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[quote author=Paroh_frey link=topic=369270.msg5151986#msg5151986 date=1261319860]no mind them.[/quote]I suspect that a lot of people wish the story were true for all the wrong reasons

In the maintime, the said hostilities and attacks never took place:

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-369270.0.html

e be like say, MEND don begin strategy of lie lie. i no fit blame dem, any propaganda wey go help person, na him de person go do na, ko kwa?

Controversy raged yesterday over the claim by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), one of the militant groups operating in the nation’s oil producing areas that it had attacked a major pipeline belonging to Chevron and Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) at Abonema, Rivers State.

MEND had in a statement yesterday said that it has resumed its hostilities in the Niger Delta region where a Shell facility was hit, but both the oil company and the Joint Task Force (JTF) dismissed the report. Shell and JTF said no such attack occurred in the area.
MEND said its fighters, armed with rocket launchers and machine guns, carried out a "warning strike" overnight on a Royal Dutch Shell or Chevron pipeline in Abonemma.

The group accused the government of using the ill health of President Umaru Yar'Adua, who has been in Saudi Arabia for more than three weeks receiving treatment for a heart condition, to stall negotiations promised as part of the amnesty programme.

Read the rest here: http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=162372

adekampe:
Tinubu gave us fashola. . .he has performed. . .the same Tinubu that gave us one of his loyal, diligent and hardworking 'boys' fashola can decide to give us another one of his other boys with the same above stated qualities in 2011 and if u do not want that to happen,register a party and fund fashola for re-election. . .instead of ranting from your mansion in lekki

eh, de inhabitants of lagos state get any ting to do with una elected officials so? if tinubu give una fashola, and fashola go give una de next governor, i no tink say we fit call dat process any ting remotely close to democracy.

una supposed to reject dis kind of god fatherism as the enlightened ones among lagosians.

na wa for wayas, as una dey talk am "eko o ni baje o".

Fhemmmy:
The North are extremist and die hard Muslims, that are willing to wipe out others cos of religion.
The south are live let us live, but the north thinks different.
Most Northerners are poor and lack good education and this made them to easily blv anything by some leader and carry their dagger to kill just anyone, they are so loyal to almost anyone that feeds them and that is terrible.
Cos lack of knowledge make people perish.

But i think the Northerners are one united people with almost one voice.

dis ya generalization na wa. if you replace northerners with westerners, easterners, or southerners, you go see say ya statement still dey accurate. you see, most Nigerians are poor and lack good education. na him be say, more than 75million of de 150million nigerians fall inside dat category.

de rest of de generalizations wey you make there no make sense. you forget say many northerners be christians? mallam phemmy, i tink say you be prejudist tribalist. try learn more about ya fellow nigerians.

This case is by no means over.  Ibori was not aquitted because Ibori was never tried and he never took a plea, but instead raised objections to the charges.  EFCC proceeds to appeals court on Monday - lets wait and see what happens, I wouldn't count my eggs yet, if I were Ibori.

Ibori: EFCC Proceeds to Appeal Court Monday
•Civil rights body condemns ruling
By Joseph Ushigiale, 12.19.2009


In furtherance of its resolve to prosecute the former governor of Delta State, James Ibori and others for alleged corrupt practices and money laundering, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is preparing to file a notice of appeal at the Court of Appeal on Monday, December 21.

A Federal High court sitting in Asaba, Thursday, dismissed a 170-count charge preferred against the former governor and others for lack of evidence.

The judge, Justice Marcel Awokulehin, in his ruling held that the “prosecution failed to show critical collaborative evidence against the defendants and therefore failed to establish a prima facie case in any of the 170 charges.”

But in a statement issued by its spokesman, Femi Babafemi, the EFCC yesterday restated its commitment to its position on Thursday in which it said that the judgment of the Federal High Court is bound to fail on appeal at a higher court.

The commission said: “Our lawyers had the instruction of the EFCC chairman, Mrs. Farida Waziri soon after the ruling was delivered on Thursday, December 17, to obtain a Certified True Copy of the judgment.

“It will interest the public that our lawyers applied for the CTC before leaving the court room to enable us file an appeal today (yesterday), Friday, December 18.

“Surprisingly, our lawyer was denied a copy of the same judgment the judge claimed in the open court was ready several weeks ago.”

In spite of this obvious challenge, the EFCC stated that its lawyers have been instructed to file a notice of appeal on Monday, December 21 based on the records taken in the court.

