It was a fight long expected.
However, no one expected the
clash of egos between the
Governor Ibikunle Amosun and
Aremo Segun Osoba led factions
of the party to manifest so early
in the life of the newly registered
All Progressives Congress, APC.

The absence of Osoba, all three
senators and majority of the
members of the House of
Representatives on the APC ticket
at the formal inauguration of the
new party recently in Abeokuta,
was a major blow to the unity of
the newly emerged party.

While Amosun and many of his
supporters sang and danced
away at the Alake Palace ground
on that day, Osoba and many of
his followers including all three
senators it was learnt watched
the proceedings on television.
They were definitely not
bemused.

They couldn’t have. Just three
years ago they were the ones
that invited Governor Amosun
into the Action Congress of
Nigeria, ACN, the party that is the
mainstay of the APC in Ogun
State. Amosun before then was
in the defunct All Nigeria Peoples
Party, ANPP and was the main
tree and he like Osoba and
others knew that a tree could not
make the forest they needed to
crowd out the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP.

Amosun’s entry into the ACN was,
however, laced with crisis as he
was accepted almost alone and
all other prominent associates
who had political ambitions for
the Senate and the House of
Representatives were dropped.
While he was easily crowned as
the ACN gubernatorial candidate,
his associates were dropped.
Even his deputy, was imposed on
him. It was the humble pie that
Amosun took, but those who
know him, knew that he was
bound to take his pound of flesh.

Genesis of the squabble
The internal wrangling rocking
the party began shortly after it
was clear that Amosun, who was
a member of the defunct All
Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP,
was going to be hand-picked as
Ogun ACN governorship ahead of
the 2011 election.
In fact, his choice as the party’s
standard bearer was greeted
with violence as the party
secretariat located along Abiola
Way in Abeokuta was destroyed.
Some leaders of the party had to
run for a cover as supporters of
other aspirants felt cheated by
the arrangement

The trouble became bigger when
the governor, reportedly, arm-
twisted the party leaders in the
nomination of his commissioners
when he jettisoned the party’s
list.

Osoba and Amosun

Over time, the crisis seemed to
have been bottled until the issue
of nomination of local
government chairmen,
which also went in favour of the
governor and thus
polarised the party the more.
Then, the party was
sharply divided into two: the ACN
and Senator Ibikunle Amosun,
SIA.

For the council polls, the party’s
nominees were jettisoned for
SIA’s candidate by the State
Independent Electoral
Commission, which led to
defection of many aggrieved
members to other parties
including the Preoples
Democratic Party, PDP and Labour
Party.
It was further gathered that,
what angered SIA camp against
the other party believed to be
loyal to Osoba was that his camp
was stripped almost naked in the
nomination of lawmakers
especially at the Federal level.
The Osoba camp produced all the
nine Federal lawmakers but one
was defeated at the election by
PPN candidate from Imeko.

Also, SIA was said to have felt
cheated and humiliated with the
paltry slots offered him at the
state House of Assembly as his
camp was given 10 out of the 26
seats and Osoba camp also got
the speaker’s seat. The Assembly
has six opposition members
leaving 20 seats for the ACN.
Apparently irked by the
arrangement, the SIA camp hit
back at the Osoba camp.
He swapped the position of
deputy speaker which had been
given to a female lawmaker from
Ifo 11, Khadihat Adele Oladipo, to
his loyalist, Tola Banjo from
Ijebu-Ode constituency.
Ever since, relations between
SIA and other federal lawmakers
can be likened to that of cat and
mouse.

Effects and threats
To show their grievances, all the
Federal lawmakers stayed away
from the launch of APC in Ogun
State.
Dramatically, all of
them reportedly gathered in the
Lagos home of their leader
where they watched the
programme on the state-owned
television.
Interestingly, 24 hours after the
launch of the party, the posters
of another governorship
aspirant, believed to have been
sponsored by the Osoba
camp, flooded major places in
the state capital.
The speculation that Amosun
might have been dumped by the
party played itself out as the
posters of Fola Adeola, former
running mate of ACN
Presidential candidate in the
2011 election; Nuhu Ribadu, was
sighted at strategic places in the
state capital.
But, dramatically, some people
believed to be loyalists of
Amosun swiftly removed all the
posters, which they considered
as an affront against the sitting
governor.

With this development, a seed of
destruction seems to have been
sowed right from the birth of the
new party in Ogun State
following the
several endorsements of
Governor Amosun for second
term in office.

Although, it is at the stage of
silent war but political observers
liken the situation to keeping a
keg of gun powder within the
house which only needs a little
spark to explode

They also maintained that “the
only lesson that has been learnt
from history is that man does not
learn from history”. One would
have expected that APC would
have learnt from the bitter lesson
of the PDP in the state whose
demise started as an internal
wrangling before it blossomed
into a deadly canker worm that
spelt doom for the then ruling
party in the state.

According to some political
watchers in the state, Amosun
has demonstrated amiable
virtues such as gentility
and understanding before he
later became power drunk.

They further said that no matter
the amount of power he
possessed he could not afford to
dismantle the structure that
brought him to power. “It is
interesting to have powers like a
lion but it is tyrannical to use it
like a lion”, they concluded.

The other camp is said to be
suffering from ego which,
according to political watchers
has made it difficult for them to
respect their governor who is
also their leader.

Amosun, according to them,
boosted their chances in the last
general election as some of them
were little known in the state.
They take the issue of the
candidates that defeated ex-
Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Dimeji
Bankole and daughter of former
President Olusegun Obasanjo,
Iyabo, as part of a case study.
However, the crisis is taking
toll on the party’s chances ahead
of the 2015 general election. It
may suffer incalculable losses at
the polls if it did resolve the
matter.
Reacting to Amosun’s style of
governance by Amosun, Senator
Gbenga Kaka who represents
Ogun East said the party was
under threat.
He explained the nature of the
threat as “threat of none
inclusiveness. In fact, some
members of ACN are already
warming up to leave for the
Labour Party (LP). They are
planning to abandon the party
because the administration in
the state is running a non-
inclusive administration and they
are disenchanted with it.”
Also speaking on the
crisis, a member of House of
Representatives, representing
Ifo-Ewekoro Federal
Constituency, Adekunle
Adeyemi has condemned the
purported endorsement of
Governor Amosun by a faction of
the party, describing it as a
nullity.
He insisted that the endorsement
by former local government
chairmen of the defunct ACN in
the state must be repeated with
the approval of Chief Osoba,
whom he described as a national
leader of the party.
He said: “Now that we are in APC,
I think the endorsement has to
be done again and any
endorsement done without the
approval of our leader, Chief
Segue Osoba is not an
endorsement.
Though the issue of
endorsement is not in our
constitution, it is no crime for
anybody to be ambitious. There
is freedom of ambition and
freedom of speech”.

http:// www.vanguardngr.
com/2013/08/ ogun-apc-its-fig
ht-to-finish/

Adeleke Olurunnimbe Mamora
(born 16 February 1953) was
elected Senator for the Lagos East
constituency of Lagos State,
Nigeria, taking office on 29 May
2007. He is a member of the
Action Congress (AC).

