How Complicit are the Accountant and Auditor Generals in the Looting of Our Treasury?

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One of our problems as a people, as a society, is our intrinsic inability to be sincere, even with ourselves, and from this derives dishonesty, which leads to corruption, deceit, deception and fraud, and of course we know where this eventually leads to, or rather, has led to – the stunting and impediment of progress and development of the country, and a degenerate and depraved society. We are reaping what we sow.

So why are we so insincere and dishonest, even with ourselves, so much so that our notoriety all over the world is confirmed? I hate to hazard a guess, because this will open a whole can of cultural and psychological worms and I will be accused of washing and airing our dirty linens in the public, as if we don’t do that on a daily basis, more so by our so-called leaders and enlightened elites.

Although the “sacking” has been denied by the Federal Government , and substituted with “retired”,  I decided to take the news that a  former Accountant General  of the Federation, has been  sacked by President Buhari for  misappropriating 2.5 billion naira of security agencies’ funds, http://www.informationng.com/2015/06/buhari-sacks-accountant-general-of-the-federation-over-alleged-misappropriation-of-funds.html) as a Truth. Why not, you ask me? Let us be sincere with ourselves, at least this time;  to excuse the persons of the Accountant Generals (and the Auditor Generals) of the Federation (past and present) and their respective offices, from the massive looting that has been going on in this country for decades will be like excusing corruption itself.

They are complicit in the looting that has been going on for decades, and I have always wondered with some incredulity why the torch has rarely been shone on them all these inordinate length of time. Their offices must be the bedrock of the highest corruption; I have no doubt about that considering the importance of their offices in the fiscal and economic well-being and accountability of the nation.

That massive fraud and looting has been taking place in this country for decades cannot be contested by any sane Nigerian. So I ask myself, how can these important offices dealing with our treasury integrity, accountability, propriety, regularity, compliance and fiscal discipline, in that period not be aware, and even complicit in the looting of the treasury and common wealth of this country?  If he (and any of his predecessors) denies any knowledge or complicity, that says a lot about their competence, integrity, knowledge and qualifications and questions should be asked about how mediocre and inept civil servants got to the top of their careers and into such prominent and responsible positions.

It is a damn scam and pulling the wool over our collective eyes.

It is impossible, simply dreadful for anybody in such a high government position to deny any knowledge of the massive corruption that has been going on. And it is equally intolerable to say they have not themselves benefitted from the looting. Having said this, the same goes for the past and present Auditor Generals in the same period or longer. And again, this includes the Accountant and Auditor Generals of ALL the states of the Federation, and might I add those of the local governments (I think they call them Finance Officers or whatever).  This is the reality.

But we have chosen to leave and forget them in their drab and dreary little offices, where they shut themselves in and do deals and secrete money from the treasury, in collusion with other civil servants and political office holders, while trying to show to us that they are above board and honest.

This is not so. These ilks of people, with their accounting knowledge are experts at altering the ledgers, falsifying reports and putting forward fake figures.  And most of them get away with it, because they are very smart with manipulation of figures. I once entered a state’s Accountant General’s office, and I could not believe the chaos and the laxity. It was then I knew I could never rely on the reports they put out.

For definition or explanation, the office of the Accountant General of the Federation was established under Civil Services re-organization Decree No. 43 in 1988. The incumbent is responsible for the overall management of all receipt and payments of the Republic of Nigeria and its responsibility is to promote and enforce effective management in respect of revenue expenditure, assets and liabilities of institutions in all three spheres of Government.

Complementarily, the Office of the Auditor-General for the Federation is a separate and independent entity whose existence, powers, duties and responsibilities are provided for under section 85 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999.Section 85(6) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, state that “in the exercise of his function under the Constitution, the Auditor General shall not be subject to the director or control of any other authority or person”. The Auditor General’s Department aims to meet the needs and expectations of the National Assembly, the executive and its clients and to add value to public sector performance and accountability. This independent review is thus performed to ensure the propriety, regularity and compliance with all the statutory and other regulatory requirements and the economy, efficiency and effectiveness of the operations. An Auditor General is an ‘ally of the people and the National Assembly’ and must act independently in carrying out all his powers and duties. Independence is the cornerstone of public sector audit. The Auditor General must be free from pressure, influence or interference from any source that may erode that independence.

In accordance to Section 85(5) of the 1999 Constitution, the Auditor-General shall, within 90 days of receipt of the Accountant General’s financial statement, submit his Report to each House of the National Assembly (The Senate and the House of Representatives) and each House shall cause the Report to be considered by a Committee of the House of the National assembly responsible for    Public accounts. The main function of the Public Accounts Committee is to review whether public money was not spent for the approved purpose and with due regard to efficiency, economy and effectiveness!

