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@mingiix:
Let me give you another blow, like I did to davidylan! I believe he's yet to recover from that blow. And I believe you(mingiix) will go down flat, after I might have given you a technical knockout!

1) You are a fraud: How? It is impossible for an indigene of a state to serve in (his/her) state of origin. We know this from status quo ante in NYSC procedures. You must be one of those who, when you attend a job interview, you cannot defend your claim that you did NYSC. Since you claimed you served in Bayelsa, and you are a Bayelsan, my first impression about you is that you are a rogue!

With that, I conclude that all your outbursts is another lie from the pit of hell.


FYI, I'm from one of the Niger Delta States, and if you are a Niger Deltan, I tell you, it's your type that will sell your birthright to go to London. You will give outsiders the clues to your wealth. Please cower your head in shame.

2) Once again, your type of story does not move someone like Ono. He's a tested and highly intelligent man. He lives in Warri and is in touch with reality. Your story is forged, cooked up and does not compute. You must be Akolawole's brother for all I care.

All that should take care of you.



Now, I stated before now that I don't want to contribute to this Alams story anymore. I decided to make a new entry, but the site admin deemed it fit to move it down here. I'm a man of my words. I'm still waiting for the real progressives in the country to contribute to my entry. I rest my case.

The president's sins have been listed in another entry. To me, these are ''impeachable enough'' offences. And instead of the president resigning honourably, he'll rather chase other people out of office. I wonder why he did not sack the aviation minister - that Borishade guy is a failure! But the president will rather keep him, to cause more havoc. I believe he's a professor of chaos.

Nigeria is one of such countries where executive lawlessness thrives, and no one can do anything about it. What a shame!

How in the world are we going to progress if we are retrogressing already! I don't know how some people reason.

I will not answer Akolawole. Let's wait for those who are the real progressives in the country to contribute to this matter. It's good to remain silent at times.

Pendelite,

The issue here is that of foreigners ''managing'' our internal crisis for us. Oil or no oil, the crises stares us in the face. And what are these crises? Internal strife, nepotism, tribalism,...I've listed them out here before now. We can hide under oil and say ''there is crises in the Niger Delta, and as such ''our'' economic interests are in serious trouble'' But, deep down in all of us, we know that the issues at stake are more than oil and some kinda economic interests...

Posers:
Is the Niger Delta crises that grievous that we need to engage the services of foreigners to quell it?

http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/cover/december05/15122005/f415122005.html

I have just read thru the latest on Alams, and I felt I should share it with my people. Please read the above link.

Quoting copiously from the above link:

1) ''Mr. Rotimi Jacob, who represented the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bayo Ojo, withdrew the old charges, saying his action was necessary because the accused person was no longer a governor who enjoyed immunity from trial under section 308 of the 1999 constitution.

2) Alamieyeseigha’s counsel, Mr. Moses Ofeoshi, had argued that the prosecution did not accompany the first charges with proof of evidence or an affidavit in support of his claims as required by law even as Mr Jacob asked the tribunal to issue a production warrant to enable police release Alamieyeseigha for arraignment before the tribunal.''


3) Immunity has suddenly become an academic exercise by the impeachment of the accused person. The argument has been overtaken by event. The previous application then has turned to a mere academic exercise.



FACTS:
1. We all know that it was because of the ''old charges'' that this man (Alams) was removed from office. So, why the ''U'' turn now that his counsel wants ''PROOF OF EVIDENCE'' or an AFFIDAVIT in support of his (Attorney Generals) claims?

I bet they could not produce either of the two, how? it was non-existent in the first place! - davidylan, Jakumo, etc are u folks still there with your truckloads of ''old charges''?

2. One can see how the lives and careers of people can be toyed with by a Cabal called PDP (People Deceiving People) in this case. The previous ''movie'' we watched about Alams has been branded a mere academic exercise!

3. It can be concluded, ''quod erat demonstrandum'' - QED, that the entire impeachment, capture, arrest (both London and Yenagoa) etc of Alams was a setup, a charade from EFCC and Abuja's Aso Villa. There's more to this matter than meet the ordinary eye.

Folks, it's not good to blow anything out of proportion. Thanks for the likes of nferyn and conscience. Since I joined this forum, these folks strike me as those that live in the ''real'' world.

I just read about the sins of Alams in another entry, and the folks there just like to swallow falsehood and stereotyped lies from some goons! Conscience and nferyn, could you please tell them to sit down when they read newspapers story and ask if the newspapers folks are not just blowing issues out of proportion to sell their wares or they are really telling the truth as it is.

Now, back to this issue at hand.

