A Rejoinder: Farida Turns On Jonathan:Simply A Fiction

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By Femi Babafemi

The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has been drawn to a report on your website entitled "Farida Turns On Jonathan, Tells US Officials The President Is Interferring With Anti-Corruption Efforts".

Without mincing words,and to save your army of readers the agony of misinformation, there is the need to point out that there is no iota of truth in the entire report as it is merely an embodiment of imaginations and falsehood.

As against your earlier reports that the EFCC chairman, Mrs Farida Waziri has lost the support of the US government and has even been barred from entering the US, Mrs Waziri was indeed invited to a meeting with some officials of the Department of Justice and Undersecretary, Maria Otero on August 16 and 17 respectively.

You may also wish to know that the five sessions of the meetings for the two days were attended by some officials of the Nigerian embassy in Washington including the Nigerian Ambassador, Prof Adefuye. At what point then would you say that Mrs Waziri told US officials that President Goodluck Jonathan was interferring in the nation's anti-corruption efforts? During the meetings or after? As earlier stated, all the meetings were attended by top Nigerian embassy officials, a scenerio which makes your claim impossible. After the meetings? Mrs Waziri left the venue of the last meeting on Tuesday August 17th, 2010 to the airport to return to Nigeria.

Again, that makes your claim more like a fiery tale than a news report that should possess a major principle in journalism, that is the truth.

Drawing from the above, there is no gain repeating the fact that all other allegations against President Jonathan, Mrs Waziri and other top officials of government mentioned in your report were simply manufactured to create disaffection and mistrust in government.

We will therefore like to emphasize as has often been stated by the EFCC chairman that the Commission is not under any pressure or interference from the presidency or any other quraters. That is the truth.
 
Femi Babafemi
Head, Media & Publicity
EFCC.2/9/2010

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THIS "FIERY TALE" NO BE SMALL THING O

Mr Femi, the fact that you cannot proof read a press release shows the lack luster effort the EFCC puts in its effort to fight corruption.

Even if the statement was a FIERY TALE, the fact remains that it is true as we Nigerians know for a fact that there so many corrupt politicians still running around free from prosecution. The only way that can happen is if the president is in involved.

One impeccable character out

One impeccable character out of so many Ibos. That sure speaks volumes.

Too Much Typos In Some Comments

@Njiko Naija it is FACELESS and NOT
facaless.Kedu Ife Ina Faca Biko Kwanu?

Emeka, A Big Low Level Tribalist.

Emeka is a big low down tribalist.There is never a time he does not interject tribalism into great conversations.If ur bitter as an Ibo man I can willingly show u so many other happy and suceesful Ibos who get on well with other people.
U sound like the type that will blame the white man for all ur failures in London.Pack up ur luggage and go back to Anambra, maybe u will finally find happiness in ur pursuit of "Happyness"

THE fairy tale about a "fiery

THE fairy tale about a "fiery tale", that´s what your rejoinder is!

How did you get that job? You´re totally unqualified, like most of you in Abuja and elsewhere!

What an empty facaless lie

This weekend, EFCC will storm Ilorin, Birnin Kebbi, Sokoto, Gombe and Dutse. EFCC is currently in Port Harcourt. What is common here? The governors in those state capitals are openly oppossing GEJ 2011. SO their Finance and Local Government commissioner and officials are to be gathered to explain where the billions meant for the people went.
On the radar are Niger State governor Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu, Adamawa's Admiral Murtala Nyako, Katsina State's Barrister Ibrahim Shema, Zamfara's Mamuda Aliyu Shinkafi and Kano's governor Ibrahim Shekarau. They better show their strong support or else Mama Waziri will be instructed to send the red shirt boys of the EFCC.
And you say Jonathan is not interferring with EFCC operations. Haba Mallam!
You know Imo state's Ohakim, one of the most corrupt of them all, was in background formenting trouble for GEJ 2011 because he does not like Nwodo and stupidly believes that IBB will select an South-Eastern governor for Vice Presidency. He believes he has a chance with IBB. Mama Waziri sent the boys to gently shake Owerri. Ohakim is gradually being wipped into shape. And GEJ is not interferring.
If elections are are truely elections in Nigeria, GEJ will garner over 99% of the votes if he bravely go after all the corrupt politicians and their families and cronies, including his.

Ndigbo Are Indeed Special!

Quote:
"Am pretty sure u are one of them ibos who believe they are God's own people..."

Man, you hit the nail on the head there! Only God's own people could go through what Ndigbo have been through in Nigeria since the sixties and still have people with impeccable characters like the Akunyils to show the world how truly special we are.

Comparing Ndigbo to any other tribe in Nigeria is like comparing what should have been to what obtains in Nigeria today - DARKNESS.

You can go bite the dust if that makes you or anyone uncomfortable.

Bring It On!

Quote:
"U speak like a monkey."

At least I 'speak' (block head, are we speaking or writing on SR blog?) better than the Chimpanzee in the person of Obasanjo, and writes far correctly than Mr Femi who does not know the difference between fairy and 'fiery.'

