Hello, everyone. Please I need authentic JAMB past questions. I have previously bought a copy from a bookshop, but the kind of errors I saw made me think they were not genuine questions. I felt those errors could not have emanated from JAMB. I am interested in English past questions, from maybe 2010 (or even further back) to 2023. I will be very thankful for a guide on how to get them online. Note: I have accessed some free ones online, but the mistakes and inconsistencies continue to instigate doubts in me about their authenticity.

The rule stated earlier that the marriage is between the man and his wife, not between the man, his wife and his mother is a compelling reason for me to take a clear position. It is not about revenge. We can not change the rule now. Clearly.

Again, I want to thank you all for your comments and reactions. Some of you are justifiably enraged that 'I sent my mother away". I perceive that the majority of this reaction is from men. However, it seems that many mostly ignored the further information that I supplied: That I did not send my mother away. No! When I insist that my mother goes nowhere, she says, no my son. Instead of you to have quarrels in your home because of my presence here, I better leave. And she would quietly go, against my vehement protests. In fact, one one occasion when she visited, before I came, she quietly left and later called me that something came up suddenly (not in my home anyway) and she had to leave to attend to it. But I perceived that my wife suffocated her away with attitude. I understand the kind of mother I had, a peace lover and a peacemaker. Years ago, something happened. That was before I got married. A guy was rude to my mum. She did not tell me or my siblings because she knew what my reaction would be. It was some days later that I heard of the event. I confronted the guy and if not for the people around who came between us, it would have resulted in serious blows. I did not bother to ask my mum before I accosted the guy because I knew she would strongly and firmly disapprove. Of course, when she heard what I did, she was not pleased with me.

As I read some of your comments, I smiled. Let me provide some information about my mum: she was a born again Christian, a genuine one. She belonged to those holiness preaching denomination. She was a peaceful person. When I stamped my feet and said no! she would be the one to say no, my son.
She would be the one to say, 'What God has joined together, let no one put asunder'. And she would quietly take her leave, against my stand. That was a big problem. She would say, instead of there to be trouble in your home because of me, I better leave. She was TOO peaceful

I want to thank you all for your responses. I know exactly what to do. I am not weak as my write up probably portrayed, from the responses of some of you. But a lot of the time, 'forgive and forget' has been a strong weapon of blackmail that others always use against others. I shall not say much for now. Let me thank you again. You never really know the extent to which opinions expressed on a platform like this shape and influence peoples opinions and actions, especially those expressed outside sentiments. Kudos!

I am the first child of my mother, and I have two younger male siblings. I am doing well financially. My wife is the last of four children in her family. My dad died when I was still in the university, and this affected my mum.

However, as she aged, her health waned. She was a retired teacher. My brothers are not in the country. Both of them are in Europe. I wanted to have my mother stay with me in her later years because of her health and loneliness but my wife did not want it.

Whenever she was ill and I brought her home to be with us, my wife was usually hostile, especially if my mum had stayed beyond a week. She did not hid her disapproval, and this caused problems in the marriage. People advised that I should send my mum away and pay someone to live with her and take care of her. They said that marriage was between a man and his wife, not between a man, his wife, and his mother. I did and peace returned. Eventually my mum passed on after a few years.

Along the line, my father in law also died. And down the line, my mother in law's health began to deteriorate. We live in the same town. Among my wife's siblings she is the only one doing quite well. Now there are suggestions that the mother should come and live with us so that my wife can give her proper care. I believe that her living with us and seeing her grandchildren will help her. And indeed i have no problem accepting her, but when i remember the treatment my wife gave to my mum, there is a strong revulsion, in fact, anger in me. I shared with a friend, and he advised i forgive my wife, but the revulsion is so strong that i would feel cheated if i agreed.

What do you guys think. She reminded me then that marriage was between a man and his wife only. Shouldn't this also apply to my wife now?

They were initially on it, but the complained that it was not suited to their operations, so they were removed

Let me enlighten some people on the PDP power rotation structure in Delta State: it is not on tribal bases; it is on the basis of senatorial districts. It started with Ibori (Delta Central - 8years), Uduaghan (Delta South - 8years), Okowa (Delta North - 8years...with this reelection). In 2023, it will presumably return to Delta Central if PDP sticks to its own rotational arrangement. Under this scenario, Isoko and Ijaw are not in the picture because they are both in the Delta South Senatorial District. However, if the Ijaws and Isokos push for representation, it might signal the beginning of internal rancour and maybe a jettisoning of the senatorial rotation in favour of tribal rotation.

Please, leave Ibori out of it. This report, and other similar ones - especially the comments by Cairoh, Deputy Chairman of the PDP (Sheriff's faction) - is intended to create disaffection between Ibori and Okowa and reap gains from the expected friction. Igbuyah was impeached because he is close to Ibori... Bla bla bla... All lies. Who is not close to Ibori? Uduaghan? Okowa? Manager? Nwaoboshi? Even Omo Agege?

This topic promotes ethnic strife. Op, why?

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That explains why generations unborn have no future in delta state. They are narrow minded. Caring only about today and their stomach . Just because IBORI gives you a million today does not guarantee you survival tomorrow . He shares 10 percent and takes 90 percent for himself. Nothing for your roads, schools, hospitals etc. You are moving backwards at the end of the day. Your cars will be destroyed because of the bad roads. You will die of minor ailments because of ill equipped hospitals. Your children who become school dropouts will kill you to take the cars IBORI bought for you because they have no jobs. Folks like IBORI thrives by putting out a circle of poverty for brainless people who they defraud due to their none exposure to reality. Even in less moderate places , he deserves a death sentence .

if (as you implied) Ibori is responsible for the I'll equipped hospitals in Delta, poor roads in Delta, etc, who is responsible for the poor roads, poor schools, poorly equipped hospitals in the other states of Nigeria?

Why do you allow propagandists to wip up your sentiments with lies? Many of you are being made to feel angry and disillusioned with lies. The commissioner of information was right to ignore their enquiries. Readers, please ignore the lies. Yes, there is a thanksgiving on Sunday. It is being organized by Oghara people to thank God for the safe return of Ibori. You told them Okowa released 350m? Bla bla bla.....

