It is unethical and uncalled for he should wait for his swear in b4 such action could be taken

rasputinn:

Has Rochas been sworn in yet?
Where did he derive the powers to freeze the accounts??

That goes to show you that the man has tremendous influence. If it easy, let Ohakin that is still Governor undo it.
before people like you wake up from your stuppor, Rochas has become the most influential Igbo leader home and Abroad.
Infact I go change my name to 'Chioma'.
But on the condition that Ohakim, Kalu, Chimaroke, Egwu etc must be in Kirikiri.

rasputinn:

Has Rochas been sworn in yet?
Where did he derive the powers to freeze the accounts??

He derived it from the ppl of Imo State, thats what we asked him to do. He may not be acting constitutionally but he has the ppl's backing to take this pro-active step. The ppl's power supercedes the bogus Nigerian constitution that is based on LOOTOCRACTIC tendencies.

segelee:

It is unethical and uncalled for he should wait for his swear in b4 such action could be taken

So u registered another ID only to make this low-level remark?

Mai Suya:

Okorocha, until he is sworn in by State Chief judge as the substantive governor is no different from the ordinary citizen on the street, and for him to seek to prematurely exercise powers yet to be bestowed upon him is a disconcerting sign of events to come.

as for the attempt to justify the move as his way of preempting last minute grabbing by politicians on their way out, my response is why not allow the law take its course? Are there not provisions for dealing with such officials once they are stripped of their immunity?

THANK YOU.

HOW CAN OKOROCHA OR OKOROIGWE FREEZE IMO ACCOUNTS WHEN HE IS NOT YET THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE?

IGNORANCE IS DOING MORE COLLATERAL DAMAGE TO NIGERIANS THAN CORRUPTION.

softly softly Rochas,

“Power Corrupts, Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.”

ROCHAS IS DEALING WITH A CROOK. ohakim is a cunny criminal.

kasiem:

and the dictates of democratic laws is being focused to benefit the masses. So, in this matter matter u can bring the law of neccessity which can be gotten from delegated legislation and the delegated power should be gotten from the choice of the masses in a true democratic setting not from some egocentric people who pose as legislators.
Another thing is that u can get the real unmanipulated opinion of people through dint other than referendum(i.e news stands, market places, motor parks, schools etc), cos we do things in our own style. And the opinions emanating from this place are in favor of the policy. Democracy started from igboland, so USA should be the ones that'll take a leaf from us.

Please kindly point out to me where the “law of necessity” is enshrined in the Imo State book of statutory codes. If alleged action of Okorocha’s Chief of Staff is remotely true, it is serious breach of the law and protocol. As much as I wanted Ohakim evicted from the government house in Owerri, I detest the first action of governor-elect to be a borderline rascality.

Even if we attempt to see through the plank of your argument of “law of necessity which can be gotten from delegated legislation and the delegated power should be gotten from the choice of the masses in a true democratic setting not from some egocentric people who pose as legislators”, it still does not hold water pertaining to the actions of Okorocha and his cronies.

There is no legislative measure, delegated or not, that allows a man on the street to issue orders on the behalf of Imo State government. As far as I concern, Rochas Okorocha is an ordinary man on the street until he is sworn-in as governor of Imo State.

@dede Na u talk am that he is an ordinary man on the street before he is sworn in. But the bankers know better.

Have people cheering over the silly action of Okorocha’s Chief of Staff realized that come May 29, 2011 Okorocha might not be the governor of Imo State?

they should just do anything, to make sure, that state dnt get bankrupt during this 20sum days, cuz that ohakim bad gan
person wey slap wife and more things no go steal money?? lol

Do u folks bliv this sunnews story.
Most of u will beliv anything 'cos it is on d internet.
I beg show me one bank that will honour a request not made by its customer, or govt (thru a court order). Even a thrift collector 'kpa kpa' will not honour it.
Nonsense story! Long hisssss

k9ine:

Do u folks bliv this sunnews story.
Most of u will beliv anything 'cos it is on d internet.
I beg show me one bank that will honour a request not made by its customer, or govt (thru a court order). Even a thrift collector 'kpa kpa' will not honour it.
Nonsense story! Long hisssss

give me ur account number and see if i will not freeze it from the internet
if i dnt freeze it, calll me bastard lol

constitutionally, does gov. elect has power to do that?

Nigeria is funny. How can a Governor 'freeze' bank accounts? or better yet a Governor-elect. What power does he have? Are these banks state owned? But even if, why should they have concerns with other peoples account if they haven't been found guilty of any crimes which would warrant accounts being frozen??  

I don't believe this.

Dede1:

Have people cheering over the silly action of Okorocha’s Chief of Staff realized that come May 29, 2011 Okorocha might not be the governor of Imo State?

How do you intend to stop him? How do you intend to stop the mandates of Imolites Please better pack your ragged bags and disappear from Douglas House with your godfather-Ohakim !

Dede1:


Bros, I am mindful that democracy is the government of people based on the laws. The last time I checked though, democracy is not the government of Okorocha. I can not remember when referendum was passed in Imo State allowing a person who is not yet a governor to issue gubernatorial directives. So your use of the language “people find okorocha's policy okay” is not only ridiculous but downright disingenuous.

If we are not borrowing USA style of democracy, what the hell are we doing with executive governor? The Igbo culture does not allow the concentration of authority or decision-making on the hands of one person. In the parliamentarian system ran by Nigeria in the 60s, the Senate President or Pro-tempore was the Vice president.

My point remains that democracy is system of government based on the tenant of laws not the tweaks individual countries could bring to bear.