Some folks - especially the Edo people, may not like this, but since the creation of Delta State, things began to fall apart for them. Their fortunes have been on the downward slope - dwindling. And instead of concentrating on what's left for them as a state and develop it, they like heaping the blame on their leaders! Who did not know that the present day Benin ''City'' was built with crude oil money from the old Bendel State?

As for me, this is a fortaste of things to come. Untill we stop depending on the proceeds from crude oil sales, corruption, nepotism, backstabbing, ethnic bigotry, greed and all the evils associated with laziness will continue to haunt us as a people. And until we start to operate at the level of true democratic norms, we will continue to depend on foreign bodies for help on ''internal'' issues.

I have signed off on this matter, but it seems you guys are bent on convincing me to the contrary.

One bigblow to your outbursts (lists) of Alams sins is the source of the info - EFCC. The truth is that I don't trust the folks at EFCC - they are OBJs bootlickers and goons! And they only carry out his bidding on anything he's angry with.

Besides, a cursory look at some of the ''contents'' of the list is simply outrageous - you can easily detect ''fraud or lies'' in such things as Alams owning the ''Bayelsa State Governor’s lodge located at Iro Dan Musa Street, off T.Y. Danjuma Street, Asokoro Area, Abuja'' We all know that almost all the state governors have such things as Governors Lodge in Abuja. The reasons for this is not far fetched - to make accomodation of guests of the governor and the governor himself cheap and safe. Here in Delta state for instance, the state governor has a Governors Lodge in GRA Warri. What the heck is wrong with that one? How in the world could he name such an edifice as Bayelsa State Governor's Lodge and people just will conclude that he owns it?


Honestly, I'm befuddled that this kind of list will just sink into your sense of judgement - I mean swallow it hook, line and sinker and go to bed with it! Haba! try sit down and digest it's content, take some time out and reason why such things should be true. I call it 360 deg view about issues. Take a look at the ''Total picture'' ask questions. Don't get carried away with hatred for the man. For christs sake! he's a family man like most of us. Can't we be humane enough to at least weigh all these allegations in the light of reality?


This is the last time I will contribute anything on this matter.

My grouse about the whole thing is the non inclusion of the ''real'' owners of the land in the security arrangement.

It is ''possible'' that part of the 200,000barrels per day oil is what the ''Nigerian born tycoon billonaire'' - Kase Lawal is selling abroad! Reading btw the lines, you'd see the guy has offices in PH, Lagos, London and Jo'burgh. Sounds to me like he's a front for a cartel notorious for siphoning crude from Nigeria. At the mention of Nigerian cities of Lag and PH, the integrity of the guy is automatically dented.

Some folks just sit up there in Abuja and decides what happens to the oil in Warri and PH creeks. And they call it ''our'' oil. Ridiculous. It's more painful to note that these folks are not even from the Niger Delta. What's worse? they have the backing of some of the vagabonds from the Niger Delta. Oh Lord have mercy on their souls!

The logic here is that from ur utterances about the way the man left the UK, our sense of judgement can become warped at times........and that can be traced to many years of military misrule!

I might be wrong, please correct me, but given the gravity of the offence committed by Alams, I want to believe that a detachment of some Met Police folks should have been drafted to his residence to prevent the guy from going near any seaport or airport. If that's the case, then how on earth did he beat these security folks to it? - that he ''dressed as a fat ugly woman'' does not compute at all. But if that's not the case, I posit that the British Met. Police and Scotland Yard did a shoddy job of preventing the guy from leaving the UK. They should have taken a cue from OBJ when he drafted a detachment of Army and Mobile Policemen to secure Yenagoa and prevent Alams escape!

As per his financial dealings, Jakumo, believe me, Alams is not alone in this. I believe OBJ himself is guilty. His time will come, just like it did during the Abacha era. His time will come again.
And one should be free to correlate EVERYTHING, financial dealings and ALL with SHODDY security! Security matters a lot. If they were able to find out so much about Alams financial misgivings, then they should have put all the necessary machinery in place to prevent his escape from justice.....abi wetin my people think? Having gone through the stringent bail conditions imposed on Alams, I marveled at the way he escaped from Britain ''without'' their knowledge! C'mon man!, all these Alams story's a set up. He was framed up from the word go!

Remember, he spent THREE solid months in the UK over this money laundering thing. I expected that they would prosecute him immediately they found all those phony huge sums of money on him. But they foot-dragged, imposed ridiculous bail conditions, and even came to Abuja to see OBJ on what to do, when they know fully well that the whole story about the guy's dealings is a frame up from Aso Villa and EFCC!


