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He said the report was the handiwork of “some misguided fellows” who have attempted to link him “with the forces of corruption that are fighting back in the country.

WailingWailers, how far na?

https://leadership.ng/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/falana-300x225.jpg
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria and human rights activist, Chief Femi Falana (SAN) has refuted media report suggesting that he gave former President Goodluck Jonathan a clean bill of health as fighting corruption in a more civilized manner.

In an interview he granted channels television, Falana had noted that Jonathan’s administration recovered $970 million from late head of state, Sani Abacha and sacked three of his ministers.

This remark by the learned silk was culled from the interview and reported that he allegedly said Jonathan fought corruption in a more civilised manner than President Muhammadu Buhari.

But in a statement he issued yesterday as a rebuttal, Falana described the said report as a “desperate move to discredit the anti corruption programme of the Muhammadu Buhari admistration”.

He said the report was the handiwork of “some misguided fellows” who have attempted to link him “with the forces of corruption that are fighting back in the country.

“I never made such a stupid statement. Hence, the “suggestion” ascribed to me is grossly misleading and downright dishonest”, Falana stated even as he challenged the reactionary forces that have twisted and manipulated his views to reproduce any statement made by him suggesting that President Jonathan fought corruption in a civilised manner.

He said, to expose the mala fide of the satanic forces that are desperate to sustain corruption and impunity in the country, Nigerian readers “may wish to check my full interview in www.channels.tv and Sunday Punch of August 23. 2015”.

On what he actually said Falana said, “In accusing the influential members of the National Peace Committee of gargantuan hypocrisy I did say that their chairman, General Abbdulsami Abubakar even probed the dead and recovered properties and over $1 billion from the Abacha loot which are contained in the Forfeiture Decree No 45 of 1999.

“With respect to President Jonathan I never said that those actions were taken quietly as they were announced and celebrated in the media by the Jonathan administration”.

The statement made available to LEADERSHIP yesterday continued: “Consequently, I questioned the motive of the members of the National Peace Committee in calling for ‘soft landing’ for corrupt people.“Convinced that the call was a demonstration of class solidarity I urged the Buhari administration not to be deterred in prosecuting the anti-corruption war.

“In fact, I did not hesitate in supporting President Buhari’s anti-corruption policy by citing section 15 of the Constitution which has imposed a duty on the Nigerian State to abolish corrupt practices and abuse of power”.

http://leadership.ng/news/456612/i-didnt-absolve-jonathan-on-corruption-war-falana

Cc: lalasticlala

francizy:
This is a lesson, be warned Midoliar! Stop stealing iya kamo kerosene!!

I don't even know whether to laugh or cry over this..This is really funny buh mehn! I pity the man. Only God knows what he went through inside that hell of a tank b4 breathing his last.

May His Soul Rest In Peace.

And who is he threatening?

Austin4lif:
he was mad becos ur northern brodas Scam us with Change. I hope u are enjoing the change

yes bro

wiseoneking:
And you took oshi-ole seriously. Osi-ole means thief in igbo and yoruba. Coincident or what!.

coincident

Happiness87:
you are wating for TVC or The nation abi na sahara desert

lol..@ least a reputable source.

Saraki neva sabi anything! There is always an extent to which sycophancy can go. This is how they will team up against him when the time is right for impeachment

Eerrm, but wait o! which body is there to check the excesses of the crime agencies?

Nigerianpoliticsonline.com

Let's not forget Orubebe was mad for few minutes and apologised some minutes later. He shouldn't be taken seriously

francizy:
Midoliar, so from your yeye analysis, Mogidi should be giving me a nightmare right?

of course! Yeye fowl wey no dey lay better egg

midolian:
Hello lalasticlala,,...I was wrongly banned by the anti-spam bot. Pls help me look into it. I have mailed the mods and nothing is yet to be done about it. Thanks

thanks lalasticlala, the problem is fixed.

modath:
Awwhhh pele dear, but that is not an insult cos anyone that can support jonathan does not have any discerning skills, moreover ever since your hero's exit, you've been a bitter & pained walking error.. You are forgiven for all misdeeds..... E-hug.

@midolian, do you want a happily married mother of 3?

lol..don't mind that guy.

francizy:
Oh, na even this one, I think say na better person self.. Mtsewww! By the way, I think you should get married to midoliar cuz your monikers look kinda similar at a glance. modaft

SMH! you see ya life? Na so u stalk me so tey u go dey attack the wrong person. U don see now say na pest u be true true

modath:
@midolian come ooo, one ranking wailer say you be woman ooo...

lol..don't mind that pest called francizy. He revels so much in stalking me. I don't even know where he knows me from. I am not surprised he mistook your moniker for mine. Any moniker that starts with "M" gives him sleepless night.

Hello lalasticlala,,...I was wrongly banned by the anti-spam bot. Pls help me look into it. I have mailed the mods and nothing is yet to be done about it. Thanks

What's too raw about this? Na worwor girl sef..mtcheew!

Officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC), were on Wednesday walked out of the public hearing session of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petition on N1 trillion scam leveled against the chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde, by a concerned Nigerian, George Uboh.

