Ribadu Flees Nigeria: Destination Unknown
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By Eromosele Ebhomele

Embattled ex-chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, may have sneaked out of the country.  It is believed that he may have finally chosen to go on exile following persistent harassment and threats to his life.

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In the last few weeks, the leadership of the Nigeria Police, some agents of the Yar’Adua government and some former governors, facing trial by the EFCC, have combined efforts to humiliate him.

Family sources hinted P.M.News this morning, that he has been unreachable in the last 48 hours. Former associates also expressed worries about his whereabouts. But a source close to him informed P.M.News this morning, that he may have sneaked out through the land border via the old NADECO route, to an African country. His final destination is a Western country.

Ribadu had initially refused to succumb to pressures by members of his family and friends to proceed on exile in the face of threats to his life. He had insisted that since he didn’t commit any crime, he was going to stay in Nigeria and fight it out. Just yesterday, his lawyers filed a suit at the ECOWAS Court in Abuja, to stop the police authorities from harassing him.

Mallam Ribadu had alleged that unknown assailants recently trailed him on Jos Road, in Abuja, and shot at his vehicle, damaging his car’s windscreen. Ribadu was humiliated on Saturday, 22 November, 2008, at the graduation ceremony of NIPSS, in Jos, when he was bundled out of the ceremony. He was prevented from being given a certificate despite completing the course.

After the humiliation, the police and the EFCC invited him for questioning on his past activities as boss of the anti-graft body. Ribadu declined the invitations on the excuse that he had already taken the police to court over his demotion. Some aggrieved politicians, who are currently being tried by the EFCC for fraud, have vowed to stop at nothing to disgrace him.

He was demoted on 4 August, 2008, from the rank of an AIG to that of a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), by the Police Service Commission (PSC), which claimed  he was unjustly promoted by former president Olusegun Obasanjo. Prominent Nigerians, including Chief Gani Fawehinmi, SAN and Pastor Tunde Bakare condemned the humiliations meted out on Ribadu, and called on his detractors to leave him alone.

Source: http://thepmnews.com/2008/12/04/ribadu-flees-nigeria-destination-unknown

This what you get for actively fighting corruption in Nigeria.
What retarded backwards nation

No this wat u get for fighting corruption selectively .
Yes we are in a retarded hopeless nation

no,
this is what you get when you feel that you're too big to obey the rules
this is what you get when you don't use your head correctly
this is what you get when you have something to hide

remember? nobody is above the law, by ribadu 2006.
we're all nigerian citizens before anything else, ribadu should be arrested just like any other nigerian that steps on the rules.

He should have left with his master OBJ long time ago.

cre8tivity:

no,
this is what you get when you feel that you're too big to obey the rules
this is what you get when you don't use your head correctly
this is what you get when you have something to hide

remember? nobody is above the law, by ribadu 2006.
we're all nigerian citizens before anything else, ribadu should be arrested just like any other nigerian that steps on the rules.

You get shot at. Can you please tell me dear what has Ribadu done?

So not fighting corruption is better than selectively fighting corruption? Nigerian skewed way of reasoning.

if ribadu has nothing to hide, why is he running?
ribadu= a role model for fools.

cre8ivity so who is ur role model for Nigeria politricks. The guy try. Him dey run because he is fearing for his life.

we need to stop fooling ourselves and stop corrupting the minds of the youth, there isn't a single politician role model in nigeria. ribadu is certainly not one, the man lacks common sense, strategic qualities, leadership skill and true wisdom. take your time and think about it, anyone could have done what ribadu did if the circumstance was the same. obasojo gave ribadu the utmost power and fund to break down certain group of people. so, what else was left? and what exactly is the big deal?
Nelson Mandela remains my role model.

ribadu misses the power and the attention. many of his supporters and close friends are already starting to take a good look at the man and the way he has conducted himself lately. nigeria may be a stupid country, but we must never allow anyone to feel he or she is bigger than the nation. ribadu must obey the rules just like you and i. it is that simple.

cre8tivity:

we need to stop fooling ourselves and stop corrupting the minds of the youth, there isn't a single politician role model in nigeria. ribadu is certainly not one, the man lacks common sense, strategic qualities, leadership skill and true wisdom. take your time and think about it, anyone could have done what ribadu did if the circumstance was the same. obasojo gave ribadu the utmost power and fund to break down certain group of people. so, what else was left? and what exactly is the big deal?
Nelson Mandela remains my role model.

Cool nice response, but Nelson Mandela was a revolutionist, not just a politician.
Nigeria needs a social revolution badly. One of the hardest things to change.

Where is Ribadu?

