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From: CHRIS ANI <chrisaniedobe@y...>
Date: Thu Aug 21, 2003 2:33 pm
Subject: If Ugorji is UMAR ARDO, shame on us who believed in him


Folks:

Let me add my two cents while this issue is fresh in our minds. The issue borders not only on ethics but also an actionable civil wrong. I have read the full text of the transcript and the investigation seems thorough enough to where one can assert with reasonable certainty that the Umar Ardor, the mask, is more likely than not to be Ugorji Ugorji.

The burden now falls on Ugorji Ugorji to make affirmative statements tending to prove that he is not Umar Ardor. If he is not forthcoming with proof and disavowals on his part, a person of reasonable caution is entitled to assume that the fact of his identity is conclusively proven, admitted, or taken as confessed.

If Ugorji intentionally and maliciously made defamatory statements about Chiekezie, by choice of words reasonably calculated to injure the reputation of, or otherwise damage the credibility of Chiekezie, Ugorji has engaged in a conduct which warrants the condemnation of every individual of decent morality gathered in the various Igbo fora. Sanctions are in order - but to punish the offending tortfeasor and to deter other individuals, ill and similarly persuaded.

A seasonable time for Ugorji Ugorji to make the necessary disavowals to persuade us that he is not Umar Ardor is within 24 hours after release of the transcript by Chiekezie. If the disavowals are not made, I ask that every association connected with Ugorji Ugorji distant themselves from this disreputable individual. He is not fit to speak for, represent, or lead any Igbo association. He and any known moniker he uses should be dropped from all Igbo fora. He should be made to relinquish any office he is holding for any association worthy of respect. He has shown himself to be lacking in honor and truthfulness and bodes a present danger to taint any association with which he is closely connected with disrepute.

And if Chiekezie can show that statements of fact, and not opinions, were made, at least with negligent disregard for the truth, I encourage him, if his resources permit, to bring a civil suit against this individual.

I further ask everyone who feels personally affronted as I do, that this son of Igbo land who ought to know better, dared drag us into the frivilous excesses of his apparently tortured personality, to condemn his conduct. I further ask that people refrain from gruff and contumely of which the Igbos are known, and treat each other civilly at all times. I know that these fora, represent to many of us, a recreational outlet to pass idle time. To some of us, it represents an avenue to bring serious discourse to bear on the plight and advancement of Igbo people. And so for those of us recreation inclined, please show some more sensitivity and refrain from conduct which a reasonable person would not undertake.

Respectfully,
Aniedobe
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igwemazi@aol.com wrote:
Dear WIC Board Members:

Some of us have chosen to lie low when it comes to commenting on certain matters on this site because sometimes sticking your neck out here appears to be a dangerous contact sport. When certain lines get crossed however, men of good will must speak out, at least for the sake of this organization we all love.

I am copying this mail specifically to the Chairman to make sure that he hears my piece on this matter. There is a "cancer" that has continued to creep into the WIC family, and that cancer must be removed from this WIC before it kills this organization. I cannot imagine what will motivate someone to committ this kind of "cyber assasination" on a fellow compatriot. Is this because of WIC elections?

Back home, people can get killed during political campaigns. The politics back home involves money that could be made and other incentives.....what does someone get paid for winning a WIC office to warrant this type of character assasination?

There are some "young Turks" that have not quite understood the WIC spirit and if these "young Turks" are not brought to heel, this organization is headed for very rough waters. Let me remind everyone that WIC has had many elections, and has grown with each of those. Just look at the most recent WIC elections. When KKD challenged for the Chairmanship in New Orleans in 2001, he was still the Vice Chairman to Chief Egwuonwu. As VC, he was supposed to be loyal to the Chairman, but at that time, based on the information available to him, he thought that the best thing for him to do was challenge his Boss.

After the election, everyone shook hands, and I know that KKD and Chief Egwuonwu are not enemies today. As a matter of fact, Chief Egwuonwu did the same thing with Dr. J.O.S. Okeke in Chicago. They are still friends today. Without this kind of spirit, WIC cannot move forward.

My question is....When you drive this kind of dagger in your fellow Board Member's heart, after the elections, can both of you sit down together and concentrate on doing the business of Ndi Igbo? I don't think so.

