FW: Kenya's Supreme Court has cancelled Kenya's election, orders new election within 60 days
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Salimonu Kadiri
When prejudice influences poetry, the truth suffers as a result. In the Nigerian legal system of limitless Maradona-dribbling, it is impossible for the Supreme Court in Nigeria to adjudicate and conclude proceedings in a Presidential election petition within a month after election result has been announced. Corruption and abuse of judicial power is 98% greater in Nigeria than in Kenya. In Nigeria, Presidential election petition must start from the election tribunal which will spend not less than ten months to auction judgment to the highest bidder and will proceed from there to the Appeal Court which will spend almost a year to sell judgment to the highest bidder before the appeal can land at the Supreme Court for final hearing and judgment in favour of the person who pays more. Let me clarify with examples.
In the Gubernatorial election of Anambra State, in 2003, Dr Chris Ngige of the PDP was declared a winner against Peter Obi of APGA. While the election petition dragged on, Dr. Ngige reneged on his agreement with his sponsor to the election victory, Chris Uba, (whose brother was special assistant to President Obasanjo) to give him a chunk of monthly revenue allocation to the state from the Federal government. Dr. Ngige wanted the entire allocation to be used for the development of Anambra State. When all means to intimidate Dr. Ngige to comply with Chris Uba failed, the latter went to the Appeal Court to witness in favour of Peter Obi of APGA. Chris Uba revealed how election sheets were toe and finger thumbed before the election date in Anambra in which Dr. Ngige was declared Governor elected. Although Chris Uba was not prosecuted for perpetrating electoral fraud, the Supreme Court dismissed Dr. Ngige from office in 2005 and declared Peter Obi as the winner of 2003 Gubernatorial election. In 2007, Dr. Andy Nnamdi Uba, as he titled himself then, contested for the Governorship of Anambra State on the platform of PDP and he was declared a winner with 1.9 million votes. Some days after the election result, Uba's opponents discovered that the total number of voters in the register was 1.7 million and Professor Maurice Iwu's INEC quickly adjusted Dr. Andy Nnamdi Uba's winning votes to one million. One Mr. Greg Ikemefuna filed a court suit alleging that Dr. Andy Nnamdi Uba was not qualified to contest the Gubernatorial election because he did not attend any of the three Universities, and did not obtain any doctorate degree in 1996, as he claimed, filled and signed in INEC Form 001. The Universities Dr(?) Andy Nnamdi Uba claimed he attended in INEC Form 001 were Concordia University, Montreal , Canada, California State University, Los Angeles, and Buxton University, London. Mr. Greg Ikemefuna secured a letter from the UK Department of Education and Skills revealing that Buxton University did not exist. When Andy Nnamdi Uba was eventually eased out of office, it was because the election that threw him up as Governor should not have taken place, in view of the fact that, constitutionally, the four years tenure of Peter Obi started in 2005 when he was first sworn in and the next Gubernatorial election should, therefore, be 2009. The case of Andy Nnamdi Uba's false academic claim, has since been swept under the carpet by the court and he is now a Senator making laws for Nigerians.
Still in Anambra, it was discovered that the election that threw up Willy Obiano as the Governor of the State in 2013 contained illegal voters. For instance, a bowl of rice was registered with, a given date of birth, profession as a civil servant, sex as a male and was permitted to vote in the election. The election result was, however, legalized by the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
In preparation for the March/April 2015 Federal and state Elections, INEC announced that the elections would be conducted with the aid of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) and Card Readers. Devices that were intended to eliminate multiple voting, irregular voting i.e. registering in one unit and voting in another unit, and allocation of votes in which political agents and electoral officials simply connive to allocate agreed number of votes to political parties regardless of number of votes cast. Card Raders in particular would verify if the PVC belongs to the bearer or if it is cloned, thereby checking impersonation and counterfeiting during elections. The Supreme Court of Nigeria, however, declared the use of PVC and CR in the March/April 2015 election illegal when over-voting was discovered in the Southeast and South-south, excluding Edo State, where the conduct of elections were based on manually prepared voters' register. It took over a year after the election before the Supreme Court of Nigeria could decide that voters' register, even if it contained goats and chickens as eligible voters, was superior to Card Readers. That was why the Supreme Court of Nigeria reversed the 27 January 2016 ruling of the Appeal court which had nullified the Governorship and State Assembly election of Rivers State on the ground that number of votes counted and announced as results outrageously exceeded what were recorded by Card Readers. Therefore, comparing Kenya Supreme Court Judges with those in Nigeria is not only wrong but dishonest.
