Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, yesterday replied former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori on the allegations he made against him on Friday. He said his position on the Ibori case is based on his conviction that those who stole Nigeria’s funds must be brought to justice.
Ibori had told journalists in Lagos that Ribadu and former President Olusegun Obasanjo were among those behind his prosecution for corruption charges in courts in Nigeria and the United Kingdom.
Reacting to the accusation yesterday, Ribadu in a statement titled: “Why I am after the Iboris of Nigeria”, states: “Ordinarily, I will not like to dignify Mr. James Ibori, former governor of Delta State, with a response to the tissue of lies and cheap fabrications that he let loose in the press conference he held over the weekend. But it is important to set the records straight, particularly against one of those who perpetrated the worst heist against the treasury since Nigeria’s independence.
“That Ibori is finally finding his voice after two years since his prosecution both at home and abroad started is a testimony to his desperation as the cases, particularly the ones in the United Kingdom, move toward legal resolution. I will address Ibori’s fabrications one by one.
“First, he lied that I solicited his assistance to become the Inspector General of Police. I had it on record, while in office as the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) that James Ibori was a double convict. First, as a police officer and also as an anti-corruption campaigner who was committed to doing his part to rid Nigeria of rogues, how could I have been seeking the assistance of a convicted felon for the highest police position in the country? If I wanted to be IG, he would be the last person I will consider to help me.
“Ibori, just like the others we tried to bring to justice, is desperate and would do anything to escape justice as he has always done. Nothing emphasises Ibori’s capacity for falsehood and felony than his claim, at the press conference, that I “framed” him for attempting to bribe me with $15 million dollars. As he told the lie, and as I write this, the $15 million remain as an exhibit deposited with the Central Bank of Nigeria.
I must state however that I am used to these types of allegations and fabrications by those who are struggling under the present circumstances to find a way out of their advertised felonies and crimes against the people. It has now become fashionable for all sorts of morally-bankrupt people to try to use me to do one thing or the other.
“Any close observer of the events in Nigeria in the last decade would agree that what we were able to achieve as founders and operators of the EFCC was of a more fundamental nature, in the context of our urgent national crisis, than becoming IGP. But that is a matter for another day. People understand what we tried to do and recognise that the felons must be brought to justice so as to allow millions of our compatriots to enjoy their God-given resources.
“Ibori claimed that he could trace “the genesis of his ordeal to his staunch and uncompromising stance on a major electoral promise he made back in 1998 to the people of Delta State that he would champion the cause of redressing the injustice associated with resources derivable from their land.” I will only like to ask if it is in keeping with this “promise” that he became a billionaire overnight “on behalf” of the suffering masses of Delta State?
“As regards the allegation that Ibori made on the 2007 presidential election petition, let me state clearly that it is totally untrue. However, I am also aware that there is a whole industry of seeking favour from President Umaru Yar’Adua based on the legal tussle over the 2007 presidential election. Already, many fortune and favour-seekers have imagined many plots and many plotters in their attempt to deceive the man in power that I tried to scuttle the Appeal Court case on the election. Many got offices, positions, and others and even got me out of the EFCC telling this lie to Aso Rock Villa. They continue to use it. If Ibori claims that I sought his support to truncate Yar’Adua’s contested victory at the Appeal Court, is he claiming to have the power to influence the judges and pervert the course of justice?
“Finally, Ibori said he remained my “loyal friend”. I am also still open to his “friendship”, but that will never be at the expense of my loyalty to my fatherland and commitment to transparency and honesty in public office. I have a friendly advice for Ibori, though. Instead of wasting the money of Delta State people that he stole to pay lawyers all over the world, isn’t it better as a “Christian” that he claims to be to return his loot to the people of Delta State and have peace with his God? If he fails to do so, at the appropriate time, no matter how much the Iboris of this world run from the law, they would one day be made to atone for their sundry crimes. If they are able to bribe their way through in Nigeria and get men and women of questionable character appointed into office to shield themselves from prosecution, they cannot do the same in the United Kingdom and before God. But even in Nigeria, the protection that they enjoy today is temporary. Wait, James, still on our friendship, since I couldn’t see you when I visited Lagos recently, why don’t you visit me in London to catch up with your other friends!,” Ribadu said.
Ibori had at last Friday’s press conference told newsmen that Ribadu’s assault on him followed his refusal to be recruited into a plan to have the president promote him to the office of Inspector-General of Police.
He also said former president Obasanjo was witch-hunting him because of his initial opposition to the second term bid by Obasanjo, spearheading the campaign for resource control and payment of the 13 percent revenue derivation fund to the oil producing states and his staunch support for Yar’Adua’s presidency in 2007.

