₦airaland Forum

fatahtalks:
the other guy lying that bello is owing 4 months salary, haba . Hw many months has bello done in office, jst 2 months, how can he owe 4 months wen he has spent jst 2 months in office. he has paid twice. u shld b ashamed of urself that wada that refuse to pay salary for 4 months after losing his election has suddenly become a hero to u. shame u my broda

rhythyson:
Logical
Mumu Wada contested with APC not Yahaya Bello.

castrogee:
People don't even understand how the ICC works. It is a court that prosecutes crimes that fall within its jurisdiction, crimes such as: Rape, murder, massacre, destruction of a civilian society by any means, etc. They have professional judges. The prosecutor's team will first investigate the case submitted by the plaintiff to ascertain if the case falls within the court's jurisdiction and also to ascertain if the case should go on owing to the fact that some cases may be minor or trivial, like an unintentional killing of a civilian society. For example, if the police in trying to quell a riot accidentally kills people, though the ICC has the jurisdiction over such matter but they may not go on to prosecute the case, because such is the tragedy of our every day lives and in this case ICC will only issue a directive to the relevant organ or authority responsible to be more reasonable in their actions next time to avoid such human casualties.

All these go down during the ICC preliminary investigation, the preliminary investigation is conducted to ascertain if the case can go on to the next level which is now the full investigation of the various evidences rallied by the plaintiff against the defendant, needless to say that at this moment the ICC is almost certain that the case will go on, i.e the prosecutor is almost certain that he is ready to prosecute.

Unfortunately, this is where Nigeria is right now. The coming of the ICC prosecutor, the chief prosecutor for that matter is to signal to the Nigerian authority that the result of there preliminary investigation indicts them (Nigeria), and they will go into full investigation and also to intimate the Nigerian government to be ready for the investigation because certain govt officials will need to be examined. Now, IPOB is claiming to be in possession of forensic evidence against the Nigerian army i.e. evidence that shows that the bullets used against arm-less protesters indeed came from the Nigerian military (and this is scary), coupled with video evidence. This is the reason why the army is sweating to brand IPOB a terror group. But the truth is that you don't just label a group terrorists without strong evidence of their ties to destruction and untamed violence and evidence to show that they have carried out such crimes like ISIS is doing now. For Goodness sake the Nigerian govt should know that they are appearing before a panel of judges, learned and experienced judges for that matter that understand the terrain and they want to present these baseless charges before them?

Predictably, some of us saw this thing coming, and raised alarm, but Buhair being a dullard thought everything about power is fiat. he ordered his COAS to use hyper force on unarmed protesters, because he is buhari, well I wish him good luck. Now IPOB has said they will resume their protests once they get their TV station running, the implication is that this time they could hold the protests for the time they want without harassment because the world is now paying attention. I believe this shouldn't have gotten to this level had Buhari not been reckless with his decision. Over 8 cases have been established against Nigeria in the ICC, I told a friend of mine that the next battle ground in the world is Nigeria. Its unfortunate that it is only in Africa that you see unarmed protesters been shot with such reckless abandon, and yet Africa will claim to be unfairly treated by the west.

alfsalami:
Removing saraki will further prove that APC is ready to prosecute any body irrespective of party affiliation

Tarzaa:
Thanks and you think it is possible to get 2/3 of the nass in Nigeria?

ashjay001:
Unfortunately, I think they need just two thirds of d senate to over-ride d president's veto. Since they all are corrupt and it might be anyone's turn tomorrow, getting two thirds won't be a prob!

Shit happens!

Tarzaa:
Sorry, the president will not dance to this music so I wonder who will sign it into law!

chukwudi44:
2/3 of the NAS can override the president's veto and pass the bill into law

teadrake:
With respect, perhaps you missed the part when senator Ashafa claimed Amaechi admitted to the fact that the rail contract was listed out of error,and he(Amaechi) being the head of the ministry Informed the senate committee and even submitted a supplementary one to corroborate the inclusion.So,what are we saying?

teadrake:
8th Assembly, Nigerians should be the one to decide if truly you've done a good job not this ranting about a job well done that keeps stirring a lot controversy between executive and legislators.
If the Rail contract was included in the original budget presented by PMB and a senator claimed Amaechi defended that part when called upon to defend, please who is fooling who?

justurch:
http://blogs.premiumtimesng.com/2016/04/12/172210/
[font=Lucida Sans Unicode]Don’t Believe the Lie: There Is No War Against Corruption In Nigeria (1), By Femi Aribisala


I was invited to a Roundtable on Corruption by the Law Faculty of the University of Lagos, only to discover that some “Buharideens” had highjacked the occasion and were inclined to use it as a platform to promote the onslaught of “democratic dictatorship” in Nigeria.

