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Shame, I have not enjoyed any largesse from Nigeria. I have always paid my bills and have done so many good things for Nigeria for free. Now it is my turn to make money in a ''neat'' manner
In my quest to do so, I will NEVER do any of the following
1. Armed robbery
2. Kidnapping
3. Pen robbery
4. 419
5. Stealing
6. rituals
7. killing (as a hired assasin)

I am prepared to work even with demons such as Atiku and IBB to make NEAT money. Jonathan is not going to drop so much money because he is already the president. He may spend little or nothing and still win. It is only a matter of manipulating the vote counts. In contrast desperadoes like IBB/Atiku  will drop big dough in a bid to outstage incumbency and that is the badwagon I intend to jump in. I wish I were a Nigerian lawyer (SAN level and above) who litigate for thieving politicians and make money from their (politician's) ill-gotten wealth without themselves being considered corrupt. For example the lawyer that defended THIEF BODE GEORGE must now be swimming in money, yet no one will list him as a corrupt Nigerian on that basis. That is the type of neat money I wanna make henceforth (make money off of corrupt leaders without raising an eyebrow). Oh! I was dreaming!!!!!!!!!!!!

ojigbi jigbi jigbi. Eko ti baje tele tele! BRF is only baje-ing it finally.

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So what do you think? Any opinions?

Ileke-IdI:
Yea, I read that #3m was taken from them. . . . but still havent read from A source where they linked that #3m to a Gov.

This is a VERY serious allegation. Although it's not impossible, but it would be kind of nice to read it from a SOURCE.

''Asked how they came about the N3m, he said, “When we went for the NEC meeting, the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Godswill Akpabio, gave us N1m as fulfilment of his promise to bankroll a national seminar which we had in the state three months ago.



“He also gave each NEC official N100,000 as transport fare. I also had some money on me because I had been travelling recently. Other people had some money on them too''.

Read the full story here http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20100719359442

I know they are not saying the whole truth about the money.

na_so:
While I am of not sure of the actual sum, I have been curious even with the 3million. We are talking cash here. With the level of coverage of most banks and the ease to transfer funds, I still find it difficult to understand the justification to carry that much money. Even traders no longer do that, so why should an "enlightened" journalist.

If na bribe money then i will shout "NA GOD CATCH DEM"

There is no other explanation. We know what brown envelope means and Akpabio has been on the spotlight previously in that regard.

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Have you not read on the net that they had money on them? How did they get 3 million (or 30 million, whichever) in cash on them? We know how much journalists are paid in Nigeria and their penchant to collect brown envelopes to be kind to people they write about.

The kidnapped journalists claimed N3million Naira was stolen from them. But unconfirmed reports say they were lying, that it was actually "N30 million Naira that was given to them by Governor Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State so that they will be disposed to writing positively about the looting, thieving governor". According to victim Wahab Oba, the kidnappers told them they were waiting for them before the kidnapping occured. Someone please help me understand how the N3m could possibly be honestly earned money, so after the visit to the governor the journalists withdrew their salaries from the Akwaibom branch of their bank in order to carry it back to Lagos as cash? Could it be that one of the people who saw the gov give them money (bribe money, I must add) called the kidnappers to lay in wait? Or could it be the governor himself that set the journalists up? Oba and his boys took bribe money and kidnappers got the money from them. Case closed, but not before Akwa Ibom governor and the journalists are made to face serious interrogations. Is there really any innocent Nigerian, apart from me?

Dora is a woman afterall. Women are often given to unnecessary emotional outbursts rather than to reality. So, no blames to Dora for behaving true-to-type, running her mouth in the press. A girl I know once oversped while driving. She was stopped by the cop and instead of braving it and taking her booking with equanimity, she went on her knees begging to be forgiven. WTF! She could afford the ticket money afterall and she knew it was illegal overspeeding. Also, I once sent my girl-friend packing for telling her friends that I do not let her sleep at night, that I ask to do TDB. hahahaha. I was like, why the hell would she do that when she enjoined it while it lasted? But then, I realized she is a woman and they must always talk, even if for the mere sake of talking. I am sure Dora tells her friends how her hubby fcucks her at night. Women!!!!

Five hospital staff in police net over corpses
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Written by Adelowo Oladipo
Tuesday, 13 July 2010

One of the suspects, Atanda, with the corpses
FIVE members of staff of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Idi-Araba, are in the police custody for allegedly selling unclaimed corpses.

