₦airaland Forum

ismailaw:
The only thing Ido not agree with is the statement that she should count herself lucky that she was not killed.

Thank you for this at least.

ismailaw:
Are we now saying we could beat Police and Military men if they descend on us. The lady's action by dragging the horsewhip with those guys can never be justified under any condition.

Did you say you are ismai[b]law[/b]
How does dragging horsewhip to stop further whipping equate to beating the police and military men
So she should have kept quiet and taken her punishment like a very obedient civilian- right?
Why should police and military men descend on civilians please, if I may ask? That is not even allowed in war situations! Except you want to run the risk of being charged for war crimes. Have you ever heard of arrest[/b]ing someone and charging him to court for any [b]infraction of the law?
Ok, maybe that is too civilised for Nigeria
You may need to dust up your law books and check out the relevant sections on military-civilian relationship, human rights etc.

ismailaw:
The father even apologised to the R.A on phone and we heard that MTN has already tendered their conversation to confirm this.

While I admit we are world-renowned geniuses, I believe you may want to take this comment into consideration about the limits of mobile telephone technology.
Have a nice weekend and hope you don't get cowed by police and military men whose salary and equipment are paid for with your taxes BUT continue to intimidate and harass you unnecessarily

Well for America the journalists also critique their govt & politrickians such as this one.
Anyway that kind of journalism and law & order is not _nuts in our character.
Abeg, let's move on, he go soon better for naija, our prophets don talk like here

tharma:
This guy just view it from a journalistic perspective. And you will be suprised as to how the Western media also talk about poverty in their country, but may be that will be within their own country. But the fact remain the fact: the opulence to poverty ration is just too wide.

Thank you oh!
But why naija journalist go write like that how I'm go take see egunje from politrickian wey dey enslave I'm with I'm relations them dey go!
Well, let's move to the next level, tenant to landlord anyone? or from zero to hero, somebody? ok, let's try from no-one to someone overnight?
welcome to lagos (naija), get rich or die trying- oh sorry, get rich no matter who you kill (directly or indirectly) on your way and to stay there.
a friend once told me solid business guys find it easier to make quick & crazy money in naija- go figure!

[quote author=pilgrim.1 link=topic=203250.msg3185447#msg3185447 date=1228486651]However, I am beginning to understand what I never understood before.[/quote]Thank God for this revelation!

[quote author=pilgrim.1 link=topic=203250.msg3185447#msg3185447 date=1228486651]So many people especially in the Nigerian case are convinced that people are being forced to pay tithes - I believe that is true, and I have experienced it a few times.
The one thing that you and I may be fortunate on is that we may be in places of fellowship where things are not as deplorable as in the Nigerian scenario.[/quote]

segyemaro:
i say some pastors will go the extra lenght to call you ROBBER if you should refused to give tithe,and the way they will put it,if you don't have strong mind,they will make it look assive you have committed an abomination.

Pilgrim.1, do you see any similarity in the above two quotes?
What would you call any (wo)man engaged in such "deplorable" things
Would you call him a Christian talk less of a pastor?
And these, my dear sister is what we have been saying in the past few pages of back and forth since KunleOshob opened up on the "abuse" by church ( ) leaders of this deplorable thing.

anonimi:
this is the koko of this and other related matters.
even during war, you are not expected to target and kill civilians unecessarily. See Geneva Conventions
just wondering, megadeath, do/will they teach teach you this in NDA

oga mega, i still dey wait for your answer oh!

Yes, we should stop giving tithes (specific 10% of income).
However, we should generously give offerings of money, time etc to any meeting/group of fellow xtians that we adhere ourself to (church? - not necessarily)
The offering we give may be 10% (or less or more) but must not be made out of compulsion, threats/curses or coercion, wether openly or subtly.

KunleOshob:
James 1:27:
27 Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.

A related quote to the above is Isaiah 58:

6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

KunleOshob:
James 1:27:
27 Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.

Thanks Kunle for the above quote, which I just read in context. I realise this theme runs through the NT in particular but also the Bible in general but did not have a specific and direct quote like this.
It is worthwhile to note that James was Jesus' brother.
Meanwhile our christian leaders continue to mislead us like here

anonimi:
anyone knows how much fees charged in RCCG schools vis-a-vis average salary today compared to how much mission schools charged "in the olden days" compared to average salaries 40-30 years ago? can someone please lead by example here? how many of RCCG pastors can send their kids to RCCG schools based on the salaries paid by the church? or maybe only rich kids need God in their schools today?

