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why dont you post sections of the constitution for everybody to see. It seems that you do not know how legal procedures work. Federal Administrative Panel does not have the constitutional authority to indict or pursue charges against these people.

How do you deal with immunity clause? OBJ did not do anything about this troubling clause because he knows that he is corrupt as well.

Look I am not a fan of these politicians including OBJ, but FG does not have the right to bar anyone from contesting elections. How about the principle that everyone is assumed innocent until proven guilty. No court in the land has tried these people for FG to bar them from contesting election. OBJ could have done this if he had not wanted to elongate his tenure by lobbying members of NASS to pass a law that  would bar politicians from contesting if  indicted by that panel. INEC cannot even reinvent the rules, so  as long  as they are  not charged, they are very qualified to contest.  I  want to   conduct a study on Peter Obi, he has won all his cases through the court. This is what we should be doing in Naija not to cut corners to score some cheap political points.
Why  can't OBJ act like Thabo Mbeki who allowed the law to take its course in Jacob Zuma's trouble with the law.  Militarism is the  cause of our backwardness.

Lagos most populous voters in Nigeria - INEC

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=70703

What happened to KANO STATE?
Three thing  Nigerians cannot do
1- Free and fair election
2- Accurate Census figure
3- Manage big corporation

shutmouth,
Federal government does not have the power  to constitute a panel that would indict Atiku, the so called panel did not derive its power from the constitution. This is sheer usurpation of roles. NASS did not empower them to do that job. Can you cite any a legislative enactment that  established that panel. You cannot be a judge in your own case.
Federal prosecutors working at ministry of justice should slam charges at these corrupt politicians. FG cannot circumvent constitution to nail some people. They  should follow the constitution, again OBJ has  lost almost all his cases in the courts.
Why does Ribadu have to pronounce judgment before the case are tried. He is prejudicing most of  his cases. There is no legal precedent by which administrative panel could serve as a competent law court.

Shutmouth, its not by force you can ignore. What makes you sick?

Sleep storming and brainstorming for African Development

Boring@

because this is a forum where topics must sexualise,tribalize, abuse,incite.

someone is a busy body . Doing the same thing you dont want someone to do by posting

Can you get in a car that has 25% chance of having an accident? Yes or NO
AS vs AS = AA,AS,AS,SS

Should Nigeria BAN Jeff Koinange? What do you think?

ABUJA, Nigeria (CNN) -- A Nigerian government spokesman on Monday accused CNN of paying for and staging a report that showed 24 Filipino hostages being held by masked gunmen in the remote mangrove swamps of southern Nigeria.

"We have evidence that some of these people were actually paid to put up a show," Nigerian Minister of Information Frank Nweke Jr. told CNN International about last week's report by Jeff Koinange, CNN's Africa correspondent.

"It was a paid job, and that's exactly why we are very upset about it," he said, without offering evidence.

"He had actually approached other people before then to do the same thing and his offer was declined. And he shopped around for more people and found those criminals who were willing to play ball with him and they put on the kind of show that they put up and which was shown around the world."

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art2007021414353426


I feel that EFCC should not hit the polity, Ribadu may mean well, but he should guide his utterances because they might prejudice his cases against corrupt politicians.
Why did it take him up till now to release these names?  I would think that he knows a lot about the law that one is adjudged to be innocent until proven guilty in a competent court of law. EFCC cannot be a prosecutor and a judge in these cases. I would want to see him slam prosecutions on these people.
I think that these politicians can scuttle the upcoming general elections thereby extending OBJ’s tenure.

OBJ is using EFCC  as hell

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art2007021414353426

In America, its a non profit organization.

Zik never ruled Nigeria, but Balewa going by then constitution. Zik was a ceremonial president without any portfolio. Balewa was the commander in Chief.

I know alot about his acquisitions. They failed to mention Marlum Engineering company that he is using as a front. Rainbownet alone is worth billions of naira.