The topic was on corruption in Nigeria, but the mast-head in the hall was more specific. It read: “Winning the War against Corruption”. This was easily seized on by government agents to imply that Buhari was well on the way to dealing a mortal blow to corruption in Nigeria.

The composition of the invited discussants was biased. Most of those on the panel with me were dyed-in-the-wool government apologists. The Chairman was Professor Itse Sagay, currently the Chairman of Buhari’s Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption. As it turned out, he was not prepared to entertain any meaningful discussion about corruption in Nigeria. His agenda was to showcase ostensible government achievements in the anti-corruption campaign and to proclaim new promissory notes grandiloquently for public consumption.

Also there was Oby Ezekwesili of #BringBackOurGirls fame. She used to pitch her tent with the PDP. But now that the APC is in power, she has been romancing the new government. It was even speculated at one time that Buhari would reward her with a ministerial portfolio. Not surprising, she is no longer as strident in demanding government rescue of the kidnapped Chibok girls as she had been under Jonathan.

The kingpin of the government apologists on the panel was Femi Falani, a lawyer and human rights activist. He was chosen to give the keynote address. Falana had been heavily touted as Buhari’s attorney general. In fact, on the eve of the ministerial appointments, a list was widely publicised in the press that had his name penciled in for the post. But someone apparently put an eraser to it. Nevertheless, in order to remain in the good books of the government, Falana seems to have jettisoned his earlier dedication to the defence of human rights.

Falana did not attend the roundtable. However, he wrote a speech which he sent someone to deliver on his behalf. This speech was nothing short of alarming. It told me definitively that I was in the wrong place and would have to take a stand before making a quick getaway. Falana, human rights lawyer extraordinaire, was sent to test the waters for extreme policy prescriptions apparently in government pipelines hankering back to the discredited days of Buhari’s infamous military dictatorship of 1984/85.

It seems the government and its allies are looking for ways and means to circumvent the criminal justice system so that the current media trial of opposition politicians can be easily translated into automatic jail-terms. The courts have rightly been a firewall against this. Therefore, Falana proposed the establishment of Special Courts, separate and distinct from the tried and tested ones; to dispense quick and summary justice against whoever the government decides to prosecute in its anti-corruption campaign.

According to Falana, those accused of corruption by the government should be presumed guilty without trial. The onus would then be on them to prove their innocence. This would overturn the principle, long-supported by legal luminaries like Falana himself, that an accused must be presumed guilty until proven innocent. Falana also insisted it should be made impossible for anyone accused of corruption to be bailed. In short, once you are accused, you would be presumed guilty and would rot in jail at the pleasure of the government.

Thus, Falana became an appointed mouthpiece of an authoritarian government tired of democratic niceties. He echoed President Buhari’s complaint that the judiciary is the principal impediment to the government’s anti-corruption campaign. Therefore, Falana tabled proposals for sidestepping the judiciary, so that the government would go after its enemies without hindrance or restraints.

I sat and watched with incredulity as Oby Ezekwezili who, like me, was only invited as a discussant, hugged the floor for over 40 minutes, extolling the virtues of the government’s anti-corruption agenda without any word of caution about the proposals emanating from Falana. On the contrary, Ezekwesili was concerned that those accused were not yet in jail. To this, the Chairman reassured her, in a side-discussion on the podium, that the jails would soon start filling up before the end of the year.

University of Lagos students listened to these speeches in silence. The speakers conveniently read this as approval; after all “we are all against corruption.” It is presumed that while the Buhari government has been a monumental failure in its ten months in office, its one claim to fame or plaudits is its anti-corruption campaign. Therefore, in the context of blackouts and fuel queues, the government would have us fill our tanks and light our homes with bombastic anti-corruption rhetoric.

Alarm bells

It was in this context that I had to make my ten-minute contribution. I knew I would, once again, have to go out on a limb. I knew I could not subscribe to the agenda of my fellow-panelists. I had absolutely no idea how I would be received. Indeed, I wondered why, given the agenda, I had been invited at all. Nevertheless, I could not but be true to my conscience.

