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Do you know what it means telling a security operative to declare their assets
BigB1 do not allow your hatred for Ribadu introducing ethusiasm and radicalism in his service to this nation becloud your reasoning

Mckren:

This is why we fight.

How could you come out like that and say such a terrible statement regarding my hatred for Ribadu? This is inaccurate under every single circumstance.

I will never hate anybody, especially someone like Ribadu. Regardless of what he may be going through, I still admire his uniqueness and dedication. Infact I was one of the first supporters to come out vigorously to embrace his priceless effort. The man is still one of my favorite Nigerians.
I will never hate anybody, that's absolutely not me.

Hating failure and how war against corruption is being operated is totally different from hating an entity. You should change that statement; it is absolutely offensive and inappropriate way to describe me.

Mckren:
Don't you sound like a real soldier? Very interesting!

Calm down, my man.
Ribadu has been asked for many months to present his assets to Nigerians just like the rest.
Do you know what he did instead?

Should I start by first listing Ehindero's oblivion accomplishment?

Absolutely not a big deal; infact I'm about to buy the same degree from Ajegunle Boys High school.

Fact: Do you know how many times IBB has been pulled to bag the same type of degree?
IBB is too smart to get himself involved with those unwanted and worthless material stuff. Once you purely understand your true identity and the level of your natural power, Doc Degree means nothing to you.


Trust me, IBB has the absolute capability to bag even the unavailable Doc Degrees if he desires; but he's a Leo: It's not what you do, it's how is done!

Just one?---Don't forget Ehindero escaped too!

Don't worry, Ehindero's balls will be cut off when the time is right.

It was also confirmed that the money had something to do with OTA farm; and infact this was investigated for many months by FBI; but of course this is absolutely nothing to the almighty EFCC.

For FBI to investigate you for many months and then release an unfavorable result without any hesitation; trust me, it means you've screwed up.

The fact that you've recommended ICPC to go after Andy Uba also shows the level of defectiveness of this organization called EFCC. War against corruption must be treated equally under every circumstance.

FYI: Ribadu's house in Asokoro is confirmed to be more than 300M.
How would you explain that? I guess he used the same strategy OBJ used to turn 20,000 Naira into $10B in 8 wonderful years .

Dude, nothing personal, but fight against corruption in Nigeria is not balanced and extremely selective. Till we purely understand fair justice and advance our retarded leadership skill in Nigeria, the country will continue to lose incredible bids; just like they did few hours ago.

I will fight to the end (my background doesn't permit me to give up like a hopeless coward).
There is no way EFCC will ever recover, they fell many months ago and will continue to fall and fall (they've been designed to retain this awful status).

Save us some money, time and foolishness; EFCC must be replaced immediately.

EFCC

E: Excessive          F: Failure                C: Conation                C: Concept

Excellent Point!

People in Nigeria are just simply immune to habitual failure, this is also why they are so quick to settle for absolutely nothing.

EFCC = coward, fruitlessness, inadequacy, deficiency, incompleteness, powerlessness, senselessness, stalemate, disproportionate, deadend, preconception, inexperienced, bigotry, visionless and absolutely a nation wrecker

We just lost the bid

Yes, we just lost the bid.
This reminds me of an individual that makes only $20,000 a year, but wants a mortgage that will cost him over $1M. Yes, it is absolutely OK to think and dream big, but we must not lose our soul.At this point in Nigeria, this is just a little bit too much and senseless.
There is time for everything, definitely this is not the right time for Nigeria to be bidding for the common wealth games.

Yes, it did not take 1 week to build Rome; but we need to first get our sh it together, establish a solid foundation before thinking about building the skyscrapers.

I am very disappointed that the immaturity of our leadership skills in Nigeria continues to linger like an everlasting bad smell.
This should be a lesson for our leaders; we are nothing but a piece of unwanted jungle. We must quickly discover a better strategy to focus on important things that effect ordinary Nigerians on a daily basis.