How the UK Conspired to convict Ibori, Gohil, others — Govt’s Role
By Tony Eluemunor
There is one aspect of the James Onanefe Ibori’s and his associates’ London trial that is now unravelling; it shows that the British control of Nigeria’s polity never waned despite Nigeria’s 1960 paper independence.
Unknown to Nigerians, Britain has an outfit whose tentacles reach into the commanding heights of Nigerian business, politics and social organisations. The Ibori London trial provides a case study of how Britain uses its powers to affect the direction of any Nigerian development, including elections.
At the centre of this conspiracy is the British government’s aid agency – the Department for International Development (DfID). To the world, it provides British monetary support for humanitarian aid and projects in impoverished counties. Yet, as its role in the Ibori case shows, its agenda is however political. In the Ibori case/s, the British government used these aid funds as a political tool against Ibori and to support its political agenda and undermine Nigerian sovereignty.
For the first time, we reveal how this was done.
Bhadresh Gohil, Ibori’s UK lawyer, who has maintained his innocence from the outset first began uncovering the true and deeply conflicted role of DFID in 2011. The 2010, Gohil trial lacked any evidence of any crimes committed by Ibori. The basis of the case was totally unsupported. He then discovered that the jury foreman in his trial, as in Mrs Theresa Ibori’s own trial too, was a senior career DFID top management employee.
To begin at the beginning; It will be recalled that since 2005, DFID funded the entirety of the Ibori, Gohil and linked prosecutions; with £16 million going to “The Proceeds of Corruption Unit.”
Here, it must be noted that the Ibori London trial truly differs from the Nigerian trial in the inclusion of the V-Mobile Transaction among the charges Ibori faced in London, and the use of inference and inference alone as opposed to proving allegations beyond any reasonable doubt in Nigeria.
For the first time in the Ibori case/s, the presumption of innocence laws were abandoned and it became a presumption of guilt. Inferential law, created originally to combat both terrorism and narcotics-trafficking was applied to support the UK’s charges against the powerful politician.
With the mere inference, as opposed to proof beyond reasonable doubt level of proof firmly in place, all a jury of Britons heard were the words “politician”, “Nigerian”, “money” and “corruption” without any investigations into any allegation. The dishonest smearing by UK police who failed to conduct even the most basic of investigations and dishonest prosecutors who withheld key material in the Ibori cases has no chance of success in a REAL trial.
Having lost in Nigeria, after the DFID-funded EFCC lost the case against Ibori in 2009, the DFID-funded British Police then dragged the same charges to the UK. Thus, the charge over sale of Delta State’s shares in V-Mobile arose merely to exaggerate the value. Yet, it is remarkable that Delta State lost no money in that entire transaction.
Just how Britain steered this prosecution speaks volumes: DFID, was effectively, the second-largest shareholder in Celtel BV and was a stringent opponent of Delta State in the V-Mobile Boardroom. All of this was undisclosed during the trials.
Clearly, neither the Nigerian nor the British public knew that in the V-Mobile shares sale issue and the Ibori case, DfID acted as aid partner, governance monitor, investigator in Nigeria through its funding of the EFCC, UK investigator, UK prosecutor, and had a senior employee as the jury foreman. Not even the Nigerian government exercised such powers in its own land. DfID was at the same time funding NGOs that it could use as pressure points to affect any government policy or election, even as it was also funding on-line publications to further those ends.
Also, DFID, through its commercial arm, CDC Plc, was actively and discreetly using tax havens and acquiring substantial assets linked to Ibori and in particular acquired V-Mobile, through Celtel BV.
The following diagram demonstrates the numerous DFID conflicts, all of which have been engineered or orchestrated by DFID officials in this case. They demonstrate staggering and unacceptable violations of constitutional law in the UK.
The diagram shows just how deeply the British Government was orchestrating the prosecution and the conviction.
We see the following:-
• DFID’s Aid to Nigeria has been in the region of £1.4 billion in a number of governance programs and represents on the 4th largest in Africa
• DfID funded Delta State (STAND) programme in Ibori’s Delta state.
• DfID funded the EFCC Ibori prosecution under Justice 4 ALL/ Security Justice Growth. •DfID’s head Sir Mark Lowcock often met with EFCC Chair Lamorde, according to newspaper reports, who as a person has had serious charges hung on his neck.
• DfID via it’s commercial arm CDC (100% owned by the DFID is invested in 7 major Nigerian companies all linked to Ibori.
• DfID was the 2nd largest Shareholder in Celtel BV – the purchaser of V-Mobile, again another undisclosed major conflict
Most of all, Lambertus de Boer, one of the lawyers jailed in the case has dropped this bombshell: “DfID entered into an agreement with the Nigerian Authorities in 2005 claiming the first £25m from all funds recovered during confiscation proceedings from Ibori and Ibori linked cases…” would be paid to DfID before a penny is returned to Nigeria. So, a treasure hunt is on.
No wonder the Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) public statements have been exceptionally misleading. DfID/CPS have repeatedly claimed that some $250 million was alleged to have been stolen by Ibori from Delta State. But at the 2013 Ibori confiscation hearing at Southwark Crown Court, it became clear that His Honour Judge Anthony Pitts, having heard the underlying evidence, was unable to make any such findings in relation to the DfID/POCU allegations. So, the Judge could not deliver a ruling; instead he ordered a new trial even though the prosecution and the defense had made their final submissions.
De Boer has claimed that he is a victim of the same DfID-funded corrupt Metropolitan Police Service (“MPS”) and Crown Prosecution as was Bhadresh Gohil, a co-defendant in the V-Mobile transaction and have appealed against their convictions. ‘’My appeal is based not only on the staggering police corruption but also given the heretofore non- disclosed material which clearly demonstrates the absence of any fraud/money laundering in the V-Mobile Case, it is now clear that prior to the commencement of the original December 2010 V Mobile trial, we were denied proper disclosure”. Ibori is expected to also appeal his conviction!
In the V Mobile transaction, DfID through its ownership of CDC Group plc was secretly the second largest shareholder of Dutch Antilles (a tax haven) registered Celtel B.V. – the company that ultimately acquired control of V Mobile in June/July 2006. DfID’s role in this light was plainly conflicted.
At the same time, the extensive commercial relationships between CDC Group Plc (“CDC”)/Actis LLP (“Actis”) and Emerging Capital Partners LLP (“ECP”) and James Ibori linked commercial interests were never disclosed to the various defense teams. These were exposed by the BBC’s Newsnight, in conjunction with The Corner House in 2013.
These commercial interests represented an important source of Mr. Ibori’s wealth and not as presented to the UK courts – theft from Delta State. The DfID and CDC commercial involvements with Ibori linked companies were presented in the Memorandum to Secretary of State for International Development on 29 June 2010 through the collective efforts under the umbrella of the Jubilee Debt Campaign and The Corner House. The Corner House provided a briefing document to Parliament in 2010-2012. These co-investment and other commercial linkages remain open for proper investigation.
DfID has also been conflicted on numerous levels in this case including, funding not just the EFCC but also its chief investigator – Nuhu Ribadu, Ibori’s known political rival who it also appointed to work for its Afghanistan Office.
So the British Government through DfID, through CDC that has a business commercial relationship with James Ibori is now prosecuting Ibori through investigation for money laundering and has convicted him.
De Boer explained in London’s Ben TV interview: “V-Mobile needed financing; for about three years it had been starved of capital and it was losing market position. Basically it devolved from the strike at the Boardroom level where Econet Wireless International’s Strive Masiwiya who had been an original shareholder back in 2002, was stripped of his ownership in 2003 because he didn’t deliver the funding that he was supposed to do”. That was the genesis really, when he did not deliver, that was when Akwa Ibom state and Delta state and possibly Lagos state got involved to provide the critical funding that the company needed.
De Boer also says “From about September, October 2005 through the second quarter of 2006, we had a very critical role in the evolution of the transaction. We had several discussions with Econet Wireless International, who was appetitive to acquire the whole of V-Mobile, we actually had discussions with them but we don’t really know for what reason Strive Masiwiya didn’t follow through on what we had brought to him, whether it was for lack of funds on his part or whether he had a larger motive in driving the underlying capital in V-Mobile into bankruptcy which would have happened if the Celtel deal hadn’t transpired”
De Boer said “For the life of me, I never understood why Ibori pleaded guilty. Mr. Ibori was not at all involved in the transaction. We have Akwa-Ibom state which also gave consent, Delta gave consent, along the line, sitting on top of Delta State was James Ibori. He was convicted, prosecuted, convicted over that, Akwa-Ibom was never arraigned. I didn’t understand Mr. Gohils’ position either. And when Mr. Gohil pleaded guilty, my Barrister just throw me into the box. When he pleaded guilty, it became criminal proceeds and the fees that we earned and other proceeds, and of course, myself and Mr. McCain had handled them and they just felt that I had money laundered”.
De Boer explained: “The CDC as I now know was the largest shareholder of Celtel, the ultimate winning bidder and I didn’t know that at that time and there were other aspects where CDC had been involved. CDC had invested a lot of money with a private equity group called Emerging Capital Partners which is based in Washington DC with important office in Johannesburg. The shares could not be tendered through the Celtel bid because they had a right of first refusal issue when they originally priced them. So I was negotiating with them and all of a sudden I was shut off the scene. It was later I got to know that it was CDC and ECP that wanted to buy those shares and wanted us out of the way”.
One thing is clear: CDC is a business financial arm of DfID, a department of the British Government and have financial stake in Celtel , the second largest financial shareholder wanting to take over V-Mobile that Delta state was also interested in. Delta state, Lagos, and Akwa Ibom became part of the parties involved, had 60% of V-Mobile and had interest in Celtel with CDC and ECP. The rest is Boardroom power play and political control games spruced up as a corruption case.
• Tony Eluemunor is Ibori’s Media Assistant.

