Despite the on-going efforts of the federal government to fight corrupt practices in all facets of our national life, corrupt practices are on the increase in the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) as authoritatively recently revealed to 247ureports.com.
A source close to the office of the FCT Minister, who pleaded for anonymity, revealed that a junior brother to the FCT Minister’s wife, Umaru Shayi, who was idling away in Bauchi and believed to be one of those aides appointed by the minister for a hatchet job, is involved in swindling unsuspecting land applicants in the FCDA. Umaru Shayi is presently the Special Assistant to the FCT Minister on Domestic Matters – and is the proud owner of Aulad Filling Stations in Bauchi – with one of the major filling stations located along the Bauchi-Jos Road. Umaru Shayi is the younger brother to the farvorite wife [the 2nd wife] of the FCT Minister. The 1st wife to the FCT Minster who is said to be the daughter of the late emir of Bauchi State does not live with the Minister – she resides in Garki while the second wife resides with the Minister at Life Camp Estate.
It was revealed that part of the proceed realized from the various scandals was used in the construction of two filing stations in Miri village a suburb of Bauchi metropolis situated along-Bauchi Jos road while his sister who is said to be the favourite of the minister’s two wives uses part of the proceed to construct an estate in Abuja to provide him cover from her husband and anti-corruption agencies.
Sen Bala Mohammed in his traditional garb
The source further said, apart from Umaru Shayi, Manu Muhammed, a junior brother to the minister who swindled innocent land applicants several billions of naira, was sacked on the order of the minister and forced to make refund by the EFCC who was invited to the case just as Abdul Azeez, an aide to the minister was forced out of the FCDA for swindling innocent applicants over N300million.
“N4billion was discovered in Manu’s bank account after it was reported by the media which compelled the minister to hurriedly sack him but the EFCC refused the sack and took up the case immediately. He is now forced to make refund to those he duped though he still owns several houses at Kado in the FCT that were constructed from the scandal.
Not only that, it was revealed to 247ureports.com that a 4-year old daughter of the FCT Chief of Staff, was scandalously allocated a plot of land in the FCT which was later sold at over N250million. There is a group that front for the senior staff of FCDA and very close to the minister whose job is to pick numbers of approved applications and convert same to themselves for sale to the highest bidder and submit return to their masters. The group was before under the supervision of a brother to the minister who used part of the accumulated proceed to buy his present residential house in Bauchi at N70million from the State’s former speaker, Halliru Jika.
Other scandals going on in the FCDA include collection of estacode for fictitious overseas official trips by the FCT Minister’s favorite wife and chain of fake aides amounting to over N1billion while the director treasury of the Authority is alleged to be one of the richest civil servants in Nigeria for amassing so much from several financial scandals.
“The Federal Government should probe land allocations in the FCT as even dead people are allocated land by the minister for fraudulent reasons” it was said
The news of the killing of innocent people in some villages in Barki Ladi of Plateau state,Nigeria, has come to Arewa Consultative Forum with great shock. Tremendous shock not only because the killing included women and children, but also because they have occurred just after the recent reconciliatory meetings between the wary factions, as well as after the recent visit by the new National Security Adviser to Plateau state in continuation of his search for how best to address the security challenges across the country. More depressing has been the following killing of Senator Dantong and the Chief Whip of Plateau state House of Assembly as well as the wounding of a member of the House of Reps. It is, therefore, with heavy heart that ACF wishes to call on all those who derive pleasure in violent killing of neighbors as their own ways of addressing grievances to stop such drift to the stone age when communal violence was the deed in fashion. In the twenty first century, such approach is certainly primitive and barbaric, especially when regard is paid to the fact that under democracy there are due process of addressing any perceived grievances.
ACF also calls on the governments and security agencies to prosecute perpetrators of such heinous crimes against humanity as deterrence for future occurrences.
And finally, the forum commiserates with families of those killed, and prays to God to provide them with the fortitude to bear the irreparable losses. May their souls rest in perfect peace.
