In Abakaliki, the five governors of the South East openly disagreed on the controversial third term of the office of the president and the governors.
Three states of Ebonyi, Imo and Enugu advocated for three terms of office of four years each for the offices of the president and governors at the public hearing, while Abia and Anambra insisted on two terms of four years as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution.
Igbo efulefu governors in action!! Before some start their early euphoric praising of the two that raised objections let us keep in mind had they not fallen out of favor with the “killwe” they too will be singing all the hymns for obasanjo. So let’s remember to keep things in perspectives as we gloat.I'm fully against this day robbery called third term. I am equally against letting another idiotic northerner be seen near the seat of power, the bastards must be forced to remain thousands of miles away while another southerner takes over the baton from the current occupant period.
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In the South-west, the five states controlled by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) separately demanded for the deletion of Section 137 sub-section 1 (b) which stops the President and governors who have spent two terms in office from seeking a fresh election.
The Lagos State government and Afenifere, however, told the Senator Ifeanyi Araraume-led zonal sub-committee of the National Assembly Joint Committee on the 1999 Constitution Review (JCCR) that they oppose the amendment of the constitution to provide for a three terms of four years each for the offices of the president and governors.
Apart from the South-west governors, the Yoruba Council of Elders; the National Association of Nigerian Students; the Integrated Supporters of Obasanjo and several other nascent groupings also sought for a provision that will not limit terms of office for the president and governors.
Sad!
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quote:With a voice vote, Mantu c'ttee passes 3rd Term (ThisDay) - With a voice vote which Deputy Senate President Ibrahim Mantu called in favour of Ayes, the National Assembly Joint Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution (JCCR) yesterday in Port Harcourt adopted a recommendation that the tenure of Office of the President of the federation be increased from two to three terms of four years each.
With a voice vote an awusa led committee has decided to proceed on death journey for their ungrateful henchman. If an issue such as the recommendation to thwart the constitution does not call for individual electronic vote for the record then what should? Shouldn’t these menaces to civil society be required to affirm their John Hancocks on paper for future reference as to who did what instead of taking the cowardly way out? Pardon me, forgot we’re dealing with the clownish nation of nigeria.
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quote:Honouring our heroes Thursday, March 16, 2006 By The Way Harry Nwana
Heroic acts are performed by Nigerians on a daily basis. What is sadly lacking is the ability and passion to do honour to heroes. The more often recognised Nigerian “heroes” are politicians. Every year, their number swells and a day is set aside for reading their citations and awarding them varying levels of flattering honours none of which is merited. Even scoundrels among them are candidates for the Ph.D and the Grand Commander award. That makes a lot of nonsense of honours.
Sports is one area where genuine heroes abound but are disregarded. When nominated, it is meant to be a favour. Their dead are buried with their fame, leaving nothing to testify to their sports accomplishments.
The live television broadcast of the burial of football legend George Best gave me food for thought. He was buried like a dozen Kings put together. As one of Britain’s greatest footballers of all time, who aroused joy and electrifying passion in the homes of many soccer-loving Britons, he deserved what I saw. Although he was always bending his elbow, and generally known to take one glass too much, his sports feats outweighed his drinking fiasco.I saw the long and slow procession of mourners that accompanied the hearse that bore his body through many streets in Dublin on his final journey.
I saw mourners who because they could not walk the distance, preferred to line both sides of the streets, content that they are counted as participants in the burial of a great man. Some threw flowers into the verse. Others threw actual and mock-ups Manchester united shirts and mufflers depicting where he distinguished in his playing career.
I listened to the sermon, the tributes, the funeral dirge and the hymns. There was so much outpouring of grief, prompting the breaking out of goose flesh all over me. His family read a glowing tribute; his team mates did even better. Britain mourned a hero and made a grand showing of it. He deserved it.
I cannot remember when I witnessed a spectacle so solemn, so sincere and so total for a sportsman or woman in Nigeria. I have no example to cite.
