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jeremyliness:
[s]Finally, Evil Ones Crawl Out of the Woodwork

By Anthony Kolawole

In the past weeks Nigerians have become victims of the people that should ordinarily lead them. Instead of being shown ways to become better persons citizens are being encouraged to become believers in jungle justice as some so called leaders of thought attempt to change the laws of the land to “guilty until proven innocent”.

Since the story of Dubai property ownership by the Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) emerged, the chant for citizens to constitute themselves into a lynch mob has grown to the point of drowning reasoning. Not even the clarifications by the Army authorities that the said houses were paid for in instalment from personal savings could stop those demanding a sack from frothing in the mouth. Buratai’s ownership of a farm, which the law allows, has been completely disregarded in order to sustain the argument that the Dubai assets are way above his means.

In the initial stages, those pulling the puppet strings mostly hid in the background like the demonic spirits of a haunted house. Some so called investigative news site have been recruited to pass off the raked muck as ‘exclusive’ stories that were thoroughly investigated. Only that both sponsors and carriers of the information outdid themselves and forgot to do some basic toning down to hold back the class of information that only state resources could unlock.

Equally overlooked was the need to isolate earlier political discontents that have been ventilated in other contexts. Using Buratai to raise question marks about President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption credentials is like a giant neon sign pointing the direction from where the missiles are being fired from. Knowing where the missiles are coming from also gives a clear hint of who occupies that exact spot so the evil people after Buratai’s job are finally crawling out of the woodwork.

No, they are actually sprinting out of the woodwork if the events of the second week of July are anything to go by. In just a few hours, several NGOs, news platforms and people once regarded as conscientious seemed to have read from the same script in tying Buratai’s incumbency despite the allegations to the credibility of President Buhari’s anti-corruption fight. This is particularly so when the affiliations of the NGOs supporting this clamour are well known. They are tied to the same master that the vocal anti-Buratai commentators report to.

Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN); Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN); Second Republic House of Representatives member, Dr. Junaid Mohammed; Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, and the National Publicity Secretary of the National Advance Party, Mr. Tosin Odeyemi were among those that made demands for Buratai’s sack. The list of media organisations that made their editorial columns available for the onslaught was equally long.

A closer look would however reveal that some of those making the calls did so because they find it fashionable to align with the trend. It is their own version of intoning the hallelujah chorus so as to be seen as conforming with the nation’s mood towards corruption. Unfortunately, this has proven to be a grave mistake for they are echoing the voices of paid singers whose actual music conductors are hidden in the woodworks of the opera house.
Take for instance, Mr Femi Falana (SAN). He has been disenchanted with the Buhari administration since his name came nowhere near making the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice contrary to the street lore that projected him for the office. His disparaging the current government began within days of not making the cabinet. In the absence of that coveted post, his next likely opportunity at coming close to the public till as a political office holder is to gun for the Ekiti state governorship seat soon to be vacated by the cantankerous Ayodele Fayose, and even prematurely so if Falana can railroad anti-corruption agencies to violate the constitution as he is currently doing.

But not being a versatile politician, the human rights lawyer’s best shot is to have the All Progressives Congress’ (APC) governorship ticket allocated to him as opposed to contesting for it and the lord in charge of that needs Buratai out of office to create one more vacancy for a proxy (this should ensure his camp keep President Buhari under thumb). For something as life changing as a governorship ticket, one can then understand why Falana joined the “bring down Buratai” mob. His desperation should be pitied rather than condemned. The man has to negotiate or arrange a state pension for himself especially now that the anti-corruption fight is drying up slush funds from his clients.

If Falana typifies those calling for Buratai’s head on a platter for personal gains, the position of Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) depicts those whose good intentions are being twisted to satisfy the interest of the first group. Ozekhome wants the COAS to be sacked only if found guilty after a fair trial. For him, the Chief of Army Staff should undergo trial while still serving as ‎a military officer to prove that the government’s anti-corruption war is not targeted at profiled opponents. Another legal luminary, Mr. Yusuf Ali (SAN) and the Executive Director of the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, Mr. Adetokunbo Mumumi, are of the opinion that Buratai should only be asked to resign or be sacked only after being indicted by a thorough investigation.

These bright minds have good intentions in stating these positions but they must be wary of the evil hiding in the woodworks. They must become conscious to the fact that the ultimate target is to either cripple or hijack President Buhari’s government. If the nation succumbs to this blackmail of the Army Chief it must be ready for the next victim of this evil camp, and the next and the next and infinitum.