This was even as the image of the agency they represented, was badly damaged by the petitioner with his submissions before the committee, one of which was the allegation that Lamorde gave some of the choice properties seized from former Bayelsa State governor, DSP Alamieyesigha and others, to Usman Lamorde, his younger brother .

The EFCC officials led by Chile Okoroma , the head of Legal Services, walked themselves into trouble at the hearing by seeking permission to make contribution despite earlier request made by the commission for extension of date of appearance before the committee.

After hearing the submissions of the petitioner against the EFCC boss, Okoroma sought permission to make some comments upon which his identity and that of his other colleagues were demanded by the chairman of the Committee, Senator Samuel Anyanwu ( PDP Imo East).

The disclosure of being officials of the EFCC did not go down well with the chairman and other members of the committee, based on the fact that as a body, EFCC had earlier forwarded an official letter to the committee earlier in the day for extension of date of appearance of its chairman, Lamorde before the committee in respect of the petition.

But Okoroma went ahead to make his comment without permission by describing the method being adopted by the committee to conduct the public hearing as unjust and contrary to the law, saying “it is very wrong for a petitioner to be heard publicly in the absence of the person the petition is against.”

An outburst that made a member of the committee, Senator Rafiu Ibrahim ( APC Kwara South) to request for walking out of the EFCC officials from the session, since they were not even expected to be in attendance , let alone, administered oath, for the purposes of commenting at the session.

He said: Mr Chairman, in line with our tradition and relevant rules governing this type of session, since Okoroma and the other EFCC officials here , are not known to have been here in the first place, but decided to be here and even went ahead to start commenting without being administered oath for that purpose, I move that the Chairman walk them out of the session”

A motion the committee chairman spontaneously acted upon by asking the the three EFCC officials and other lawyers who accompanied them to immediately leave the venue of the hearing session.

But Okoroma even after been walked out of the session , still insisted that the method being adopted by the committee in hearing the petitioner, was illegal and unjustifiable.

He said: ” This committee is a committee of the Senate, known as one of the lawmaking institutions in the country but what we are seeing today, is law breaking because it is wrong for a petitioner to be heard in the public in the absence of the person, the entire petition is against”

Meanwhile, at the hearing session, the petitioner, George Uboh made series of submissions backed with facts and figures , indicating that the anti graft body , must have defrauded the country to the tune of N2.051trillion from seized properties and funds of individuals under investigation by the commission.

According to him, on Naira recoveries alone, ‘In a December 02, 2011 letter EFCC sent to the Chairman, House Committee on Drugs, Narcotics and Financial Crimes, EFCC stated that the aggregate recoveries from 2004 to 2011 (8 financial years) was N1,326,754,554,482:80. EFCC did not mention where the N1.3 Trillion recovered was remitted to. EFCC’s claim that it did not recover up to a Trillion is complete false.

He gave the breakdown as follows –
2004—N7,070,693,130:00
2005—N965,651,737,039:00
2006—N6,622,261,783:79
2007—N7,700,150,381:20
2008—N18,141,628,546:98
2009—N130,885,187,726:83
2010—N52,877,464,867:00
2011—N137,805,431,008:08

He disclosed further that ” In EFCC’s “SUMMARY OF EFCC MONETARY RECOVERIES 2003-MARCH, 2013” (11 financial years), EFCC stated that the aggregate recoveries for eleven financial years is N497,385,427,485:63; EFCC did not mention where the N497.3 Billion recovered was remitted to, going by the following breakdown-
2003—N974,783,213:06
2004—N21,018,557,263:28
2005—N71,053,996,008:60
2006—N8,199,908,189:03
2007—N41,479,032,319:70
2008—N44,542,822,622:30
2009—N255,306,693,033:55
2010—N10,559,513,355:91
2011—N11,117,460,717:88
2012—N27,844,769,688:19
2013—N5,287,891,074:13

Uboh who stated that the documents submitted were prepared under the chairmanship of Lamorde , went further to disclose that total recoveries to be remitted as confirmed by EFCC are 1.995 Trillion + 48.9 Billion + 7.3 Billion + .4 Billion =N 2.051 Trillion, asking “AFTER RECOVERING OVER 2 TRILLION HOW DID THE FUNDS MELT AWAY?

He went further by alleging that in defrauding the Nation of seized funds from corrupt Nigerians under investigation, EFCC under Lamorde also indulges in doctoring of Bank Accounts and diversion of already seized loots.

He said: Two access bank recovery account statements tendered herein show Opening balances of -0- as of 1, July 2004, but no transaction occurred until June/July 2008 respectively. These transactions are expunged Where are the funds deposited between July 2004 and June/July, 2008?

“EFCC diverted and concealed N779 Million Naira of recoveries from Tafa Balogun in its record (aggregate should be 3,037,255,521.60 – not 2,258,100,516.98); Instead of transferring 3.3 billion from Spring bank to its Access bank recovery account, EFCC transferred only 2.2 billion and concealed it by understating the summation of the balances in the various accounts hence the access bank statement had 2.2 Billion Naira after the concealment”

He consequently concluded by urging the committee to urge the Federal Government to compel EFCC to remit 2.051 Trillion to the Federal Government of Nigeria.