The staff who work at the Morbid and Anatomy Department members, of the hospital, were in charge of private contractors who assist the hospital in clearing the mortuary of unclaimed corpses.

Luck, however ran out on them when one of the contractors identified as Shiubu Atanda, was arrested by the police at Agbowa, an outskirts of the state on July 3, 2010 with five Ghana-must –go bags containing 76 corpses of unclaimed babies which he was supposed to have buried at the Atan mortuary, Yaba.

The police officers from Agbowa Police Station at Epe who were on routine patrol sighted the man with the bags containing the decomposed corpses and he was subsequently arrested.

Mr. Atanda , 50 and a father of six, however, said that he is one of the contractors hired by the LUTH to help in evacuating baby corpses from the hospital. He claimed that he decided to bury the corpses in a bush at Agbowa, because he was unable to pay fees at Atan cemetery, Yaba.

“ I am a private contractor with LUTH and I have been helping the department of Morbid and Anatomy to clear unclaimed corpses for the past two years. The corpses the police found with me are corpses for the months of March and April, 40 corpses for March and 36 corpses for April. I was supposed to bury the corpses at the Atan cementery, Yaba but I was financially down because I have used almost all the money I requested from the hospital to bribe the people working at the Morbid and Anatomy department. I also bribed people at the account department. I gave one Mr. Abraham Ekohmi, the unit head of the Morbid department N50,000, I gave one Mr, Everest,N40,000 and two staff of the account department 10,000 each, so that I can continue with my job.

“The money I charged the hospital for my service is N185,000 and it was Mr. Ekhomi that inflated it to that amount. After settling all of them, I was left with nothing to bury the corpses at the Atan cemetery because they were demanding N90,000 for one month from me before they will collect the corpse. Since I did not have the said amount , I decided to help myself by taking the corpses to a bush at Agbowa to bury them. It was because I have to bribe my way that was why I could not afford the mortuary fees,”Mr. Atanda said.

Mr. Ekhomi, one of the LUTH staff arrested however denied demanding and receiving a bribe from Mr. Atanda.

Head of the Morbid and Anatomy department, at LUTH, Professor Kunbi Banjo, said the hospital, was embarrassed by the unscrupulous behaviour of its staff and private contractor.

“This man Shuibu Atanda is one of our contractors in LUTH. He helps us to clear unclaimed baby corpses for the past two years. We do not know why he did not bury the corpses at the Atan cemetery, where he was supposed to bury them.

The issue of unclaimed corpses is a social problem we have at the hospital, parents that are devastated by the death of their babies and those who cannot afford to bury them will just abandon them at the mortuary, so we have to take care of them. We will investigate the allegations of corruption against our staff. We will make recommendation to the hospital and the government so that the necessary action will be taken on this issue,” Professor Banjo said.

Kidnappers promised us a share if ransom is paid – Oba
From CHUKS ONUOHA, Umuahia
Monday, July 19, 2010


•L-R: NUJ National President, Mallam Mohammed Garba, Assistant Secretary, Sylva Okereke, Chairman, Lagos State Council, Alhaji Wahab Alabi Oba, National Secretary, Adolphus Okonkwo and others during their arrival at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja after their release by the kidnappers in Abia.
Photo: Sun News Publishing
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Two out of the four abducted journalists yesterday narrated their ordeal to Daily Sun at the Police headquarters, Umuahia yesterday.
According to Wahab Oba, the experience was harrowing.
“They took us and started maneuvering here and there until we got to a place and they stopped.

Then, they asked us, ‘what do you have there, what do you have there?’ They collected our phones, money, laptops and all the cash we had on us and shared them there and then. They said that we did not have on us anything that would make them release us. They then searched us thoroughly because they knew that they were going to kidnap us. They then told us that we had been kidnapped, that we better call somebody to come and bail us.

“They then asked us to call our Oga and after speaking with the president, they collected the phone from me and told him, look, your boys have been kidnapped. You have to bring N250 million. They were smoking Indian hemp consistently. They were telling us to call somebody about money, money, money and I asked them, which money?

“They later agreed on N30 million. But I told them that we are also freedom fighters and gave them instances of how we have been writing for the freedom of Uwazuruike and that if they wanted, I would call Uwazuruike for them to confirm. “When they released us they said that they didn’t kidnap us because of money but because of the injustice going on in the state.