I thought at least one of the 266,653 Nland members could give the fees paid in RCCG schools by now

Navy again!
Rating stabs Prisons warder
• We’ve commenced investigation – Naval spokesman, Comdr Nabaida
By Paul Omo Obadan
Sunday, November 30, 2008



Not a few would have thought that the hullabaloo and outright condemnation that trailed the recent assault by naval ratings attached to Rear Admiral Harry Arogundade on Miss Uzoma Okeke in Lagos would serve as a deterrent to the men in immaculate white uniform.

Okeke had been beaten to a pulp and almost stripped naked for ‘obstructing’ traffic as the convoy of the naval officer passed by.
Yet again in Lagos, some ratings have brutalized one Isaac Oseteru Timilehin, an Assistant Inspector of Prisons attached to the Arms Squad Unit, Nigerian Prisons Service, Lagos Command, Kirikiri.

Sunday Sun learnt that the problem began when one Chinedu, son of a Prisons official, Anthonia, who resides at the Medium Prisons Barracks in Kirikiri, beckoned to a commercial bike rider. His alleged rude response to the fare proposed by the Okada rider was said to have provoked an argument, which attracted other colleagues of the bike man.
Unknown to Chinedu that the rider was a military personnel, he was said to have replied: “What is my business with that? Is this Navy Barracks?” when one of his colleagues queried him (Chinedu) for arguing with the other man.

So the Okada man, identified as Shaibu Suleiman Oseni, a rating attached to the Naval Air Station, Navy Town, Ojo, alighted from his bike and reportedly slapped Chinedu. This resulted to a fight before passersby intervened.
But no sooner had Chinedu gone to his mum’s apartment at the Medium Security Barracks than the Navy rating allegedly brought out his phone and called three other of his military colleagues and the four of them in mufti were said to have marched to the residence.

As they tried to gain entry into the apartment, there was an uproar which attracted a neighbour, Mr Timilehin, an Assistant Inspector of Prisons. He, however, drew the ire of the naval personnel when he queried their audacity to come into the Prisons barracks to start a fight and for preventing their entry into the flat.
An eyewitness said before they knew it, Shaibu had brought out a dagger with which he sliced the left side of Timilehin’s stomach open. Immediately his intestines bulged out, the naval ratings reportedly bolted.

Timilehin was lucky not to have died as he was rejected by six hospitals where he was rushed to, with his intestines in his hands, until the Lagos General Hospital accepted to treat him.
According to our source, Timilehin would have died but for the prompt attention of doctors and nurses at the General Hospital, who were said to have performed surgery on him from 5pm to about 1am the following day. He would still undergo further surgery as the doctors said the injury affected the intestine leading to the anus.

At the Divisional Police Headquarters, Kirikiri, Sunday Sun gathered that the naval authorities had rebuffed a letter requesting them to produce Shaibu for thorough investigation of the matter. Rather, the naval authorities have set out to investigate the incident.
Sunday Sun also learnt there had been several face-offs between naval personnel and residents of the Kirikiri area, prompting the residents to call for help. When contacted, the Director of Naval Information, Commodore David Nabaida, confirmed the incident in a telephone chat but denied that the naval rating stabbed the Prisons official.

According to Nabaida, the attack could have been carried out by one of those that thronged the scene when the fighting broke out.
He, however, said they were collaborating with the police in the investigation, and assured that the culprit would soon be apprehended.
Meanwhile, at the General Hospital, where he is receiving treatment, Timilehin insisted that he was actually stabbed by Shaibu Suleiman Oseni.

“He actually stabbed me and admitted in front of my younger brother Kunle; the Deputy Controller of Prisons and Madam Anthonia, Chinedu’s mother, that he did it.”
Timilehin further described the assailant as being dark in complexion and stout with a scar under one of his eyes.
Sources at the hospital told Sunday Sun that “the patient (Timilehin) urinates via a pipe which the doctors passed through the wound.

From: Sun News

How many more before we wake up and rise up to say NO MORE, NEVER AGAIN

Corosive:
@anonimi
Thank God u said unnecessarily. Meanwhile did u read that convention atall? Because I don't remember seeing "civilians" The last time I checked, even the Niger delta militants r civilians like every other person. Non-combatants, my friend, is d word u r looking for. Now the Q is how do u seperate the combatants from the non-combatants.

thanks for the clarification of my generalisation of non-combatants to equate civilians.
meanwhile, i am sure Ms. Okere definitely is a non-combatant and there was no war of any sort on Muri Okunola Street when the incident happened.

duduspace:
I am also appalled at the disproportionate use of force and indiscriminate killing of the innocent along with the guilty by an organized force which could and should have handled things better.

