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A former Commissioner representing Akwa Ibom State on the board of the intervention agency, Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Pastor Godwin Moffat Eyo was, Monday, convicted and sentenced to three years imprisonment by an Akwa Ibom State High court for stealing 56 transformers meant for oil producing communities in the state.

The convict who was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a 56-count charge that borders on stealing and conversion of 56 electricity transformers released to him by NDDC for distribution to communities in Akwa Ibom state, was found guilty on 37 of those counts by Justice Idongesit Ntem B. Isua and sentenced to three years imprisonment on each of the counts. He was however discharged and acquitted on 19 counts. The sentences are to run concurrently.

The convict was said to have applied for 90 (Ninety) electricity transformers and 4 generators from NDDC for Akwa Ibom State sometime in February, 2006. Approval was given for 70 (Seventy) transformers but he diverted same to his house in Eket on the pretext that there was no space to accommodate the newly issued 70 units of transformers at the NDDC office in Uyo. He thereafter sent only 14 Units to NDDC office in Uyo while he withheld 56 units which he could not account for till date.

The 56 transformers are valued at Two Hundred and Twenty million, One hundred and Seventy Six thousand, Three hundred and Twenty Naira (N220, 176, 320).

One of the count reads, “That you Pastor Godwin Moffat Eyo being a former Akwa Ibom State representative on the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) on or about 14th April, 2006 at Uyo in the Uyo Judicial Division did fraudulently steal a 300 KVA/33/0.415 Transformer Serial No. 1712496 valued at Four Million, Eighteen Thousand, Five Hundred and Sixty Naira (N4,018,560.00), property of NDDC and thereby committed an offence of stealing contrary to Section 399 and punishable under Section 404 of the Criminal Code Cap. 38, Volume 2, Laws of Akwa Ibom State, 2000”.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/pastor-gets-three-years-jail-for-stealing-56-transformers/

Time will tell..buh May God 4bid a saraki senate presidency. That guy is dangerous

laplace12:
I sense women bashing coming to this thread

lool..bros, talk ur mind. I sure say u sef wan bash am..@ the age of 40, some1 is still saying she is not in a relationship buh marrying this year...hmm, I don't understand

The fact that she has no regret for not being in a man's house by now, means she is not ready to marry.

She must be that man she wants to marry.

Nollywood actress and businesswoman, Amaka Okere, recently celebrated her 40th birthday with her loved ones, who turned up for the special occasion.

But in an interview with Encomium, the celebrant was not all happy because she did not mark the day in her husband’s hiuse.

She said, "The only thing I feel is lacking is the fact that I am not in a man’s house. I don’t have any regret. The only thing I am not happy about is the fact that I celebrated my 40th birthday alone, instead of doing it with my family."

The mother of three further revealed that she will be getting married later in the year, but said she is not yet in a relationship.

http://www.nigeriafilms.com/news/32880/26/i-regret-clocking-40-without-husbandpretty-actress.html

I don't know why we are yet to see the core tanoids online to defend this. By now, they shld know how blind they ve been.

Na wa o .. This money no dey finish? Abacha why?

DesChyko:
It's obvious you don't even know how to use the word 'hypocrisy'.
Many a PDP stalwarts have decamped to APC. If PDP is referred to as being corrupt since her inception, then all her members all these years have been supportive to corruption.
To say that APC is incorruptible in the same breath is 'hypocrisy'.

Any further counter on this from you requires only one response; a link to download MSDict.

lyk a sheep without direction, u just interfered in a matter that doesn't concern u. If you continue this way, u surely won't live long

Why now? For how long have we bn asking for the release of the full audit report? Why is it coming after Buhari's vow to probe em? This still won't stop the probing



The fear of Buhari is truly the beginning of wisdom.

Koolking:
PDP can never come back. It's been dead and buried. Members of PDP were held hostage by the power that be when the party reigned supreme. APC ascendance to presidency marked the exodus of PDPites.

The party betrayed loyalists and made traitors. PDP can never come back, rather I see break up in APC to form a new opposition stronger than PDP (as opposition). Just like what happened in AD/AC.

Politicians in Nigeria are not loyal to parties, they are loyal to any government in power.

I strongly agree with you.

nwaanambra1:
Ahmed pls say it the way he will understand - PDP IS DEAD AND BURIED!

these little foot-soldiers making noise online don't really know what is going on.

ALL THE NAMES LISTED ABOVE WILL SOON DECAMP TO OTHER PARTIES IN 2 YEARS TIME!