We must get to the bottom of this matter and remove this cancer from our midst.....and this is my suggestion to the Chairman:

1. Leadership must be shown on this matter, election or not.

2. Call an emergency Board meeting and take a decision on this
matter right away. The meeting must not be a hearing to
determine who said or did what, rather, collect evidence
on the matter and make same available to Board Members so
that they could make decisions prior to the meeting.

Fortunately, the Chairman is an IT person, and he is qualified to tell this Board the source of a posting on the Board's web site. As I call on the Chairman, I am also calling on the Secretary General. We must end this matter before we get to Nashville. We must at least try to let our people know that WIC will not limp into Nashville on life support as many experienced WIC family members appear to be saying.

Finally, the "young Turks" are terribly mistaken by thinking that "all this is about leadership of Ndi Igbo". I must remind everyone again.....No one can lead Ndi Igbo. The only thing that works is "Serving Ndi Igbo"......a phrase that still cannot be found in the kind of books these "young Turks" read.

Mr. Chairman, time is of the essence, and the World is watching.

Ichie


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From: "Cornelius Akubueze" <c.ajuonuma@v...>
Date: Thu Aug 21, 2003 2:25 pm
Subject: If only there were ears


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If only there were ears


One thing to learn from this saga is this, had this ugly issue of ego, if not me, then nothing else had been taken care of two years ago when it seemed I was the lone person pointing at it, all these trashing would not have happened , or it would have been limited to those concerned . Even as we speak now, another trouble is fast brewing at this same Igbo Bu Igbo, the origin of all these crisis. Let us not be mum to the root cause of the problems, for doing so will be making us hypocrites. I hate to see the day when one man rises in Igbo land saying he alone will decide what the 40 million Igbo people will do and if not him or her, then the Igbo world will sink and proceeds to do anything to tear the community apart. In a microcosm, this is exactly what is happening in the Northern New Jersey Igbo community. For me it has been a personally agony having been a participant in promoting a responsive community.

This domestic war in the community associations is ugly and we must admit the ugliness and where this present crisis all started. The back door admission of Igbo Bu Igbo two years ago. All those board members who refused to condemn that illegal admission then and ask for its expulsion are responsible for the stage we have now reached. We must stop shading crocodile tears and sympathy that have no depth of the heart or meaning. We, all those who saw, heard but said nothing are responsible for the cancer that spread. We must stop being hypocrites by asking that somehow a lone person be roasted on a stake, we are all involved in the mess for chosen a blind eye when atrocity was being committed in front, back, left and right of us. All those who chose that part and now crying wolf are guilty of the mistakes made by all involved in the present situation. You can kill me if you want to or stop the feeding tube you have given me, for saying what has to be said. Look deep in your heart, ask yourself, What did I do when illegality was committed in the admission of Igbo Bu Igbo that still have no constituency today? If the answer is nothing or that you approved, look in the mirror, you will be looking at who created this problem or at least was in the position to do something but failed. You have failed the Igbo and your crying foul now is nothing short of hypocrisy, you had a duty to rescue a sinking ship but you chose the part of evil, illegality and Aru, so you are customarily guilty. Your advise for mayhem bears no responsibility, it is devilish and meant for rodents because you failed to control the spread when it was in your capacity to do so. You are responsible for this problem in the Igbo community today and no amount of condemnation will free you from this sin. Join us this time and compel WIC to give back to the delegates, the law making power of WIC or continue to dance and rejoice in sin. The truth will set you free even when standing alone as I often do. I go to sleep satisfied I have done the best I could.


Cornelius

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From: Emenike Nwankwo [mailto:godwin27411@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 1:49 AM
To: igbo_forum@yahoogroups.com; ndiigbo_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [IGBO_FORUM] UGORJI UGORJI: THE UMAR ARDO-GATE and Scholarship brohaha


UMAR ARDO-GATE? ONLY IN WIC!
Tell me this is not the name of the Alhaji that is funding WIC's scholarship through Ugorji. First Ugorji lost his first name and can only remember his last. Now he is losing his manhood? if these brohaha sticks, then he will become Gorji Umar Ardo Gorji as we will strip him of any Igbo relationship in name or else.

