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I'll attempt a modest effort to respond to
Prof. Yusuf Dankofa , a cerebral lawyer and
law lecturer, who incidentally taught me
Legal Methods in my first year at the
Faculty of Law, ABU, Zaria.

You see, the learned Professor believes i
was unfairly critical of Babangida (IBB)
yesterday, when i pointedly accused him
in my facebook post of being the grand
architect of the rot we see today in
Nigeria's society. My learned Prof told me
in clear terms, that all past leaders share,
or should share, the blame, equally. I
have had time to sleep over this matter,
and rethink my held position, but must
express my regret, sadly, that i woke up
with the selfsame opinion as i held
yesterday, though in stronger measure.
For good reason.


My dear Prof., do not think it remiss of
me to disagree with you on this issue.
You see, Prof. Yusuf Dankofa , Nigeria
presently groans under the pains of a
curable but vicious and widely-spread
syphilitic disease. And from the way i see
it, she contracted this disease, because
Babangida, who admits himself to be
some sort of evil genius, single-handledly
lured her into the thorny bushes of
tyranny, and violently raped her, doggy-
style, without condoms, day-in-day-out,
from 1985 to 1993. Eight Years of
unremitting rape. The likes of Abacha and
co held down her legs while the deed was
done, and promptly took their turns as
soon as IBB was done. But first, we must
acknowledge that it was through IBB that
the idea occurred to the other military
urchins, that there could be some fun,
and money made on the sides, by
engaging Nigeria in violent, bondage sex,
not minding the ensuing and long-lasting
pains we would all suffer for it.


By the way, my learned Prof., Nigeria was
not a virgin before IBB. She had been
successively raped by a motley crowd of
tuxedo wearing "statesmen", tobacco and
kola-nut chewing aristocrats, respected
gentlemen even, and other less
respectable characters, since 1960. But
on each occasion, safe sex seemed to
have been practiced, and we were still
able to plod on as a human society with
some semblance of dignity. Then IBB
came and took all that away.
Before IBB, Nigerian politicians fought
each other fiercely. But the cat-fights
were restricted to vulgar abuses and
intellectual clap-backs through newspaper
articles and open letters. It was IBB,who
first put it in the heads of the
government institution, that intellectual
exertions was a sheer waste of time in
engaging or silencing opposition. IBB
introduced political assassination into the
polity in grand style, as a more
convenient and expeditious means of
getting all the opposition ducks in a row.
And he was quite inventive about it. He
started with a love letter to Dele Giwa,
laced with a bomb in 1986. Then in 1992,
about 159 promising officers of the
military mysteriously lost their lives in the
C-130 crash in Ejigbo. It was widely
reported as an inside job. Fingers pointed
to IBB. He denied it. I believe him. But
what i find curious, is that in a 2015
interview on this issue, IBB stated, as i
read online, that the ill-fated C-130 plane
should not have flown the day it did
because it was faulty. When asked if the
people responsible for clearing the plane
to fly these officers, despite its being
faulty, were punished, he heartily said
"No." When asked why not, he calmly
responded "the Nigerian factor." And this
answer came from the man who was the
all-powerful C-in-C at the time, and on
whose table the power of life and death,
punishment and reward, laid. But like i
said, he has since denied culpability in the
matter, and I, let me repeat, believe him.
Prior to IBB, I do not believe there was a
parallel incident of political assassination
in Nigeria on that scale or prominence. He
gave the idea to Abacha, and those that
followed. So in 1996, the no nonsense
Dr. Shola Omoshola perished, a victim of
institutional murder. Killed by bomb blast,
IBB style, but by Abacha. Same 1996,
Kudirat Abiola is assassinated. Same 1996,
Col. Marwa escapes death by car bomb.
Same 1996, bomb blast at Durba Hotel,
Kano. Bomb blast in Zaria police station.
Bomb blast at Ikeja military cantonment.
Bomb blast at Ikeja Airforce base. Bomb
blast, bomb blast, bomb blast!!! Between
1996 and 1997, the bomb blasts were
uncountable. Some by government, some
by NADECO. In fact, since Dele Giwa, over
1000 people have lost their lives to
political assassination, including, Bola Ige,
Alfred Rewane, Harry Marshal,
Dikibo,Andrew Agom, Igwe Barnaba and
wife, Funsho Williams, Ayo Daramola,
Dipo Dina, Godwin Agbroko,Ogbonnaya
Uche...and the list goes on and on. Most
were slain long after IBB was gone, but
the seed of institutional violence in
Nigeria was unarguably sown by IBB.


Let's talk corruption. Before IBB, what
was rife was for powerful government
ministers to steal money here and there,
while the head of government itself, who
might not be aware of the thievery,
retires or is deposed into penury. Which is
why even Gowon, who ruled for 9 nine
years, was not deposed a rich man.
Neither was Murtala Muhammad or
Ironsi, or Shagari, or Buhari. People might
dispute the pedigree of Buhari, but i
include him in this list because in 2003,
Prof. Kyuka Lilymjok took some students
to Buhari's house in Kaduna to speak and
parley with him about his presidential
ambition in that year. Incidentally, I was
the leader and spokesman of this group
and sat face to face with Buhari in his
dinning hall for the discussions, at his
Kaduna home. It was a modest bungalow.
Absolutely no luxury. I recall with
considerable light-hearted humor that we
were served warm coke on this occasion,
and after all said and done, Buhari handed
me an envelope containing N20,000 to
share among over 50 students as
"transport". He profusely apologized that
he had no money to give. Now you can
imagine the fight among our ranks for the
pittance, as is common with students. But
i went away thinking this man must either
be extremely honest to not have
stupendous wealth having been Governor,
Petroleum Minister, President and lately
Chairman of PTF, or he must be quite
stingy. At the time, I leaned more to
thinking him to be an honest person.
Many dispute this though.
But IBB changed all that. It was IBB who
ingrained it in the minds of leaders, that
they must feather their nest while in
office, sort of retirement insurance. He
basically and literally opened the public
treasury to his cronies to feast on. My
Prof., have you seen IBB's 50-room
hilltop mansion in Niger? The man flaunts
wealth unapologetically. Where did he get
the money? His salary as a military
officer? His military pension? It was IBB
who started the unfair sharing of Niger-
Delta oil wells to his cronies, and at his
pleasure.

Did you know that Mrs.
Folorunsho Alakija was a mere tailor
sewing for Maryam Babangida? Then
Babangida woke up one morning, and like
a genie in a bottle, decided she has to be
a billionaire. So he gifted her OML 216, a
natural asset of the Niger-Delta, and
today that tailor is on the Forbes rich list,
worth more than US$3.3Billion.
Babangida was the genie in the bottle.
Just rub him the right way and your wish
is granted. Then came Abacha, who learnt
well from IBB. He gifted T. Y. Danjuma
OPL 246, Alhaji Mai Daribe OML 110,
Sanni Bello OML 112 and 117, Alhaji
Indimie (Babangida's inlaw) OML 115,
Alhaji Saleh Gambo OML 215, Aminu
Dantata OML 108 etc. Interestingly,
Abacha also gifted himself, through Dan
Etete, the very lucrative OPL 245. All to
the Northern oligarchy, as you can see, at
the expense of the source of the
resources in the Niger-Delta, who eke
out a bare-knuckle existence on a daily
basis. IBB started it. Nobody did this
before him.


