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007truthbetold: Alleged Associates Of Senator Sekibo And Evans Bipi Arrested With Arms; Both Are Close Associates Of First Lady Patience Jonathan

The Joint Military Task Force (JTF) yesterday in Rivers State arrested six youths bearing seven AK47 rifles around Ekporo Road on their way to Ogu.

Among them was Daniel Ibito-Anga, who parades himself and is known in Ogu Bolo as Security Adviser/PA to Senator George Sekibo (Rivers East Senatorial zone) and Evans Bipi, the Rivers State Assemblyman who was recently stopped by a court from parading himself as the Speaker of the Assembly. 

Others arrested gave their names as Sunday Elisha, Uche Jenikachi, Ibinabo Lawson, and Okechukwu Okoro. 

In addition to the rifles, the men had 146 rounds of 7.62mm Special life ammunition and 10 life magazines among others.

They were stopped on the basis of their suspicious movement as they headed for Ogu Bolo Local Government Area in an off white Land Rover jeep with registration number JJ441BZ.

Both Senator Sekibo and Evans Bibi are from Ogu and have publicly confessed to being extremely close associates of Nigerian First Lady Patience Jonathan, who hails from nearby Okrika, and they all speak the same Okrika dialect.  Evans Bipi was a domestic aide of Mrs. Jonathan before he was elected into the Rivers State House of Assembly in 2011, Sekibo, who nurses gubernatorial ambitions, hopes to ride into Government House on the back of Mrs. Jonathan.  They are all publicly known to be fighting the Rivers State governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.

Following their arrest, the men were taken to Bori Camp, the military base in Port Harcourt.  Unconfirmed information reaching us is that they were this morning handed over to the Police in Rivers State.

The police command in the State is headed by Commissioner Joseph Mbu, who is said to have been brought to the command by Mrs. Jonathan, from whom he has been widely accused of taking directives.

Only recently, Rivers State Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi raised the alarm that arms, ammunition and weapons were being brought into the State by people opposed to his administration ahead of the next general elections.  He alleged that the weapons were meant to be used to intimidate and perpetrate violence against the people of Rivers to enable his opponents to rig the elections.

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Jonathan queries Sanusi over CBN 2012 account
August 7, 2013 by Ifeanyi Onuba and Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja





President Goodluck Jonathan has queried the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Lamido Sanusi, over some items in the apex’s bank’s 2012 audit report.

A confirmation of the query was made by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, when he was contacted by one of our correspondents for a reaction to a publication (not by The PUNCH) on Tuesday over the report.

Although Abati was not specific in his response, he said he was aware that “some issues” came up and the CBN governor was asked to offer further explanations on them.

Abati, who added that the CBN governor had since made clarifications, did not say whether the President was satisfied with them or not.

“What I know is that some issues came up and he (the CBN governor) was asked to explain and he has since done so,” he said on the telephone.

An online news medium, PointblankNews.com, had in the said publication claimed that Sanusi was queried by Jonathan over some alleged infractions discovered in the bank’s 2012 audited account.

According to the publication, the query covered 22 issues bordering on infractions in the bank.

It also alleged that the CBN governor made some financial donations under the special access item in the CBN account.

The report by the news portal said that the query was sent to the CBN governor on May 6, while a response was expected back on May 8.

The CBN governor was, however, reported by the portal to have submitted his reply to the President on May 21.

Other issues raised in the query, according to the online publication, include the write-off of about N3.5bn CBN staff housing loan.

It also touched other issues such as refusal of the apex bank to consolidate its accounts, the trillion naira debt owed by the Asset Management Company, and the non-disclosure of the total liabilities through the bond floated by the company.

Sanusi was also asked to explain the discrepancies noted in the 2012 account regarding the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company, a subsidiary of the CBN.

The CBN reacted swiftly, saying the publication was the handiwork of mischief makers as it did not reflect the reality on the ground.

In a telephone interview with one of our correspondents in Abuja, the Director, Corporate Communications Department of the CBN, Mr Ugochukwu Okoroafor, said that contrary to the report, the bank’s account was not queried by the President.

He added that the CBN was the only institution among the Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government that was recently given an award by the National Assembly Committee on Finance for presenting its account in a transparent manner.

For instance, he said the committee specifically singled out the bank for contributing over 75 per cent of MDA’s remittances to government coffers.

He said, “I have read that report and those things written there are not true. I am not aware that the President queried the CBN governor over that report. I am not aware of that.

“The 2012 report has been out for some time now and I can say that the CBN is the only institution that in its accounts has always come out without any problem.

“In fact, even the finance committee commended us. We are the only institution that has shown consistency in terms of bringing out our reports on time and in terms of remittances.

“We have never failed in the history of the CBN. The finance committee gave us an award and this was celebrated.

“They gave us with the Nigerian Television Authority and they said we made over 75 per cent of the contributions by MDAs to their surplus and this happened just a few months ago.

