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A’Ibom govs’ driver not an impersonator –Govt The Akwa Ibom State Government has refuted reports that Governor Udom Emmanuel’s official driver is not a real policeman but an impostor. The state Commissioner for Information, Mr. Aniekan Umanah, gave the clarification in a statement on Tuesday. Umanah said the driver, Bassey Edet, is a bonafide policeman and absolved the officer of allegations of defrauding banks. The statement read, “Contrary to a false report that the official driver of Governor Emmanuel is not a policeman, Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for information and Communications, Mr. Aniekan Umanah says Mr. Bassey Edet is a bonafide officer of the Force. “Speaking in his office on the story in The Punch Newspaper of Monday, September 14, 2015 purporting that the driver is involved in police impersonation saga, Mr. Umanah said that Edet is a certified, trained spy policeman and therefore, cannot be said to be an impersonator. “The Information boss said that Mr. Edet’s Police Force Identification Number is 1522, having attended Police Training School, Ikeja, Lagos State, and wondered how he could be accused of breaching any rules by wearing his uniform.” The commissioner dismissed as false, the allegation that the governor’s driver was defrauding financial institutions by taking multiple salaries, noting “that I have in good authority that the bank referred to in that false publication, like other international organisations, does not hire drivers, therefore, could not have had his name on its payroll.” Copyright PUNCH.All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.

A’Ibom govs’ driver not an
impersonator –Govt



The Akwa Ibom State Government has
refuted reports that Governor Udom
Emmanuel’s official driver is not a real
policeman but an impostor.
The state Commissioner for Information,
Mr. Aniekan Umanah, gave the
clarification in a statement on Tuesday.
Umanah said the driver, Bassey Edet, is a
bonafide policeman and absolved the
officer of allegations of defrauding banks.
The statement read, “Contrary to a false
report that the official driver of Governor
Emmanuel is not a policeman, Akwa Ibom
State Commissioner for information and
Communications, Mr. Aniekan Umanah
says Mr. Bassey Edet is a bonafide officer
of the Force.
“Speaking in his office on the story in The
Punch Newspaper of Monday, September
14, 2015 purporting that the driver is
involved in police impersonation saga, Mr.
Umanah said that Edet is a certified,
trained spy policeman and therefore,
cannot be said to be an impersonator.
“The Information boss said that Mr. Edet’s
Police Force Identification Number is
1522, having attended Police Training
School, Ikeja, Lagos State, and wondered
how he could be accused of breaching any
rules by wearing his uniform.”
The commissioner dismissed as false, the
allegation that the governor’s driver was
defrauding financial institutions by taking
multiple salaries, noting “that I have in
good authority that the bank referred to
in that false publication, like other
international organisations, does not hire
drivers, therefore, could not have had his
name on its payroll.”
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otr1:
I don't have time to be going round the circle.
I just told, secret recruitment into public service is not a NORM.
That they've been doing it doesn't make it right.
I'm very familiar with the DSS to know that they don't advertise any vacancy, but only replace them with their own people with some slots given to some politicians- especially in the NASS.
So stop making it sound as if the secrecy is embedded in the law governing the DSS. It's not and it's corruption.
I just hope I won't get to read it here again from people like you if Daura decides to recruit only northerners in december, just because the recruitment exercise should not be "advertised"

talking about the law; was it lawful to have daura head the dss?
Also, if u suggest the recruitment excercise was not done in accordance to the law, why didn't he sack all the cadets employed by the process? don't try to defend what is not tenable.

otr1:
Yes, it was...In 2013.
Now show me where it is written that it shouldn't be advertised?

i challenge u to post the link/news paper that advertised the vacancy.
The truth is that it has never been advertised. U don't need to justify the sack by faulting the process of recruitment, when the authority did not state any.

sameer1212:
Congratulations? For using state funds his Vagabond father stole Are you okay?

You are so livid with hate, so much that u refused to see that nothing connects that boy with the said porsche car.
Also, the interior of the alleged car is different from the mercedis wagon in the other pix. You have already concluded on the boy matter and that's sad. could the feeling be different if it were el rufai's son that is said to buy the car?

sameer1212:
Hahahahaha! Fayose children are riding luxury cars and nairaland WAILERS are ready to die for him even when 99% percent of them are dying of hunger and abject poverty. Hmmmm nawa ooo.