Shall i speak about the missing US
$12Billion oil windfall? This was just a
single heist. He should have stolen so
much more before and after this
occasion. But this one time, US$12Billion
went missing. Now, at that time, Nigeria's
population was somewhere in the region
of 95Million and the exchange rate was
about N10 to a dollar. So US$12Billion
would have been say N120Billion in Naira
terms. If shared among all Nigerians at
the time, each person, including new born
babies, mad men, prostitutes, armed
robbers, murderers, thieves and what
not, so far as they are Nigerian, would
have gotten something, at least N100 at
the time. It might not have been much,
but it would have gone round if shared.
But one person, IBB, stole it. And with
impunity too. Lest we forget, this
happened on the cusp of IBB's SAP
program, when 90% of Nigerians were
going to bed hungry, with no hope of food
when they wake. But he still mindlessly
stole this money on this occasion, even
when he had stolen so much before this,
and after. Now, suppose this money was
put to a project, we would have had a
world-class university, or a world class
hospital or something else world-class.
But he stole it and proceeded to send his
children abroad to school and seek
medical attention.


This and several monies IBB stole is the
reason why Mohammad Babangida has
never worked a day in his life, but owns
over 24% of a telecommunications
company that has now become a
multinational. he holds huge stakes in
several other companies. He is not better
than me, who is trying to make honest
living in an impossible business climate, a
sort of frankenstein monster that gobble
up businesses created his father. It is the
reason why IBB's children at the time
floated Fruitex International London
Limited with a share capital of about
£100,000 fully paid for in cash. This
company and several other offshore
corporations were then used to launder
Nigeria's commonwealth into swiss
accounts, to the detriment of the masses,
to the detriment of the Niger-Delta,
where the resources were stolen from.
But dont get me wrong, so many people
after IBB have bested him in the thievery
game. In fact, so much have been stolen
from Nigeria since then that what he took
pales into insignificance. But he started it,
as head of state.


Babangida badly politicized and polarized
both the military and the civil service like
no President before him. We are still
suffering for it today. His Decree 43 killed
the earlier entrenched independent,
apolitical and non-partisan principles of
the civil service. Permanent Secretaries
were replaced with Directors-General,
who were political appointees and served
at the pleasure of the President. In fact,
they were to abdicate office with the
Ministers. And so with this artifice, IBB
used political appointments, even in civil
service, to reward loyalty.This led to the
emergence and institutionalization of the
"brown envelope" syndrome in the
Nigerian civil service. Accordingly, by
some sort of strange alchemy, it became
viewed as illegal not to pass a "brown
envelope" under the table when seeking
favors in government ministries. In the
military, there was the emergence of "the
IBB boys." They were powerful officers
who had direct links or relationship with
IBB. For their loyalty, he rewarded them
with gifts and appointments. Burba
Marwa is often cited as the poster child of
this system. He became quite prosperous
under IBB and thereafter. But first, we
hear he did IBB a few favors. Perhaps you
should ask Dele Giwa about this.


May we speak of the current distrust
between christians and muslims in today's
Nigeria? I do not deny that before IBB,
they were religious skirmishes here and
there. But the real, deep-seated distrust
began with IBB's surreptitious enlistment
of Nigeria in the Organisation of Islamic
Countries (OIC). All Presidents before IBB
had tried to hold things together, careful
never to act in any way that betray
dominance of one religion over the other.
But not IBB. By this singular act on the
OIC, he fanned the embers of a
nationwide distrust between adherents of
the two religions, and between the North
and South, which we still suffer from till
this very day.


What about values in society? It was IBB
who invited Nigerians to believe that the
end justified the means in money making.
During his regime, drug barons held sway.
419 as a national institution-backed
syndicate emerged. This was when foreign
victims were taken to the real CBN offices
for meetings, only to realize that the
entire scheme was a scam after they had
parted with money. These con men
received both protection and patronage
from the IBB regime. How can we forget
who Gloria Okon was to IBB? Never
before had a President of Nigeria been so
enmeshed in such scandal as drug
peddling, this was truly a first. Needless
to say, my Prof., Nigeria's perception of
morality and integrity has not been the
same again since IBB. Nobody cares how
money is made anymore, just make the
damn thing!! So after the scorch of 419
came Yahoo Yahoo boys, money rituals
and all sort of get-rich quick schemes. But
you cannot but trace the root cause to
IBB's regime.


Let me mention the integrity of the
Judiciary. It was during the whole June 12
debacle that we heard, for the first time,
that a Judge had been procured to grant a
midnight injunction to first stop the June
12 elections, and then again to restrain
the announcement of the results. Dont
forget, the preceding years up to this
period is always referred to as the
"golden years" of the Judiciary. We had
upright and intelligent judges. Bribing or
influencing a Judge was a phenomenon
that was not common, in fact rarely heard
of. But Babangida saw to it that it was
done, using Arthur Nzeribe. Well, we all
know where we are on this issue today.
My great Prof Sir, the tapestry of IBB's ills
to the Nigerian society is actually
encyclopedic, and can only be captured in
volumes. It will serve me no purpose to
continue because i will not end. But like i
earlier said, he is enjoying his loot in his
50-room mansion up the hills of Minna.
From that vantage point, he has a bird's
eye view of all of us, and must be
laughing himself silly on what fools we all
are, by continuing to pay him him
pensions, changing his cars every 4 years
or so, acknowledging him as a statesman,
consulting him on how to "move the
country forward" or backwards as the
case may be and generally paying homage
to him, all as a befitting reward for his
role in single-handedly destroying the
moral fabric of Nigeria's society.


I really do wish him well and hope he dies
peacefully in his sleep after a sip of
chilled champagne fully paid for by Niger-
Delta's oil, for doing such great work in
frontally, backwardly and brutally raping
that once beautiful bride called Nigeria.
A good morning to you Prof!
cc: lalaclasticala
mynd44

frank317:
Imagine if Jesus was married, would he give his wife doggy?

No, Christianity only allows for holy sex. God will definitely send you to hell if you take your wife from behind or allow her to ride you from the top. Sex must be holy...the woman lies down, the man puts it in, pump till he comes and that's all. Remember nothing like 'ohhh don't stop, faster, please faster' from the woman. This will upset God and the next thing, u will find yourself in hell.

A word is enough for the wise.

Buahahahaha!!
Guy this is sarcasm taken to extreme.

Op you goofed and from your story you have no iota of respect for your wife.
Why would you embarrass your wife because you feel her mother didn't spend her money the way you wish?
Also it is clear you are paranoid towards your mother inlaw; and this is bad for you.
You disrespected her first by impregnating her daughter without proper marriage and when you finally decide to do the proper thing, you went there to harrass her daughter without caring to find out why things were the way you met it. You are such a proud fellow. If you like seek divorce because there was no dj in your tm.

Op good thinking. This is big brother efcc show of shame.

