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What job is Ige doing? Protecting human rights from sharia abuses? Locking up journalists who defame the president? Or making senseless remarks only an idiot of his calibre can make? Or writing an account of his stewardship as minister of power and stealing?
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Folanke and Ayodele: I agree with you. It is too early to seek the resignation of Bola Ige. He has not been convicted of fraud.
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For those of you who can read the mind of Bola Ige: What did he say happened to NEPA fund while he was minister of power failure?
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I know there is no christain in Yorubaland. The Shango or ogun will not deliver Bola Ige this time. Even his Amorc membership he was potraying the news media to make the unlearned fear him. All these will not deliver him. Nigeria is time bomb now. Bet it on me. The north are watching, we all are watch. The North gave Aremu instruction that the vr=ery day he thoughtof removing N'abba, he should consider aso rock vacant. The man was afraid and stop every =N=4m bribe in the lower house.
One Yoruba priest on procession in the church, his juju fell down from his robe.
We need justice and truth. Biafra is the truth. Think twice! Once beaten, twice shy.
The point has already been made.This is a government were corruption wears tribal marks.A nation with a corrupt attorney general cannot be taken seriously in an anti corruption drive.
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People like Kunle and Folanke who are saying that Bola Ige should not step down until he is convicted are being fraudulent. Okadigbo and Enwerem have NEVER been convicted of the alleged crimes. Yet the Yoruba Mafia drove Okadigbo out of office. As Attorney General, Bola Ige is in a position to obstruct the investigation. That is why he should step down now. Ige is not the Cicero of Esa-Oke. He is the OLE of Esa-Oke.
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Folks, What you've heard are the thiefy 419 doctrine of steal and eat what belongs to others that Folanke, Kunle, and Bamidele have been fed since the days of suckling at their mothers' breasts. These tribalist and corrupt leeches are so stuffed with it that they cannot acknowledge corruption, embezzlement and mis-use of highly placed govt position entrusted on their 419 thief thief uncle, even if their worthless lives are hanging on it.
I say to them, "fasten your seat belts for 2003 the jihardist will reclaim Nigeria". Then your uncle Ige will be tried by sharia jihardist. Be thankful if they spared him a torso to lay down on, anwo ole.
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Yoruba People never seize to amaze me, This were the same people who declared Nzeribe persona non grata in all southwestern States and Lagos, because he called for the impeachment of the chief thief Obasanjo. They never allowed Nzeribe to present his case. This same People called Okadigbo all kinds of names without even hearing all the evidence. This same 419ers drove Okadigbo out of office for N22 million, and yet they are playing anmersia for N2.3 billion. Lets face it the reason Obasanjo put his brother at central bank is to make easy for his stealing brothers to clear the treasury.
Obasanjo and his brothers have cleared Nigeria treasury and took the money abroad with Ghana must go bags. Why do you think Obasanjo is making all this foreign trips, is to share there Bunties. Nigeria is farce that should be disbanded right now the earlier the better.
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Brother biafra where have you been, Thank you for digging into the archives to expose the speaking from both side of their mouth that the Yorubas have been known for. Bola the thief Ige went to National Assembly today, to deny the charge, yes like his brother Obasanjo will ever prosecute him. The man from Ibadan is a thief period he stole public fund and the Yorubas are covering it up.
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You guys really are amazing. First, Kunle, you couldn't even attack at Nigeriaworld and here you are at Biafranigeriaworld spreading your venom.
Ayodele, you too, never made a significant post at Nigeriaworld, and, again, here you are attacking. Is there something special about Biafranigeriaworld that you guys are missing?
All you need to know is, your tactics ain't working.
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I am in Abuja right now. The Aremu's government has messed up this country. Apart from Human right that is inherent in civil rule. Not from Aremu but understand my choice of word "inherent in civil rule. People are saying that they prefer Military than Aremu's civil rule.
Abuja is getting dirty because Yorubas are real dirty people. Abacha's government is better than Aremu's on in all things.
Can you understand that the yoruba's cannot rule this country apart from Aremu. Apart from him which Owambe person. He is only candidate.
Anyway on Tuesday's Thisday newspaper, the man that took over from Bola Ige as the Governor of Oyo state said that Bola Ige left a financial mess for him. Look it up in this day or you want a scanned copy?
