OfoIgbo:


You are probably jealous of me as research has proven that my people are genetically more intelligent than your people so I totally understand, the anger you have for me.

I was expecting to see Deziani's name mentioned in the NCA message. Don't you think that would have proven that she was arrested. That 5 people were arrested means absolutely nothing to me.
Even if they did mention her name in that message, the fact that their famiky lawyer is saying otherwise, makes me to apply brakes to ascertain what is truly going on. Don't swallow everything hook, line and sinker.

I want corruption tackled. Not one that concentrates on an Ijaw lady. While at the same time, one Aisha Buhari is being let off the hook, in the Halliburton scandal. Let's not forget OBJ and Atiku et al complicity in the whole scandal also.
Mumu-hammadu's stay as the oil minister should also be investigated as allegations are still flying around of the disappearance of billions of dollars during his tenure

TIMEISWISDOM:
How does this tweet relate to Diazani or Nigeria

OfoIgbo:


If she made it to the police station and not in the company of law enforcement agents, it drastically reduces the chances of her being considered arrested.
If she did not spend any time in detention while at the police station, it further diminishes the chances of her being considered arrested.

I am not a law enforcement officer so maybe I am unaware of what constitutes an arrest, so I stand to be corrected by those that know a lot more about law enforcement.

Of course, if she swindled the nation in any way, then I will support any punishment she receives, provided that other swindlers of the nation are also dealt with, otherwise it becomes witch hunting, and I don't wanna be party to any witch hunting exercise by the authorities. That will be a greater injustice.

Frankiss44:


Bleep the TVC and other western media.... I need a source from the UK

chukwudi44:


Her passport was not seized!! Did you not read the report!!

One Hyde Park is a major residential and retail complex located in Knightsbridge, London.[2] The development includes three retail units (Rolex, McLaren Automotive and Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank) totalling 385,000 sq ft (35,800 m2) and 86 residential properties marketed with prices starting at around £20 million.[3]

The building is owned by Project Grande (Guernsey) Limited, a joint venture between the Christian Candy-owned CPC Group and Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, former Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar.[4] It was designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners,[4] built by Laing O'Rourke[1] and was financed via a £1.15 billion development loan from Eurohypo AG.[5] Candy & Candy were the development managers and interior designers for the scheme."

Location[edit]
The building is located in the Knightsbridge area of central London, adjacent to Hyde Park and the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park. The actual address is One Hyde Park: The Residences at Mandarin Oriental, 100 Knightsbridge, London, SW1X 7LJ.

History[edit]
Planning consent for the building was granted in June 2006.[6] Demolition of the previous building on the site took place between July and December 2006.[6] Construction work began in January 2007.[6] The superstructure of the building was completed in March 2009.[6] Fitting-out of the building began in April 2009.[6] In August 2010 a penthouse in the development was rumoured to be sold for £140 million, making it the most expensive residential property in Britain.[3][7] Also in that month it was announced that McLaren Automotive would be opening a car showroom in the building in early 2011.[8] However, a newspaper report at the time of the development's launch party in January 2011 indicated that according to Land Registry records the sale of only five properties had been completed - the 'recordbreaking' £140 million penthouse[9] being sold to the development's own financial backer Sheik Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani for £40.5 million in August 2010. One to an Indian family in mining and oil and an adjoining penthouse to One Hyde Park developer Christian Candy, who reportedly paid £31 million, "about £100 million less than the asking price".[10]

As of 2013, there was little evidence of people actually living in the complex.[11]

In September 2013 it was reported that a one-bedroom apartment in the complex worth £5.25m had been repossessed.[12]

Notable owners[edit]
Notable owners of One Hyde Park properties include:

Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, the former Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar.[10][13]
Christian Candy, One Hyde Park developer.[10][13]
Rinat Akhmetov, Ukrainian business oligarch.[13][14]
Vladimir Kim, Kazakh businessman of Korean descent.[10][13]
Ray Grehan, an Irish property developer.[13]
Kirill Pisarev, a Russian real estate magnate.[13]
Yuri Zhukov, a Russian real estate magnate.[13]

Frankiss44:



THERE IS NO NAME TO CLEAR AS SHE WASNT EVEN TAKEN TO COURT IN THE FIRST PLACE

Nigeria's ex-oil minister appears at UK police station

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New details have emerged about Nigeria's former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke, appearing at the Charing Cross police station in the UK.

