(E1) 1 mansion at 3 River Niger Street, Plot 3192 Cadastral zone AO, Maitama District Abuja;
(E2) 9 units (comprising six one bedroom and 3 two bedroom apartments) at 8 Sefadu Street, Wuse Zone 2, plot 262 Cadastral Zone AO2, Wuse Abuja;
(E3) 2 units duplexes at 5 Oguta Street, plot 906 Cadastral zone, Wuse 11 Abuja.
(E4) 1 duplex at Plot 1271 Nike Street Cadastral Zone AO5, Maitama District Abuja;
(E5) 1 duplex at Phase 1 Unit No. 1 (Villa 1) Palm Springs Gold Estate, Cachez Turkey Projects Limited, Mpape, Abuja;
(E6) 10 units of one room apartments at 8 Mistrata Street Plot 232 Cadastral Zone Wuse 11 Abuja;
(E7) 5 units duplexes at Plot No 1070 Dakibiyu District Cadastral Zone B10, Abuja;
(E8) 16 units service apartments at Plot 1181 Thaba Tseka Crescent, off IBB Way, Wuse 11, Abuja and
(E9) 3 units of three bedroom flats at No. 1 Mubi Close, Plot 766. Cadastral Zone A01, Garki, Abuja.
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Date: Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:03 PM
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| "Nigerian Governor buys 48 private houses @ ₦6.46billion in 4 years whilst in public office" |
"If stoning by members of the public is the yardstick for judging official non-performance, are we right to say that the burning down of President Jonathan's house in 2007- in the run-up to that year's general elections - was an act of rejection by the people of Bayelsa State. Can we say that the stoning of President Jonathan in May last year in Uganda was a global act of his rejection?"............. Ex-Governor Timpre Sylva (Bayelsa State); February 4, 2012
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) on Thursday said that it has taken possession of 48 properties of a former governor of Bayelsa State, Timpre Sylva who is being prosecuted at a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja for alleged misappropriation of N6.46 billion state funds when he was governor of the state.
The interim forfeiture order to attach Sylva's properties was granted by Justice A. R Mohammed on December 28, 2012.
Assets belonging to the former governor, against which a forfeiture order was obtained by the EFCC included a mansion at 3 River Niger Street, Plot 3192 Cadastral zone AO, Maitama District Abuja; nine units (comprising six one bedroom and 3 two bedroom apartments) at 8 Sefadu Street, Wuse Zone 2, plot 262 Cadastral Zone AO2, Wuse Abuja; 2 units duplexes at 5 Oguta Street, plot 906 Cadastral zone, Wuse 11 Abuja.
Others are a duplex at Plot 1271 Nike Street Cadastral Zone AO5, Maitama District Abuja; a duplex at Phase 1 Unit No. 1 (Villa 1) Palm Springs Gold Estate, Cachez Turkey Projects Limited, Mpape, Abuja; 10 units of one room apartments at 8 Mistrata Street Plot 232 Cadastral Zone Wuse 11 Abuja; 5 units duplexes at Plot No 1070 Dakibiyu District Cadastral Zone B10, Abuja; 16 units service apartments at Plot 1181 Thaba Tseka Crescent, off IBB Way, Wuse 11, Abuja and 3 units of three bedroom flats at No. 1 Mubi Close, Plot 766. Cadastral Zone A01, Garki, Abuja.
It is recalled that Sylva was first arraigned on Tuesday June 5, 2012.
Part of the six-count charge slammed on Sylva reads, "That you, Timpre Sylva, as governor of Bayelsa State, with others now at large, sometime between October, 2009 and February 2010, at various places in Nigeria, including Abuja, within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court, did conspire to commit a crime to wit: conversion of properties and resources amounting to N2,000,000,000.00 (two billion naira) belonging to the Bayelsa State government and derived from an illegal act, with the aim of concealing the illicit origin of the said amount and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 17(a) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition Act), 2004 and punishable under Section 14(1) of the same Act."
Meanwhile, in his reaction on Thursday night, former Governor Sylva said the houses in question do not belong to him.
He also told the anti-graft agency to respect the rule of law.
Sylva in a statement by his Media Adviser, Mr. Doifie Ola on Thursday night described the commission's claims as "completely misleading."
"Justice A.R. Mohammed never granted any temporary asset forfeiture order to the EFCC on 21 December 2012. Rather he directed EFCC to put Sylva on notice and the substantive matter is fixed for 10 January 2013," the statement said in part.
"EFCC as a creation of the law cannot be seen to be acting lawlessly and with impunity.