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Kunle, Ayodele, Folanke, Bamidele, Aluko & co
You should be honest to yourselves, since your uncle Sege, came on board as president are you all not ashamed of the state of things in your Nigeria? Remember that nothing has changed since he took office, it has been business as usual.Nigerians are worse off than they were two years ago, and you all know this. How can you guys be defending the activities of criminals in government? Awusa/yoruba regimes have brought nothing but misery/suffering to Nigerians. Since they kept Biafrans aside in the scheme of things, since 1966. Bola Ige has financial mis-management to answer for, he must step aside, no amount of noise by a bunch of you trbalist will stop this call for him to step down. You were the loudest when Chuba was accused. You Nigerians will never seize to amaze me, Bature& co are at the other end defending barbaric sharia.
Ndi Igbo si madu me onwe ya ka rice ediri umu okpu. If the lady put her self in a position to be riddiculed people will oblidge. Afterall we live in an equal right society.
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Folanke, I will appreciate it, if only you will be truthful to yoursef.
Even the same Bola you are defending is breaking your Afenifere party (AD). Aremu is using him as his joker against the west.
Aremu's finance minister said today (2nd July, 2001) that the Nort should not be anry because the power is shifted to the south. What the south has are they same recycled criminals, like Ige. A bat (usu.
The yoruba tribalist as yesterday are saying that Aremu is being sabotaged in NEPA. We have the ofe mmanu making 75% of the federal employee.
Your brother Aremu is a total failure. Accept it and have peace.
Here is the latest news on the Cicero "ole ati Owo" saga. Enjoy! That boy Ige should refund every kobo and should be banned from attending any owambe for the rest of his evil life. Yeye man! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
N2.3b NEPA fund: NLC asks Ige, Agagu to resign The Vanguard (Wednesday, July 4th, 2001) By Victor Ahiuma - Young
THE Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) demanded yesterday the immediate resignation of Attorney -General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige and his Power and Steel counterpart, Dr Olusegun Agagu over the controversial lodgment of NEPA’s N2.3 billion in a low interest yielding call deposit account.
In a statement entitled "ministers Bola Ige and Segun Agagu should resign," personally signed by NLC President, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, congress urged President Obasanjo to sack the two ministers should they fail to resign with a view to giving credibility to the administration’s anti-corruption crusade.
The NLC believed that the duo could not escape culpability by simply influencing a junior officer to accept the blame stressing:
"The revelations made at the sittings especially by current Minister of Power and Steel, Dr. Olusegun Agagu showed that N2.3 billion belonging to NEPA was improperly lodged in a low yielding call deposit account which does not belong to NEPA in the first place.
"Rather than disburse the money directly to NEPA, the supervising Ministry of Power and Steel then under Chief Bola Ige, current Attorney -General and Minister of Justice, lodged it in an account at 6 per cent interest when the going rate was at least 17 per cent. It took appeals and protests from NEPA before the ministry finally released the money to the parastatal. Those who gave evidence before the senate committee laid the blame for this lodgement and delay in remitting NEPA funds on the doorsteps of Chief Ige. But he denied any knowledge of the entire transactions. Our position is that Chief Ige cannot exculpate himself; as minister, he would have known about the appropriation and it was the business of the ministry which he headed to remit such funds to NEPA.
"Dr. Agagu on his part admitted that he unilaterally disbursed N51 million interest accruing from the money rather than return the money to the federal treasury for appropriation as the constitution specifies. He had claimed that he expended the money buying buses for NEPA, but he has no powers to do so, NEPA can decide what to do with its money if the interest accruing were properly hers.
"Thirdly, the United Bank for Africa (UBA) revealed that at least N34 million of the interest which accrued from the NEPA money, has been abandoned in her coffers by the ministry for over a year. It also made the revelation that another yet unquantified sum which is interest accruing from the NEPA money is also left in the bank unclaimed by the ministry.
"The NLC notes: "Both ministers had initially declined to appear before the senate committee. Until they were threatened with arrest. As ministers of the federal republic, they must be seen to respect the institution of the National Assembly and be accountable for their actions. This is more so in the case of Chief Ige who as Attorney- General and Minister of Justice should in such matters lead by example.
In improperly lodging the NEPA money, and at a low interest yielding rate, the Ministry of Power and Steel then under Chief Bola Ige caused the country financial loss. The transparency and motive of these transactions are clearly suspect and may not withstanding the rigour of the anti-corruption crusade.
"By unilaterally expending the N51 million interest accruing to NEPA, rather than return it to the public treasury for appropriation, Dr. Segun Agagu acted illegally.
"In abandoning over N34 million in the UBA which was interest accruing on the money, the Ministry of Power and Steel acted irresponsibly.
