₦airaland Forum

usba:
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But whenever avengers speak they are not thugs and militants whose words shouldn't be taken as facts?

hungryboy:
we should take the words of a thug and Militant as fact Abi?,
Did Okah back his statement up with any evidence till date?,
No he didn't

The South African government is reportedly in a fix as new evidence from the trial of former leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, Henry Okah shows a complex relationship between him and top officials of Nigerian government.

But Orubebe claimed that the last time he made the trip to South Africa to see Okah was about five months ago as part government’s effort to plead with the militants to stop militancy and support the Jonathan Presidency.

Investigations and details from Okah’s bail hearing reveals a complex web of intrigue between Okah and top aides of President Goodluck Jonathan.

A source close to Okah’s family said that two weeks before the twin blasts to marred Nigeria’s 50th Independence Day celebrations, one of Jonathan’s closest confidants, Elder Godsday Orubebe, the Minister of Niger Delta paid a secret visit to Okah in South Africa.

The source said Orubebe made it abundantly clear he was there on behalf of Jonathan.

Orubebe was hosted to a dinner by Okah and his wife during which he allegedly told Okah that President Jonathan needed his assistance and cooperation for his presidential campaign. Okah and Jonathan are not strange bedfellows. They are both from Nigeria’s Bayelsa State.

In 2007, as Vice President, late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua sent Jonathan to seek ways of ending the Niger Delta crisis with Okah in South Africa. However, Okah was arrested in Angola a few weeks later and extradited to Nigeria. Okah believes the visit by Jonathan was a setup and never forgave him for it.

When Okah’s case was settled and he was freed after a political arrangement was reached and Okah accepted “amnesty”, both men went their separate ways. When Jonathan became President at the death of Yar’Adua, he sought to renew his relationship with Okah and sent some of his trusted aides to him in South Africa but Okah allegedly rebuffed them.

However, Orubebe and another important adviser both with ties to Okah continued to ply pressure on the ex-rebel leader to work and cooperate with Jonathan.

As presidential politics kicked off, Jonathan decided it could no longer leave the issue of Okah unresolved and decided to dispatch Orubebe to South Africa to get his support.

On September 17, two weeks before the Abuja blasts, Orubebe traveled to South Africa and had dinner with him and his wife, Azuka, at his residence on September 18.

After dinner, a close family source said Okah dropped off Orubebe in his car at the popular Redeem Christian Church of God located at 118 Annie road, Randburg, South Africa.

During the visit, Orubebe stayed at the prestigious Southern Sun hotel on Katherine Street located in the heart of Sandton, Johannesburg’s premier business and financial hub. A mere 30 minutes’ from the O.R Tambo International Airport.



In a news article published on March 17th, 2008, in the Vanguard newspaper, Orubebe admitted that the then Vice President, Jonathan did travel to South Africa and met with Okah before he was arrested in Angola.

“Speaking in an interactive session with newsmen in Warri, Delta State, Elder Orubebe said the Vice President went to South Africa and met with Henry Okah just as he met with other persons that are supposed to be involved in the peace process in the region, asking, "If Vice President meets with you today and tomorrow, you have problem with the security agents, there is no way you will say that it is the Vice President that is behind it." The article said.

In court yesterday, Okah insisted he was “Trying terribly hard from embarrasing the Nigerian government” by not saying everything he knows to which the South Africa prosecutor retorted, “The only person you are embarrassing is yourself Mr. Okah”

Sources close to Okah’s family say he will pull everyone down if he opens his mouth. There is no doubt that top government officials pay him regular visits and sought his help to calm the region down.”

“The real fireworks will start when the case goes to trial and not the bail hearing. There is a reason government opted for a secret trial in 2008. If Okah talks heads will roll.” The source said.

hungryboy:
Hey Mallam,
Maybe you forgot that we do not run a Sharia legal system in this country ,
As far as our Constitution is concerned,
A man can't be convicted based on hearsay,
And a man is not guilty, until proven otherwise.

Abagworo:
Jonathan is haunted by his conscience. The October 2009 bombing was contracted by him to blackmail Northerners which Henry Okah rejected and had his family destroyed for just refusing to implicate Northerners in the bombing. The future remains pregnant for Mr Jonathan as freedom for Okah brothers puts him in danger.

www.thestreetjournal.org/2012/05/“jonathan-begged-me-to-blame-north-for-october-1-blasts”-henry-okah-claims/

www.premiumtimesng.com/news/4921-jonathan_faults_henry_okah_s_claims_on_bomb_attacks.html

This is not hidden as it was a presentation in the court at far away South Africa.

CliffordOrji:
NDA = Ijaw
MEND = Ijaw
GEJ = Ijaw
Tompolo = Ijaw
Charles Okah & Henry Okah = Ijaw

The Ijaw's are about to fight an internecine war among themselves, yet na we Igbos carry their matter for head like dada, even more than the Ijaw people.

