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Sijien:
buchio7 na ya papa folow am run for guvnor?

U sound so pathetic. bros, !!!! if u cant bring issues to tackle opposing views , mechie onu!!!! no be by force sey u must talk,

The name of his university is renaissance university. Yes it was of course acquired and built with public funds.

The level of indebtedness enugu state is in right now will make it difficult for any new administration to do much initially because of loans taken by nnamani frm new generation banks

No mind dese ppl who r defending a crook blindly. The guy has been exposed now (ikuku kue afu ike okuko)

dblock:
Stop dissing my bro stop it now

u have said it all, u r a political jobber like ur broda Gana. Why else would any person want a guy who has not contributed any meaningful thing to the growth of dis nation asides being a hanger on to every tom,dick and hgaruna administration for the past 20yrs?

make we yarn other vital issue and rest dis gana issue to d refuse dump where it shd be

You no c ppl? How can a govnor embezzle so brazenly without recourse to the well-being of his ppl?
as yourightly said,odili shd be on dat list as well as attah in my own opinion , ohhhh!!!!

don jazzie:
wonder some of ya'll would b praisin EFCC for.i heard sum 1 no sacred cows what about people like bode george and the NPA scam?i even heard bode geogre tellin atiku to resign imagin that?abeg EFCC is jst OBJ's legalised intimidation tool.they had a focus but they'v derailed

This is why u shd praise efcc.



Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commis-sion (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, yesterday unmasked 31 state governors that the commission had been investigating in connection with sundry offences, including alleged criminal diversion of local government funds.
Ribadu who was admitted into the Senate chamber at 12.04 p.m., had presented a report of the commission’s investigations into the activities of state governments to the President of the Senate, Senator Ken Nnamani, who asked for the report, which he proceeded to read through.
According to the EFCC chairman who opened a can of worms in almost all the states of the federation, only six governors had a clean bill of health.
The governors are Donald Duke (Cross River State) Danjuma Goje (Gombe) Bukola Saraki (Kwara), Abba Ibrahim (Yobe) and Adamu Aliero (Kebbi) and Peter Obi (Anambra).
He said none of them had been mentioned in connection with the probe of council funds or any of the other offences, among them money laundering, diversion of funds, embezzlement and corrupt practices.
He said investigations had been concluded in at least14 states and that the commission was either already prosecuting or about to prosecute offenders. The states are Enugu, Abia, Adamawa, Ekiti, Anambra (former Governor Chris Ngige), Jigawa, Kwara (former Governor Mohammed Lawal), Kogi (former Governor Abubakar Audu), Kano, Kaduna, Plateau, Taraba and Zamfara.
States he said investigations were ongoing include Osun, Akwa Ibom, Benue, Borno, Delta, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Edo, Ebonyi, Katsina, Niger, Ondo, Oyo, Lagos, Rivers, Sokoto and Ogun
Ribadu, in declassifying the content of the commission’s report of its investigations into alleged monumental corruption in Enugu State consistent with the resolution of the Senate, had begun with Enugu and gone through 32 other states.
He said that the commission had investigated Governor Chimaroke Nnamani, his Special Adviser on Local Government Affairs, Mr. Sam Ejiofor; Mr. Peter Mbah; Mr. Chinanya Ukha; Mr. Fred okoli; Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi and some other officials for financial misappropriation, embezzlement, abuse of office and money laundering.
Ribadu said: “We are ready to prosecute the Enugu case,” pointing out that the cases of contract inflation and diversion of state statutory allocations had been confirmed.
He said that the assets of the Governor Nnamani were many while confirming that there were many contracts that were over priced. The EFCC chairman said there were 34 others who the commission was yet to determine whether or not to prosecute.
He said that Governor Orji Uzor Kalu of Abia State had virtually privatized the State, telling the Senate that cases of stealing, misappropriation, forgery, diversion of funds, which the Abia Leaders Forum alleged in their petition, were being thoroughly investigated and great progress had been made.
According to him, “The Governor used his mother’s name, his wife’s name (Ifeoma), his son’s name (Ogbonnaya) to divert the state’s funds with which he built his business empire-Slok Shipping, Slok Airline, Reality Organisation, among others. The state’s funds diverted in the process are in excess of N65 billion”.
He said that the commission was investigating the Adamawa State Governor, Mr. Boni Haruna, on the strength of the petition forwarded to it by Senator Paul Wampana, alleging out that the governor and the Commissioner of Chieftaincy Affairs committed large-scale crime.
In the case of Akwa Ibom State where Governor Victor Attah, a presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presides, Ribadu said that investigations into the activities of the state government based on the petition received “are on-going”.
He said in Anambra State, the commission had investigated the former Governor Chris Ngige and the State House of Assembly for criminal diversion and misappropriation of state funds.
He said that the commission found out that the fund diversion was effected through one Princess Uzor Okonkwo.
Ribadu said that Governors Adamu Muazu of Bauchi, Goodluck Jonathan of Bayelsa and his wife, Modu Ali Sherrif of Borno, Geroge Akume of Benue, James Ibori of Delta, Lucky Igbinedion of Edo, Ayo Fayose of Ekiti, Achike Udenwa of Imo State and Saminu Turaki of Jigawa had also been investigated for sundry allegations on the basis of petitions received against them. He, however, did not disclose the outcome of the investigation.
The commission boss disclosed that Governor Makarfi of Kaduna State and his counterpart in Kano State, Alhaji Ibrahim Shekarau were also under investigation for alleged misappropriation of fund, abuse of office, diversion of und and fertilizer scam with particular reference to Kano.
In Kwara State, he said that the commission was investigating a case of abuse of office by the former Governor, Alhaji Mohammed Lawal, while in Kogi State; he said that there was a petition against a local government chairman just as there were petitions against three local government chairmen in Katsina State.
He said that the commission was on the trail of former Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Audu, whom he said had escaped out of the country, but assured the Senate that efforts were being made to extradite him back to the country to answer charges of wrongdoings against him.
According to him, “We have filed charges against the former Kogi State Governor. He ran to London and we are working for his extradition.”
He said that the commission had also investigated local government funds misappropriation in Osun, Ondo, Oyo, Ogun and Lagos States, just as the petition against Governor Peter Odili and three local government chairmen in the state had been investigated.
In Plateau, he said: “the State House of Assembly participated fully and directly in the fraud and embezzlement of funds in the State along side Governor Joshua Dariye”.
He stated that Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, his Zamfara State counterpart, Alhaji Ahmed Sani, and the Governor of Taraba State, Rev Jolly Nyame, were not free from the commission’s inquisition.
Speaking on Zamfara, he quipped: “Zamfara is one of the worst cases. We have charged the governor and his officials to court. It is a tragedy. It could end up as a case of direct stealing; there is no third party.”
In Taraba, he said: “We are taking the government and the State House of Assembly to court. In two weeks from now we are going to court.”
Going by Ribadu’s hints, next month may witness a flurry of legal battles involving the commission and many of the state governments as well as local governments.
Ribadu told the Senate that the commission was at the moment investigating the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), adding, “We are going to come out with the report of our findings very soon”.
He used the forum to clear the air on the alleged N50million bribe money given to some legislators to promote the ill-fated Third term agenda of President Olusegun Obasanjo, asking the senators with evidence and information to come to him “and you will see what I will do.”
Ribadu disclosed that the commission had investigated and found nothing against the Federal Government and the National Assembly.
According to him “We checked the accounts of the Federal Government daily, even the security vote to see where money is taken to settle National Assembly members.
“We have not found any. But in the case of the state government, we were able to trace movement of money from the state governments to State Houses of Assembly”.
On the issue of barring candidates from contesting elections, he said: “EFCC does not have the right or power to stop anybody, but we will not shy away from investigating crooks who want to aspire for public offices with a view to stopping and prosecuting them”.

