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This must be a comic relief. Is the country this bad? Tell me it is a joke. In a federating state? Guess what, some people will support this reckless use of power.

vickylala239:
See Hw evil men minds are...rather than tell him to go pay his rent from 1st June till d date he move his last pin n the rent he is actually owing.. and Hv an understanding with landlord...your advising him to use that money and get a lawyer...wen you knw the money shuld Hv been use to pay his debt..

You knw lawyers in Nigeria they will drag d case for years,while he keep paying transport n appearance fee,filing fees all sort of rubbish....

See your life

I only offered pro bono professional advise. I was not advising him as his pastor ma. Check my signature.

I read some of the comments here and they are off the point or at best moral advice which is different from the position of our laws.

You did not tell us your location but let me assume that you are in Lagos. Your remedy is already captured by the Tenancy law which placed a fine of N250k or three months imprisonment on any landlord that uses self-help in ejecting his/her tenant.

If you have the money and the time, file a criminal complaint at the nearest police station for it to be taken up from there.

Your landlady should have served you six months notice and after its expiration, give you 7 days owner's intention to apply to recover possession. Then if you still refuse or ignore to give possession, she can then approach court to get a valid order to eject you. We should stop celebrating illegality on the alter of sentiment, whatever you permit will increase.

Kindly take note also that you will also pay for every other days you stay in the house after 31st of May and also pay for all the utility bills.

One woman tried this with one of my clients, she will never try it again in her life after I was through with her.

They will explain it away as usual. The money and the jeeps Buhari allegedly collected as his share from Dasuki was explained away as usual. It is all Buratai's entitlement. It is his saving but others were stolen money. Now you know why we are where we are today in Nigeria.

You can't run away from your shadows. Truth is sturbon, it will surely come out no matter how hard you try to cover it.

id911:
Do these guys think we are all fools or what？Did we ask you whether he declared it in CCB form？The question is: how did he get about N200 million as a carrier army officer to purchase those properties？Remember by law he is not allowed to work or do any other business while still with the army.

Are they saying i can steal but when i declare it i can go scot free？Why is FG defending this Burutai instead of investigating him？ I dont get it

I wanted to react to the post but when I read your comment I stopped. You have captured all I wanted to say, it is not about the declaration, it is about how he got the money. Afterall, all the people being prosecuted today by EFCC also declared their illegally acquired properties in their assets declaration forms.

Dont mind them, I tried it now, I was only given 1000MB which is 1g for N2000. Airtel is fraud.

They don't want her to have access to the world and the press where she will tell the real and True story. Doubting if she can withstand press probing questions.

The Managing Director of Citadel Oracle Concept Limited, Benjamin Joseph, has accused the immediate past Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, of frustrating a case of fraud against some suspects.

Joseph said Arase allegedly refused to release the case file to the Directorate of Public Prosecutions which had ordered the prosecution of the suspects in its legal advice.

He said after the Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo, referred the case to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the ex-IG, three days to his retirement, ordered that he (Joseph) should be arraigned on trumped-up charges.


Joseph said his persecution started after he allegedly refused the plea of the former IG and the “powerful suspects” to take N10m as settlement for the case of fraud.

Our correspondent learnt that Joseph’s company had been awarded a contract worth N216m by the Federal Inland Revenue Service on December 6, 2012.

However, a syndicate reportedly approached Joseph, saying his company would not execute the contract, but that he would be paid N15m as settlement.

Our correspondent was told that Joseph refused the offer, saying he preferred to lose the contract than accept the arrangement.

He was reportedly told later that the contract had been awarded to another firm.

However, nine months later, the FIRS was said to have accused Joseph’s company of “under-declaring” during an audit of its account.

Our correspondent gathered that during an examination of documents, Joseph was told that the contract awarded to his company was actually executed in his company’s name and N216m paid into the company’s account.

PUNCH Metro was told in the course of investigation, Joseph discovered that a fraudulent account had been opened in his company’s name, with his signature forged to perpetrate the crime.

Our correspondent gathered that the names of those who opened the account were later discovered to be those of the suspected members of the syndicate.

The group allegedly begged Joseph to collect N5.7m as settlement, which was later increased to N10m.

Joseph told PUNCH Metro that he refused the offers because his company’s reputation was at stake over a project it did execute.

He said he had demanded a letter of apology and an indemnity from the suspects, but they refused, saying he should only take the money, assuring him that there would be no repercussions.

The matter was said to have been taken to the Special Fraud Unit, Lagos, which then wrote the DPP for legal advice at the end of its investigation.

Joseph said, “After the SFU concluded its investigation, it applied for a legal advice from the DPP, Lagos State.