They were particular about Abia, saying that that government collected money saying that they were doing amnesty, while the amnesty was fake. When they were releasing us this morning, they said that they were giving government one month and after that, they will come out and start shooting people. “They said that we are lucky that we’re not from Abia, that if we had come from Abia, they would have killed us, that when they catch anybody from Abia, they would shoot the person immediately.

“They told us when you get there, tell the world that it is not all about money. It is about the proper administration of amnesty, true justice. Before they released us, they uncovered their faces for us to see and then passed their message. Please tell the world that we need employment. If I collect N15,000 every month, I will not be carrying gun.

“The place they stopped us was not far from police checkpoint and at first, we thought it was an accident, because they just crossed the road with their vehicle. There was this Delta State car leading us and that one escaped. My driver was about escaping and they told us that they would have shot him dead. And with what we saw them do in that forest, we would have been dead by now. They said that they got the information before we got there and that they were already waiting for us.

And that it was our car they were waiting for.
“After they kidnapped us they drove us inside the bush, got to a place and parked for about 15 minutes, ransacked everybody, collected every thing that we had shared it among themselves there. Then two or three boys came and from there, we did not know anything that happened because they blindfolded us. The guys were careful because every move that the police made they were already aware.

“They were always on the phone and I even asked somebody, how do you charge your batteries but he didn’t answer me. They kept calling, calling, calling, every minute those that give them information. We can’t say exactly how many they were because they were so many but few will be with you, at least minimum of three at a particular time. One will lead while two will be at the back, they will just be leading us to wherever they wanted us to go.
“They didn’t treat us badly. They fed us once a day. They didn’t beat us. After the first three days, anytime we were in a place for an hour, they will chain us. Otherwise, there was no beating.

“Immediately they kidnapped us, we told them that we were journalists coming from Uyo, so they knew that we were journalists and that we fight for the freedom of every Nigerian, that we had organized rally for Uwazuruike in Lagos, that we brought his wife to Lagos while he was still in detention and asked that government should release him. I told them that all of us are fully involved in the fight for freedom. I told them to give me my phone so that I could call Uwazuruike. I asked why should you be holding me? They said that we should not worry that it is money that they want, money from government, not even our own money because I told them to allow us call our families so that we can contribute money for them and they said no, ‘government money, wey dem no give us na him we want collect from dem.’

“They said that we should not worry, that we would be released. Even at a point they told us that if the money comes that they would give us our own.”

This man used robbery proceeds to watch World Cup in S/Africa
Written by Oluwatoyin Malik
Sunday, July 18, 2010


WHEN some armed robbers struck at a filling station along New Ife Road on Sunday 23 May this year, killing an attendant and a customer who was buying fuel, they must have rejoiced that they had a successful outing. Not only did they kill the man, who was said to be a staff of a telecommunications outfit, in the presence of his wife and children, they made away with his Toyota Sienna vehicle which they later abandoned at Ogunpa area of Ibadan. His mobile phone was also taken. They had earlier snatched a Toyota Pathfinder Jeep at the premises of a church at Alarere Area.







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However, the police in Oyo State Command was determined to unveil the gang behind this dastardly act, hence detectives from Egbeda police division headed by the DPO, Mr John Wada Aku, under whose jurisdiction the task fell, swung into action. Plain- clothed policemen led by the Divisional Crime officer of the division, went to Lagos, acting on a tip-off. Their efforts paid off when upon information, they were able to apprehend first, the nephew-in-law, then the wife of one of the gang members at Idimu area of Lagos.


The phone stolen from the robbers' victim was found with the nephew, one Rotimi, who told the police that the phone belonged to his aunt, and upon questioning, the woman whose name was given as Shola told the police that the phone was given to her by her husband. On the whereabouts of her husband, the woman told the police that he had gone to South Africa. Undaunted by the information, the police kept a close tab on the man while he was in South Africa and were able to monitor his plan and the intended date of his return to Nigeria.


Their investigations revealed that the gang member had jetted out of the country to South Africa not quite long after the robbery where he suspectedly went to watch the ongoing World Cup. Upon information on his date of arrival, the detectives were at the Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, lying in wait for the gang member whose name was given as Oriyomi Ogunronbi. Unaware of the security web woven round him, Sunday Tribune gathered that Oriyomi disembarked from the aircraft that brought him, all kitted up in hand gloves, sneakers, sunglasses and fez cap, bouncing as he made his way to clear himself with the Customs, and expecting to reunite with his wife whom he had called ahead to meet him at the airport. To his consternation, two policemen closed in on him, asking him to confirm if the driver's licence they showed him belonged to him. He nodded in affirmation. After taking him through the normal Customs' routine, Oriyomi was bundled into a car and brought to Ibadan for interrogation on his involvement in the May robbery and the whereabouts of other gang members.