In line with my principle of upholding the truth and advancing the cause and course of democracy and social justice in Nigeria, devoid of any subjective stance of partisan politics, I deem it necessary to write this piece and bring to light some salient issues that played out in the prosecution of the Election Petition before the 2011 Presidential Election Tribunal, which in my opinion went a long way to determine the final verdict of the tribunal. Now that the presidential election petition matter has been finally decided, I believe it will be useful to bring to light the observations of some of us who closely monitored and studied the proceedings in the hope that lessons will be learnt in the interest of the nation and of posterity. It may also further justify my earlier call for the removal of Prof. Attahiru Jega as Chairman of INEC on the ground that he has proven himself to be a bias and subjective umpire. He demonstrated this not only in the conduct of the 2011 general elections, but more importantly in his untoward conduct during the trial of the CPC Petition before the Presidential Election Tribunal.
I would like to state from the outset that all the facts referred to in this write up, are either facts deposited before the Presidential Election Tribunal by the various contending parties, or in the proceedings of the tribunal, or of common public knowledge. Let me also state at this stage that I am neither for nor against any of the parties involved; I only want to make public what I consider to be the truth of a crucial national matter for the purpose of avoiding same in the future. Perhaps I may also add that although no court judgment by itself is beyond criticism, we are however all bound by all judgments no matter how fallible.
As can be recalled, the Presidential election result was declared on the 18th day of April, 2011. Dissatisfied with the outcome, the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) wrote a letter to INEC demanding, among other things, for relevant electoral materials used in the conduct of the election in the exercise of its right to such materials as established by Section 77 of the Electoral Act, 2010. INEC responded to the CPC letter and undertook to make available copies of electoral materials to the party upon payment of the necessary fees. But surprisingly, for no any cogent reason INEC seemed to have blatantly retracted its decision by apparently refusing to cooperate with the CPC lawyers. Thereupon, CPC caused additional letter dated the 20th April, 2011 to be written to INEC when its demand for election materials was not addressed. Still, in spite of the provision of the law, Prof. Jega refused to comply. Hence, CPC was forced by this flagrant refusal of INEC to file its election petition before the Presidential Election Tribunal without the luxury of availability of the demanded election materials. This then gave the PDP the leeway to file preliminary objection on the competence of CPC’s petition. Although this objection was overruled by the Justice Salami-led Presidential Election Tribunal, so much time was however wasted in the course of hearing the objection before eventually being overruled. Thus, knowing full well that the Election Tribunal matter was time-bound, INEC’s misdemeanour put CPC at a position of serious disadvantage in prosecuting its petition. Whether that was deliberate or not, Jega’s INEC’s actions (or inactions) had adversely affected CPC’s case before the tribunal.
But this is only the beginning of the problem as subsequent actions of Jega’s INEC in the course of prosecuting CPC’s case at the tribunal were more damning. After having withered the huddle Jega first put on the Petitioner’s way at the tribunal, through the sheer efforts of the CPC lawyers and forensic experts, the Presidential Tribunal granted an order for access and inspection of documents and materials in the custody of INEC on the 24th May, 2011. The terms of the Order provides as follows:
1. An order that INEC shall grant the Petitioner and any other party in the petition their counsels, agents or experts access to the biometric Database created by the DDC machines for register of voters, used at the Presidential Election held on 16th April, 2011. INEC shall give notice to parties as to time, date and place for such exercise provided that the absence of a party duly notified shall not delay such exercise.
2. AN ORDER that INEC shall grant access to the Petitioner and any other party to the petition, their counsels and their experts, to inspect and take Certified True Copy (CTC) of election materials, i.e.
a) Register of Voters used in all the Polling Units at Presidential Election held on 16/04/2011.
b) Electoral Forms EC8 A, B, C, D & E
c) Manual for the Election
d) List of Officials of INEC including adhoc staff who participated in the conduct of the election.
e) Records of Ballot papers distribution throughout the Federation.
f) Ballot papers used in the Presidential Election held on 16/04/2011.
3. Access for inspection and taking of copies of the election materials shall be at the statutory location of such election materials, i.e.
(i) Custody of Resident Electoral Commissioners in various states.
(ii) Custody of Chairman of INEC.
Provided all necessary official fees for such certification are paid.
