₦airaland Forum

Babacele:
if [s]una like make una cry blood ,if the circumstances available by 2014 /2015 present themselves again ,we would still vote PMB over GEJ . Don't forget history twisters that we the same Nigerians had fought for n brought in Gej over the likes of Atiku in before and in 2011 What changed between 2010 -2015? What changed is that the shoeless boy became the very anomaly we fought to pave way for his emergence and history punished him in 2015. But he , and this can't be taken away from his political history and CV, rewrote history in that phone call to PMB to concede to the chagrin of our national enemies like Reno Wendel Omockery ,Orubebe ,ipobs etc who had wanted mayhem. God bless Gej for that.
Sowore , Aisha Buhari and any other sane Nigerian have the basic right of voicing their disappointments if PMB is performing below expectations or certain standards
Just as the same Sowore who had used the same Sahara reporters to fight cabals in favor of Gej can also use same against any anomaly under Buhari. National interest is the fuel that pushes his passion but it is a pity ,petty people can't see it that way[/s].

Trash
Talk for yourself, Majority Nigerians that votes buhari before are apologizing openly the major one Tolu Ogunlesi who even call gej ineffectual buffoon Has regretted his action Apologized and even Nominated JONATHAN as the best Nigeria never valued
But not withstanding some irredeemable few like you are irrelevant

Little did he know that he will be disgraced shamefully inside the court by the same Buhari. Now he knows the Value of Freedom he enjoyed when he was rolling propaganda from left to right during Jonathan era
Now he.can't dare to setep out of Abuja till God knows when or even lead a protest.

Coward

ThatFairGuy1:
Where was the decorum when honourable members are scaling fence/gates?
Where was civility(demoy) In daylight robbery of ekiti and Osun APC members in 2014 GUBER polls?
Where was civility when Dasuki loaded billions of Naira on truck out of CBN?
Where was INTEGRITY when Diezani distributed loads of cash to all state of the federation for 2014/15 elections?
How many local government did BH controls under GEJ's administration? Don't let us remember the past, GEJ was a calamity that befall Nigeria. Attrocities in his administration led us into recession.

Olodo
Then you.campaign.to change and turn things around so who lost now? Nigerians who.put trust in your.evil party thinking you will.do better now you took Nigeria to 20yrs.backward Shior

See why Godswill Akpabio is dodging the issues raised but rather talking about temper and lying that Joi Nuneih MD Nddc has 4 husband which is distracting

JOY NUNEIH Stout Stand against Covering up Stealing


Many say corruption is fighting back as Nunieh suffers hacking, identity theft, certificate scandal, boycott of contract verification order, and attempts on her life

What President Muhammadu Buhari ordered at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was forensic audit but what he may be getting seems to be ‘forensic’ warfare and fireworks. This may be aimed at derailing, delaying, or outright disruption of the forensic audit. The target seems to be Ogoni-born Joi Nunieh, who was appointed into the waiting board to represent Rivers State but was surprisingly declared as head of an interim management committee and thereby the Acting Managing Director of the Commission.

Since early January 2020 when Nunieh, daughter of the first Ogoni lawyer, announced a contract verification exercise which requires contractors to go to the states where the contracts took place to go and register it and get it verified by an interim panel, hell seems to let lose. Those who probably believed the forensic audit would not start, may be shocked the turn it was taking. Verifying a contract is being seen as setting the foundation of being found guilty, like one admitting and pleading guilty even before the charge is announced. Inside sources said many contractors held many nocturnal meetings where they resolved not to participate or at best to disrupt it.

Nunieh herself has been courting the tongue of the serpent. She gave verve to the forensic audit by always describing it as the only way to save the NDDC, a stand that many big politicians may not like. Politicians from both divide (PDP, APC) seem deeply enmeshed in contracts in the place and may not be ready for any serious scratch.

She it was who revealed that one senator alone had over 300 contracts and that 120 were paid for without any scratch of work. This alone seemed to give the world a preface of the book of forensic audit ahead. She followed this by disclosing that one man was pocketing N1billion every month to help collect statutory funds from the oil companies mandated by the NDDC Act of 2000 to remit to the Commission. The scandal was that such remittances did not pass through an intermediary and is done by transfers or instruments, not Ghana-Must-Go bags and escorts. Not a few were angry.