I bet Mr Femi as a typical Yoruba will also claim to be the the most 'educated' Nigerian from the 'most educated' tribe when you meet him in person.

I'm loving you guys hacking though, so bring it on!

@Emeka "...cowardly

@Emeka "...cowardly Yorubas...", it is amazing that people like you could call yorubas cowardly. To me,many times I read comments coming from Igbos, I get confused. Today, it is Yoruba who murdered them during Biafra war, tomorrow, they will say Yorubas are cowards who cannot kill a cow. Where do you stand? It is an insane man or people that speak with both sides of the mouth. It was in front of the same cowardly Yorubas(eg OBj) that you knelt down to surrender during the war. Till today, Igbos are bitter about this. Either they call Yoruba traitors or cowards or tribalists. All of these names are perfect names for Igbos which they have failed to admit. Why are Igbos envious of Yorubas? Please, I need an answer. Many of you are warmly accommodate in Yoruba land, but all that Yorubas get from you is backstabbing, you folks are worse than infidels. You will remain bitter till the end of times of you dont change your way. @Emeka, how is drug/419 business?

WOW!

Okay, I take it back. You just have mental issues...it must be as a result of your mother dropping you on your head :P

Wonders Will Never End!

Femi babafemi, Head, Media and Publicity cannot spell Fairy Tale, instead he calls it fiery tale?How then can we take u as credible?Men Just resign men.U suck!

@Emeka. U speak like a

@Emeka. U speak like a monkey. probably came from one. u are very small in mind.

@Emeka, bob what's ur

@Emeka, bob what's ur problem? funny its u ibos that the notherners have often successfully used to remain in power and d reason is not far fetched [ur people are second fiddlers]. Maybe u dont know it but the northerners had no way of wriggling out of d June 12 debacle, thats why they had to pass d baton to OBJ. I think u should concern urself more with whom ur people would settle down for when its their turn, rather than being a little annoyance to everyone. Funny, OBj was d person that let us realised something good [Ezekwesili, Akunyili and this our former finance minister] can come out of d east rather than rituals, smuggling, 419 kidnapping and fake products. Am pretty sure u are one of them ibos who believe they are God's own people...bullshit. We are good at something. So stop being childish, grow up and contribute not destroy.

FEMI PLS GIVE US YOUR CREDENTIALS

Femi Babafemi is a an incompetent illiterate. Please tell us the University you attended. What is fiery tale? Fairy Tale is English except this is EFCC bunch of moron version of English interpretation.
This guy is an uninformed half baked journalist with no knowledge of what fighting corruption is about. Your grammar stinks.

It's Fair Game!

Quote:
"Why are you so bitter?

I'm not 'bitter' rather I am calling a spade by its name and will continue to do so when and where necessary.

Quote:
"And by the way, talking of double-speaking when one of our brothers from the North accuses you of being a tribalist, you always defend your self by saying that "Ibos and Yorubas are brothers and should be able to criticize each other"

Is that your opinion or what I wrote? Maybe a referral will help me with recollection on when I defended a Yoruba blogger as 'my brother'. For even though I hold the Northerners in same contempt as I do 'my brothers' from the western part of Nigeria, however, given the opportunity, I will gladly choose the Northerner over the Yorubas for the simply reason that an average Northerner will kill you OPENLY while 'my brothers' from the Southwest will be laughing with you but at same time murdering you from the behind.

Besides, the Northerners are not in the habit of labelling those who disagree with their selfish agendas nor do they go about forcing other Nigerians to fight their lost battles as is with the cowardly Yorubas whenever they lose in their dirty scheming.

Coming back to the matter in discourse, I would say you are the greatest hypocrite if you claim not to have read where on several occasions the Yoruba loudmouths on this blog and their sidekicks like the Deris have taken pleasure to misinterpret every wrong done by an individual Igbo man or woman as an act which the entire Igbo race must be accountable to and be held responsible for. I had bet that the whole Igbo race would have by now been painted black and red were Mr Femi to come from my part of the country.

IF IT IS FAIR GAME WHEN THE DERIS AND THEIR YORUBA SPONSORS PLAY THE RACE CARD, WHY THEN IS IT A CRIME WHEN AN EMEKA FROM IGBO LAND DO THE SAME?
Now tell, who between you and me is the established hypocrite?

@tola: Go sit down. SR has

@tola:

Go sit down. SR has nothing to prove to the lying and corrupt Nigerian criminals. On the contrary, the onus is on Mr Femi and his pro-Obasanjo/Jonathan EFCC to tell Nigerians why Mrs Jonathan and others like her who have DOCUMENTED cases of corruption hanging on their head are still free and going about preaching moral lessons which they themselves lack.

It's only when Femi and co provide answers to these many cases of corruption cover up that we will then turn the searchlight on the SR's report.

