Crisis in Delta community over stage managed kidnapping

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Former chairman, Isoko South local government area, Delta state, Mr. Askia Ogieh, House of Assembly member representing Isoko South constituency 11, Mr. Johnson Erijo and Mr. Sam Ogrih, commissioner, Delta state House of Assembly service commission are alleged to have been currently running from pillars to posts over their alleged involvement in a stage managed kidnap scam at Uzere kingdom of Isoko South council.
 
Meanwhile palpable fear is said to have gripped the oil rich Uzere community over what is been suspected to be an alleged stage managed kidnap involving the three PDP members that occurred in the community at about 7 am on Sunday, August, 28, 2011. The victim, septuagenarian, Pa. Akpebe Ogrih, father of one Mr. Sam Ogrih, commissioner, Delta state House of Assembly service commission who was on his way to church on that fateful morning.
 
It was gathered that a gang of four unidentified gun men stormed the kingdom with Audi 80 car and allegedly seized the septuagenarian, this the entire community have suspected that the moves was stage managed and political and a ploy to robe in an illustrious indigene of the kingdom and former chairman of the council, Chief Iduh Amadhe to frustrate him from prosecuting his petition at the state election petition tribunal.
 
Chief Amadhe, Labour Party House of Assembly candidate for Isoko South constituency 11 in the just concluded general elections is challenging the election of Mr. Johnson Erijo of PDP, representing the constituency in the state house of Assembly and recently the election tribunal struck out the application of Mr. Erijo urging the tribunal to strike out the Labour Party petition.
 
It was however gathered that having perceived that the PDP lawmaker may lost the case at the tribunal; they had no option than to frame up the Labour Party candidate and consequently abandon his petition against the PDP lawmaker at the tribunal.
 
 Investigations revealed that in abid to cover their tracks, the alleged actors in the game, Mr. Askia Ogieh, former chairman of the council, Mr. Johnson Erijo, Delta state house of Assembly member, and Mr. Sam Ogrih commissioner, Delta state House of Assembly service commission did not report the purported kidnap of his father to the security agents in the local government area neither was it reported at Asaba, the state capital. It was also alleged that the septuagenarian was whisked away by persons suspected to be working under the instructions of the actors in the game to an unknown destination where he was been taking good care of and a picture kidnap was painted.
 
As a way to hatchet their plans, the actors in the saga on Sunday, 4th, September 2011 sponsored some security agents with the intention of arresting the Labour Party candidate in connection to the kidnap but on arrival he was not at home and a driver to the wife of the Labour Party candidate, Mr. Henry Akintola Adanoje was arrested and taken to unknown destination.
 
Furious by the action, the community women, youths and children at about 8am this morning stage a mass protest round the community issuing an ultimatum and calling on the community leadership to as a matter of urgent and for peace order the security agents to return back their arrested son and as well leave their illustrious son, Chief Iduh Amadhe out of the stage managed kidnap saga or face the wrath of the entire community.
 
However news filtered into town on Friday, 2nd, September, 2011 that the kidnapped Pa. Ogrih has been found without disclosing how, where and when he was released as well as those who negotiated for his released and how much that was paid for his freedom as its always done in kidnap cases.
 
In petition titled “Plot to eliminate High Chief Iduh Amadhe, members of his family and associates by Chief Askia Ogieh, Prince Johnson Erijo, Mr. Sam Ogrih and their cohorts”addressed to the state governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, Inspector General of Police, Assistant Inspector General of Police, zone 5, Benin city, DG, SSS, Director, SSS, Delta state, Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Delta state, amongst other relevant government agencies, signed by Barrister Anthony Sawyer, counsel to Chief Iduh Amadhe and made available to the press reads thus “We act for High Chief Iduh Amadhe and write this petition on his behalf and express instruction and shall hereinafter refer to him as our client. The sad facts forming the basis of this petition is that there exist a grand design hatched by the trio of Chief Askia Ogieh, Prince Johnson Erijo and Mr. Sam Ogrih who truly masterminded the manifold rigging of the house of Assembly election in Isoko South constituency 11 which culminated in the election petition filed by our client and which is presently pending at the election petition tribunal in Asaba. We are made to understand that part of the plot was to take Pa Akpebe Ogrih into hiding and feign a kidnap case and then go to town to broadcast the name of our client, his family members and political associates as the masterminds and then turn round to either permanently lock them out of circulation or send hired assassins and mob to eliminate our client, members of his family and political associates. Interestly, on Sunday, August, 28th, 2011 in their bid to match action to words, they took Pa Akpebe Ogrih into hiding and dispatched one Mr. Ebri Fredrick, Nenene Ogrih, Odomero Ukpeba and Elizabeth Ebri to move round Uzere town in Isoko South local government area to falsely publish the name of our client and members of the Labour Party as being the kidnappers of Pa Ogrih. Curiously and contrary to common sense and logic, the purported kidnap and release of Pa Ogrih was not incidented with the police and SSS authorities at Oleh thus clearly affirming the fact that the purported kidnap was a complete ruse and orchestrated for the purpose of instigating mob/assassins to eliminate our client, his family members and political associates or in their plot, getting security agencies to lock our client permanently out of circulation and ultimately defeat the election petition filed by our client at the Election Tribunal in Asaba. Although our client had soon after the incident of August 28, 2011 reported the matter at Oleh divisional police station, as well as petitioned the office of the Assistant Inspector General of police, zone 5, Benin-city to abreast them with these developments, these felons and their co-conspirators, nevertheless, stormed our client’s residence at Uzere in Isoko South local government area on Sunday, September, 4th, 2011 and abducted his wife’s driver, Mr. Henry Akintola Adanoje to an unknown location. Clearly, their initial plot as we later understood it was to abduct our client, but being that our client was not at home at the material time; his wife’s driver was abducted in his stead. Sir, though we do not pretend to know the motive of the abductors, but a check at Oleh Divisional Police Station and the office of SSS at Oleh shows that police authorities thereat, were not privy or aware of any operation of any security agencies in Uzere on Sunday, September, 4th, 2011 when this operation was carried out thus alluding to the fact that the motive behind the operation was indeed sinister. Sir, in view of the sensitive nature of this case and the unfolding criminal plots of Messrs Askia Ogieh, Johnson Erijo and Sam Ogrih with clear intention of eliminating our client, members of his household and political associates, we are constrained to petition your office to alert you about these plots that you may urgently take steps to nip these plot in the bud as well as initiate a high powered investigation into this matter with a view to ascertaining the truth and unmasking these villains and their co-conspirators. We would further request that you swiftly arrest these felons and their co-conspirators with a view to initiating criminal prosecution, to serve as deterrent to others.” The petition stated.
 
