http://saharareporters.com/2016/01/15/probe-former-serving-military-officers-most-sweeping-nigeria%E2%80%99s-history

Probe Of Former, Serving Military Officers The Most Sweeping In Nigeria’s History

In an unprecedented development, President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to begin a comprehensive investigation into the role played by several former and serving top military officers in the questionable expenditure of funds meant for the procurement of weapons and other equipment for Nigeria’s military.


A statement released today by a senior presidential aide, Garba Shehu, disclosed that the investigation would cover the period from 2007 to 2015. Mr. Buhari ordered the probe based on the recommendation of a committee that audited Nigeria’s defense budget from 2007.

Those whose roles are to be investigated in the sweeping investigation include such ​retired and serving officers as Air Chief Marshal A.S. ​Badeh, ​Air Marshal ​M.D. ​Umar, ​Air Marshal​ A.N. ​Amosu, Major-​General ​E.R. ​Chioba, ​Air Vice-Marshal​​ I.A.​ Balogun, Air Vice-Marshal ​A.G.​ Tsakr, Air Vice-Marshal ​A.G.​ Idowu, Air Vice-Marshal ​A.M. ​Mamu, Air Vice-Marshal O.T. ​Oguntoyinbo, Air Vice-Marshal ​T. ​Omenyi, Air Vice-Marshal ​J.B. ​Adigun, Air Commodores ​S.A. Yushau, A.O. ​Ogunjobi, and ​Lieutenant Colonel ​M.S. ​Dasuki.

Other targets of the investigation include Air Commodores G.M.D. ​Gwani, S.O. ​Makinde, and A.Y. ​Lassa.​
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The EFCC’s investigation is likely to uncover for the first time the nature and depth of the collusion between military officials, political officials and defense contractors in inflating defense contracts and procuring sometimes antiquated or ineffectual equipment.

Mr. Buhari wants the EFCC to uncover any shady procurement deals struck by the named officers and the directors of defense firms. The probe comes in the waking of revelations that former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, diverted more than $2 billion in arms procurement budget and distributed it to various political figures.

Some of the defense contractors and directors whose role will be investigated include ​Messrs Societe D’ Equipment Internationaux, Himma Aboubakar, ​Aeronautical Engineering and Technical Services Limited, ​Messrs Syrius Technologies, Theresa A. Ittu, ​Sky Experts Nigeria Ltd, Ifeanyi Tony Omenyi, ​Huzee Nigeria Ltd, and ​GAT Techno Dynamics Ltd. Other players include Gbujie Peter Obie, Onuri Samuel Ugochukwu, ​Spacewebs Interservices Ltd, Oguntoyinbo Tayo, Oguntoyinbo Funmi, Jacobs Bola, ​Mono Marine Corporation Nigeria Ltd, ​Geonel Integrated Services Ltd, Sachi Felicia, Mudaki Polycarp, Wolfgang Reinl, and ​Delfina Oil and Gas Ltd.

The EFCC would look at such breaches as “non-specification of procurement costs, absence of contract agreements, award of contracts beyond authorized thresholds, transfer of public funds for unidentified purposes and general non-adherence to provisions of the Public Procurement Act.” In addition, the agency would investigate the roles played by military officers and civilian contractors in other irregularities and fraud that characterized the procurement processes.

“In many cases, the procured items failed to meet the purposes they were procured for, especially the counter insurgency efforts in the North East,” said Mr. Shehu’s statement. In the past, SaharaReporters had detailed complaints by soldiers deployed against Islamist terrorists, Boko Haram, about being sent to battle with inferior weaponry and even defective gear. One soldier revealed that bulletproof vests as well as helmets issued to officers were consistently defective.

Some soldiers also alleged that some rogue officers were cooperating with Islamic insurgents by giving them intelligence about troop movements. Some soldiers engaged in mutinies to protest being sent to battle to lose disastrously against Boko Haram.

modath:

Thieves dem!

