₦airaland Forum

Redoil:
Any thief under the umbrela of apc is authomatically a saint.

Ofunaofu:
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has
described as ‘abominable distractions,’ statement
by the Rivers State Commissioner for Information,
Dr Austin Tam-George, that the state would demand
refund from him (Soyinka) if he collected cash from
the N82 million allegedly spent by immediate-past
Governor, Rotimi Amaechi on a dinner to honour
him.
Soyinka, who reacted in a statement on Wednesday
night, said it has never been his business to probe
into the “catering and logistical implications” of the
hundreds of recognitions he had enjoyed worldwide
and wondered why the Ameachi gesture has
become an issue under the ‘insecure’ incumbent of
the Rivers State government lodge.
Although he said the allegation has made him
saddened and ‘truly despair”, he added that he was
indifferent to it.
Soyinka in the statement entitled, “Those who
flounder in the sewage of corruption,” said: “This
morning, I saw only the headlines in one or two
print media regarding the 80th Birthday dinner to
which I was hosted by the former governor of
Rivers State, the Honorable Rotimi Amaechi, now
Minister of Transportation. I ignored them. It was
not, and remains not my business to probe into the
catering and logistical implications of the hundreds
of institutions and governments all over the world to
whom I acknowledge an immense debt of
unsolicited recognition over the years.
“Since then however, I have learnt of some unsavory
statements by the insecure incumbent of the Rivers
State government Lodge. These included a loose
invitation to anti-crime agencies to investigate the
potential crime of being honoured through any
occasion. The unprecedented call by this governor
is prescient of a warning I recounted in my recent
pamphlet publication THE REPUBLIC OF LIARS, and
was taken from my address to an anti-corruption
global conference that took place in Tunisia two
years ago. Those words were: CORRUPTION
STRIKES BACK. In this ongoing instance, that
expression translates most vividly as “Those who
are neck deep in the sewage of corruption ensure
that they splatter sewage in all possible and
improbable directions.”
“I do however fully support the Wikeleaks call for
multi-directional probes. I recommend further that
he involve the services of INTERPOL to guarantee
its extension to all international organisations and
governments to whom I owe uncountable events of
recognition – including birthday luncheons, dinners,
cultural receptions and events of real, fictitious, or
simply opportunistic flavoring – to which I have
submitted myself.
“The descent to this present level of abominable
distractions makes one truly despair. It is one that
even I did not envisage when I warned –
CORRUPTION STRIKES BACK! Whether it brings
honour or dishonour to the nation is another matter
– I am saddened, but indifferent.
“EFCC and company – over to you! You all know
where I live,” noted The Nobel laureate.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/80th-birthday-dinner-soyinka-replies-rivers-govt/

mccoy47:
Mtchewww. See the oil still on his lips from the yam he ate there

Ghost01:
Worked for Abacha? The same Abacha government that was after him? Or you mean to say IBB?

Ofunaofu:
It was
not, and remains not my business to probe into the
catering and logistical implications of the hundreds
of institutions and governments all over the world to
whom I acknowledge an immense debt of
unsolicited recognition over the years

KMJY:
Yet Dokpesi, a businessman and many more who are currently under trial were expected to probe the source of funds that were either given to them as goodwill or for business purposes. Na waoh

Smartsyn:
Baba Soyinka please leave big grammar on this matter. Most of the people that are being draged around on the arms deal largasse didn't know the source of the money yet they are being implicated, so if an #80 million birthday party was organised for from the money of the people of Rivers state, you re answerable to it. Ignorance is not an excuse in the court of law or that of public opinion

ndcide:
Unless you're an APC sycophant, you'll know this response is like the "I don't sign cheques" by fashola.

We all know that the said money was spent because of Soyinka while the rest was used to settle the boys.

We all can't be fools because of APC politics.

disloman:
Wike!make I break it down to you.Gather all the forces to investigate the gathering,You won't find a sh1t.

KMJY:
Yet Dokpesi, a businessman and many more who are currently under trial were expected to probe the source of funds that were either given to them as goodwill or for business purposes. Na waoh

felifeli:
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What is this baba saying? Don't try to bamboozle us with big grammar. You follow them chop yam abi you no follow? Simple. The man come dey speak geesi. Anyways ba the place wey long throat carry you reach be dis [/size]

arisekola77:
Oyinbo repete

TonyeBarcanista:
Babaginda I mean. Thanks bro

TonyeBarcanista:
Stop insulting Gani. He doesn't roll will people in government irrespective of party. He was a real fighter and a patriot per excellence.


Stop comparing him with Wole Soyinka. Is Soyinka not the same man that worked for Abacha when NADECO was fighting for Abiola mandate?

Soyinka has been a strong critic of successive Nigerian governments, especially the country's many military dictators, as well as other political tyrannies, including the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe. Much of his writing has been concerned with "the oppressive boot and the irrelevance of the colour of the foot that wears it".[4] During the regime of General Sani Abacha (1993–98), Soyinka escaped from Nigeria via the "NADECO Route" on a motorcycle. Living abroad, mainly in the United States, he was a professor first at Cornell University and then at Emory University in Atlanta, where in 1996 he was appointed Robert W. Woodruff Professor of the Arts. Abacha proclaimed a death sentence against him "in absentia". With civilian rule restored to Nigeria in 1999, Soyinka returned to his nation. He has also taught at the universities of Oxford, Harvard and Yale.[5][6]

realborn:
From all the plenty English Prof wrote, it seems he was given a substantial honorarium from the alleged outrageous money spent. He is being defensive. If he received paltry or insignificant cash gifts from the RSG at the time, his response would have been a one-liner.

If no proof exists to show he did, then "Wikeleaks" may only have to contend with ex-Governor Amaechi and his lieutenants and not Baba 80.

All politicians are corrupt and irresponsible. Their nobel sorry noble friends are also sewer companions.

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Tobilastik:
ME: Hi cutie

HER: Hi

ME: I think You are cute

HER: Thank you

ME: can i go out with you on Friday ?

HER : What do you do for a living?..

ME: I analyse and invest in risky business opportunities that has possibility of high returns..

HER : Wow, that's amazing..so like stock exchange or Something like that?.

ME: Bigger than that, I deal with international investment, analyzing and investing in business opportunities around England, Spain, Germany just to mention a few..

HER : *smiling* OK, that explains your good looks all through!..



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