Now, folks, lets leave this matter to the future to decide.......so much have been said.

Alams is not my governor. I'm not from Bayelsa state.

But you said the UK is a very POROUS country, I find it difficult here to correlate their porous nature with some kind of effective security networks - like Scotland Yard and Met Police....the security network that will allow Alams to leave their country undetected! Meticulous research and investigation my foot!

And what makes you think that it's still the highly efficient Scotland Yard of yesteryears that we still have in the UK after the country have been rated POROUS? Just a couple of years back, there was this story that made the rounds that even the Queens(- or is it the Prince of Wales?) private residence was invaded by some photo crazy journalist without their efficient security networks noticing the strange guy....... So much about British Security!

Just hear yourself! wow! '' The looting governor dressed as a fat ugly woman to escape trial in London, and that is how he evaded detection as he fled home like hunted antelope. No mystery there, as far as I can see''


Some people sef, just two days on this forum, and I'm getting convinced by the day that the long years of military misrule has done a lot of harm on us as a people in this country. What a country!

I humbly submit to the opinion of the majority on this matter. A thief, WHEN CAUGHT, should face the consequences of his/her actions anyday.

But we have to be careful in the way we look at matters like this. We all know that all the news about what Alams stole are at best ALLEGATIONS. His jumping bail in London is fraught with mysteries! Alams himself confessed that he did not know how he made it out of the UK!

Then came his impeachment: Lets not be partial in our views on this matter. That a serving governor was impeached within 72 hours of setting up a committee to investigate his wrongs is ridiculous in a democratic settings! And, we should appreciate the fact that this matter is heavily tainted with a lot of political manouverings. We should look at all these before we conclude that the man should be nailed!

As for me, I want to sign off on this matter, because of all the above FACTS. It's all shrouded in secrecy and bias! If this matter is put to vote of any kind, I'll remain neutral. I will not vote.

Ladies and Gentlemen, pls have a nice day.

Jakumo,

No, I said ''six years'' - read my entry very well...hmn.

Lets leave Alams for now, after all he's down and out.


I just read this one on the Punch now: I smell fish though.....I think I'll soon smell suya too...soon.....


Nigerian-born tycoon runs $1bn oil business in US

To hear Kase Lawal tell it, while his company has been successful in carving out a niche for itself, it still remains little more than a “drop in the bucket” when compared to its competitors. But when the bucket is the trillion-dollar energy industry, and the niche is pumping and processing crude from saturated oil fields in Africa, then a drop does not an Exxon make, but it is enough to make CAMAC Holdings the largest black-owned business in the world, and the unassuming 51-year-old CEO a modern-day oil magnate.

In fact, from oil exploration, refining and trading, Lawal’s Houston-based company raked in a mind-boggling $1billion in revenue last year alone. With offices in London, Johannesburg, Lagos and Port Harcourt, that totals about 100,000 barrels of crude every 24 hours.

“Business is great,” Lawal said of CAMAC, celebrating its 20th anniversary this month. “You just have to look at the newspaper to see the price of commodities.”

From his headquarters in a high-rise in the swank Galleria section of Houston, Texas, the Nigerian-born entrepreneur can see the world like few others, and reflect on a vision that has helped him overcome a civil war in his homeland and entrenched colour barriers in America, parlaying the best of the both worlds to claim a share of black gold in the historically lily-White oil industry.

Within CAMAC’s Houston offices, Lawal’s Nigeria, African roots and African-American influence are apparent. African art decorates the walls, while the talents of African-Americans can be seen throughout the corridors. An extremely private man, Lawal is reserved, yet dignified. But in business, Lawal’s bravado comes through. He will be the first to admit that searching for oil is not for the faint of heart. Big risks are taken in search of big rewards. “Sometimes, people think I’m crazy because I can sink in $40million looking for oil or gas; he said. “But if you catch it, if you get it, if you are able to get the reserves (strike oil), it pays for all of the other times you were unsuccessful. It’s an interesting business to be in.”

The great thing about drilling for oil is that once established, “this industry doesn’t know colour;’ he said. “It’s about your success in drilling and being able to find reserves.”

Much of his business acumen, he said, comes from his childhood experiences. He was born in Ibadan, Nigeria, a city of eight million people, about 100 miles north- west of Lagos. The son of a father who was a politician and a mother who was a textile store merchant in Ibadan, Lawal grew up during a time of political strife, as the liberation movement fought for freedom from British colonial rule.

