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Message for Mr. Bankole (Snr): If you had raised your son well in the ways of morality and not imbibed in him your own personal failings of corruption, you will not have been crying wolf about some phantom plan to kill your son. Please allow the court to conduct its work. Stop prejudicing.

Bankole’s father cries out, they want to kill my son
From MOSHOOD ADEBAYO, Abeokuta
Tuesday, June 14, 2011


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Chief Alani Bankole, the father of the immediate past Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole, has cried out that some people in government want to kill his son.

According to him, he received the intelligence reports late yesterday that arrangements had been concluded to kill his son, Dimeji, who is being detained and prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Bankole, who had been in the commission’s detention since June 5, was released, but re-arrested on another 14-count charge yesterday.

According to elder Bankole, he had received a foreign intelligence report that some highly-placed people in government were trying to get rid of his son, the way they got the winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, the late Chief MKO Abiola.

“Please tell the world that some people in government, particularly the Federal Government want to kill my son the way they killed MKO Abiola. I don’t know why, but that’s the intelligence report I received today (yesterday).”

Chief Bankole, who looked disturbed and worried, warned those who are planning the act to desist from such while recalling that such intelligence report was reported in 1993 shortly before the death in detention of the late Concord publisher.
The Egba high chief, while urging President Goodluck Jonathan to ensure the safety and security of his son, recalled that it was the same way that the family of the late Justice Minister and Attorney-General, Chief Bola Ige (SAN), received the information shortly before he was murdered.
While calling on intelligence agencies to be on red-alert, Bankole said: “My son must not die in detention the way Abiola and others died.

Speaking on the current travails of his son, Bankole said: “The unorthodox way and manner in which my son was arrested on Sunday, despite his earlier agreement with the Chairman of the commission and instalmentally charging him to court is a pointer that the government does not mean well for him.”
“I am afraid, particularly when one remembers that my son had been accused by the Chairman of the EFCC of attacking her during my son’s visit to the American Ambassador in Nigeria and the fact that a lawyer, Festus Keyamo, has not hidden his hatred for my son, shows that my son is currently in the hands of his enemies.’’

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/june/14/national-14-06-2011-002.html

I guess it takes two to mind their business. When the SW learns to mind their business, the SE will reciprocate. Until then, its bite me, I bite you. Shikena. Hypocrisy dey smell. Tinubu is Yoruba leader, take it or die trying to. I guess those in ACN who resent him are the Ngiges of ACN not the Bolajis

David Mark is showing that he can match Tinubu brain for brain, money for money, wayo for wayo. Go Mark, tell Tinubu to answer the EFCC call and not try to destabilize the polity with his rascality.

Buahaha! Finally the zombie ACN people are waking up to the selfishness of Tinubu. I dey laugh oh!!!!

Na by force? I want you to genuflect for me first.

^^^^
I forgive your ignorance

[quote author=aloy/emeka link=topic=689701.msg8513586#msg8513586 date=1308006525]Fani Kayode, Bode, Tafa, Iyabo, Grange, Bankole only

Hausa/Fulani produced thieves like  IBB, Abacha, Gwarzo, Kwankwaso,

Igbos also have Uba, Uba, Nnamani, Ohakim, bank MD[ I forgot his name] and many others.

Does that qualify Yoruba as the ring leader in national looting?.[/quote]lol@ only. Please dig deeper.

So Emeka did you read the post to see that Anambra had been there before Oyo? You are an intellectually lazy cyber warrior.

AloyEmeka is one crazy, head-knocking dude
T9ksy, in his bid to claim some fake superiority, has dug himself into a shythole

Look deeper and thou shall find.

Yu are really foolish
So women who later became senators from other zones also copied from Igbos who were there first?

[quote author=aloy/emeka link=topic=689701.msg8513529#msg8513529 date=1308005643]And he can afford to entrust it into the hands of Igbo or Hausa because they are saints, abi?.[/quote]It is a matter of degree. SWners are by far more financially corrupt.

[quote author=aloy/emeka link=topic=689721.msg8513526#msg8513526 date=1308005594]Copying Oyo state, huh?. Emulation is good sha. [/quote]You are foolish
What has darkness to do with light?
You know see Igbo woman we don dey on top before dem born you?

[quote author=aloy/emeka link=topic=689701.msg8513518#msg8513518 date=1308005481]Why is the news fake?.[size=14pt] SouthWest must produce either the Finance or Petroleum minister otherwise kasala go bust for Aso Rock.[/size][/quote]fake news, next bazz. GEJ cannot afford to entrust our money to a SWner, knowing how corrupt some of them can be.

Fake news.
Next page, biko.

''In essence, whenever some greedy politicians from the South West go empty handed after the "Abuja Bazaar" that follows every genral election , they will form one atavistic organization with amorphous goals, then go ahead to brand that either NADECO or OCEDAN and with the help of misguided "areas boys", try to terrorize the whole country to no end? What do you call this one? Agbero politics?

