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A farmer does not depend on good luck to bring about good harvest and food for us to eat. If a tailor depends on good luck to sew your cloth, when you are looking for a shirt you will end up with a dress. A farmer does not look for good luck to give us to feed the nation, and a tailor does not depend on good luck to sew cloth, when it comes to certain matters good luck has its limitation. Instead, wise planning and intelligent thinking is what is needed. It’s not true that IGP is incompetent as people have been saying.

We have a situation where the IG himself is more or less a junior to some of the commissioners of Police serving under him. Remember that some people stayed behind with the intent of helping him, are all of them loyal to him? Do we know where the loyalty of some of them lies? Is it possible for him to have as free hand with the kind of command he’s asked to handle? Is he given a free hand? The moment you politicize anything that had to do with security, you have fractured the chain of command.

So, whereas, he may be a very competent officer but the structure he was asked to perform with may not help him.

Is that not enough reason to resign as people are calling on him to do?

You will have to interview him on that. Is it easy to resign?

If he is your uncle will you ask him to resign?

What is the way forward out of the current logjam?

The leadership must first of all find the moral courage to understand the reason why we are prone to these things more other countries; to face the problem, diagnose it and call it by its real name so it can treat it. If leadership does not do that we are going to slide to the morass faster. That is one. Number two; this new problem, in other countries nobody is relying on old methodologies.

In some countries, they call a new kind of war, because there is no text book answer. As I speak right now, all over the world, intelligence experts are just writing the text books to match this menace of terrorism, because it is a resurgence that has not be seen in many centuries. So, coming up with military intelligence to come and answer this problem is a waste of everybody’s time; coming up with DIGs to come and answer this, is a waste of everybody’s time.

What we need is leadership with innovative thinking; people who can think out of the box; who understand the cultural, religious, political and the radical aspects of what we are talking about here; people who know how to recognize the different phases and to handle all the phases with equanimity. I give you an example; one of the things that making this thing spread faster is the lack of a consensus in Nigeria.

The Chinese Constitution is about 2,000 words; the American is about 4,400 words but the Nigeria Constitution is in excesses of 74,000 words. Nigeria has never had a real constitution. What we call a constitution is not representative of the Nigerian people. There is no common agreement. The best country that Nigeria to align with right and it is going to be done with utmost wisdom, is USA—the only country that has had the same kind of history and experience and was successful to a point. They were also colonized by the British.

Every offer that was given to Nigeria as we transited to independence was also offered the Americans but they rejected all. All the problems in the Nigerian foundation can find solution in the American history. There is something called the American declaration of independence, Nigeria does not have the equivalent of it. What is written there is very simple but very powerful, and you can build the country on it: “All men are created equal before God and everybody is entitled to the pursuit of happiness”

That is why you see that nobody jokes with liberty in the US. If you have 10 heads, everybody is equal. Three revolutions were fought by the Americans, all based on the original agreement. In Nigeria, is there any such document that says we are all equal and that everybody is entitled to the basics of life? We do not know the power of such words.

America was able to overcome its colonial experience and build their nation properly. Nigeria is yet to that.

An investigation by Sahara Reporters has uncovered a carefully orchestrated scheme by President Goodluck Jonathan and other top members of his administration to sabotage or bungle corruption cases against numerous political figures in the country. Ndudi Elumelu, a former member of the House of Representatives, is the latest beneficiary of the president’s plan to undermine the prosecution of corruption cases.

In recent weeks, several corruption cases filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have faltered. Our investigation, in which sources within the EFCC and the Presidency spoke to us, reveal that more corruption cases have been programmed to collapse in the days, weeks and months to come – in keeping with a strategic plot that has received the blessing of Mr. Jonathan. “There’s a clear design to discharge several politicians, allies and cronies [of President Jonathan] from corruption cases,” one of our sources said.