TVC can authoritatively report that Alison-Madueke actually went to the police station, but went through the back door, because of the huge media presence.

She was bailed on the same conditions as she was last Friday, but can't leave the United Kingdom and can't apply for new travel documents.

She was granted bail again because of her health and is now due to return to court on January the 21st next year.

LastSurvivor:
Gullible Nigerians buying everything from Nigerians brown envelope journalists..

Diezani Alison-Madueke: Behind the 'reformer' of the Nigerian oil industry's arrest

Wednesday 7 October 2015


Diezani Alison-Madueke in 2012 AFP

Until last Friday, Diezani Alison-Madueke’s position as one of the most prominent women on the global stage had seemed assured. Boasting a Cambridge degree and a portfolio of senior government positions in her native Nigeria, she is also the first female president of the OPEC oil cartel.

Such is her influence that the British government earlier this year placed her top of a list of former recipients of the taxpayer-funded Chevening Scholarship for future leaders of foreign states whom it wanted to recognise for International Women’s Day. The roll call paid tribute to women who it said personified the slogan for the event - “make it happen”.

But Mrs Alison-Madueke’s prominence has become now tinged with a less welcome threat of notoriety after officers from Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) arrived at various homes in London six days ago and arrested the former minister in charge of Nigeria’s vast oil industry along with four others as part of a two-year investigation into suspected bribery and money laundering.

The reason for the arrests by the recently formed International Corruption Unit (ICU) was not disclosed by the NCA, which has also declined to name those who were brought in for questioning and then released on police bail. None of those arrested have been charged but it is understood investigations continue both within Britain and abroad.

In a separate move, the NCA yesterday confirmed to The Independent that it had secured the freezing of £27,000 in cash belonging to Mrs Alison-Madueke after it was seized in different currencies, including Nigerian naira. A further £5,000 was frozen from her mother, Beatrice Agama, who owns a property in London’s select St John’s Wood.

The only official indication of what lies behind the swoop - the first since the ICU was formed last year with a renewed remit to crackdown on corruption linked to developing countries - came instead from the Nigerian capital of Abuja, where officers from the country’s own anti-corruption force surrounded and searched one of the former minister’s homes.

Mrs Alison-Madueke, 54, part of a prominent Nigerian family and a former Shell executive, was appointed as Honourable Minister of Petroleum Resources in March 2010 by now former president Goodluck Jonathan. She held the post until Mr Jonathan lost Nigeria’s postponed presidential election in March to his ascetic rival Muhammadu Buhari, who had put the fight against corruption at the heart of his campaign.

It is hard to overstate the importance of oil - and therefore the post of oil minister - in Nigeria. The country is Africa’s largest oil producer and up to 80 per cent of its government’s £14.4bn revenue comes from the so-called black gold that many argue has been a curse as much as blessing to the continent’s poor.


Oil is big business in Nigeria - here reeks and vegetation are devastated as a result of spills from oil thieves and Shell operational failures in Niger Delta

Nigeria is therefore disproportionately exposed to fluctuations in the oil price. The fall of nearly 40 per cent on global markets left year prompted Mr Buhari to complain that the public coffers were “virtually empty” when he came to power.

Allegations of graft and corruption have long been rife within the Nigerian oil industry. But jaws dropped among even the most hardened observers in February 2014 when the governor of the central bank, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, stepped forward to allege that $20bn (£13bn) of oil receipts had gone missing from the state-owned oil company while Mrs Alison-Madueke was in office.

She vehemently denied any wrongdoing and Mr Sanusi was sacked from his post following the sudden emergence of allegations of financial misconduct against him.

Mr Buhari last week took to the airwaves to warn of imminent action against those alleged to have been involved in the theft of funds from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC). The following day Mrs Alison-Madueke was arrested in London, though there is no evidence that the two events were connected.