A lot of baloney and flagrant defiance of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria!

From the above, are these two offices compliance? We have thrown the Constitution to the fire in this country, as we have turned democracy and governance on their heads. For a laugh, quite recently, we had to contract out the auditing of the accounts of the NNPC to an external company; which is a veritable sign of a lack of confidence and trust in our own internal organ, the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation. Shame!!!

No matter how we love to point fingers, every Nigerian in public office from the messenger up to the permanent secretary is prone to corruption; everything has a price and it's going to take the combined efforts of every Nigerians to wipe it out. Every government ministry, department and agencies (MDA’s they call themselves) is corrupt to the core, and they gladly aid and abet the corrupt political office holders. Sometimes they even initiate the corrupt activities of these politicians, who are crude and may not know how to properly and safely steal money.

Until we strengthen and adequately addressed the deficiencies in our socio-political system which will make it a serious punishable offense to just dip into and steal government money with little or no consequences there will be no end to these authority-stealing and unbridled looting. The issue is not only that of defective structures; but depraved moral values have led to the constructing of licentious and defective socio-political system and flawed structures.

Please if I am wrong on my conjectures above, feel free to correct me.

Let the Truth be said always!

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Rivers APC challenges Wike to declare assets

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The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has challenged Chief Nyesom Wike, the Rivers State Caretaker Governor, to declare his assets in keeping with the requirement of the office he is temporarily occupying and in line with the mantra of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to promote transparency and accountability.

 

The party said in a statement signed by the State Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, and issued on Tuesday in Port Harcourt: “In line with the code of conduct for elected public officers in Nigeria, we wish to advise Chief Wike to hasten to declare his assets. The good people of Rivers State want to know the financial status of the man whom the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) wickedly imposed on Rivers State as her Governor. They have been waiting for their Caretaker Governor to follow the path of honour by declaring his assets, but he has conveniently chosen not to do so because he apparently has skeletons in his cupboard. There is, however, no hiding place for Wike as assets declaration is not optional but compulsory for holders of the office he is accidentally occupying in the interim.”

Rivers APC said it had earlier chosen to keep quiet on the issue but decided to speak out in view of Wike’s ill-advised dissolution of Boards and Parastatals and moves to dissolve the constitutionally-constituted Local Government Councils so as to be the sole signatory of the accounts of these boards and local governments in the State.

 

“This request becomes imperative to safeguard Rivers State funds from being looted with impunity and misappropriated, which is actually the sole agenda of the Wike administration. We know that asset declaration may be very difficult for Chief Wike to do, aware that he cannot give satisfactory account of the source of his lavish lifestyle before he became Caretaker Governor and his possession of most of the choice properties in Rivers State,” Rivers APC said.

It however, challenged Wike to prove that he still has a modicum of honour by declaring his assets and making the declaration public.

 

 

Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze,

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River State APC calls on Gov Wike to declare his assets

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The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC has called on the Governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike to declare his assets with the Code of Conduct Bureau [CCB] and make such a declaration public as has been done by the President and Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari and Prof. Yemi Osinbajo respectively.

The call was made yesterday in a press release by the Chairman of the APC in Rivers State, Chief [Dr.] Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, JP.

In the release, Chief Ikanya stated that public perception of Chief Wike as an extremely corrupt individual not fit to govern Rivers State can only be given a second thought if he borrowed a leaf from the present President and Vice President of Nigeria who have declared their assets and will have same published after verification.

However, Chief Ibiamu stated that he was very doubtful if Chief Wike would declare his assets as that will spell doom for him, anchoring his fear on the fact that Wike’s massive properties and assets littering the state and beyond cannot be justified by the governor who has spent his short public life as a local government Chairman, Chief of Staff and Minister.

“I am very doubtful how Wike can justify his stupendous wealth in a few years of public life.” Chief Ikanya stated.

The APC Chairman concluded: “This is a challenge that the APC is throwing at Barr. Nyesom Wike; let him pick the courage and publicly declare his assets or forever bury his head in the shame that all that we are hearing about him is correct.”