Thunder Balogun who was no less renowned as a soccer legend did not get appropriate national attention during his burial. Neither did cricketer Karierin. One can nominate Oshikoyo, Nwajei, Mary Omagbemi, Elizabeth Ekong and Oluokwukwe Nwana Nee Onwuchekwa of the 1952 commonwealth games fame, as candidates for super honour. This is not an exhaustive list, there are other greats. Be that as it may, there have been some efforts at according limited recognition to sportsmen.
The stadium that bears the name of Tesilimi Balogun is a purely Lagos State affair and has remained mismanaged and a monumental failure. Its completion has run into a bad scandal. Dan Anyiam stadium in Owerri is an Imo State affair; and it is not particularly edifying. When it is considered that even Sanni Abacha has a stadium named after him, the significant of the Tesilimi and Dan Anyiam stadia becomes clearer; a mockery to sports heroes. This means that in national terms, our sportsmen and women have not been recognised in a distinguishing way.
Patrick Naquapor whose hat trick drowned Ghana after many years of dominating Nigeria in inter-colonial football competitions, was buried with only his family in attendance. How many Nigerians remember Etim Henshaw, Orok Oyo, the first indigenous NFA Secretary, Isaac Akioye, Sam Ibiam, Okoronkwo Kanno, Friday Okoh, Sony Dankaro, flying policeman Joseph Adeola, David Ejoke or Baby Anieke. The list is inexhaustible.
Those were great Sportsmen and administrators in their days. When Bombadier Dowodu, the bulky cricketer died over 30 years ago, the media hardly mentioned it. Baba Yara, the illustrious Ghanaian footballer, was mourned as much in Ghana as in Nigeria when he died.Sabasten Coe of great Britain started out as a miler. He rose to be a member of parliament and today is the highest consultant in British Sports.
Nobody is asking him to allow others to enjoy the post. There is nothing to enjoy. It is service all the way. We insult sports people too mindlessly and too often because they failed to be in excellent form all the time. We have undermined all their contributions to sports, while consigning their humble opinions to the dustbin. The Sports Ministry should cease to be the dumping ground of average party men who have to be given jobs. Knowledgeable sportsmen should be put in charge of sports not products of the zoning system.
YOU ARE LYING
How many of us have been following media publications of monthly allocations made to State Governments. A cursory study of them will draw tears. For a country appropriately classified as underdeveloped, and which has remained so, not because the way-with-all for turning things around is not there, but because the Governors are misappropriating the country’s wealth consistently, there is good cause to rebel against them all.
Take a look at the federal allocation to some states for the month of July 2005 in their ascending order of allocation.
Multiply each by 12 and you get what in a year they squander on having fun at public expense. Can anybody now claim that he does not know why a 3rd term is so important to each potential beneficiary?
When would folks show proper outrage towards the fleecing of their state treasuries? The amount given to each state monthly is more than enough to turn things around for good yet no progress is registered and when we dare ask, we’re insulted as if we’re the ones toying with their obfuscated minds!
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Nigeria's bribed refs 'should not show bias' MARGARET NEIGHBOUR
FOOTBALL referees in Nigeria can take bribes from clubs - but that should not influence their decisions on the pitch, a football official insisted yesterday.
Fanny Amun, the acting secretary-general of the Nigerian Football Association, said that bribery was common in the Nigerian game, but that it should be allowed.
"We know match officials are offered money or anything to influence matches and they can accept it," Mr Amun said.
He first made the statement earlier in the week to a football seminar in the capital, Abuja, prompting protests from other officials.
But Mr Amun explained yesterday: "Referees should only pretend to fall for the bait, but make sure the result doesn't favour those offering the bribe."
At the seminar, Nigerian football league chairman Oyuiki Obaseki reprimanded referees for poor quality match reports, saying that bribery was to blame.
"The quality of your reports have not done our league any good, so please desist from corrupt practices," he told delegates.
Despite a high-profile campaign to stamp out fraud in the impoverished African country, Nigeria consistently ranks among the most corrupt countries in the world - and football is no exception.
