₦airaland Forum

amdo007:
Less than intelligent action to mayhem. The state government has done nothing positive to quell the conflict, what was the immediate cause of conflict? An indisciplined soldier, what was the response of the people? They killed innocents and what does the pathetic state government do? They ask for militia. Typical kneel jerk response from our governments. I hope they don't slaughter us all one day.

The Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, has reacted to reports that he leaked a letter by former governor the Central Bank of Nigeria, Lamido Sanusi, to former President Goodluck Jonathan, detailing how $49 billion of oil revenue had been diverted.
The letter ultimately led to the removal of Mr. Sanusi, who is now the Emir of Kano.
Mr. Amaechi, then the governor of Rivers State, admits he made the letter public, but said he did not do so “surreptitiously and clandestinely”.
Read a statement from his office:
Our attention has been drawn to reports in the media that tends to infer and/or suggest that immediate past governor of Rivers State and now Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi surreptitiously and clandestinely ‘leaked’ a letter written by former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor and now Emir of Kano, Sanusi Muhammad 11 to then President Goodluck Jonathan on the non-remittance of $49.8 billion from oil sale to the federation account. This is further from the truth and what exactly transpired as regards Amaechi’s involvement in that Sanusi letter.
To put the records straight, we want to categorically state that:
1. A concerned and patriotic Nigerian who felt sufficiently troubled with what was happening then, gave a copy of the Sanusi letter to Amaechi in Amaechi’s capacity as the chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF). Like Amaechi, we should appreciate that concerned Nigerian’s patriotism.
2. When Amaechi got the letter, he spoke with Sanusi who was still the CBN governor to confirm the authenticity of the letter. Sanusi confirmed to Amaechi that he wrote the letter. During their conversation, Amaechi made it abundantly clear to the then CBN governor that the bleeding of the nation had to be stopped, all non-remitted funds remitted and that he (Amaechi) was going to use the letter to do whatever is in the best interest of the nation and Nigerians, which was the stoppage of the non-remittance and the recovery of all the non-remitted funds from oil sale. The CBN Governor didn’t agree with Amaechi on the way forward.

3. Considering that the letter was given to Amaechi as Chairman of the Governors’ Forum, he shared the letter with his colleague governors first, and with Senator Bukola Saraki (now Senate President), who before and around that period was doing some work or/and investigation around the oil sector in the senate.
4. Around that period, a delegation from the United States of America government, from the offices of the Secretaries of State and Defense visited Amaechi in Port Harcourt to discuss the issue of oil theft in Nigeria. From their records, they gave Amaechi figures of billions of dollars (about $7 billion dollars, annually) that was being lost to oil theft in Nigeria. They were discussing the issue and figures of oil theft, and that was how the CBN governor’s letter to President Jonathan came up. In the presence of journalists covering the visit, Amaechi brought out the Sanusi letter to the visiting American delegation to buttress the point that Nigeria was losing far more money to non-remittance of proceeds from oil sale into the federation account, which everyone seemed to concur, was in itself, another form and another dimension to the issue of oil theft.
5. To suggest, infer or even extrapolate that Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi surreptitiously, clandestinely or underhandedly ‘leaked’ the CBN governor’s (Sanusi’s) letter is indeed most unfair, disrespectful and uncharitable to his person. Amaechi did what he did because he believed that the theft and corruption was just too much. He was propelled by his patriotic zeal to put Nigeria first, do what is in the best interest of the nation and Nigerians, and stop the bleeding and sucking of our collective resources by a tiny few. The mindboggling corruption revelations in the recent past, that is still ongoing clearly justifies and vindicates Amaechi’s stance on the issue and the actions he took. Faced with the same situation, under similar circumstances, Amaechi will not act differently. The good of Nigeria, putting the nation and Nigerians first, will always be his guiding principle.

zuma4k:
Having resolved on involving in retaliation, the Igbos should also bear in mind that they also have brothers in the North...

IYANGBALI:
imagine the news headlines
























Lalasticlala no carry any other news especially tiwa news come front page again o until the end of this civil war that is looming.

betterABIAstate:
Fulani have chosen the wrong city to kill. Aba and onithsa should be a no-go area.

TonyeBarcanista:
I hope this is false

Kanu had filed four applications challenging the lower court’s ruling on his matter.

On of the application include the ruling by Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court granting the Department of State Services the permission to protect its witnesses.

– Kanu’s lawyer, Muoma said the application billed for hearing challenges a Federal High Court ruling against a bail application by his client

– Lead judge Ahmed Aboki said the Appeal Court would reserve ruling on the application


Nnamdi Kanu
The Court of Appeal on Thursday, May 5, reserved ruling on an appeal made by the leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.

At the hearing, counsel to the appellant, Chucks Muoma said the application billed for hearing challenges a Federal High Court ruling against a bail application by his client.