They are callous killers also. Can some Nigerians now understand why Buhari loses his cool when he talks of the "serious offences" of Dasuki et al? The president has far more information at his disposal, that cannot be revealed to the public just yet, which reveals the vile and evil actions of men like Dasuki and other military leaders under the equally perverse GEJ.

Dasuki, Amosu et al are very wicked and evil men who deserves to rot in jail. Ditto for the President thye worked for i.e GEJ.

http://saharareporters.com/2016/01/17/how-scandalous-corruption-nigerian-military-led-death-air-force-pilot-others

How Scandalous Corruption In The Nigerian Military Led To The Death Of Air Force Pilot, Others


SaharaReporters has learned that findings from the arms procurement audit, which began in August 2015, have shown that corruption in the military, particularly in the Nigerian Air Force, led to the death of air servicemen fighting against Boko Haram. The audit of military procurements, exposed this week, resulted in President Muhammadu Buhari demanding a deeper probe into Nigeria’s most senior military officers.



In December 2014, Group Captain Ubong Akpan and Master Warrant Officer Zabesan Hosea boarded a Russian-made Mi-24V helicopter with the intent to carry out combat operations against Boko Haram terrorists in Adamawa State. Both air servicemen lost their lives when their helicopter crashed near Girei, Adamawa State.

At their funeral service, Chief of Air Staff AN Amosu said that their “sacrifice” saved Yola, the Adamawa State capital, from falling into the control of Boko Haram terrorists.

However, in recent days, it has been revealed that Air Vice Marshal Amosu and a former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd) purchased two unserviceable Mi-24V helicopters from using unscrupulous defense contractors. These helicopters were missing the necessary parts to fly, including being without rotors. As Boko Haram grew more powerful, and began expanding its sphere of control over the entire Northeast region, the defense chiefs and Mr. Dasuki felt increased pressure to combat the terrorists.

According to military sources speaking with SaharaReporters, the air force leadership then took the rotors from another unserviceable Russian helicopter, a Mi-35P, so that Mr. Akpan and Mr. Hosea could fly their mission. Military sources further told SaharaReporters that their fighter helicopter crash was likely caused by the Mi-35P rotors because they were too heavy for the Mi-24V helicopter they flew on that fateful mission.

It will be recalled that the arms procurement audit revealed that Mr. Dasuki, and the other defense chiefs, purchased unserviceable and cheaper military equipment when they had budgeted for newer military hardware. They then diverted the leftover funds to their personal accounts.

Despite the glaring case of theft and corrution by the top echelon of the military several Nigerian soldiers who tactically withdrew from battle fronts when comfronted with superior fire power of Boko Haram militants have been subjected to harsh military justice and sentenced to life imprisonment for "cowardice". One of the case involves a Brigadier General EnitanRansome-Kuti who remains under house arrest in an army barrcks because he was accused of abandoning his unit at the Multinational Taskforce base in Baga in Borno State.

woodcook:
With oil price very low we can not afford disruption of oil production.

You are talking based on the assumption Nigeria is selling all her oil. This has not been so for a while and the situation may become worse in future as more nation discover oil and the world becomes less reliant on oil as commercial/domestic fuel. Buhari knows he is in a winner-take-all fight where he either wins by moving Nigeria towards success or fail by letting the Tompolos of the world continue to hold the biggest black nation on earth to ransom over a commodity that is becoming cheaper and more worthless to Nigeria than some of the many other domestic endowment we have neglected. You are really misinformed and behind if you think (1) oil is the supreme 'bargaining chip' it used to be in Nigeria's case, (2) or you assume we are still in an era of weak Presidents every common criminal can bluff and (3) you fail to understand that it is now accepted that the Nigerian economy, as a matter of necessity and not choice, must diversify or die.

Buhari is uncompromising because he knows the future and survival of Nigeria is linked to a totally new way of doing things where oil is not an overpowering factor that is allowed to subjugate and undermine every socio-economically beneficial process or decision to the detriment of Nigeria .

