DO you recall your father came out with a slogan for graduates to become cab drivers? Was that an intelligent move by a dictator who stole billions that could have been used to change ordinary people’s lives?

STOP talking about integrity and selective justice. How many people did IBB jailed based on their opinion? How many people were mysteriously executed?

Was the press even allowed to criticize his regime without been closed down?

This sensible discussion has just gotten into a terrible accident.
How did you get here and how is the baby?

BigB1

In your most recent posts you have attempted to ochestrate a personality clash between McKren and Iyke-D, this is absolutely unnecessary. We are not having a referendum on personality here neither are we trying to swear or lobby for political allegiance, we are simply discussing the future of our country and those who most times post arguments based on convictions for what is right for our country should have no appologies if they happen to say similar things most of the time.
And yes Mckren and Iyke-D might belong to the same "school of thought" but they are not more freinds than Iyke/BigB1 or BigB1/Mckren.

And when you say you have the right to support IBB, I agree with you. You have the right to support anybody that pleases you and that is what democracy should be about. Sometimes we do get emotional but if you look at the sorry state of our infrastructures  a fair mind will appreciate why we should not appologise for our sentiments.

These days I have made a resolve to talk less about IBB, he yielding to popular pressure and stepping aside in the run up to 2007 elections is enough for me. Asking him not to speak or partake in politics of Nigeria in any guise will be asking for too much, because love him or hate him he has attained a height in which he can not be neglected in Nigerian politics.

However it will be contemptous for anyone to say he should be celebrated.

We’re not above mistakes – EFCC

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says that its operatives had never claimed to have the monopoly of knowledge, admitting that "as human beings, like any other person, we can also make mistakes."

The commission’s Director of Operation, Mr Ibrahim Lamorde, who made this confession on Tuesday in Lagos, while receiving in audience members of the Committee on Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), led by their President, Mr Olasupo Ojo, said the commission welcomes "constructive criticism and suggestions that can make us achieve better result in the war against corruption."

Speaking further, Lamorde reminded his guests that "the war against corruption is a collective Nigerian project and not for the EFCC alone," stressing that until every Nigerian assumes the ownership of the war, the monster would refuse to go.

He, therefore, urged the CDHR members to assist the commission in taking the awareness to the grassroots so that the country would heave a sigh of relief as far as corruption is concerned.
Earlier, the CDHR boss, Mr Ojo, had told the representatives of the commission that the group’s visit was to see things for itself, vis a vis some insinuations that suspects in the EFCC cells were being kept under abnormal conditions. He said that as a civilized country, the condition of cells in Nigeria must conform with the charter of the United Nations that laid down a basic standard accommodation rules for detainees.

Against this background, the CDHR boss suggested that the EFCC should publish pamphlets containing the rights of detained suspects and make them available to the detainees so that they could know what they deserve to have while in the commission’s cells.

While assuring the commission of his group’s readiness to assist in spreading the anti-corruption gospel to the grassroots, he said: "Even before the advent of the EFCC four years ago, human right groups had been in the forefront of anti-corruption war," adding, "right now, all members of the CDHR are automatic anti-corruption fighters."

While conducting the visitors round the detention facilities later, Alhaji Muhammed Alikali, who is in charge of bank transactions at the commission, stated: "Our facilities conform with the said standard of the United Nations charter," while expressing dismay about some bogus claims in the media.
Heassured the media, civil society groups and interested individuals that "the commission is very accessible," adding that EFCC has been doing its work according to the rule of law.




http://www.ngex.com/cgi-bin/frame/frameit2.plx?link="http://www.sunnewsonline.com/"

BIGB1 you are such an idiot. SO you showing this link where the EFCC commission did admit to some abnormalities is what?

It takes a man with balls to step up and admit to his flaws, that is something we are yet to see or hear from your toothless GODFATHER IBB.

Please list names of a leader or organization that has been immune to error or mistakes? DUFOS

almondjoy:

As you can see--Ibori/Odili/Igbinedion/Anenih are untouchable!!!!!   Let Karma and AmadiohaAondoakaaKarma catch IBB and OBJ-----------your own loved ones first!!!!
Shiooooooooooooooooooo!

You must be joking!

Back to sender!!!! Make Amadioha scatter your head, Omo-Ole!!!

McKren:


I have made a resolve to talk less about IBB, he yielding to popular pressure and stepping aside in the run up to 2007 elections is enough for me. Asking him not to speak or partake in politics of Nigeria in any guise will be asking for too much, because love him or hate him he has attained a height in which he can not be neglected in Nigerian politics.

However it will be contemptous for anyone to say he should be celebrated.

a height? more like a low point to me. A nadir

PART 4

EFCC’s unfinished business



It is also strengthened by the fact that Governor Gbenga Daniel has come forward with the magic of making over N4 billion, not from governing Ogun State but from Kresta Laurel, while his wife made hundreds of millions of Naira. This confirms the contention that the eight years Obasanjo was play-acting about fighting corruption remain an unprecedented boom period for corruption and it is so predominant that nothing practically works in Nigeria today.

To help EFCC outlive the self-created poor image it cultivated among Nigerians, especially in the later part of the Obasanjo pestilence and having realized that it cannot mutilate Nigerians' perception of corruption, Ribadu and co should brace up and deal with the following sore cases that gnaw at the soul of EFCC’s poor image with millions of Nigerians.

Firstly, EFCC must close in on former President Obasanjo and clear the mountain loads of indiscretions that trail him. Questions about his sudden wealth, from bankruptcy in 1998, the presidential library, the MOFAS account, the Bells School, the PTDF looting, Transcorp wonder company, the Otta Farm renaissance, the dubious sale of the country’s patrimony to fronts, hirelings and cronies, the cash in presidential jet scandal, and so many other tell-tale signs of official looting should be investigated.