I was impressed by his benevolence and the quick success in raisng scholarship money. Howevr, I was flabagasted when he announced winners from America rather than Nigeria. Then he said he was going to parade them during WIC in Nashville, I said aha, it was a cook up for political quick fix. Our people are good but I then knew that Ugorji's success had some hidden purpose that was extra-ordinary. Within two weeks he had enough money and unlike the past 22 months in the regimes life, they already named winners of the money within a few days of announcing the contest. It looks like the kids had their essays written and waiting for anyone to call for it so they can turn it in. PDP wayo? Beware of PDP associates any where you find them. They mutate with alacrity. Then the grading and results was fast and super orderly - did take time at all. The annolunced the winners before the essays reached them - just like their PDP manual says. No katakata or Igbology. Then we are facing this explosion of Umar-Ardo-gate just like PDP Uba-Ngige gate? What a trend!

Any teacher will tell you this was somekind of quick turnaround compared to the reality in the real world. I knew something fishy was going on or was going to happen. Then he announced his interest to run for WIC office and to parade they kids for Diogu to claim as success. There you are. They are so shameless they want to posture with innocent kids who have worked hard for their grades with any help from WIC? What kind of people are these folks? They don't trust there work the past two years that they needed the help from Umar Ardo and the parade of innocent kids? Throw in the effort to slah the throat of a percieved viable threats using this honorable forum. Must they take their corruption to anything to get involved in?

That guy Ugorji was not just doing good by the scholarship quick fixes, he was mainly buying into the heart of WIC voters, so that after they tackle other prospects by way of Umar Ardo, they will look good by claiming scholarhip success. this is just another PDP faction in the making of WIC. IGBO must be Igbo where ever they go. His wife, he said donated $1000. Can someone find out if his wife knows that she has donated to this scholarship as claimed? It was kind of her if she did, but we all know that igbo woman did not donate a dime - na PDP magic. She must be a unique type of Igbo woman that is not supertight with money as we know it. Unless, maybe, she too will benefit from whatever reason her husband is cooking up to remain entrenched in the WIC board.

There must be a hidden reward in the Board that we on the outside have not figured out yet, other than the desire to build an organization for Igbo progress. Their unfolding brohaha is educative and entertaining as well. Where then is the beaf? Now what next?
Ugorji's late night scholarship magic was the only lifewire for this regime's claim to fame. What if some digging is done, can there be some fonny issues hiding to be discovered for which they are scrambles to get in or stay in the board?

This last minute ego trip is at best a blooper than a success. My reason for this take is that WIC's action items are meant to bear fruit in Nigeria not in America. How come suddenly in the dead hour before election the crooks woke up to magical effort yielding fruit outside the perimeter of our intended target? Quickly, within 4 weeks they rounded some kids who have obviously worked hard for their achievements to run them through a shame parade that is nothing but a mother of all 419. This is nothing more than abrakadabra.

Assume these kids will get the $500 scholarship, will their parents fund their trips to go to Nashville or is that going to come from WIC? may be it will come form Umar Ardo and McRuben? Let us assume they will fund themselves. Now do they have any reason to? Why should a family spend hard earned money to pay air fare and spend up to $1000 each for expense to go get $500? There must be more to this show than we are getting. They intend to parade and use these inocent families as their main achievement in 2 years?

To show you how shaby these folks really are, they intend to parade a kid with 1000 SAT score as Igbo best. In the last minute effort to exploit, they have not allowed time to actually promote the intent and secure true scholars within the Igbo community assuming that is what they are supposed to do. How do you make an SAT score below 1200 an igbo scholar when in fact that score can't get you into quick admission into any moderately selective university? Igbo kids in the USA are very high achievers who clear the top of the core in many USA cities and all Ugorji and Umar Ardo found are kids with less than 1200 score? This half-baked effort qualifies as one of those things that happen when one is drowning and must hold on to quick sand. When you drown even snake in water look like iron beam to climb on. Scholarship is good when give it for the right reasons and to the those true to the intent. This one is the biggest joke in town.

