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PoliticsRe: Goodluck/ Sambo transformation package for Journalists by Blazing99: 2:55am On Apr 10, 2011
head_to_to:
If these pictures are enough to make you believe the title of the thread, then, seriously speaking, your brain is working like an im beci les. Seriously.
People like u wud defend GEJ even if he were a homo,
PoliticsRe: Goodluck/ Sambo transformation package for Journalists by Blazing99: 7:13pm On Apr 08, 2011
Asobank:
It really sucks 2 see dat a lot of people hav bin deceived by dis cheap liars. The pics even depicts falsehood from d standpoint of graphics. Any fast learner can easily do this in less than 30 mins. Abeg jare!
Graphics? Some people are so dumb that anything they do not want to believe they say it is photoshopped. I'm a Graphics Artist and this is far from Photoshop, it's a low res pic taken via a phone and is real as the air that you breathe.
PoliticsRe: Buhari To Jonathan: I Have Never Stolen Public Funds by Blazing99: 1:52pm On Apr 08, 2011
Some Nigerians are idiots with all due respect.

A man comes and tells you to challenge him against against corruption and people criticise him. But when a thief comes to you and tells you things you want to hear you all cheer him despite knowing he's a thief. Well like the bible says "God will give ya'll leaders you deserve."
CelebritiesRe: ‘i’ve Stopped Making Babies’ – 2face Idibia by Blazing99: 1:25pm On Apr 08, 2011
It's like saying I've started using condoms.
TravelRe: African Migrants Abandon The American Dream by Blazing99: 1:18pm On Apr 08, 2011
How come Nigerians arent coming back home? I'll say these other African immigrants arent as sharp as Naija boys, who have a higher determination to survive and make a better living
PoliticsRe: The Curious Incident Of Mohammed Abacha: The Limits Of Mythomania. by Blazing99: 12:44am On Apr 08, 2011
@ Agaba123
If Buhari is clueless, Jonathan's intelligence can be compared to a that of an illiterate street tout. His administration so far makes me question his ph.d. in Zoology. He needs to close his animal science books and realise he's dealing with humans, the most complicated of God's creations.
PoliticsRe: Goodluck/ Sambo transformation package for Journalists by Blazing99: 3:00pm On Apr 07, 2011
The question is "was there a meeting with Journalists at Sheraton Hotels, Abuja yesterday?" If there was, then some peeps simply being biased-minded, ready to defend GEJ even when he is wrong.

First bribery allegation - offering $50,000 to SNG
2nd bribery allegation - offering money to pdp delegates to gain his notes in the pdp presidential primaries
3rd bribery alleation - bribing men of the press with Samsung tab and N500,000.00 notes.

These are the ones we get to know. How about the hundreds we never knew and may never get to know if these thieves continue in power?
Foreign AffairsRe: Cnn: Ghana Overtakes Nigeria As The E-fraud Capital Of The World by Blazing99(op): 2:44pm On Apr 07, 2011
@ Pennywise, You're perfectly right. It's not Ghanians doing the e-fraud. It's the Nigerians in Ghana. I wonder where yahoo boys wud go to after Ghana. This 419 thing has become like a conglomerate, spreading tentacles everywhere.

A Proudly Nigerian initiative
PoliticsRe: Goodluck/ Sambo transformation package for Journalists by Blazing99: 12:43pm On Apr 07, 2011
[size=13pt]Expect crazy stories about Buhari and Ribadu on the headlines of our dailies. Journalism which ought to be the voice of truth has now become a tool for government manipulation.

Where are the GEJ supporters at? The pictures are just too real to doubt as the magazine is the same one that was given to the journalists yesterday.

Is this the kind of corruption we want to continue?


Nigerians please vote wisely,
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Foreign AffairsCnn: Ghana Overtakes Nigeria As The E-fraud Capital Of The World by Blazing99(op): 11:24am On Apr 07, 2011
Ghana is doing extremely well by African standards. Of course "by African standards" means there are dirt roads leading past the brand-new, gold-columned presidential palace, and it seems 1 percent of the country is blowing their country's GDP at bars with $50 cover charges while the other 99 is selling bags of water at stop lights. They have huge mineral reserves and lots of foreign money invested in their extraction, all of which ends up concentrated in the hands of the president, his cabinet, and whichever of their cousins they're getting along with at the time.
The Ghanaian government likes to boast that their unemployment rate is in the single digits and they're creating millions of new jobs a year specifically targeting the youth bulge, but when you pull up a pile of rubble and sit down with a member of said bulge, the story seems a lot less cheery. The actual unemployment rate for 15- to 24-year-olds hovers between 25 and 30 percent and unless you're a relative or close friend of someone in the ruling class, you can look forward to a long and fruitful career in water sales.