It recalled that the proceedings at the Federal High Court, Asaba originated from Kaduna where the charges were first filed in

December 2007. The same charges were only referred to Asaba for trial.“Unfortunately, the accused refused to take a plea and instead raised objections to the charges.

“It is important to note that the matter was not tried, no evidence was led or taken by the court. The ruling was based merely on charges and proof of evidence.”

For the avoidance of doubt, the EFCC pointed out that the accused, Ibori and others have only been discharged and not acquitted.

Read the rest of the article here: http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=162303

Pharoh:
I would like to hear your disagreements and what process could that be? The National Assembly Joint Committee on Constitution Review?

I cannot offer 100% agreement with your statement until you fully reveal your vision of federalism, as far as Nigeria is concerned. And yes, the process has begun and I believe the constitutional review you mentioned is part of the process.

SapeleGuy:
You see this people with their ojoro logic. Iceland is a country with 350,000 people ?

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Why is the population of Iceland 350,000?  The answer lies in the name of the country -  bad comparison, olodo.

@dede and sapeleguy, ngwanu if you don't like the word mischief, let me reprase the statement:

Funny question designed to cause mischief distraction and dodge the issue at hand. Are the operators of the illegal "bootleg refineries" by definition not criminals? Why is this difficult for you all to admit?

Esteemed leader does not believe in democracy.

Former Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, yesterday vowed to return the incumbent Governor Peter Obi to the Government House in the next year’s governorship election.

He said the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) will sweep the poll in the February 6, 2010 poll.

The Eze Ndigbo was speaking at the Bassilica of the Most Holy Trinity Onitsha, Anambra State, at the flag-off of APGA campaign for Obi, insisted that the Anambra belongs to Igbo people and that nobody can impose a leader on the state.

Ojukwu said: "The Igbo land is not a forest. [/b]It belongs to Ndigbo, and they have agreed that [b]I am their leader and whatever I say they will do. I have come to show the way they will follow. I urge you all who are my friends and sons to come out en masse and vote for my political son, Obi. Let it be the only thing I’m asking you to do for me."

Ojukwu had arrived the campaign venue in a helicopter in the company of his wife, Bianca.

Obi, who dressed in Ankara with APGA inscription, urged the people to vote for him and the party, saying APGA has delivered on its campaign promises during the 2003 election.

He said his administration was not owing and should, therefore, be given a second term to consolidate its achievements.

Obi said that his administration, through the Anambra State Integrated Development Strategy (ANIDS) renovated schools, constructed roads, upgraded hospitals and plans to do more if voted again.

The National Chairman of APGA, Sir Victor Umeh, commended the party faithful for their solidarity and support, saying the APGA-led government had done well to the pride of the party.

According to Umeh, Anambra is 95 per cent APGA, stressing that Ojukwu, being the Igbo leader and Chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees, showed the people’s political path.

He added that Obi had surpassed all the past governors in the state in all areas of development.

He said: "We didn’t sign an agreement with anybody, which shows that the party is committed to the welfare of the people. APGA is a God-fearing party. We made sacrifices for the good of the state. We have come to consolidate on our achievements."

http://thenationonlineng.net/web2/articles/29334/1/Anambra-2010-Ojukwu-promises-Obi-will--return-/Page1.html

Impact of Local Government Corruption and Mismanagement on Primary Education and Primary Health Care in Rivers State


The report below is about Rivers state, but the conditions described can be found in almost every state.

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2007/nigeria0107/6.htm

Extracts:

When allocations are made, it is at the local government level that…they now see this money as money that has come just gratis to be shared out among political friends and members of the ruling party. The result is that after paying salaries they scarcely have enough to do anything else…When you go to remote areas and see what is there, you wonder if government even considers that they exist

Most local governments allocate funds for school rehabilitation and maintenance in their budgets. While the amount is often a tiny fraction of what is needed, even that money is often not spent in pursuit of any legitimate purpose. In most of the local governments visited by Human Rights Watch, local education officials and civil servants said that their chairmen had not renovated or repaired a single school building during their entire tenures of three years or more.

Khana local government area is situated southeast of Port Harcourt in the Ogoni region of Rivers State. An intractable dispute between Khana’s local government chairman and his legislative council left its government completely paralyzed throughout much of 2006. The origins of the dispute are contested, with both sides producing different explanations as to how it came about. The one thing both sides agree on is that the dispute began in earnest with the local government’s failure to pass a budget for 2006.

