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From: Oluwatoyin Adepoju <tovadepoju@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 7:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Nigeria360::Live] Re: [TalkNigeria] I've no investigation file on Ibori's $15m bribe – Ribadu
From: Oluwatoyin Adepoju <tovadepoju@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 7:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Nigeria360::Live] Re: [TalkNigeria] I've no investigation file on Ibori's $15m bribe – Ribadu
Once I read that Ribadu claimed to pretend to accept the bribe money and then deposited it in CBN, I lost interest in the case.
There is a Nigerian saying that the meat you dont eat, you dont use your teeth in dividing it.
Even a basic knowledge of investigative operations shows that with such a strategy, his credibility is in tatters.
What evidence do we have that he intended to share with the world this duplicitous dealing?
He placed it in CBN, and so?
The question is the source of the money, documented in a manner that demonstrates he intends to expose the evil dealing, a deadly situation in which no margin of error must be allowed for anyone to doubt his intentions.
A particular film, most likely among a good number of others, shows how this kind of thing is done.
In a sting operation, an operation set up to trick a crook into showing his true colours thinking he is dealing with fellow crooks, a drug sale was effected, with the disguised policeman buying drugs from the drug dealer, the entire operation being conducted by bank transfer on a computer brought to the meeting by the policeman.
Once the transfer took place, the plainclothes policemen on the scene simply arrested the drug dealer.
Even I, who have no training in any kind of law enforcement, know that records are everything.
So much depends on them.
Not having an official record of this duplicitous dealing is a moral crime, in the sense of a betrayal of office and of the trust vested in that office by the nation, which is the reality overriding whatever political machinations the office is described as serving.
A person in Ribadu's shoes in such a volatile and mercurial-rapidly shifting - political climate as Nigeria should be prepared for a broad range of eventualities, such as even such official records being destroyed by a predecessor.
Such a person should have access to various platforms for concealing information, from safe deposit vaults in various parts of the world or even Internet accounts carefully concealed from the public.
In this modern world, an officer of your rank claims to have kept personal notes of such gravity in paper form that got lost?
You cant be serious.
I beg, the whole thing is just crap to me.
The degradation to which we are being subjected by this charade so far away from Nigeria, in a context where our reputation is not high in the first place, suggests the scope of the need to break this do or die political culture where the government is described by CBN governor Lamido Sanusi as swallowing most of the country's running expenses, a lot of it through bloated salaries, where lawmakers earn more than the President of the world's foremost economy, the United Sates of America.
A lot of ignorance and sheer nonsense walks the street in Nigeria and too often assumes power over the populace.
We need to educate ourselves.
I find reading widely, also trying to participate in what is going on in the world, to be priceless. We should do our best to emulate the best others have achieved and do even better. We must not continue to resemble people of dented intelligence or ignoramuses from a primitive universe.
thanks
toyin
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Afis <odidere2001@yahoo.com> wrote:
You think IdowuBobo is seeking the Truth?
You might as well believe Jesus of Nazareth is on a train from Heaven and is coming back to earth.......any day now!Oooops! My bad........I forgot I was among Naija peoples who love the Bible more than the Colonial masters that forced it down their animist throats.Shikena,AfisSent from my iPadRibadu's inconsistency is a replica of the tragedy called Nigeria and it was highly unprofessional of him and his agency not to have had any notes or files on somebody they claimed they were investigating for financial mismanagement. But the truth is that Ibori gave him 15million dollars which was deposited in CBN
On Sep 21, 2013 5:16 AM, "idowu" <idowubobo@yahoo.com> wrote:I've no investigation file on Ibori's $15m bribe – Ribadu
Our Reporter September 21, 2013 No Comments »I leave you to your conscience –Ex-Delta govAs the confiscation hearing of assets of former Delta State governor, James Ibori entered its fifth day in London, the former EFCC chairman giving evidence on how Ibori offered him $15m bribe, disclosed under oath that neither he nor the EFCC had an investigation file, notes of calls, meetings, briefings or records detailing the offer of the alleged bribe between him and James Ibori (on and around the dates the alleged bribe was given).While being cross- examined by Ibori's lead counsel, Ivan Krolic, Ribadu said that the only notes he had on James Ibori's offer of $15m bribe was his personal notes, which got lost during the period he was being persecuted by the government after being removed as the chairman of EFCC.Under cross-examination on the matter of notes and records, apparently, Ribadu was telling the court that as the chairman of the EFCC, there was no where in EFCC's office where a file was opened officially to document evidence of the $15m bribe against James Ibori prior to the offer of the bribe.Ribadu as a senior policeman also failed to report the loss of his brief case and vital documents to the police. Ribadu in the course of being cross- examined by Ibori's lead counsel had said he lost his brief case containing some documents including his personal notes on Ibori while in school in 2008.In re-examination on the same day by Sasha Wass, the crown prosecutor, Ribadu claimed he lost his brief case in July 2007. Mr. Krolic, Ibori's counsel, had to remind him that he had said while being cross- examined in the morning that he lost his brief case in 2007. Responding, Ribadu said 'everything happened in 2008'.The court room looked very charged as Nuhu Ribadu kept changing his stories and became inconsistent under cross- examination.Ribadu had also said during cross-examination that the $15m bribe was brought into the room at Andy Uba's place by Ibori's driver and assistant. However, in a prosecution witness statement by Ibrahim Lamorde, one of Ribadu's officers involved in the case then, Lamorde had said that the money was brought and put in the car by Andy Uba and his domestic staff. Ribadu's accounts of how the money was handed over to him at Mr. Uba's place evidently contradicted the witness accounts of Messrs Ibrahim Lamorde, now EFCC chairman, and James Garba. These statements are another of Ribadu's inconsistency and conflicting statements under cross-examination in the ongoing confiscation trial of James Ibori's assets in London.Pronto!!!
Idowu
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