NJC probe: How Salami, ACN chieftains exchanged calls •Contents of call logs uncovered

CONTENTS of call logs admitted in evidence by the National Judicial Council (NJC) probe panel investigating alleged corruption in the handling of governorship appeals in Osun and Ekiti states have

been finally uncovered.



In the final address of the petitioners; former Governors Segun Oni of Ekiti, Olagunsoye Oyinlola of Osun and the Peoples Democratic Party (Osun State) to the Justice Umaru Abdullahi panel, the blow-by-blow account of how the alleged unethical calls were made between the President of the Court of Appeal, Isa Ayo Salami and chieftains of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) were detailed.

According to the document obtained by the Nigerian Tribune; “On 11th, November, 2010, ACN chieftain and spokesman, Lai Mohammed called one Tunji Ijaya (08034010700), a well known associate of Justice Ayo Salami and an ACN sympathiser, at 8.36 a.m. from Kosofe, Lagos, less than one hour later, precisely at 9.30 a.m., Mohammed called Ijaya again.

\“On 12th November, 2010 at 1.35 p.m., and at 1.39 p.m., Tunji Ijaya called Justice Ayo Salami twice from Ikeja, Lagos, precisely around Royal Exchange Assurance area.
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t 3.14 p.m., same day (12th November, 2010), Lagos contractor and ACN financier, Kayode Olowolafe, called Ijaya from Bourdillion Road, where Bola Tinubu has his residence. “Between 6.50 p.m. and 9.12 p.m. on the same 12th November, 2010, Olowolafe exchanged texts with Ijaya.
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Still on the 12th November, 2010, Lai Mohammed called Ijaya three times between 10.38 p.m. and 12 midnight.

“On 13th November, 2010, Lai Mohammed called Ijaya at 7.11 p.m. from Farimu Layout, Kosofe, Lagos.

“On 15th November, 2010, Justice Salami called Ijaya at 12.18 p.m. for 151 seconds from 118, Waziri Ibrahim Street, Eti-Osa, Lagos.

“On 16th November, 2010, Justice Salami exchanged eight SMS texts with Turaki Kabiru Tanimu, ACN chieftain and 2011 governorship candidate for Kebbi State at 4.34 a.m.

“On 16th November, 2010, Justice Paul Galinge (08038700932), a member of the Osun panel exchanged four SMS texts with Justice Salami at 7.15 a.m.

“On 17th November, 2010, Justice Salami sent SMS twice to Ijaya at 8.40 p.m.

“The following day, 18th November, 2010, Justice Salami called Ijaya twice between 9.20 p.m. and 9.21 p.m.

“On 24th November, 2010, Justice Salami called Ijaya at 8.40 p.m. and he spoke with him for 399 seconds (six minutes) and for 407 seconds at 9.35 p.m.

“On 25th November, 2010, Lai Mohammed called Ijaya at 4.36 p.m. for 60 seconds from Abuja around the National Stadium area. Same day, 25th November, 2010, Olowolafe exchanged four SMS with Ijaya between 6.14 p.m. and 6.18 p.m.

“On judgment day, 26th November, 2010, very early at 8.03a.m., Lai Mohammed called Ijaya and they spoke for 73 seconds. In the evening of that day, Justice Salami received a call at 9.40 p.m. through Justice Clara Ogunbiyi’s husband’s line (08035039519). Same day, he exchanged SMS with Ijaya at 9.22 p.m.

“On 12th December, 2010, Lai Mohammed exchanged text messages with Justice Salami at 14.50 hrs.”

Chairman of the party also contended in the address that “That communication between the Court of Appeal Justices and the ACN lawyers on one hand, and Justice Salami and ACN chieftains on the other hand as revealed in the call logs referred to in the petition was unethical.

“That Justice Salami did not deny the telephone interaction as revealed by the call logs but queried propriety of the invasion of has privacy under Section 37 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as reported by the Nigerian Tribune publication of 10th May, 2011.

“That Justice Salami admitted the issue of financial inducement in the landmark interview that he granted in the publication of ThisDay Newspaper of January 25th, 2011.”

The petitioners also released the documented testimony of the National Security Officer through Director, Lawful Intercept, Ndubuisi Onyia which read: “Mr Onyia, the Director of Lawful Intercept of NSA confirmed the authenticity of the call logs exhibits 12(2), 12(3), 12(4), 12(5), 12(6), 12(7), 12(, 12(9), 12(10), 12(11), 12(12), 12(13) and 14(b) before the panel as follows:

On the 19th April 2011, he said he received a letter from NJC requesting that call logs covering some phone numbers, including that of Justice Salami, whose telephone number is 08034004871, Ijaya whose telephone number, is 08034010700 and Lai Mohammed, whose telephone number is 08034303333 be made available to NJC.

The letter is tendered as exhibit 11. Mr Onyia said because of the voluminous nature of the call logs he accompanied a USB flash disk with a cover letter, exhibit 17A to NJC where the call logs exhibits 4, 5 12, (13), 14(b) were downloaded and received by the director of administration of NJC.