“When I, however, saw the way the matter was going, I wrote a protest letter to the then Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, on July 3, 2014, and he asked that the case file be sent to him.

“I later went to see him on the case, together with my lawyers, to explain my plight to him.

“He said he had spoken with the suspects and they told him that they had offered me money, but I refused it.  I said money was not my problem, but I just wanted to clear my name. He (Arase) said I should take the N10m and avoid trouble.”

Joseph said he asked Arase to put it into writing that he was the one giving the instruction, adding that he declined the request.

He explained that a few weeks later, the Investigating Police Officer assigned to handle the case in the office of the DIG, one Sergeant Dare Emmanuel, called sometime in March 2015, saying the DPP’s legal advice was out.

He added that the legal advice, dated March 9, 2015, with file number DPP/ADV:1009/14, signed by one Muhammed Diri and addressed to the Officer-in-Charge, Special Enquiry Bureau, established a prima facie case of fraud, forgery, among others, against the suspects.

Joseph said the IPO assured him that he had already drafted charges against the suspects based on the advice, adding that the case file would be transferred to the Ministry of Justice as soon as the DIG, Arase, gave his approval.

PUNCH Metro was told that the IPO, however, did not get back to Joseph.

As the case was going on, Arase was reportedly promoted to the post of the IG, and a new DIG, Dan Doma, assumed office.

“In May, I went to Abuja and met with Doma over the case. After narrating everything to him, he called the IPO and recounted my story, which the IPO confirmed.

“Doma stood up in anger and asked Emmanuel, ‘What is the case file still doing here?’ The IPO said it was because Arase had not given approval for the transfer of the case,” Joseph added.

Our correspondent was told that the DIG ordered Emmanuel to take the case file to the Ministry of Justice and arraign the suspects the following morning, with an instruction to Joseph to report to him the following day if the order was not carried out.

Joseph said he was, however, surprised when he got to the Force headquarters the following day and met the IPO in a sad mood.

He said, “His eyeballs were red from crying. I asked him what the matter was and he said Arase invited him that morning and threatened to dismiss him for wanting to embarrass him. Emmanuel said he didn’t know how the ex-IG got to know about the decision of the DIG to transfer the case and arraign the suspects.

“I couldn’t believe him, so I decided to see the DIG myself. I told the DIG what Emmanuel told me. He smiled and said the IG called him that morning over the matter, (saying) that I should hold on.”

That week, Emmanuel was reportedly transferred to Kano State.

Joseph said while returning to Lagos on a flight, he sent a text message to Arase to register his displeasure over the manner the case was being handled, adding that the ex-IG asked to see him three days later.

However, it was learnt that Arase refused to see him when he returned to Abuja with his lawyers.

The ex-IG was said to have asked him to conclude a civil suit he (Joseph) had instituted against the suspects before the criminal process would start.

Our correspondent was told that Joseph had filed a civil suit on May 14, 2015 against the suspects, but the matter had yet to be heard due to preliminary objections and applications filed by the defence counsel.

It was learnt that Joseph’s lawyers demanded that the case file be released to the DPP and when their appeals failed, a writ of Mandamus was filed before an FCT High Court, Abuja in July 2015.

PUNCH Metro was told that the court had also yet to hear the case.

Joseph said he engaged the ex-IG in another chat after he (Joseph) travelled to the US sometime in July 2015, saying his efforts were futile.

He said in December, he was told that the ex-IG wrote the DPP that there was no need to send the case file again as the suspects had already been arraigned by the police.

Joseph said, “I asked the DPP in Abuja to show me the case number the police were talking about. It turned out to be the case number of my civil suit, which had not been heard since 2014.”

He said he wrote a letter to Vice-President, Osinbajo, on the matter, who then referred the case to the EFCC.

A letter from the State House, Abuja, dated December 21, 2015 and signed by the Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of the VP, Ade Ipaye, stated in part, “I have been asked to inform you that your submission has since been forwarded to the EFCC for due consideration.”

It was gathered that while the EFCC was inviting the parties for interrogation, Arase filed a charge against Joseph less than a week to his retirement.

The charge, which was filed before an Abuja High Court, and served on Joseph on Thursday, June 16, 2016, is slated for hearing on Monday, June 27, 2016.

The ex-IG, who retired on Tuesday, June 21, accused Joseph of lying that his signature was forged to open his account.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the police based the charge on a forensic report from Lagos, dated March 12, 2014 and issued by one R.A. Onwuzuligbo.

The report, which compared Joseph’s signature and the alleged forged signature, stated, “In my opinion, there are several features of similarity between questioned and standard signatures on documents marked appendix ‘X2-X3’ and ‘X1’.”