Well, even James Ibori and his fellow crooks and associates knows that there is no iota of truth in what he said in his press conference.  Ibori claimed to be a "Christian", James if you are truely a christian, please come over to London to defend yourself on the allegations against you afterall even if you are being prosecuted falsely, I think your "god" will defend you.  So please submit yourself to justice.  Only you will know James why it took you so long to tell us why Ribadu is after you.  Lieing through your teeth will not save you.  You may hide for now but since you claim to be a christian, the bible says "a sinner will not go unpunished".  What you have forgotten is that a day and time will come, that a King that did not know Joseph will emerge.  So Game on!!!!.

Here is another interesting reading about our James Ibori:

The strange career of James Ibori


One easy way to describe James Onanefe Ibori is that he is a former governor of Delta State. It is also the least interesting way to describe the astonishing career of a man who mirrors much of what is wrong with Nigeria.

Here’s a more interesting fact about Mr. Ibori: Long before he became governor, he’d been convicted twice for crimes committed in Britain. In 1991, he and his then girlfriend (and now wife), Theresa Nakanda, were found guilty of theft. Mr. Ibori was fined 300 pounds sterling and ordered to pay another 450 pounds sterling as cost. A year later, Mr. Ibori was convicted again, this time for handling a stolen credit card.

Here’s another, even weightier, narrative: In 1993, during the reign of bespectacled Sani Abacha, somebody wired more than a million dollars into Ibori’s account in the US. That transaction drew the due attention of American law enforcement officers. Puzzled American officials were curious to know how a man – that is Ibori – who at the time lived in a subsidized council flat in London could have come by so much cash. The US government, suspecting that the money came from one 419 scheme or another, asked a judge to freeze the account. Ibori explained away the cash by passing himself off as a consultant, and he produced a letter from the Abacha regime to back him up.

Listen to yet another tidbit about the man. He and his associates currently face prosecution in Nigeria and the UK on charges of laundering billions of naira of public funds during Ibori’s eight years as governor. Nuhu Ribadu, who ran the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission until December 2007, has said that Ibori tried to “persuade” him with – wait for it – $15 million to discontinue the agency’s prosecution of the former governor on embezzlement charges.

Mr. Ibori looms just as large in the mystery department. On September 28, 1995, the Bwari Upper Area Court convicted a man named James Onanefe Ibori of negligent conduct and criminal breach of trust. Yet, when two men from Delta invoked the case in pleading that Ibori be declared ineligible to serve as governor, the case went all the way to the Supreme Court and produced a confounding verdict. Nigeria’s highest bench decided the plaintiffs had not proved that James Onanefe Ibori the governor was the selfsame James Onanefe Ibori the convict.

Ibori has a hardworking (but luckless) handler in Tony Eluemunor, a former journalist. Mr. Eluemunor’s unvarying mantra is that his master is a victim of a carefully choreographed malicious slander. Sadly for Ibori and his handlers, the repetition of this line has done little to improve its credibility index. And neither Mr. Eluemunor nor his principal has come forward either to identify those who are after Saint James or to convincingly prove the falsity of the many counts of corruption tagged to Ibori’s person.

If Ibori’s were a simple story of a public official whose greed overwhelmed his sense of restraint, he would be a commonplace. In the arena of Nigeria’s gubernatorial politics, too many stealer-governors love to play in the First Division. They often cart away more than half of the revenue accruing to their states.

Mr. Ibori’s genius lies in the way he has parlayed his criminal record into a swaggering performance. His political trajectory has been nothing short of amazing. From his humble beginnings as a petty thief in London, this man rose to the commanding heights of Nigerian politics. Nigerians ought to wonder why such a man – why men with similar pedigrees – are routinely permitted to rise to leadership.

Nigeria has a case against Ibori in a federal court in Asaba. Yet, that fact did not stop Umaru Yar’Adua from putting Ibori on an official delegation to this year’s Beijing Olympics. That fact did not inconvenience the ruling Peoples Democratic Party which recently elevated Ibori to the rank of “party elder.” That exaltation made Ibori a custodian of the party’s mission and exemplar of its deepest mores.

