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Here we have a taxpayers funded security service with nothing better to do, with lack of any ability or capacity to protect Nigerians, to prevent the same bomb blast they are constantly playing politics with, to prevent terrorists from killing and kidnapping Nigerians, but they have time and vigor to lay politics, spread and peddle rumors daily, spew innuendos with reckless abandonment, utter baseless and unsubstantiated trash like market women...

DSS as a federal security agency should by now be able to tell Nigerians who is behind and funding BH, they should be carrying out major investigations and finding solutions to our security challenges.

Imagine a whole federal agency yelling look at them o, look at them o, they are hunting us just because we didn't take bribe money, but this useless market women security service still can not tell us who tried to bribe them and what proof they have to show Nigerians.

The useless law enforcement agency even broke the law by refusing to arrest and prosecute the so called lawbreakers with the bribe money..but of course, we all know their bribe rubbish was all made up hence zero proof to base their rubbish on, all they have is daily mouth diarrhea and political grandstanding..

This is not a security service, it's nothing but a useless market women security service...

Sincere9gerian: Why do you defend APC as if your life depends on it? Yeye dey smell!

It's very sad and disheartening that speaking up against wrongs in our bankrupt society means defending this and that party to you and your lowly and unintelligent type. I just wonder why you failed to look in the mirror before asking that dumb and idiotic question...

dunnibaby: I see u lack manners d way u open ur mouth and talked about d Dss spokeman like dat. U need to check out her name because u are d illiterate here fool

Why do you people defend these useless and political public officials?

Why are these worthless, crude, crass and incompetent public officials your role models?

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The dust of the just concluded Osun governorship polls does not seem to be about to ebb, going by the string of accusations not only between political parties, but between political parties and the Department of State Security (DSS).


[b]Today on Channels Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily, the spokesperson of the DSS, Marylin Ogar , wondered why there was no bomb blasts after the Osun governorship election which was won by the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Ogar did not specifically or directly accuse the APC of complicity in the bombing, but still wondered why there were bomb blasts in states where other parties apart from the
APC won elections.

Ms Ogar noted that there has been no bombings since the apc won in Edo and Osun elections.
She said that “we had provided security for Edo and at the end of that election, permit me to say, there was no bomb blast.


“We moved to Ondo and the Labour Party won in Ondo, there was bomb blast. We moved to Anambra; APGA won in Anambra and there was a bomb blast”. She said

She however noted that when they “moved to Ekiti and PDP won in Ekiti, there was a bomb blast” and “thank God we were able to deploy appropriately (in Osun), the results came out, the APC have won and thank God there was no bomb blast”.
Asked if she was insinuating that the opposition party was responsible for the bombings, the DSS spokesperson noted that “we should thank God that since after the Osun elections, there has been no bombings” warning that “it doesn’t mean that there should be a bomb blast after i leave the (channels tv Abuja) studio”.

She noted that the DSS does not come out to make such accusations all the time, adding that “we are not meant to intimidate, we are not meant to cow, but we are allow the Nigerian people know that there certain things we know and we keep quiet to work underground to ensure that we dont want to put people into our parts.[/b]

She also urged every Nigerian to know that security operatives should not and never be dragged into politics.
There had been allegations that the DSS operatives on duty during the Osun election showed some excesses in the discharge of their duties, an allegation she was bent on debunking.

According to her, while she could understand a political party being bad losers, the Osun matter only meant that bad winners also existed.

She stated that the DSS had not done anything unusual in Osun State, explaining that as a fall-out of the Ekiti election, security reports had revealed that political parties, particularly the PDP and the APC had vowed to outdo each other in the Osun State election and based on security reports, the security agencies “had to deploy adequately to be able to forestall any threat or anything that will pose contrary to free and fair election in Osun State.”

Alleged 14million Naira Offer

[b]It has been reported that the DSS alleged that a political party offered the Security Service a bribe, leading to the Osun election, and she was asked to name the persons involved, so that they could be prosecuted.

She said that prior to the election, an APC member had invited the DSS Director, who was coordinating the election “to come and collect 4 million Naira for himself and another 10 million Naira for the same masked people.

“It was an offer and she said no, that she didn’t think it was necessary because when it has to do with logistics, as far as the Service is concerned, they would definitely have placed everything that would make for a successful operation.

“The rejection of that money on Tuesday brought on a lot of things that ordinarily we had not seen before anywhere.”