“So the people are just being mischievious and we won’t succumb to any blackmail.”

Sanusi had last week while responding to questions on the controversy surrounding the approval of the CBN’s financial statement by the Financial Reporting Council, said the board of the bank, and not the FRC, approved the report .

He had said, “On our accounts, the FRC does not approve our accounts. The board of the Central Bank had approved our accounts.

“The FRC is there to set accounting standards and to make sure they are improved on to meet international best practices.

“We published accounts and the FRC has comments on those accounts; they will take those comments and we will take on board whatever because they are the regulator as far as preparing financial statements is concerned and just like banks respect our own regulatory arena, we respect the FRC in its own regulatory arena.

“So there is no question at all about the non-approval, and I am not even aware of any issues that have been raised and I will like to put an end to all of that speculation.

“There is nothing like the FRC not approving our account. There is nothing like a query on our account.”

Ngwakwe: Why are so much inflamed and troubled for the existence of Igbos and Ijaws?

Your choice of keywords deny your identity and increasingly points to your ancestral allegiance.

Your consciousness have been engraved with venomous and genocidal bigotry.

Cleverly is a deadly Racist of the highest order, who can even take lives where necessary to achieve his selfish interest.

touch4mony: i have read all the comment so far but the truth is that everybody that has commented here is taken side,when u have an aciedent and somebody dies or did not die u must first of all go to the nearest police stay and make report or u waiting for police to come not run to ur house secondly when u get to a checking point and what to over as a law make what e.g are u setting and how do u expect other car to pass.my take is chidi or his drivers carelessness has coursed the death of 2 ppl and it now a case of heat and run since he did not go to the station to report but left to his house so let the law take charge of the issue.

theoctopus: Oshiomole is a fraud. All the roads he has done is not even up to one FG road. That is why they keep repeating the pictures of ring road. Oshiomole is a big fraud

chino11: Edo people has entered one-chance. Is this round-about all the clueless governor has achieved? Show us inner city roads, rural roads, hospitals, schools etc. And stop regurgitating this shabby called round-about. Nigeria has sunk to a level where even round-about is development.

atlwireles: Enerhen huinction

mgbeketoto: Oritsejafor's base indeed!
Where his worshippers have to park on both sides of the street!
Mtcheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew!!!!

Afam4eva: How's he an efulefu?

Afam4eva

The efulefu has spoken again. How can a city with a little over 10 million people(my estimation) have more Anambrarians more than Anambra itself. Then what is the population of Lagosians, Yorubas and other Igbos in Lagos. This guy exemplofies efulefuism.

jimino: Most pple in APC are only interested in bring GEJ down but b4 dey wil do dat greed, power tussle wil tear dem apart. It is jst a pity dat most nigeria politicians r nt interested in making d country a beta place.

tolurainbow: dis is new year. Ret.ar.ded b.ast.ard ur father is a thief..go n die...

1MCN: @OP, I think you should rather say that Nigerians should stick with GEJ, and not just Nd'Igbo 'cause the SS and SE bloc votes alone can't make him president according to our Laws, if you truly want him returned.
@Mynd, you said you stay in Lagos and cannot see a single FG project in the area that affects your area. I wonder where the trains were first rehabilitated. After Abuja, no other state has recieved more attention in this gov't than Lagos, but the gov't and people chose to be what Igbos call "ori ago". They're a steep opposition state and will corrosively rust out any FG interventions just so that people will be kept to the opposition. You remember MMIA rehabilitation, Lekki seaport project, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, etc. Just remove hate, listen to the other side of the story. Maybe you'd come to know how much you've been intentionally and mischievoulsy under-informed. Even Fashola himself knows in his heart that the FG under Jonathan has been uncommonly progressive and helpful, but for party reasons he dares not say it. Have you ever heard him fall out on any issue with the President? I hope you know he's groaning under pain with the Jagaban and is on the brink of exploding? Just give us six months or less, and then remind me this comment.

"Lekki seaport project, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway2

Have you ever heard him fall out on any issue with the President? I hope you know he's groaning under pain with the Jagaban and is on the brink of exploding? Just give us six months or less, and then remind me this comment

Olaolufred: Someone else said they bought the two at a cost of 4.98trillion niara. That is Nigeria's budget for 2013.

geeez: And Obanikoro sold BRF the Range right?

I drive the same car and I know how much it costs

And Obanikoro sold BRF the Range right?

And Obanikoro sold BRF the Range right?

And Obanikoro sold BRF the Range right?

I drive the same car and I know how much it costs

geeez: Obanikoro should show us proof

We saw documents pertaining to Oduah's

Goddex: [size=14pt]Our media is so biased. Fashola bought those two bulletproof tinted range rover SUV's for 300m naira each.

Our South West media refused to report it but instead concentrated solely on Oduah and expected her kinsmen in South East to keep quiet. Tribalism is our biggest problem.[/size]