Whenever I listen to non-lawyers ,and even some lawyers , talking about recent court decisions against the Buhari government, I laugh at their folly. A court of law is not your village square. It does not practice trial by ordeal. It is trial according to law. When you accuse someone of committing a crime and charge him/her to court,the WHOLE burden of proving the allegation rests on you,the accuser. You don't prove it by newspaper gossips. You dont prove it by relying on suspicion and dancing to the gallery . You prove it according to law. The law of Nigeria, and that of most civilised countries, accords the accused so much protection. If it was not so, citizens would live in perpetual fear,especially citizens in a country headed by a tyrant like Buhari. First,the law accords the accused what is called the presumption of innocence. This simply means that every person accused of a crime is presumed innocent by the law. I mean Innocent like every other citizen. This means that Dansuki, Deziani, Metuh and all the persons accused of any crime are completely innocent as far as the law is concerned.They have not done anything wrong. Forget about what you hear on sahara reporters. Another important protection the law grants to every accused person is the right to remain silent. On the surface,this right may not sound important to you, but in fact,it is one of the most fundamental. Any breach of it renders the entire trial a nullity. The right to silence entails that the accused can not be called to prove his/ her innocence. He is not under any obligation to anwer ANY question in relation to the crime he is being accused of. Not even the court can dare ask him (the accused) a question. He is completely entittled to silence. The 'silent rule' may still seem vague to you,so let me try to bring it home. If you find 100 billion Naira and 50 brand new cars with a man who has no means of livelihood, you have the right to suspect him of committing a crime. But you can not convict him in court based on suspicion. Meaning that you can not go to court and say 'court,look at him- he has no job ,but he has much billions in his account'. You can't ask the court to convict him because he has cars in his garrage and billions in his account. You must specifically prove by means of evidence that he stole it. The only language that courts understand is evidence. Bear in mind that in leading your evidence, the accused is not meant to help you. For instance, the accused can keep silent. You can not ask him how he got the money or cars! You can't even ask him who gave it to him. He is presumed the owner of the billions and cars until you,his accuser, prove that he is not the owner. The court will not ask him ,the accused,to prove that he did not steal it or to prove that he is the owner. So, the whole burden of proving that the money in his account is a proceed of crime rests squarely on you ,the accuser. Can you now see why the Efcc and the Buhari-led government have been losing in court and will continue to lose? It is because their cases are strong in suspicion and lacking in evidence. Once they claim to see money in someone's home or bank account, they rush to sahara reporters and convict the person. When they actually get to court, they present their suspicion and the case crumbles . Do you do know that till date,they have not brought any evidence against Jonathan's cousin whom they arrested close to two years ago? Do you know that the last time the case came up, no witness was brought ? No evidence, after close to two years. The man will soon be discharged. Mark my words. Watch this space. Because they don't have evidence. All they have is suspicion. Do you know that till date they are yet to bring any evidence in Dansuki's case? They have been running around,buying time . Do you know that Deziani is not charged with any crime in this country ? Are you aware that the court released Orubebe because not a single evidence was brought for one year? The Buhari regime is not interested in evidence. They are interested in revenge and decimation of the opposition. Orubebe was arrested for trying to stop the annoucement of a corrupted election result. Justice Ademola was arrested for daring to grant bail to Nnamdi Kanu,Buhari's arch enemy. The justices of the supreme were arrested because they suspected them of stalling their crooked effort to use the judiciary to steal Rivers and Akwa Ibom states. Olisa Metuh was arrested because he addressed the press that "Buhari is not God and we will not worship him". Dansuki was arrested because he was the officer who went to Buhari's house to arrest him during the Babangida coup. The case of the former spokesman of president Jonathan is particularly funny. They had completely forgotten about him until he wrote an article attributing the reason for Buhari's non-performance to evil spirits in Aso rock. The very next week, they went for him. Copied from lawyer friend.

blackpanda:
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Wait till d prosecution appeals
I know you don't like Buhari. You prefer to support corruption, you that is a serial applicant. Smh

BMC representative. Sorry no case.

This post need the level of awareness given when efcc arrested the judge. pls mode do the needful, now the court has vindicated this man
cc: Lala!!

Justice Ademola of the federal High court has just been discharged and acquitted of corruption charges brought against him by the Buhari-led government. Recall that the government had arrested and charged him to court with so much fanfare. But now, the court has decided what we have always known -that the government has no case against him at all. They were just doing their usual fanfare to cajole the gullible into believing that Buhari is fighting corruption. The court ended the case at the 'no case' level. What this means is that having seen what the prosecution presented as evidence, the court did not even bother to call on the accused to open his defense. There was no need for the accused to lead evidence. The evidence presented by prosecution showed that 'no case' was made out against the accused. The prosecution did not show anything that would warrant the court to ask the accused to open his defence. There is no prima facie case ,as we say it. The court specifically held that the federal government's case was based on suspicion and the need to show that they are fighting corruption. Nothing else. Courts dont convict based on suspicion,no matter how strong. What of all those,including some lawyers, who wanted Justice Ademola to resign as a result of government's accusation? What can they say now? If he had left his job ,What would have happened now that he has been proven innocent by a court of competent jurisdiction? I dont know of justice Ademola. If I was in his shoes there is no way I would not sue this idiotic government for malicious prosecution. Not all cases that ends at 'no case' shows malicious prosecution. But this one shows it. You don't charge someone ,whose job depends so much on reputation ,to court based on mere suspicion of corruption. You must have some serious evidence. Buhari is merely using Efcc and other agencies to target his political enemies and judges who are not 'friendly' .

which breed of boko haram is killing our soldiers? The one that released chiboks girls without a gunshot or the one that was technically defeated? Nigeria the joke of africa.

well this isn't corruption, any body appointed by saint buhari is not corrupt. sai baba.

in Akwa ibom state fuel is sold for N180 today and most fuel stations don't have it.

First, I speak as a lawyer.

What is wrong
with arresting a judge over corrupt
charges in this fantastically corrupt
country of ours? Nothing! Absolutely
nothing because nobody is above the law.


So what then is wrong with the recent
SSS raid and search of the homes of
judges and even arresting some of the
justices- probably some of their family
members inclusive? Everything! The
reason here is the same. The SSS is not
above the law! This is so because the SSS
as the case may be is the third of the
three national security agencies
established by the National Security
Agencies Act. And the act defines their
functions and jurisdiction in plain and
simple English conveyed through section
2(3)(a),(b)&(c). This is how it reads: (3)
The State Security Service shall be
charged with responsibility for- (a) the
prevention and detection within Nigeria of
any crime against the internal security of
Nigeria; (b) the protection and
preservation of all non-military classified
matters concerning the internal security
of Nigeria; and (c) such other
responsibilities affecting internal security
within Nigeria as the National Assembly
or the President, as the case may be, may
deem necessary. Hence, the SSS has no
business raiding people's homes over
mere allegations or suspicions of fraud.
That is what the EFCC and Police are
empowered to do through laid down
procedures. Except and only if these
judges have links with threats to national
security then the SSS utterly acted Ultra
Vires.