If u were not brainwashed to believe every propaganda to smear the image of this young man, you may have noticed that nothing link the car to the boy's picture. Also the interior of the car shown is different from the exterior of the benz car. it is a pity.

otr1:
I called you a liar because you make it sound as if recruitment into the SSS should be a top secret. Friend secret recruitment into the DSS is not a norm, it's corruption.
That this has been going on for years doesn't make it right.
If later this year, Mr Daura recruites only Northerners- since it's supposed to be a secret and outsiders are not supposed to know about it- it's people like you that will complain of northernization and nepotism.

You still did not show that recruitment into the dss has ever been advertised.

otr1:
You're a liar

Not just enough to shout " u are a lier", i challenge u to post any publication that advertised dss recruitment.

RichDad1:
Nepotism.
Na family affair.

But if buhari brings some one from his village to head the dss, simply because the next most senior officer who could have become the head is not from the north; that is change?

ibkgab001:
Until I know the reason

No reason was given because there was none in the first place. what people don't know is that most of the trainee left in the academy are from the north.

IbnSultaan:
good one selection process was unethical

Why didn't they sack all the trainees that were recruited?

kkkp:
Hmm 65 trainee officers.. No advert , nothing they just employ their relatives.. Carry go baba

Dss does not advertise for positions.

...Just to spice your weekend#
I called MTN's customer care number, a
lady picked and we had this conversation.

LADY: Hello, good evening, thanks for
calling MTN customer care service, my
name is Joy, what's your name and where
are you calling from?

ME: Hello, good evening, my name is
James Elumelu and I'm calling from Lagos
state.

LADY: How may I help you, Mr. Elumelu?
ME: I'm looking for a wife to marry.

LADY: Is that why you called the
customer care service?

ME: Yes and I think I'm already in love
with you... You know you have a very
nice voice.

LADY: Hellooo! Please, we only attend to
issues about your MTN line, okay?

ME: Yes o... This is an issue about my
MTN line too, because I spend much
credit calling so many girls asking them
about marriage.

LADY: Please! I would have to put an end
to this call!

ME: Baby, don't talk like that now... I
promise to make you happy. You would
be happy with me. Can I have your
number please?

LADY: (hissing) Hey Mr. man, I think
something is wrong with you!...

ME: (cutting in) Hey, hold it there... I
hope you can now feel how frustrating it
is to receive a call and hear rubbish?!
From today henceforth, tell every other
staff there including yourself that nobody
should call me with a funny number only
for it to be an advert or send me those
nonsense messages you guys disturb my
phone with daily!
(Some guys may want to try this... Be
ready to re-reguster your SIM again and
again if you do)

Buhari's administration reminds me of a scene in Idi Amin.

Pierocash:
Integrity supersedes all d above criteria.they may not be more educated and brilliant than d southerners, bt their level of integrity and transparency outstands d southerners.

What integrity are you talking about? That a man promised to publicly declare his assets and refuse to keep the promise?

Opeyemi Agbaje asked: When people justify lop-sided Northern appointments on the basis of competence, is it a suggestion that more intelligent and competent people are more abundant in the North? How come that is not reflected in the private sector- in banking, telecommunications, law, medicine, engineering, accounting, all the professions? How come it is not reflected in JAMB admissions, WAEC results, UNITY Schools admission cut-off points? How come it is not reflected in university graduation scores? What is this inferiority complex and sickening sycophancy that many people have developed?

