionality to the DS? Well, no. The PSP uses the 64-bit MIPS R4000 chip that can run at up to 333 MHz with a 166 MHz proprietary Media Engine GPU, while the Nintendo DS uses 32-bit ARM processors.

A beta build of Dynasty Warriors DS was created as a sequel to Dynasty Warriors Advance for the GBA (which was also compatible with the original DS and DS Lite), featuring the ability gauge from that game. And somehow, despite that, we get this.

There is only one mode in this game, unless you care about multiplayer gameplay and even then I'm pretty sure it's the same mode because I'm using DeSmuME which doesn't support Wi-Fi. Multiplayer mode supports up to three players.

You pick from three unnamed characters based on three of the Four Gods, namely Phoenix (Red), Dragon (Blue) and Chimera (Yellow) with no Tiger character (who would be white). The computer will randomly select one of the other two to be your opponent. You're then brought to a map of China where you have 11 battlefields to conquer, namely Wancheng (Castle), Hulao, Xuchang, Hefei, Jianye, Chibi, Shu, Xiliang, Huabei, Chengdu and Nanman. Once you've conquered all 11, you'll fight a final secret battle at the Great Wall.

Before each battle you will need to assemble a Battle Deck of officers who will be featured in the battle. Your opponent will do the same as well. You will have a main officer and up to 6 subofficers. Cards are obtained as you play the game. There are red cards that enhance your stats, blue cards that add effects to your Obstacle Wheel, and rare golden cards that do both. The rare cards are unlocked through special conditions, including some that involve having the Dynasty Warriors Advance Game Pak inserted, which is detrimental for DSi players. Out of the cast from DW5, only 28 characters have unique designs on their cards. 8 more playable characters are also available as generic officers and the rest of the cards are made up of generic officers. There are a total of 120 cards representing 51 officers to be unlocked, with the blue and red cards able to be levelled up with repeated use.

During battle, your objective is to occupy all enemy bases before taking the main camp, but your opponent can take your main camp before all your bases fall (I think) because the gates to your camp are left open. Like with Advance, you have to defeat a certain number of enemies in an area before you can move on or defeat the base defender officer and occupy it. There are also armories and depots that start off neutral but can be occupied in a similar way to bases. Every time you encounter your opponent, you're brought to a battlefield to duel, and the character who loses will respawn somewhere else.

In battle, you're limited to 4 attacks like it was in Advance. Musou Attacks are now performed by pressing X, while the R button changes the bottom screen between the map and the enemy's information screen. Yes, this game doesn't use any touch controls, but it sure makes good damn use of a second screen. For every five coins you collect (stacking to a maximum of nine), you can obtain an effect from the Obstacle Wheel which you can use to affect enemies in your area by pressing Y.

Yeah, look, you could remake the game with another IP and it'd be something, but this really just feels like a Dynasty Warriors game in name only. It didn't live up to the hype that was teased during E3 2004 or 2005. Aside from the voices for the three new characters, I'm pretty sure the few voices for everyone else is taken from DW5. I played this game for a bit many years ago and only revisited it recently for this retrospective. It's only enjoyable if you make it enjoyable, otherwise there's nothing much to it.

Koei Tecmo experimented with the DS as a platform and its limits can't really accommodate the requirements of their IP. This game and Mahjong are some examples of wasteful spinoffs whose resources could have been better used in ports of the mainline games. I hesitate to call this game a disgrace primarily because of its experimental status, but also because we haven't even breached the line of disgrace yet.

Dynasty Warriors Online

Dynasty Warriors Online (真・三國無双Online) Platforms: Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita Service launch: Japan: June 2006 (Windows), February 2010 (PS3), September 2014 (PS4), November 2015 (Vita) Taiwan: March 2008 China: April 2008 USA/Europe: August 2010 Service shutdown: Japan: February 2022 (Windows/PS4), May 2019 (PS3), March 2017 (Vita) Taiwan: May 2016 China: December 2020 USA/Europe: January 2014

This is going to be a doozy to write about.

