. Tenders President’s Handwritten Note As Exhibit!

. Full Text of the Affidavit
Fresh facts have emerged on how and what transpired on 1st October 2010 when the Federal Capital Territory Abuja was bombed. Henry Okay, the former leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has stated that it was indeed President Goodluck Jonathan that was behind the bombing. Okah who is currently being detained in a South African prison over his alleged role in the October 1, 2010 bombing made some allegations in an affidavit he submitted to a court ‎recently.

In the 145-paragraph affidavit, Okah amongst a host of other things alleged that he spoke to the President on behalf of Mrs. Diezani Alison Madueke before she was made the Minister of Petroleum Resources. He also stated that his present predicament cannot be divorced from his refusal to get MEND to retract their claim of responsibility for the Independence Day bombing. Okah claimed the Government wanted to pin the occurrence on some specific northern elements. Excerpts:

IN THE SOUTH GAUTENG HIGH COURT, JOHANNESBURG
(REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA)
CASE NO: A570/10
In the matter between: –
OKAH, HENRY EMOMOTIMI Applicant
And
THE STATE Respondent
FOUNDING AFFIDAVIT
I, the undersiqned,
HENRY EMOMOTIMI OKAH do hereby make oath and state as follows: –
1. I am an adult male person, the Applicant herein, currently incarcerated at the Johannesburg Prison, since my arrest on the 2nd of October 2010.

2. The content of this affidavit falls within my own personal knowledge, except
where it is expressly stated otherwise, and are both true and correct”,

3. I am charged with certain offences in terms of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy against Terrorist and Related Activities Act, Act 33 of 2004 (lithe Terrorist Act”). I have further been advised and reconfirm that the offences referred to in the Terrorist Act are referred to in Schedule 6 of the Criminal Procedure Act, Act 51 of 1977 and that I am obliged as such to adduce evidence, having been afforded a reasonable opportunity to do so, that exceptional circumstances exist which in the interest of justice permit my release on bail.

INTRODUCTION: HISTORICAL CHRONOLOGY

4. I was arrested on the 2nd of October 2010 and appeared in Court 12 in the Regional Court, Johannesburg for the first time on the 4th of October 2010.

5. I applied for and was denied bail in a judgment by the learned Regional Court Magistrate H Louw on the 19thof November 2010.

6. ·1 appealed the judgment of the learned Regional Court Magistrate to the South Gauteng High Court, Johannesburg under appeal case number CA340/2010. My appeal was heard by His Lordship Hattingh AJ and dismissed on the in January 2011. A copy of the judgment of the High Court is annexed hereto as Annexure “HEO 1″.

7. An application was made on my behalf for leave to appeal, to the Supreme·
Court of Appeal of South Africa, which application was dismissed by the learned Hattingh AJ on the 11thof June 2011. I attach hereto a copy of the order dated the 1ih of June 2011 as Annexure “HEO 2″.

8. The proceedings of the hearing of the application for bail, in the Regional Court Johannesburg, as well as the transcripts of the record of the appeal before Hattingh AJ, will be made available to the above Honourable Court at the hearing of this application.

9. I have further been advised by my legal representatives that since appeared in the South Gauteng High Court, Johannesburg on the 31st of January 2012, the abovementioned Court is therefore seized with this application by virtue of the provisions of Section 60(1)(b) of the Criminal Procedure Act, 51 of 1977 and that the above Honourable Court should hear this application.

NEW FACTS

10. I have been advised by my legal representatives that should new facts arise, subsequent to the historical application and appeal referred to hereinabove, I am entitled to apply to the above Honourable Court to take any and all of the new facts into consideration together with the original application and consider whether I should be released on bail.

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91. Mr Godsday Orubebe informed me that President Goodluck Jonathan was disturbed about rumours of me routing for General Babangida from the North and wanted me to place an advert in the Nigerian newspapers in support of him.

92. Mr Orubebe further said that President Goodluck Jonathan was upset with General Babangida for contesting the election and was going to stop him, one way or another.
93. They intended to use the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to arrest General Babangida on charges relating to an alleged embezzlement of public funds during his tenure in office if all attempts to discourage him from participating in the elections failed.

94. [b]Mr Orubebe [/b]also explained to me that the North appeared to have lost respect for former militia leaders from the Niger Delta that appeared as illiterate thugs going around ministries in Abuja and making threats in the bid to secure government contracts. He went on to suggest that since I still had credibility and commanded the respect of most fighters, I should appear publicly as the leader of these former fighters.

95. He assured me in this meeting that President Goodluck Jonathan was determined to ensure that political power never returned to the North which Mr Orubebe described as parasites.

96. To achieve this, President Goodluck Jonathan would pretend to do only one term in office and once entrenched, he would insist on a second term.

