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Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by billyG(m): 2:21pm On Jan 10, 2016
Love Machine:
The day i will see that ex president Jonathan,ex gov amaechi,fashola,Tinubu,ex generals and president and their vps are arrested and prosecuted before i will take this government serious about fighting corruption.
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by billyG(m): 2:25pm On Jan 10, 2016
Pidggin:
Yes, it should be won, but not by disregard for people's human right
Did those Thieves have regard 4 yur human Right when they stole money meant 4 yur Health services,to provide u job,education,potable water,provide u security & so on.
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by gracephysics(m): 2:25pm On Jan 10, 2016
this is the only sensible tin dis administration has done nt the using of efcc to fight opposition on the name of fighting corruption.
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by xbit: 2:30pm On Jan 10, 2016
Y is everyone that is involved with allegation of stealing public fund, will want to go for medical abroad? Wen they were enjoying the loot hospital wasn't dere potion, y?
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by duullie88(m): 2:31pm On Jan 10, 2016
freshvine:
Why not Islamic beheading
As long as dey face full punishment.. Jail term doesn't scare dis mofoz any longer... A lot of ppl just see dis looting as a minor issue, shebi Na just money dem steal. Its more Dan dat a lot of ppl live hard lives ,struggle,manage because 1 man or group of ppl loot dia future
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by ALISMILE(m): 2:32pm On Jan 10, 2016
tuale4u:
Thank God he is from Katsina, a Fulani and a civil servant.
I hope they will not scream witch hunt?
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by ALISMILE(m): 2:35pm On Jan 10, 2016
gracephysics:
this is the only sensible tin dis administration has done nt the using of efcc to fight opposition on the name of fighting corruption.
What makes this one sensible?
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by abbaapple: 2:39pm On Jan 10, 2016
TonyeBarcanista:
This fight against corruption must be won.


