Why is this woman been persecuted for Ten Million Naira?

When will the OBJ bashers get real and stop bestowing the crime of the father on to the daughter?

She clearly said the money was spent on departmental trip to Ghana and yet people that stole Billions are living a lavish splendor.

If we Nigerians allow this woman to fall for this pessimistic stupid propaganda, then we are doomed forever

Whoever is behind this move is a dullard. It seems to be the most cowardly move I've witnessed in recent times.
For God's sake, she was said to have used the money public service.

This weak strategy to get to OBJ's skin will end up backfiring as it did in Atiku's case. Atiku was a well known thief, but today, he is well celebrated.
Why don't the so called EFCC go for OBJ direct?

This whole Iyabo thing is just laughable and also goes a long way to showing that most Nigerians are fools and are OK with that as they keep buying all sort of cheap propaganda.

Nigeria is really doomed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You don't mean it MamaJ. .

Why was she playing hide and seek when told to report to efcc?
The other accused made 'emselves available so she doesn't have two heads and behaviours like that is surely pointing towards some sort of guilt.
The woman is a waste of space and our time anyway cos she ain't got anything to offer nigeria.

I tire for Nigerians. This is a case of hunting for a rat while your house full of valuables is burning down.
Next it will be Muyiwa Obasanjo for marrying a Spanish chick all in the name of creating events to hurt OBJ.
Go for OBJ straight.

Who is fooling who? I no go swallow una cheap propaganda pills again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mamajama,
she is innocent and who is guilty?
well, i know is efcc that is guilty. no wonder she has been granted bail immediately.
please in a simple language tell us the meaning of innocent. and please tell us how u are going to prove her innocence.
paid labourer.
if u lack what to say better be a good listener as it is not a must that u post something here.

Mamajama:

Why is this woman been persecuted for Ten Million Naira?

When will the OBJ bashers get real and stop bestowing the crime of the father on to the daughter?

She clearly said the money was spent on departmental trip to Ghana and yet people that stole Billions are living a lavish splendor.

If we Nigerians allow this woman to fall for this pessimistic stupid propaganda, then we are doomed forever

Why is she been persecuted for Ten Million Naira you asked.
Well a few thousands, millions need to be looked into as well if we want Nigeria to realise her enormous potentials. Your comment is basically suggesting that looting is acceptable as long as it's minimal (Minimal i guess in your own words amount to few millions).
Dude do the maths, if every civil servants in any given ministry share all their annual allocation offcourse according to seniority, what will be left for that ministry to actually realise projects that the money was earmarked for.

Are you also suggesting governments worldwide should basically release all drug dealers as long as they are caught with only a few kg's because the big dawgs are the only reasonable catchy.

Iyabo is guilty of looting the treasury to the tune of 30 and NOT ten million Nara, but she is even more guilty of being so astonishingly ugly as to frighten children and domestic animals.

My verdict :   Deport Iyabo to a Siberian slave encampment for a few decades of reformatory hard labor breaking frozen rocks with her ossified cranium, and then when she expires from the exertion, bury her remains out in the frozen wilderness someplace in an unmarked shallow grave that will be readily accessible to marauding bears and wolf-packs.

Jakumo:

Iyabo is guilty of looting the treasury to the tune of 30 and NOT ten million Nara, but she is even more guilty of being so astonishingly ugly as to frighten children and domestic animals.

Ah you are wicked oh!

Mamajama:

Why is this woman been persecuted for Ten Million Naira?
She clearly said the money was spent on departmental trip to Ghana

Ten Million on departmental trip to Ghana when the masses they are representing are languishing in abject poverty. What is it they want to and have to learn from Ghana? And how much is air ticket to Ghana by the way, I think about N30,000 if 'am right. How many members are there in the Senate Committee on Health, assuming all of them went for the trip - Twelve altogether.


Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello -Chairman
Senator Eme Ufot-Ekaette Member
Senator Mohammed I. Ahmed Member
Senator George Akume Member
Senator Adego E. Eferakeya Member
Senator Chris N. Anyanwu Member
Senator Olorunnimbe A Mamora Member
Senator Chimaroke Nnamani Member
Senator Umaru Dahiru Member
Senator Hassan M. Gusau Member
Senator Mujitaba M. Mallam Member
Senator Anthony G. Manzo Member

Now how much is return air ticket to Ghana? Let's assume N30,000 (Thirty thousand Naira only). Multiply this by the number of 12 members and it gives us N360,000 (Three hundred and sixty thousand naira only). That is not even up to half a million. So is anybody telling us they spent the remaining N9.6m (Nine Million, Six hundred Naira) on hotels and feeding?

jay bee:

Why was she playing hide and seek when told to report to efcc?
The other accused made 'emselves available so she doesn't have two heads and behaviours like that is surely pointing towards some sort of guilt.

I wonder o! If one is not guilty, why run and hide? And is the excess N300m Health allocation meant for 'jamborees' and trips?
Call a spade a spade bo, no matter whose ox is gorred!

The way corruption is fought in Nigeria, makes the guilty look innocent.
Political convenience and sensationalism seem to dictate the direction
we fight corruption.

I hope we will get it right one day, I really hope so

Why trivialise the fact that Obasanjo-Bello cannot account for the N10 mill that she claimed was spent on a departmental trip for 12 people to Ghana? Are you saying she has no case to answer because other money-bag looters have not been brought before EFCC? Or because her father who stole more than N10 mill has not been tried? How does that negate the fact that the N10 mill, part of the N300 mill excess for which the Minister and other top ministry functionaries have been sacked and prosecuted, has not been accounted for? Okay, lets wait until IBB, Atiku and all the others have been rounded up before any questions are asked for a mere N10 mill! If she is innocent as you say, she is being given a chance to defend her self in a court of law. Instead she turns tail and runs.

Court grants Obasanjo-Bello bail
From Lemmy Ughegbe, Abuja

AFTER about 48 hours in the custody of the Police, Maitama Division, Abuja, daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello was yesterday admitted to bail by an Abuja High Court after she said she would not jump bail.



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The trial judge, Justice Salisu Garba, imposed a N10 million bail bond with one surety in like sum, who should be a responsible citizen. He also ordered her to deposit her international passports, both personal and official, and directed her to visit the Head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on the first Monday of every month.

The judge, before whom Obasanjo-Bello is standing trial for an alleged complicity in retaining N10 million out of the N300 million unspent Ministry of Health budget for 2007, had last Monday refused her oral application for bail.

According to the court, which ordered her counsel to file a formal motion for bail, granting her bail on her oral application would amount to "double standard", having earlier refused the oral application of her co-accused persons in the N300 million scam.

The court thus ordered her lawyer, Bankole Joel Akomolafe to file a formal bail application on her behalf.

But upon conclusion of arguments in her formal bail application yesterday, the judge offered her leave to breath the air of freedom, albeit tentatively.

Besides the arguments and depositions made by Akomolafe on behalf of his client, the fact that counsel to the EFCC did not stand on her path to freedom helped the court in entering a decision in her favour.

Earlier, while arguing the application, Akomolafe had drawn the attention of the court to the constitutional presumption that the accused person was innocent until otherwise was proven against her as guaranteed by Section 36(3) of the 1999 Constitution.

He submitted that since the offences for which his client was charged are bailable, a refusal of the court to grant her bail will be suggestive of a breach of her constitutionally guaranteed right of innocence.

He added that Section 35(4) of the 1999 Constitution also favours the admission of any person charged with an offence of such nature that Obasanjo-Bello was charged with.

He also urged the court to take cognizance of the fact that the accused person was an eminent Nigerian, having been a Commissioner in Ogun State and now a serving senator with no previous record of conviction for any offence. He urged the court to exercise its discretion in the applicant's favour in view of her unblemished criminal history, the fact that the offence for which she was charged was bailable and the fact that she will not jump bail, but be available for her trial.

But counsel to the EFCC, James Binang, who had earlier filed a counter-affidavit to oppose the bail, changed his mind as he said he was not opposed to it.

Binang submitted that bail was subject to the discretion of the court and that the offences for which she was charged were bailable.

However, he submitted that in view of the antecedents of the applicant/accused person, whom he insisted had for several weeks been elusive for her trial, the court should impose stringent bail conditions to compel her availability for trial otherwise she might abscond if admitted to bail.

Just as the judge was to announce a time for his judgment, Obasanjo-Bello's lawyer immediately spoke thus:

"My lord, I urge you to stand down this matter for one hour to write your ruling and deliver same. I plead with you, sir".