Now even if the SSS were so empowered
the law on searching and arresting also
was not followed. But then how does one
follow the law to do illegitimate acts? The
requirement of the law is that a person(s)
seeking to search a premises must first be
identified in person and numbers and
equally searched by the owner or adult
occupant of the premises before he or
they may proceed with the search still in
the company of the adult occupant. But
the Gestapo style with which the SSS
carried out their action violated all of
these. The import and purport of this is
that the so called monies recovered from
these homes may jolly well have been
planted by the same SSS to blackmail
their victims and justify their commando
rampage! In essence, their action is
nothing more than mere Burglary and
Kidnapping! Also to be considered in this
light is the right to personal life and
property of the victims as guaranteed in
section 34 of the 1999 constitution.
Similarly, it is without question that the
constitution in sections 4, 5 & 6 clearly
defines the three arms of government
which the Judiciary is one and has
hitherto lived up to its constitutional
expectations where its disciplinary
machinery known as the National Judicial
Council (NJC) has not failed to discipline
judges duly like it recently sacked the
chief judge of Enugu state. And it is after
this that the regular trial is proceeded
with against the person who thereafter is
tried under the status of "former judge."
That is how military officers are first
dismissed through court Marshall before
being prosecuted in regular courts and
Police Officers dismissed through Orderly
Room before they are tried in regular
courts.

Perhaps I should speak like a
reasonable man:
So the SSS raided homes of judges at
night and came up with over N300m
evidence? The question is when did they
count the money? Did they storm the
homes with counting machines? It takes
almost a whole day to count N100 million
Naira with a counting machine in a bank
at least I have personally witnessed four
people counting ordinary 23 Million Naira
in over 5 hours with the use of counting
machine in a bank. So how did the SSS
within 2/3 hours of raiding and rampaging
quickly count over N300m at night? In
Port Harcourt they claimed they were
resisted from entering Justice Liman's
home yet they knew how much was
inside the house they never entered.
Meanwhile, the said justice has come out
to state categorically that it was not his
house but his neighbor's house that they
attempted to raid which confirms Gov.
Nyesom Wike's sarcasm that he didn't
know which judge was living in the house
they attempted to raid when he came out
to arrest the situation as the chief
security officer of the state. The man
claims he was actually informed by his
neighbour in house 34 whom they were
threatening to raid and he watched them
from his window in House 33 on the
same street. Unbelievable! This means
that the DSS went to a wrong house and
were still able to discover $2m in the
wrong house! Such inefficiency! Such
incompetence! What a food for thought!


Now I speak as a politician:

The Chief of
Army Staff Lt. General Buratai has
recently been cleared by CCB for owning
properties in Dubai worth $1.5m because
he filled a form claiming the properties
belong to his spouse but Dame Patience
Jonathan who rose in the ranks of civil
service to permanent secretary and was
wife of a Deputy Governor, Governor, Vice
President and President for five years
cannot own properties undeserving of the
eyes of EFCC. And nobody is asking what
work Mrs Buratai does to own such
properties in Dubai?
The panel of enquiry set up by the
government of River state last year
indicted former Gov. Amaechi of N53b
loot of state reserve fund stolen between
2013 & 2014 yet the FG went ahead to
appoint him minister. Justice Piginda
while presiding over River state
governorship electoral tribunal revealed
the DSS intimidated and attempted to
bribe him but he declined and was
replaced only for Ambrosa who replaced
him to deliver the very judgement he
refused to give in exchange for the bribe.
Thank God the judgement was
overturned. But nobody is investigating
Ambrosa and others. It is equally
imperative to note that justice Dimgba
one of the raided judges recently gave a
decision against the continued detention
of a retired Air Commodore, Mohammed
Umar who was arrested following
allegations of fraud, illegal possession of
firearms and abuse of trust and granted
him bail with a bond of N100 million.
Justice Dimgba had in his ruling ordered
the SSS to release Mr. Umar or risk being
committed by his court. Unfortunately,
the SSS failed to obey the order and
continued to hold Mr. Umar. But they did
not fail to raid Dimgba's home.


It is also very important to note that
Justice Adeniyi Ademola is the judge of
the Federal High Court in Abuja, who
insisted that the secret trial of Dasuki is
unconstitutional and gave the order that
it is mandatory for a defendant in a
criminal matter to be physically present in
court at every stage of the prosecution
except where the presence of an accused
is excused by court for clear reasons. We
are all aware of PMB's disposition to
Dasuki and the idea of granting him bail.
Justice Ngwuta also on the other hand is
said to have been very vocal in the Ekiti
Governorship election case where he
delivered the lead judgment in the
disputed governorship election in Ekiti
State, between the APC and Governor
Ayo Fayose upholding the earlier
decisions of the Court of Appeal and the
Ekiti State Governorship election tribunal,
which had both ruled that the petition
challenging Fayose’s victory lacked merit.
So, what we have today is mere political
intimidation of the judiciary to follow the
body movement of the presidency and
this is more so considering the proclivities
of Governorship Electoral Tribunal over
the just concluded Elections in Edo state
where APC mysteriously won courtesy of
N2m doled out to INEC officers to change
results in favour of APC and DSS is yet to
raid their homes.


Suffice it to observe also that the present
D.G of the infamous SSS was the
chairman of APC intelligence team during
the last election campaign- a role which
earned him the recall from retirement to
become the D.G of SSS. Now he goes
about harassing everybody suspected to
be against APC! Imagine the loyalty! Now,
I speak as an Akwa Ibom Son. Justice
Okoro is from akwa ibom state and
unfortunately the only one we have
managed to have at the level of the
Supreme Court in the past 40 years. He
was a lawyer, then a magistrate, then a
judge of the high court before he was
promoted to court of appeal and is now at
the Supreme Court and according to the
SSS such a man cannot be rich?! They
claim they raided his home and found
€1000 and about N4m. They want us to
believe he collected it as bribe? That is if
truly the money was his. Perhaps, we
should raid Amaechi's House, or Daura's
or The I.G's and even Zarha Buhari's
house let's see how much we can find
there.


Alas! Permit me to speak as a skeptic
here: Seven justices sat over the
governorship election tribunal appeal at
the Supreme Court where the present
chief judge and Justice Onoghen (CJN
hopeful) were part of. So we are talking
about almost 21 justices across board.
Meanwhile, Okoro didn't seat over any of
these cases and is being accused of
collecting money to influence the
judgments. So whatever happens to the
rest justices? Assuming that Okoro sat in
any of the cases still only two justices
make dissenting judgement. So he
couldn't reasonably be the man to catch
let alone beating him black and blue. A
gesture Boko Haram suspects never get.
Could this be a plan to push out southern
justices from the hierarchy deserving of
the position of the Chief Justice of the
Federation? I still remember of Justice
Udo Udoma was sent to Gambia when he
was due as CJN, I do remember how
Karibi Whyte was equally sent out of this
country for some flimsy assignment.
So are Onighen JSC and others from the
south safe now that we have at least
three most senior justices in the
hierarchy from the south?


