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Hope this has nothing to do with our NL Ekiti gal

FRESH facts emerged yesterday on the assassination of the World Bank consultant and former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial aspirant in Ekiti State, late Dr. Ayodeji Daramola, when it was revealed that one of the calls received by the late politician was traced to a girl in Ikere-Ekiti. A police sergeant, Michael Isichei, had disclosed this when he appeared before an Ado-Ekiti High Court.

Standing trial for their alleged involvement in the killing of Daramola, who was murdered on August 14, 2006 were former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees member, Dayo Okondo, Personal Assistant to former Governor Ayo Fayose, Goke Olatunji, Segun Balogun, Busuyi Aladesanmi, Emeka Andrew, Daniel Ukaegbu and Aina Ayorinde.

While Mr. Ahmed Tafa was counsel to the first accused person, Mr. Dele Omotoso stood as counsel to the second accused person and Mr. K.S. Adegun represented the third to eight accused persons.

Isichei, who appeared before Justice Ayodeji Daramola to state all he knows about the investigation of the assassination of Daramola claimed that the girl confessed that the phone she used to call Daramola’s line belonged to her boyfriend.

Led in evidence by the prosecution lawyer, Rotimi Jacobs, Isichei, who was attached to the Police ‘ A’ Division in Akure, revealed that he was among the officers commissioned by the then Commissioner of Police in Ondo State to investigate the circumstances surrounding the gruesome killing of Daramola.

Affirming that investigation had commenced before he joined the team, he explained that the team of investigators requested for a printout of the call log on Daramola’s Glo line, which revealed that the mobile phone belonging to the slain politician was called by three MTN lines shortly after he was murdered in cold blood.

The teams of investigators according to the police witness recorded a breakthrough on October 13, 2006, when one of the numbers that called Daramola’s line was traced to a girl in Ikere-Ekiti.

The girl, who was later located, claimed that the number belonged to her boyfriend when she was quizzed on the identity of the owner of the number.

He told the court that the girl’s boyfriend was subsequently arrested and detained at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), in Ado-Ekiti, but was later taken to Akure where a statement was obtained from him and he
allegedly confessed to have gone to Ijan Ekiti, the country home of the slain politician.

Isichei, under evidence-in-chief, told the court that the boyfriend in his statement confessed that he went to the home of Daramola along with other members of a gang to carry out a robbery operation, saying the suspect mentioned the names of all members of the gang, who were later arrested and detained at SCID in Ado-Ekiti for other offences before they were later taken to Akure where they made statements.

Isichei revealed that having received briefings from the then Commissioner of Police in Ondo State, they were able to get Glo SIM card of Daramola which was taken to the head office of the mobile telecommunications in Lagos in furtherance of their investigation.

Their findings further revealed that Daramola was called at fifteen different times on three different MTN lines shortly after the brutal killing of the World Bank consultant in his bedroom, listing them to include nine times at the first instance, three times in the second instance and another three times in the last instance.

The police witness also added that the investigation team in a bid to establish the identity of the callers from the three MTN lines contacted the Corporate Head Office of MTN Communications in Lagos where they were obliged the printouts of the numbers in question.

Isichei revealed that after the third accused person (Olanipekun) made his statement on October 13, 2006, he (Olanipekun) signified his intention to write another statement on October 17 of the same year before one Sergeant Hanson Richard, saying Olanipekun claimed that it was the 1st accused person (Goke Olatunji, Personal Assistant to the former Governor Ayo Fayose) that sent him on an errand to assassinate Daramola.

The witness explained that the two statements (from Olanipekun) were taken to a senior police officer, Jimoh Dojumo, a Superintendent, for endorsement at the Special Anti-Robbery Section (SARS) annexe in Akure, adding that Olanipekun was kept at SARS cell between October 13 and 17, 2006.

But Olanipekun persistently denied the statement, claiming that he gave the statement under duress.

Under cross-examination, Isichei admitted writing the statement for the accused and that he couldn’t know whether the accused person could write in English or not, but later admitted that he was aware that the suspect did not go beyond primary school and that SARS is not the same with the Police Homicide Section.

He also denied that the suspect was tortured while in detention.