“Under cross examination, Onyia stated as follows: “My position at the NSA is not in doubt; NSA can clear me. There is no limitation as to any form of communication that we can use to obtain information. I choose e-mail because it is quicker and we have a time limit from NJC Panel. I sent a letter to NJC not e-mail. I do send information both by e-mail and hardcopy. We got the response by e-mail because of the urgency of this matter.

“The information in the flash drive was not scrambled because it was handled person to person. I hold B. Sc Economics and HND Engineering in Telecommunication. I have heard about cloning in Telecommunication. It depends on your level in Engineering to clone. I am hearing cloning of phone number from you for the first time. I identified the filename in the flash not the content.

“I came to testify on the letter and the call logs. I confirm that call logs exhibits 4, 5, 9, 10, 12(2), 12(3), 12(4), 12(5), 12(6), 12(7), 12(, 12(9), 12(10), 12(11), 12(12) and 12(13) are all from the office of the National Security Adviser, downloaded from exhibit 14(b) - USB flash drive.”

Oyinlola asked the panel to hold that by empanelling those he "trusted" to handle the Osun case, Justice Salami had breached his judicial oath to discharge his duties without fear or favour, affection or ill will.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/front-page-news/23674-njc-probe-how-salami-acn-chieftains-exchanged-calls-contents-of-call-logs-uncovered

The NJC,ICPC and CCB should do a thorough job of investigating this sham and sanction anybody found guilty in any way.

BTW,if indeed it's established that the PCA(Salami) influenced the tribunal's judgement in ACN's favour after monetary inducement,does it now mean that Olagunsoye Oyinlola and Sugun Oni can go to court and ask for the judgement that sacked them to be quashed and they returned to office?

Hmmm intrigues upon intrigues

Probably this will cool down your over burning hatred for Asiwaju Tinubu

http://www.punchontheweb.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20110610482360
Katsina-Alu vs. Salami: MTN disowns call-log

A telecommunications service provider, MTN Communications Nigeria Limited, on Thursday in Abuja told the Justice Umaru Abdullahi panel investigating the face-off between the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, and Appeal Court President, Justice Ayo Salami, that the contentious call log before the panel did not emanate from it.

MTN said it was duty bound to protect its customer’s confidentiality.

Giving his testimony at the panel, the company’s Senior Manager (Corporate Legal Services), Mr. Rotimi Odusola, said he could not confirm the authenticity of the contentious call log which was tendered by the petitioners.

The Justice Umaru Abdullahi panel had been charged with the responsibility of investigating an alleged perversion of justice leveled against the CJN and the alleged unethical behaviour of the as well as other Justices of the Court of Appeal who sat on both Osun and Ekiti governorship appeal panels.

The PCA and the other justices of the court of appeal were said to have engaged in telephone conversations which eventually resulted in the tribunal sacking ex-governors Olagunsoye Oyinlola and Segun Oni of Osun and Ekiti states respectively for which they were replaced by Rauf Aregbesola and Kayode Fayemi.

The call logs were supplied by the petitioners but the PCA said they were mere fabrication.

The MTN officer explained that the telecommunications company, as a policy, only provided such Call Data Records otherwise known as the call logs to only three categories of persons under a covering letter requesting for them.

They are a competent court; the law enforcement agencies and the subscriber that can establish that he is the owner of the line.

Odusola said the contentious CDR did not emanate from MTN, adding that the firm never used the paper on which it was printed.

Meanwhile, the panel has adjourned its sitting to enable the parties to file their final written addresses

ohh, i see you are still not contented, okayyyyyyyyy, see this if you have been living under the rock all this while
http://nationalmirroronline.net/news/13924.html
NJC probe: Oyinlola, Oni’s call logs fake –MTN, NSA

, Ex-S’Court justices testify against CJN

The National Judicial Council (NJC) probing the allegations levelled against the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami, was yesterday told that the call logs presented by former governors of Ekiti State, Segun Oni and Olagunsoye Oyinlola of Osun State were fake. The Mobile Telecommunication Network (MTN) and the Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) yesterday took turns before the Justice Umaru Abdullahi-led panel probing the rot in the judiciary to disown the call logs produced by the two ex-governors of Osun and Ekiti states to establish that Justice Salami and some justices of his court were financiallyinduced to award victory to the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the state governorship appeals. The call logs were the only vital evidence which former Governors Oni and Oyinlola and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Osun State chapter, depended on to nail the jurist before the panel and to end his judicial career. The two ex-governors had claimed that they sourced part of the call logs from MTN through the Office of the NSA, the claim which was not only disowned but was also described as phoney.

It was also insinuated yesterday that the call logs were criminally-manufactured to blackmail the jurists. A reliable source who was at the sitting of the NJC panel yesterday disclosed to National Mirror that MTN specifically told the panel that the call logs allegedly detailing conversations of the Appeal Court President and other justices with politicians already admitted in evidence were cooked up. MTN had reportedly discredited the exhibit by saying that it was not signed, dated nor stamped, adding that if it were to have emanated from the organisation, it would have carried all those marks.