I had a certain advantage over my fellow panelists. I am not an employee of the Buhari government and I am definitely not looking for a job from this or any government. Indeed, I am the last Nigerian President Buhari would appoint to anything, either in advisory or substantive capacity. Therefore, I was free to exercise fully my freedom of speech under the Nigerian Constitution.

I was also acutely aware that my freedom was being threatened before my very eyes. If Falana’s proposal were to become law, I could easily be arrested on spurious allegations of corruption and would be presumed guilty until proven innocent. I could then be thrown into jail and locked up. These champions of speedy justice would become silent, as the government might ensure conveniently that it takes me no less than three years in jail to prove my innocence.

It was also not lost on me that if Falana’s proposal of “guilty until proven innocent” had been the norm, President Buhari himself would have been jailed when $2.8 billion of government money went missing under his watch as Commissioner for Petroleum in the 1980s. How soon they forget! At the time, Vera Ifudu, an NTA reporter, revealed to Nigerians that Senate Leader, Olusola Saraki, told her in an interview that the missing money was moved from the NNPC’s Midland Bank account to a private account.

It is amazing that, in spite of our nasty experience at the hands of General Buhari and his kangaroo courts in 1984, a civil rights lawyer would propose today that similar kangaroo courts should again be established under the same Buhari in the bogus name of democratic justice. But I guess we deserve that in Nigeria for being foolish as to elect as president under a democratic dispensation the very man who truncated our earlier experiment with democracy through a military coup.

Deja Vu

In Buhari’s first coming, the Femi Falanas were few and far between to whitewash his authoritarianism. The special courts of that era, now being proposed under a different disguise, were military tribunals established to try civilians instead of regular courts of law, in clear violation of internationally accepted legal norms. Buhari created a secret police (NSO) under the infamous Lawal Rafindadi to harass and imprison Nigerians without trial. It is this same injustice that Falana was hired to re-table.

It is unconscionable that a so-called human rights activist would be used to champion this revanchist authoritarianism. As a military dictator, Buhari ran so rough-shod over our judicial system that the Nigerian Bar Association proscribed Nigerian lawyers from appearing in any of his kangaroo courts.

Buhari sent both corrupt and non-corrupt politicians to jail, sometimes for up to 300 years. He tried octogenarian Michael Ajasin before his military tribunal. When he was discharged and acquitted; he tried him again. When he was discharged and acquitted again, he tried him a third time. When he was discharged and acquitted yet again, Buhari nevertheless continued to keep him in detention and refused to release him.

A judge claimed Buhari pressured him to jail Fela Anikulapo Kuti for failing to declare the foreign exchange he had legitimately procured for the up-keep of his band on a foreign trip; while the same Buhari sent his aide-de-camp to Murtala Muhammed airport in Lagos to facilitate the smuggling into the country of 53 suitcases by the Emir of Gwandu during the currency-change exercise.

Therefore, the onus fell on me at the Roundtable to warn our student audience that it would be madness to entertain proposals that seek to bring back Buhari’s sharp practices of the past under another guise. It is necessary to point out that, as Nigerians were deceived through vain promises promptly jettisoned after the election, so are government agents trying to deceive us again today. There is actually no real war against corruption going on today. There is not even a fight against corruption, how much more a war. What we have is a government attempt to decimate the opposition and create a de facto one-party state under the guise of fighting against corruption.

Once I started making these points, the students started cheering. It became apparent that they were not fooled by the government’s praise-singers and were glad that I was there to expose their duplicity. Before I proceed to elaborate on why I insist there is no real fight against corruption in Nigeria today, let me point out at this juncture the reaction of my fellow-panelists.

I only spoke for ten minutes, but the chairman, Itse Sagay, became enraged. He not only abused me, he also abused UNILAG students. He called them all “ignorant” for applauding my positions. He shouted: “We are here on a very serious business. And students, don’t behave like American electorates who are ignorant. The appreciation of unserious people shows ignorance.”

“How can someone come here and say there’s no war against corruption and there is clapping? This is a very serious discussion and I want us to be serious about it. If you are anti-government, please go and campaign against government and let your party win in 2019. This is not a venue for PDP campaign. We are here on serious business. Let’s maintain that seriousness.”