The plot involves an intricate and complex web of maneuvers secretively designed by Nigeria’s Attorney General and Justice Minister Mohammed Bello Adoke. Also enlisted in the scheme are some rogue judges and some corrupt, high priced lawyers hired by the EFCC to prosecute its cases. As part of the elaborate plan, some of the lawyers, Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN), were hired to “prosecute” their former clients in glaring instances of conflict of interest.

The first beneficiary of the current scheme to gut and undermine corruption cases is former House Speaker, Dimeji Bankole, who was freed from prosecution over a case in which he used his offices to siphon billions of naira for his personal benefit. In February, 2012, an Abuja High Court judge, Justice Suleiman Belgore, dismissed the charges brought against the former speaker and his deputy, Usman Nafada. The judge claimed that the EFCC had failed to establish any fraud case against the accused.

A few days, Justice Sadiq Umar, also an Abuja High Court judge, dismissed a lawsuit filed against officials accused of receiving bribes in the famous Halliburton case. US courts had convicted top officials of Halliburton, an American-based energy company once headed by former US Vice President Dick Cheney, for bribing numerous Nigerian officials with close to $200 million in order to obtain billion dollar contracts in Nigeria. Justice Umar struck out the Halliburton bribery case, accusing EFCC prosecutors of failure to diligently prosecute the case.

The latest case to be compromised by the Jonathan administration involves the N5.2 billion rural electrification contract fraud. Yesterday, a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja struck out the fraud charges against Mr. Elumelu, a former chairperson of the House of Reps’ committee on power. Filed by the EFCC, the lawsuit had accused the lawmaker and his co-accused of stealing some N5.2 budgeted for rural electrification. In dismissing the case yesterday, Justice Garba Umar claimed that Mr. Elumelu knew nothing about the daylight robbery and then ruled, “He has no case to answer.”

“The judge’s ruling could be mistaken as an informed pronouncement based on the evidence in the case, but that’s far from being the case. The whole thing was arranged, and President Jonathan and [Attorney General] Adoke Bello were in the thick of this blatant miscarriage of justice,” said a highly connected source.

SaharaReporters has exclusively obtained a letter written by Ndudi Elumelu and addressed to President Goodluck Jonathan. Dated October 11, 2012 the document provides a glimpse into the high level conspiracy that has gone into the collapse of the corruption cases under President Jonathan’s watch.

In the letter, Mr. Elumelu painted a picture of harassment by the late President Umaru Yar’adua. Mr. Elumelu claimed that the former ruler had been misadvised by some people to target him with a lawsuit. In the letter, the former chairman of the House committee on power even went as far as citing the case of Dominique Strauss, the French-born former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to buttress the point about the futility of his trial. Mr. Strauss Kahn was accused of raping a woman from Guinea employed as a cleaner in a hotel where the former IMF head resided. US prosecutors ultimately decided not to prosecute the French bureaucrat and politician, citing inconsistencies in the victim’s account.

In his letter to Mr. Jonathan, Elumelu asked the president to intervene directly to stop his prosecution. “That’s a red flag,” said an Abuja-based lawyer, adding, “the doctrine of separation of powers means that the executive ought not to intrude on or meddle in judicial cases.”

Mr. Elumelu’s four-page letter claimed that the EFCC was spending too much money to prosecute the case against him. Asserting that the anti-corruption agency had expended N100 million to prosecute him, the former lawmaker wondered why the money was not spent to provide rural dwellers with electricity.

In 2009, the EFCC had slammed Godwin Ndudi Elumelu, then House of Representatives chairman of the committee on power, his deputy, Jibo Mohammed, Senator Nicholas Yahaya Ugbane, and seven senior management officials of the Rural Electrification Agency with a 156-count charge before a Federal Capital Territory High Court.

