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So what is your argument? A rationalisation? A justification of this shameless act, whether is Lagos or Delta? Methink self acclaimed civil rights activists like you should be clear on where they stand on issues that bothers on decency and integrity
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The people celebrating James Ibori are his people and they are doing so because other thieves in Nigeria are being celebrated by their own people. Although Ibori was convicted in Britain, he was however, convicted because of the political differences between him and the people in government in Nigeria then, but this should not be taken to mean that he was innocent.
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Chidi, there are two types of thieves in Nigeria. Usually, one type of thieve is condemned to mob justice, death sentence or incarceration, while the other type is celebrated. The first type belongs to pick-pockets while the second type belongs to government and parastatal officials. Since the days of Ibrahim Babangida, Nigerians have been indoctrinated to believe that stealing (government) money meant to provide potable water, electricity, standard housing, standard hospitals, schools for children, good and safety roads, refine crude oil and defend citizens against terrorism by officials, is not theft. That is why those who steal from our collective patrimony is celebrated by those who think that it will be their turn one day to be appointed, selected, elected or employed in the system of turn-by-turn stealing of money appropriated to provide for the common good of all Nigerians.
Although Ibori was convicted in Britain, he was however, convicted because of the political differences between him and the government in Nigeria then.... - Chidi Opara.
It is untrue that James Onanefe Ibori was convicted in Britain because of his political differences with the Nigerian government headed by Goodluck Jonathan. Of all the 23 Governors that were arraigned and prosecuted in courts for treasury looting after the expiration of their immunities in 2007, only the cases of Lucky Igbinedion of Edo State and James Ibori were concluded till date. It is on record that Lucky Igbinedion pleaded guilty to looting 5 billion naira from Edo State and Justice Abdullahi Kafarati offered him an option of 3.5 million naira fine!!
James Onanefe Ibori was first arrested on 12 December 2007, at Kwara State Lodge, Abuja, where he was given sanctuary by Saraki, then Governor of Kwara State. He pleaded not guilty and was granted bail. On 17 December 2009, Asaba Federal High Court presided over by Justice Marcel Awokulehin, discharged and acquitted James Onanefe Ibori of all the 170 charges of theft of Public funds, abuse of office, money laundry etc. In 2007, Ibori bribed the EFCC chairman, Nuhu Ribadu, with $15 million, which Ribadu deposited with the Central Bank of Nigeria as exhibit.
With regards to the trial of Ibori in Britain, the London Metropolitan Police began to take interest in Ibori in 2005 after coming across a purchase order for a private jet he made through his London solicitor. The London Police found out that Ibori had six different accounts in Barclays Bank, two in City Bank and several others in Channel Island where he listed his four months old baby as director in one of the companies. All in all, Ibori had laundered £250 million stolen from the Delta State in London. In 2010, Ibori travelled to Dubai, where most Nigerian treasury looters have invested stolen money which could have been used to produce thrice the beauty of Dubai in Nigeria, to check his properties there, unaware that the British police were trailing him. Britain applied to the UAE for repatriation of Ibori to London and secured it. At his trial, the prosecutor revealed that Ibori came to London late in the 1980s and was earning an annual income of £15,000 at Wickes Store in Ruislip. Ibori was, however, caught by his employer for allowing his wife, Theresa, for walking through the till he was manning without paying for the goods. They both pleaded guilty and were convicted at the Crown court of Isleworth on January 25, 1991. A year later, 7 February 1992, Ibori was again convicted at the Clerkenwell Magistrate Court for possessing stolen credit card. Ibori returned to Nigeria in 1993 and took refuge under Abacha. When Ibori was in London his date of birth, according to his passport, was 4 August 1962 but when he was repatriated from Dubai, his passport showed that he was born on August 4, 1958. His newly chosen date of birth made him just one month younger than his only surviving sister, Christine Ibori-Ibie, born of the same mother. The prosecution and conviction of Ibori in London had nothing to do with his political differences with Jonathan's government. In fact, charged along with Ibori in London on April 11, 2011 were Victor Obong Attah, former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, David Edevbie, a former principal secretary to Umaru Yar'Adua, Love Ojekovo, a former commissioner of Finance in Ibori's government and Henry Imasheka, a business associate of Ibori. In addition to that, it should not be forgotten that D. S.P. Alamieyeseigha, and Joshua Dariye were also prosecuted in Britain but they jumped bail. When Fawehinmi took the case of eligibility of Ibori as a governor to the High Court in Nigeria because he was convicted by an Abuja magistrate court for theft in 1995, the case was dismissed because, according to the judge, it could not be proved that the convicted Ibori was the same as the governor. That is Nigeria.
