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holadguy:
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No military person is that powerful in Nigeria anymore, EFCC is just corrupt, incompetent and a political instument of the presidency.

many of them have money but no class and style.

Buhari is always to be seen fraternising with paedophiles who marry underage kids, people who have EFCC cases and religious terrorist sharia bigots

SeverusSnape:
Hehehehehehehehehehe

When Okonjo Iweala said Oshiom-ole has numerical /mouth diarrhoea, Zombies thought she was lying, Now it's glaring for all to see. This man is an ugly ogre clown.

Osho, Blame GEJ for not being able to impregnate Lara your wife. These are the kind of people our Nairaland zombies are emulating in the blame games. Shame on them.

He cannot impregnate Lara because she is using contraception and he does not know it.
The lady is the biggest 419 in Nigeria right now, marrying a state governor so you and your family can fleece the state of money is worse than sugar daddy setup o.

He is the biggest mugu in nigeria and he still does not know it.

Look who is talking
a man with over 200 wives and concubines (some of them islamic prisoners) - is he not part of the problem when he has a household of wives and uncountable children who use up the electricity of a small city?

shut up jare mallam!

what do you expect when you round up hoodlums and put them in suits to represent "I don't care" constituents like Nigerians?

holadguy:
Most hardworking tribe in Nigera and yet most of their brother still in lagos selling gala on highway why drug dealer are living large after succeeding in just 1 trip.

living large?

why don't you google "over 2000 i/bo people executed in Indonesia alone for drugs"
google 1200 i/bos in chinese prison
google. ibo prisoners in Cambodia, Laos, Philipines, Malaysia, Middle east, Brazil, South America

these days more have been arrested and killed than succeeded!!!

google Father John wotherspoon in hong Kong and how he is appealing to greedy i/bo barons to stop emptying i/bo villages by sending young people to their untimely deaths.

because of greed, i/bo drug dealers are sending a dozen traffickers at a time hoping 1 or 2 will get through while the others end up in jail and on death row.
And when genuine Nigerian travellers visits those airports and countries they are treated by animals because of i/bos!

IS THAT WHAT YOU MEAN BY living large?

fix those legs and get rid of the fake hair then we can talk

Enrichlee:
In the end, he/she is a Nigerian! Not a southerner nor easterner, Not an Igbo nor Yoruba.
P.S: Outside the four walls of NL(pun intended), tribe is irrelevant

Yes it is, you cannot allow a small number of monkeys with a get rich or die trying mentality to take down an entire country!

Thai Police Officer Interrogating Nigerian Suspect Says Ig.bos Are Curse To Africa:
He called Nigerians the shame and curse of Africa and particularly labeled Igb.os as the pioneers of this ‘curse’ and as ‘selfish’ ‘stubborn,’ ‘liars’ and repeat offenders.

ostirich:
I don't blame you slowpoke.
If you are properly traced, I won't be surprised that you are from one timid village where only you can read and write. That's why you find it fun writing anything you like in social media without thinking just to tell the world that your village is represented in Nairaland.

Have you asked yourself if the "I/bo" still want to be called Nigerians. Definitely no because you just recently learnt how to read and write if not you would have known they never wanted to be called Nigerians again.

Please reason before you write. If you don't understand ask someone reasonable to interpret to you.

MUMU

Drug trafficking: 132 mostly i/bos waiting to die….120 on death row in China, 11 in Indonesia, 1 in Singapore
...
Nigeria stands to lose no fewer than 132 citizens who are on death row in various prisons across Indonesia, China and Singapore.

11 Nigerians are currently on death row, having been sentenced to death at various times by Indonesian courts. They were sentenced to death on drug-related offences, which largely centered on being in possession of heroin and other narcotics.

Obinna Nwajagu, Michael Titus Igwe, Hillary .K. Chimezie, Stephen Rasheed Akinyemi, Humphrey Ijike alias Doctor, Gap Nadi alias Papa, are some Nigerians whom the Indonesian government may execute any time from now. Others awaiting death in Indonesia include, Eugene Ape alias Felixe, Ekfere Dike Ale Kamal alias Samuel, Seck Osmane/Cajetan Uchenna Onyenworo, Samuel Iwuchukwu Okoye and Hansen Anthony Nwaolisa. Some human rights groups had sometime in April 2013, petitioned the National Assembly over the fate of 14 Nigerians awaiting death in Indonesia. The groups, World Alliance for Against Terrorism, Violence and Inhuman Treatment and Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), also urged the federal government to wade into the matter. But in spite of pleas for clemency by the Nigerian government, Indonesia known for its hard stance on drug offences, has never shied away from carrying out capital punishment on drug-related offences in its country

Google, i/bo drug dealers in South America, Asia, middle East, Europe - if i/bos can get to the moon they will be dealing drugs there.

That "Nigerian" is i/bo.

why they still call them Nigerians I don't know

33xtr33r:
Silly miserable bigot ranting carelessly and senselessly to divert attention from the impending doom at his doorstep...

"...we have millions of millions of Igbos residing with us in our homes, in our towns, in our states, very peacefully, very industrious, helping our communities and our economy to grow..."
- The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar 111, Nov 23 2015  https://www.nairaland.com/2757943/nigeriannewspapers-biafra-im-worried-says#40343297
https://nigerianewspapers.com.ng/biafra-im-worried-says-sultan.html

Dimw1tted bigot from a juju-infested enclave, read the paper by Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the current Emir of Kano, a Fulani, where he revealed some truths about the Yorubas: "YORUBAS ARE THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA"?
http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/yorubas-are-the-problem-with-nigeria-by-sanusi-lamido-sanusi-elombah-com.111348/

Accursed fetish inbred savage of dirt and slavery, you most likely grew up without knowing who sired you. That should be the sole reason you've been raving wild like a castrated dog, without regards or manners on NL with your lies and propaganda against the Igbo Nation.

You and your cohorts are desperately trying all tricks at your disposal to have Igbos in the same country with you and yet you callously sanction the great injustices and evils being perpetrated in the polity. Yet you approve and hail the criminalisation and killings of peaceful IPOB protesters.

FYI, your wicked propaganda and foolish ranting on NL cannot stop the raging IPOB tsunami movement.

Face OduaArewanistan republic where you're most needed as loyal, slavish subjects. Leave Igbos out of your miseries.

Yoruba or any other tribes have never been a LARGE scale problem for me and many other international travellers, anywhere I go this is what I see: READ - This is a daily occurence on many Nigerian and international newspapers. i bo i bo ibo criminals and drug dealers destroying Nigerian passports!