Several of Mr. Ibori’s front companies are on the list of rogue debtors whose delinquency brought some Nigerian banks to the brink of collapse. Even so, the former governor enjoys, and flaunts his, open access to Mr. Yar’Adua. Nobody in Aso Rock has the sense (forget the sense, how about courage?) to warn that Mr. Yar’Adua’s dalliance with Mr. Ibori, an ex-convict who happens to be the principal accused in trials on two continents, sells Nigeria as precisely the kind of crooked country that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described.

The day Mr. Ibori and his ilk begin to cower, instead of strut the stage – that day will mark the beginning of a new, salutary ethos.

source:
http://www.saharareporters.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3801:the-strange-career-of-james-ibori&catid=90:okeyndibe&Itemid=273

I love Ribadau so much. His response sums it up.
Ibori, since you are a christain humble yourself for the correction of Gods discipline

@mbulela
I agree with you totally on the criminal activities of this evil man who still claims he is a Christian. Christian my foot. Here is one legal document relating to some of his past shady deals.
http://www.saharareporters.com/index.php?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=312&task=finish&cid=75&catid=3

He said his position on the Ibori case is based on his conviction that those who stole Nigeria’s funds must be brought to justice.

If he so much cared, he should have started or perhaps continue (after Ibori) with IBB, OBJ and all his northern nigerian brothers that have stole his beloved nigeria blind.  Why start and stop at Ibori? Well, only the gullible will believe that rogue of a man called Ribadu.
Sorry, i don't buy that crap of selected witch hunting. He did the same when he was in office under OBJ, some people argued that he must start from somewhere, but through out his tenure, i could not pinpoint any top corrupt politcian that this lame Ribadu indicted and later jailed despite many of them roaming the streets of nigeria freely. Now he has continued with his selected witch hunt, and yet could not touch those his northern nigerian brothers. Who is fooling who here. Nonsense!!!

Bialegend:


If he so much cared, he should have started or perhaps continue (after Ibori) with IBB, OBJ and all his northern nigerian brothers that have stole his beloved nigeria blind.  Why start and stop at Ibori? Well, only the gullible will believe that rogue of a man called Ribadu.
Sorry, i don't buy that crap of selected witch hunting. He did the same when he was in office under OBJ, some people argued that he must start from somewhere, but through out his tenure, i could not pinpoint any top corrupt politcian that this lame Ribadu indicted and later jailed despite many of them roaming the streets of nigeria freely. Now he has continued with his selected witch hunt, and yet could not touch those his northern nigerian brothers. Who is fooling who here. Nonsense!!!

At least lets start the witch-hunting with someone like Ibori who is brazingly so corrupt. He had nothing when he came into politics, how can he explain the source of his overnight wealth with so much controversy surrounding his activities. It is people like you who keep praising and supporting the thieving cohorts that have put Nigeria in a position of backwardness among nations. Shame on you Bialegend

Jaybee2412:

At least lets start the witch-hunting with someone like Ibori who is brazingly so corrupt. He had nothing when he came into politics, how can he explain the source of his overnight wealth with so much controversy surrounding his activities. It is people like you who keep praising and supporting the thieving cohorts that have put Nigeria in a position of backwardness among nations. Shame on you Bialegend

Stop exposing your almajiri self. "Lets start the witch hunting with someone" my arssss. Tell your almajiri brother Ribadu to start with this list or shut up and go to sleep forever. IBB, GEN ABUBAKAR, GEN JERRY USENI, ALH ISMAILA GWARZO, ALH UMARU DIKKO, MOHAMMED ABACHA, ABDULKADIR ABACHA, ALHAJI WADA NAS, MAJ AL MUSTAPHA, BASHIR DALHATU, GEN WUSHISHI, ALH HASSAN ADAMU, T Y DANJUMA, GEN ISHAYA BAMAYI and host of other almajiri thieves before of course, with IBORI or any other nigerian so we might take him serious.
It is almajiris like you who keep praising and supporting your northern nigerian almajiri thieving cohorts that have put Nigeria in a position of stoneagness among nations. Useless people.

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You have a solid point. Abacha was the one that elevated Ibori from a penniless ex-convict, trekking around Ojuelegba in slippers to ultra thief. I strongly believe he is a frontman for the Abacha clan.