THE SHOCKER WILL BE WHEN GEJ WILL DECAMP TO APC IN THE NEXT 8 MONTHS! HE IS ALREADY FEELING BETRAYED BY THE PARTY STRUCTURE HENCE HIS REQUEST THAT ALL HIS CAMPAIGN BILLBOARDS BE DISMANTLED! AM VERY SURE HE WILL SWITCH TO APC BECAUSE IF YOU NOTICE, HE HAS FOUND A BETTER FRIEND IN THE PERSON OF BUHARI AND IT SEEMS BUHARI HAVE A VERY SOFT SPOT FOR GEJ - HE NEVER FAIL TO PRAISE HIM AT ANY SLIGHTEST OPPORTUNITY!

@ the emboldened, loool ..this is very true.

nwaanambra1:
after buhari have set things aright in eight years of his administration (if God grant him life and good health as we pray for him), there will no more be incompetent President in Nigeria till we get to the level of American Development of which after that, our problem will no longer be infrastructure and electricity but servicing the economy. Then, any asshole can be allowed to rule though he will still be monitored by some advanced Nigerians to make sure he doesn't take us back to the stone age.

His Excellency GEJ will actually be the last clueless man to rule Nigeria.

ur head dey there. Na forward u go dey go for life

SeverusSnape:
Shut up already!... Okay, tell me what's hypocrisy.

why u dey para na? D talk hit u? No vex, severusSNAKE

SeverusSnape:
Why should they remove GEJ?...How can you say GEJ "singlehandedly" sank the PDP... Later you will still say PEJ and Doyin Okupe contributed to the "sinking".
Please tell me something else.

GEJ is a body..doyin okupe and co are parts of his body. For every success recorded during GEJ's regime, he alone took all the praises..,now tell me, why can't we blame him alone for the failures?

SeverusSnape:
Says who...Do you know who babaonechance is?... A man that has started denying his campaign promises.
Pdp this.. PDP that... I ASK, Most of the people who destroyed this country in these 16 years, Are they not in APC now?, Please stop this hypocrisy.

pls stop misusing the word "hypocrisy".. You use a word when you know what it means and not because u see pple using it.

SeverusSnape:
Where is FAYOSE?
Please they should remove that OBJ and replace it with Fayose.

I was expecting you to type they shld remove GEJ and put Fayose..because GEJ single handedly sank the PDP ship. His years of leadership opened the eyes of Nigerians.



Jungle don mature, lion don dey use clipper. No president will ever lead us "anyhow" anymore

Forget all this story, PDP can only be given another chance if and only IF APC performs unbearably below expectations.(Which is impossible with Buhari as the front man)..or performs worse than the PDP in its 16years of reign.(Misrule)

wordcat:
They are fighting for God young man, simply support thr military in any way you can to defeat Bh instead.

you mean to say "god"? Cos its definately not the true God we serve

Acekidc4:
GOD in Heaven will Punish and Wipe out those Boko Idiots IJN

Amen!! Amen!!

Buh wat I don't understand and may never understand is "Even with the combination of Nigeria, chad ,camerounian and niger army, they still see sambisa forest as a no go area. Abeg what is in that Sambisa forest? Why have have these pple bn fighting boko haram on different fields other than the main field wich is Sambisa forest, until recently? Anybody living close to sambisa on nairaland? Pls I need to know more about that place




@ your signature, you mean your grandpa was responsible for the death of those innocent passengers?

A security source, who confided in our correspondent on Sunday, said the Boko Haram members invaded a military camp in Bosso through a riverside community in the early hours of SundayBoko Haram militias have killed several soldiers in Dosso community in Niger.

It was stated that the insurgents stormed the camps from different directions and killed some of the soldiers and injured many.

The source said the Nigeriens suffered a heavy casualty because the soldiers were not on the alert.

They were said to have relaxed because of the feeling that the Boko Haram members had either been wiped out or weakened.
The source said, “Boko Haram attacked a military camp in Dosso, a border community in Niger. They came into the cam from several directions.

“The insurgents sneaked into the military camp when the soldie
rs were relaxed; they were not expecting the attack. I think that explains why several of them were killed.
“
The Ministry of Defence of Niger was reported to have confirm
ed the unfortunate incident.We can’t give the exact number but the government of Niger is calling a National Security meeting which means that those killed were many.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/boko-haram-members-kill-nigerien-soldiers/

Wich kain source b ds

dutchjongen:
I've put the source

tnx op..you must make front page

Nice 1 baba..Naija go sweet die from may 29.

