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Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by DisGuy: 9:59pm On Sep 26, 2010
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When contacted, media spokesman for president Jonathan, Mr. Ima Niboro said he was not aware of the incident
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another innocent nigerian locked up by the Gentleman's govt

Fela: you no be gentleman at all o !
Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by netotse(m): 10:22pm On Sep 26, 2010
Beaf:

That is indeed when it happened. GEJ had just been made Acting President and many were enraged. Shortly before that, we had also had the unauthorised troop movements (the dude responsible is facing a court marshial).

beaf, which kain lie be this now? where did you hear this one?
Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by Nsiman(m): 11:07pm On Sep 26, 2010
@ netotse, pls when actually did it happen and where? But by and large a mere taxi driver driving and hitting a president's convoy is questionable. The taxi driver should not even live to date because he dared the president voluntarilly.
Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by Nsiman(m): 11:08pm On Sep 26, 2010
@ netotse, pls when actually did it happen and where? But by and large a mere taxi driver driving and hitting a president's convoy is questionable. The taxi driver should not even live to date because he dared the president voluntarilly.
Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by Beaf: 12:14am On Sep 27, 2010
netotse:

beaf, which kain lie be this now? where did you hear this one?

Dude, everything about Jonathan is quiet and behind the scenes (I'll post a better link later); http://nationaldailyngr.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=478:deployment-of-troops-brigade-of-guards-commander-faces-court-martial&catid=98:nationwide&Itemid=484
http://www.saharareporters.com/news-page/ax-could-fall-soon-late-yar%E2%80%99adua%E2%80%99s-adc-colonel-mustapha-onoyiveta
http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20100626253873

Abeg, where are you uploading the video you mentioned? I'm interested.
Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by netotse(m): 12:30am On Sep 27, 2010
Beaf:

Dude, everything about Jonathan is quiet and behind the scenes (I'll post a better link later); http://nationaldailyngr.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=478:deployment-of-troops-brigade-of-guards-commander-faces-court-martial&catid=98:nationwide&Itemid=484

Abeg, where are you uploading the video you mentioned? I'm interested.
the article said 'could be court-martialled', if you remember the commander for the brigade of guards was changed a couple of days ago with the other GOCs hence he could not have been facing a court-martial.

be careful with these articles.
Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by Beaf: 1:10am On Sep 27, 2010
netotse:

the article said 'could be court-martialled', if you remember the commander for the brigade of guards was changed a couple of days ago with the other GOCs hence he could not have been facing a court-martial.

be careful with these articles.

My bad.
I got Col. Mustapha Onoedieva mixed with Brig. Gen. Abdul Mustapha.
Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by netotse(m): 1:13am On Sep 27, 2010
no biggie. . .i'll upload the vid later today and post it on this thread, it's abt 2 mins long though. . .

of which the ADC was retired i think,
Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by Beaf: 1:16am On Sep 27, 2010
Yeah, the video would add an important visual angle to the discussion.
Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by xterra2(m): 1:26am On Sep 27, 2010
[size=14pt]Um shouldnt the Presidents guards have an RPG-7 Anybody who comes near would be RPG-ed  cheesy, but seriously.


In other news,the grass is green


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Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by Justcash(m): 1:27am On Sep 27, 2010
Gbawe:

For this trash  

You are indeed the one that gat no clue. I asked you a simple question, and you were so clueless that you thought it was for the trash. LOL! Dude, don't open up topics that you cannot defend. You simply are a bad loser in debates. You have resorted to making short and meaningless statements over facing facts. If you were in GEJ's position, that man would be dead by now. Look at the mirror before you use your hands to type with your heart instead of your brains.