What must happen is clear as daylight. All those that have spoken up out of genuine concern for transparency in the country must confront the paid activists to know what they really want. They must ensure that when we add our voices to demand accountability we are not unknowingly implementing the agenda of a group that is intent cornering the country for its selfish goals. If they know they genuinely have facts to prove wrong doing, the puppet masters should boldly step out of the woodworks since their puppets are already dancing shamelessly in the public square.

Kolawole is a University lecturer writing from Keffi, Nasarawa State.[/s]

This writer typifies everything wrong with Nigeria.

And buharri orders shoot at sight for those remembering 3million slaughtered biafrans

The Dullaard of Daura will cap it up by saying "Nijeriya's Unity is not negotiable".

BBOG
FALANA
EZEKWESILI WOLE SOYINKA
OTHERS.
OVER TO YOU

The man wey sabi

Ok Op... if dem tel u make dem dash u ferrari or make dem dash u Lamboghini, wish one you go take?
Lets keep the dream alive

Thats it folks ..... thats how buhari lost his body odour. Next!

How will this help Zombies in their futile search for sense .... i guess they'd continue gropping in the dark?

We will handle Fulani issues "silently" - King Dulllard The Illiterate (1892)

There is NORTHing wrong with it - Femi AdeSINNER

No they won't .... he is one of Buhari's "typical saint"

An anti-graft coalition, the Civil Society Network Against Corruption (CSNAC), has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, over alleged diversion of funds to purchase properties in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE).

In a petition forwarded to the anti-graft commission and signed by the group’s chairman, Olanrewaju Suraju, the group said such act was a violation of the law of public service.

According to the group, ?if the revelation is found to be true, based on evidence adduced by a newspaper, then the actions of the COAS is a great disservice, an act of sabotage against the Nigerian State and a violation of the law prohibiting public officer from investing or participating in any other business safe for farming.

Taking a cue from a publication of June 24, 2016, by Sahara Reporters, an online newspaper, the group said the newspaper revealed how the Chief of Army Staff, Major General Buratai and his two wives were alleged joint owners of a Dubai Property that was paid for in one transaction.

“The funds for the said properties were alleged to have come from a vehicle contract scam, executed while Mr. Buratai was the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters. “Our correspondents discovered that the Nigerian Army had awarded an apparently bogus contract for the supply of vehicles and motorcycles for the use of troops involved in an anti-terrorism offensive in Nigeria’s beleaguered northeastern zone”.

According to the publication, “The allegation that General Buratai might have pilfered funds meant for the purchase of military vehicles has sparked outrage among soldiers and officers, especially those from the northeastern part of the country. Two military sources disclosed that irate officers had petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari, urging him to order an investigation into the contract scam”.

“In the petition, exclusively obtained by SaharaReporters, the aggrieved soldiers and officers, under the umbrella of Concerned Soldiers and Officers from the North East, had accused the COAS of executing the contract through a proxy. According to the petitioners, the proxy’s name is Usman Gamawa, founder of Baggash Investment Limited. The petition stated that, rather than supply new vehicles, as contained the contract awarded, Mr. Baggash allegedly purchased second-hand vehicles and motorcycles from Niger Republic.

“On arrival in Nigeria, the vehicles were said to have been refurbished at Mogadishu Cantonment under the supervision of Staff Sergeant Dadan Garba. SaharaReporters said some of the vehicles and motorcycles had since broken down.”

Source:

http://independentnig.com/2016/07/10/investigate-buratai-group-asks-efcc/

A cold war, which borders on supremacy, has ensued between two top security chiefs in President Muhammadu Buhari government, a development which is beginning to have implications on national security as the president has been unable to call them to order.

According to Premium Times, which reported exclusively on this, Babagana Monguno, National Security Adviser (NSA) and Lawal Daura, the Director General of the State Security Services (SSS) are allegedly locked in a bitter battle for supremacy.

The cold war between two of the nation’s most senior security officers has festered to an extent that it is beginning to have implications on national security, government officials said.

Sources told the newspaper that the two officials have stopped talking to each other, and President Muhammadu Buhari has been unable to make them call a truce.

According to the newspaper, the row started last August when Mr. Buhari directed the NSA to set up a committee to probe military procurement from 2007 to 2015.

Multiple security sources said as Nigeria’s secret police, it was taken for granted that the SSS would be represented in the committee. But at the point of choosing members of the panel, Mr. Monguno declined to allow representation from the SSS, they said.