What has made this mindset even more urgent, aside the desperate result of a failure to diversify the Nigerian economy, is the startling fall of oil price that has totally exposed the horrid economic vulnerability of Nigeria and shown every intelligent Nigerian that we are f**ked and are now left with no choice but to do whatever possible to ensure Nigeria is no longer a prisoner to oil blackmail. Buhari is smart enough to realise it is easier to reform Nigeria, by dealing with its worst internal enemies of progress, in a period oil is becoming dirt cheap and Nigerian oil is no longer over-subscribed.


Economic woes heighten as buyers shun Nigerian crude

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/24/economic-woes-heighten-as-buyers-shun-nigerian-crude/

NgeneUkwenu:
Gbawe, long time...

I am fine ojare. How are you? Hope 2016 is 'rocking' for you so far? Dem no get choice but to wail and keep wailing while Baba and his crew get to work cleaning up the monumental mess Ali Baba (GEJ) and his forty thieves (Metuh, Anehin, Allison-Madueke, Dasuki et al) left behind.

bakynes:
When I just read some comments of IPOB/PDP sympathizers, I just wonder the kind of upbringing these fellows have, you mean you prefer Militants and greedy politicians having Billions of naira to youths having jobs, good health care system and Good roads etc. Just because you don't like a president cause he is a Muslim and comes from the North. Tompolo is not bigger than Nigeria, Tompolo is not mightier than the FG of Nigeria. If Buhari orders his Arrest, they will get him out at all cost even if it means carrying a multiple Air strike on the creeks.

Don't mind them. All of them are brainwashed anarchists and hateful souls who do not even think before they talk. Should Tompolo be above appearing before a Nigerian Court? What nonsense is that? Even a normal and balanced 5 year old child will know not to support such a character. Yet these worthless chaps not only support lawlessness but they are even encouraging lawlessness to fight back against a sovereign Nation !!! Mad people and complete lunatics !!!! Anyway, they have met their match and superior in President Buhari.

ppramise:
The way and manner Buhari and his fellow fulani herdsmen are harrassing and intimidating Biafrans is becoming too much and we really need to resist them at all cost.
God will surely punish them one after the other. The Zoo will fall one day no matter how long it takes.
Long live Biafrans.......
God bless Biafrans.......

Why don't you make it fall today and this very moment instead of telling us about "no matter how long it takes"? Empty noisemaker and attention-seeker always making everything about a mythical nation Igbo leaders cannot even come out to support. Are people like you not ashamed of the disconnection between your agitation and that of the political leaders, all Igbos, who have made your land and region what it is while you insist on blaming Yorubas, Hausas, Fulanis and all others for your self-inflicted woes?

It is your sort quick to call others cowards but you are the only coward I see because you don't understand that trying to lawlessly act as if you are greater than a nation, only to then scream persecution when you are dealt with, is the greatest display of cowardice possible. The days of empty chest beating are over. No longer will individuals openly defy a legitimate government and sovereign Nigeria only for the President to look away in a cowardly manner. We have a real President in place who knows wrong from right.

feelamong:
very soon, Tompolo will be picked up and paraded like the common criminal that he is..

he thinks we are still in the GEJ era where anything goes...

lets see who will blink first....nonsense!!

Don't mind these shameless braggarts and lovers of lawlessness. How many threats has Buhari and the APC defied only for the cowards and chest-beaters who made the threat to retreat with tail between legs?

"Arrest Kanu and Nigeria will burn".
"Arrest Metuh and Nigeria will burn".
"No GEJ no access to Niger Delta oil".
"GEJ must have a second term or Nigeria will burn"
"Release Kanu or we make sure the zoo falls in 2015"
"Northerner will never rule Nigeria again".
"Detain Metuh and this will be the end of Nigeria's democracy"
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah

Suspects are being arrested and detained daily yet Nigeria is standing. A Northerner is President and no shaking. Oil, becoming more worthless daily, is still flowing. Metuh is growing a beard in detention. Asari Doku-orobo, the perpetual empty chest beater, is nowhere to be seen. I am personally loving this development because I hate how Nigerians are routinely lawless and empty braggarts who think they are above the law merely because they are used to weak leaders like GEJ who cower at the slightest gra gra. No one should be allowed to act as if they are bigger than Nigeria. That is one of the main message that must be passed across if Nigerians are to start believing that wrongdoing has punitive implication. They will pick Tompolo up in the end and his followers, like the IPOB lot, will learn Buhari, or any effective President of a sovereign nation, cannot and must not be blackmailed by brigands, terrorists, militia groups and lawless individuals .