IBB: I truly think he has an incredible plans for Nigeria. I don't know what it is, but I think giving him the second chance will only benefit Nigeria as a country and Nigerians.

Though i agree totally with all your other points and appreciate your candour,i disagree with you on this salient point cause i cant see the magic ibb can do. D man spent 7-8 years as a c-in-c/president and achieved basically nothing what magic will he do nw? Corruption became a norm under his watch,victimisation and cold-blooded murder reined supreme all within his tenure and u feel he can change now?

U cant teach new tricks to an old dog

He may be a soldiers soldier but he was a lousy administrator and shd be locked away in a gulag for d crimes perpetuated against dis nation n its ppl.

the evil dat men do lives after dem

In as much as efcc is not perfect,they have done a whole lot of good cleansing d system. Truthfully the commission n d helmsman shd be commended for there job. Even die-hard critics have praised dem for there doggedness(gani,falana,oshiomole e.t.c)

They need encouragement and a constitutional backing broadening there scope/jurisdiction as well as ensuring there independence which will limit d amount of interference frm d executive arm.

kazey:
Nope, because most of the people that actually go to the polling booth are northerners.

oN WHAT BASIS DID YOU MAKE THIS STATEMENT ? tHE SOUTH-SOUTH MAY NOT GET THE PRESIDENCY NOT because OF THE FACTOR MENTIONED ABOVE BUT because DEY R DERE OWN WORST ENEMIES.