Happy Christmas
S.Kadiri
Jonathan was elevated to substantive President on May 5, 2010, and Ibori travelled to Dubai in June 2010. At that time, discussion about if Jonathan was going to contest the 2011 Presidential election had not come up. In fact, the conviction of Ibori in London on the alleged looting of Delta State's treasury for which he had been discharged and acquitted in Nigeria, was a repudiation of Nigeria's corrupt judiciary. Nigeria played no roll, covert or overt, in the trial and conviction of Ibori in London.
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Why have you never asked what happened to the billions of naira appropriated for Universal Primary Education (UPE) and later changed to Universal Basic Education (UBE), to provide education for every Nigerian child of school age as propagated in the United Nations Millenium Development Goal (MDG) introduced in year 2000 and expired in 2015? Please don't let part of you die for those impoverished children, rather you should conform with what the forerunner to Jesus, Peter, said to the Pharisees when they asked, "What shall we do to enter into the Kingdom of heaven?" Peter answered,"He that has two coats, let him impart one to him that has none."
S.Kadiri
Corruption in the !950s until the time of Babangida had to do with increasing the price of government's contracts and purchased goods. Babangida did not only introduce the euphemism, settle him/her, for corruption, it was he who permitted Permanent Secretaries and Directors in the Ministries to register personal companies through which they awarded government contracts to themselves. The contracts were never executed even though contract money were fully paid. That was how total and massive stealing of developmental money appropriated by the government began in Nigeria. Before Babangida, there was Financial and General orders regulating the behaviour of civil servants and curbing any financial misappropriations and thefts. The Auditor General of the Federation functioned as its counterparts in the Western World. I have wondered why Nigerian Intellectuals have not, through massive campaigns, compelled the National Assembly to pass the law to make asset declaration of Nigerian officials public.
S.Kadiri
You have to substantiate your assertion about questionable wealth of the people you mentioned.
S.Kadiri
When people say infrastructures in Nigeria are decayed, they are talking about the infrastructures that were built under Gowon. The super perm secretaries might have corruptly added ten per cent to the cost of those structures for themselves, nevertheless
the structures were erected. From Babangida era onwards, the sum of fifty million dollars appropriated for electricity generation in Nigeria was stolen without a single Watt added to our National grid; More than ten billion dollars disappeared in what was
called Turn-Around-Maintenance (TAM) of our four oil refineries without refined oil products. The list of stolen appropriated funds for the development of Nigeria from Babangida's era onwards can be made longer. I agree that there was corruption in Nigeria
before Babangida but massive stealing of public funds with impunity started from Babangida.
My own new year prayer is: May God punish all past and present looters of Nigeria's treasury. I pray for God's vengeance on members of Nigeria's Judiciary, Executive and Legislature that have participated, and are still participating, in the loot of our national patrimony. I pray that those whose harmful designs of cannibalistic thefts have denied the masses of Nigeria quality healthcare, infrastructural development, functional education, clean and potable water, good roads, good housing, and electricity, will get their lives cut off in gruesome manner. I pray to God that when looters of Nigeria's patrimony eat, their stomach would swell and burst open; and when they drink they would be afflicted with dysentery and cholera; and when they travel abroad for medical treatment, may God afflict physicians attending to them with blindness. I pray to God to target mansions built in Nigeria and abroad by looters of Nigeria's treasury with thunder, lighten and earth quake. I pray to God this way because lesser criminals than Nigerian treasury looters such as Ananias and Sapphira, according to the Acts of Apostles, Chapter 5 : 1-10, were struck to death by thunder and lighten for hiding part of their sold land-property from church taxation.
S.Kadiri
In Equatorial Guinea there’s the case of Teodorin Obiang which begins today in Paris.