this is the koko of this and other related matters.
even during war, you are not expected to target and kill civilians unecessarily. See Geneva Conventions
just wondering, megadeath, do/will they teach teach you this in NDA

anonimi:
Trigger-happy Cop Shoots 4 LASU Students
By Eugene Agha, 11.26.2008

No fewer than 20 students of the Lagos State University (LASU) escaped death by the whiskers on Tuesday, when a trigger-happy mobile policeman pumped bullets into their school van at Epe.
Though no life was lost, police source at the Command Headquarters, Ikeja, told THISDAY that at least four of the students sustained various degrees of bullet wounds in the process.
The source alleged that two of the students were treated at the Lagos Island General Hospital, while the other two whose cases were more critical were admitted at the intensive care unit[/b]s of both Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) and Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja and are responding to treatment.
Source: http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=129291

Is it not appropriate to ask -[b]Who will be the next victim
TODAY, Let us ALL together condemn these despicable acts in our midst that characterise us(our country) as near-animals

I hope the victims and other students in the five buses will get a good lawyer and sue the police force for civil damages for their injuries, lost class hours/tests/exams, trauma, intimidation etc for a huge sum. It is time these guys who wear uniforms paid with our taxes-directly or indirectly from Petroleum companies on our behalf- STOP harrassing us with the guns, horsewhips, vehicles, sirens etc also bought with OUR money.
The LASU students should also turn out enmasse in solidarity for Okere's case on the next hearing- Feb 23, 2009

Assault: Judge fixes Feb 23 for suit against Rear Admiral
By Tony Amokeodo
Published: Thursday, 27 Nov 2008

JUSTICE Opeyemi Oke of a Lagos High Court, on Wednesday, fixed February 23, 2009 for the hearing of an assault suit filed by Miss Uzoma Okere and Abdullahi Abdulazeez against Rear Admiral Harry Arogundade

Source:http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20081127314868

the psoter forgot to add:

on saturday, you hop from one owambe birthday, naming, burial or some other i-don-arrive ceremony including 40 year remembrance of some parent or grandparent who died when you had no money.
on sunday, straight to church and there till evening/late afternoon.
time for family NONE
time for vacation- not shopping trips abroad NONE

Ilelobola:
It's interesting I was watching a programme on how foreign aid is used in Africa (well mainly Uganda and Sierria Leone) 2 days ago and with the poverty shown on TV, I thought to myself, what is the role of the church in all this? And I come across this today.

Before the TV programme, I had been seriously reconsidering what I do with my tithes i.e. pay it to the church or actually pay it to an orphanage in Nigeria where I know it will make a positive difference. I still haven't been able to decide and whilst the original article does make score a few points; I am still unclear. I have started paying the equivalent of my tithes to a Nigerian orphanage caring for underprivileged children and still pay my tithes to the church but one has to give way at some point as I cannot afford both for long.

I certainly am not happy when we are shown the church's annual reports that shows that more was spent on visiting guest ministers and other types of hospitality than was actually spent on charity. Something like 10:1! The reports suggests what is given to charity is an after thought. Half the time we are asked to make special contributions for charity if it is Xmas presents for underprivileged children or to build a refuge in Uganda when visiting pastors stay in the best hotels with funds taken from the church's accounts. We build the largest churches in the world but our people languish in poverty.

One day the church has bought a building with the building funds, another day, they say we are renting the building. Do they think people forget? I believe in God but I can't help but feel some pastor's just see tithes as free money.

One of my friends is a treasurer at a new start-up church in London (she's unpaid but it just so happens that she is the only one with a finance qualification in the church and the responsbility fell on her). It was started 5-10years ago and the pastor's bought 2 properties (fully paid up) in London and more in Nigeria in that time. Question is, where did he get the money from , she always reserves her comments.

I do agree with some parts of the original post but if we don't tithe where will the maintenance of the church come out from? Where will pastors and church staff be paid from if we don't pay tithes and would it not be hypocritical to be part of something and not contribute towards the upkeep? These are the questions that I still have no answers to that make me pay my tithes still.

All of these have left me very disillusioned.

You need not be disillusioned about giving to God's work
May I refer you to pilgrim.1's reply to another threadhere

I will encourage you to read the Bible yourself, starting with the New Testament and relate what you do and what your pastor/church is doing to what Christ and the early Apostles did in establishing CHRISTianity vis-a-vis tithes (10%) and/or offering (any % of income) for the purpose of maintaining the church & its workers (including pastor) and meeting the needs of teh less priviledged in their midst then.
May God continue to bless you and make you a shining example, like the light on the hilltop for your giving to the orphanage-Amen
I always ask my church/pastor focused friends and relations, who they taught would have been raptured of the Samaritan, priest and levite in the Luke 10: 25-37 story