Mamora was born on 16 February
1953. He obtained a B.Sc, Health
Sciences, Bachelor of Medicine
and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)
University of Ife, Ile-Ife and
became a Health Practitioner. He
was Medical Director of a Medical
Centre (1987 - 1998), and a
Company Medical Adviser (1988 -
1992).

Mamora was a National Delegate
for the National Republican
Convention (NRC) in 1990, and
Secretary, Lagos East of the United
Nigeria Congress Party (UNCP) in
1998. He was elected to the Lagos
State House of Assembly in 1999
and was appointed Speaker. He
was Chairman of the Conference
of Speakers (2000 - 2001).
Mamora was elected to the Senate
in April 2003 and reelected in
2007. He was also a member of
the Economic Community of West
African States (ECOWAS)
Parliament (2003 - 2006). In 2003
he was appointed chairman of
the Senate Committee on Ethics,
Privileges and Public Petitions.

After resuming his seat in the
Senate in 2007 he was appointed
to committees on Upstream
Petroleum Resources, Selection
Committee, Health and Federal
Character & Inter-Governmen t
Affairs. In a mid-term evaluation
of Senators in May 2009, ThisDay
noted that he had sponsored bills
on Tenure of Office, Surgeon-
General of Nigeria and repeal
and amendment of the Tobacco
Control Act. He sponsored or co-
sponsored motions including one
to amend Senate rule 111 to bring
it into conformity with the
Constitution of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria. Mamora was
described as a master of
parliamentary procedures.

Ogun State is on the verge of
history. I have heard your hues
and cries during my recent
consultation in Ogun State. We
may not have done as we
promised under the ACN
government in Ogun State but i
am capable of bringing the
needed expertise and re-
engineering required for good
governance. To this effect, i will
bring about the convergence of
egg heads with tested democratic
values irrespective of party
affiliation, this is with a view to
help turnaround the fortunes of
our beautiful bride, Ogun State.

I ask every member of our newly
registered party APC and indeed
all Ogun State sons and daughters
to join us as we seek to bring
genuine and real change to Ogun
State under my government, your
government, by the special Grace
of God in 2015.

.

The starkest evidence yet of
Nigeria’s despairing
circumstances could be glimpsed
in the fact that Minna and
Abeokuta have become major
destinations for a certain kind of
political pilgrim.

In the last two weeks, a number
of governors from the northern
part of Nigeria have visited two
former Nigerian rulers, General
Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida
(ret.) in Minna, and former
President Olusegun Obasanjo in
Abeokuta. Both pilgrimages were
seen, above all, as part of the
tactical maneuvers for the 2015
elections.

Yet, that the governors consider
Mr. Babangida and Mr. Obasanjo
worthy of consultation or
enlistment speaks to the
bankruptcy of their – and
Nigeria’s – project. Babangida and
Obasanjo are alike in several vital
respects. They’re big-time authors
of Nigeria’s misfortune, vectors of
the political, social and economic
crises in which the country is
mired, and eloquent examples of
failed leaders.

What does it mean, then, that all
political roads are leading to both
men’s doors? In a few words, that
Nigeria is in big, big trouble – if
not altogether doomed. The
voyage to the hearths of the two
men is akin to trusting that a
problem is the solution.

To cast both men in negative light
is not to suggest, however, that
anybody who came before and
after them was stellar. No, Nigeria
has been luckless in its leadership
and, in fact, in the quality of its
broader elite. But Babangida and
Obasanjo found ways to intensify
Nigeria’s malaise, their policies
and style helping to amplify and
entrench some of the most
debilitating symptoms of a sick,
floundering country.

Take Babangida. He became
Nigeria’s military ruler in 1985,
unseating the duo of Generals
Muhammadu Buhari and Tunde
Idiagbon that had imposed a
plastic version of discipline on
Nigerians. A charismatic man with
a ready, gap-toothed smile, Mr.
Babangida seemed the perfect
corrective to Buhari’s (and
Idiagbon’s) dour, cheerless mien.
Before long, however, it dawned
on Nigerians that real leadership
demanded much more than
personal charms.

It may well be the case that the
Structural Adjustment Program
(SAP), the centerpiece of Mr.
Babangida’s economic policy, was
both inevitable and the perfect
panacea for the country’s
indolent, over-regulated economy.
What was undeniable, however, is
that SAP almost overnight zapped
Nigeria’s fledging middle class out
of existence, creating two
veritable classes: the opulently
wealthy and the desperately
wretched.

It was a thoroughly painful
adjustment, an era in which civil
servants could not afford to buy
decent cars and some lecturers
took to driving cabs in their spare
time. Through it all, Mr. Babangida
preached patience, assuring us
that the gains of policy awaited us
at the end of the transition.

It would have been marvelous if
he adopted his own counsel. The
evidence, clearly, is that he did
not. While Nigerians writhed in
pain and did their inventive best
to scrape through harsh times,
their ruler was in plain view
accumulating riches for himself,
acquiring a hilltop mansion that
would provoke an Arab oil sheik
into fits of envy, and amassing a
huge cache of cash. In other
words, the man who asked the
rest of us to accept privation for a
period of time did not have the
discipline – the vision and
temperament – to take his own
bitter pill.

Babangida compounded his awful
statecraft when he announced an
ostensible program to return
Nigeria to a liberal democratic
culture. Unwilling to contemplate
his eventual withdrawal from
power, he turned the time-table
for democratic transition into an
expensive, deceptive scheme. In
the day, he pretended to be
committed to ending military rule;
at night, he and his cohorts
plotted to sabotage the process –
the better to perpetuate himself in
office. The culmination of this
charade came in Mr. Babangida’s
annulment of the June 12, 1993
presidential election.

That remains a defining part of
Babangida’s legacy. In some ways,
Nigeria is still reeling from the
aftermath of that act of perfidy

And then there’s Obasanjo. This
man may well be the luckiest
Nigerian, alive or dead. Born into
poverty, his childhood ambition
was to be a roadside mechanic.
Instead, he found his way into the
military, rose to be a general, and
made two tours as Nigeria’s ruler
– once as a military dictator, the
other time as an “elected”
president. His “election” in 1999
completed a script that had slight
echoes of the experience of
Nelson Mandela, the South Africa
sage who commands near-
universal admiration. Mr.
Obasanjo had emerged from
(Abacha’s) prison to become
Nigeria’s president.