The Nigerian authorities were nonetheless quick to acknowledge the arrest. In a statement, Mr Buhari’s office said: “The government is aware of the arrest and all the investigative agencies are working very closely with the British law enforcement.

“Nigerian authorities are saying for the first time that matters are being handled with seriousness and deep commitment. Nobody wants to give the impression that this government is frivolous and unserious.”

Few in Mrs Alison-Madueke’s circle are likely to be labouring under any such misapprehension.

She is believed to have been in Britain since at least May, reportedly to receive medical treatment, and has extensive family connections in the UK as well as the United States.

Her elder brother, Doye Agama, is a senior clergyman and archbishop in the Manchester-based Apostolic Pastoral Congress - a collective of Pentecostal churches. The archbishop told The Independent he had no contact with his sister.

According to one report, the mother-of-two had been contemplating the purchase of a property in One Hyde Park, the luxury central London apartment complex that has become an emblem of the influx of foreign capital into the capital’s property market.

The nature of the allegations against the former minister, who as a young woman studied architecture in London and later gained her MBA from Cambridge University, as yet remain unspecified.

She has remained silent following her arrest but has previously strongly denied allegations of wrongdoing laid against her. Political allies in Nigeria argue that Mr Buhari, whose aides have publicly warned he is on a crusade against “briefcase-carrying crooks”, is conducting a witch hunt against members of the previous government.


Nigerian President Muhammdu Buhari

One former minister said this week: “We see everything moving according to an agenda. They want to use Diezani to get at President Jonathan.”

For now, Mrs Alison-Madueke, who husband is the former head of the Nigerian navy, will remain in Britain, not least since it is understood her passport was confiscated as part of the NCA investigation.

In the meantime, there were early signs that some of her former friends are beginning to keep their distance.

On the website that promotes the Foreign Office-funded Chevening Scholarship, Mrs Alison-Madueke’s name was yesterday no longer on the list of alumni highlighted for International Women’s Day 2015.

A cached version of the page showed the OPEC president’s name had been on the list until at least the end of last month. The FCO has declined to comment on whether the removal was linked to her arrest.

LadyExcellency:

Stop over-rating NCA
Arrest without charges in court is still frivolous and inconsequential.
Next
For now all we see are all politics and diplomacy

maestroferddi:
When would rat-brained people like you get it?

So you are inferring that if the crime agency state that they arrested five persons, then Diezani must be one of them?

Let's see how far APC and her media collaborators can take this country in this show of shame and madness.

#32 of 40
Stop Public Defecation To Preserve Underground Water
Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN)
4 June 2013 12:00 pm

Most of the waters we need to survive as a people today is not the water from Lagoon or the water at the bar beach, it is water under the ground.

Most of us who defecate and urinate on the ground contaminate the underground water. So in few years, your children may be drinking your urine.

That is the reality. In a few years, your children may be drinking water containing some of your own waste. So we must stop polluting the groundwater. Stop dumping refuse in water body, as it will come back to hurt us.

We are not saying don't drill bore hole, we are saying get information before doing it. We are saying one borehole may be enough for a whole street, don't drill 20. We can share to preserve water.

Water means many things to many people. For some it is a business. What we call "pure water", how pure is it? I don't know but it provides money to sustain life.

For some people it is also a resource, manufacturers rely on a lot of water to get so many things out with which we get on with life. For us on this side, it is a critical component necessary for us to discharge public responsibility to save lives and public property.

Water is an important part of our public strategy. Its management is important in our security and defense system.

www.tundefashola.com

chukwudi44:


Dont mind them!! They will keep on hailing Fashola whose crime is even worse than that of Oduah!! Boreholes for N139million,websites for N78million and bullet proof cars for N300million which amongst this is more outrageous?

I have not even mentioned Fayemi who used N50million for an ordinary bed smh

Granted, you appear to be making some progress.
I see you have set aside your ill-informed assumptions about water tables cheesy
See what a day in eGuerrilla's school of logic does to the mind.