Once again we looked stupid and I'm very very upset, I hate rejection.

and what happened to FESTAC

This is pure rubbish.

They should rather use the money to build 'railway line from

@BABASIN
I'm not sure if I understand your previous post because the hosting country usually generates money from the common wealth games. I also believe that FESTAC was a successful accomplishment.

http://www.abuja2014.org/Abuja_City/Welcome_Address.htm

Infact, this has been confirmed, Nigeria is still very serious and vigorously bidding to host 2014 commonwealth games. I'm very proud and look forward to witness this great accomplishment.
Without any doubt, this will definitely be a big one for the entire Africa as a continent

But the BIG question is: Looking at the political/ economic unsteadiness, extremely poor infrastructure, corruption activities, and immaturity of leadership skill in Nigeria; is this vision feasible for Nigeria as a nation to accomplish successfully or is it going to end up as another embarrassment stage for our country?
Because what you crave for could also kill you!

It's up to Nigerians not to settle for less!

PART 4

EFCC’s unfinished business



It is also strengthened by the fact that Governor Gbenga Daniel has come forward with the magic of making over N4 billion, not from governing Ogun State but from Kresta Laurel, while his wife made hundreds of millions of Naira. This confirms the contention that the eight years Obasanjo was play-acting about fighting corruption remain an unprecedented boom period for corruption and it is so predominant that nothing practically works in Nigeria today.

To help EFCC outlive the self-created poor image it cultivated among Nigerians, especially in the later part of the Obasanjo pestilence and having realized that it cannot mutilate Nigerians' perception of corruption, Ribadu and co should brace up and deal with the following sore cases that gnaw at the soul of EFCC’s poor image with millions of Nigerians.

Firstly, EFCC must close in on former President Obasanjo and clear the mountain loads of indiscretions that trail him. Questions about his sudden wealth, from bankruptcy in 1998, the presidential library, the MOFAS account, the Bells School, the PTDF looting, Transcorp wonder company, the Otta Farm renaissance, the dubious sale of the country’s patrimony to fronts, hirelings and cronies, the cash in presidential jet scandal, and so many other tell-tale signs of official looting should be investigated.

EFCC would find that it would eternally work to its detriment for it to continue shielding the former president from the law when the entire nation is alive to the obscene display of wealth by the former president. I hope he is not still enjoying immunity, given the way he is deliberately left out of the prospective politicians EFCC wants to rein in. The way it had carried on as if corruption is limited to the acts of the former governors, without referring to the source and headspring of corruption in the last eight years, induces greater questions about the capability of Nuhu Ribadu to cleanse the country of filth perpetrated by politicians.

Secondly, the EFCC must, as a matter of urgency, launch into a comprehensive probe of the present Maurice Iwu-led INEC. Nigerians are aware of the hefty sums of monies voted for electoral projects that were never executed. Being that INEC has been the source of the present tempestuous drift of the nation and given that over N60 billion that was emptied in INEC were mostly monies by western donor agencies, the EFCC would do greater harm to itself if it pretends it never knew the collateral damage the wholesome fraud and corruption perpetrated in INEC just the other day does to its image and that of the country.

If Iwu is chained and brought to court, that will certainly send a great signal that EFCC is up and doing on the task of ensuring that this country is not being deliberately exposed to the blistering effect of fraudsters and scammers that deign no scruples, inflicting deliberate damage on the country and profiting greatly from such asinine business. The cost of leaving out Iwu from trial is that he would continue his present pastime of insulting the whole human race for not accepting that he duped the country of several billions of Naira and forged electoral results as they suited the whims of those that hired him. Do we need to revisit Colin Powel’s nation of scammers comment? Then EFCC must rein in Iwu before he rubbishes what remains of the image of the country.