On the demand for the identity and prosecution of the persons involved, she said, “The duty of the SSS is to detect, prevent and deter” and using the President’s carrot and stick analogy, “It is not every time that you go out arresting people.”

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She said further, “If this same process has been turned down when it had to do with other political parties, and they never took offense, why is it that the APC is taking offense? For me, its like pre-empting and presuming that ‘maybe this people are going to go to town with this stuff so we must be able to cow them to a point where they would be unable to expose what we were trying to do’.

“The person that made the offer knows himself and he knows that we know him.” She insisted that security agencies should not be dragged into politics.

She also clarified the issue surrounding the 14million Naira offer and being referred to as “bribe”.

“I’m sure the people that were doing the offering didn’t see it as a bribe, and I had never mentioned the word bribe. The media has used the word bribe in order to make it sensational.

“I could make you an offer and say this would assist you in what you are doing. Its either you take it or you refuse.

“I did say here that they offered us money to assist us and we said no.”

She added that if indeed the DSS was not accommodating to all parties involved in the election, “the Executive Governor of Osun State wouldn’t have written inviting us to come.”


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OMG OMG OMG... This woman is indeed a public official for real? OMG..

Longeria: You must be stupidt to credit the fight against Ebola to Fashola. Who declared state of emergency against Ebola? Fashola abi? Mumu.

Declaring state of emergency = Fighting against Ebola?

Very unsound and unintelligent...

the insurgency had been pushed to the fringes of the north eastern parts of the country.

Job well done even though they attacked Abuja less than 2 months ago, even though they still attack and kill your people everyday, even though they killed many Nigerians just last Sunday with 100 young boys kidnapped and even though they are still holding on to portions of your country that you can not even manage to take back.

In fact, what's the meaning of fringes of the north eastern parts of the country? Is this some happy news and development or this is not part of Nigeria?

What a reetard...

iiichidodo: Speaking against alleged corruption and incompetence of ONLY THE IGBO in the admin,We guess Jesus now lives in the holy places of Southwest and North.

We sat here and railed against the likes of Gbega Daniel, OBJ, Akala and others regardless so where people come from makes no difference when it comes to right and wrong, unfortunately, all you people see is tribe. Tribe is the beginning and end of everything ibo. Tribe to you comes first before right and wrong hence your bigoted, hateful and paranoid state of existence.

There is no proof or link highlighting any such incidences of deportation of igbos in igbo land…Seems you yeribas are up to your usual antics of 'salt and pepper

This is a reflection of your own ignorance because the governors involved are yet to deny it.

You keep pointing fingers uttering hate and what not when we are careful to insist we don't hate but look out for ourselves...Only if you would eschew guilt-tripping to see four of your own fingers pointin back at you.

Do you also do this when you spew your religious bigotry and hate related rants about northerners including the derogatory and hateful labels like supporter of APC?

You can not even intelligently articulate the reasons for your hate and bigoted rants...

iiichidodo: [color=#1980BC] Nyako's diatribe....Also the sustained witch hunting of influential figures in the admin example Oduah,Iweala,Iheajirka etc by APC sponsored media.El rufai's almost maniacal stance and posturing.The icing on the cake will be the deportation saga,that has to be the most brazen act,with most yorobars supporting the move on social media..… [/color]

You mean speaking up against corruption and incompetence as Nigerians means we are anti ibo?

Your ibo governors deported ibo people too so what's your point? Are they anti ibo too?

your hatred and bigotry predates gej and the people you mentioned so try again

clevadani: name just one anti igbo sentiment they've exhibited apart from d fashola deportation saga in which all our govs a culpable of. didn't t.a orji sack all non abians from d civil service and only returned dem? name one incident for me where apc expressed dis so called anti igbo sentiments

The fact is, you don't have to do anything for them to hate you. Hatred and bigotry is their way of life especially considering the fact that they get fed and indoctrinated from birth...

iiichidodo: Eko ile

Forward your gay love and affection for this person to him and quit insulting me with it?

Igbos don't hate Northerners

Please don't make me laugh, you jokers eat and breath hatred all day 24/7

unlike the yorobars the igbos aren't scared of them either...

Just like you ran and form exodus train back home after they slaughtered thousands of your people instead of fighting?

You have zero sense of history...

All we want is equity and justice without our perennial backstabbers on our heels.

Paranoia and made up fear and enmity remains the biggest monkey on your backs. You can not move forward and progress in life if all you do is spend your existence worrying about other people and creating phantom fears and state of paranoia.