Let me now
speak as a philosopher. It was Ellie Wiesel
who warned that "there may be times
when we are powerless to prevent
injustice, but there must never be a time
when we fail to protest." So now that the
FG has by Executive Terrorism decided to
molest custodians of the hope of the
common man in the name of fighting
corruption by selective victimization no
matter how noble their claims may appeal
it is overwhelmed by the ignobility of
their actions. When an executive arm
decides to act capriciously with total
disregard for rule of law it intrinsically
retunes our social contract to what
Thomas Hobbes referred to as "life in the
pre-societal days..." where "might" in the
words of Thrasymacchus makes "right"- a
survival of the fittest.


Now, where is the wisdom of the staré
decisis in Military Governor of Lagos State
& Ors v Ojukwu that "where there is rule
of law self help takes the back seat." But,
the presidential aide on prosecution Mr.
Okoi Obono Obla unwittingly let the cat
out of the bag during his interview on
Channel T.V this morning when he
confessed "we are looking for the N30b
that left the coffers of Rivers State
between October and December 2015
and everybody knows when the Supreme
Court judgement was delivered" This
means that the FG knows what they are
looking for but since the law will not let
them have their way they decided to do it
their way. Ironically, it was the same law
that he used to avoid presenting his
certificate before contesting for president
that he is now paying back with a bad
coin.


First, it was individual state governments,
then the legislature, then the press, now
it is the judiciary. Who knows what and
who next?
Perhaps now that the law becomes
helpless before the people the people are
left with one choice. Self help! Is Buhari's
ignorance, stupidity, incompetence and
cluelessness taking Nigeria back to John
Locke's state of nature? Well, since they
want to take the laws into their hands I
hope those hands of theirs are big and
strong enough for the law and us.
Okpo Ewa Edmund is a lawyer, arbitrator
and literati presently serving as supervisor
for tourism in. Okobo LGA, Akwa Ibom
State. DSS are welcome to raid my home
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AndyMolarAllwel:
it takes almost a whole day to count 100m NGN trash all the way to defend ur ppl of same profession. Hope u aren't going to a judge like them.










......

Also respond to this: " Alas! Permit me to speak as a skeptic
here: Seven justices sat over the
governorship election tribunal appeal at
the Supreme Court where the present
chief judge and Justice Onoghen (CJN
hopeful) were part of. So we are talking
about almost 21 justices across board.
Meanwhile, Okoro didn't seat over any of
these cases and is being accused of
collecting money to influence the
judgments. So whatever happens to the
rest justices? Assuming that Okoro sat in
any of the cases still only two justices
make dissenting judgement. So he
couldn't reasonably be the man to catch
let alone beating him black and blue. A
gesture Boko Haram suspects never get.
Could this be a plan to push out southern
justices from the hierarchy deserving of
the position of the Chief Justice of the
Federation? I still remember of Justice
Udo Udoma was sent to Gambia when he
was due as CJN, I do remember how
Karibi Whyte was equally sent out of this
country for some flimsy assignment."

cc: Mynd44 i'll appreciate if this post is given a fp.

First, I speak as a lawyer. What is wrong with arresting a judge over corrupt charges in this fantastically corrupt country of ours? Nothing! Absolutely nothing because nobody is above the law.

So what then is wrong with the recent SSS raid and search of the homes of judges and even arresting some of the justices- probably some of their family members inclusive? Everything! The reason here is the same. The SSS is not above the law! This is so because the SSS as the case may be is the third of the three national security agencies established by the National Security Agencies Act. And the act defines their functions and jurisdiction in plain and simple English conveyed through section 2(3)(a),(b)&(c). This is how it reads: (3) The State Security Service shall be charged with responsibility for- (a) the prevention and detection within Nigeria of any crime against the internal security of Nigeria; (b) the protection and preservation of all non-military classified matters concerning the internal security of Nigeria; and (c) such other responsibilities affecting internal security within Nigeria as the National Assembly or the President, as the case may be, may deem necessary. Hence, the SSS has no business raiding people's homes over mere allegations or suspicions of fraud. That is what the EFCC and Police are empowered to do through laid down procedures. Except and only if these judges have links with threats to national security then the SSS utterly acted Ultra Vires.

Now even if the SSS were so empowered the law on searching and arresting also was not followed. But then how does one follow the law to do illegitimate acts? The requirement of the law is that a person(s) seeking to search a premises must first be identified in person and numbers and equally searched by the owner or adult occupant of the premises before he or they may proceed with the search still in the company of the adult occupant. But the Gestapo style with which the SSS carried out their action violated all of these. The import and purport of this is that the so called monies recovered from these homes may jolly well have been planted by the same SSS to blackmail their victims and justify their commando rampage! In essence, their action is nothing more than mere Burglary and Kidnapping! Also to be considered in this light is the right to personal life and property of the victims as guaranteed in section 34 of the 1999 constitution.

Similarly, it is without question that the constitution in sections 4, 5 & 6 clearly defines the three arms of government which the Judiciary is one and has hitherto lived up to its constitutional expectations where its disciplinary machinery known as the National Judicial Council (NJC) has not failed to discipline judges duly like it recently sacked the chief judge of Enugu state. And it is after this that the regular trial is proceeded with against the person who thereafter is tried under the status of "former judge." That is how military officers are first dismissed through court Marshall before being prosecuted in regular courts and Police Officers dismissed through Orderly Room before they are tried in regular courts. Perhaps I should speak like a reasonable man:

So the SSS raided homes of judges at night and came up with over N300m evidence? The question is when did they count the money? Did they storm the homes with counting machines? It takes almost a whole day to count N100 million Naira with a counting machine in a bank at least I have personally witnessed four people counting ordinary 23 Million Naira in over 5 hours with the use of counting machine in a bank. So how did the SSS within 2/3 hours of raiding and rampaging quickly count over N300m at night? In Port Harcourt they claimed they were resisted from entering Justice Liman's home yet they knew how much was inside the house they never entered. Meanwhile, the said justice has come out to state categorically that it was not his house but his neighbor's house that they attempted to raid which confirms Gov. Nyesom Wike's sarcasm that he didn't know which judge was living in the house they attempted to raid when he came out to arrest the situation as the chief security officer of the state. The man claims he was actually informed by his neighbour in house 34 whom they were threatening to raid and he watched them from his window in House 33 on the same street. Unbelievable! This means that the DSS went to a wrong house and were still able to discover $2m in the wrong house! Such inefficiency! Such incompetence! What a food for thought!

Now I speak as a politician: The Chief of Army Staff Lt. General Buratai has recently been cleared by CCB for owning properties in Dubai worth $1.5m because he filled a form claiming the properties belong to his spouse but Dame Patience Jonathan who rose in the ranks of civil service to permanent secretary and was wife of a Deputy Governor, Governor, Vice President and President for five years cannot own properties undeserving of the eyes of EFCC. And nobody is asking what work Mrs Buratai does to own such properties in Dubai?


The panel of enquiry set up by the government of River state last year indicted former Gov. Amaechi of N53b loot of state reserve fund stolen between 2013 & 2014 yet the FG went ahead to appoint him minister. Justice Piginda while presiding over River state governorship electoral tribunal revealed the DSS intimidated and attempted to bribe him but he declined and was replaced only for Ambrosa who replaced him to deliver the very judgement he refused to give in exchange for the bribe. Thank God the judgement was overturned. But nobody is investigating Ambrosa and others. It is equally imperative to note that justice Dimgba one of the raided judges recently gave a decision against the continued detention of a retired Air Commodore, Mohammed Umar who was arrested following allegations of fraud, illegal possession of firearms and abuse of trust and granted him bail with a bond of N100 million. Justice Dimgba had in his ruling ordered the SSS to release Mr. Umar or risk being committed by his court. Unfortunately, the SSS failed to obey the order and continued to hold Mr. Umar. But they did not fail to raid Dimgba's home.