The chairman, Kingsley Leh, alleges that the legislative council refused to pass his budget because he would not pay the substantial bribes they had demanded in exchange for their votes. Leh’s press secretary told Human Rights Watch that the entire controversy came about because Leh took a principled stand as a man who has always “refused to pay a bribe to any person.”180

The councilors who rose up against the chairman tell a different story, alleging that Leh never submitted a budget for 2006 to them at all. They also claim that the chairman had channeled large sums of money into dubious or non-existent projects and diverted other revenues directly into his own pockets. He is alleged to have passed some of that stolen money on to thugs he used to enforce his will in Khana

Pitiful, read the rest yourselves.

Pharoh:
There will not be a need for all these arguments if we were practicing true federalism.

Its hard to completely disagree with your statement. We are in the process of defining the kind of federalism that will be most suitable for our unique country.

Beaf:
Iwu done land! Na dis one dem dey call proper rigging!

Iwu is a confirmed rigger. You should ask why the action was necessary before making your Iwu statement.

Beaf:
Answer? Regulate them and give those heroes who have cracked the refining cycle incentive to build bigger and better plants. Better still, let FG hands off oil, they have only proven to be a conduit for big time bunkerers (those boys are very small fish).

Your answer above is for a separate question - by the way, the answer may be worth exploring.  

The issue at hand however, is whether or not the refineries are illegal and whether their operators (not explored youths hired for peanuts)  are criminals. Then answer to that is an emphatic Yes!

walex0709:
Fellow nairalander, u can see how corrupt and insincere our leaders are. Nigeria cannot own well functioned refineries all dis while but 600 illegal refineries can operate vry well. may be we should start using d so called illegal refineries and stop importation of the products since we cannot ve legal refineries.

Those are not refineries, but poison and carcinogenic chemical producing illegal operations.

Dede1:
Is Saul also among the prophets? You are worse than intellectual midget since both you and JTF could not differentiate between the apparatus for distillation of Ogogoro or Akamere or Ekpeteshi or Sapele water and that used to refining crude oil. If there were illegal refineries in the creeks of southern Nigeria, why did JTF fail to show the pictures of such structures while going public?

I have seen many of these illegal operations, they are no ogogoro distillation facilities. I ask again, why is it difficult for you all to just call  a spade a spade?  These "refineries" are illegal, fullstop.  JTF fail to show the pictures of such structures while going public?  Funny question designed to cause mischief.

@okunoba and some others: Many of you are talking about various legitimate issues which are separate and apart from the issue of criminals, at hand.

With reference to your series of jaundiced posts on this forum, it does not surprise me to note that you are wearing inferior mentality. The comment you made about Ojukwu being superior to anybody underscores your deluded mindset.

Ojukwu is the your leader if you are Igbo, if you don’t accept him as your leader, then say so.

Since you are typical African, I would not hold you penalized for your less than pale of comprehension as you struggled to make sense out of analogies I gave with African countries.

You are the one suffering from inferiority complex. Your concept of a typical African, which you are, says it all.  According to you, typical Africans  have “less than pale of comprehension”, as you put it. I suppose your oyibo masters who are still your slave masters are the best and brightest.

Let me take you across the pond to Europe and cite Czechoslovakia as one of the recent countries that underwent peaceful dissolution due to high tensions mounted by nationalistic interests. There was no confiscation of property, massive exodus of citizens of the two nations, lost of lives due ethnic or religious riots, no cross-border raids and lost of sleep. In most cases and by choice, the citizens of Czech and Slovakia are entitled to dual citizenship. Both Prague and Bratislava maintained cordial diplomatic and joint economic corporations.

Since you are a historian of repute, I will not bore you with the early history of Czechoslovakia. It suffices to point out that between 1989 and 1992, Czechoslovakia was a federal democratic republic consisting of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. The peaceful dissolution of such a country in 1993 was actually quite easy to accomplish. They simply split the country into the existing 2 republics that were previosly Czechoslovakia (nice and neat).  Compare their territorial make-up to Nigeria with over 250 ethnic groups, tribes,  and several states. As we speak, your leaders in the south east are asking for more states! 

It is unfortunate that somebody that had earlier impugned the status of past recorded events in a previous post and still had the temerity to cite the rascality of fringe group in Austin, TX in a post. I would want to annoy you by stating that Biafrans agitating for sovereign nation are not fringe.