For a time, Koei Tecmo operated an MMORPG known as Dynasty Warriors Online. It was first launched as Shin Sangoku Musou BB (broadband) in 2006, originally limited to Yahoo and SoftBank before being open to other providers in May 2007. The game's logo style would be adapted for use in the DS game before becoming its current Online incarnation from November of that year.

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While the game was available to download for free, Koei did sell starter packs for BB and Online. The game went through four major expansions, with the last one being Online Z released in July 2013, which implemented weapon switching from 7 and 8. The game was also available (digitally, I presume) for the PS3, PS4 and PS Vita, but each expansion pack was sold as a disc as well. I honestly have to wonder how the discs work if it's an online game - I presume it installs or runs the files from the disc while also downloading and installing the latest data from the servers. I can honestly imagine what would happen if players didn't buy the latest expansion and the data wasn't automatically downloaded - "Oh, you don't have the version where we implemented weapons from DW8? Nup, you can't play the game until you buy that version!"

Once you create your account you create your character and choose a faction to join. As with other MMOs you can explore the world, interact with other players, buy and sell weapons, upgrade your equipment and so forth. There are many types of weapons available; initially, only DW5's weapons were implemented along with some weapons exclusive to Online. As the years went on, weapons from 7, 8 and even 9 were implemented, along with Da Ji, Fu Xi, Nuwa and Ranmaru Mori's weapons from Warriors Orochi 2 and Samurai Warriors 3.

The C1s and C6s of movesets can be changed, amazingly enough, with 4 types of C1s and 6 types of C6s. Each weapon also supports Evolution Attacks, even those that came from games other than DW5. You should also see the names of the weapons given in this game, particularly to the weapon movesets from later games as they had to differentiate them from DW5's movesets. Later games could have really learnt something from Online's weapon systems. You can check out the list here.

There were many game modes you could play and different campaigns you could participate in based on different battles and eras. Apparently bots could fill in spaces when games don't have enough players. If this game could allow you to start a LAN session, join a community server or play solo with and against bots, it could have been like Counter Strike, but alas we'll never know.

Sadly though, this is a game I won't be able to review that seriously because I've never played it and I can't anyway because the services have been shutdown. Although the game was free-to-play with microtransactions, I can only imagine how much the experience would be panned by gamers if it still managed to continue in the West past 2014. But hey, I managed to get a piece of content out of it, which is cool.

Can you believe it nearly took me 20 years to play (almost) all the spinoffs of Dynasty Warriors 5? This may be the end of the classic era of Dynasty Warriors, but we haven't finished covering the classic era of Warriors games yet. We head back to Japan next time for Samurai Warriors 2.

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Pinoy Chef YouTuber and a former PIE Channel celebrity host makes its homemade version of 'MrBeast Burger'

MAKATI, MANILA -- A former PIE Channel celebrity host of "Swerteng Sulpot" named Ninong Ry, whose real name as Ryan Morales Reyes makes a homemade version of a viral fast food chain called "MrBeast Burger". This was after he left to assign the first interactive television channel in late mid-July 2022, before shifting to the online cooking tutorial content on his own YouTube channel.

MrBeast Burger, a food chain named after Jimmy Donaldson, also known as "MrBeast", a North Carolina YouTuber who founded a virtual restaurant brand, making a flagship fast food chain originated in Wilson City, the said state in America last December 2020. Filipinos introduced into the aforesaid fast food chain in Makati City, Metro Manila; just a several months after the branches expanded in Australia and United Kingdom to serve franchise internationally. The viral burger company became an internet sensation, due to uniqueness, massive size and richest flavor.

At the start of demonstration, Reyes started his homemade cooking process by simply toasting brioche buns to be associated with butter, followed by the smash-style patties, which were cooked to perfection. The burger condiments featuring fresh pickle relish, onion and sliced cheese, which were finely layered for a perfect texture and flavor, as stated from Ninong Ry's YouTube video.

The burger's uniqueness lies in the use of their homemade "special sauce", consisting of ketchup, mayonnaise and mustard, combined with a minor disclosed ingredient that they refused to reveal as a pre-caution without using its trade secrets in this video platform. OneNETnews cannot independently verify the authenticity per the actual sake of homemade cooking tutorials online.

