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The killing by a letter bomb of Dele Giwa, a magazine editor critical of Babangida's administration, at his Lagos home in 1986 which was largely attributed to Babangida[citation needed]and remains a controversial incident to this day. In 1999, President Olusegun Obasanjo established the Human Rights Violation Investigation Commission headed by Justice Chukwudifu Oputa to investigate human rights abuses during Nigeria's decades of military rule. However, Babangida repeatedly defied summons to appear before the panel to answer allegations of humans rights abuses and questioned both the legality of the commission and its power to summon him. His right not to testify was upheld in 2001 by Nigeria's court of appeal which ruled that the panel did not have the power to summon former rulers of the country.[5].

The Oputa Panel Report would conclude that "On General Ibrahim Babangida, we are of the view that there is evidence to suggest that he and the two security chiefs, Brigadier General Halilu Akilu and Col. A. K. Togun are accountable for the death of Dele Giwa by letter bomb. We recommend that this case be re-opened for further investigation in the public interest."[6]

one nigeria

Onlytruth, emyah, Wly Wily

you must dissolve One Nigeria and allow the different Nations to assume their sovereignty once again.

WilyWily:
I dIdn't treat any Dirty Stinking Hausa/Fulani man with disdain, Almajiri is in them, it's their Culture, that's their way of life.

am with you .

I have heard it parroted for as long as I can’t remember that Nigeria’s hyperpopulation is one of the reasons the country is failing. And from the first time I heard this flawed reasoning I have always countered it.

promise to not give us more than we can handle

to refrash ur mind

World Bank Distances itself from list of Nigerian Looters


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LAOLU AKANDE NEW YORK


A list containing the names of 21 former Nigerian officials and military officers with alleged sums of looted money in foreign banks have been disowned by officials of the World Bank in Washington D.C.


For about a month now the list which mentions varying amounts of money the Nigerians have stashed away in several currencies including US dollars, British pounds, German Marks and Swiss Franc have circulated in diplomatic circles, among international financial operatives and several email lists on the internet.


According to the list, World Bank is listed as the source with a reference mentioned in Financial Times=2
0of London June 24, 1999. On the list, it was noted that the World Bank passed on this list to President Obasanjo.


Earlier this year, Obasanjo was reported, (at the time Nigeria was inching close to a deal with its creditors on the debt relief deal) as saying he had been asked about Nigerian funds stashed abroad by former officials and also given such a list and there was no official denial of this from the Nigerian government.


According to a popular international website on debt issues, Odious Debts Online, as reported on July 27, 2005, "in exchange for partial debt relief, the Paris Club of creditor nations have handed Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo a list of well-placed Nigerians to go after and prosecute for allegedly stealing and stashing public funds in overseas bank accounts."


The website, well read in western capitals said "according to various reports, President Obasanjo confirmed the list publicly after he was pressured by a delegation from the state of Kwara to reveal the conditions of the Paris Club debt relief deal."


Similarly, usually reliable sources said the World Bank had first passed such a list to Obasanjo several years back, and went ahead to leak it to the Financial Times when the Nigerian president refused to take any action on the list except regarding the Late General Sani Abacha. In the case of Abacha, President Obasanjo took steps to pursue the information made available to the Nigerian government. But in the case of others
especially General Ibrahim Babangida, Obasanjo simply ignored the information.


A UN funds recovery expert Jack Blum based in Washington DC had disclosed to this reporter in the past that he met with Obasanjo on the recovery of the funds in the earlier days of the administration, but Obasanjo showed interest only in pursuing the Abacha loot and showed no interest in the alleged IBB loot which was more than Abacha's, according to Blum and the list now widely in circulation.


On the list Abacha was listed as stashing abroad 9.1 billion British pounds, 4.09 billion Swiss Francs, $200m US dollars and 500 million German Marks. The list puts Babangida's loot at 6.2 billion pounds, 7.41 billion Swiss Franc, 2 billion US dollars and 9 billion DeutscheMarks.


Indeed recently, the World Bank entered into an agreement with the Swiss government to ensure a sum of $290 million recovered from the Abacha loot is spent by Nigeria on poverty reduction programme.


