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I wonder which Bible they are reading. Blessing a thief is an abomination before God. Was it not the same "Bishops" who told the world that blooming Ngige stole the election?
The problem with laying hands on a thief is that his corruption will rub off on you. It is important that our people do not substitute "sympathy" for justice. Ngige will remain a thief until he confesses that he stole the people's mandate.
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The Bishops are committing a holy sin, pure and simple. It is the Beatification of a criminal.
I can see it now, a new sacrament in the Catholic Communion, to be known as the Blessed Sacrament of the Holy Victim and Beneficiary of 419, dedicated to the Holy Servant of Dog, Saint Ngige, the granddogson of Obusonjo, the dogfather of Chris Uba.
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quote:the thinking in government is that even if the IGP was not directly involved or privy to the abduction of Gov. Chris Ngige, "he cannot escape charges of losing control over his subordinates including compulsorily retired Raphael Ige."
The same indictment can be returned against the commander-in-thief, Balogun's boss.
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Been out of this thread because those BAD IGBOS GOOD NIGERIAN Igbos that can be found in all sphere of Igbo life (from Bishop down to Agberos) do not deserve discussion (except to be called the CRIMINALS that they are) by any Igbo worth that name.
In all honesty, I dont mind if Ngige hangs Uba & co or vice-versa. The more we get rid (or our enemies from without do it) of those money-misroads, the better for Igboland and those of us who value the norms that makes the Igbo race respected by our admirers and feared by our enemies.
Beyond the Ngige vs Uba that this SHOW OF SHAME was made to look like is the hand of Esau from WITHOUT. The ever outspoken Pini Jason captured the full picture bellow:
------------------------------------------------- Anambra crisis and the police siege on Igboland
By Pini Jason Tuesday, July 29, 2003
NIGERIANS must have been horrified by the statement credited to Lagos Police Commissioner, Mr. Young Arebamen that "the police is licensed to kill" (New Age, 24 July 2003). Mr. Arebamen was giving evidence at the public sitting in Lagos of the Senate Committee on Petroleum investigating murder of Nigerians by the police during the nationwide strike against the unjustified petrol price hike. If that did not shock the nation, Mr. Lawrence Alobi, Commissioner of Police in charge of operations stunned the public by stating emphatically that the police had no regrets or remorse whatsoever for killing innocent Nigerians. Those they killed, Mr. Alobi insisted, are hoodlums and miscreants. (The Sun, 26 July 2003).
Anybody wondering where the police got this audacity for extra-judicial murder of Nigerians should not wonder for too long. We only need to remind ourselves that soon after the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Tafa Balogun, was appointed, he ordered the po1ice to "shoot them first before they shoot you". This shoot-at-sight order was code-named "operation fire-for-fire". In this column on 19 March 2002, I said that it would not work. I also said that appointing Balogun or any officer from within the very corrupt force will not give us the new police we desire. The duplicity that is the hallmark of the police goes to the very top!
This brings me to the involvement of the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Mr. Raphael Ige, in the Anambra imbroglio. People who see what Ige did as an isolated case in a political gangster land are mistaken. The Anambra attempted coup by AIG Ige and his paymasters is just another of those things federal agents in uniform do in the East since the end of the shooting war in 1970. Please note the distinction that whereas the shooting war stopped in 1970, the war of attrition against them has continued. Since then, Igboland has remained under siege by federal uniformed agents. The soldiers who occupied the territories surrendered by Biafra continued to harass the people, abduct women and conscript goats, cows, fowls and property. The people, fresh from war, remained helpless. Organised resistance would have been regarded as a continuation of the Biafran resistance.
The other uniformed federal agents posted to the East saw how the army was terrorising the people without any challenge, and took a cue from them. Extortion, confiscation of property, acquisition of land for peanuts, abduction of Igbo girls and racketeering made uniformed agents of the federal government easily and filthily rich once they landed in the East! The East became the land of milk and honey everybody wanted to be posted to. Policemen, customs and immigration officers paid bribe to be posted to the East. And returns of what is milked from the people were rendered all the way to the very top. Otherwise you are re-posted to dry places, meaning states where you cannot extort the people as is done in the East!