Lawal remembers spending endless days at the United States Information Service reading about the similar struggles of blacks during the Civil Rights Movement in America. “I read anything I could lay my hands on,” he said. “I read about Martin Luther King. I was fascinated with the plight of Blacks. America had a tremendous influence on young people all over the world during those days. We were very interested in knowing what was happening. And most young people wanted to come to America. I was just one of the fortunate ones.”

He persuaded his parents to let him come to America to attend school. “I remember that morning,” he said. “I can still see my mother at the airport crying. It was the first time a person in my family was leaving home and going overseas. It was very difficult, but I was much more excited about what was ahead, and the curiosity of wanting to know what was in America.”

He headed straight for Georgia, the hotbed of freedom movement activity. He attended Fort Valley State University, before transferring to Texas Southern University, where he obtained a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering. He holds a master’s of business administration in finance and marketing from A&M University, Texas

Lawal’s first taste of the energy business came after graduation when he worked as a chemist for Dresser Industries (now Halliburton) and later a chemical engineer with Shell Oil Refining Company.

It wasn’t long before Lawal decided to venture out on his own. He started CAMAC first as an agriculture and commodities company that took tobacco from the South and made cigarettes to be sold overseas, but soon decided to use his knowledge of the energy industry to get into the field of oil exploration. But he ran into numerous problems trying to acquire land.

After being unsuccessful at nearly two dozen auctions, Lawal decided to go overseas. He was given a big boost in 1989 when the Nigerian government indicated that it wanted to encourage its people to get more involved in its lucrative oil industry. One of the people the government reached out to was Lawal, their native son. “Most people working on platform were Nigerians, but their bosses were the major oil company employees from the West,” Lawal said. “The government asked me to try to organise Nigerians in the US who were working for oil companies and would be interested in being technical partners with indigenous companies.”

He did, and in the process, realised that he could use his knowledge of Africa and America to gain a much bigger foothold in the industry. In 1991, Lawal signed several deals with major oil companies that would pave the way for the success that he enjoys today.

“The best way for me to get into the industry was to know what the big boys wanted, the major oil companies, the big 10, the big 50:’ he said. “Did they have an interest in West Africa? If they did, I would go to West Africa and look for what they wanted and made it available to them. I understood the political landscape and business environment in those countries in Africa. When you merge those two together, there was a good synergy that was very attractive to the major oil companies.”

drbigdaddy,
You be my man for this matter......All these people who are shouting crucify him have told several lies to day and for years now. None of dem fit claim say dem dey clean...If them give them chance dem go beat Alams records for stealing!

I hope you folks know that ''all'' the money you want to claim belongs to you actually belongs to the people of the Niger Delta? - since 1958 that crude was discovered in Oloibiri, near Alams village to date, how much has the other parts of the country contributed to the national purse? All we do is to shout and crucify people without facts and figures. We listen and read some cooked up stories about people and come here and shout. We don't even stop to ponder and reason properly (due in part to long years of military misrule), we just swallow the the stories hook, line and sinker.....May God forgive us all.

Alams town, Amassoma, for instance has several oil fields producing the golden egg that fills up the national purse and eventually makes up the national cake that Babangida, Atiku, OBJ and his Holding companies, farms and all, OGD, Abuja Minister, Danjuma, etc etc are feeding fat on. So can some one tell me why Alams should not take from something that comes from his backyard before thieves from other places will feed fat on it?

Someone said Gbenga Obasanjo was very rich before now. I will like EFCC to investigate the source of somebody who was a university student in New York and after graduation bought a mansion in New York during his father's tenure as President. When the lid was blown open, they quickly covered it up and to date nothing has been said about it....

.....the new Bayelsa speaker wants security forces to remain PERMANENTLY in Yenagoa...... My people, if truly ''due process'' was followed in the ''impeachment'' of Alams and his subsequent arrest, do you think they need security forces to remain stationed permanently in Yenagoa - to quell any uprising? If the constitution of the country was truly followed in his ''impeachment'' - no hasty conclusion, no teleguiding from EFCC, no remote control from Aso villa, and no forged signatures! No threats about some phony ''constituency projects'', do you think the people will not fully embrace these guys who ''impeached'' Alams - to save them from Alams?

Most of you folks have never been to Yenagoa - no doubt, from what I've been reading! I served (NYSC) in Bayelsa State, and I know what's on ground there. I know how difficult it is to construct one kilometre of road over there. I also know that it took a lot of guts from Alams for the FG to consider linking up the state to the National Grid. As I write, they guys on site are working to link up the state to the grid... Do you think the people did not appreciate all these. The Niger Delta University in Wilberforce Island is a legacy site for all Niger Delta People. Many Bayelsans have been gainfully employed during Alams tenure. Nobody was complaining in Yenagoa in particular and Bayelsa in general before OBJ came and suspended the state allocation.