He said the ruling was granted as though it was the first appellant alone that made the application for bail.

But the director of Public Prosecution, Mohammed Diri, prayed the court to dismiss the application. Diri said that Kanu’s application lacked merit.

Having heard the submissions, the lead judge, Ahmed Aboki said the Appeal Court would reserve ruling on the application.

Aboki said the his team had another emergency case to attend to. He also said that a date for the reserved ruling would be communicated to the parties involved in the matter.

Kanu had filed four applications challenging the lower court’s ruling on his matter.

On of the application include the ruling by Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court granting the Department of State Services the permission to protect its witnesses.

Kanu’s lawyer, Muoma had in his argument said it will be wrong to accuse a man in public and try him in secret.

meccuno:
they almost killed the driver.......they will play the return leg na

SeverusSnape:
So

euro2016punters:
. Ask Enyimba team what Kano pillars Fans did to them.

Sanusi, as central bank governor, had written to Jonathan to raise the alarm over billions of dollars from oil sale not remitted to the federation account.

Obasanjo then followed up with his own letter titled “before it is too late” – and the letter was published in full by online newspaper, Premium Times, before it was republished by other outlets.

Sanusi was later suspended as CBN governor but he became emir of Kano while he was in court seeking that his suspension be declared illegal.

The emir of Kano revealed that Jonathan did nothing until Obasanjo wrote him the letter.

The emir also said Ben Bruce, senator representing Bayelsa east, told him that he had it on good authority that former president Goodluck Jonathan would jail him over the affair.

Narrating the $20 billion saga to Forbes Africa, Sanusi said that in 2012 and 2013, government revenue collapsed by $10 billion, without a collapse in oil prices or production capacity, adding that the CBN found a $49 billion revenue gap.

Shocked at the revelation, Sanusi said he wrote Jonathan, saying: “If this continues, we are going to have a big problem if the price of oil came down. We can’t protect interest rates, we can’t protect exchange rates, we can’t protect reserves.

“We may have to tighten money to prevent inflation, there will be unemployment, government will suffer – all of the things we are seeing today.”

OBASANJO’S LETTER PUSHED JONATHAN TO ACTION

Sanusi said nothing was done until Obasanjo wrote his famous open letter to Jonathan. In that letter, he now referred to a letter from the central bank governor.

“This was in August 2013, the president received the letter and did nothing. A few weeks after that, the finance minister called to say, governor, can we do some reconciliation on oil revenue numbers? I said minister, I report to the president.

“I have written to the president, if the president wants me to sit with you and do reconciliation, the president will tell me.

“After Obasanjo’s letter, all hell now broke loose. The letter was then leaked to online media, and it became public. That was when the president got angry and we then had to sit and do reconciliation.

NOBODY TOUCHES DIEZANI AND SURVIVES

“I knew that taking on NNPC was taking on the most powerful minister in Jonathan’s government, and nobody who had touched Diezani had survived. It was not a question of what would happen, I just didn’t care at that time. I did not want to go down in history as having seen this and kept quiet.

“After the first round of reconciliation, there was $29 billion that was explained. And how was that explained? Crude that was shipped by NNPC did not entirely belong to NNPC.”

He said some oil companies paid taxes and royalties in oil, and the NNPC sold this oil on behalf of FIRS, meaning FIRS got the money and not necessarily the federal government.

“No reasonable explanation for $20 billion, $6 billion was with NPDC that had not gotten to the federation account till date.

JONATHAN SAID I LEAVE OR HE LEAVES

“In the middle of all these, the president called me and said I should see him at 3pm. I turned up at 3pm and the entire place had been swept. There was no one apart from security services. I got to his office, it was just me and him. It was as if everybody had been asked to go.

“And so he says to me, he’s calling me because he is surprised that letter I wrote to him got to Obasanjo, I said I’m surprised too.
“He said he’s convinced that the letter went from the central bank to Obasanjo, and I had 24 hours to find who leaked the letter or sack somebody; the director who prepared the letter or my secretary and if I did not sack them, that was proof that I leaked the letter and therefore, I should resign.

“I said to him that I’m surprised that I’m being asked to resign for raising an alarm over missing funds and the minister in charge of the portfolio is not being asked to resign.

“From then I knew I had signed my equivalent for death warrant. But I said I was not resigning. He got very angry and said whether you like it or not, you’re going to leave that office, I cannot continue to work with you, either you or I will leave government.

JONATHAN IS NOT A LEADER THAT CAN KILL

“I was amused that leaking the letter is far more crime than leaking money. I went straight to the office of the principal secretary to the president, and I met him with a gentleman from Kano, who was foreign minister Ambassador Aminu Ali.