Sunday Tribune gathered that at first, Oriyomi pretended as if he had never been involved in the act of robbery. He however later confessed to have been a robber in the past but said he left the crime business when he saw that he was not cut out for it. He denied being part of the May robbery, saying that he only bought the phone from a guy he knew when he was in Lagos, though he said he knew the guy as a pick pocket and phone/bag snatcher then. Oriyomi said he lost contact with the guy, whose name he gave as Kazeem, popularly known as Aboki Pleasure, and only met him again in Abeokuta while he (Oriyomi) on his way to Osogbo on the day he bought the phone from him. He said he saw two phones with Aboki and told him to sell one of them to him. "Aboki gave the price as N5,000 but I told him I would only pay N1,500 because I knew he must have stolen it. I threatened to expose him and he quickly yielded and sold it to me at that price", Oriyomi claimed. The suspect's claim was however punctured at the place he took the police to in order to effect the arrest of Aboki. People who lived around the address said they did not know anyone bearing that name.


Oriyomi, who gave his age as 37, said he's a native of Abeokuta and the third born among five children of his parents. Claiming to possess a primary six certificate, Oriyomi told Sunday Tribune that he learnt welding as a vocation and decided to go to Lagos after completing the training. He did not go through the mandatory 'freedom' that usually goes with such training.


Narrating his story further, Oriyomi said "I went to Lagos and started working as a bus conductor at Bolade Motor Park, Oshodi. I was working with a driver whose name was Akeem. He was the one who introduced me to robbery in 1995 by getting me involved in 'one chance'. What we used to do was to leave the motor park empty and pick passengers along the road. We would then stop at a quiet place and instruct our victims to bow their heads while we would dispossess them of their cash and other valuables. We were not using guns, only cutlass and sticks but we didn't use to give them the opportunity to raise their heads so that they would not know the limitations we had."


When asked what used to happen to stubborn passengers who refused to yield easily, Oriyomi confessed that such were usually pushed out of their moving vehicle, without them caring about the fate that befell such. "We only used to do that when we picked passengers along the road but whenever we loaded at the motorpark, we would not do any operation so that no one would be able to link us with robbery act", he said. Oriyomi said a particular incident made him decide to quit the business of robbery. According to him, "on a particular day, we robbed some passengers and among them was a woman who had bundles of N5 and N10 notes that totalled about N18,000. She begged us that the money was put together for a purpose and that we should have pity on her but we didn't listen. Though I told Akeem to yield to her pleas, he asked me angrily whether she was my family member. He had earlier complained that I was too slow, that our victims might one day overpower us because of the weakness he said I was displaying. He even recruited another guy to join us. We used to call him Omo Nna. So, the woman was not happy with us and she placed a curse on us. We did not think anything of what she said until shortly after, we had a terrible accident in which Akeem lost his life. I became afraid and decided to quit crime.


"I started going to Cotonou to buy rice and tyres. I was also buying and selling diesel. It was the money I saved from this businesses that I used in travelling to South Africa. It was a friend staying there that invited me for welding business, I didn't go there for pleasure." Oriyomi also confessed to having smoked marijuana before but said he quit smoking about a year ago.


Sunday Tribune further gathered that Oriyomi's wife was dumbfounded at the revelations that came from the arrest of her husband as she never knew he had such a background. Oriyomi said he met her in a commercial bus on his way to Abeokuta and friendship developed between them. Before they knew what was happening, the lady became pregnant and is currently nursing a six weeks old baby.


Oriyomi had been living with the lady, a mother of two who lost her husband before she now met the suspect. The woman had also been the one taking care of Oriyomi's two children from two other women. It was learnt that Oriyomi had no known address except his parents' house known to the lady.


Speaking on the story at a press briefing on Wednesday, the Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Mr Baba Adisa Bolanta said investigations were on- going while spirited efforts were being made to apprehend other members of the gang.

This name withheld syndrome is one of the banes of curbing criminality in Nigeria. I believe in naming and shaming which will work in Alaigbo given the cohesiveness of familiy ties.