Gifted with a unique opportunity
to become a true hero, Mr.
Obasanjo seemed determined,
instead, to surpass Mr. Babangida
in all the trivial ways. He may have
set up two anti-corruption
agencies, but his administration
was notorious as an enabler of
graft and money laundering. He
exhibited a shocking propensity
to dine with and empower all
manner of shady characters, the
exceptions being those who were
reluctant to massage his imperial
ego. For all the speeches he read
on accountability and
transparency, he ran a shop
where – under his very gaze – his
confidants and associates stole
Nigeria blind.

As I stated, Obasanjo’s one
obsession seemed to be to best
Babangida in some egoistic game.
He dwarfed his rival by becoming,
by far, the person with the
longest tenure as president. He
and his coterie acquired enough
riches to tower over the man
from Minna and his crowd. A slave
to imitation, he acquired his own
hilltop mansion in Abeokuta.

Obasanjo’s gravest crime was not
that he was a mediocre leader. In
the end, mediocrity in a leader is
forgivable. His greatest blemish
was to participate, actively and
fervently, in the devaluation of
Nigeria and the debasement of
the Presidency. How did he do so?
He empowered rustics like the late
Lamidi Adedibu and Chris Uba to
use police contingents to sack or
hijack two governors. He belittled
the judiciary by ignoring judicial
verdicts that went against his
government. He squandered cash
in the neighborhood of $10-16
billion on a scam announced as a
mission to offer Nigerians
“regular, uninterrupted power
supply.” He looked the other way
– and compelled the anti-
corruption agencies to do the
same – when his political friends
pillaged public funds. He
weakened the National Assembly
by constantly meddling in its
affairs, including dictating who
their leaders must be.

Instead of lending himself to the
goal of strengthening democratic
values, Obasanjo became an
apostle of do-or-die, a zestful
rigger of elections. Drunk with
power, he was willing to gut the
Nigerian constitution in a bid to
grant himself a third term in office
– and a virtual life presidency. As
Nigerians groaned for
infrastructure and livable wages,
Mr. Obasanjo mindlessly sank
billions in scarce funds to bribe
his way to a third term – all the
while denying that he wanted to
stay on. Denied his illicit third term
dream, he imposed Umaru
Yar’Adua, a feeble, dying man, and
Goodluck Jonathan, a nondescript
governor, as the PDP’s ticket – and
then imposed them on Nigeria

This architect of Nigeria’s
misfortune appears to cherish
some Nigerians’ proclamation that
he was a much better “leader”
than, say, President Jonathan.
Such flattery proceeds from a
short memory as well as a
profound misreading of
Obasanjo’s role in misshaping our
present. Properly understood,
Yar’Adua and Jonathan are part
and parcel of Obasanjo’s legacy. If
the current president’s
performance is subpar, perhaps
we should ask Obasanjo, again,
why he guaranteed to us that
he’d chosen the perfect team to
take over from him.

In a society where leaders are
held to strenuous standards,
neither Babangida nor Obasanjo
would be able to show his face in
public. That some northern
governors – and other politicians
– are flocking to both men’s
separate hilltop is a clear sign that
Nigeria will remain a mess for a
while to come.

A Peoples Democratic Party
stalwart in Ogun State, Mr.
Buruji Kashamu, has described
the alleged move by former
Governor Gbenga Daniel to
defect to the Labour Party as a
back-door attempt to return to
power.

This came as a former Ekiti
State Governor, Ayo Fayose,
declared that the crisis rocking
the PDP would not affect its
chances in the South-West in
the 2015 elections.

Both spoke in Atan, Ijebu
North-East Local Government of
Ogun State on Monday when
over 1,200 Action Congress of
Nigeria members defected to
the PDP.

Kashamu, who criticised
Daniel's alleged plan to join the
LP, described the move as a
scheme against the PDP, which
provided him a platform to
govern Ogun State for the eight
years.

Declaring that Daniel's plan was
to weaken the PDP in the state
ahead of the 2015 poll,
Kashamu predicted that the
move would not work

Kashamu said, "In 2015
elections, there is nothing like
defeat for the PDP. Our party
will wax stronger and stronger.

There is nothing like ACN or
Labour Party. Do not be
deceived by those who are
making noise about Labour
Party. You all know what
happened when they were in
power.

"Their current move is just to
come back to power through
the backdoor. But there is
nothing they can do."

Fayose, who commended
Kashamu for championing the
cause of the PDP in the South-
West, promised that the party
would emerge victorious in the
2015 polls.

Fayose said, "If we have
somebody like Kashamu in
South-West, our opponents
would have to run out of town
before the conduct of any
election."