Worse, she has since stopped payments and has come up with her verification ‘kamikaze’ poison that many think should not be swallowed without a fight. The forensic warfare had to be launched.

Minor travails

The first obstacle that Nunieh faced was effort not to recognise her as CEO of the NDDC. The Senate was made to reject her position, insisting that those cleared should be inaugurated. The budget of the Commission for 2020 was ignored until the Senate order was implemented. Some said she was imposed by some members of a cabal and not known to the President. She seemed to overcome this when the President indicated affirmation of her appointment.

The next was her email account that was hacked and used to solicit for payments for jobs especially for Ogoni women to be given employments. She and her aides came out denouncing and denying the claims, saying her account was hacked and her identity stolen.

Insiders said had that not been dictated early enough and publicly denounced, detractors would have harvested enough evidence to supply to the security agencies and the presidency to show that the person sent to fight corruption at the NDDC was rather boosting it.

Subtle boycott of the verification exercise is said to be the next strategy to delay or discredit the exercise and get it discarded. At the various centres in the nine states, lines were scanty. It was obvious that an agency that had over 1200 contracts would have crowds at the centres, but the opposite was said to be the case. At a point, the scenes showed images of a failing exercise.

Major travails

The major script came when a group opened a scandal saying Nunieh forged her certificate. This is a scandal that usually claims the head of the target. The group, a civil society one named Niger Delta Anticorruption Coalition (NDAC) called on President Buhari to sack Nunieh. They did not call for investigation first. The group seemed to go to its core objective when it called on the president to order the immediate stoppage of the ‘Contract Verification Exercise’.

The call was contained in a press statement signed by Executive Director of the group, Boniface Akpoebi, in which the group accused Nunieh of forging a degree of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology. They said contrary to claims that she studied Law at the Rivers State University of Technology (UST), that she rather allegedly dropped out of the university.

The group also alleged that Nunieh also forged the National Youth Corps Service (NYSC) certificate and that she never partook in the mandatory one year national scheme.
Akpoebi stated: “We have it on good authority that the Acting MD of the NDDC did not graduate from RUST as she claims. She dropped out of the programme and went abroad. There’s no record she went to the Law School and we know she went abroad after a minor accident. When she came back from abroad she started claiming to fight for the Niger Delta cause. Joy Nunieh should be removed from the NDDC. She will not allow the forensic audit ordered by the president to be carried out. Currently, she has sent people to do verification instead of forensic audit. What are they verifying?
“Joy Nunieh has been bribed by politicians to witch-hunt some top Niger Delta leaders and we won’t allow that to happen. Let her go and sort her certificate issue with RUST and NYSC.”

The media aide to Nunieh did not find the allegation weighty enough to be dignified with a response. The Special Adviser (Communication), Ibanga Isine, reminded newsmen that the alleging organisation was not registered in the first place. He also made it clear that the onus was on the person alleging to produce proof, not to ask the victim to do so.

Heavy hammer

Nunieh and her defiant fight for the soul of Nigeria

On January 28, the NDDC, through a group it called Coalition of Civil Societies Organisations for Governance and Change Initiative (CCSGGI), said to be led by one Okpokwu Ogenyi (all Idoma of Benue State names) as convener, signed a 30-point bullet attacking Akpoebi and his team.

The Ogenyi group not only condemned those they called idlers parading as CSOs/activists ready to serve as attack dogs, but said: “It’s illogical, incoherent, patently inchoate, and offending to understand an assemblage of matured men could anchor such a fluid allegation on a respected woman of virtue and leader. They based their conclusions on no empirical or verifiable evidence.”

The Ogenyi group wondered whether the Akpoebi group was present at the so-called FIB Headquarters in Abuja where they claimed that Nunieh was unable to present her certificates and pleaded to rush home to bring them and never returned. “The CCSGGI wonders whether members of the CSO were also part of the FIB vetting panel. In any case, they recoiled from presenting concrete evidence to the public to support their claims.”