Thirdly, the EFCC must arrest Bode George and bring him to justice for the scam at the NPA. One realizes that in a bid to explain away his alleged partisan approach to fighting corruption, Ribadu was to engage in a shocking trading of very contradictory and embarrassing riposte to his earlier indictment of George. He rehearsed the tame and tepid excuse being tendered by Bode George over the NPA affair to the effect that he (George) was a part-time chairman of NPA, when the plundering took place, as if there are also full-time chairmen of parastatals.

By now, Ribadu must have acknowledged that such faux pas that smack of dubiousness is not doing his image and that of his EFCC any good and the earlier he brings George to justice, the better for him. Then again, the Emmanuel Andy Uba money laundering charge is a litmus test for EFCC’s fresh commitment to tackle corruption without putting on partisan binoculars. Given that the case happened in the United States and is well known, continued defence of such international crime, as Ribadu tried to do when Uba was being corruptly cleared for his ill-fated gubernatorial dream, will only mean some giant flies in EFCC’s ointment of rediscovery.

The well known scandalous handing over of the nation’s refineries to cronies and fronts of Obasanjo must be fully probed. The manner the refineries were handed over in deals that rock the underbelly of decency and due process is a subject of wide-ranging discontent in the polity. I read where Ribadu was, in the hangover of the subservient role he played for Obasanjo, justifying the corrupt sale of the nation’s refineries, which lends some doubt to his capacity to probe the deals.

But he must know that so long as he exhibits such brazen fling of pandering to Obasanjo’s narrow and selfish interests, he stands to perpetually injure himself and his image among Nigerians. These must be probed, the assets recovered and the offenders punished for Nigerians to believe they have an impartial Daniel on the anti-corruption throne of the country. The underhand sale of Apo Legislative Quarters, buildings around Aso Rock and several public buildings all over the federation to cronies of Obasanjo, are gaping sores that need to be mended for EFCC to regain its damaged image.
Ribadu will soon find out he cannot run away from the question about the funding of the obnoxious third term project. As the revelations spew of how that deadly agenda was prosecuted under Ribadu’s nose, he stands eternally periled if his EFCC does not expose the devilish secrecy of the funding of that dubious plot that nudged Nigeria to the precipice as it happened.

Much has been said of the activities of the governors between 1999 and 2007 but nothing is being said of the presidency, which appropriated over 52 per cent of the monthly allocations with practically nothing to show for these. It is a known fact that the federal ministries were racketeering havens during the eight years of Obasanjo's rule and the World Bank was to confirm this when it said that the Presidency was to blame for over 85 per cent of the nation’s corruption index.



http://intellibriefs..com/2007/08/nigeria-efccs-unfinished-business.html

We’re not above mistakes – EFCC

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says that its operatives had never claimed to have the monopoly of knowledge, admitting that "as human beings, like any other person, we can also make mistakes."

The commission’s Director of Operation, Mr Ibrahim Lamorde, who made this confession on Tuesday in Lagos, while receiving in audience members of the Committee on Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), led by their President, Mr Olasupo Ojo, said the commission welcomes "constructive criticism and suggestions that can make us achieve better result in the war against corruption."

Speaking further, Lamorde reminded his guests that "the war against corruption is a collective Nigerian project and not for the EFCC alone," stressing that until every Nigerian assumes the ownership of the war, the monster would refuse to go.

He, therefore, urged the CDHR members to assist the commission in taking the awareness to the grassroots so that the country would heave a sigh of relief as far as corruption is concerned.
Earlier, the CDHR boss, Mr Ojo, had told the representatives of the commission that the group’s visit was to see things for itself, vis a vis some insinuations that suspects in the EFCC cells were being kept under abnormal conditions. He said that as a civilized country, the condition of cells in Nigeria must conform with the charter of the United Nations that laid down a basic standard accommodation rules for detainees.

Against this background, the CDHR boss suggested that the EFCC should publish pamphlets containing the rights of detained suspects and make them available to the detainees so that they could know what they deserve to have while in the commission’s cells.