Again, a WIC education committee's charge should be to work on education policy issues, coordinate efforts to enhance education policies in alaigbo states and to promote knowledg of issues that affect careers and how people maintain their livings through public education on various important issues that shape the Igbo society. The workplace where we want to see result is the schools in Nigeria not in America. WIC should target society in general not specific individuals - what then will Nkwere Association or Obowu Union do if WIC gives scholarship to Okeke?

If this money was raised through WIC as they claim, then the action of spending it here in the Diaspora on our own American kids is at best a diversion of fund that should go to kids in Nigeria or education projects in alaigbo. It is gross misappropriation of funds and if investigated further, may even become a case of embesslement of WIC funds by the Ugorji committee and squandering it to posture for election gains.

The problems for which WIC was formed are in Nigeria, not in America. We do not have education problem here in America. Igbo kids are championing their classes coast to coast and do not need WIC's support. The question then is why is WIC giving scholarship to American kids rather than investing in education projects in alaigbo Nigeria? The American kids have no short of resources to go to school here, and if they are true scholars, colleges will bribe them to come to their campuses . One or two of those to be shamelessly paraded can easily secure funds for education at any good university. The other two may find support through other means or guarantteed loans if they get to any four year college. Why are they the target of these awards when those in Nigeria who do not have any means and for whom the committee was funded are not getting a squat?

Should WIC be handing out money to Amercian kids knowing that she needs some to plant for her growth? This money could have been seed money through which more money could have been raised if properly utilized and managed so that the education committee can begin the education of alaigbo in Nigeria. Their theater of activity is Nigeria not USA. Another gross misdirection? Now do you see why I say there is confusion in this regime and that they should be example of how not to run WIC? They will hang their coat on any thing that moves, even mosquito to claim success. They have no foresight. They do not have building skills and should not for crying out loud be near anybody running WIC.

What I will ask the parents of these kids they want to use to do is one of two things:

1. Ignore them and ask them to use that money in Nigeria where it\is meant for and matters most.
or
2. If your kids get there and collect the money, they should donate it back to Igbo Kids in Nigeria as they are the ones that should be using that money, not your American kids that may only spend it on video games and Jordan shoes.

Here we are, trying to fix public service behavior in Nigeria and the first money for education went right back into our own pockets for our own kids, when in fact we are only supposed to be doing this WIC thing to hel alaigbo. We must continue to steer these hungry leaders straight to their responsibilities, folks.

HEN
This regime has worked for 2 years and no action. Then suddenly within 4 weeks before another WIC election Ugorji landed a scholarship treasure that has became the beacon of their regimes achievement. Now that their flagbearer achiever is unmasked as also having previously achieved Umar Ardo by way of MCRuben, can some one tell us this is the last mouse in their sleaves.

This regime has been cooking up hidden soup to entrench themselves. They have folks who run fraudulent Igbo organizations championing their cause and have registered too many dubious affiliates penultimate to election. Now we have Alhaji Umar Ardo

This is what we already know that WIC is becoming homes for crooks. That is why and more reason they should allow me to restructure WIC and put in controls that will flush out those who look for or who have designed in factors to enable them entrench themselves.


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CCChikezie@aol.com wrote:

TRANSCRIPT OF THE TEXT OF THE PRESS CONFERENCE
HELD AT ROBERT TREAT HOTEL, 50 PARK PLACE,
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 2003 AT 6:00 P.M.
REGARDING THE UNMASKING OF UMAR ARDO
BY OBI TAIWAN, PH.D.


Good Evening Every One:

What I am going to do is pretty much take you through the path in tracking
this thing. How this started is that Charlie sent me an e-mail. The e-mail we
are talking about. What I did is that I picked out what we call the footprint
of the e-mail. What I did is that I found out the identity of the e-mail
itself, Identity of the person that sent it; the route that it took and how it
got to Igbo Forum and that is what I'm going to show you guys.

What I did is to try to break it down to make it simple by using tools that
not necessarily some body like me in technology will use, but tools that any
body who has Internet and who has access to Yahoo can use and if you go home you
can exactly do the same things I'm gonna show you and will be able to go
through these same finger prints and point out exactly what I'm gonna show you.

