There are strong indications that tempers may have risen to a boiling point among members of the Police Management Team [PMT], as embattled former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [EFCC], Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, on Tuesday, ignored yet another directive by the authorities to appear before the Force Secretary, Mr. Udom Ekpoudom, an Assistant Inspector General of Police [AIG], for briefing.

This is coming barely 24 hours after he failed to comply with a directive to report to the police force headquarters in Abuja on Monday, alongside five other senior officers who participated in the recently concluded Course 30 at the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies [NIPSS], in Kuru, Plateau state.

Dependable sources told Daily Sun that despite being notified of a directive to report to the Force Secretary [AIG Ekpoudom] on Tuesday, through a Deputy Commissioner of Police in his department, Ribadu did not show up and gave no explanation for his failure to do so.
Although reasons for his being summoned could not be ascertained at press time, it was learnt that part of the issues was to warn him to immediately report to his new office at the Zone 5 police command headquarters in Benin-City, Edo State, where he has been redeployed as Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Administration.

Feelers from the force headquarters indicated that the die appears to have been cast as the police high command may have resolved to take a decisive action against the Adamawa state-born former anti-graft czar for alleged gross indiscipline and disobedience to lawful orders.

Consequently, he is to be handed additional two queries in the next few days while awaiting the arrival of the Inspector General of Police, Mike Okiro, who is currently outside the country on an official engagement. If eventually implemented, Ribadu would have bagged five queries within a month.
Police Force Public Relations Officer, Agberebi Akpoebi, could not be reached for comments as repeated calls put through his mobile phone were not responded, but a senior officer who would not want his name in print confirmed the development.

"Yes, it is true that Ribadu was asked to report to the Force Secretary today [Tuesday], but as usual, he flagrantly disobeyed the directive. Since the Police is a disciplined Force, appropriate disciplinary action must be taken against him. As things stand, he would be issued with two fresh queries for not showing up on Monday and Tuesday as directed," he told our reporter on telephone.

When Daily Sun sought to know the permissible number of queries to be issued an officer to warrant a summary dismissal from service, he simply retorted: "Even one query is enough for dismissal," adding that "with Ribadu’s recalcitrance even after being served with three queries in quick succession, and two more to follow perhaps within this week, it is quite obvious he has resolved to damn the consequences and quit the police force."


http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2008/nov/26/national-26-11-2008-002.htm

nothing dey worry the guy

when u have a court case with someone you stay action until the court case is determined

wetin dey worry Okiro

People belongs to Nigeria not Okiro or Aondoakaa

Ribadu take police, AGF, EFCC to court . . . . . they must leave him alone untill the court matter is settled

Ogbonaya Onovo should try and stear clear of this Ribadu matter

Lawal don dey run already

So make Onovo no allow Okiro drag him into this illegality

Ribadu-hunt update: IG absent at own meeting; Farida Waziri caught in lies about Ribadu’s “properties” abroad

Last View on Wed 26th November, 2008
Last Modified on Tue 25th November, 2008 9:31:38 pm
Author: Posted by Admin Sahara
SaharaReporters, New York
The much anticipated meeting today between the Inspector General of Police, Mike Okiro and former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nuhu Ribadu, whose maltreatment by the Yar'adua regime has become a public relations nightmare, did not take place after all. The IG was not in Abuja to attend the meeting he had called, and it was not clear if Ribadu showed up.

Police sources said Mr. Okiro reportedly left the country for Conakry, Guinea, to attend an urgent international meeting. He had invited Ribadu to meet with him following the completion of his nearly–aborted "Course 30" at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies. Mr. Ribadu’s was ejected from his graduation ceremony last Saturday in front of friends and family that had arrived to share the happy moment with him.

Mr. Okiro's absence from Abuja did not stop his office from issuing another query to Ribadu yesterday. The third query in a row, it accused Ribadu of dressing improperly to visit the "President." The accusation joins other petty offenses that could lead to a summary trial of Ribadu by a police disciplinary committee on December 4th 2008.

