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At this point, I can only bid for time to let us see where YarAdua is heading - it's just too early in the life of this administration to start critisizing their performance. The ''corruption fighting'' baton has been handed over to him, I hope he'll get to the finishing line with it asap, and not throw it away along the line. Nuff said.

toshmann:
in other words. . . . . they will never own the oil

Tosh,
Pronto!

almondjoy:
In as much as I would like to be passionate about this subject, I think I have decided to reserve my energy this year for "Blessings of the Future", so I do not lose "them".


I frankly do not intend to discuss old unresolved issues of 2007 in this new year of 2008. Corruption, Ribadu, OBJ, Ibori, Yaradua, IBB and the likes are "unproductive" evil spirits of the past!!!! Do not wish to discuss merry go round/circus topics this year because they are not only boring but kill whatever brain cells are left in my cerebrum. The same old shit.

Goodluck Nigeria as you approach your 48th birthday!!! See you on Independence day!

Well, keep praying hard as usual fellow Nigerians---E go better one day!!! Everything that has a beginning has an end too.

Almond,
To put it straight, this is the best entry I've read today on NL.

linux,
Don't you think you're being somewhat biased in your evaluation of these two personalities? The identified ''imperfections'' in Ribadoo scooby doo is the main reason he's being sent on course today, so that he can be well groomed for higher responsibilities _{or whatever responsibility there is for him}

And as far as I know, I stand to be corrected though, Umar was a vocal, fearless critic of the Abacha administration. We all know how brutal Abacha was when he was at the helm of affairs up there. I think for anyone to ''voice out'' or criticise Abacha at the time, he must really be holding on to something and must have a clean record. Militancy in the delta creek was unheard of. Even babacratic OBJ escaped death by the whiskers! Get my drift?

coolkaboom:
MOVING FORWARD

love it or hate it, the deed is done.can we shift focus on what kind of system develops from the ashes of Ribadu's EFCC.

what kind of individual would we like to see head it? should it remain a ranking police officer or would it be better headed by a respected legal icon with no political ambitions?what ammendments should be made to our constitution to empower EFCC and give it autonomy?

Way to go man!

Ribadoo Scooby Doo is out. NEXXXXXXXXTTT!!

While it might be difficult to point out, at this time, whatever legacies Col. Umar left behind when he was in the military and in the politics of the dictator, IBB, one cannot easily overlook those brilliant points the retired Colonel has made up there.

We will only be deceiving ourselves at this time if we descend so low as to begin to malign Umar's personality and not look at the points he's raised on the performance of babacratic OBJ and his locust infested 8 years rule. It's like chasing shadows and leaving substance! All of what he's raised up there are largely true and only sincere people will look at them and reason with the colonel on the way out of our present predicament as a nation.

All that's up there from the Sahara Desert? is utter gibberish.

@ Teriba,
You need to know my stance on these issues. It's with thesame passion that I hate babacratic OBJ for the evils perpetrated under his nose that I hate IBB. I never for once voiced my support for IBB in anyway. And as far as I'm concerned, these two personalities - IBB and OBJ are the main reasons why Nigeria is at a sorry pass today.

Talking about murder, I honestly don't think OBJ is better than IBB. OBJ was the one who spearheaded the assassination of Bola Ige, Harry Marshal and a host of others during his tenure as president of this country. If he isn't, how is it that we've not been able to fish out the people who carried out these dastardly act at the time? Who's shielding them from being caught?

And as far as I'm concerned, Ribadoo is/was a tool used by OBJ to execute anti-thuurd term die hards. We should not forget easily the way the man was breathing hell both on TV and radio over this. We should not forget how EFCC was used to hound everyone who was against his plan to continue as life president of this country. No one is saying Ribadu did not fight corruption. What we're complaining about him is the way he went about it at some point. This completely brought down his credibility rating.

Yar'Adua okays NIPSS course for Ribadu       
Written by Kingsley Omonobi     
Wednesday, 02 January 2008
 
PRESIDENT Umaru Yar’Adua has finally given approval for the Chief Executive of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, to proceed on the nine-month senior management course at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Jos.
The police authorities received the president’s approval yesterday, Vanguard has learnt, while the Inspector-General of Police IGP Mr, Mike Okiro has summoned the EFCC’s Director of Operations, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, and other police officers seconded to the anti-graft agency for a meeting on the recent development there.


Mallam Nuhu Ribadu
The meeting is scheduled for tomorrow in Abuja.


Mallam Ribadu is commencing the programme on January 24.


Vanguard gathered that Mr. Okiro who seems embarrassed by the controversy triggered by the nomination of Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, chairman of EFCC, for the senior management course at NIPSS, Jos, will use the occasion of the meeting “to assure the officers that the police hierarchy has nothing against them or the EFCC and that the Force Headquarters remains committed to the fight against corruption."


He is also expected, according to sources, to put their minds at rest over reports of a possible mass redeployment of the officers from the commission.