"These are no new acts; it has become common for public officers to create delays in disbursing funds meant for parastatals under them thereby creating problems including delays in salary payments. In the particular case of NEPA, we find it shocking that while the country was in darkness and Chief Ige was crying for funds to quickly fix NEPA, the Power and Steel ministry under him was holding on to such huge funds appropriated to NEPA. The conduct of ministers Bola Ige and Segun Agagu is unbecoming of public officers of their calibre. The NLC therefore demands that they resign honourably as ministers. If they fail to do so, President Olusegun Obasanjo in line with his public statements on probity and the anti-corruption crusade he is championing, has the duty to sack both ministers."
___________________ Awo's political idea was based on the assumption that any town beyond Owo was Igbo or Hausa. Awo was not socialised; he was not a good mixer because he did not have the opportunity, which the secondary school offered. ~TOS Benson, Baba Oba of Lagos
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DUBIOUS AWARD How are the mighty fallen! this aptly captures the gradual but steady fall of Chief Bola Ige, the Cicero of Esa-Oke who incidentally is the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation. Like a classic Shakespearian tragic drama, it came in stages. For instance, Ige was completely demystified when it became obvious that he was harbouring grievances against Alliance for Democracy (AD) kingmakers for picking Chief Olu Falae in his stead in the 1998 AD primaries. Ige’s political arrant mediocrity started manifesting soon after he was magnanimously appointed Minister of Power and Steel in President Olusegun Obasanjo’s first cabinet. Many had expected Chief Ige, then still held in high political esteem, to kick against this appointment on the ground that the portfolio assigned to him was not in tandem with his calling as a legal practitioner. He did not. Chief Ige, without taking time to actually ascertain the extent of human and material decay at the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA), loquaciously told hapless Nigerians that after six months of his stay as Power and Steel Minister, erratic power supply would be a thing of the past. Sadly, Uncle Bola failed. Power outages assumed a horrendous dimension in his reign. Having reneged on this, Nigerians expected Ige to resign and render unreserved apology. Rather than take this path of honour, Uncle Bola, quite inscrutably, decided to play god. He was saddled with the responsibility of Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation. Sadly, this latest assignment brought out the real petard in Ige. He lampooned agitators of Sovereign National Conference, a cause he once championed! On the sharia legal system, Ige discountenanced the position of his party and declared the legal system constitutional without recourse to the law court. He has also been fingered as the sour root of the crisis in Osun State where Governor Bisi Akande and his deputy are engaged in a political macabre dance. Probably, the greatest undoing of Chief Ige in his scores of gross political miscalculations, is his poignant stand of taking to court the southern governors who agitated for resource control. Frankly, time changes everything. Ige, who as governor of the old Oyo State and second in command in the hierarchy of Afenifere was hailed to high heavens because of his unshakeable disposition to restructuring and equity, now opposes all the views he hitherto stood for. This pygmy award is for the self-annihilation of everything and anything that the name Bola Ige, ever stood for. O ma se, o!
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N2.3b NEPA fund: Ige should apologise to Nigerians —EX-MD
By Sufuyan Ojeifo
ABUJA— FORMER Managing Director of the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA), Alhaji Bello Suleiman yesterday asked Attorney- General of the Federation and Justice Minister, Chief Bola Ige to apologise to Nigerians for failing to keep his covenant with Nigerians.
Alhaji Suleiman, who appeared before the Senate Committee on Public Accounts investigating the alleged imprudent management of NEPA’s N2.3 billion, accused Chief Ige (current Justice Minister) of lying to Nigerians and the Senate.
He said that he did not know anything about the controversial fund (N2.3 billion) which, according to him, was released to NEPA after he was relieved of his post as Managing Director.
The former NEPA boss also said that he was not responsible for the delayed utilisation of the fund as claimed by Chief Ige while giving his evidence-in-chief before the committee penultimate week.
According to him: "it is untrue that I refused to go to Chief Ige to discuss the revised utilisation programme of NEPA". This was apparently in response to Chief Ige’s claim that he (Alhaji Suleiman) was invited three times but failed to honour the invitations.
Alhaji Suleiman dismissed as unfounded and baseless, Chief Ige’s allegations of indiscipline and stubbornness against him, stating that: "I was always together with Chief Ige. We travelled together to Israel and Britain and Nigerians saw us on television. How come he summoned me three times and I did not go?"