I started by picking out one of the emails that Kalu Diogu sent to
Charlie (dated August 1st, 2003 at 12:58p.m. urging him to do every thing to find
out who sent this mail, because if any one will be a neutral ground to start
with, KKD will be one. As you know, Kalu Diogu is Chairman of World Igbo
Congress. So I picked out one of KKD's e-mail to show you how to read the foot print
of an e-mail. Up here, you can see where it came from - his e-mail address.
But what is more important is that it is under Yahoo and it's from World Igbo
Congress Board of Director's Group in Yahoo.

Here is the message ID. Each message that is sent to Yahoo has the Yahoo
Identity as well as an Internet Identity, but the Yahoo Identity is important
because anybody who has access to Yahoo can do a search at this ID number.

So when I picked up this e-mail, I picked up what is called the foot
print. When you look at the foot print, you will see the originating IP Address
and Kalu Diogu's IP address is 24.243.240.218. And when you source where the
message came from, it tells you where the e-mail came from. I picked the IP
address for Kalu Diogu and it shows me that Kalu Diogu is in Austin Texas and
his Internet access RR.com. RR stands for Road Runner.

I also picked up another e-mail from Kalu Diogu just to be sure. This is a
subsequent e-mail from Kalu Diogu (dated August 1st 2003 at 7:33p.m. to Ken
Okorie, lamenting on this smear article, that Igbos can be cruel to another Igbo
person). If you look at the view source, you see the source of the message,
and the source again is Kalu Diogu and the originating IP address is also
24.243.240.218 Austin.

Then I ran a search at R-R dot com to find who owns it, and it tells me
that it is registered to Road Runner HoldCo LLC in Herndon, Virginia. This
information is out there and any of you can do it yourself. There is no trick
here.

Then I picked out another mail by this guy Joe Etoh dated August 9th, 2003 at
5:36p.m. that was also condemning this offending mail. I picked up his
e-mail address and viewed the source and I found out that his email address is
67.33.71.154 and I ran a search and it tells me that his ISP is in Atlanta with
Bellsouth information.

To get to the e-mail, I logged into Yahoo as Charlie Chikezie to get
access to the two e-groups in question (Igbo Forum & World Igbo Congress Forum).
The offending e-mail was originally sent to Igbo Forum and forwarded to World
Igbo Congress Forum. I wanted to track all the places this e-mail itself went
to. If you look you can see that Charlie Chikezie forwarded it to World Igbo
Congress Forum, and the first thing I had to make sure is that it wasn't
Charlie that wrote this e-mail himself and forwarded it as if it is somebody else.
I had to establish that his IP address is 64.12.136.4 and that he gets into
the Internet through AOL.

Even though this is the copy that was forwarded to Igbo Forum, if you
read the mail from bottom up, you can tell from where it came from the last point
where you are looking at it. You read from bottom up because the way computer
reads them is that each computer that it touches will append its own ID so
that when you look at this mail you can tell from where it came and to the last
point where you are looking at it.

If you look at it you can see that it was received from AOL because
Charlie Chikezie had sent it from AOL. It also tells you that even though he
forwarded it to World Igbo Congress Forum, he actually got it from Igbo Forum.

Going further up, you can actually see that it actually came from this
person called Stanley Mcruben and his IP Address. I did a search on Stanley
McRuben's IP Address and found out that his IP Address came from Atlanta and that
his IP Address is 68.154.0.209, which is from Bellsouth.

Now see that even though Joe Etoh is also Bellsouth, his IP Address is
very different from this one. So we know that it is two different machines
because every machine that is on the Internet has to have a unique IP address or
number. If two machines that are on the Internet at the same time have the
same number it does not matter where they are in this world, one could be in
China and one could be in Argentina. It does not matter where they are, if two
machines have the same number at the same time the entire Internet will ground
to a halt. It is that serious. They have to be unique, and people don't
realize that because of that uniqueness, any thing that comes out of the Internet
can be traced right back to the machine where it came from and that's what this
is going to prove to us where this mail came from.