Daily news, check again for tomorrow latest:

Ejike Okoye Arrested With Drug In Philippines
Ejike Okoye, was nabbed on Tuesday by joint elements of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Region 3 (PDEA RO-3) and PDEA-National Capital Region (PDEA-NCR) in a drug sting inside a resto bar along Sumulong Highway in Philippines. He was caught in the act.
According to Manila Bulletin, 33-year-old Ejike (alias "Martin"wink is said to be a member of West African Drug Syndicate operating in Metro Manila and nearby provinces of Central Luzon.
PDEA RO-3 director Emerson Margate revealed that PDEA RO-3 agents were able to secure a drug deal from Okoye to purchase of 300 grams of shabu for PHP360,000. They agreed to meet inside the resto bar in Marikina City. That was where they arrested the suspect.
Confiscated from the Ejike were six medium-sized resealable transparent plastic sachets containing a white crystalline substance suspected to be shabu with a street value of PHP1,050,000 and the marked money used in the anti-drug operation.
Ejike was brought in PDEA Jail Facility in the City of San Fernando for further investigation.
......................................
Nigerian Arrested Over Drug Trafficking In Bengaluru, India

The accused, Ejom Peter Nduka, and his associate Kevin were living in a rented house in Sampegehalli and used to peddle drugs to their contacts. The police recovered 621 grams of cocaine and 265 grams of hashish. They also recovered three mobile phones from the accused and are investigating to ascertain the source of drugs. “We are verifying whether the accused have valid travel documents,” a senior police officer said.
Nduka has been booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotrophic Substances Act and efforts are on to track down Kevin who is on the run.
The Central Crime Branch sleuths on Monday arrested a 37-year-old Nigerian and recovered narcotic drugs worth Rs 35.8 lakh.
The accused, Ejom Peter Nduka, and his associate Kevin were living in a rented house in Sampegehalli and used to peddle drugs to their contacts. The police recovered 621 grams of cocaine and 265 grams of hashish. They also recovered three mobile phones from the accused and are investigating to ascertain the source of drugs. “We are verifying whether the accused have valid travel documents,” a senior police officer said.
Nduka has been booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotrophic Substances Act and efforts are on to track down Kevin who is on the run.

-You should go and ask in Phillipines and India what the experience of the average Nigerian traveller who happens to mention he has the same passport as these ib o monkeys!

33xtr33r:
C'mon get out of here, you useless cretin from a juju-infested enclave!

I don't blame you entirely since you hypocrites make a career out of lies, falsehood, noise-making, propaganda, abuse and slurs. It's this fraudulent union that gave you ab0ki ass-lickers the effrontery to rant carelessly and senselessly against Igbos; minions who aren't worth up to being shoe-cleaners to Igbos.

'Igbos are hurting Nigeria locally and internationally more than any other tribe' and yet confused hypocrites like you wail and gnash your teeth that Igbos seek to have a separate existence from you greedy, treasury looters cum murderous parasites.

If you believed the trash you wrote you and your partners in crime who have criminally benefitted and still benefitting from this contraption wouldn't be running amok on every media page, calling and supporting the use of violence and extra-judicial killings as a means to quelling a genuine agitation as against opting for a simple referendum.

You're not bothered that this country is an expired entity. You're not concerned about the maiming and wanton destruction of lives and properties going on in the Middle-belt and South for decades now unabated. You're not at all bothered that the marauders are having a field day in your domain, unchallenged by your moronic people and ass-licking elites.

Knowing that your evil days are numbered you have become so desperate, perturbed and agitated that it seems you lots cannot live a day without thinking and writing evil against the Igbo Nation - your eternal nemesis.

Your wicked propaganda and foolish ranting on NL cannot stop the raging IPOB tsunamic movement as your eternal portion remains with your Fulani masters.

Igbos are not willing to self-destruct with you bigots. Simply take your miseries to OduaArewanistan republic where bunch of hypocrites and confused bigots are found.

I am not against ibo cessation from Nigeria. Infact I am for it. To tell you how sure I am that ibos are a major problem for Nigerian passport holders I am fighting that you monkeys leave Nigeria and call yourself something else that the world will identify you as.

If you read my previous post and if you have any brain cells in that coconut shell skull of yours you will see that I mentioned it several times.

ibos are the biggest problem to any nigerian passport holder in any part of Nigeria and abroad, the sooner the rest of Nigeria is not identified with you criminal animals the better!

The annoying part is that all Nigerians continue to suffer for the actions of i b o people around the world every single day !

I say the buyer will be i/b o

33xtr33r:
Silly rants of a confused hypocrite, whining, weeping and wailing profusely on NL at the mere mention of Biaf... or NK...

Your endless rantings on NL cannot prevent you and your cotravellers from spending the rest of your miserable lives with your Fulani masters in OduaArewanistan republic.

Igbos are comfortable having a separate existence from greedy, treasury looters cum murderous backst*bbers.

"...we have millions of millions of Igbos residing with us in our homes, in our towns, in our states, very peacefully, very industrious, helping our communities and our economy to grow..."
- The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar 111, Nov 23 2015  https://www.nairaland.com/2757943/nigeriannewspapers-biafra-im-worried-says#40343297
https://nigerianewspapers.com.ng/biafra-im-worried-says-sultan.html

“Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly"
- Albert Einstein


http://www.nairametrics.com/katsina-state-records-highest-number-of-drug-arrests-nbs/%22

http://news2.onlinenigeria.com/headline/129784-18-most-wanted-nigerians-in-the-usa.html#ixzz3gNsc4600

https://www.nairaland.com/1433737/most-aduterous-fettish-tribe-africa-yoruba

Here's the compendium of your criminal brothers who ruined this country:

https://www.nairaland.com/1485096/history-armed-robbers-company-liquidators#18955417

http://thenigeriangazette.com/history-of-armed-robbers-company-liquidators-rapists-and-notoriours-official-criminals-in-nigeria-by-shama-maliga/

https://www.nairaland.com/3222794/dambazzau-taking-n1b-monthly-salaries-from-nigerian-army-as-coas-sahara-reporters

https://www.nairaland.com/3218110/how-swners-looted-airforce-n22.8billiin-airmashalAmosu-JacobAdigun-CommodoreGbadebo-to-forfeit-33 properties-bought-with-stolen-funds.

shut up jare, speak the truth for once in your life!

170 million Nigerians depend on foreign trade, travel, interactions, global commerce and reputation!
The majority of these global locations treat Nigerians differently due to Nigerian passport holders travelling through their airports with drugs and committing crimes in the streets of those countries.
Now the worst of those crimes are drugs and 419, when researched the majority of the perpetrators are Ibos.
So when these people mention why they despise Nigeria they say drugs and scam, to us Nigerians we know the main perpetrators are Ibos.
Nothing personal but Ibo people are hurting Nigeria locally and internationally more than any other tribe. If you have better evidence than I have show it and I will concentrate on those tribes.

33xtr33r:
It's an open secret that Yorubas are notoriously known for making a career out of lies, falsehood, noise-making, propaganda, abuse and slurs.

Dimw1tted bigot, I shall attempt to help cure your great delusion and hypocrisy...

It has been a curse having your likes in the same country and this curse is broken already and the serpent head is severely bruised and that's why many Yorubas are on rampage attempting in vain to quench the raging IPOB tsunamic movement.