Stop exposing your almajiri self. "Lets start the witch hunting with someone" my arssss. Tell your almajiri brother Ribadu to start with this list or shut up and go to sleep forever. IBB, GEN ABUBAKAR, GEN JERRY USENI, ALH ISMAILA GWARZO, ALH UMARU DIKKO, MOHAMMED ABACHA, ABDULKADIR ABACHA, ALHAJI WADA NAS, MAJ AL MUSTAPHA, BASHIR DALHATU, GEN WUSHISHI, ALH HASSAN ADAMU, T Y DANJUMA, GEN ISHAYA BAMAYI and host of other almajiri thieves before of course, with IBORI or any other nigerian so we might take him serious.
It is almajiris like you who keep praising and supporting your northern nigerian almajiri thieving cohorts that have put Nigeria in a position of stoneagness among nations. Useless people.


oh boy, wait a minute u mean u want Ribadu to start trying people like Umaru Dikko, I bet Ribadu was still in secondary school when the likes like Dikko and co where at the helms of affairs, for u to propose such a dracolian investigation to cover every northerner that has ever ruled Nigeria is not only bigotry and hatred for the Northerner it is even infeasible, you knowing that the EFCC is only a latter day creation of the OBJ regime 1999 to 2007. Man get your facts right b4 displaying your bigotted and warped mind to the whole world. Every Nigeria should be embarass of people like James Ibori, You cannot fault the military for it is an illegitmate regime so what do u expect.

oh boy, wait a minute u mean u want Ribadu to start trying people like Umaru Dikko, I bet Ribadu was still in secondary school when the likes like Dikko and co where at the helms of affairs.

Only this line of your thought have exposed the fool in you. So what if ribadu hasn't been born when your Umaru Dikko stole nigeria blind? Where in this whole wide world is such measure used in arresting, indicting and jailing corrupt people? Perhaps only your cage nigeria. We have known it right from time that you people are nut cases and fools that knows nothing. Can you imagine what you just typed in your warped minded bid to protect your own? Do you even have brain for reasoning?
I say it again, until your hero ribadu start with these people. IBB, GEN ABUBAKAR, GEN JERRY USENI, ALH ISMAILA GWARZO, ALH UMARU DIKKO, MOHAMMED ABACHA, ABDULKADIR ABACHA, ALHAJI WADA NAS, MAJ AL MUSTAPHA, BASHIR DALHATU, GEN WUSHISHI, ALH HASSAN ADAMU, T Y DANJUMA, GEN ISHAYA BAMAYI and host of other almajiri thieves before of course, with IBORI or any other nigerian so we might take him serious, he should shut up and go to sleep forever.

Only this line of your thought have exposed the fool in you. So what if ribadu hasn't been born when your Umaru Dikko stole nigeria blind? Where in this whole wide world is such measure used in arresting, indicting and jailing corrupt people? Perhaps only your cage nigeria. We have known it right from time that you people are nut cases and fools that knows nothing. Can you imagine what you just typed in your warped minded bid to protect your own? Do you even have brain for reasoning?
I say it again, until your hero ribadu start with these people. IBB, GEN ABUBAKAR, GEN JERRY USENI, ALH ISMAILA GWARZO, ALH UMARU DIKKO, MOHAMMED ABACHA, ABDULKADIR ABACHA, ALHAJI WADA NAS, MAJ AL MUSTAPHA, BASHIR DALHATU, GEN WUSHISHI, ALH HASSAN ADAMU, T Y DANJUMA, GEN ISHAYA BAMAYI and host of other almajiri thieves before of course, with IBORI or any other nigerian so we might take him serious, he should shut up and go to sleep forever.

You are an illetrate or you talk like one, Ribadu is not a court, he was the chairman of the EFCC for only 7 years and does not have the mandate to try all these Northerners u mentioned in your article. If you have anything against these individuals I am sure a court cannot be too far from where u live. You must seek redress at the appropiate place and do not drag Ribadu into something b4 his time. Moreover Ribadu is currently not the chairmperson of the EFCC.

KnowAll:

You are an illetrate or you talk like one, Ribadu is not a court, he was the chairman of the EFCC for only 7 years and does not have the mandate to try all these Northerners u mentioned in your article. If you have anything against these individuals I am sure a court cannot be too far from where u live. You must seek redress at the appropiate place and do not drag Ribadu into something b4 his time. Moreover Ribadu is currently not the chairmperson of the EFCC.