Well done Buhari
Wo am i seen huh undecided
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by hmuhammad(m): 2:43pm On Jan 10, 2016
Montaque:
positive signals indeed
wailers are not happy about this info.
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by feaworaoja007: 2:46pm On Jan 10, 2016
panachuku:
Distractions. The cases will be in court till 2018
9ce observation! The Zombies will feed on this sort of this till he starts seeking 2nd tenure!!
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by Emmy4Naija: 2:49pm On Jan 10, 2016
elixirnigeria:
The Federal Government may have ordered security agents at the nation’s airports and borders to place embattled Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service, Abdullahi Dikko, under arrest as soon as he is sighted.
It was learnt on Saturday, that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had trailed the ex-customs boss to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
On Friday, at about 10am, EFCC operatives in two buses had stormed Dikko’s residence at Jabi in Abuja and conducted a thorough search.
Sources within the anti-graft agency said the search took several hours and only ended at about dusk. However, the agents did not meet Dikko at home.
The EFCC was reported to be looking for huge amounts of money, in dollars, believed to be stashed in a residential building owned by the former customs chief. It was not clear whether the EFCC had found anything incriminating in Dikko’s residence.
On Saturday, the EFCC had relaxed the siege on the residence of the former Comptroller General of Customs. But a senior official of the commission on Saturday said the EFCC had learnt that Dikko had travelled to Dubai. He said that the former CG of customs would be arrested on his arrival back into the country as security agents at airports had been alerted to do so.
The source did not give the reason for Dikko’s trip to Dubai. He also refused to speak on the specifics of the investigation or the reason for the high-profile raid.
It was also gathered that a high-powered delegation of top operatives of the commission was billed to travel outside the country for a mission connected with the ongoing investigation.
The source said, “The commission has information that the man is in Dubai. I can’t say precisely why he is in the UAE; you know that most of our leaders have one problem or the other, medically, which makes them travel out. But we have informed airport authorities in Lagos and Abuja to pick him up as soon as he arrives.”
When contacted, the EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, said, “I do not have any information on the issue.”
However, a relative of the ex-customs boss, Mohammed Usman, had on Friday alleged that the EFCC did not secure a search warrant before raiding the house.
Usman, who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria, said “The information I gathered showed that the operatives, numbering about seven, were in the house to carry out a search for documents.
“A team of about seven operatives of the EFCC in company with some armed policemen arrived at the residence at about 7am and have been in the house for the past five hours.
“From the information available to me, no search warrant was presented before the commencement of the search. As I speak to you, they are currently in my uncle’s bedroom carrying out the search in his absence.”
Usman also expressed misgivings that the operation was carried out in the absence of the former comptroller-general.
“The only people in the house at the commencement of this search and even till now are his children who are below the age of 18,” he said
The search, according to reports, might not be unconnected with the Federal Government’s investigation into revenue generating agencies, including customs and Nigerian Maritime Administration Agency.
The Muhammadu Buhari administration is said to be investigating these agencies over non-remittance of revenues into government coffers.
When Dikko was about to end his tenure, there were allegations of corruption against him by groups, which said he did not manage the Customs well.
One of the groups, the Nigerian Customs Transparency Initiative, had sent a petition to the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission and the EFCC.
It had accused Dikko of abusing his office, adding that some containers disappeared from some port terminals without trace during his tenure.
The NCTI also claimed that the conditions, on which the Customs, under Dikko’s supervision, spent N3.5bn to upgrade the service’s Internet facilities, were not transparent and must be investigated
But supporters of the former customs helmsman had said he introduced major reforms during his tenure. They added that the reforms led to increased revenue for the Federal Government.
Dikko was appointed by former President Goodluck Jonathan on August 26, 2009. He retired from service on August 17, 2015.
https://www.today.ng/news/national/63888/fg-orders-arrest-of-ex-customs-boss-at-airport
Another poor outing by EFCC. I wonder what kind of training these people have. Why go to his house when he is outside the country and they expect him to foolishly fly back to Nigeria? No way. The man will run from Dubai to a better hiding place.
If his absence was not preplaned and aided by people in EFCC , I will say that EFCC showed they lacked good intelligence gathering and usage.
EFCC, should have gathered enough intelligence on this man, trail him back to the country and whisk him away at the airport before this media release and the search even.
Now they have given him opportunity to run away....bullshit.
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by TheMadame(f): 2:50pm On Jan 10, 2016
This is so irritating. While I commend the government for moving against Dikko Inde,I must say this is coming months late after the eagle has escaped from the nest.
Common investigation by the EFCC would have shown them that Dikko has chainsd of properties including hotels in Dubai. Infact in the last months of the Jonathan administration Dikko spent a week in Nigeria and two weeks in Dubai feathering his nest through stolen funds.
This man is one of the richest men in this country. He would not come back till Buhari is out of power.
It is common sense.
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by Montaque(m): 2:52pm On Jan 10, 2016
hmuhammad:
wailers are not happy about this info.
why should they be happy?
when our now govt runs after a suspect without evidence of any crime, searches ur house illegally like jet Li, incarcerate u in disobedience of court order, and forces you to write a confessional statement while in their dungeon.
Is anti corruption akin to dictatorship?
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by DWJOBScom(m): 3:00pm On Jan 10, 2016
JaredNomak:
Dawn to dusk search in one building, nothing was found yet you gave order for his arrest and detaintion so you can illegally torture him into saying what he never did..

EFCC is a joke!
God bless you my faceless friend
I didn't know you were thinking about it exactly my way. It's alarming what's going on
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by hmuhammad(m): 3:17pm On Jan 10, 2016
Montaque:
why should they be happy?
when our now govt runs after a suspect without evidence of any crime, searches ur house illegally like jet Li, incarcerate u in disobedience of court order, and forces you to write a confessional statement while in their dungeon.
Is anti corruption akin to dictatorship?
you've just confirmed yourself to be a wailer, well am in support of PMB's anti-graft war #FireOnBuhari
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by uyplus(m): 3:29pm On Jan 10, 2016
JaredNomak:
Dawn to dusk search in one building, nothing was found yet you gave order for his arrest and detaintion so you can illegally torture him into saying what he never did..

