If Ribadu was a "hero","honorable" as many ignorant ones claim,he would have resigned from obj's govt   .
But he kept going doing obj's bidding.

He saw how Atiku fought and won without any crying,hide and seek or media propaganda.
If he has nothing to hide why can he stay and defend himself.

The irony of all this is that this is the same guy that hounded Atiku  
Wonders shall never end  

Muza:

If Ribadu was a "hero","honorable" as many ignorant ones claim,he would have resigned from obj's govt .
But he kept going doing obj's bidding.

He saw how Atiku fought and won without any crying,hide and seek or media propaganda.
If he has nothing to hide why can he stay and defend himself.

The irony of all this is that this is the same guy that hounded Atiku
Wonders shall never end

HAHAHAHAHAHA Atiku did not run? honorable Atiku, where did he spend most of his days? we knew when we were kept waiting Atiku will come today and Atiku will not show up, then Atiku will come 2morrow and We never saw him, he kept running from one court to another to obtain injunctions and all that please no just bring Atiku into this why did he refuse to resign? why did he made sure he stayed until May 29? please please please please, when we are talking about Ribadu lets not bring in Atiku.

Muza:

If Ribadu was a "hero","honorable" as many ignorant ones claim,he would have resigned from obj's govt .
But he kept going doing obj's bidding.

He saw how Atiku fought and won without any crying,hide and seek or media propaganda.
If he has nothing to hide why can he stay and defend himself.

The irony of all this is that this is the same guy that hounded Atiku
Wonders shall never end

lol

correct guy,

@igbonla
lets leave sentiments out of this,you really think if all these former governors with their enormous stolen wealth and connections wanted to kill ribadu ,he would still be alive?please dont make me laugh a sitting minister was assasinated even with police escorts and you are talking about ribadu, even if he has 100 police escorts they will miraculously vanish within minutes, dont forget this is nigeria, ribadu is still alive because he is making up most of these assasination attempts, it is not the first time they ll do it, fani kayode did to get more police and sss escorts after he left office
@all
atiku didint send hired killers after ribadu when he and his friends were hounded,he went to the courts,seeing as ribadu has gone to the courts,what is he scared of again?why not wait for the ecowas court to make their judgement or has he suddenly lost confidence in them as well even before they have heard his case?
remember atiku had all the faith in the nigerian justice system even though,he knew obj had many of them in his pocket, say anything about atiku one thing we cannot erase from history is that atiku brought confidence back to the nigerian judicial system

this is very right.

He who run from fight today save the fight for another day.

running for a fight contradicts everything ribadu stands for, therefore, he who runs from fight today is a coward and has a lot to cover up. we must avoid sentiments and call it what it is.

he is not even just a coward but his main problem is his overblown ego and delusions of grandeur, because he was not answerable to anybody during his time at efcc,he is now finding it really difficult to submit to authorities he believed were inferior to him before coupled with some stuffs he has done as well that has now been dug up lets be honest here no one in authority is 100% clean, even ribadu

I wonder how he feels!

cre8tivity:

i happen to be a little bit closer to icpc and i will try my best to answer this question.
my dear, during obasojo's regime, icpc was being controlled or managed by bigwigs old school judges that were even older and had more experience in-terms of life and politics than obasojo himself. therefore obasojo intentionally did not bother to involve these icpc people, they were too smart, been around too long and too brave for obasojo to mess with them. but here comes jonny the policeman, a man that loves power, very ignorant and arrogant at the same. his name is ribadu. obasojo saw these special qualities and immediately too advantage. ribadu wasn't bright enough to see past those days, and this is why he finds it very difficult to believe what is going wrong with him today. ribadu intentionally did not listen to advise from the wise ones. he was told to take it easy and not to be used, but his head was too big at those wonderful days.

my dear cr8tivity, can you please name one person among all those you said were 'selectively' prosecuted by the EFCC (AIG. RIBADU) that did not actually commit the offence they were prosecuted for?

