{"id":136463,"date":"2022-01-18T20:52:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T19:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=136463"},"modified":"2022-01-18T21:37:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T20:37:41","slug":"canadian-minister-who-attacked-malami-asked-to-step-aside-over-traffic-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/01\/18\/canadian-minister-who-attacked-malami-asked-to-step-aside-over-traffic-violation\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaycee Madu, Nigerian appointed minister of justice in Canada asked to step aside over traffic violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Nigerian-born minister of justice and solicitor-general of Alberta, a province in Western Canada, Kaycee Madu has been asked to step aside from his ministerial position after he called the police to report his traffic offence ticket.<\/p>\n<p>This was announced by Jason Kenney, premier of Alberta Tuesday via a tweet that he has asked Madu to step aside pending the outcome of a probe into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Madu, who was appointed minister in August 2020, was pulled over on March 10, 2021, and fined $300 for flouting the country\u2019s traffic and safety regulations.<\/p>\n<p>He was said to have been on his phone in a school zone.<\/p>\n<p>He subsequently called Dale McFee, Edmonton\u2019s police chief, and\u00a0discussed the ticket with him.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/11\/16\/unilag-asuu-chairman-nigerian-professors-do-not-earn-more-than-n416000\/\">UNILAG<\/a> law graduate had said that he was not on his phone, alleging he was a victim of racial profiling.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_136473\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-136473\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-136473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/01\/ola_peter\/2022\/01\/18\/canadian-minister-who-attacked-malami-asked-to-step-aside-over-traffic-violation.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/01\/ola_peter\/2022\/01\/18\/canadian-minister-who-attacked-malami-asked-to-step-aside-over-traffic-violation.png 1280w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/01\/ola_peter\/2022\/01\/18\/canadian-minister-who-attacked-malami-asked-to-step-aside-over-traffic-violation-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/01\/ola_peter\/2022\/01\/18\/canadian-minister-who-attacked-malami-asked-to-step-aside-over-traffic-violation-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/01\/ola_peter\/2022\/01\/18\/canadian-minister-who-attacked-malami-asked-to-step-aside-over-traffic-violation-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-136473\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaycee Madu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe officer indicated that he had observed me driving while distracted, alleging that I was on my phone. I disagreed, stating that I was not on my phone, as it was in an inside pocket,\u201d Madu had said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to the timing of the incident, I wanted to ensure that I was not being unlawfully surveilled following the controversy surrounding the Lethbridge Police Service. I also raised concerns around profiling of racial minorities that was in the media at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChief McFee assured me that that was most definitely not the case, and I accepted him at his word.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McFee confirmed that Madu called him concerning the ticket, adding that the minister did not ask for it to be cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinister Madu did contact me via the telephone concerned about a ticket. But just to be very, very clear, he never asked to get out of the ticket,\u201d McFee said.<\/p>\n<p>Madu was minister for municipal affairs before he was named minister of justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nigerian-born minister of justice and solicitor-general of Alberta, a province in Western Canada, Kaycee Madu has been asked to step aside from his ministerial position after he called the police to report his traffic offence ticket. 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