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stjames07: But why GEJ must come to lasgidi on thesame day wit the CAN convention. Lasma go work tire tmao. Lagosians to move to work by 2am. Lmao

But why must A.CN Fix convention the same day GEJ is coming to lasgidi? Is a a grand plan to overwork Lasma

My problem with the opposition is that they never dream big.
PDP is dreaming big and they are complaining. Atleast if PDP doesn't meet its target, it won't be far from it, cos of the forecast and planning.

You only hear the opposition saying, they will capture the whole of south west or north central. Why can't they dream big too?

They think that by merging they can win the whole nation, but they forget that their ideology differs.

julioralph: Mr OP take time oh. You dey support dis kain nonsense law?
As long as Jona does not perform, folks will always criticize him!

^^^ There is a difference between Criticism and Insult

Ogbeche77: But sir, the pope is the leader of over 1 billion catholics worldwide, yet he boards a commercial jet liner. If my memory has not failed me,Pope Benedict visited Benin republic two years ago on Air Italia

^^^ Big Fat lie!!
The Pope doesn't travel in commercial airline. Haven't you heard of Sheperd 1 and sherperd 2 ?. Those are the private plane the pope travels in. They are almost as big as US Airforce One

Strongfaze: Wow! I really need a clear description on ego and conscience. Any gud samaritan?

How Reno Omokri spoke is a clear difference between Ego and Conscience. Reno spoke with conscience and said the truth as it is. He complemented his percieved opponent and never insulted. Ego is what Elrufai shows. Just imagine Elrufai commenting on Reno. It will be full of insults and he will never see any good from Reno. There will be no complement at all. That is Ego. Intelligence with Ego is grand stupidity, because it will make you loose vital opportunties to make positive impact.

naijaking1: Please share your opnion with reasons about why Boko Haram should or should not be granted amnesty.
Personally, I reject amnesty for the following reason:

1. Comparison between BH and MENDS is a farce: Mends killed some Nigerians no doubt, but we all know that their preoccupation was kidnapping foreigners, and Nigerians too. They also destroyed oil installations. They demanded control of the natural resources in their own land(a legitimate claim in many parts of the World). BH is religious extremism, threatening to concvert us to Islam by force! There's some time creepy about anybody that will attack helpless, defenseless worhippers on a Sunday. Imagine an attack on a mosque that kills innocent worshippers? While many Nigerians have been killed because somebody, somewhere tore a piece of the koran in farway Netherlands, would you imagine when someone actually goes in to attack defensless muslim worhippers Believe me nobody, not christians, not muslims, not pagans would have the gut to ask for amnesty for the killer of peaceful muslims in a Friday musque prayer. Yet we have muslim leaders, some of whom never really condemned the attacks on christians coming forward now to ask for amnesty for BK

2. GEJ probably has no power to grant people who attack churches an amnesty, only God and the victims families could.

3. Leaders of MEND were pretty well known before their amnesty.

4. Leaders of BK are yet to be identified as we debate amnesty for them. This is a situation that makes me wonder if those asking for amnesty are not the real BH leaders.

5. MEND was more or less a local outfit, but BH has affiliations with a know international terrorist organization

6. BK have not really asked for amnesty as a matter of fact

7. Granting amnesty to BK will creat an undue precedence where every imagibale criminal gang of the future will ask for amnesty instead of facing prosecution.

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Good analysis .

No anmesty for terrosist!!! Shikena!

oshyno: Granting amnesty to BH is to say the least despicable and a slap on the victims. The whole killing is about politics and granting them amnesty is like GEJ telling the Notherners I surrender to ur pressure plzz 4give me and allow me do anoda term. Y hasnt he declared state of emergency on dat state. Put in a military administrator n watch hw oda states will wake up to their slumber or are they nt collecting security vote. What do they use it for. Nobody knows a state more than d governors. The governors hv traditional rulers who leave amongst these terrorists.

Me think GEJ shud use iron fist on dis mofos. Make d state a leaving hell if d governors dont want t help. Grow some balls Gej. Grow some balls. Deal with dis North n dia born t rule attitude or we will keep seeing dis weneva d table turns against dem.

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Until GEJ tries all these possible options, he has no business granting anmesty to these blood suckers!! Is a big slap on the victims.
Since he is doing that for politcal reason, I think it would have been better for him considering resignation first before anmesty.
Granting anmesty to this terror group will only worsen the situation, cos it cannot make them change them their believe or ideology.
GEJ should just take bold step and bring their sponsors to book no matter how highly placed they are in the society. He should increase the level of intelligence gathering and ground suppor operations by JTF.
By the time activities are brought to stand still and their sympathisers are fed up, they will have no option than cooperate with government and bring them out. The heat has started affecting them that's why they are all clamouring for anmesty. They should not get this anmesty cheap.
The northern leaders should come out strongly and condemn the activities of these terrorist, until then anmesty should not even be thought of. This is the sacrifice they should consider first for peace, not anmesty!!!