This reporter spoke with several World Bank and International Finance Corporation, IFC, officials in the last few weeks, and the official line remains a straight denial of the list.


John Donaldson, a senior communication officer at the World bank said the World Bank is not a policing institution and if it has any information it would pass it to the appropriate authorities. His colleague Herbert Boh, a communication officer at the World Bank, point blank disassociated the World Bank from such a list. Said h
e :"The World Bank is not in possession of any such list and did not send any such list out to President Obasanjo or to any media outlet."


Asked whether the World Bank can retain or have access to such information, Boh said the "World Bank does not have such information."


But he conceded that the World bank has received "numerous other requests on this list, " but categorically denied that such a list is from the World Bank and "is NOT connected to the World Bank." (emphasis his) Speaking with the International Finance Corporation, the World bank agency that deals with the private sector, Corrie Shanahan, IFC's spokesperson also stated that the the IFC does not maintain such a list.


But Shanahan however added that "as part of our due diligence with regard to anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML-CFT), we subscribe to a number of commercial list services," suggestting that the IFC may indeed have access to such information as contained in the list.


Shanahan also noted that basically such information contained in the list were bank secrets. Observers say that may explain why the World bank and its agency are trying hard to distance themselves from the list.


This reporter also conducted a web search on the archives of the Financial Times, since the list mentioned a reference to that paper's edition of June 24, 1999. But a preliminary search did not turn up any useful information although a search of the actual20print edition was not immediately possible.


Other Nigerian former officials whose names featured on the list are Generals Ibrahim Babangida, whose name was listed first, Abdusalami Abubakar, Mike Akhigbe, Jerry Useni, Alhaji Ismaila Gwarzo, Umaru Dikko, Paul Ogwuma, Mohammed Abacha, Abdulkadir Abacha, Wada Nas, Tom Ikimi, Dan Etete, Don Etiebet, Major Al Mustapha, Anthony Ani, Bashir Dalhatu, General Wushishi, Hassan Adamu, T.Y. Danjuma and General Ishaya Bamaiyi in that order.


LOOTED MONEY DISCOVERED IN FOREIGN BANKS NAMES OF DEPOSITORS


LOOTED MONEY DISCOVERED IN FOREIGN BANKS


NAMES OF DEPOSITORS LONDON SWISS($) USA ($) GERMANY (D)


GEN IBRAHIM BABANGIDA 6.25bn 7.41bn 2.00bn 9.00bn


GEN ABUBAKAR 1.31bn 2.33bn 800M


REAR ADMIRAL MIKE AKHIGBE 1.24bn 2.42bn 671M 1bn


GEN JERRY USENI 3.04bn 2.01bn 1.01bn 900M


ALH ISMAILA GWARZO 1.03bn 2.00bn 1.3bn 700M


ALH UMARU DIKKO 4.5bn 1.4bn 700M 345M


PAUL OGWUMA 300M 1.42bn 200M 500M


GEN SANI ABACHA 9.01bn 4.09bn 800M 3.01M


MOHAMMED ABACHA 300M 1.2bn 150M 535M


ABDULKADIR ABACHA 700M 1.21bn 900M 471M


ALHAJI WADA NAS 600M 1.32bn 300M


TOM IKIMI 400M 1.39bn 152M 371M


DAN ETETE 1.12bn 1.03bn 400M 1.72bn


DON ETIBET 2.5bn 1.06bn 700M 361M


MAJ AL MUSTAPHA 600M 1.001bn 210M


ANTHONY ANI 2.9bn 1.09bn 360M 1.66bn


BASHIR DALHATU 2.3bn 1.001bn 161M 1.43bn


GEN WUSHISHI 700M 1.301bn


ALH HASSAN ADA
MU 300M 200M 700M


T Y DANJUMA 300M 200M 700M


GEN ISHAYA BAMAYI 120M 800M


SOURCE: WORLD BANK TO THE PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA


SOURCE: WORLD BANK TO THE PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA


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it is very heartbreaking to see such a negative trend from north after 40years of controlling NIGERIA. I am very sorry for those that make statements insinuating that criminality, thuggery in government, indiscipline and corruption is peculiar to one tribe. What is happening today was imported by Hausa /Yoruba