The fact still remains that Igbos are comfortable having a separate existence from greedy, treasury looters cum murderous backst*bbers.


kernel501 post:
"EXPLAIN THIS DATA TO ME.
The Nigerian Bureau of Statistics in conjunction with the National
Drug Law Enforcement Agency released the Drug related crime statistics
from year 2010 – 2014.
NUMBER OF ARRESTS BY STATES
The report showed a total of 8,805 arrests were made. The states that
had the highest number of arrests in 2014 are..
◾Katsina – 609
◾Kano – 503
◾Bauchi – 471
◾Lagos – 434
◾Akwa Ibom- 401
TOTAL NUMBER OF DRUG CASES BY GEOPOLITICAL ZONE
North East – 1,017
North Central – 1,416
North West – 2,261
South East – 1,136
South South – 1,314
South West – 1,682
NUMBER OFCONVICTIONS SECURED BY STATE
Kano secured the highest with a total of 182 convictions, followed by
Kaduna with 151, while Lagos secured 125 convictions. Borno State
secured the least with 2 convictions.
more on... www.nairametrics.com/katsina-state-records-highest-number-of-drug-arrests-nbs/"

Yoruba International Terrorists - Adebolajo, Adebowale (Woolwich attack) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9DbRMIlQ5A

During the reign of IBB some drug peddlers were executed at bar beach and that was the first and only drug offence execution in Nigeria. The drug criminals were of Yoruba origin. Yorubas introduced illicit drug business at a time when very little was known of it.

The first pastor caught with cocaine was a Yoruba man. 
A Yoruba woman holds the record for the highest kilogram weight of drugs intercepted by drug enforcement agency. 

Cultism was introduced into Nigeria institutions of learning by Wole Soyinka.

https://www.nairaland.com/2881063/oluwadamilare-baiyewu-nigerian-rapist-jailed

https://www.nairaland.com/2471464/nigerian-girls-rescued-prostitution-burkina

https://www.nairaland.com/795567/breaking-news-hard-drugs-found

https://www.nairaland.com/2933697/drug-trafficking-woman-vomits-fifteen--wraps-of-cocaine-at-abuja-airport

Fetishness, Cannibalism and Ritualism are case studies in Yoruba land. Yorubas have enough evils in their juju-infested enclave for theses.

From a Kenyan - https://www.nairaland.com/1433737/most-aduterous-fettish-tribe-africa-yoruba

Read how greed made a wicked Yoruba business to kill 84 babies:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/tainted-teething-syrup-kills-84-babies-in-nigeria-1570715.html

www.nairaland.com/2601809/four-fake-prophets-human-parts

https://www.nairaland.com/1165192/efcc-declares-wale-babalakin-wanted

https://www.nairaland.com/2606736/police-smashes-yoruba-syndicates-aba

Yoruba criminal Suliman Olufemi was sentenced to death in 2004 in Saudi Arabia: https://www.nairaland.com/308703/saudi-arabia-beheads-nigerian-alleged
Qorbi bin Mussa Adam death sentence over an allegation of murdering a Saudi national. He was the second Nigerian to be executed in Saudi Arabia this year 2009 after another Nigerian, Jamil 'Abbas Shu'ayb, was beheaded in May. 

Last time UK police were recriuting Yoruba-speakers into the force inorder to curb the high crime rate of crimes exclusive to Yorubas who dominates the British prisons with credit scam frauds, spams, yahoo-yahoo, and other crimes.

Credit fraudsters in UK, email scam capital in lagos state, travelling scammers, yahoo yahoo boys, ritualist.. Inbreeding, polithieves! money laundering cowards... The amount of money yoruba fake travelling agents have duped from young igbo men is staggering! I think we have not talked about this.
Yorubas have duped hundreds of innocent and young Igbos on travelling scams but unlike Yorubas Igbos are not snitches.

[size=14pt]The most wanted Nigerians for crimes in the USA are all Yorubas!
[/size]
...they operate in other shores. Their activities are an embarrassment to all of us. They indulge in crimes for which all of us should flinch. Indeed, the United States Secret Service and narcotics agents have dubbed the

18 as some of the most wanted on their list. A manhunt is on to arrest 15 of them. Already, three others have been arrested by Interpol officers in Lagos.

•Adebowale Shekoni (40)
•Abiodun Bakare (37)
•Rilwan Ayatonde Soetan (50)
•Kenneth Eromosele Abulu (36)
•Olselcita Folayan (41)
•Musiliu Balogun (40)
•Mutiat Titilola Olubi (51)
•Ahiata Folashade Price (46)
•Monsuratu Omoniyi Griggs(43)
•Ayodele Soyan (51)
•Ahuama Benjamin Okey (50)
•Basiratu Mojisola Bakare-Giles (47)
•Adegboyega Olukunle Odedina (36)
•Alex Ahmed Ero (51)
•Seye Richard Osinoiki(46)

ARRESTED
•Steve Adedeji
•Apampa Olayinka
•Olugbemiga Adebisi (a.k.a.) George Banks

They are wanted for multi-million dollar bank frauds, identity theft, drug pushing and, in the case of one of them, the rape of an expectant mother.

Read more: http://news2.onlinenigeria.com/headline/129784-18-most-wanted-nigerians-in-the-usa.html#ixzz3gNsc4600


Prove that Yorubas are not notorious in the following criminal acts:

1. have the highest number of bast*rds.

2. have highest number of ritualists and cannibals. 

3. have the highest number of juju-wiedling folks 

4. have the highest number of assassinated politicians despite laying claims to 'sophistication'

5. Yoruba kidnappers and merchants of human parts and blood in Soka Evil Forest.

6. Internationally acclaimed drug peddlers as national leaders - Tinubu and Buruji.

7. Virtually all diabolical armed robbers are Yorubas.

8. Virtually all fetish, confused people in Nigeria are Yorubas.

9. Virtually all dirty people who live in dirts, squalor and penury are Yorubas.

10. Virtually all alayes, agberos and omoniles are Yorubas.

11. Virtually all thugs and toutish politicians in Nigeria are Yorubas.

12. Virtually all suffersticated cowards in Nigeria are Yorubas.

13. Bulk of juju-infested people in Nigeria are Yorubas.

14. Bulk of witches and wizards in Nigeria are Yorubas.

15. Bulk of evil ocultic people in Nigeria are Yorubas,

16. Bulk of backst*bbers and traitors in Nigeria are Yorubas.

17. Bulk of incestuous products in Nigeria are Yorubas.

18. Bulk of diabolic hypocrites in Nigeria are Yorubas.

19. Yorubaland - THE WORLD CAPITAL OF RITUAL-KILLERS AND CANNIBALS

Note that there's virtually no week that passes by without one Yoruba person being caught in ritual-killing and kidnapping.

Yorubas shamelessly deploy juju and fetish charms at work, play, church, market. Yorubas are notorious ritual killers, kidnappers, cannibals and human parts merchants. 

A typical Yoruba person rarely believe one can can achieve success in life without resort to ritual killings and cannibalism.

http://www.360nobs.com/2014/03/gruesome-photos-from-the-uncovered-dungeon-of-death-in-soka-ibadan/

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/03/disturbing-tales-ibadan-forest-horror/

Frustrated IPOO miscreant from Wasteland, help yourself out with this compendium of your criminal brothers who ruined this country:

https://www.nairaland.com/1485096/history-armed-robbers-company-liquidators#18955417

http://thenigeriangazette.com/history-of-armed-robbers-company-liquidators-rapists-and-notoriours-official-criminals-in-nigeria-by-shama-maliga/

https://www.nairaland.com/3218110/how-swners-looted-airforce-n22.8billiin-airmashalAmosu-JacobAdigun-CommodoreGbadebo-to-forfeit-33properties-bought-with-stolen-funds

Total rubbish,

1st of all I am not Yoruba, and if Yoruba are as notorious for drug dealing, fake goods and destroying Nigeria's reputation as the ibos do I will say it. I continuously mention mallams for their terrorism and religious bigotry.