This is what GEJ needs to do!!

Questions that needs Answers

https://www.nairaland.com/1099394/ribadu-boko-haram-creatures-habit

RIBADU, BOKO HARAM AND CREATURES OF HABIT!
Written by Alaba Johnson on 10 November 2012.



Ribadu, Boko Haram and Creatures of Habit!


Nigeria is in for another season of contrived controversy now that the Nuhu Ribadu led Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force has delivered its report and the coming of the controversy was expected by the discerning. Reason being that where it not for the executive summons that compelled Malam Ribadu to submit the report (which by the way had been ready since August 2012) Nigerians would have continued to discuss the deliberately leaked report when those who commissioned the report had not even seen it.

Deliberately leaked you may ask? But of course it was deliberately leaked! In Africa we say that if the witch flew at night and the baby died in the morning there is no need for a coroner's inquest.

It is known that Malam Ribadu met with his erstwhile friend Malam Nasir Elrufai for a reconciliatory meeting to mend fences between the duo. Now what happened at that meeting can not be established factually because it was a closed meeting, but what is known is that after that meeting somebody leaked the Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force Report to Reuters.

Now, Sherlock Holmes said, when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable is the truth. While Nigerians where pondering on who must have leaked the report, the leak exposed himself in the following manner.

On Monday the 29th of October 2012, the President ordered the Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force to submit its report. In the morning of the very next day (Monday the 30th of October 2012) Malam Nasir Elrufai released the full unedited copy of the report of the Committee on his personal website, el-rufai.org, within minutes of the report being published on Malam Elrufai's site, the same report was published on Premium Times, a site run by former 234Next journalist. 234Next if you will recall is that paper for which Elrufai famously had an interest. Within hours the report was also on saharareporters.com.

Now it is obvious from this timeline who leaked the report to Reuters, but the question is who leaked the report to Malam Nasir Elrufai, a known antagonist of the Jonathan administration and what was the motive behind this leakage? And then most importantly, why did Elrufai choose to 'officially' leak the report only the day after the President asked to see the report that his government commissioned? Million dollar questions if I may say!

But be that as it may, from the now obviously preconceived loud noises made on Social Media by Elrufai, it is obvious that the agenda was to whip up fuel subsidy like sentiments and get the citizenry roused up against a democratically elected government.

So determined where these agents to use the Ribadu report to bring down the present administration rather than clean the Augean stable that they refused to report the earth shattering news that Boko Haram had nominated Muhammadu Buhari as their mediator for peace talks! Please go to these sites and see for yourself that they blacked out that news item.

Now why would news website notorious for breaking news refuse to break the biggest news of the year? It is obvious that they had instructions from their 'owners' to play up a particular news story.

Now, from meeting with Elrufai, a known antagonist of the administration before the report was submitted, I have it on good authority (and Malam Ribadu can not deny this), that Ribadu met with a rival of President Jonathan who has a predilection for desperately seeking the presidency even if it means betrayal of his boss. Ribadu met this man almost immediately after he presented his report to President Jonathan.

What are the motives for these meetings with antagonists?

Well, again, let us borrow from the famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable is the truth.

These antagonist failed to acknowledge the courage of the President in setting up a committee to purge the oil industry which comprised people outside his sphere of influence. They failed to note that even Nuhu Ribadu testified that the President did not teleguide the committee either directly or via the Minister of Petroleum Resources. Rather they have approached the report with a pre conceived mindset.

The Nuhu Ribadu report covered a period that spanned many years. Most of the suspicious activities in that report occurred while others held sway in the ministry of Petroleum Resources, but all we are hearing is about the incumbent minister and her colleague in the ministry of finance. Why the targeted and selective tar brushing? Discretionary awards were rampant a mere four years ago, why is the name of the particular minister who held sway then not mentioned, I would hate to think that it is because he is from a certain geo-political region, but this is Nigeria where even elders constitute themselves into a forum to push for presidential candidates from their region so anything is possible!

The curious thing about this report is that some of the ills unearthed by Nuhu Ribadu's Committee were happening while he held sway as Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC). The Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force Report is as much a self indictment by Malam Ribadu on himself because he is saying that he was either incapable, or unwilling to tackle these ills when he was EFCC Chairman.

And I talked about motives. How about this for motive. About the time of his meeting with Malam Elrufai, the same Elrufai on his twitter profile came out to attack the professional standing of his former colleague when he stated on the 21st of September in a tweet that Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is "nowhere near" Sanusi Lamido Sanusi in intelligence!