But Ghana also has a reasonably sophisticated technology infrastructure and has declared itself the "Internet Capital of West Africa," which is kind of archly tragic because right now the internet is the only thing keeping the kids at bay. During Nigeria's oil boom in the 70s, Ghanaians flooded into the country to take guest worker jobs. Within 10 years they'd worn out their welcome and were deported en mass back to Ghana, but not before they'd picked up a popular local pastime: the Nigerian "pen pal scam." The way it works is you become pen pals with some dolt in America or Britain, bitch about how hard your life is in Africa, then wait for them to send you money and presents.
See the rest of The Sakawa Boys at Motherboard.tv

As computers made their way into the continent, the scam was adapted to e-mail and gradually evolved into the rainbow of weird phishing messages from state treasurers and estate managers and plane-crash lawyers that crowd your inbox every morning. And as scammers got hungrier for bigger pickins, they hooked up with hacker-types from the U.S. and Europe who taught them basic credit card fraud, which they combined with the playacting of the e-mail scam to create increasingly elaborate -- and profitable -- superscams. Then for some reason they combined all of this with black magic, and that's how Sakawa was born.

In the same way that hip-hop went from a music style into a descriptor for everything from pants to dancing to potato chips, Sakawa (which originally referred to a specific credit card scam) now means pretty much anything involving money -- if you wear a bunch of flashy brand-name clothes you're dressing "Sakawa," if you've got a nice car it's a "Sakawa" car -- all of which makes sense considering internet scamming is the only way most Ghanaians can afford this.

Right now Sakawa is in its salad days. The Sakawa Boys movie franchise has made it up to "Sakawa Boys 8," Juju priests are making a killing enchanting e-mails, Christian preachers are making a killing complaining about enchanted e-mails, and Ghanaians of all ages and interests (but mostly "young" and "not being poor"wink are packed into internet cafes finding more and more ingenious ways of ripping off Westerners.
While a lot of Sakawa practitioners have cooked up elaborate post-colonial justifications where they're just getting the white man back for taking all their gold, a few, like our guide Seva, see Sakawa for what it really is: a massive bubble just waiting to burst. As Ghana overtakes freaking Nigeria as the e-fraud capital of the world, the government is scrambling to find a way to keep Sakawa from wrecking the country's business reputation without cutting off an entire young generation from their sole source of steady revenue. And just to make things more interesting, Ghana just discovered oil.
PoliticsRe: Who Will Win The Southwest? by Blazing99: 10:30am On Apr 07, 2011
LSU:
The new edition of the best seller excerpts written by AUTHEBURCKLEY, expanded by ABDULMALIK LARRY KRAUS ZUBEIRU is out jus now, it has sold more than 1000000000000000000000000 copies, but for our teeming supporters of good conscience and some urchins (leftists) this copy is free of charge* no tax,

" added 31 REASONS WHY BUHARI DOES NOT DESERVE YOUR VOTE

In my books, Buhari is a pretentious anti-corruption fighter. The trajectory of a man's journey in public life matters. For the following reasons I cannot vote for Buhari:

1. He is an oligarch who does not believe in equality before the law. The way he jailed Lateef Jakande, Jim Nwobodo, Ambrose Ali, Pa Adekunle Ajasin, Chief Ayo Ojewumi on cases that had no foundation and allowed Awwal Ibrahim, the then Niger State governor, who was arrested in Heathrow Airport in London with 14 million pounds sterling and several millions of Niara and dollars to be put under house arrest is my evidence. He also allowed Shehu Kangiwa, Sokoto State Governor who conducted and supervised the famous Bakolori Massacre of poor peasant farmers who's land were appropriated without compesation to remain under house arrest.

1(a) Ayo Ojewumi became blind as a result of his imprisonment over false charges and died shortly after.

1 (b) Prof. Ambrose Alli also became blind as a result of this false imprisonment. When he died, he had only one undeveloped plot of land to his name.

