93RD:

but you have to be found guilty first, am i right? what the news says doesn't entail that and trust me not to support anybody found guilty. The law is clear and should be followed. thank you

I live in Rivers State and everyone knows they bore false witness. The issue is if the IG actually ordered their arrest.

TonyeBarcanista:
Buhari is bent on frustrating democratic process despite the fact that he is a beneficiary of this process. Why arrest policemen that came to testify what they witnessed? Muhammadu Buhari is yet to come to terms wt the fact that this is 2015 and not 1984 when his preferred style of government (dictatorship) was the order of the day.

Hey, IGP, not PMB ordered their arrest. Everyone is working without Buhari talking.

Sanchez01:

...Heads of various groups, ministries and organization have been on a purging spree.

To purge out those who won't do their bidding.

Is IGP a judge to determine that the evidences given were false? Would the arrest not be more appropriate after verdict by the court when it would have been clear that the testimonies were false?

This pdp no get sense at al, they no fit rule, they no fit form opposition. How will they bring a serving security operative as witness in a political case without a subpoena from the court. Don't they know such will expose the organization and the ogas will definitely not accept such.

CaptainJason:

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/igp-orders-arrest-of-witnesses-for-testifying-in-favour-of-wike/221715/

Perjury has its consequences. Did they ask their Oga at the top for his opinion before going there? Army talk something u go dey talk another thing.

For those who did not know.




http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/international-observers-call-for-cancellation-of-rivers-gov-assembly-result/

http://thenationonlineng.net/rivers-elections-observers-demand-arrest-prosecution-of-rec/

http://www.nigeriadailynews.com/news/125668-international-observers-wants-election-cancelled-in-rivers-state.html

http://www.punchng.com/news/eu-observers-demand-probe-of-rivers-aibom-elections/

http://leadership.ng/news/425404/rivers-polls-was-bloody-observers

My bros pls this is a very serious matter its shouldn't come as a comment under here....pls create a thread and let it be at the front page.

playtheblues:
Akwa Ibom Civil Servants Employed Since Nov/Dec 2014 Have Not Been Paid A Dime by playtheblues: 9:00pm On Oct 02
It is with deep sorrow that I write this.
We Akwaibomites are usually very peaceful and are not the types to complain easily. This is the reason why Udom Emmanuel thinks he can do anything to us and get away with it.
While Udom is busy building mansions in his village and who-knows-elsewhere we the latest employed staff of Akwa Ibom Civil Service (employed since Nov/Dec 2014) have not received even a kobo of our salaries from the Government and we are expected to come to work daily.
Most of us have been borrowing money from people and our sponsors are now tired of supporting us.
It is going to a year since we were employed, yet our salaries have been withheld all in the name of countless biometrics.
Udom has fixed our money in the bank to attract interests for him.
Everyday we are asked to sign one paper or the other in the name of bank verification yet we have not seen any salary.
Some of us who are posted to far places spend a lot of money on transportation to and from work yet Udom does not care.
My lawyer cousin who was also employed with me told me that they sponsor themselves to courts, prisons and police stations daily without any salary. They also sponsored themselves to Bar Conference in Abuja in August 2015 without even a single penny support from Udom/the Government.
The engineers are not left out as they are sent out to the field in a scorching sun with empty stomachs.
Human Rights activists in Nigeria please intervene in this matter. The masses should please join us into talking sense into our obviously selfish Governor into paying us our accumulated salaries.
I am a married man with a family to support. Udom please don't make us think of commiting suicide like that civil servant in Bayelsa who committed suicide due to unpaid 13-month salaries. Don't reduce us to beggars/chronic borrowers either.
We are tired of this hardship! We are grieving.
#seun
#lalasiclala
#ishilove
#introvert
#chocolateme
#ladyf
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Sanchez01:

No! We're not. Was it not obvious? Patience Jonathan wrecked havoc in the Rivers elections. There was nothing hidden about it. Even the so-called policemen scampered for safety. It's quite simple; the election was indeed marred by violence. The IGP understands that his boys are cheap, hence the reason for being monitored, and true to that he was not disappointed. A Nigerian policeman can conveniently compromise his standard the moment he sees #5,000.