I am aware of some of your statistics but what a monkey like you failed to understand is that of the 8,805 arrests you refered to in these states, majority of the culprits are actually ibos!!!!!!! They are not Katsina, Akwa Ibom or South West tribesmen, they are ibo residents and travelling criminals in those states. Go and ask NDLEA again! Giade said it and NDLEA continues to say it.

Your numbers don't add up, The percentage of ibos in Nigeria is very small in relation to their convictions and incaceration in Nigeria and abroad.

If there is a Nigerian passport holder arrested, jailed or executed for drugs 90% of the time it will be ibo - and that is in Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa, Brazil to Dubao to China to Thailand!

I fly continuosly for business, I have discussed with interpol, local police, embassy officials, Nigerian house representative for diaspora, NDLEA officials, NAFDAc officials, Nigerian police, task forces, charities...and yes ibo are the predominant criminals in Nigeria!

-You cannot change that fact, and if you do I will focus on such a tribe if only for the peace and security of Nigerian travellers.

ibo people are the only people I am told to beware of in any country I have visited, ibo people are the people I see on the streets in Dubai, middle east, thailand, China, Rio, South Africa, peddling drugs and looking for mules to carry for them.

They are also the same people likely to tell wholesalers to supply them fake and contraband goods for the additional profit - I see it all the time. even when the seller insists on the danger the ibo man says that is what he wants!

You have to do a better job to change the stats I beg, this one pass tribalism, it is for the soul of Nigeria before ibo people drag the entire country down with their greed!

I advice people to call police when they see any ibo person at any airport outside Nigeria or the streets of those countries, I have done so over 2 dozen times and 7 ibo people were arrested with drugs and other offences on the spot or at their homes there.
I cannot do it in Nigeria because they will bribe police

bobnono:
i just got out from the jail for what i did not do. I was accused of being in possession of drugs. My only offense was that i went to the bank (bidvest sunnyside and fnb) withdrew money and they took all the money and also beat me up inside a bush and said all you Nigerians are smart and we will make life miserable for you all. They took 35k rands plus 5 other guys., 10k, 150k plus 180k they said they are corps in sunnyside. Yet we got to their office, they wrote that i am illegal immigrate. They said they only found house keys with us no money.

They tore my passport on our way to their office and also my friend asalyum. There was a pastor in the cell jail with us also, an up coming pastor and has office which i know of yet they messed with him too. He is married to a Zimbabwean whose father is a south Africa and mother zemba...

This has been a trend for many months or yrs now. i have heard of this but never thought it will come to me. why are south Africa citizen angry with Nigerians? what is our sin? That we kept fucking their sisters, giving them drugs, taking all over the country. i never believe that a police officer will do such things. His name is: cst motian, this is the same guy who killed a Yoruba guy, he's known for sending and helping us to send money home. Because he took them to court and was wining the case. When they arrested me they said how am i making a living? i told them, lets go to my office, they say my ID's and place of work but yet...they searched me, took all phones, monies and one of them drove my friend car away.

When we got to the station police at sunnyside they told them we dont have papers, i have papers, they took it from me. i told the officer in the office that if i dont have a permit how come i was able to withdrew money from the bank? the officer said dont worry, one day is one day. now they gave me a form of detained for possession of drugs. if you are from igbo they wil write drugs on your form, if you are Yoruba they put illegal immigrate and fraud. only God knows.

if you dont have money it's a problem, when you have little it's a also a problem. they arrested me inside a taxi. i dont even have a car. how long are we going to continue to leave in fear. please step in,please step in, please step in.
i told our embassy here yet nothing. please warn all Nigerians to be careful. those staff of Bidvest bank at sunnyside works with this people. if you open a case they will send an assassin.

Question:
If you are treated worse than animals somewhere, WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE STILL DOING THERE?

if you are i.bo I have no sympathy for you as you people created all the problems for blacks there

and Nigerians are complaining about their 49 years life expectancy...see rubbish they eat

Buhari should be busy promoting family planning and population control not encouraging countless offsprings as a bad example to the country!

Buhari only knows hwo to serve tuwo and fura, he is struggling as you can see

Physically-challenged Nigerians?

They look like relatives of well off people, I say this na show!

You want to see what Physically-challenged Nigerians look like, roam the streets.

who paid for the trip?

The office of first lady has no political function and is not an employee of the Government yet she spends like the president!

Nigerian car owners always complain of NO tire,
where all the tires come from to burn these people I don't know.

i.b.o?
Drugs money?

so what?

only colo Nigerians write these nonsense. who gives a flying f**
pains of Nigeria and to raise awareness?

If you want to raise awreness encourage family planning and population control.

No unnecessary kids means no kids hawking?

http://www.reportsafrique.com/gilbert-chagoury-the-lebanese-who-has-done-more-evil-to-nigeria-than-good/

Influenced Hillary Clinton’s Decision not to enlist Boko Haram as a Terror Group, Thereby Limiting The US early Support to combat Boko Haram leading to the lost of thousands of innocent Nigerian Lives in the hands of the Terror Group.

Assisted General Sani Abacha in looting Nigeria and returned an estimated $300 million to the Nigerian government to secure his indemnity from possible criminal charges after Abacha died in 1998…

Used his ties with the Clinton’s Family to subdue FBI and CIA recommendations for US to label Boko Haram a terror group in order so as to continue his international business in Nigeria without hitch at the expense of innocent human lives wasted by the terror group

His company, Chagoury Group was awarded the construction and development of the Eko Atlantic project in Lagos that has gone under questionable circumstances

Founder and Chairman of the Chagoury Group, Gilbert Ramez Chagoury was born in Lagos, Nigeria on 8th January 1946. His parents, Ramez and Alice Chagoury were Lebanese immigrants who raised all their children in Nigeria, a country they had both come to love passionately. Gilbert was sent to study at the College des Freres Chretiens in Lebanon and after returning to Nigeria began a promising business career, rising quickly to become Director of Sales for a Nigerian car company.

With brother Ronald Chagoury in partnership, the Chagoury industrial and financial empire has grown to encompass a multi-faceted business conglomerate determined to break the myths and perceptions of African developmental limitations.

Through their ownership of the Chagoury Group, Gilbert Chagoury and family have an estimated wealth of $4.2 billion.