While assuring the commission of his group’s readiness to assist in spreading the anti-corruption gospel to the grassroots, he said: "Even before the advent of the EFCC four years ago, human right groups had been in the forefront of anti-corruption war," adding, "right now, all members of the CDHR are automatic anti-corruption fighters."

While conducting the visitors round the detention facilities later, Alhaji Muhammed Alikali, who is in charge of bank transactions at the commission, stated: "Our facilities conform with the said standard of the United Nations charter," while expressing dismay about some bogus claims in the media.
Heassured the media, civil society groups and interested individuals that "the commission is very accessible," adding that EFCC has been doing its work according to the rule of law.




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This sensible discussion has just gotten into a terrible accident.
How did you get here and how is the baby?

Iyke-D

It is obvious that you're busy running all over the place with absolutely no material.

You fall into this category:I have realized that many have decided to sabotage all my ideas or recommendations, regardless of the content of the message (whether it's positive or negative), just because of my incompressible support for IBB.
I see this as being barbaric and absolutely not in agreement with or according to democratic doctrine.

If my name was Mckren, I'm sure that you will be smiling and dancing behind me. But it's all good.
There is something for sure, we can not all sleep like bunch of drunkards facing the same direction, someone must step up.

I hope you never attain a leadership position in any meaningful organization
because that might spell the beginning of its downfall. In all facet of life, be it
public or private, one must PRIORITIZE.

Iyke-D:

You've miscalculated once again.
PRIORITIZE: stands for arranging or organizing "to do list"[/b]according to the importance of the duties.

Eventhough PRIORITIZE is part of leadership concept, but has absolutely nothing to do with this subject.

Again, the main idea of this topic is the word [b]"SELECTIVITY"

Ribadu, Ribadu, Ribadu, Ribadu;

May be George Bush should also change his name to Ribadu; may be he will get couple of more people on his side to worship his failure in Iraq.

My man, like I've said before, this issue has absolutely nothing to do with Ribadu. Infact Ribadu happens to still be one of my favorite Nigerians, I truly admire his dedication.
But at the same time, there must be no room for failure. We must be courageous and bold enough to be able to point out failure when it exists (confrontation, tenacity, correction and compassion); that is what leadership is all about, my man.

Iyke-D:

If you live in United States, how would you feel if a police office pulls you over just because you're BLACK?

That is the meaning of judgement based on selectivity, and this is also the main idea of this topic.
Forget EFCC or OBJ, and please let me know what will be the appropriate treatment for this officer.

@Segunusaid:

You're absolutely right, you can now go back to work!

Brilliant - you don't see any difference between a man that steals N1 and another that steals 1trillion pounds?
The state should exhibit the same zeal chasing the man that stole N1 even if it means spending N10million to
prosecute the case? With this kind of brilliance, its no surprise that Nigeria is a shining example of justice before
the world. We are always righteous about the wrong things!

@Iyke-D

Obviously you know absolutely nothing about equality, human rights, empowerment of the constitution and drastic repercussion of judgement that is based on selectivity.

My man, we are not talking about market place conflict, we are talking about the enforcement of Nigerian constitution.
What is wrong with you?

Looking at the roles that is played by EFCC in Nigeria, it is purely senseless to base any corruption judgement on calculation of Kobo and Naira. It just doesn't work that way.
The person that freely steals 1 Naira today will surely steal 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Naira tomorrow, hence Mr. Iyke-D, you're not making any sense.
All cases regarding corruption must be treated absolutely equally under every circumstance.

You need to stop this asinine argument, pleasssssssssseeeeeeeee

Definitely, you're not Mckren and I'm very sorry to even compare the two.

The issue of EFCC is that of half bread being better than non. The agency did witch-hunting for OBJ. Nobody cares to explain why T(c)hiefs Lamidi Adedibu, Olabode George et al have not been arrested up till this moment by the EFCC, whereas people like Otumbas Adenuga and Fasewe are being bandied as corrupt men.