The case was adjourned to October 24, for further hearing.



http://www.nigeriancompass.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5488:call-on-slain-daramolas-line-traced-to-girl-in-ikere-ekiti-says-police-witness-archive&catid=54:nigeria-today&Itemid=594

ATTEMPTS by the opposition All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and the candidate of the Democratic Peoples Alliance (DPA), Professor Wole Akinboade, to invalidate the tribunal’s judgment which upheld the election of Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala has suffered a major set back. The Justice Istifanus Thomas-led three-member Appeal Court judges sitting in Ibadan, dismissed the suits of the ANPP and the DPA on the grounds of want of diligent prosecution and non-compliance with the procedure and guidelines of the appellate court.

The oppositions, had consequent upon the affirmation of Alao-Akala’s election headed to the appeal court, contending that the governor had been indicted by the Police Service Commission of alleged gross misconduct while in service as a police officer.
Also being contested was that Akala, having been indicted by the administrative panel of enquiry which probed the finances of the state when he held sway as governor for 11 months following the now quashed impeachment of Ladoja was not fit to contest the office of the state governor.

The D PA candidate also contended that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) omitted its party logo during the April 14, 2007 governorship election and majority of his supporters went home disappointed on the day of the election as they could not vote for him due to the non-appearance of his party logo on the ballot paper.

The Court of Appeal had last Wednesday deferred ruling in the two cases being prosecuted by Wole.

Aina had at the last sitting of the court appealed for a short adjournment enable him produce copies of court records and grounds of appeal of his clients.

His plea followed the nonavailability of records on theparty’s grounds and notice of appeal filed before the court of Appeal to adjudicate upon.

But Counsel to the defendant (Akala), Prince Lateef Fagbemi, faulted him that there was no evidence of appeal even before the court and the registry.

Fagbemi whose position was supported by INEC’s counsel, Makanjuola Esan, noted that they can’tbe arguing on acase thathadno foundation. They prayed the court to dismiss the appellants’ appeal for want of diligent prosecution.

Fagbemi and Esan therefore ,urged the court that since there was noncompliance on the part of the appellant to prosecute their appeals diligently the options left to the court was to exercise its inherent power to dismiss the appeal.

In a text message response to the court’s judgment, Prince Dotun Oyelade, Special Adviser to Governor Alao-Akala said, ‘’the striking out of the opposition appeal is a dress rehearsal to the judicial demise to which the opposition has inexorably led itself.
"If the foundation is this weak, it stands to reason that it cannot bear the weight of overbearing evidence against itself.



http://www.nigeriancompass.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5489:appeal-court-dismisses-suits-against-alao-akala-archive&catid=54:nigeria-today&Itemid=594

uplawal:
Travel to how the very last day will be,how the earth and all that exists in it crumble to dust,and go back to slap all those seniors that gives horrible punishments in boarding schools.

Must have been nightmares for you those days.

[quote author=Shy-One link=topic=766419.msg9210784#msg9210784 date=1316865462]What do you mean by footies?[/quote]Lol, Football

^^^But he is not far away from the whole truth

[quote author=Shy-One link=topic=766419.msg9208654#msg9208654 date=1316826627]Hi Chief - I am doing well - I am hanging in there - yes sir - it has been a while - how are you?[/quote]Am very well dear, getting ready for the week-end action, you like footies?

This is very funny. Hope they are caught

Honesty and Understanding

There is no rule on the right time to have s[i]e[/i]x, if the conditions and the atmosphere is kool, why holding back

[quote author=Shy-One link=topic=766419.msg9207693#msg9207693 date=1316810386]Sheesh

You men are funny. Stop begging for my attention and fabricating nonsense and directing that fabrication at me. You didn't open the thread and I don't even know what you posted earlier as I haven't read it.

I also didn't highlight it or refer to it on any level.

stop being a big ol' mean bully.

[/quote]Shy-One how are you doing? Been a while

So lame, why not ask if the ladies can as well get their husband pregnant incase he is not capable of doing so

I dont believe this, would have been written in Arabic and not English. Cheap one

I had a good laugh reading thru the post. What a preference

It depends on what actually led to the break up and handling it has nothing to do with gender. The dumper always handle it better than the dumpee

^^^F[i]o[/i]ol and you wont stop showcasing your ignorance. I saw the pics of that Abuja flooding and it cant be compared to the one in the pic above. Flood dries up fast in these areas. And your intelligent brain never told you about man-made disaster, if there is a construction or something going in a place, then you can experience such flooding. Now listen, someone once said that you are full of hate and doesnt know peace in your life, stop quoting me and have fun with your hateful life. Am done with you and will ignore you henceforth before you make me look stupid too

Sure why not

Good one. But too bad people get their mandates in court rooms these days instead of polling booths

^^^Dont mind the old thief. We know that line before

A DEAL, which is to get a suspected drug baron off the proverbial neck of the Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, has cost the state a princely sum of N180 million. It was brokered by a prominent member of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the state. The deal is to get the wanted drug baron to drop a suit in which he is challenging the eligibility of Amosun for the Governor on the ground of alleged certificate forgery.