I maintain that those of you still agitating for Biafra are fringe.  A constitutional review is currently taking place in Nigeria with input from every region. Your leaders and superiors have not tabled the idea of a sovereign nation, what is more important to them is the creation of additional states. I ask you Dede1, do the representatives of the South East, including Ojukwu, who are participating in this constitutional review speak for you?  If not, then you belong to the fringe group. Shikena.   

Please can you tell me why such healthy corporation should not exist among nations at the instance of dissolution of cesspit called Nigeria

I take exception to your continuous disrespectful act of constantly calling our dear country cesspit. Were it not for decorum, I would have reigned assorted African curses upon you.

[size=4pt](P.S. May your unit fail you to the maximum extent, by refusing to rise to the occasion, during your next rendez-vous with your concubine)[/[/size]

VALIDATOR:
You have just proven that you know nothing about technological empowerment. Nobody will legally transfer to you a technology that he uses to hold you magha. If you must stop beign a magha then you gotta steal the technology and some of his customers ^{learn from Japan and China}

if no fit differentiate between technological empowerment and criminal activity, then i suspect say you be intellectual midget. olodo

Beaf:
I would rather ask you if you find it difficult to accept that there is talent here because they are not from your "tribe or region". . . Low blow.

dis one na cop out.      

Guardian:
Nna,  ndu_chucks

KEEP QUIET !!!

If there was no scarcity of basic needs and infrastructure and neglect would they engage in unprofitable business ?

Ask ya self was this the case 2 decades ago ?

Human endevours are often fuelled by their needs or fight for survival

ONCE AGAIN   !!! KEEP QUIET !! maka keep quiet !

na from where dis one crawl out?  oh boy, your logic go set soldier wey r.a.pe ya sister and other people mothers, free.  de soldier go free because 2 decades ago, war no dey. never mind say laws wey govern wars exist.

Beaf:
Forget about "bunkering criminals and expoiters of the youths". That will lead to a whole new argument, lets deal with the boys who build these things.

How can you forget about the bunkering criminals and exploiters of youths when the topic at hand is about illegal refineries? Helping the marginalized youths of the area and in fact the whole country is a different issue entirely.

Why is it difficult for you people to accept that these "refinery operators" are criminals? Would it be because they are from your tribe or region?

Beaf:
No, that is by a black and white interpretation of the law. But anywhere in this World, there is something known as "mitigating circumstances"; for these people it is so great that I doubt they can even be tried in court.
They have no jobs, yet they can't fish or farm and because of the terrain, there are no industries or jobs nearby. Its a terrible existence.

Mitigating circumstance ko, marginalization circumstance ni. Who is talking about the marginalized unemployed youth of the niger delta? Those boys don't have the resources to bring in all the apparatus required to perpetrate the said crimes. We are talking about the educated criminals that exploit these boys.

I too have seen these bootleg refineries, some of them are quite sophisticated. The real criminals are members of the cartel that are bunkering criminals and expoiters of the youths. Don't even try to defend them, they belong in prison! These same criminals are now threatening to attack JTF. Let them try it.

Beaf:
I've seen one of these refineries. They weren't using stolen crude, no it was crude from an oil spill that had gone on for years (and is still likely to be going on). I assume its the same for others, agreed some might be bunkering, but what are their options when they have no jobs yet, their farmland is polluted and all fish in the water have been poisoned by oil?
These people have valuable skill that need to be harnessed. Their trade should be regulated and maybe we will be able to build our very own refineries with experience and some education. Why would we need Snamprogetti?

Stop the pitiful defense of these criminals! Most of the crude they use is stolen and even if they did not steal the crude, is it not criminal to operate a bootleg refinery? Being jobless and in need of job opportunities is not a license to become a criminal - you of all people should know this.

SapeleGuy:
Bros, Bootleg or shoeleg, our people have been doing fractional distillation for centuries either with 'amereka' or now with 'crude oyel'. It is better than waiting for charity.

Even sef who tell you say these people are not treating the petroleum waste?

you people have proven time and again that you adore your criminals, be they petty thieves who distill stolen raw materials or big thieves like ibori or cecilia. shame on you all. what is bad, is bad. shikena.

these criminal elements dey do bootleg refining wey dey generate additional toxic chemicals for una environment and una dey here dey praise them? wonders no dey end.

mikeansy:
Not sure what that has got to do with anything

It just means that the PDP is more organised and willing to hit the campaign trail more than any other party.

