may be Greg is like his father. Agada gbachiri uzo, closed the door to progress to Arondizuogu. All the wealth he acquired has been wasted by his sons. You need visit their Mansion in Ndianiche to see for your self. K.O Mbadiwe was selfish and never had the interest of his people at heart. No wonder his efulefu son is continuing in his father footstep. They all shall fail together with their master Obasanjo.
it irks me why Igbo people will let themselves be used and dumped by useless government.
Greg, will definetly reap from the chaos and corruption he is sowing.
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I stand corrected you're in a better position to know as a Maazi from there googoo. Not so for me who saw things from outside parameters. Although I couldn't be wrong all the way since there are those who as you know are "okanma na ama" (lol) hence it could have been easy for outsiders to see K.O. differently but I'll go with you on this nevertheless. Many times I reassure my belief by asking myself what I will do had I been in a government whose policies are detrimental to my peoples' welfare and each time the resounding solution is a quick resignation. Why these Igbo buffoons don't quit beats me. I know I can do this because I've resigned and disassociated myself from people that strayed from our original vision to chase some silly titles when we started our Union in the USA. I normally leave when selfish agenda is allowed to block our collective vision. Most times than not these guys (greg, anineh, maduekwe, iwuanyawu etc) are already comfortable so the only thing that pushes them is greed, something everyone who reads me knows I can’t stand. No shaking!
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Mazi Mbonu Ojike remains till date the only son of Izuogu whose legacy is to be beat. As for K.O and his likes, their ego and greed translated into huge Mansions which is in decay to day. He did try to develop Ndianiche, his village, but with the type of clout he had, he would have done way way better. Like Mazi Umazi used to say: Radix malorun est cupiditas, Latin for Greed is the root of all evil!
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Ajibola Committee Under Pressure By Collins Edomaruse in Lagos and Chuks Okocha in Abuja, 04.30.2005 ThisDay online.
Draft Constitution
The Judiciary and Legal Reforms Committee of the National Political Reforms Conference is under intense pressure to take another look at the draft constitution, sent in by the presidency. This is coming on the heels of heightened moves by some foot soldiers of President Olusegun Obasanjo to secure a two-year extension for the president. Chairman of the committee, Prince Bola Ajibola, had last week told Nigerians, categorically, that his committee would not have anything to do with the document that has already generated more controversy than the convocation of the conference itself. Yesterday, a member of the committee, Professor Auwalu Yadudu, said the decision of the Conference Committee on Judiciary and Legal Reforms to reject the draft constitution was final, as "the entire committee stands firm behind the chairman, Prince Bola Ajibola." But, Alhaji Waziri Mohammed, a nominee of the Presidency to the conference and member of the Judiciary and Legal Reform Committee, said that not everybody on the committee agreed with the Committee's decision to reject the mysterious constitution surreptitiously deposited on their desks. He has also informed that the document will be tabled next week. But another member of the committee described the comment by Waziri as not representing the true facts of the deliberation of the committee, as he and Kanu Agabi were absent when members of the committee decided to dump the draft constitution. According to Yadudu “our committee, under the able guidance and leadership of Prince Bola Ajibola, SAN and Alhaji Abdullahi Ibrahim, SAN, two distinguished members of the bar and former Attorney General of the Federation, and with no single dissenting voice of all delegates there present, rejected this document at its meeting of Monday, April 25, 2005” Yadudu who was the Legal Adviser to the regime of late General Sani Abacha also said “Messrs Waziri Mohammed and Kanu Agabi, the alleged masterminds of the mysterious document, were both absent at this meeting and not unusually so, Prince Bola Ajibola spoke the minds of the committee when he briefed the press that afternoon.” In view of this, he said “our committee fully endorsed the account of what transpired at the committee as narrated by Prince Ajibola and as widely reported by the national dailies on April 26, 2005” In this regard, he said, “that our collective stand had been taken less because of the irregular manner of the circulation of the draft but more to avoid a serious credibility problem for our work and to protect the integrity of members.” Accordingly, he said, “We are reassured by the stand taken by the leadership of the Conference which has disowned and discountenanced the mysterious draft”. Meanwhile, the desire for a safe landing for President Olusegun Obasanjo and the renewed awakening of what his place in the society would be after doing eight years as the nation's leader that did not successfully emancipate the people from their economic woes may have accounted for why some presidential aides are rooting for an extension of Obasanjo's