The defending group pointed to the fact that Nunieh has worked and held several public offices, including serving at the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project, (HYPREP). “Therefore, having staged a bad outing, the group consoled itself by boasting of nationwide protests to press for her sack, if Mr. President fails to direct the Inspector General of Police, Director-General, Department of State Services, the ICPC to commence investigation and prosecution of Dr. Nunieh for alleged forgery.”

No going back

In a firm declaration, the CCSGGI said: “But let truth be told. We are all aware that the NDDC, an agency created by the FG to fast-track the development of the Niger Delta region, has become a cesspool of corruption for decades. And President Buhari’s action to sanitise the agency by ordering a forensic audit of the NDDC, the main mandate of the Dr. Nunieh-led NDDC Interim Management Committee attracted eulogies to the President.

“It is commendable that the NDDC boss has her eyes fixated on sanitising and repositioning the NDDC for optimal performance beneficial to the region. So, any attempt to distract her focus will not be condoned or tolerated. As a bona fide son of the Niger region who knows exactly what transpired in the Commission before now and fully aware of Dr. Nunieh’s courageous efforts, I felt it imperative to mobilise my colleagues to stand up in defence of an apostle of a great Nigeria.

“The Verification Committee is designed to clean the Augean stable for the proper forensic audit of the commission as ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019. The committee has a two-week duration to submit its report. But news filtering from the Commission is unpleasant with startling revelations of mega frauds in the commission. We still remember the popular case of a serving Senator. He was single-handedly awarded about 300 contracts by the NDDC; out of which 120 of the contracts have been fully paid, but none executed. The hired CSOs failed to stage a protest on the matter.

“It is incontestable that the so -called or non-existing CSO peddling the hogwash against Dr, Nunieh is the typical expression of “madness.” It is instigated by those who mindlessly looted the resources of the Niger Delta region. It is unfortunate that these very enemies of the people are out to ruin the integrity and reputation of a woman whose only sin is accepting Mr. President’s charge to rid the NDDC of corruption and mal-administration. We have no doubt that the NDDC boss has maintained a firm level of integrity anywhere she is assigned to perform a national duty.

“And their failure to corruptly influence her to bow to dubious deals or soft pedal has raised a clan of enemies angling for her removal from office. It explains why months after she was screened and assumed office, no one raised the fake NYSC discharge certificate until she inaugurated a Verification Committee. These infantile antics are familiar and cannot constitute a stumbling block to her determination to restore sanity in the Commission. They have barked at the wrong person. Dr. Nunieh is woman who has no skeletons in the cupboard and the enemies should think of another plot to frustrate her administration.

“Let us put it in clear terms to the leeches that the NDDC boss is carrying out a very tasking job and, inevitably, she must trample on lions and lionesses that once defaced humanity at the NDDC. These are the veiled angry contractors and their collaborators who are out against a woman ever ready to catch the fraudulent contractors in their tracks. Those chasing her shadows to stab should ask their conscience what the NDDC boss has done apart from preferring to serve her country in the patriotic posturing, which President Buhari has continued to govern the country in the last few years. The allegations against her are not just unfounded, but totally baseless and should be discountenanced by all Nigerians as the handiwork of Nigeria’s desperate ‘Esaus.’

“The CCSGGI recognises the laudable and manifest initiatives, reforms/innovations Dr. Nunieh has impinged on the administration of NDDC now. Those scared have genuine reasons to be afraid. We encourage you to remain courageous and undaunted in the discharge of your duties bearing in mind that patriotic service to your nation elevates and etches your name on marbles colored with gold.

“Finally, may we warn the detractors to change their style of business or be ready to be disgraced by Nigerians, as any attempt to tarnish the image of the interim management committee Chairman at NDDC will be rejected. It will be stiffly resisted by the Nigerian people on whose behalf Dr. Nunieh is working hard day and night to make life more meaningful for Niger Deltans in particular and all Nigerians in general.”

Conclusion

Will the travails fizzle out or would they upgrade? Facebook pages of some media aides in the Commission have mentioned attempts to life. What is clear is that the contractors refusing to come out seem to have broken ranks. Many have now rushed out to verify.