Chagoury has been a supporter of Bill and Hillary Clinton since the 1990s. He has funded their election campaigns and is a major donor to the Clinton Foundation.[2]

In 2010, ABC News reported on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s apology to Chagoury for his detention at Teterboro airport for over

THE HILLARY CLINTON CONSPIRACY IN THE BOKO HARAM CASE

U.S. Senator David Vitter (R-La.) is pushing the U.S. State Department to turn over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s records from her private email domain related to the State Department’s decision against designating Boko Haram as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). Vitter has previously questioned Secretary Clinton’s ties to foreign donors including a major Nigerian land developer, Gilbert Chagoury, and whether he had any influence over the decision against designating Boko Haram an FTO. Chagoury has long-standing connections to Secretary Clinton and has donated over $5 million to the Clinton Foundation and hosted former President Bill Clinton in Nigeria as head of the Clinton Foundation in 2013. The decision against designating Boko Haram was made between 2011 and 2013, while Secretary Clinton was in office.

FOX NEWS INVESTIGATIONS

FOX News did a vivid description of Hillary’s hypocrisy including his indulgence with Gilbert to delist Boko Haram in this video below:
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“Hillary Clinton has flat out admitted to deleting thousands of emails from her personal domain – records that could very well be tied to her role as Secretary of State,” Vitter said. “She has misled Congress in official reports before, and we need to make sure she isn’t hiding any of these records now.”

Vitter has long been concerned about conflicts of interest between Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, and her position as Secretary of State. Vitter has advocated against foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation since 2009 and voted against Clinton’s nomination to serve as Secretary of State, largely in part because of the conflict of interest with the Foundation and the donations it accepts. Evidence has emerged that Clinton Foundation employees working for the State Department were directly involved in the non-designation for the two years the Department refused to make the designation, despite evidence by U.S. intelligence clearly stating Boko Haram was engaged in terrorist activity against Western and U.S. nationals.

Last year, Vitter pushed for answers on why the State Department, under Clinton’s leadership, misled Congress on the terrorist threat posed by Boko Haram

THE ABACHA CONNECTIONS AND LOOTINGS

In July 2004, police lay in wait at an airfield in the far northeastern corner of Nigeria. Gilbert Chagoury, a Lebanese businessman and one-time adviser to the late dictator Sani Abacha, was set to touch down in his private jet. Nuhu Ribadu, then the country’s top anti-corruption prosecutor, says that Chagoury was a kingpin in the corruption that defined Abacha’s regime. “You couldn’t investigate corruption without looking at Chagoury,” Ribadu tells me in a recent interview in California.
Six years after Abacha’s death, Ribadu’s officers stood ready to take Chagoury down. Ribadu says that Chagoury made it possible for Abacha to steal billions of dollars and lined his own pockets in the process. The prosecutor says he indicted Chagoury and ordered his arrest for relatively minor violations related to Chagoury’s businesses so that he could later bring additional charges for his activities in the Abacha era.

But, no sooner had Chagoury’s plane hit the ground, than it took off again. Ribadu says it’s likely that an airport official tipped him off, and Ribadu’s big catch slipped away, literally into thin air.

Chagoury was among the last of the all-powerful middlemen who served the heads of oil-rich African states, says Philippe Vasset, longtime editor of Africa Energy Intelligence, one of a series of influential energy industry newsletters. “He [Chagoury] was the gatekeeper to Abacha’s presidency,” Vasset says.

In many African countries, a Western entrepreneur might hand over money to a fixer or middleman, who would then pass it on to a political leader in exchange for support for a business venture. In Nigeria, Vasset explains, Chagoury was just such a figure in the mid-1990s, when Abacha ruled the country and held the key to much of the country’s oil wealth.

Today, Chagoury is a diplomat representing the tiny island nation of St. Lucia. He is also a friend of former President Bill Clinton and a generous philanthropist, who, since the Abacha years, has used his money to establish respectability. He appeared near the top of the Clinton Foundation donor list in 2008 as a $1 million to $5 million contributor, according to foundation documents. (His name made the list again in 2009.)

Chagoury’s contribution to the Louvre in Paris some years back was large enough for the museum to name a gallery for him and his wife. In recent years, he has put up $10 million for the construction of medical and nursing schools in Lebanon, his parents’ country of origin, that also bear the Chagoury name.

Unlike his friend, the former president, Chagoury conducts his affairs largely out of public view. He rarely talks to reporters.

But on a cool day in late 2008, I headed up a gently winding road in Beverly Hills, where Chagoury’s Moorish-style villa sprawls across the top of a steep canyon. The home once belonged to entertainer Danny Thomas, and Richard Nixon, Raquel Welch, and Michael Caine have all lived in the neighborhood.

After a written request for an interview and many follow-up phone calls, Chagoury invited me to meet him. “We’ll see if we can get along,” he said. Chagoury’s home is packed with art, antiques, and crystal chandeliers, and offers a staggering view across West Los Angeles to the Pacific Ocean.

As I’m taking it all in, Chagoury climbs a thickly carpeted, winding staircase to the living room to greet me. He’s a stout man, dressed in a navy blue sport coat with buttons that strain against a barrel chest. His fingernails are buffed and manicured, and he has a full head of salt-and-pepper hair.

Almost immediately, he has a proposal: Do your story, but don’t sell your work to a media outlet. “Do it for me,” he says, offering me access and contacts — even the chance to write a book. In exchange, I would get cash, and he would get full control of the product. I politely turn him down, but he brings up the offer several times during the interview.

As we talk, I learn that much of what Chagoury says about himself is so out of sync with the public record and what others have told me — even those who are friendly toward him — that it seems he’s not just in the market for positive spin, but for all-out reinvention.
When I bring up his days in Nigeria, he tells me that he detests his reputation as Abacha’s middleman. “I am not in that business,” he says. Rather, he has worked hard since he was a teenager, building a conglomerate called The Chagoury Group, which employs 20,000 people in Nigeria in construction, real estate development, telecommunications, and other sectors.

“I am an industrialist,” he says in lightly accented, near-perfect English. “I spend a lot of time with my family. I don’t have time to do all that people say I do.”

“I have never bribed anyone,” he says, looking me straight in the eye. “I have never had to make a crooked deal.” He is absolutely sure of himself, even though he has offered me a bribe of sorts just minutes earlier.

As for Ribadu, the Nigerian investigator who says his officers nearly made that 2004 arrest on corruption charges, Chagoury says, “He’s not such hot stuff.” He tells me that Ribadu — who until 2007 headed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, an agency similar to the FBI — was an attack-dog set against the enemies of President Olusegun Obasanjo, who appointed him.

Ribadu was pushed out of his job after Obasanjo left office, and says he was given the freedom to act independently during his tenure and was ousted because of his zealous prosecution of high-level officials.

Chagoury, who turns 64 this month, was born in Lagos and is the eldest of eight children. He has dual citizenship in Lebanon and the United Kingdom because of his parents’ heritage and because he was born in Nigeria while it was still under British rule.

His father came to West Africa in the 1930s from the northern Lebanese town of Miziara. The elder Chagoury followed what was by then a well-worn migrant trail to Nigeria, where he traded in textiles and helped his brother in a small trucking operation.

Chagoury is part of the Lebanese diaspora, which is by some estimates several times larger than the population of Lebanon, and includes such influential members as Mexican businessman Carlos Slim, the world’s third richest man, Columbian entertainer Shakira, and American activist Ralph Nader.

Like their Palestinian and Jewish neighbors, the Lebanese have scattered about the world, and Chagoury seems equally at home in Lagos or Beverly Hills. He has also maintained close ties to his parents’ home town of Miziara.