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Press Conference : We must defend our democracy -Algon River State

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WE MUST DEFEND OUR DEMOCRACY
BEING TEXT OF A PRESS CONFERENCE BY THE ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN NIGERIA (ALGON) RIVERS STATE ON THURSDAY, THIS 11TH DAY OF JUNE 2015 IN PORT HARCOURT
Gentlemen of the Press,
We have called this august body of members of the highly revered Fourth Estate of the Realm today to intimate you of some contemporary developments in the polity of our dear Rivers State in the sure hope that first, as critical Stakeholders in the nation’s democratic project, you deserve to know what danger looms in the horizon for our prized democracy. Secondly, that by your role as watchdogs of society, the world out there will be well informed about the issues and facts surrounding the sinister plot by the Government of Rivers State under Chief (Barrister) Nyesom Ezebunwo Wike to plunge Rivers State into another round of avoidable crises after the most mindless bloodletting this State had ever known in her 48-year history in the name of struggle to wrest transient political power.

You will recall, gentlemen, that the board of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) under the Chairmanship of Professor Emeritus Augustine Ahiauzu was sacked by the Governor on Monday, June 8, 2015 after a rather hasty inquisition by the Rivers State House of Assembly adjudged the Commission leadership guilty of “official misconduct” on the same day. Recall also that the invitation to Golgotha for Prof. Ahiauzu’s board also resulted on the self same day in the decapitation of the State Judicial Service Commission.
While we are yet to come to terms with this legislative/executive adjudication of “official misconduct” against these two executive bodies established under Section 197 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as Amended), it is the position of ALGON Rivers State (comprising of 23 duly elected Chairmen and 319 Councilors of the local government councils) that these dissolutions were POLITICALLY MOTIVATED and done in utmost bad faith. These boards were sacked on the altar of expediency to serve narrow and pedestrian partisan interests and not any higher ideals for the good of the larger Rivers State.

Coming on the heels of the directive by this Government to banks and other financial institutions not to deal with the newly-inaugurated local government councils, the dissolution of these boards is target-specific and a further step in the dress rehearsal to execute their avowed agenda to sack duly elected and constituted local government councils without recourse to the due process of law as provided under Section 64 of the Rivers State Local Government Law (No. 2) of 2012. The ultimate intention is to circumvent the provisions of Section 7 of the Constitution by replacing the democratically elected Councils in Rivers State with Caretaker Committees populated by cronies and lackeys of this government in the Peoples Democratic Party.
Gentlemen, we are aware that this plot of grave impunity and recklessness will be executed today, hence this press conference. Thus, in defence of democracy and the Constitution, as public officials duly elected by Rivers people and the section of the electorate who live and do business in Rivers State, ALGON Rivers State hereby warns of very dire consequences in the event that the Nyesom Wike administration (and this includes his hand-picked members of the Rivers State House of Assembly and the Judiciary now under the terribly politically-biased Justice Daisy Okocha) over-reaches itself by making pronouncements howsoever to terminate our three-year tenures prior to expiration as provided under Section 9 of the Rivers State Local Government Law (No. 2) of 2012.

Rivers ALGON is not being alarmist. We are putting Rivers people and the nation on RED ALERT that the plot to undermine democratically elected Councils in Rivers State by the Wike Administration EVEN THOUGH IN LINE WITH HIS CHARACTER will boomerang. Recall that Wike in his insatiable quest to become Governor whilst serving as a federal Minister undermined institutions and authorities without restraint by orchestrating a series of crises beginning with the hijack of the State PDP structures; the unconstitutional take-over of the Speakership of the State Assembly by his lackey Evans Bipi and co (which act led to Wike deploying Mbu Joseph Mbu as Police Commissioner to shut the Assembly Complex until it was opened at his pleasure); the subversion of the power of Governor Chibuike Amaechi to appoint the Chief Judge of Rivers State through the instrumentality of the National Judicial Council and the consequent shut down of the State Judiciary for nearly a year following a string of violent attacks and bombings of the courts in Rivers State. Today, after Wike emerged Governor the courts are open under Wike’s original choice as Acting CJ and no bomb has gone off thereafter.

Thus, emboldened by his sound propaganda machinery which succeeded in blackmailing Gov. Amaechi for all the constitutional atrocities in the State Assembly and the Judiciary; and apparent good luck to get away with virtually every untoward act or behavior, Wike has proceeded to sack the board of the RSIEC on the resolution of his House of Assembly without regard to the Constitutional doctrine of separation of powers, since matters questioning the propriety of the conduct of elections into local government councils by the Commission are subjudice. It is equally important that the world is told in no uncertain terms that the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission conducted local government elections in Plateau State on the same May 23rd 2015 under former Governor Jonah Jang of the PDP and Governor Lalong of the APC who was sworn-into office on the same May 29, 2015 as Nyesom Wike has not threatened to dissolve or howsoever tamper with the tenure of the elected local government councils. Recall also that President Muhammadu Buhari has not tampered with the appointments made by former President Goodluck Jonathan even though some of these appointments were made at the twilight of the outgone administration.