"The claims by the EFCC are completely misleading. Not surprisingly, this style is in line with EFCC's known bully-boy tactics and media hysteria. The houses in question do not belong to Sylva.
"Sylva's property are intact, and fully covered by the order validly issued by Justice M.M. Kolo of an Abuja High Court on 27 December 2012.
"Sylva had applied to the court for "an interim order of court for the service of the originating process on the respondent to serve as a stay of all actions in respect of the properties - plot no 262, Cadastral Zone A02, Wuse 1, District, Abuja, plot 3192, located within Cadastral zone A06 Maitama District, Abuja, plot 232, Cadastral Zone A07,(No. 8 Mistrata Street; Wuse II, Abuja) - by the respondents, their agents, privies, representative or any other person deriving his/her authority from them; either by sealing off, confiscating, ejecting any person from the properties, trespassing into the properties or doing any other thing how ever so described relating to the said properties pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice. This application was granted and hearing in the matter is fixed for January 4, 2013."
"Why the surprise that Nigeria is up to her neck with fraud and that Nigerian Ph.D. is now fraudulent? Anything conceived by fraud, groomed by fraud or obtained by fraud, can only result in fraud, unlimited. Why the surprise? High school diplomas are awarded in Nigeria based on sex and bribe. Are these by their nature not fraudulent? Yes, indeed in Nigeria today everything is possible for as long as one gives in and or dishes out. What can one expect and be surprised about in this nation, with regards to fraud?"
January 4, 2013
……….Otoiheoma Egbe
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"We talk about corruption as if it is the cause of our problems in Nigeria. No - yes, we have corruption in this country; but the government has also been fighting corruption, and we have discovered that most of the issues called corruption are not corruption. I remember the last meeting we had with the chief justice of the federation. This was when i tried to bring the heads of the three arms of government together to see how we will collectively suppress corruption. And of course, we analysed the cases in court and discovered that about 80 per cent of them are not corruption cases. Sometimes, the way we mention corruption makes it look like when indigenes of some villages in the Niger Delta blame the death of a person on the activities of witches or spirits. If we do things properly and change our attitude as Nigerians, most of these issues that we blame on corruption will not come."
…….…President Goodluck Jonathan
December 29, 2012
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"President Jonathan says "corruption is not the cause of Nigeria's problems". Considering he previously made a statement rating Nigeria's commitment to fighting corruption as secondary to only that of the United States, one might be excused for wondering if Jonathan is inhaling air and operating from the stratosphere above the public's atmospheric level. I have always believed a people that tolerate drivel will accept gibberish; with these sort of statements, it becomes apparent why corruption has been initiated, perpetrated and perpetuated for decades in our polity. Unfortunately, we as a people have become accustomed to mediocrity and peddlers of lies. We accommodate in positions of authority the mortgagers of our collective futures, killers of dreams and marauders of aspirations. Those in power know this fact and continue to take us for a ride; else the Nigerian populace should have revolted."
………………M.B.O Owolowo
(January 2nd, 2013)
"Corruption and national development are mutually exclusive. If we chose to build just 1 million housing units with N2 trillion and used the remaining N3 trillion for power stations, then the opportunity cost of the N5 trillion stolen under President Goodluck Jonathan would have given Nigerians 1million units of 2-bedroom flats and say, about 15000megawatts of electricity. The opportunity cost of paying N6.5billion – unaccounted for – to state governors as security votes is the loss of well-funded and reformed police to properly protect lives and property. The opportunity cost of letting Senate President David Mark pay himself N600million per annum – an amount that will pay for ten years the United States presidents' salary – is the millions of jobs for thousands of Nigerian youths. Because money is stolen in Nigeria – legally and illegally – with impunity, we have now lost the opportunity to develop our country or compete with the rest of the world."
December 31st, 2012
………Chinedu Ekeke
"It baffles me how corruption is fast becoming a Nigerian name. The way we are going in Nigeria, i would not be surprised to hear that a parent has had a new baby and named him or her "corruption", or would i be surprised if somebody establishes a new church in Nigeria and calls it the Corruption Church. Just see, what we are now celebrating in Nigeria - 4,500 mw of electricity for domestic use; not the industrial electric power that could bring back the likes of Michelin and PZ to Lagos and Port Harcourt. What we are rather celebrating in Nigeria is the electricity power you can only use to iron your clothes or power either your washing machine or cooker, but not the electricity to power a barbing or hair dressing salon - not to talk of the electricity needed for heavy industrial use."
…………………………Ikenna Okonkwo
(January 3, 2013)
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