Reports has it that attempt to arrest Chief Iduh Amadhe at his hotel room in Asaba by security agents probably working on the instruction of the trio actors in the kidnap saga failed as he was said not to be in when the security agents arrived.
 
All calls put across to the mobile lines of the trio actors in the kidnap saga were not answered while SMS sent into their lines were ignored too.

Gully Erosion: A Renewed Hope?

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by Ikenna Ellis Ezenekwe

Many have written on the subject of gully erosion and the calamities that follow the continued neglect and those that have befallen the folks who have unfortunately found themselves at the mouth of this impending danger. Others have also written deman ding for a lasting solution from the political heads in the seat of leadership to get-up and do something meaningful to aid the alleviation of this impending calamity, while some other writers chose to chronicle the historical aspects of the gully erosion, instead. What is particular or rather peculiar is that while most of these concerned writers have written of their true concern, very few of them have explained why gully erosion poses a potent quagmire.ed its share of neglect in magnitudes that conjures up the days of the Nigerian civil war. The point to be made here is that the problem of gully erosion became principally symptomatic of the sorry state of mind Ndi Igbo developed following the end of the war. The state of mind points to nihilism – hatred of ones culture or ideals. So the contention is that the neglect of gully er osion by Ndi Igbo is just a sign of a bigger problem, it points to a people suffering from cultural defeat in hands of mental slavery.     However the light seems to be flickering into a full glow, in that the spirit of Ndi Igbo appears to be showing signs of recovering from the tentacles of nihilism and xenophobia directed at self.

The fact of the matter however is that gully erosion has impacted the south eastern region of Nigeria adversely more than other part of the country, and like most other issues pertaining to the region, it has suffer

Ndi Igbo are developing a can-do attitude over the issue of erosion as the list of displaced families continues its growth each year. With their awareness that the federal government has shown little care towards the abatement of gully erosion in the said region, Ndi Igbo in the Diaspora have mounted an effort to create a renewed awareness for erosion gul lies scattered around the region. This was sparked by agitation by the various Igbo organizations in America, in particular during the Association of Anambra State USA {ASA-USA} Convention of October 2005 held at Houston Texas {of which the Governor of Anambra was in attendance along with several house of assembly members}, it was during this convention that a duo presentation on ecological menace in Anambra State and Igbo land in general, caused tears to stream down the cheeks of many in attendance, including some of assemblymen. These teardrops are believed to have helped spark the rejuvenation of the cause for gully erosion to the current height that has not been seen in a long while.

While the awareness for gully erosion is gradually catching fire, the many political bodies in Nigeria appear to be gradually picking up steam over the possible political di vidend generated by this renewed awareness push. This is evident through the somewhat surprising response to the recent displacement of families in Aguata Orumba Local Government Area and in Nnewi by the various political representatives in Anambra, the same is evident in Imo State as the gubernatorial candidate for 2007, Chief Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba began orienting his campaign around the subject of erosion abatement and awareness; he states that it will be one of the primary functions of his administration.

The representatives of Abia State have been making calls to the federal government for more funds towards abating the spread and danger of gully erosion. A particular case is that of Isuikwato Local Government Area. In late January 2006, members of the Senate Committee on Special Duties and Conflict Resolution described the erosion and landslide sites in Isuikwato L ocal Government Area of Abia State as a ‘national disgrace. According to the chairman of Isuikwuato Local Government, Chief Charles Ojukwu, the “high powered visit” to the sites in 2001 by some of the federal political players, resulted to nothing to date. He continued to state that the landslide had cut off the “villages in Oguduasa clan, from the rest of the state, while Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church, Oguduasa Secondary School and a filling station, near the Orumalo Oguduasa landslide site”, appear on the verge of submerging into the erosion gully. This particular erosion gully is estimated to be growing at the rate of 500 meters per year.

I should note that the federal government has been responsive to some extent to the States impacted by gully erosion but its response has been selective and negatively too political. The case of Anambra exemplifies this partiality. A nambra State is estimated to be the worst hit as per number of gully erosion sites and the potential to cause financial and human casualty, yet the federal government have selectively funded other abatement programs in other States with lesser erosion problems.  According to documented evidence, up to 1000 major gullies are estimated to be in Anambra alone, which more than doubles the amount of gully erosion found in other States. However, Anambra State government did not give up due to the federal neglect.

The Anambra State Governor – Chris Ngige on July 2005 in collaboration with the Commissioner for Environment, Mineral Resources, Science and Technology, Dr. Okey Enemuo launched the “Green Cities – Plan for the Planet” project aimed at reinforcing the need for environmental education. At the occasion, the Governor rated Anambra State as the most devastated stat e in the South East geo-political zone and throughout the federation while highlighting that the State government’s lean purse is limited and cannot carry it alone. The federal government on the same July 2005 approved about N4 billion contracts for erosion control and water supply projects for Yobe, Enugu, Abia and Plateau states.  Yobe State got the largest chunk of the fund with over N3.6 billion approved for water supply and another N12.6 million for the construction of gully erosion structure in Potiskum. By September of 2005, it was reported that of over 150 families have been displaced by erosion menace in Ekwulobia town in Anambra State. It raises the question as to why the disparity? T his disparity is explained away by some experts as rooted in the dispute between the Governor of Anambra State and the President of Nigeria, that the tussle for power between Governor Ngige and the self proclaim godfather Christian Uba was largely the cause for the undue neglect. Some others claim the fault lies with the lacking ability of the federal representatives to properly secure the necessary funds for their home State, that most of the representatives careless or know very little of the role they are supposed to play as per the erosion gully that has gradually eaten up the people in their district. The thing is that each assertion may be equally true. Citing the case of Agulu-Nanka/Oko-Ekwulobia axis exposes this in a whole-sell manner. It displays a disgrace for all the politically elected representatives, who supposedly represent the people of that “land” area.

Fol lowing the years after the end of the Second World War, the colonial masters found it necessary to arrest the problem and thus launched an intensive campaign of cashew plantation. Through this campaign, the erosion site in Agulu/Nanka site was effectively arrested – and the area was nicknamed “Agu Cashew”. The same was the case at Enugu “Ninth Mile” where the situation was arrested using “Melina trees”.  Immediately following the advert of independence and self administration, these pertinent programs fell to the wayside. All hell broke loose. The cashew plantation that was formally catered and nurtured was now abandoned and ignored. Local communities who saw the pattern of behavior on the part of these political representatives began feasting on these trees, chopping them down for use as firewood. They began intensive collection of all the cashew {nuts} seeds that would normally be left on the floor to geminate more cashew trees thus halting further growth. Also, land development and faulty house construction increasingly begun an aggressive encroachment into the land where these cashew trees were previously standing. While this was going on, the politicians were busy auguring for their share of the State and Federal treasury. It was simply a caustic mix of faulty leadership and nihilistic follower-ship.