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Only in a caricature nation over populated by dubious characters such as nwa asaba and wee wee weber could this be possible. Only in their country would a sitting but criminal VP and ex-heads of states who are nevertheless murderers and thieves be prevented from holding a legal union by a lowly corrupted police group on orders of the sitting godfather of corruption, aremu obasanjo.
quote:Police Disrupt Atiku’s Meeting with LawmakersMantu committee may adopt report today From Kola Ologbondiyan and Chuks Akunna in Abuja, 04.06.2006 3rd Term
Vice President Atiku Abu-bakar and former Head of State Mohammed Buhari last night led Governors Bola Tinubu, Orji Kalu, Boni Haruna and Abdulkadir Kure of Lagos, Abia, Adamawa and Niger States respectively, as well as some former governors and political leaders, to meet with members of the National Assembly opposed to the third term bid of President Olusegun Obasanjo and the governors. The meeting which started at about 10.30pm at the Niger State Governor's Lodge, Asokoro, had been scheduled for 9pm at the Abuja Sheraton Hotel and Towers but was disrupted by a contingent of policemen and State Security Service (SSS) operatives led by FCT Commissioner of Police Lawrence Alobi.
The lawmakers were taken by surprise by the presence of the armed security agents who had taken up position within the hotel, hours before their arrival. The securitymen barricaded the Ladi Kwali Hall of the hotel where the meeting was scheduled to hold and prevented the lawmakers from gaining access into the hall. The arrival of former Head of State, Gen. Mohammadu Buhari, even failed to appeal to the securitymen who politely turned him back telling him that they were under instructions from above not to allow the meeting hold…
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quote:House Moves To Repeal Public Order ActFrom Chuks Akunna in Abuja, 04.12.2006
In reaction to the police disruption of a meeting of members of the House of Representatives opposed to a third term in office for President Olusegun Obasanjo and the governors and certain political leaders, the House of Representatives yesterday resolved to repeal the Public Order Act. Citing a breach of the Public Order Act, Commissioner of Police of the Federal Capital Territory, Mr. Lawrence Alobi had last Wednesday led close to 100 policemen to seal off the Abuja Sheraton Hotel, where the meeting of the lawmakers and some political leaders was billed to hold. In the disagreement that erupted, Hon. Francis Amadiegwu was reportedly brutalised and is still on admission at the National Hospital, Abuja…
When these jokers embark on their one-way laughing lawmaking, they never envision a possibility where it could be used against them since what they always have in mind when they set out to further oppress are the ordinary folks. After the law was applied on them suddenly now is the time to revoke it. Just as they never had the wisdom to separate EFCC, ICPC and INEC from the office of the presidency, they bungled it once more. What a bunch of comical rookies!
quote:Ex-IGP Cautions Against Police BrutalityFrom Donald Andoor in Abuja, 04.12.2006
Former Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Muhammadu Gambo Jimeta, has warned the Nigerian Police Force and other security agencies to stop the “barbaric treatment of Nigerians, and deal with people in conformity with constitutional provisions.” Jimeta, now Chairman of the Movement for Restoration and Defence of Democracy (MRDD), a newly registered political party, warned that any police, military or security personnel that goes beyond the constitutional provisions of using force on anybody should be liable to prosecution, either locally or internationally at the United Nations Court on Human Rights. According to Jimeta, "every police officer, army officer or any other security outfit is going to be responsible for his action in dealing with a civilian situation under a democratic dispensation. They could be liable for prosecution either locally or internationally under the United Nations Court."
Now that the shoe is on the other foot they all of a sudden realized what is meant by democratic ideals? Are these guys plain dumb or just stupid? Could this mallam say during his time as the chief killer cum abuser what he tastes today was alien to the country then? Could a mallam in the house please tell this aboki that we’re used to such treatments, nothing new, such that what is required of him is dead silence. Let gambo shut up and let us do the talking as he has no credibility!