It is also very important to note that Justice Adeniyi Ademola is the judge of the Federal High Court in Abuja, who insisted that the secret trial of Dasuki is unconstitutional and gave the order that it is mandatory for a defendant in a criminal matter to be physically present in court at every stage of the prosecution except where the presence of an accused is excused by court for clear reasons. We are all aware of PMB's disposition to Dasuki and the idea of granting him bail. Justice Ngwuta also on the other hand is said to have been very vocal in the Ekiti Governorship election case where he delivered the lead judgment in the disputed governorship election in Ekiti State, between the APC and Governor Ayo Fayose upholding the earlier decisions of the Court of Appeal and the Ekiti State Governorship election tribunal, which had both ruled that the petition challenging Fayose’s victory lacked merit. So, what we have today is mere political intimidation of the judiciary to follow the body movement of the presidency and this is more so considering the proclivities of Governorship Electoral Tribunal over the just concluded Elections in Edo state where APC mysteriously won courtesy of N2m doled out to INEC officers to change results in favour of APC and DSS is yet to raid their homes.

Suffice it to observe also that the present D.G of the infamous SSS was the chairman of APC intelligence team during the last election campaign- a role which earned him the recall from retirement to become the D.G of SSS. Now he goes about harassing everybody suspected to be against APC! Imagine the loyalty! Now, I speak as an Akwa Ibom Son. Justice Okoro is from akwa ibom state and unfortunately the only one we have managed to have at the level of the Supreme Court in the past 40 years. He was a lawyer, then a magistrate, then a judge of the high court before he was promoted to court of appeal and is now at the Supreme Court and according to the SSS such a man cannot be rich?! They claim they raided his home and found €1000 and about N4m. They want us to believe he collected it as bribe? That is if truly the money was his. Perhaps, we should raid Amaechi's House, or Daura's or The I.G's and even Zarha Buhari's house let's see how much we can find there.

Alas! Permit me to speak as a skeptic here: Seven justices sat over the governorship election tribunal appeal at the Supreme Court where the present chief judge and Justice Onoghen (CJN hopeful) were part of. So we are talking about almost 21 justices across board. Meanwhile, Okoro didn't seat over any of these cases and is being accused of collecting money to influence the judgments. So whatever happens to the rest justices? Assuming that Okoro sat in any of the cases still only two justices make dissenting judgement. So he couldn't reasonably be the man to catch let alone beating him black and blue. A gesture Boko Haram suspects never get. Could this be a plan to push out southern justices from the hierarchy deserving of the position of the Chief Justice of the Federation? I still remember of Justice Udo Udoma was sent to Gambia when he was due as CJN, I do remember how Karibi Whyte was equally sent out of this country for some flimsy assignment.

So are Onighen JSC and others from the south safe now that we have at least three most senior justices in the hierarchy from the south? Let me now speak as a philosopher. It was Ellie Wiesel who warned that "there may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." So now that the FG has by Executive Terrorism decided to molest custodians of the hope of the common man in the name of fighting corruption by selective victimization no matter how noble their claims may appeal it is overwhelmed by the ignobility of their actions. When an executive arm decides to act capriciously with total disregard for rule of law it intrinsically retunes our social contract to what Thomas Hobbes referred to as "life in the pre-societal days..." where "might" in the words of Thrasymacchus makes "right"- a survival of the fittest.

Now, where is the wisdom of the staré decisis in Military Governor of Lagos State & Ors v Ojukwu that "where there is rule of law self help takes the back seat." But, the presidential aide on prosecution Mr. Okoi Obono Obla unwittingly let the cat out of the bag during his interview on Channel T.V this morning when he confessed "we are looking for the N30b that left the coffers of Rivers State between October and December 2015 and everybody knows when the Supreme Court judgement was delivered" This means that the FG knows what they are looking for but since the law will not let them have their way they decided to do it their way. Ironically, it was the same law that he used to avoid presenting his certificate before contesting for president that he is now paying back with a bad coin.

First, it was individual state governments, then the legislature, then the press, now it is the judiciary. Who knows what and who next?

Perhaps now that the law becomes helpless before the people the people are left with one choice. Self help! Is Buhari's ignorance, stupidity, incompetence and cluelessness taking Nigeria back to John Locke's state of nature? Well, since they want to take the laws into their hands I hope those hands of theirs are big and strong enough for the law and us.
Okpo Ewa Edmund is a lawyer, arbitrator and literati presently serving as supervisor for tourism in. Okobo LGA, Akwa Ibom State. DSS are welcome to raid my home
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NAIRA EXCHANGE RATE
vs AFRICAN COUNTRIES:
South Africa: Rand 1 = 13 Naira

Angola: 1 kwanza = 2 Naira

Botswana: 1 Pula = 18 Naira

Cape Verde: 1 Escudo = 2 Naira

Algeria: 1 Dinar = 2 Naira

Egypt: 1 Pound = 25 Naira

Eritrea: 1 Nakata = 13 Naira

Ethiopia: 1 Birr = 9 Naira

Ghana: 1 Cedi = 50 Naira

Gambia 1 Dalasi = 5 Naira

Kenya: 1 shilling = 3 Naira

Liberia: 1 Dinar = 4 Naira

Lesotho: 1 Loti = 14 Naira

Libya: 1 Dinar = 146 Naira

Morrocco: 1 Dirham = 146 Naira

Madagascar: 1 Ariary = 4 Naira

Mauritius: 1 Rupee = 6 Naira

Malawi: 1 kwacha = 11 Naira


Mozambique: 1 Metical = 4 Naira

Namibia: 1 Dollar = 12 Naira

Seychelles: 1 Rupee = 12 Naira

Sudan: 1 pound = 32 Naira

Swaziland: 1 Lilangeri = 13 Naira

Tunisia: 1 Dinar = 100 Naira

Zambia: 1 kwacha = 18 Naira

Even the worst economies of Africa now
have more valuable currencies than us.

As at today $1 = N425.

8 months ago it was N200.

N1,000,000 is less than $2,300

Sai Buhari!!!

