Muyiwa Abdulkareem, a political scientist, believes that there is everything morally wrong for the continued undue harassment of perceived political opponents by the Muhammadu Buhari-led government using the EFCC under the guise of fighting corruption.
He stresses: “What the Federal Government is doing, they may not know, is destroying the image of Nigeria and that of President Buhari because many people will see him as somebody who is on a revenge mission to strangulate opponents for a one-party country and this is not good enough for us as the most populous black nation and acclaimed giant of Africa.
Abdulkareem adds: “It is morally wrong for the Federal Government’s agency to lay siege to some prominent members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP); and ransacking the house of Musliu Obanikoro and keeping Femi Fani-Kayode in detention.
“With what is happening, I am tempted to believe what many Nigerians are saying that it is a sin in Fulani culture to forgive and that Buhari is on revenge mission against political opponents. I am beginning to see elements of truth in the insinuation”
Sarah Nmadu, a civil servant, states that the raid by EFCC of the house of Obanikoro and continued detention of Fani-Kayode shows that the anti-graft war of the President Muhammadu Buhari government is being pursued to silence the opposition voices.
“If you look at virtually all the arrests and detention, they are all members of one political party. Does it mean that it is only the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members that are today found to be ‘corrupt’ or that they have done what no other persons in Nigeria have done in the past?
“Corruption is still very much in the present administration. Why are the corrupt people in this government not arrested and detained as well? To me, what is happening is a sort of personal vendetta against some perceived political opponents.”

Source:

http://independentnig.com/2016/06/19/efcc-instrument-of-personal-vendetta/

Nonsense!

Even when many yam eaters have confessed their sin and returned their own share of the yams, some eediots are still shouting witch-hunting.

What is even bad in hunting down witches with blood-soaked mouths?

Una never start to cry.

Lmao! If Pdp won the presidential election, i'm very very sure they would have done worse than APC..


Amaechi would have been the first person to go to jail

PassingShot:
Nonsense!

Good you didnt call Mr Muyiwa an ipod. Btw, his points are crystal clear.

only zombies don't know

i.e passingshot and his gangs

petrov10:
only zombies don't know

Its so clear. Even keneking the monkey trainer agrees with Mr muyiwa

I see that this term 'witch hunting' is too difficult for some dull pigs here to understand.

Witch hunting is:
'the act of unfairly looking for and punishing people who are accused of having opinions that are believed to be dangerous or evil'
Or
'the searching out and deliberate harassment of those (as political opponents) with unpopular views'

The implication is that a witch hunt cones from an unfair and oppressive premise targeted at a pre-determined set of people. They are already designated 'witches' by very criminal means and not because of any transparent process of investigation. Once that label is cast, public opprobrium and disdain is whipped up against such persons and that appears to justify a hunt.

In Nigeria, the members of the former ruling party have been labelled 'witches' simply by reason of being PDP members. This is so because members of the same party who happened to join the APC appear cleansed and absolved of any offence and that is why there is no attempt to investigate or arrest any of them. I can guarantee though that d moment any one of d former PDP members steps put of turn to d displeasure of d president n leaders of d APC, d public will suddenly be reminded he was a former PDP member (d witch label comes out) and then d harassment and arrest starts. Case study: Bukola Saraki.

I am not against investigation and prosecution of persons suspected of criminal offences. However, I and all reasonable, rational beings abhor selective justice based on tribe and political affiliation. That is in itself corrupt and criminal. It is not about hunting witches with blood on their mouth according to a poster on this thread, it is about the premise upon which the alleged witchcraft is established before the hunt.

Granted, there may well be some witches among those caught, however that should only be established by the authority vested with the power to do so ie a court of competent jurisdiction and not the presidency or its agencies.

chiwetaluAGU:

Good you didnt call Mr Muyiwa an ipod. Btw, his points are crystal clear.

What point?

1. That EFCC didn't have valid court orders to keep FFK?

2. Or that EFCC has no right to search Obanikoro's house?

chiwetaluAGU:

Its so clear. Even keneking the monkey trainer agrees with Mr muyiwa

loll that one na ape ooo those other apes in d pics are members of his family

That is his opinion and he sure is entitled to it, just as I'm entitled to wiping my butt with it.

Millions upon millions of Nigerians favour the current war against corruption and the drive to recover our precious and now very scarce Yams.

The Ajebo Goats were surrounded by lush green vegetation/grasses but given their corrupted appetite, they just had to ignore the taste granted them by God almighty during creation to find their way into our Yam barn where they fed themselves rotten.

We will recover our yams whether one Alhaji, Igwe or Oba likes it or not.