EFCC would find that it would eternally work to its detriment for it to continue shielding the former president from the law when the entire nation is alive to the obscene display of wealth by the former president. I hope he is not still enjoying immunity, given the way he is deliberately left out of the prospective politicians EFCC wants to rein in. The way it had carried on as if corruption is limited to the acts of the former governors, without referring to the source and headspring of corruption in the last eight years, induces greater questions about the capability of Nuhu Ribadu to cleanse the country of filth perpetrated by politicians.

Secondly, the EFCC must, as a matter of urgency, launch into a comprehensive probe of the present Maurice Iwu-led INEC. Nigerians are aware of the hefty sums of monies voted for electoral projects that were never executed. Being that INEC has been the source of the present tempestuous drift of the nation and given that over N60 billion that was emptied in INEC were mostly monies by western donor agencies, the EFCC would do greater harm to itself if it pretends it never knew the collateral damage the wholesome fraud and corruption perpetrated in INEC just the other day does to its image and that of the country.

If Iwu is chained and brought to court, that will certainly send a great signal that EFCC is up and doing on the task of ensuring that this country is not being deliberately exposed to the blistering effect of fraudsters and scammers that deign no scruples, inflicting deliberate damage on the country and profiting greatly from such asinine business. The cost of leaving out Iwu from trial is that he would continue his present pastime of insulting the whole human race for not accepting that he duped the country of several billions of Naira and forged electoral results as they suited the whims of those that hired him. Do we need to revisit Colin Powel’s nation of scammers comment? Then EFCC must rein in Iwu before he rubbishes what remains of the image of the country.

Thirdly, the EFCC must arrest Bode George and bring him to justice for the scam at the NPA. One realizes that in a bid to explain away his alleged partisan approach to fighting corruption, Ribadu was to engage in a shocking trading of very contradictory and embarrassing riposte to his earlier indictment of George. He rehearsed the tame and tepid excuse being tendered by Bode George over the NPA affair to the effect that he (George) was a part-time chairman of NPA, when the plundering took place, as if there are also full-time chairmen of parastatals.

By now, Ribadu must have acknowledged that such faux pas that smack of dubiousness is not doing his image and that of his EFCC any good and the earlier he brings George to justice, the better for him. Then again, the Emmanuel Andy Uba money laundering charge is a litmus test for EFCC’s fresh commitment to tackle corruption without putting on partisan binoculars. Given that the case happened in the United States and is well known, continued defence of such international crime, as Ribadu tried to do when Uba was being corruptly cleared for his ill-fated gubernatorial dream, will only mean some giant flies in EFCC’s ointment of rediscovery.

The well known scandalous handing over of the nation’s refineries to cronies and fronts of Obasanjo must be fully probed. The manner the refineries were handed over in deals that rock the underbelly of decency and due process is a subject of wide-ranging discontent in the polity. I read where Ribadu was, in the hangover of the subservient role he played for Obasanjo, justifying the corrupt sale of the nation’s refineries, which lends some doubt to his capacity to probe the deals.

But he must know that so long as he exhibits such brazen fling of pandering to Obasanjo’s narrow and selfish interests, he stands to perpetually injure himself and his image among Nigerians. These must be probed, the assets recovered and the offenders punished for Nigerians to believe they have an impartial Daniel on the anti-corruption throne of the country. The underhand sale of Apo Legislative Quarters, buildings around Aso Rock and several public buildings all over the federation to cronies of Obasanjo, are gaping sores that need to be mended for EFCC to regain its damaged image.
Ribadu will soon find out he cannot run away from the question about the funding of the obnoxious third term project. As the revelations spew of how that deadly agenda was prosecuted under Ribadu’s nose, he stands eternally periled if his EFCC does not expose the devilish secrecy of the funding of that dubious plot that nudged Nigeria to the precipice as it happened.

Much has been said of the activities of the governors between 1999 and 2007 but nothing is being said of the presidency, which appropriated over 52 per cent of the monthly allocations with practically nothing to show for these. It is a known fact that the federal ministries were racketeering havens during the eight years of Obasanjo's rule and the World Bank was to confirm this when it said that the Presidency was to blame for over 85 per cent of the nation’s corruption index.



http://intellibriefs..com/2007/08/nigeria-efccs-unfinished-business.html

It's up to Nigerians not to settle for less!

Big B1:
Infact, I have realized that many have decided to sabotage all my ideas or recommendations, regardless of the content of the message (whether it's positive or negative), just because of my incompressible support for IBB.
I see this as being barbaric and absolutely not in agreement with or according to democratic doctrine.

Are you kidding? Did you seriously post that to make a point? Plus you claim to not want selectivity and then you post that? How can anyone not think you are a joker?

efcc=icpc=ccb

big b1 in your posts you have failed to point out the lapses of other government funded anti-corruption agencies. why should they not put them in the same light as the efcc? let's be naive for once and assume the efcc was obj's cat paws right, what stops the others from being called the same. if they have a duty to serve nigeria, why shouldn't they be criticised for not chasing after these people allegedly being overlooked by the efcc. considering their independence in terms of operation, nothing stops the icpc from whisking these branded 'sacred cows'. well maybe then we'll call them some other funny name like 'oldschools'.

if we want to call the WAC exercise a farce we have every right to but singling one out of the lot is outrightly bias.

I feel you, let he who has no sin cast the first stone. We Niger Deltans should rise up to the occasion by being more political conscious, NO MORE BACK STABBING. Justice that is selective is demonic and there is no place for demons in Niger Delta.

A very good one posted by Otokx

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Very deep indeed.

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