It is apt to now state that as a law-abiding body of public office holders, we have taken practical steps to prevent this evil day and thus deny this PDP Government their intentions to turn our dear Rivers State into someone’s personal estate. One of these steps is the proceeding before the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt in Suit No.: FHC/PH/CS/134/2015 seeking orders to restrain the Rivers State Governor and his hatchet men from tampering with the tenure of local government councils without recourse to legal provisions. Instead of the deliberate plot to throw our dear State into another round of unnecessary turmoil so soon after the holocaust and killings of members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) prior to, during and after the March 28 and April 11, 2015 general elections, it is only reasonable that the PDP Administration in Rivers State led by a Lawyer appreciates why the courts must be allowed to administer justice on his grouse(s) with the local councils as presently constituted unfettered. After all, assuming without conceding that the present Rivers State Government has bones to pick with the elections that brought us to office (after they and their PDP voluntarily withdrew from participating therein following their failure to use the instrumentality of the Judiciary to halt RSIEC), the same Governor and members of the Rivers State House of Assembly too have their own elections being questioned at the Elections Petitions Tribunal as prescribed by law without any person or authority at the level of the federal government ordering or manipulating the National Assembly to either “dissolve” the board of the Independent National Electoral Commission or pronto terminate the tenure of both Governor Wike and the State legislators. Why the attempt to subvert the due process of the law in the case of local government councils in Rivers State?
Gentlemen of the press, because Rivers State as an oil and gas industry hub is far too important to the Nigerian State and her economy to be engulfed in ceaseless crises and civil upheavals, we hereby call on the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; the leadership of the National Assembly, revered royal fathers, religious leaders, security agencies, corporate executives in the organized private sector, the media, labour unions and other civil society organizations as well as well-meaning people in Rivers State to prevail upon Chief Nyesom Wike and his cronies to desist from this evil plot to destabilize the existing local government administrations. However, let us warn that where this Government, which has continued to demonstrate grave contempt for the law and the Constitution resorts to self-help, standing shoulder-to-shoulder, the Rivers ALGON shall resist any unconstitutional termination of Councils’ tenure. The consequences of such event occurring at this point in the history of our dear Rivers State are better imagined.

We thank you for your patience.

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Wike unfolds government of nepotism in Rivers State, says Rivers APC

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…appoints cousin, in-law into Greater Port Harcourt Devt. Authority board

In what appears to be a manifestation of what the All Progressives Congress, APC warned Rivers people about the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and its candidate during the campaigns, now the governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike has unfolded his programme of government of nepotism in Rivers State.

In his first major appointments since being sworn in as governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike is living up to his threat to give choice positions to his family members and people since according to him, ‘nobody gave him money for the struggle.’

A couple of days ago, Chief Wike announced the appointment of a sole administrator and board of the Greater Port Harcourt Development Authority which was created by Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, the former governor of Rivers State after sacking the former board. In constituting the board, Chief Wike appointed his immediate cousin, Surveyor Okas Wike of Emma Wike & Partners, a direct cousin of governor Wike to the board of the GPHDA. Not done, governor Wike also appointed his direct in-law, the immediate direct younger brother to Dr. Obuzor, his father in-law, Architect Nnamdi Obuzor to same board of merely 8 members.

While Rivers people may be aghast at the unbridled display of contempt for the people of Rivers State and their sensibilities, the APC is sad that exactly what it warned Rivers people about is now playing out in the open.

We recall with sadness that Chief Wike has defied all decency to appoint his direct cousin, Okas Wike whom he and Dr. Tammy Wenike Danagogo used to siphon a lot of money during the waterfront compensation and demolition issue in Port Harcourt at the last dispensation.

The APC is still of the conviction that more of such nepotistic tendency by Nyesom Wike will unfold in the days to come until he is swept away by the slow but sure wheel of justice by the Rivers State Election Petition Tribunal sitting at Abuja.

It is of note to recall that when a few voices questioned the appointment by Nyesom Wike [who is Ikwerre] of Justice Daisy Okocha [an Ikwerre]; and Barr. Emma Aguma [another Ikwerre], the response of the governor was that he would give more positions to his people, after all, no one from other parts of the state contributed to his quest for governorship of Rivers State.