These house are truly his. He built an estate and colonized all the buildings. Ebeano estate houses his company Rainbownet, and COSMO FM.

They are both gold diggers, but the society feels that its right for women to have some elements of gold digging in them. They all got married to rich spouses because of money. The way people berate Kevin Federline is not the way they berated Anna Nicole Smith.

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200702092233470
Friday, 9 Feb 2007
Governor on trial for owning 172 houses
Tobi Soniyi


The Governor of Enugu State, Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani, was on Thursday charged before the Code of Conduct Tribunal in Abuja for allegedly owning about 172 houses.

Others taken to the tribunal were governors Sam Egwu (Ebonyi) and George Akume (Benue).

The Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, Mr. David Mzenda, was also charged before the tribunal.

The four public officers are said to have acquired properties that far exceeded their legitimate incomes.

Their alleged offences contravene Section 10 of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act Cap C15 LFN 2004.

The three governors bring to eight, the number of serving and former state chief executives charged before the tribunal.

Governor Rashidi Ladoja(Oyo); Orji Kalu(Abia); Saminu Turaki (Jigawa);former governors Joshua Dariye(Plateau); and Diepreye Alamieyeseigha (Bayelsa), had been charged before the tribunal.

But out of the four suspects, Nnamani is accused of owning about 172 houses.

Nnamani, according to the charge sheets made available to journalists in Abuja on Thursday, is charged with acquiring properties in Nigeria and overseas.

The release of the charge sheets came just as the Enugu state governor was named among a new set of politicians to appear before a special panel raised by the Federal government to defend allegations of corruption against them.

Listed as properties owned Nnamani are:

- One house at 2, Mount Street, Government Reservation Area, Enugu; - one house at 4, Mount Street,GRA;

- A house on 15B, Park Avenue built for his mother-in-law(Ada Kanu); - Golf Course Estate with 38 completed houses and seven uncompleted ones;

- A house on 2, Forest Close, Enugu;

- 45 buildings at Old Trade Fair Area Estate;

- A house on 9, Savage Crescent;

- One building on 6, Bent Avenue;

- 48 houses at the proposed new trade fair site;

- 15 houses at the Ebeano Housing Estate, New Haven;

- Two houses behind secretariat.

- A building at 35, B. F.C. Abakaliki Road built for Mrs. Chinero Nnamani Nwaigwe, his sister;

- Two government buildings taken over when his father died at Abakaliki Lane and four other buildings;

- A N2bn country home in Agbani;

- A house at 5, Akpan Achara Layout, Enugu;

- Plot CR 11, Golf Course Layout, Enugu;

- Plot Q1, Independence Layout Enugu;

- A building at 10, Oweeri Ezukah Street, opposite Enugu Government House;

- A duplex at 1 A Abakaliki Lane;

- A house at Colliery Avenue, off Okpara Avenue, GRA;

A building at 43/45, Park Avenue, off Okpara Avenue, GRA;

- A building at 24/26, Park Avenue, GRA;

- Houses at 1 and 2, Onitsha Road;

- A building at 51, Savage Crescent, Enugu;

- Hectares of land belonging to former Enugu Zoological Garden acquired by the governor.

In count two, Nnamani is accused of failing to declare ownership of Rainbownet Nig. Ltd; Capital City Automobiles Limited; Cosmos 105.5 FM Mea Mater Elizabeth School; Renaissance University Teaching Hospital; and Hillgate Limited.

Egwu is charged with two counts. The counts read: ”That you, Egwu, being a public officer as listed in part II of the Fifth Schedule to the 1999 Constitution and currently the governor of Ebonyi State and having subscribed to the oath of office as contained in the Seventh Schedule to the 1999 Constitution, made a false declaration of your Assets between May 1999 to date by failing to declare a duplex building in your country home valued at N50m.

“That you, Egwu, being a public officer as listed in Part II of the Fifth Schedule to the 1999 Constitution, acquired the under-mentioned properties over and above your legitimate means:

- A five-star hotel named Grace Court Hotel at Abakaliki; and

- High Hope International School valued at over N350m acquired through a proxy.