A new found hope with the renewed energy towards tackling the quagmire of erosion; harnessing it into a lasting exuberance able to execute and coordinate all the required aspects of the gully erosion abatement program would enable attainability. Because erosion gullies are hidden deep in the bushes of the rural communities, and not as public as roads and other public utilities; it is necessary to devise a better method of holding our elected representatives accountable for the continued awareness on the ongoing calamity of erosion. Perhaps as the collective prayers of Ndi Igbo in the Diaspora continue to percolate, the lasting answer to the gully erosion dilemma will find its way home.

‘Uncle Omar’ called the face of Obama’s immigration goal

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Onyango Obama

In trouble, told to leave, ignored rules, and now accused of endangering lives

By Bob Unruh

Want to know what the U.S .would look like under Barack Obama’s amnesty for illegals? Look no further than the president’s own family, warn officials for the Washington watchdog organization Judicial Watch.

“President Obama’s ‘Uncle Omar’ is the face of what is wrong with the Obama administration’s lawless and dangerous approach to illegal immigration. Instead of being deported, as the law requires, Uncle Omar was allowed to roam the streets and endanger the lives of innocent people, including a law enforcement officer,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

“Conquest of Aztlan: Will Mexicans retake American Southwest?”

“And Uncle Omar is exactly the kind of person that local police would have been able to easily keep off the streets as a result of new immigration laws in states such as Arizona and Georgia, which are being challenged in court by the Obama administration,” he said.

Obama’s illegal alien uncle was arrested last week for allegedly driving drunk after leaving the Chicken Bone Saloon in Framingham, Mass. He was accused of nearly hitting a police car.

Onyango Obama reportedly is a citizen of Kenya but apparently ignored a deportation order in the 1990s and has been a fugitive since.

He was being held on a federal immigration warrant this week.

“Now the Obama administration wants to expand on its shoddy approach to illegal immigration law enforcement,” Fitton said. “Under the Obama administration’s newly announced deportation scheme, you don’t have to be a member of the Obama family to get a free pass on an illegal immigration violation. And we know that the Obama administration has a demonstrated willingness of giving criminals such as ‘Uncle Omar’ and millions of other illegal aliens a free pass to stay in the United States.”

He continued, “And we don’t for one minute believe that ‘Uncle Omar’s’ illegal presence in the United States was a secret to the Obama administration.”

The Washington Times reports that the White House has acknowledged the suspect in the Massachusetts case as the president’s “long-lost” uncle from Kenya.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said he told the president about the arrest. He said he expects the case to be handled “like any other immigration case.”

Police in Massachusetts, however, said when Onyango Obama was asked about arranging for bail following his arrest, he said, “I think I will call the White House.”

This uncle reportedly is the younger half-brother of the president’s father, Barack Obama Sr. In one of the president’s books, the president wrote about learning from his family in Kenya that “Uncle Omar” had moved to the U.S. years earlier.

The situation is not the first involving an illegal alien relative of the president. Last year his aunt, Zeituni Onyango, was granted asylum in the U.S. after she was rejected in a request for asylum in 2004 but stayed in the U.S. anyway.

According to the Boston Herald, Onyango Obama, 67, is planning to fight deportation efforts, acquiring help from the same law firm that helped Zeituni Onyango.

The report said the uncle moved to the U.S. in the 1960s and charmed classmates at a Cambridge prep school but then became a high school dropout and disappeared. He later fought the Internal Revenue Service and was caught by an immigration judge who ordered him to leave the country in 1989.

He lost a board of immigration appeals case in 1992. But since then, he apparently has lived and worked in Massachusetts, most recenlty at Conti Liquors in Framingham.

Fitton said his organization has obtained documents from the Department of Homeland Security showing that department officials misled Congress and the public about the scope of a plan for changes to the nation’s illegal alien deportation procedures.

The documents at JudicialWatch.org reveal the behind-the-scenes efforts by the Obama administration to “bypass Congress and grant amnesty to at least one million illegal aliens by suspending immigration deportation proceedings against” them.

Judicial Watch has been part of the opposition to the president’s amnesty proposals, with a friend-of-the court brief in the 11th Circuit Court defending Georgia’s plan, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act of 2011, as well as its participation in the fight in Arizona over that state’s SB 1070, a crackdown on illegal aliens.

Obama’s desired DREAM Act never advanced. It would have allowed immigrant students to apply for legal status and eventually obtain citizenship. It could provide amnesty to more than a million illegals, and is estimated that it would have cost $6 billion a year. So the accusations are that Obama is accomplishing by executive order what he could not get Congress to approve.

Among the documents uncovered by Judicial Watch is an April 20, 2010, email from Melissa Crow, former DHS acting deputy assistant secretary for policy in the office of immigration and border security. The email to Roxana Bacon, chief counsel for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, states: “Since we met, I’ve done my best to encourage ICE to grant deferred action in the DREAM Act cases … brought to my attention.”

Fitton said the documents “show the Obama administration is lying about its stealth amnesty activities and its alarming contempt for Congress and the rule of law.”

“Frankly, these documents show that Obama immigration officials don’t even know what the law is!” Fitton said. “The Obama administration cannot simply pick and choose which federal immigration laws it will enforce.”

The Judicial Watch chief said that in its “zeal to curry favor with the illegal alien lobby and secure Hispanic votes for a second term, the Obama administration is exercising raw executive power to change the law by granting illegal aliens amnesty in a way that strikes at the heart of our constitutional system and the rule of law.”

“This is a festering constitutional crisis,” he said.

Amaechi’s Frustrations In The Hands Of Contractors

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Written by Odimegwu Onwumere

With his open plea to the public to build the spirit of lack-of-complaints on his administration’s incapability to build majority of the roads in Rivers State due to what was termed the unruly nature of contractors awarded the road contracts, Governor Chibuike Amaechi needed to be pitied.

It is however very sad that the residents are subjugated to this man-made humiliations by the contractors in the state. Many of the contracts are huge and mouth-watering sums.

The idea of not building the roads is appalling with excuse heaped on the rains. It was not during the rainy season that the contracts were awarded. So, it is very incongruous to hear them taking the rains as excuse for their recalcitrant ineptitude.