According to this morning's Dagens Nyheter, “Obiang is not expected to appear at the trial, nor serve his sentence if convicted. One of his lawyers announced that Obiang "has always said that he earned the money legally in their country".
If he can show that he made the money legally in his country then he has nothing to worry about. I expect his kind hearted countrymen to pray that he will share the money with some of the poor people in his Equatorial Guinea
Why not? Mr Kadiri's prayer makes sense given the context and circumstances. I day a amen to that, perhaps with a friendly amendment that those who quickly return ALL they looted be spared.
OU
May God of mercy and kindness not hear your prayer Mr. Kadiri. My prayer is that those who looted the national treasury have a change of heart and willingly return the money for Buhari administration to utilize for the development of Nigeria. Aase Edumare.Segun Ogungbemi.
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My own new year prayer is: May God punish all past and present looters of Nigeria's treasury. I pray for God's vengeance on members of Nigeria's Judiciary, Executive and Legislature that have participated, and are still participating, in the loot of our national patrimony. I pray that those whose harmful designs of cannibalistic thefts have denied the masses of Nigeria quality healthcare, infrastructural development, functional education, clean and potable water, good roads, good housing, and electricity, will get their lives cut off in gruesome manner. I pray to God that when looters of Nigeria's patrimony eat, their stomach would swell and burst open; and when they drink they would be afflicted with dysentery and cholera; and when they travel abroad for medical treatment, may God afflict physicians attending to them with blindness. I pray to God to target mansions built in Nigeria and abroad by looters of Nigeria's treasury with thunder, lighten and earth quake. I pray to God this way because lesser criminals than Nigerian treasury looters such as Ananias and Sapphira, according to the Acts of Apostles, Chapter 5 : 1-10, were struck to death by thunder and lighten for hiding part of their sold land-property from church taxation.
S.Kadiri
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My New Year Prayer: God, continue to give me the patience to continue to use poetry as the weapon and not the gun.
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Verily, Professor Segun Ogungbemi.
But for having a Merciful Almighty, we could be in mortal danger of having all our prayers answered and getting what we prayed for, even in-ad-ver-tent-ly.
It's only with some fear and trepidation that I have always said the the 12th Blessing of the Amidah which was aimed at heretics and informers at a certain period of history, and which still goes like this (in translation):
“And for the slanderers, let there be no hope;
and may all wickedness perish in an instant;
and may all Your enemies be cut down speedily.
The wanton sinners – May You speedily uproot, smash, cast down, and humble - speedily, in our days.
Blessed are You Hashem, Who breaks enemies and humbles wanton sinners”
When I read it out to him this evening Ogbeni Kadiri laughed and told me that “wanton sinners” must refer to the looters – he was laughing - but the fact is that “ wanton sinners” could include him and me and some of the pastors too, as repeat offenders of what the Catholics refer to as minor sins and that's why I say and have always said the 12th Blessing of the Amidah - not wholeheartedly, but with some degree of mixed feelings.
I remember when I entered the church that Sunday morning, with Rasta brother Prince Abaye of Bakana carrying a wooden cross on his shoulders - the preacher was preaching from his pulpit and when they saw us approaching, the guards had rushed to the door to prevent us coming in but did not succeed because Prince Abaye swung his cross and those who wanted to prevent us from coming in had to jump out of the way. What still echoes in my ears are the first words that the preacher said – addressing both the congregation and us directly we heard him say : “ Friend of the world = enemy of God !”
Someday, would hate to see a bolt of lightning flash through the synagogue and wipe out half of the congregation.
Oga Adesuna,Ti Olorun ba ma sa mi ese ta lo le duro? If God is going to treat us according to our sin, how many of us will survive?The republicans in the Bible were asked to repent so as to enjoy the forgiveness of God.The above were/are the moral teachings in the Bible and I expect the born again to follow the injunctions.If our society had remained steadfast in their traditional moral teachings as Dr. Adesina had wished Soponna to deal with those who have stolen from the national treasury, perhaps there would have been no such thieves at all because they would have know the immediate consequences.I am neither a Christian nor a Muslim but a Humanist who takes pride in Yoruba culture and customs. A very rich culture and values I admire and respect.So, I am not a saint because such institution is not in Yoruba culture.Happy new year.