You can speak all your grammer but the Bankers who must retain their biggest customer(State Govt A/c) know better.No Wiithdrawal from those Accounts until after May 29th.ROCHAS has spoken.

kellybaba:

How do you intend to stop him? How do you intend to stop the mandates of Imolites Please better pack your ragged bags and disappear from Douglas House with your godfather-Ohakim !

I do not pay mind to goofy jackasses such as you. You can get lost, air head. I guess you are deficient in comprehension because I did not even insinuate that Okoroacha should be stopped.

However if Okorocha and his cronies could allegedly issue such orders when Okorocha is not even sworn-in as governor, It is humanly possible he would not be governor come May 29, 2011.

Great move Rochas. I know the looting spree those 419ners wanted to embark on would have been unprecedented in African history. Rochas has broken no law as whatever he is doing will be by auto suggestion. However he has taken a pre-emptive pseudo-action to stop a criminal act. Is it not funny when folks say he should have waited for the law to be broken before taking action. OMG. You know that a man is about to be killed and you start quoting democracy as a reason to let the man first be killed before you prosecute the killer. Rochas should go further and block all routes to Ohakim's escape from the country and from prosecution and from getting Imo's spots at the FG level as well as regrouping with his gang for a comeback in the future through other 419ners from the other senatorial zones.

@donlittle
u got me wrong. I meant do u bliv d story cos it's published on d net? not if its done thru d net.
So u b 1 of those bank staff wey d abuse d use of PND?

@donlittle
u got me wrong. I meant do u bliv d story cos it's published on d net? not if its done thru d net.
So u b 1 of those bank staff wey d abuse d use of PND?

Me tink lot of us here are missing the point.Of course Rochas for now does not have any legal authority to freeze the account neither doed the bank obeying his directive. But the issue here is common sense, obey Ohakim who has less than 20 days in office and disobey Rochas who would be in office possibly 4 or 8 years God willing.Now all of crying illegality if you are to make that decision as the bank MD, what would you do?

enyojo:

So u registered another ID only to make this low-level remark?

hehehehe. LOOK AT YOU ALL YELLING ''DEMOCRACY'', YET EVEN IN A SITE AS SMALL AS NAIRALAND ( COMPARED TO THE SIZE OF A STATE), PEOPLE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO EXPRESS THEIR OPINIONS WITHOUT THEIR HEADS ALMOST CHOPPED OFF. Lol. Let us not judge or cast blames joo. Even YOU are not practising democracy or freedom of any sort. Hmmph!

that will be nice if its true. corruption should be tamed by all means possible. ohaks is a bloody thieve, so is akala, gbenga daniel and other current governors

Hello Nairalanders,

I was a strong Buhari supporter in this election cycle that just passed. However, I was very disappointed with the violence that took place after the election. To make matters worse I ran into a comment that came from Buhari's campaign on CNN. Here is my video expressing my anger. Please post this on your facebook page.


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BuhariWhy?:

Hello Nairalanders,

I was a strong Buhari supporter in this election cycle that just passed. However, I was very disappointed with the violence that took place after the election. To make matters worse I ran into a comment that came from Buhari's campaign on CNN. Here is my video expressing my anger. Please post this on your facebook page.


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idiot, the election is over, let now face the president and see what he delivers instead of facing some one who has lost the elections
this is why we fail in naija, we keep looking for sum1 to carry the blame, when their are other things to talk about, oloshi

n by the way, is this a buhari or rochas thread?
get the fuckkk outtta here

Let him wait for his time please!!!!!!!!!

under what capacity is he doing that, is it as a governor- elect but not yet swear-in. if it is true is totally wrong(ultra vire). Imo people should watch out for him too, he doesn't have the power under any of our law to freeze the state's account

Dede1:


Please kindly point out to me where the “law of necessity” is enshrined in the Imo State book of statutory codes. If alleged action of Okorocha’s Chief of Staff is remotely true, it is serious breach of the law and protocol. As much as I wanted Ohakim evicted from the government house in Owerri, I detest the first action of governor-elect to be a borderline rascality.

Even if we attempt to see through the plank of your argument of “law of necessity which can be gotten from delegated legislation and the delegated power should be gotten from the choice of the masses in a true democratic setting not from some egocentric people who pose as legislators”, it still does not hold water pertaining to the actions of Okorocha and his cronies.

There is no legislative measure, delegated or not, that allows a man on the street to issue orders on the behalf of Imo State government. As far as I concern, Rochas Okorocha is an ordinary man on the street until he is sworn-in as governor of Imo State.

how can u say that Rochas is ordinary man on the street when he has received the certificate of returns from inec as the new governor of imo state? Man, as far as nigeria is concern, Rochas is the new governor of the state, just that we are wait for official and ceremonial transition to come up. Okay, if u are insinuating that we go through the beaureacracies attached to our constitution that means that u can support the military commander incharge of kano that allowed mayhem to thrive with the claim that he never got any directive from the fg. How does that sound reasonable, when the lives have been lost? Sometimes, we need to act beyond the scopes of the laid down laws when the case involved need to be treated with high exigency. Okay, why didn't the USA government inform their pakistan counterpart before invading Osama's hideout?

Pastor Ola:

Let him wait for his time please!!!!!!!!!

to allow things to spoil?

k9ine:

Do u folks bliv this sunnews story.
Most of u will beliv anything 'cos it is on d internet.
I beg show me one bank that will honour a request not made by its customer, or govt (thru a court order). Even a thrift collector 'kpa kpa' will not honour it.
Nonsense story! Long hisssss

and why are we going to disbelieve? Is it because u've spoken from ur deluded mind?