1© Pa Adekule Ajasin was never the same after his eventual release and remained sickly for the rest of his life. Whe he died, he never had any property anywhere in the world except the one he had built from his sweat as long term teacher and school principal in Owo township.

2. He put in place a retroactive law that killed three men, innocent men in my book, by public execution.

3. He jailed Ndukar Irabor and Tunde Thompson of the Guardian on stories that were factually true under Decree 4. He had told the Nigerian journalists then that it did not matter whether the story reported was true or not, if his regime did not like it, the writer would go to jail.

4. He supervised the smuggling of 53 suitcases filled with cash through the MMA against the protests of General Tunde Idiagbon and ironically, Abubakar Atiku, the then Director General of the Customs who later became the Vice President and a compromised politician himself. This smuggling of the suit cases was supervised by his ADC, Col. Mustapha Jokolo.

5. He jailed Fela Anikulapo -Kuti on trumped up charges under an emergency law which prompted the sentencing judge to confess that he was ordered to do so and apologised to the late musician. It was Buhari's administration that said it has "decided to deal with this Fela problem once and for all."

6. He convinced all the northern political leaders against allowing the National Identity Card program because according to him, this would unravel the myth of a Northern population majority

7. He is an Islamic fundamentalist, the Bin Laden of Nigeria, who told his northern followers never to vote for anyone who was not a muslim.

8. He is a coup plotter.

9. He has never been able to account to Nigerians what he did with the 20 billion Naira of the Petroleum Trust Fund of which he was the chairman under Sani Abacha.
9(a) He has not been able to point to any project that he prosecuted outside the Northern Nigeria with the so-caled trust fund.

10. He was in full support of all the atrocities of Sani Abacha against the Nigerian people. There is no single record of his criticism of Sani Abacha during those dark days when Nigeria was on precipice. It shows that he is a patriot of convenience and as such unfit to lead the country.

11. Buhari, as part of his tribalistic practices placed President Shagari under house arrest inside a palatial mansion in Ikoyi while he locked up Shagari's Vice, Alex Ekwueme in Kirikiri Prison. Shagari is Hausa/Fulani like him while Alex Ekwueme is an Igboman.

12. Ikemba Emeka Ojukwu, another Igboman who returned from 13years exile just a little over a year then was as well locked up in KiriKiri Prison by mean-hearted Buhari.Up till today we are not told what was Emeka's offence.

13. Busari Adelakun died of ulcer because Buhari refused him to be taken out of prison for immediate medical attention.The then Governor of Ogun State,Bisi Onabanjo suffered similar fate which we were told led to his untimely death.

14. Buhari ransacked the house of our late sage, Obafemi Awolowo and confisticated his International passport. Which civilized democratic society would elect the likes of Buhari as President,the same individual who overthrew an elected President? Never!

15. Plus Buhari having Sam Mbakwe in jail, went for one of Mbakwe's wives. He established himself again for what he was/is letting Mbakwe receive in jailhouse news of the death of another of Mbakwe's two wives. One (I can't remember his name now; Odenigbo?) also died in jail.

16. Buhari's henchman and sponsor, CPC governorship candidate for Kano State, is Mohammed Abacha, the same person that had/ran a personal killing squad, coordinated the killing of Kudirat Abiola & attempted to kill Ibru; and also stashed money in underground tanks, all less than 13 years ago, Nigerians have very short selective memory. Shame

?17. Buhari discriminated against persons from other ethnic groups/faiths; and that as PTF Chairman, he employed an overwhelming number of Fulani/Hausa/Moslem people at the detriment of other groups and concentrated PTF projects in the Nort, h. If in doubt read El Rufai's testimony where he wrote about Katsina boys who used the money they made at PTF to bankroll Yar'Adua's election in 1999.

18. Buhari is unforgiving. When he "took over" by coup in 1983, he even remembered an article written a very very long time ago by Bisi Onabanjo ('The Mallams are coming') and a later one in which Onabanjo wrote that people should watch out for that "gangly officer from the north" after Buhari gave a no holds barred speech at some Army functions where he was reported to be very openly pro Fulani and pro Islam to the exclusive of all else and also talked about termination of democratic rule. For that, Onabanjo got one of the harshest jail terms and treatments.

19. Buhari intolerance is worse than Obasanjo's. When he was adopted as the ANPP's candidate on the night of the party's Primaries without prior warning to the other candidates (and a few of them protested), Buhari got up and made a speech that those people must be disciplined. I subsequently saw him on BBC's "hard talk" and he frightened me and the interviewer with his archaic and fundamentalist intolerant views. His understanding and articulation is very much in doubt.