Ewu mallam illiterate almajiri little brain, courts are not meant to arrest people. But EFCC was created and is meant to arrest, indict and send them to court for prosecution. Ribadu was the chairman of the EFCC for only 7 years. Did you hear your almajiri self? Only 7 years which in your almajiri brain is ONLY, but did nothing in all those 7 years. Lame duck indeed.
Hear your illiterate almajiri self again. "do not drag Ribadu into something b4 his time. Moreover Ribadu is currently not the chairperson of the EFCC" So because Umaru Dikko didn't commit his attrocities during Ribadu time in office, ribadu doens't have the right under nigerian constitution to arrest and indict him? waoohhh, i didn't know this before. Perhaps under northern nigerian constitution? is such measure in use in other countries? Commit financial crime today, the new financial crime fighter boss does not have any right to arrest and indict you because it will be assume as being commited in the past. In northern nigeria?
And hear your almajiri warped logid again, "Moreover Ribadu is currently not the chairmperson of the EFCC" So what concerns him then with hounding Ibori when he is not currently the chairperson of the EFCC? Do you even think before tying your crap?
I smell scripted northern agenda beign executed by ribadu. Those Niger deltans should not steal nigeria's money because the money belongs to us the northerners who conquared them. Waoohhh, what a useless bunch of brainless, illiterate set of people.

So what concerns him then with hounding Ibori when he is not currently the chairperson of the EFCC? Do you even think before tying your crap?

Ibori is trying to hide and run from his own shadow, it is guilty conscience that is worrying Ibori, he had better own up to the atrocities he has committed whilst in office in the name of resources control. The only resouce that has being controlled is that a cheap credit card fraudster has become a billionaire overnight and the Nigeria state with all its learned fellow and men of honour can do nothing about it.

KnowAll:

Ibori is trying to hide and run from his own shadow, it is guilty conscience that is worrying Ibori, he had better own up to the atrocities he has committed whilst in office in the name of resources control. The only resouce that has being controlled is that a cheap credit card fraudster has become a billionaire overnight and the Nigeria state with all its learned fellow and men of honour can do nothing about it.

Ewu awusa, that is not the point here. The point is if in your warped brain and logic, Ribadu is currently not the chairmperson of the EFCC as you pointed out which is the reason why he should not have anything to do with your northern nigerian heros who stole nigeria blind. So what concerns the same ribadu with hounding Ibori when he is not currently the chairperson of the EFCC? Can you leave out if Ibori is a thief or not and answer this question?

Ewu awusa, that is not the point here. The point is if in your warped brain and logic, Ribadu is currently not the chairmperson of the EFCC as you pointed out which is the reason why he should not have anything to do with your northern nigerian heros who stole nigeria blind. So what concerns the same ribadu with hounding Ibori when he is not currently the chairperson of the EFCC? Can you leave out if Ibori is a thief or not and answer this question?

The problem with men with chicken brain like you is, u cannot institute a legal case of corruption if the so called case is beyond 7 years of the offence happening, that is how it is practised in the west and the UK specifically. For Ribadu to start digging up cases for incidents that happend in the late 70's and early eighties when most of the principle actors and players have left this world is not only a daft proposition, it is also and would be an exercise in futility with no merits to anybody, can u hear yourself. I beg go and get a life, u are clearly and definately an illetrate who does not know anything about law and jurispundence.

@Knowall
Can't you see that there is no point arguing with demented illiterate like Bialegend. He is so blind that he can never see the damages being perpetrated by Ibori. Common sense should tell him for example that 15 million dollars  given as bribe to Ribadu which is now an exhibit against him - Ibori, could have been used to build three good hospitals in his State where Infant mortality is rife.

Is Ibori openly confessing to us that it is he who appoints the IG of police and not President Yar'adua?

KnowAll:

The problem with men with chicken brain like you is, u cannot institute a legal case of corruption if the so called case is beyond 7 years of the offence happening, that is how it is practised in the west and the UK specifically. For Ribadu to start digging up cases for incidents that happend in the late 70's and early eighties when most of the principle actors and players have left this world is not only a daft proposition, it is also and would be an exercise in futility with no merits to anybody, can u hear yourself. I beg go and get a life, u are clearly and definately an illetrate who does not know anything about law and jurispundence.

Why are you awusas so dumb? So because the financial corruption is over 7 years, it should not be prosecuted? And you said it's being done that way in the west and UK specifically? Which west and UK are you referring to? Do you mean the west and UK in northern nigeria?
How dumb you iddiot is? So nigerian government should stop seeking to recover your almajri brother abacha's loot in Swiss and UK banks because it's already more than 7 years? How dumb these people are and they were supposed to live in the same ONE country with my people?
So as Halliburton's corruption case in nigeria happened over 7 years ago, it should be forgotten? So all the financial corruption cases that are over 7 years should be forgotten? From which planet are you dumb awusas from for goodness sake? How dumb a people's reasoning can be, i ask, how dumb.