I am taking your report with a pinch of salt because you remarked that the school has a population of less than 500. This is a lie. I have facts, but won't go beyond this

Real Reasons Ibori Fled Nigeria
By
Tony Eluemunor.
In this final article in my series of replies to Simon Kolawole’s “The Welcome Party” where he condemned the massive celebration Chief James Onanefe Ibori’s release from UK jail elicited in Nigeria, I will face the sixth untruth in his single article. He wrote: “Season Three, I call it ‘The Journey’, started in 2010 when the government of President Goodluck Jonathan re-opened the case and Ibori, in an attempt to escape another trial, ran to Dubai”.
Olusegun Obasanjo’s Aso Rock had spent its entire second term setting traps for Ibori, but he was re-elected, was not impeached, and completed his tenure. The first obstacle was that Ibori’s name mysteriously disappeared from the list of those cleared to contest the 2003 elections, which was displayed at Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) headquarters, Abuja on a Saturday. File: James Ibori
The then INEC Secretary, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, was in charge as Dr. Abel Guobadia had travelled to Benin for the weekend. I called Guobadia in Benin, and he denied that INEC stopped Ibori; he addressed the press in Benin the following day to insist that Ibori was cleared. Today, Baba-Ahmed is a columnist that pontificates on right and wrong, and I laugh, knowing that talk is cheap.
The next attack was the ex-convict court judgment forgery. That too failed to fly. Then after Ibori had completed his two terms of office, as Delta State Governor, Mr. Nuhu Ribadu stepped in to stop his forward match in Nigerian politics. He arrested and arraigned Ibori in Federal High Court, Kaduna. Why Kaduna? Forum shopping is the answer! Between Asaba and Kaduna, there are well over eighteen Federal High Courts starting from the Benin Division of the Federal High Court.
That is a story for another day. His real weapon was to keep an accused in Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) custody and torture him until he would choose either to die or plead guilty. D.S.P Alamieyeseigha got this treatment and he was counseled by several people to plead guilty and live.
My witness here is no less a person than former President Goodluck Jonathan himself. He met with Alamieyesiagha at the Vice President’s Lodge, Marina, Lagos, and convinced him to plead guilty. Jonathan, on that occasion, was an emissary of late President Umaru Yar’Adua’s, who promised to grant Alamieyeseigha state pardon because he was convinced that he was a victim of a witch hunt.
What pained Yar’Adua the most was that Alamieyeseigha was accused of purchasing Chelsea Hotel, Abuja, for himself, when it was bought for Bayelsa State. If this is true, then only God can understand why Jonathan who was Alamieyesiegha’s deputy did not correct this impression, even when he became President. Till today, that hotel lies totally fallow!
Ibori escaped Ribadu’s deadly plot by requesting the court to remand him in Kaduna prison. What followed; that it took the Judge two complete months to decide whether to grant Ibori bail is a sign of what had been plotted for him. Ibori would have been given the Alamieyeseigha treatment, denied bail; trial would have stalled indefinitely, until he would be forced to plead guilty.
May 2010, things had changed drastically. Jonathan was now President, and after Jonathan had declared that Ibori should be arrested DEAD or ALIVE, as newspapers widely reported, his administration attempted to slap a coup d’état charge against Ibori; a charge whose punishment is death.
Pretentious investigations actually began after which arrests would follow. The Chief Apostle of that plot from hell was Jonathan’s one-time National Security Adviser (NSA) late Gen. Owoye Andrew Azazi followed by the then Chief of Defence Staff whom late Azazi reported the fake intelligence to; the two then went to work on the then Chief of Army Sfaff. Azazi had already set plans in motion before he told Ibori’s brother, friend and comrade Chief D.S.P Alamiesiegha who then dragged him to see Ibori in Lagos to repeat his allegation to him face to face.
What delayed their planned arrest of Ibori was the stance of the then Chief of Army Staff, Gen Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau (the present Interior Minister) who refused to join in that devilish plot. He told them that they could not make a coup plot against Ibori stick without dragging in some innocent soldiers. He said to Azazi: “Sir, you have been everything in the Army, including its head.
So, why will you destroy the Army just because you want to rope in a politician into a non-existent coup plot? How many troops are under Ibori? Were he to contemplate a coup plot, would he, a bloody civilian, even know who to recruit? Would Ibori not prefer to wait for the next election and work against the re-election of a sitting President, which you and I know he has the power to do?
To make this thing stick, you know you have to rope in a lot of innocent soldiers, and destroy many families – all because of politics. You and I know that no real intelligence report has brought this up or fingered Ibori. Sir, if you want to take him out, find other ways to do it but don’t involve any innocent soldier; no officer, no troop, under me.”
Then he promised to talk with Ibori. On leaving General Dambazau, the lawyer who accompanied Ibori to that meeting advised him to leave Nigeria if he wanted to remain alive. Ibori did not return to his house, which by then was being watched by strange faces: without getting home to collect anything, he left Nigeria for Dubai, where he did not bother to hide but stayed in a hotel to contemplate his next move.
Just one more thing, before we close this chapter; last Monday, Dr. Patrick Dele Cole, Obasanjo’s former Special Adviser, International Relations, published “Return of James Ibori” in the Vanguard. He bore witness to what I wrote last week that Obasanjo declared an all-out war against Ibori, using the Federal Government, EFCC, the Police, the diplomatic trail and heaps and heaps of lies. Cole granted this much: “(Ibori’s) achievements are considerable”, “he belonged to the club of rich men; though he was fantastically generous and he carried himself as a successful rich man.
James Ibori, like most PDP members, did not believe that General Olusegun Obasanjo, OBJ, would want a second term. Ibori had said electing OBJ for second term was unwise and that OBJ was unelectable. This is why OBJ had it in for Ibori who had led the movement to stop Obasanjo’s second term bid because that was the original agreement at the time of recruiting OBJ to run in 1999. OBJ was to be President for only one term, so even the third term proposal was unaccepted.
“Have it in for Ibori” is an idiom, meaning “to persistently try or desire to criticize, cause harm to, or harass someone, especially due to a grudge”. So, the truth is that it was not an anti-corruption fight that led to Obasanjo’s misuse of the EFCC to hound Ibori; it was Ibori’s opposition to Obasanjo’s crudity which was giving politics a bad name, according to Cole, Obasanjo’s Under Secretary in Dodan Barracks, Lagos, whom Obasanjo appointed Daily Times M.D in 1976, 1987 -1990 Ambassador to Brazil and who returned as Obasanjo’s Adviser in Aso Rock, Abuja in 1999. And when Cole wrote that “Ibori led the Southern revolt” he should know what he was talking about. Often, he was the one Obasanjo sent, whenever the 1999 – 2007 set of South-South Governors met to advance the Fiscal Federalism (Resource Control) course, to whittle down the effect of any collective stance. Unfortunately, Cole is from the South-South.
Rather than reveling in the witness of Dr. Cole (PhD, Cambridge) that I wrote the truth in my last article, I mentioned him for the deceptive philosophy in his essay’s introduction and conclusion. His intro: “HIS (Ibori’s) achievements are as considerable as his background is somewhat murky and unclear”.
So, right from the first line, he had to detract from Ibori’s achievements by bringing in unclear and murky background. How does Dr. Cole define murky and unclear? Would he agree that some things about himself are really “murky and unclear”? When Obasanjo dropped him, only Aso Rock insiders knew it was because of an oil business concerning Sahara Oil and Ghana. Does that make Cole’s life murky and unclear ever after?
I don’t think so. Ambassador Patrick Dele Cole and Chief Yomi Edu are two people that can testify to how most of the PDP Governors of 1999-2007 spent their own resources in their various states to get Obasanjo and the PDP in power. Most of them were men of means before contesting for the position in their various states. That is one admission he makes and probably accounts for PDP’s solid structure in Delta State today.
His concluding paragraph: Showing his angst at the heroic welcome Lagos crowds accorded the late Biafran leader Chief Emeka Odumegwu – Ojukwu on his return from exile and the one Ibori is sure to receive, he asked a totally illogical question: “What if at the end of the World War II, Hitler was to come back to Germany, what would be Germany’s reaction”?
Hitler was the aggressor in the Second World War. That some people still believe in his Nazism, Aryan race and anti-Semitism nonsense has no bearing with the Ibori issue, which is strictly that of government’s forgery of indictments against him. The example of the most publicly known charge against Ibori, the $15m bribery allegation, will do: Ibori was not asked about it when EFCC questioned him on July 4th 2007. It was never mentioned while he was being questioned after his arrest on 10th December 2007; EFCC never questioned Ibori at all on it. So Ibori never made any statement about it.
Interestingly, Ibori was arraigned at the Federal High Court in Kaduna on December 11, 2007, but the three statements about that bribe allegation – Ribadu’s, Lamorde’s and James Garba’s were dated December 12, 2007. That is, two days after Ibori’s arrest and a day after he was arraigned in court.
Such leaves doubts in Ibori’s follower’s minds – doubts about the money’s origin, Senator Uba’s role, etc. Uba himself would later issue a press statement saying Ibori handed out the money in his presence and house but he was ignorant of the reason for that transaction. Thus Uba, a Senator of the Federal Republic, was contradicting Ibrahim Lamorde and James Garba, who said in their police statements that when they collected the money from Uba’s house Ibori was not there, and that Andy Uba’s aides brought out the money.
That is yet another set of contradictions in the various statements as though all the accusers have been condemned by an unknown force never to agree on any material particular except on the name Ibori. Ribadu himself has made some five statements and all contradicted every other one! And if Ibori handed out the money, in Uba’s presence, why did Mr. Rotimi Jacobs say in open court that the money came from IBORI’S UNKNOWN AGENTS. Hey, how many versions should truth have? The real truth will come out one day.
For lack of space I’ll reserve my expose of all the lies in Ribadu’s several statements as well as in those of Lamorde and James Garba for next week.
Coles last statement: “One thing is clear; Ibori’s arrival in Delta will change the political dynamics of Delta State and thereby of South-South.” Wrong: Delta state and South-South politics never changed; the people have remained loyal to Ibori’s leadership though he has and remains absent from home for almost a decade.
This is truly remarkable! Cole may not understand this; just as he did not understand Ndigbo’s ever enchantment by Ojukwu. May it never be forgotten that Ibori has not yet returned, yet he is causing this entire ripple. This is because the South-South celebrates the grace of God which kept their hero alive despite all the devilish machinations against him which began during Nigeria’s era of brigandage, gangsterism and banditry which claimed the lives of Bola Ige, A.K Dikibo, Harry Marshal, Chuba Okadigbi, DSP Alamieyesigha, and countless others. And none stood as stoutly in the turf of battle as the Odidigboigbo himself.
Tony Eluemunor is Ibori’s Media Assistant.