PassingShot:

What point?

1. That EFCC didn't have valid court orders to keep FFK?

2. Or that EFCC has no right to search Obanikoro's house?

before they detained fani there was no court order. Nigerians where watching when they invited fani and detained him as against the rule of law before running like headless chickens to get a court order

2. about obanikoro there was no court order to that effect

Ok, but none of the people held is claiming innocence yet, they have not hot others, fine but as long as those arrested are culpable, I think it's okay. Those left alone too will have their days in future, God willing

omenka:
That is his opinion and he sure is entitled to it, just as I'm entitled to wiping my butt with it.

Millions upon millions of Nigerians favour the current war against corruption and the drive to recover our precious and now very scarce Yams.

The Ajebo Goats were surrounded by lush green vegetation/grasses but given their corrupted appetite, they just had to ignore the taste granted them by God almighty during creation to find their way into our Yam barn where they fed themselves rotten.

We will recover our yams whether one Alhaji, Igwe or Oba likes it or not.

as expected

you, keneking, passinshot **** are the only ones with diff opinion here

try another style this one nor work

PassingShot:

What point?

1. That EFCC didn't have valid court orders to keep FFK?

2. Or that EFCC has no right to search Obanikoro's house?

Whats the total value of APC's massive campaign fund? Who funded it? How was this very large sum of money raised? Talk about equity and clean hands.

petrov10:
before the detained fani there was no court order

2. about obanikoro there was no court order to that effect

1. Fani was first invited for questioning. He was then granted administrative bail. But before he perfected his bail conditions, a holding order to keep him for 14 days was secured. Then the order was renewed for another 3 weeks. EFCC has not done anything wrong whatsoever here.

2. Laws setting up EFCC grant them the power to search properties of suspected criminals even without court orders. Let me double check and supply you the relevant portion of that law.

omenka:
That is his opinion and he sure is entitled to it, just as I'm entitled to wiping my butt with it.

Millions upon millions of Nigerians favour the current war against corruption and the drive to recover our precious and now very scarce Yams.

The Ajebo Goats were surrounded by lush green vegetation/grasses but given their corrupted appetite, they just had to ignore the taste granted them by God almighty during creation to find their way into our Yam barn where they fed themselves rotten.

We will recover our yams whether one Alhaji, Igwe or Oba likes it or not.

What of the PDP bloated stomach goats(yam filled) that ran into the holy broom sanctuary(APC) ?

that's one thing about this apc people. they lie and lie just to confuse the masses

like that pig "sqealer" in animal farm
they can paint white to black just with their tongue

chiwetaluAGU:

What of the PDP bloated stomach goats(yam filled) that ran into the holy broom sanctuary(APC) ?

That is not my business. Just as Muyiwa, I'm entitled to my opinion, and so also you to yours. State it and move the Bleep along and stop bothering about mine.

Thanks.

PassingShot:

What point?

1. That EFCC didn't have valid court orders to keep FFK?

2. Or that EFCC has no right to search Obanikoro's house?

That EFCC has simply developed cold feet in following up with cases concerning APC and Buharri's allies till date.

chiwetaluAGU:


Whats the total value of APC's massive campaign fund? Who funded it? How was this very large sum of money raised? Talk about equity and clean hands.

EFCC or the FG is not investigating PDP's campaign funds and I think we've told you guys many times before now.
What the president is after is various funds dedicated to fighting insurgency, capital projects and money that disappeared from CBNs account without following due process.
And if in the process of trying to recover these stolen funds it's revealed that they were used by PDP for election campaign, their headache, their palaver, their cup of tea.

omenka:
That is not my business. Just as Muyiwa, I'm entitled to my opinion, and so also you to yours. State it and move the Bleep along and stop bothering about mine.

Thanks.

Its not about whose business or opinion, but about justice, equity and fairness. And Nigerians are begining to see through the very thin veil of this vendetta masked as anti corruption. It has obviously become too one sided, hence the tilted scale causing this genuine citizens concerns

chiwetaluAGU:

Its not about whose business or opinion, but about justice, equity and fairness. And Nigerians are begining to see through the very thin veil of this vendetta masked as anti corruption. It has obviously become too one sided, hence the tilted scale causing this genuine citizens concerns

Look closely, I'm not PassingShot. Na him get time for una bullshit.

Bye.