20. The evil genius, IBB and his crew similarly ran rings around Buhari. On the 10th anniversary of Abacha's demise, Buhari said that Abacha stole nothing from Nigeria! Despite millions of Dollars recovered from banks around the world and the Abacha family signing a formal agreement to return over $1 billion dollars, Buhari still said that Abacha's stealing remains an unproved allegation!!!! Why? Because Abacha set Buhari up like an emperor and let him use oil money from the Niger Delta to develop the North without supervision or questions.

21. Buhari snubbed the same Nigerians he now wants their votes by refusing to appear before Justice Oputa Truth and Reconciliation Panel. Despite the fact that Buhari knew how inportant reconciliation is to the stability of democracy. Buhari has never apologised at anytime.

22. Buhari executed Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26). To put it quite plainly, one of those three – Ogedengbe - was executed for a crime that did not carry a capital forfeit at the time it was committed. and At the time Ogedengbe committed the crime it did not carry that punishment. If we must live as civilised citizens we must go by the rules. Article 11.2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reads: "No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission WHICH DID NOT CONSTITUTE A PENAL OFFENCE, under national or international law at the time when it was committed. NOR SHALL A HEAVIER PUNISHMENT BE IMPOSED THAN THE ONE THAT WAS APPLICABLE AT THE TIME THE PENAL OFFENCE WAS COMMITTED. Killing people with retroactive laws is not the civilised thing to do - and for as long as we will have people who refuse to see the truth only because their heroes are inching to rule when they have not purged themselves we will continue to wallow in misery.
23. Let’s informed Buhari that Lateef Jakande’s $60 million metro rail project for Lagos, which he cancelled immediately after he over-threw the Second Republic, has now accumulated a debt profile of over $3 billion for Lagos State, making the state the most indebted state to Paris Club in the federation.
24 let also remind Buhari that Gbolahan Mudashiru, his Military Administrator for Lagos State, alerted him on the clause in the contract agreement that would yoke the state to this debt, if the contract was cancelled unilaterally, and that he replied Mudashiru, that he didn’t care a damn.Though the fund for the execution of that project which would have given the people of Lagos an intra-city light train transport system would not have come from Buhari’s Supreme Military Council, General Buhari, as Military Head of State, cancelled this wonderful project of the state government, with ethnicity on his mind.
25. Let us again tell him that his action of jailing Dr Alex Ekwueme, then Nigeria’s vice president, from Anambra, and keeping President Shehu Shagari, from Sokoto State in a house arrest in Ikoyi was also ethnically fired.
26. So also was the shorter end of the stick he handed the South, as chair of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), in the execution of projects.
27. Shagari’s regime (1979-1983), incurred Buhari’s wrath when it decided to investigate the US$2.8 billion that disappeared from the Midland Bank, London account of the Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation, (NNPC), during General Obasanjo’s era as military head of state that preceded Shagari’s. Dr. Olusola Saraki, Turaki of Ilorin, was the majority party leader of the Senate at the time and he headed the Senate Committee set up to trace the stolen money after some three years of clamour for such an investigation by members of the civil society. The money was traced to the Midland Bank London branch fixed account of Buhari, Obasanjo’s appointee as military head of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company. The Committee’s report was presented to the Senate during the tail end of Shagari’s regime in 1983, so the House decided to deal with the matter soon after the 1983 general elections.
28. He locked up without trial, politicians and critics including Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, notorious for clamouring for the exposure of the oil money rogue. Vera Ifudu, who was an NTA reporter then, was sacked through his prodding as military ruler, for reporting what Dr. Olusola Saraki had told her in an interview about how the missing money was traced to Buhari’s account at a Midland Bank London branch. Vera eventually won her case of wrongful dismissal in court against the NTA and was financially compensated.
29. Abacha rehabilitated Buhari with the chairmanship of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) before he (Abacha) died in 1998. When Obasanjo returned to power in May 1999 as civilian president, he found that over 2.5 billion naira had not been properly accounted for in the PTF and that there was not much on the ground to show for the colossal expenditure the agency was claiming. On the day Obasanjo announced the scrapping of the PTF, a non-staff brother-in-law of the boss, allegedly serving as his conduit on some PTF projects, died suddenly from what appeared to be heart failure.
30. Buhari’s conflicting statements on the money laundering charges involving his ADC in 1984 on the 53 suit cases saga, has indicted him.
31. He should reveal to us his health status… Buhari at 69 yr old is a clear liability on Nigeria and Nigerians is Nigeria a health insurance scheme?
You give us 31(75% fabricated) why we should not vote Buhari. Just want you to know that there are a more than 100 non-fabricated reasons why the clueless chimp GEJ does not deserve to continue leading Nigeria.
PoliticsRe: Who Will Win The Southwest? by Blazing99: 9:48am On Apr 07, 2011
As much as I would love CPC to win the west, I dont think they might be so successful. At best they could win only one state in a free and fair elections.
Art, Graphics & VideoRe: Logo Design by Blazing99: 5:15pm On Apr 05, 2011
2500 for a logo. Is logo design now mediocre? I rather do it for free.
CelebritiesRe: Jide Kosoko (Yoruba Movie Star) In Street Fight by Blazing99: 4:38pm On Apr 05, 2011
Una self. because he is a star, does that mean he should not express his anger again? If somebody knack u 4 head, shey u go set ur head well make he knack u again? Abeg leave Jide, Nothing do am, He get every right to defend himself.
LiteratureRe: Poor Books Packagings In Naija by Blazing99: 12:03pm On Apr 05, 2011
Larry-Sun:
But self-publishing is quite costly. And marketing the work may not actually sell as expected. When I delved into writing my story, I never imagined it is going to demand so much tasks after so much stress I have initially gone through. Maybe I should lock my manuscript somewhere and throw away the keys. I can resume to my previous thoughts of travelling to Niger Delta to kidnap a Chinese for ransom, or break govt fuel pipes so as to get money from black markets, though my ex-girlfriend had had that awesome common sense to talk me out of carrying out the plans in the first place. She said she doesn't want me becoming a resident of a federal prison or a pile of charred unidentified remains. But I don't have much choice now, do I? I can send an excerpt of my story to you if you're really interested knowing what I even wrote.
You need to get a grip out of your pessimism else your writing career would be redundant
SportsRe: Samuel Peter Loses Again by Blazing99: 10:06am On Apr 05, 2011
The only asset Samuel Peter has is heavy punches. Else from that, his boxing skills are very unimpressive. I knew he won't last that long a champion
PoliticsRe: Who Is To Blame For Cancelled Election? Govt Or Inec by Blazing99: 4:01pm On Apr 04, 2011
Maurice Iwu would be somewhere laughing mockingly grin grin grin grin grin grin
PoliticsRe: Who Is To Blame For Cancelled Election? Govt Or Inec by Blazing99: 3:06pm On Apr 04, 2011
GEJ's badluck

