₦airaland Forum

comshots:
When una officers in Abuja dey withhold their allowance and keep it in a fix deposit to grow interest for yourself while soldiers in battlefield are starving, why dem no go look for dubious means to survive?

A Jos-based pastor, Kallamu Ali Dikwa, who alleged that former President Goodluck Jonathan gave the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) N7bn, on Saturday said the association’s leadership offered him N1m to “keep quiet”, The Nation reports.
Dikwa made the fresh allegation while speaking with reporters in Kaduna.

He said, ”If, as religious body, CAN cannot stand for truth, then Nigeria will continue to grope in the dark. Buhari will never succeed in his fight against corruption if religious leaders can’t shun corruption.”
When asked for proof of the money he received from CAN, he said, “I don’t have the documents on how the money was handed to CAN, but I have my confidants who were there then and documents on how it was shared.”
Speaking further he added, “I maintain my position on the N7b campaign money that was given to CAN and about nine Toyota Jeeps which were shared and distributed among themselves.
“On the 17th of March 2015, at the Department of State Security I was forced to write an undertaking that I will refrain from peddling such information.
“This was prior to a letter written by CAN on 20th February, 2015 to DSS on ‘Complaint against Kallamu Musa Ali Dikwa for false information, defamation of character and mischief likely to cause a breach of public peace’ which led to my arrest and torture for about nine hours by DSS.
“It was after my detention that I wrote to ICPC and EFCC complaining about what I was going through and the need for their necessary action. EFCC responded to me through a text message by one Mr. Ola Oji, Abuja office in December last year: ‘Please be informed that we have vetted your petition to the commission and found it to be civil. Consequently, we decline investigation into same. You may wish to file an action in Court against the subject please.

“I went to court to challenge my arrest and torture. While the court case was going on, CAN leadership offered me some monetary enticement of N1m in order to withdraw the petition and the matter in court through my bank details. I did that to trap them and to prove the authentication of what is going on.
“It is on record that on 21st of September 2016, CAN through its lawyer texted me a piece through my mobile line to copy and write to ICPC as my opinion.”
President of CAN, Rev. Supo Ayokunle, who was Vice President to the Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, under whose leadership the money was alleged to have been given, said Dikwa’s claim was a fabrication.

He said, “I don’t know any Dikwa. I have never met any Dikwa in my life. I came on board three months ago and I have never given out any money to any individual. That must be a fabrication.

“He’s not in CAN. This is not the first time he will be making such allegation. He’s looking for people he would get money from. People like me will never do anything like that.

“I have never seen his face though I do read some of his allegations. He’s not somebody of integrity. I’m aware he’s a convert. He’s been sending me text messages but I can never associate with such people.”

eyeview:
How is it that it was the election of all the pdp winners that are being contested and attacked in court while all the apc winners are walking free without court attacks?

How come it is the pdp governors that are being investigated for bribing courts while none of the apc governors is being looked into

The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, has reacted to Governor Ayodele Fayose’s inauguration of a vigilante group, Ekiti Grazing Enforcement Marshals, EGEM, popularly called ‘Anti-malu’, stating that the move is “in furtherance of his threat to banish our members (Fulani herdsmen) from Ekiti State”.

MACBAN said Fayose unleashed the marshals “against our members whose herds of cattle had gone to a stream at Agon Bridge on Federal Polytechnic road between the time of 2:00 – 2:30 PM to quench their thirst on Friday 21st October 2016”, claiming that the vigilante group shot five cows and carted away with the meat but the herdsman was able to flee with the rest of his cattle.

Stressing that its members are bona fide citizens of the country, the group, in a statement issued on Saturday by its spokesman, Baba Othman Ngelzarma, sought the intervention of the federal government “before this macabre incident develops into unquenchable inferno involving our members and Ekiti State government”.

MACBAN charged the Governor to issue an apology and compensate its members who lost five cows, warning that cattle breeders would not sit idly by while they are being denied their only means of livelihood.

The statement reads, “No Cattle strayed into anybody’s farmland around that area in question. As such, the actions of the Anti-malu vigilante are not ant only provoking, but capable of creating uncontrollable scenarios whose ramification may go well beyond Ekiti State.

“As far as we know , Ekiti State is not an island of its own , but a State within the federal Republic of Nigeria and while the Governor is permitted to carry out actions geared towards protecting the interest of Ekiti State, such actions should follow the rule of law.