Trigger-happy Cop Shoots 4 LASU Students
By Eugene Agha, 11.26.2008

No fewer than 20 students of the Lagos State University (LASU) escaped death by the whiskers on Tuesday, when a trigger-happy mobile policeman pumped bullets into their school van at Epe.
Though no life was lost, police source at the Command Headquarters, Ikeja, told THISDAY that at least four of the students sustained various degrees of bullet wounds in the process.
The source alleged that two of the students were treated at the Lagos Island General Hospital, while the other [b]two whose cases were more critical were admitted at the intensive care unit[/b]s of both Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) and Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja and are responding to treatment.
The mobile policeman identified as Benjamin has since been arrested by members of his team. He was immediately given an orderly room trial, found guilty and subsequently dismissed at the instance of the Lagos State Commissioner of Police (CP), Mr. Marvel Akpoyibo. He has also been charged to court for attempted murder.
Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr Frank Mba, while briefing crime reporters yesterday on the issue at Ebute Meta Chief Magistrate’s Court Six, after the dismissed policeman was remanded in prison custody, stated that Akpoyibo gave express directive to the legal unit of the Command to charge the matter to court, since the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) under the leadership of the present Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Mike Okiro, would not want to condole any act of indiscipline.
Narrating what happened, Mba, a Superintendent of Police, said on Tuesday at about 8.30p.m., a convoy of five vehicles carrying students of LASU returning from Epe, stopped and parked in front of one police Armoured Personnel Car (APC) stationed in the area.
The police constable was said to have opened fire at the stationary bus as a result of which four of the students were injured.
"Two were treated at the General hospital, while the other two are on admission at LUTH and LASUTH,” he said.
The Lagos Police spokesman further said that the police constable was immediately arrested by members of his team. And that by the time the information got to the Command Headquarters; the CP directed that he should by tried immediately.
Few hours later, according to Mba, the man was found guilty by members of the board. Consequently he was dismissed and taken to court on a four-count charge.
"This is to send signal to other policemen serving in Lagos that the Command is not prepared to spare anybody who may want to snuff out life out of those they were asked to protect," he said

Source: http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=129291

Is it not appropriate to ask -Who will be the next victim
TODAY, Let us ALL together condemn these despicable acts in our midst that characterise us(our country) as near-animals

@ poster,

ask your friend to read her Bible up on this matter as she is supposed to on ANY matter, irrespective of what her pastor says.
Specific to this is Matt. 22v21

"Then saith he (Jesus) unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and (then/thereafter) unto God the things that are God's."
Shalom

Soundmind:
Ribadu should have known by now that where he failed was more than where he did well.

would you mind sharing with us the statistics with which you arrived at this conclusion?
a list of where he failed compared to another list of where he did well will suffice.
thanks in advance.

troy07:
Let 's all come together and find solution to Nigeria. No one is left out of this kind abuse.

Very true indeed as this story exemplifies.- it could be anyone or his kid, sibling, parent, relation or friend.

Assault: Reps condemn naval ratings’ action
By Tony Amokeodo, John Ameh and Olalekan Adetayo
Published: Wednesday, 12 Nov 2008
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The House of Representatives on Tuesday condemned last week‘s ordeal of Miss Uzoma Okere in the hands of some violent naval ratings in Lagos.

It said that the conduct of the ratings, who were attached to Rear Admiral Harry Arogundade, portrayed Nigeria as a nation drifting towards lawlessness.


Okere, 27, was beaten and stripped naked by six armed naval ratings on Muri Okunola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, on Monday last week on the excuse that she obstructed the convoy of Arogundade.


In a resolution in Abuja, the House observed that many ‘big men,’ who claimed to be leaders of the people, were abusing the privileges of their high offices.

According to the resolution, sirens and flashlights had been abused to a point where persons who were not entitled to them, used them to harass citizens without check.

Following a motion sponsored by Mr. Habib Fasenro, a member of the House from Lagos State, the House mandated its joint Committee on Governmental Affairs/Judiciary/Justice to submit to it a list of Nigerians entitled to use siren within two weeks. For failing to show remorse for the conduct of his men, Fasenro, a member of the Action Congress, described Arogundade‘s excuse that the ratings were provoked as ”despicable.”

He reminded his colleagues that only law enforcement agents and ambulances responding to emergencies were entitled to siren in organised societies, expressing sadness that in Nigeria, the siren had become a status symbol.

However, the Chairman of the House Committee on Rules and Business, Mr. Ita Enang, introduced a new angle to the debate when he said that all privileged Nigerians, including House members and senators were guilty of the same offence.

Enang recounted a personal encounter with the security personnel of the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, in Abuja last week.

He said that he was driving on Ahmadu Bello Way in the city when he heard the siren of the convoy blaring behind him, as a result of which he cleared from the road.