“I said to them, gentlemen, I’m coming to you because I just had a meeting with the president, and there were no witnesses, and the president had threatened me.

“I repeated what happened and told them I am going to tell people close to me, if anything happens to me, it is the president.

“I don’t think I was really in fear of my life. Even if you don’t like someone – Jonathan was not the kind of person that would have someone killed. He wasn’t that kind of leader.”

BEN BRUCE TOLD ME THEY’D JAIL ME

“I remember Ben Murray Bruce, who is now a senator, coming to me to say that he had it on good authority that if I went to the senate with my documents, I would be removed, investigated and imprisoned.

“Then I said, why would I be imprisoned, and he said, you know, you’ve worked in government. I have worked in government, if people really want to find something on you, in the central bank, five years, they would come and look, they would find something.

“I was like they would find it if I have done it. I mean they can plant something, but if haven’t done it, maybe somebody under me had done something that I wasn’t aware of.

“But in all my years at the central bank, to the best of my knowledge, I had done nothing that should put me in prison. However, I said to him, tell the president, from me, that if the punishment for going to the senate is prison, he doesn’t need to go through all of that, just ask him to tell me what prison he wants me to go to and for how many years, I’d drive myself there.”

TANTUMERGO007:
tell me one reason you hate trump for, the guy wan kan cleanse the land of 'sunnis'

eHydrated:
The applicant claimed, in the suit, that he was
commissioned by the federal government to execute an
assignment “to navigate the Niger Delta to network with all
stakeholders for the purpose of preventing oil pipelines
vandalism, oil bunkering and crude oil theft”.

WHERE U DEY NAVIGATE TO? U BE MUNGO PARK?

"Mr. Azibaola is seeking the court to hold that the attempt by the EFCC to force him to implicate Mr. Jonathan, is contrary to section 7 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, which has outlawed the practice of arresting a citizen as ransom for the alleged offense of another citizen "

A cousin to former President Goodluck Jonathan has sued the Nigerian government over his continued detention and the government’s refusal to charge him to court.
Robert Azibaola, a Niger-Delta activist, on Wednesday filed a suit before the Federal High Court, Lagos, challenging his detention by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Joined in the suit as respondents are the EFCC, the Attorney General of the Federation, and the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Mr. Azibaola has been in EFCC custody since March 23, after he was invited for questioning over a $40 million pipeline contract reportedly awarded by the Office of National Security Adviser, headed by Sambo Dasuki.
Mr. Dasuki is currently facing prosecution at a federal court.
In his suit, filed‎ through the law firm of Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, Mr. Azibaola is asking the court to stop the federal government and the EFCC from applying for any new remand warrant against him from any court in Nigeria.
The applicant said the EFCC had established a pattern of using remand warrants to keep him in custody indefinitely.
He is also asking the court to hold that sections 293 and 294 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, which the EFCC is relying on to secure remand orders from Magistrate Courts were designed to deal with criminal offences attracting capital punishment, such as murder, armed robbery, kidnapping or treasonable felony.

Mr. Azibaola is seeking the court to hold that the attempt by the EFCC to force him to implicate Mr. Jonathan, is contrary to section 7 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, which has outlawed the practice of arresting a citizen as ransom for the alleged offense of another citizen.
The applicant claimed, in the suit, that he was commissioned by the federal government to execute an assignment “to navigate the Niger Delta to network with all stakeholders for the purpose of preventing oil pipelines vandalism, oil bunkering and crude oil theft”.
“The assignment was duly executed upon payment,” he stated.
“Robert is claiming that under section 8 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, he should not be arrested or prosecuted for any civil contract or transaction.
“He thus contends that he is being persecuted purely on account of his blood relationship with ex-president Goodluck Jonathan and this wants the court to order his immediate release or that he should be charged to court for any offence against him.”
Mr. Robert also alleged that there are plans to keep transferring him from one state to another, upon the expiration of any particular remand warrant in one State, so as to renew such remand warrant in another and this keep him in custody indefinitely.

Abagworo:
What PDP could not do for 16 years can Buhari add another feather to his successes? Time will tell.

jane0000:
Thought dey say,FG play in to Albino Kanu's plan? That he purposely came to naija to be arrested so that he will bring down Buhari and Nigeria lol. Insulting other tribes up and down,calling Buhari a terrorist is his biggest mistake in life. For dis only,Buhari will have my vote again come 2019.

God bless Buhari for putting dis man where he belong(Kuje prison)

God bless Nigeria.

wizzyrich:
Very soon, him fit even close the thread. And I'm very sure he won't allow it to enter FP.

igwe123:
Another heart attack for anti IPOB zoogerians

belente:
We shall surely get to the promised land

Almaiga:
Na she go free them?

babyfaceafrica:
So?

PenSniper:
Your hate will kill your agitation and biafra.