"It is not in your place to dictate to the court on what to do", the judge retorted, but he was still to accede to the same request as he announced: "I will return in an hour's time to deliver my ruling."

True to his words, he returned but after a little over one hour, he announced his decision, which sent the senator's supporters from Ogun State into ecstatic celebration with songs of praise.

Ruling on the said application, the judge held: "In considering this application, I am aware of the difficulty of the prosecution in bringing the 12th accused person before this court. I am also aware of the fact that the 12th accused person came by herself voluntarily to court. It is settled law that any accused person who makes himself or herself available voluntarily for trial should have the court exercise discretion in his or her favour upon the filing of a bail application. I am also convinced by the affidavit evidence placed before me that the 12th accused is ready to meet the conditions placed by Section 341 (2) of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC). I am also conscious of the fact that the prosecution has said it was not opposing the application, but concerned about stringent conditions being imposed. I therefore admit the 12th accused person to bail."

As soon as the judge rose and walked out of court, photojournalists swarmed on her for snapshots, as she walked out to the cheers of her teeming fans without betraying any emotion whatsoever.

Obasanjo-Bello's travails with the law started on April 8, when the immediate past Health Minister, Prof. Adenike Grange, the erstwhile Minister of State, Gabriel Aduku, and others were arraigned before the same court by the EFCC on a 56-count charge of criminal breach of trust and fraud on them for their alleged unlawful withdrawal and diversion of unspent N300 million from the ministry's 2007 budget.

The others charged at the Court, which remanded all of them in the EFCC's custody include Prof. Simon Ogandi, Permanent Secretary in the Health Ministry; Dr. H. B. Oyedepo, Director of Finance; Hanafi Mohammed; Donald Ekanem; Donatus Inyang; Olomo J. A.; Obanle Emmanuel Olatubosun; Henry Onyeagwalam and Edem Augustine Bassey.

Although the 11-accused pleaded not guilty, Obasanjo-Bello, who was named in counts 55 and 56 and declared by EFCC as being "at large", was not present to enter a plea on the twin-charge relating to alleged conspiracy and retention of proceed of crime/stolen property.

Instead, she began a battle of legal wits through her legal team. She filed an application seeking to quash the two-count charge against her by challenging the competence of the charge, which she said was unknown to the country's laws.

EFCC's counsel opposed the application, describing it as a "strange practice unknown to criminal proceeding", and insisting that the accused person/applicant ought to first appear in court and enter a plea as a condition precedent to any application she might wish to bring.

In his ruling on Obasanjo-Bello's objection, Justice Garba rejected the application.

That interlocutory decision consequently dismantled the legal obstacle, which she erected to stop her trial on the two-count. She came to court on Monday to face the trial and her lawyer's oral application for bail was rejected. She was thus remanded in EFCC custody.

But her counsel, Akomolafe begged the judge to remand her in Police custody as she had come under threat from EFCC operatives and therefore did not feel safe with them.

The judge acceded to an amendment thus: "The 12th accused person is hereby remanded in Maitama Police Station."

Iyabo is guilty of looting the treasury to the tune of 30 and NOT ten million Nara, but she is even more guilty of being so astonishingly ugly as to frighten children and domestic animalsp

Moves to recall Iyabo Obasanjo begin

By Tobi Soniyi, Olusola Fabiyi and Ademola Oni


Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello may have been granted bail by an Abuja High Court on Wednesday but her troubles are far from being over. as a group, the Lisabi Collectives, in Abeaokuta, Ogun State, has initiated moves for her recall from the Senate.




The group comprising professionals in Ogun Central Senatorial District has asked the the Independent National Electoral Commission to release the Certified True Copy of the list of persons registered to vote in the district, which Obasanjo-Bello represents.

Its letter to the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Maurice Iwu, seeking the release of the CTC was written by its counsel , Mr. Kayode Ajulo.

The Lisabi Collectives which also claims to be the umbrella body of some registered voters in Ogun Central Senatorial District, said it was targeting signatures of 80 per cent of voters in the senatorial district in order to make its bid for Obasanjo-Bello’s recall a success.

The letter dated May 16, 2008 reads, “We continue to act as solicitors to the Egba-Lisabi Collectives, Abeokuta, a group of professionals and an umbrella body of some registered voters in the above mentioned senatorial districts.