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The writer of quoted article has written well, his take is all fine and dandy but what was in 1999 thru 2003 that this wicked obasanjo achieved that made his impeachment or removal impossible for Mr. Kehinde? Imagine that we are being informed rather too late that he together with other clueless, protected an elephant on rampage that should have been quickly stopped with every democratic arsenal available; if for nothing else, to keep future presidents from misbehaving or endangering peoples’ livelihood. Yet he did not do his part to prevent the joke his country is being subjected to just to see an “alika” ride on. I believe had this dude not lost his seat and stayed, he too will be a third tern apologist today. Also, it serves Ghali Umar Na'abba the rigged out Speaker of House of Representatives in the National Assembly, 1999 thru 2003 right for not being smart enough to have refused the plea to abort that impeachment proceeding then by his disgraced northern elders.
quote:Third term: Memo to my colleagues By Femi Kehinde
The title, Honourable and Distinguished gentlemen, are titles of dignity, honour, nobility, prestige and above all responsibility. In the exercise of that responsibility and in the discharge of duties placed alongside, it is incumbent on us to always be guided by the latin maxim-fiat justitia ruat caelum (do the right even if heavens falls).
Honourable members, as your former colleague in the House of Representatives of the National Assembly between 1999 and 2003, and as a key player in the pro-Obasanjo group in the then House of Representatives and having now been privileged to see life after the National Assembly, I wish to add my voice, to the current third term debacle, before you discharge that your legislative responsibility; to advise that you tread with caution and always remember, as in the words of George Santyana, that "those who do not know history are doomed to repeat its failures".
When in 1980, our late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo wrote a letter to President Shehu Shagari about the sinking ship of the state, and paused to ask, whether the President had ever asked himself this Latin question - Qui Bono? (for whose benefit), Alhaji Shehu Shagari reduced such a serious question to mere polemics by replying that he had never asked himself questions in Latin, but only in English and Hausa. But, such a question now stares us in the face - Qui bono - (for whose benefit) again in the current quest to cannibalise the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, in order to achieve a further term of office (third term) for the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
In the National Assembly of the Third Republic (1999-2003), I was an ardent and unrepentant supporter of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. I, along with some of our colleagues, though in the minority, ensured that the impeachment attempt of the President did not succeed, and furthermore that the President was not disgraced out of office, mainly with the altruistic purpose, of ensuring the sustenance of our nascent democracy. However, this third term debacle, and the attempts at rail-roading it without regards to ethics, panache, morals and the future and stability of this country leaves a sour taste in the mouth.
The Constitution of a nation, whether written or unwritten is its organic law. It is not a creation of the parliament, but a law, supposedly, solemnly made by the people of the nation as a testament or commandment. When you now make such testament or commandments so vulnerable to easy change, then the alternative is anarchy and eternal perdition. When you balkanise the constitution of a nation, you unwittingly balkanise that nation. The honest intendments of the framers of the Constitution is to make its amendments always an impossible exercise so as to ensure the organic existence of that nation, regardless of whether it was foisted on us by the military through a military decree.
Honourable members, history and posterity now beckon on you, in the discharge of your legislative responsibility, not to be lured by any filthy lucre, but to always be persuaded to ask yourself - "Qui bono" - (for whose benefit) and vote against shifting the goal post suddenly at the middle of the game. You have nothing to lose but your dignity, honour and conscience. The popular argument is continuation. Eight years in the life of a nation is more than enough for any government to make an impact. A reform that cannot be accomplished in eight years is certainly no reform. Attempts should be made at entrenching institutional frameworks and not individuals.
In the height of his imperial madness, Louis XVI, the French Emperor roared - "L'etat c'est moi - I am the state, the state is me". But he met his waterloo, and the French nation still remains today. Third term is all about fresh terms of 12 more years, clear and simple. Finally, this piece is dedicated to the fondest memory of Honorable Yusuf Bunkure, Honourable member of the House of Representatives 1999-2003 representing Bunkure/Rano/Kibiya Federal Constituency of Kano State, one of us, ardent Obasanjo supporters in the House (1999-2003) who died, quiet avoidably, for lack of adequate medical attention.
Despite appeals to higher authorities, whom he had helped, he died a sad man, and also to Hon. Sam Obande, Honourable member of the House of Representatives (1999-2003) representing Ado/Ogbadigbo/Okpokwu Federal Constituency of Benue State, the man who foiled the impeachment plot, now long forgotten, on his hospital bed after a fatal car crash. Friends and relations had to contribute money to fly him abroad for urgent medical attention; and to the stormy petrel - Alhaji Ghali Umar Na'abba (Speaker, House of Representatives, National Assembly, 1999-2003) for being so visionary to have seen, what we could not or did not see - an emerging dictatorship.