The lawmaker said that he was shocked when security aides jumped out of their vehicles and tried to beat him up after they had brushed his car.

Similarly, the Leader of the AC in the House, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, called for criminal prosecution of all the naval personnel involved in the attack on Okere.

Also, a group, the Network on Police Reform in Nigeria, on Tuesday, called on President Umaru Yar‘Adua to demonstrate his commitment to the rule of law by dismissing Arogundade over the assault.

In a statement by its Programme Coordinator, Mr. Okechukwu Nwanguma, the group said the development would send a clear signal to officers of uniformed services, particularly the Navy, that Nigeria had moved away from the era of arbitrariness and power drunkenness.

”This is the time to curb lawlessness among senior naval officers and tell them in clear terms that everyone must confine his/her actions within the bounds of the law.

”NOPRIN makes this call, not because the victim this time is the daughter of the Sergeant-at-Arms at the National Assembly, or the daughter of a retired Army Colonel, but because like any other citizen of Nigeria, Okere is entitled to all the rights guaranteed under the Nigerian constitution and all regional and international conventions to which Nigeria voluntarily subscribes, including the respect for her human dignity.”

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Source: http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20081112427139

lucabrasi:
yes he did threaten the corrupt establishment,but he ended up joining them by negating his achievements , remember the nwude allegation where he was accused of underselling the man's properties to himself and his cronies?

I thought you may not have seen the response below earlier.
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RESPONSE TO ALLEGATIONS MADE BY CHIEF EMMANUEL NWUDE

Last View on Tue 12th August, 2008
Last Modified on Sat 05th January, 2008 12:02:37 am
Author: Posted by Admin Sahara




Ordinarily, we would not respond in this fashion to the allegations that have been made against us in the media in recent days. However, the circumstances in which we find ourselves are not ordinary circumstances and we feel compelled to issue this statement so as to place the true facts in the public domain. We hope that, by doing this, the media and the general public will see the campaign being waged by Chief Emmanuel Nwude for what it is – a cruel and callous campaign of calumny.

The background to this matter is that between 1995 and 1998, an officer of a Brazilian bank, one Nelson Sakaguchi, was persuaded by some enterprising Nigerian confidence tricksters to steal over US$190 million from the bank and wire transfer it to these Nigerians. Chief Emmanuel Odinigwe Nwude was one of the ring leaders of this criminal gang.

Following extensive and painstaking investigations conducted in several jurisdictions, Chief Nwude and other individuals were charged with a number of offences related to the theft of the money. Almost two years after having pleaded not guilty to the charges, all the persons accused of the offences pleaded guilty to reduced charges and received various terms of imprisonment. In addition, forfeiture orders were made against specified assets, and each of them received fines in various sums. Chief Nwude was fined US$10 million. The decision of the prosecution to accept these guilty pleas, and to reduce the charges brought against the accused, was based upon agreements made by the accused and the victims of their criminal conduct. This firm represents those victims, the former majority shareholders of the Brazilian bank (Banco Noroeste S.A.).

In the case of Chief Emmanuel Nwude, the agreement he made with our clients was that he would surrender all his assets in Nigeria (the assets he declared were set out in a schedule to the agreement) and our clients would dispose of the assets
so as to realise a total net sum of US$120 million. Upon the realisation of the agreed sum, such assets as remained would be returned to him. As at December 31 2007, the sale of assets formerly belonging to Chief Nwude has resulted in the remittance of some US$74 million to our clients, and the payment by our clients of N609 million (US$5.1 million) to the Federal Government, in part satisfaction of the US$10 million fine. Our clients anticipated that Chief Nwude’s assets might not be sufficient to meet his total liability and therefore undertook to pro-rate the recoveries it made so as to ensure that the Federal Government received payments at the same time as our clients received the sums due to them. We wish to emphasise that the recovery exercise is ongoing, as the agreed sum of US$120 million is yet to be realised.

Chief Nwude’s agenda in this campaign clearly includes an effort to prevent our clients recovering the money he stole from them.
From the very outset, Chief Nwude breached the agreement with our clients by failing to produce all necessary documents of title, and by refusing to provide a statement of his assets. The assets listed in the schedule to the agreement were those discovered as a result of investigations carried out on behalf of our clients. The EFCC subsequently discovered other assets, which discovery is now the basis for his further prosecution under the EFCC Act, for failing to disclose these assets. Not only did Chief Nwude fail to comply with his obligations under the agreement, he demonstrated his lack of good faith by immediately lodging an appeal against the forfeiture order.