Let us also reiterate that we cannot remain,stay or be part of any political scheme that neither wants the igbos nor with those whose ' body language' has been anti-igbo.

It's your choice. Your present irrelevant, aimless and confused condition in Nigeria is a reflection of the mindless and self destructive choices you make everyday so go ahead, you reap what you sow.

We are not yorobars ditto we cannot be railroaded into a political scheme to reestablish an archaic northern concept.

They don't have to railroad you into anything, you railroad yourself into worse situationeveryday

Politics is all about interests, right now it is not in the interest of the igbos to be annexed by an islamic themed party...We are not supporters of APC.

And who are in the so called Islamic themed party and supporter of APC?

And you don't hate other people?

Like I said, you people eat and breath hate and bigotry everyday/24/7. You even do it while denying that you don't.

This is who you are, this is your culture and way of life..

world international olympic stadium

What in this world is the meaning of that? It's a common 30,000 capacity stadium EGO abeg..

lmao

iiichidodo: [color=#1980BC] Igbos cannot be party to gang up, that is not equitably distributed,for power.Simply put,we cannot be led by the nose to join a political rat race instigated by those who continue to bear ill-will,religiously and idealogically against the SE/SS thus are willing to exploit these people for their clannish interests,We cannot continue or be part of the run of the subjugutation of the Northerners via percieved rhetorics over the Southerners as can be aptly recognized in the master to slave relationship btw the Hausa fulanis and the yorlobars.....It is best we stand together above all things, become a power bloc that will interest candidates who are ready to incorporate our own interests into an electoral manifesto,agenda or ideaology thus indirectly we take charge our destiny........APC hasn't shown interest to the igbos but we cannot be bothered when we have Goodluck Jonathan at the helm from now till 2019 with all the perks and all. [/color]

You hate the northers so much, but the same PDP you and your people belong to is all Northerners, there are at least 11 northern PDP states and that's twice your entire region. Without them, the PDP is nothing, the GEJ you are running around with is nothing.

You local and National leaders can not do without the Northerners and even your people in general can not do without the Northerners and the SWners that you hate so much because these are the places your people head to for survival.

You can spew all the hate and bigoted rhetoric you desire, but we all know it's BS because all that rubbish doesn't represent your daily realities , predicaments and fragile existence. This is why it's a good thing and you should be very thankful that the folks you hate so much doesn't have anything similar against you.

This is why your rhetoric moves nothing because underneath, its self destructive, it's hollow, it's ignorant and misguided..

poiZon: which tax payer's money?
awa oyel money u dey say tax payers'........mtchew

Are you trying to impress me with your idiocy ignorance and ability to sound retardded?

hakanai: ^^^^^ Couldn't have being said better. That said they rejected the APC in there quest to suck up to GEJ and not the other way. They labelled it an anti-Igbo party and sidelined it. While the likes of Rochas remained and continue to advocate for Igbo presidency they simply labelled it from day one as anti-Igbo.They simply want APC to hand them the party because of there noise. Doesn't work that way.instead of castigating the party and making it look an enemy,you can be part of it and drive the change you desire. Its a party not some slaughter House. That said, the igbos continue to make the mistake of making the far north an enemy and believing is only befriending the minorities or xtians or splitting northerners along fault lines they can keep the north away from power and further allow there selfish goals progress.I tell you that everyday you make an enemy by your foolishness and gross mistakes.You could have a quest to make friends from all sides as it is about numbers and small things can be a key change for you someday.
The Yorubas have set the way. They do as they want but ensure they manage good diplomacy.The Igbos are trying to drag them into out right confrontations with the north. Which they have seen as not necessary.Instead of the Igbos recognizing that Yorubas are independent minded, they resolve to unleash all sort of venom and propaganda to make them the villains too. Igbos with there spread can be key in everything if only they can harness the contacts they have in there dealings and be more open minded and stop the pre/pro - Biafra antics.

Well said..

Especially that...

lol @ Successfully. Don't you mean taxpayers money went down the drain successfully? What a joker you are as usual..

Eldavido1: There's no way this project would end up like Tinapa.

Same was said about Tinapa.

Most importantly, state governments shouldn't be spending taxpayers money on hotels and convention centers, this is reckless and irresponsible especially with Tinapa next door capable of providing the same benefits and facilities..

Governments should always focus on immediate needs of the taxpayers which remains very pronounced in every corner of Nigeria including Calabar. This should have been left in the private sector..

These are Ego projects and unnecessary waste of taxpayers money.