Concerning the DSS operations on Judges in Nigeria, their counterparts in Kenya would have acted in the same way if Kenya Judges openly sell judgments to the highest bidder as it has been in Nigeria. After the DSS raid, two affected Justices of the Supreme Court wrote to the Nigerian Judicial Council (NJC) to explain the sources of the huge amount of money, both in US dollars and naira, recovered from their homes by DSS. While Justice Inyang Ikoro wrote that the dollars were unexpended part of his estacode for medical treatments abroad that he had been saving, Justice Sylvester Nwali Ngwuta on his part claimed that the money found in his house was made from selling rice and palm oil. Before the admission of the Justices to the ownership of the huge amount of money found by DSS in their homes, some people on this forum alleged that the DSS had planted the money in the homes of the Justices to incriminate them. Yet, we all know that a successful Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) does not know law, but he knows Court Registrars and Judges. It is a mystery that those who are awed by the DSS's raid are not concerned about the eyes-popping wealth of Judicial Officers in Nigeria who collect huge bribes from national looters to adjourn cases indefinitely, dismiss cases and issue perpetual injunctions against the arrest, interrogation and prosecution of looters by the law enforcing agencies. One of the judges whose home was raided by the DSS in 2016 was Justice I.A. Umezulike, the Chief Judge of Enugu. Barrister Peter Eze had petitioned the DSS, EFCC, ICPC and NJC accusing Justice Umezulike of abuse of judicial power against two defendants in suits Nos. E/6/2013 and E/88/2016. The Chief Judge clung to the two suits to remain in his court, despite all genuine efforts by the defendants to get the suit transferred to another court. The plaintiff in the two cases was Prince Arthur Eze, one of the Southeast marginalized billionaire tycoon allocated with oil block OML 109, located just 12 miles off the shores of Nigeria, encompassing some 773 square kilometres with estimated 2.2 billion barrels of crude oil. While Justice Umezulikke was adjudicating on the two cases in which Prince Arthur Eze was a party, the Chief Judge had a book launch and Prince Arthur Eze attended and donated ten million naira (N10 million) for the book launch. With that donation, Prince Arthur Eze, indirectly, had purchased favourable judgements in the two cases pending before the honourable Judge, which was why he refused to transfer the cases to another court. So, when the DSS raided the home of the Chief Judge of Enugu State, Justice I. A. Umezulike, it was not because he had pronounced any judgment against the Federal Government, but because he was engaged in cash and carry judgments like most of the Nigerian judicial officers. He was subsequently recommended for dismissal by the Nigerian Judicial Council which is the only penalty for criminal judges in Nigeria.
In December 2015, the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Mr. Ekpo Nta, revealed that the ICPC was prosecuting over 400 corruption-related cases in various courts in the country and he blamed the judiciary for impeding prosecution and judgments. In view of that, Ibrahim Magu, the Acting Chairman of EFCC, whose experience was similar to that of Mr. Nta, suggested a legislation that would fix a time frame within which corruption cases should be heard and determined by the judiciary. The Senate responded by declaring Ibrahim Magu unfit to be the Chairman of EFCC. Could that happen in Kenya?