Theyveedo:
Am not surprised.


Na poor ppl dey always try to show off when the gat nothing

True.

tuale4u:
That is why they are rich.
They go for what they need not what others think they should have.

Very true. These folks can be themselves and not need to impress anyone because they set the standards for how the rest of man live. They know what really matter and can live above the image conscious obsession most average men and women are driven by.

It is a fact that those who create how we live do not live like us. These guys understand that a phone is a tool of productivity and not a fashion accessory. I don't think one will find Dangote trying to be the first person to get the latest iphone as some are obsessed with. Being able to make and receive calls on the go is far more important that the phone itself.

blazetitov:
I will support PMB to probe anybody regardless of how highly placed the person. Infact, i will support PMB to probe me sef.

That is not the point. It is more pertinent to ask if any reason exists for you to be probed. I cannot just ask for your probe because I hate your personal success or ethnic group when it is obvious you have not done anything to warrant the probe I am asking for. What should Tinubu be probed for? If it is the nonsensical "he is very rich" argument then how many very rich men/women in Nigeria should be probed and where will Buhari begin or end his probe?

1wolex85:


They will never find 1 billion in Tnubu's possession. For you to nail that guy in the Nigerian system, you need to be super smart.

What people do not understand is that Tinubu is the one politician in Nigeria that typifies the saying "don't hate, appreciate". Meaning you may dislike someone but you must admire how they conduct their affairs to saty on top and be exemplary winners. As I showed above, the PDP, APGA and even Buhari's CPC fell short of auditing standards. ACN was the only major Party singled out as exemplary. When someone goes out of his way to be that legitimate and compliant with the law always, in a nation of absolute lawlessness typified by the reckless abandon of the then ruling Party i.e the PDP, it is obvious some could learn lessons from Tinubu they can use to make a success of their own lives. For what Nigeria is, Tinubu is very special in my opinion.

DropShot:

Tinubu is an astute businessman and a very calculative politician.
I can't say he's not corrupt but the fact that he was in opposition for 16 years and the ruling party couldn't nail him with the supposed corrupt practices speaks volume of those regimes.
Success of Buhari's fight against corruption will never be defined by investigating Tinubu. Buhari has no moral reason to do that.

Well-said. Nigerians, because of innate bias and a tendency to look at everything sentimentally, fail to see what Tinubu is which is, as you stated exactly, an astute businessman and a very calculative politician. What typified Tinubu for me as a person who covers his back and always 'stays tight' was the political Party auditors report of a few years ago that showed the then ACN was virtually the only major political Party that complied with every single aspect of the law as far as book-keeping and auditing is concerned. PDP was found to be woefully wanting and derelict in its responsibility to file accounts and provide relevant information. Even Buhari's CPC was found wanting.

The moral of the story is that we should all be inspired by a man who studies systems so well and works legitimately to benefit from said system whereas others cut corners and simply disregard the law. The ACN could have been a lawless party like others and even the strict Buhari could not control the slackness of his CPC. Yet the fact APC shone as the most accountable major Party in Nigeria should show some they are better understudying Tinubu than hating him. Tinubu has the awareness and talent to ensure even the smallest details were not ignored when Buhari did. This does not make Buhari bad. It simply means Tinubu is exemplary and misses nothing. In short a master of the game.

Forumites should see for themselves. Being emotional gets us nowhere in life and it will prevent us from learning from characters like Tinubu. We should ask ourselves why Tinubu ensured the APC is praised below in lawless Nigeria where it is far easier to circumvent the law, especially if you are influential, than obey it. Tinubu has survived and thrived for so long because he does everything within the law while others just don't "give a damn" as GEJ announced. Good luck trying to probe Tinubu.

https://www.nairaland.com/1238009/pdp-cpc-anpp-others-violate

The indicted
Among the major parties indicted by the Commission’s auditors are the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP; Congress for Progressive Change, CPC; All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA; and the Labour Party, LP.