97. Mr Orubebe in that meeting said the North had their chance and they put forward a very ill and ailing candidate for President.

98. Before his departure, the Minister of Niger Delta asked one of his aides, Mr Rodney Ambaowei to attend a demonstration of the brick machine I had previously tried to market to his ministry. This is confirmed in the documents attached above marked Annexure “HEO 9″


125.5. Contradicting the evidence supplied by the State on Mr Verty Bala, is the Report of Medical Practitioner attached to Mr Bala’s file, which was stamped by a hospital more than 50 kilometres away from the Maitama General Hospital where Mr Verty Bala’s corpse is reported to have been kept since 1 October 2010.

125.6. Mr Verty Bala’s Report of Medical Practitioner was stamped and signed by a medical practitioner at the National Hospital, Abuja, 2 days after Mr Bala’s reported post mortem examination at the Maitama General Hospital, and possibly released the corpse to the family for burial as per warrant to bury.

125.7. The medical practitioner at the National Hospital, Abuja who had access to Mr Verty Bala’s corpse, describes the corpse 8 days after the death and 2 days after a post mortem examination as fresh and neatly dressed with only a 1 mm puncture wound. This, contradicting a police report which recorded cuts on the body of Mr Bala on 1
October 2010.

125.8. The Maitama General Hospital and the National Hospital, Abuja are two entirely different, unaffiliated hospitals approximately 50 kilometres apart. A doctor in one hospital cannot attend to patients or victims of another hospital. Such discrepancies apply to all forensic pathology reports provided by the State for the bombings of 15 March 2010 and 1 October 2010.
126. The police docket states the following in respect of the alleged victims of the
1 October 2010 bombing:-

[b]126.1. All 7 alleged victims were escorted by the same policeman Corporal Akor Emmanuel to three different hospitals namely the National Hospital Abuja, Maitama General Hospital and the Asokoro General Hospital, all of them being remarkable distances apart.

126.2. The same Corporal Akor Emmanuel is again indicated to have escorted the corpse of Mr Verty Bala reported not to have died on the scene but at the Kings Care Hospital Zone 4, Abuja.

126.3. The same medical practitioner confirmed with a stamp from the National Hospital Abuja to have examined the bodies from 3 different hospitals without being in possession of an authorisation to do so.
126.4. This medical practitioner claimed to have conducted investigations and determined the cause of death of all victims, days after the post mortem examinations and the issuing of the warrants to bury.
126.5. The post mortem reports are not signed by the pathologists who conducted the autopsy, most probably an indication that the pathologists at the Maitama General Hospital, Asokoro General Hospital and the National Hospital Abuja refused to be co-opted. These post mortem examinations may in fact never have taken
place.

126.6. In all 7 post mortem examinations of alleged victims of the 1 October 2010 bombing, the same C.S.P. (Chief Superintendent of Police) is a witness even though some autopsies were indicated to have been conducted the same day in three different hospitals approximately 60 kilometres apart.
126.7. Autopsies in Nigerian Government hospitals are conducted within normal working hours between 9 am and 5 pm.

126.8. No death certificates were issued for any of the alleged victims of 1 October 2010 in spite of the fact that Nigerian law forbids the burial or issuing of a warrant to bury, without possession of a death certificate.

126.9. There is no evidence that the crime scene was secured for investigators which the police docket indicates only arrived at the crime scene 2 days after the bombing of 1 October 2010.

126.10. The only available explanation for the corpses and evidence photographed at the scene of bombing is that the bodies were brought to the scene 2 days later when the investigators arrived on the scene.
126.11. The corpses were turned face down and in different positions with an attempt to conceal their identities.

126.12. The poor picture quality is deliberate and renders it impossible to identify any of the victims.

126.13. With regards to the alleged victim of the 15 March 2010 bombing the death certificate was issued 8 months after the alleged death and burial.[/b]

126.14. The Nigerian Coroner’s Act forbids burial in the case of unnatural deaths without an autopsy, death certificate and warrant to bury.

127. The issuing of Mr Igbe’s death certificate 8 months after his burial is preposterous. The death certificate of Mr Igbe an alleged victim of the bombing of 15 March, 2010, indicates that he was last seen alive by a witness on the day the death certificate was issued 8 months after his death.

128. The indictment alleges in the summary of substantial facts that I was a
leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (“MEND”). The State also levelled certain allegations against MEND. See Summary of Substantial Facts, paras 2 to 9 – pp 21 to 22 of the indictment.