Here again Jega’s INEC made it impossible for this Court Oder to be executed. Several attempts made by CPC’s lawyers towards the execution of the order by way of demanding information on database specifications and copies of ballot papers were frustrated by INEC. CPC’s lawyers wrote a letter to INEC dated 27th May, 2011 in which they sought information on the structure of data base, its tables, columns, definitions and relationship between tables. The letter was never responded to by INEC. They then wrote another letter dated 16th June, 2011 notifying it of their intention to get CPC’s forensic experts visit the Commission on Monday, 20th day of June, 2011 but the letter was equally not responded to by INEC.
The petitioning party was compelled by these frustrating attitude of INEC to write to the Counsel to INEC vide a letter dated the 20th day of June, 2011 seeking his intervention in making the meeting of the lawyers and forensic experts of all the parties possible, so as to agree on the modalities of executing the Tribunal’s Order. Chief Awomolo SAN (INEC’s Counsel), wrote to CPC lawyers and suggested for the convening of a meeting at the conference hall of INEC on the 24th day of June, 2011. At that meeting, held between lawyers and forensic experts of all the contending parties in the suit, it was agreed that all parties shall meet on July 11th to commence the execution of the Court Order.
Amazingly, and in complete contravention of the provision of the Electoral Act 2010, which stipulates that election materials shall be given out by INEC on the orders of an Election Tribunal for the purpose of evidence, Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, counsel to President Goodluck Jonathan and Vice President Namadi Sambo, wrote a letter dated 27th June, 2011 stating that no data should be taken which might reveal a particular fingerprint of any particular individual. CPC lawyers were shocked by this new twist of events. Nevertheless, the scheduled meeting of 11th July, 2011 was held for the purpose of the forensic exercise, but not surprisingly the exercise did not commence but was forwarded to the 26th day of July, 2011. However, in that meeting INEC also took to the position of the President’s lawyers when Chief Awomolo, SAN stated that it is the stand of his client (INEC) that no party can go beyond viewing of the database and that there will be no scanning of ballot papers. In addition, the Director Legal Service of INEC, Mr. Ibrahim Bawa, further reiterated that the electronic voters registration copy contained in the INEC database was not used in the election and did not form part of election materials and so cannot be accessed based on the Court Order. If this is true, then the question is which voter registration did INEC use to conduct the 2011 general elections?
CPC lawyers were frustrated and compelled by these apparent twists, turns and contradictions to write to the INEC Chairman himself drawing his attention to the condescending attitude of his legal team in collaboration with the President’s lawyers associated with the execution of the Order of the Court relating to forensic exercise. While expecting a response from the INEC Chairman resolving the matter, Jega ignored this very significant CPC’s letter. Instead, the position was further compounded by a letter from Dr. Alex Izinyon, counsel to PDP, dated 25th July, 2011, a day before the commencement of the exercise, in which he resolved also that the issue of Database of voters’ register is a no go area.
Basically, in defiance to the Court Order and in breach of the Electoral Act 2010, a position was taken by the Presidency, INEC and PDP that come what may they would not concede to the scanning of thumb impression on a ballot paper for the purpose of matching same with voters’ thumb impression in INEC’s data base as this would automatically reveal all multiple and irregular votings in the 2011 Presidential election. Their position was supported by members of INEC forensic team who added that taking information contained in the database will impinge on privacy rights and would show how each voter voted, thus violating section 125 (3) of the Electoral Act. But this was just a flimsy excuse because the Electoral Act is very clear; that INEC must avail a petitioner any election material on the Orders of a Court for the purpose of proving an election case before a tribunal. Since in the instant case both conditions were made, CPC lawyers had no other option but to run back to the tribunal again and report this INEC’s flagrant disobedience of its Oder and seek compliance.