Now I know that given that the CBN governor is married to the sister of one of Elrufai's three wives he would have a soft spot for him, but this statement coming around the time of his meeting with Ribadu evidences a motive to bring down the Coordinating Minister of the Economy as a first step in the ultimate plan to bring down the Jonathan administration.

If not, why the mad rush to accuse the current administration of burying the Ribadu Report even before it was submitted? I mean, there were four reports commissioned Including the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) Task Force, Governance and Controls Task Force, the National Refineries Task Force and the Petroleum Revenues Task Force.

The PIB is already before the National Assembly, so it is clear that there is political will to give life to the recommendation of the report, there is already reforms in place in the governmental sector with the most recent reform being the Performance Contract signed between President Jonathan and the Federal Cabinet and between the various ministers and heads of their Departments and Parastatals, and work is ongoing in the reform of our refineries.

So, why pick on the Ribadu Report?

I think the answer can be found in the same reason that the media mouth pieces of these antagonists refused to carry the story about Muhammadu Buhari and the Boko Haram peace talks offer.

It is now clear that the military campaign against Boko Haram by the Joint Task Force as well as the border closures ordered by President Jonathan in January 2012 are working and the noose is tightening around the neck of Boko Haram and those who have gained political traction by blaming the government for the insecurity occasioned by Boko Haram are at a loss and have to hurriedly come up with a new bogeyman to use in demonizing the Jonathan administration hence the desperation to latch on to the Ribadu report.

But they are fighting a losing battle. Malam Nuhu Ribadu himself inadvertently gave out that this report is not the smoking gun they have made it out to be. I will now quote what Ribadu himself said in the letter accompanying his committee's report.

Said Malam Ribadu and the Secretary of the Committee, Olasupo Sasore (SAN) who both signed the report "The data used in this report was presented by various stakeholders who made submissions to the task force in the course of our assignment at various dates which have been disclosed in relevant sections of the report. Due to the time frame of the assignment, some of the data used could not be INDEPENDENTLY VERIFIED and the Task Force recommends that the Government should conduct such necessary verifications and reconciliations."

Right here in black and white Ribadu is telling the world that the figures in his report are not factual, they are based on hearsay evidence that has not been corroborated and yet some persons are jumping up and down for joy at these figures.

Nigerians may want to consider the words of Segun Adeniyi who reported that in a discussion with Malam Elrufai after the death of President Yar'adua he complained to him that he, Elrufai, had unfairly vilified Turai Yar'adua to which Elrufai responded that there was nothing like a 'Turai cabal' but he simply made it up to serve a purpose!

But is it really true that the committee did not have enough time to verify the figures? Anybody who has seen the leaked report knows that it is time stamped August 2012, a full two months before it was officially submitted to the President on Friday November the 2nd.

Only a dim wit will believe that the Malam Nuhu Ribadu of the EFCC renown could not have verified figures in two months. Of course he could have if he wanted to. But did he want to verify? Would his report have been as sensational if he had taken time to verify these figures? The obvious answer is no.

Habit is a very difficult thing to break. Between 2002 when he was appointed EFCC Chair and 2008 when he was sent to 'school' by President Yar'adua, the most common complaint against Ribadu by Nigerians was that he rushed to the press to convict people in the media before he was sure of his case. It seems that Ribadu never broke free from that habit!

http://www.naijapundit.com/news/ribadu-boko-haram-and-creatures-of-habit

Interesting!

When Jungle Mature,
Chei! I love Naija,

Now the heat is on, police has no option than to apply any means possible to track down suspects.

IG already has one month to go, But Biu has a serious case to answer.

In less than 48 hours, the suspect has already passed BIU local government and is approaching chad,

There must be a BIU conspiracy there,

If the suspect truly escaped, i will believe anything said  now

24 season12!!
He hasnt excaped o!! The Nigerian police actually put a sting on him so that he can lead them to main hide out of the other Boko Haram's.

Watch out he will soon be in their custody , they are still using GPRS to trace him.  


Nonesense!!! All the security operatives aware of his detention place should sacked and jailed.
IGP should resign immediately. This is pure inside job.

Short of words.

This is the beginning of his failure if he is  not careful. Concentrating on things that do not enhance the performance  of the team, but  only add more criticism to him.

Beaf:
They look like Nairalanders. Has anyone been missing of late?

kai beaf go kill person with laughter !! ROFL

If you are not among them, better come and post here o, so that we know you are not missing

muyoto:
what has immunity got to do with this

I just kept wondering, why is that when journalist are arrested everybody just go wild.