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“False-hearted judges dying in the webs that they spin
Only a matter of time ’til night comes steppin’ in” (Jokerman)
Well, in Benin, Voodoo is one of the official state religions whereas in in the Federal Republic of Nigeria what is popularly/ unpopularly known in the missionary West as “voodoo” “/“Juju” /“witchcraft” has not quite attained that kind of official status yet ;I begin with this preamble before quoting Quran and in this case the Bible ( the so called “ New” testament) that, “a prophet has no honor in his own country” (in advance, Jesus perhaps justifying his own rejection by his own people, whilst he was still alive)…as when predicting imminent future disaster/ under-development, corruption and incompetence politicians and commentators alike tend to put on some kind of prophetic toga ( even if Muslims among them know and understand that Muhammad Ibn Abdallah ( S.a.w.) was and is the LAST PROPHET! )
But unlike Baba Kadiri, Chidi was not revisiting the past. That was merely Chidi’s devilish, nightmare premonitions about a worst case scenario in his native land. I’m as surprised as Chidi, in fact aren’t we all surprised about that Supreme Court decision in Kenya or in any other African country for that matter, where on the one hand they preach and pay lip service to “the separation of powers” even when the actual praxis is that whatever incumbent president (Brother Buhari a notable exception) most other African presidents that we know of in the present and in the past, usually have the Supreme Court in their back pockets.
However, the assassination of a key electoral officer - with the key to the electoral data bank, that must have been the smoking gun, leaving the Supreme Court no alternative but to bite the bullet and declare the vote null and void!
Here’s some revisiting the past, perhaps even reinventing that history as Victor Oguejiofor Okafor does, so succinctly and poignantly here in his “Nigeria’s disputed Elections and the Resulting Leadership legitimacy crisis” he said: “In the final analysis Ex-President Obasanjo should realize that electoral crimes are also grave acts of corruption. Gaining political office by snatching ballot boxes and by filling ballot boxes with fake votes is as unconstitutional as seizing the reins of government with the gun – and should be considered and treated as treasonable”
Olayinka Agbetuyi
This message is eligible for Automatic Cleanup! (When prejudice influences poetry, the truth suffers as a result. In the Nigerian legal system of limitless Maradona-dribbling, it is impossible for the Supreme Court in Nigeria to adjudicate and conclude proceedings in a Presidential election petition within a month after election result has been announced. Corruption and abuse of judicial power is 98% greater in Nigeria than in Kenya. In Nigeria, Presidential election petition must start from the election tribunal which will spend not less than ten months to auction judgment to the highest bidder and will proceed from there to the Appeal Court which will spend almost a year to sell judgment to the highest bidder before the appeal can land at the Supreme Court for final hearing and judgment in favour of the person who pays more. Let me clarify with examples.
In the Gubernatorial election of Anambra State, in 2003, Dr Chris Ngige of the PDP was declared a winner against Peter Obi of APGA. While the election petition dragged on, Dr. Ngige reneged on his agreement with his sponsor to the election victory, Chris Uba, (whose brother was special assistant to President Obasanjo) to give him a chunk of monthly revenue allocation to the state from the Federal government. Dr. Ngige wanted the entire allocation to be used for the development of Anambra State. When all means to intimidate Dr. Ngige to comply with Chris Uba failed, the latter went to the Appeal Court to witness in favour of Peter Obi of APGA. Chris Uba revealed how election sheets were toe and finger thumbed before the election date in Anambra in which Dr. Ngige was declared Governor elected. Although Chris Uba was not prosecuted for perpetrating electoral fraud, the Supreme Court dismissed Dr. Ngige from office in 2005 and declared Peter Obi as the winner of 2003 Gubernatorial election. In 2007, Dr. Andy Nnamdi Uba, as he titled himself then, contested for the Governorship of Anambra State on the platform of PDP and he was declared a winner with 1.9 million votes. Some days after the election result, Uba's opponents discovered that the total number of voters in the register was 1.7 million and Professor Maurice Iwu's INEC quickly adjusted Dr. Andy Nnamdi Uba's winning votes to one million. One Mr. Greg Ikemefuna filed a court suit alleging that Dr. Andy Nnamdi Uba was not qualified to contest the Gubernatorial election because he did not attend any of the three Universities, and did not obtain any doctorate degree in 1996, as he claimed, filled and signed in INEC Form 001. The Universities Dr(?) Andy Nnamdi Uba claimed he attended in INEC Form 001 were Concordia University, Montreal , Canada, California State University, Los Angeles, and Buxton University, London. Mr. Greg Ikemefuna secured a letter from the UK Department of Education and Skills revealing that Buxton University did not exist. When Andy Nnamdi Uba was eventually eased out of office, it was because the election that threw him up as Governor should not have taken place, in view of the fact that, constitutionally, the four years tenure of Peter Obi started in 2005 when he was first sworn in and the next Gubernatorial election should, therefore, be 2009. The case of Andy Nnamdi Uba's false academic claim, has since been swept under the carpet by the court and he is now a Senator making laws for Nigerians.