Today, Miziara survives — and even thrives — because of Chagoury and his brothers, says Gilbert Aoun, who was Lebanon’s ambassador to Nigeria during Abacha’s rule. Still, nine months of the year, the mountainous settlement of some 15,000 is a ghost town, Aoun says, because most Miziarans old enough to work are employed by the Chagourys in Nigeria.

Chagoury didn’t grow up rich, but he says that he always wanted the security and prestige that money brings. He went into business with his father-in-law, and later with his brother. The family established several flour mills in Benin and Nigeria, a construction company in Nigeria, and a club in Lagos.

An Indispensable Adviser
Chagoury says he met Abacha by chance on a flight to the Niger Delta city of Port Harcourt, when the future dictator was a young officer. The two struck up a friendship, and when Abacha seized power in a 1993 coup, Chagoury became the general’s indispensable adviser.

General Abacha was an eccentric man and a brutal leader, who consolidated his power by declaring martial law and jailing political rivals. He kept a menagerie of exotic animals and rarely removed his sunglasses. The regime drew worldwide condemnation in 1995, when activist playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other men who had campaigned against the environmental degradation of the oil-rich Niger Delta were executed for what most observers say were trumped-up murder charges.

From his earliest days in power, Abacha set the tone for an administration that would become the most corrupt in Nigeria’s history. Today, more than a decade after the dictator’s death, investigators from Washington DC to the Nigerian capital of Abuja are still unraveling the web of shady dealings around Abacha’s rule.

Within months of taking office in 1993, Abacha began to divert money from Nigeria’s central bank to the overseas bank accounts of his family members and associates, including Chagoury’s. A lawsuit brought by the Nigerian government against Abacha’s heirs and associates in the United Kingdom shows that the dictator fraudulently ordered the bank transfers for national security purposes.

By the time of Abacha’s death in 1998, those so-called security payments would total $2 billion, but they would represent less than half the funds that money-laundering investigators around the world estimate that Abacha and his associates stole from their country.
However, Abacha found other ways to pad his bank accounts. A $180 million bribery scheme — the largest ever discovered as part of a U.S. Justice Department investigation — was hatched the first year Abacha was in office.

Halliburton’s Nigerian Bribes
The scheme began in the early 1990s, when Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR), at the time a subsidiary of the Halliburton Corporation, led a joint venture that bid for a $6 billion contract to build a sprawling liquefied natural gas facility in the Niger Delta.

The group won the bid, but not before Abacha had agreed to accept a $40 million bribe that he would share with other Nigerian officials, according to Department of Justice court papers. It was the first installment of $180 million in bribes that KBR would pay, not only to officials of the Abacha regime, but to officials of the two heads of state who succeeded him.

A few months before I interviewed Chagoury, former KBR CEO Jack Stanley had pleaded guilty in a Texas courtroom to charges related to organizing the bribery scheme that went on for a decade in Nigeria, and to taking millions in kickbacks for himself. Since then, two more KBR contractors have been indicted, and Halliburton entered a guilty plea and paid the government a record fine of more than $500 million.
Chagoury denies any involvement in the bribery case, but his name surfaces in notes taken by one of the indictees, Chodan, who kept detailed records of so-called cultural meetings, where bribes were discussed.

One entry reads, “$250 , to IPCO via Chagoury.”
When I ask Chagoury about these records, he doesn’t dispute that the note refers to a sum of $250 million, but he argues that it refers to a contract, which, he says, was legitimately awarded to one of his companies, IPCO Nigeria Limited, for construction related to the liquefied natural gas plant.

Chagoury has not been named by the Department of Justice or charged with any crime related to the KBR affair.

His work as an intermediary for Abacha went beyond business affairs. He was also deeply involved in diplomacy, even though he held no official government post. In the mid-1990s, when Nigeria came under increasing pressure from Washington to hold elections, Chagoury gained access to high-level U.S. emissaries like Jesse Jackson and Bill Richardson as well as to a number of senior State Department officials, according to Donald McHenry, a former American ambassador to the United Nations, who worked in U.S.-Nigeria diplomacy at the time.

The Clinton Connections
Chagoury, along with his wife and three of his children, were guests at a the Clinton’s White House holiday dinner shortly after Chagoury gave nearly half a million dollars to a voter registration committee, Vote Now ’96, according to a report in The Washington Post. (Chagoury would have been barred from donating directly to the Clinton campaign because he is not a U.S. citizen.) Since then, Chagoury and Clinton have traveled together and seen each other socially.

“Every one knows I’m friends with the Clintons,” Chagoury says.

As Abacha’s health began to fail in the late 1990s, Chagoury made major efforts to prop up the dictator. A State Department memo obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, entitled “The Health Watch on the Head of State Continues,” shows that Chagoury appeared to have brought medical specialists and sophisticated medical equipment to the presidential residence in Abuja, while publicly downplaying the seriousness of Abacha’s condition.

When Abacha died in June 1998, a second State Department memo notes that Chagoury placed an in-flight call from his private plane to the U.S. embassy in Nigeria to report that he was in touch with Nigeria’s Provisional Ruling Council, which would be meeting later that day to discuss a successor to Abacha. In the phone call, Chagoury asked what governmental structure would be acceptable to U.S. officials, according to the memo.

Immediately after Abacha’s death, Ribadu, then a young police investigator, says he began looking into the dictator’s financial affairs. “It wasn’t uncommon for Nigerian leaders to put money elsewhere,” Ribadu says. “But the magnitude was beyond anybody’s comprehension.”
The money — estimated at more than $4 billion — was stashed in Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, and the Isle of Jersey in the names of dozens of individuals and companies. Ribadu argues that it was Chagoury who vouched for Abacha’s sons at banks where the source of their assets might otherwise have been questioned.

Rubbish, Gilbert Chagoury is the single biggest fraudstar and scammer involved with the Clintons for decades that can cost her the presidency.


Gilbert Chagoury: The Lebanese Who Has done more evil to Nigeria than good
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Influenced Hillary Clinton’s Decision not to enlist Boko Haram as a Terror Group, Thereby Limiting The US early Support to combat Boko Haram leading to the lost of thousands of innocent Nigerian Lives in the hands of the Terror Groupp
Assisted General Sani Abacha in looting Nigeria and returned an estimated $300 million to the Nigerian government to secure his indemnity from possible criminal charges after Abacha died in 1998…
Used his ties with the Clinton’s Family to subdue FBI and CIA recommendations for US to label Boko Haram a terror group in order so as to continue his international business in Nigeria without hitch at the expense of innocent human lives wasted by the terror group
His company, Chagoury Group was awarded the construction and development of the Eko Atlantic project in Lagos that has gone under questionable circumstances

Founder and Chairman of the Chagoury Group, Gilbert Ramez Chagoury was born in Lagos, Nigeria on 8th January 1946. His parents, Ramez and Alice Chagoury were Lebanese immigrants who raised all their children in Nigeria, a country they had both come to love passionately. Gilbert was sent to study at the College des Freres Chretiens in Lebanon and after returning to Nigeria began a promising business career, rising quickly to become Director of Sales for a Nigerian car company.