Only in his government have we witnessed a postponed election, bombing on our independence day and new year day, Jos turned to a killing field, and many more.

I'm beginning to think this guy's goodluck is for himself alone, lol
PoliticsRe: What Attracted You To Support Buhari/bakare 2011 by Blazing99: 12:23pm On Apr 04, 2011
I never really had support for Buhari untill two years ago. He won my admiration from his great performance during his years of head of state. Though short, people who were matured around that time praise his deeds till date. The achievements of that regime is what makes Tunde Idiagbon indelible in Nigerian history and its termination is what makes IBB infamous as he is today. Nigeria's fundamental problem is corruption, indiscipline and poor morals. The more we try and manage with these ills, the more problems we fall into even in democratic setting as we can see for the past 12 years now. We need strong institutions based on zero-tolerance for these ills so we all can enjoy a good democracy else this democracy would work only for the country's government officials and elites. Because Buhari shares this ideals and would like to incorporate them in this country, I'll beat my chest for him anyday, anytime.

Other reasons for Buhari are:

- His track record serving under PTF, which was incorrupt and saved Nigeria lots of funds
- His clean-standing as one of the only non-corrput Nigerian leaders. As a head of state, he has only one house while local government chairmen have mansions.
- Strenght of character. Doesn't make impuslive decisions like some people I know
- His perserverance: contesting for the third time after loosing to rigged elections (reminds me of Abe Lincoln)
- Humility. Imagine u shaking the hands of someone who insulted you and making him second-in-charge.