Our clients have, acting upon the agreement that it entered into with Chief Nwude, proceeded to dispose of the assets it has been able to bring under its control. This firm has acted for the clients in all these disposals. At no time has the EFCC been directly, or indirectly, involved in the sale of any of these assets. Indeed, before the disposal of assets commenced, the Chairman of the EFCC was explicit in his insistence that the EFCC would not be engaged in the sale of any of the forfeited assets. The assets had been forfeited to our clients and, in any event, he feared that Chief Nwude would attempt to use any involvement of the EFCC as a tool of blackmail.

The only instance of EFCC involvement in the assets was at 4 Osborne Road, Chief Nwude’s former residence. The EFCC provided security here, and following upon the sale of the property, they were present when his personal effects were evacuated. Nwude was informed when this was to occur, and he deliberately ensured that no representative of his was present. This was because he was intent on preventing the sale of the property. His personal effects were later collected from the EFCC’s custody by his brother. Video evidence of the evacuation of this property is available, as everything found in the premises were duly catalogued.

All these facts are verifiable, and we are distressed that the print media, save with one or two honourable exceptions, have not attempted to verify the information they have published, all of which was supplied by Chief Nwude, a convicted fraudster, whose stock-in-trade is the purveyance of lies. We are further distressed that the lies of such a person are now being seized upon as the basis to make unwarranted attacks on dedicated officers interested only in ensuring that this country does not remain beholden to criminals.

Reference has been made in some of the interviews given by Chief Nwude to an American citizen named “Mark”. Mark is an investigator engaged by our clients to continue the investigation of Chief Nwude’s assets. His efforts have not only helped disclose previously undeclared assets, but also the existence of a number of other victims of Chief Nwude’s criminal conduct, who have lost sums in excess of US$5 million. We cannot give details of these victims so as not to prejudice any future prosecution of Chief Nwude for these other crimes.

Having stated the foregoing, we wish to specifically indicate that some of the publications that have appeared in the media concerning us have been defamatory, and we reserve, fully, all our individual and collective rights with regard to such defamatory publications.


E. O. SOFUNDE, SAN Chief G. N. O. OSAKWE
for: SOFUNDE, OSAKWE, OGUNDIPE & BELGORE
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Source Sahara  Reporters

@ luca,

thanks for your clarification to avoid some of us taking your words only at face value.

lucabrasi:
for anyone that wants to last in their post in nigeria,they have to keep out of politics,the way it is presently practiced in nigeria, when the duo of dangote and otedola dabbled in politics during the obj regime,what happened to the refinery they paid for?same as their interests in transcorp,

i hope you noted the roles of dangote & otedola in PDP's building launch recently. they are typical AGIP people- Any Govt In Power.

lucabrasi:
i hope you are not insinuating that ribadu was solely fighting for the masses and the downtrodden?he wasnt clean cut as well and has a few allegations hanging over his head,what did him in however is taking a clear side in politics(obasanjo's)akunyili quickly reverted to yar adua's side and kept her mouth shut, moreover ribadu made the mistake of betraying who would have been his safety net now i.e atiku and his political machinery, the lesson for him is that theres no permanent friend or enemy amongst seasoned and professional politicians hence obasanjo that he was fighting for now makingovertures to atiku.

to fight for change the way you surreptously put it,will require a lot of personal sacrifice and resilience, not the way ribadu went about it

i agree mostly with the above, esp. that Ribadu was not a saint. however we need not throw out the baby with the bath water. he was overall more than average performance in his assigned task at EFCC.
most significantly, we ALL are the greater losers for our country's inability to gradually grow democratic institutions away from personal vendettas that keep taking us two steps back after one step adavnce.
Peace!

lucabrasi:
i hope he has learnt his lessons that nigerian politics is murkier than the dirtiest gutter and the best recipe for survival is to keep out of it entirely and shut your mouth

going by your previous posts and characterisation, i am not sure you meant what i highlighted above, you may wish to clarify.
I believe even Akunyili campaigned for PDP. Keeping out of politics entirely is impossible for a high ranking public official, businessman or celebrity.
moreover, how do we get the change we say we want if we all shut our mouths as you recommend.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die- reggae quote
i no wan die, papa dey for house, i wan build house, i wan buy car etc- Fela
meanwhile, we dey die slowly and suddenly due to rotten infrastructures, unemployment, worstest healthcare, blackout, bad water etc

Arogz:
This is authoritative,

whose authority (Madmiral Aro's?) if I may ask please

Arogz:
1. Rear Admiral Arogundade was not at the scene of the incident.
Again, I say categoricall that Admiral Arogundade was not at d scene of the incident.

whose direct agents were the six naval thugs ratings when this flogging, stripping and assault was going on
they were acting on whose behalf- we the 140m taxpayers who are their ultimate EMPLOYERS or the Madmiral Aro's