Still in Anambra, it was discovered that the election that threw up Willy Obiano as the Governor of the State in 2013 contained illegal voters. For instance, a bowl of rice was registered with, a given date of birth, profession as a civil servant, sex as a male and was permitted to vote in the election. The election result was, however, legalized by the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
In preparation for the March/April 2015 Federal and state Elections, INEC announced that the elections would be conducted with the aid of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) and Card Readers. Devices that were intended to eliminate multiple voting, irregular voting i.e. registering in one unit and voting in another unit, and allocation of votes in which political agents and electoral officials simply connive to allocate agreed number of votes to political parties regardless of number of votes cast. Card Raders in particular would verify if the PVC belongs to the bearer or if it is cloned, thereby checking impersonation and counterfeiting during elections. The Supreme Court of Nigeria, however, declared the use of PVC and CR in the March/April 2015 election illegal when over-voting was discovered in the Southeast and South-south, excluding Edo State, where the conduct of elections were based on manually prepared voters' register. It took over a year after the election before the Supreme Court of Nigeria could decide that voters' register, even if it contained goats and chickens as eligible voters, was superior to Card Readers. That was why the Supreme Court of Nigeria reversed the 27 January 2016 ruling of the Appeal court which had nullified the Governorship and State Assembly election of Rivers State on the ground that number of votes counted and announced as results outrageously exceeded what were recorded by Card Readers. Therefore, comparing Kenya Supreme Court Judges with those in Nigeria is not only wrong but dishonest.
Concerning the DSS operations on Judges in Nigeria, their counterparts in Kenya would have acted in the same way if Kenya Judges openly sell judgments to the highest bidder as it has been in Nigeria. After the DSS raid, two affected Justices of the Supreme Court wrote to the Nigerian Judicial Council (NJC) to explain the sources of the huge amount of money, both in US dollars and naira, recovered from their homes by DSS. While Justice Inyang Ikoro wrote that the dollars were unexpended part of his estacode for medical treatments abroad that he had been saving, Justice Sylvester Nwali Ngwuta on his part claimed that the money found in his house was made from selling rice and palm oil. Before the admission of the Justices to the ownership of the huge amount of money found by DSS in their homes, some people on this forum alleged that the DSS had planted the money in the homes of the Justices to incriminate them. Yet, we all know that a successful Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) does not know law, but he knows Court Registrars and Judges. It is a mystery that those who are awed by the DSS's raid are not concerned about the eyes-popping wealth of Judicial Officers in Nigeria who collect huge bribes from national looters to adjourn cases indefinitely, dismiss cases and issue perpetual injunctions against the arrest, interrogation and prosecution of looters by the law enforcing agencies. One of the judges whose home was raided by the DSS in 2016 was Justice I.A. Umezulike, the Chief Judge of Enugu. Barrister Peter Eze had petitioned the DSS, EFCC, ICPC and NJC accusing Justice Umezulike of abuse of judicial power against two defendants in suits Nos. E/6/2013 and E/88/2016. The Chief Judge clung to the two suits to remain in his court, despite all genuine efforts by the defendants to get the suit transferred to another court. The plaintiff in the two cases was Prince Arthur Eze, one of the Southeast marginalized billionaire tycoon allocated with oil block OML 109, located just 12 miles off the shores of Nigeria, encompassing some 773 square kilometres with estimated 2.2 billion barrels of crude oil. While Justice Umezulikke was adjudicating on the two cases in which Prince Arthur Eze was a party, the Chief Judge had a book launch and Prince Arthur Eze attended and donated ten million naira (N10 million) for the book launch. With that donation, Prince Arthur Eze, indirectly, had purchased favourable judgements in the two cases pending before the honourable Judge, which was why he refused to transfer the cases to another court. So, when the DSS raided the home of the Chief Judge of Enugu State, Justice I. A. Umezulike, it was not because he had pronounced any judgment against the Federal Government, but because he was engaged in cash and carry judgments like most of the Nigerian judicial officers. He was subsequently recommended for dismissal by the Nigerian Judicial Council which is the only penalty for criminal judges in Nigeria.