The evidence of the intimidation and extortion that the Igbos have been subjected to is still there today. Once you cross the Niger Bridge into Onitsha, every 100 metres in Igboland has a police check point, and this is not an exaggeration. Along the Port-Harcourt- Enugu express(?)way, mobile police men stop and collect money from commercial drivers as if it was an agreed levy. In Aba, it was the extortion racket of the police, coupled with their indifference to the activities of robbers that gave rise to the Bakassi. At every street corner in Enugu, Owerri and Umuahia, the police lay ambush for the people. Commercial bus drivers, okada commercial operators and taxi drivers are easy prey to armed police. Refusal to pay the mandatory extortion money earns reprisals ranging from gun butt to the jaw to outright shooting and killing. The victims are labelled armed robbers! Relations who go to the police are locked up until they also pay extortion money for their release!
Incidentally, the present IGP, Tafa Balogun, was on posting in Abia state when a racket called "O.K Ticket" was the norm for importers. On the payment of some protection fee to a local front, who was a chieftain of the then ruling NPN, a container can be escorted safely from the port to the importer's warehouse. 20-ft containers paid N60,000 while 40-ft containers paid N80,000. Not to pay means police harassment all the way, with the risk of detention of the container. The local front, to show his victims that he was very powerful, also used to move around town with a complement of policemen larger than that of the military governor of the state! His house was under police guard round the clock. It was during the time of General Abacha that a revolt of some youths brought this extortion to an end.
The emergence of the nouveaux riche of questionable means in Igboland created another "business" for the police. They guarded the gates of the rich boys, carried their handbags, provided them escorts and killed whenever they ordered. Surrounded all the time by these corrupt and shameless policemen, people who were ordinarily outcasts in their communities, began to harass and lord it over honest and principled leaders of the communities. With their money and police protection, criminals ruled the land, did whatever they liked and got away with it. In Owerri, girls disappeared or were forcefully abducted for refusing the advances of the fabulously rich 419ers. Children were abducted and killed for rituals by men connected to powerful people in high places. It took the otokoto revolt to sanitise Owerri of these evil people who distorted the core values of the Igbos.
The emergence of electoral fraud at its most brazen level since 1999 brought with it another "business" for the police. Make no mistake about it, AIG Ige and his accomplices in the Anambra attempted coup, may not have been so much concerned with the substance of the crisis in Anambra. He may simply have stumbled on another "business" that smelt good. Remember, Ige it was who provided the police cover for bizarre electoral fraud in Anambra! That must have been a very juicy business for all policemen involved. So when they brought this one last "business" before his retirement, it must have felt like God-sent. It was therefore in character for Ige not to involve the Anambra police commissioner in the "business"! He wanted to "chop" this one alone!
Any resolution of the Anambra crisis is meaningless unless the Federal Government looks into the intimidation, the humiliation, the trampling of peoples' rights and extortion of the people of the East by the Nigeria Police. The police problem in the East has reached a point where people are now asking whether there are men at all in the East. And that, to me, is a dangerous point, which can give rise to another otokoto uprising, this time, in the entire East! The protection the Federal Police is giving wayward but rich boys who distort the true character of the Igbos is now hurting. It is even more annoying when it is realised that these ruffians with money were empowered by the same Federal authority that provides them with police protection, moreover when it is clear that without the police protection, these rascals can easily be put in their places!
There is a culture the East acquired during the civil war. Communities near war fronts organised "combing" whenever the Biafrans dealt heavy blows to the invading forces at the war front. This was to fish out and deal with in- filtrating stragglers. This was the method used during the otokoto saga to flush the criminal gangs out of Owerri. It will be safer for public peace if the Federal Government went deep down into the Raphael Ige phenomenon to unravel the racket going on in the East. The alternative will be for the people to want to prove that they have not lost their manhood. This could threaten public peace. Anybody who wants to prove something is often a dangerous person! The criminal extortion going on in the East must be curtailed by the Federal Government, or it may be courting the people’s revolt against the police. Enough is enough! --------------------------------------------------
The above writer did warn in one of his articles that "THE GUNS WENT SILENT BUT THE WAR (Nigerian civil war) CONTINUES." How true!