Arogz:
4. Admiral Arogundade personally ordered a new blouse be bought for her.

out of a usual, verifiable habit of generosity OR involuntary admission of guilt and insufficient gesture at reparation

Arogz:
5. Y'all shouldn't believe all u read in d papers, those press men are just hungry people,

why should we believe you and not think that you are a hungrier person who has sold cheap to Madmiral Aro
if the press men are indeed hungry, why has soon-to-be-Mr. Aro not "settled" them OR his generosity is ONLY limited to buying replacement blouse for victims of the assault of his thugs ratings

Arogz:
2. Ms Uzoma was not beaten. The ratings were trying 2 arrest her and she slipped out of her blouse while trying 2 escape arrest.
3. She assaulted the naval rating first, taking his horse whip from him and flogging him.

how were they trying to arrest her?
their horsewhips were they for decoration or they were heading to/from the race course and expected to/had dealt with horses?
given the recent shooting of a PLEADING Okada man in similar circumstances, should Ms. Okere not have reason to be afraid for her life in the hands of these law-breaking, citizen-arresting supposedly educated illiterates who should know better how to report civilian infractions to the police

Arogz:
6. Ms. Okere has currently refused 2 appear before the SIP set up, apparently, she's receiving coaching from her lawyers and her unrepentant lying father.

the navy has enough evidence to deal with its officer and men in order to reduce its corporate/institutional culpability in this assault case and the subsequent damages to be awarded against the participants.
pray, tell us why should Ms. Okere appear before a military panel, whose repect for the finer principles of law are not guaranteed
so her testimony can be altered and distorted as has been done already with the incident itself by shameless woman-beating hefty naval men and officer

Arogz:
7. Weda u like it or not, ask any military officer u know, Admiral Arogundade is one of the finest naval officers this country has ever produced, check d records, and ask for word on d streets!

"tell that to the marines".
which records? which streets?

Arogz:
Again, I say categoricall that Admiral Arogundade was not at d scene of the incident.

meaning he was not fully represented by his thug rating agents acting comprehensively under his orders and true to habit

bodsibobo:
But why are you guys praising the man for what he is employed/appointed/elected/selected to do? The man is just doing what ordinarily should be his job description as a governor. It is only in Nigeria that public office holders are celebrated for doing what they are suppossed to do.

What else is he f*#cking there for other than to fix the roads, the street lights, hospitals, etc?

May I amend that slightly to read: he is only doing a very tiny bit of what he is paid by us (u & I) to do.
When will we wake up and ask these Looters-in-Power (LiPs) to work like we do in our offices and businesses before we earn our pay
Is this not the same man buying GBP25m ship for hotel in the name of tourism? For all  the manypriorities wey dey for ground?

Victim of naval ratings’ assault back in hospital

Oluwole Josiah and Olalekan Adetayo


Miss Uzoma Okere, the lady assaulted by six naval ratings recently in Lagos, is back in hospital over complaints of lumbar pains.

Her father, Col. Emeka Okere (rtd) told our correspondent on Wednesday that Uzoma had complained of spinal problem even though she was still receiving treatment for the injuries she suffered from the beating by the naval ratings.

Okere said Uzoma had the problems some time last year, but was treated by Dr. Felix Ogedengbe of the National Hospital, Abuja.

He said, “When she had the problem, she was treated by Ogedengbe early this year, but she seems to have relapsed into the problem after the beating.”

Okere added that Uzoma would begin treatment at the National Hospital under the supervision of Dr. Ogedengbe.

He said the intervention of the Lagos State Governor Mr. Babatunde Fashola, had given him some relief, but the new development was raising some concerns for his family.

Okere had earlier petitioned the Senate committees on Navy and defence for action to be taken against those involved in the maltreatment of her daughter.

While awaiting the action of the Senate committees, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello brought a motion before the Senate, complaining about her assault and that of Uzoma.

The military authorities have instituted a probe into the action of the naval ratings to redeem the image of the Nigerian Navy.

Meanwhile, the Oodua People‘s Congress has promised to render assistance Uzoma.

The Founder of the group, Dr. Fredrick Fasheun, said this at a press conference in Lagos on Wednesday.

Fasheun said the group‘s intervention in the case became imperative because of its belief that “injury to one is injury to all.”

He described as disgraceful to the military for their personnel to assault defenceless civilians, moreso a harmless lady.

Fasehun noted that the assault came at a time of worldwide condemnation of America troops’ excesses against prisoners of war and some civilians in Iraq and the Guatemala Bay.

He urged all Nigerians to support Okere by storming the court during hearings to show solidarity for the victim.

He said, “It will be very much in order to use these offensive naval ratings as scapegoats to curtail this unending harassment that uniformed men unleash against civilians. It is a shame that the military would defend this perfidy.”

