Odeku, you comparing the US to ur motherland, Nigeria Check ur records man. Whose justice are u trying to prove here? Don't even start abeg.

Regardless of where I am, every person with brain knows to comply with police, there is a reason they have uniform and they have gun. if you want this people that lay their life out to protect innocent citizen every day then we must respect and obey them. its just a coincidence this happen at the time there is feud in the presidency, what if this aid was an aid attached to a chief? will people think the same way?

Odeku, may be ur problem is that u too civilized My dear we talking about NIGERIA and our Useless government and Fucking dirty politics.

Radiant politics has nothing to do with this issue, its a coincidence, try and think outside the box here. yes there is problem at the helm of the presidency. read about the facts of this case again and you will see the light, and beside, I am a frequent flayer to Nigeria so I know the deal

you can stick to ur belief that it's a coincidence I personally refuse to buy that !

Odeku wake-up this is nigeria and the police do it all the time and use the word stray bullet or accidental discharge for christ sake guy we know what we are talking here the whole system here is currupt if well investigated you might find out that it is all about the feud

Any way cha my brother when the State with you na so too much civilization don pollute him brain forgeting say the laws here are being protected by nobody you and you alone can protect yourself so f***k the police

I disagree with you on all level . though there are some bad egg in the police and that goes with any police in any country. come to NYC, Chigo and any western nation, but to say the police is useless is absurd, well in that case, what will Nigeria be like without the police? sk yourself this valid question before condemning the police force.

Back to the question atiku's aid should never have pulled a gun and the police in question should have use the word "drop you weapon or we will shoot" that would have shown that the police is well equiped and trained.

But seriously odeku we know what we are saying ofcourse there are bad eggs in the police but the bad eggs are on the high side

Odeku, i can only pity ur ignorance .Optimism is not the same as the fucking reality in Nigeria.

Odeku when last did you visit the country. Please stop by for a visit dont just read the colum about the president trying to change our image abroad. Take a look back home and see the suffering struggling on the peoples face it is writtten all over.

Odeku Please dont argue with us we live here and we know what we are facing all the time

Just because I know the facts does not mean I am ignorant. I know the deal. I know not to mess with the law or I won't live to tell the story. the most stupid thing anyone can do is argue or disobey the police. there are civilized way of getting their actions rectify. you may disagree with me but trust me I know my facts. I guess you cant teach an old dog a new tricks so stick to your pessimistic views.

I was in Nigeria less than 6 months ago, and Ill be in Nigeria next month for a month, so I do see the suffering, and I respect everyone once i come home.

Ok meet online at bushfellow@yahoo.co.uk now let dig it out. I know no one mess up with the law but the law is built or created to stand for the people but in a situation when every one even the high and mighty no longer believe in the enforcer as they have lost hope in it so who am i to now have faith in a police who raid you if you dont have an ID, you are stopped and harras illegaly any one can give them two thousand naira to arrest you and they will do it so what are we saying

Odeku, do police in the US take bribe on the highways and streets? Do they take you to the station, accusing one of an offence (let's say, you don't have a fire extinguisher) when you don't give them bribe at the spot of the incidence?

No, but they will take you to jail for not complying or if you ask too many questions. and their way of victimizing you is to say you have the right to remain silent or anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.

ODEKU: Stop talking like a bush boy.

The different between police and harm robbers in Nigeria is not that much. You need to slow down and allow these folks to school you for a minute or two.

Trust me, it is a totally different situation when you are looking from a distance.

I hope the dead man rests in peace.

Allow Odeku he is in a country that their leaders know when to throw in a towel when the need arises like the situation we are having on ground now the president acusing his vice imagine. That is the same people that have control over the police tell me why cant they manipulate the force to sute themselves

@ dundee
first of all i'm not an assassin but i get paid to kill when i need to . second, i did not say anything about this particular situation. i was only talking about what my good friend mo money said about defensive shot. i wasn't there when the aide got shot and like we all know, nigeria is a place where the most impossible things happen. the police may/may not have been justified but who knows. don't get all worked up about all this things. remember, everything is possible in nigeria

Fola you correct i dey your side bro help me tell Odeku

some of you guys are just shallow minded. In that case since the police are so damn bad, why can't you guys have the legislator scrap them out and see how many of you guys cant sleep in peace. there are tragedy and accident in any country, its part of life, and to say this was a premeditated issue is barbaric.

this is the reason i said the efcc is selective how on earht will they exclude the following from their list odili,bode geore, tony anenhi, abdusalmi abubakar that spent eight thrillion for just eight month in office and we are all exposing and pooring blame on abach and past leaders for draining the nation. let face it seven years is enough to turn arround the country so the truth is obsanjo is currupt, the presidency is currupt let stop pretending not to see it and if efcc want to prove to all nigerians that they are not selective let start with the office of the president. then and only then they shall be aplauded

Big B1:

ODEKU: Stop talking like a bush boy.