In my opinion, the remuneration of political office holders in Nigeria should be directly benchmarked against economic performance indices of the country. Where the country does well, then they get a bonus, where economy shrinks, they take a paycut. But at all times, whether the economy does well or not, their remuneration must be pegged at a certain threshold against the Gross Domestic Product ("GDP" of the country. We all agree that in the private sector, only a very stupid and inexperienced entrepreneur would pay jumbo salaries to employees during a dry spell or recession in business. We have been witness to that fact that only recently several people have lost their jobs in the private sector, and many more have taken pay cuts, because the general economic outlook is not good. So what is wrong with Government, and why can't it be run as a business focused on profitability for the common good? As we slide into recession as a country, you must remember how we hit rock bottom in the first place. It's a lesson of history we cannot take for granted. Consider the behemoth cash-munching monster we created and called the National Assembly for example. This creature of our creation is comprised of 109 "Distinguished" Senators and 360 "Honorable" members of the House of Reps. Till this very day, nobody knows the exact figure these gentlemen take home every month. America thought they were adept at keeping their nuclear secrets classified until they learnt of the absolute opaque and impenetrable secretiveness with which the Nigerian lawmakers conceal their monthly loot. However, by some stroke of good fortune, someone was able to access some sparse information in this regard, back in 2013. It was then we learnt, for the first time, that our lawmakers were about the highest paid in the world. And yes, they are paid better than lawmakers in countries like USA, UK, France, Saudi Arabia etc. As have been reported, whereas a Senator in US earns $174,000 a year, his counterpart in the UK earns $64,000 per annum. The almighty, stinkingly rich, Saudi Arabia pays $64,000 to each member of its parliament per annum too. As you well know, Sweden has one of the highest standards of living in the world. But their legislators are content to go home with $7,707 per month. Now, these are some of the wealthiest countries in the world. When these countries sent rockets to space, our fathers were still attending colonial meetings on bicycles to discuss independence. These countries had invented vehicles and attained all sorts of engineering feats known to civilisation when we were still selling our children to slave traders in exchange for mirrors, salt and other curiosities of the time. What I mean to say is that these countries are light years away from Nigeria, in everything except perhaps religiosity, which has become our primary industry; yet they think it wise to pinch pennies, and leave something behind so that tomorrow's children can have a future. Now consider this: In Nigeria, a Senator goes home, officially, with $1,7Million a year as salary!! His friend in the House of Reps, smiles home with $1.45Million. No other country of the world even comes close to these figures. The closest country to Nigeria is Kenya, but again Kenya is even a distant second because wages of a Nigerian lawmaker is 52% higher than that of Kenya. There is no contest there even. But in advanced countries, before they peg remunerations for politicians, they have to seriously consider things like GDP and minimum wage. The politicians salary must not be seen as scandalously higher than the minimum wage of an ordinary citizen. So in the UK, for example, where the minimum wage is $1,883 (calculating in dollars), the parliamentarian gets $ 8,686 as his remuneration. In the US, the minimum wage is $1,257, a member of Congress is paid $15,080 a month. Not too bad, you would say. But the good feeling is greater when you compare this earning to UK's GDP. The legislator's earning in the UK is only 2 times higher than the GDP per capita. What this means is that if you take the wealth UK makes in a year and divide it among everybody in UK, the UK parliamentarian will only get 2 times higher than everybody else. At $ 201,200 per annum, Australia's lawmakers earnings are one of the highest in the civilised world. However, this becomes understandable when you consider that this figure is just 3 times higher than the Australia's GDP per capita. Meaning that everybody is happy with what they earn, regardless. That is how politician's earning is viewed and benchmarked in advanced countries. Same for America. But not in Nigeria. You can't dare insult a "Distinguished" Senator by giving just twice of what everybody earns. No. The gulf or schism between the Senator and the man who voted him in must have some noticeable distinction too. In the apocryphal Bible re-written for Nigerians, the story is the other way round: it is the rich senator that must be in Abraham's bosom in paradise, floating from cloud to cloud, complete with a bottle of champagne in hand, while the rest of us beg from hades for a drop of water on our patched tongues. But our dear Senator is unable to help, because, lest i forget, a deep ravine must separate us in terms of our earnings and the comforts of life. Yes, this is how the story must be told, for our Senators cannot feel distinguished any other way. So, in keeping with our "Nigerianness", what our Senators earn is 116 times higher than the GDP of Nigeria per capita!! Can you believe that? Meanwhile, the minimum wage in Nigeria is N18,000, I suppose. Even then, not every State is paying this paltry sum. But taking even the base sum of N18,000 as our example, do you know that it will take the average Nigerian worker, who is paid the minimum wage, at least 1,638 years to earn what a Nigerian Senator earns in just one year? Yet everybody goes about their normal business as though there is no cause for civil protest. No wonder we were daubed "the happiest people in the world" because half of these things don't happen anywhere else before the people would demand the REAL change. (of course you know why i added "REAL" to the change!!) At $7,707 a month, do you realise that it will take a Swedish lawmaker 12 years to earn what a Nigerian Senator officially earns in a month? You better believe it, a Nigerian Senator earns 8 times more than what is paid to his American counterpart. Between just 4-6 months he would have earned what his UK counterpart would get in a year. Meanwhile, civil servants in this same country go home every month, if salaries are paid at all, with no more than between $46 to $200. In Abuja, that same month, the Senate President is officially paid N84Million, as salary. His deputy gets N50Million. Every month. For the life of me, what are they doing that commands this sort of salaries? Are they hewing wood in Abuja? Now in between, they also have an invention called "standing committees" where members rather prefer to seat (no pun intended). Of course it's all about the money. It is reported that there are 54 committees and that each of these committees receive a monthly imprest of between N648Million and N972Million. Multiply these figures by 54 and see for yourself what you would be confronted with, every month. Did you also know that our lawmakers are paid an allowance called "hardship allowance"? It must be quite hard to attend lawmaking sessions, which they rarely attend, that you need to be paid an allowance, besides your basic salary, to ameliorate the hardship. And if you must know, hardship allowance constitutes 50% of their basic salary. Then there is Newspaper allowance of N1.2Million every month. Laughable, isn't it? Now, Thisday is about the most expensive Newspaper at N300 per copy. Just how many newspapers would they be reading in a month with N1.2Million? This so-called Newspaper allowance is in fact what some people don't earn in a year as their full salary. Again, there is the Severance Gratuity for lawmakers which is set at 300% of the basic salary, which in most cases comes to N7.4Million. This particular one is an insult to the intelligence of Nigerians. It is quite unbelievable that these fellows stay in the legislature for only 4 years and get this mind-boggling sum as gratuity, meanwhile, our fathers and mothers who do the actual backbreaking civil service work for 35 years or more, will get less. In truth, these fellows have raped, and are continuing to rape, Nigeria from every possible angle. But of course we know that with all the deals, actual thievery, padding and what not, the actual figures that lawmakers earn in Nigeria is phenomenal. The figures above becomes child's play. But we will never know, until someone is cheated or the sharing formula becomes unfavorable to one party. Nigeria really has to wake up. It is usually said that instead of giving politicians the keys to a city it might be better to change the locks. In our own case, not only have we given them the keys to the city, we posted the to the treasury gates as sentry. Now we need a guard to guard the guardian. We need a new constitution that would specify the remuneration of political office holders and benchmark their earnings against the state of the economy. It is ungodly for a politician to earn 116 times more than the GDP of a country or 10,000 times the minimum wage!! The remuneration of political officeholders must be made a constitutional matter for which there can be no variation unless the constitution is amended. In any event, what do we need two federal legislative houses for? Presently, it is alleged that over 25% of the entire budget of the country is used to service the legislative arm of government alone, due to its sheer size. So how can the country ever develop? Are you then surprise that we are going into recession, having spent what would have been our buffer on over-bloated recurrent overheads? It was for these sorts of reasons that New Zealand and Denmark, both of which previously had two legislative houses, abolished one chamber and retained only one chamber. Even Sweden had to merge its two legislative houses into one, to save cost. These country are now doing very well presently. We have to bite the bullet and reshape the country. We all know that whatever is stolen is the House of Reps will be "re-stolen" a thousand times in the Senate. Why do we duplicate evil when we can barely contend with one? There is absolutely no duty that is discharged in the National Assembly that cannot be conveniently discharged by one legislative house. We cannot afford to retain these two houses for one more day. As Nigeria slides into recession, we should never forget that Nigerians killed Nigeria. But if we do survive the tough times ahead and still emerge as a single unit, Nigeria would of a necessity have to be restructured. This present structure is clearly unsustainable. My name is Fidel Albert and # IStandForARestructuredNigeria !