Those frog-eyes will look more beautiful behind bars..


*Opolo eye e no be open eye*...singing in D'banj's voice

millionaireman:
Stupeeeed. Capital punishment is odious, bad. Many innocent people are killed by capital punishment. It's not a question of Nigeria and Indonesia.

silly post.. Use ur head b4 ur nxt post

nduchucks:
I see you are not lazy, very Good. Now show us the statistics of how many people were convicted of the crime and their countries of origin. Then tell us why the've decided to execute more Nigerians. According to your graph they've executed 6 and are getting ready to waste 4 more, yet you are here defending them. Stop defending unfair treatment of Nigerians.

Are you their agent

na wa 4 u o Bros..when Nigerians commit the offence the most, what do you expect? U and I know Nigerians with this "I must survive" attitude na.

nduchucks:
I'm afraid you've completely missed the point I was making. I don't think there is anything I can do to rectify your comprehension.

stop getting emotional here guy. If u want to understand, put sentiment aside. you are the one with comprehension problem..giv me the name of any1 found guilty of this offence in indonesia that went scot free cos he is American..here again is the statistics ..you can confirm here
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-26/zhang-indonesia-likely-to-execute-more-foreigners/6263122

nduchucks:
Its the application of the law that is questionable. Go and research how many Westerners have been executed for violating the same law.

FYI: Not a single American who violated the same law has ever been executed.

my friend, that still doesn't make drug trafficking by Nigerians legal..indonesia has always got the appetite for executing foreigners and that's more of the reason why the foreigners need to be very careful too..

Plus, In an occasion or two, brazilians, australians and some others have bn executed for drug trafficking in indonesia.. So why naija own go differnt?

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-26/zhang-indonesia-likely-to-execute-more-foreigners/6263122

nduchucks:
Do we have Indonesian citizens in Nigeria who can be charged with choice crimes and sentenced to death? For each Nigerian they execute there, we should respond with 4 Indonesian citizens. nansense

if according to their law, the penalty for a crime such as drug trafficking is death, then so be it. Stop sounding as if they hate Nigerians. Bn Nigerian doesn't mean you shld go to anoda man's land and commit offences punishable by death..

Afterall, Nigerians are not the first set of foreigners to be killed in indonesia for an offence as this..May God give their sympathizers the strength to bear this.

Wat do u xpect from a Pig

wisdomguy4u:
Frm your posts it's obvious that you are silly ... Any tribe has right to make millions of demand if they like, whether ibo, hausa or yoruba . When this tribal war u are inciting will explode, I promise u that u and ur entire family will be the first to go six feet below. And mine you, am not an ibo

U b mumu..u will neva b wise...who is asking u if u r ibo or not? Why defending yourself b4 i attack u? You talk of death as if you hav power over pple's life...you think I fear death? My creator owns my life and he will take it anytime it pleases him..you and your family may even die b4 the year ends(if God wills).

My point is, why can't the ibo pple calm down..since buhari emerged as the president, they ve bn making one demand or the other..I am not saying they shldnt make demands buh there demands are coming too early and too much..you just don't comprehend

babydioku:
And you people have shame? Shameless-bacteria-infested-one-wrapper-wearing-women-tribe

hey quote ur likes and not me..do something about your supposed pride you ve made a public show on your profile..if you have shame, you won't be exposing your breasts on a public forum as this...*angry*

SeverusSnape:
Now what is this man insinuating

lol..you don dey squeeze face..have u read the interesting part where he said GEJ is naïve?

Governor Musa Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State was perhaps one of the most vocal of the five governors that quit the PDP mid-way into preparations for the 2015 general election to join forces with then opposition party APC. In this interview with a group of Journalists in Abuja, Kwakwanso tells the story of how they defeated PDP and what APC must not do to avoid pitfalls, Onyebuchi Ezigbo was there for THISDAY and provides excerpts…

People thought it will not be possible for any government to unseat the present PDP government. How did APC deal with the challenge?