Sergei Aleksashenko, a former deputy Central Bank head and now a scholar at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, said a $10 drop in oil prices would strip 700 billion rubles ($20 billion), or 5 percent, from Russian budget revenues a year.

That translates to about 1 percent of GDP. Local economists estimate that a $10 price drop could rob Russia of 3 to 4 percent in GDP growth.

"The most evident outcomes of any decline in oil price are destabilizing of the balance of payments, devaluation of the ruble, rise in inflation and decline in budget revenues, decelerating of the growth," Aleksashenko said.

"It is evident that the longer the period of reduced oil prices, the more significant the impact on the Russian economy," he said.

This is what you get with a non diversified and one product economy, common $10 spells doom and gloom. Nigeria is in the same one product economy league with the same possible economic doom..

Using hand sanitizer is good hygiene practice, but hand sanitizer have zero effect on Ebola.

Hand sanitizer kills bacteria, it doesn't kill virus. sanitizer kills 99.9 % bacteria and not virus, bacteria is different from virus.

These ignorant leaders need to quit the stupidity and stop sending the wrong message.

Alove1: obviously you've never entered into trouble for naming d culprits of a particular crime.. learn a lesson today, d crime u want to expose by calling d names of people by blow up in ur face, u might even end up naming an innocent person due to lack/insufficiency of evidence... use ur head, its called diplomacy

Marilyn Ogar, has said that the agency is being haunted by political parties for rejecting the N14million bribe that was offered to its officials at Osun State during last Saturday’s gubernatorial election.

You mean they were offered bribe, they rejected the bribe while at the same time they have no proof that they were offered the same bribe in the first place and they don't even know who offered the bribe...?


Nigeria, na wa oooo....smh.

Obviously, trolls got to be trolls...

I have little tolerance for trolls today so back to topic...


We Are Haunted For Rejecting N14m Bribe ...

Isn't the next question is what did you do after or Were they arrested for breaking the law

Why are lawbreakers hunting law reinforcements? Shouldn't you be the one hunting lawbreakers?

This DDS case explains why this country and it's institutions are rotten to the core, they are all compromised and grossly mediocre..

jmaine: Lengthy bullshyte as ever . . . . Considering the bold, if there was violence during the polls , all those shabby excuses you gave will be laid to waste . . . . . .

I know all about your upside an goofy mentality.

You don't have to keep trolling the thread with silly and irrelevant rants, the topic is about the DSS making baseless and unproven bribery allegations so why not just excuse yourself from thread if you have nothing better to contribute.

When people commit crimes especially bribery, we expect law enforcement agencies like the DSS to make arrests and prosecute offenders, not running around making dumb and idiotic statements that doesn't cut mustard.

Of what use and relevance is a political errand law enforcement agency with zero capacity or ability to enforce the same laws we charged them to uphold and enforce?

Telling us people broke the law and you
It''s not by force to make trolling your middle name especially at your old age...

NL and micky mouse analysis sef....

Russia's sanctions means little or nothing to UE in the long run since they have reserve funds to mop up any excess produce by EU farmers going to Russia which is exactly what they are doing. This is even good for EU food reserve.

EU is a diversified economy while Russia is basically a one pony Oil economy that they can not even service with new technology and equipment from the west . Russia is crumbling under sanctions and they've lost over $100 billion already and the ruble, has lost 10 percent of its value.

Russia's sanction means little or nothing to EU...PERIOD.

Hard to believe that the message is still not getting through with all the Ebola sensitization going on all over the state and the fact that some healthcare professionals are still ignorant per what steps to take when dealing with suspected Ebola patients spells continued danger and threat to the citizenry..

TonySpike: Infact, the use of general hospitals buildings as treatment base was among the factors that spread Ebola exponentially in Liberia and Sierra-Leone. Somehow, I support the nurses but I think they could have gone a step further by calling in the local CDC to evacuate the patient .

That's where they goofed. That was totally reckless and irresponsible.

Besides, as a shortsighted and bipolar society, we try to have things both. University education is not cheap. You want quality education with quality facilities while at the same time want to pay little of nothing for it.

This new societal awoof mentality where the public pressure politicians to make room for rice and stomach infrastructure and now little or no school fess infrastructure is very detrimental

We all have options. You either pay for it or get saddled with inferior facilities, lousy education and infrastructures because you can not have it both ways..

iwonbaoko: In your eyes you are smarter than everyone else. You understand English more than Queen Elizabeth?