Well MR BIGB1 since I am talking like a bush boy and I know I am from the bush. I think your parents got you from the ZOO. slowpoke

If and when the president leaves office, I am sure the next president will look at his dealings while in office, and until then and until someone can provide reasonable prove to us that OBJ is corrupt, i stand by him as my president, as for Atiku, i used to like the guy until i read about his illegal dealings with the senator Jefferson, and all his pity allegation to incriminate OBJ is just childish

Odeku, u heard about the incident with the FOREIGN senator innit? You can go to hell and come back, you'll never hear jack about OBJ. Your president my ass.

OBJ is the best president Nigeria has ever had, Alex Ekweme was a good VP, and Atiku on the other hand is a criminal with pig belly, Radiant stop supporting this people see the light

suporting who? U stick to ur freaking side. Nonsense! Don't even call my name again. Go check ur records man before saying shit here. Best president my cute bum

guys, mistakes happen but when u are a trained professional, i can assure u mistakes would be at the barest minimum level. in the case of the nigerian police, their mistakes have been TOO much. u don't just shoot a guy because he brought out a pistol, u try to disarm him (i believe they go for trainings on man-to-man combat) or u shoot him somewhere like his leg or arm. killing him should be a last action where u hav no other optiion available to u. the story has many versions but knowing nigerian police well, whether he had identified himself or not, they would hav done their job (to kill him). its in nigeriia that police men shoot Army officers. lets open our eyes and see that this incident has confirmed that the nigerian police has lost it.

its so sad that victor is not alive today to tell us whether he pulled a gun out or not. like a police man once told me, a dead man cannot make a case.

thanks and God bless Nigeria.

ACCOUNT FROM EYEWITNESS - OBJ HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE KILLING (VANGUARD)

Vanguard Newspaper has a statement from an eyewitness to the killing of the SSS aide - it absolves the presidency. According to the eyewiness, there was a struggle between the SSS guy and the policemen which led to shots being fired.
Please read the piece from Vanguard (below)

Vanguard Newspapers
Oct 3, 2006.


Shedding light on the circumstances in which Mr. Okonkwo was killed by some policemen at Uke near Keffi, Nasarawa State on Saturday, the eyewitness (name withheld) who was a co-traveller said Victor was actually killed at the Uke police post by a trigger-happy police constable who was the driver of the patrol vehicle.
His words: “Victor was a close friend of my younger brother. They were mates at the State Security Service Training School in Kaduna. But we became family friends. At present, my younger brother who is serving in Anambra State lives with the parents of Victor. Victor was always in our family house in Abuja, and of late was the one taking care of our mother who is ill.

“He asked me to follow him to Nasarawa Polytechnic where he was to write a paper in Accounting. He was studying for his Ordinary National Diploma in Business Administration. We were three on the trip and we had a smooth ride until we were stopped by a highway police patrol.

‘The policemen walked up to us and asked for the vehicle papers. Victor responded by saying espirit de corps. He introduced himself as an SSS operative who worked with the Vice-President. The Policeman then exchanged banters with him and said something like 'Oga, na you dey enjoy o,' they asked us to go.

As Victor was about to move, the policemen came back and said their Inspector wanted to see Victor. He came down from the car and walked up to the Inspector in the Patrol Jeep. The next thing was that the Inspector came down from the front passenger seat of the patrol vehicle and started complaining.

He was saying something like; ‘you boys think every policeman on the road is an ordinary man.’
"When the Inspector rebuffed our pleadings that Victor and his colleague would be late for their exam, Victor persuaded his colleague in the car who was going for the same exam to leave so that he (Victor) could sort himself out.