Professor,Ease let us put Oga Kadiri's "prayers" in oerspective. If you consider the level at which our collective patrimony has been stolen by those who are supposedly leaders, then there is no point trying to be saintly with these people. They are thieves, simple. And outside of a revolution that will strike them off our national picture, the best we can do--the last resort of the powerless--is terrible epe; sending Soponna (the god of smallpox) on a terrible errand.
These people do not need prayers; they need the most calamitous things to befall them as an example for others. Haven't they impoverished us all without any regard at all?
On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 6:43 AM, Segun Ogungbemi<segun...@gmail.com> wrote:
May God of mercy and kindness not hear your prayer Mr. Kadiri. My prayer is that those who looted the national treasury have a change of heart and willingly return the money for Buhari administration to utilize for the development of Nigeria. Aase Edumare.Segun Ogungbemi.
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My own new year prayer is: May God punish all past and present looters of Nigeria's treasury. I pray for God's vengeance on members of Nigeria's Judiciary, Executive and Legislature that have participated, and are still participating, in the loot of our national patrimony. I pray that those whose harmful designs of cannibalistic thefts have denied the masses of Nigeria quality healthcare, infrastructural development, functional education, clean and potable water, good roads, good housing, and electricity, will get their lives cut off in gruesome manner. I pray to God that when looters of Nigeria's patrimony eat, their stomach would swell and burst open; and when they drink they would be afflicted with dysentery and cholera; and when they travel abroad for medical treatment, may God afflict physicians attending to them with blindness. I pray to God to target mansions built in Nigeria and abroad by looters of Nigeria's treasury with thunder, lighten and earth quake. I pray to God this way because lesser criminals than Nigerian treasury looters such as Ananias and Sapphira, according to the Acts of Apostles, Chapter 5 : 1-10, were struck to death by thunder and lighten for hiding part of their sold land-property from church taxation.
S.Kadiri
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My New Year Prayer: God, continue to give me the patience to continue to use poetry as the weapon and not the gun.
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Chidi,
Re - “A slogan is not a program, platitudes are not policies, and good intentions are not good governance" (Jaye Gaskia).
“ to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?” (Hamlet)
Today an obstinate senate is preventing progress on the anti-corruption front.
The money.
Monies are missing just as Conversations with Wole Soyinka is missing from the great man Jeyifo Biodun 's CV, as lodged in his Harvard website. That is maybe an oversight caused by a surfeit of intellectual achievements on his part, whereas for an academic pauper like me with no kobos to count (only the widow's mite) that would be a one item for which I would like to have a standing ovation from here to eternity, so that when the Almighty asks what have you done, I could point to that and to some songs unsung.
For Muslims, there are the questions at the grave before ascending to paradise or down to the other place...
Unloading a little of the fury after reading the report you posted about “Niger Delta people suffering more than almajiris”. I love the Ijaw people. I also love the seagulls...
In this epoch of pithy sayings I should just like to add another reality that cannot be denied : From the conscientious point of view, the looters are indeed the looters. Policy wants to recover as much of these looted national assets (“the national patrimony”) as possible and that's why guys like Ogbeni Kadiri are fuming and praying that if Buhari can't then the Almighty should bring their planes ( the looters' planes) crashing down from the sky, give them whirlwinds for roads and rain down on them a full measure of the curses in Deuteronomy
We don't hear so much about Buhari's vice president Yemi Osinbajo , do we?
It should be good to hear from Ogbeni Kadiri about this - since he is a walking encyclopedia of Nigerian lore, that today, what is missing from Buhari is his side-man Tunde Idiagbon who was probably the driving moral force behind his e.g. War Against Indiscipline. When the duo took over on 31/12/1983 many civil servants in my neck of the Niger swamp had not been paid for months , but were still going to work and doing their patriotic duty/duties. Within two weeks of that coup civil servants had been paid a few months arrears and those people were singing to the Almighty, “God bless Buhari!” Within three weeks, the mountainous heaps of rubbish at Mile One Market in Port Harcourt, where mango trees had taken root, their leaves reaching for the sun – those rubbish heaps vanished within two days, cleared by decree that came from military headquarters.
Today : Buhari gives 5,000 naira to the poor
A problem : should big government in Nigeria be downsized, that would only add to the army of the unemployed….