The incessant arrest of policemen of late is indeed notable. Heads of various groups, ministries and organization have been on a purging spree.

let them do the elections 50 times in rivers state, PDP will still win

bankyblue:
Maybe be they refuse to share the largest with him!
JUST TRYING TO MAKE COMMON SENSE in the voice of Sen. Ben

largest? its largesse bro and d refuse shd v been refused

When shall we learn this, Nigeria police is diffrent from other country's police...while the later arrests with evidence the former arrests with 'hearsay' then use turture to sort for the evidence.

Firefire:


Under age voting in Kastina, Kano & Kaduna.

Mass irregularities in those states and other part of the North

When are we going to start hearing media noise about them

Southern people of Nigeria could easily pass for Northen slaves.

We fight and destroy ourselves in the media while the wise ones from the north preserve their loots, massive electoral fraud and rigging machineries.

I hope we become wise soon.

Please minus the SE and SS. As you can see its only SW that are the obvious slaves with the way they hound other southerners with their media and propaganda but can hardly raise a voice when its their hausa masters.

Apologies to few reasonable s.westerner like you, ajepako, HzRF etc who do not follow the herd mentality that swners and especially northerners are known for

modath:


Do not compare Apples & Oranges

Did they kill people while at it??

My cuz was injured in PH while running from the PU when sporadic shootings began.

There is nothing like southern as long as the cultures,lifestyles & languages are not the same & some folks insists on calling others cowards & betrayers for choosing who to & how to invest their political fortunes...

Just stating facts...

Typical logic of a slave

CaptainJason:
Are we moving towards one party state? Is this democracy?

Shut up.....I am in river state. There was no election. I don't like APC or PDP but there was no election in river state.

melzabull:
Please minus the SE and SS. As you can see its only SW that are the obvious slaves with the way they hound other southerners with their media and propaganda but can hardly raise a voice when its their hausa masters.

Apologies to few reasonable s.westerner like you, ajepako, HzRF etc who do not follow the herd mentality that swners and especially northerners are known for

Is okay.

abagoro:


I live in Rivers State and everyone knows they bore false witness. The issue is if the IG actually ordered their arrest.

I am sorry to say this but if you live in rivers state, then be truthful. We in rivers state all know why the election went the way it did, but i don't want to go into that. I also live in rivers state but i did not see anybody that was killed but that doesn't mean you would jail me for saying what i witnessed except you found me guilty is that not? what i am saying is whoever gave the order didn't wait for the final judgement before deciding who is right and who is wrong which is not the a picture of the democracy we are talking about. The right thing to do is wait for the final judgment, then with the conclusion, you know who is right and who should be tried for perjury and arrested or sentenced like you said thank you.

CaptainJason:

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/igp-orders-arrest-of-witnesses-for-testifying-in-favour-of-wike/221715/

They must have been bought with Wike's bribe gifts to have given that lying testimony.