If Obasanjo was no good to the SW, why didn't we hear of NADECO all the time he was running this country aground? If you fought to maintain a state with many nationalities, you must understand that once in a while you may come first from behind in the sharing of offices since there are many groups to satisfy.

The south west produced the president of this country for eight solid years with ministers in top positions. The idea that the SW got nothing from Obasanjo is totally outrageous. Tell that to the Tinubus, the Otedolas, The Adenugas, the Jimohs, Aborishades and co, they will tell you how Obasanjos help led them to certain domination of certain areas of the economy.

The South west produced the speaker that just left and if the SW is no where to be found in the center today, it is because clannish politics baptized as progressive politics has led the region to the opposition where they have always been since the 60s anyway. Lets be blunt here; There are some groups within Nigeria that haven't had that opportunity to command the engine of state all through Nigerias existence. The country does not belong to one group or two groups.

It is this kind of NADECO "area boy politics" that invites politicians and commentators alike from other parts of the country to brand people like Akinrinade "rascals". You don't go burning tires all over Lagos whenever you lose out and call that inventive politics. Some of these politicians muting this idea are crooks. They are now going to recruit jobless youths to face Nigerias mad 'mopol' while all the billions they have stashed away while they were in power awaits their great-great-grand children. I guess they expect other parts of the country to join up as usual. It would have been funny if it was not downright parthetic.'', Felix

Buhahaha!!! Thank God for Iya Jonathan. What is good for Jonathan is good for Patience. Make I go confer doctorate to my grand ma too.

See how SWner spoil naija. Na waoh!!!!

johnie:
Deflect?
Do you mean defect?


Abia?
Do you mean SW?

Buhahah! She is an illiterate tribalist.

http://odili.net/news/source/2011/jun/13/304.html

Nigerian woman convicted of human trafficking in the U.S.

News    Monday, June 13, 2011

A Nigerian,Bidemi Bello, 41, has been convicted in the USA by a federal jury on charges of two counts of forced labour,two counts of trafficking for forced labour, one count of documentservitude, one count of alien harbouring, and two counts of making false statements in a U.S. citizenship application. The trial lasted one week.

Theformer Suwanee resident was convicted Friday in Atlanta on charges involving two people recruited to the area from Nigeria.



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U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said in a release:"The evidence showed that this was a case of modern-day slavery hiddenwithin an expensive home in an upscale neighborhood. The two women whowere abused here thought they were going to be nannies; instead theywere treated inhumanely. The laws of the United States protect allvictims from such abuse, regardless of where they came from or howthey came to be in the United States."

Bello recruited her first victim in 2001 and the second in 2004.

The evidence showed that once in the United States, Bello became verbally and physically abusive to both young women, prosecutors said. She beat them for not cleaning well, beat them for not responding fast enoughto her crying child, and beat them if they talked back toher. The women testified that Bello beat them with a large woodenspoon, shoes, electric cords and with her hands. One young woman wasable to take pictures of her injuries with a disposable camera.

Two witnesses, one a friend and one a relative of Bello, alsotestified about the abuse they witnessed. One woman described seeingone victim with bruises and swollen eyes from the defendant's abuse. Bothwomen advised Bello to stop abusing the girls, evidence shows.

Bello refused to stop her abuse andsend the women home, telling her friend, "I will not live infear."

This friend helped one victim escape by hiding her in the back of another woman's car, who covered her withblankets, and drove her away. Bello then went back to Nigeria forthe second victim, evidence showed.

Bello moved out of the United States during the investigation andwas indicted on the charges in September 2010. She was arrested at Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston upon re-enteringthe United States.

Evidence also shows that the victims were sleep-deprived and forced to be on call for Bello's child all night. Bellowould not let the young women use modern appliances such as thewashing machine, dishwasher, or the lawn mower. The evidence showedthat Bello never sent the young women to school as she had promisedand never gave them any money for years of work.

One victim saved up $60, given to her by friends ofBello, and called a cab. She was assisted by pastors at a church inMarietta after taking the cab to the church, evidence showed.

Sentencing for Bello has been set for Aug. 24 beforeU.S. District Judge William S. Duffey Jr. The two forced labor charges and the two labor trafficking charges carry a maximumsentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.The twodocument-servitude counts carry a maximum sentence of five years inprison and a fine of up to $250,000.

The alien-harboringcount carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a fine ofup to $250,000.

The question is: are they buying up the land or leasing them? If leasing, then there is an expiration date, no? If outright purchase, then it is a sad development.
Anyways, as long as they are not buying up my family/town property, it beho(o)ves those selling to consider the long-term impact.

There are many intractable lands lying unused in Africa. It may make economic sense to lease those out, instead of choice arable lands.