Criticism trails Ogun employment
policy
Jul 29th, 2013 @ 12:03 am › daily
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By Rotimi Durojaiye, Sylvester
Enoghase, Temidayo Akinsuyi
(Lagos) and Segun Adeleye
(Abeokuta)
Many eminent Nigerians have
condemned the N12,000 levy
imposed on candidates seeking
employment into the Ogun State
civil service by the state
government.
Those who spoke with Daily
Independent condemned the
action of the government, saying
it amounts to further
impoverishment of the poor and
downtrodden in the society.
The state government had on July
15, published an advertisement
asking university graduates to
apply for employment into
professional cadres in its civil
service.
It said in the advertisement
signed by A.O. Adeyemi, a
Permanent Secretary, that a
competitive examination to be
conducted by the Administrative
Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON) is
for entry into the Administrative
Officer, Accountant, Auditor,
Statistician, Registrar of
Cooperatives, Produce Officer,
Commercial Officer, Inspector of
Taxes, Engineer (Civil, Mechanical),
Information Officer, Education
Officer and Town Planning Officer
cadres on relevant entry grade
levels in accordance with the
provisions of schemes of service
in the Ogun State Civil Service.
It is scheduled to begin in August
2013.
Candidates were enjoined to
obtain Guaranty Trust Bank teller
from the Ogun State Civil Service
Commission, Oke-Mosan,
Abeokuta, after payment of non-
refundable examination fee of
N12, 000.00 into Account No.
0032630816.
Renowned constitutional lawyer
and Senior Advocate of Nigeria
(SAN), Itse Sagay, while reacting to
the development, said the state
government through this action
has already blacklisted the
underprivileged in the society
from applying for the vacancies.
He said with the amount being
asked from prospective job
applicants, only those who are
from a good background and
those who already have jobs can
qualify for the emplyment.
“I think it is wrong for the state
government to have done that.
That will further complicate the
problem of the man who is
looking for a job. Where is he
going to get the money from?
“It means only people who are
well-off, or maybe somebody who
already has a job and is looking
for a better one that can apply. So,
I believe it is wrong for the state
government to have done that,”
Sagay said.
Another Lagos based SAN, Ladi
Rotimi-Williams , also took a
swipe at the action of the state
government, saying it is primitive
and should be reconsidered as it
will further compound the
problems of the masses.
“Somebody who is unemployed,
somebody who does not know
where the next meal will come
from, you are now asking him to
bring money for a form. Upon
collection of this form, it is not as
if the applicant is hundred per
cent sure that he will get the job.
“I think the Ogun State
Government should reconsider
their policy. It is primitive and will
further compound the problem of
the downtrodden in the society,”
he said.
To Chairman of the Nigerian Bar
Association (NBA), Ikeja branch,
Monday Onyekachi Ubani, the
action of the Ogun State
Government is disgraceful and
embarrassing, pointing out that it
smirks of exploitation of the
masses.
According to Ubani, it is the
responsibility of government to
provide jobs for the masses and
this should be done without any
form of financial demand from
the applicants.
“If that is true, then it is very
exploitative and very disgraceful
and embarrassing for the Ogun
State Government to do that.
“Are they saying that whoever
pays the money will be assured of
automatic employment in the first
place? So, if you pay the money
and you do not get employment
are they going to refund the
N12,000?”
In his own reaction, constitutional
lawyer, Fred Agbaje, believes that
the Ogun State Government
through the action has turned
itself into a money-making
venture at the expense of the
electorate it is meant to cater for.
While advising prospective
applicants not to pay the
stipulated fees, he said the state
government if not privy to the
sham should issue a statement
distancing itself and also take
disciplinary action against the
agency in charge of the
employment scheme.
Henry Boyo, a renowned
economist, said the action of the
state government is condemnable
and that well-meaning Nigerians
should rise and condemn it in its
totality.
Boyo further argued that it is the
responsibility of government to
create jobs for the citizenry and
not to make the process
cumbersome through collection
of outrageous fees which they
know many applicants will not be
able to afford.
“That is not appropriate. It is the
duty of the government to create
an enabling environment and
make it easy for people to get
jobs. Every normal human being
must be thinking alike on this
issue and that is the action of the
government is callous.
“You don’t have to go to school or
be educated to know that this is a
wrong thing to do by a
government. The action is
condemnable and I implore every
right thinking Nigerian to speak
out against it,” Boyo added.
A university teacher, Francis
Ogbimi, also disapproved the
action, saying the state
government is desperately
looking for money through the
exploitation of the masses.
Describing the N12,000
application fee as outrageous,
Ogbimi said the only solution to
the issue of unemployment in the
country is for the government to
train the graduates and make
them self-dependent in any area
they may find themselves in life.
A former commissioner in the
Ogun State Civil Service
Commission, Semiu Sodipo, also
faulted the charging of N12,000
by the ASCON/Ogun government
on unemployed and already
employed civil servants who are
seeking transfer into the
professional cadre in the service.
Sodipo, who is the Secretary of
the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) in the state, noted that
ASCON was charging between
N2,000 and N3,000 to conduct
the same examination when he
was a commissioner in the same
civil service between 2005 and
2007.
The PDP scribe admitted that the
government was allowed to add
its administrative and logistics to
the charges of ASCON, “but
definitely not this exploitative,
oppressive and cut-throat charges
as being levied.”
In its reaction, Labour Party (LP) in
the state described the
development as “sin against
humanity and God.”
Secretary of the party in the state,
Olaposi Sunday, in an interview
said “the electorate are wiser and
would react appropriately when
the time comes.”
However, labour union in Ogun
State has kept sealed lips on the
matter.
Chairman of the Nigeria Labour
Congress (NLC) in the state, Akeem
Ambali, neither picked his calls
nor responded to the SMS sent to
his line.
But the NLC and Trade Union
Congress (TUC) at the national
level have both condemned the
action of the Ogun State
Government.
They noted the dangers of
government trying to generate
revenue by selling employment
forms to unemployed applicants
in the state.
General Secretary of the NLC , Chris
Uyot, criticised the action,
insisting that the government
should focus on the
enthronement of transparency
and time-honoured values of
service to the people of the state,
rather than having an overriding
interest on how much money to
be saved from selling examination
forms to the unemployed.
In the same vein, Secretary
General of the TUC, Musa Lawal,
noted that “the sale of forms to
unemployed youths seeking
employment into public service in
Ogun State shows that the
political leaders in the state are
not in fellowship with
unemployed youths as well as
their parents that are the
taxpayers.”
“We are worried that the state
government is demanding as high
as N12,000 to obtain employment
form to jobless candidates, who
are indigenes of the state.
“It is an unfair social contract to
be perpetrated by the same
government that depends on the
taxpayers’ money in running the
affairs of the state.”
But while defending the action,
organisers of the examinations,
ASCON and the state government,
said they were not forcing it on
anyone.
The exam, according to Chairman
of the Civil Service Commission, S.
Aderonke Folarin, is in four
stages.
“The examination which is meant
for university graduates aspiring
to join the professional officer
cadre of the civil service is done to
set the appropriate standard for
new entrants; as a matter of fact,
no applicant is forced by the state
government to buy the form,”
Folarin stated.

We keep shouting PDP this, PDP that.... to me pdp is not the problem, it is we nigerians. ok, bola ige was killed during OBJ regime likewise funsho williams during BAT regime. are those in PDP not nigerians?? its a pity we have found ourselves in this sorry state. a situation where a 'never-do-well" pdp decampee is been celebrated by the oppostion.labour party ogun state is now planning to receive gbenga daniel. Lai muhammed also said they are planning to receive about 10 pdp governors sometimes ago. in fact we nigerians are the problem of nigeria and not PDP. full stop!!

Five persons have reportedly lost their lives following an outbreak of Cholera in Abeokuta South and North local government areas of Ogun State.

The state government which confirmed the outbreak, however, claimed that only one person died as a result of poor hygiene on the part of the residents.

But, Vanguard findings revealed that, the incident was linked to a septic tank which spilled its content into major water sources in the area, thereby contaminating them.

Fear has however, gripped residents of Abeokuta who are reportedly apprehensive about drinking water from water pipes in their areas.

An unconfirmed report has it that the number of deaths from the outbreak may be more than what was reported.

The state government in a press statement issued yesterday, admitted that only one person had died.

The state Ministry of Health, while tracing the source of the disease to poor level of hygiene added that it had moved to stem the outbreak in two communities in the state

The State Commissioner for Health Dr. Olaokun Soyinka who confirmed the incident also named Abeokuta North and Abeokuta South council areas as being sources of the outbreak ”with poor sanitation, particularly faecal waste management.”