The person who actually sent this (offending) e-mail into Igbo Forum is
UmarArdo via Yahoo. If you view the source of his mail you can see that the IP
address is 207.42.196.134. If any of you is writing this down, write down
that IP address because this will bring you back to the IP address of the
machine where this mail came from.

When I picked up this Umar Ardo's IP Address I did a search on it, and
found out that it is not Bellsouth, and it is not Road Runner. So I know that
it is not from Austin Texas and it is not from Atlanta, Georgia.

Now what I did now is I went to Igbo Forum and searched the original
offending mail sent by Stanley Mcruben and you can see that the e-mail from (Umar
Ardo) was attached. If you go to Igbo Forum and do a search on the IP #
37.202, you see that the mail came from Stanley McRuben and was posted on July
29th 2003. But Stanley McRuben Udeh is not hiding his identity. However the
e-mail that he forwarded from Umar Ardo is the one we need to establish the
identity of the machine and the owner of the I.P. Address. The I.P. Address is
207.42.196.134. So even though I have taken another route to the e-mail, I still
get the same identity of the machine and the same owner of the I.P. Address,
which is AOSI.

I asked who is AOSI by using a particular search engine and Internet.net
tells me that AOSI is registered with TUCOWS, which is in Canada and there
information is in Whois.Opensrs.net. I then went to Open source to tell me who is
AOSI. Open Source told me that AOSI is in Lawrenceville, New Jersey with the
following administrative contact information (Bruce Tung at 3371 US Route 1 in
Lawrenceville, New Jersey).

Now I know that who ever Umar Ardo is, he is not in Atlanta and he is not
in Austin. He is in New Jersey.

I then found out that it looks like some body else has done the same thing
that I am doing. This is an e-mail that I saw on WIC Congress. It came from
somebody called Cornelius Akubueze on July 31st 2003 at 9:11a.m. in the World
Igbo Congress Forum. It says "[f]or the life of me I could not understand why
unrelated personal files were carefully compiled together on 7/31/03 using a
computer signed on by user n. Power, a none home PC registering 207.42.196.134
and e-mailed to us at 14:12:54 7/31/03. A last print out was on 7/30/03.
While the benefit of the doubt is appropriate, it is inconceivable that 30 pages
of personal individual files gets easily misplaced and stored in a single file
meant for public distribution. It does however make interest reading. I am
sure more will be coming. The question is, what's the intent? It may
backfire. It does however present a lesson why we should not use public computer to
store our personal files or attempt to fool the unsuspecting".

Akubueze wrote this mail replying to an e-mail sent by Ugorji Ugorji whose
e-mail address is odoziobodo@winnings.com who had written on July 31st 2003 at
3:00 p.m. in the World Igbo Congress Forum "Dear brothers, I just realized that
I accidentally forwarded a wrong file in my last posting. Please disregard
…."

I know this guy. So, honest to God, I did not suspect that this guy will
have any thing to do with that (Umar Ardo) e-mail address. But since I was
checking everybody, I decided to check both the person who wrote the mail and the
person who replied to it.

I checked Akubueze's IP Address and found out that it is 151.198.142.161.
Again, you can see that it is unique. I did a further search on his I.P.
Address and found out that he is with Verizon which means he is either in New
Jersey or New York.

Now I went back to the mail Akubueze responded to, which came from Ugorji
Ugorji with e-mail address odoziobodo@winnings.com which reads "I just
realized I accidentally forwarded the wrong file in my last posting". When I saw
that statement from Ugorji, it flagged warning for me, and this guy Cornelius
Akubueze in his response to Ugorji had identified the IP address as the same IP
Address (207.42.196.134), which I was working on and because of that I
centered on this e-mail.

Besides, the message ID is there in Yahoo and once you go to the archives
and type in the ID # of that e-mail you can pull it up. One thing people
don't realize is that once you post a mail in Yahoo, it is archived for thirty
years.

Now, I went to the World Igbo Congress e-group and pulled up all the emails
that were sent to the group two days before, July 28, July 29, July 31. I was
looking for any mail related to that, I did not see anything before then. So
I went back to the next step and pulled up message ID numbers 2527, and 2528.
I picked both of them up to look at and it tells me they are from Ugorji
Ugorji and I did a search on this mail from Ugorji Ugorji and it has the same I.P.
address as Umar Ardo (the offending e-mail).