Saharareporters had previously reported that Ribadu's travails in the hand of IG Okiro and Mrs. Farida Waziri, the new head of the EFCC, will be escalated until the objectives of demoting him as a police officer, dismissing him from the force and putting him in jail are achieved.

Yesterday, a press parley aimed at briefing the media about the EFCC's anti-corruption week turned into another propaganda war against Ribadu as the EFCC chairperson gave some media houses information that accused Ribadu of owning properties in Dubai, London and Abuja.

The allegations were not new, but this time, it proceeded with the collusion of the local media which put themselves to the services of Mrs. Waziri by publishing the allegations without asking for proof or cross-checking them. Only the Abuja-based Daily Trust published one of the addresses in London, which it gave as "29 Kingsway, Leeds".  The other property, supposedly belonging to Ribadu in England, is said to exist in the "Chelsea area of London," according to other newspapers that reported the story. Ribadu was also accused of owning a flat at the Palm Beach in Dubai as well as number 11 Mambilla Street, Udi Hills, Maitama, Abuja.

The layers of misinformation began to unravel when Saharareporters officially requested the EFCC spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, to provide accurate information about the homes the EFCC said belonged to Ribadu in London and Dubai. Babafemi didn't respond to our e-mail, but when we called him to follow up, he only told our reporter that the reference to Ribadu related to a petition written against his person with nothing specific about property addresses in London. He, however, promised to get back to SaharaReporters with further information, if he stumbled on any. That promise had not been fulfilled as at the time of publishing this story.

Saharareporters investigators swept through property records and other public records in the UK, including the UK electoral roll, but found nothing relating to Nuhu Ribadu. In the course of our investigation, we purchased two records from the UK Land registry relating to the property located at 29 Kingsway, Garforth, Leeds, LS25 1BW, and found out that the property whose price was not stated, is registered to JULIE ELIZABETH HART of Woodlea, Moor End, Boston Spa, Wetherby W Yorkshire LS23 6ER.

A similar property of the same address in Huby Leeds was also accessed by our investigators who found out it was registered to LINDA ANNE SIMPSON of 29 Kingsway, Huby, Leeds LS17 0AL. It has a listed price of 155,000 pound sterling.

The nearest possible information concerning a Ribadu in the Leeds area is about a 23 year old Fatima Zara Ribadu, a Nigerian female at the University of Leeds who studies information systems. We traced her address to 23 Woodlea Street Leeds, UK and discovered that the property was purchased in 2000 by one "Ibrahim Muhammadu Dodo" of the same address, and the property is worth 270, 000 pounds. While Fatima Ribadu shares the same middle name as Nuhu Ribadu's wife, Zara Ribadu, the Leeds student is clearly a separate entity from the former EFCC chairman, according to assorted information available about her. She is the daughter of Nuhu Ribadu's cousin, and is married to Dr. Ibrahim Dodo, a medical doctor in Leeds. Dr. Dodo owns the property, which was purchased via a loan.

The reference to two lawyers in the allegations against Ribadu concerns two Abuja-based self-styled "anti-corruption lawyers," Charles Ogboli and Ugochuckwu Osuagwu, who dragged Ribadu before a Federal High Court in Abuja last year accusing him of owning a piece of property worth several millions of dollars in Dubai. Attorneys to Ribadu in that case, Femi Falana Chambers, told Saharareporters that the two lawyers are yet to produce the address of the Dubai property (ies) they allege Ribadu owns. The next hearing in the case comes up next month, December 2008.

When Saharareporters contacted Ugochukwu Osuagwu, he told our reporters that his documentations are intact but also curiously claimed that Ribadu had admitted to the allegation in a sworn in affidavit filed before the court, which he supplied to SaharaReporters. But a cursory look at the affidavit shows that what Osuagwu claimed was Ribadu's admission of ownership of the unnamed Dubai property was a typographical error in the affidavit filed by a lawyer in Femi Falana chambers. The error was fully rebutted in the closing paragraphs of the affidavit where Ribadu clearly stated that he doesn't own properties in Dubai or elsewhere but in Abuja where his father–in-law, Professor Iya-Abubakar, purchased the house he currently occupies.