The EFCC accused the suspects of stealing over N5.2 billion. The indictment portrayed Mr. Elumelu as the arrowhead of the illicit contract bonanza through which the funds were stolen. An EFCC source familiar with the investigation told Saharareporters that Mr. Elumelu alone could have pocketed up to N3 billion from the rural electrification scam. The stolen funds were reportedly routed through different dubious accounts at the United Bank of Africa (UBA), owned at the time of the scam by Tony Elumelu, the legislator’s brother. EFCC operatives charged that Mr. Elumelu was assisted by two women who then fled Nigeria. The women, described as secretaries to Mr. Ndudi Elumelu, are Angela Oselukwe and Uduak Akpan Israel. Ms. Oselukwe is from Elumelu’s hometown, Oselukwu in Anioma Local Government Area in Delta State.

Former House Speaker Dimeji Bankole, his father as well as a brother of his, were also involved in the scam. Two EFCC sources disclosed that the former speaker and his relatives were paid over N900 million from the diverted rural electrification funds, but they were never charged by the EFCC.
The programmed collapse of Nigeria’s anti-corruption cases have become troubling for Nigerians as well as foreign countries that had believed Jonathan’s pledge that he would strengthen the fight against corruption. “This government’s record in the fight against corruption has turned out to be the worst in Nigeria’s recent history,” said a civil society activist based in Abuja.

A diplomatic source from the EU told SaharaReporters: “I do not believe we have seen any evidence that the government is backing up its pledge to commit more resources to address corruption.”

Mr. Elumelu’s letter to President Jonathan is reproduced below:

Excellency,
Dr Goodluck Jonathan,
The President & Commander in Chief,
Federal Republic of Nigeria,
State House, Abuja.

Dear Sir,
RE: UNNECESSARY PROSECUTIONS OF HON NDIDI ELUMELU & 8 OTHERS
AND WASTE OF OVER N100m PUBLIC FUNDS BY EFCC.

First and foremost, we want to appreciate your Excellency’s efforts in steering the ship of this country in the right direction. Our prayer is that the good Lord will continue to assist your Excellency in solving the myriads of problems confronting our great country.

Your Excellency, our attention has been drawn to the continued prosecution of Hon Ndudi Elumelu and 8 others in Gudu High Court, Abuja (CHARGE NO: CR/39/2009) and Federal High Court, Abuja CHARGE NO: FHC/ABJ/CR/87/2009).

Sir, we are not oblivious of the disposition of your Excellency to preserve and uphold the rule of law and allow same to prevail at all times. However, we strongly believe that when a wrong step is taken by one’s predecessor in Office who was wrongly misled by self serving advisers, it is proper for His Excellency, being a sitting President to give necessary directives to right the wrong.

Your Excellency, in November 2008, the late President Yar Adua gave his assent to the Amended Year 2008 Budget. There were rural electrification projects in the said Amended Budget which were to be executed by Rural Electrification Agency (REA). The projects have two components namely solar projects and Grid extension projects to be executed all over the Federation.

Sir, REA received Ministerial directives to execute the projects and the projects were awarded to deserving contractors in December 2008. The solar projects were to be completed within sixty (60) days which means by February 2009, the solar projects would have been completed while the Grid extension projects were to be completed within ninety (90) days which means that by March 2009, the grid extension projects would have been completed.

Sir, REA paid the initial 15% mobilization fees to the contractors and the payments were secured by Advance Payment Guarantee Certificates (APGS). Furthermore, since the projects have short completion period, the 85% contract balance were released to the Bankers of the contractors and same were secured with Advance Payment Guarantee Certificates (APGS). A copy of the 15% APG and 85% APG for one of the contractors is attached and marked Exhibits A and B for ease of reference.

Your Excellency, REA also wrote a letter to the Bankers prohibiting the Banks from releasing any part of the 85% contract balance until the projects are completed and the Banks received written instructions from REA to pay the said money. A copy of the said letter is attached and marked Exhibit C.

Your Excellency, in the history of rural electrification in this country, the success recorded by REA in executing the projects have not been surpassed by any MDA. The contractors were happy and concentrated on the projects with vigour having received assurances of payments after completion.

Regrettably sir, the late President Yar Adua was misinformed that officers of REA colluded with Honourable Ndudi Elumelu and other Members of the National Assembly to siphon the said 85% contract balance. The late President was not given any proper briefing before he sanctioned the prosecution of the accused persons by EFCC in May 2009.