The name of the sender of the mail is Ugorji Ugorji with
odoziobodo@winnings.com as his e-mail address. The IP address where it receives from is
207.42.196.134. The same as Umar Ardo. The same machine.

To be safe, may be I am just crazy, I asked my machine who owns this
machine, and it says AOSI.com.

Because Ugorji Ugorji is somebody that I know, I said may be I'm just
crazy. I therefore decided to go back to July 30th and conducted a random search
on postings by Ugorji Ugorji. I searched an article he wrote on July 30, in
reply to an article by Brother Onyebeke Landon. I got the same result with
the same I.P. address of 207.42.196.34 (as Umar Ardo's). I also ran a search on
Landon. I forwarded the mail he sent to Brother Landon to myself to make
sure it does not show any difference because of something called spoofing. This
is where one makes an e-mail look like it originated from where it did not
originate from. While this can be done on the top by the user to confuse the
source of the mail, you can never change the originating IP address because the
machine generates this information and not the user.

When I looked at this mail, it was obvious that it was not spoofed. The
same I.P. address Umar Ardo has is the same IP Address that Ugorji has.

I looked at all the e-mails from Ugorji Ugorji from the WIC steward e-group
all the way back to July 11, 2003. This one is to Nze Chigbu regarding Governor
Kalu's invitation to the upcoming WIC Convention. The IP address from where
he received this mail was 207.42.196.184. A different IP address. But when I
did a search on this IP address, I found out that AOSI.com is the same dialing
point. Which means he went to the same office and used a different machine.

I searched another mail from Ugorji which is like a week earlier on July
24, 2003, and found that it had the same I.P. Address used by Umar Ardo
207.42.196.134.

Based on this, I asked for AOSI's contact information, which is the same
one in Lawrenceville. I did search on that too. It put him in New Jersey.
All the mails he sent out both to World Igbo Congress, WIC Stewards, were all
from the same contact point also used by Umar Ardo. I had realms and realms of
them. I went to Igbo Forum, WIC Stewards, World Igbo Congress Forum, and
every e-mail he sent out were from the same contact point.

Based that I tell you this, computers don't lie and I.P. addresses don't
lie, and this is public information. You can do it yourself.

In conclusion, Ugorji Ugorji used the same machine that the offending
e-mail was sent from. May be it was his wife. May be it was a ghost that went
to his house and used his machine. I don't know.

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS:

QUESTION 1 BY CHIEF ALEX IHEKE: Can someone actually use your e-mail address
to send mail without going to the physical computer?

ANSWER BY DR. TAIWAN: Yes. They can forge your e-mail address, but they
can't forge your I.P. Address.

QUESTION 2 BY MR. BENJAMIN IZIKORA: With regards to dynamically and
statically assigned IP addresses in all your presentations, the I.P. Address assigned
to Ugorji remains 207.42.196.134. Is it coincidence that, although Internet
related I.P. addresses are dynamically assigned that IP address assigned to his
machine remains the same?

ANSWER: In most large offices, they have their own group IP Address that an
Administrator will assign. These are called static IP address. They don't
change. It stays with the machine. With ISPs (Internet Service Providers),
they have more customers than they have IP addresses. Like AOL, they claim they
have 20 Million subscribers, but they don't have 20 Million IP addresses.

What they do is an assignment by dynamics. When you log in, they assign
you an IP address, and when you log off, they give it to someone else.
When they assign an IP address to you, they keep it in their table of
addresses until you release it back to them.

Even when you disconnect, they don't immediately reassign your IP address
until the expiration of what is called Time To Live (TTL) which is a minimum
of 3 days which is spelt out in hours. Every time you reconnect, they TTL
begin to run afresh for the next three days.

The only time the IP address changes are if you log in from a different
machine or if you forced your release. While I am blown away by Ugorji's
association with this article, I know numbers and I know computers don't lie.

QUESTION 3 BY MR. JULIUS OGUGUO: What is the Lawrenceville address in
relation to Ugorji? Is it a private or public address?