However, another forensic report, by one ASP Reginald Udunze of the Nigeria Police Force, Forensic Section, Imo State, dated June 11, 2015, said, “The writer of the signature on the document dated June 20, 2008 and marked A3, did not sign the signature on the document marked A1-A2 (alleged forged document).”

On the impending arraignment, Joseph wondered why he would forge his own signature to open an account in Ikoyi, Lagos, when he had two accounts already opened in Ibadan, Oyo State, where he was based.

The spokesperson for the Nigeria Police Force, Abuja, Olabisi Kolawole, asked Joseph to face the police charge and clear his name.

She said, “Though I am not privy to the details of this case, but if he has been asked to go and face a charge, then he should do so and clear himself. It means that is the outcome of police investigation into the case and he should not start finding faults. There have been cases where complainants became suspects.”

The spokesperson for the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, promised to get back to our correspondent on the case, but he had yet to do so as of press time.

Efforts to reach the immediate past IG, Arase, were abortive as he didn’t pick his calls or reply to a text sent to him on the matter.

Source: Punch
http://punchng.com/arase-ordered-complainants-arraignment-contract-scandal/:

Some people will not learn, this is how they believed all APC/APC promisespaganda and were later denied.

TonyeBarcanista:
Like I said, the impostor was a fraud that engaged in fraud.

Take notice that the "impostor" did not collect money from the Mr. Jefferson, the congressman, but paid money into his account. Did she commit fraud by paying her own money into his account. 170K USD is not a small money. Could that be called fraud or gift or bribe?

TonyeBarcanista:
Having taking my time to critically analyze the issue of legality on the freezing of the personal account of PDP and Ekiti state governor, Mr Ayo Fayose, I believe that it won't be out of place to air my opinion.

Before I proceed, I want to make it clear that my opinion on this issue is devoid of prejudice whatsoever nor influence by partisan bias. In other words, my opinion on this is strictly objective without fear or favor to any group or persons.

IS EFCC EMPOWERED TO FREEZE ACCOUNT UNDER INVESTIGATION?
I believe we should look at Section 34 (1) of the EFCC Act 2004 that specifically deals with it.

According to the Section,

“the Chairman of the Commission or any officer authorized by him may, if satisfied that the money in the account of a person is made through the commission of an offence under this Act or any enactment specified under Section 6(2) (a)-(f) of this Act, apply to the Court ex-parte for power to issue or instruct a bank examiner or such other appropriate authority to freeze the account.”

The provision clearly state that the Chairman of the Commission (EFCC) may apply to court for such order before it can freeze such account.

With this, it is safe to establish that the EFCC by law is empowered to freeze any bank account or financial asset under investigation after securing a valid court order.

CAN A GOVERNOR BE INVESTIGATED/HAS ACCOUNT FROZEN?
I believe that the Justices of the Supreme Court have ruled that while Section 308 of the 1999 Constitution (amended) grants governors and their deputies immunity from arrest, and criminal and civil prosecution, it doesn't grant them immunity from being investigated.

Going by Section 34(1) that empowers the Commission to freeze any account that may have connection with fraud during investigation and upon obtaining order from the court, and with the ruling of the apex court that investigation was not captured in immunity enjoyed by President, the Vice President, Governors, and Deputies, it is my humble opinion that their is no illegality in the freezing of a Governor's account provided such is backed by a valid court order.

DID EFCC ACT IN ILLEGALITY IN FREEZING GOV FAYOSE ACCOUNT?
Going by the analysis above, I believe that the freezing of governor Fayose account could only be illegal if done without obtaining court order as prescribed by the relevant section of EFCC Act 2004.

Governor Fayose should consider the option of going to court to reverse the action of the EFCC if he is convinced that the action amount to illegality and infringement on his right and privileges. I don't think wailing in the media can have any effect.

This is not your area and I dont think you are an authority on a legal matter.
The constitution says you cant prosecute governors and President in court while in office and can the same court give an order over a man he does not have power to prosecute. He could be investigated but no court can make an order that will affect his person or property while he is still the governor. Nemo dat qua non abet the court cant give what it does not have. Before the experte application, EFCC must have applied like "EFCC vs FAYOSE", and once that name is presented before any responsible court, the application should be declined. Between the constitution and EFCC Act which should prevail? I think we should stop supporting illegalities because it is Fayose today, it may be your turn tomorrow.

As for Aisha, I dont have any problem with her. I want her to go to USA today or anytime soon to put Fayose and Co. to shame that she is not wanted in the USA. Have you not observed that with all the money and influence Atiku has with diplomatic passport, Atiku does not visit USA.