Your Excellency, it is a matter of great concern that as at May 2009 when the accused persons were arraigned in court, out of forty (40) solar projects, eighteen (18) projects had been completed while sixty (60) projects had been completed out of one hundred and thirteen (113) grid extension projects awarded by REA.

Your Excellency, three months after the accused persons were arraigned in court, the EFCC Chairman, Madam Waziri confirmed in her letter dated August 18, 2009 and stated inter alia some of the projects were inspected by operatives of this commission and they observed that in certain cases the projects have been completed while some are ongoing. A copy of the said letter is attached as Exhibit D.

Your Excellency, in April 2011, the Federal Ministry of Power wrote two letters concerning the projects. The first letter was to each contractor in form of Job Completion Certificate while the second letter was an instruction to the Banks to pay the 85% contract balance in its custody to the contractors. Copies of the two letters are hereby attached and marked Exhibits E and F respectively.

Your Excellency, please permit us to ask this question. If Hon Ndidi Elumelu and other accused persons siphoned the 85% contract balance as alleged by EFCC, where did the Federal Ministry of Power get the money to be paid to the contractors?

Your Excellency, the EFCC letter dated August 18, 2009 (Exhibit D) and the two letters from Federal Ministry of Power dated April 18, 2011 (Exhibits E and F) are enough to show that there are no justifiable legal or moral reasons to allow this prosecution to continue when no money was actually lost or stolen or missing, the projects already completed and benefitting communities enjoying the power projects. In fact, in other countries, the Prosecution would take the shame and summon courage to inform the Honourable court that in view of the contents of the said EFCC letter (Exhibit D) and the two letters from the Federal Ministry of Power (Exhibits E and F), the Prosecution is no longer interested in continuing with the case. This event occurred recently in the United States when the Manhattan District Attorney and the New York Prosecutors applied to drop the charges against the former IMF Managing Director Mr. Strauss Khan (DSK) upon discovering contradictions in the evidence of the alleged rape victim.

Your Excellency, it is our humble appeal that the continued prosecution of this case is eaten deep into the meager resources of this country. We learnt on good authority that the private prosecutor engaged by EFCC is being paid the sum of N100m (one hundred million naira) apart from other expenses. This huge sum of money can provide solar projects in some communities living in darkness or meet the health needs of numerous communities and villages.

Sir, the question bothering our mind is very simple. Why do we need to waste hard earned tax payers money to prosecute a case which is very obvious that EFCC cannot secure a conviction in view of their (EFCC) own letter (Exhibit D) and the two letters from Federal Ministry of Power (Exhibits E and F)? There are other questions but we must save the valuable time of your Excellency.

In view of the foregoing, we hereby urge your Excellency to note:
(a) That the two cases pending against Hon Ndudi Elumelu and 8 others in Gudu High Court (Abuja) and Federal High Court (Abuja) concerning the rural electrification projects awarded by Rural Electrification Agency (REA) as provided under the Amended Year 2008 Budget of which said projects had been executed by contractors and benefitting communities already enjoying the projects [are] without merit and constitute a waste of public funds.

And humbly pray as follows:
(a) That the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice be directed to withdraw the charges against all the accused persons in the said two cases at Gudu High Court, Abuja (CHARGE NO: CR/39/2009 & CR/39A/2011) and Federal High Court, Abuja CHARGE NO: FHC/ABJ/CR/87/2009) on ground of Public interest pursuant to Section 174 (1) (c) of the 1999 Constitution

We are grateful for your Excellency’s prompt intervention in this matter.

Yours faithfully,
Hon. Ndudi Elumelu
On Behalf Of Others

The fish Face even went as far as to say that Facebook Comments Shape His Decisions! What an implosion.

Mr. Jonathan was more or less disgraced at the African Union Meeting in Addis Ababa on 29th January 2012.
Ghana led a group that voted against Goodluck Jonathan. President Thomas Yayi Boni of Benin was elected as Chairperson of the African Union (29-01-2012).