When did we Igbos become an Ijaw minion. When did we become a judge and a jury in an Ijaw affair that has nothing to do with Ndigbo at all. I am really troubled about how we Igbos have been reduced to licking the butthole of the Ijaws

fiizznation:
Sorry to burst your bubble lad, boko haram and their sympathizers are already hanging on the gallows waiting for the last 'sharp pain of the butcher's knife'. Your avengers time will come. Be patient my friend. You know everything in this life is one step at a time.

usba:
ugu hawker, my question hasn't been answered, when avengers speak their words are taken as credible and not regarded as thugs and militants by you?

Abagworo:
Jonathan is haunted by his conscience. The October 2009 bombing was contracted by him to blackmail Northerners which Henry Okah rejected and had his family destroyed for just refusing to implicate Northerners in the bombing. The future remains pregnant for Mr Jonathan as freedom for Okah brothers puts him in danger.

www.thestreetjournal.org/2012/05/“jonathan-begged-me-to-blame-north-for-october-1-blasts”-henry-okah-claims/

www.premiumtimesng.com/news/4921-jonathan_faults_henry_okah_s_claims_on_bomb_attacks.html

This is not hidden as it was a presentation in the court at far away South Africa.

ConqueredWest:
Even Buhari can't touch you without losing his life.

The best Democratic President Nigeria ever had

ConqueredWest:
Even Buhari can't touch you without losing his life.

The best Democratic President Nigeria ever had

fiizznation:
The thing is; like almost all the supposed 'leaders' in the Niger/delta are sympathetic to the riffraffs that called themselves avengers, including you Mr Jonathan. You people were roundly beated and soundly defeated in the last election, so you guys are still finding it hard to move on. Oh but guess what; you can bomb your lands from now till thy-kingdom-come, it will still never make buhari relinquish his powers to some dumb miscreants.

Many of my like minds actually don't even care about the sponsors of the so-called avengers, because we know they are just destroying their lands and polluting their waters, plus the gas flaring they are endangering their kids to, but nobody will be allowed to blackmail the presidency with that childish nonsense called avenging.

The avenging should be restricted to Niger/delta and any other region that is interested in joining the avenging jubilee.

fiizznation:
Sorry to burst your bubble lad, boko haram and their sympathizers are already hanging on the gallows waiting for the last 'sharp pain of the butcher's knife'. Your avengers time will come. Be patient my friend. You know everything in this life is one step at a time.

cktheluckyman:
Enough of these rants Shebi you people claimed Jonathan was weak against book haram and Buhari is the new sheriff in town? He should go ahead and annihilate the avengers and stop whining

fiizznation:
The thing is; like almost all the supposed 'leaders' in the Niger/delta are sympathetic to the riffraffs that called themselves avengers, including you Mr Jonathan. You people were roundly beated and soundly defeated in the last election, so you guys are still finding it hard to move on. Oh but guess what; you can bomb your lands from now till thy-kingdom-come, it will still never make buhari relinquish his powers to some dumb miscreants.

Many of my like minds actually don't even care about the sponsors of the so-called avengers, because we know they are just destroying their lands and polluting their waters, plus the gas flaring they are endangering their kids to, but nobody will be allowed to blackmail the presidency with that childish nonsense called avenging.

The avenging should be restricted to Niger/delta and any other region that is interested in joining the avenging jubilee.

JimiOgunlola:
We all know that MEND hated GEJ and are behind the RNDA attempting to blackmail GEJ as they have an axe to grind with him. They are ready to parley the devil himself to get back at him.
Former 'Jomo Gbomo' is today's 'Cynthia Whyte'.

JimiOgunlola:
We all know that MEND hated GEJ and are behind the RNDA attempting to blackmail GEJ as they have an axe to grind with him. They are ready to parley the devil himself to get back at him.
Former 'Jomo Gbomo' is today's 'Cynthia Whyte'.

Progressive01:
This post just brought be back to something unusual which has been going on unnoticed- rarely do we read news about bomb blasts by BH.

Imagine a milestone like this was achieved under the last admin- person for no see road put one foot for social media sef- imagine the noise they made about one mediocre "rail transformation".

ConqueredWest:
Even Buhari can't touch you without losing his life.

The best Democratic President Nigeria ever had

MEGA4BILLION:
did you even read the post at all? or it's just sentiments?

hungryboy:
we should take the words of a thug and Militant as fact Abi?,
Did Okah back his statement up with any evidence till date?,
No he didn't

fiizznation:
The thing is; like almost all the supposed 'leaders' in the Niger/delta are sympathetic to the riffraffs that called themselves avengers, including you Mr Jonathan. You people were roundly beaten and soundly defeated in the last election, so you guys are still finding it hard to move on. Oh but guess what; you can bomb your lands from now till thy-kingdom-come, it will still never make buhari relinquish his powers to some dumb miscreants.

Many of my like minds actually don't even care about the sponsors of the so-called avengers, because we know they are just destroying their lands and polluting their waters, plus the gas flaring they are endangering their kids to, but nobody will be allowed to blackmail the presidency with that childish nonsense called avenging.

The avenging should be restricted to Niger/delta and any other region that is interested in joining the avenging jubilee.