Or, maybe what you are implying is that, all corrupt politicians who are opponents of the government of the day, should not be investigated and prosecuted if found wanting?

my friend, if you must oppose the government, please make sure your cupboard is not filled with skeletons,

and what do make of the bad reputation/name yahoo, yahoo boyz are giving our beloved country abroad, if you must know AIG. NUHU RIBADU prosecuted a handful of them, unless you want show all nairalanders our ignorant you are, hoping that you are not one of them,

i weep for your generation, for corruption is in your bone marrow, onyi oshi

Im so sad for Nigeria
some people here are actually villifying Ribadu?
Ok lets say his anti corruption war was partial. well its a known fact that the people he went after werent clean afterall, so he was still right in going after them
what i would expect a right thinking person to fight for is that the new EFCC under someone else should go after all those people he didnt touch as that will further help in bringing down curruption.
I dont think celebrating his travails show any interest in the future of the country it only displays a support for those corrupt animals who have brought the country down to her knees.
Shame on those happy at his persecution.

my dear cr8tivity, can you please name one person among all those you said were 'selectively' prosecuted by the EFCC (AIG. RIBADU) that did not actually commit the offence they were prosecuted for?

Or, maybe what you are implying is that, all corrupt politicians who are opponents of the government of the day, should not be investigated and prosecuted if found wanting?

my friend, if you must oppose the government, please make sure your cupboard is not filled with skeletons,

and what do make of the bad reputation/name yahoo, yahoo boyz are giving our beloved country abroad, if you must know AIG. NUHU RIBADU prosecuted a handful of them, unless you want show all nairalanders our ignorant you are, hoping that you are not one of them,

i weep for your generation, for corruption is in your bone marrow, onyi oshi 

should i take this as a compliment or as an insult. it is sad that we find it impossible to stick to topic. what could you attain from calling people names? lack of self respect and civilization is why most of us can not go over the hill. my dear, please kindly stick to the topic and save the insult till you return back home.

And yes, we should celebrate and make heroes of those who fight corruption regardless of whose camp ther fight.
It is only in sustaining that fight that we'll make corruption unattractive

His current travails will only embolden the gluttonous ones!

good i think he claim to be a hard man why is is  ribadu runing away i hate him although my dad is not a former or present governor, ribadu is  a corrupt leader like peter odili of rivers/state ibori,oyinlola,alam's & order's

i am happy for nigeria. the rules are finally being recognized. let us pray for someone who will set ego aside and fight this fight with honesty, integrity, self respect and respect for democracy

This is Naija!

In the final analysis, Nobody is above the law.

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Creativity

If u re so sensitive, y not get off a public forum.

cre8tivity:

i am happy for nigeria. the rules are finally being recognized. let us pray for someone who will set ego aside and fight this fight with honesty, integrity, self respect and respect for democracy

YOU NEVER SEEM TO GET IT

HERE'S ANOTHER ONE, FOR YOUR INFO

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

Last View on Mon 8th December, 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

run! nuhu run !!!!

@dash88,

that news is supposed to be a still one.


Please tell us something new.

It is too obviously a wicth hunt from those thieves who felt threatened by the hard stance of Nuhu.

What a country!

Reading through the comments which celebrate the witch- hunting of Ribadu by Yar Adua and his cronies, I can't but say

"Bleed, bleed, poor country/Nigeria!
Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,
For goodness dare not check thee! wear thou thy wrongs;, " Shakespeare.

You guys calling for the crucifixion of Ribadu,
is our memory too short to remember that this was a man who fought corruption the best he could?
Remember this was the man whose actions changed people's perceptions about nigeria.
He put his life on the line for our sake, forgetting that nigeria is irredeemable.

Now, we all want him killed just because he confronted the devil.

Lady Waziri is in, and the corruption war is dead.
We can now rejoice and celebrate.
"Now we are in an era of the rule-of-law"
We can only get what we ask for.


Something has gone wrong with my fatherland,
and her children are fled to safety!

azorjiu:

Reading through the comments which celebrate the witch- hunting of Ribadu by Yar Adua and his cronies, I can't but say

"Bleed, bleed, poor country/Nigeria!
Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,
For goodness dare not check thee! wear thou thy wrongs;, " Shakespeare.

You guys calling for the crucifixion of Ribadu,
is our memory too short to remember that this was a man who fought corruption the best he could?
Remember this was the man whose actions changed people's perceptions about nigeria.
He put his life on the line for our sake, forgetting that nigeria is irredeemable.

Now, we all want him killed just because he confronted the devil.

Lady Waziri is in, and the corruption war is dead.
We can now rejoice and celebrate.
"Now we are in an era of the rule-of-law"
We can only get what we ask for.


Something has gone wrong with my fatherland,
and her children are fled to safety!

You have just about summed it up!