Besides, MTN had reportedly told the panel yesterday that call logs were sensitive documents that are not released to just anybody except the subscribers who made such calls or security agencies upon formal request and that none regarding the jurists were requested from it. The telecommunication firm said that even when it is to be given out; it reportedly told the panel that it usually gives such information out through the use of flash drive with the hard copy of the materials therein. Both former governors however had no such flash drive to prove that it emanated from MTN.

The Office of the NSA yesterday also corroborated the evidence of MTN before the panel, saying that the call logs were not genuine. Salami had kicked against the call logs being tendered as exhibit by the two ex-governors who were fighting him, insisting that only the NSA that allegedly recovered the call logs could tender them as exhibits. He was said to have challenged the authority that sent one Onyia brought by them to testify at the panel. It would be recalled that Justice Salami had, last week, invited an IT expert, Mr. Usman Sharrif, before the panel to demonstrate how call logs could be forged.

The proceedings of the panel during which the demonstration was done had lasted nine hours with Sharif using the mobile phone number of Justice Abdullahi to call the mobile number of Justice Emmanuel Ayoola to the amazement of everybody present at the sitting. The accusers and members of the panel who were like doubting Thomases had reportedly asked the IT expert to use the mobile phone number of another person to call another person present at the sitting which he also did to their amazement. The IT expert who was trying to establish the claim by Justice Salami that his mobile phone number was cloned to call numbers of politicians also explained that those who usually engage in the habit can use the practice to destroy marriages, cause confusion between two friends and blackmail anybody.

He had reportedly explained to the panel that apart from cloning, there was another one called “scoofing’ which could be used to send text messages using a cloned mobile number. Justice Salami, it would be recalled, had, 48 hours ago subpoenaed three former justices of both the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal who are all members of NJC to testify in his favour to the effect that the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu compromised his oath of office by interfering in the proceedings of the Court of Appeal in the Sokoto gubernatorial case. Subpoenaed were the octogenarian Justice Bolarinwa Babalakin and Justice Anthony Iguh, both retired justices of the Supreme Court and the former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Mustapha Akanbi. The jurists did not hide their feelings about what the CJN said to the effect that he never interferred in the proceedings of the Court of Appeal in the Sokoto matter or engaged in professional misconduct.

They said they were on the earlier committee set up by NJC to probe the allegation of professional misconduct made against Salami and the CJN and that they had already found out that the Justice Katsina- Alu was wrong. They said they were surprised that Justice Emmanuel Ayoola, a former Justice of the Supreme Court who was on the committee that indicted the CJN, could sit on the Justice Abdullahi-panel when he was a party to the earlier findings which indicted the CJN. Katsina-Alu, who was ordered to be present at the sitting of the panel yesterday, was said to have travelled out of the country and was conspicuously absent. A source said that his absence was deliberate and that he knowingly gave an excuse to avoid the embarrassment which his senior colleagues who are now retired caused him at the panel. The retired jurists however tendered the report of their panel which allegedly found the Justice Katsina- Alu guilty of professional misconduct.

The said report of the committee of the NJC dated March 8, 2010, contained its findings on the investigation of two petitions written by Yahaya Mahmood of Arewa Chambers Kaduna and Mr. Alfred N Agu of Renaissance Practitioners, Abuja, against Justice Salami and the Justices of the Court of Appeal who sat on the appeal arising from the verdict of the Sokoto gubernatorial election dispute. In the report of the NJC panel headed by Justice Bolarinwa Babalakin, it had held “the Committee finds that the Hon Chief Justice of Nigeria as the Chairman of the National Judicial Council (NJC) has no power to interfere with any proceedings in any court as was done in this case.” Justice Iguh was quoted by a source at the sitting that “this issue is not about Katsina-Alu or Justice salami. It is about Nigerian and the Nigerian judiciary.

“It is unfortunate that you, Justice Ayoola, are sitting down there over a matter which NJC has set up a committee which you are a member in which we indicted the CJN before we later reconciled them,” he was quoted to have attacked Justice Ayoola at the sitting of the panel Former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Akanbi, was also said to have worsened the situation when he allegedly said “I’m not comfortable sitting here. we are here because of the respect we have for Justice Umaru Abdullahi.” Justice Akanbi who later reportedly decried the entire proceedings as a waste of time said he was irritated that a matter that had been closed with blame apportioned could be brought up in the manner it was being handled. A team of five Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) led by Chief Lateef Fagbemi yesterday did not waste time to close the case of Justice Salami with avalanche of testimonies and evidences allegedly indicting the CJN. He had said that though they still had more witnesses but that enough was enough. Justice Salami’s legal team is expected to submit a written address to the panel to enable it enter a well considered findings. The panel will continue sitting only if the CJN has any evidence to give before the panel.

What about thissssss, were they also bribed?
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Katsina-Alu Vs Salami - MTN Disowns Call Log Tendered by NSA

(AllAfrica Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) The multinational mobile telecommunications company, MTN, yesterday said that the contentious call log purportedly detailing conversation between the President of the Court of Appeal Ayo Salami and some lawyers did not emanate from it because it owes its customers confidentiality.


MTN said this yesterday while testifying before the Justice Umaru Abdullahi panel investigating the allegations of unethical behaviour against the Chief Justice of Nigeria Aloysius Katsina Alu and President of the Court of Appeal Ayo Salami.