Mr. Simon Kolawole, in “The Welcome Party For Ibori” article (THISDAY newspaper of Sunday December 25, 2016, decried the massive celebrations Chief James Onanefe Ibori’s release from UK jail elicited. He adjudged the celebrations “spontaneous and sincere” but listed several reasons he found them appalling; thus repeating the falsehoods the manipulated mass media has been unleashing against Ibori.

In “Why Supporters Celebrated Ibori’s Release” (backpage of 1st January 2017 THISDAY newspaper”) I relied on court records alone to show the documentary evidence the Nigerian judiciary relied on to conclude that the Bwari Upper Area Court judgment that claimed to have convicted one James Onanefe Ibori was a forgery. A case concerning Shuabu Anyebe, a night watchman who could not account for two bundles of zinc was doctored to read James Ibori’s and the amount changed from N10,000 to N110 million.

I left one salient issue untouched: those behind the forgeries and what compelled their action. The ex-convict case was the takeoff plot against Ibori; other plots continued when it failed until Ibori was forced to flee Nigeria to save his endangered life. But why the plots?

Ahead of 2003 General Elections, Ibori hosted 15 of the 21 Peoples Democratic Party Governors at the Delta State Governor’s Lodge, Abuja, and they agreed to oppose former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s re-nomination owing to his dictatorial and vindictive tendencies against independent-minded politicians. From there, Ibori led the delegation of Governors (including Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu and Bonnie Haruna) to inform the then PDP chairman, Audu Ogbeh of the decision by 2 am. Ogbeh informed Obasanjo immediately.

From that November 2002 night till just two days to the January 2003 PDP Annual Convention, the coalition of 15 Governors held and had a breakfast meeting with Obasanjo and the PDP leadership where Vice President Atiku Abubakar told Obasanjo that he was very dictatorial, vindictive and unforgiving. Obasanjo appealed for support and promised to change; he got a reprieve

I told Ibori at the 2003 PDP convention that Obasanjo would never forgive him for the “failed coup”. When Ibori congratulated Obasanjo for his re-nomination, which came after the Governors had relented and supported him, Obasanjo told him that he Ibori had canvassed the view that “I Obasanjo was unsellable, unmarketable, and unelectable, all your life I will make you Ibori unsellable, unmarketable and unelectable”.

So, when three weeks after the convention, the ex-convict allegation arose, it’s source was clear. When the controversial court case ended in Ibori’s favour and Ibori went to Aso Rock to tell Obasanjo of his victory, Obasanjo fired off a Yoruba proverb: “if the bullet that was meant to kill a person grazes his head, the person should go and thank God”. Ibori realized that the case was meant to kill him politically, but he didn’t suspect other “bullets” would follow.