In western nations, waivers and plea bargains help to court those with minor offences to come and volunteer confessions that may reduce the burden of proof on the Commission and also get them squeal on the hardened ones. It works there. Can the Nunieh team try this, and will it cause a boom in findings and help the Commission move forward?

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Prestonvic:
it's possible she is trying to blackmail him.

long before Akpabio became a minister, pipelines were always attacked in Niger Delta and MD of NDDC at those times were never sacked because pipelines attacked.
so why is her own different?

so how possible is it that a former governor, senator and a minister will blow up pipelines?


she may have been bitter with Akpabio because she was sacked.
if you listen to her, all she wants is for President Buhari to sack Akpabio

Hear yourself,

Udom Emmanuel made the same allegations and that's why akpabio annoited in Apc lost out to pdp because of akpabio shaddy mafia deals

So just shut up

ThatFairGuy1:
What are you saying. Has he ever refused to probe any of his associate with Corruption cases UNLIKE jonathief. That's why PMB is still different. He's fighting Corruption very well.
He has never for once support his associates with Corruption cases

It was OMO.AGEGE That first led the Thug into.the Senate chamber's to steal mace while security agents watch.like mumu till they left with no arrest

Akpabio follow suit again bringing thugs into Senate enquiry chamber to humiliate an MD you would ask if visitors have a tag to even allow no member inside that chambers

During Jonathan regime there was decorum

Buhari has lost total control

From fighting insurgency to

kidnapping to ballot snatching to convid19 Ncdc mismanagement

to Palliative Super stealing under Hajia farouq in trillions to Efcc re looting of enemies seized assets

to soldiers resignations from duty the very first time in Nigeria history when soldiers sited low morale as reason WHICH NEVER HAPPEN UNDER JONATHAN

YOU CAN BET THAT
and many more Please cover your face in shame.

This is an emergency situation

KIDfurniture:
Mark my word this day.. all they have stolen . They will vomit it someday. Their children will waste everything .let them continue stealing and looting

but what of those graduates without jobs ....is it fair? Who do they offend? Ok o.

Web2020:
Tell that to the wall. When a child drag for food and he was overpowered, he would say "I actually did not need the food" whereas it is a lie

Gbam
That is exactly the way Tinubu online crew lived their whole life in denial They are never honest. I love the way you just capture their exact way of thinking

ChoCho54:
Since when did he stop having preferred candidate in an election?

TINUBU Supporters always lived in denial, its a trademark..remember the sacked Nwc and Giedom acting capacity which they denied too

They are in panic node

Nukilia:
What a country! There are 2 sides to this story! When I listened to Godswill on ARISE NEWS last night, I realised that the NDDC as a government institution has failed the people of the Niger Delta. Over 19 years of existence, the organization could not have their own office but using rented apartment till recently.
Let the woman go and rest, if Akpabio is evil, then the evil will catch up with him someday...

They all have something wicked in common

If you share bad road with them in your axis they will.buy jeeps instead of repairing the road

If they are sick they will rather jet out or import equipment worth 500 millions for their personal use

Instead of building offices and maintain, they rather rent expensive apartments to loot

Ogunde said in one.of his.Movie..Yoruba Ronú But Yorubá Òdàlè ló ròwón l'órùn.

Information obtained by Lere Olayinka who disclosed that the presidential panel has been briefed about the middlemen role allegedly played by one pastor Omale


https://www.facebook.com/1380833650/posts/10217665943625303/

However caution needs to be taken to see how the news turns true or falae

https://www.thecable.ng/flashback-in-december-pastor-who-reportedly-bought-dubai-property-for-magu-prophesied-buhari-will-retain-him

tamdun:
This one heavy o, a minister, bombing pipeline

isn't that heartless? Yet they appear innocent

The fact that the thug tried to block the woman and telling her that she can't talk shows that the allegations are true

That Akpabio sent thugs to blow pipelines wasting millions of resources that should benefit the poor just sabotage.... ahh, ahhh , ahhhh, God help the poor masses from power play,

Just See people we thought are adults in the mantle of power, Forcing people to take secret oath to steal while someone else would be held responsible.

Will Nigeria ever be a better place with all this fraternities? Government inside a government display?