The Justice Umaru Abdullahi panel is also probing unethical behaviour on the part of other Justices of the Court of Appeal who sat on both the Osun and Ekiti governorship appeal panels.

MTN Senior Manager, Corporate Legal Mr. Rotimi Odusola, who came to Abuja from Lagos, said he could not confirm the authenticity of the contentious call log which was tendered by the petitioners.

Odusola said that the contentious CDR did not emanate from MTN adding that MTN never used the paper on which it was printed.

The National Security Adviser (NSA) retired General Owoye Azazi, had through the Director, Lawful Intercept, Ndubuisi Onyia, declared the call logs which were made available to the panel as genuine.

Onyia, who told the panel then that he appeared on behalf of the NSA, signed the cover letter that accompanied the call logs recovered by the security agencies from four mobile telecommunications companies in the country.

Salami and the other justices of the Court of Appeal were said to have engaged in telephone conversations which eventually resulted in the tribunal sacking both Olagunsoye Oyinlola and Segun Oni former governors of Osun and Ekiti states respectively in which the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) was declared winner.

The call logs were supplied by the petitioners but the PCA said that they are a mere fabrication.

The MTN officer said the company as a policy only provides such Call Data Records (CDR) to only three categories of persons under a covering letter requesting for it. These are: a competent Court; law enforcement agencies and the subscriber after establishing that he is the owner of the line.

Meanwhile, the panel has adjourned its sitting to enable parties to file their final written addresses.

Anybody still reading the trash called Tribune deserve to be allowed to wallow in his/her expedition of ignorance

seanet02:

Anybody still reading the trash called Tribune deserve to be allowed to wallow in his/her expedition of ignorance

they don't actually deserve the crap. immediately i saw the post i knew it was tribune. a lot of people that buy it do so out of tradition and fidelity.

As no less an officer attached to the NSA has authenticated the call logs,and knowing that Tinubu is one brazen criminal,it's proper for the NJC to do a thorough job of investigating the PCA and if indeed it's discovered that he was involved in any shady compromise with Tinubu(or his representatives),then he should be sanctioned and the two judgements vacated ASAP

seanet02:

Probably this will cool down your over burning hatred for Asiwaju Tinubu

Hatred for Asiwa-who,please spare me

What was his financial status in 1998,which job did he do to earn the income he's been flaunting so brazenly(albeit by fronts),from 2007 till date.If I hate Tinubu,it must be because I cannot stomach hypocrites.He may be a thief and certificate forger or even may have been accused as having one or two things to do with hard drugs,,bad as those may be,they don't piss me off as much as his pretention that other people are corrupt,other people are setting the nation behind(largely by appropriating the commonwealth of the nation to themselves),while he is incorrupt and he is the next in line in the hierachy of pious men after Mahatma Ghandi

Funny how your sources came from Tribune.

The same newspapers that called Tinubu a Bástard? How the hell should we take anything else they publish about him as credible.

Find another source Mr!

rasputinn:

Hatred for Asiwa-who,please spare me

What was his financial status in 1998,which job did he do to earn the income he's been flaunting so brazenly(albeit by fronts),from 2007 till date.If I hate Tinubu,it must be because I cannot stomach hypocrites.He may be a thief and certificate forger or even may have been accused as having one or two things to do with hard drugs,,bad as those may be,[s]they don't piss me off as much as his pretention that other people are corrupt[/s],other people are setting the nation behind(largely by appropriating the commonwealth of the nation to themselves),while he is incorrupt and he is the next in line in the hierachy of pious men after Mahatma Ghandi

Elaborate or Go to Hell with your dirty arse

Very shocking report.

Seanet02, Here is to counter TINUBUS THE NATION NEWSPAPERs manipulation of the facts,


NJC probe: MTN, others provided call logs – NSA, SSS •Confusion over NJC boss’s tenure

CONTRARY to reports in a section of the media, We can authoritatively reveal that the call logs tendered as exhibits in the probe of

alleged rot in the judiciary by the National Judicial Council (NJC) panel were obtained by the security agencies from telecommunications firms; MTN, Airtel and Etisalat.

The five-man panel investigating the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Isa Salami and other justices of the court over the controversial governorship appeal judgments in Osun and Ekiti states concluded sitting last Thursday with MTN’s Senior Manager (Corporate Legal Services), Mr Rotimi Odusola, testifying before the Justice Umaru Abdullahi panel.

Different versions of his testimony in camera had been reported by the media, with a section reporting that he disowned the call logs, while a particular medium went ahead to report that the National Security Adviser (NSA), who testified about a month ago, was also at the proceedings last week.

We  are now in possession of documents showing that MTN released the call logs of Salami and others to the NSA and the Department of State Service (SSS), which subsequently turned them over to the NJC panel.

In a correspondence to the NJC panel, dated May 6, 2011, with Reference No S/1495/1407 and addressed to the NJC Director of Administration, E.I Odukwu, SSS disclosed that the call logs being forwarded to the panel was obtained from MTN and other telecommunications outfits.