I made that point to respond to your statement here - there is a definite abuja link:

This insinuation that Soludo's race for Awka links to Abuja is unfounded.

The man is running for nothing but Guber elections please.

mikeansy:
My brother am not being naive

that is what anyone who truly loves Soludo will say and advice him on. He has to win Anambra First and show that he can run an effective Governement first.

If he fails in Anambra I will be the first to campaign against even him being named as Minister on Federal level let alone running for President.

So let him focus on the immediate price first.

Did you know that  the National Working Committee (NWC), of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),  set up a campaign committee headed by Vice President Goodluck Jonathan?  Is Jonathan from Anambra?

mikeansy:
This insinuation that Soludo's race for Awka links to Abuja is unfounded.

The man is running for nothing but Guber elections please. Lets allow him focus on Awka first.

Don't be a naive observer.

2015

Fashola - President
Soludo - VP

under the umbrella of a mega party.  

biggjoe:
but wait ooo.

Ndu_chuks,
Is that elombah.com that I am seeing as your source?

biggjoe, i understand ya concern. na de only place wey i find de information when i post de tory be dat. na somebody wey dey for court when dem issue de ruling inform me, so i know say de news accurate otherwise i for no post am. as the tory still new, i no find any other publication to give una as link.

e be like say other agencies don dey carry de news now.

Real Test: February 2010

I always knew this would happen.

Soludo Wins at the Supreme Court! The Supreme Court has vacated the order barring the Former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Soludo from parading himself as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) banner in the February 6, 2010 gubernatorial election in Anambra State.

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja yesterday refused to vacate the interim order it granted, asking the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) not to recognise Soludo as PDP candidate for the poll. It further restrained INEC from recognising the former CBN governor as the PDP candidate until the issues surrounding the ticket are finally resolved. But this morning, the Apex Court vacated order given by the lower court.

In the ruling prepared by Justice Mary Odili but read on her behalf by Justice Oyebode Lokolo-Sodipe, yesterday, the court restrained Soludo from parading himself as PDP governorship candidate and from doing anything that would overreach the court. Two other justices on the panel namely Abdul Aboki and Olukayode Bada concurred with the ruling.

The court also granted an accelerated hearing of the suit, saying the appellants had established that the reis (subject matter of the case) needs to be preserved. Justice Odili said: "The matter is before us, anyone that does anything; that would be an action in futility."

INEC has already precluded Soludo from the list of cleared candidates it released for the poll at the close of time for change and substitution of candidates last week. Soludo seems to be in a difficult situation as the Supreme Court, which he will apply to, to vacate the order of the appellate court is going on Christmas break on Friday and will resume in January, meaning the matter has to wait till then. But following INEC's time-table for the election, all processes leading to the poll will end on January 7.

That may be unfavourable to PDP and Soludo.

Soludo’s lawyer, Patrick Ikwueto (SAN), made strident efforts to get the court to vacate the interim order to no avail. PDP’s counsel and National Legal Adviser, Olusola Oke, also made serious efforts to save Soludo by saying that notwithstanding that the court had the power to issue the restraining order; sufficient materials were not provided by the beneficiaries of the order.

Consequently and in less than 10 minutes after the ruling was delivered, PDP filed a notice of appeal at the registry, saying the appeal court was in error to have reached a decision not to vacate the interim order. The party said if the evidence was weighed properly, the court could have come to a different conclusion on the application.

The Supreme Court had last Monday asked parties to the appeal to return to the lower court to have a decision before it could hear them. The apex court simply asked parties to conclude all issues with the appeal court and come back to allow for an organic approach to all the issues relating to the nomination and resolving them once and for all, saying there was no time to waste The appellants namely Mr. Valentine Ozigboh, Mrs. Victoria Nwankwo, Mrs. Nkoli Imo and Mr. Ferdinand Okoye, all PDP governorship aspirants in the state had adopted their written addresses for the court to deliver yesterday's ruling.

Parties had also appeared at the Supreme Court to argue an appeal filed by Soludo challenging the interim order by the appeal court, which restrained him from parading himself as the party’s candidate pending the determination of the appeal. In their appeal, the PDP aspirants had challenged the ruling of Justice Danlami Senchi of the Abuja High Court, which struck out their suit and discharged an earlier restraining order on INEC from recognizing Soludo as a candidate for the election.

They asked the appellate court to set aside the judgment of the lower court and remit the case back to the high court for a de novo trial by a new judge. But the Abuja high court had on October 23, 2009 made a preservative order restraining Soludo from parading himself as the candidate of the PDP in the said poll pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit.