PassingShot:

EFCC or the FG is not investigating PDP's campaign funds and I think we've told you guys many times before now.
What the president is after is various funds dedicated to fighting insurgency, capital projects and money that disappeared from CBNs account without following due process.
And if in the process of trying to recover these stolen funds it's revealed that they were used by PDP for election campaign, their headache, their palaver, their cup of tea.

investigation by SaharaReporters has revealed that officials of President Muhammadu Buhari's administration are blocking an investigation into massive fraud committed by a Nigerian oil firm, Sahara Energy.

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on May 26 raided the Lagos and Abuja headquarters of Sahara Energy. However, EFCC sources told our correspondent that officials of the government ordered the anti-corruption agency not to publicize the raid.

SaharaReporters learnt that EFCC agents seized computers from the firm, but interventions from high-level officials of the Buhari regime meant that the investigation has not advanced or see the light of the day.

Our sources named Mr. Buhari's Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, as a key ally of Sahara Energy, and the official behind attempts to scuttle the firm's billion dollar fraud.

The current chairman of the Petroleum Products ‎Pricing Regulatory Agency, Mohammed Buba, who was appointed on May 25 during the labor strike against fuel price increase, was a director at Sahara Energy.

Our sources said that Chief of Staff Kyari had since his appointment worked to shield Sahara Energy from any serious investigation.

Mr. Buba, who is from Borno State, is one of the Chief of Staff’s closest friends. He was a former MD of Pipelines and Product Marketing Company Limited, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

SaharaReporters learned that Mamman Daura, one of President Muhammadu Buhari’s closest friends, is also involved in efforts to cover up investigations into Sahara Energy.

An investigator disclosed that EFCC operatives found significant information regarding how former Oil Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke used the firm to funnel funds to third parties. The source disclosed that the funds in question amounted to close to $400 million.

Sahara Energy is named as one of the firms that reaped hundreds of millions of dollars through crude oil swap deals introduced by Ms. Alison-Madueke during her ministerial tenure.

The former minister's offshore processing agreement with Sahara Energy also involved the owner of Aiteo, Benny Peters, Atlantic Energy, owned by Jide Omokore, and a fugitive oil dealer, Kola Aluko. Investigators believe that the firms made away with at least $4 billion of public funds through the opaque arrangements.

Much of the revelations against Sahara Energy has come from fraud suspects currently under investigation by the EFCC. One of our sources said the informants were amazed that Sahara Energy has so far been shielded from the kind of publicity and shame extended to much smaller players.

Last month, a company registered by Sahara Energy, Actus Integrated, was revealed as having given $60 million through Fidelity Bank to help former President Goodluck Jonathan rig himself into office during the 2015 presidential election.

One source told SaharaReporters that the company might have equally donated heavily towards President Buhari’s presidential campaign through his friend Maman Daura and Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari.

Source: http://saharareporters.com/2016/06/16/buhari-administration-officials-covering-investigation-against-fraud-sahara-energy

omenka:
Look closely, I'm not PassingShot. Na him get time for una bullshit.

Bye.

Once they've tried every known crude gimmicks and failed, they now want to us subtle emotional blackmail which is equally dead on arrival.

omenka:
Look closely, I'm not PassingShot. Na him get time for una bullshit.

Bye.

Truth is bitter i guess? Bet you are hurrying off to church, See you soon then

stagnant economy , and they are fighting corruption. i wonderwho they are fighting this corruption for. the poor and hungry masses or for their selfish reasons?

PassingShot:

Once they've tried every known crude gimmicks and failed, they now want to us subtle emotional blackmail which is equally dead on arrival.

Its not blackmail but clearly observed dangerous trend. Equity it is

PassingShot:

Once they've tried every known crude gimmicks and failed, they now want to us subtle emotional blackmail which is equally dead on arrival.

I call them "love letters".

Na you wey dey give them attention naw. I simply ignore them 9.5 out of 10 times. My opinion is mine and theirs theirs. I have come to accept that we can HARDLY be on the same page- so I comment and forget they even exists. Serves me better.

omenka:
I call them "love letters".

Na you wey dey give them attention naw. I simply ignore them 9.5 out of 10 times. My opinion is mine and theirs theirs. I have come to accept that we can HARDLY be on the same page- so I comment and forget they even exists. Serves me better.

Omenka when will you repent and give your life to God?

PassingShot:

Once they've tried every known crude gimmicks and failed, they now want to us subtle emotional blackmail which is equally dead on arrival.

I can give u 10 reasons/proof, why I think you are Omenka!

I think its time to place a curse on these morons that come out to defend thieves and looters


How stupid can one really get? You are not telling us that the people in efcc custody are innocent, rather u are telling us buhari shld free them because they are in opposition party. I mean, can anyone sink lower than that? Its like these morons have refused to accept that STEALING IS NOW CORRUPTION!