If not that the residents started shouting of the decaying infrastructures in the state, Amaechi would probably not have come out to tell us that awarding of new contracts is prohibited till the awarded ones have a human face.

But we must thank him for not suppressing our voices. In earnest, this governor is not a killer. If he were a killer, many people would have been on the run in Rivers State, as it once happened in this state. You may say that he is arrogant which he told people that he is.

The change in the myopic mindset of queuing contracts for 10% gains or more is highly appraised, if only the advert was not just to make journalists write, and after nothing would be in the hand to see.

The abandonment of the contracts or the neglect to enter into work earlier before the rains have spoilt the dynamic business environment in the state which was just recuperating from the woes caused by the activities of the militants.

All the levels of human endeavours are affected in an environment that is experiencing lack of accessible roads. The level of commerce and the facilities needed for a change are suppressed. As this continues, mixed feelings will ever greet the award of the contract among insiders and supporters, opposition and critics of the government.

Road construction always signifies the giant steps of any government, especially in this part of the world where the leaders use the tax payers’ money to build infrastructures and wear the imminent credit accruing from them as if it was their personal money used in the constructions.

Initially in Rivers State, the indigenes were making a case whenever contracts were awarded to the non-indigenous contractors. We all hoped that it could be the non-indigenous contractors that were liable for the ill-fated roads, but our suspicion have been proved wrong since the awarding of contract changed hands in favour of the indigenous contractors. This is when the spate of deplorable and abandonment of road contracts turned to a culture and tradition.

Even, Amaechi had once cried before the newsmen and stakeholders that his dilemma was his fellow indigenes. Refuse disposal indigenous contractors attitude then irritated Amaechi so much because they could not properly manage the contract.

Construction contracts of roads have been a big dilemma in this state with Amaechi also lamenting that contracts worth over billions of naira awarded by former governor Peter Odili, which were awarded to prominent Kalabari sons who, after collecting 40 per cent mobilisation ran away from job heaping their shenaniganism on the security issue that once characterized the state.

While Amaechi wondered why indigenes of a particular area could be bad-tempered and stake their integrity on contracts, the virus of abandoning contracts seemed to have become fad among the different villagers in Rivers State today. The ones that tried to “show work” on site, have not ever had a good attestation on their report cards by Amaechi of using solid or sophisticated materials.

With the multi-national firms or business outfits owned by the Rivers people handling majority of the projects, one has seen the multi-faceted mishaps in contracts that have been experienced so far.

This era is not when blames were heaped on non-indigenous business outfit awarded contracts in the state; because the indigenes felt that they (non-indigenes) cornered most of the plum jobs at the expense of Rivers businessmen.

They continued to complain that their own government is not patronizing them. Look at it now! Patronization vs. patriotism has become failure. Unthinkable before. They cried that the award of contracts to non-indigenes was one of the complaints that Rivers people had against out-gone Governor Peter Odili. But what is happening today? Just frustration upon frustration.

Sir Celestine Omehia was also accused of following the same path of awarding contracts to the non-indigenes by the indigenes. He was even accused of being pressured to do so by some powerful interests that were.

Omehia was accused by the indigenes of contempt on his people for the exaltation of the non-indigenous contractors.  Today, hardly is anybody blaming Amaechi for awarding majority of the contracts to the indigenous Rivers people who have given him untold hardship, weeping and wailing every day.

As the one time governor of old Imo State, late Mazi Sam Mbakwe went with the sobriquet of a weeping governor; Amaechi should not attract the sobriquet of a pleading governor to himself.

We do not need these backlashes anymore from the government that we should not complain even when we are carrying our loved ones to the grave who could not bear the brunt of hardship in the state and as a result they gave up the ghost.

We should think deeper again and place more emphasis on developing Rivers politically and economically and physically. The huge funds being expended on construction jobs by the Governor Chibuike Amaechi-led administration should be judiciously used we. It is better to reconstruct roads instead of expending billions of the state funds on road maintenance that go down the drain occasioned by the Judas Iscariot contractors. We have endured the suffer we experience on this Golgotha called roads in Rivers State for so long. Amaechi should know that people are watching and taking records. The contractors should never wait again when the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) comes to investigate the activities of the State contracts, then our sons awarded the contracts would wear women apparel to evade arrest.

Odimegwu Onwumere is the Coordinator, Concerned Non-Indigenes In Rivers State (CONIRIV). Mobile: +2348032552855. Email: nirivpol@gmail.com

We Have N50m, Cars For Fresh Bombings — Boko Haram

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The end of the crisis in Jos, the Plateau State capital, may not be in sight anytime soon, if the security alert issued by the military joint task force in the state is anything to go by.

According to the security alert, which was reportedly sent to the Defence Headquarters in Abuja, a secret meeting was said to have been held in a village on the outskirts of Jos, by some members of the Boko Haram sect, where they resolved to invite their members from Kaduna, Kano, Maiduguri and Bauchi states to “join the Muslims in Jos for a mass attack”.

The security alert added that, “Five Vectra cars were donated, to be used for suicide bombing. Shekh Yahaya Jengre announced during the meeting that two persons have donated N50, 000,000 (fifty million naira) each for the cause.

“Main targets are, Gbom Gwom’s Palace, Government House and Gada Biu. There is possibility of NEPA blackout to aid the attackers. There is need for troops to dominate the towns and secure all KPs.”

The alert further advised that all vehicles coming into Jos should be searched for weapons.

Efforts by our correspondent to reach the STF spokesman, Captain Charles Okeocha and the PPRO of the Police Command proved abortive, as they would not take their calls.

The alert came as the family of one Mr. Chollom Gyang of Tatu Village near Heipang in Barkin Ladi local government council of the state, was Saturday night murdered, along with his wife and six children, including a four–month-old baby.

A survivor of the attack, who sustained a deep cut to his head and is currently receiving treatment at a dispensary in the locality, told journalists that another son of the family escaped the assailants.

The Plateau State government, through the commissioner for information, Pastor Yiljab Abraham, who was at the scene of the incident, confirmed the killings. He called for calm, assuring that the security agents would smoke out the perpetrators of the criminal act.

He, however, urged the people to be more vigilant, maintaining that security was everybody’s business. “You also have the responsibility to be vigilant,” the commissioner of information stated.

He also charged the traditional and religious leaders to caution their subjects to be cautious of where they go and the kind of people they mingle with.

In separate remarks while speaking to news men, Barkin Ladi council chairman, Emmanuel Loman and the member representing Barkin Ladi constituency at the state House of Assembly, Hon. Gyang Fulani, said that the situation was getting out of hand.
According to them, within two weeks, 20 people had been killed in cold blood by unknown persons in the area.