“Then, the Inspector said we should go to the next police station. As we drove towards Keffi, one of the policemen who had taken over our front passenger seat asked for the particulars of the vehicle  Victor asked him to pick it in the dashboard safe and he did.
“At the police post in Uke, Karshi local government of Nasarawa State, we stopped and the Inspector directed his men to search the Toyota Carina II vehicle that we were travelling in. After the search in which nothing was found, the Inspector asked that the vehicle be impounded.

"At this point, Victor started pleading that he would be late for his examination and that the Inspector should please allow him to go.
“The Inspector refused and ordered his men to register the car in the station register. Victor handed the key of the car to him. As we made to leave the station, the Inspector again called us back and asked Victor where he said he was working.Victor brought out his wallet comprising four identity cards, that of the SSS, the Presidential Villa, his National ID card and his bank account ID card.

The officer called one of his men to identify the Villa ID card and that one said ‘Oga na true o the ID look like original’.
“All this while, Victor was calling his colleagues in the Villa but could not get through. Then the man said he would  not release him until the people he had been calling came to identify him. He said Victor should be locked up. Victor said he could not be locked up because he worked for a security agency like the Inspector.

“Five policemen surrounded him and tried to force him into the station. He resisted and they were struggling with him but they could not overpower him. As they struggled, his service pistol fell and the policemen tried to pick it up. They struggled but he was able to pick it before any of them. They continued to struggle with him. Then, one of them named Akpama, dashed to the Patrol vehicle, grabbed a rifle, and shot into the air once. I was scared and I ran to the Inspector, pleading that he should intervene, but he was busy smoking cigarette. As I was pleading with him, I heard another shot; I looked back and saw Victor going down. I rushed to him and tried to hold him. One old man and a girl from the village joined me to attend to him.

“I rushed to the roadside to get a vehicle to convey him for medical attention. A Nissan car agreed to help us. As we drove into the station, a policeman ordered the driver to stop and he was taken away.

"It was when the DPO who said he was attracted by the gun shots came that he ordered that Victor be taken for medical attention. He was taken to the back of the Jeep and I held him, praying that he will survive the gun wound.

“As we drove to Keffi, the policemen started accusing one another for the gun shot. The Inspector took his gun and checked his bullets. The other policemen accused Akpama, the patrol van driver of firing the shot. They said he was always running away from gun. They kept saying that ‘the first time he handled gun, he had killed someone.’
“When we got to the medical centre in Keffi, the doctor examined Victor and left without saying a word. When the DPO went into the doctor’s office, I followed him and pleaded that the doctor should come and take care of Victor. He then confirmed that Victor was dead,” he said as he wept.

“At the police station, the policemen wept, asking what would happen to them after many years in service. They kept blaming each other for the killing,” the witness concluded.

The eye witness said he had made statement to the Police authorities, giving this same account.

@those applicable,
next time wait for the facts to come up before pointing your blaming fingers.

@those applicable,
next time wait for the facts to come up before pointing your blaming fingers.

exactly just saw the same thing on the guardian website http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/news/article06

somethings just do not add up though
the security attache to the VP is going for an OND exams?

The organisation said: "Victor was a close friend of my younger brother. They were mates at the[color=#006600] State Security Service training school in Kaduna. But we became family friends. At present, my younger brother who is serving in Anambra State lives with the parents of Victor. Victor was always in our family house in Abuja; and of late has been the one taking care of our mother who is sick."

The witness was quoted further: "He asked me to follow him to Nasarawa Polytechnic where he was to write a paper in Accounting. He was studying for his Ordinary National Diploma in Business Administration. We were three on the trip and we had a smooth ride until we were stopped by a highway police patrol."[/color]

it speaks of the kinda country we are in
have u 4goten that the deputy gov. for oyo state is a primary six cert. holder - but just b'cos he was until the impeachment of ladoja, the PA to the 'don' - adedibu

LoverBwoy:

exactly just saw the same thing on the guardian website http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/news/article06

somethings just do not add up though
the security attache to the VP is going for an OND exams?

@LoverBwoy, Please don't be surprised. Like otolorin said, people get jobs based on connections in Naija. I recall when Okonjo-Iweala was at the Finance Ministry, she said they needed Financial Analysts badly because over 70% of the employees of the ministry are just high school graduates.

So, I am not surprised the SSS guy was pursuing an OND. Not at all

who knows the truth??








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