Akume is also accused of making a false declaration of his assets between May 1999 to date by failing to declare the under- listed:

- Property located at Milton Kings. London valued at 100,000.00 pounds acquired through a proxy in 2001;

- Property named HAF Haven Hotel at Atiku Abubakar Road, Makurdi estimated at N300m

Count two of the charges against Akume reads, “That you, Akume, being a public officer acquired properties in Nigeria and outside the shores of Nigeria over and above your legitimate income contrary to Section 10 of Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act. Cap C15 LFN 2004 and punishable under Section 23 of same Act.”

The Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly is accused of making a false declaration of his assets between May 2003 till date by failing to declare the under-listed properties:

- Account and shares in a commercial bank; and

- Three 2 -bedroom apartments at 84, Nyima Layout, Makurdi,

The charges will be formally read on February 14, 2007.

Thursday was a bad day for Nnamani as his name appeared on the list of another set of Nigerians to appear before the administrative panel of inquiry set up on Wednesday to probe allegations of corrupt practices against them.

Other top politicians on the list, released in Abuja, are governors Bola Tinubu(Lagos); Ali Modu Sherrif(Borno) and Ibrahim Shekarau(Kano).

A former Minister of Defence, Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso; Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Rotimi Chibuke Amaechi, Dr. Olanrewaju Tejuoso; Ahmed Yusuf ; Abubakar Habu Hashidu; Danladi Baido; and Bello Gwandu are also on the list.

Usman Albishir; Isa Yuguda; Nimi Barigha Amange; Mumini Abavomi Nurain; Kabiru Ibrahim Gava; Aminu Sule Garo; Yakubu Datti; Anthonia Tabansi-Okoye; Nwosu B. Chucks; Abdullahi Abubakar Bakari; Chile Igbawua; Mumini Mafindi; Emmanuel Bello; Abbas Braimoh; and Nandam Bako will also appear before the panel.

Others are Bello Mohammed Matawalle; Abubakar Shehu Bunu; Muktar Ahmed Anka; Joel O. Dikanwa; Samuel S. Damla; Victor N. Lapang; Abubakar M. Kanam; Pam D. Dong; Ndukwe Louis Ogugua; Bello Makau Ruwan Doruwa; Isah Namadi Kasuwar Daji; Peter A. Azi; Kabiru Sahabi Liman; Garba Bawa Rawavya; Sani Musa Talata Mafara; and Dahiru Salisu;

The rest are Lawali Suleiman Adafka; Ibrahim Waziri; Mohammed Abdullahi Abba; Jilantikiri Sinamai; Emmanuel A. Jugul; Marafa Bashir Abba; Mrs. Patricia Ajudua;Yusuf Ibrahim Nahwai; Kassong Santi Nelson; Haruna Istifanus Sana; Virginia Saba Bambur; Irmiya Ibrahim; Hammanjulde; Ahmed Mohammed; Theresa Wanu; Paul Tairo; and Humprey Azubuke. A statement by the panel‘s secretary Alhaji Ahmed Yola, directed all the affected persons to appear before the panel at the conference room of the Secretary to the Federal Government on Saturday.

It advised any of the invitees who needs further information to call 0802 857 0294, 0803 768 3571, and 0805 1747 317

The panel had on Wednesday summoned 27 politicians, including the Abia State Governor, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, to appear before it on Friday(today).

I could not find Peter Odili on that list. He was indicted by Human Rights Watch. A state that spends abou$ 1.3 billion annually, yet does not have anything to show for it.

http://hrw.org/reports/2007/nigeria0107/

http://www.saharareporters.com/dn001.php?dnid=256

www.saharareporters.com/eLibrary

www.saharareporters.com/pnews

http://www.abti-american.edu.ng. This university is owned by Atiku.
This is OBJ's Bells University http://www.bellsuniversity.org/index.html

2 biggest thieves in the history of naija