Gbawe:

I have nothing to say to you. I don't discuss with bigots who have a problem seeing individuals ahead of their region of origin. Arrant nonsense . So all Yoruba folks are OPC vigilantes to you? Some of you need to get out and about a bit more.
[b]This shows how senseless you are. So, that was all you could deduce from my statement. Even a child would know that the statement was meant for a comic relief. So, if you tell me that I would give a "Bakassi vigilante" treatment to someone that annoys me, it automatically means that you are being tribalistic?
dude! widen the scope of your intelligence jo! From all indications, you are trying to avoid my question by pretending to feel aggrieved by a harmless statement that I made. Are you not Yoruba? So, if a foreigner tells you that he doesn't want you to give his or her country a "Nigerian military" treatment, it automatically means that the person is racial? Wetin concern OPC treatment and being tribalistic. Does giving someone an OPC treatment mean that you are an OPC member? So a civilian cannot give a fellow civilian a military or OPC treatment without really being in the military or OPC in Nigeria? Would it not have been easier to say that your preference of Fashola in everything political is because you are Yoruba? Yet, I did not see it that way. Now you use an OPC illustration to self-service your aggrieved Manhood.
Gosh, you disgust me!  
Once again don't bring up topics that you cannot defend. I can understand that you are trying to discredit GEJ, and I have nothing against it. You need to dig out better facts. [/b]
Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by Beaf: 1:38am On Sep 27, 2010
Justcash:


You are indeed the one that gat no clue. I asked you a simple question, and you were so clueless that you thought it was for the trash. LOL! Dude, don't open up topics that you cannot defend. You simply are a bad loser in debates. You have resorted to making short and meaningless statements over facing facts. If you were in GEJ's position, that man would be dead by now. Look at the mirror before you use your hands to type with your heart instead of your brains.

[b]This shows how senseless you are. So that was all you could deduce from my words. Even a child would know that the statement was meant for a comic relief. So, if you tell me that I would give a "Bakassi vigilante" treatment to someone that annoys me, it automatically means that you are being tribalistic?
dude! widen the scope of your intelligence jo! From all indications, you are trying to avoid my question by pretending to feel aggrieved by a harmless statement that I made. Are you not Yoruba? So, if a foreigner tells you that he doesn't want you to give his or her country a "Nigerian military" treatment, it automatically means that the person is racial? Wetin concern OPC treatment and being tribalistic. Does giving someone an OPC treatment mean that you are an OPC member? So a civilian cannot give a fellow civilian a military or OPC treatment without really being in the military or OPC in Nigeria? Would it not have been easier to say that your preference of Fashola in everything political is because you are Yoruba? Yet, I did not see it that way. Now you use an OPC illustration to self-service your aggrieved Manhood.
Gosh, you disgust me!
Once again don't bring up topics that you cannot defend. I can understand that you are trying to discredit GEJ, and I have nothing against it. You need to dig out better facts. [/b]

By the time you add all the above to the way the totally unconnected Uzoma Okere was somehow stretchered in and woven into the Taxi security breach, the whole article takes on the toga of dishonesty.
Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by Justcash(m): 1:47am On Sep 27, 2010
Beaf:

By the time you add all the above to the way the totally unconnected Uzoma Okere was somehow stretchered in and woven into the Taxi security breach, the whole article takes on the toga of dishonesty.

Exactly. It is heavily tainted with a blinding color of dishonesty. The poster and some people thinks that ramming into the Nigerian president's car is just normal, when it is not normal in even America with all their human rights respect. They seem not to understand the sentence, "Ramming" a car into another car. Except the story posted is different from what actually happened or fabricated, that taxi driver committed a crime.
Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by Nobody: 5:37am On Sep 27, 2010
adc online posted this

Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by Nobody: 5:49am On Sep 27, 2010
WHITEBOARD


Vice President Biden’s motorcade was involved in an accident Sunday afternoon in Vancouver, where he has been over the weekend as the leader of the U.S. delegation at the winter Olympics.

Two members of the U.S. delegation – Peggy Flemming, the gold medal-winning ice skater, and Vonetta Flowers, a gold medalist in women’s bobsledding – were taken to a local hospital as a precaution, according to a statement from Biden spokesman Jay Carney.

“They were both evaluated and have since been released,” he said. “Neither the Vice President nor anyone else in his party was involved in the incident."

The incident marks the fourth time Biden’s security detail has been involved in an accident. The other three took place in November. A car in Biden’s motorcade hit a sheriff’s deputy in New Mexico. The vice president’s advance security detail hit a cab in New York City. And while he was not in it, a vehicle in Biden’s motorcade killed a pedestrian in Maryland. Temple Hills, MD.