He stated further that the decision of the Ministry of Power and Steel to withdraw the responsibility for tendering for the identified NEPA contracts from NEPA management contributed to the delay in implementing the utilisation programme.
He submitted a letter dated October 21, 1999 to the public accounts committee, purportedly written by Chief Ige informing NEPA to hands off the tendering process as the Ministry had assumed that responsibility.
Again, Alhaji Suleiman debunked the claim by Chief Ige that he (Suleiman) set up an Adjudicating Panel, consequent upon which the tendering process was stalled.
He stated that the panel was set up by Chief Ige with Mr. J. K. Babatunde as chairman and Dr. Olu Agunloye (Ige’s special assistant) as member. Overwhelmed by emotion, Alhaji Suleiman who was close to tears said he was not to blame for NEPA’s inability to keep to the promise by the Minister to reduce power outages by 50 per cent in six months. The blame, he insisted should be borne by Chief Ige whom he (Suleiman) disclosed yesterday apologised to President Obasanjo and himself (Suleiman) in November 29, 1999 letter signed personally by Chief Ige.
Alhaji Suleiman told the committee that he was aware that he would be removed as NEPA Managing Director notwithstanding his fantastic action plans to revitalise the authority.
On his removal as MD, he said he was sad because "the nation was going two years backwards to where we started."
Former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Power and Steel, Dr. E. Ekerandu who also appeared before the committee yesterday said he would need the permission of the Head of State to release the ministry’s file to the committee.
The committee rounded off the public hearing yesterday and it will, according to its chairman, Senator Idris Abubakar present its report to the Senate after the recess.
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AD chiefs, Ige meet today THE national leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) recognised Alliance for Democracy (AD) may today meet in Abuja with Justice Minister Bola Ige (SAN) in a last ditch effort to save his reputation.
Ige has been enmeshed in a controversy over the disbursement of N2.3 billion funds granted by the Federal Government to the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) in 1999. He was then power and steel minister. ___________________________________________ On Aburi we stand
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I told you you were all wasting your time if you thought you could drive Bola Ige out of office. The man has not done anything wrong. Nothing has been proven against him. Get over yourselves.
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Folanke, I had intended to express my dirtiest pitts and analyze your behavior which I adamently believe has some underlying circumstances of a schizor due to some excrutiating childhood. But I received e-mails from friends not to hang you high and reduce you to an infinitesimal size of a US penny.
I have watched you on this e-business link with intent not to be intellectually stimulating or have a meaningful conversation. I will be damned to place you in the same label with Bature as the weakest link with mastubated intelligence and kiss you good bye. However, my silence or advise from fellow Biafrans is not demonstrative of weakness but rather restrain. But I will adivise that I do not intend to remain mute to your slightest poker fun to that which is dearest to me..that which is Biafra and Ndi Igbo. I welcome your contructive criticism spiced with intellectual reasoning on any issue. Advise never let them see you sweat. You sound so angry when you respond to issues. Try diplomacy. I teach that in school about racism. It appears that actualization of Biafra or Ndi Igbo is not actually your problem but is likely to be related to lack of basic nutrients during your developmental stage. No offence though just my goddamned clinical assessment. I make a living doing it.
I know it is hard for some people to be intellectually stimulating. I don't very well know Yoruba girls stereotypically to be smart and challenging but you appear to be within that level of burgeoning new breed with endless loquacity. I am impressed and I believe you can be graceful and charming rather than assume a role thatyour not. But daddy's little sweet girl. Now you have grown to a different level and may have been exposed to that against your father's will.
I was meant to believe that Yoruba girls attach too much importance in bleached beauty and sexual deviance...that they are no ladies but slutts and snatched dirty/ hairy slits with an IQ of a porn star. I was wrong. I don't mean to be negative though but complimentary to you.
My friend, a Yoruba guy has cleared that up for me. But that does not spear him from the way I view his race as cute people but tattooed with acts of cowardness compounded with very little sense of civilized tribes men in the 21st Century. Because they tend to be fixated with Ogun as their source of faith rather than God and self determination
Ride on but chill for a change. It does not pay to drive 75 miles per hour in a school zone [25 miles per hour]. Your are likely to get a ticket. Slow down for a brand new you.We will all listen and commend you. We don't wana have the notion that you have an attention deficit disorder by your loudness, short circuit responses and endless loquacity just to be noticed. Bature and bababoze, I like them and nice guys and fellow brothers of a different kind but are already certifiable repellent skunks with very little intelligence to reckone with. Just an advise.
Hail Biafra
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