The brand is expected to develop even more with the support of one particular influencer like Reyes. The said YouTube video received thousands of views, with viewers lauding the successful outcome and expressing interest by trying it out to yourself at home.

Per successful self-taping of their homemade MrBeast Burger's cooking tutorial video, he was planned to create more culinary creations for their respective channels, with the inspiration of "MrBeast" himself in the United States of America.

EDITOR's NOTE (from Rhayniel): This news article was not sponsored by "MrBeast Burger" in Philippine franchise branch upon educating amateur chefs followed from the video platform source. PIE Channel is a parent firm on this Internet TV station and News Organization of OneNETtv Channel and OneNETnews.

SCREENGRAB COURTESY: Ninong Ry via YT Video

SOURCE: *https://www.rappler.com/life-and-style/food-drinks/mrbeast-burger-chain-philippines/ [Referenced News Article via Rappler] *https://www.yummy.ph/news-trends/who-is-ninong-ry-youtube-a00261-20210920-lfrm [Referenced Biography Article from Yummy Magazine News] *https://mrbeast.fandom.com/wiki/MrBeast_Burger *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MrBeast *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIE_(TV_channel) *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programs_broadcast_by_PIE_(TV_channel) *https://www.mrbeastburger.com/about/ *https://joinvdc.com/about/ *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg2Ag3e8W-Q [Referenced YT Video via MrBeast] *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIQcqkvajhM [Referenced YT Video from IAmPieOfficial] and *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v65MhYVzlo0 [Referenced YT Video from NinongRy]

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What Are Forex Scams and How to Spot Them?

The foreign exchange market, simply called forex, is the biggest financial market in the world. The opportunities for making money from this market are vast through exchanging currencies. But on the other hand, the large size and decentralized nature of the market also make it a perfect hunting ground for scammers. In this article, we will discuss what forex scams are, what tactics fraudsters use, and how you can protect yourself from falling victim to them.

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Ajaero released as outrage trails arrest