Imagine how femi falana keep defending magu on TVC

ORIENTATION101:
Obaseki trying all he can but obviously he has no grassroot support. Threatening people to defect or loose their job shows why you can't win in September 19.
Those people will be wearing PDP garment while their heart is in APC. They will be good as moles in PDP cos they know thats is not where they belong.

Fighting Godfather to enthrone himself as a Dictator in chief.

So you're still crying over a sacked godfather

I'm.even surprised that you Used the word:godfather instead of your usual Mentorship for the relegated alliyu oshiomole and you already have a brain reset from that Edo super Experience.
After calling us names you still come back here to bow for your oga Obaseki whose case is now a reference point for a stout stand
Unlike Mumuism personified Akinwunmi Ambode who is not supposed to be mentioned in the same sentence structure with His Excellency Godwin Obaseki
who case has also cause the sack of Tinubu Ally Abraham to be disqualified in ondo while indirect primary was adopted All because of the resilience of His Excellency Godwin Obaseki

Eko o ni baje o ó bàjé tì. Keep deceiving yourself with the dumb slogan ....itésíwajú Ilú èko oun ló jê wá lógún
Edo is not Lagos,

I am from Ondo and we shared the same blood Our king the Osemawe Uku Okpolopolo Uku alase still has his ties with Edo.

Is it true?

They said he can't sleep in Two of the room at the same time. That he can only manage to sleep on a single bed in his room despite having rooms with double beds I said its a lie!

Its not not new, It was Dino melaye yesterday karma is just a bitch

Ehinmen3:
BY Pa. Ehinmen
.
Pa. Ehinmen is a freelance writer, and a volunteer member of pastor Osagie ize-iyamu youth movement from Edo State.

Pa Ehinmen
What is the Value of the Pastor Title to your movement
Just kindly tell ize iyamu to drop the Pastor Title, it's a disgrace that elderly man like you.cannot have no respect for who Christ represents

wirinet:
Do you have evidence that Tinubu accepted more than N5 million from any non financial institution?
Do you also have evidence that Tinubu gave anyone more than N5 million without passing through a financial institution?

And you claim to have vast knowledge in legal matters.

After breezing through the objective explanations above,
You still went ahead to expose that you have comprehension problem that is the problem with you guys defending Tinubu Its like a huge part of your brain cant think relatively and apply simple information without you keeping to repeating already answered questions going round the table like a toddler you're.

To help you out again

He is only telling you process that should be followed to establish money laundering and you on the other hand felt insulted and feel it's unnecessary

Now comes to Establishing the content of the bullion vans

Magu is said to have set up committee on the matter but refused to act on its findings
So, he has to go so that a fearless person expose the content and recomends the next line of action
If you agree that Tinubu deserves not to be investigated Then you're in the league of those clamouring that Abass Hushpupi is a saint and should be let go.

Really?

NLandIsHypocrit:
If you're walking on the street and mate a grown up adult trying to amend pieces of broken bottle with super glue, what will you call that person?

in yoruba we call such oponú

IJOBA2:
BERNIMOORE WE HAVE A LOT OF ISSUES HERE IN SOUTH WEST BUT YOU HAVE DECIDED TO FOCUS ON EDO ELECTION
BE TRUTHFUL TO YOURSELF, DO YOU THINK THAT LAGOS CAN BREATH WHEN ALHAJI BOLA AHMED TINUBU IS IN CONTROL OF ALL THE STRUCTURES IN LAGOS

Lagos.can't breathe sir, I live in Lagos for 20 yrs before moving to kubwa Abuja in 2018, Lagos is sweet under Lateef jakande till Buba Marwa, but now Lagos is Overhyped....the peace I have now with little I earn. If you're a graduate and don't belong to them Nothing works because everything in Lagos has been freternized

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RZArecta:
Tinubu isn’t our problem right now, we might find out when it’s too late. He’s the last pin holding a united Nigeria

really, its like when you are very hungry but pretends to be full because you dont have money to buy and a woman just offer to buy you food, Thats call being Economical with the Truth

RuudVanNisteroy:
Eko o ni Baje!

O baje ti