tenure, THISDAY checks have revealed. "Obasanjo is morbidly afraid of tomorrow. After eight years, he is likely to be remembered only for his economic and political reforms, especially the anti-corruption and due process that his government is currently pursuing," a Presidency source told THISDAY on Saturday. However, the source added that, "much of these would not have materialised in 2007, and therefore, could be easily reversed. Equally important, he is also afraid of his status and role, post-2007. "The logical result of this fear is what you see: political reform, the frenzy over anti-corruption, the purported third term (four years +two years) and the controversial draft constitution. In all these, the game is to ultimately get a safe landing". Already, the facilitators of the additional two years for the President and state governors have gone out to work, allegedly smuggling a contentious document on a constitutional amendment to select members of the NPRC. "They want to use the National Political Reforms Conference (NPRC) to extend the tenure of the President (4+2), so that he can stay till 2009. During the period, he would remove some key presidency officials and get new ones on board and groom them for two years; people that he trusts and who will recognise him in post 2009 and continue with his reforms programme." Besides, sources said the facilitators also plan, in the event that the agenda fails, to use the instrumentality of the NPRC to disqualify those it may deem "undesirable candidates", or ultimately, water down the power of the president. It was further gathered that in dealing with this "soft landing" agenda, there are two core options: 'The Museveni option,' which makes the president to stay on in the name of seeing reforms through and the Chinese or Nyerere option, that will make the president leave office but assume duty as party chairman. Rationalising both scenarios, a source told THISDAY that "the problem with option one, is that the international community may not support it. While they recognise Obasanjo reforms, they also realise the inconsistency of supporting "undemocratic" process". It will be recalled that the controversial draft constitution emerged from principal presidential aides who allegedly believe in this option as a way of "consolidating reforms, "they actually believe they are doing it in the interest of Nigeria", he added. He further said that in the event that option one fails, the group would make a recourse to Option B which is using the instrumentality of the NPRC to water down the powers of the president. "Now you would have a strong party chairman, who would serve as a custodian of the party manifesto and ideals, and actually institute party democracy. It is only someone of Obasanjo's status that can do that. "The idea is that as custodian of the party, Obasanjo remains in the system and remains the guardian angel of the "reforms." "Some governors across the six geo-political zones believe in option B. They believe that the drive for investments has been difficult because most investors don't think they should bring their money into a place where the "Icon of reforms" would soon leave, and Nigeria could sink to its old ways. "No matter what we think of Obasanjo, the international community thinks highly of him. As far as they are concerned, he is good, Nigeria is bad. "If we find a "safe landing" for him as in option B, it would cure his fear of the future, and he would not tamper too much with the structure. "Remember, Nigeria's quest for UN permanent seat on the security council, the increasing importance of the Gulf of Guinea for America's strategic economic and security interest would position Nigeria squarely in global politics if we have a strong personality like Obasanjo, who has always been their man, whom they trusted", the source said.
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SECRETARY of the National Political Reforms Conference (NPRC), Rev. Fr. Matthew Kukah yesterday accused the Political Adviser to the President, Prof Jerry Gana of a hidden agenda and being economical with the truth regarding the controversial draft constitution.
He said Gana’s recent remarks on the document which prescribed a six-year term for executive office holders showed that the adviser was hiding some thing from Nigerians in the emergence of the controversial draft constitution sent to the conference by the Presidency.
In his weekly press briefing in Abuja, Fr. Kukah said only Volume 1 of the report of the All Party Committee on the review of the 1999 constitution had been made available to delegates.
The All Party Committee was headed by former Cross River State governor, Mr. Clement Ebri.
According to him, there were attempts to substitute the draft as made available to delegates, with another undated documents, adding that volume two of the report, though published by government, is however not available to delegates, contrary to a promise by Prof Gana to ensure that all necessary documents were provided for delegates.
Fr. Kukah stressed that the argument by Prof. Gana in support of substituting the draft with another document, was baffling.
He accused Federal Government of using Prof Gana to smuggle in the 2004 version of the draft amended constitution into the secretariat against the earlier released volume one. He said, however, that the attempt was rebuffed by the secretariat.