Biden’s motorcade was from heading from the residence of the US counsul general to the arena where the women’s hockey game against China was taking place, Carney said. The crash occurred when a vehicle in Biden’s motorcade rear-ended the one in front of it, sending that vehicle into a third, according to local news reports, which also say the crash is under investigation with an oil spill being considered as a possible cause. – Carol E. Lee (9:35 p.m.) .


Biden Motorcade Accident occurs in New York, VP uninjured in crash
August 05, 2010 11:07 PM EDT (Updated: August 06, 2010 08:41 AM EDT)
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On Thursday, part of the Joe Biden motorcade had a minor accident while in New York. According to reports, the Vice President's vehicle was not part of the crash, so VP Biden is reported to be uninjured.
Vice President Joe Biden unveils the Council of Economic Advisers latest quarterly report on the economic impact of the Recovery Act in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House in Washington on July 14, 2010. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg Photo via Newscom

Reportedly, the crash involved two New York City police motorcycles. The police escorts were escorting Vice President Biden over to Kennedy Airport. Earlier in the day, Joe Biden had a meeting with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. According to the New York Times, none of the officers involved in the Biden motorcade accident were hurt.

There had been another motorcade crash just last year involving Biden's police escorts. During that November crash, the Vice President was on his way to Jon Stewart's 'The Daily Show' when one of the police cars ahead of Biden's motorcade crashed into a livery cab. The accident was also a minor one.

It seems like it was protocol for media to report the minor crash just so nobody would be alarmed about the Vice President. Last thing needed is someone seeing the motorcade accident and TMZ reporting Joe Biden was in an accident. It's a good thing nobody was harmed in Thursday's accident.

links are in adconline's article

note that this is the second most powerful man in the world we are talking about here. those who 'work quietly behind the scenes' should take note of how it done by the running mate of the fellow they are attempting to imitate
Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by ice234: 7:55am On Sep 27, 2010
abeg why are we making a fuss out of this. te driver simplywanted to kill someone. he has a motive simply
Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by Gbawe: 8:11am On Sep 27, 2010
Justcash:


You are indeed the one that gat no clue. I asked you a simple question, and you were so clueless that you thought it was for the trash. LOL! Dude, don't open up topics that you cannot defend. You simply are a bad loser in debates. You have resorted to making short and meaningless statements over facing facts. If you were in GEJ's position, that man would be dead by now. Look at the mirror before you use your hands to type with your heart instead of your brains.

[b]This shows how senseless you are. So, that was all you could deduce from my statement. Even a child would know that the statement was meant for a comic relief. So, if you tell me that I would give a "Bakassi vigilante" treatment to someone that annoys me, it automatically means that you are being tribalistic?
dude! widen the scope of your intelligence jo! From all indications, you are trying to avoid my question by pretending to feel aggrieved by a harmless statement that I made. Are you not Yoruba? So, if a foreigner tells you that he doesn't want you to give his or her country a "Nigerian military" treatment, it automatically means that the person is racial? Wetin concern OPC treatment and being tribalistic. Does giving someone an OPC treatment mean that you are an OPC member? So a civilian cannot give a fellow civilian a military or OPC treatment without really being in the military or OPC in Nigeria? Would it not have been easier to say that your preference of Fashola in everything political is because you are Yoruba? Yet, I did not see it that way. Now you use an OPC illustration to self-service your aggrieved Manhood.
Gosh, you disgust me! 
Once again don't bring up topics that you cannot defend. I can understand that you are trying to discredit GEJ, and I have nothing against it. You need to dig out better facts. [/b]

Dude get real . You are foaming at the mouth , with your attention-seeking bolded fonts, because you have being exposed . Simple. you wrote;