*Kehinde, a former Member of the House of Representatives, lives in Ibadan.
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Already you can tell that the incoming awusaland chief justice (belgore) whose term will terminate also this year!, y’all is not too bright. A visit to today’s Guardian, will show this tired man looking more like an agbero than anything. How unprofessional could one be not to notice that slinging a lady’s handbag during something as formal as swearing in ceremony is not something someone in his caliber does? When these clueless men are not holding on to a cell phone in public view during church/mosque worship, they are seen wearing dark sunglasses during a night function!
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The awusa/yoroba running Biafranigeria are not only clueless, they are downright stupid. They are from the very African cultures that give Africa the contempt it deserves.
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The awusa/yoroba running Biafranigeria are not only clueless, they are downright stupid. They are from the very African cultures that give Africa the contempt it deserves. ....Amadi O
Maybe we should also infer that it is the clueless, egomaniacal, uncouth and unprincipled Igbo culture that is preventing the Igbos from understanding the savvy and knowledge required to ascend power in a multiculturally sensitive country such as Nigeria. A classic case of what you cannot get, you just despise? (e-g-o-m-a-n-i-a)
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Once again the Yorubas are not intellectually actionable,they may have the paper work [certificate] but completely lacks the need to use it; that makes them different from the Igbos.
Obasanjo said, let records show that Bakkassi was lost because of lack of legal know how by Nigeria; meaning the Yoruba Attorney General cede the pennisular because of poor representation of the law or lacked an infinite knowledge of international law. An Igboman, intellectually actionable would have negotiated the Island without loosing it or the Housa man with an IQ of a daggar would have considered war as an option. History will never forget the Yellow belly administration for loosing Bakkassi to an Alien country despite the containment of massive resources. History prides America, instead of loosing Louisiana bought it from the Frenchman and UK instead of loosing the Fulkland island, went to war and won. Addy, copy and tell me where is the leadership?.
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quote:Obasanjo said, let records show that Bakkassi was lost because of lack of legal know how by Nigeria; meaning the Yoruba Attorney General cede the pennisular because of poor representation of the law or lacked an infinite knowledge of international law. An Igboman, intellectually actionable would have negotiated the Island without loosing it or the Housa man with an IQ of a daggar would have considered war as an option.
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Even the just kicked out, sorry retired awusa chief justice uwais does not have a clue how to interpret the constitution. How can a court of such standing give a contradictory verdict and what was the awusa justus thinking when he blustered that he regretted not ordering the arrest of igbo man he shielded all these years when the constitution says otherwise? Now you guys know why everything in that g.o.d.d.a.m.n land stands on end. Odi kwa nu egwu o!
quote:Obasanjo Can’t be Arrested, Says Ojo
The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Chief Bayo Ojo, has said that section 308 of the constitution conferred immunity on President Olusegun Obasanjo from arrest. Ojo's position is coming on the heels of the reports in some media credited to former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mohammed Uwais that Obasanjo could be arrested for not obeying the court order on Lagos local government funds. It will be recalled that the Lagos State and the Federal Government had engaged in a legal battle over the withholding of the local government funds for not complying with the constitution on local government creation.
``It is most unfortunate that such a statement is coming from somebody of his status that the president could be arrested for not obeying the order of the court. ``The president is not in contempt of the Supreme Court on the matter and he could not be arrested for any reason,'' Ojo said. ``Beside, a critical look at the court judgment, shows that the judgement was ambiguous,'' he said. Ojo explained that there was an order against Federal Government to release Lagos funds, but the same court also said the new local government areas created by Lagos were ``Inchoate''.
He said critics of the Federal Government should take pains to look at both side of the judgment before taking side on the matter. He urged Nigerians to be constructive in their criticism against the government. The minister, who also spoke on current efforts to de-congest the nation's prisons said that a stakeholders meeting would soon be conveyed to facilitate the release of inmates. According to him, efforts are on to get lawyers to take up the cases of those awaiting trial. Ojo, who denied knowledge of Mrs. Maryam Uwais’ resignation as a member of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said that movement of officers in the Ministry of Justice and its parastatals was a routine one.