Source: http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200811202231070

okuya:
well I felt sorry 4 miss Okere, and honestly was bitter about the whole incident, but my sympathy died down as soon as I heard her dad was a rtd colonel from the army, who knows if her dad did the same thing, remeber NEMESIS!

so, in short this nemesis should continue further in our lawless society where a man's "bigness" is measured by how much he can break our laws and get away with it.
iyabo obasanjo's harrassment also must be nemesis. ditto for the okada man killed by a soldier and the punch journalist flogged in port harcourt.
i hope someone will not say it is nemesis the day you will be publicly flogged by your meiguards, or maybe it will be your siblings, kids, parents, friends or relations.

Gamine:
Tax?

where?

what precisely do you mean ma?

folos:
now it is bad to lay a finger on a woman,much worse strip her naked

i think you should have stopped with the above or stuck with the same theme.

but i also feel alot of the facts have been distorted to further garner sympathy.

will u be kind enough to point out these distortions

i think what happened is enough to push through her case

exactly, why not leave the court to determine how much damages to pay her legal team for the global humiliation, stress, trauma, degradation, physical injury, torn dress etc that she has suffered in the hands of our meiguards, who have taken to beating their 140m employers

i knoow that between then and now alot of people have been beaten on our streets and noothing has been heard about them, yet this case is just garnering more and more votes.

i am sure you also have irrefutable video evidence of such beatings that you can post here so we can advice the victims to seek legal redress as Ms. Okere has done.

let's be ffactul,she proffitted from a priviledge background and that showed in her obstinacy.

meaning, she should have taken her beating and maybe shooting cooly and wait for you to continue saying nothing will ever change in naija, no be so?

bastrin:
Even d mil men pay tax dese days , so wot r u guys not saying?

Since when did they start paying?
who changed our tax laws?

these soldiers and policemen are our public servants who have taken to oppressing us because we have chosen to be mugus.
but no more, at least not this time with a video recording of what happened in the public domain and a civil court case as well.
if you know Madmiral Aro, kindly advise him to consult damage control experts on the way forward. for my part, i will suggest:

1. he resigns before he is retired by the navy, for bringing the force into disrepute.
2. he settles with the girl's lawyers out of court, so the judge does not get tempted to award exemplary damages in favour of the victim. this may take away all his gratuity and property that he has acquired through bunkering (theft) of oil that should have been used to build better roads hence less traffic jams making his siren-blowing excapades unnessary.
3. post-resignation, he can set up an NGO to teach human rights and civilian-military relations to soldiers while giving a portion of his fees to other victims of police/military abuses.

Corosive:
Hw about I give u 1. The guy who shot d okada man was nt jst dismissd bt also jaild.

first, from your earlier post that i quoted one would have thought you had a long list!
well, now to the only one you gave- the naval rating (abi na officer?) was jailed for how many years, if I may ask?
i beleive the story was that he shot the okada man while he was pleading with him i.e. in cold blood, right or maybe u want to clarify that?

Corosive:
In my fomer post I said I dnt realy feel sorry 4 d girl because if she had acted like a lady n reportd d case to d navy itself,

this reporting that you recommend, should it have been done before, during or after she has been thoroughly flogged with horsewhips bought by a govt with her taxes

just out of curiosity, do you use horsewhips also on your kids and relations/friends or only on strangers and enemies who "don't behave like ladies (or gentlemen)"

Corosive:
In my fomer post I said I dnt realy feel sorry 4 d girl because if she had acted like a lady n reportd d case to d navy itself, I'm sure they wulda taken action because history has shwn that the navy are very fast at prosecutin their own.

I am sure you can give a list of such prosecutions and resulting punishment, can't you
So please go ahead and give us the details here. Thanks in advance.

Nigeria Safe for Tourists, Investors, Says Runsewe
From Charles Ajunwa in London, 11.13.2008

Director General,  Nigerian Tourism Development Co-operation  (NTDC), Otunba Segun Runsewe, has said  Nigeria is safe for foreign toirists and investors to do business.

Runsewe said the bad image being peddled about Nigeria as unsafe was the handiwork of people he described as competitors who are afraid of Nigeria's rising profile internationally.

competitors who may have paid our Rear Admiral Aro to spoil naija's image with his barbaric display of power just last week
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(skip) adding that Nigerians are tolerant, accomodating and God-fearing, which accounted for over 100 foreign flights into the country on a daily basis.

definitely not talking about the nuts in our character such as Arogundade & his six uniformed thugs.
And to think that their uniforms were bought in the name of the 140m citizens of this country of whom the victim is one

Source: http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=127988