tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2730596987387960387.post1653134241470239947..comments2023-10-03T10:06:43.840-07:00Comments on ICHEOKU: OLUSEGUN OBASANJO, SHOULD FACE FIRING SQUAD?EBEKUOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634012877434160861noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2730596987387960387.post-65831668767869155382009-05-18T02:46:00.000-07:002009-05-18T02:46:00.000-07:00I am hot in my belly to leave a nasty comment on a...I am hot in my belly to leave a nasty comment on a site like this. But because Christ lives in me, I hold back. I will rather say, you need to research more before you come out with a definite action plan as loud as you have written on Obj. Compare OBJ and Ojukwu and let us know who is better? Please know that if we in the South West do not reply your provocations (Icheokwu or whatever you call yourself) it is not for lack of what to say, but for our perseverance and tolerance hoping that in due time you will come to see the light as we saw hundreds of years back. Remember that we have history that you cannot boast of. None theless this is not to say that we or I believe this view of your is for the entire eastern block, far from it. I know a number of die hard OBJ supporters from the East including older and wiser members of Ohanaeze. This is May 2009, you have seen the economy and political land scape of the country what then do ou have to say about eh Obj REGIME? Please forget the comments of Prof. Soyinka on this for he is not qualified to make valid comments on politics and economy as a professor of Literature. I wil stop here, dear fellow Nigerian. I know you will/may not publish this comment. It is however at your peril for your site will never grow. evidences about that this is a very subjective site, on this blog posted since january no new comments, recommendation or whatever,,, good luck in your future endeavour Mr. Icheokwu....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2730596987387960387.post-6100598568737585252009-01-03T02:41:00.000-08:002009-01-03T02:41:00.000-08:00Obasanjo is a political robber – SoyinkaYou also s...Obasanjo is a political robber – Soyinka<BR/><BR/>You also said that President Yar’Adua is continuing Obasanjo’s undemocratic mentality. Was Obasanjo that bad? Would you sincerely say he was the worst thing that ever happened to Nigeria?<BR/>You are asking me to speak in hyperbole and I want to avoid it. I want to be as plain as possible. All I would say about Obasanjo (apart from that, I don’t really enjoy speaking it) is that he inflicted a wound on democracy in this nation, which will take years and years to heal. He was the most blatant rubbisher of the judiciary. He flouted judiciary decisions as if there was no consequence. He ruled outside the law. He is responsible for certain military excess during his reign. Remember Odi. Remember Zaki-Ibiam. He encouraged the police in their brutality towards the civil populace. It was under Obasanjo that civilians including women marching in solidarity with bereaved mothers to remember the plane crash victims were actually tear-gassed and batoned. <BR/><BR/>Beyond the grunt of, what a pity, this happened, we didn’t see any disciplining of the police with that outrageous act of abomination against freedom of movement. Colonial laws were used with impunity by the police even after the court had pronounced them to be totally non-viable and illegal. It was under Obasanjo that Anambra was sacked. The state organs and institutions were torched and burnt and the whole place handed over to thugs for over two days with the police doing absolutely nothing; innumerable anti-democratic even sordid acts. He consecrated thugs. He danced with thugs. He praised known thugs. He handed over states to thugs like Oyo State. I mean, where does one begin, where does one end? This is one of the reasons I say we must try this fellow. He must be put on public trial in order for people to know the extent of political trauma that he inflicted on the nation.<BR/><BR/>Now that there is no apparent move to probe that regime, what do you suggest?<BR/>This is what we are talking about. This is one of the projects of the Civic Forum: to put Obasajo on trial the same way Sani Abacha was put on trial in London by the opposition which invited jurists to actually preside over the case and present the case from the other side. We brought to London witnesses from Nigeria. Some came through NADECO, some came directly the same way as we had the trial for Omar Bashir, the president of Sudan for crimes against humanity in New York right opposite the United Nations building. These are symbolic trials but they are instructional trials. It’s a question of setting up a people’s court and letting witnesses come forward and give their testimonies and the other side be invited to respond to them. This nation desperately needs that kind of exercise. We’ve got to establish that tradition; that culture of public trial.<BR/><BR/>You called this same former President Obasanjo a chief robber. Don’t you think you were too harsh at that?<BR/>Political robber, I mean. He masterminded the greatest electoral robbery this nation has ever witnessed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2730596987387960387.post-72933029594265291982009-01-03T02:24:00.000-08:002009-01-03T02:24:00.000-08:00Power Probe: Reps Want Obasanjo, Imoke, Agagu, Oth...Power Probe: Reps Want Obasanjo, Imoke, Agagu, Others Investigated<BR/>By Our Correspondent <BR/><BR/>The Ndudi Elumelu-led House of Representatives Committee that undertook the power sector probe may have asked the Federal Government to thoroughly investigate some key officials in former President Olusegun Obasanjo's administration over their roles in the expenditure of about $25.28 billion (about N332.43 Billion) in the execution of various projects under the controversial National Integrated Power Programme (NIPP).<BR/><BR/>Snippets from the committee's report, which is still pending before the Lower Chamber of the National Assembly, revealed that if the lawmakers' recommendations are accepted at the end of deliberations, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, his Minister of Power and Steel, Senator Liyel Imoke, and Minister of State (Energy), Abdulhamed Ahmed, may be invited for questioning over how a whooping sum of $l3.28 billion, along with unfunded commitments to the tune of over $l2 billion, was expended on the power sector during their tenure.<BR/><BR/>The committee, which said it uncovered during the course of its assignment "strange things (that) happened in the power sector during the period, frowned seriously at several instances of financial, technical and legal irregularities in the award and execution of contracts.<BR/><BR/>Said the report in its executive summary: "The most striking revelation was (the) flagrant disregard of Sections 80 (3) and (4) of the l999 Constitution which states clearly: (3) No moneys shall be withdrawn from any Federal fund other than the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation, unless the issue of those money has been authorised by an Act of the National Assembly.<BR/><BR/>"(4) No moneys shall be withdrawn from the Consolidated Revenue Fund or any other public fund of the Federation except in the manner prescribed by the National Assembly."<BR/><BR/>It cited the reckless abuse of executive power through the flagrant granting of due process waivers on the disbursement of payments to project contractors under the dubious justification to "fast-track" completion of the projects, pointing out that rather facilitate completion of the projects as envisaged, the action became the major plank for payments to non-performing contractors and consultants at the nation's expense.<BR/><BR/>Identifying the trio as the major culprits, he committee recommended that they be "thoroughly investigated by appropriate agencies for economic sabotage to the country."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com