With brother Ronald Chagoury in partnership, the Chagoury industrial and financial empire has grown to encompass a multi-faceted business conglomerate determined to break the myths and perceptions of African developmental limitations.

Through their ownership of the Chagoury Group, Gilbert Chagoury and family have an estimated wealth of $4.2 billion.

Chagoury has been a supporter of Bill and Hillary Clinton since the 1990s. He has funded their election campaigns and is a major donor to the Clinton Foundation.[2]

In 2010, ABC News reported on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s apology to Chagoury for his detention at Teterboro airport for over four hours because of inclusion on a no-fly list.

Gilbert with Bill Clinton

THE HILLARY CLINTON CONSPIRACY IN THE BOKO HARAM CASE

U.S. Senator David Vitter (R-La.) is pushing the U.S. State Department to turn over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s records from her private email domain related to the State Department’s decision against designating Boko Haram as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). Vitter has previously questioned Secretary Clinton’s ties to foreign donors including a major Nigerian land developer, Gilbert Chagoury, and whether he had any influence over the decision against designating Boko Haram an FTO. Chagoury has long-standing connections to Secretary Clinton and has donated over $5 million to the Clinton Foundation and hosted former President Bill Clinton in Nigeria as head of the Clinton Foundation in 2013. The decision against designating Boko Haram was made between 2011 and 2013, while Secretary Clinton was in office.

FOX NEWS INVESTIGATIONS

FOX News did a vivid description of Hillary’s hypocrisy including his indulgence with Gilbert to delist Boko Haram in this video below:
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“Hillary Clinton has flat out admitted to deleting thousands of emails from her personal domain – records that could very well be tied to her role as Secretary of State,” Vitter said. “She has misled Congress in official reports before, and we need to make sure she isn’t hiding any of these records now.”

Vitter has long been concerned about conflicts of interest between Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, and her position as Secretary of State. Vitter has advocated against foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation since 2009 and voted against Clinton’s nomination to serve as Secretary of State, largely in part because of the conflict of interest with the Foundation and the donations it accepts. Evidence has emerged that Clinton Foundation employees working for the State Department were directly involved in the non-designation for the two years the Department refused to make the designation, despite evidence by U.S. intelligence clearly stating Boko Haram was engaged in terrorist activity against Western and U.S. nationals.

Last year, Vitter pushed for answers on why the State Department, under Clinton’s leadership, misled Congress on the terrorist threat posed by Boko Haram

THE ABACHA CONNECTIONS AND LOOTINGS

In July 2004, police lay in wait at an airfield in the far northeastern corner of Nigeria. Gilbert Chagoury, a Lebanese businessman and one-time adviser to the late dictator Sani Abacha, was set to touch down in his private jet. Nuhu Ribadu, then the country’s top anti-corruption prosecutor, says that Chagoury was a kingpin in the corruption that defined Abacha’s regime. “You couldn’t investigate corruption without looking at Chagoury,” Ribadu tells me in a recent interview in California.
Six years after Abacha’s death, Ribadu’s officers stood ready to take Chagoury down. Ribadu says that Chagoury made it possible for Abacha to steal billions of dollars and lined his own pockets in the process. The prosecutor says he indicted Chagoury and ordered his arrest for relatively minor violations related to Chagoury’s businesses so that he could later bring additional charges for his activities in the Abacha era.

But, no sooner had Chagoury’s plane hit the ground, than it took off again. Ribadu says it’s likely that an airport official tipped him off, and Ribadu’s big catch slipped away, literally into thin air.

Chagoury was among the last of the all-powerful middlemen who served the heads of oil-rich African states, says Philippe Vasset, longtime editor of Africa Energy Intelligence, one of a series of influential energy industry newsletters. “He [Chagoury] was the gatekeeper to Abacha’s presidency,” Vasset says.

In many African countries, a Western entrepreneur might hand over money to a fixer or middleman, who would then pass it on to a political leader in exchange for support for a business venture. In Nigeria, Vasset explains, Chagoury was just such a figure in the mid-1990s, when Abacha ruled the country and held the key to much of the country’s oil wealth.

Today, Chagoury is a diplomat representing the tiny island nation of St. Lucia. He is also a friend of former President Bill Clinton and a generous philanthropist, who, since the Abacha years, has used his money to establish respectability. He appeared near the top of the Clinton Foundation donor list in 2008 as a $1 million to $5 million contributor, according to foundation documents. (His name made the list again in 2009.)

Chagoury’s contribution to the Louvre in Paris some years back was large enough for the museum to name a gallery for him and his wife. In recent years, he has put up $10 million for the construction of medical and nursing schools in Lebanon, his parents’ country of origin, that also bear the Chagoury name.

Unlike his friend, the former president, Chagoury conducts his affairs largely out of public view. He rarely talks to reporters.

But on a cool day in late 2008, I headed up a gently winding road in Beverly Hills, where Chagoury’s Moorish-style villa sprawls across the top of a steep canyon. The home once belonged to entertainer Danny Thomas, and Richard Nixon, Raquel Welch, and Michael Caine have all lived in the neighborhood.

After a written request for an interview and many follow-up phone calls, Chagoury invited me to meet him. “We’ll see if we can get along,” he said. Chagoury’s home is packed with art, antiques, and crystal chandeliers, and offers a staggering view across West Los Angeles to the Pacific Ocean.

As I’m taking it all in, Chagoury climbs a thickly carpeted, winding staircase to the living room to greet me. He’s a stout man, dressed in a navy blue sport coat with buttons that strain against a barrel chest. His fingernails are buffed and manicured, and he has a full head of salt-and-pepper hair.

Almost immediately, he has a proposal: Do your story, but don’t sell your work to a media outlet. “Do it for me,” he says, offering me access and contacts — even the chance to write a book. In exchange, I would get cash, and he would get full control of the product. I politely turn him down, but he brings up the offer several times during the interview.

As we talk, I learn that much of what Chagoury says about himself is so out of sync with the public record and what others have told me — even those who are friendly toward him — that it seems he’s not just in the market for positive spin, but for all-out reinvention.
When I bring up his days in Nigeria, he tells me that he detests his reputation as Abacha’s middleman. “I am not in that business,” he says. Rather, he has worked hard since he was a teenager, building a conglomerate called The Chagoury Group, which employs 20,000 people in Nigeria in construction, real estate development, telecommunications, and other sectors.

“I am an industrialist,” he says in lightly accented, near-perfect English. “I spend a lot of time with my family. I don’t have time to do all that people say I do.”

“I have never bribed anyone,” he says, looking me straight in the eye. “I have never had to make a crooked deal.” He is absolutely sure of himself, even though he has offered me a bribe of sorts just minutes earlier.

As for Ribadu, the Nigerian investigator who says his officers nearly made that 2004 arrest on corruption charges, Chagoury says, “He’s not such hot stuff.” He tells me that Ribadu — who until 2007 headed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, an agency similar to the FBI — was an attack-dog set against the enemies of President Olusegun Obasanjo, who appointed him.

Ribadu was pushed out of his job after Obasanjo left office, and says he was given the freedom to act independently during his tenure and was ousted because of his zealous prosecution of high-level officials.