From your name I can Visualise you giving him an OPC treatment for Mis-Waka

"from your name", to any averagely intelligent Nigerian simply means from your Yoruba name you are likely to act like an OPC vigilante. No one can interprete this statement to mean anything different to stereotyping. No different to non-Igbo saying to Okechukwu that "from your name , the drugs you are selling are fake" . Silly stereotyping is not a "joke" as you attempt to pass it off as . It reveals how you think and what is in the inner reccess of your mind.
Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by oderemo(m): 8:24am On Sep 27, 2010
president's car is just normal, when it is not normal in even America with all their human rights respect. They seem not to understand the sentence, "Ramming" a car into another car. Except the story posted is different from what actually happened or fabricated, that taxi driver committed a crime.
why dont you exchange the word ramming with probably killing,jamming, or some other big word for special effect.
just because the reporter of the story chose those word now represent , fact to you.
y dont we see the pic to determine for ourselves.
abegi.
Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by ice234: 8:28am On Sep 27, 2010
no mata wat every we say here the driver is alread grounded
Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by oderemo(m): 8:31am On Sep 27, 2010
no mata wat every we say here the driver is alread grounded
the point we are raising here is the amount of injustice in our country.
using a sledge hammer to crack a nut always.
this has to stop.
Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by ice234: 8:49am On Sep 27, 2010
ok injustice right. dont u think also dat the driver was not being just by wantin to kill mr president
he might be a sucide bomber(his bomb being his car)
Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by Gbawe: 8:53am On Sep 27, 2010
ode remo:

the point we are raising here is the amount of injustice in our country.
using a sledge hammer to crack a nut always.
this has to stop.

Indeed . Folks are not looking at what they should examine . This man has been incarcerated for over 3 months!!! It is highly likely he was jailed on trumped-up charges because we are told the security details of Mr.President were negligent to begin with. The accident may have been partly their fault and the beating of the "suspect" and his subsequent incarceration may all be an attempt to pretend as if the guy was a serious threat . Furthermore , in a case that involved the near "assasination" of our President, why is the Prosecution not at all serious if they actually believe they are tackling a man who tried to kill Jonathan? Yet the representation for the defense is turning up in Court diligently to fight for their client !!!!

Besides, when have Nigerians ever been suicide attackers? If anything , our leaders continue misruling us badly because they are sure we will not put ourselves at risk to attack them as we see regularly in other Nations like Pakistan.

I think everyone , to include Jonathan , lost interest as soon as it was clear this man is an ordinary taxi driver who did not mean to harm Mr.President. His imprisonment continued because some folks must save face and justify their initial over-the-top approach. It is in character if Jonathan finds it expedient to ignore the plight of this man . Afterall, he is the same President ignoring the Ogun State debacle he should be handling decisively , as President of Nigeria, because his zonal election coordinator , Governor Daniel, is the main perpetrator .
Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by netotse(m): 9:59am On Sep 27, 2010
ok ppl, this a video of the presidential motorcade, notice only two cars pass in the opposite direction while he is moving, i dont know where the first car came from(it prolly disobeyed the traffic wardens at the junction), but the second car was on the convoy and turned around at the T-junction(i saw it turn around).

here

i dont know how to embedd videos, i woulda done so if i could
Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by naso2(m): 10:23am On Sep 27, 2010
@Gbawe

Your GPA don drop seriously. This is too cheap if originally desidned as a blackmail tool against GEJ. come up with something better.
Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by Gbawe: 10:47am On Sep 27, 2010
na_so:

@Gbawe

Your GPA don drop seriously. This is too cheap if originally desidned as a blackmail tool against GEJ. come up with something better.

Ol boy , na your own wahala be dat. No be dis same Jonathan sanctioned that an old corruption case be used to force Ogbulafor out and pave way for Nwodo who is another corruption stained individual? What is happening to the Ogbulafor case by the way? How about what is happening in Ogun State that Jonathan continues to ignore because his zonal campaign coordinator would have to be cut to size if the right thing was to be done? Did you not gloat that action would be swift from Jonathan over the Ogun debacle when I stated correctly that Jonathan would not move against Daniel because becoming President is far more important for him than peace and tranquility in Ogun State? Any EFCC prosecution in Rivers State now that Ameachi has pledged allegiance?