Ojo explained that there was an order against Federal Government to release Lagos funds, but the same court also said the new local government areas created by Lagos were ``Inchoate''.
Why did this justus with Islamic education not give his judgment without the addition of this word that is being used as a defense to subvert the law?
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Wow, wow, wow!!! The same awusa in coming chief justice who days ago swung a lady’s handbag during a formal swearing in ceremony is at it again. He said:
quote:Belgore defends military ruleThursday, June 22, 2006
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Salihu Modibo Alfa Belgore has defended military intervention in civilian politics in the country saying their incursion was necessary.
Belgore spoke at a book launch in honour of his predecessor, Justice Mohammadu Lawal Uwais who retired at the mandatory age of 70, and said that at the time the military came into power, they came to cure some malady in our national development.
But it was the former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida who caused a stir at the occasion when he described himself as “a former military dictator” while speaking as the Chairman.
Justice Belgore who spoke in favour of past military regimes reeled out some of the notable achievements of military rule to include a lasting legacy in the judiciary, adding that they intervened to rescue the nation from disintegration and to cure the leadership ineptitude of civilian administration.
While applauding the role of the military, Justice Belgore said, “Our chairman called himself a military dictator. Well, every military regime must have some dictatorial tendencies because that is the only way they can be successful.
“People say they do not allow human rights. They say their coming to power was illegal. Were they really dictators? They came to cure a malady in national development, malady of ineptitude, corruption and divisive tendencies and so many other things. THESE ARE COMING FROM A LEGAL JURIST, A CHIEF JUSTICE? NA WA!
“But one thing is this, so many other military regimes had abandoned the judiciary, but there is something that this gentleman (Babangida) did...
HOW ABOUT REWARDING ARMED ROBBER WHO USED PART OF HIS LOOT TO PAY SCHOOL FEES FOR A PUPIL?
The Igbo should hurry out of that rubbished nation oooooooooooo!!
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LAGOS (Reuters) - Crime-infested Nigeria, famed for its email scams, has warned citizens travelling to Britain to watch out for conmen who use tricks to rob or rip off visitors.
Fraudsters in Britain might pour tomato juice or other substances on your dress and then offer to help remove it, robbing you in the process, the information ministry warned in its first-ever travel advisory obtained by Reuters on Thursday.
The conmen, who are mainly white, but also include east Europeans and north Africans, might also pretend to pick up an object from under a potential victim's seat to distract his attention while he robs him, it added.
"Nigerian travellers are hereby warned not to carry large amount of money on their body and ensure that their air tickets, passports, expensive wrist-watches as well as trinkets are securely hidden," the advisory said.
Nigeria itself has seen a sharp rise in violent crime since President Olusegun Obasanjo was elected in 1999, ending 15 years of military rule.
Africa's top oil producer, ranked by Berlin-based sleaze watchdog Transparency International as the world's seventh most corrupt country, is also famous for junk mail scams.
The advisory said favourite British blackspots include airports, high streets, markets, hotels and restaurants, shopping centres, tube stations, bus stops and buses.
It said the Nigerian High Commission in the United Kingdom had reported an upsurge in crime and assault against Nigerians visiting London in the recent past.
There is no evidence that Nigerians are being specially targeted, "but ostentatious dressing, spending and ancillary actions may identify a target," the advisory said.
Nigeria's so-called 419 email scam, named after an article in Nigeria's criminal code, was so successful that campaigners said it became the country's main foreign exchange earner after oil.
The fraud swindled hundreds of millions of dollars every year from people across the globe, who respond to emails promising them a share of non-existent fortunes in return for an advance fee.