[size=14pt]Only the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN; and the Citizens Popular Party, CPP; escaped INEC’s hammer as they were found to have complied with the Political Party Financial Reporting Manual 2011 and Political Party Finance Handbook 2011.
ACN, in particular, was found to have maintained internal audit report and account as well as conventional books of accounts during the year under review. The auditors also said that budget and budgetary control of the opposition party were in place and that the party has a well defined fixed asset register while its membership register was in place.[/size]

On PDP, the audit report said, “The party does not have a prepared internal audited financial statement for the year.” It also noted that “Conventional books of accounts were not properly kept as required by Section 93 (2) of the Electoral Act” and “the Party did not maintain fixed assets register both at the Headquarters and Zonal offices.”

Brooklynsouth:
my dear the only reason the then ruling party did not touch tinibu was for the sake of national peace moreover are u saying that tinubu's corrupt acts are not supposed to be investigated buhari has no moral reason to investigate him but has every right on the opposition you see y I don't wanna share country with the south west

What exactly do you want Buhari to probe Tinubu for? The man has not held a public office since 2007. If it Tinubus wealth and influence that bothers you then I should ask if you also want Buhari to investigate every single wealthy businessman/private citizen who is involved in politics in Nigeria yet has nothing to do with a Nigerian public office and no direct link to obtaining looted FG money?

Are you saying Buhari should go after those sort and ignore those, like Dasuki and Allison-Madueke, who used their public office to loot Nigeria horrendously and directly? If he did you will be first to shout dictator and argue those folks are merely being persecuted for their wealth and political affiliation !!!! Sometimes you guys should try to shun bias-driven emotions and sentiments because such make your argument seem unreasonable.

@OP.

What would the probe be based on? Tinubu's tenure as governor of Lagos which ended in 2007? Or his position as an APC leader with no direct control of any Nigerian public office? Did Tinubu collect money from Dasuki or was he given pipeline protection contract by GEJ? When Buhari is not probing former leaders of the PDP that controlled and looted the centre for 16 years it is Tinubu who had never been a member of a ruling Party that should be probed?

You guys cannot simply be mentioning Tinubu because he is your favourite bogeyman and you want him 'dealt with' by all means. Whether you like it or not the truth is that Buhari ,as President of Nigeria, is more concerned with recent official looting of the federal government. That is what Buhari is focusing on and he therefore has no reason to probe Tinubu.

theV0ice:




But looking at the whole matter, i think Falae might have a point with this angle he's exploring.

He doesn't know Dasuki.....He simply collected money from Anenih for services rendered to PDP by his party

Indeed. We have to put emotions aside . It has never been a crime to accept electoral campaign funds. Funds donated and disbursed to win an election can come from many sources. It would have to be proven that Falae knew he was receiving money diverted illegally from government coffers for any charge of wrongdoing to stick. If Falae is correct in claiming he received the money directly from Anenih then he is on very strong grounds because it is Anenih, i.e a PDP politician who can work for the Party's electoral win yet is not connected to any public office directly, who should be probed. If it cannot be established that Falae directly collected this "election mobilisation fee" from Dasuki then I think he can successfully fight any order to refund the money. There might be a case for showing Falae benefited from the proceeds of crime but this is a grey area because Falae may simply claim he accepted and spent the money in good faith and for the purpose it was meant for. Any demand for a refund will then be frustrated and probably redundant in the end.