EFCC is a joke!
Seems you love how much damage these bunch of eediots did when they were in power. If an armed robber gets caught, he is burnt, but these men have damage thus country because of their lust for money and yet an ordinary citizen like you who doesn't have as much as N20m chooses to stand up for him. He deserves to be treated the same way a common criminal should be treated. Call a spade a spade..
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by Montaque(m): 3:36pm On Jan 10, 2016
hmuhammad:
you've just confirmed yourself to be a wailer, well am in support of PMB's anti-graft war #FireOnBuhari
What you failed to know in this current administration makes ur position pitiable.
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by freeze001(f): 3:54pm On Jan 10, 2016
dotcomnamename:
undecided
How do u plan to understand what I've said? Is it not clear that 1+1 no longer comes to 2 in ur books?

If u were Inde Dikko and u hear that EFCC searched ur house and d govt has issued orders for your arrest at d airport upon ur return will u come back? Or at least not try to cover urself up before u do? Even if u are innocent are u not aware of how security agencies treat people before u are able to prove said innocence? So u will deliberately come back into such a situation?

Is it not clear that this is only an alarm after the target has escaped?
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by Vicororo(m): 4:12pm On Jan 10, 2016
[quote author=Horlawoomey.na so egbon,everyone shouldn't b exempted post=41834861]If he is arrested and found guilty, bon voyage to him en route prison.

Baba is serious about this corruption fight, his kinsmen are not exempted. Wailers should take note.

God bless Nigeria.[/quote]
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by banio: 4:12pm On Jan 10, 2016
We are watching from 3D. At max na house him go de serve his jail term. We know PMB's antecedents.
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by donem: 4:26pm On Jan 10, 2016
Nice move, but why is efcc shying from arresting Government Tompolo?
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by Meritocracy: 4:55pm On Jan 10, 2016
JaredNomak:
And that makes him guilty? Guilty of what?
You can't be serious!
In Nigeria history, has anybody resign at his topmost level of his carrier? Its guilty because of sharp increase in custom revenue due to TSA. He simply resign because nothing to loot again and Buhari needs explanation on why the sharp increase in revenue.
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by EazyMoh(m): 4:56pm On Jan 10, 2016
Shortyy:
Wetin Jonathan do you?
Whatever any FG appointee does Jonathan has a share of the credit or otherwise of that individual's action, him being the Oga at the top with oversight powers.
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by hmuhammad(m): 4:59pm On Jan 10, 2016
Montaque:
What you failed to know in this current administration makes ur position pitiable.
makes yours pitiable, we'll overcome. PMB is on point
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by Meritocracy: 5:01pm On Jan 10, 2016
akatekpe:
Buhari should have given us one point agenda during his campaign. It is obvious that only corruption is on his mind
At least if Buhari wins the war against corruption our jobless young Doctors will get jobs
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by thaoriginator: 5:37pm On Jan 10, 2016
TonyeBarcanista:
This fight against corruption must be won.


Well done Buhari
grin Bros u don join APC?
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by spillszzzzzzzz(m): 5:43pm On Jan 10, 2016
kiss
tuale4u:
Thank God he is from Katsina, a Fulani and a civil servant.
kiss
tuale4u:
Thank God he is from Katsina, a Fulani and a civil servant.
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by TonyeBarcanista(m): 5:44pm On Jan 10, 2016
thaoriginator:
grin Bros u don join APC?
grin grin grin grin
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by Ashehu001(m): 5:55pm On Jan 10, 2016
Keep the good work! My able president.
Re: FG Orders Arrest Of Ex-customs Boss At Airport by 9ja4live: 6:05pm On Jan 10, 2016
In my opinion, the security agencies knew and abetted Dikko's escape clearly. Petitions against Dikko have always been there from time immemorial. Don't give the shit news that Nigerian security agencies are fools. I don't belive that crap. I am a Nigerian and I am very smart. And my fellow Nigerians are very smart. What makes us look stupid is our greed and excuse for corruption not to do the right thing. If you want to prove this theory, change environment of a Nigerian and they will shine fire.
Dikko got a well arranged escape from his kinsman . Until otherwise proven wrong, this is my opinion.
Why will he resign after a close door meeting with the president, waited this long to be investigated and Bovi joke-He escape. #Nigeriansarenotstupidna.
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