Gana had on April 20 said that there was nothing mysterious about the document as it was an amendment to the report of the presidential committee on the review of the 1999 Constitution Volume 1 Main Report.
However joining issues with Gana, the Confab scribe said the 2004 version of the draft amendment is questionable because "the attached letter which Prof Gana circulated to only a few persons was doctored, and it is apparent that the attachment was meant for a purpose other than what Prof Gana claimed. We would have been interested to know the content of the whole communication."
The conference secretariat said "never in the history of constitution making in the country had any sitting Head of State or president ever attempted to present a private draft of any sort to chairman of any conference."
Fr. Kukah said it is common practice that governments always presented to constitutional review initiatives, reports of the precursor-body in its pristine form (as submitted).
Going down memory lane, Fr Kukah said the draft which General Olusegun Obasanjo, as head of state presented to Justice Udo Udoma’s constituent Assembly in 1977, was the draft constitution made by the Chief Frederick Williams (now late) constitution drafting committee in 1976.
According to him prior to the 1989 constitution, General Ibrahim Babangida placed before the Justice Anthony Aniagolu-led constituent Assembly, reports and draft constitution prepared by the Sam Cookey-led political Bureau and Justice Muhammed Buba’s Constitution Review Committee.
"All our draft constitutions have so far emanated from debates of the different bodies and none in our restricted knowledge ever came as a memorandum from the executive. So why now?" he asked.
Fr. Kukah said the political reform conference secretariat decided to clarify the issue because "we believe the assignment we are engaged in demands utmost sincerity and transparency from all of us."
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Make una dey hear oh. Ibi like say alarm don begin dey blo for Uncle Sege im jipiti andi kalabule confab. Which kain contri be dis wey be say efritin na ojoro? Aah aah! Make una see dem oh:
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Why new coins, notes bear no Arabic inscriptions, by Soludo From Adamu Abuh, Kano WITH the stage set for the re-introduction of lower denominations of coins and notes, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has given an insight into the rationale for using local languages instead of Arabic inscriptions on the new denominations.
The redesigned notes and coins will be in circulation from February 28.
At a grassroots sensitisation forum on the new notes held at the Kano branch of the CBN yesterday, Soludo said the quest to promote national literacy in Nigeria's major languages informed the decision to drop Arabic inscriptions from the denominations.
He also said that the choice of the three major local languages on the redesigned notes and coins was aimed at strengthening national unity.
The repackaged notes of N5, N10, N20 and N50 have their values translated into Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba languages.
Also, the redesigned coins of N2, N1, and 50 kobo denominations which are more convenient to carry will be introduced through the commercial banks on the same day.
The decision by the CBN to remove the Arabic inscription, which was conspicuous on the existing denominations, has attracted harsh comments from a section of Nigerian Moslems, who deemed the action an affront to the Islam.
But the CBN chief, who discountenanced the notion, said government's decision was not informed by any religious sentiment. The Federal Government, he added, has no disdain for the Arabic Language, in which the Holy Quran is written.
Soludo said: "It is not eliminating Arabic inscriptions; it is re-writing the Hausa language in a form that everybody will be able to read. What is written in Hausa can be read by every other Nigerian who is not Hausa.
"The Hausa inscription has not been scrapped. It is only that it has been written out, the Igbo one is also written out, the Yoruba one is equally written out. That is the only change and it is part of the promotion of national unity and national literacy in our various languages."
The CBN chief said the new notes, made of polymer, and coins would ease business transactions among Nigerians.
On the benefits of introducing the new coins to the economy, Soludo said: "Prices move in multiples of N5, now you could have a price of something for N57.50 kobo, N58.50 kobo and you get your balance back. But before, you could only have N67, N65. All Nigerians should go back to the use of coins."
He said that the change of the national currency 23 years after the last exercise was in line with international practice, which aims to check counterfeiting of the country's medium of exchange.
Though Soludo declined to reveal the cost of producing the fresh notes and coins, he noted that the measure would save the country at least 60 per cent of the cost of minting coins.
He added that the nation would enjoy a cost reduction of between 42 to 58 per cent in the amount spent on currency production.
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