playtheblues:
Akwa Ibom Civil Servants Employed Since Nov/Dec 2014 Have Not Been Paid A Dime by playtheblues: 9:00pm On Oct 02
It is with deep sorrow that I write this.
We Akwaibomites are usually very peaceful and are not the types to complain easily. This is the reason why Udom Emmanuel thinks he can do anything to us and get away with it.
While Udom is busy building mansions in his village and who-knows-elsewhere we the latest employed staff of Akwa Ibom Civil Service (employed since Nov/Dec 2014) have not received even a kobo of our salaries from the Government and we are expected to come to work daily.
Most of us have been borrowing money from people and our sponsors are now tired of supporting us.
It is going to a year since we were employed, yet our salaries have been withheld all in the name of countless biometrics.
Udom has fixed our money in the bank to attract interests for him.
Everyday we are asked to sign one paper or the other in the name of bank verification yet we have not seen any salary.
Some of us who are posted to far places spend a lot of money on transportation to and from work yet Udom does not care.
My lawyer cousin who was also employed with me told me that they sponsor themselves to courts, prisons and police stations daily without any salary. They also sponsored themselves to Bar Conference in Abuja in August 2015 without even a single penny support from Udom/the Government.
The engineers are not left out as they are sent out to the field in a scorching sun with empty stomachs.
Human Rights activists in Nigeria please intervene in this matter. The masses should please join us into talking sense into our obviously selfish Governor into paying us our accumulated salaries.
I am a married man with a family to support. Udom please don't make us think of commiting suicide like that civil servant in Bayelsa who committed suicide due to unpaid 13-month salaries. Don't reduce us to beggars/chronic borrowers either.
We are tired of this hardship! We are grieving.
#seun
#lalasiclala
#ishilove
#introvert
#chocolateme
#ladyf
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Absolutely TRUE!

modath:


Is Buhari the IG of police ?

Change the strategy you are using for this your PDP social media contract. Even the wailers can see through your acts, everyone knows Akwa Ibom & Rivers were hotbeds of violence.... hian!

The more you criticize PMB unjustly, the more people hate PDP.....so stop wasting your employers' funds.

Going in on PMB everyday will not revive that comatose body of corruption & insensitivity...

Who is d commander in chief of the nigerian armed (army, navy, police, customs, civil defence, etc) forces?

CaptainJason:
Are we moving towards one party state? Is this democracy?

.



Please think outside the box.
So we can say the army was lying? The IGP reacted to corrupt rank and file in his force.

;DApc must win [color=#000099][/color]

The Country is under course! How can IGP do that? God help us! GMB will see what he is looking for soon. Gullible Nigerians are now reaping their fruits! Nothing is working! GEJ work is what we are enjoying!

TonyeBarcanista:

You can remove Khaki from a Dictator but you can NEVER stop the dictator from being a dictÄtor. Make no mistake, Buhari doesn't care about this country or our democracy, he's bent on restoring his dictatoral style in this country. Buhari and APC are threat to democracy!

Sorry Mr Wailer, giving false testimonies in the court of law is a crime and part of corruption, The international oberservers are the first to said there's no election in river State are they also a dictator? The most corruption force in Nigeria are the police force and they can trade their rank for peanuts... Those police first testify against Wike and later went to tstify in favor of him and that against the law..

post=38619401:
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ABUJA—Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, said only 293, 072 voters were electronically accredited for the governorship election in Rivers State on April 11, 2015.

VOTERS

The Commission made the disclosure at the resumed hearing on the petition before the Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, by the All Progressives Congress, APC, and its governorship candidate in the state, Dr. Dakuku Peterside.

Testifying as the PW-49, an Assistant Director in the ICT Department of INEC in Abuja, Mrs. Abimbola Oladunjoye, told the tribunal that the figure represented the total number of electorate captured by the Card Reader Machines used for the poll.

Oladunjoye, who is in charge of the Commission’s database, however, admitted that some electorate in the state could have been accredited manually, especially in areas where the Card Reader Machines failed.

She told the Justice Mohammed Ambrosa-led tribunal that information concerning the number of accredited voters for the election was transferred from the Card Reader Machines to a central server created by INEC.

According to her, the Commission stopped uploading data from the machines to its server, six months after the election held.
She said in some instances, the unavailability of network inhibited the upload of data from the Card Reader Machines.

Exhibit

“If the card reader is damaged before there was an attempt to upload data, it cannot be uploaded to the server. It is also important for me to emphasise that the card reader was designed to capture only electronic accreditation,” the witness stated.

Asked if she could state with certainty that the figure was a true reflection of the total number of electorate that participated in the Rivers governorship poll, the witness said: “My lords, I really do not have any document from the ICT department of INEC in Rivers to the effect that all the data were uploaded before the six weeks cut off date elapsed.”