Journalist can commit crime too. So there is nothing wrong arresting them if they do wrong!

I have an Honest question.

Do Journalist have immunity?

Only people like GenBuhari can create this type of thread!!

Best "performing government" my foot!!!

I had this same experience while travelling from Abuja to Lagos on Chachangi.

I said i will never fly that airline again

Their service in the plane wasn't up to standard. Really, something has to change.

nuclearboy:
I start to wonder if Beaf is not the main reason people hate GEJ.

On the contrary, many people including me, love GEJ because of Beaf!!

Why? Because Beaf says the fact just as it is without sentiments and fear.

Take for example this thread.

How can a poster post something, and then be analysing something completely different.  Thats not not wisdom.

Even if the poster has something else to add, he should fist of all analyse everything based on what he posted, before  adding other stuffs.

Otherwise he can just change the topic of the thread!!

Beaf is very corrrect!!!

Now Punch yourself and roll on the floor Mr Poster!!!!

jaybee:
the spontaneous responses to this thread shows why it is difficult to get to the root of most matters in Nigeria. non seems logical and conclusive.

why cant we nigerians be logical for once?

this guy made a useful statement. it can be a vey good starting point to unravel something about BH, thier existence, motives, and modus operandi. this statement does noet lead to any sensibl;e conclusions. the followup questions should. these are the clues and opportunities that our so-called intelligence agencies do miss, all the times, leading to the consistent unedning quagmirish investigations.

with all these utterances bombardments at yuguda, he will be threatened to withdraw into his shell and what else? no more info, and we continue beating about the bush, as usual.

So you call this useful statement?
Social injustice is no excuse for a crime, no matter how little it is.
And by the way what is the social injustice there?

This is the problem Nigeria has with this BH menace. The people that need to stand out and speak against this evil act are not doing so.

They are not bold enough to speak the truth. My question is this.

Is that they are afraid of the BH or they are secretly in support of the BH?

The solutions starts with our leaders answering these questions.

Baba remains one of the best president Nigeria has ever had,
Let Maradona not compare himself with him at all

Nothing wrong if he is qualified. Check out the Bush Family in America.

The fact is that, he might have advising his dad all this while, he is only being given an office now.

Buhari should start by Rejecting Kano results first.

All these buhaha will take him no where.

Its time for him to act mature and accept defeat.

I doubt his motives for Nigeria.

No election in world is 100% Rig-free, so Mr clean should not deceive us that he is trying to be transparent. I believe he has a hidden agenda

Supported!!. Lets see how he will perform there,

Mr clean, Mr stainless, Mr Jail-dem-all.

EFCC go fit oh, but certainly not Nigerian presidency

Thumbs up to Beaf!!!

You did extremely excellent in your analysis of Nigerian politics and your support fo GEJ.

I am proud to be on the same side with beaf since i joined nairaland.

Finally our laugh comes lasts.

A big round of applause to all the peace loving GEJ fans.

Congratulations to you all

boycottam:
is Beaf actually supporting Buhari?

Beaf is too wise to support a man like Buhari.
It is only the counterfeit Beaf with exclamation sign (Beaf!) that can support a clueless team called BB.

Good advice!!
Vote Umblerrra on Saturday.

Kai !!! Mama Patience will laughing now,

7 perfect reasons that manifested in April 9th elections. Am waiting to celebrate the final blow on April 16th.

To be frank, the people I actually pity are BB supporters. They are so blinded by their love for BB that refuse to see the reality of things on ground.
They play politics with bitterness and thereby bite the finger that is suppose to feed them.

Come saturday 16th, nairaland politics section will once more be purified, cos all the arrogant and insultive BB supporters that have hijacked the forum will go into hiding.

My Laugh comes last

Vote wisely. GEJ remains the best choice.!!!

We still believe In Jonathan. He is the change we need for now

Baba Iyabo, u too much!!

What are you guys saying? let the SSS investigate and get to the root of the matter.

We should not let guilty people work free because of our personal sentiments.

If these allegations were true, should this man be set free? Just because he an NPLF member and it is termed as political witch hunt.

When will the guilty be brought to book?

U will be shocked! Am still waiting to get the pictures of GEJ campaigns in Yola and Gombe,in which I was present. so that i will upload them.
U need to see the real crowd!!

If it is by crowd, I bet you BB is nowhere close to GEJ, maybe  a state or two.

Is not by making noise here on NL, go out and  see what is happening for real.

I have been out there physically in these campaigns, GEJ will surprise many.

Buhari is doing well in the north no doubt, but GEJ is making Tremendous impact all over.

Dont be deceived, the north is divided so dont think BB is all the way.

GEJ 2011