However, at the tribunal itself, serious twists of fundamental consequences had occurred – its Chairman and the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Salami, who granted the Order in the first place, was removed at the instance of the President on the recommendation of some members of the National Judicial Commission. In his place a new Chairman was appointed, who immediately reconstituted the membership of the tribunal. By the time CPC lawyers arrived before the new panel, everything had changed, and things had taken a new turn! The new panel did not agree with the petitioning lawyers on virtually every issue and the previous Order was practically reversed on the simple definition of the word “access”. The previous Salami-led panel had earlier on subpoena INEC to testify on certain issues including the assertion of its Director Legal mentioned before, but the new tribunal agreed with INEC’s lawyers that the security situation in the country could not warrant the Commission to allow the Court’s bailiff into its premises to serve the tribunal’s own Order; thus the Court’s subpoena Order was rendered ineffective and INEC literally ‘got away with murder’. At the end of the day, not a single election material, not least the critical biometrics data, was admitted in evidence by the new tribunal, and thus CPC lost its petition way up to the Supreme Court. All, as they say, is now history.
The point being argued here is that INEC, under Prof. Jega, did not act in the manner expected of an unbiased umpire. I went to this great length in relating the findings of my study of this case so as to demonstrate the unprofessional conduct of the INEC leadership in the course of prosecuting an important petition such as a Presidential Election petition. If Prof. Jega knew that INEC would not use the biometrics registration data for the general election why did he expend so much Nigeria’s money to undertake the exercise? If indeed the biometrics database was not used during the election, as asserted by Mr. Bawa, which registration database did INEC use to conduct the 2011 general elections? And if in fact INEC used the biometrics data as the basis for the conduct of the election, is it not then part of the election materials contemplated by the Electoral Act, 2010 to be supplied for the purpose of evidence before an Election Tribunal? Why then did the INEC Chairman, in seeming collaboration with the PDP and President’s lawyers, deny CPC access to the database? Or is it that INEC does not really have a National database upon which the 2011 general elections were conducted? If so, why, and if it has, why didn’t INEC conduct the electronic voting Prof. Jega promised Nigerians?
With all these heavily weighing against him, how can Prof. Jega not be adjudged as a bias and unreliable person not worthy of heading INEC for another election in 2015? I strongly contend so. And on the basis of these and many more, I again call on Prof. Jega and his team to invoke academic honesty and human dignity and resign their appointments forthwith, failure of which I demand of the President to relieve them of their respective offices in the best interest of the nation. This is a call to national duty as Nigeria must not afford to have disputed elections again in 2015; we cannot come out of it any better.
Following the mass killings in Barkin Ladi and the attacks by Fulani herdsmen, the governor of Plateau State, Gov Jona Jang, in reaction has imposed a curfew across four [4] local government areas [LGA[. The LGA are said to include Barkin Ladi, Jos North and two other LGAs.
The curfew was placed to cover 7pm to 7am, dusk till dawn.
All movements into and out of the four LGAs have been closed. Travellers are forced to settle in the nearby villages till the morning.
Reports reaching us says, Senator Gyang Dantong representing (Plateau North, PDP) and honorable Gyang Fulani (Member house of assembly) representing Barkin Ladi of Plateau State have both been shot dead by suspected fulani gunmen.
The majority leader of the Plateau State house of Assembly Gyang Fulani was also murdered today during a mass burial for scores of people killed yesterday by unknown gunmen.
The third person Simon Mwadkwon who is a member of the house of representatives was critically injured during the attack.
Senator Gyang until his death was Chairman, Senate Committee on Health and also a member senate committee on Aviation.
Previously elected into office; honourable member, house of representatives in the 5th (2003-2007) Assembly
Senator Gyang Dantong
The late Senator Dantong was previously the Medical Director, at the Vom Christian Hospital Jos.
He was the Distinguished Senator of the 6th (2007 -2011) Assembly.
He studied at the University Of Jos; and the University of Ghana Legon.
Abraham Yiljap, the state’s Commissioner of Information, confirmed the assassination in a statement.
It would be recalled that Twenty people were killed while several houses got burnt when nine villages in Riyom and Barkin Ladi local government areas of Plateau state were attacked on Saturday morning by suspected Fulani herdsmen.
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Source: citizensplatform.net
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From Weekly Trust
Senator Gyang Dalyop Datong (Plateau North, PDP) has been shot dead by gunmen while attending a mass burial ceremony today for victims of another attack in his senatorial district. Datong was until his death, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Health.