Now hear this: if the FGN was given a quote of close to $200,000 for a 600 metre borehole in 2007; it is just possible that your song and dance (hue and cry if you will), with respect to figures for 2013 (for a built-up urban area), is completely out of place.

I have eviscerated Fashola on these boards - Jamine (one of the saner and more cerebral TANoids) will testify to this.
What I won't do now, though, is bask in the conjectural musings that you and others of your ilk run with. Geddit?
Show me cast iron proof of impropriety on this particular subject (boreholes), and I will extend a handshake.
Until that time comes, naff off cool

easystudy101:
una neva see any tin yet.
useless Yoruba people.

they will come to SS and SE to ask for support next time.

FOOLISH FOOLS

fulanimafia:


My sister to say I'm disappointed at this revelation is an understatement. Garba Shehu deserves to be sacked and this whole scandal investigated, he has been misyarning of late which is quite embarrassing. The purposeful intentions of this administration will not be undermined by his glaring incapacity.

Yes, it's a scandal.

On Saturday, February 21, 2015, Garba Shehu, the director of media and publicity of the Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Council sent out a press statement which unknown to him at the time, would change the conversation in the coming week. And not in a positive way for his candidate.

In the statement which was titled, ‘Buhari to speak at Chatam House on Thursday, February 26,’ Shehu said, “as part of his ongoing engagement in the United Kingdom, General Buhari had an interview yesterday with a local medium, the ‘All Eyes on Africa TV show’ with Kemi Fajodutimi and met with Tony Blair on Saturday, February 21 morning.”

In the press statement, Shehu attached three photos of Buhari and Fadojutimi, and while labelling the photos, he claimed once again that they were taken “during Buhari’s working visit to the United Kingdom on Friday, 20 February 2015.”

Shehu and the APC presidential media office did not anticipate the fact that even though most people will look at the photos and accept them as circulated and labelled, there will be others who will take a more clinical look.

One such person who critically examined the photos was the controversial PDP sympathiser, Mukhtar Alex Dan’Iyan (@MrAyeDee on Twitter).

In a series of tweets, Dan’Iyan – who has been known to mislead as well – pointed out with pictorial evidence that the photo was actually taken at the Transcorp Hilton in Abuja, and not in the United Kingdom as claimed by Shehu.

Then, to prove a point, the governor of Ekiti, Ayo Fayose, who has been a thorn in the APC flesh throughout this campaign season visited the hotel suite were the interview held. Fayose took photos while seated on the same spot as Buhari, and with the furniture arranged in the same way as the Buhari interview. The story took a life of its own from that point.

Guardian newspaper which had used the photo on its Sunday cover put out a statement next day regretting the error. While the paper did not mention that the error was due to the misleading statement from Shehu, an editor with the paper, Tope Templer Olaiya, said on Twitter that rather than blaming the paper, Nigerians should “blame Garba Shehu’s sloppiness who sent out the picture with accompanying press statement.”

The ScoopNG reached out to Shehu for clarification on the misleading photographs and statement but he was unwilling to dwell on the mater.

“We’re not dwelling on that issue,” he said. “We want to use all our time to see how discussions can be advanced on the issues of insecurity, corruption, mismanagement and unemployment,” he said.

He dismissed the photo controversy as “irrelevant” in the face of weightier issues like insecurity.

Asked whether he does not worry about the fact that the controversy will rub off negatively on the APC candidate as undecided voters will believe that the party is misleading Nigerians on the true state of Buhari’s health and his foreign travel, Shehu said that the decision is that of the voters to make.

“The voter has a decision to make, whether the issue of photograph is more important to him than the issue of large scale insecurity. The media and the voter have a choice to make,” Shehu said.

Efforts by The ScoopNG to get the reaction of the spokesman to the Goodluck Jonathan campaign, Femi Fani-Kayode, have not been successful as calls and text messages sent to his telephone lines have gone unanswered.

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In signing off on the 16-page document, Mr. Buhari said in an introductory note, “This covenant is to outline my agenda for Nigeria and provide a bird’s eye view of how we intend to bring about the change that our country needs and deserves.