Why are you awusas so dumb? So because the financial corruption is over 7 years, it should not be prosecuted? And you said it's being done that way in the west and UK specifically? Which west and UK are you referring to? Do you mean the west and UK in northern nigeria?
How dumb you iddiot is? So nigerian government should stop seeking to recover your almajri brother abacha's loot in Swiss and UK banks because it's already more than 7 years? How dumb these people are and they were supposed to live in the same ONE country with my people?
So as Halliburton's corruption case in nigeria happened over 7 years ago, it should be forgotten? So all the financial corruption cases that are over 7 years should be forgotten? From which planet are you dumb awusas from for goodness sake? How dumb a people's reasoning can be, i ask, how dumb.

I can see your location is depicting Biafra, I would advise u to stick to Biafran topics as u have nothing worthy to contribute to any other topic, I am sure u will excell in that topic, but I have my doubts whether u will actually excell in that topic, because the way I see u, u are a foot soldier for Biafra rather than a think-thank or policy maker. Tell am to turn right, jorojajaro left turn, right turn bloody follow, follow empty barrels make the most noise.

@Bialegend of Biafra

How dumb these people are and they were supposed to live in the same ONE country with my people?

No you are not living in the same country, you are living in Biafra - a cockoo dream land where people never get with grip of reality.

Jaybee2412:

Ibori, could have been used to build three good hospitals[b] in his State where Infant mortality is rife[/b].

Infant mortality in Delta State stands at 48 deaths per 1,000 live births, compared to 95 deaths per 1000 deaths which is the national average.
Maternal mortality rate stands at 340 per 100,000 compared to 880 per 100,000 which is the national average.
On this point, I'm afraid your example was wrong.

@Sapeleguy

SapeleGuy:

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Infant mortality in Delta State stands at 48 deaths per 1,000 live births, compared to 95 deaths per 1000 deaths which is the national average.
Maternal mortality rate stands at 340 per 100,000 compared to 880 per 100,000 which is the national average.
On this point, I'm afraid your example was wrong.

SO ACCORDING TO YOUR OWN DEDUCTION THERE IS NO NEED FOR MORE HOSPITALS. BESIDES CAN YOU QUOTE THE SOURCE OF YOUR STATISTICS

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Sharap! He didn't say that.
I was incensed like any other ND person at the very obvious falsehood you put out earlier. Why lie? As soon as you folk her "ND", you crowd in with your lies and hatred.
For your information, Delta state also leads the nation (by a wide margin) in immunisation.

the lady at Ibori's case in London said to the persons in the Gallery; NA ONLY IBORI THIEF??
that statement sums up my opinion on this case and similar ones;at least he stole.
all these talk of witch hunting will not lead us anywhere.
Ribadu is no saint and i am not one of his biggest fans but the fact is that non of those he persecuted or prosecuted have shown any proof that their hands were clean.
infact there is proof to the contrary.
i have said it before and i will say it again, no person in the Nigerian political space is clean.they are all dirty in differing manners and degrees.
As long as the innocent are not hounded and victimised, i don't care.as long as thieves are caught and the fear of God is put into the crooks in power such that they are discreet in stealing,steal less and provide a measure of service to the people while looting.
their is corruption in all societies but ours is too brazen and easy to execute.
because the law is almost ineffective and easily abused,thieves strut around and rub our collective wealth in our face while pretending it is a result of their hard work and ingenuity.
anyone who thinks that Ribadu is a saint is deluded as i have heard top level info that prove otherwise.
ethnicity and tribalism is a deception used by the elites to deceive the masses while they loot and rape the country.
in my view they are one and the same.
Ibori, Odili, IBB, Kalu, Daniels,Akala, Andokaa and Abacha all belong to one ethnic group in my view.

“For it is on record that between year 2000 -2008 the allocation figures are: - the South-South States - N3.2 trillion, North-West N2.1 trillion, South-West N1.7 trillion, North-Central N1.5 trillion, North-East N1.3 trillion and South East N1.2 trillion; without commensurate impact on the people on whose behalf the monthly Federal Allocation is meant for."