Anthony Alabi and Andrew Oru, plaintiffs in the Ibori ex-convict case, were just pawns. In PDP’s lawyer, J C Obialor’s presence, Alabi confessed; but I’ll save the exact details for my book “The March of Justice; The Whole Truth of The Ibori Ex-Convict Case”. Aso Rock instigated the ex-convict conspiracy, with a serving Anambra Senator cum Obasanjo’s boy’s direct sponsorship, with the knowledge of a past anti-graft agency chief from Adamawa. A single-term House of Reps member from Edo state, a lawyer, reviewed the forged documents and okayed them as sufficient for PDP to stop Ibori; but Ogbeh disappointed them by insisting on only a court pronouncement to stop Ibori. And that pronouncement cleared Ibori.

Kolawole wrote on the ex-convict case: “The then Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Tafa Balogun, finally gave Ibori a clean bill”. Wrong: IGP Balogun joined the gang-up against Ibori. Assistant Police Commissioner, Ahmed Fari Yusuf, after investigation, called the Bwari judgment a forgery as Ibori could never have been arraigned as the case wasn’t reported in any Police Station, had no complainant, no Investigating Police Officer etc, but that Shuaibu Anyebe’s case was doctored to appear like Ibori’s.

Then he arrested the lay Judge of that Bwari court for forgery and announced he would unearth his sponsors. Then someone got Balogun to order that the judge be released and issue a second report, which now held that Ibori was actually convicted; though no new evidence emerged from any new investigation. Though Ibori’s lawyers subpoenaed Balogun to bring some documents, he totally refused. That explains this statement from Ibori’s lawyer, Paul Milton Ohwovoriole, in court: “We asked for Police Case File on Case No. CR 81-95. Two: FIR of 81-95. Three: Statement of accused in Case No. 81-95. Four: Copy of Ibori’s petition to the President, copied to the Inspector General of Police. Five: Report of 14th February 2003. Where is that report”?

Balogun’s representative, AIG Columbus Okiro replied: “That is not here. We have the reply of the Inspector-General to the President of 8th June 2004”.

That report was another crude forgery as the letter-head paper bore the Commander of the Federal Republic (CFR) National Honours title that Balogun did not receive until December 8, 2004 – exactly six months ahead of the date on the letter. So Balogun was against Ibori.

Kolawole wrote: “EFCC, under Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, was a potent instrument in the hands of Obasanjo in the anti-graft crusade. The war was unquestionably selective and vindictive — but there were no trumped-up charges.” My reply: Yes, Obasanjo used Ribadu and EFCC as terrorists against his political opponents. And there were trumped up charges aplenty. The Cable, Kolawole’s online medium published this: “EXCLUSIVE: Ribadu has begged me, says Atiku”. Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar says Nuhu Ribadu, has apologised to him for the allegations of corruption the anti-graft agency leveled against him in 2006. He said when Ribadu was running for president in 2011, he came and asked him for forgiveness over the episode which damaged the former VP politically

Atiku said: “I asked him, ‘Nuhu, I forgive everyone, and I forgive you, but will you go back to the public and apologise about all the lies you told about me?’ He was then concerned about his reputation. Of course, I was wondering if he cared about my own reputation when he was bearing false witness against me and illegally locking my friends up trying to force them to generate evidence of corruption against me. Atiku maintained that the corruption allegations against him were politically motivated because of his face-off with Obasanjo”.

The Cable added: “although Atiku got the indictment(s) quashed in the court and eventually contested in the (2007) election, however, Atiku came out of the PDTF affair with the public image that he was a corrupt politician, a perception that many see as his albatross till today”. This albatross is even truer of Ibori, all because of Obasanjo’s political vendetta.

Yet, the real evidence of Ribadu’s vindictiveness and trumped up charges comes from Nasir el-Rufai’s “Accidental Public Servant” book, page 358, in a section entitled “Umaru Asks Nuhu for Support: the Beginning of Our Trouble” he wrote that Ribadu was so maddened that former President Olusegun Obasanjo had favoured Yar’Adua above Nasir-el-Rufai to succeed him as President in 2007 that he told Yar’Adua to his face: “as far as the presidency is concerned, I have my candidate for president, and that is El-Rufai”. El-Rufai continued on page 359: “(Ribadu) dusted off all the files against Umaru and launched investigations. He was clearly trying to take Yar’Adua out of the race and narrow all options to zero except for El-Rufai”. El-Rufai then told Ribadu that he was after Yar’Adua for no concrete reason but because “I am your friend.”

So, Yar-Adua would never have appointed a power-maddened Ribadu, who vindictively arrested Katsina state’s LGA chairmen on trumped up charges that were later dropped, to remain as EFCC Chairman. Yar’Adua having personally experienced the evil in Ribadu’s EFCC, wanted to end it. So, he needed no recommendation from Ibori and Dr. Bukola Saraki to do so.

Kolawole wrote: “Ibori was arrested at the Kwara state governor’s lodge in Abuja. This is another lie!


Wednesday, 12th December 2007, two EFCC agents entered the Kwara Governor’s Lodge and told Saraki’s Aide de Camp (ADC) that they came to arrest Ibori. Without contacting his Governor, the ADC asked for warrant of arrest; the EFCC officials had none. So, the ADC asked them to leave for he would not allow them arrest any soul without a warrant.

When the intruders left, the ADC went to brief his principal. Then as Ibori and his host could not reach Ribadu to confirm what was going on, they called Ribadu’s friend, Andy Uba, who promised to contact Ribadu. The three agreed to meet in Uba’s house

Ibori and Saraki met Ribadu’s deputy, Ibrahim Lamorde at Uba’s house and when Ibori asked why EFCC agents were after him in the streets when they knew his house, or could have phoned him to come, Lamorde replied that Ribadu was waiting for Ibori in the office to explain matters. At 1pm, Ibori drove the Peugeot 406 car that was being used by his aides, to the EFCC headquarters, Abuja, with Lamorde on the front passenger seat.

Then Ribadu asked Ibori to phone President Umaru Yar’Adua. “Tell him that I am about to arrest and arraign you in court. Ask him to discuss with me. If he asks me to set you free, I will willingly do that. But I need to talk with him”. An angry Ibori told Ribadu that his threatened arrest had gone on long enough and he would defend himself and prove that the allegations being leveled against him were products of malice. He told Ribadu that their years of friendship had taught him one big lesson; that the file he usually had under his armpit while threatening people were usually empty.

At 4pm, I issued a statement: that Ibori drove himself that afternoon into EFCC headquarters after a telephone conversation with Ribadu. That earlier that day, some EFCC agents had trailed Ibori to the Kwara State Governor’s Lodge, saying they wanted to arrest him, but couldn’t because they lacked a warrant of arrest to convince Saraki’s ADC of the legality of their mission, after which Ibori and his host drove to Uba’s house where they met Lamorde waiting. After Lamorde had called Ribadu on the phone it was agreed that Ibori should come into the EFCC office for a discussion. I added that Ibori was yet to emerge from the EFCC office and there were fears that he may be under arrest.

Reacting to my statement, journalists began to phone to clarify the discrepancy between the detail I gave on Ibori’s arrest and EFCC’s version from Osita Nwaja; that EFCC agents found and arrested Ibori while he was in hiding in Kwara State Governor’s Lodge. He had added that EFCC was still trying to ascertain the role Saraki played in helping Ibori to evade arrest. Mr. Solomon Udele, Ibori’s former Police ADC, called Saraki’s ADC and Kwara state issued its own statement. So the following day’s newspapers had three versions of the same single event; how Ibori was arrested. Kwara’s and mine agreed that Ibori was not arrested in their Lodge. EFCC lied in its version to manufacture reasons to convince a court to deny Ibori bail. Court manipulation!