FLEX06:
IBB time is near, his beans and rice is waiting for him in KIRIKIRI

AMEN, AMEN, AMEN, AMEN, !!!!!!!!!!

dblock:
What Nigeria needs is [size=24pt]Jerry Gana[/size]

My God!!!! what would a recycled,worn out ,A.G.I.P(Any government in power)candidate like Gana have to offer this country? Pls use your time n effort for other purposes cos Gana aint saleable

iT LACKS D MOST OBVIOUS OF INITIAL THING, WHICH IS THE PICTURE AND RESUME OF THE SENATOR IN QUESTION WHICH SHD BE THE FOCAL ATTRACTION. THE MONOLOGUE ABT NIGERIA BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, SHD COME IN ANOTHER PAGE. THE WALL PAPER YOU USED COULD DO WITH MORE ADVENTURE BY WAY OF MAYBE PUTTING A BACKGROUND OF THE MACE(TRANSPARENT).

YOU COULD ALSO USE POPULAR QUOTES HE IS KNOWN TO HAVE MADE ABT VARYING NATIONAL ISSUES AS A REVOLVING THEME AT THE TOP ALONG WITH THE RESOURCE CONTROL BIT.

I would have voted for his black ass to be fed-exed to sing-sing. The guy killed his wife n d lover , period. why was he running frm d cops if he was innocent? unfortunately a lot of sentiments was brought into d whole affair making it impossible for a conviction

d village headmaster as well as d turakin shd be shown d way to otta farm/yola respectively. They have maladministered d affairs of dis nation.

@sunnychuks
my broda yarn him d yarn, tell him abt d "doctor death" dey have in enugu. a crook is a crook and is a crook no pancake rubbing can change dat fact. well his time is up sooner dan u think

Bros no matter how you chose to c it, nnamani is a crook no matter the coloration. The governor is supposed to be an impartial arbiter in the running of state affairs but what you have just chronicled is that since his companys are working he can still rape the state treasury blind. Do you know the valuation contracts in enugu state r based on? how can u possibly say that d person who is supposed to be the enforcer of norms is going to award himself a contract at d same cost as a competing company?

do you know the level oif indebtedness enugu state is in because of borrowing from new generation banks? my opinion is that the man is a crook and a violent one at that who has been enjoying the protection of the headmaster in aso rock. PLEASE, PLEASE dont even go to the area of that nnamani was against third term. That is a blatant,incredulous,joke of the century lie, a man dat even goes to d level of helping instigators of conflicts in neighbouring ibo states( anambra).

dese r d ppl who shd be thrown in gulags n force fed with pap 3 times daily without sugar.

bros as we say , HAPU IHE DIU NA ARU MOTO BA NIME MOTO,

as i said there will soon be a pharoah in nigeria who will put all these parasites where they belong,

He is doctor wit a difference. For someone who swore to defend human life as a doctor he has done a great job of terminating human lives in his tenure as govnor. He has a great affinity to inflict violence on ppl which is quite dismaying as for the developments in enugu,we shall knw how far after 2007.

Fayose is a drowning man holding unto straws. His rantings makes him more pathetic and gives him a second alias of an empty barrel along with his first name of common thief,

Totally disagree on dat logic about everyone going to jail if ibb goes to jail. Its dis seeming logic dat makes crooks such as ibb prowl around the nigerian circuit as like untouchables whereas dey shd b in a gulag 4 life on staple diet of beans and yam.

as far as i am concerned just because wat ibb did in d past has always been perpetuated does nt mean it shd be condoned unfortunately the village head master in aso rock is no better but there will come a pharoah who does nt knw joseph who will put these hordes of vipers in there place. Nigeria will be greater than it has ever been b4.

d problem with dis over-rated head master in aso-rock is dat he 4gets so easily that most famous of proverbs"THOSE WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES DONT THROW STONES"

AMEN [b],AMEN , AMEN, [/b]TO THAT UR STATEMENT SAGE, HOW CAN WE BE COMPARING SERIE A ,LA LIGA TO EPL? THERE IS NO BASIS FOR COMPARISM AT ALL. LA LIGA AND SERIE A BETWEEN THEM HAVE PRODUCED MORE UCL CHAMPIONS THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE FOR THE PAST 2 DECADES DIMMING EPL CONSIDERABLY.

I just cant understand why some ppl would claim epl as better in quality to la liga or serie a, asides from the over-blown typical english publicity there is nothing to write about in terms of major english club achievement in europe. How many times has an english team won the champions league in the last 5 - 6 years in comparism to la liga,serie a and the bundesliga?

Even the over publicised national team is nothing to write about. Yes serie a and la liga have there problems but in terms of quality play and flair dont even try comparing epl to them. Epl loses miserably