Nevertheless, the tribunal, yesterday, admitted and marked the report from INEC as exhibit A-9.

Earlier, the Nigeria Police Force told the tribunal that the governorship election in Rivers State was marred by violence and widespread rigging.

Sequel to a subpoena issued on the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Solomon Arase, by the tribunal, three police officers, appeared and testified as witnesses for the petitioners.

In his testimony, one of the police officers, (the PW-48), Mr. Garba Michael , told the court that his team arrested over 70 persons thumb-printing ballot papers at the Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at Sime in Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State.

He said: “I was detailed to move materials from INEC office to Korokoro. I was sitting down at INEC office when my squadron commander at about 12:45p.m. got a distress call from Sime area. I was immediately asked to move there with my team. At the PDP secretariat, we met people with election materials and arrested them. I called my squadron commander and told him about the development. He came down with a lorry and we evacuated the people and materials to our base in Tai Local Government Area.

“We arrested over 70 people including security men. Others were Youth Corps members serving as ad-hoc INEC staff and PDP agents. What we recovered on the scene included Card Readers, thumb-printed ballot papers, inks and pad, vests, electoral boxes and result sheets. I took some snap-shots with my phone and transferred it to a flash drive.”

Attempt by the witness to tender the photographs was opposed by counsels to INEC, Governor Nyesom Wike and the PDP, all respondents to the petition.

The respondents relied on sections 98, 102 and106 of the Evidence Act and challenged the admissibility of the pictures in evidence.

Though counsel to the petitioners, Chief Akinlolu Olujimi, SAN, argued that all the photographs were originally pleaded at paragraph 812 of the petition, the tribunal declined to admit the exhibits into evidence.

In its ruling, the tribunal held that proper foundation was not laid by the petitioners to warrant the admissibility of the photographs.

Massive Thump-printing

In his own testimony, the PW-50, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, Yusuf Buba, from 56 Police Mobile Force Squadron Ogoni, claimed he witnessed massive thumb-printing of ballot papers at a football pitch situated inside a police station.

He told the tribunal that an Assistant Commissioner of Police and the Electoral Officer in-charge of Kana Local Government Area in the state, masterminded the electoral malpractice.

He said: “I was a unit commander and was posted on election duty to Kana Local government. I led 63 other officers. We were detailed to take charge of INEC office with a view to securing INEC materials stored in the office and providing security for INEC staff there. At 1900 hours, ACP Kenneth Akubue came to INEC office and took the Electoral Officer, EO, to an unknown destination. The EO remained there till after midnight. Later a bus carrying unknown persons came into the INEC premises and I was alerted.

“I immediately went to where the vehicle parked and I asked them to explain the reason for their being there. None of them could give me a satisfactory and cogent answer, so I asked them to leave. As they were leaving, I asked my men to raise a barrier blocking the entrance to INEC premises. Things remained like that till 0700hours on April 11, when the EO resurfaced. There and then we started asking her questions about where she went to because she left her fellow INEC staff in that office. Her answer was that she observed that her life was in danger and she was left with no option than to follow the Area Commander.

“Being the commander in charge of that place, I told her to go and start issuing materials to her staff after addressing them, and she complied. At about 0900 hours, sporadic gunshots erupted from Zaakpon axis. I quickly gave a swift order to my men to dash down, and we all dashed down, observing where the shots were coming from. Some men, unknown to me where sighted making calls, as soon as they finished the call, the shooting ceased. We got information that the people perpetuating the act were boys of Solo from Yege.

“At about 10a.m., the Area Commander came and destroyed the barrier we created and allowed political thugs to get access to the INEC premises. Under the watch of the Area Commander, the thugs started carting away electoral materials. We could not control the place again because it was very rowdy. I quickly gave a situation report through my GSM to my squadron leader, CSP Valentine Oluse.