The SUN newspaper was even misled into publishing that earlier that day the EFCC gallantly stopped Ibori from sneaking into a private jet whose engine was already running on the tarmac of the Abuja Airport

Kolawole wrote the sixth lie in a single article: “Season Three, I call it ‘The Journey’, started in 2010 when the government of President Goodluck Jonathan re-opened the case and Ibori, in an attempt to escape another trial, ran to Dubai”. No, Ibori did not flee Nigeria over any case. He left because some people wanted to kill him. Who were these people? The story continues next Saturday.

Tony Eluemunor, Ibori’s Media Assistant, lives in Abuja.

James Ibori was in jail when Dogara was elected Speaker of the House of Rep. How was the money delivered or who brought it. When and where was it brought? Provide verifiable evidence or keep quiet.

Tony Eluemunor, media aide of James Ibori, says the ex-governor is not under house arrest in the United Kingdom (UK), and does not have to report to the police.
Ibori was released on Wednesday after serving a jail sentence in London.
However, a few hours after his release some reports said the former governor of Delta state was put under house arrest.
But in a statement on Thursday, Eluemunor said Ibori was not put under any form of police surveillance.
“Chief James Onanefe Ibori, released from jail on Wednesday, was not placed under any police restrictions and does not have to report to the police at all,” he said.
“Even a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) report of Wednesday, entitled ‘Nigerian ex-Governor James Ibori Released From UK Jail’ stated that much: ‘On Wednesday, the home office’s barrister said the government was concerned that Ibori might ‘frustrate confiscation proceedings’ and wanted him kept in jail or subject to strict controls on his movement.
“A home office application that Ibori be electronically tagged and subject to strict curfew conditions was also rejected after the judge accepted arguments that the home secretary was attempting to misuse her immigration and deportation powers’.
Eluemunor said “the need to make a clarification arose from the conflicting reports in several media organisations over the terms guiding his release”.
“A mischievous on-line publication misled many Nigerians into believing that Ibori would wear an ankle tag that would beam his whereabouts to the police and also report weekly to the police. But from the quoted BBC report, no such order ever came from the court but from some corrupt and corrupting minds,” he said.
“In fact, the BBC, quoting the Judge, Her Honour, Mrs. Justice Juliet May, Queen’s Counsel, said: ‘The position of the secretary of state, as very candidly set out by Mr. Birdling (representing the home secretary), is that she accepts that there is an argument that she has no power to detain him’.
“I have decided that the balance of convenience falls heavily in favour of his (Ibori’s) immediate release. I am not prepared to impose conditions involving tagging or curfews.”
According to Eluemunor, Ibori has given thanks and glory to God for making his release from jail possible, “despite the last-minute obstacle the British secretary of state placed on his way”.
“He is grateful to his team of lawyers who fought gallantly for his release. He sent his heart-felt gratitude to the dozens of mainstream news organisations, especially in Britain and Nigeria, that trained attention on the relentless persecution, instead of prosecution, he was receiving and which also led to the investigation of those who had earlier investigated and prosecuted him; the result was a far-reaching corruption indictments within such agencies,” he said.
Eluemunor said a different verdict would have sent Ibori into indefinite detention, because the confiscation hearing the British home secretary wanted him detained for was a second one.
“The first one ended September 2013, with no proof of theft of any money from Delta state. Just when judgment was to be given, the prosecution asked for a retrial just because they had no evidence of any theft. Surprisingly, the court granted them their wish,” he said.
“Now that Ibori’s associates in the case, especially Mr Bhadresh Gohil, has appealed his conviction, and Ibori’s lawyers are considering going on appeal too, the appeals will have to end before the confiscation hearing may ever begin. Also, nobody knows how long they may last; so Ibori would have remained indefinitely in detention. His freedom from this indefinite detention is the essence of Wednesday’s victory. And if the appeals are sustained, there will be no confiscation hearing at all.”
Cableonline.

Many of you are very disappointed and angry. I know why. The media has been telling you that James Ibori was languishing in jail. Some even used the expression "rot in jail". So you expected to see a lean, diminished Ibori, not the buoyant, robust guy you now see. That is by the way. Most of you here are very sanctimonious about the Ibori issue, showing a semblance of righteous indignation, but completely misplaced. But wait a minute. In 2006, Ribadu told us that the EFCC has concluded investigations on all 36 state governors and found 31 corrupt. They we just waiting for them to lose their imunity in 2007 before moving to arrest and prosecute them. That was 2006! This is 2016. Where are the other 30 governors. No you don't know. Ok. The Halliburton scandal. I saw the report. Mighty names of corrupt leaders. Where are they? Ok, you don't know. They are all elder statesmen. What about the $16 billion for power project? Who is still keeping Nigeria in darkness. Your "righteous indignation" will not let you see that! Excuse me, what about the other corruption cases. Hypocrites! Hypocrites everywhere! Having a form of godliness... And you think Deltans will not celebrate their own when your own former governor is now a senator, a minister, a national leader! Hypocrites! Hypocrites! This celebration of Ibori is just an introduction. Let them even extradite him if they like and let EFCC pick him up from the airport. We shall take our celebration there. Hypocrites! Get ready, I am sure many of you will be so frustrated that you will stop watching. By the way, who told you Ibori impoverished us? Nonsense! Do you know the bridges he built to connect the riverine neglected areas? Do you know about the polytechnics he established that provided educational and employment opportunities for Deltans and non-Deltans? Make una no let me vex o. Their ear!

Ibori released finally! Oh lala. The gruvilation no be small o

It is curious when people claim Tinubu made Lagos what it is. They think we have forgotten that Lagos was once the FCT of Nigeria. That's beside the issue, anyway. I earnestly await the return of Ibori.

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Ibori shut up and finish your jail sentence you good for nothing looter vandross!


No one cares about your rants!

You should be the one to shut your stinking mouth. The era of one-sided narrative is over. Whether you like it or not, your lies and propaganda will be matched with ferocious counter-discourse.

This evidence, I mean El-Rufai's book, Ibori's media aid referenced is too credible to be impeached or faulted. This is the reason for the silence and paucity of negative response we usually get here on nairaland whenever any news about Ibori pops up. Na wao

The worst thing is the deceit and the sanctimonious disposition Ribadu displayed.