According to our sources, when asked why the SSS official was turned back, the NSA said he wanted the panel, made up of mainly retired military officers and a representative from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to be closed-nit, to avoid leakage of confidential information about the committee’s work.

“The DG of the DSS found that insulting,” our source said. “According to him it was rude and illogical to claim that an agency in charge of intelligence gathering and other serious confidential security issues for the entire country is not considered worthy of keeping information about a committee.”

From then the relationship between both men deteriorated and has not recovered, officials said.

Source:

http://independentnig.com/2016/07/10/rumpus-in-buharis-camp-over-row-of-monguno-lawal-daura/

Name checked ... yoloba & yiibo passed .... abokki .... starting when?

Impeach that rogue Shitima now!

Na mynd45 kind work be this .... i suspect him

Banning and Sacking since 1944

They will get over it. Begining is always difficult in everything in life. Better they die by their hands than that of the ones that held them down for ages.

BIAFREXIT LOADING .......

Dreaming futuristic sleeping and slumbering government

Tufiakwa udi ochichi nkea

SeverusSnape:
You're correct - environmental activist.

You eh
Crying more than the bereaved .... no mind that saddist

Buhari wont hear that .... like burataiDubai, they will cover him up quickly

Ok

Okijajuju1:
They should gerraway...


If the State is broke, the Government and the Workers are to be blamed.


If the Workers worked well, the productivity of the state would be high.

You deserve a curse .... but i won't place it on you now

Surprising ...... unlike them
I suspect one notorious bigot here .... it must be him

For allegedly daring to beat his father and the two policemen who came to arrest him, a 27-year-old man, Tobi Majoyegbe, was on Friday arraigned in Lagos.
Also charged along with him is his friend, Taiwo Tayo, an estate agent.

They are facing 10 counts bordering on assault, stealing and conspiracy at an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court.

Majoyegbe, who claimed to be a journalist, and his friend, Tayo, live at 8, Gabi Crescent, Meiran, a suburb of Lagos, on the Abeokuta-Lagos Expressway.

The Prosecutor, Insp. Clifford Ogu, told the court that the offences were committed on June 2, at the accused’s residence.

According to Ogu, Tobi’s parents were fighting and instead of separating them, he joined his mother to beat up his father.

“The accused’s father, Mr Victor Majoyegbe, went to the police station for his son’s arrest.

“When the policemen went to the house, Tobi and his friend, Taiwo, resisted arrest and beat up the officers,” he said.

Ogu said the accused also locked the door against the police officers and stole a phone valued at N45,000 and a belt worth N2,000 belonging to them.

“The value of the stolen items belonging to Sgt. Banji Gegeleso and W/Sgt. Obiageri Osuafor is N47,000.”

The offences contravened Sections 44, 55, 56, 95, 123, 166, 170, 172, 188, 285 and 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

The accused, however, denied the charges.

The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Taiwo Akanni, granted each of the accused N100,000 bail with one surety each in like sum and adjourned the case to August 1 for mention.

Source:

http://punchng.com/man-27-arraigned-beating-father-policemen/

Six persons have been killed after two suicide bombers attacked the Damboa central mosque in Borno state.

According to the army, one of the bombers successfully detonated while the other insurgent was said to have “exploded” after being prevented from detonating.

Sani Usman, acting director of public relations, confirmed this in a statement.

“At the early hours of today, precisely at about 5.15am, two Boko Haram terrorists suicide bombers attacked Damboa,” he said.

“The first suicide bomber targeted Damboa Central Mosque but due to stringent security measures, he could not gain entry. Obviously frustrated, he exploded and died near the Central mosque.

“However, the second bomber veered off and gained entry into another smaller mosque and detonated the bomb killing himself and 6 other worshipers and injuring one other person. The wounded has been evacuated to a hospital while efforts are on to clear the rubbles.

“Troops and other security agencies have been mobilized to the area.”

The army spokesman also said insurgents on Thursday, attacked Gaskeri village, where three civilian vigilantes were murdered.

Source:

http://sunnewsonline.com/breaking-6-killed-as-suicide-bombers-hit-borno-mosque/

Too late
That woman dey truely mad

dayowunmi:
This man was one of the 5 PDP governors that decanted to form the APC, am still waiting for PDP members to term his trial as a vendetta or witch hunt too

Decantation indeed

I am beginning to like this "mmonwu" man. Justice Okon Abang, the later day sword of damocles in our judiciary
Nemesis of the lawless