Through the Igbo in this last days as the chosen tribe amongst the Jews in Diaspora. Whose manifestations and blessings shall come after their own bondage and suffering as it is happening in Nigeria today, hence our progenitors Shem, Abram, Gad, Eri, Nri… was caused by “CHUKWU” to be stranger in a foreign land to suffer humiliation and intimidations, political victimization; but will be sifted as corn sifted in a sieve when the new Tabernacle of David shall be restored which the Igbo must produce the king. That is even the reason why the Igbo are without a KING today. The KING of the Igbo shall be the champion of ELOHIMCRACY or in other word theocracy to replace imperialism, capitalism, materialism, democracy above all HELENISM.

Forty nin years after the independence, the Igbo have not seen the light; forty years after the war, it is still the same story. The question is: Will the sun ever rise again in the LAND OF THE RISING SUN (BIAFRA) "If tomorrow ever comes, the sun must rise as it did today." [KWENU: Beyond Biafra, Reedbuck, 1997] I have learnt over the years not to weep about yesterday because what happened yesterday was meant to be reaped today, and whatever that happens today shall determine the fate of tomorrow. Our forefathers fought for us and not for themselves. Unfortunately, they failed as it was PREDESTINED. Today we are reaping the consequences. But shall we sit back and watch our children go through this pain? That is where I disagree. We have to stand and correct the wrongs of yesterday now, so that our children shall see the sun rise very bright tomorrow.

The official Federal Government stance till date has been to ignore the facts of the Civil War with the expectation that passage of time will dilute its import or completely expunge its relevance within the polity as the Civil War generation dies out.

40 years from the end of hostilities, Biafra and the politics that surrounded it continue to haunt many citizens, particularly those who bore the brunt of the Civil War and those who still have to bear the scars of that futile struggle for the rest of their lives. There is unanimity that the Civil War era was the most traumatic epoch of Nigerian history. An estimated more than 2 million lives of Biafrans were prematurely terminated by starvation, disease and direct casualties from a murderous hausa/Yoruba that featured untold brutality from hausa/Yoruba

Trashing of the Biafran currency by the Central Bank, confiscation of landed properties, which Ndiigbo abandoned in the heat of war and imposition of autocratic rule by perceived traitors to the Biafran cause, were indicative of the life that confronted those who were lucky to have survived the mayhem till the end. The Civil War helped to launch Nigeria’s political destiny on a path that will ever make it impossible to fully return the country to the halcyon days of the First Republic.

Ojo Maduekwe: even after the
Rotimi’s of Nigeria eventually remind him in calculated derogatory terms that he is still a
“bloody Biafran who was defeated years ago by Nigeria in war,” Maduekwe will be the first to
publicly denounce Biafra and claim one-Nigerian today. Why do these Biafrans want to belong
to something which does not want them, and which constantly insults them and puts them in
their place—outside? Do we forget that at a certain point, Insult not only sticks to the insulted,
but, actually becomes that insulted person who has deliberately clung to the insulting medium?

Once again, we use this medium to speak to Biafrans who, for any number of reasons, continue
to actively cling to Nigeria / one-Nigeria. If anyone in that group still seriously thinks that Biafra
belongs in Nigeria, all we can say to that, is, “what an incurable disease!” And, what a pity!
Because, every day, Nigeria demonstrates in policy and deeds that it is no place for Biafrans; that
it does not want Biafrans, except only as slaves, or food for a ravaging and determined predator
and parasite. To the rest, we say, Believe: believe in Biafra! Return to Biafra! Pay mind to
Biafra.

the only one you / we will ever have.
Returning to Biafra means supporting Biafra actualization in any and all ways, because only an
Independent Sovereign Biafra can provide diplomatic protection based on International Law for
all Biafrans and their properties wherever they may reside outside of Biafra,

Igbo name command attentions, people can only challenge a champion.

Oboma1:
This topic no sell. Try another please!.

if this people were your brother, sister ,mother, farther , uncle or any of your relative the tread would have make sense to you.