So what exactly is the subsidy of tuition fees if not recurrent expenditure?
The governor is telling us that capital projects will have to take a backseat so they can subsidize tuition fees(recurrent) for LASU students (That is what is meant by reordering) In other words re-prioritizing to "LISTEN" to the people.
Tuition fees are RECURRENT challenge and will have to be faced sooner or later at the very best LASU will only be free for indigenes

Since your knowledge of the Queens English trumps his and even Fashola's, please show us where such was inferred or Capital projects was jettisoned.

Adjusting fees doesn't mean Capital projects are in danger and in fact, the adjustments is obviously to make sure nothing is affected including capital projects.

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Firefire: Chief Aresa,

Where have thou been

I looketh everywhere for the and found the not ?

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No time allocation for trolls today, try your luck next time..

collynzov5: So the much vaunted capital expenditure will now take a back seat for recurrent one?
Ok.

1. Putting health infrastructures in place to make sure you don't catch ebola or to attend to ebola carriers is capital expenditure...

2. Funding education and learning infrastructure is capital expenditure. The new library and senate building under construction are capital projects.

3. Installing solar panels to power schools and hospitals are capital expenditures, not recurrent....

If you don't know the meaning of recurrent or difference between capital and recurrent expenditure, let google help you and quit embarrassing yourself with self inflicted ignorance..

jmaine: How does the above dispel the fact the same man who invited the DSS , later went to town screaming his lungs out accusing others of using them to cause mayhem . . .

What manner of confusion will make a man with his words and actions try to deceive the populace about the presence of the DSS officials even though he was the same man who wrote specifically inviting them . . . .

At the end of the day, the DSS did a very good job in Osun and the election went smoothly as planned devoid of all bribery scandal that might have rocked the integrity of the result . . . .

I'm not interested in your irrelevant rants about who invited or didn't the DSS which is even not the topic of discussion, the topic of discussion is the DSS making bribery reckless, baseless and irresponsible allegations and also exposing their incompetence and lawlessness. The election success in Osun was more about the people of Osun staying calm, ignoring the provocation, intimidation and illegal arrests by unknown entities and masked men with no identification and instead keeping their eyes on the ball and their votes.

13. Corrupt offers to public officers


Any person who corruptly

Gives, confers or procures any property or benefit of any kind to, on or for a public officer or to, on or for any other person, or promises or offers to give, confers, procure or attempt to procure any property or benefit of any kind to, on or for a public officer or any other person, on account of any such act, omission, favor or disfavor to be done or shown by the public officer is guilty of an offence of official corruption and shall on conviction be liable to imprisonment for seven (7) years.

You don't' have to convince me per what side of right or wrong in Nigeria you belong to because I know this already and I even know your type and how politics and bigotry means more to you than your own country, laws and survival.. The law is the law and we expect the people we pay to uphold and enforce the law regardless and they swore under oath to do just that. Nigeria is a mess because of people like you with warped, lawless and backward mentality and a very corrupt, lying and incompetent government and also a political agency with only political sense of direction and zero concern for the law, the people they serve and the constitutional oath they took.

jmaine: And when they make arrest, with the delicate and volatile situation of the state before the polls, a notorious faction will scream conspiracy to the high heavens , while supporters will cite that the FG controlled force is doing all within her might to cage an opponent.

The DSS operative did the right thing considering our immature polity by rejecting the offer, and yet carrying on his duty as expected. . . .

To cut long story short, DSS as law enforcement agency not only refused to protect and uphold the law, they themselves broke the law by refusing to arrest the same law breakers they traveled to Osun state to deal with.

Back to your sad and unfortunate reasoning. How do we get ahead as a Nation with our law enforcement agencies failing to perform their statutory duties just to pander to this and that faction? Is this what they laws act that created the DSS asked them to do?

I know you have your well deserved political leanings and opinion, but it shouldn't relegate you to such shallow and ignorant reasoning that sinks our country down to comical, backward and absurd level everyday..

With no arrest or identifying the so called law breakers, she should have STFU instead of insulting our collective intelligence with her incompetence and infantile fabrication...

jmaine: They did well by rejecting the offer while they went ahead to carry out their duties devoid of all favours despite screams and blackmail by the same man who wrote to invited them . . . .

What duties are you talking about? Is it not their duty to enforce laws and arrest law breakers? Is bribing public officials not against the law in Nigeria?

How do we move ahead as a nation if law enforcement agencies charged to enforce the law ignores law breakers? Are they in turn not law breakers also by not arresting and prosecuting law breakers?