The letter, entitled “RE-NJC INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE ON ALLEGATIONS LEVELLED AGAINST SOME JUSTICES OF THE COURT OF APPEAL, read: “Your letter NJC/6/3/08/1/0105 of 14th April, 2011 on the above subject matter refers.

“I am directed to forward the attached Call Data Records as provided by MTN, Airtel and Etisalat. Globacom is yet to respond to the request.

Respectfully forwarded for your attention. Please.”

It was signed by G. Daniel on behalf of the Service Director-General.

The correspondence to the same Adukwu by the NSA was signed on behalf of the NSA, General Andrew Owoye Azazi, by T.N. Onyia, who later testified before the panel about a month ago, where he confirmed the authenticity of the call logs.

His letter to the panel, with reference No NSA/A/221/I, was dated May 5, 2011 and entitled NJC INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE ON ALLEGATIONS LEVELLED AGAINST SOME JUSTICES.

It read: Ä. Reference NJC/18/I/14/1/0718 dated April 15, 2011. The call logs as you requested vide Reference A are contained in the enclosed memory stick. The logs are in the folders of each network.
“2. However, call logs of these Airtel lines-08023043341 and 08020005015 are still being processed and will be forwarded to you as soon as they are received. In addition, the supposed MTN line-0803402700 is not a valid telephone number, as it is made up of ten digits instead of eleven (11).
“Enlosure: Memory stick.”
MTN, in one of its numerous responses to the security agencies, had provided call logs with cover letter bearing reference number CR:3000/LS/AG/ V.14/81 dated February 1, 2011.

It was signed by MTN’s Commercial Legal Department, entitled: RE: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON NUMBERS 08034004887 AND 08034010700.

Salami had confirmed his ownership of 08034004887, while Tunji Ijaya, in a suit filed by him on the controversial communication, had confirmed that he registered 08034010700 for his use.

Confusion over NJC boss tenure
Who determines the tenure of the administrative head and Secretary of the National Judicial Council (NJC)?

That is a question for which President Goodluck Jonathan would have to provide an answer, following a petition addressed to him by a group, Coalition of Concerned Judicial Cadres, over the service status of the secretary to the NJC, who doubles as the administrative head, Danladi Halilu and his retirement date from the service.

Bello, whose position is an equivalent of a Permanent Secretary, is reportedly spending his 10th year in office, contrary to the standing civil service rule that prescribed maximum of eight years.

Though serving in the judicial system, occupants of his office were reportedly not regarded as judicial officers but civil servants working in the judiciary, which put him under the civil service rules.

Spokesperson for the council, Soji Oye, while responding to the  inquiry by telephone, claimed that his boss was not a civil servant and, therefore, the two-term of four years each operational in the core civil service could not apply to him.

While concurring that his boss was a permanent secretary and on his 10th year in office, he was insistent that his tenure had not been fixed by the decision of the Federal Government on the tenure of permanent secretaries and directors in the public service.

A document sourced by the Nigerian Tribune, however, contradicted Oye’s claim, because the office of his boss was listed as one of those affected by the maximum eight years for permanent secretaries.
A circular dated August 26, 2010 from the office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation listed the secretary, NJC, as one of the positions affected by the operational tenure law.

It was listed as number 24, while the office of the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, also a Permanent Secretary equivalent, was listed Number 23.

With reference no HCSF/061/S.1/III/68, the circular entitled “Tenure of Office for Permanent Secretaries and Directors,” was signed by the immediate past Head of Service of the Federation, Mr Stephen Oronsaye.

In the petition to the president, signed by the trio of Al-hassan Baba-Mohammed, Osungbohun-olagbe Kayode and Okonkwo Julius, copies of which were sent to the National Assembly, Head of Civil Service of the Federation, among others, Jonathan’s intervention was sought to lay the controversy to rest.

Source:www.thetruthng.com !

seanet02:

Elaborate or Go to Hell with your dirty arse

Eyahhhh,so young yet filled with so much negative flow.Even my last son would be dissappointed if I replied you in kind,so I'll just ignore your unfortunate outburst which in any case has not done anything to help your master's exposed and perilous cause

karl max:

Seanet02, Here is to counter TINUBUS THE NATION NEWSPAPERs manipulation of the facts,


NJC probe: MTN, others provided call logs – NSA, SSS •Confusion over NJC boss’s tenure

CONTRARY to reports in a section of the media, We can authoritatively reveal that the call logs tendered as exhibits in the probe of

alleged rot in the judiciary by the National Judicial Council (NJC) panel were obtained by the security agencies from telecommunications firms; MTN, Airtel and Etisalat.

The five-man panel investigating the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Isa Salami and other justices of the court over the controversial governorship appeal judgments in Osun and Ekiti states concluded sitting last Thursday with MTN’s Senior Manager (Corporate Legal Services), Mr Rotimi Odusola, testifying before the Justice Umaru Abdullahi panel.

Different versions of his testimony in camera had been reported by the media, with a section reporting that he disowned the call logs, while a particular medium went ahead to report that the National Security Adviser (NSA), who testified about a month ago, was also at the proceedings last week.