Patrol

“At Boni Area Command, I met people thumb-printing in a football field. I immediately disembarked and went to the Area commander’s office where I met the EO seated in his office. I reported to him about what I saw and he said I should mind my business. I was left with no option than to leave his office and continue my patrol. We visited various other places like Gwara, Okpoku, Banga, Daaba, Kor, Lubara, Uiikara, Sogo and what I noticed was that there was no election taking place in all those places.

“I called my Squadron commander and gave him the SitRep and he asked me to keep watching. We returned to INEC office after our patrol. There, I was told that the materials released in the early morning were all snatched at gun-point. When I asked about the police- men on duty, I was told that all of them took to their heels.”

He told the tribunal that his team was overwhelmed by thugs, saying, “we were only 63 men but they were thousands.”
Asked under cross-examination if he wrote a report of all the things his team observed during the election, the witness replied in the negative.
PW-51, DSP Ezebuiro Chisom, Mopol 48, PMF, Ahoda, told the court that no accreditation or election held in the area.

He told the tribunal that a leader of a cult group identified as ‘The Icelanders,’ one Martins Mana, who, he said, was arrested by soldiers with an AK-47, was quickly released.

The witness said despite the restriction on movement, he said people freely moved about in cars, speedboats and bicycles on the election day.

Meantime, Governor Wike, through his lawyer, Mr. Emmanuel Ukala, SAN, yesterday, alleged that the police officers were induced by the APC to feed the tribunal with lies.

Ukala insisted that all the police officers were lodged by the APC at a guest room at Area 1 district in Abuja.

At the time of filing this report, the tribunal was still listening to other witnesses produced by the petitioners.
Going by an earlier decision of the tribunal, the APC is expected to close its case tomorrow, even as the respondents have six days each to open their defence.

Read the above in bold and tell me why they won't be arrested.

anonimi:



If you, your extended family & friends are lawless and have a culture of impunity, please speak for yourself. Ok

Mass education is the way to change orientation and culture of EVERYONE towards a Law & Order society anchored on the EQUITY of all citizens before the courts & law enforcement agents, not the scapegoat mentality of DickTATOR Buhari that leaves out his utterly lawless & CORRUPT campaign sponsors, friends & relations. Not so

Meanwhile Buhari's record on this needed EDUCATION throughout his life as a public servant is total & complete FAILURE.




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Its now obvious some people and most especially u lack wisdom..of what essence is the university a man creates when there's no job? You or your parent pay huge fee for tuition and other Expenses and still nothing to show for it after the degree..the system is bad n need to be revived

playtheblues:
Akwa Ibom Civil Servants Employed Since Nov/Dec 2014 Have Not Been Paid A Dime by playtheblues: 9:00pm On Oct 02
It is with deep sorrow that I write this.
We Akwaibomites are usually very peaceful and are not the types to complain easily. This is the reason why Udom Emmanuel thinks he can do anything to us and get away with it.
While Udom is busy building mansions in his village and who-knows-elsewhere we the latest employed staff of Akwa Ibom Civil Service (employed since Nov/Dec 2014) have not received even a kobo of our salaries from the Government and we are expected to come to work daily.
Most of us have been borrowing money from people and our sponsors are now tired of supporting us.
It is going to a year since we were employed, yet our salaries have been withheld all in the name of countless biometrics.
Udom has fixed our money in the bank to attract interests for him.
Everyday we are asked to sign one paper or the other in the name of bank verification yet we have not seen any salary.
Some of us who are posted to far places spend a lot of money on transportation to and from work yet Udom does not care.
My lawyer cousin who was also employed with me told me that they sponsor themselves to courts, prisons and police stations daily without any salary. They also sponsored themselves to Bar Conference in Abuja in August 2015 without even a single penny support from Udom/the Government.
The engineers are not left out as they are sent out to the field in a scorching sun with empty stomachs.
Human Rights activists in Nigeria please intervene in this matter. The masses should please join us into talking sense into our obviously selfish Governor into paying us our accumulated salaries.
I am a married man with a family to support. Udom please don't make us think of commiting suicide like that civil servant in Bayelsa who committed suicide due to unpaid 13-month salaries. Don't reduce us to beggars/chronic borrowers either.
We are tired of this hardship! We are grieving.
#seun
#lalasiclala
#ishilove
#introvert
#chocolateme
#ladyf
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I tot getting a job will briing financial succour.smh

Kenneth Akubue, an Assistant Police Commissioner who was earlier accused by police officers under him of brazen support for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP during the April election has appeared before the Rivers State Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja.