[b]129. An insight into the workings of MEND will assist in providing a better
understanding of the bombings of 1 October 2010 and the involvement of President Goodluck Jonathan’s Government in these bombings. MEND is an amalgam of independent groups in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, which groups struggled to get their land back. This has been going on for approximately 40 years.
130. It is my belief that President Goodluck Jonathan’s Government working with
a faction of MEND planned and execute the bombings of 14 March 2010 and 1 October 2010.
131. The purpose of the 14 March 2010 bombing in my opinion was to create an
atmosphere of insecurity in Niger Delta where President Goodluck Jonathan at that time, was fighting to oust the governor Mr Emmanuel Uduaghan whom President Goodluck Jonathan intended to replace with his Minister for Niger Delta, Mr Godsday Orubebe.

132. The bombing on 1 October 2010 was a platform for the elimination of political opposition from the North in the form of General Ibrahim 8abangida. The bombings of 1 October 2010 was also intended by the President Goodluck Jonathan Government to create anti North sentiments nationwide in order to galvanize support from other sections of Nigeria against other Northern candidates in the Presidential elections.
133. Under the arrangement, MEND I believe was not to claim responsibility for the bombings which the Nigerian government hoped to pin on General Babangida and other Northern elements.

134. The claim of responsibility by the central group for a bombing possibly carried out by the a faction of MEND punctured the plans of President Goodluck Jonathan to round up his opposition and hold them in custody until after the elections.
135. After the bombings of 1 October 2010, the Government of President Goodluck Jonathan solicited my cooperation in getting the central group to retract their claim of responsibility. In this regard, I was contacted by amongst others, Mr Moses Jituboh, a senior police officer and Head of Personal Security for the Nigerian president and Mr Tony Uranta, a close ally of President Goodluck Jonathan who caters for “dirty tasks”.

136. Mr Jituboh is always with the President and would not dare attempt to facilitate such an arrangement, without authorization from the President.

137. Mr Jituboh called me from his cell with number +234807703333 at 7:20:42 pm on 1 October 2010. In anticipation of my success in extracting a retraction, the Nigerian Government began the process of rounding up opposition politicians. Amongst those arrested was the Campaign manager of General Babangida, Dr Raymond Dokpesi.

138. My refusal to cooperate in this scheme resulted in President Goodluck Jonathan placing a call to President Jacob Zuma during the evening of 1 October 2010, requesting for President Zuma’s personal assistance in securing my arrest. My noncooperation was interpreted by President Goodluck Jonathan as support for the Northern politicians. The South African Government’s direct interference was responsible for securing search and arrest warrants against me.

139. Mr Jituboh’s post bombing call to me was widely publicised in the Nigerian media. If he made these call without the approval of the Nigerian President to someone whom the Nigerian Government labels a terrorist, Mr Jituboh would not only have lost his job but would have immediately been arrested.[/b]

140. Subsequent to Mr Jituboh’s call, I ignored 4 calls from the Minister for the Niger Delta, Mr Orubebe and 2 calls from an aide to the Minister, Mr Abraham Gillow. I assumed they were also calling to solicit my assistance in diverting blame for the bombings of 1 October 2010.

141. During the morning of 2 October 2010, I received two SMS’es from Mr Tony
Uranta. As earlier stated, Mr Uranata is acknowledged by Nigerians to be responsible for “dirty tasks” President Goodluck Jonathan would not wish to be traced to him.

142. The SMS’es were sent from Mr Uranta’s number +2348075407801.

143. The first of the two SMS’es sent by Mr Uranta at 10h23:05am stated; – “Ask J.G to withdraw statement.” (J.G being Jomo Gbomo the spokesperson for MEND).

144. The final SMS sent at 10h28:32 am states; – “The government will blame on
Northern elements.”

145. When confronted by the Nigerian media about these claims, Mr Uranta’s defence was that his phone was stolen on the day in question and the thief must have sent me the SMS’es.

146. President Jonathan’s earlier exoneration of MEND and me in the bombings of 1 October 2010 was done with the belief that MEND would retract its statement paving the way for President Jonathan’s planned persecution of political opposition. I attached hereto marked Annexure “HEO 11″ several press articles published on the internet in this regard.

147. President Jonathan’s only concern after the bombings of 1 October 2010 was my unwillingness to assist them in directing blame for the bombings at opposition candidates from the North of Nigeria.

148. The embarrassment caused to Mr Goodluck Jonathan by the continued insistence in its claim of responsibility by MEND provoked President Jonathan’s relentless pursuit and persecution of me with the assistance of the South African Government.

149. The State has made a desperate attempt to construct its fictional case against me based on its vague knowledge of my itinerary whilst in Nigeria, my relationship with President Goodluck Jonathan and other members of the Nigerian Government......

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can someone please summarize?

Pls read the whole story if you can, its lengthy but interesting to read..... Mr Orubebe, Dokpesi and co... see their responsibility

Cc seun, ishilove, lalasticlala

Una done dey start again ooo una no go live oga jona to go home go rest una done dey bring another thing outside. I beg make una live the man him done try for us. If no be him, by now this message way I they sit down for my house dey type I for no dey my house I for dey fine where my people or where I for run go. Oga jona God bless you my Hero.