“The covenant is derived from the manifesto of my party, the All Progressives Congress. It however represents my pledge to you all when I become your president.”

Mr. Buhari now appeared challenged delivering on the promises contained in the covenant, and his team has been battling to disown the document.

For instance, the document quoted the then presidential candidate as promising to publicly declare his assets and liabilities while also encouraging his political appointees to do so. He is yet to fulfill that promise.

The then Lagos governor, Babatunde Fashola, who was in charge of fundraising for the campaign, delivered a campaign speech on March 23, where he clearly referred to the document.

“The APC is proud to have as its flag-bearer, a patriot with the public stature and integrity of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, who has unreservedly committed to this vision and mission as reflected in his Covenant with Nigerians and campaigns promises,” Mr. Fashola said at a meeting of APC governors at the Banquet Hall of the Imo State Government House, Owerri.

“It is not by accident that teeming millions of Nigerians are showing their support effusively for Gen. Buhari.”

PREMIUM TIMES can also report that “The Covenant With Nigeria” is also one of the documents the Ahmed Joda-led Transition Committee used in producing an 800-page report detailing swift steps Mr. Buhari must take to fix Nigeria.

The volume of the report that dealt with social issues repeatedly referred to the document now being disowned. For instance, in a subsection on environment and climate change, the committee reminded the president of his promises as contained in “The Covenant With Nigerians”, and then proceeded to make recommendations.



But when contacted Tuesday, Mr. Shehu insisted the party and the campaign had no knowledge of the document.

He quoted the president as saying he would not engage in deception, and would never allow himself to be tagged with a document he had no knowledge of.

INVESTIGATION: Buhari, APC lied in disowning campaign document, “My Covenant With Nigerians”

September 1, 2015

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The claims by President Muhammadu Buhari and his party, the All Progressives Congress, that a key campaign document, “My Covenant With Nigerians” did not emerge from them is false and misleading, a PREMIUM TIMES investigation has shown.

Extensive checks by this newspaper showed that not only was the document circulated in the run-up to the April 11 presidential election by staff of Mr. Buhari’s campaign organization, the literature was also extensively promoted by party officials, including using the APC website to do so.

It was the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, who kicked off the campaign of distancing the APC and Mr. Buhari from two of the key campaign documents that apparently swayed a lot of votes for the president and his party.

In a widely circulated opinion article published on August 28, Mr. Shehu wrote, “In the course of electioneering, the presidential campaign had so many centres of public communication which, for whatever reason, were on the loose.

“There is a certain document tagged ‘One Hundred Things Buhari Will Do in 100 Days’ and the other, ‘My Covenant With Nigerians’. Both pamphlets bore the authorized party logo but as the Director of Media and Communications in that campaign, I did not fund or authorize any of those. I can equally bet my last kobo that candidate Buhari did not see or authorize those publications.

“As a consequence of these publications, expectations have been raised unreasonably, that as President, Muhammadu Buhari will wave his hand and all the problems that the country faces- insecurity, corruption, unemployment, poor infrastructure – would go away.”

On Monday, the National Publicity Secretary for the APC, Lai Mohammed, picked the baton from where Mr. Shehu dropped it. Speaking during an interview with Channels Television, Mr. Mohammed said President Buhari and the party had nothing to do with any other campaign materials apart from the APC manifesto and constitution.

“Buhari never promised to do anything in 100 days, that’s the honest truth,” Mr. Mohammed. “You see, when you are running a campaign, all kinds of literature will emerge from all sorts of groups but there are only two documents that you can judge a party with: That is the constitution of the party and the manifesto of the party.

“Those are the only two documents that are registered with the Independent National Electoral Commission; you can go to court or hold a party accountable for them.”

Both officials spoke just as Nigerians began the countdown to Mr. Buhari’s first 100 days in office with conversations going on over whether the president and his party are on the path to delivering the “change” they promised. Mr. Buhari would be 100-day old in office on Saturday, September 5.

But investigations by this newspaper showed that by disowning the “My Covenant With Nigerians” document, President Buhari and his party were likely being dishonest and deceitful.