In another development, a team of anti-bomb experts yesterday uncovered an explosives device planted at an open market known as Makera Market in Riyom local government council of Plateau State. According to a police source, the locally made explosive was planted to cause mayhem in the market.

Explaining how the squad was able to detect the device, the bomb expert noted that an 80-year-old man found a container with a wall clock in it at the market square and took it home, not knowing that it was an explosive. Fortunately for him, the bomb did not detonate, due to the weakness of the batteries used by the bombers. The device has since been deactivated by bomb experts.
Meanwhile, the military Special Task Force (STF), apparently angered by the random shooting of its members, has mandated soldiers to shoot on sight anyone carrying or using arms on others.

“The STF is now mandated to use all the necessary force within its powers on anybody carrying and using arms or dangerous weapons on another person,” its spokesman, Mr. Charles Ekeocha said.
Mr. Ekeocha in a statement in Jos yesterday, warned youths against “testing the might of the soldiers,” saying that whoever did would be doing so at his or her own peril.

He disclosed that three soldiers shot by the youths were presently lying critically ill in hospital and regretted that they were gunned down by people they were there to protect.

The STF spokesman added, “Everywhere in the state is infested with weapons, with sporadic shots heard both day and night. The sporadic shooting by Muslim and Christian youths is also targeted at the soldiers.”

He advised politicians, traditional rulers, religious leaders and parents to counsel their wards, saying, “The soldiers are no longer prepared to turn the other cheek.”

Ekeocha, however, urged the people of the state to go about their normal activities, as the STF and other security agencies were prepared to protect them. The relative peace in the state suffered a severe blow on Monday when youth groups clashed along Rukuba Road during the Eid-el Fitr prayers by the Izala Islamic sect. Several lives were lost during the fracas with many more injured, while vehicles and shops were also set on fire.

Source: Leadership

Import polices will be stable – President Jonathan

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President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has assured investors that the new policies governing imports being prepared by the Economic Management Team will have a five-year tenure, to enable long-term planning.

President Jonathan was speaking to Mr. George Coumantaros, who led a four-man delegation of directors of the Flour Mills Nigeria Ltd to State House, Monday.

He stated, “the policies being prepared by the Economic Management Team will have a tenure of five years, so that investors can plan for the long term”, adding that the policies are aimed at encouraging those interested in doing business in Nigeria.

President Jonathan also said only those who have invested in specific sectors will be allowed to import the short-fall to meet national needs.

“For instance, only those who are in large-scale rice or sugar production will be allowed to import rice or sugar, on a quota to be determined by appropriate authorities, similar to the current policy in the cement sector”, the President said.

He also spoke about his commitment to the revival of agriculture, “agriculture is being taken very seriously, we want to revolutionize agriculture”.

He commended Mr. Coumantaros for the confidence he has in Nigeria, adding that Government would continue to perform its regulatory functions with due consideration of the interests of all parties.

Earlier, the Flour Mills Nigeria chairman, Mr. George Coumantaros, had told the President that his company had invested over $1bn in sugar, flour mills, rice, soya, vegetable oil, palm kernels and cement production in Nigeria, adding that the Flour Mills alone had over 65,000 shareholders.

Musa Aduwak

For: Special Adviser to the President (Media and Publicity)

September 5, 2011

Imo State Artist caught with N41 Million Cocaine from Brazil

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The Suspect: Oledibe Charles Chigozie

The Nigerian drug enforcement agency arrested a major drug trafficker at the weekend of September 3, 2011 with 5.850kg of high grade cocaine with an estimated street value of about 41 million naira.

Oledibe Charles Chigozie with the parcels of cocaine

The suspect, Oledibe Charles Chiagozie, 37 year old was caught at the International Airport (MMIA) Lagos on his way from Brazil with 5.850kg of cocaine industrially concealed in his luggage. Anti-narcotic officials detected the drugs during the screening of passengers on a Turkish Airline flight at the arrival hall of the MMIA.

Oledibe's bag with the parcel of cocaine

Oledibe Charles Chiagozie who claimed to be a 2001 graduate of Fine and Applied Arts at the Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu earns a living as an Artist in Enugu. During interrogation, he stated that he travelled to Brazil in search of greener pastures but when he could not secure a job and was running out of money, drug trafficking became the only hope. In his words, “I am married with five children. I travelled to Brazil in July 14, 2011 with the hope of securing a job. Unfortunately, I could not secure a job. At a point I was living in a church at Sao Paulo. While I was there my wife delivered a set of twins. My desire to see my new born babies and provide money for the hospital bills led me into drug trafficking. I regret this arrest because I was expecting 15 percent which is about 6 million naira”.

The suspect hails from Mbano, Imo State and will soon be charged to court. He had his primary education at Independence Layout Primary School Enugu. He also attended Union Secondary School where he graduated in 1993.

Corruption: No Sacred Cow – Jonathan

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…As Johnson-Sirleaf; Adoke; Fashola, Others Hail EFCC’s Efforts.

 President Goodluck Jonathan has vowed that his administration will not shield any corrupt person from investigation or prosecution by the anti-graft agencies in the country.

 The president who gave the assurance on Monday September 5 at the opening ceremony of the 8th National Seminar on Economic Crimes holding at the Training and Research Institute of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abuja promised that government will continue to support and encourage the EFCC and other anti-corruption agencies to confront the monster of corruption more decisively  and charged them to spare no culprit regardless of his status or position.

” We will give all the necessary support and encouragement to all the anti-ccorruption agencies to vigorously enforce the enabling anti-corruption laws. I urge these agencies to do their works fairly but firmly within the armbit of the law without regard to position or status. There shall be no sacred cows. This government will not protect any so-called sacred cows. The wheel of justice must run its full course in tackling anti-corruption cases”. Jonathan, who was represented at the occasion by Vice-President Mohammed Sambo, said that his government was committed to fighting graft and save the nation the horrific effects of corruption.

According to him,”I congratulate the EFCC for the results recorded so far. I urge the commission not to rest on its oars; for the job ahead is daunting but surmountable. There are still huge stolen assets left unrecovered abroad in safe havens. The commission must work hard in collaboration with the office of the Attorney General of the Federation; the designated central authority, to recover and return those funds. Government appreciates the peculiar challenges facing anti-graft agencies. It will do everything possible within the law to facilitate the work of the agencies. At this juncture, I would like to specially congratulate the chairperson Mrs. Farida Waziri for the tremendous achievements she has been making during this period. Billions of dollars and Naira have been retrieved. You must continue with the good work and we shall continue to give you all the support.