Chief James Onanefe Ibori has asked journalists to stop maligning him almost on daily basis. Ibori made this in a statement of Sunday signed Tony Eluemunor, Head of Ibori’s Media Office.
He said that Ibori has particularly condemned the bare-faced lies that some journalists and news organizations, have continued to heap against him.
What makes it galling is that the matter under contention was the Department of State Security’s report that stopped the Senate from confirming Mr. Ibrahim Magu as the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and did not warrant the dragging in of Ibori’s name at all.
Yet, the online publication went wild all the same, making baseless accusations against Ibori, though it had said it was checking the facts in DSS’ allegations.
Specifically, on “ALLEGATION ONE: That during the tenure of Farida Waziri as EFCC chairperson, sensitive documents were found in Mr. Magu’s home”, the online newspaper wrote: “The facts do not support that claim. A reporter for this newspaper extensively reported that event in 2008 when it happened, and is familiar with what transpired at the time”.
Ibori is not concerned with the fact that the publication chose not to cross-check the facts but rested on answers a journalist got almost a decade ago, and he did not say how he acquired that information, no, that is left with readers to worry about. What Ibori finds irresponsible is what follows: “Based on pressure from political gladiators of the period (among which were former Governors James Ibori and Bukola Saraki), then President Musa Yar’Adua unceremoniously removed Nuhu Ribadu as chairman of the EFCC”.
Mr. Nasir el-Rufai has exposed this claim as a terrible lie. In his book, “The Accidental Public Servant”, he stated the source of the trouble he and Ribadu had with the late President Umar Yar’Adua. On page 358, in a section entitled “Umaru Asks Nuhu for Support: the Beginning of Our Trouble” he wrote that Ribadu was so maddened that former President Olusegun Obasanjo had favoured Yar’Adua above Nasir-el-Rufai to succeed him as President in 2007 that he told Yar’Adua to his face:” Well, Obasanjo has not told me, and as far as the presidency is concerned, I have my candidate for president, and that is El-Rufai.
El-Rufai continued on page 359: “It took sometime before Nuhu figured out Obasanjo’s games and what was really happening. Nuhu’s instinctive reaction was that of a typical policeman – dust of EFCC’s files and comb for petitions against Umaru. Nuhu did not realize it at that time, but he was the one in trouble not Obasanjo or Umaru. He dusted off all the files against Umaru and launched investigations. He was clearly trying to take Yar’Adua out of the race and narrow all options to zero except for El-Rufai”
Ibori continued: “It is clear that from El-Rufai’s that there was no way a clear-headed Yar-Adua would have appointed a power-drunken Ribadu, who had unjustly arrested some Katsina state’s LGA chairmen just to demonise Yar’Adua to remain as EFCC Chairman – to continue to arrest people unjustly, play politics with his office and hypocritically claim to be fighting corruption when he was neck deep in the worst corruption – maligning others just because of politics.
So, Ibori has advised Nigerian journalists to try and give Nigerians a decent picture of events because the nation’s future would rest on that.
In another Development, Ibori has called on his well-wishers to disregard reports about when he will return to Nigeria. A newspaper wrote at the weekend: “Ibori would on December 23 arrive in a chartered jet via Heathrow Airport, London to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, where family members, friends and close associates are expected to receive him in a red carpet reception before jetting to Osubi Airstrips, near Warri, from where his convoy would take off for his Oghara hometown for another grand reception”.
Ibori has asked the public to disregard such wrong information. An earlier report had said Ibori would return on an Arik Air flight. When the time comes any important information will be made available to the public and nothing would be left for conjecture.

I'm sharing this because it is thought-provoking. I wish you could forward it to every youth known to you, so they can have a piece of it. And let the sleeping giants rise.

"My Dear Nigerian Youths", by Prof. Isa.

I am very angry and that is why I am addressing you.

You are the source of my anger and I want to vent my spleen- maybe not at you directly- but at the arrogance of your ignorance.

You sit in front of a computer and rant all day through social media but with every click, you make money - not for yourself - but for Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook).

With every megabyte of data you spend complaining and maligning, you make stupendous bucks for Etisalat, Glo and Airtel.

Over the next two years, the number of Nigerian millionaires will jump by 47% but most likely you will not be among because you are too busy whining and complaining. And yet about 60% of Nigeria’s 170m population are below 35 years. Oh, what a waste! By the way, Mark Zuckerberg was 19 when he started Facebook.

Africa’s youngest billionaire, Ashish Thakkar, is 31. He escaped from the Rwandan genocide and relocated to Uganda where he started an IT business.

Collin Thornton, who made his millions by fixing bad computers and setting up Dial-a-Nerd, is 35.

Adam Horowitz, an 18-year-old entrepreneur, started 30 websites in 3 years before he became successful.

The only thing you have ever started is an online petition. Have you heard of Jason Njoku? He’s 33 and the founder of Iroko TV. He received $8m investment into his company just a few years ago. What he does? Sharing the same Nollywood films that you spend hours to watch online. He didn’t just hang around waiting for Buhari to make something happen or blaming Jonathan for not making anything happen.

Kamal Budhabhatti was deported from Kenya but while on the flight, he thought of the opportunities in Kenya. He found his way back after 6 months and today his company is valued at $30m. He’s 36.

Have you heard of Chinedu Echeruo? Apple just paid $1b for his app. He’s a Nigerian like you and all he did was attempt to fix a problem. But for you, the only thing you attempt to fix are your nails- and your hairdo! Chinedu moved to New York in 1995 and found it difficult to navigate the city with ease so he developed HopStop to fix the problem.

Stop listing all the problems - we know them already but what are you doing about them?

Awolowo was 37, Akintola was 36, Ahmadu Bello was 36, Tafawa Balewa was 34, Okotie-Eboh was 27 and Enahoro was 27 at the time of independence of Nigeria.

In 1966, the first coup was led by Kaduna Nzeogwu (29) and stopped by Murtala Mohammed (28), TY Danjuma (28), IBB (25), Sanni Abacha (23) and Shehu Yar'adua (23).

It brought in Yakubu Gowon as Head of State at 32 and Olusegun Obasanjo at 29.

You are in your 40s and you still sag your trousers.

Of course, you know Linda Ikeji. You’ve spent hundreds of hours on her blog laughing and commenting while she smiles her way to the bank.

She’s just built a house for her father in the village- just by you clicking on her gossip and sharing.

Your day is not complete without a stop by at her blog. She was as broke as you are but she turned a hobby into a business.

Are you that void of understanding?

You think those politicians have any regard for you?

That is why I referred to the arrogance of your ignorance at the beginning of this diatribe.

You have a false estimation of yourself. You have an over bloated ego.

You are only as good as an election ticket - pure and simple. You are only good to be used and discarded like a used ballot paper. Who keeps a used ballot paper anyway? That is why they only remember you every four years.