Akubue, whose subpoena essentially entailed tendering evidence and not testifying, brought the tribunal to a temporary halt after counsel to the petitioner, Chief Akin Olujimi, SAN raised an objection on the status of his subpoena which did not include testifying.
For some minutes, the tribunal judges recoiled to consider the merit of the subpoena which however came in favour of the defendant. But that was after counsel to the defendant, Emmanuel Ukala, SAN had pleaded for clemency on sentiments, appealing to the court to allow the witness since he has already arrived the court.
Many people from Rivers State in court today were excited to behold the police officer who is widely speculated to be stupendously rich. But the doubt about the real value of his wealth began to give way when Olujimi confronted him with facts about his huge house which is believed to be the biggest on Olugbon Street, GRA Port Harcourt.
After being put off guard by the unexpected question on his wealth, Akubue struggled to deny allegations by his subordinates, particularly that of Deputy Superintendent of Police, Yusuf Bala who had told the tribunal that the ACP himself supervised rigging for the PDP even in front of his office in Bori during the election.
Although he told the tribunal that election held on April 11 in the towns under his command, he refused to read Exhibits A9 and A305 (INEC materials) which clearly indicate that the election was characterised by widespread violence.
At a point, Olujimi had to personally ask him if he was a police officer or a politician because of his activities particularly with regard to his role during the attack on supporters of All Progressives Congress, APC by Hoodlums at their state rally in Okrika. The senior lawyer later accused the police officer of dancing openly after the election was rigged in favour of the PDP.
The tribunal also took evidence from another officer, CSP Uche Mike Chukwuma who was in Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State during the election.
Like Akubue, Chukwuma who came to the tribunal without clearing with the police high command also refused to read from INEC documents that countered his claim about a violence-free election. He lied on oath when he claimed that he saw accreditation taking place at 8am when INEC report showed that there was no accreditation and voting.
But Chukwuma drew some attention to himself at the point it became known to many in court that he was actually the police officer who led the people that shot tear gas at Senator Magnus Abe during APC rally on 12 January, 2014.

Inasmuch as I don't support such brazen show of gross power I want to state categorically that the Nigerian police I know can be compared with Satan the "father" of lies. The number of honest policemen in the NPF are very few. Most of them can sell their conscience for just N20.

So you think? Opinions are free and cheap. The truth on the on the other hand, and as far as Rivers elections are, my friend is quite diffrerent. My prayer for you is to encounter a policeman/men who will change your opinion. Have a great day sir pls.

TonyeBarcanista:
Buhari is bent on frustrating democratic process despite the fact that he is a beneficiary of this process. Why arrest policemen that came to testify what they witnessed? Muhammadu Buhari is yet to come to terms wt the fact that this is 2015 and not 1984 when his preferred style of government (dictatorship) was the order of the day.

Oga wailer were you in rivers state during the election?...obviously no! So abeg no put mouth this matter. What the igp did is good

OlujobaSamuel:
This pdp no get sense at al, they no fit rule, they no fit form opposition. How will they bring a serving security operative as witness in a political case without a subpoena from the court. Don't they know such will expose the organization and the ogas will definitely not accept such.

you fo.ol,where were you when apc used the army as witnesses?

Jazzlite:
when you go to give false witness then be prepared for the consequences....

Who determined that they gave false witness? You or Mr. Arase?
Nigerians generally blame the leaders for the backwardness of the country. But the problem is really the people who can't use their God-given brain. People really get the leadership they deserve.

Nigeria Army remains incorruptible........... Nigeria police should emulate NA