Lets wait for that "Saint" that some of you are looking for and see how long we will wait. We need to build on past attempts to right wrongs no matter how little they were. While I cannot vouch for Ribadu or his actions as I do not know him personally, I do know at least that the Master plan designed for Abuja in the 70's had been completely bastardised before this guy came in. He did destroy countless number of houses to revert to the master plan and in the process, he hurt many people directly or indirectly some of who may be on this thread. I wish you knew that Washington DC, Brasilia City, Putrajaya, e.t.c are all administrative cities that abuja should look like. There are allegations that he spared some people or even gave out Lands and houses to people but it is left for the Government to substantiate the claims and prosecute him if found guilty.

During his tenure, he also instilled some level of sanity into public office and even private sector accountability. There is absolutely no way you can achieve all this without being in the blackbook of even your Superiors or hurting many. Now, why the guy even stayed back in the Police Force after he lost power baffles me! He should expect nothing but the humiliation that he is currently receiving as certain people will not go to sleep until they have seen the demise of this guy. Obviously, the don't want blood on their hands else he may have been gone a long ago. Pick up a Nigerian newspaper of the 1980's and the headlines will just be as fresh as today's! When shall we ever learn?

abeg go easy on ribadu, its just a matter of cause and effect. you reap what you sow, is an ironic way of looking at things. this guy has sown a lot of trouble for nigerian corrupt politicians even if it was selectively done. the fact remains that now they are making him reap just what he planted into their lives in form of lack of rest of mind, hypertension, insecurity and the likes.
just offshoots of BAba's legacy.

nawahooooooo that is very good think ribadu is a hard ma why is he running away let him come & complete his assignment

nawahooooooo that is very good think ribadu is a hard ma why is he running away let him come & complete his assignment

@igbonla
lets leave sentiments out of this,you really think if all these former governors with their enormous stolen wealth and connections wanted to kill ribadu ,he would still be alive?please don't make me laugh a sitting minister was assasinated even with police escorts and you are talking about ribadu, even if he has 100 police escorts they will miraculously vanish within minutes, don't forget this is nigeria, ribadu is still alive because he is making up most of these assasination attempts, it is not the first time they ll do it, fani kayode did to get more police and sss escorts after he left office

@lucabrasi,
There is nothing sentimental about somebody running. It is one of the survival strategies in this nation, go ask all those that have used it. I am sure you know them.
A sitting minister cannot be compared with Ribadu, believe me! They have made attempts and have not succeeded, why do you think he is running? Just for the fun of it? Ribadu can't be killed easily, forget about wealth and connection. He knows those that have the know-how to do the killing.
The govt leaks, everybody knows what is going on except the average Nigerians that relies on newspaper reports.
On a lighter note, I think you should come home more frequently.

@Crea8tivity

Its quite pathetic that you have devaited form womahood (motherhood) to the path of evil that was hitherto dominated my men. If you can speak so openly but foolishly in favor of corruption in our land like this, I can not but dismiss you as a devil incarnate. You have got no dignity and integrity. Where is the spirit of Dora, Ngozi, Oby etc, in you as a fellow woman? I cry for you.

it's quite unfortunate that we have gone like this in naija! how can a man be so humiliated for fighting corruption? it shows that even the present government doesn't care about it's 7 point agenda. the most annoying are those goons at the national assembly. na to chop money be there own! imagine what they spent on cars?! those guys should be hanged! na them dey behind ribadu wahala, those wey no want make naija progress, na motor go kill them one aftyer the other, them and their family memebers, amen!!!

I have this advice for Mrs Farida, before you get carried away by the praises of your sponsors, remember what happened to Ehindero. He was used to hunt down Tafa Balogun, I believe you know how he ended. Today you may be swimming in the tide of your powerful wellwishers, tommorrow may not be so rosy. I just feel you should learn now to thread with caution. Modibbo came in as the Minister of FCT, and instead of concerntrating on things that he will be remembered for, he concerntrated in reviewing almost everything El-rufai did. Today, he is no more there and if you ask me there is nothing in FCT that Modibbo will be remembered for except the review of El-Rufai's legacies. STOP HUNTING RIBADU AND CONCENTRATE ON PUTTING IN PLACE LASTING LEGACIES THAT YOU WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR. A word they say is enough for the wise, and this is if you are wise at-all.

Make una leave creativity lone.She is saying the right thing.Why did ribadu face Obasanjo if him dey do right thing.You should not bite the finger that feed you.Do you think its only obasanjo who put the mallam there.So why is he biting others.He should be killed.In this world corruption can never be elimated.
Its just like sin.Its fun and there is no way it will reduce,You know say Sugar dey cause diabetics why u dey leak am?