In December 2015, the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Mr. Ekpo Nta, revealed that the ICPC was prosecuting over 400 corruption-related cases in various courts in the country and he blamed the judiciary for impeding prosecution and judgments. In view of that, Ibrahim Magu, the Acting Chairman of EFCC, whose experience was similar to that of Mr. Nta, suggested a legislation that would fix a time frame within which corruption cases should be heard and determined by the judiciary. The Senate responded by declaring Ibrahim Magu unfit to be the Chairman of EFCC. Could that happen in Kenya?
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Really real: I was sure that Victor Oguejiofor Okafor would have and should have taken some flak for saying that ”seizing the reins of government with the gun … should be considered and treated as treasonable” and I guess that the guilty ones according to him should thereby face annihilation by firing squad? If the people are suffering endlessly, in a country saddled with a corrupt government and sitting on top of the pile is a president for life, one rigged election after another, should it be OK for a redeemer army-man to intervene with the aim of restoring democracy and ending the shuffering and shmiling?
About the beginning/ beginnings, “the first cause” and all that jazz, there’s this Joel Osteen joke about the scientist who challenged the Almighty . Nowadays, not only the scientists, even some of the historians of today are challenging the scriptures about the age of mankind for example, since according to the Hebrew calendar we are now living in the year 5,777 since the creation…
And just as we have listened patiently to Alagba Falola's philosophical excursions into the theology of what can and what cannot be done with history in spite of the well-known ideogram, " With God all things are possible" not to mention several instances of God's Divine Intervention in the history of Israel - the flood, the burning bush, the ten plagues, the birth of the Israeli nation at Mt. Sinai, at some time God defying the very laws of physics by making the sun stand still, so too in the world of nature, “necessity is the mother of invention " applies and that is why and how we have coups : The sometimes divine intervention or intrusion if you like, of The Military into politics such as Blaise Compaoré’s coup of August 4, 1983 which freed Captain Thomas Sankara from prison and installed him as President of Burkina Faso. Later, another wannabe redeemer, Brother Buhari - as General Muhammadu Buhari and his side-man Major General Tunde Idiagbon on the last day of 1983 just as Flt. Lieutenant Jeremiah Rawlings before him, also on the last day of 1981, with the intention of changing the course of history - from what had been occurring in the past, changing "the system” ( the old corrupt system) by trying to create a better alternative future – at the cusp of the old year and ushering in the new beginnings, some real “ Happy New Year”…
Chidi, the guises are many – in some other
West African country more than a decade earlier,
the president’s attack dogs would not have “ discovered large sums of monies in
different major world currencies belonging to the main opposition leader and
his associates” – in fact they "discovered" a large cache of explosives and
ammunition in the garage and house of some prominent opposition leader or
other ( planted there by the Pa of
course) so that he could go on national television
– show up the evidence and start wailing
that the treacherous and treasonous
opposition leader and colleagues had confessed plan to blow up the presidential villa and the
house of parliament : therefore in the interests of peace and stability in the beloved country, and to
rid the beloved country of such vermin, they should be deserving of the death penalty,
either death by hanging or by lining them up
to face the musical firing squad, fait
accompli
Salimonu Kadiri