Vanguard’s investigations showed that of the serving 17 Assistant Inspectors-General in the police  today, only two of them, Muazu Hadeija and Nuhu Ribadu, are the ones yet to attend a senior officers course. The others are either fellows of the National Defence College (FWC) or alumni  of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NMI).


In fact, more than 17 Commissioners of Police (CPs) and Deputy Commissioners of Police (DCPs) have gone to NIPSS and the National Defence College while five serving Deputy Commissioners and one CP are currently attending the National Defence College course in Abuja.

Ribadu’s removal overdue — AC

Meanwhile, the Action Congress (AC) said yesterday the removal of Mallam  Ribadu as EFCC Chairman was long overdue, because of[b] “his selective and defective anti-corruption battle and for his role in bringing Nigeria to the sorry pass it has now found itself after the bungled 2007 polls."[/b]


The party, in a statement by its chief spokesman, Alhaji Lai Muhammad, yesterday, said: “His biased, unfair and orchestrated reports labelling some people as corrupt, even before investigating them, led to the unconstitutional disqualification of several candidates before the April elections.


“Now that some election tribunals have ruled such disqualifications unconstitutional, Ribadu should have had the decency to quit instead of waiting to be booted out of office,” it added.AC said it was not interested in the debate over the modality of Ribadu’s removal, adding that the bottomline was that he should have been kicked out a long time ago to pave the way for an anti-corruption battlethat can be prosecuted within the rule of law and in line with the country’s constitution.Continuing, the party said:

‘We do not believe in the indispensability of any individual. And as we have said several times, the war against corruption can be best fought if it is institutionalised, rather than left to the whims and caprices of anyone, no matter what he thinks of himself.”


source: vanguard news.

I'm particularly optimistic that after Ribadoo's ouster, corruption will henceforth be doggedly fought to a standstil by whoever is going to take over the mantle of leadership of the establishment. I do not for once doubt that YarAdua will select the best man for that job. . . . .a man that will not fall to the whims and caprices of a corrupt cabal in a political party.

funloving:
Even if it is proved that Ribadu's second term in office is illegal it still does not change the fact that Ibori and Co were arrested and prosecuted by the EFCC and not Ribadu therefore, their prosecution can not become a nullity simply because Ribadu's tenure is illegal.

True. . . . to a large extent. But we cannot feign ignorance the influence the leadership of any organisation can have on that organisation - especially in government establishments in a country like Nigeria. Take Nigeria as a classic case. Most of the problems we're having as a nation has been traced to very bad leadership, buoyed by the endemic corrupt nature of the average Nigerian.

It may not be totally out of place to say that Ribadoo was largely instrumental to all the selective prosecution,  of ''corrupt'' people during the babacratic era of OBJ. He was out solely to act the script of his master - OBJ.  I suggest a complete search or overhaul of the EFCC outfit during the tenure of the corrupt, corruption czar, Ribadooo - _{sounds like Scooby Doo}.

cushman:
I've been in this forum for close to three goddamn years now. I've seen worst. You Can't break me

LMFAO!!!

I really don't think this has anything to do with Ibori. For heavens sake, there are other more corrupt peeps on the prowl out there. If all the cases this Ribadoo guy's been handling since his ''re-selection'' did not follwo the rule of law, and due process, then, to hell with all the corruption files he left behind.

Radicalism and ''gragraism'' will not help cleanse this nation of corruption and corrupt people. I will like a situation where a thief is caught and made to see that he actually stole before all men. And selective justice is injustice and is criminal!

Through thick and thin, good or bad, I remain a loyal fan of the greatest Arsenal of all times.

It's heartwarming to see there are so many fans in here. The politics section's quite boisterous. I should come around here to wind down.

All hail Arsenal.

Teriba:
. . . . . . . . . . . We all need to understand the fact that we haven`t got to a stage in our development where one would be prosecuting the daughter of an incumbent President. When the father leaves power, he could make his move at any time and prosecute, . . . . . .

Really? Wonders will never end in this country. Anyway, he's out now, what's stopping EFCC from prosecuting his daughter?

McKren:
The source explained, "By the Act, it is only the board of EFCC, being headed by[b] Ribadu himself[/b], that can appoint a person on acting capacity; anything contrary to that is illegal and it will not stand. And I know President Yar’Adua is somebody who believes in due process and rule of law."

What a source! I just hope it's saharareporters. They are the people that peddle such news. Any contrary view on why this Ribadu guy should go? He has turned EFCC to his private outfit. Again, this is what you get when you promote someone far above what his brain can carry.

McKren:
While our source confirmed Ribadu’s readiness to go for the course, he said neither the inspector-general of police, Sir Mike Okiro, nor President Yar’Adua is empowered by the EFCC Act to appoint an acting chairman for the commission.

This Ribadu guy is a joke. If what's up there is actually credited to him, then I think he needs to have his brain examined - CT scan or something.

babasin:
During OBJ 8yrs and after $800mil spent, Nigeria is still producing same 3000MW.
Yet, this same MAN is FREE and ABOUT in Nigeria!!