Also said to be among those affected was Hon. Gyang Fulani, the Chief Whip of the Plateau state House of Assembly. Hon. Fulani was representing Barkin Ladi constituency. An unknown number of people were killed when the gunmen launched their attack, shooting indiscriminately.
A statement from the Plateau state commissioner of Information, Abraham Yiljap confirmed the killings.
Today’s attack took place sometime after 2pm at the venue of the mass burial of some newly discovered dead victims who were found slain in a church in an attack that had gone by unreported and presumed to have taken place yesterday. Over 37 people – villagers, aggressors and STF personnel – were reported killed in Barkin Ladi at the weekend in a new cycle of violence between Fulani herdsmen and Berom tribesmen who co-habit the two local government areas. Over 9 villages were attacked by people believed to be Fulani in the raids on Saturday. Barkin Ladi is about 25 kilometres from the state’s capital, Jos. Datong won his first election in to the Senate in 2007 and was re-elected in 2011. He was previously a member of the Federal House of Representatives representing Barkin Ladi/Riyom federal constituencies.
Also speaking on the incident in a telephone chat with Daily Trust, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Business, Senator Ita Solomon Enang (PDP, Akwa Ibom North-East) said, “This is very painful, and it points to no direction for our country. But if it points to any direction at all, it is that of hopelessness”.
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha
By: UgochukwuFavour-Mayor
Deputy Speaker of theHouse of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, CON has commended thejudiciary for its “bold, courageous and landmark” decision to reinstate dulyelected Local Government Council Chairmen hitherto sacked by the Owelle RochasOkorocha administration in Imo State.
The Deputy Speakersaid the judgement of the Court of Appeal Owerri on the reinstatement of thesacked Council Chairmen is a bolster to the primacy of the rule of law, equityand justice in the conduct of governance by public officials.
He said the decisionby the Court has further reaffirmed the supremacy of the electorate and thetenets of universal suffrage which “no individual no matter how highly placedin society should diminish without commensurate measure of legal challenge bythe people.”
According to him,“the judiciary deserves our commendation and encouragement in this bold andcourageous step in enthroning the collective wishes of the people expressedthrough the ballot in determining who governs them at the grassroots level.”
He praised thecourage and determination of the affected Council Chairmen who expressed beliefand confidence in the judiciary by sticking with the Court processes and calledon the people of Imo State to continue toremain steadfast to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the party that hasand will continue to project and protect the interest of the masses in theState.
Delta State Governor,Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan and Elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark confirmed onSunday that peace and unity has been restored to the once factional PeoplesDemocratic Party (PDP) in Delta State.
Uduaghan and Clarkspoke separately at the birthday thanksgiving service and reception in honourof the State Deputy Governor, Prof. Amos Utuama (SAN) at Otu-Jeremi.
The governor notedthat the presence of Clark, who he described as his father, at the event was aclear demonstration that the reconciliation between the two factions of theparty was not a fluke.
Uduaghan observed thatthere have been skepticism about the reconciliation in the party in the statebut stressed, “the presence of Clark makes a lot of statement that what ishappening is positive.”
He described hisdeputy as a, “very hardworking hard man. At very short notice I have askedhim to do this or that, and he has never grumbled. We all need to imbibe thevirtue of hard work because hard work pays. There is gain in hard work.”
Clark on his partsaid, “The Governor said my presence in the church makes a lot ofstatement. For very many years the PDP had been broken into faction and I havebeen heading one side.
“Sometime ago wedecided to reconcile so that we can all be part of one government. Today it hashappened. All the while the newspapers have been guessing.
“Today on the 65thbirthday of the deputy governor, I announce that we have reconciled. We are nomore going to be fighting on the pages of newspaper but as if I noticesomething wrong, as a father I will go to the governor and say you are notdoing well in this area.
“I want the deputygovernor to be able to say that it was in my birthday that we reconciled. I’mhere with about 40 members of my group; they are all here to say we are nowtogether.”
Clark also describedUtuama as a hardworking man, recalling how Utuama had worked under his ministrywhen he was a commissioner in the defunct Bendel State.