The contractor is wanted in the United States of America for drug deals over which some members of his gang have been jailed. He fled to Nigeria where he has continued to live big.

In the deal, the baron was to supply a “full option” Toyota Avensis car for each of the 24 members of the state House of Assembly at the rate of N5.99 million per unit.

He, however, supplied “basic” options of N4.8 million, and bilked the state of about N1.2 million in excess of the profit on each of the cars.

As part of the deal, the baron also supplied two Toyota Camry cars, one each for the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker. He also supplied two Hiace buses and one Hilux Pick-Up van. The total cost of the contract is about N180 million.

The vehicles were brought from one Island Motors on Adetokunbo Ademola Street in Victoria Island, Lagos.

The drug baron is expected to drop his suit which alleges forgery in some of the certificates presented by Amosun to enable him contest the election.

Already, the deal is causing disaffection in the ruling party in the state, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).
Some prominent members of the ACN, and the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) who defected into the ACN with Amosun for the purpose of the last election, are angry that such a huge contract eluded them and was given to a prominent member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

It is learnt that the ACN members are spoiling for a showdown with Governor Amosun, who is currently out of the country.
The anger of the ACN members is, however, mellowed by the acknowledgement of the role played by the PDP BoT member who brokered the deal and the effect of the deal getting the drug baron off Amosun's back.

The ACN members, according to sources, admitted that the BoT member helped prop up a group of PDP members in Ogun State, which led to the factionalisation of the then ruling party in the state and the eventual emergence of Amosun's ACN as the government in power.

They also noted that the BoT member worked for the candidature of Amosun because, to him, “blood is thicker than water” since they both belong to a bloc in the state.

They are, however, displeased that the cars supplied were below specification, as they lacked such options as leather seats and navigation equipment.



http://www.nigeriancompass.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5341:drug-baron-gets-n180m-vehicle-contracts-from-amosun&catid=54:nigeria-today&Itemid=594

Deft last minute manouvers by former president Olusegun Obasanjo are what have so far saved him from probes. Critics and anti-corruption crusaders have challenged anit-graft agencies to probe Obasanjo but have been told that nothing has been found against him.

But a former minister who worked with the former president told Daily Sun that Obasanjo did his home work well to save himself from the battles ahead.

According to him, the ex-president, who was also Minister for Petroleum Resources during his tenure, did this using his wealth of experience as an old hand in government.
Speaking further, he said there was no doubt that not all jobs contracted out by the petroleum ministry got the necessary approvals.
According to him, this was enough to nail any high ranking government official as such was against financial regulations.

But not wanting to be caught unawares, the former minister, who hails from the South-west disclosed that his former boss rushed all the necessary approvals through the Federal Executive Council(FEC) in the twilight of his administration.

He disclosed that at the particular FEC meeting where the approvals were granted, the former president had his way effortlessly.
He hinged this on the overbearing influence he had on all subordinates, saying all the ministers kow-towed to him.
The approvals from FEC were necessary because that was what the law requires for big contracts, especially from the petroleum ministry.

Continuing, he said this was not the case in the issue, involving Chief Bode George, as he was rather careless.
According to him, George failed to get the necessary approval either at presidential or FEC levels.
Specifically, he said not less than five probes on the matter as ordered by Obasanjo indicted George.

Therefore, he said it was easy for the Lagos High Court to send the politician to jail as it had documentary evidence needed to nail him.
The former president’s media aide, Dr. Sanya Awosan, however feigned ignorance of the develoment.
Awosan, who is the Managing Director of a Lagos-based public relations outfit, Essence Communications, said the issue was not within the purview of the ex-president’s media team at the time.



http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/politics/2011/sept/21/politics-21-09-2011-003.html

PDP, Adoke behind my trial, says Tinubu

Former Lagos State Governor Asiwaju Bola Tinubu yesterday accused Attorney-General of the Federation Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for being desperate to put him on trial for alleged operation of foreign accounts while in office.

He said the Office of the AGF is desperate to manufacture evidence against him.

He also expressed regrets that the “plotters” have the sympathetic ears of the Presidency.