Sources told Saharareporters that both Charles Ogboli and Uguchukwu Osuagwu are working in tandem with the EFCC chairperson, Mrs. Waziri and some former governors to fight Ribadu. The characters of the two lawyers are currently under legal scrutiny before an FCT High Court in Gudu Abuja, where they stand accused of impersonation and extortion arising from letters they signed impersonating law enforcement officers with the intention of scamming a former junior minister in the Yar'Adua regime.  Our sources said the two lawyers are doing everything to help nail Ribadu so as to shake off the charges, which may be discontinued by the Attorney-General of the Federation, Michael Aondoakaa, as soon as the plan to nail Ribadu, with their help, succeeds.

Indications are that the plot against Ribadu has now moved into a desperate ding-dong stage, where he is expected to be tossed around between the Inspector General of Police and the EFCC chairperson as they search for the perfect strategy to put Ribadu away.
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RIBADU REFUTES:
Refutation of EFCC’s Baseless claim on Ribadu’s properties
Our attention has been drawn to wide media coverage in a number of publications suggesting that Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, as Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), bought and owned houses in Dubai, the United Kingdom, and Nigeria.

According to the publications, the leadership of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) also said, through its publicity office, that it has commenced investigations on Ribadu, based on “several petitions against Ribadu, which are being investigated at the moment.”

The EFCC also claimed that Mr. Ribadu did not declare his assets as EFCC Chairman before and after leaving office.

In its five-year existence, the EFCC has garnered a lot of local and international esteem on account of its sterling reputation for dogged investigation and efficient prosecution records.  Thus, for this reason, one would expect such an institution to show more fidelity for evidence and facts in other to protect its name, its sense of honour, and the competence of its leadership.

Apparently, these shaping values have little meaning to the current incarnation of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). For the records, however, here are the facts:   


Mr. Ribadu states categorically today, as he did late last year when this same baseless rumour was advertised by these same forces, that:

1.    He DOES NOT own houses in Abuja, Dubai, the U.K or any other part of the world, other than his personal house built in his village in Yola back in the early 1990s;
2.    Mr. Ribadu owns a yet-to-be-developed plot of land in Katampe, an undeveloped district of Abuja, which was acquired in 1998;
3.    Apart from his official salary account, Mr. Ribadu does not operate a bank account anywhere else in the world;
4.    He has dutifully sworn to oaths declaring his assert when he was appointed Chairman, and is in the process now of declaring his assets after the completion of his course at Kuru.  Again, he urges the Commission in all its evident enthusiasm to proceed with the basic tenets of investigation of careful rather than tendentious scrutiny. 

5.    Regarding his official residence which has again being mischievously listed as a house he bought, here are the facts:
When the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), this is the  in line with the policy of the last administration, offered for sale along with other houses in the area, Mr. Ribadu could not muster the funds to purchase the said house.  However, sensitive to the possibility of a conflict of interest arising if he approached banks for a loan, given his position as EFCC Chairman, Ribadu nearly lost the house until his father-in-law, Professor Iya Abubakar, intervened. It was the Professor who bid for the house at a public auction and took a facility from his bankers, Fidelity Bank, to purchase the house, which cost N44m.  As it is, Mr. Ribadu and his family are currently living in the Mambilla Street house, thanks to his father-in-law. All records pertaining to this transaction are available at the FCDA for anyone who wishes to check.

6.    Since the Commission and its sponsors seem driven to conclusions without the care of preambles,   Mr. Ribadu hereby grants express permission to the EFCC or anyone who finds that he has assets other than those he declared before the Code of Conduct Bureau when he assumed office in 2003, to seize them without further reference to him;

Last word:
Mr. Ribadu is naturally saddened that an institution in which he worked earnestly and professionally with many patriotic colleagues seem eager to seek alliance with methods perfected by enemies of the anti-corruption war. He looks forward to a return to sobriety and professionalism at the Commission. 