First of all I want to thank you for congratulating me and my party APC for this landslide victory in the last two elections on the 28th of March and 11th of April. Let me also use this opportunity to congratulate you also for that success because our success is success for all Nigerians especially those of us in government. Even you in the media  have done so much to promote the party. The success of APC I believe is the success of this country of course plus our brothers and sisters across the world. We have to say that the election especially  of March 28 has gone a long way in bringing in a lot of quality change in this country even before the President-elect , Muhammadu Buhari is sworn in.  I am sure you have seen how the Naira appreciated, you must have seen how the stock has also appreciated and I think that is a good sign for this country.  I am sure the president when sworn in, will do whatever it takes to get the politics right and by doing that many other things will fall in line like security, economy and of course corruption will be taken care of and all other vices of the economy will be tackled by the new administration. So we feel very happy that things are happening positively and I am also happy that it has been peaceful and the election went very well and the results were internationally and locally accepted as free, fair and credible.

This victory has been a surprise to most Nigerians and it sure didn’t come so easy. As one of those  who were actually in the field can you recount what the experience was like?

Well,  it didn’t come as a surprise to us. It would have been a surprise if APC lost the elections. Then you must not forget that PDP and the government, this last administration of PDP made so many mistakes. Most of them huge mistakes.  So,  some people will have been surprised if they were re-elected. This president should thank God that he spent six years and during that six years, many mistakes were made especially as it has to do with  corruption. He didn’t get the politics right to the extent that many important members of the party left.  Yet they had no experience in protecting the people of the party. Many vital leaders of the party and former chairmen and EXCO members of the party left. So much has happened in the party negatively and they were blindfolded to the extent that they couldn’t even take care of the problem talk less of doing something to stop it and at the end of the day this is what has happened to the party.  And to us in the field as you rightly pointed out it didn’t come to us as a surprise. It came as a result of hard work, real organisation within the party, sacrifices  members made among other  and so on and so forth. So it came as a result of people who believe in this country, people who believe that change is imminent and it was necessary because we want peace in this country. The government made mistakes on the issue of security, when the process started it started very small and it was allowed to grow and the insurgents were allowed to have the capacity and even took a large chuck of the country as well as some forces. At the end of the day we really don’t know what happened but government decided to improve on the political will and at the end of the day you have seen what has happened just within six weeks and if they had used that political will right from the beginning, I believe that most of the lives not all of them that were lost as a result of insurgency won’t have been lost. Most of the properties that were been destroyed as a result of the insurgency won’t have been destroyed.

There are so many losses, like our children in the North-east that were unable  to go to school, like all other economic activities that were crippled and with this in-coming administration, it will come in with a deliberate policy to help the North-east because it has been through a terrible war and therefore will need the support of the incoming administration to build their homes and to build their lives so that they can catch-up with other parts of this country.

You pulled the second highest votes during the APC presidential primaries. Kano State also had the highest votes for the APC president Buhari and you are also the Excellency with the highest vote in the country. How did you manage to achieve that?

Let me say that I deliberately joined the contest to become a senator, firstly to ensure that Buhari got the maximum number of votes. It wasn’t a matter of just winning in Kano but to get the maximum number and to make sure PDP didn’t get 25 percent. Buhari  is a popular man in Kano and many parts of the north but my candidature and his candidature on the same day was needed to certainly boost that figure. In order words which was better than my only candidature and his only candidature on that day and that was why I decided and accepted the offer by my people to contest for the senatorial seat. For the presidential primary I am very happy that I participated and as you rightly pointed out I was second many people thought that I will do otherwise but that is election and the point is most of the time better to be underrated and see that all of you that were speculating that it was between our leader Buhari and Atiku but when the result came you saw how it turned out. I believe that it was a fair reflection of what happened in Lagos even though I stated lately, even though most people didn’t know me at that time but I think it was great. I was happy and I enjoyed myself. My supporters across the country had done so much and we are happy that the primaries went that way even though I didn’t get the ticket but in my own way I won the election.

What does that say for you in the future? Do you think that it gives you the hope to try at it again, I mean the presidency?

I don’t want to say so much. In this game you don’t elevate yourself, it is best for one to be directed and I am happy to say that I started very well and I will continue to work to support the party and the government of APC to succeed. Because certainly we will be the last people to allow what happened to PDP to happen to APC. PDP was carried away by it successes to the extent that all those who have supported it were hit  one way or the other and nobody was important.  Even those of us with the highest number of supporters in the country and those of us, that by the grace of God have the confidence of the people were not been carried along by PDP.  That is why we are hoping and praying that APC should learn from the bad experience of PDP. PDP elevated itself telling everybody and bragging that they will rule for 60 years and a long time before now we told everybody it wasn’t 60 but 16 years and what happened recently has proved us right.  PDP was supposed to rule  for over 60 years if it was doing the right thing for its  members and Nigeria, but unfortunately the last leadership didn’t handle the politics right and in this business once you fail to get the politics right all other things like security, economy, infrastructure everything will not fall into place and that is exactly what we have seen in this current administration.