The APC is not surprised that Chief Nyesom Wike has only considered persons from the riverine parts of Rivers State for responsibilities of hewers of wood and drawers of water. Curiously, those picking up such crumbs that fall from Caesar’s table appear unaware of what they are into ostensibly because of poverty of the pocket and of the mind.

Obviously, what is unfolding clearly shows that the governorship of Rivers State is way beyond and above the mediocre personage of Nyesom Wike and this remains the position of the APC.

The APC would like to re-assure all sections of Rivers people to ignore the grisly dance by the Wike administration as it will be swept away much sooner than later by God Almighty. It is only a matter of time.

 

Chris Finebone
 

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Wike lacks the power to dissolve LG councils – Rivers APC

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•Commends youths for rising against illegality

The Caretaker Governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike, lacks the power to dissolve the elected and operating Local Government Councils in the State, the State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has declared.

 

A statement signed by Rivers APC Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, and issued on Sunday in Port Harcourt said: “We are aware that Chief Nyesom Wike claims to have read Law though he never practised this noble profession for one single day and may therefore not know the position of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on this issue. We therefore wish to advise him to find time to read the relevant portions of the Constitution and educate himself on his lack of powers to dissolve Local Government Councils duly elected by the Rivers people. If he claims that he has powers to dissolve the Local Government Councils he is invariably saying that the Federal Government has powers to dissolve his illegal government without following due process.

“Any such action by Wike will not only be an exercise in futility but would be in clear contempt of court as the issue is currently before the Port Harcourt Federal High Court in Suit No: CA/PH/131/2015 and the Court of Appeal Suit No: FHC/PH/CS/84/2015. Besides, the Supreme Court of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has severally ruled that Governors of States in Nigeria lack the powers to sack elected Local Government Councils as in the case of the removal of 148 elected Local Government Councils by the Abia State Government in 2006 and subsequent Court of Appeal judgments on Imo and Ekiti states in 2012 and 2013 respectively, where it was held that such actions by state governors amounted to ‘executive rascality’.”

 

According to Rivers APC, “For Wike to seek to dissolve the Local Government Councils that were duly elected by the people of Rivers State which tenure has just begun is nothing but a devilish gamble sure to throw Rivers into a state of anarchy. This is an ill-advised move that will lead to the spilling of more Rivers blood, as if the one that was spilled to install him as governor is not enough.”

The party vowed that any undemocratic dissolution of the Councils will not only be resisted but may also be a call for a revolution that will consume the illegal government currently operating in the State.

“Rivers APC would like to call on the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, the heads of the various security agencies and the general public to hold the Nyesom Wike-led Rivers State Government responsible for any breach of peace in Rivers State that may result from the illegal moves to do away with the duly elected 22 Local Government Councils in the State in order to replace same with Wike’s hand-picked cronies as Caretaker Committees,” the statement said.
The party commended Rivers youths and the State Branch of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) “for protesting against the illegal move by a government forced on us by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in an election condemned by the international community and other well meaning societies.” It reassured them that the party is solidly behind them in the struggle to entrench constitutionalism in the State.

 

“Finally, we urge the Bukola Saraki-led National Assembly, civil society organisations and other allied bodies to prevail on the Wike-led administration to jettison the dangerous moves to dissolve the Councils that were elected on May 21, 2015 for a three-year tenure and sworn into office by former Governor Chibuike Amaechi on May 25 as this is nothing but an invitation for anarchy,” Rivers APC said.

 

 

 

Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze,

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WIKE unfolds government of nepotism in Rivers State

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…appoints cousin, in-law into Greater Port Harcourt Devt. Authority board

 

 

In what appears to be a manifestation of what the All Progressives Congress, APC warned Rivers people about the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and its candidate during the campaigns, now the governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike has unfolded his programme of government of nepotism in Rivers State.

 

In his first major appointments since being sworn in as governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike is living up to his threat to give choice positions to his family members and people since according to him, ‘nobody gave him money for the struggle.’

 

A couple of days ago, Chief Wike announced the appointment of a sole administrator and board of the Greater Port Harcourt Development Authority which was created by Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, the former governor of Rivers State after sacking the former board. In constituting the board, Chief Wike appointed his immediate cousin, Surveyor Okas Wike of Emma Wike & Partners, a direct cousin of governor Wike to the board of the GPHDA. Not done, governor Wike also appointed his direct in-law, the immediate direct younger brother to Dr. Obuzor, his father in-law, Architect Nnamdi Obuzor to same board of merely 8 members.