My people have you ever stopped for once and ponder over this Alams jumping bail matter? Do you think someone like Alams will leave the UK soil without the knowledge of the British security apparatus? Lets face it. I repeat, do you think Alams will LEAVE the UK without the knowledge of the British security forces in these days of terrorism? That he dressed like a woman has been confirmed false! Intelligence reports has it that he was actually escorted out of England by their security forces!

Tony Blair's silence on OBJs letter is instructive. Silence is the best answer to a fool! And for those of you who think Britain has been collaborating with looters from Nigeria, I tell you British interests all over the world is far greater than whatever a Nigerian ''thief'' has got to offer them... and even the entire country as a whole have got to offer them!

Jakumo,
I be Waffi (Warri - Just in case u don't know what Waffi means) man o! When it comes to 'gbege'' You know, no one can beat a Waffarian to it in the entire Nigeria! I want to tell you that OBJ's anti-corruption drive is selective in clear terms. I don't give a dime what others think. I'm baring my mind here.

Pls note that I'm not in outer space, I'm right here in the heart of the Niger Delta. I've not been dreaming either, I'm wide awake and I've been following the events leading to the ''capture'' not ''arrest and impeachment'' of Alams. To me, this war btw OBJ and Alams has some elements of muscle-flexing and power-flexing than anything constitutional. It's jungle war cum justice being displayed in full glare of all of us. A rape on democratic norms. And the earlier we nip this ugly trend in the bud the better for the future of our dear country.

''Every'' information on Alams from the start were forged to deceive us and to achieve their purpose....just as NTA and the information minister deceived us on the location of the Bellview Air mishap. PDP means People Deceiving People - and that's what they've lived up to over the years. Please don't let them deceive you too...

There are many thieves walking free right under OBJs nose up there in Abuja and he simply cannot do anything about them! They will at best go after his throat and unmask him - if he dares them! It is the arrogance and impunity of Alams that he cannot bear. I can imagine what Alams' sin are: Resource control fight and Enthronment of true democratic norms - otherwise he too will be walking free with his loot by now. He (Obasanjo) wants people to be loyal to him and his govt - but he flouts court orders with impunity!

Alams stole for more than six years. But since he was in the good books of the PDP, they saw nothing wrong with that. And just like the ordinary policeman on the highway demanding N20 note from all of us and then later share the proceeds (loot) at the police stations with their superiors, Alams was sharing the loot with the PDP until he refused to do same again. He, in the process, incured the wrath of the powers that be. Someone said Alams did not donate to OBJs Library at Abeokuta.


I'll ask some questions to buttress my points here.

* Where did the owner of Obasanjo Holdings get the money to set up The Bells group of school and Bells University? - what moral justification has he to erect such structures in his home state when Delta State, the largest oil producing state in the country (N5 trillion came to Federal coffers in 2005 from Delta) has no Federal University, even when it has been confirmed that Delta has one of the highest number of students waiting to gain admissions to universities?

*What happened to OBJ's son when he bought a mansion in New York under questionable - let me use his words - ''SURREPTITIOUS'' circumstances? The case has suddenly gone under, buried!

...there are many others


and,

* I will like OBJ to arrest IBB, Abdulsalami Abubakar, Theophilus Danjuma etc - afterall their names appeared in a list sent to him by the World Bank as the ''real'' looters of the Nations economy and treasury....


Nemesis will catch up with all those who wants to ruin our dear country.....right from the top to the bottom....and all their collaborators.....

May God open the eyes of the likes of Jakumo to see the truth and stop chasing shadows! I rest my case

I have read thru most of the comments on this matter.....I'm new here... But I must state that I am dissappointed - at least from most of the contributions on this matter - I'm not Alams stooge or any of his boys..

Since when did we stop thinking rationally as Nigerians? I think the long years of military rule (misrule?) have really impacted greatly on our psyche and our thinking faculty. What a shame. I just pray we are not heading for doom in this country.

All said, I KNOW that Alamieyeseigha is innocent of all the charges proffered against him. He's being prosecuted for daring to shout against the excesses of a wild leader, a maximum ruler. We all know that we did not elect him. He was forced on us all by some strange forces bent on emasculating us, in the name of giving us the ''....dividends of democracy, continuity etc etc'' which I'm yet to understand.

Na wah o, I'm new here..... I just bought a Honda Car and I did not know how to drive, I used to think that the procedure for getting a driving license in the country is stressful until now.....