He added: “Access bank should be compelled to bring complete and unadulterated statements from 2004 till date.

“Aminu Ibrahim and co, Auditors, should be compelled to come and shed light on discrepancies in its records and that of the already traced EFCC accounts.

After his submissions, the Committee Chairman, Sam Anyanwu, said the allegations are very weighty and the committee will look into them very seriously but added that, they are on a facts -finding mission and not out to run down anybody or agency.

http://leadership.ng/news/456420/n2-051trn-scam-petitioner-strips-efcc-naked-before-senate

eleojo23:
The man is going to defect to APC.

With all these defections, what is actually the difference between APC and PDP?

And why does APC rejoice when people defect from PDP to APC?
I thought they said that everything in PDP is bad and that they (APC) represent a fresh start?
But here they are - welcoming PDP defectors with open arms.

Mtchew...these APC people have no clear-cut ideology.

They are not serious.

Far from what you think. The APC doesn't rejoice when pple defect from PDP to APC. It is nafin to rejoice over. APC has always said it wants a strong opposition that will keep it on its toes. We are only ridiculing the PDP and not rejoicing over the defection of its member. Plus this man hasn't even stated the party he is defecting to.

You know its fun to watch the members of the PDP criticize their own party.

chukwudi44:
PDP has already dumped Ndoma Egba by denying him the ticket!!There was lots of jubilation in Ikom the day he lost the ticket!!! Many people has already become disenchanted with him in the senatorial zone!!!

if Jonathan decamps tomorrow, chukwudi will still say something like this

BeeBeeOoh:
in Buhari's voice, "U Don Nak Hand Por Tiffer Wey Kari Sand..

I see say u sef don dey decamp small small. Yesterday or day b4, I remember you said you don't belong in the PDP anymore.


Everybody is leaving PDP.

BeeBeeOoh:
Set" as a future tense, call me when it's Present-Happening Tense

drop your number

Temitemi1, firefire and mogidi, how una dey na?

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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is set to suffer another humiliating defection, as the immediate past Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba, has voiced out his frustrations in the party, stating that he cannot continue to “hang around” the PDP anymore.

It will be recalled that speculations had been rife that he is set to move to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Ndoma-Egba, however, in a chat with The Nation on Wednesday, said: “What I would say is that for the past three years, I have not had any political life within the PDP because I was shut out and I still have political life in me. So I cannot hang around hoping for PDP for the rest of my life. I am not getting younger.”

On his new choice of party, he added: “Definitely I would seek a platform to express my political life and consultations are still going on. When we conclude the consultations, I would issue a statement and it would be a very loud and clear statement.”

Reacting to a reported request by members of the APC that he apologize to them for allegedly persecuting them in the last elections, the former Senate Leader said: “The philosophy of PDP was to destroy Victor Ndoma-Egba. They spent more time pursuing me than they spent pursuing elections. Now in the last election, I did not even show up because I was shut out completely. Some of my supporters had left for APC and others to Labour Party. So I did not even come home. I was in Abuja all through the elections.

“I was politically inactive during that period. I did not follow PDP or anybody to any campaign. I was here in Abuja. So who were the people I persecuted, when I was being persecuted myself? I was fighting for my own dear life. So who were the people I persecuted? Where did they see me? If I were to persecute anybody, it would be people in PDP. So where are these coming from? The people who said I should apologize, they should tell me who to apologize to and for what.”

http://dailypost.ng/2015/08/26/pdp-set-for-another-humiliation-as-ndom-egba-concludes-plans-to-dump-party/

Ucheosefoh:
Like role model like who is looking up to him touts

coolitempa:
Agbaje....the ibo candidate....Dia is God o......

lool.. Reminds me of my role model and his lagoon talk

Double wahala for dead body

The Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal on Wednesday affirmed the verdict of the Lagos State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal which upheld the declaration of Akinwunmi Ambode as the winner of the April 11, 2015 governorship election in Lagos State.

The appellate court aligned with the July 1, 2015 decision of the Justice Muhammad Sijaro-led tribunal which declared as incompetent and therefore struck out the petition by the second runner-up in the said election, Jimi Agbaje, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party.

The five-man appeal panel, after dismissing Agbaje’s appeal on the grounds of incompetence, ordered him to compensate each of the respondents in the sum of N50,000 each.

Ambode had been returned winner of the April 11, 2015 poll by the Independent National Electoral Commission having polled 811,994 votes ahead of Agbaje who polled 659,788 votes.

http://www.punchng.com/news/acourt-upholds-ambodes-victory-fines-agbaje/

Lalasticlala

PRYCE:
So you don't support Mr. Buhari's Amnesty offer for the boko hamists? I'm surprised!


BTW, Even you don't think GEJ's wicked!

lol.. I don't have to support everything buhari does..you should know that

Shebarh:
I hope Nigeria police don't call u for investigation

lool..

Hehehhehe..

His "contribution" to the presidential election proves Oshiomole right. Orubebe had his fears..The display wasn't just for the luv he had for GEJ. we should have known