While a volunteer group backed by the party and the presidential campaign may have produced the document on ‘One Hundred Things Buhari Will Do in 100 Days’, PREMIUM TIMES can authoritatively report that the policy and research directorate of the APC presidential campaign, headed by former Governor Kayode Fayemi, produced the covenant document.

Mr. Fayemi could not be reached for comments Tuesday. His aides say he is travelling in Cote D’ivoire with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
Party insiders said the document, which harmonised promises contained in the party’s manifesto and various campaign speeches by Mr. Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, was produced after rigorous and extensive deliberation with top campaign officials and the president himself.

After the president signed off on the final version of the covenant, insiders say, the document was emailed to journalists at the time by well-known campaign staff charged with circulating publicity materials for the organization during the period.

For instance, Egghead Odewale, who worked at the headquarters of the presidential campaign in Abuja, sent a PDF version of the document to PREMIUM TIMES on March 12.

Apparently concerned that the document was not getting enough publicity, another campaign official emailed a word version to reporters on March 16.

Newspapers and websites thereafter ran several stories on the document.

Vanguard’s version of the report, entitled “My contract with Nigeria – Buhari” was later republished by the APC on its website at 8:52 a.m on March 17.

ArodewilliamsT:


Let me tell you a secret. Hausas and yorubas KNOW FULLY WELL THAT THIS GEOGRAPHICAL EXPRESSION WILL NOT LAST. It's the reason a yoruba will never build in the north or East, It is also the reason an Hausas will come to sell onions down south, sleeping on his mat for weeks, the best they do is to build shanties near their cowsheds.

It is only the IGBO Biafran that builds outside his region thinking that he has been reintegrated. When Ekwueme contested against OBJ in 1999, yoruba media ran with the headline 'A vote for Ekwueme is a vote for Biafra". These animals have distorted history for decades. Now they are screaming 'Igbos please forget Biafra'. Dem never chin chon tin.

In a recent interview with a leading Hausa Newspaper, Rariya, Ekwueme said that PDP guidelines stipulated that any presidential or governorship candidate must win his ward and local government elections, but the former president did not win these for the party at local government elections preceding the PDP Presidential primaries.

doublewisdom:
Typical nmanu man! Speaking from both sides of his mouth!

Unsad:
Falana, a typical Yoruba. Curse yesterday and bless today. Smh.
I've always said it that GEJ would be praised when he leaves office by the same Nigerians who cursed him. I miss you GEJ, even though PMB is way better.

Anti-corruption War: Falana Tasks Prosecution Agencies On Proper Investigation



A Nigerian lawyer has stressed the need for prosecuting agencies to aid the fight against corruption by doing a more serious job and “not rushing cases to court without proper investigation”.

Mr Femi Falana was giving his opinion on the efforts of the Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to tackle corruption and recover looted funds.

“I think so far so good.

“Pursuant to section 15 of the Constitution. Every government in Nigeria is mandatorily required to fight corruption. The provision is to the fact that the Nigerian state shall abolish corrupt practices and abuse of power,” Mr Falana stated.

He further said that every administration both military and civilian, had to an extent fought corruption, giving instances of their efforts.

“Since the Sani Abacha period, every government has tried one way or the other to fight corruption.

“The Abacha junta that enacted the advance fee fraud and failed bank decree dealt with certain banks’ executives.

“The Abdulsalami Abubakar’s junta investigated General Sani Abacha’s junta and not less than one billion dollars was recovered in terms of money and other assets.

“The General Ababakar era enacted the forfeiture decree.

“Even President Jonathan fought corruption in his own way, you will be surprised,” Mr Falana stated.

He explained that last year, when the government had to withdraw the charges against Mr Mohammed Abacha after 14 years, the office of the Attorney General issued a statement to the fact that the withdrawal was occasioned by the fact that $ 970 million from the Abacha loot has been recovered by the Jonathan government.

“Under that government, $ 458 million was also forfeited by the United States government which has not been repatriated yet.

“Through some plea bargain, that is what they call it, the Jonathan government made about $ 120 million.

“Every government in Nigeria investigates the past, usually the previous government.