Tinubu spoke for the second time in 24 hours over his trial, which begins today in Abuja at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).

He declared on Monday in Lagos that he could not be intimidated.

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) national leader’s position was contained in a statement in Abuja by his Media Office.

The statement said: “There is now very verifiable information that the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and some members in the leadership of the PDP, who may have found sympathetic ears in the presidency are behind the ongoing attempt to destabilise and drag in the mud the name of Nigeria’s leading opposition voice, Bola Tinubu.

“Presently, desperate moves are afoot by the office of the AGF to find by all means and to manufacture enough evidence to prove their case against Nigeria’s leading opposition voice, Asiwaju Tinubu, the National leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria. The resort to these subterranean moves is caused by their failure to get credible individuals to come forward as witnesses to prove their allegations.

“Another dimension of the desperate moves of these individuals includes the recent media leaks from the office of the AGF that the charges against Asiwaju Tinubu would be amended to include perjury so as to strengthen their so-called “iron-clad case” against the national leader of Nigeria’s leading opposition party, the ACN.

“Similar reports in some sponsored media also alluded to the fact that the government also plans to drag before the tribunal, three other ex- governors for alleged similar offences, a move aimed at deceiving the public that Tinubu, Nigeria’s leading opposition voice, is not being singled out.

“It is deceitful and clear subterfuge for government to continue to mouth the rule of law, while hounding political opponents and applying different standard of justice to members of the opposition while shielding its members from prosecution. Unfortunately, Nigeria’s democracy remains imperiled under the clutches of a ruling party that no longer wants to rule for 60 years but forever.

“For PDP and a government that claim they believe in the rule of law and with the Freedom of Information law in force, one would want to ask why they are more interested in publishing the list of accounts allegedly traced to Asiwaju Tinubu without disclosing how much was involved and other relevant details.

“The same act gives them the access for full disclosure. There is a clear plot to deceive the public into believing that Tinubu, Nigeria’s leading opposition leader stashed away millions in foreign bank accounts.”

The former queried why the Federal Government is squandering public funds on politically-motivated investigations.

The statement added: “In the absence of documentary and individual evidence, the government continues to squander public funds on frivolous and politically motivated investigations and trial against imaginary enemies. The public would like to know, after five years, how much has been expended on this case and what is the actual amount in question.

“Instead of focusing on strengthening the rule of law, they continue to expend their energies and public resources on silencing opposition voices. Most Nigerians suspect also that AGF Mohammed Adoke has failed repeatedly to give the President sound, professional and unbiased legal advice on matters that would have enhanced the rule of law.

“Asiwaju Tinubu, a leading opposition voice has been a consistent advocate of the rule of law and he is eagerly anxious for government to prove its case beyond reasonable doubts. Those who allege must prove.

“Asiwaju Tinubu is not perturbed, rather, he is assured that the judiciary is up to the task and will in this matter dispense justice without fear or favour.”



http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/20349-pdp-adoke-behind-my-trial-says-tinubu.html

R.a.pe is worse than nuclear weapon. I read about the 16yr old Nigerian that was ra.ped by the Lybian rebels the other day, too bad

^^^Everybody knows the most ignorant of them all. Anyways i dont blame you cos you might prolly be earning a living for coming on this board everyday to spew your hard earned ignorance. Am glad it has been proven that the pic above is not Enugu, so take your rants somewhere else cos you are not making any sense. What i expected you to do is to go dig up a pic showing a flooded area in Enugu and prove me wrong, until you do that dude get off my trunk

**Dedicating my 2400 post to the good Governor of Enugu state for his good deeds, God will always see you through**

^^^I understand today is a bad day for you. If he is proves to be innocent, maybe they will let his a[i]s[/i]s go free. But one day you guys will return all the loots. Am done with you a[i]s[/i]s licker

Is he behind the bars already? Common Thief

^^^You are the one who is ignorant, there are some places you know that can never experience some situations except its a natural/man-made disaster and there was no news about such disaster in Enugu, hence i doubted the tenacity of that story. Enugu is in the hill and cannot experience uncommon flooding unlike lagos which is below see level. Stop this your grieviances and always try to view things without being biased.

Meanwhile, how is CCB stuff going with your master?

Get him a 2010 Range Rover Sport

[quote author=tpia@ link=topic=764271.msg9188142#msg9188142 date=1316571372]it seems they do.[/quote]Your posts are making small sense these days, nice one, now you only have to work on comprehension. Goodluck