Unfortunately, Awolowo never made president. so if there's any head of state I would take as a role model in this country it has to be Buhari followed by Gowon.
PoliticsRe: The Curious Incident Of Mohammed Abacha: The Limits Of Mythomania. by Blazing99: 11:32am On Apr 04, 2011
@ Agaba123, efisher and other GEJ fans

if I am to make a choice between a military man and a dumb zoologist as my leader. As much as the military leader could be extreme on some issues, I'll still choose him to the zoologist. Come on' why is it only his time where elections had to be postponed. Gross inefficiency. That guy should be posted to a zoo or something where he might perform efficiently. Nigeria's too complicated for him to handle.
PoliticsRe: The Curious Incident Of Mohammed Abacha: The Limits Of Mythomania. by Blazing99: 3:54am On Apr 03, 2011
agabaI23:
Which other party is devoid of PDP members?

All the major parties are populated by the same PDP political ashawos. Forget about party, talk about an individual.
Fine lets talk about individuals

Buhari - Strict, disciplinarian, non-corrupt, unyielding, masses-oriented leadership, non-pacifist

GEJ - Appealing, impulsive, surrounded by corrupt company, supported by corrupt patrons, corrupt(else could you prove the source of his wealth), lucky (to himself but not to his country)

Mohammed Abacha - Corrupt, Facilitator of money-laundering. I choose to stop here cos not every situation is that of like-father-like-son.
PoliticsRe: The Curious Incident Of Mohammed Abacha: The Limits Of Mythomania. by Blazing99: 2:21am On Apr 03, 2011
If you're looking for saints, go to Vatican city or something. Everybody has his own weaknesses. But the outright fact is that the ruling party - PDP has more ills than any other presently in charge of Nigeria. It'll be dumb to give them another chance after they steered this country in no direction for the past 12 years.
PoliticsRe: Why I Can't Trust Jonathan by Blazing99(op): 1:11pm On Apr 02, 2011
Beaf:
What would the World be without rumour mongers and the occasional stone thrower?

Beaf I should be asking you why you choose to turn unpleasant truths into rumours. Becos some fact doesn't please u doesn't mean u shud debase it. Lets face the truth cos it's something neither you or I can hide from.

Your man Jonathan has a lot of story to tell about the source of his wealth
PoliticsRe: Why I Can't Trust Jonathan by Blazing99(op): 9:06am On Apr 02, 2011
karl max:
Keep peddling rumours he got leaked debate questions!!! BB supporters also posted the evidence of question and answerz he got for the debate,to he planted two bombs in katsina rally and also bribe emirs while at it!!! This is your latest from your official reporters buharareports oh sorry sahara report, U guys are really comic relief we are warming up to put more of his achievement in the Guiness book of record as the coupist that was refused by his people in a democracy setting for a record 3 times, Keep peddle rumours
These arent rumours. This article was dated 7 Apr 2010, before Jonathan ever declared to run for presidency.
PoliticsRe: Why I Can't Trust Jonathan by Blazing99(op): 8:30am On Apr 02, 2011
This corruption is what keeps on baffling me. As humble as GEJ looks, he is still a pepetrator. Voting for this guy is like saying "keep stealing Nigeria's money, we're behind you. But just dont get caught".
PoliticsWhy I Can't Trust Jonathan by Blazing99(op): 8:23am On Apr 02, 2011
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THE AG. PRESIDENT DR. GOODLUCK JONATHAN LIED IN ASSET DECLARATION By Timi Ogiri Ebitare
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This memo seeks to achieve three objectives. First is to demonstrate that most public office holders in Nigeria commit perjury-that is lying under oath. Secondly, the article aims to show that the Acting President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan also lied in declaring his assets, which in the laws governing the Code of Conduct, is a punishable offence. Thirdly, the write-up intends to mention some of the undeclared assets of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan- a fact known by many Nigerians but , which have been downplayed because of his humility.

Dear progressive Nigerians, when the duo of ailing Umaru Musa Yar’Adua took office on May 29, 2007, as President and Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, respectively, they swore to uphold the constitution and rule of law. Accordingly, President Yar’Adua demonstrated that resolve by the public declaration of his assets and liabilities. This was quite unlike that of the Acting President Dr. Goodluck, Jonathan who was pressured by public opinion and the media to declare his assets in a manner calculated to deceive Nigerians and well-orchestrated to hide the truth from Nigerians.