Sweetlemon:
Since it's in vogue to check demographics of appointees rather than their track records, very well then we shall do so. While most of us are shouting "Northern Agenda" Let's take a closer look at this expression called "North". Let's be sincere, when we hear North, the first thing that comes to mind is Hausa/Fulani/Muslim. But we have all forgotten or simply refused to learn that North is divided into
Geographically:
1. North East
2. North West
3. North Central

Demographically:
1. Core Muslim
2. Almost 200 Minority tribes
3. A fair chunk of Christian population
4. Hausa/Fulani plus Kanuri Majority Tribes

Simply put, the North is 5 times more complex than the South.
Now let's examine possible reasons why we just assume North to be Hausa/Fulani/Muslim. The answer is not rocket science. It's simply because Hausas and Fulanis have been dominating the Northern scene since forever. Now let's take a closer look at Buhari's Northern appointments so far;
Did we miss the fact that a fair number of the ones in sensitive posts are from minority tribes and in fact Christians??
Now help me ask yourselves, when last did Northern Christians get recognition? When last did we hear of tribes like Kilba, Angas, Tula, Waja? Is it not indeed some sort of change from the usual Hausa/Fulani/SS/Yoruba/Igbo/Muslim we keep hearing all over the place? Ok nau. Are we aware of the SGF is a Pastor of proven integrity? Don't you think that empowering and recognizing the Christians and minority tribes will go a long way in checking insurgencies and attacks on these vulnerable people by Fulani herdsmen, etc? Are you now trying to say that these minorities in the North who have never been given recognition but have been patiently waiting are lower and inferior Nigerians? Don't they deserve spots just like the conventional Yorubas which make up SW, Igbos which make up SE and then the different SS tribes?

I'm not done yet. Have we noticed that these appointees are not your usual politicians? Does that not mean that it won't be the "awon goons mi" business as usual? They were almost regular people until Buhari made them popular, meaning they don't have a never-ending list of goons they need to reward. I know most disappointed APC fans had placed their bets on Onu, Fashola, and Ameachi. They have erroneously seen Nigeria politics as a sport betting game or a fantasy football league where you conjure up your own "dream team". Smh.

If we still insist on this marginalization talk can we ask ourselves these questions?;

1. Is there more stable electricity in North than in the south?
2. The clean up in sectors so far, does it in the long run affect only Northerners? If the EFCC, Customs, pensions, NNPC etc are functioning properly does it not mean better for us as a whole? When last did you queue for fuel?
3. Buhari just ordered clean up of ogoni areas, (let's not forget we just had an ND son there for the past five years!) Are Northerners the ones to benefit from this exercise?

Can we please just relax our muscles a bit while we watch how things eventually play out?
I don't know why the average Nigerian does not think outside the box. These points here are things I pray each and every person reading this will ponder on with at least half an open mind. This is the first time I will be begging the mods to move my thread to FP. My message must touch as many hearts as possible.
Call me a hopeless Nigeria-lover. Yeah I know I am because I'm the type that loves with all my heart, I may get angry but I still love.

Good bless The Federal Rebublic of Nigeria!
Sai Buhari!

Cheers!


Lalasticlala, Ishilove, Obinoscopy.

SGF Babachir Lawal-Until his
appointment Babachir was the APC
Vice Chair North East and a career
politician who is a major ally of
corrupt ex governor Murtala Nyako.

Col Hamid Ali Customs CG- Notorious
bigot who served under Abacha's
dictatorship and was on the kangaroo
tribunal that sentenced Ken Saro Wiwa
to death. He is supposedly
"incorruptible " yet he was a major
player in Abacha's junta and a hawkish
secretary of the Arewa Consultative
Forum.

A son took his old mother to a Restaurant for an evening dinner. Mother being very old and weak, while eating, dropped food on her clothes. Other dinners watched her in disgust while her son was calm. After she finished eating,her son who was not at all embarrassed, quietly took her to the wash room, wiped the food particles, removed the stains, combed her hair and fitted her spectacles firmly. When they came out, the entire restaurant was watching them in silence, not able to grasp how someone could embarrass themselves publicly like that. The son settled the bill and started walking out with his mother. At that time, an old man amongst the dinners called out to the son and asked him, “Don’t you think you have left something behind?”. The son replied, “No sir, I haven’t”. The old man retorted, “Yes, you have! You left a lesson for every child and hope for every mother” The restaurant went silent. A wish of every mum. My mum had to bear the shame of me embarrassing her when I was little, i see no reason why i can't do the same for her. The love of parents to their children as well as their labor to them will never be in vain. Oh God! bless our mothers and grant them sound health, pour Your unlimited mercy and favor to them in this present world and Hereafter. Amen

Now i can confirm that these guys really think nigerians are fools! What's the difference bw 12 and a dozen?

it's a progressive killing, not bad.

post the engine pix

Where in the north?

