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Last December I was standing at d VIP terminal of Abuja Airport, a man walk up to me while I was staring at a group of people who where waiting waiting at d lounge to board their chartered flight.
The man ask who those group of people were, I answered him without looking for once at him. I assumed it was one of my colleague. He then ask where those group of people were headed I answered still without looking at him. And then I turned to looked at d person dat has been bugging me with questions.
Damn, whole and behold it was Tony Elumelu (CEO of Heirs holding and UBA bank). I was star strucked. I couldn't mutter a word till he walked off with d captain of his private Jet.

• Paid Over $4m For Bombardier Jet, Has £26m Abandoned In Accounts
• 17 Bank Accounts Linked To Ex-governor

Ex-convict and former Delta State Governor, Chief James Onanefe Ibori had about 17 bank accounts linked to him in different locations across the world, including Ghana, Guernsey, Austria, London and Denver, United States.

Crown Prosecutor, Jonathan Kinnear, made the startling disclosure at the Confiscation of Assets hearing of the two-time governor in Courtroom Three of Southwark Crown Court, on Friday.
Very large sums of money went into these accounts and Mr. Ibori has never explained the source of these funds,” he told the hearing, which opened on Thursday and is expected to last about two weeks, though scheduled for four.

The hearing was also told of two accounts linked to Ibori that have a combined balance of about £26m (inclusive of interests), which nobody has come forward to claim.

Although Ibori, who served a term in British prisons between 2012 and 2016, having pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering charges at the same court in 2012, also tried hard to cover his tracks. But the prosecutor gave Judge Tomilson forensic details of how the former governor used proxies and bogus companies to wire millions of pounds across various accounts through which he then funded his lifestyle and those of his family members, including Udoamaka Onuigbo.

“Mr. Ibori’s criminal conduct,” according to the crown (state) counsel included using an oil company to deposit £1.2m in an account within two weeks in 2004, and also using Delta State officials to write cheques, which they subsequently cashed and then deposited into accounts linked to him. These monies were later siphoned out of the local accounts to those his associates operated in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.”

Flipping through pages of bundled evidence on the third-floor venue of the hearing, Kinnear disclosed that Ibori also masterminded the payment of $4.7m “for the Johannesburg property.”

This, according to the crown counsel, was then used to “pay for the bombardier jet. The prosecutor mentioned another instance when “€460, 000 used to buy a Mercedes Benz came out,” of accounts linked to the former governor.

The court also heard how the sums of £120, 000 and £60, 000 were spent in another instance, while Ibori was on the run in Dubai.
Before the judge rose and excluded the press from a 20-minute closed-door session between himself and both sides of the bench, at the instance of the crown prosecutor at 11 am, Kinnear fingered two other associates of Ibori, through which his unexplained millions were laundered.

Addressing the court, he said: “Your honour, the next block of items are items 20 to 25. Accounts in the name of Onuigbo and Christine,” and he told how they served as conduits to move funds through the accounts on behalf of the mastermind, Ibori.

When the hearing resumed for the open sitting at around 11.20 am, Kinnear furthered the argument and told the court, “the crown’s case is that Sagicon, one of the major bogus companies that served as his conduits were used to launder Mr. Ibori’s money. The evidence shows.” Besides, “there were huge amounts with little or no explanations. The ladies did his biddings. Fourthly, when these funds came out at the other end, they were for his benefits.”

Continuing with his submission as Ivan Krolick, and the four other members of Ibori’s defence listened, among others, the crown prosecutor said as far back as 2003, a “couple of million of dollars to Ibori was loose change,” as “he was focusing on bigger things,” including the fraudulent V-mobile shares transaction with the Akwa Ibom State government.

Aside making references to how payments in excess of a million pounds were routed in and out of a bogus trust company account based in Guernsey, and a meeting he had in May 2004 at the airport there with his frontmen, Kinnear stated that even though “the crown hasn’t been able to establish what it is that Sagicon did, but they have shown that about £8m was routed through Sagicon accounts,” and more importantly, “Sagicon was used for corrupt contracts,” which Ibori orchestrated.

Before wrapping up his submissions, the prosecutor further told the hearing that while it is not surprising that the former governor will want to claw back as much of the confiscated assets as possible, however, in “his latest reply of December 2019, he (Ibori) hasn’t provided evidence of where the funds came from.”

When the judge asked Ibori’s lead counsel how long he thinks his arguments will last, he replied, “l have a lot to put to him over two days.”


https://m.guardian.ng/news/how-ibori-laundered-unexplained-millions-of-pounds-crown-prosecutor/

They are reading too much meaning into an encounter that was just a coincidence.... I handled atikus flight in d day they were said to meet at Abuja Airport, it was just a coincidence. They met on hallway, atiku was arriving and tinubu was departing they greeted each other warmly and headed different way. They reason they was even the presence of camera there was because atiku and his entourage were heading for his son wedding

D interesting part was that, after they troupe into the Airport that day 8 challenger aircraft would have been enough to convey all of them and their entourage but out of pomposity and show off they mostly choose to charter planes individually... Some even prefer to wait for d aircraft to drop someone else who already chartered for d same destination to go and come back for him. Just to have a grand entrance.

I was 13yrs when my Islamic teacher had an Indian guest who he kept in his guest house, all 7 of them. I was asked to attend to them since I understood their English accent. Late in d night one of them abused me by repeatedly kissing and using my hands to handle his dick. I went with d flow realising that if he could risk trying this act on me without worries dat his colleagues could walk in, they are definitely in together.

I kissed him back and handle his dick after a while I told he to let me go dat d place was not private enough promising dat I was going to invite him to my house the next day when my parent are away.
After he let me go, I was so angry by wat has happened that once I got home I grabbed a knife from d kitchen and headed back to d guest house. I met him lying down I walked towards him to slit his throat but luckily for him it was just a minor cut in his throat. I ran away while he was still bleeding. My Mallam sent them away d next day.
I spent several year traumatized by d event. Untill recently am usually very uncomfortable when a friend is making body contact with me.

I really wished I had slaughter him properly dat day.

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Aisha lemu, A legendary touch that guided many young minds.

I remember during my early teenage years, I found myself reading a number of her Islamic studies text books. It addressed much of the questions most teenagers had about Islam, ranging from theory, practice, belief and jurisprudence in Islam.
Some years back, when the social space was filled with all kinds of extremist ideologies, here book "Laxity, Moderation and Extremism in Islam" and that of Al-qaradawi which I happened to find on my dad's stash really equipped me and am sure many other against extreme views that some unscrupulous elements were feeding young minds.

She wrote alot of other amazing books. Some of which include women in Islam, A degree above them, women in dawah, The ideal Muslim husband, Animals in Islam and
So many more.

I recently learn of the demise of this amazing women, Aisha Lemu was a British-born author and religious educator who converted to Islam in 1961 and lived most of her life in Nigeria. She died on 5th January, 2019 in Minna, Niger State. may Allah unite her with our beloved prophet(pbuh) in Aljanatu-firdaus.
Ameen suma Ameen

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Am still on the next level diet, but solidarity aside.

Did you noticed that we are spending more on Recurrent expenditure and a quarter of our budget on debt servicing than we are spending on Capital expenditure.

Am not an economist tho but Judging from previous budget, can we really afford to spend that much on both Recurrent expenditure and debt servicing simultaneously.
Something tells me that somewhere along the line we might have to sell some national assets, to effectively fund the budget.

It kind of bothers me. So Economists, what do you think.

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