We are now in possession of documents showing that MTN released the call logs of Salami and others to the NSA and the Department of State Service (SSS), which subsequently turned them over to the NJC panel.

In a correspondence to the NJC panel, dated May 6, 2011, with Reference No S/1495/1407 and addressed to the NJC Director of Administration, E.I Odukwu, SSS disclosed that the call logs being forwarded to the panel was obtained from MTN and other telecommunications outfits.

The letter, entitled “RE-NJC INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE ON ALLEGATIONS LEVELLED AGAINST SOME JUSTICES OF THE COURT OF APPEAL, read: “Your letter NJC/6/3/08/1/0105 of 14th April, 2011 on the above subject matter refers.

“I am directed to forward the attached Call Data Records as provided by MTN, Airtel and Etisalat. Globacom is yet to respond to the request.

Respectfully forwarded for your attention. Please.”

It was signed by G. Daniel on behalf of the Service Director-General.

The correspondence to the same Adukwu by the NSA was signed on behalf of the NSA, General Andrew Owoye Azazi, by T.N. Onyia, who later testified before the panel about a month ago, where he confirmed the authenticity of the call logs.

His letter to the panel, with reference No NSA/A/221/I, was dated May 5, 2011 and entitled NJC INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE ON ALLEGATIONS LEVELLED AGAINST SOME JUSTICES.

It read: Ä. Reference NJC/18/I/14/1/0718 dated April 15, 2011. The call logs as you requested vide Reference A are contained in the enclosed memory stick. The logs are in the folders of each network.
“2. However, call logs of these Airtel lines-08023043341 and 08020005015 are still being processed and will be forwarded to you as soon as they are received. In addition, the supposed MTN line-0803402700 is not a valid telephone number, as it is made up of ten digits instead of eleven (11).
“Enlosure: Memory stick.”
MTN, in one of its numerous responses to the security agencies, had provided call logs with cover letter bearing reference number CR:3000/LS/AG/ V.14/81 dated February 1, 2011.

It was signed by MTN’s Commercial Legal Department, entitled: RE: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON NUMBERS 08034004887 AND 08034010700.

Salami had confirmed his ownership of 08034004887, while Tunji Ijaya, in a suit filed by him on the controversial communication, had confirmed that he registered 08034010700 for his use.

Confusion over NJC boss tenure
Who determines the tenure of the administrative head and Secretary of the National Judicial Council (NJC)?

That is a question for which President Goodluck Jonathan would have to provide an answer, following a petition addressed to him by a group, Coalition of Concerned Judicial Cadres, over the service status of the secretary to the NJC, who doubles as the administrative head, Danladi Halilu and his retirement date from the service.

Bello, whose position is an equivalent of a Permanent Secretary, is reportedly spending his 10th year in office, contrary to the standing civil service rule that prescribed maximum of eight years.

Though serving in the judicial system, occupants of his office were reportedly not regarded as judicial officers but civil servants working in the judiciary, which put him under the civil service rules.

Spokesperson for the council, Soji Oye, while responding to the inquiry by telephone, claimed that his boss was not a civil servant and, therefore, the two-term of four years each operational in the core civil service could not apply to him.

While concurring that his boss was a permanent secretary and on his 10th year in office, he was insistent that his tenure had not been fixed by the decision of the Federal Government on the tenure of permanent secretaries and directors in the public service.

A document sourced by the Nigerian Tribune, however, contradicted Oye’s claim, because the office of his boss was listed as one of those affected by the maximum eight years for permanent secretaries.
A circular dated August 26, 2010 from the office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation listed the secretary, NJC, as one of the positions affected by the operational tenure law.

It was listed as number 24, while the office of the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, also a Permanent Secretary equivalent, was listed Number 23.

With reference no HCSF/061/S.1/III/68, the circular entitled “Tenure of Office for Permanent Secretaries and Directors,” was signed by the immediate past Head of Service of the Federation, Mr Stephen Oronsaye.

In the petition to the president, signed by the trio of Al-hassan Baba-Mohammed, Osungbohun-olagbe Kayode and Okonkwo Julius, copies of which were sent to the National Assembly, Head of Civil Service of the Federation, among others, Jonathan’s intervention was sought to lay the controversy to rest.

Source:www.thetruthng.com !

Thanks Karl max

Someone from Tinubu camp should debunk this report

karl max:

Seanet02, Here is to counter TINUBUS THE NATION NEWSPAPERs manipulation of the facts,


NJC probe: MTN, others provided call logs – NSA, SSS •Confusion over NJC boss’s tenure

CONTRARY to reports in a section of the media, We can authoritatively reveal that the call logs tendered as exhibits in the probe of

alleged rot in the judiciary by the National Judicial Council (NJC) panel were obtained by the security agencies from telecommunications firms; MTN, Airtel and Etisalat.

The five-man panel investigating the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Isa Salami and other justices of the court over the controversial governorship appeal judgments in Osun and Ekiti states concluded sitting last Thursday with MTN’s Senior Manager (Corporate Legal Services), Mr Rotimi Odusola, testifying before the Justice Umaru Abdullahi panel.