Signed
Charles Musa Esq., LL.M, B.L, MCI. Arb

Source: http://saharareporters.com/www/news/detail/?id=780

the man ribadu is an intelligent officer and like mustapha in the abacha regime, is not the most inteligent rather he was a lucky man for been choosen by the ruler.
he became too powerful that bringing down an inspector general was nothing to him.
a wise and educated man of his class is surposed to know when the cips are down.
he floored an order of a serving inspector general(mike okiro) asking him to meet with the efcc chairman(waziri). he attended a graduation ceremony organised by the nigerian police on a plain cloth against the police rules and regulations.
if what is happening to ribadu today is witch hunting, it means what he did was witch hunting too.
the same laws that gave him power to mess with powerful people in the country has empowered current officials to treat his high headedness.

really

So police na him dey in charge of NIPSS wey people from Army and co-operate Nigeria dey also go for training

I no sabi say chidicris dey dumber than I think

We want the country to progress and be the greatest. We want the rule of law, equality and justice, transparency and accountability to dominate and elevate the way we treat each other, the way we conduct business and also the way our leader run and manipulate our scarce resources. How do we achieve this aim without stepping on toes by calling a spade a spade? How do we fight war against corruption if the highest corruptors are not made to face the wrath of their action? How do we deal with injustice when somebody who stole billions of dollars goes scot free and a mere common man who stole a loaf of bread is condemned and burned to death?

We want a fearless leader; a man who is not afraid to say and do what is right for the benefit of all common man. A man who is not susceptible to bribe and god fatherism. I believe Ribadu gave us that. Now people are saying the man is too powerful and too fearless to deliver his job. Why is it that we never seem to get our priority straight?

As much as I sympathize with him, I'm not sure I support his blatant disregard for the summons from his superiors. Oga Ribadu, berra chage b4 I. . .

Mai Suya:

As much as I sympathize with him, I'm not sure I support his blatant disregard for the summons from his superiors. Oga Ribadu, berra chage before I. . .

Nigerians are so funny

This simply shows that we need to reform our police

U dont instill discipline by bullying people. 21st century army does not even work like that, let alone police.

Does Okiro really think all the police officers have no fundamental human right, I really like to know.

The idea that Ribadu takes Okiro to court, and then goes to accept purnishment from Okiro for taking him to court is such a very primitive narative.

The police needs to be mordernised.

Okiro must wait for the court to determine Ribadu's rank

http://odili.net/news/source/2008/nov/26/205.html
THISDAY learnt last night that Ribadu will face trial next week in Kaduna for his alleged offences against the Police High Command.

The former EFCC boss was alleged to have engaged in indiscipline, disregard for rules and regulations of the force and serious acts of misconduct

i blame nobody but ribadu himself. lately his unreasonable actions has shown us that the man has a lot to learn. whatever the matter may be, a smart person must not fall into the trap. ribadu is not only trying to fall into the trap, but also wants to make the trap his new home. i'm disappointed, i expected a lot better than what he has shown us so far. his close friends are even starting to path ways.

Okiro must wait for the court to determine Ribadu's rank

sorry my dear, ribadu's future for the next 6 years has already been determined and i find it difficult that ribadu himself is too blind to see it. this is not his fight.

McKren:

Nigerians are so funny

This simply shows that we need to reform our police

U don't instill discipline by bullying people. 21st century army does not even work like that, let alone police.

Does Okiro really think all the police officers have no fundamental human right, I really like to know.

The idea that Ribadu takes Okiro to court, and then goes to accept purnishment from Okiro for taking him to court is such a very primitive narative.

The police needs to be mordernised.

Okiro must wait for the court to determine Ribadu's rank

O gimme a break. I dont know if you are aware that in the police force, taking your superior to the civilian court is deemed an act of mutiny and warrants outright dismissal. there are avenues within the force for adressing perceived acts of injustice by officers. I believe its mainly because of the huge support that Ribadu has among Nigerians that has enabled him to get away with many of teh things he has done. He shouldn't compound issues. . .