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DfID’s alleged funding of Ibori’s trial opens new questions
Clifford Ndujihe, Deputy Politics Editor, Vanguard
IT is about two months to the expected freedom for former Governor James Ibori of Delta State, who has been in a London jail over allegations of money laundering. However, issues and controversies arising from the trial are unending.
James Ibori
In the latest development, revelations by Mr. Lambertus de Boer, the man who facilitated the sale of Delta State’s shares in V-Mobile, has cast doubts on the credibility of the process that led to the incarceration of the former Delta governor. The London court found Lambertus guilty in the V Mobile case.
The sale of the shares for which the former governor was accused of profiting was a central theme in the prosecution marshalled by the Metropolitan Prosecution Service, MPS.
In a letter to Mr. Mark Lowcock, Permanent Secretary in the Department for International Development, DfID, dated August 21, Lambertus accused the DfID of funding the MPS investigations, which he said, highlighted the agency’s conflicting commercial interests and roles in the matter.
He wrote Lowcock because the DfID permanent secretary is a public official and someone responsible for the proper functioning and oversight of the United Kingdom’s humanitarian aid agency.
Noting that he is not opposed to the fight against graft, Lambertus said the issue with his case and the linked Ibori cases are:
* The MPS Proceeds of Corruption Unit (“POCU”) investigations were flawed;
* Proper disclosure was not provided as expected by every defendant in the British Legal system;
* DfID was and remains completely conflicted, holding roles on steering committees, paymasters/investors with Ibori through CDC (Commonwealth Development Corporation), etc.;
* DfID’s wide-ranging role as funder of the Ibori cases and V Mobile case was withheld;
* DfID’s and its subsidiary, CDC’s investments with James Ibori were withheld/hidden and never investigated;
* MPS POCU corruption now confirmed by the CPS to the Appeal Court; and
* Serious prosecutorial misconduct misleading both the Crown and Appeal Courts.
According to him, ‘’in the past six months, much about the police corruption and prosecution misconduct have emerged, particularly through the recently aborted Bhadresh Gohil Perversion of Justice (“PoJ”) prosecution in January 2016.
”Post this case, at the unilateral request of the Director of Public Prosecutions, the National Crime Agency (“NCA”) has been appointed to undertake a comprehensive review (including the safety of the convictions) of the Ibori cases and the V-Mobile case; to consider whether adequate disclosures were made to the various defendants and to the Crown and Appeal Courts and other possible directions.’’
Instead of allegedly devoting his efforts, and DfID’s huge (financial) resources to covering-up and sweeping away this staggering debacle, Lambertus urged Mr Lowcock to ‘’transparently and openly investigate’’ the inherent misconduct/conflicts such as:
* DfID’s funding of corrupt officers within the Metropolitan Police Service POCU unit;
* DfID’s use of international aid funds in funding UK prosecutions of UK/European nationals;
* Prosecutorial misconduct within the specialist CPS prosecution unit (in which the senior prosecutors have been stood down);
* DfID’s wide-ranging and undeclared conflicts in these proceedings to date (and ongoing) and previously undisclosed linked commercial interests through the CDC Group plc, its wholly owned subsidiary with James Ibori.
Apart from DfID’s relationship with Malam Nuhu Ribadu, the former Economic and Financials Crimes Commission, EFCC boss, who worked in DfID’s Afghanistan office, Lambertus said the DfID had a pre-trial arrangement to paid part of the recovered laundered money.
His words: Credible sources have now revealed that DfID entered into an agreement with the Nigerian Authorities in 2005 claiming the first £25m from all funds recovered during confiscation proceedings from Ibori and Ibori linked cases… DfID and CPS’s public statements linked to the Ibori case(s) have been exceptionally misleading in terms of the actual money amounts involved in relation to all these prosecutions.
DfID/POCU has repeatedly claimed that some $250 million was alleged to have been stolen by Ibori from Delta State. At the 2013 Ibori confiscation hearing at Southwark Crown Court, it became clear that HHJ Pitts, having heard the underlying evidence, was unable to make any such findings in relation to the DfID/POCU allegations. It is for this reason that Ibori’s long-running confiscation hearing remains outstanding.’’
He claimed that he is a victim of the same DfID funded corrupt Metropolitan Police Service (“MPS”) POCU as was Bhadresh Gohil, a co-defendant in the V-Mobile transaction and vowed that they would appeal their convictions.
‘’My appeal is based not only on the staggering police corruption but also given the heretofore non- disclosed material which clearly demonstrates the absence of any fraud/money laundering in the V-Mobile Case. It is now clear that prior to the commencement of the original December 2010 V Mobile trial, we were denied proper disclosure. Over the past six months, much about the police corruption and prosecution misconduct have emerged, particularly through the recently collapsed Bhadresh Gohil Perversion of Justice (“PoJ”) trial in January 2016. ‘’
Prosecutorial misconduct
Specifically, in relation to the V-Mobile case, he said the prosecutorial misconduct includes fundamental non- disclosures going to the heart of the prosecutions such as:
* DfID through its ownership of CDC Group plc was secretly the second largest shareholder of Dutch Antilles registered Celtel B.V. – the company that ultimately acquired control of V Mobile in June/July 2006. DfID’s role in this light was plainly conflicted.
* The CPS, its counsel Sasha Wass QC and Esther Schutzer-Weissman flagrantly misrepresented the true facts of the case throughout. False and unsupported claims were presented, whilst directly relevant and factual material was withheld from the Courts. Specifically, the extensive commercial relationships between CDC Group Plc (“CDC”)/Actis LLP (“Actis”) and Emerging Capital Partners LLP (“ECP”) and James Ibori linked commercial interests.
These relationships were never made known to the various defense teams. These were otherwise exposed by the BBC’s Newsnight, in conjunction with The Corner House in 2013. These commercial interests represented an important source of Mr. Ibori’s wealth and not as presented to the UK courts – theft from or diversion of funds from the Delta State.
*The DfID and CDC commercial involvements with Ibori linked companies were presented in the Memorandum to Secretary of State for International Development on 29 June 2010 through the collective efforts under the umbrella of the Jubilee Debt Campaign and The Corner House.
These previously undisclosed commercial linkages were further exposed by the BBC Newsnight programme. The Corner House provided a briefing document to Parliament in 2010-2012. Unfortunately, these co-investment and other commercial linkages remain open for proper investigation.
*DfID has also been conflicted on numerous levels in this case including, in funding the Nigerian Investigative body – the EFCC but also its chief investigator – Nuhu Ribadu, Ibori’s known political rival who it also appointed to work for its Afghanistan Office.
Attaching a summary of the V-Mobile transaction prepared on February 21, 2016, entitled: Lambertus de Boer-V Mobile Case-Validity of Services Provided to Clients Pleading Background–Pending Appeal and Kingsley Napley (“KN”) Representations Letter dated 24 June 2009 (letter had been dated 2008, a typo which remained embedded), Lambertus said he was diligent in performing the duties and executing the services under two Arranger Agreements (with Akwa Ibom State and Delta State respectively) and is of the view that no theft had taken place.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/dfids-alleged-funding-iboris-trial-opens-new-questions/

Well said. They think others are as stupid as they are

Funny enough, abi Coincidentally the bigot cum hypocrite called Dropshot is from Oyo state...He didn't remember what Ajimobi, Alao-Akala etc are doing in Oyo state...and Tinubu criminal acts in Lagos and enslavement of SW isn't a sin either...but was quick to remember and rubbish SS/SE... Is Lagos supposed to be in the kind of debt it is today considering her IGR & federal allocations? Compare her debts vis a vis infrastructure on ground and see massive theft of resources...That rail system there is becoming the face of corruption in lagos...Ambode is planning another loan for same project, after Fashola has embezzled the previous one he accessed for same project with unending delivery date...Lagos is the MOST corrupt of states in Nigeria but because of ethnoreligious sentiments, they are okay with the stench...Which SS/SE is enslaved economically or financially as Osun, Ekiti,etc? Has Amosun seen Ogun "missing" bailout funds? Has Ajimobi reopened schools or is he still waiting for apology from pupils and students cum their teachers? When will they pay salaries...Lagos looted or wasted 4months worth of Osun state federal allocation on a luxury yacht and simply called it bad business when Lagos PDP blew the lid. Was anybody punished? Were is the money or yacht today? All are gone...SW bigots & hypocrites don't see these...[/quote]

It is not only Okowa that celebrates Ibori, many Deltans do. Hate it or like it, NO AMOUNT OF BASHING can diminish Ibori' s status in Delta. The bridges he constructed are still there. The three polytechnics he built that have provided employment for thousands of Deltans are still there. As an undergraduate during Ibori' s tenure, I received N9, 500 bursay. We were the envy of students from other States. I can go on and on.... Surely, most of you commenting are not Deltans. Some of you are angry and agitated. Just watch out for his return. It is going to be a phenomenon. In fact, critical and reflective minds will research why a man who served a jail was given such welcome. Leave Ibori alone

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