“ It is important to stress that fighting corruption is our collective burden. Every person pays the cost of corruption directly or indirectly. The lack of power, that bad road, that hospital without drugs and basic medical facilities, that dilapidated school, that water borehole not water all of which huge sums have been expended is the cost of corruption we all pay and will continue to pay if we do not stand up and confront the monster. All well-meaning Nigerians must therefore not only say no to corruption but also do something about it. Every little effort counts; whistle blowing, vigilance in budget implementation and projects monitoring, calling public officers to account; all go a long way to assisting the anti-corruption effort. The historic signing of the Freedom of Information Bill into Law in 2011 has provided citizens with a veritable instrument to contribute to strengthening accountability and transparency in the public sector.

“The private sector equally has a big role to play. There can be no successful corruption in the public sector without connivance and collaboration with the private sector. Consistent with current International Best Practices. Therefore, multinationals and private businesses must adopt and implement transparency codes and hold their officials to account for all financial dealings. Bribe increases the cost of projects astronomically, hinders global competitiveness and is a major disincentive to investments. We must therefore work to prevent it.”

In a keynote address, the  Liberian President, Mrs Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, took an historical excursion into the travails of her country, lamenting the nation’s huge losses to graft and poor governence, inspite of the enormous natural resources available in the country.  Sirleaf said that through “structural and systemic reforms”, she has succeeded in stirring Liberia out of “systemic and suicidal corruption level”. She gave the credit to the independence of the Liberian Anti-Corruption Commission, fashioned after the EFCC and with un-fettered freedom to carry out its job.
“The Liberian Anti-corruption Commission is independent of the Ministry of Justice. It investigates and acts on any information on corruption. The LAC is getting better. Presently, its prosecutorial power lies in the judicial system of the Ministry of Justice. There is an anomaly in this and two weeks ago, I submitted to the legislature a bill to amend the act which established the anti-corruption Commission. The fight against corruption requires the Commission to be strengthened with direct but not exclusive powers to prosecute cases involving corruption and related offence”, she stated.

While commending Waziri for her outstanding performance as the EFCC Chairman, Sirleaf said that governments of both Liberia and Nigeria must continue to instill “in our citizens the values we have lost. We sholud live within our means and always earn whatever we have”.

In her welcome address, Chairman of the EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri, described national economic and security challenges as man-made and largely traceable to corruption where a few individuals are bleeding the wealth of the nation and causing great pain to the larger society. Waziri said the corruption of a few has caused and is causing crushing and debilitating poverty and unemployment. “This poverty has led to despair and anger which in many cases has ignited violent unrest with attendant unpleasant consequences including loss of innocent lives and property”.

She also described entrenched corruption as being responsible for the state of the nation’s poor infrastructure including power and roads. She further disclosed that “our aspiration as a country stands threatened by corruption. This is not certainly the country of the dreams of those who fought for our independence. It is neither the country of our dream. It is equally not a country many of us wish to bequeath to the next generation”.

According to the EFCC boss, in spite of the corruption-made deteriorating state of affairs of the nation, a few are still working daily to make the situation even worse. In her view, a corruption free and transparent Nigeria will put them out of business and they are determined to maintain the status quo. “Whether we allow or stop them is part of the reasons for which we are gathered here today”, she added.  

While commending President Goodluck Jonathan and the national assembly for passing and signing into law, two important pieces of legislation – the Money laundering (Prohibition) Act 2011 and the Terrorism Prevention Act, 2011, Waziri described the laws as complimentary to the EFCC Act 2004, the ICPC Act 2000 and the Code of Conduct Act in the fight against corruption and terrorism financing.

She assured the President that the EFCC in collaboration with sister agencies will vigorously implement these laws to realize their spirit and intent. “We shall count on your support and that of the National Assembly and the judiciary to enforce the laws without respect to personality or status.

She also informed the audience that the EFCC has recorded commendable results in the last 7 years with assets over $11 billion recovered and over 650 convictions to her credit, promising that the Commission is poised to do much more. “The sophistication, complexity and variegated nature of the problem demands much more radical, drastic and unorthodox approaches. Our society seemed to have been complacent and tolerant of corruption for too long.”

She also called for total transformation in the nation, adding that the reason many seek political office today is every other thing other than service. “Politics appears the biggest industry for illicit wealth acquisition. The foundation for bad governance is therefore laid in the nature of our politics. The only language in our politics is money. Integrity and competence hardly play any role. It is therefore not a coincidence that the root of our corruption is largely connected with public officers otherwise regarded as Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs).

She urged the forum to consider and recommend a more practical approach for the courts to determine corruption cases in an expeditious manner that not only instil public confidence in the justice system but also prevent the enjoyment of assets associated with corruption.

She also reiterated her advocacy for special courts which she said must be complimented with a simplified evidence procedure that allows front loading of evidence as in election petition cases and putting time lines for conclusion of cases.

“Whatever constitutional impediments that exist should be quickly addressed. This will ensure that those accused of corrupt practices, face justice squarely; devoid of all rigmaroles. In addition to universally accepted approaches to combating corruption; each country must devise its home grown solution to best suit its local requirement as the current protracted and endless trial of corruption cases is an indictment of our justice system”, Waziri stressed.

In his own remark, the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke, SAN said that the theme of the seminar was apt and topical given the present state of interdependencies and connectivity of global economies. He revealed that his office has taken seriously the issue of stolen asset recovery. According to him,”This is borne out of the desire to ensure that corrupt persons are not only punished but are prevented from enjoying the proceeds of their crimes. In this regards, we have continued to assist relevant agencies to recover and repatriate stolen assets to Nigeria. Only recently, we negotiated the recovery and repatriation of the sum of 22.5 million pounds sterling from the Island of Jersey being the proceeds of money laundered from Nigeria.

“I wish to seize opportunity to commend the Attorney General of Jersey for the support and cooperation we received and urged other jurisdictions to also extend to us, the much needed cooperation to enable us repatriate stolen assets within their jurisdictions. Our experience has shown that despite international condemnation of corruption and money laundering, many jurisdictions where stolen assets are located are either reluctant to repatriate such stolen assets to victims states or impose stringent conditions for its repatriation with attendant negative consequences on victim States.