Soyinka said, “there was a sudden upsurge in cases of gastroenteritis in some communities in Abeokuta, first noted on Friday, July 5.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/07/cholera-outbreak-kills-5-in-ogun/#sthash.f1R9siEU.dpuf

Few weeks ago, in this house at
Oriyanrin, Agbeloba area of
Abeokuta, in ogun state, two
innocent young guys were killed
by the state vigilante attached to
the area. Till date, no statement
yet from the Amosun state
vigilante.

The incident that led to the sad
occurrence was based on false
alarm. The vigilante went into the
building and killed two young
souls.

The question is this; who are
these vigilante? Where were they
trained? Who gave them licence to
kill (gun handling)? How many of
such has been swept under
carpet? At what stage does state
react to incidents like this?
Police action before the dead
bodies were released is another
story for another day.

Please, before justice is requested,
we want the state to investigate
the matter. We want to know who
among the vigilante killed these
guys? Who reported the matter?
Any arrest made after?

Former Governor of Ogun State,
Otunba Gbenga Daniel,
has commenced concrete moves
towards finally
dumping the PDP, as he met with
the national
chairman of the Labour Party, Dan
Nwanyanwu, in
Abuja on Thursday night to
discuss conditions under
which he would be accepted into
the party.

The immediate past Ogun State
governor, who was
accompanied to the party
secretariat by some of his
aides and loyalists, was received
at the party’s
secretariat by the LP chairman.

Daniel is still battling to save his
political careers, as he
was recently suspended from the
PDP by the party
leadership in Ogun State over
alleged anti-party
activities.

In the last few weeks, some of
Daniel’s loyalists led by
the PPN governorship candidate
then, Isiaka, were
reported to have officially joined
the LP in Ogun State.

Isiaka is said to be nursing the
ambition to contest the
2015 governorship election again
but on the platform
of LP.

Daniel, who is said to be the
financier of Isiaka’s
ambition, met with the LP national
chairman to
negotiate the takeover of the
party structure in Ogun
State with a view to giving Isiaka
a stronger pedestal
for clinching the party ticket for
the 2015 election.

A member of the House of Reps
(name withheld) is also
said to be interested in the LP
governorship ticket as
his party, the ACN, is said to have
concluded
arrangements to give the
governorship ticket for 2015
election to Amosun, the current
governor.

Daniel was said to have
negotiated at the meeting for
the ceding of the party’s
governorship ticket to him
and his supporters just as he was
also said to have
demanded the sacking of the
present state executive
committee of the party to enable
his supporters have a
say in the running of the party.

He was said to have been told not
to use the two
conditions for his final entry into
the party, which is
said to be relatively unknown in
the state.

A source within the party said:
“The meeting was held
at the instance of the former
governor, who seems to
be tired of the discordant tunes
coming from the PDP
concerning his membership of
the party in the state.

“Apart from that, he also knows
that it would be
difficult for him or his group to
wrest the governorship
ticket of the party from those who
tried to send him out
of it in 2011.

“So, he needs a platform to realise
his ambition of
becoming a senator and also
install a governor in the
state.”

.

.

OGUN STANDARD ARMOURED
PERSONNEL CARRIERS OR A
MONUMENTAL FRAUD?
Following the incessant robbery
incidences around Ogun State in
the early life of the Ibikunle
Amosun administration, it was
decided that the procurement of
Armoured Personnel Carriers
(APC) would ensure a reduction
in robbery cases if the police
were given these APC’s in the
combat of crime.
While the government went
ahead to purchase the APC’s,
various officials of government
have provided various cost price
of these vehicles. Recent leaked
documents from government
showed the prices of these
vehicles ranging from between
N85m to N100m. It would be
recalled that about 13 APC’s were
ordered and recently, new batch
of APC was delivered by Alpine
Armouring Incorporation,
Virginia, USA to the Ogun State
Government.
The following are the source
prices for the Pitbull VX
purchased by the Ogun State
Government;
New (Older model Pitbull VX)
costs = $167k which is
N26.38million @ N158 to $1.
New Model Pitbull VX costs =
$268k to $295k which is
N42.34million – N46.61million.
(Interested parties ready to
procure many would be charged
at the lower price range).
Comparing the actual cost price
of a Pitbull VX from the same
source as the Ogun State
Government, the highest amount
paid even if they purchased only
One (1) APC would have been
N46.61million; cost of freighting
would not take it beyond the
N50milllion mark.
The following questions will
quickly come to the mind of the
reader, why did it cost Ogun
State between N85million to
N100million for an APC when the
old model cost only
N26.38million and the new
model costing between
N42.34million to N46.61million
based on quantity purchased?
What model did the Ogun State
Government purchase for
between N85million to
N100million?
The only answer to the question
in the writer’s opinion is that
perhaps the APC’s were built to
Ogun Standard thus
approximately costing the
taxpayer an extra N65million (if
they purchased the old model
taking to consideration
freighting charges) or an extra
N50million (if they purchased the
new model taking to
consideration freighting
charges). The reader can then go
ahead and multiply the extra cost
of each APC by the total number
of APC’s purchased. On this
transaction alone, the Ogun State
taxpayer may have incurred a
loss through contract over
inflation and theft of around
N845million at the very least.
Who ought to be in jail at the
end of their governorship term
you would ask? This is only one
of the present fraud going on
under this administration with
many more being witnessed in
the construction of N1billion per
kilometre roads and N280million
footbridge to mention but a few.
History will play its part when the
time comes