And throughout that period, EFCC under Ribadu did not see anything worth investigating about the man. As we discuss here, the man has built a Hiltop Mansion at Abeokuta GRA - similar to what obtains in Minna, and is probably bathing in one of the several Jacuzzi tubs in the mansion.

presido1:
Those that was not arrested will be God father to those that will be selected elected in the near future therby making them corrupt as well. Arrest all the corrupt Politicians thats our stand.

Agree. And when you're arresting them, let everyone see that you're actually doing that, not some selective arrest of corrupt politicians.

naijaking1:
Some short sighted elements(you know who) in the Niger delta supported and encouraged the Gowon and then the Obasanjo regime to enact land use decrees and boundary manipulations they thought 'would finally finish off the Igbos'

One of such elements was your brother at Asaba, Chief Philip Asiodu, the then Permanent Secretary in the ministry of energy, mines and power. I didn't know he wanted Igbos (his brothers and kiths) finished off so badly.

Big B,
All your points are well noted. One can even apply it to all daily interactions at your workplace. Good points. And Ndubest, that's surely the way to go fighting corruption in Nigeria! Oldie gave us some ''words of elders''. He who has an ear, let him hear what the elders are saying.

It's heartwarming that a lot of reasonable Nigerians now see who Ribadu really is - a tool. We can only hope and pray for those who have been blindfolded, so that they can see the light.

Going by what we're seeing as per his last minute re-appointment by OBJ, we can safely conclude that his astronomical promotion from the rank of ASP to AIG within a spate of 8 years is a nullity - the handiwork of the one and only babacratic OBJ.

May God almighty deliver us from the hands of those who set forth to manipulate Nigerians to their own advantage in year 2008.

presido1:
So will many say about Yaradua and Justice minister. You see our problem still remains that we refused to call a spade a spade. Since Ribadu was removed has OBJ made a statement? How are you sure he is not involved in his removal. My brother these guys know what they are doing and how it is benefiting them. The only victim remains the masses which we are part of, unless you are benefiting from the politics they are playing. Beleive me Yaradua, OBJ, RIBADU and the likes are not doing what ever they are doing because you will benefit as a Nigerian. In politics there is no permenant enemy. What changes hand in Nigerian politics is the personnel, the corrupt policy they play still stands the same. Let us not support or follow fullishly your well being means less to them.

Words of elders. . . . but all thesame, I'm still somewhat convinced that YarAdua will deliver for the masses, only time will tell sha.

My man of the year is President Umaru Musa YarAdua. - for the dogged way he fought and succeeded in dismantling the legacies of the corrupt kingpin OBJ, and his apostles including the corrupt, corruption CZAR- AIG Nuhu Ribadu.

Bottom line: Ribadu's out.

Great write up my brother. Yes, like I stated earlier, at the point the EFCC started their persecution of anti-third term apostles, they lost every iota of respect I have for them. OBJ is a lost cause.

celemel:
1. What happened to the petition sent by Orji Ozor Kalu (a corrupt politician) to the EFCC over the N200million naira he personally handed to OBJ for the PDP campaign in 1999?
2. What has been the reaction of the EFCC to the multi-billion Naira Presidential Library fraud perpetrated by OBJ during his time in office?
3. What is the outcome of EFCC's investigations into the Bells university scandal with respect to OBJ?
4. Where did Nuhu Ribadu raise the money he used in acquiring the properties he has in Abuja?
5. What happened to the PTDF investigation? Who was indicted? Who was given a clean bill of health?
6. What happened in the petroleum ministry under OBJ?
7. What happened to the Olabode George embezzlement investigation?
8. Where is the petition in respect of the Cross River State Water Board Limited?
9. What happened to the Andy Uba money-for-farm-tools saga?
10. What happened to the investigation into the third-term money-for-votes saga?

There are many questions begging for answers. Institutions are not built around individuals lest, they collapse. EFCC is made of many staff who toil day and night to prosecute the anti-corrption war, and many others who labour to make plenty of money from the war. We cannot equate EFCC with NUHU RIBADU and vice cersa. Ok?

All of the ''whats'' I've ever wanted to compose against the EFCC. Great work, Celemel.

Ralvy:
For a training to take care of the Ex- President's daughter, because she's in some deep shit nw

Now, that's another angle to the whole brouhaha that no one, including the-all-knowing Ribadu supporters, is looking at. It's all about Ibori this, Ibori that. C'mon give me a break!!

The more I read ''stories'' from Sahara reporters, the less credible they look to me. And I think these stories of their's are fictitious and from the Sahara Desert. . . . . .very close to my backyard.

Presido,
They call him the Nigerian Corruption Czar. That's why himself and other shortsighted Nigerians think he's irreplaceable - a demigod of some sorts!

darren20:
@iyke-D.I quite agree with you,
I've just realize that majority of Nigerian problems lies in the fact most of it's citizens are naive,they can't see handwritings behind the wall,Having gone through responses relating to this case I sure can see why Nigeria needs real help!

I'll rather read hand writings on the wall instead.