From George Oji in Kaduna, 12.05.2008

The whereabouts of the former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EF-CC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, were unknown last night.
Lagos-based evening newspaper, PM News, reported that he had fled the country with his destination unknown.
But a source told THISDAY that he was still in the country.
Ribadu, who has been in the news lately following his maltreatment at the graduation ceremony of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSSS), was said to have disappeared two nights ago following a “serious threat” to his life.
“He got a call that told him in very clear terms that he would be killed,” a source told THISDAY late last night. “Remem-ber his car was shot at just two months ago. The bullet holes are still on his car. This time around, the threat was very clear and he decided to run for his life.”
Ribadu was due to face police panel in Kaduna yesterday for sundry offences, including appearing before President Umaru Musa Yar’Adau “in mufti” when NIPSS graduating students visited the President two weeks ago and for taking police authorities to court over his demotion from the rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) to Deputy Com-missioner for Police (DCP).
With his departure from the country, police sources hinted last night that he might be tried and dismissed in absentia.
If Ribadu is eventually dismissed, it would be the third in a four-step action threatened against the former EFCC chairman by a former governor, as reported by THISDAY recently.
A former governor, who is said to be very close to the President, “had threatened in December last year that Ribadu would be removed as EFCC chairman and that he would be demoted thereafter,” the source had said. “He said Ribadu would then be dismissed from the force before he is eventually jailed.”
Yesterday, he failed to appear before the Police Disciplinary Committee headed by Deputy Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ogbonnaya Onovo, sitting at the Police Officers Mess, Kaduna.
Ribadu was by a police signal dated November 25 expected to appear before the panel at 8.00 am yesterday to answer to allegations of indiscipline, disregard for rules and regulations of the force and serious acts of misconduct.
The Onovo panel commenced sitting in Kaduna on Monday and had been hearing evidence of some senior police officers who had disciplinary cases to answer.
Ribadu, who was slated to appear before the committee together with other officers, had  Tuesday, November 25, also failed to appear before a similar disciplinary panel at the Force Headquarters, Abuja.
It was believed that the absence of Ribadu was not unconnected with the suit he filed at the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court seeking to challenge his demotion by the Police Service Commission (PSC).
On Wednesday, the former EFCC boss also instituted another action before the ECOWAS Court, Abuja, to stop the Inspector-General of Police (IGP)  from arraigning him before the Force Disciplinary Committee.
He wants the court to declare IGP’s directive for him to appear before the Committee a nullity because the Police boss lacks such statutory powers and all other steps taken by the police authorities to make him appear before the Committee
In the suit instituted on his behalf by his counsel, Charles Muse, Ribadu wants the Court to declare that by the virtue of Section 253(2) of the 1999 constitution, it is only the Police Service Commission that could discipline him.
The Onovo Committee which began sitting as early as 9.30am did not wind up until 5.30pm. It was gathered that the Committee members used yesterday’s sitting in the absence of Ribadu to review the evidence and submissions from officers who had appeared before it within the week and to also compile their report.
When approached by newsmen for comments on its sitting particularly as it affected the absence of Ribadu, Committee Chairman, Onovo, declined comments, saying that it was only the IGP, Mr. Mike Okiro, who could comment on the committee’s activities.
The Deputy Force Secretary and Commissioner of Police Suleiman Abbu had on behalf of the IGP last week issued Ribadu three queries.
On Tuesday, the globally respected anti-corruption watchdog, Human Rights Watch (HRW), frowned on Nigeria’s efforts to check official corruption, linking the “falter” to “a campaign of calumny” against Ribadu, after he decided to prosecute a “powerful” former governor.
The body, in a statement issued by its Associate, Africa Division, Mr. Thomas Gilchrist, called on the Federal Government to protect Ribadu, who informed the organisation that he had been subjected to an escalating campaign of harassment, threats and an apparent attempt on his life in recent weeks.
“I fear for my life,” Ribadu told the body. “I have made a lot of enemies.”

Source:http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=130011

people ignore creativity

eim no be woman and eim no dey ondo state

eim certainly be one of IBB's male supporters wey simply change name to propagate corruption.

Yar'adua go loose the election for court

and him no go fit campaign and so him go loose election.

all this drama go soon end

I hope he has

Obey the rules

talk of Nigeria's "curious allergy"

this confirms what we've been saying all along. 'corruption is here to stayeeee!!!' first they sell us a fraction of anti-corruption and then embark on full-scale anti-anti-corruption campaign. it's a pity ribadu can't win this fight now. not when the likes of the corrupt ex-govs are exercising their prowess on YA.