People are calling the President a hero for accepting defeat. Will you likely agree with that?

Yes, I believe the President is naive because he had all the opportunities to change direction. I don’t blame him, he didn’t play the sort of game for sometime at the national level. He didn’t know who was who in this country. He was just looking at faces and those who were well dressed and carrying many cell phones and they meet at the airport, they smile and he says well these are good people and sits down to listen to gossips and sometimes he doesn’t even know their names. He made a big mistake by picking the wrong people, let me tell you, our leaders who have been in this game before us especially those who were in the First Republic told us so much about our friends in this country and he happens to come from South south where they are very close to our leaders. We have done everything possible to work with him but of course, he vandalised the opportunities. He didn’t handle it very well up to the extent that most of us saw that we don’t have any future as PDP members and as individuals and that is why we had to come together to organise ourselves to defeat him. Look at what his wife was saying that northerners are this and that; how could you say that to northerners? You can’t insult us and think that you will get away with it. This is democracy, it is a game of numbers and that is why we went back and put Almajiras together to get about two million votes.

Some people in this country feel the senate is like taking you away from certain Nigerians and  have called that you  be  made the FCT minister or any other position in the country what is your take on this?

You see, in this game, if you look at it very critically what you need to do is just to be a politician first. In 1991 when I left my job as a civil servant I worked for 17 years in Kano and when I retired from civil service in 1991, I contested as a member of House of Representative and Deputy Speaker of that House. I was an elected delegate and in 1994/1995. I was governor 1997 and 1993 I was minister of defence for about four years, I was adviser to the president in Somali, I was a member of NDDC representing North-west political zone. Now, you can see that from legislation to political conference to executive at state level to executive at national level and so on and so forth. You don’t go there with a fixed mind; you have to be this or you have to be that. You know I contested as you rightly pointed out to be an APC candidate for the presidency where I came second and when I went back, who won the primary elections of our party thought I would be a good asset at the National Assembly and many other well wishers came to ask me to contest which I accepted and now I am a senator-elect of the Federal Republic and you can see that so many things have been done and now the issue you are raising is an issue that I have also seen in the newspaper, on the social media and so on and so forth. I have seen some residents of Abuja asking the president to appoint me Minister of FCT, I have seen and I can assure you that I don’t know any of them and they had their reasons and I don’t see them as enemies. I see them as people that wanted to benefit from similar projects that have been done in Kano. My position has always been that whatever I am doing, I do open hearted and open handed. I am here to support the party at any position. Those talking about Kano, Kano is only the recent development and if you like go and ask those who were in the house with me, I am one of the most popular people even amongst the principle officers and I can tell you that part of my success at the elections were members of the House of Representatives in the House many of them in APC, many of them in PDP because of I had to cross the line to join APC because in APC constitution members of the house of reps or former members are to elect our president. So many of them across the country came to our party APC because of that my candidature and they have gone a long way in ensuring that the success that I had in Lagos during the primaries and so if you ask them, they will tell you that what I did in the house wasn’t any different from what I did in Kano and what I am doing in Kano now. We thank Almighty God. I always believe it is good to be good as the saying goes and we will continue to be good.

On zoning of key positions of the Speaker of  House of Reps and the Senate President, what advise will you give your party?

My advise is that they should quickly do it as we witnessed what happened in 2011. I believe the party shouldn’t waste anymore time because the implication of delay is that some people will go around the country mobilise support for themselves and if the zoning decides to come late they will be very strong in their campaign to the extent that they can disobey the party just as we have seen during the Tambuwai thing in 2011. Tambuwai went round the country, we gave him our words as a person that we will support him and when the zoning came late we had already committed ourselves to that project and the party at the end of the day was humiliated because we didn’t want to change our position because we promised to support him and with some members of the opposition at that time he won the election against the government’s candidate and things have never been the same again with the PDP because I believe that the man who got the ticket had more appreciation to the opposition rather than those in the party who rarely supported him. I don’t want us to repeat that mistake again. I think it is high time we finish the zoning but anybody can aspire to whatever has been zoned to his or her own part of the country.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/rabiu-kwankwaso-you-cannot-insult-the-north-and-think-you-can-get-away-with-it-/207732/