If Goodluck Jonathan was unsure of his popularity in Africa he just got a straight forward answer.
He is already rejected and hated in Nigeria. He is the worst president to ever walk Africa and he had the guts to want to try to lead Africa.

Northern Nigeria is at war with him and Abuja the capital of global corruption, he should hurry home and defend the people he sworn to defend as written in the constitution.

If not that Jonathan has no shame, how can a man who fails at home try to lead the entire continent. This is a man that single handedly plunge Nigeria into its Occupy Nigeria crises.

African leaders should never again allow a failed leader to lead the African Union.

Today, all Africans have to thank Ghana for leading the votes against Nigeria.

I don’t think Jonathan knows what he is doing.

He has not done anything to reverse the price of petrol and Nigerians are paying double or triple for everything compared to the prices they have before the Christmas of 2011.

Also all the looting in the Jonathan government have not been reverted or cancelled. The man is still spending N3b of Nigeria’s money on food. His allowances for local and international travel exceed N5m daily. Is this president normal? Where is he going with N5 million daily?

Nigerians must thank Ghana and the other countries who voted for the president of Benin. We could have been told that the rest of Africa agree with these lootings and stealing by Jonathan and other Nigerian politicians had Jonathan won.

The message is clear and strong. Mr. Jonathan is heading for the grass and he will soon be there.

Nigerians are suffering and the Jonathans and co are enjoying. This season won’t last. The end of it must come, soon.

egift: Here are things that have been said about Buhari:
- “Buhari is a forthright and very clearly a disciplined man. He has managed to cut the image of a person who abhors corruption genuinely”. - Nuhu Ribadu Chairman EFCC Daily Trust - 27th Feb. 2007,
- “Buhari stands out to be the most DEDICATED and PATRIOTIC leader" - Chief Olu Falae - ThisDay Newspaper, 23rd March 2007,
- "Buhari took any work that was given to him very seriously. He is reliable as he is hardworking and honest ”. - President Olusegun Obasanjo, in his book, Not My Will.

Can we have an independent comment on Mr Luck? Comparing Buhari to Jonathan is like Day and Night, respectively. Buhari remains the most respected Nigerian Leader still alive.

HERE HERE. THIS IS SPOT ON

bettymafy: Not bad. . . But, I donot want to rug anywhere. I want a house that is completely tiled. If u have my specs, pls do let me know. Thanks.

Then why don't you go for the 3 bedroom. More space isn't a disadvantage to you is it? As a lady I am sure you would eventually require additional space for stuff.

egift: Am sure you saw it, but for the benefit of doubt:


To make matter worst, its only "when the Priest was speaking" that he shouted Eureka! And discover the wonderful idea, and you begin to wonder what he have been doing all these while.

This made my day.

egift: You are missing the main point here, as President, the law does not allow the President of Nigeria to make such statement or any other one that undermines the territorial integrity of the nation. It does not matter if its fact of not. Just like what he said in Germany about the Nigerian Security apparatus, that it is substandard. Jonathan can not even join any protest or struggle against Nigeria. If he do like the one that took place in Enugu, it amounts to a treasonable offense, punishable by law.

Beaf and co that are trying to twist and bend the truth have failed. They started by denying it was said, to re-interpreting it, then when that failed the start attack anyone saying the truth. Now all they can afford it cause distractions. They have failed.

YES THEY HAVE FAILED

maasoap: Didn't he say so, or weren't you aware at that time? If he did suggest so, then why people that against it are now backing Retarden? I hope it is not because of ethnicity. Jona explicitly stated that there wouldn't SNC during his time. Based on that, I could only see his recent statement as lamentation. He is claiming that almagamation is faulty, yet doesn't want SNC. Then the question is why is he getting everything free of charge when he clearly lacks capacity to proffer solution to our problem? He should quit.