PvtParts:
BBOG has since changed to bring back our goats

Bwahahahaha! Guy try be serious small.

Believe me, the LYING LIARS are a hypocritical set of people. When the government of Gej informed us that Abubakar Shekau had been killed, they jeered and mocked. They said that the man is still alive ;that Gej should show us Shekau's dead body. But have you noticed that they(the Buharists) have suddenly agreed with GEJ that Abubakar Shekau is no more, and that they are now saying that there is no need for Buhari to show us his corpse ? Have you also noticed that their cry for government to bring back the girls ended on May 29, this year? Can't you see that they are no longer asking government to bring back the girls?? Have you noticed that any call on the government to bring back the girls now infuriate and irritate them? Have you noticed that they are now saying that it is Allah that will bring back the girls 'if at all the girls exist'? Haven't you noticed their stinking hypocrisy If you want to know what hypocrisy looks like, look at the face of a typical buharist. Hypocrisy is written all over it. Suddenly, you are not to talk about the monumental corruption of Babatunde Fashola because 'the court has not yet decided'. But they can continue to talk about the imagined corruption of Hon. Diezani Madueke when the court has not yet decided. They only remember 'innocent until found guilty' when it has to do with Fashola, Amaechi and members of their party. Pharisees!!!

divinehand2003:
Wait OP!!!!!!!
WHY DO I PERCEIVE THE SMELL OF A WAILING WAILER SO STRONGLY AT THIS TIME OF THE DAY.
PLS I WOULD RATHER BE A WINNING WINNER MY DEAR.

Are u really a winner because you said so? Or u are a winner because you are fed with lies?

DaBullIT:
you be eryot

If Shekau was killed , we want to see his body

I read that Shekau was ousted
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/11798044/Abubakar-Shekau-ousted-as-leader-of-Boko-Haram.html

that's a theory

I still think there's the possibility that Shekau is in Syria

with his brothers , I wish that's not true though because if he comes back there'll be issue


and before you open that your rotten mouth to talk to your stinking heart about Propaganda, tell you stupid fingers to reason objectively

Identification Status: Buharist
code marched.
Action button: ignore!

Believe me, the LYING LIARS are a
hypocritical set of people.
When the government of Gej informed us
that Abubakar Shekau had been killed,
they jeered and mocked.
They said that the man is still alive ;that
Gej should show us Shekau's dead body.
But have you noticed that they(the
Buharists) have suddenly agreed with GEJ
that Abubakar Shekau is no more, and
that they are now saying that there is no
need for Buhari to show us his corpse ?
Have you also noticed that their cry for
government to bring back the girls ended
on May 29, this year?
Can't you see that they are no longer
asking government to bring back the
girls??
Have you noticed that any call on the
government to bring back the girls now
infuriate and irritate them?
Have you noticed that they are now
saying that it is Allah that will bring back
the girls 'if at all the girls exist'?
Haven't you noticed their stinking
hypocrisy

If you want to know what hypocrisy looks
like, look at the face of a typical buharist.
Hypocrisy is written all over it.
Suddenly, you are not to talk about the
monumental corruption of Babatunde
Fashola because 'the court has not yet
decided'.
But they can continue to talk about the
imagined corruption of Hon. Diezani
Madueke when the court has not yet
decided.
They only remember 'innocent until
found guilty' when it has to do with
Fashola, Amaechi and members of their
party.
Pharisees!!!

It's even more worrisome that people like Tunde Bakare, Femi Falana, NLC, Wole Soyinka are all dead silent because it's now their turn to feast on us. We are suffering, groaning while they feed us with their 'fighting corruption' propaganda which till date no single thief has been identified. sad!

warrior01:
O boy! This Buhari juju that turned erstwhile educated folks to real time Idio.ts still dey baffle me. The funniest thing in their hatred and diatribes against Gej, most of them has been destroyed psychologically for life; they can't reason objectively anymore Even if you're showing them the facts. So painful their hatred for Gej ended up consuming them.

So on point.

Ismahill:
Ode

coming from your very sound mind!