olamieseun:
THE LOCUST YEARS
Victor Aghayere: table.
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GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN MET OVER $60B IN NIGERIAS FOREIGN RESERVE AND HE SOLD OIL AT THE HIGHEST RATE IN NIGERIAS HISTORY OVER A HUNDRED AND THIRTY DOLLARS A BARREL AND
NIGERIA EXPORTED. OVER 2MILLION BARRELS A DAY. THIS WAS THE CASE FOR AT LEAST FOUR OUT OF THE SIX YEARS JONATHAN SPENT AS PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA...YET GOODLUCK JONATHAN LEFT NIGERIA BROKE . THE FOREIGN RESERVE WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE CUSHION FOR THE NAIRA WAS DOWN TO $30B WHEN JONATHAN HANDED OVER .
TILL TODAY I HAVE NOT HEARD AN EXPLANATION AS TO WHY THE FOREIGN. RESERVE. WAS LOOTED SO MINDLESSLY EVENTHOUGH OIL PRICES WERE AT A
RECORD HIGH...NORWAY DEVELOPED A WHOLE. NEW INDUSTRY AS REVENUE EARNER WITH THE OIL WINDFALL BUT JONATHAN STOLE NIGERIA'S WINDFALL AND THE THE HUGE FOREIGN RESERVE
HE INHERITED FROM YARADUA...NIGERIA HAS NEVER BEEN SO MINDLESSLY LOOTED. ... BABA COULD NOT HAVE BEEN DEALT A WORSE HAND....HE INHERITED
A COUNTRY IN ICU . THAT IS WHY HE IS ANGRY AND WALAHI PEOPLE MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
...MAY GOD HELP BUHARI AND NIGERIA.

Indeed. What sane and decent person will not be seething with rage over what GEJ and his minions have done to Nigeria? In fact what kind of human being is able to still support and hold brief for Jonathan today after all that has been revealed?

Activa:


Please define 'international community'


A community of international people?

After watching, what will they do?

Thank you. Is this not how they spammed the forum to death about how the UK was going to bomb Nigeria because of Kanu's incarceration? International community my foot. Steal, loot and preach terror only to then be shouting for the international community to come to your salvation when it is time to face the music. The international community does not behave like that and certainly not in favour of people accused of very serious crimes.

yahrant140:

you said the same thing some months ago, when Nnamdi kanu was arrested yet the so called international community didn't come for his rescue! Wake up from your slumber, this is new Nigeria!

That is Nigerians for you. They make noise, threaten others foolishly and pick fights unnecessarily only to then be begging and seeking the intervention of this power and that power when they are been dealt with for their misconduct. Kanu now knows better
than to threaten other Nigerians as if we are chickens merely because everybody was getting away with such in the past. Jokers.

@Post.

Nigerians are the biggest empty Braggarts in the world. They only make noise to then beg when you call their bluff bluntly. By the end of 2016 every Nigerian will understand we are in a new era led by a President who will not make noise to dignify threats against Nigeria but will instead move silently, firmly and decisively against such threats as Kanu and his followers have discovered expensively. The days of every charlatan threatening Nigeria are over.

wachakuta:
Asari Dokobo Said it
Tompolo Said it
Now
PDP is saying it...

Laughing in chinese

Abi ooo. At this rate, and if not for the fact Nigeria is full of empty chest - beaters and cowards, then all of us should currently be busy picking up the pieces of our nation considering the uncountable "Nigeria will break up" threats against her from empty charlatans.

Bevista:
My first instinct was to ignore your rant but then I figured it may make sense to respond - for the benefit of other readers.
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President Buhari is the head of the Federal Government. He has information at his disposal linking the FG looted treasury to certain politicians. It so happens that these politicians are PDP members, understandably so, since it was PDP that ran the previous federal government. Do you have any information linking an APC person with looting of the FG treasury?
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And do not tell me about corrupt APC state governors. It is the duty of the current governors to dust up information at their disposal and probe those indicted. But you know why that's not gonna happen? Because those governors are already dirtying their hands as we speak, so they would rather indulge in a conspiracy of silence. Please don't blame Baba for the failure of state governors.
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"He who comes to equity must come with clean hands". That is why Baba can flex muscle and HUNT any WITCH! No skeleton for Baba cupboard.
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FFK loading... DSS and Immigration should be on high alert. No sneaking out of the country.