Its 2 yrs into this admin and we r yet to know where we r heading. We r figthing Ribadu who in the last admin at least put fear in the minds of Nigerians on corruption. Rather than continue the fight and make amends where possible we r chasing shadows. Our future is at stake, the intergrity of this admin is at stake. Can someboby tell Yaradua to pls wake up and move us forward.

jimbo
if the oldman himself jumps inside the basket, may be it would seal up the holes. don't you think so?

Its 2 years into this admin and we r yet to know where we r heading. We r figthing Ribadu who in the last admin at least put fear in the minds of Nigerians on corruption. Rather than continue the fight and make amends where possible we r chasing shadows. Our future is at stake, the intergrity of this admin is at stake. Can someboby tell Yaradua to please wake up and move us forward.

How can you wake someone that prefers to sleep

Sleep is the cousin of death

cre8tivity:

jimbo
if the oldman himself jumps inside the basket, may be it would seal up the holes. don't you think so?

i think i'm missing the point. are you saying we should let the 'free-for-all to loot as you please' system run wild? someone has got to fix it alright. we were made to believe it started in 2001. but that we all know only scratched the surface. endemic corruption, which has eaten deep into the fabrics of the nation, will take more than a few good men to checkmate.

regretably I wish the President dead

Its 2 years into this admin and we r yet to know where we r heading. We r figthing Ribadu who in the last admin at least put fear in the minds of Nigerians on corruption. Rather than continue the fight and make amends where possible we r chasing shadows. Our future is at stake, the intergrity of this admin is at stake. Can someboby tell Yaradua to  please wake up and move us forward.

i disagree with you. at this point, i do not think anybody is fighting ribadu, but himself. what is the big deal? if he has nothing to hide, so why is he running or what is he running from? i think part of moving a nation forward is making it known that nobody is above the law. we are all nigerian citizens before anything else. we all must obey the rules. an american soldier that lost his legs in iraq while fighting for his country must still obey the rules when he gets back home or else the soldier would be treated like a criminal. no matter what the case may be, it isn't permissible for anyone to step all over the laws of a country just because this individual has done an "ok" or a "great" job for his or her nation. infact, i think ribadu's latest treatment by fg is a great example for the youth and an indication that nigerian constitution is starting to solidify once again. do not blame yaradua or any ex governor, but ribadu, who has subjected himself to acting like an original illiterate man.

Creativity

Am sure one of ur relatives was percuted by Ribadu. And the poor guy (Ribadu) prevented u from spending ur ill gotten wealth. Well now that he's fled the country for his dear life and u guys have a puppet in charge, u can spend ur evil wealth boldly. Happy spending.

u no know? say !!!

creativity = bigb1

this sets a very dangerous precedence for prospective well-meaning anti-corruption officials. you have an agf that has successfully stymied most if not all prosecution cases against corrupt ex-govs and a president that mimes 'rule of no law  at all' at every opportunity. it's absolutely sickening.

the current administration reminds me of that of IBB.

Creativity

Am sure one of ur relatives was percuted by Ribadu. And the poor guy (Ribadu) prevented u from spending ur ill gotten wealth. Well now that he's fled the country for his dear life and u guys have a puppet in charge, u can spend ur evil wealth boldly. Happy spending.

well, my dear yemmyse, that's your opinion and you're entitled to it. this is one of the reasons why i prefer to just read on this forum. it makes no sense to attempt to have a decent discussion. once you share a different view with someone, it means trouble. an average decent person would tell you that what ribadu is recently presenting to the world is unacceptable. and if it is condoned in any country, it means the entire citizens along with the constitution of that nation represent foolishness. i do not care about yaradua or ribadu or any ex governor, i only care about the future of nigeria. and if we allow ribadu to have his way, then i'm sorry for the youth and the future of this country.

Creativity

Pls dont take it person. It's just that when a cancerous ailment like corruption has been engrafted into any system, u need a radical and surgical procedure to remove. What Waziri is currently doing wont deter any corrupt individual. Infact it is only going to encourage them. Ribadu did the right thing at the right time. Forget who he was doing it for. How many corrupt person has Waziri indicted? Last time I checked zero.

My dear Nigerians are not monkeys, they might be quiet and cowardly but they know what is what. We can differentiate clear between a sincere fight against corruption and a pure charade.

ok??

Human rights watch

Bamidele Aturu

Wole Soyinka

Dr Christopher Kolade

Gani Fawenhinmi

Pat Utomi

NBA President

Balarabe Musa


all theses are not decent

the decent people are as follows

mike Aondoakaa
Farida waziri
Mike Okiro
James Ibori
Peter Odili
IBB
Terry waya


that na why Nigeria dey work perfectly because "creativity's" decent people na him dey run am