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Embattled Anambra State Governor, Dr. Chris Ngige Sunday in Lagos, gave reasons why he signed a resignation letter a few days to the April 19 2003 election. He said it was because, the group told him that President Obasanjo wanted it as a measure of reassurance of his loyalty. He also said that the nation would be shocked if he revealed the identity of the people at the said meeting.
Ngige, who spoke in an interaction with Senior journalists, however said that though he signed the letter, he was certain it was of no use and that if he had not signed it, he would have been killed. He described the said meeting as a very hot one, and added that he took appropriate measures to ensure that the act was a nullity.
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I signed one resignation letter and that was as a gubernatorial candidate, a few days to the election. I signed in long hand and that is that they are showing to the whole world. I signed because I was told that Chief Obasanjo wanted that as something to keep to guarantee my loyalty. I signed it. I was sure it was of no use. They also brought another one purportedly from the chairman of my party. I didn’t sign that one.
You see, immediately I signed it, I took appropriate measures: the meeting where I signed the letter was a very hot one. If I mention the characters that were at the meeting you will be shocked. I never heard about the letter again and I went on with the elections. I learnt, Chief Uba was close to President Obasanjo. I was thrown into the lion’s den. If I had not signed that letter I wouldn’t have lived to be telling the story now. If you were in my shoes you would have done the same thing. I had only securitymen at that time and those guys, had over 40 mobile policemen guiding them. So I had to play along it was a question of tactics. I had to play along.
He reeled out a chilling account of his disagreement with the Chief Chris Uba led group, which he premised, on money and loyalty. He described Uba as the enfant terrible of Anambra State who held governors captive for selfish reasons and unfluenced the transfer of police Commissioners out of the SouthEast geo-political region. Ngige also said that the Uba group was frustrated into the coup plot when he refused to sign any agreement with them on how the state would be run and cleverly tricked them to accept signing post dated cheques to the tune of N3 billion in two tranches of N1.5 billion.
He put the circumstances of the events this way:
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When I saw that Mbadinuju’s era was being re-enacted, I decided to save my people. I told them I will not sign any agreement but offered to give them post - dated cheques. I signed the cheques in my long handwriting. They asked me, are you not going to run away? We agreed on a time frame. After 9 months in office you put in the first one.
Then six months later you put in the second one. They examined the cheques carefully, put them in their ppockets and left. I laughed inwardly. Look, I am a physician of about 24 years. None of them have my intellect. If I decide to be a 419 man, I’ll be a billionaire. It was a game of wits. When they took away the cheques I was happy. I only N20,000 in the account. I called the bank and gave them the numbers of the cheques.
The above is a report filed to Anambra State Association.
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After the deception and diversions, as expected, the PEOPLES GENERAL, DIM Odimegwu Ojukwu, the EzeIgbogbugburu calls the CRIMINALS by their name, IN THEIR FACE and in their bedroom!
Ojukwu indentifies what I earlier described as "the hand of Esau" in Anambra crisis:
-------------------------------------------------- Ojukwu indicts Obasanjo over Anambra coup
By Anayo Okoli & Enyim Enyim Monday, August 04, 2003
ONITSHA—APGA Presidential candidate in the April 19, 2003 elections, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu yesterday reacted to the political crisis in Anambra State and said President Olusegun Obasanjo was a party to the crisis. He also said Governor Chris Ngige should not be pitied because he was neck-deep in what he (Ojukwu) called the electoral fraud in Anambra State. According to Ojukwu, unless the mandate allegedly given to Mr. Peter Obi of APGA was restored, the crisis would never end. Ojukwu spoke in Onithsa while addressing the second Igbo National Assembly. According to him, Governor Ngige should not be recognised as the chief executive of Anambra State because he allegedly defiled himself and the corporate entity of Anambra State.