“Our clients in pursuant to Section 69 (a) of the 1999 Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria have commenced collection of signatures from their members and other interested registered voters in the district for the purpose of activation of the recall process of the senator representing the district on the allegation of loss of confidence.

“In view of the above, we hereby in accordance with Section 111 of the Evidence Act Laws of Federation apply for the Certified True Copy of the list of persons registered to vote in Ogun State Central Senatorial District.

“This is also to enable us prosecute our brief on the constitutional recall procedure assiduously.

“We also undertake to bear the cost of the certification.

“Accept the firm assurance of our highest regards and acknowledge receipt, please.”

Section 69 of the 1999 Constitution provides thus: A member of the Senate or of the House Representatives may be recalled as such a member if –

- there is presented to the chairman of INEC, a petition in that behalf signed by more than one-half of the persons registered to vote in that member’s constituency alleging their loss of confidence in that member; and

- the petition is thereafter, in a referendum conducted by INEC within 90 of the date of receipt of the petition, approved by a simple majority of the votes of the persons registered to vote in that member’s constituency.

Section 111 of the Evidence Act states that,“Every public officer having the custody of a public document which any person has a right to inspect shall give that person on demand a copy of it on payment of the legal fees therefore, together with a certificate written at the foot of such copy that it is a true copy of such document or part thereof, as the case may be, and such certificate shall be dated and subscribed by such officer with his name and his official title, and shall be sealed, whenever such officer is authorised by law to make use of a seal, and such copies so certified shall be called certified copies.”

It was however not clear if INEC had acknowledged the letter. A call made to the Director of Publicity of INEC, Mr. Segun Adeogun, was picked by a man who said that he (Adeogun) was attending a meeting.

The All Nigerian Peoples Party and the Action Congress in Ogun State had said they would support any move to have Obasanjo-Bello recalled from the Senate.

The state Chairman of the ANPP, Alhaji Bashiru Fadairo, said the process for the Senator‘s recall should be set in motion in view of her ”abscondment” from National Assembly sittings.

Fadairo said, ”We expected that from the Senate. She has absconded from the Senate since she started running from the EFCC. There are rules guiding the recall of lawmakers from the National Assembly.

@mamajama

You have failed completely on your new job of defending a receiver of stolen goods. In our statute books, a receiver of stolen goods is an accessory, she aids and abets crime.

Let me ask you, what stopped her from returning the fund earlier when EFCC informed her just like they did to the House Committee chairman on Health about the source of the fund.

The House Committee chairman returned theirs unspent, but Iyabo hell bent on "nothin' dey happen" went ahead with the money to Ghana gallivanting.

She is arrogant, defiant, heartless and above all richly ugly.

I pronounce her GUILTY as charged!!!!

if she was so innocent why was she running? and if shes so innocent why did she travel across the globe to use a phony name to sign a mega deal with foreigners to do a project whos direct control is under her father?

don't be so naive, dear in as much as the rule of"innocent until proven guilty is being observed even in naija but some people just convict themselves by there idiotic actions, why run? haba u sef think am, check am,

Iyabo is guilty simple. you need to travel round nigerian cities and villages and see how nigerians wallow in abject poverty in want of daily bread. and these senators seat in the 'halllowed chambers' dealing with millions and you say they are not guilty? Obasanjo is guilty on his own right, iyabo on hers, simple. Dele Giwa one said and i quote "Any evil done to man by man shall be redressed, if not by man then by God, if not now then certaily later,for the victory of evil over good can only be temporal". Dont even let me mention IBB, Atiku and others too numerous to mention both in high and low places.

@youngies Let me take you back to law 101

If my brother went to a departmental store and stole a Big screen TV and posted it for sale at his local store. A total stranger walked in and paid for the TV without any knowledge of how the store owner got the TV and was given a genuine receipt.

When katakata come start. The purchaser was arrested for been an accessory to stolen goods; his picture was posted on all the media news paper as a thief.

Do we the public have the right to condemn this individual as a thief in the court of public opinion without knowing all the details and facts of the case?


We are all entitled to our opinion, but I thing this woman is been persecuted for the crimes allegedly committed by her father

Mamajama:

@youngies Let me take you back to law 101

If my brother went to a departmental store and stole a Big screen TV and posted it for sale at his local store. A total stranger walked in and paid for the TV without any knowledge of how the store owner got the TV and was given a genuine receipt.

