Last year, when the Nigerian Gestapo went to Okigwe and attacked MASSOB members and the unarmed citizens of Okigwe, there were people at egbeomooduduwa.com who deliberately raised all sorts of false doubts concerning the attack. Some cited the absence of reports by the Guardian and the Vanguard as proof that there was no attack in Okigwe. I recall that Laolu Akande even instigated a fraudulent report by the Guardian Newspaper. The instigated Guardian report sought to minimize the extent of the brutality, murder, and destruction.
Again, when MASSOB was attacked last February, Laolu and his band of errant journalists sought to minimize the horror. As an employee of Guardian Newspapers, Laoulu should have been aware of the existence of a Column in the Guardian called "Our Rights Column."
It is instructive of the Lagos-Ibadan Axis Press's duplicity that the following was not put on the front page of the newspaper, but was buried someplace called "Our Rights Column."
I have started this thread so that we may start to catalog as many as possible of the acts of brutality, murder, and destruction perpetrated by Nigeria's criminal army, police, or SSS in IgboLand or Biafra.
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Here we go, again! The Yoruba Tribune is now the foremest tabloid of the BiafraNigerian realm. The termination of Obasanjo's third term bid is obviously an unwelcome development to the Lagos-Ibadan axis press.
Within one week of the Senate vote to send Obasanjo out of Aso Rock in 2007, two poorly supported reports have emerged from the Yoruba press, both attacking Obasanjo's perceived enemies.
Atiku Abubakar must be made to answer for any role he played in the ongoing bribery scandal involving Congressman William Jefferson of New Orleans. But, the rash of silly attacks in the Yoruba press against the opponents of Obasanjo only serve to expose that the Ngwati press was all along in favor of Obasanjo's third term scam.
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Below is the full report, please point out where you got the information that this was reported by Tribune, unless you are telling us the reporter’s name in Igbo language means Tribune.
May 24, 2006 US indicts Atiku’s wife in corruption scandal: We’re innocent - Atiku insists VICE-PRESIDENT Atiku Abubakar’s wife, Jennifer, has been indicted in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) probe of US Congressman, William Jefferson, over bribery involving a transnational tele-communications deal. Jennifer resides in the Potomac, Maryland home of Atiku which was raided on August 3, 2005, by the FBI in connection with the bribery investigation.
LANRE ADEWOLE, Abuja - 24.05.2006
In a report on Tuesday, the FBI revealed that a taped conversation between Jefferson and a wired Mody saw the embattled American lawmaker describing Jennifer as a “front”. Jefferson told Mody that the Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Gede Foundation, being operated in Washington by Jennifer, was a front, being used to channel illegal funds by the Atiku family.
Gede Foundation, according to the founder, was to help in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The affidavit recently unsealed by the FBI on the investigation also quoted Jefferson as describing Atiku Abubakar as “a businessman who has more deals than the man in the moon and he’s a very well, the word might be... corrupt”.
The part of the detailed affidavit entitled “Dinner conversation”, says that; “Through Brett Pfeffer, a former aide to Jefferson who pleaded guilty in January, a dinner meeting was set up between Mody and the congressman. They decided to go ahead with the iGate deal in Nigeria. But first, Jefferson told Mody, a key palm needed to be greased.
“In a recorded conversation, Jefferson said that a top Nigerian official was scheduled to arrive in Washington shortly. Jefferson described him as a businessman “who has more deals than the man in the moon” and “he’s a very well, the word might be... corrupt.” The official, Jefferson later said, could be bribed by funnelling money through a charitable foundation run by the official’s wife, which Jefferson called a “front”.
“The official’s name is shown from the search warrant affidavit, but it is believed to be Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar, whose Maryland home was also raided in August by the FBI. His wife, Jennifer, operates an AIDS foundation in Washington D.C. “Jefferson later told Mody that the unnamed official demanded 50 per cent of profits from a joint venture launched in Nigeria and would probably need $500,000 upfront, $100,000 of which was in the briefcase she handed to Jefferson three months later.”
The vice-president had denied doing any deals with Jefferson, though there was a meeting between them shortly after Jefferson reportedly collected part of the bribe money, he claimed was meant for Atiku. The FBI search of Jefferson home revealed that the money had not been passed across to the vice president.
Mody was used by the FBI to investigate the scam, after she was denied access to the rights to iGate’s technology despite paying $3.5 million for it. She subsequently reported to the FBI, who wired her for the latter part of her business relationship with Jefferson. The FBI had also detailed another Nigerian company called Netlink, known as NDTV for probe, over the iGate deals scam.
