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My ex-wife is running for her life –Emeka Ike

Published June 18, 2017
Tofarati Ige


Another twist has been added to the divorce saga between actor, Emeka Ike and his ex-wife, Emma. Emeka believes she was blackmailed into leaving his house.

He told Sunday Scoop, “This matter with my ex-wife is not an important issue. There are more important things I’m concerned with right now and I wouldn’t want to lose focus. A time is coming when I would set the records straight about what really transpired between us. There have been two attempts to kill me and both times, I escaped unscathed. That’s part of the reason my wife left; she is running for her life. I know that some people are blackmailing her and it is the same set of people that leaked the news of our divorce to the media. Even before I got to court with my lawyer on the day judgment was delivered, the news was already on the Internet that my marriage had been dissolved. But the good thing is that I know the people behind this and I will talk at the right time. If it is true that I’m violent, why did the jury which comprised women grant me custody of our four young children? That should tell you something is not right.”

Speaking on his latest moves as AGN president, Ike said, “Now, if you want to make a movie in Nigeria, you can go to any police station; apply properly and they would give you all the police hardware you need. You can use the commissioner’s office, the trucks and other facilities. This would definitely add more colour to our productions.”

Buhari’s anti-corruption panel lambasts Presidency, Judiciary

Published June 18, 2017
..says AGF, others not serious about graft war

•Lawyers sponsor judges’ children’s weddings –Sagay

ENIOLA AKINKUOTU

Two prominent members of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption in Abuja on Saturday picked holes in government’s handling of the anti-corruption war.

Speaking in Abuja at a programme organised by the National Association of Seadogs (the Pyrates Confraternity), the Chairman of the panel, Professor Itse Sagay (SAN), and member, Professor Femi Odekunle, attributed recent setbacks suffered by the administration in the prosecution of corruption cases to the fraudulent activities of compromised elements in the judiciary and legislature, and a lack of diligence on the part of some senior government officials.

The Chairman of the committee, Prof. Itse Sagay, said the President and his team must come up with new ideas to fight corruption.

He said the judiciary was concentrating more on technicalities rather than the spirit of the law and justice.

Sagay said, “The Federal Government, particularly the President and Vice-President, who were elected into office principally to eliminate corruption, must go back to their drawing board, search and scan the constitution and other laws to draw the requisite irresistible power to deal firmly with this terrible scourge of our times – otherwise we are all dead.”

The senior advocate said the National Judicial Council was not equipped to look into corruption cases against judges. He said the primary duty of the NJC was to address judicial misdemeanour.

The PACAC chairman said before 1999, Nigeria had many incorruptible judges like Justice Kayode Eso, Justice Chukwudifu Oputa, Justice Mohammed Bello, Justice Chike Idigbe, Justice Adetunji Adefarasin, Justice Mason Begho and others

Sagay, however, said corruption pervaded the judicial system after the return to democracy in 1999, when judges started hearing election petition cases.

He noted that many senior advocates had corrupted and compromised judges to the extent that some of the advocates now pay the school fees of children of judges.

Sagay added, “Today, some judges actually solicit for money. They don’t even wait to be offered money. One of the judges that has been asked by the NJC to go back to work is a constant solicitor of money. He writes to counsel, ‘my mother died yesterday, I need money to bury her.’

“Two months later, ‘my daughter is getting married next month, I need money to organise a wedding: Another month, the same judge will write, ‘my uncle has just been made a chief and I need to make a contribution, send money.’

“This is written to lawyers and the lawyers gladly contribute. In fact, there is a long list of lawyers now who have to go to the EFCC at least once a month to explain why they had to send so much money to the account of one judge or the other who demanded money.

“Some lawyers do it out of a sense of obligation while some lawyers do it for consideration of future favours. It just shows you how (low) our judges have sunk.”

Sagay said his committee had drafted a bill for the ‘Forfeiture of Assets and Properties, procured by unlawful activity (proceeds of crimes)’ which will empower courts to order forfeiture of properties by a person without the person being convicted.

The senior advocate said he had advised anti-graft agencies to use non-conviction based assets recovery system to fight graft in some peculiar cases.

He said in such a situation, anybody who was found in possession of huge sums of money, whose source he or she could not explain, would be made to explain themselves in court.

Sagay said this approach was used by the EFCC in the case against patience the wife of former president Goodluck Jonathan whose $15m has been forfeited to the Federal Government and is now battling to save the $5m found in her bank account.

The PACAC chairman added, “If you are seen to be living beyond your means of livelihood, the anti-graft agencies could apply for temporary forfeiture of funds and properties and you would then be made to appear in court to explain yourself.

“That bill is already before the National Assembly but we are not even waiting for it to be passed. A part of the EFCC Act empowers the agency to do this and it is already being done in the case of Patience Jonathan’s $15m.

“You will recall recently that when $5m which she owns was frozen in her account but was later unfrozen due to technical issues, the EFCC went back to court to apply through this non-conviction based forfeiture and got it frozen again. Now she has to come to court to explain how she got it.”

Also speaking, Odekunle, in particular, questioned the commitment of the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), to the anti-graft war and also raised a doubt about the integrity of the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Mr. Danladi Umar, who discharged and acquitted Senate President Bukola Saraki of all 18 charges levelled against him, on Wednesday.