When katakata come start. The purchaser was arrested for been an accessory to stolen goods; his picture was posted on all the media news paper as a thief.

Do we the public have the right to condemn this individual as a thief in the court of public opinion without knowing all the details and facts of the case?


We are all entitled to our opinion, but I thing this woman is been persecuted for the crimes allegedly committed by her father

what you are saying now is that they are seeking the revenge of the father from the daughter ? I actually don't know the full details of the matter (SCAM) but all investigation should be made so that innocent people should not suffer and un innocent people should also be punished.

Mamajama:

@youngies Let me take you back to law 101

If my brother went to a departmental store and stole a Big screen TV and posted it for sale at his local store. A total stranger walked in and paid for the TV without any knowledge of how the store owner got the TV and was given a genuine receipt.

When katakata come start. The purchaser was arrested for been an accessory to stolen goods; his picture was posted on all the media news paper as a thief.

Do we the public have the right to condemn this individual as a thief in the court of public opinion without knowing all the details and facts of the case?


We are all entitled to our opinion, but I thing this woman is been persecuted for the crimes allegedly committed by her father

too much tory, d woman ran away when she was asked to come forward, why? if u are innocent you dont need to run,go into hiding or flaunt the law of the land in your bid to save ur tail(she has a pretty tail too, )

those acts are nt the actions of someone who is innocent but traits of a law breaker, so pls save ur self the stress of fighting a loosing battle by defending her

Iyabo Obasanjo returns to Senate
x | May 23, 2008


Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello returned to the Senate and was welcomed by he colleagues who fell over themselves to hug or shake her hands as she stepped into the Senate chamber

After the President of the Senate, Senator David Mark declared the business of the day open, Iyabo seconded a motion by Senator Ayim Ude for the adoption of the votes and proceedings of Wednesday’s session.

Iyabo also raised Order 43 of the Senate Standing Orders 2007 (as amended) to make a personal explanation.

She said: “The personal explanation I would like to make concerns my issue with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission that is on-going. I would like to use this opportunity to thank my colleagues.”

Senator David Mark said: “O.K., Senator Obasanjo, just say thank you…”

Obasanjo-Bello replied saying “No sir. It goes beyond that. I want to thank all members of the National Assembly, Senators especially the leadership of the Senate, they were wonderful.

“I want to thank even the members of the opposition for the way they have supported me. I want to assure you that I have not done anything that would bring down the honour and integrity of this chamber.

“And I will never do anything that would bring down the honour and integrity of this chamber.”

She was then ‘inducted’ her into the league of comrades in the Senate who “have gone in and out of prison.” by Senator David Mark

Senator Uche Chukwumerije commonly called ‘comrade’ jokingly objected to this saying “Let me concede this, when we ( go to the police station, we are always bitten by mosquitoes. In fact, we always fend off mosquitoes from all parts of our bodies throughout the night.

“When I saw Obasanjo-Bello this morning, I looked at her closely and I didn’t see a single mosquito bite on her. In fact she is a VIP comrade.”



END OF STORY!!!

the senate is certainly a den of robbers.

Well,I can the concern of most Nigerians for Iyabo Obasanjo but I want to ask that why is always Obasanjo and his family in this country.
When he(Obasanjo) was still the president it was as if Nigeria was placed on hell,now can you how peacefully Nigeria is.
Or is Nigerians that plot the case of Obasanjo and his son.
Wha I can say is that if anyone still loves him,pray for him and his family.

Am suspecting a mis-appropriation relationship between iyabo and mamajama.May be she got a share of the money because I just dont why she is ardent supporter of the accused.She should tell her partner to face the EFCC and prove her innocence afterall her father founded EFCC.

Mamajama, Iyabo Obasanjo is innocent? Is that in Otta constitution?She is only presumed innocent until she is proved guilty.This is a constitutional provision of the law.

oruwe:

Mamajama, Iyabo Obasanjo is innocent? Is that in Otta constitution?She is only presumed innocent until she is proved guilty.This is a constitutional provision of the law.

True talk

thief, ole carry them go

All i know is nothing is gonna come out of this so called probe, abi trial. Look at Alams today. a free man. How can a thief hold another thief accountable?