But he also said the blame should not be entirely Ngige’s but the PDP which he said had inflicted a lot of injustice on Nigerians and Anambra State in particular. He asked the people of the state to laugh at the PDP and Ngige as they deserved what they were experiencing. "Our message is to Obasanjo because we do not see how all these crises would take place without his knowledge. Therefore our message goes to him. There is no solution to this crisis unless what is due to APGA is given APGA. That is the problem. At a stage it looked like people were tired of demanding for their rights, then God come down from Heaven and fought for them. That is the stage we are now.
"Ngige, we will not support you. That is why we have come to talk on how to handle the crisis. I am just waiting for a day all these fraudusters would be arraigned in court and be tried for a case they know will take life, so that we will hear the truth that will come out of it because they must say the truth, as they will stand before their God. They will be tried. "Understand me, bear it in mind that no PDP member will be pitied because they were all involved in fraud. We all know what happened, we will hear the truth. We will be reviewing our position. We will also look at our traditional rulers who rushed to Abuja to pay visit to Obasanjo when his Yoruba kinsmen and the Housas had not gone".
"For those who went on that visit, they are sell outs and before they are regarded again in Igboland, they must come, though, they are traditional rulers, they must bow before the people and ask for forgiveness. It is too much. Every time, it is the traditional rulers
and they have never achieved anything for us. Their previous political visits were to enrich their pockets, that is their sole aim, but we start from today to tell them the truth, we can’t allow them to continue to miss lead us.
"Any person who engages in evil things, I Ojukwu will face him and tell him the truth. We are Anambriarians and we must salvage it, and we can, only do it by telling ourselves the truth. Anywhere you are and the issue of Anambra crisis arise, tell them that it is the massive electoral fraud committed against the people that is the cause. We are going to have four states, this as certain.
"For Ngige, he deserves no pity. The cause of the trouble in Igboland is not Ngige. The problem is the PDP, they caused the problem. So if they quarrel among themselves, they should not be pitied. What I want to tell you is that Ngige should not be pitied because he (allegedly) committed crime with his friends. What is happening to them is what is happening to criminals. We should be laughing at them. You have not finished as more crises are coming. Not only person, but let us take that of the person. How can the people of Anambra state accept that Ngige will be their governor.
"He should be told that he has defiled himself. He is not worth anything. He is naked. We may not because governance and accept that somebody who was stripped naked to be our governor. It is degrading. Infact I am looking for an opportunity to take my turn in slapping him. For Okey Udeh, his deputy, he does not deserve it either. Is it how to get governance. Before he become a governor your credibility will not questionable, he is not qualified", Ojukwu said amidst cheers from over 5000 supporters who filled the large hall to the brim.
Earlier, APGA national chairman, Chief Jekwas Okorie had urged the people to have faith, and assured them that Peter Obi and Ugochukwu Agbala of Anambra and Enugu state would become governors.
In his remark, Peter Obi lamented the crisis in Anambra state saying that it cannot happen any other place. He blamed it on the electoral fraud committed in Anambra state last April.
"What is happening in Anambra state cannot happen any other place. Godfather and godson should be out, America is looking for Saddam and his sons. So both godfather and godson should go, they were (alleged) fraudulent people. The people are suffering while cheque of N3 billion was signed out," Obi said. --------------------------------------------------
Who else than the man Nigerians love to hate because of his STRAIGHTFORWARDNESS can be this bold? Nigerians now know why GENUINE IGBOS love Ojukwu and are ready to die for and with him.
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Brother Nwa Aro I couldn;t agree more, which other Igbo leader will have the guts to say this to Obasanjo in his face. Where is Dr Ekwueme who formed this fraud called PDP. Onye ulo ya na agba oku ona achu oke.
I should have posted this before the one above, but it does'nt matter as you will see. Below is the senates reason why it has dropped its own hearing regarding this case.