The professor of criminology also questioned the resolve of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, to help the Federal Government in the fight against corruption.

The event titled, ‘Feast of Barracuda’, had ‘Critical Review of the Anti-Corruption War in Nigeria: Strategies, Challenges and Prospects’, as its theme.

While exploring the theme, Odekunle, raised eight salient questions which he said members of the public must answer in order to put the recent failures of the anti-graft war in proper perspective.

He asked, “Does the Presidency realise that routine crime prevention and methodology, instruments and processes are not adequate in fighting corruption in this country? That is, does the Presidency realise that fighting corruption must be a ‘rofo rofo’ fight? That it is not a question of due process, long process, fair hearing and all those that will give you technical justice instead of real justice?

“It is said that he who comes to equity must come with clean hands. In this regard, I ask, what were the details and the resolution of the EFCC matter on Danladi Umar’s bribery case? I don’t know, I’m just asking. Does the DSS possess any information about Danladi Umar on the use or abuse of hard drugs?

“Is there any record that Danladi Umar had been driving and crashing his car under the influence? These are questions that I don’t know the answers to but I want you to investigate.

“Is the Attorney-General of the Federation, who is to lead the anti-corruption fight, going by the way things have been going in the past two years, as committed as others who could have done the job better?

“I have no answers but I believe if they are answered, it will give us an insight into the cause of our current dilemma in the fight against corruption.”

Odekunle urged the Federal Government to use unconventional methods in the fight against corruption, saying it would never win if it continued to use what he described as conventional methods.

He said since the corrupt elite controlled the judiciary and the legislature, this group of people would continue to protect its own.

Odekunle added, “So, all this arrangee between the judiciary, the legislators, and people are saying, ‘We don’t want the APC to be destroyed, Saraki is our own, let us settle our own, party supremacy is better’, we must moderate that.”

Chkwudi Akasike, Port-Harcourt

The crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State took a fresh turn on Friday as the leader of the party in the state and Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, removed some APC leaders in their various local government areas.

It was learnt that Amaechi, who is the immediate past governor of the state, was dissatisfied with some of the APC leaders’ decision to support the governorship ambition of the lawmaker representing Rivers South-East Senatorial District, Senator Magnus Abe.

One of those said to have been sacked by the minister is his former commissioner for justice, Mr. Worgu Boms, who was the APC leader in Port Harcourt LGA.

Amaechi also warned that he would not hesitate to suspend any leader of the APC in the state found to be supporting Abe’s interest to become the next governor of the state.

The former governor was said to have met with some stakeholders of the party in Port Harcourt on Thursday and told them that Abe would not be the governorship candidate on the platform of the APC in 2019.

It was learnt from sources that in another stakeholders’ meeting held in Etche LGA, the minister had stated that he would determine who would be the APC candidate in the 2019 governorship election.

He was said to have pointed out that Abe would not get the governorship ticket, even if the APC leaders in the 23 local government areas of Rivers State supported him.

When contacted to react to the comments allegedly made by Amaechi, Abe described himself as someone loyal to democratic principles, adding that anybody who tried to crucify him as a result of his belief was on his own.

Abe, who spoke through his media aide, Mr. Parry Benson, urged APC leaders in the state to adhere to the dictates of the constitution of the party before taking decisions.

According to the senator, “APC is a vehicle for the realisation of the Nigerian dream and not a weapon to mete out injustice to its members.”

One of the affected APC leaders in Obio/Akpor LGA, Chief Tony Okocha, confirmed that the removal of some APC leaders at the LGA level by Ameachi was based on their support for Abe.

Okocha, who was Chief of Staff to Amaechi, noted that he and other APC leaders were supporting Abe to become the party’s candidate, but that Amaechi rejected him and insisted on bringing another candidate.

Okocha said, “Wogu Boms has just been removed now as APC leader in Port Harcourt LGA and he has been replaced with Nnamdi Wokekoro. His (Amaechi) reason is that Wogu Boms is supporting Magnus Abe.

“He is also meeting with people in my LGA to remove me because I am supporting Magnus Abe. He is also meeting with Etche LGA to removed Allwell Onyeso, and very soon he will be meeting with people in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni LGA to remove Senator Wilson Ake.”

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HenryWilliams:
Glad we still have sane heads in Igboland.
And yes..I'm Yoruba

Moyinoluwa35:
[s]wasted sperm i was not talking to u,ur father for just pour dat sperm meant to born u on flowers,atleast u for get use[/s]

Moyinoluwa35:
stealin of diapers can only occur in a biafra state.....useless ipod

Further interrogation had it that he sells them to a client in OGUN STATE

nototribalist:
Is that all?

Mbaka said his only fear is that if Biafra is finally actualized [after the severe protests and suffering of the youths] “it is still the same politicians that are enjoying in their various houses without saying anything that will take over its political affairs and leadership.”

CIOSYLVA:
The fight is clear and different

Osibanjo holds meeting for peace of one Nigeria while it is obvious that kanu seeks for the IPOB which is a total different in vision and mission...


So kanu can't be in d meeting.

kingzizzy:
The Igbo reaction was the right one. The one of outrage. The Northern youths gave Igbos quit notice but they did not tell Igbos how obeying this quit notice will bring Biafra. Igbos dont care about obeying the North, they care about getting Biafra. So if all Igbos packed up and went home, how will this bring Biafra?