Not long after the Acting President declared his assets, some media organizations condemned the way and manner the exercise was carried out. The first signs of deceit emerged on Saturday, August 11, 2007 when some overzealous operatives of the State Security Service (SSS). SSS officers, obviously acting on the orders of the Dr Jonathan launched a vicious attack on Spynet magazine and tore through lockers, files and computers belonging to the media outfit. It was an irony that Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, who the media made from the shadows of his erstwhile boss, Chief DSP Alamieyeseigha, could be part of a plot to antagonize the press. But that was not his first attempt censoring the press. As Governor, he launched a major assault against Izon Link, a local tabloid which was supposedly sponsored by Timi Alaibe. “This assault on press was perceived to be an attempt by the Acting President to cover the truth”, the Spynet reported. Those harassed at SPYNET include Richard Ogbage, Godsidi, Frank and others. These people are still alive to testify.

It should be noted that in the maiden edition of the Spynet Magazine the lead story titled; “The Face of a Fraud?”, “detailed how the Acting President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, former Bayelsa State Governor, mismanaged the State as Chief Executive. The story however did not go down well with Jonathan and his Committee of Friends especially Chief A.J.Turner. What followed was a well-planned invasion of the magazine and the unlawful arrest of the staffers of the media outfit. Although the mater is now in court, Spynet are still counting their loses. This action portrayed him as  an enemy of the mass media

The second event that prompted the investigation of the assets of the Acting President was the October 21 st edition of The Sunday Sun, where one Mr. Collins Eselemo – Grand Patron of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) and President General of the Coastal Mandate – a coalition of socio-cultural groups in the Niger Delta Region raised some issues questioning the integrity of the Acting President. The Coalition leader claimed that “the Acting President lied in his declaration of assets and threatened that he would incur the wrath of the Ijaw Youth Council if he does not open up”. Prince Eselemo also threatened to provide a comprehensive list of the property of the Acting President and to prepare a show down with him. Ijaw Leaders prevailed on him not to wash the dirty linen of their kinsmen.

Dear Progressive Nigerians, asset declaration for a highly placed person like the Acting President is like swearing an affidavit and if the process is falsified, it can be likened to perjury – which is a criminal offence. From the perspective of the constitution as per section 172 of the 1999 constitution” A person in the public service of the Federation shall observe and conform to the code of conduct” Further, Section 140 (1) states that “A person elected to the office of President (including the Acting President) shall not begin to perform the functions of that office until he has declared his assets and liabilities as prescribed in this constitution and he has taken and subscribed to the oath of allegiance and the oath of office prescribed in the seventh schedule of this constitution”. Further, asset declaration is not just an indispensable ritual but a mechanism for sanctioning public office holders who acquire wealth through fraudulent means while in office. Since public servants spend public money, asset declaration is more of a moral responsibility than a constitutional obligation.

In another bizarre twist, when Chief Timipre Sylva assumed office as Governor of Bayelsa State, there were wide spread speculations that the Bayelsa State was heavily indebted. Although Governor Sylva in a press briefing cleared the air by saying that his predecessor did not leave behind any debts, there are now discordant reports to that effect. Such indications emerged clearly at a recently concluded Budget Retreat organized by the Government of Bayelsa State where the Commissioner of Finance & Budget stated in unambiguous terms that the State has been reeling under a debt of more than N28 billion. If this assertion is true the question then arises: Was the debt inherited from the Goodluck Jonathan administration? Certainly yes, but Sylva was too loyal to expose his predecessor. Is that revelation so grievous as to prompt the harassment of the Timipre Sylva administration? Is that what should prompt the spurious allegations that Governor Sylva voted N500million to stop Jonathan from becoming Acting President? My Dear Progressive Nigerians would certainly decode the political undercurrent behind the action of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

As a man who could vouch for the integrity of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, I regarded his critics as detractors, who envied his rising political profile. I therefore took on the challenge of conducting an independent investigation. Sadly, however, the investigating  showed that Dr. Jonathan could not really stand on a moral high ground to uphold the rule of law or the Constitution for that matter.

The results of our investigations are startling but some of them are still inconclusive because the investigator could not have access to certain vital documents. The Acting President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has much more property and assets that were not declared. Our informant who preferred anonymity said that the most annoying project that served as a drainpipe in the Jonathan administration was the Gas Turbine project awarded to an indigenous company owned by an Ogbia Woman. The initial contract value was N4 billion Naira but the sum was later reviewed upwards to N8 billion. Two things were wrong with the contract. First, the award did not follow Due Process. Secondly, rather than buy new turbines, the contractor merely refurbished the broken parts of the old turbine. Experts estimated that not up to N1 billion was spent while the other N7billion went into the pockets of the two parties. 