April, 2013
Executive Chairman
Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission,
EFCC
5 Fomella Street, Off Adetokunbo
Ademola
Crescent
Wuse 11, Abuja
Dear Sir,
CALL FOR INVESTIGATION OF
ALLEGATIONS OF
ROAD CONTRACT FRAUD AGAINST
OGUN STATE
GOVERNMENT
The Coalition Against Corrupt
Leaders (CACOL)
is a group of civil-society,
community-based
and other non-governmenta l
organizations
with the objective of fighting
corruption and
corrupt persons by any means
possible at all
levels in Nigeria.
Our attention has been drawn to
a report in
the Nigerian Compass publication
of Monday,
08 April, 2013 (photocopies
attached)
detailing the allegations of fraud
being
perpetrated by the Ogun State
government
led by Governor Ibikunle Amosun
onroad
construction in the state.
According to the newspaper
report, the Ogun
State government in a memo,
entitled:
“Re:
Request for Information on
Capital Projects”,
received at the Office of the Clerk
of the Ogun
State House of Assembly, which
was signed
by the Permanent Secretary in the
Ministry of
Works and Infrastructure, ­
Department of
Planning, Research and Statistics,
Engineer
Ademolake K.A, had given details
of its total
contract commitments as N96
billion
(N96,016,704,18 7.58). Of the
sum, the
government claimed to have
made advance
payments of N18 billion
(N18,231,940,85 0.00)
to 14 contractors.
The government disclosed that it
awarded
the
Sagamu-Benin Express Junction/
Oba Erinwole
Junction Road to a contractor,
P.W. Nig. Ltd.,
for N8 billion
(N8,046,000.000 .00), out of
which N2 billion has been
released as
Advance Payment. The
government also
indicated that the length of the
roadis seven
kilometres and put the completion
period of
the contract at 15 months. The
start date of
the project was said to be 26th
November
2012 and the expected date of
completion is
26th February, 2014, whereas the
percentage
completion as at the date of the
memo,
according to the government, is
20.
This indicated that the
government would
spend a sum of N1.1 billion per
kilometre on
a
township road, whereas the
immediate past
administration, within the same
topography,
spent N46 million per kilometre
on the
dualisation of the Bobasuwa
junction of the
Ejinrin road –Mobalufon, with
median and
street lights.
Furthermore, the state
government said it
awarded the construction of
Ejirin/­
Folagbade/ Ibadan Road in Ijebu-
Ode, Ogun
State to China Civil Engineering
Construction
Company (CCECC), whereas the
federal
government has awarded the
construction of
this same federal road to the
same CCECC
following the request of the
Ijebus to
President Goodluck Jonathan
during his
campaign tour to Awujale of
Ijebuland.
The mind-boggling question is
how can the
CCECC enter into a contract with
the state
government on the road project
when it
already has a subsisting contract
with the
Federal Government on the same
road?
Some of the residents complained
that
despite the demolition of
hundreds of
building complexes, stores and
shops along
the Ejinrin road, leaving
thousands of the
people homeless, work has not
commenced
on the road in the last five
months, while It
has also been established that no
single
equipment has been moved to the
Oba
Erinwole Junction Road for which
the
government claimed it has paid
N2 billion to
the contractor.
It is worthy of note that the N18
billion
claimed to have been spent on the
road
projects was borrowed from
banks which
means the state government
would continue
to service the loan from the state
funds
plunging the hapless Ogun State
masses into
quagmire of socio-economic
enslavement .
OUR PRAYER
It is in consideration of the
negative impact
all
these arbitrariness and others yet
to be
exposed have on the lives of
ordinary Ogun
State citizens that we hereby urge
you to use
your good office to investigate
and expose
whosoever is the consultant (in-
house
engineer or external) that did the
tender bid
evaluation and recommended the
China Civil
Engineering Construction
Company for the
eventual award of construction of
federal
Ejinrin road.
Likewise, we urge you to
investigatethe
appropriateness or otherwise, of
rehabilitating a-seven kilometre
road with
over N8 billion, as we are
suspectingthe case
of contract inflation.
We urge you to also file
appropriate charges
against anyone found to have
abused his
office in this matter at the end of
investigation.
Yours in the war against
corruption
Debo Adeniran
Executive Chairman, CACOL

Amosun's govt is a govt of lies
and deceits in Ogun State.
He promised 50% reduction in
school fees when he was
campaigning only to come out
with some harsh policies that can
render most of the students
useless and we refer to them as
future leaders?.... enough of these
lies... road construction at inflated
prices.... Ogun State pple are now
wiser.... change is inevitable