Netlink was fingered as the company that agreed to finance iGate’s business before Mody entered the scene. According to the affidavit; “the FBI detailed one deal involving a Nigerian company called Netlink, known as NDTV, which had agreed to finance iGate’s business before Mody entered the scene. “The deal is significant because it introduces another cooperating witness besides Mody,” with first hand knowledge of the transaction. The witness told the FBI that Jefferson demanded $5 per subscriber for the broadband service in Nigeria.
“But in early 2004, NDTV pulled out of the deal and sought its $6.5 million investment back. The company hired attorneys in the United States and they wrote to Jefferson suggesting that he had violated criminal and civil laws in Nigeria. “I have also attached a list of your bank accounts through which you insisted money be paid (which it was) to you in relation to the iGate/NDTV transaction,” the lawyer wrote.
Reacting to the new development, the vice-president restated his innocence and that of his entire family in the saga. Speaking through his media aide, Shehu Garba, the vice-president urged Nigerians to wait till the end of the investigations before passing judgement. Nigerian Tribune was told on phone that; “the vice-president and his family have not done anything wrong. By the time investigations are concluded, the facts would be known and his innocence would be shown to the Nigerian public.”
When prodded to react to the specific allegations, Garba said that he would not add anything to the recent defence put up for the second family.
Below is the full report, please point out where you got the information that this was reported by Tribune, unless you are telling us the reporter’s name in Igbo language means Tribune.
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Police raid MASSOB hideouts, arrest 111 By GEOFFREY ANYANWU, Awka Friday, May 26, 2006
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Security personnel, led by a deputy commissioner of police have swooped on alleged camps of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) in Anambra State, arresting 111 people. The suspects, aged between 20 and 80 years included a Yoruba boy.
Parading the arrested MASSOB members in Awka, Anambra State capital, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Operations), Lagos State Police Command, Mr. Haruna John, said the team, made up of mobile policemen from Edo, Abuja, Lokoja and others, had been in the state for three weeks and two days within which they combed the suspected spots with two helicopters, two armored cars and trucks.
He said the operation became necessary following the frequent attacks on policemen and the disruption of the recently concluded census in the state by MASSOB members.
Itemising the sins of MASSOB, the cop said the group, among others, attacked in March, the Otolo Nnewi police station, burnt it and set the detainees free, just as it also set over 500 prisoners, including condemned criminals, free at the Onitsha prison during the religious riot early in the year. John said MASSOB members in the state have dangerous armed robbers as members, adding that at the last count, the group had killed four policemen and abducted two, whom, the police believed, are also dead, stressing that no nation would fold its arms and allow its security men wasted in such a manner.
John said that his men stormed the dungeons in the state and arrested close to 200 suspects. “The operation was meant to be a covert, quiet operation; that is why we kept away from press and everybody. It is an operation meant to pick key players not just every MASSOB member. We wanted key targets. We wanted those responsible for their training, for their armaments, for their indoctrination into the body etc.
“We have in the process arrested over 200, but after thorough screening and methodological interrogation, those that we found not to be directly linked with serious crime were released on bail. We have right now 111 detained at various locations within and outside Anambra State,” the police boss disclosed.
John refuted the insinuations that the operation was politically motivated, saying: “We will open up and show you anything you need to see so as to convince the world. We are here to help you achieve peace… we want to let you into this happening, so that you know what keg of gunpowder you have been sitting on all this while.”
Some of the suspects who spoke to Daily Sun, however, swore that they were not members of MASSOB, and that they were arrested either in their houses or shops. One of the suspects, a Yoruba, who gave his name as Wasiu Oba and claimed to be a tailor, said he was arrested in his shop at Okpoko area of Onitsha where he sews clothes, while another, ThankGod, said he was a NUPENG member at Enugu depot and was in Onitsha to see his brother when he was arrested.
Another suspect, a 20-year-old school leaver, who gave his name as Emeka Anyadiegwu, said he was arrested in a restaurant along Port Harcourt road, Onitsha where he went to eat. His story: “They arrested me last week Thursday at Port Harcourt road, Onitsha at a restaurant where I was eating. They came with three buses and ordered us to enter the bus, I was just coming back from the market, from my father’s shop at main market. I am a student. I have finished my secondary school and I’m waiting for JAMB result. I just came back from Owerri, where I took my exams, to help my father in his business. I don’t know anything about MASSOB. Look at me suffering for something I don’t know anything about.’
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