 

While Rivers people may be aghast at the unbridled display of contempt for the people of Rivers State and their sensibilities, the APC is sad that exactly what it warned Rivers people about is now playing out in the open.

 

We recall with sadness that Chief Wike has defied all decency to appoint his direct cousin, Okas Wike whom he and Dr. Tammy Wenike Danagogo used to siphon a lot of money during the waterfront compensation and demolition issue in Port Harcourt at the last dispensation.

 

The APC is still of the conviction that more of such nepotistic tendency by Nyesom Wike will unfold in the days to come until he is swept away by the slow but sure wheel of justice by the Rivers State Election Petition Tribunal sitting at Abuja.

 

It is of note to recall that when a few voices questioned the appointment by Nyesom Wike [who is Ikwerre] of Justice Daisy Okocha [an Ikwerre]; and Barr. Emma Aguma [another Ikwerre], the response of the governor was that he would give more positions to his people, after all, no one from other parts of the state contributed to his quest for governorship of Rivers State.

 

The APC is not surprised that Chief Nyesom Wike has only considered persons from the riverine parts of Rivers State for responsibilities of hewers of wood and drawers of water. Curiously, those picking up such crumbs that fall from Caesar’s table appear unaware of what they are into ostensibly because of poverty of the pocket and of the mind.

 

Obviously, what is unfolding clearly shows that the governorship of Rivers State is way beyond and above the mediocre personage of Nyesom Wike and this remains the position of the APC.

 

The APC would like to re-assure all sections of Rivers people to ignore the grisly dance by the Wike administration as it will be swept away much sooner than later by God Almighty. It is only a matter of time.

 

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NIGERIA: Passenger steals N350,000 on Abuja-bound flight

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LAGOS—There was mild drama aboard a 6:45a.m. Aero flight from Lagos to Abuja yesterday, as one of the  passengers (names withheld) stole about N350,000 from a luggage belonging to an Austrian, Novotny Anton, also a passenger on the flight.

The 31-year-old suspect, seating on seat number 23C, was said to have been spotted by one of the airline’s cabin crew when he removed the Austrian’s bag from the locker where it was kept as he was planning to change his seat.

An eyewitness, who was aboard the aircraft, said the suspect removed the bag from the locker where the Austrian sat, took it to his own seat, giving the impression that he was changing seat and stole N150,000 and 500 Euros belonging to the Austrian.

The suspect ran out of luck when a female cabin

crew saw him and asked him to remain seated when he was trying to return the bag to the overhead locker before the Austrian could suspect any foul play.

When the  plane landed at Abuja airport, the Austrian could not find his bag and raised alarm. The cabin crew member told him to check the bag with the suspect.

After the suspect was stripped naked, he told other angry passengers that he mistakenly took the bag in place of his own.

The Austrian later discovered that N150,000 and 500 Euros had been taken from the bag.

Other passengers immediately descended on the suspect and the money was later found on him, alongside a wrap of marijuana.

Aero spokesman Mr. Simon Tumba, said the airline would issue an official statement on the incident later.

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Buruji Kashamu: Senator withdraws N20bn suit against Obasanjo

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Senator Buruji Kashamu has withdrawn a N20 billion libel suit he filed against former President, Olusegun Obasanjo.

The case was instituted at an Abuja High Court and heard by Justice Valentine Ashi.

Justice Ashi is said to have struck out the suit on May 26, 2015, after Kashamu informed the court of his intention to terminate the matter.

The Senator, who represents the Ogun East Senatorial District, is said to have claimed that he withdrew the suit due to “ongoing settlement talks” between him and Obasanjo.

Obasanjo’s lawyers however stated, according to Punch, that they were not aware of any such talks.

Kashamu filed the suit against Obasanjo after the former President described him as a drug baron.

The Senator is currently facing extradition to the US to face drug charges which were levelled against him in 1998.

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Murtala Nyako: Court okays ex-governor’s arrest over alleged N15bn fraud

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The Abuja Federal High Court on Sunday, June 14 failed to stop the Economic & Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from arresting Adamawa State ex-governor Murtala Nyako over alleged siphoning of over N15billion from the state’s treasury.

The anti-graft agency maintains that Nyako used his son, Abdul Azizi, and other top officials of the state government to loot public funds.

EFCC had declared the former governor and his son wanted after they refused to honour the agency’s invitations. Azizi was later arrested in Gombe on February 14 by the Commissions’ operatives.

Nyako had filed a motion ex-parte in which he sought for an interim order of injunction against all the security agencies in Nigeria.

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