Chagoury, who turns 64 this month, was born in Lagos and is the eldest of eight children. He has dual citizenship in Lebanon and the United Kingdom because of his parents’ heritage and because he was born in Nigeria while it was still under British rule.

His father came to West Africa in the 1930s from the northern Lebanese town of Miziara. The elder Chagoury followed what was by then a well-worn migrant trail to Nigeria, where he traded in textiles and helped his brother in a small trucking operation.

Chagoury is part of the Lebanese diaspora, which is by some estimates several times larger than the population of Lebanon, and includes such influential members as Mexican businessman Carlos Slim, the world’s third richest man, Columbian entertainer Shakira, and American activist Ralph Nader.

Like their Palestinian and Jewish neighbors, the Lebanese have scattered about the world, and Chagoury seems equally at home in Lagos or Beverly Hills. He has also maintained close ties to his parents’ home town of Miziara.

Today, Miziara survives — and even thrives — because of Chagoury and his brothers, says Gilbert Aoun, who was Lebanon’s ambassador to Nigeria during Abacha’s rule. Still, nine months of the year, the mountainous settlement of some 15,000 is a ghost town, Aoun says, because most Miziarans old enough to work are employed by the Chagourys in Nigeria.

Chagoury didn’t grow up rich, but he says that he always wanted the security and prestige that money brings. He went into business with his father-in-law, and later with his brother. The family established several flour mills in Benin and Nigeria, a construction company in Nigeria, and a club in Lagos.

An Indispensable Adviser
Chagoury says he met Abacha by chance on a flight to the Niger Delta city of Port Harcourt, when the future dictator was a young officer. The two struck up a friendship, and when Abacha seized power in a 1993 coup, Chagoury became the general’s indispensable adviser.

General Abacha was an eccentric man and a brutal leader, who consolidated his power by declaring martial law and jailing political rivals. He kept a menagerie of exotic animals and rarely removed his sunglasses. The regime drew worldwide condemnation in 1995, when activist playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other men who had campaigned against the environmental degradation of the oil-rich Niger Delta were executed for what most observers say were trumped-up murder charges.

From his earliest days in power, Abacha set the tone for an administration that would become the most corrupt in Nigeria’s history. Today, more than a decade after the dictator’s death, investigators from Washington DC to the Nigerian capital of Abuja are still unraveling the web of shady dealings around Abacha’s rule.

Within months of taking office in 1993, Abacha began to divert money from Nigeria’s central bank to the overseas bank accounts of his family members and associates, including Chagoury’s. A lawsuit brought by the Nigerian government against Abacha’s heirs and associates in the United Kingdom shows that the dictator fraudulently ordered the bank transfers for national security purposes.

By the time of Abacha’s death in 1998, those so-called security payments would total $2 billion, but they would represent less than half the funds that money-laundering investigators around the world estimate that Abacha and his associates stole from their country.
However, Abacha found other ways to pad his bank accounts. A $180 million bribery scheme — the largest ever discovered as part of a U.S. Justice Department investigation — was hatched the first year Abacha was in office.

Halliburton’s Nigerian Bribes
The scheme began in the early 1990s, when Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR), at the time a subsidiary of the Halliburton Corporation, led a joint venture that bid for a $6 billion contract to build a sprawling liquefied natural gas facility in the Niger Delta.

The group won the bid, but not before Abacha had agreed to accept a $40 million bribe that he would share with other Nigerian officials, according to Department of Justice court papers. It was the first installment of $180 million in bribes that KBR would pay, not only to officials of the Abacha regime, but to officials of the two heads of state who succeeded him.

A few months before I interviewed Chagoury, former KBR CEO Jack Stanley had pleaded guilty in a Texas courtroom to charges related to organizing the bribery scheme that went on for a decade in Nigeria, and to taking millions in kickbacks for himself. Since then, two more KBR contractors have been indicted, and Halliburton entered a guilty plea and paid the government a record fine of more than $500 million.
Chagoury denies any involvement in the bribery case, but his name surfaces in notes taken by one of the indictees, Chodan, who kept detailed records of so-called cultural meetings, where bribes were discussed.

One entry reads, “$250 , to IPCO via Chagoury.”
When I ask Chagoury about these records, he doesn’t dispute that the note refers to a sum of $250 million, but he argues that it refers to a contract, which, he says, was legitimately awarded to one of his companies, IPCO Nigeria Limited, for construction related to the liquefied natural gas plant.

Chagoury has not been named by the Department of Justice or charged with any crime related to the KBR affair.

His work as an intermediary for Abacha went beyond business affairs. He was also deeply involved in diplomacy, even though he held no official government post. In the mid-1990s, when Nigeria came under increasing pressure from Washington to hold elections, Chagoury gained access to high-level U.S. emissaries like Jesse Jackson and Bill Richardson as well as to a number of senior State Department officials, according to Donald McHenry, a former American ambassador to the United Nations, who worked in U.S.-Nigeria diplomacy at the time.

The Clinton Connections
Chagoury, along with his wife and three of his children, were guests at a the Clinton’s White House holiday dinner shortly after Chagoury gave nearly half a million dollars to a voter registration committee, Vote Now ’96, according to a report in The Washington Post. (Chagoury would have been barred from donating directly to the Clinton campaign because he is not a U.S. citizen.) Since then, Chagoury and Clinton have traveled together and seen each other socially.

“Every one knows I’m friends with the Clintons,” Chagoury says.

As Abacha’s health began to fail in the late 1990s, Chagoury made major efforts to prop up the dictator. A State Department memo obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, entitled “The Health Watch on the Head of State Continues,” shows that Chagoury appeared to have brought medical specialists and sophisticated medical equipment to the presidential residence in Abuja, while publicly downplaying the seriousness of Abacha’s condition.

When Abacha died in June 1998, a second State Department memo notes that Chagoury placed an in-flight call from his private plane to the U.S. embassy in Nigeria to report that he was in touch with Nigeria’s Provisional Ruling Council, which would be meeting later that day to discuss a successor to Abacha. In the phone call, Chagoury asked what governmental structure would be acceptable to U.S. officials, according to the memo.

Immediately after Abacha’s death, Ribadu, then a young police investigator, says he began looking into the dictator’s financial affairs. “It wasn’t uncommon for Nigerian leaders to put money elsewhere,” Ribadu says. “But the magnitude was beyond anybody’s comprehension.”
The money — estimated at more than $4 billion — was stashed in Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, and the Isle of Jersey in the names of dozens of individuals and companies. Ribadu argues that it was Chagoury who vouched for Abacha’s sons at banks where the source of their assets might otherwise have been questioned.

Patience is a black thing, they did it for 400 years during slavery and during colonization and during opressive regimes.

By the time Buhari leaves office millions of Nigerians will be killed by his fellow Fulani Herdsmen and other muslim terror groups.
He will have revived the hausa/fulani hegemony and installed the most illiterate and mediocre group at the top of Nigerian politics and economy

Yes, Nigerians should be patient as always

looks like i.bo.
shed no tears

So normally GEJ and his ilk did not provide a level playing field?

He only did that when you beg!!!

Ikimi is a m.or.on, no wonder he was disgraced around the world when he was Abacha's minister!