Sibrah:
So she shouldn't raise alarm because it happened under Jonathan and PDP again. Your reasoning ehn . . . Very dàft!

Did u read this?
She said that although the Export
Grant scheme was stopped by the
previous administration due to
unprecedented abuse, the current
government upheld the suspension
in order to undertake a critical
review of the policy.

sarrki:
Nothing dey say about the last government that I won't believe

If u were not blinded by hate, u wouldn't miss the statement below:

The most corrupt government in the history of Nigeria

She said that although the Export
Grant scheme was stopped by the
previous administration due to
unprecedented abuse, the current
government upheld the suspension
in order to undertake a critical
review of the policy.

louqas:
The onus of proof is on you Mr go do your research if you really want to know

Even when the guy u quoted took pains to educate u, pride wouldn't allow u say thank u. pathetic!

louqas:
I don't know . But there is no law that says he can't earn money from other sources legitimately . He can be a director in a company, farm, He can also come from a rich family or even inherit money after he has become a millitary man. The onus is on you to prove he got the money illegitimately or corruptly enriched himself. Or will you say if a son of dangote becomes a soldier he cannot own property in Dubai?

ignoramus!! Some of u kids refused to seek knowledge and u keep showing ur ignorance every where u go. continue.

If Buhari's bank sponsors his election with 27 million Naira for his nomination form , it is strategic business and political calculation . But If Fayose's bank sponsors Fayose's election , it is corruption. If Diezani, a former shell top executive, owns a house abroad, it is corruption. But If Buratai, a career military man, owns two houses abroad, it is called money saving skills. If Dangote owes Banks Billions of Naira, it is strategic business acumen. But If Ben Bruce does same, it is corrupt bad debt and his business must close down. If Jonathan keeps 9 presidential jets, it is corruption and callousness, but If Buhari keeps same 9 presidential jets, its a sign that he means well for the people! Welcome to Buhari's Animal farm

gigabyte13:
Are you a lawyer? No evidence you say, so the EFCC should come and show you and your villagers the court papers? Let fayose take the EFCC to court if his right is trampled on and stop wailing on his behalf.



And for your info, fayose is just being investigated not prosecuted. Time for prosecution will follow when his immunity expires.



So he has such huge amount of money in the bank and cant pay salaries. What a THIEF 2

Having already established that under the
law,the EFCC MUST approach the court
before it can validly freeze the account of
anybody, the next issue is whether the
Commission can approach the court for
an application to freeze Fayose's account.
The answer to this question is an
emphatic "no".
We base our answer on the constitutional
immunity granted Fayose by sec 308 of
the current constitution of Nigeria.
The effect of that immunity is that Fayose,
as long as he remains governor, can not
be taken to court for any reason
whatsoever. The immunity offers
complete protection from court cases -
whether civil or criminal.
What this means is that no person,
including the EFCC, can approach any
court in Nigeria seeking any relief - civil or
criminal - against Fayose in his personal
capacity. You can not take Fayose to court
and the dilemma is : You can not freeze
Fayose's account without taking Fayose to
court.
It should be noted that this immunity
does not by any means prevent law
enforcement agencies from investigating
Fayose. . He can be investigated. But the
law is that he can not be taken to court as
long as he is a governor. You can
investigate him and take the file of your
investigation to court after he ceases to
be governor.
This means that if part of your
investigation involves approaching the
court to seek a relief against Fayose, then
You are immediately hampered and your
investigation, in that area, has come to an
end.
Whether You like it or not, whether it is
fair or not, that is how the law intends it.
It is called the rule of law. If you don't
like the law, you can go the the National
Assembly to change it. But as long as it is
not repealed, it remains effective and
must be obeyed by every person,
especially agencies of government
created by law.

Deputyvictor:
YES
















iff the citizen is under investigation which has to do with fund?

Do well to support your view with relevant laws.

Feranchek:
I think they do

Not what you think sir. What does the law say?

People are missing the point. The freezing of Governor Fayose's bank account is not an issue of constitutional immunity that he has under the law of Nigeria. It is not an issue of Whether a law enforcement agency can investigate a sitting governor who is conferred with constitutional immunity. The ISSUE IS : Does the EFCC have the power in law to freeze the bank account of a citizen - governor or not-without recourse to a court of law? The answer, in view of section 34(1) of the EFCC Act, is an emphatic "no". The EFCC Act is the law creating and guiding the EFCC. Therefore, the EFCC is a creation of law and must, at all times, act according to law and within the law, else it becomes a rogue agency. By the law stated above, the EFCC does not have any power to freeze the bank account of governor Fayose or any person without FIRST approaching a court of law to request the court to freeze the account. The court may refuse such a request and if so, that would be the end of the matter. It is ONLY when the court approves the request that the EFCC can approach the bank with the court order (not EFCC order) to freeze the account. As at this moment, the EFCC has not shown any evidence that It approached the court of law to freeze the bank account of Fayose. There is no court order served on the bank as mandated by law. The effect, then, is that the EFCC, under Buhari, is a rogue agency which is only interested in attacking the critics and enemies of the president. This should make everyone, irrespective of political and ethnic affiliation, concerned about the obvious erosion of the guiding doctrine of the rule of law under the present administration

The truth is rccg region 14 , which comprises akwa ibom and cross river states, is headed by a blood brother to daddy G.O's wife; and he actually asked members to give accordingly. So why are people trying to refute it?
They just finished pulpit exchange and the pastors were instructed to give out the forms.

Is osho baba also a wailer? shebi buhari's body odor is generating 24hrs electricity?

According to Kemi Adeosun, minister of finance (as reported by Channels Tv yesterday), Buhari spent a whopping 64 billion Naira on foreign trips in the last one year.
And this is what they advertise as 'saving cost'

yes o it has already crashed in my area, just like the price of diesel has been crashing since subsidy was removed years back. Let's celebrate in advance! we will soon buy pms 1litre/40naira.

which version is this?

"We were never contacted by the military for verification of
the girl’s identity before the announcement was made.”
—Chibok parents.
In the next fews days, the government will pick girls from streets and communities In Borno state and pass them off as rescued Chibok girls.
They are desperately looking for what to celebrate on May 29th - their one year anniversary.
They know that there is nothing to celebrate.
Rescued girl, Serah Luka, not on our list – Chibok parents
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