LAGOS — Arrested Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, was released late Monday by the Department of State Services, DSS even as the government agency’s action has been greeted by widespread condemnation nationwide. Vanguard was informed by one of the NLC leaders that Ajaero was released at about 11.10p.m yesterday. Ajaero was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Aiport in Abuja, on his way to London to attend the Trade Union Congress, TUC of the United Kingdom conference, which began yesterday. Ajaero arrest came as the secret police laid siege to the Abuja office of the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, for allegedly asking the government to reverse the recent increase in the price of petrol. SERAP has, however, asked President Bola Tinubu to direct the DSS to stop its attack. Confirming Ajaero’s arrest, the Head of Information of the NLC, Mr Benson Upah, however, said the union had no idea on the whereabouts of Ajaero, saying he (Ajaero) it was the DSS that arrested him. Vanguard gathered yesterday that the Labour leader had been moved to the National Intelligence Agency, NIA. His arrest came 11 days after he honoured an invitation by the Police on August 29, and was released the same day. A day before he honoured the invitation, the police on August 28 re-invited Ajaero “in furtherance of investigations into an alleged case of criminal intimidation, conducts likely to cause a breach of public peace and malicious damage to properties in which your name featured.” “You are requested to come along with Comrade Emmanuel Ugboaja for an interview with the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Force Intelligence Department, FID, through the undersigned, at SPO’s Room 12, 2nd Floor, Force Intelligence Department, FID, Complex, Shehu Shagari way, opposite Force Headquarters Area 11, Garki, Abuja on Thursday, 5th September 2024 at 11am. “On arrival, you may wish to call Mr. Usman on GSM number 08039659139. Your cooperation in this regard is highly solicited, please,” the police invitation read. Arrest not connected to police invitation – Falana Speaking on the issue, yesterday, legal adviser to NLC, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, said the arrest of his client was not connected with an earlier invitation by the Police, adding that the secret police had failed to provide any reason for Ajaero’s arrest. “The invitation to Comrade Joe Ajaero by the police was rescheduled last week. I have contacted the police authorities. The arrest is not related to the police invitation. “Comrade Ajaero was on his way to London to attend the ongoing TUC conference when he was arrested at the airport this morning (yesterday) by the DSS. No reason has been provided for the arrest,’’ Falana said. Also, the NLC dismissed insinuations that Ajaero was arrested for failing to honour an invitation by the DSS, or any other security agency, saying the report was nothing but mere mischief. An online platform had claimed that a local airline, Air Peace, wrote a petition against the NLC President, adding that when the DSS invited Ajaero for interrogation, he failed to honour the invite. Dismissing the report, Head, Media /Information, Benson Upah, said: “We know those behind the baseless report. They should come open and tell the world why the NLC president was arrested. I can tell you that he was not arrested for failure to honour any invitation by the security agencies. ‘’The only invitation we know of was the one by the Police on September 5, 2024, for which we have an understanding with the Police that Ajaero will honour the invitation on September 24 because of several commitments within and outside the country.” We’ve withdrawn our 2023 petition against Ajaero – Air Peace However, Air Peace Airline has faulted reports that the DSS arrested Ajaero due to his failure to honour police invitation over its petition. Noting that it wrote a petition against the NLC in 2023, following a dispute that ensued between both parties, Air Peace said the petition had long been withdrawn. Spokesperson of the airlines, Omotade Makinwa, in a statement, said having resolved their differences, the airline and NLC shared a cordial relationship, noting that anything that could break the bond should be jettisoned. The statement read: “Air Peace Airline expresses deep concern over recent media reports regarding the arrest of the President of the NLC in connection to a petition filed by the airline in September 2023. This development, which has led to negative publicity, does not reflect the current relationship between Air Peace and the NLC. “It is important to clarify the events leading up to the petition. On May 3, 2023, the NLC disrupted Air Peace operations as part of a broader conflict with the Imo State Government. Although Air Peace had no involvement in the dispute between the NLC and the Imo State Government, our airline was unfortunately used as a tool to exert pressure on the government. This unlawful disruption of our services caused significant financial losses and impacted the travel plans of many Nigerians across multiple states. “In response to this disruption, Air Peace’s legal team submitted a formal petition against the NLC to the Nigerian Police. Despite our repeated efforts to follow up on the petition, the Police failed to take prompt action. “However, over a year later, the Nigerian Police have chosen to act on the original petition, which has now led to the alleged arrest of the NLC president. Prior to this arrest, the airline and the NLC had already reached an amicable resolution, and Air Peace had withdrawn its petition, allowing a positive working relationship to resume between the two organisations.” Outrage Those who condemned the arrest of the NLC leader, yesterday, and called for his immediate release include the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC; National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE; Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN; Amnesty International; Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; United Action Front of Civil Society, UAFCS; and Human Rights Writers Association, HURIWA. NLC’s ultimatum In a communiqué at the end of its National Administrative Council, NAC, meeting, signed by