David Chris
The current face-off between the
students of the state-owned
Olabisi Onabanjo University and
the Senator Ibikunle Amosun-led
Ogun state government over the
payment of the back-log of school
fees owed by the students and
the policy by the government that
only those who have paid their
fees up to date will be eligible to
write the harmattan semester
examination of the 2012/2013
academic session is one that has
been overshadowed by the
propaganda of the state, hence
the need to put the records
straight.
The institution’s Vice-Chancellor,
Professor Saburi Adesanya, in
reaction to the protest by the
students over the crisis on
Monday, 20th May 2013 had said
that the regularization was in line
with the Federal Government’s
directive through the National
Universities Commission, NUC,
requesting all universities to
provide a comprehensive
students ‘audit within the next six
weeks.
Adesanya added that the only way
to achieve this was to compile the
list of bonafide students who had
been dully registered through
payment of school fees.
He said: “The protesting students
were those who failed to meet
the deadline of Friday, May 17 to
comply with the instruction
before the commencement of 500
level Law students.
But what he failed to mention
was the fact that the school’s
portal was only open for student’s
to pay the current session’s
school fees while those who
owed more than one session
have been barred from making
payments since last session.
Another issue which the Vice
Chancellor has not clarified is the
fact that the said regularization
exercise in OOU had been
undertaken by his predecessors
as part of the statutory guidelines
as required by the NUC without
students having to repeat
sessions as per extra years or
being barred from writing
examinations as he is proposing.
Also on the purported on-going
reforms in the university, he has
also subtly covered the fact that
the state government has turned
its eyes on the university as a
potential cash-cow taking
advantage of the huge population
of students in the university
which is estimated to be over
15,000 students across its various
campuses spread across the state.
To perfect its scheme, the state
government had introduced
point-of-sale machines across the
various faculties of OOU for the
collection of all revenues. This was
executed under the guise of
pioneering a technology-driven
process to ensure that all funds
accruing to the university was
paid directly to the state
government’s coffers.
But from available records, only a
meagre percentage of this funds
is being disbursed to the
university’s management which is
already cash-strapped, owing to
the poor allocation from the
government for the development
of infrastructure in the university
as well as to meet the wage
demands of its huge staff
population, leaving nothing for
research which is one of the core
mandates of the university.
The background to this crisis was
laid by the state governor,
Ibikunle Amosun who had
promised to reduce the school
fees of all students in the
university by 50 per cent as part
of his electoral promises if elected
into office in 2011.The governor
had taken advantage of the
stance by the students not to vote
for any candidate who will not
reduce the fees of the institution
following the year-on-year
increase of over 100 per cent by
the administration of the former
governor of the state, Otunba
Gbenga Daniel.
Some students in Olabisi
Onabanjo University, OOU who
were unable to cope with the
high fees at the time which had
increased from N15, 000 as at the
2005/2006 academic session to
N150, 000 during the 2008/2009
session, a whopping 1,000 per
cent increase over a period of 4
academic sessions had protested
and demanded the reduction as a
pre-requisite for voting for any
candidate in the 2011
gubernatorial elections in the
state.
As if that was not enough, the
Amosun administration still jerked
the fees in OOU again to a record
N270, 000 in the 2012/2013
academic session, forcing some
students who had hoped of
getting a quality yet affordable
education in the state owned
university to drop out at the point
of entry over the lack of the
school fees as it was too
exorbitant for the common man.
The majority of the students
stayed back in the school during
the electoral process and
registered and voted him into
power despite being bribed by
the opposition party with cash
rewards and the promise of
reduction of the same fees by the
same percentage.
Zoom to 2013, the same self-
acclaimed ‘people’s governor’ had
won the elections courtesy of the
majority of votes from the
students in various institutions
owned by the state and failed to
reduce the fees but rather
increases it every year.
Can you believe that some of
these students in disciplines like
Law, Medicine, Engineering, and
Pharmacy etc. now pay as high as
N275, 000 per session? Now
parents of these students are
farmers in the agrarian economy
of the state or minimum wage
earners on the state government’s
payroll, some of these families
have as much as three children
across this departments and now
have to pay for about three
sessions for each of them,
particularly for those in 500/600
level whom they hoped upon
graduation will come and help the
family being asked to repeat a
session or even three sessions as
touted by the state government
through the school management.
How does the state government
expect such parents to cough out
N275, 000 [two hundred and
seventy five thousand naira] for
three students in a family for
about three sessions which
amounts to N2, 475,000 [Two
million four hundred and seventy
five thousand naira] in an
agrarian economy where over 70
per cent of the residents are
farmers while another 20 per cent
are minimum wage earners of
N18, 000 on the payroll of the
state government?
This will be catastrophic for the
family, in fact an aged mother of
one of the students affected by
this policy was said to have gone
into a coma for days and was said
to have developed stroke and
heart complications after being
taken to the hospital. The woman
is yet to recover from the shock
after being told that that her two
children who had studied in the
school through toil were to repeat
the sessions, which they had not
paid for, by the school when they
had both spent five years each in
the university.
The Presidency, the Action
Congress of Nigeria, Senator Bola
Ahmed Tinubu the ACN national
leader, civil society group, labour
leaders, pro-democracy activists,
the Nigerian Bar Association,
traditional rulers, national
assembly leaders, the Ogun State
House of Assembly, the National
Universities Commission [NUC]
and other citizens must join
hands and prevail on the
Governor, Ibikunle Amosun who
is also the architect of the entire
crisis to allow students to
continue with their academic
activities without hindrance and
be given the grace to pay their
fees before the end of the
academic session or preferably
before being cleared for
graduation.
“Evil prevails only when good men
keep quiet”, Nigerians and the
international community must
speak up with one voice and save
the country’s young brains in
Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun
state, some who are the future
chief executives of conglomerates
and leaders in government as well
as other sectors from being
frustrated into the streets.
The legacies of the late Chief
Obafemi Awolowo, premier of the
old Western Nigeria who provided
free education for all the people
of the region which His Excellency,
Senator Ibikunle Amosun must
have been a beneficiary is about
to be eroded by this evil
machination and the time to
speak up is now, the future of a
generation is in your hands do
not crash them to the streets as
University drop outs.
While other state governors like
Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom
state and Rochas Okorocha of
Imo state have followed in the
footsteps of Chief Obafemi
Awolowo by providing free
education up to University level,
the award of scholarships to
indigent students, payment of
bursary to students of higher
education, development of
facilities in state-owned
institutions, prompt release of
funds to institutions of higher
learning, sponsorship of students
to Ivy league schools abroad and
donation of new academic lecture
halls to schools even outside its
ownership among others.
The governor of the home state of
the late sage is bent on
destroying the pillars upon which
the icon built by sending students
who are self-sponsored or from
poor families but struggling to get
good education to better their
lives out of the school, thereby
denying them of one of the
fundamental human rights as
enshrined in the constitution of
the Federal Republic of Nigeria,
which he swore to uphold on
May, 29, 2011.
A golden opportunity presents
itself for the governor to make
amends by reversing the
repetition of session and no
school fees, no examination order
in Olabisi Onabanjo University,
OOU as the state chief executive
on the occasion of Nigeria’s
democracy day which marks his
2nd year in office, failure of which
he may never be able to return to
the government house in 2015 as
this will serve as a bad precedent
for him in the race for the Oke
Mosan seat of government among
the youths who constitute 70 per
cent of the state’s population,
majority of which are students.

The truth is Ogun State pple are fed up of Amosun's style of govenance.... but the opposition parties still has a lot to do. brb....

April, 2013
Executive Chairman
Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission,
EFCC
5 Fomella Street, Off Adetokunbo
Ademola
Crescent
Wuse 11, Abuja
Dear Sir,
CALL FOR INVESTIGATION OF
ALLEGATIONS OF
ROAD CONTRACT FRAUD AGAINST
OGUN STATE
GOVERNMENT
The Coalition Against Corrupt
Leaders (CACOL)
is a group of civil-society,
community-based
and other non-governmenta l
organizations
with the objective of fighting
corruption and
corrupt persons by any means
possible at all
levels in Nigeria.
Our attention has been drawn to
a report in
the Nigerian Compass publication
of Monday,
08 April, 2013 (photocopies
attached)
detailing the allegations of fraud
being
perpetrated by the Ogun State
government
led by Governor Ibikunle Amosun
onroad
construction in the state.
According to the newspaper
report, the Ogun
State government in a memo,
entitled:
“Re:
Request for Information on
Capital Projects”,
received at the Office of the Clerk
of the Ogun
State House of Assembly, which
was signed
by the Permanent Secretary in the
Ministry of
Works and Infrastructure, ­
Department of
Planning, Research and Statistics,
Engineer
Ademolake K.A, had given details
of its total
contract commitments as N96
billion
(N96,016,704,18 7.58). Of the
sum, the
government claimed to have
made advance
payments of N18 billion
(N18,231,940,85 0.00)
to 14 contractors.
The government disclosed that it
awarded
the
Sagamu-Benin Express Junction/
Oba Erinwole
Junction Road to a contractor,
P.W. Nig. Ltd.,
for N8 billion
(N8,046,000.000 .00), out of
which N2 billion has been
released as
Advance Payment. The
government also
indicated that the length of the
roadis seven
kilometres and put the completion
period of
the contract at 15 months. The
start date of
the project was said to be 26th
November
2012 and the expected date of
completion is
26th February, 2014, whereas the
percentage
completion as at the date of the
memo,
according to the government, is
20.
This indicated that the
government would
spend a sum of N1.1 billion per
kilometre on
a
township road, whereas the
immediate past
administration, within the same
topography,
spent N46 million per kilometre
on the
dualisation of the Bobasuwa
junction of the
Ejinrin road –Mobalufon, with
median and
street lights.
Furthermore, the state
government said it
awarded the construction of
Ejirin/­
Folagbade/ Ibadan Road in Ijebu-
Ode, Ogun
State to China Civil Engineering
Construction
Company (CCECC), whereas the
federal
government has awarded the
construction of
this same federal road to the
same CCECC
following the request of the
Ijebus to
President Goodluck Jonathan
during his
campaign tour to Awujale of
Ijebuland.
The mind-boggling question is
how can the
CCECC enter into a contract with
the state
government on the road project
when it
already has a subsisting contract
with the
Federal Government on the same
road?
Some of the residents complained
that
despite the demolition of
hundreds of
building complexes, stores and
shops along
the Ejinrin road, leaving
thousands of the
people homeless, work has not
commenced
on the road in the last five
months, while It
has also been established that no
single
equipment has been moved to the
Oba
Erinwole Junction Road for which
the
government claimed it has paid
N2 billion to
the contractor.
It is worthy of note that the N18
billion
claimed to have been spent on the
road
projects was borrowed from
banks which
means the state government
would continue
to service the loan from the state
funds
plunging the hapless Ogun State
masses into
quagmire of socio-economic
enslavement .
OUR PRAYER
It is in consideration of the
negative impact
all
these arbitrariness and others yet
to be
exposed have on the lives of
ordinary Ogun
State citizens that we hereby urge
you to use
your good office to investigate
and expose
whosoever is the consultant (in-
house
engineer or external) that did the
tender bid
evaluation and recommended the
China Civil
Engineering Construction
Company for the
eventual award of construction of
federal
Ejinrin road.
Likewise, we urge you to
investigatethe
appropriateness or otherwise, of
rehabilitating a-seven kilometre
road with
over N8 billion, as we are
suspectingthe case
of contract inflation.
We urge you to also file
appropriate charges
against anyone found to have
abused his
office in this matter at the end of
investigation.
Yours in the war against
corruption
Debo Adeniran
Executive Chairman, CACOL