Mallam Ribadu have on countless occasions confirmed the formers culpability, but has done nothing to bring them to justice. We know that the EFCC has arrested some corrupt people and had even prosecuted some. My worry is that the agency is persecuting those it has no evidence of corrupt enrichment against.

As regards the sons of IBB and OBJ, corrupt enrichment is the same, the amount involved notwithstanding. Both cases must be treated equally without any resort to ad hominems. Justice is blind, therefore, does not see whether one has stolen 1 naira or if another has stolen trillions of pounds. Let's get things right. Didn't EFCC spend tax payers money to go for a wild goose chase when it accused Alhaji Atiku of taking a $100,000 bribe from Mr. Jafferson? Why can't it spend same to pursue a case of $500,000 which is 5x bigger?

EFCC should wake up, let the truth be told. With all the foreign financial assistance it has been recieving, it must not be seen as anybody's cats paw.

Brilliant!

I am not suprised that you think Iyke-D = Mckren

Sometimes I read Iyke's posts and I wonder if am the one typing?

But if you follow Iyke's post very well you do not need a rocket scientist to know the man bearing that name is from Delta State Nigeria, while I am of Imo State Nigeria.

Mckren,

That was a simple question, that required just a YES or NO; aboslutely no need to write a book.

Iyke-D = Mckren?

My man, the benchmark for failure in Nigeria is higher than Mount Kilimanjaro.

The question is: how far and how long are we willing to push this old defective car?

In Big B1's case, he hates the EFCC because they had a hand in stopping IBB's ambition to rule Nigeria again.

Absolutely inaccurate.

This has nothing to do with IBB; the man is appeased with his current position, everyone has moved on.

Big B1 doesn't hate EFCC, he only hates failure (constant failure).
Infact, I have realized that many have decided to sabotage all my ideas or recommendations, regardless of the content of the message (whether it's positive or negative), just because of my incompressible support for IBB.
I see this as being barbaric and absolutely not in agreement with or according to democratic doctrine.

One should not be judged or undermined just because of his or her choice of political candidates. It is not right, not acceptable and a nation can not move forward with this type of awful mentality.

Up EFCC, long life failure!

It seems to me that many of us are just simply immune to habitual failure.
We shall all see the end result.

May God bless Nigeria

Instead of walking around freely and boldly, you guys will be surprised to see how many governors that will disappear for good as soon as a newly implemented anti corruption organization is introduced.
The prayer of many of these thieves is for EFCC to remain in Nigeria forever and ever. They clearly understand that as long as EFCC stays around, they (the thieves) remain untouchable.

And I truly do not understand why we find it very difficult to understand this fact. May be some of us need to be whacked on the head with a wooden stick to wake up and see the light.

It is absolutely impossible for folks to have a reasonable discussion with out mentioning that name "IBB".
Damn, the man has been gone for many many years and still many just can't leave that name alone.

Why don't you just ask EFCC to go and arrest IBB?

The last time I checked, EFCC as a failed organization is still the main idea of this discussion; let's remain focused, IBB did not implement this organization.

davidyland@yahoo.com

@Big B1

Do you know that you are a fool?

Is it going to make you feel better if I send you an email?

Did you use really the word strategy?  As for what is the difference between a man that stole
2 Toyota Corolla and Lambhorghini, let's put your question in a much clearer context. The least
expensive Lamborghini is about $200,000 (give or take) which will fetch about 8 Toyota Corolla
(at about $25,000 each).  Now, $240million of IBB's son stake in Globalcom will buy about 480
type of houses that OBJ's son bought. If indeed we are concerned about strategy, I ask again,
should the EFCC spend $500,000 to recover $500,000 or will it make more strategic and economic
sense for them to spend $500,000 or even $1million in recovering $240million?

Furthermore, it is very sad and a big shame that this is how most of us see things. And this is also one of the reasons why we find absolutely nothing wrong with the way EFCC operates.
Unbelievable!

It is not about kobo and naira; it's about doing your job accordingly, professionally, lawfully and fairly (all belong to the same parents).