its Deputy President, Prince Adewale Adeyanju, the NLC said the emergency meeting was “to address the alarming and unlawful arrest and detention of Comrade Joe Ajaero, President of the NLC, by agents of the Nigerian government. “Comrade Ajaero was arrested and detained at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja en-route the United Kingdom, where he was scheduled to attend and address the Congress of the Trade Union Congress, TUC, of Britain, representing Nigerian workers in critical discussions on workers’ rights and social justice.” After extensive deliberation, NAC condemned what it described as “brazen and illegal detention of Comrade Joe Ajaero by the Nigerian state without any legal warrant or justification.” It noted that Ajaero was lawfully discharging his duties to represent Nigerian workers and had not committed any offence warranting such action. “His detention is an affront on the rights of workers and the democratic principles of freedom of movement and expression,’’ NAC stated. Consequently, NLC demanded immediate and unconditional release of Ajaero before 12 midnight today (Monday) because “Ajaero is not a fugitive or a criminal, and his detention is an act of intimidation aimed at silencing dissent and stifling the labour movement’s voice in Nigeria.” NLC affiliates on red alert Also demanding immediate reversal of the current hike in the price of petrol to about N900/litre, NLC placed “all its affiliates, state councils, civil society allies, and the Nigerian populace on red alert. ‘’ The detention of Comrade Ajaero is an attack not just on the NLC leadership but also on the rights of all workers and citizens to organize, protest, and express themselves freely. “NLC will not stand by while these rights are trampled upon. This provocation is another attempt by the state to scuttle the implementation of the new National Minimum Wage. The NLC reaffirms its commitment to defending the rights of Nigerian workers and citizens. “Congress will not relent in its efforts to oppose all forms of oppression. NAC-in-session, therefore, summons an emergency meeting of the National Executive Council, NEC, by 9:00 am tomorrow (today), September 10, 2024, to take compelling action to engage the current forces of retrogression.” NUEE fumes Reacting to Ajaero’s arrest, the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, also demanded his immediate and unconditional release without harm. This came as the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, also put employers and other stakeholders in the nation’s maritime industry on notice over his arrest. NUEE in a statement by its Acting General Secretary, Igwebike Dominic, put workers in the nation’s power sector on red alert for any eventuality. The statement read: “Joe Ajaero has been detained and treated like a fugitive that he is not, without access to his lawyers, families and colleagues. This brazen act of intimidation and harassment is a violation of his fundamental rights and freedom as a Nigerian citizen. “We demand unequivocal and unconditional release of Joe Ajaero without any harm meted out on him. We are using this medium to put all our members on alert for further directives.” Maritime workers Similarly, MWUN in a release by its President-General and 1st Deputy President of NLC, Prince Adewale Adeyanju, kicked against the arrest of the labour leader. Adeyanju in the statement signed by John Kennedy Ikemefuna, Head of Media, said: “MWUN frowns on this ugly incident on the Congress’ President, whose rights have been extremely violated by the security agents of the state, hence, MWUN is calling for the immediate, unconditional release of Ajaero, the NLC President. “Given the preceding, the union will have no other option if he’s not released but to comply with directives that may come from the Nigeria Labour Congress on this matter.” TUC kicks Piqued by the DSS action, the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, demanded the immediate and unconditional release of Ajaero.. TUC in a statement by its President, Festus Osifo, said: “TUC has received with grave concern the news of the arrest of the President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, earlier today (yesterday). ‘’This unjust action represents a clear violation of the rights to freedom of association and expression, fundamental pillars in any democratic society. “Congress firmly condemns the arrest and calls for his immediate and unconditional release. This arrest sets a dangerous precedence that threatens not only the leadership of the Nigerian labour movement but also the voices of millions of working-class Nigerians who rely on unions to represent and protect their interests. “It is imperative that the government respects the rule of law, democratic norms, and the legitimate rights of workers and their representatives. The labour movement has always stood for peaceful negotiations. “We, therefore, urge the Nigerian government to prioritize dialogue and reconciliation over harassment. We stand in solidarity with the NLC and reaffirm our commitment to defending the rights and dignity of Nigerian workers.” Arrest is attempt to cause anarchy — UAFCS Speaking in like manner, the United Action Front of Civil Society, UAFCS, described as “needless show of force” DSS’ arrest of Ajaero. In a statement by its spokesman, Mallam Hamisu Santuraki, the UAFCS said the move could “lead to mass resistance and civil disobedience in the country if Ajaero is not released immediately.” The group kick-started consultations to halt the emerging police state and repression of civil and democracy space in Nigeria. It said: “As a matter of fact, Comrade Joe Ajaero is a huge leader of both the Labour movement and the masses of Nigeria, given his popular position as the President of the NLC and, therefore, deserves to be treated with profound decorum and courtesy. ‘’Consequently, security issues with him should be handled with due process and not in the rough manner displayed by security agents today (yesterday), which is capable of causing national chaos and anarchy “We, therefore, wish to unequivocally condemn this needless rascality employed by the DSS against the President of the NLC which has already generated shockwaves through the length and breadth of the country