Different versions of his testimony in camera had been reported by the media, with a section reporting that he disowned the call logs, while a particular medium went ahead to report that the National Security Adviser (NSA), who testified about a month ago, was also at the proceedings last week.

We  are now in possession of documents showing that MTN released the call logs of Salami and others to the NSA and the Department of State Service (SSS), which subsequently turned them over to the NJC panel.

In a correspondence to the NJC panel, dated May 6, 2011, with Reference No S/1495/1407 and addressed to the NJC Director of Administration, E.I Odukwu, SSS disclosed that the call logs being forwarded to the panel was obtained from MTN and other telecommunications outfits.

The letter, entitled “RE-NJC INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE ON ALLEGATIONS LEVELLED AGAINST SOME JUSTICES OF THE COURT OF APPEAL, read: “Your letter NJC/6/3/08/1/0105 of 14th April, 2011 on the above subject matter refers.

“I am directed to forward the attached Call Data Records as provided by MTN, Airtel and Etisalat. Globacom is yet to respond to the request.

Respectfully forwarded for your attention. Please.”

It was signed by G. Daniel on behalf of the Service Director-General.

The correspondence to the same Adukwu by the NSA was signed on behalf of the NSA, General Andrew Owoye Azazi, by T.N. Onyia, who later testified before the panel about a month ago, where he confirmed the authenticity of the call logs.

His letter to the panel, with reference No NSA/A/221/I, was dated May 5, 2011 and entitled NJC INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE ON ALLEGATIONS LEVELLED AGAINST SOME JUSTICES.

It read: Ä. Reference NJC/18/I/14/1/0718 dated April 15, 2011. The call logs as you requested vide Reference A are contained in the enclosed memory stick. The logs are in the folders of each network.
“2. However, call logs of these Airtel lines-08023043341 and 08020005015 are still being processed and will be forwarded to you as soon as they are received. In addition, the supposed MTN line-0803402700 is not a valid telephone number, as it is made up of ten digits instead of eleven (11).
“Enlosure: Memory stick.”
MTN, in one of its numerous responses to the security agencies, had provided call logs with cover letter bearing reference number CR:3000/LS/AG/ V.14/81 dated February 1, 2011.

It was signed by MTN’s Commercial Legal Department, entitled: RE: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON NUMBERS 08034004887 AND 08034010700.

Salami had confirmed his ownership of 08034004887, while Tunji Ijaya, in a suit filed by him on the controversial communication, had confirmed that he registered 08034010700 for his use.

Confusion over NJC boss tenure
Who determines the tenure of the administrative head and Secretary of the National Judicial Council (NJC)?

That is a question for which President Goodluck Jonathan would have to provide an answer, following a petition addressed to him by a group, Coalition of Concerned Judicial Cadres, over the service status of the secretary to the NJC, who doubles as the administrative head, Danladi Halilu and his retirement date from the service.

Bello, whose position is an equivalent of a Permanent Secretary, is reportedly spending his 10th year in office, contrary to the standing civil service rule that prescribed maximum of eight years.

Though serving in the judicial system, occupants of his office were reportedly not regarded as judicial officers but civil servants working in the judiciary, which put him under the civil service rules.

Spokesperson for the council, Soji Oye, while responding to the  inquiry by telephone, claimed that his boss was not a civil servant and, therefore, the two-term of four years each operational in the core civil service could not apply to him.

While concurring that his boss was a permanent secretary and on his 10th year in office, he was insistent that his tenure had not been fixed by the decision of the Federal Government on the tenure of permanent secretaries and directors in the public service.

A document sourced by the Nigerian Tribune, however, contradicted Oye’s claim, because the office of his boss was listed as one of those affected by the maximum eight years for permanent secretaries.
A circular dated August 26, 2010 from the office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation listed the secretary, NJC, as one of the positions affected by the operational tenure law.

It was listed as number 24, while the office of the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, also a Permanent Secretary equivalent, was listed Number 23.

With reference no HCSF/061/S.1/III/68, the circular entitled “Tenure of Office for Permanent Secretaries and Directors,” was signed by the immediate past Head of Service of the Federation, Mr Stephen Oronsaye.

In the petition to the president, signed by the trio of Al-hassan Baba-Mohammed, Osungbohun-olagbe Kayode and Okonkwo Julius, copies of which were sent to the National Assembly, Head of Civil Service of the Federation, among others, Jonathan’s intervention was sought to lay the controversy to rest.

Source:www.thetruthng.com !

^^^
They can't cos it's the truth

They won't respond is only on the mediocre performance of the
acn

That u would see there post or if is an attack on GEJ government

Look at this trolls, you want me to believe that The Punch, Nation and National Mirror are not credible? You mean Justice Akambi and the former chief justice who testified against the current chief Justice are liars? Anybody still reading and believing tribune is a dimwit. We will know the truth when the panel submit its report.

karl max:

They won't respond is only on the mediocre performance of the
acn

That u would see there post or if is an attack on GEJ government

Of course.
I dare them to respond with proof and not just empty barrels jumping on the thread to rant ceaselessly

You are only showing how naive and irresponsible you are. This lame argument portrays you as a troll. Which evidence did you come up with to back up your claim? You posted an article from tribune and compass, i posted my own evidence from a sitting of panel in which the NSA and MTN denied the fake call logs, backed it up with four credible news sources, The Punch, The National Mirror (owned by Jimoh Ibrahim a PDP member) and the Nation Newspapers. Your news only talk about the position of the accusing side's evidence while my own side state a whole report on the sitting of the panel on a particular issue in which the call logs were denied by the Appropriate authorities. This is not rocket science, you are only displaying your naivity with this thread. Let wait for the Report of the Panel and see who is shameless between us. ort of the Panel and see who is shameless between us.