#BringBackOurGirls icon, Oby Ezekwesili, also asked for the mike a second time to contribute to this berating of UNILAG students for applauding my presentation. She said, among other things: “I wasn’t surprised that some of you were clapping. The reason you were clapping is that you are a page in your own level of corruption. There are many whose exam malpractice is the basis upon which ‎they have come to school. So when you are talking about the need to wage a war against corruption, they are completely disconnected from it. There is a complete dissonance from it.” (TO BE CONTINUED).

www.femiaribisala.com

mostfavoured:
Seun should ban mofos like this...why are you allowing this things to turn nairaland to a joke

senatorbayor:
Hmmmm!
As a learned man, I will urge you not to discredit the judiciary.

Cases are determine based on the presentations of the lawyers employed by each litigants.

PastorOla1:
MAKE UNA COOL TEMPER , NOTHING FIT HAPPEN GEJ IS NOT ABOVE THE LAW. NIGERIA IS FAAR BIGGER THAN GEJ. IYC SHOULD STOP THIS NOICE MAKING. WHEN GEJ LOST ELECTION HERE WWETIN UNA NO TALK B4 THEN WETIN UNA DO AFTER THEN.

senatorbayor:
I don't have issue with defendant seeking for fair hearings.
But the act of raising unnecessary delay tactics and accusations to either buy time or kill the case is unacceptable.

Note that the chief judge ruled metuh case out when he said the presiding judge is his classmates.

If we allow every defendant to accuse a judge of bais, who will hear their case then.

It's evident that metuh does not want the trial to commence just as Saraki did in hisown case before the CCT chairman ruled him out citing section 306 and the provisions of the ICJA.
I also look forward to the NJC working assiduously on this frivolous adjournments that are applied by the suspect to delay trial or buy time

senior123:
Of cuz he has the right to threaten. Anybody can threaten. But he does not have the right to act on it. He can shout till the skies come down, but if he throws any igbo person into the lagoon he has broken the law and attempted murder and must be brought to justice.

"Anyone has the right to offend anyone. And anybody has the right to take offense. But No one has the right to insist that people act in a way that do not offend them."

senior123:
Which Oba has the right to tell anybody in this country not to go to Yoruba land? Where there is Lagos. The Oba no well or his words got mixed up in Ajegunle. Mstweee. Look around u, its 2016, we live in societial-tribes now no longer kingdoms. It means sometimes you have to live with people you hate because it is better for the entire world. IPOB cannot continue to view itself as an isolated entity.
I better leave this thread

baslone:
The first link (Dr. A.C.B. Agbazuere) you posted is actually challenging clause 165

The second one link (Tompolo) is challenging sections 221 and 306.

What I posted was Clause 396.

Between those clauses are still Valid till they are amended and what guarantees they will win the cases?

C'mon Brov!!!

baslone:
The first link (Dr. A.C.B. Agbazuere) you posted is actually challenging clause 165

The second one link (Tompolo) is challenging sections 221 and 306.

What I posted was Clause 396.

Between those clauses are still Valid till they are amended and what guarantees they will win the cases?

C'mon Brov!!!

senior123:
Arrant Nonsense!!! Who gave MASSOB the right to banish people. This is a "FEDERAL REPUBLIC" not a "KINGDOM" your chief does not have the right the banish people from anywhere. Under what law are u banishing him. In that case all Nigerians can move to banish NNAMDI KANU FROM NIGERIA. since we all have the rights to banish people. Dullards.

billyG:
did u shew him yur diary?

Keneking:
ECOWAS Court has no jurisdiction over Nigeria

Meaningless judgement, impact less decision, nonsense action

Keneking:
ECOWAS Court has no jurisdiction over Nigeria

Meaningless judgement, impact less decision, nonsense action

ENUGU – The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra,MASSOB,yesterday,warned former governor of Enugu State,Okwesilieze Nwodo and former Minister of Labour/Productivity,Emeka Wogu,not to set their foot on Igbo land, following anti Biafra stance allegedly adopted by the duo.

MASSOB was reacting to a statement credited to the All Progressives Congress,APC,south-east geopolitical zone,wherein it urged MASSOB to abandon the agitation for Biafra and join in building Nigeria at a meeting held last Sunday in Enugu, where the former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP,Nwodo and Wogu,joined the APC.