However, after reviewing the submissions of counsel, the court reversed the restraining order it earlier made, stressing that the complained action (nomination of Soludo) was already concluded and his name forwarded to INEC, before the plaintiffs sought and secured the restraining order in the first place.

Justice Senchi specifically noted that the alleged illegality by PDP was perfected on the 9th of October, 2009, while the suit that culminated in the restraining order was instituted on October 21 and the order granted on October 23, this year.

Meanwhile, PDP has said with the restraining order by the Court of Appeal against Soludo, the party is technically excluded from contesting the governorship election.

Addressing newsmen at the party secretariat after the order, the National Legal Adviser of PDP, Oke said: “What is happening now is that we have laboured under illusion because no date has been fixed for the determination of the substantive suit and with this restraining order, PDP is technically excluded from February 6, 2010 governorship election.”

However, he added: “As a political party, we cannot take this lightly and that explains the reason why we have just launched an appeal at the Supreme Court against the ruling this afternoon. This is because unless we obtain an order for stay of execution from Supreme Court, PDP will suffer irreparable damage even if the appeal is eventually determined in our favour. “PDP which is constitutionally empowered to sponsor candidate and participate in the election would have been permanently deprived unless we can obtain an order for stay of execution.

” The Soludo Campaign Organisation, however, said the court has played directly into the hands of its detractors who wished to delay the party’s candidate. Chairman of the organisation, Chief Okey Muo-Aroh, who addressed a press conference in Awka, said it was surprising that a court of law would exercise jurisdiction in a matter the parties had nothing to lose.

“I think the Court of Appeal has played into the hands of our detractors who believed that the only thing left for them is to apply the ‘Atiku Option’ and delay Soludo as much as they can, knowing that there is no way they would be candidates given Supreme Court decisions on such matters.

“The Soludo Campaign Organisation wishes to declare that it respectfully disagrees with the ruling of the Appeal Court today (yesterday) which re-affirms its earlier instructions to INEC not to recognise the candidacy of Prof Chukwuma Soludo/Emma Anosike. PDP must have its candidate for the February 6, 2010 election.

The sustained delaying of the judicial resolution of this matter for the PDP certainly gives unfair advantage to the other 24 political parties whose campaign activities are unimpeded,” Muo-Aroh said.

http://www.elombah.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2433:newsflash-soludo-is-pdp-candidate-supreme-court&catid=3:newsflash&Itemid=57

Lagos High Court in Ikeja, presided over by Justice Morenike Obadina, on Wednesday dismissed the N200 billion suit jointly instituted by four companies owned by Erastus Akingbola, former chief executive officer of Intercontinental Bank Plc, against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice as well as the inspector-general of police.

The court ruled that the case lacked merit and awarded N20, 000 cost in favour of the EFCC.

Akingbola was one of the bank chiefs sacked by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in August over non-performing loans totalling over N700 billion to corporate bodies and individuals. While some of the affected bank executives were arrested and arraigned by the EFCC, Akingbola was alleged to have evaded arrest and ran out of the country.

Shortly after, his lawyers sued EFCC and others on behalf of his four companies namely, Tropics Finance and Investment Limited, Tropics Property Limited, Tropics Security Limited and Tropics Holdings Limited with each company claiming N50 billion as damages for alleged invasion of privacy and business residence, closure of business premises, continuous threat of further invasion and for the freezing of the companies’ accounts by the EFCC which was listed as the first respondent in the suit.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200912170424.html

i hope say people wey dey call for rule of law dey take note. when dis man, cecelia, and de remaining ex bank chiefs begin go prison, i no wan here excuses.

i wonder wettin dis beaf of a guy have up his sleeves this time.

when me i think of malaria, i wonder why after oyibo people use de chemical DDT to take eradicate de disease for overseas, dem come tell us say DDT dey cause cancer and DDT no dey readily available again.

in de maintime, mosquitoes fit use ya body as buffet for overseas, and you no go catch malaria.  wey WHO and de other UN organizations? why dem no help us eradicate dis ting once and for all? in fact, wey all nigerian doctors wey know about dis ting, why dey too no fit speak up?

anyway, de real reason why our mosquitoes still dey carry malaria, na because of oil and all de gas flare wey de happen for naija delta.  dem don africanize and harden de mosquitoes finish.   

ehr, all na because of northerners