“We also intend to vigorously purse stolen assets and the confiscation of other instrumentalities of crime within the country by strengthening our confiscatory and forfeiture laws. In this regard, we have commenced work on a comprehensive Assets Forfeiture legislation that will address the present inadequacies in our various laws. The Nigerian proceeds of crime acts and bribery acts are also in the pipeline. What these legislative interventions portend for Nigeria is that we are actively responding to global initiatives to make corruption a high risk venture that is ultimately not rewarding.

“To end this remarks, i wish to assure our distinguished invited guests and participants that the office of the Attorney General of the federation is not at loggerheads with the EFCC or indeed any other anti corruption agency. Corrupt persons will know doubt rejoice at such a prospect, but let me assure you that “the prospect of a house divided against itself” will not come to pass while i occupy the exalted office of the Attorney General of the federation.

“We are partners in the prosecution of the war against corruption, money laundering and terrorism. In this regard, i will continue to give all anti-corruption agencies the needed support and cooperation to succeed in the discharge of their statutory mandate.”

In his goodwill message the head of delegation of the European Union, Ambassador David Macrae commended the EFCC in its efforts towards ensuring good governance in Nigeria. In his words, “various anti-graft agencies play a key role all over the world in improving good governance and contributing to the development process of countries. Nigeria is not an exception. Here, the EFCC among other agencies is playing a key role in fighting corruption and evolving the political and democratic process.

“It is in recognition of the importance of achieving good governance that the European Union has been providing significant support approaching N6 billion to the EFCC/NFIU in order to improve their technical and operational capacities and integrate civil society in the fight against corruption through advocacy and awareness.”

He also said that the EU’s cooperation with the Federal government of Nigeria is intended to strengthen existing institutions with a view to improving their performance and results. In that regard, he assured of further support to the anti-corruption agencies.

He said the EU recognizes the role played by the anti-corruption agencies in their commitment to moving the anti-corruption agenda forward adding that “we see strong anti-corruption agencies as critical to the transformation agenda of the current administration”.

The occasion, hugely successful and well-attended, was graced by Vice-president Mohammed Sambo; the Liberian President, Mrs Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf; Governor of Lagos State; Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola SAN, his Benue and Kebbi states counterparts; Mr Gabriel Suswam and Seidu Dakingari, former Minister of External Affairs, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, Head of Europen delegation, Mr David  Macrae; Minister of State for Works and his Foreign Affairs counterpart among others.

President Jonathan sacks Anti-Terrorism Czar

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Available information indicates that the President of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan have begun the gradual revamp of the security agencies of Nigeria. This is as 247ureports.com gathered that the President has acted to release the National Coordinator on Anti-Terrorism, Ambassador Zakari Ibrahim, a renowned former intelligence chief who was originally appointed to the post in January 2011. Ambassador Zakari Ibrahim hails from Katsina State.

Ambassador Zakari will be replaced by the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 82 Division of Nigerian Army, Maj. Gen. Sarkin Yakin Bello.  Maj. Gen. Bello is experienced in matters concerning militancy. He had served as the Commander of the Joint Task Force (Operation Restore Hope) in the Niger Delta and as the Commander of Operation Flush Out III in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

Assassinated Victims under the watch of Akpabio

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They Were Either Murdered, Assassinated Or Kidnapped; All In Governor Godswill Akpabio Administration

1) Barr. Imo Udonwa

2) Miss. Aniefon Aniediabasi

3) Engr. Emmanuel Ekpenyong

4) Mr. Mathais Ekpenyong

5) Barr. Benjamin Udoekpo

6-7) Two Women At Qua Iboe Church, Iwok

8) Dr. Austin Edet

9) Daughter Of Paramount Ruler Abak

10) Mrs. Marie Ikpe

11) Ezekiel Peter Ebere (Episco)

12) Chief Paul Inyang

13) Mrs.Philomina Udonwa

14) Anthony Akpanobong

15) Mr. Daniel John Ekanem

16) Mr. Mathew Inyang

17) Police Orderly To Mrs. Lydia Bush

18) Dr. Akpanudo Feb.2, 2011

19) Pastor David Idunuoluwa

20) Oku Ibom Iii ,Edidem Robert James Obot Jan.30, 2011

21-23) Three Acn Supporters Poisoned In Prison

24-28) Students Killed In Govt House Stampede For 1,000 Naira (4)

29-50) Students Of Polytechnic, Ikot Asurua (21)

List Of Those Who Escaped Kidnapping / Assassination:

1) Paramount Ruler Etinan, Hrm Edidem Ime D. Umoette

2) Madam Grace James Akpanudoedehe

3) Mrs. Mfon Kenneth (Wife Of Etinan Council Chairman).

4) Engrs. Obinna And Bobby, Staff Of Vich Resources Nig. Ltd.

5) Proprietor, Life Care Clinic.

6) Chief Donald Etiebet

7) Engr.Iniekong Udonwa

Kidnapped Victims : Names No. Year/ Month

1-2) Abel Daminas Children (2) 2008

3) Mr. Ubong Obot (1) 2008

4) Mr.Mustag Obot (1) 2009

5) Senator Aloysius’ Wife (1) 2009

6) Chief Nelson Effiong (1) Feb. 2009

7) Ita Enyong- Entaco (1) 2009

8) Apostle Uwa (1) 2009 (Ibibio)

9) Nse Ntuen (1) 2009 (Ibibio)

10) Aniefon Aniedi Abasi (1) Feb. 2009 (Annang)

11) Mrs. Iniobong Ekpenyong (1) 2009 (Ibibio)

12) Pa. Kevin Edet (1) 2009 (Ibibio)

13) Mrs. Michael Bush (1) 2009 (Ibibio)

14) Hop, Nsit Ubium (1) 2009 (Ibibio)

15) Opulopm Ettes’ Wife (1) 2009 (Ibibio)

16-17) Russians (2) 2009 (Expatriates)

18-23) Russian Employees (6) June 3,2007

24-29) Stemco Staff (6) 2008 ( Expatiates)

30) Uwemedimo Archibong (1) Feb.2009 (Ibibio)

31) Mrs. Adrina Uko (1) 2009 (Ibibio)

32) Mrs. Anne Enoidem (1) 2009 (Ibibio)

33) Dr. Owen R. Owen (1) June 2009

34) Mrs. Jumbo (1) June 2009 (Ibibio)

35) Pastor Akan Weeks (1) 2009 (Ibibio)

36) Awak Treasurer, O/Akara (1) 2008 (Ibibio)

37) Mr. Ikpe Ukpe (1) 2008 (Ibibio)

38) Mr. Clement Uwemedimo (1) July, 2009 (Ibibio)

39) Mr. Fiokedu Okorie (1) July 2009

40) Miss Edikan Okon Ufot (1) July, 2009 (Ibibio)