The facts remains
1- Yinka Mafe has failed to
account for clients' money paid
into his account when he
practiced as a Solicitor in the UK
2 - Yinka Mafe did not appear
before his professional
disciplinary body when the case
was heard and has done
NOTHING, NADA, ZILCH to clear his
name since the decision in 2009
3 - Yinka Mafe has not co-
operated with the UK police to
clear his name. It is AFTER their is
a full investigation and the police
and/or court find he DID NOT steal
the money he can claim there is
no conviction. Let him make
himself available to the authorities
in the UK and we'll take the matter
up from there. I'm sure he will not return... he will rot in UK prison. Ole Omo Ale (Bastard)

^^^Adeyinka mafe, if you truly believe
you are innocent as been claimed
in your defence statement, make
your appearance available to UK
police.
Oloriburuku Ole sagamu. If you are true son of your father just make urself available to UK police. Idio.t

Bobandgreat: APC IS BOKO HARAM!

Yes u're right!

Bomb-Making
Devices Found In CPC
Legislator’s Home.
The Nigerian Army Have Found
Different Sophisticated Weapons
In The Home Of Honourable
Hussein Dei Dei, A CPC Lawmaker
From Kaduna State And
Grassroots Organizer Of The
Proposed Merged Party, The All
Progressive Congress (APC).
Six AK 47 Assault Rifles And Some
Ammunition And Bomb Making
Devices Were Found Following
Raid By Nigerian Troops In His
Home Near Dalet Barrack In Kawo
Area Of Kaduna City.
A Press Statement From Nigeria
Army’s Division 1 Internal
Security Force Led By Brigadier
General TC Ude Said The Raid Was
Carried Out On Tuesday March
5th 2013 At About 5.30pm
Following Intelligence Report In
The Area.
The Statement Also Revealed That
Two Men, Two Women And Five
Children Were Arrested During
The Operation. Apart From Six AK
47 Assault Rifles The Military
Listed The Following Items Were
Recovered:
1] One Light Machine Gun.
2] One Teargas Launcher.
3] Twenty Seven Loaded And
Seventeen Empty AK 47
Magazines.
4] One FN Rifle Magazine.
5] Five Sub-Machine Gun
Magazines.
6] Four Pistols Magazines.
7] One Loaded Light-Machine
Gun Magazine.
8] Two Hundred And Seventy Five
(275) Rounds Of 7.62 Mm (NATO
Ammunition).
9] Seven Hundred And Sixty Five
(765) Rounds Of 7.62 Mm Special
Ammunition.
10] Fifty Eight (58) Rounds Of
9mm Ammunition.
11] One Hundred And Twenty
Five Pieces Of Detonator-33.
12] Two Reels Of Detonating
Cords.
13] Nine Small Cans Of Prepared
IED.
14] One Paint Can Of Prepared
IED.
15] Nine Pieces Of 9-Volt
Batteries.
16] Three Bags Of White Chemical
Substance

Source: 247ureports

born2bleep: I live in Abeokuta, the OP should say massive road constructions. Meanwhile in most areas there's no pipe borne water,no electricity for days on end. Insecurity is paramount,especially around the ares where houses where demolished making them a den for robbers.
Abeokuta will look much better after the reconstructions but are the grassroot citizens happy?

They are not happy.

Knowledge9000: Typical Nigerian politicians...hoodwinking the masses with petty cheap-ass projects. Approve 2 billion naira for a project and spend only 100million for it. The masses jumping thinking it's a good thing and posting on Nairaland...Gov. Amonsuis performing. Until there is transparency on how these projects are awarded, these are just stunts to amuse and titillate the senses of the poor masses. It's time we, the masses take back our country; meaning, whenever project is awarded and construction has started, go and inspect it, estimate the worth of what you saw on ground and compare it to the amount awarded for it...you will be astonished and if not angry

You have said it all...
Imagine Amosun building ordinary pedestrian bridge for #260M!! A bridge that is less than 100 metres. As an Engr. I will build that bridge with less than #40M. Amosun is indeed a thief!!!

take dat: And your phobia and hate for anything that will challenge PDP, restricts your viewpoint in discerning a media blitz and propaganda geared at discrediting the merger! We know PDP will stop at nothing to sponsor brown envelope journalists to always raise false alarm where none exist!

Just shut it!!

Mods front page please....

Amosun is nothing but a crook siphoning Ogun state money. How on earth can you build an ordinary pedestrian bridge with #260M?? The bridge that I (as an engineer) can build for less than #40M. The pedestrian bridge at okemosan secretariat that cost #37M in 2010 delivered by OGD are in 2 locations
1. Between block B and C
2. Between block C and D. The 2 have very high head rooms that allow traffic under. Imagine the 2 pedestrian bridges cost #37M. Haba!!
This #260M is 2 much and I'm sure by the time SIA leaves office, Ogun state debt profile will be around #300B. May God save us from this thief.

J12: How much did the government spend to build the bridge?

Amosun spent:
#1.5Bn on totoro-sokori road
#1.3Bn on the bridge
#260M on the pedestrian bridge
#240M for lighting


TOTAL= #3Bn on a totoro-sokori axis out of the whole mass of entity called Ogun State.