Well-said.

micayo:


All those qualities are certainly befitting for pple like you who take time out to criticise others who are patriotic. I called you what you called someone else and you think I would be moved by your insults? Far from that. Unexposed? Ignorant? Brainwashed? I laugh them off. Mind you my direct dependents started benefiting from me when I was 18 and they still are until date and would continue to until eternity because of what I have in place already. Can we say the same for you?

I wanted to take time out to explain how you've already shown these characteristics without making mentions of others that I have noticed in your thread and my observations but that would be too generous of me and a complete waste of time at the moment since you wouldn't understand anything.

My advice is that you see a psychologist.

Unexposed, Ignorant and Brainwashed Fulani Folk. LMAO

Stop talking. You will only embarrass yourself more with the display of innate prejudice and bias I am sure you left the womb with as a child of hate brainwashed to blindly despise others. Everyone who dislikes GEJ, as a leader, is Fulani? Is your readiness to make assumptions about the ethnic origin of those you have never met and know zilch about not the biggest proof you are all I claim you are i.e "brainwashed", "ignorant" and "unexposed"?

omenka:
Don't be deceived bro. This is no different than the award TheTrentOnline gave the ex president.

Here are a few things people must know:

About the African Sun Times: The African
Sun Times is the No.1 and largest weekly
African newspaper in America and has been
publishing for the past 37 years. It is the only
African newspaper online and in print in the
U.S.; and its Publisher/Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Chika Onyeani, has won 73 awards for journalistic...

Again, a glance through their archive shows there's hardly anything "African" about the useless blog. 99% of their stories are about events happening in Nigeria- they even gave stories about the recent court judgement on Abia state governorship.

Most important news events in the continent don't even make it to the blog, yet they boast of being the most "widely read blablabla.." Widely read yet even the wailers themselves would be seeing it for the first time. The thieves even said they've been publishing for 30years plus!! Wtf!!

It is simply nothing but one of those Savingracereporters, Hopefornigeria, trentonline, breakingtimes, or igberetv sites.

The trashy award isn't worth more than the cardboard upon which the recipient's name is typed.

I remember how many awards student union bodies get to give thieving politicians when we were still in school- it was all part of their hustle. Even Buruji Kashamu was given one recently. The awards come with an "appreciation" from recipients who are mostly money bags. These guys aren't different- bunch of hustlers trying to con conmen (politicians) out of some of the monies they stole.


Cc: Gbawe.

Edit:

Nigerians are such funny people. Some random Igbo man decides to give the crook and since he isn't doing so on Nigerian soil, he has become "international community"!!

Jeez!!

Bruv thanks for the expose. I think we all know the haters of our nation who will automatically praise anything and anyone doing serious damage to Nigeria. With all that is being revealed about GEJ daily any intelligent person will know the mindset and motivation of those praising our former President because it is obvious normal folks, capable of differentiating firmly between right and wrong, can only agree that GEJ belongs in jail for destroying Nigeria.

PassingShot:

See a dumb man calling someone dump!
Back to ignoring him

You should always ignore that schizophrenic person. He has failed to evolve over the years and is actually regressing as a human being in my opinion. Don't waste precious time acknowledging him or responding to anything he writes.

micayo:

You know how many pple think you are a bad person? I for one think you are for coming to this thread and spewing thrash.

He had PR issues doesn't make him a bad person and the real bad people are the APC sycophantic hypocrites that left the nation to be plundered deeply by the so called BH and other vices because of their own personal interest. They were full of propaganda that the truth could not be separated from lies when the Chibok situation took place (now they are also @ d receiving end).

They called him names now they don't want to be called names.

You call someone who could leave his own personal interest aside for the unity of the nation 'bad' because you do not appreciate him. You are the one that is bad. M0r0n. However if dullard Buhari was awarded it woulf be nice to you even tho in 2011 he was the main reason why most pple lost their lives after election and we've not looked at the tyranny he acted when he was military head of state. $

You are Wicked and Bad


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You know how many pple think you are a bad person? I for one think you are for coming to this thread and spewing thrash.
He had PR issues doesn't make him a bad person

You are wasting your time quoting me as I have no interest at all in any back and forth with brainwashed, ignorant and unexposed folks like you. You need to develop yourself first so you can be of use to your direct dependents before you even think of coming here to insult others.