“For the past 16 years, the PDP and the Abubakar Junta recovered about $ 3.2 billion from the Abacha loot. It is the most successful loot recovery in the world,” he explained.

For the fight against corruption in Nigeria to record meaningful achievement, the Lawyer suggested that the government should provided an enabling environment for people to expose corruption and give the anti-graft agencies the autonomy, recognised by law, to prosecute those indicted for corruption.

Some Nigerians have also accused some court judges of corruption, but the lawyer dismissed the assumptions, saying that there are incorruptible judges in Nigeria, giving instances where Nigerian judges had ensured that funds fraudulently collected from a bank in Brazil was recovered.

“What Nigeria needs is the current practice of having special divisions of the regular courts and ensure that they are manned by judges who understand what corruption is all about.”

He said that an Act enacted by the former administration – the Administration of Justice Criminal Act – had put an end to some anomalies in the law that had given suspected criminals the opportunity to seek orders stopping their trial.

“Under section 2(493) of that law, you can no longer stay proceedings in a criminal trial or suspend any trial. All objections must now be considered along with the main case.

“The law mentioned earlier has now provided that trial of criminal cases in Nigeria, including corruption cases and cases of terrorism, will now be conducted day by day. Where it is impossible to do that adjournment must not go beyond 14 days in between,” he said.

Mr Falana further stressed the need for all Nigerians to be treated equally by prosecuting agencies before the law, condemning situations where the rich are not even handcuffed while the poor get unfair treatments during their arrest.

The post Anti-corruption War: Falana Tasks Prosecution Agencies On Proper Investigation appeared first on Channels Television.

chukwudi44:


Lol majority of the people in that summit are even yorubas.Appointments were evenly distributed during GEJ's time unlike what this stupid illiterate is now doing

alabiyemmy:


Whats the difference?

Unsad:


Gtfoh my mentions

Unsad:
Falana, a typical Yoruba. Curse yesterday and bless today. Smh.
I've always said it that GEJ would be praised when he leaves office by the same Nigerians who cursed him. I miss you GEJ, even though PMB is way better.

Anti-corruption War: Falana Tasks Prosecution Agencies On Proper Investigation



A Nigerian lawyer has stressed the need for prosecuting agencies to aid the fight against corruption by doing a more serious job and “not rushing cases to court without proper investigation”.

Mr Femi Falana was giving his opinion on the efforts of the Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to tackle corruption and recover looted funds.

“I think so far so good.

“Pursuant to section 15 of the Constitution. Every government in Nigeria is mandatorily required to fight corruption. The provision is to the fact that the Nigerian state shall abolish corrupt practices and abuse of power,” Mr Falana stated.

He further said that every administration both military and civilian, had to an extent fought corruption, giving instances of their efforts.

“Since the Sani Abacha period, every government has tried one way or the other to fight corruption.

“The Abacha junta that enacted the advance fee fraud and failed bank decree dealt with certain banks’ executives.

“The Abdulsalami Abubakar’s junta investigated General Sani Abacha’s junta and not less than one billion dollars was recovered in terms of money and other assets.

“The General Ababakar era enacted the forfeiture decree.

“Even President Jonathan fought corruption in his own way, you will be surprised,” Mr Falana stated.

He explained that last year, when the government had to withdraw the charges against Mr Mohammed Abacha after 14 years, the office of the Attorney General issued a statement to the fact that the withdrawal was occasioned by the fact that $ 970 million from the Abacha loot has been recovered by the Jonathan government.

“Under that government, $ 458 million was also forfeited by the United States government which has not been repatriated yet.

“Through some plea bargain, that is what they call it, the Jonathan government made about $ 120 million.

“Every government in Nigeria investigates the past, usually the previous government.

“For the past 16 years, the PDP and the Abubakar Junta recovered about $ 3.2 billion from the Abacha loot. It is the most successful loot recovery in the world,” he explained.

For the fight against corruption in Nigeria to record meaningful achievement, the Lawyer suggested that the government should provided an enabling environment for people to expose corruption and give the anti-graft agencies the autonomy, recognised by law, to prosecute those indicted for corruption.