The following can easily be called the "run around strategy":
1.) The Police halt investigation in brazen abdication and dereliction of duty.
2.) The Senate halt its investigative hearings which it should'nt have started in the first place unless it had an independent paralel agency to the police which should have made good headway by now.
3.) Next the House will come up with their own announcement
4.) Finally, the Judiciary will weigh in, announcing that due to the inability of the Police to do their duty without the publics trust, they the Judiciary are unable to ascertain the true "facts on ground" thereby unable to render justice without potential "conflict of interest" They would then reccommend that according to the "Constitution", only the Executive is above the fray and can therefore order the police to do their work without fear or favor.
Whereupon the Presidency would come out and sagaciously utter:
5.) THE BUCK STOPS HERE! (Admiral Pointdexter style during the Iran Contra affair)
And as usual the criminal President of the banana republic who has already met with the judiciary to fix things like he met with INEC before the elections would go scot free, but not before telling us why the constitution cannot allow Ige, Ubah, Udeh, Azodo, Nzeribe et-al to be punished. As you all know, the death penalty was recently abolished especially for this reason (perish the thought it was to neutralize the Sharia sentences) After Aremu makes his pronouncements and these criminals go free (except Nzeribe for threatening exposure), then the death sentence will be reinstated.
Do these lines sound familiar?:
quote:Chief Adolphus Wabara explained that the move was to avoid a confrontation with the judiciary.
quote:to avert confrontation with the judiciary since cases connected with the Anambra crisis were pending in court
quote:Wabara reiterated the determination of the National Assembly to work amicably with the judiciary.
quote:"We in the National Assembly especially, the Senate, will concern ourselves with law-making. We will not attempt to interpret the law, even if we make them. We will leave interpretation to the judiciary as spelt out by the constitution,"
quote:"we want a smooth relationship with the judiciary."
This errandboy not only will do his portion of the dirty work, but he is visiting Justice Uwais to do some subtle coercion
Here is some jara coercion praise:
quote:"The Senate president lauded Justice Mohammed Lawal Uwais for being "courageous and principled" and urged him to remain firm in the task of ensuring that the judiciary is insulated from coercion and interference from the other arms of government.
In reply Uwais pretty much lets him know to backoff!!! i.e "thanks but no thanks. Aremu knows where to find me with my own load of GNG bags"
Hear his response:
quote:Justice Muhammed Uwais, the statement added, told the Senate President that the Judiciary was mindful of its responsibilities in a democracy.
Does any of this make you wonder why the Police IG, The PDP select party Commitee, The Senate comittee, the House commitee, the presidential commitee, etc. bothered to scurry down to Anambra, when they very well knew there could end up being "conflicts of interest"?
Now they have all become principled. Soon they will be pleading the 5th. (if it exists that is? and if some 419 presidential aide has'nt already discovered it)
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It looks like the Catholic Church has its hands in the juju shrine business in the Ngige mess:
quote:Shrine Saga: Catholics Challenge Ngige to Name Bishop
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The abduction saga in Anambra State has taken a new dimension as the Catholic Church which hitherto had given support to Governor Chris Ngige of Anambra State has demanded that the governor should make public the name of the bishop who advised him to go to the shrine.
Governor Chris Ngige, during a testimony at the Senate chambers on July 18 this year had stated: "... the truth is unshakeable... I had gone with Uba to Archbishop Chukwuma to pray on oath using the Bible and as a Christain, that was enough for me.
"Nzeribe later suggested that I do an oath before a shrine and my deputy governor joined in the campaign and when I spoke with my bishop, he advised that if I must go, I should carry my Bible and annointing oil and follow them.
"We went at 3.00 am and we met one man that was speaking rubbish. When they finished, I left. It's the oath that they took that is harassing them, while my Bible is protecting me."