Cherie Bondowe ( extolling prostitution? Circa 1975
Hopefully, some Bible-thumpers will sort this out for us.
According to you or/ and the gospels, Joseph Caiaphas is supposed to have been “an anointed man of God" Is that a fact?
I ask , because according to history sources ( probably mundane and unlike the gospels, laying no claim to being inspired by the Almighty or scriptural ) the man was appointed by the Roman colonial authorities and was a Sadducee
At this point it's only the “an anointed man of God" - not God in the mortal flesh or “the word made flesh” according to John or “the only begotten son of God” that is being contested.
Chidi,
It has been said that “a prophet has no honour in his own country”. In some circles just say, “not all Muslims are terrorists” or in sympathy, say, “the poor Palestinians” and someone wants to spit on you or you hear the words “idiot” and “traitor” and even “nigger” buzzing in your ears. It's just a matter of time, but let's hope that it doesn’t get to the point where the US media orchestrates a campaign against Melania Trump, accusing her of being a “Russian agent” First Lady in the White House. In the US, the levels of hatred and distrust are dangerously high, just like the very poisoned atmosphere that led to the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.
Till this day, the temple in ruins, anti-Semitism a universal sentiment – not least of all at the United Nations, the descendants of those you refer to as “the corrupt Jewish Priesthood the year Jesus the Christ was killed” are still criticizing Jesus of Nazareth for not being the Messiah...
No superstar is he, but It may be that Nnamdi Kanu is the long awaited Messiah of the Igbo separatists – you will just have to be patient –to hope, to wait and see if he will deliver what the Igbo Messiah is supposed to deliver, namely an Independent Biafra living in peace and harmony with the rest of Africa.
The Biafra cause is unique and significantly different from the situation that the Civil Rights Movement aimed at addressing, certainly different from the Apartheid system that once obtained in Apartheid South Africa and obviously different from the Palestinian cause at the heart of the troubled Middle East.
The Biafrans/Biafran leaders / IPOB have yet to take their case to the United Nations for some kind of arbitration or to organise a referendum for their own Brexit-like Biafra-exit from the Federal Naija Republic...
There are these two competing role models and Nnamdi Kanu - no Ojukwu is he - seems to be an admixture of neither:
"The Measure of a Man" by Martin Luther King
"I am prepared to die" by Nelson Mandela
I should hope that in their zeal, the Nnamdi Kanu praise singers are not about to start comparing him to Malcolm X or a combination of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Steve Biko and Jomo Kenyatta.
Pray for us (mankind)
In the name of Octavio Paz
Sincerely yours
Cornelius
Your emphasis was " a good poet"
Consider : “Muhammad's dead poets society”
Senghor was a politician in the French legislature, during the colonial period; rose to a ministerial position. Then with independence became president. He was a politician poet.
Another example is oyono, who became a politician in ahidjo’s govt, a major player for decades.
Oh, and no one would call senghor a freedom fighter! He who put dia in prison!
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Chidi, dollar never stayed at N170 for 4 years, but I will concede that to you not to injure your humour. During massive looting of surpluses, Nigeria's crude oil export was two million barrels per day at a price that fluctuated between $100 and $146 per barrel. Now, crude oil price in the international market swings between $30 and $50 and Nigeria's production is below 2 million barrels per day, partly because of the activities of Niger Delta Avengers, and partly because of world's market demand for crude oil has reduced considerably. Since the value of Nigerian naira depends solely on crude oil exports, it does not require any sophisticated logic to understand that the value of naira must depreciate with falling crude oil income.
Constitutionally, all natural resources in Nigeria belong to all Nigerians and the Federal Government is only assigned the responsibility of exploiting and managing them for the benefit of all Nigerians. The population of Nigeria today is estimated at 180 million people. Let us, for the sake of convenience, assume that Nigeria is able to produce 2 million barrels of crude oil per day and share it to each Nigerian for individual sale at the world market, can you Chidi tell us how much crude oil every Nigerian will get per day and how much dollar or cents will the shared crude oil fetch each Nigerian? If you solve this arithmetic of simple proportion you will discover that the real exchange of a dollar is greater than N510 and thus kudo to Buhari and his team mates for limiting damages that Nigeria would have suffered due to monolithic oil dependent national economy.
S.Kadiri