Again, one Moses Otazi who served as Dr. Goodluck’s Chief of Staff is believed to have stolen about N150 million from Government House and hid the money at Ewoi his wife’s village. It was reported that thieves broke into the house and made away with the money. A young man from Otuoke who works with the Ministry of Health confirmed the incident and said some of the suspects were even arrested, but when the incident got to the ears of the Acting President, he promptly intervened and ordered that the matter be settled at the Village level rather than give him negative publicity. Our chat with an operative of the SSS at Yenagoa yielded no tangible results as the plain clothed officer was evasive and not prepared to mention details. He however confirmed that such an incident was reported. The said Otazi is believed to be one of the principal beneficiaries of the loots in Creek Haven during the Jonathan administration. Because of the unscrupulous manner Moses Otazi handled the matter, the Acting President refused to take him along to Abuja.

The Jonathan administration also huge sums of money for non-existent rice farms. One of such farms is said to have been at Elebele estimated at N300 million. Beyond that the Acting President owns three multi-million Naira hotels. One of them is adjacent to Chief. DSP Alamieyeseigha’s residence in Yenagoa. Another gigantic hotel owned by the Acting President is situated after Commissioner’s quarters along Elebele Road near AIT office in Yenagoa. There are unconfirmed reports too that the Acting President owns a building estimated at N1 billion at Victoria Island, Lagos. The aforementioned property were not declared to the Code of Conduct Bureau as Assets owned by the man. This is in addition to the massive Otueke Hotel owned by Dame Patience Jonathan.

Dear progressive Nigerians, it is also a true that the Acting President has demonstrated some quotient of leadership, humility and as a loyal party man. I particularly envy his humility and consider it an advantage that is likely to boost his political profile even before he became Acting President. But it does appear that the Acting President humility to cover-up skeletons in his cupboard. If all these choice property are owned by Dr. Goodluck Jonathan - the Acting President of Nigeria, then he was more than N30 billion Naira richer than he had earlier declared. I do not intend to begrudge his wealth because his humble  disposition.

Dear, progressive Nigerians, I acknowledge the fact that the Acting - President wears the veil of immunity, such allegations if not clarified with cast doubts as to government’s intention to wage a total war against corruption. This is one of the reasons crusade against corruption and the drive to entrench transparency and accountability is very difficult. The battle has to start from the Presidency down to the Local Government Chairmen. 

People at the top echelon of power and authority must tell Nigerians the truth so we can collectively pursue the rule of law and entrench sustainable justice in the land. Dear progressive Nigerians, the aim of this article would have been achieved if the Acting President declares his assets now and compel all the new Ministers to do so. The Acting President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria should ensure that he who must come to equity must come with clean hands.

Prince Timi Ogiri Ebitare


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PoliticsRe: If Buhari Wins, I Will Hang Myself by Blazing99: 8:11am On Apr 02, 2011
Incase u dont find the right spot to hang urself, I have these following advise:

- Eat rat poison
- Go to filling station, buy fuel, take your bath with it with your clothes on, then strike a mtach
- Dive into the Lagoon from third mainland bridge

Or you cud enjoy before u die by taking 20 tablets of viagra.
LiteratureRe: Poor Books Packagings In Naija by Blazing99: 2:28am On Apr 02, 2011
They still print their books from abroad
PoliticsRe: Don’t Blackmail CPC And General Buhari - CPC Response To Bluelabs Limited by Blazing99: 4:27pm On Apr 01, 2011
EzeUche:
You all need to stop whining. Buhari is only going to win states in the North. Stop acting like he has widespread support in the South.
Only South-East and South-South fully supports Jonathan. North Western votes beats the votes of those regions merged together.

Sai Buhari, with faith. We can change Nigeria.
PoliticsRe: How Bakare Abused Buhari In 2006 by Blazing99: 4:25pm On Apr 01, 2011
This was undeniably said.

But what mazes me about this is the fact that Buhari still shook the hand of a man who condemned him and gave him the position he wouldn't give to his own relation - a running mate. I'm awed by Buhari's attributes and principles. If that recording were to be played again infront of Bakare, he would admit his weaknesses at that moment.

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