Kidnappers of journalists reduce ransom to N30m as Interpol moves into Abia
By PHILIP NWOSU and GABRIEL DIKE

Friday, July 16, 2010

Hopes that the kidnapped officials of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) would be freed soon were kindled yesterday, as the abductors slashed the ransom from N250 million to N30 million.






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National President of the NUJ, Mohammed Garuba, who spoke with Daily Sun on telephone from Umuahia said the kidnapped journalists are also in good health. He said he spoke with Mr. Wahab Alabi Oba twice yesterday.


To achieve the reduction of the ransom to N30 million, Garuba said intense negotiation was entered into with the kidnappers which finally yielded result as the demand was eventually slashed from N250million to N150 million, then to N100 million, N50 million before finally settling for N30 million.

He said that negotiation is still on to further reduce the ransom but added that the NUJ is ready to give the kidnappers what they demand in other to free the union officials. However, he said the police have placed its searchlight on the NUJ officials to ensure that the ransom is not paid.

Garuba said the NUJ is making effort to ensure that the abducted journalists are released without any incident, adding that the kidnappers are now more friendly with the officials of the union.


He said that the International Police (INTERPOL) have arrived Abia State to join in the effort to secure their release, adding that the state governor, Dr, Theodore Orji has urged the union and the families of the kidnapped persons to remain calm as the government is working towards securing their release. But he declined to stick out his neck on the actual time they would be released. He said the main problem is that the kidnappers are continually changing base.

He, however, called on the Federal Government to sanction the community where the kidnapped persons are being held, explaining that the community according to investigations is notorious for abduction of persons in the state.

He named the community as Umuafo-Ukwu community in Obi-Ngwa area of Abia State, explaining that two youth leaders of the community who wanted to offer assistance to the security agencies with information, were killed by unknown persons.


According to the national president, the two youth leaders were killed on separate dates, with the recent being on Wednesday July 14, 2010. He said the community is not cooperating with the security agencies going by their actions against the youth leaders.

He described the kidnap in the Umuafo-Ukwu community as a ring which would only take the intervention of government to break, especially with investigations showing that it is a community-based business.

Poor remuneration, bane of Yoruba movie industry, says Baba Wande

Question: What do you think about the type of movies being churned out from the stables of our movie makers, do they meet international standard?

Answer: Most of our movies are not up to standard and it is due to the financial problems we face. Instead of the marketers to bring out good money for the artistes to shoot movies, they will bring amounts like two hundred and fifty thousand naira to shoot a movie.

I wonder how they think a good movie can be shot with such an amount. This is actually common among the Yoruba movie genre, the Igbos are not like that.

The Igbo marketers give good money to shoot movies but the Yorubas don’t. They give N250, 000 to N300, 000 to shoot movies. That is the reason we have poor Yoruba movies.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/07/17/poor-remuneration-bane-of-yoruba-movie-industry-says-baba-wande/

How can they ''shift'' to delta when that is where they have always been?

You guys are hell bent on diverting this thread to a different, I would add, irrelevant topic. Like I said, we must identify where our problem is coming from and we should be able to be frank about it. I am not talking now about kidnapping in Imo, Enugu, Anambra, etc. This is specifically about Abia. Kedu ebe mmiri si banye opi ugbogoro na abia? My point in the starting post was from a reliable ngwa source who is also related to me by marriage.

Mariory:
Why didn't the thread starter post any Naval schools? I smell tribal insecurity.

Do we have specific naval schools different from the general military schools? Please help post them because I am not aware and hence the question I asked Are there any of such military schools in the south of the country?. Thanks.

Ezeuche
Your ngwa will never rule Abia mantra can be translated to Igbo can never rule Nigeria. The purpose of this thread is not to villify ngwas, but as the saying goes, we have to know where and at what time water get into the pipe of the melon plant.

ChinenyeN,

First off, I am not from Abia, but I will recant my post above if you explain to me why virtually all the criminality in Abia is  centred in Ngwaland. They are not the poorest Abians. Kidnapping and armed robbery aside, visit a village called umumkpeyi in Obioma Ngwa and see how baby factories litter the place. These people have bought over the police in that area, hence they perpetrate their evil unstoppably.

Now thief David Mark has his job cut out for him. He should declare a state of emergency in Jos

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This is kidnapping in Abia. I am not addressing kidnapping in Ondo, Ekiti, Lagos, Edo, etc. That will come later. So stop moaning in your sleep