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Sunny okogwu the beneficiary of many highly corrupt system has shown that he’s not only a dishonest, but also an ITI BOLIBO! What died in this guy’s brains that he could not just be quiet and enjoy the money his awusa in-law helped him acquire?
quote:Oil belongs to the North, Says Babangida’s In-lawFrom George Oji in Kaduna, 06.26.2006
An in-law of former military President Ibrahim Babangida who is also an indigene of the South-south geo-political zone, Chief Sunny Okogwu, has described as an illusion claims by his kinsmen that oil resources come from their region. Okogwu, an indigene of Asaba, Delta State and older brother of Mrs. Mariam Babangida told THISDAY in Kaduna at the weekend that it was the North and not the South that had legitimate claim to all the oil found in the Niger Delta region.
This, according to him, is because the oil flow from North Africa and could have been prevented from reaching the south but for the magnanimity of the North. Okogwu, whose company, Black Gold, specialises in training pilots, assembling of aircrafts, building of flight simulators and air traffic control systems also criticized the act of hostage-taking and kidnapping of foreign oil workers by the Niger Delta militants, suggesting instead that the governors and their cronies are the ones that should be taken hostage for misappropriating the resources due to the region. “If you have knowledge of geography you’ll know that the resource they are talking about is not coming from them. It is coming from far North of Africa, it’s a flowing liquid.
“If Northern Nigeria decides to be greedy, they can terminate the resource going to them, by way of cutting it and the flow will stop. So, all the resources that will be flowing to the south by way of crude would be diverted in a well in the North and from there it can be tapped and exported. “We allow this thing to happen because of easy of exportation; water front. When the resource flows from my house and goes to the ocean, it has a network of link, and when the extractors come in, they pump this thing up, the ship is there taking it away. But if we live it in the North, transportation adds more cost,” he argued.
Okowgwu, who last year stirred controversy over the alleged pact between Obasanjo and the North on power shift, described the agitation for resource control as a ploy by some people from South-south to continue to exploit the rest of the country describing it as, “a political jingo used by certain type of people to block progress, so that they will have reasons to extract. Resource control is no issue. “Now, instead of the youths kidnapping the governors and Chairmen of parastatals and the other ones that steal the youths’ welfare they are taking white men who come here to work. This should stop; let them kidnap the governors first.
“In fact, I am waiting for Mr. President to punish these governors, and if he does not punish them, I will tell Mr. President that he has lost one of the qualities of leadership, and that is a leader must be stern. “He has said that these people are not clean, so what stops him from punishing them? He must punish these South-south governors first before he goes for taking so much money that belongs to the people and giving this money to invisible people we don’t know and the money is not reaching the youths,” the Asaba High Chief said.
Okongwu 67, who said he had lived all his life in the North also claimed to have been responsible for the creation of most of the South-south states. He also claimed to have been the brain behind the South-south Movement, accusing the present South-south campaigners of bad fate and breakaways from Igbos. He said: “What I have done to make South-south prominent for them to talk now, I don’t think any of them did it. I created the states that all of them are using now – Edo or Delta name it, all the states of South-south, starting from IBB to Abacha. “I wish Abacha is alive, I wish Wad Nas is alive they will tell you what I did. IBB did his own first and decreed no more creation of states, I countered it.
“This, according to him, is because the oil flow from North Africa and could have been prevented from reaching the south but for the magnanimity of the North. ”
That awusa could have prevented what from reaching where? Is this not equivalent to saying that they can stop the same people from breathing air or stop the sun from reaching them? IMPOSSIBLE. Sunny okogwu, you’re simply pitiable!
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quote: Okongwu 67, who said he had lived all his life in the North also claimed to have been responsible for the creation of most of the South-south states. He also claimed to have been the brain behind the South-south Movement, accusing the present South-south campaigners of bad fate and breakaways from Igbos. He said: “What I have done to make South-south prominent for them to talk now, I don’t think any of them did it. I created the states that all of them are using now – Edo or Delta name it, all the states of South-south, starting from IBB to Abacha. “I wish Abacha is alive, I wish Wad Nas is alive they will tell you what I did. IBB did his own first and decreed no more creation of states, I countered it.
Okogwu is absolutely correct. The midwesterners and some of the little easterners are a bunch of ingrates. Thank God for Bro Emma okocha, the world now know that it was the Ibos through Okpara that funded the the struggle for the old midwest.
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