Bring Ribadu’s persecutors to justice

By Punch Editorial Board

Published: Thursday, 27 Nov 2008
The embarrassing and shameful scene enacted by some goons at the graduation ceremony for the Senior Executive Course 30 of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) in Kuru over the appropriateness of the former Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Malam Nuhu Ribadu’s participation in the ceremony calls for an immediate action by the Yar’Adua administration.

Some security operatives had manhandled the former EFCC boss and, in a brazen display of lawlessness, forced him out of the graduation venue in the presence of the Vice-President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, and other important dignitaries. Ribadu was humiliated in the presence of his friends and family members.

The Federal Government has commendably moved to dissociate itself from the awful disregard for the rule of law displayed by Ribadu’s persecutors at the ceremony and has ordered the immediate release of his certificate. The government has also caused a panel to be set up to look into the flagrant violation of Ribadu’s rights at the ceremony. It is hoped that the President’s order will be promptly complied with by the NIPSS authorities.

It is imperative, however, that those behind Ribadu’s long-running ordeal should be exposed and brought to justice before they do further damage. Who are the people that soiled the human rights image of the country at Kuru? Who are those behind the desecration of Yar’Adua’s rule of law profile?

The Kuru incident appears to be part of a well-planned plot by a cabal to humiliate Ribadu, if not to destroy him. It is already in the public domain that the former EFCC boss will be tried on trumped-up charges and jailed for stepping on powerful toes while in office. When he was sent on the NIPSS course late last year, the tone of the press release on the controversial course clearly demonstrated the agony of a government caught in a mesh of confusion. It was obvious that the Kuru course was only a ruse. Part of the Inspector General of Police Mike Okiro’s justification then was that Ribadu’s course would prepare him for promotion. But as soon as the government muddled through the unpopular and illegal removal, the Police authorities moved again, demoting him from the rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police to Deputy Commissioner of Police.

After the demotion, there were still spirited attempts to abort his NIPSS course. Now, it is reported that Ribadu is being questioned for corrupt self-enrichment and failure to wear his down-graded ranks. Who then is behind Ribadu’s travails?

This government should apprehend Ribadu’s persecutors because they are already eroding the public confidence in the administration’s ability to uphold the rule of law, thus giving the impression that the President cannot exercise his powers properly and in the best interest of all. Indeed, the antics in easing Ribadu out of the EFCC without an official letter clearly stating that he had been removed marked the beginning of that diabolical plot.

When he was being sworn in on May 29, 2007, President Yar’Adua had pledged his determination “to intensify the war against corruption” because, as he said then, “its corrosive effect is all too visible in all aspects of our national life”. He had equally acknowledged that the nation had made significant progress in recent years and promised to maintain the momentum. There is no doubt that Ribadu was part of that “significant progress” recorded in the nation’s anti-graft war.

No matter his shortcomings, Ribadu is a national icon recognised globally as having done his best to stem official graft. It is on record that, under his leadership, the EFCC has notched up some unprecedented successes such as the convictions for graft of former IGP Tafa Balogun and former Governor of Bayelsa, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, among others. In the last few months of his leadership of the agency, the EFCC arrested a number of former state governors, including James Ibori over $85 million fraud allegation. Under him, the EFCC prosecuted over 400 cases and obtained about 120 convictions, including the $242 million case involving a Brazilian bank.

No doubt, some forces are bent on denting the Yar’Adua administration’s human rights record, undermining its rule of law principle and hijacking its anti-graft crusade. The Ribadu case has become a major embarrassment to this government and a dent on the nation’s democratic credentials. With the way Ribadu is being hounded, it may be difficult to get patriotic and committed people to serve the nation. The probe ordered by the Presidency should be thorough and its outcome made public. The nation is doomed if the cabal hounding Ribadu is allowed to emasculate and ground the whole machinery for fighting corruption.

Source: http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20081127383657

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