But distancing the Catholic arch-diocese of Onitsha from the statement credited to Ngige that he agreed to follow his captors to the shrine with the consent of his bishop, the director of Mass Communication of the Archdiocese, Reverend Dr. Bonny Asuzu stressed that the statement "I followed them to the shrine...My bishop said I should follow them with the Bible and holy oil" was not made in reference to the archbishop of Onitsha.
Asuzu in a statement made available to THISDAY said "If indeed the governor actually made the statement, in view of the embarrassing comments emanating from it, His excellency has the responsibility to tell the press and the general public who was precisely the bishop with whom he had the dialogue in order to dispel unwarranted speculations on the issue."
Asuzu said that there have been insinuations that have given false impression that the statement was made in reference to the Archbishop of Onitsha and stated categorically that "whoever may be the Archbishop in question is not and cannot be the Archbishop of Onitsha or the coadjutor Archbishop of Onitsha", he said.
He explained that during the period of Ngige's abduction, "both bishops were out of the country. And to be precise, His Grace the Archbishop A.K. Obiefuna was away from Onitsha from 7th of May to the 14th of July last month, while the Coadjutor Archbishop, Val M. Okeke was away from the 8th of May until the 8th of June. There was no communication whatsoever between the Archbishops and the governor during this interval," he stated.
This means that all Catholics can go to juju shrine as long as they take the Bible along.
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Udeh is still a nonetity as far as this blohala is concern. I will pop champagne the day CHRIS UBA,CHRIS NGIGE,AND RAPHEAL NGIGE [sorry IGE,if you put NG -before IGE ,na you sabi]will be in jail for the atrocities and manipulations that the made my people went through ,pass through and still stay in. It is like ORJI EWU AWUSA KALU did when he said that Women will stop wearing trousier in ABIA STATE ,and people take him to cleaners and he turn around to say that it is one of the secretary that did that,that he was,nt aware.That is using the secretary as a scape goat . The most corrupt chief jugde in Africa Egbo Egbo of abuja high court also use his registrar to escape peoples anger ,when he said that THIEF NGIGE must vacate govermnent house for his deputy not even to the actual winner [PETER OBI OF APGA]. So Mr Ude is just a small fish that must be fried to cover the dirt in the state.
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What do you think is happening in Anambra? The Yoruba moron has captured Igboland? In your wildest dream. He has a better chance at controling the weather.
Wait until the table turns; it won't be that long, but it would be different this time!
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Wel well! It looks like Ngige drank something strong when he was in the US a few days ago. He has forgotten that 419 brought him and 419 can take him away.
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Left to me, I'd say that just as IBB/Abacha was the best thing to happen to Yoruba survival awareness, Aremu/Atiku/Anenih should be the best thing to have happened to Igbo survival consciousness.
The dangerous mistake not to allow happen would be to become complacent like the Yoruba have gotten, even if for a short time, a trojan horse is thrown before us like Aremu was to the Yoruba.
No doubt Aremu knows and so do most Yoruba that their time in the limelight is temporal hence Aremu is loading up the bases with Yoruba (to borrow a baseball term).
If Aremu has a long term strategic Yoruba goal in doing this, then it would be a good move by Aremu on behalf of his tribe, one which all Igbos must take note of.
If however, Yoruba see this as a picture of their vision of "Nigeria" then I say: stay put. congratulations. enjoy.
To all Igbos, however, I now remind you that neither position is tenable.
1.)Not the position that says: If we could only get ourselves to be liked, and gain a coalition to put us in legitimate power, nor, 2.)The position that says: If only an Aremu type among us is chosen by outsiders (mainly Hausa-Fulani) as a trojan horse and foisted to rule (all efulefus have one time or another primed themselves to be favored recipients of this model: Anyim and Wabara tried it before Aremu when Aremu was scheming out Okadigbo, Okadigbo himself tried it before ANPP when other Southern Presidential candidates were being Schemed out by Buhari, Orji Kalu is now trying it out desperately and shamelessly and all Eastern governors pray profusely for it daily not to talk of the Arthur Nzeribe's Ojo Madueke's etc.) If only such a one is chosen they reason, he would then be in a position to sneak some favo