and may lead to mass resistance and civil disobedience in the country, if Ajaero is not released immediately by the state.” Arrest poverty, hunger, not innocent Nigerians, PDP tells Tinubu On its part, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, cautioned the President Bola Tinubu-led All Progressives Congress, APC, administration against the indiscriminate arrest of labour leaders, activists, protesters and innocent citizens because such arrests could throw the nation into chaos. National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Debo Ologunagba, gave the words of caution while reacting to the arrest and detention of Ajaero by DSS operatives. The party also urged President Tinubu to channel his energy towards addressing the nation’s rising inflation, poverty, and hunger and improve security because this is what he was elected to do. Ologunagba said: “There is a need for caution, there was a protest in this country, the government did not do anything. You arrested some people and said they were terrorists and you charged them to court. You say some people were the sponsors of the protest. “We know those who sponsored the protest. The sponsor is hunger, the President and his people; arrest hunger and there will be no protest.” Stop arbitrary arrests, abductions, detentions of activists, unionists — HURIWA Condemning the arrest of Ajaero, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, in a statement by it National Coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, condemned security forces’ constant harassment and arrest of of key human rights, media and trade union figures and particularly Ajaero and urged the government to stop it. “We are by this statement, calling for the immediate cessation of all kinds of coordinated attacks targeting the NLC, human rights campaigners and media practitioners by this administration so as to protect and preserve constitutional principles in Nigeria,” it said. CISLAC to FG: Tell Nigerians what NLC boss has done Similarly, Executive Director, Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC, Awwal Rafsanjani, said: “First and foremost, we are just worried at the rate the civic space is being attacked in Nigeria and shrinking. ‘’If there is any credible evidence against the NLC leader, the government should make it public so Nigerians would know. But to harass, arrest and detain him is sending to the international community a wrong signal about the regime’s intolerance. “Government should know that we don’t need international condemnation by our overzealous actions on things that have not been officially established by the authority. Nigerian officials should do everything to promote and protect the right of every Nigerian. We’re getting into military era – ActionAid Also, the Country Director, of ActionAid Nigeria, AAN, Andrew Mamedu, said: “We are getting into where we were in military era, a military way of life where citizens can no longer live freely and express themselves, you are not sure of who will be the next to be picked up. ‘’Why should you be invading the SERAP office? I think the President should communicate more because we are not in a military era and we are not saying people will not be questioned. If you toe that path, people will ask questions. ‘’If they are doing this to deter citizens from expressing themselves, they are only barking up the wrong tree. They are going on wrong way because this will not deter citizens, it will only heighten the level of citizens’ rejection of this way of life. It is not going to augur well for us, and if there are ripple effects of this, then the government should know what it caused.’’ Nigerians under reign of terror – Adeyanju In his reaction, human rights activist and lawyer to one of the #EndBadGovernance groups, Deji Adeyanju, said: “He (Tinubu) has tried to bully Ajaero and the entire labour union a few weeks ago, now they have gone for the jugular, they have arrested Joe Ajaero, they have broken down the office of SERAP. ‘’Anyone that dares challenge Bola Tinubu should get ready, and the nation should collectively rise against this tyranny and this reign of terror that ‘General’ Bola Tinubu is currently unleashing on the country, and that is the only way out to defend its democracy End DSS attack against us, SERAP tells Tinubu Meanwhile, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, yesterday urged President Tinubu “to immediately direct the DSS to end the intimidation and harassment and attack against our organization and the threat of arrest against our directors.” Recall that the secret police laid siege to the group’s Abuja office yesterday, following its position on the recent increase in the price of petrol by the federal government. In a statement by its Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, the organisation said: “We condemn the invasion of our Abuja office today (yesterday) by Nigeria’s Department of State Services, DSS. ‘’The invasion of SERAP’s office by the DSS and the harassment and intimidation of our staff members is a brutal assault on the entire human rights community in the country. “The escalating crackdown on human rights, and harassment and intimidation of NGOs and human rights defenders that have shown astonishing courage in their human rights work hurt those most in need, undermine access of Nigerian victims of human rights violations and abuses to justice, and contribute to a culture of impunity of perpetrators. “This government has an obligation to support and protect civil society groups and human rights defenders. We are seriously concerned about the growing restrictions on civic space and the brutal crackdown on the human rights of Nigerians. “President Tinubu must urgently instruct appropriate authorities to promptly and thoroughly investigate the invasion of our offices and to bring to justice those involved. “Nigerian authorities must allow SERAP to freely carry out our mandates as recognized under the Nigerian Constitution 1999 , the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights to which Nigeria is a state party. “Nigerian authorities must end the harassment and intimidation attacks against SERAP and ensure the safety and security of our staff. Read the full article

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