OYAY:
This Ajulo must read his lawbook over and try to research law reports before coming out to spew nonsense out of emotion! The immunity is a partial immunity against appearing in court not against investigation and EFCC can freeze anybody's account in the course of investigation provided the order is approve by court which will be sought without the consent or appearance of the person involved. Hence the arguement about immunity does not come in at all but whether efcc's action was sanction by court or not. So oga Ajulo should shut the Bleep up!

How will court give an order without something like Efcc vs Fayose. They should show us the order BC no responsible court will give such an order once the governor name is listed sir.

Lorddj4real:
Having gone through all the comments above, it is a wonder many are in support of corruption because there is a law giving immunity to a thief. Have you considered the Psychological effects on most Nigerians interested in this case if a corrupt official walks free because of an immunity clause? This country needs deliverance from the nature of corruption. God help us.

That is still the law and we have all being screaming that it (immunity) should be expunged from our constitution until then, we must all respect our laws hence we breed anarch.
Have you not noticed how people run away and ignore efcc invitation these days? That is the beginning of the beginning.

searchiing4love:
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Buhari should freeze this dumb lawyer's account too. Nonsense

You are breeding a monster, it will soon get to your turn. We are all setting a dangerous precedent.

Realdeals:
Startling evidence, how Fayose and Obanikoro will escape these is what I don't know.
Those shouting Fashola and Amaechi, can you provide evidence of them looting the Federal treasury? Buhari is investigating the Federal purse under his purview, Tell Ambode and Wike to provide evidence to nail them.

Startling evidence? With all the Startling propaganda evidence released in the past about Dokpesi, Metuh, Dasuki etc, which of them have they been able to proof in court? None, instead, government is dragging its feet in their own cases.
You know why? Media trial and startling evidence can not convict any accused, hard evidence does.

SuperS1Panther:
Mr.Mimiko, you are very wrong sir.

Fayose only has immunity from prosecution and not from investigation. EFCC is also within its constitutional right to freeze a suspected account - no matter who you are, as long as it obtained a court order for it, as ruled by Supreme Court in the sake of Gani Fawehinmi vs IGP in the case of Tinubu.

You are wrong too sir. Before a man is charged to court for any offence, he is invited to write a statement one way or the other. Can EFCC invite Fayose? No. The essence of freezing an account is for the suspect not to tamper with the res (subject of litigation). Can Fayose be made a suspect while still a sitting governor? No. Can the court give any other against him while still a governor? No. If the court cannot give an order against him, can EFCC make an administrative order against him? No because EFCC cannot do what court lacks power to do.
Efcc can only investigate him at the background and arrest him as soon as his immunity expires like they have done to other former governors.
I will like to read the case of Ganifaweyimi vs Tinubu you cited above, kindly give me the full citations. Men of honour keep the rules.....

The next is the appointment of Chief Justice of Nigeria, the present CJN will retire any time from now. The next in line is a southerner, Justice Onnoghen according to ancient succession by seniority but I heard that some people are suggesting that it be jettisoned now that it does not favor the North to produce the next CJN. (Read Monday June 20th Punch Newspaper page 56.)

Love Machine:
There can never be two aisha buhari.Dont think by shielding buhari's wife,he will give you a presidential pardon over the corruption case that is awaiting your return from exile.

Exactly what I wanted to write. The guy Larmode is looking for soft land. May be I will believe if Ribadu comes out to clear Aisha.

Can we hear (read) your opinion on the points raised above? Are the allegations correct or false? In my view, I think that should be the centre of our discussion.

Tis is a federating state for God's sake. This is part of the actions of this government that breeds ethnic unrest. Tomorrow you all will blame Jonathan for the mismanagement of the country caused by this government's actions or inaction.

Wrong move. On which court order? You can not take such administrative action against someone you can not invite to come and explain your suspicion.

UPDATE!
I went to PWD today and Charity/Military Cantonment and the network worked fine on my phone. I downloaded about 20 motivational videos within 20 minutes. I think the challenge is that they do not have coverage in many parts of Lagos. My wife called me that she was able to browse at Ogudu this morning on her way to Alausa.

dustmalik:
I live in Abuja, and that's where i have been using ntel for almost 2 months now. Coverage is quite extensive around the city. Have you confirmed that there is coverage in your location?

Based on their advertised coverage area, YES for my wife because she works at Obalende, yet no signal.

dustmalik:
Create an APN using ntel, then dial *#*#4636#*#*, then go into "Phone information", scroll down and change network type to "LTE Only". Using this method is more effective than just choosing '4G Only' in settings. I have used ntel on a boom j8, and that's the method i used to get it working.

Like I said earlier, I read all these on their website and have tried it but still did not work. Have you used it (Boom J8) in Lagos and if yes, which location?