You fans of Jonathan just deliberately fail to see what he is capable of , when the evidence is glaring , because it suits what you all want i.e a Jonathan win in 2011. Did Yar Adua not play meek leader when it suited him? When he eventually became President he was busy locking up journalists/bloggers and harrassing newspapers with the SSS Abacha-style !!! I have absolutely no doubt that Jonathan is capable of unfairness and bias. He simply left this hapless taxi driver on his own !!! There is much evidence to support the "more of the same" callousness and ruthlessness of GEJ.
Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by netotse(m): 10:57am On Sep 27, 2010
@gbawe
do you think if there was an accident involving the president's motorcade and the president asked the SSS to stop they would listen to him? when it comes to matters of his personal security the president can be overruled o!
Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by SamMilla1(m): 11:03am On Sep 27, 2010
@OP

So what did you expect ? That the driver should be hugged and released for hitting the CIC'S Car ?
What if he was hired to do that ? How the hell are we supposed to know if he is not prosecuted ?

Learn to copy news, pasted them and shut up if you dont know what to say.
Someone could have sent him to kill the Leader and there is no way to determine that until his arse is prosecuted.
Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by kadman(m): 11:09am On Sep 27, 2010
The dumbos saying that was attempted assasination, with all the Bruce Willis movies you have watched, is that how assasination goes down in your village ? Hiss. With a jalopy taxi ? Negros go to a corner and put on your dunce caps.

Jonathan is a facebook, and he (or someone he pays to) monitors it. I suggest everyone posts messages on his wall campaign for the Taxi Driver. I just did.
Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by Gbawe: 11:21am On Sep 27, 2010
netotse:

@gbawe
do you think if there was an accident involving the president's motorcade and the president asked the SSS to stop they would listen to him? when it comes to matters of his personal security the president can be overruled o!

I am not naive to think the President's convoy should stop while the risk remained unqualified . It is the over three months incarceration and attempted murder charge that bothers me along with the lax conduct of the prosecution over what is a very serious case that must warrant utmost efficiency.

Netotse, decent leaders are sometimes forced to be vocal when they insist the right things must be done. We all know this. One of the most embarrasing moment for Nigeria in recent times came about with the youtube release of a video showing Nigerian naval ratings beating up a Nigerian woman and stripping her semi-unclothed . Every Nigerian leader said nothing to include Yar Adua who , as C in C of the Armed forces, must be seen to act in support of what is right. Fashola broke away from the conspiracy of silence to condemn the actions of the Naval ratings . He said something to the effect that "whatever transpired , this should not happen to any Nigerian". He then ensured that Lagos State paid the young Lady's legal fees !!!

I am not using one event to judge GEJ. This would have been brought to his attention . Jonathan , so far, has not shown any conviction to do the right things when critical decisions has to be taken. What is your take on the criminal heist in Ogun State that sets a bad precedence and show up Nigeria as a Banana Republic? 9 lawmakers causing anarchy over 15 lawmakers does not warrant the immediate and decisive intervention of the Presidency? Is their no hint of callousness with how Ogbulafor was forced out to be replaced by another corrupt mercenary simply because he sought to uphold what is in the PDP constitution? Let us get real. Nigerian leaders do this all the time. In so far as Jonathan has been using executive powers to bully others while he ignores the gross misbehaviour of his 'pals', as has always obtained, I remain convinced that his sense of equity , justice and fairplay is highly dubious.
Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by himor: 11:39am On Sep 27, 2010
that taxi driver is a mutalabu mumu,
Re: Taxi Driver Who Hit Jonathan’s Car Charged For Attempted Murder . by Nobody: 11:43am On Sep 27, 2010
@GBAWE

I think your hatred for Jonathan is beclouding your reasoning here, that taxi driver is one hell of a lucky bastard, why don't you go try ramming into Obamas motorcade, you'd be dead even before you attempt it, are you okay ?, do you know that's the president of a country, for the guy to have rammed into the president's car means the guy was either impatient or just had a death wish, even in the most advanced of democracies you don't expect them to just release the guy, he would be held, interrogated and all this would be done without even filing charges at first because his motives must first be determined ?, if they have laws in the US and UK to detain citizens who pose a terror threat without filing charges for a period of time, who the hell is this bloke who makes an attempt at a presidents life---- guy don't let your hatred for Jonathan make you makes comments that just sound too absurd.

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