JBOY AND BEAF DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE SEVERITY OF THE ISSUE AT HAND. ALL THEY DO IS LATCH ON TO GEJ THIS AND GEJ THAT BUT WE CLEARLY HAVE REFERENCES THAT CLUELESS GEJ COULDNT EVEN LEARN FROM AND HE WENT AHEAD AND OPENED HIS GARGANTUAN PHD MOUTH AND NAILED HIS COFFIN. MY FATHER USED TO TELL ME SOMETHING AS A KID GROWING UP. LET ME SAY IT IN PIJIN ENGLISH SO BEAF AND JBOY CAN UNDERSTAND ME.

STICK WEY PERSON DEY SEE NO DEY ENTER IM EYE. CLEARLY GEJ IS BLIND AND HOW CAN A BLIND MAN LEAD THE NATION. ABI UNA WAN ENTER HOLE TOGETHER?

Beaf: It is obvious that you are a kid.
There's a topic to be dealt with, go get another adult to do your diapers, I'm not your dad.

Like you could even if you tried!

Beaf: Its funny how you want to reduce the topic to "east," especially to a foreigner who is gracious enough to want to learn about us.
I pity you.

Is there a particular reason why you are so re-tarded in your comments? Or is it because your mum never showed you love when you were a kid? Now you lash out at everything meaningful such as right thinking Nigerians who wish to exercise their freedom of speech and speak when required? Why did you have to sell your conscience for 30 pieces of silver Porky? was it really worth it?

OOOOO PORKY AND JBOY I'M BACK. DID YOU MISS ME? OF COURSE YOU DID. I MISSED YOU TOO SO VERY MUCH.

I'LL BE BACK IN AN HOUR PORKY. DONT YOU GO NOWHERE.

Beaf: He is only "controversial" to lovers of the status quo and is only "seriously under pressure" due to the mistakes of 1914.

Always being tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine from GEJ. You go wound one day. Now GEJ is under pressure because of issues from 1914 just because he said it? Dude get a life. We have seen Heads of state and Presidents come and go and nobody mentioned 1914 as being a problem even if it was... Rather they chose to work around it and leave results which the populace could see and identify with but what does your Paymaster GEJ do? He plays the blame game just like you Porky. Pass the ball.

Beaf: You have always said white people are superior to you, its happened over and over on threads all over NL. It is that same low self-esteem that is scaring you shiitless at the mention of 1914.
You will keep asking stup!d questions, because your only identity is peckham and you have not seen fit to come home and know your village.

You don't count, thrash around as you like, a man without an identity is a waste to his country. Phuck off and fly the Union Jack.

as you are flying the izaw [ijaw] flag abi?

ballabriggs: Leave that idi0t, he is paid to write.

You bet he is. Sell out!

Beaf: Fool, if you do not know the meaning of divide and rule then you are truly as stup!d as a piece of shiit.
Keep repping your messangers of blood, death and indolence and not learning what the simplest terms mean.

JUST ANSWER THE QUESTION! PORKY THE ENCYCLOPEDIA

shymmex: You're a dimwit!!! How the hell would I feel a whitey is superior to me when my life is ingrained in my African culture?? Olodo!!!

Yes, the Brits didn't complain because that was what they wanted, and they benefited from it...

Nigeria had a chance to choose what it wanted in 1959 - but why did our founding fathers choose Nigeria??

Southern Cameroon saw into the future, and opted out... We all could have done the same, so stop blaming 1914... The problem started in 1959, at the London conference...

Why are you educating Porky. He is using you to know what he never knew. The guy is not on our level. All he does is bicker, poke and prod.

Beaf: Why are the lovers of the status quo scared shiitless at the prospect of the re-engineering of our unity?
Why does it freeze the brains of the parasites and boko haram fans amongst us?
Why does the mention of 1914 make some pee themselves? Just asking.

Porky just to test your intelligence..... you said the british used divide and rule tactics. Could you possibly explain what their divide and rule tactic meant and how they were able to do this? If you cannot answer this then you do not deserve to be on this forum and should be kicked out. Your monotony is sickening.