Some Nigerians have also accused some court judges of corruption, but the lawyer dismissed the assumptions, saying that there are incorruptible judges in Nigeria, giving instances where Nigerian judges had ensured that funds fraudulently collected from a bank in Brazil was recovered.

“What Nigeria needs is the current practice of having special divisions of the regular courts and ensure that they are manned by judges who understand what corruption is all about.”

He said that an Act enacted by the former administration – the Administration of Justice Criminal Act – had put an end to some anomalies in the law that had given suspected criminals the opportunity to seek orders stopping their trial.

“Under section 2(493) of that law, you can no longer stay proceedings in a criminal trial or suspend any trial. All objections must now be considered along with the main case.

“The law mentioned earlier has now provided that trial of criminal cases in Nigeria, including corruption cases and cases of terrorism, will now be conducted day by day. Where it is impossible to do that adjournment must not go beyond 14 days in between,” he said.

Mr Falana further stressed the need for all Nigerians to be treated equally by prosecuting agencies before the law, condemning situations where the rich are not even handcuffed while the poor get unfair treatments during their arrest.

The post Anti-corruption War: Falana Tasks Prosecution Agencies On Proper Investigation appeared first on Channels Television.

after1:


Bros, Kindly through this thread here: https://www.nairaland.com/2389160/tinubu-not-pdp-group-behind/6#34928840

This same lady lying here was on that tribal e-war thread saying people rape in the SW cos of Amala, I hate liars and hypocrites and its a shame the old ediot keep lying just to feel victimized. If defending my tribe makes me a tribalist, then I am very cool with it.

after1:
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Hey, whats this noise of shedding blood you keep screaming, is that your new tactics of blackmailing someone? I will take you serious when you write all this epistle for your brothers that attack my tribe daily. For every action, there is always an opposite or equal reaction. I dont care whatever you think, thats your problem. I have got no time for all these back and forth but hate liars like that ediot trying to play the victim card. She was attacked on a tribal e-war thread and not Fashola thread, I praised her on a GEJ thread after that same Fashola thread few weeks later but you are trying to make it look like a pdp/apx thing. Na you sabi o. A guy called bloodikiller insult and curse people here daily but you will always quote him and even smile since he is in your camp and an Igbo guy, I hate hypocrisy. They attack me and I retaliate, you see nothing wrong in there action but trying to blackmail me for doing same. Who does that? Be truthful or ignore if you cant be honest in your judgement.

Laid2001:
Fashola ran an open government. That he even dared to make information on all his contracts available to everyone online is a testimony to that.
Rather than for Ambode to take down the website, I think he should have continued in that tradition and even go further than headline topics for each contracts by making detailed scope of each contracts available.!.

Not a single other governor has achieved what Fashola did. Despite the fact that some of the contracts looks exhorbitant and unrealistically expensive, I am convinced that if you have information on other states and their contracts, you will realise that Lagos state contracts during Fashola is Top Quatile.

Ambode have made some contract awards and he is still afraid of loading this contracts on the government website.! Rather, he is taking down the site. Where will the public get info on his projects?.

Note that the info on all these so called Fashola contracts were available even during the last campaign, it is a pity that PDP were too afraid to make it an issue due to the fact that these will be child play compared to the Federal government contracts.

Fashola never claimed to be a saint, he has tried his best to give us transparent governance, it may not be perfect, but still the best so far in the whole of Nigeria!!

The ball is in Ambode's court now and nothing short of an improved, more transparent governance, building on Fashola's achievement will be acceptable to the populace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

crixtex:

Bro stop... Fashola is a thief... u must agree

Rad1cal:


Your 10 year old son is definitely as dull as the shameless filth digging father. What a shame.

Premium times reported a scandal involving the awarding of a contract for a single borehole worth N154 million.

What is your point Old man ?

Are you trying to win a debate between the difference of 6 and half a dozen.


Bwahahahahahahahahahah !!




http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/188889-shocking-nigerias-mdg-office-pays-n154-million-for-one-borehole.html