Justice Salami or whatever he calls himself should be publicly executed if at the end of all these, it is proved that he compromised his exalted position as a chief judge. His execution will set the tone for others

naijaking1:

Justice Salami or whatever he calls himself should be publicly executed if at the end of all these, it is proved that he compromised his exalted position as a chief judge. His execution will set the tone for others

And you will try to prove how literate you are if i brand you a stark illiterate which you are anyway. How do you convict and execute somebody that has not been found guilty of any crime or an accusation by a gang of electoral and economic looters is a conviction in your own village? Boy stop displaying your ignorance here on a public forum, You just don't seem to understand the easiest of issues. What a dum/b as/s.

Here is another news discrediting payed new papers like the nation punch and mirror


NJC Probe: MTN Never Disowned Call Logs - PDP

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised the media against misrepresentation of facts emanating from the proceedings of the probe panel set up by the National Judicial Council (NJC) on allegations of malpractices in the handling of Osun and Ekiti states governorship appeals.

A statement issued by the Osun state Chairman of the PDP, Otunba Sunday Ojo-Williams, described the reports carried by some Lagos newspapers on friday that MTN disclaimed the call logs before the panel as deliberate falsehood to mislead members of the public.

"The reports by these newspapers were not only false but cleverly crafted on behalf of Justice Ayo Salami to blackmail, intimidate and put the panel in a tight corner as it seeks to do justice in the matters before it.

"One of the newspapers even attributed its story to the National Security Adviser (NSA) who did not even appear before the panel on the day in question. The NSA appeared almost a month ago to tender call logs of Justice Salami and others given to his office by MTN and other service providers.

"Indeed, the MTN manager brought by Justice Salami on Thursday confirmed during cross examination that MTN supplied the call logs to the NSA and the witness was further made to compare and confirm that the contents of the logs supplied by us were the same as the ones tendered by the NSA," the PDP chairman said.

He added that "Significantly, the MTN man could not have disclaimed the call logs, knowing that there are documents before the panel which effectively showed that the logs are genuine. Even Justice Salami himself confirmed in his written response that he spoke with at least one of the people mentioned in our petition while just last week, Salami brought as witness, Kebbi state ACN governorship candidate, Turaki Kabiru Tanimu, who admitted before the panel that he exchanged text messages with Justice Salami at 4:00 a.m on friday, November 26, 2010, the day the Osun judgement was delivered.”

"We urge the media to be wary of people hawking falsehood about. The Press should take interest in getting accurate reports of the proceedings which should not be too difficult to obtain by any diligent investigative reporter," he said.

Source:newsupdatesnigeria..com

Hmmmmmmm!

seanet02:

Look at this trolls, you want me to believe that The Punch, Nation and National Mirror are not credible? You mean Justice Akambi and the former chief justice who testified against the current chief Justice are liars? Anybody still reading and believing tribune is a dimwit. We will know the truth when the panel submit its report.

Seanet02 or what do you cal yourself? Let me blow your mind a little. I can confirm to you that PUNCH and Tinubu's THE NATION can never write anything against the interest of Tinubu. TINUBU owns the NATION and a good number of the editorial board in the PUNCH are on Tinubu's pay roll. In case you are not aware, there was crisis in the punch editorial board sometime in 2010, at the peak of the crisis between Tinubu and Fashola, that saw some of the editors ousted from punch at that time. Some of them remained after the crisis which was precipitated by junior officers's accusation of their seniors that they always step down damaging story on Tinubu and Fashola.

Besides all these, get it straight that there is no newspaper or media house in Nigeria that is non aligned. 95% of them are owned by politicians or their loyalists.

Finally, Tinubu was instrumental to Justice Ayo Salami making it to the Appeal Court from Lagos State. There are records in Alausa that Justice Salami and others were given plots of land in Lekki at about the time the electoral petitions were being heard by the various state tribunals. So do the logical inference yourself!!!

Go and tell that hogwash to the ill informed farmers in your village, is Tinubu also the owner of National Mirror owned by Jimoh Ibrahim a PDP?

naijaking1:

Justice Salami [/b]or whatever he calls himself [b]should be publicly executed if at the end of all these, it is proved that he compromised his exalted position as a chief judge. His execution will set the tone for others

Helloooooooooooo

Nigeria is not run by a set of savage whims.I understand how dissappointing that could be,but let's accord him the presumption of innocence until proven otherwise,if he is found guilty,I think the NJC and the relevant arms of the law are better position to mete out appropriate punishment to him and to give redress to individuals that may have been handed wrong judgements in their electoral cases

Time to resurrect this thread