ANSWER: It is the ISP address. It is the company address that provides him
Internet address like Verizon or AOL.

QUESTION 4 BY MR. JOHNSON WOKO: Is World Igbo Congress aware of this article
and if it is are they going to make it an agenda item?

ANSWER BY CHIKEZIE: Yes. WIC knows. You saw the letter from WIC Chairman,
and I quote "Charlie, please do all you can to fish out this dubious character
and seek legal redress. This sick person and his garbage do not belong to
WIC".

As far as making it an agenda item, most members of WIC have already
called on the Chairman to do just that, and now that we have fished out this
dubious character, we hope that WIC will ensure that this garbage does not remain
in WIC as the Chairman has already stated.

QUESTION 5 BY MR. PETER MADUABUM: Regardless of what WIC does, I hope that
you have plans for private legal action to, if nothing else, to stop this type
of nonsense in our community?

ANSWER BY CHIKEZIE: While I do not rule out any recourse that may be
available to me in this matter, my actions to a large degree will be dictated by
WIC's handling of the matter.

QUESTION 6 BY MR. CHIDI CLEMENT: Now that you have found out who Umar Ardo
is, do you have any plans to demand an emergency meeting of the Board of
Directors of World Igbo Congress to take a decision on this matter?

ANSWER BY CHIKEZIE: As I said, the WIC Chairman, in his letter asked that I
find out who this character is, I believe we have and while I would not like
to preempt the Chairman, all I can say at this point is that the ball is in his
court.

QUESTION 7 BY MR. JULIUS OGUGUO: Pardon me because I am really confused
here, who is this Ugorji and what do you think would make a human being write this
kind of stuff?

ANSWER BY CHIKEZIE: It is interesting to note that this smear article which
is the subject of this Press Conference was sent to Igbo Forum about 4 hours
after I filed my Notice of Intent to seek the Office of Secretary General of
World Igbo Congress during the Labor Day Week Nashville Convention.

In Dr. Diogu's letter to me dated August 1st, 2003, he concluded with "my
brother, do not allow cowards like this sick soul to discourage or intimidate
you from aspiring to any office in WIC. If you do, they win". My answer to
the Chairman is that I have done my bit and that the ball remains in his court.

My dear, I can't pretend that I know the reason why men do what men do. All
that I can tell you is that I have an unequivocal commitment in ensuring that
our Igbo community is sanitized of these types of garbage as the WIC Chair
stated in his letter. While I am mindful that our community cannot be completely
rid of derelicts, I assert however, that all men and women of goodwill in our
community must close ranks and root out these rotten eggs in our midst.

In conclusion, I must express my sincere appreciation to everybody who
publicly or privately expressed their dismay in the wake of the underlining
defamatory article. While I cannot single out every body, I must sincerely thank
the man who created the Igbo Forum, Dr. Acho Orabuchi, who did not hesitate to
forward to me an e-mail sent to him on July 22nd 2003, at 2:36p.m. by a
certain Godwin Udibe requesting that Stanley McRuben Udeh be subscribed to the Igbo
Forum. As you recall, it was Stanley McRuben Udeh who forwarded Umar Ardo's
defamatory article to the Forum on July 22nd, 2003. Our investigation in this
matter also revealed that Ugorji Ugorji attended Godwin Udibe's wedding
ceremony in Atlanta Georgia on July 19th, 2003. Just two days before McRuben was
subscribed into the Igbo Forum. And seven days later, Umar Ardo whom we now
know who he is forwarded the defamatory article to the Igbo Forum via Stanley
McRuben.

To people like Chief C. Y. Nwaguru, Dr. Ken Okorie, Mazi Joe Etoh, Chief
Austin Egwuonwu, Nze Gibson Chigbu, Dr. Sam Enyia, Ichie Chibuzor Onwuchekwe, Mazi
Ishmael Nwangwa, Mazi B.U. Eguzuwa, Mazi Chibuzor Ngwakwe, Dr. Alwell
Nwankwoala, Dr. Obinna Ubani Ebere, Mazi Ibekwe, and many others whom I have not
mentioned, I remain eternally indebted to you for not remaining neutral in the
face of this evil that afflicts us. Stay well and God's speed.

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