41) Daughter Of Okon Usoro (1) July, 2009 (Ibibio)

42) Expatraites’wife(Abducted Tonturukpum) (1) Mar. 2009

43) Mr. Eseme Essien (1) Sept. 2009 (Ibibio)

44) Eld. Nse Ikpe (1) Sept. 2009 (Ibibio)

45) Jackie Jay (1) Sept. 2009 (Annang)

46) Ediomo Udoko (1) Sept. 2009 (Ibibio)

47) Iniobong Sunny Jackson (1) Sept. 2009 (Ibibio)

48) Adiaha Eka Sunny Ibanga (1) Sept. 2009 (Ibibio)

49) Pst. Jonah Solomon Akpan (1) Oct. 2009 (Ibibio)

50) Mrs. Eshiet –Etinan (1) Nov. 2009

51) Mrs. Sunny Daniel (1) Nov. 2009

52) Bishop C.O Akpan (1)Dec. 2,2009

53) Mr. Usen –Manager, Uba (1) Dec. 2009

54) Hon. Hogan Ita (1) 2009

55) Mr. Michael Nkono (1) Oct. 2009

56) Mrs. Michael Nkono (1) Oct. 2009

57) Dr. Uwem Umoh (1) Nov. 2009

58) Chief Inyang Eno (1) 2009 (Ibibio)

59) Gen. Edet Akpan (1)Jan.31,2010 (Ibibio)

60) Hon. Mike Dan (Itu) (1) Jan.2010 (Ibibio)

61) Miss. Edikan Udo (1) 2009 (Ibibio)

62) Mr. Ita Onyong (1) 2010 (Ibibio)

63) Mr. John Akpan (1) 2010 (Ibibio)

64) Mr. Okon Mkpong (1)2010 (Ibibio)

65) Paramount Ruler –Okobo (1) 2010 (Okobo)

66) Prof. Akaninyene Mendie (1) 2010

67) Chief Obosi- Clan Head Ini Lga (1) 2010 (Ibibio)

68) Prophtess Mercey Inyang (1) 2010 (Ibibio)

69) Prophetess Mercey Effiong (1) 2010 (Ibibio)

70) Mrs. Elizabeth Philip (1) 2010

71) Mrs. Godwin Udoaka 1st Bank (1) 2010 (Ibibio)

72) Mrs. Godwin Bassey Eton (1) 2010 (Ibibio)

73) Prof. Imo Ukpong (1) 2010 (Ibibio)

74) Dr. Austin Edet (1) 2010 ( Ibibio)

75) Chief Emmanuel Ntukidem (1) 2010 (Ibibio)

76) Mr. Samuel Inyang-Pdp Ini Lga (1) 2010 (Ibibio)

77) 83 Yr. Old Retired Civil Servant, Mbiabong Ikpe Annang (1) 2010

(Annang)

78) Mrs. Rosey Jack Udota (1) 2010 (Ibibio)

79) Joel Francis8 – Governors’ Driver (1) 2010

80) Anthony Akpanobong (1) 2010 (Ibibio)

81) Barr. Archibong’s Wife (1) 2010 (Ibibio)

82-85) Stemco Employees (4) May 5 2010

86) Rev. Ntia I Ntia (1) 2010 (Ibibio)

87) Deacon Sandy Ntuenubok (1) 2010 (Ibibio)

88) Rev. Ime Iyire (1) 2010 (Ibibio)

89) A Female Church Member Of Imeh Uyire (1) 2010 (Ibibio)

90) Mrs. Iwakeowo Bassey Essien (1) 2010 (Ibibio)

91) Obong Mike Ene (1) 2009 (Ibibio)

92) Mr. Essien Ewoh (1) 2008 (Ibibio)

93-94) Late Ntia’s Children (2) 2010 (Ibibio)

95) Dr. Uwah (1) July 2010 (Ibibio)

96) Mrs. Comfort Ewang—Sept.2010

97) Mrs. Lydia Tom Bush –Sept.2010

98) Mr. Ewang’s Personal Assistant—- Oct.2010

99) Mr. Ewang’s Driver—Oct.2010

100) Mr. Mike Eduok —-Sept.2010 (Ibibio)

101) Imeh Ekpo (July 2010) (Ibibio)

102) Nsifre Andrew (August 2010)

103) Bishop (Pa) Okon Enyong (Ibibio)

104) Rev. Inno Idiong (Annang)-Questionable-Jan.3, 2011(May Be

Staged).

105) Dr. Memfin Ekpo (Ibibio) – Jan.16, 2011

106) Elizabeth Jerry Emah (Ibibio)

107) Udo Mma Obot (Ibibio)

108) Chairlady Of Onna Lga (Ibibio)

109) Proprietor Of Eket Polithechnic

110) John Nta (Owner Of Treasury Island) Feb.11 2011 (Ibibio)

111) Barr. Udo George, Feb 15, 2011

112) Okon Edet Johnson, Aug 2011

113) Imeobong Efiong Akpan, Aug 17,2011

List Of Those Falsely Incarcerated By The State Government:

1) Hon. Fabian Ekpenyong (Only Surviving Ekpenyong Brothers)

Incarcerated For Refusing To Testify Falsely For The

Government. (Ibibio)

2) Dr. Chris Ekong, Accused Of Killing The Ekpenyong Brothers.

(Record Shows He Was In South Africa When The Murder Took

Place) (Ibibio)

3) Mr. Davidson Uboh Substituted For The Real Killers Of

Ekpenyong Brothers Who Were Let Out Of Jail. (Ibibio)

4) Mr. Otu Ekong Substituted For The Real Killers Of Ekpenyong

Brothers.

5) Mr. Itoro William Substituted For The Real Killers Of The

Ekpenyong Brothers

6) Chief Ononokpon Incarcerated For Asking Questions Of The

Governor In The Media (Oron)

7) Dr. Chris Nyong Charged With Treason But Released On Bail

(Ibibio)

8) Amb.Sam Edem Falsely Accused Of Stealing And Charming The

Governor- Acquitted By A Judge (Ibibio)

9) Chief Imeh Umanah—Oct.2010 (Annang)

10-51) Acn Supporters Arrested During Election Riot (41)

Tell Magazine:

Sam Itauma(Ibibio), Ceo Of Crarn Escaped Three Assasination Attempts And Three Kidnapping Attempts, Almost Jailed By Gov Akpabio In Oron High Court Now His Whereabouts Still Unkown….

To Be Continued

Obong Umana

President,

Concerned Citizens Of Akwa Ibom State (Ccain), Usa

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