“We deplore this act of brigandage and call on Governor Ayodele Fayose to offer an unreserved apology to MACBAN, and equally set machinery in motion with a view to compensate our members who lost five cows in this primitive adventure.

“That the brutality of the Ekiti Grazing enforcement marshals (popularly known as Anti- malu) on herdsmen is even outside the time stipulated by that law (if the law exists at all).
“The federal overnment should therefore look into the actions and activities of this committee because we cannot fold our hands while the only means of survival of our members is taken away and destroyed.

“MACBAN has instructed victims of this aggression and its members nationwide to exercise maximum restrain while we work towards resolving this unfortunate incident through mature and civilized manners.

“MACBAN further sympathized with the government of Kaduna State, Sokapu and entire Kaduna South inhabitants over the recent incident that had claimed so many lives as a result of a discord between our members and communities surrounding Godogodo environ.

“We see this act as an upsolute brutality exhibited by the perpetrators and condemnable in all its ramifications. We call on the security to do all it could to fish out and bring these criminals to book.”

kcnwaigbo:
you are sick and shameless

ogene007:
Please stop all this noise making because we all know that Buhari is not interested in fighting any corruption. He is simply involved in a chain of illegal acts just to destroy the opposition against 2019. Media trial is not what fight against corruption is. Buhari has not been able to secure one single conviction despite all the noise being made. The judiciary is no less corrupt than the executive and legislative arm of government. If Buhari and the APC truly want to fight corruption, they should constructively engage the NA to bring about a change in our laws. We would need to amend the evidence act such as the burden of proof will now rest on the accused. We would also need to have a rigid asset forfeiture law which allows the government to seize whatever asset traced to any individual is and when that individual is unable to proof that such an asset was legitimately acquired. If Buhari was to pursue such laws, who do you think the biggest victims would be? Can the likes of Buhari, Tinubu, Fashola, Amaechi, Obasanjo, IBB, Abdusalam, Buratai, Dambazau etc truly prove that 80% of what they have today were legitimate earnings? So, stop coming here to exhibit self righteous hypocrisy because we all know that Buhari is not interested in fighting corruption. He is only trying to destroy the opposition against 2019 elections and he will surely fail by the special grace of God.

jblackbell:
If we should go by what you are saying Amaechi should not even be a minister. Saraki never did step down when he was facing trial under CCT, Amaechi has not been asked to step down, then why should the judges own be different.

NgcoboP:
this government should purge itself first. governance and corruption fighting is beyond PDP campaign funds or planting evidence in the home of the honourable judges

kcnwaigbo:
Everyone is not a coward.You hate those who instigate violence yet you have soft spots for Fulani herdsmen adjudged the fourth deadliest terrorist group in the world.What a contradictory statement

kcnwaigbo:
So seriously, you don't see anything wrong with the hypocritical position you took? That view my dear is the ultimate form of corruption. You are even worse than the people you are condemning

kcnwaigbo:
I think you are a very sick hypocrites!!! You don't even have an iota of shame!!! Tufiakwa gi!! Imagine what someone can spew!!

kcnwaigbo:
Bring it on the marshalls are waiting for you

kcnwaigbo:
But it is okay for people like Buhari, Amaechi and Onu to remain in office even after been accused of corruption?

AirFireEarthH20:
So if you are a judge, if anyone who doesn't like your face lay false accusation againt you, you would asked to be suspended or proceed on compulsary leave? You really don't understand the games those guys in Aso Rock are playing. Smh

NgcoboP:
he's as innocent as an Angel. Until convicted by a competent court of law.

I stand with FFK

sapientia:
Wanted to ignore u but.....

When you can prove your case with evidences.... No sane judge can upturn it... NJC will even summon you.

sapientia:
The way DSS and EFCC are handling these cases will show you it would not be easy to get a conviction.

Even the ones they had evidences... they never secure conviction...

No matter how corrupt any of these Judges are... The security agencies must prove their cases beyond all reasonable doubts to secure conviction against them.

Its a pity but it will all play out in court and not on pages of our national dailies or nairaland

Sappy

mormonslayer:
Seriously do you see how some Nigerians reason, Who gives a f@#k if the car is real or a replica. They outcry should be the guy is stealing the country dry not that the car is real or fake.

Zellie:
What about the ones in Kano