Utuama in his responsethanked God for the gift of the confirmation of the reconciliation and unity inPDP in Delta State, adding that he has every reason to be grateful to God forHis goodness and mercies.
Partners in Politics, Victor Umeh, Gov Rochas Okorocha
The fledgling crisis within the All Progressive Grand Alliance [APGA] with two major camps/factions resulting from the internal squalor has opened new battle fronts for the parties involved in the tussle for the soul of APGA. Information available to 247ureports.com through sources close to the activities at the Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC] indicates that the new party, United Progressive Party [UPP] has scaled the final evaluation by the INEC Board – against efforts to forestall the evaluation by the duo of Victor Umeh, the embattled chairman of APGA and Rochas Okorocha, the governor of Imo State. The information indicates that the ceremonial handover of certificate is expected to take place after the completion of the Edo gubernatorial elections of July 14, 2012.
The INEC Board gave its internal approval for the registration of the new party on Tuesday July 3, 2012.
According to information received, the formation and/or launch of the new political party, the UPP, believed to be the new Igbo party, is reported to have met obstacles within the leadership quarters of the embattled APGA – particularly the embattled chairman, Victor Umeh and the governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha. The governor of Imo State is said to have been providing the financial resources to the embattled party in exchange for the control of the party –including the national executive council and the national working committee. It is through Gov Okorocha’s effort to become the paramount leader of the party the crisis within the APGA began and spilt into other arenas.
Okorocha’s need to become the paramount leader of APGA stems out of the aspirations to become a presidential candidate on the platform of APGA, the Ojukwu party – and by extension – the Igbo party – thus propelling him to the prime Igbo candidate for presidency at the 2015polls. And so the effort of Chekwas Okorie and his team appears contradictory to the aspirations of the governor of Imo State and his cohorts.
On the first level, when the Chekwas Okorie group first announced the formation of the United Peoples Grand Alliance [UPGA], amidst the overwhelming ovation, the Rochas Okorocha group cried foul and propelled the embattled chairman of the APGA to pen a petition to the INEC against the formation. Along with the petition, authoritative sources revealed to 247ureports.com that the sum of N60million was made available by the governor of Imo State to three [3] top officials of the INEC – namely Alhaji Kalkama [top secretary at the INEC], Barrister Bawa [Legal Secretary] and Regina Omo’Agege [director political party monitoring]. These top officials were said to be among those to provide an evaluation on whether to approve the registration of the party. As expected, the registration failed. The reason given for the denial of registration was that the logo [the rising son] of the party was anti-Nigerian and that the sound of the new party may confuse some people – due to its similarity to the sound of APGA.
The leadership of the Chekwas Okorie group sought it unwise to sue the INEC against its refusal to register the new party – and instead decided on the formation of a new party that will address the issues raised by the INEC. And so UPP was born. But recent actions by the Rochas Okorocha group suggest the group is still on the hunt against the formation of a new Igbo party. Available information indicates an additional N100million has been disbursed by the governor of Imo State to the embattled chairman of APGA, Victor Umeh for the lobbying of directors within the INEC against the successful registration of the new party, the UPP.
As a caveat, it is normally the group of directors within the INEC that perform the evaluation of new would-be parties or parties seeking to be registered as a political party with INEC. The evaluation report would then be submitted to the INEC board – which would normally accede to the recommendations of the directors.
But the INEC Board, for reason unclear to 247ureports.com, has decided to weigh into the evaluation report on UPP with a fine comb unlike it did during the evaluation of the UPGA. For this reason, the directors have become cautious to do the bidding of the Rochas Okorocha group – not minding the promise of a N100million pay day should they act to reject the new party.
Meanwhile, in a related development, the Rochas Okorocha group, in their effort to mount the Igbo leadership platform forcibly, have formed an official group named the Committee 21 – with former Senator Annie Okonkwo as Chairman, former Senator Izunasor as Secretary, Victor Umeh as Publicity Secretary, Barrister Ziggy Azike as Legal Secretary, Rochas Okorocha as director of mobilization/contacts, and Pastor Ukpai as Spiritual Director. The objective of the group is to announce the governor of Imo State as the Igbo leader and leader of APGA. The announcement is expected to come in the month of July 2012. Sources indicate that following the announcement, Gov Rochas Okorocha will then step up to support the Victor Umeh faction of APGA.
