otukpo:

on a very serious note, putting sentiment aside, the question the juornalist asked is un called for. It was meant to ridicule the Onovo and he understood it.

Have you ever watched Larry King Live on CNN or some of the local US tv channels where people are interviewed. In short just watch the Oprah show.

obi123:

and even if the journalist was provoking him, as an educated man of authority he should have answered in a more diplomatic way

Gbam!
In a simple way, Onovo lacks good communication skills. Someone should please tell him to contact me for training in communication etiquette for managers and executives

Is it not when you are intelligent you will answer things intelligently. Only in Nigeria unintelligent folks want intelligent kids. Crime is everywhere in the world and he deserves that award? That award is nothing to unemployed youth. If he can't guarantee security which I know he can't, let me resign and I know he won't. The politicians appointed him and that makes him a politician.

I do not see the difference between all these brown-envelope journalists and the police. Like journalists like police

On the Onovo threat issue, I was kidding. You should be able to see sacarsm when you read one. No person of the uniform in Nigeria deseres an award. Not the Police, Army, Navy, Airforce, Customs, Immigrations, Prisons, Civil Defense, Federal Road Safety Corp, none of em'.
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did u 4get to add LASTMA

I couldn’t stop laughing when I read this story. Typical Nigeria attitude isn’t? They never take responsibility for anything. What do you expect from a country, when a police chief thinks that he is not a failure with the spate of insecurity in an environment he is in charge and paid handsomely too in the process? And they are giving him an award.  More like giving a paedophile an award for looking after children.

He was asked a fair and simple question that must have caught him unawares because Nigerian journalist don’t always interview but always chat with them or in some cases massage their egos. They spent more time calling them “your holiness, Excellency, father, chief, Baba and other idiotic references they always bash about.

An intelligent fellow would have answered that question with some diplomacy, and still conceals his rage without making a pig of self. In the United Kingdom and other sane nations, he would have been without job this morning, giving a response like that to journalist.

It remind me a similar answer I got from my cousin, who was a governor between 1999-2007, why there are so much dirt in the street of his capital and he blares out an answer by asking me if he was a street cleaner, to the bemusement of my Scottish wife and my utter embarrassment.

The guy didn’t even realise how shallow his response was to all those sitting at the dinner table, many of them Europeans. Few months later, one of them asked me, if the guy is still in power? And I told him that the guy has been promoted to a higher office, and he thought I was joking.

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Achike Udenwa

FOI doesn't mean you should ask question just provoke the listener.

Oga, That is the exact reason why we need FOI.

To provocatively force the Truth out,
To shame thieving public servants and run them out of town.
To make people like Onovo uncomfortable. Public office is not your lounge room
If you can't handle the Hot seat why go near it?

Simple question Onovo dey use agidi dodge am, and a lot of my people are defending this pot-bellied dog?

Onovo is afraid of a man armed with a tape recorder and microphone trying to provoke him to own up to his ineptitude and he wants to catch ballot thieves, armed robbers, murderers and kidnappers.

What is wrong wit this Jonathan of a man?Patricia abi Patrick Etteh who was forced out as a speaker for corruption charges getting award?What kind of countrry is this.I am beginning not to take this Jonathan as a serious man,maybe a clown or,
He should also look for Tafa Balogun and give him the same award.Nonsense

e be lyk say mr president don pour cocaine for brain, wetin onovo don do abeg.

@ hugooh42 i cudnt agree more its lyks sumone forced him to add those names

if the question was to provoke him well it obviously work for the piglet, these pigs dont like being questioned

Why cant onovo tell us how many people the police have successful prosecuted for kidnapping, how many people they have arrested since the jos crisis, how many police man have been prosecuted for killing civillians and how many have been dismissed for collecting bribes in broad daylight, THATS HOW TO JUSTIFY YOUR AWARD, but the fat pig who under SA police rule would have been sacked for being obese is getting upset oloshi trailer will jam him on his way home at a police checkpoint

Exactly! Plus we all Saw on Youtube video of POLICEMEN killing innocent people during boko haram crisis including the name tags were clearly shown,
Onovo is incompetent !!
We have one of the worst police force in the world killing civilians daily and collecting their money daily, and they claim "police is your friend" if they ever say that to me i would smack the mutha.Bleep.ing policeman in his faceand runaway before i get shot!!

asha 80:

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Achike Udenwa

very nice try, but!

LOL!!!! Uhm, as far as I am concerned if your hands and conscience are truly clean then NO question should be 'provocative' enough for you to lose your cool over, especially if you call yourself a professional.

Why was the question 'un called for', may I ask? Its simple question. If anyone asks me 'do you think you deserve your bachelor's degree'? I would answer "Yes I do because I worked HARD for it and I have the test, exam and assignment scripts and marks to prove it'. Simple.

He could have answered that way instead of making a complete jackass of himself in print. You know what they say: Better keep your mouth shut and appear foolish rather than open it and clear all doubt and prove that you are'!!!

"Tell me a country without criminals, and I'll give you a slap on your face".
what a silly journalist! Why can't he ask other recipients the same question?

Acidosis:

"Tell me a country without criminals, and I'll give you a slap on your face".
what a silly journalist! Why can't he ask other recipients the same question?

Kilode?!:

Oga, That is the exact reason why we need FOI.

To provocatively force the Truth out,
To shame thieving public servants and run them out of town.
To make people like Onovo uncomfortable. Public office is not your lounge room
If you can't handle the Hot seat why go near it?

And that is why it will be very difficult for FOI bill to signed.
Are they lawyers? Why would they want to force the truth out of somebody?
The truth if not said at right time and place can very destructive.
Investigative journalism is good, but certainly not the way this guy was asking the question.

His reply should have been "do you think i don't desrve it"? That could have put him in a more intelligent light (though we know he's not). I'm sure Obasanjo is his role model cos he's worse when it comes to answering questions from journalists, Journalists shouldn't in any way romance you with their questions,they should annoy and provoke you, Obviously Onovo is used to silly journalists who ask him questions like " Sir,ever since you assumed duties at the helm of affairs of the NP,we've witnessed tremendous changes;like you have a magic wand. Sir,how did you achieve this feat"? And the silly man would have smiled,chuckled,coughed before he replies,

THIS ONovo is funny


and as for the journalist, there goes your "brown-envelope".



the question was meant to ridicule the dude, ROTFLMBAHSAO!!!!

See the Police badge on the arm of our  IGP uniform.
Is that really Nigeria Police uniform official badge

Onovo knows he doeosnt deserve the award and thats why he got offended. He was asked a simple question. Funny, he even went ahead to contradict himself saying "you as a public should say". So which is better, to ask the question or to say the answer? If he deserved it and he knew it, i bet he would have presented a better, happier response citing a couple accomplishments. He just exposed himself.

So we spoilt your mood? Can u immagine that? I no know whether these ppl go school.

He did not deserve it, and may he catch something.