I do not want to take sides and some may enjoy ethnic baiting but we need to be careful seeing this as an Igbo thing. I have many educated and bright Igbo friends who are law-abidding and go about their business amicably. They view Kanu an embarrassment and a nuisance.

This is about the deluded and deceitful egomaniac called Kanu and those who chose to follow him. Kanu and those people cannot be viewed as representing the Igbo ethnic group same as Fayose 's utterances or actions can never regarded as words and actions every Yoruba endorses or identifies with.

sarutobie:

hang yourself then. like your solo inconsequential opinion about him matters to those the international community that recognized his worth.

You think I speak for narrow-minded people like you? How many Nigerian deaths did Jonathan cause directly or indirectly? Far too many is the answer. If you appreciate life and you know you cannot restore it once lost then you will never support a man who caused the death of so many Nigerians cynically.

I am not interested in thinking like the sycophants or ignoramuses, oblivious of the local crimes/misrule of GEJ, who gave this asinine award. Look at ambitious and sucessful nations like the UK, USA, Germany , France et al. You cannot even kill one of their citizens or armed force personnel without serious repercussion. Yet GEJ watched many Nigerians die like chickens and even abetted the death of many soldiers with the corruption Dasuki is now telling us 'oga at the top' sanctioned. We even all see now how the Nigerian army is a far more serious and focused unit under Buhari than was ever the case under GEJ who ensured virtually every kobo meant to empower our army was looted. Instead the army turned election riggers and private intimidation force for the PDP. You people are simply incredible and I think it is not ungracious that many intelligent folks say Nigerians deserve the nation/leaders they have.

PassingShot:
GEJ is a good man as far as managing people and money are not involved.

I don't agree with this at all. A "good man" will never be part of what GEJ allowed knowing such would could misery to millions. GEJ is not a good man and we should move away from the Nigerian penchant of promoting everyone who is not loud, ambitious and assured as "good", "meek", "humble" or "a gentleman misled by bad advisers".

In the most successful and ambitious nations in the world, you will never ever be proclaimed a "good man" if you are a leader who supervised the unconscionable looting of the people's wealth and even assisted the efforts of those who want to slaughter those you swore to protect even at the risk of your own life. Remember how GEJ cowered in cowardice while Nigerians were bein slaughtered whereas many leaders take risk to visit their soldiers on the frontline to boost moral and show they appreciate them. APC governors and leaders had to audaciously walk the streets of a terrorised Northern State before GEJ decided he had to act and deploy cynical propaganda so as not to lose political goodwill. That, for me, was very cynical and callous. An indicator of the unconscionable mind of a man only interested in remaining in office while not fundamentally bothered about the Nigerians dying under his watch and due to his actions/inactions. Man mi, you are on point virtually all the time but calling GEJ a "good man" is simply incorrect. He is not and will never be a good man.

Of all the silly things the PDP has been saying for the past 16 years this must be the most ridiculous. So Buhari is afraid of Dasuki's presidential ambition? Who on earth is the little-known Dasuki who many Nigerians, courtesy of the anti-corruption resolve of Buhari, now only know as a scammer? Abacha son even has a better chance of becoming President than Dasuki. PDP should learn to shut up if all the party will come out with are asinine, logic-defying and imbecilic comments.

Lordave:
Mbaka say the names of those planning to waste Buhari or Buhari should arrest him for unwarranted sycophancy.

At least Mbaka still has the moral authority and justification to speak today. Why are the likes of Oritsejafor and Oyedepo silent if not the fact they know they must shut up today since they let Nigeria down in her greatest time of need and actually even supported the continuation of the reign of evil threatening to consume Nigeria? Respect Mbaka because he took a very unusual and pro-people stance, against the powers that be, Nigeria's very rich religious leaders are not known to favour .