(Reuters) – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe returned from another trip to Singapore for medical checks on Saturday, state media reported.
Mugabe flew to Singapore on Monday for what his aides said was a routine medical check-up, reviving speculation about the health of the 88-year-old leader who has denied reports he has cancer.
State television described Mugabe as “fit and strong” and showed him being received at Harare’s international airport by senior government and security officials.
Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s only leader since independence from Britain in 1980, has traveled to Singapore eight times in the past year to seek medical attention, according to local media reports.
A June 2008 U.S. diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks last year said Mugabe had prostate cancer that had spread to other organs. His doctor urged him to step down in 2008, according to the cable.
In April, aides denied reports by some international media that he was undergoing intensive treatment in a Singapore hospital and was fighting for his life.
Mugabe, one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders who has been accused of holding onto power through vote-rigging, has scoffed at suggestions he is seriously ill and says he is fit enough to contest an election due next year.
President Obama may have a more serious problem for reelection in Ohio than Mitt Romney. A 70 something private investigator has her ducks all in a row and it looks impressive.
Susan Daniels, filed suit on July 2 in the Geauga County, Ohio, Common Pleas Court demanding Jon Husted, Ohio Secretary of State, remove President Obama’s name from the ballot until the president can prove the legitimacy of his Social Security Number.
Daniels has run thousands of SSNs for former clients; she knows her business and has documented every detail. She insists:
Barack Obama has repeatedly, consistently, and with intent misrepresented himself by using a fraudulently obtained Social Security Number.
Daniels has become a valid write-candidate for president, thus she is eligible to make the challenge, according to Ohio Law.
Ms Daniels began her investigation in August of 2009. She has accessed a variety of proprietary databases, because of her Private Investigator’s licensure.
It is public knowledge the 042 prefix on a SSN designates the state of Connecticut for registery. President Obama has been using a 042 SSN since 1986. Ms Daniels ran ten sequential numbers in alignment with the president’s number and found they were all issued between 1977 and 1979 in CT. The numbers flanking the president’s SSN indicate the President’s number was issued during March of 1977.
In March of 1977, President Obama was 15-years old and living in Hawaii. There is no record of the President ever visiting Connecticut during this period of his life. To qualify for a SSN, an applicant must show up for a “mandatory in-person interview.” The president’s sister, Maya, has a legitimate Hawaii SSN, issued from the state of Hawaii.
From the database of the Massachusetts Department of Motor Vehicles, Ms Daniels discerned the president used the same SSN to obtain a driver’s license, while attending college and has used the same number for filing taxes for 2009. During the research, Daniels kept coming into a “marked anomaly,” multiple birthdates for the same person. The 08/04/1961 and 04/08/1961 was reasonable, but the frequent appearance of the year 1890 seemed suspicious.
Daniels feels the anomaly arises from the fact that the president’s SSN was originally issued in March of 1977 to a person born in 1890.
This assertion can be verified; the Social Security Administration maintains on microfilm a copy of all original SS-5 applications and their appropriate numbers. Daniels has been denied access to those records.
Consequently, Daniels filed suit:
“Defendant Husted, through this filing,” she argues, “has been made aware that the Democratic Candidate has been using a fraudulent Social Security Number, which would render Barack Obama ineligible under both the Ohio and U.S. Constitutions.”
She has asked the court to issue an injunction to prevent President Obama’s appearing on the ballot, until it is determined he is using a legitimate SSN.
Judging from the response of other courts, it is unlikely Daniels will receive justice for her efforts in Geauga County or from the Republican Secretary of State, but she has established a legitimate paper trail, a matter of record that will be hard for even the Conservative media with RINO sympathies to ignore.
The MSM or the president’s propaganda bureau cannot be expected to acknowledge the research; since it so far beyond their job description, but the research has been done and it raises the legitimate question, “Who is this man and why is he an enigma?”
The questions will never go away, until they are answered. They only cause Americans to lose faith in the system and the politicians and bureaucrats running the system.