Could this be true

Breeze don dey blow how many fowl yansh go blow

Tell that to the birds Mr Okah. You are suffering from your own stupidity. Whichever way, you could have rejected such plan if truly you were offered such a dirty job.

You have only succeeded in indicting yourself the more.

dayjee:
Could this be true

if you read every this, you wont doubt anything.... breeze da blow, foul yansh go open

barcanista comman defend your principal oooo, obiagelli come and witness ooo

hmmmm interesting

Very soon some niccurs will be saying , jona my hero !
(My opinion) " jona aint no hero , he had no choice dan to congratulate buhari , cos they both signed the peace treaty before election "

Otuoeke man ..

tuncy:

if you read every this, you wont doubt anything.... breeze da blow, foul yansh go open

barcanista comman defend your principal oooo, obiagelli come and witness ooo

My bro make we see how dis story go end naa...

Jona!! so many things will be unravelled about that man once he leaves office.

For all those already calling him a hero; y'all will regret it

TELEMUNDO

I always say this and I'll keep saying it.Do not be deceived by Jonathan's foolish look and his clueless tantrums....he's more demon than human. Henry Okah was betrayed by his comrades (Asari Dokubo and co) when he declined some top government officials to front MEND for personal vendetta. He believed in the Niger Delta cause but was betrayed and usurped by his brothers whom Jonah promised even on earth to. I belief there are people who wouldn't want to see him released, he'll probably die in jail.

Ask this question, why is there a strong relationship between GEJ government and the militant today and yet Henry Okah is made to pay for a collective job done?

WAItin for f.p

What a revelation. The picture is so clear. I knew that man called Gej is not what some gullible people think he is. Deceiving people with his clueless look. I'm not surprised.

I knew it! Don't be fooled by Jonathan's facade. Deep down he's not as innocent as people say. Reminds me of those rats that blows air while they eat your feet.

No wonder Jonah claimed MEND was not responsible.
Dt guy ehn...

Liar, we shall see.

Imagine what our leaders are using their brains and our our resources for!!!
Mischief, power play and control!! How can a house move forward when it is not
in order?? Husband(i.e south) is going left, wife(i.e North) want to go right. How now??

1)All these old folks NEED TO GO!!
2) NIGERIAN NEEDS A NEW GENERATION LEADER!
3) ONE THAT WOULD CHANGE NIGERIA'S NAME TO NAIJA
4) AND CHANGE OUR 1ST LANGUAGE TO PIDGIN ENGLISH TO GIVE US THE SINGLE IDENTITY OF ONE NAIJA.
5) ONE THAT WOULD KNOW HOW MANY NIGERIAN CITIZENS THERE ARE AND MANAGE RESOURCES APPROPRIATELY.
5) ONE THAT WOULD CREATE A CLEAR CUT 70YEAR ROAD MAP THAT WE ALL AGREE TO AND FOLLOW EVEN IF GOVERNMENT CHANGES

I AM TIRED OF THE NONSENSE THESE OLD FOLKS DO! I HARDLY GET IMPRESSED BY ANY OF THEIR ACTIONS. IT IS SAD

This is getting clearer, GEJ is behind that 1st Oct bombing and alot to be revealed.

I need a comment loan

I knew he z nt an innocent man

Jonathan, Jonathan, Jonathan. How many times did I call you?

Was it not PDP that based it's presidential campaign around hate crime such as Buhari being a certificate-less illiterate and a terrorist?

Chei, we have a hypocrite of a president.

phelps007:
Tell that to the birds Mr Okah. You are suffering from your own stupidity. Whichever way, you could have rejected such plan if truly you were offered such a dirty job.

You have only succeeded in indicting yourself the more.

You embarrassed yourself by not reading.

I can understand the sentiment by some in advising the next administration not to rock the boat and just focus on the future for peace to reign, but I think that is cowardly, misplaced and st.upid. Jonathan's administration has to be probed, period. If not where does one draw the line? And considering the deaths and violence and voter intimidation and all of that, Rivers State elections also have to be looked into as well, the opposition should take it to the tribunal. There comes a time when you have to say STOP, if not it will only happen again in the future if there are no lessons to be learnt. There have to be some scape goats, these allegations are too serious to sweep under the carpet.

arsetalks:
You embarrassed yourself by not reading.

It's clear you find it difficult to understand simple English.

philips70:
It's an open secret in the creeks President Jonathan is very culpable in that bomb attack and Henry Okah's travail is only because he refused playing ball. There are a zillion reasons a fortune was spent in the last elections.

the creek will be seething with anger from okah boys. Abuja is too close to law enforcement for comfort.
No wonder Petiance no wan show face for public. No wonder orubebe wan scatter the country. No Wonder Asari wife dey murder grammer about investigation.