Lest we forget, DSS and EFCC existed during Olusegun Obasnjo's PDP led federal government from 1999. Lest we forget, the PDP ruled Nigeria from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2015, making a total of 16 years. Lest we forget, Buhari was sworn in as the President of Nigeria on 29 May 2015. Lest we forget, most of the EFCC cases against corrupt PDP-political office holders began in 2007 and are still ongoing. Lets we forget, most of the corrupt PDP-political office holders being tried in the courts throughout the nation have now crossed over to the APC but cases of corruption against them have not been withdrawn. Lest we forget, it was not Buhari's EFCC who charged James Onanefe Ibori to court for stealing £265 million from Delta State Treasury during his eight years tenure as Governor of the State, but Jonathan's EFCC. Lest we forget, it was not Buhari's EFCC that arraigned a marginalised South-easterner and former Governor of Abia State (1999-2007), Orji Uzor Kalu, before an Abuja High Court on 27 July 2007 on a 107-count charge of money laundering, official corruption and criminal diversion of public funds in excess of N5 billion, but Yar'Adua's EFCC. Lest we forget, the EFCC accused Kalu of transferring billions of naira belonging to the Abia State government to his Slok Airlines. He was accused of transferring the funds over a period of time from the defunct Manny Bank (later merged with Fidelity Bank) to Slok's account at Inland Bank. Lest we forget, he was also alleged, between 1999 and 2007, to have removed various sums of government money into Slok Investment, Slok Nigeria Limited, Slok Incorporated all owned by him. Lest we forget, Orji Uzor Kalu admitted in court that the N 5 billion naira he transferred to his private companies' account from Abia State account was from security votes and since security votes are unaccountable and unretired-able, he had the right as Governor to disburse the security votes as he did. Lest we forget, the case is still in court even though Orji Uzor Kalu has now crossed from PDP to APC. Lest we forget, the economic situation which Nigerians are complaining about today are not caused by Buhari's administration and commonsense demands that the political party that ruled Nigeria for 16 years, until 29 May 2015, should be made to account for their stewardship while in power.
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This message is eligible for Automatic Cleanup! (Lest we forget, DSS and EFCC existed during Olusegun Obasnjo's PDP led federal government from 1999. Lest we forget, the PDP ruled Nigeria from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2015, making a total of 16 years. Lest we forget, Buhari was sworn in as the President of Nigeria on 29 May 2015. Lest we forget, most of the EFCC cases against corrupt PDP-political office holders began in 2007 and are still ongoing. Lets we forget, most of the corrupt PDP-political office holders being tried in the courts throughout the nation have now crossed over to the APC but cases of corruption against them have not been withdrawn. Lest we forget, it was not Buhari's EFCC who charged James Onanefe Ibori to court for stealing £265 million from Delta State Treasury during his eight years tenure as Governor of the State, but Jonathan's EFCC. Lest we forget, it was not Buhari's EFCC that arraigned a marginalised South-easterner and former Governor of Abia State (1999-2007), Orji Uzor Kalu, before an Abuja High Court on 27 July 2007 on a 107-count charge of money laundering, official corruption and criminal diversion of public funds in excess of N5 billion, but Yar'Adua's EFCC. Lest we forget, the EFCC accused Kalu of transferring billions of naira belonging to the Abia State government to his Slok Airlines. He was accused of transferring the funds over a period of time from the defunct Manny Bank (later merged with Fidelity Bank) to Slok's account at Inland Bank. Lest we forget, he was also alleged, between 1999 and 2007, to have removed various sums of government money into Slok Investment, Slok Nigeria Limited, Slok Incorporated all owned by him. Lest we forget, Orji Uzor Kalu admitted in court that the N 5 billion naira he transferred to his private companies' account from Abia State account was from security votes and since security votes are unaccountable and unretired-able, he had the right as Governor to disburse the security votes as he did. Lest we forget, the case is still in court even though Orji Uzor Kalu has now crossed from PDP to APC. Lest we forget, the economic situation which Nigerians are complaining about today are not caused by Buhari's administration and commonsense demands that the political party that ruled Nigeria for 16 years, until 29 May 2015, should be made to account for their stewardship while in power.
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