As things stand now, the EFCC, especially Mr Femi who is the oracle of Obasanjo's weapon of intimidation, aka EFCC, has more questions to answer than the SR does. So over to you Mr Femi...

re: REJOINDER BY FEMI

Femi you are always too quick in safeguiding your yeye boss all the time. SR does not publish what they do not know or sure abount. SR is not the kind of your Nigerian newspapers. Please tread softly. By the way, upon all the atrosities committed by Farida Waziri and Andoaka, why has she not been removed from efcc?

It's fair game!

Quote:
"Why are you so bitter?

I'm not 'bitter' rather I am calling a spade by it's name and will continue to do so when and where necessary.

Quote:
"And by the way, talking of double-speaking when one of our brothers from the North accuses you of being a tribalist, you always defend your self by saying that "Ibos and Yorubas are brothers and should be able to criticize each other"

Is that your opinion or what I wrote? Maybe a referral will help me with recollection on when I defended a Yoruba blogger as 'my brother'. For even though I hold the Northerners in same contempt as I do 'my brothers' from the western part of Nigeria, however, given the opportunity, I will gladly choose the Northerner over the Yorubas for the simply reason that an average Northerner will kill you OPENLY while 'my brothers' from the Southwest will be laughing with you but at same time murdering you from the behind.

Besides, the Northerners are not in the habit of labelling those who disagree with their selfish agendas nor do they go about forcing other Nigerians to fight their lost battles as is with the cowardly Yorubas whenever they lose in their dirty scheming.

Coming back to the matter in discourse, I would say you are the greatest hypocrite if you claim not to have read where on several occasions the Yoruba loudmouths on this blog and their sidekicks like the Deris have taken pleasure to misinterprete every wrong done by an individual Igbo man or woman as an act which the entire Igbo race must be accountable to and be held responsible for. I bet the whole Igbo race would have by now be painted black and red were Mr Femi to come from my part of the country.

IF IT IS FAIR GAME WHEN THE DERIS AND THEIR YORUBA SPONSORS PLAY THE RACE CARD, WHY THEN IS IT A CRIME WHEN AN EMEKA FROM IGBO LAND DO THE SAME? Now tell, who between you and I is the established hypocrite?

FEMI IS SUFFERING FROM 'MENTAL ABILITY'

Femi suffering from mental disability? Fraudsters always hide under 'mental disability' to get out of the hook of justice. What Femi is suffering from is 'MENTAL ABILITY'. To suffer from mental ability is to possess mental ability but use it fraudulently as if he is mentally imbalance. This is evident in his 'fiery' 'tail'. Such people as IBB, Abacha, Al-Mustapha, Cecelia Ibru, Erastus Akingbola, etc once suffered from 'mental ability'. Their portion in hell is called 'CORE MAGMANUS'. The following examples will suffice for more understanding of the phrase 'mental disability'; Ibori and Michael Aondoakaa once suffered from mental disability when he was the AGF, IBB, Bankole,etc are currently suffering from mental disability. If you dont get this xplanation in your dictionary, consult Nigerian Encyclopaedia.

People like Emeka

The likes of Emeka should not have come to this world. They are against the sprit of one global village. Emeka should be in a zoo just like OBJ, IBB and others.

A Rejoinder: Farida Turns On Jonathan:Simply A Fiction

I read some selected comments to femi's rejoinder. how i cannot but disagreed with most of the comments. SR should substantiate it claims instead. we should not discard femi's claim yet

What is wrong with you?

Emeka, what is really your problem? Were you breastfed as a child? Why are you so bitter?

And by the way, talking of double-speaking when one of our brothers from the North accuses you of being a tribalist, you always defend your self by saying that "Ibos and Yorubas are brothers and should be able to criticize each other"...where is that spirit of brotherly love now? Or are you just a hypocrite just like your Yoruba "brothers"???

Femi, it is 'fairy tale, and

Femi, it is 'fairy tale, and not "fiery tale" as you wrongly wrote. With this we all know that you are incompetent so also is your madam, Farida. Which of the universities awarded your certificate or did a mercenary write your exams for you?

Femi Haba!!!!

Femi, you are just playing the script handed to you.
but remember that the power that removed that late junta is still on the Throne. Hedoesnt go on leave nor die.

Mr. Media and publicity, Femi

Mr. Media and publicity, Femi it is 'Fairy' and not "fiery" You are incompetent and half-baked.

criminals in power.

this femi guy is an animal.so efcc can give a rejoinder, incredible.i never knew this people are real,i thought they are aliens from space.with all the revelations from sahara reporters about akpabio and waziri,there was never a rejoinder which means they accepted that one as truth,but this one they refuse to accept hence the rejoinder.i keep repeating this,one day,the king who does not know joseph will arise.buhari or soyinka is our man for president any time.

Another Apologist

`Again, that makes your claim more like a fiery tale than a news report that should possess a major principle in journalism, that is the truth`

Comments above from the Head, Media & Publicity with school boy grammatical error and we are responding to the buffon? Seriously?

Credit to him (Femi) doing his job defending the indefensible, keep taking the dose.
 

Femi, please shut that F**k

Femi, please shut that F**k UP! Who's foolin' who.

This Babafemi is a moron. His

This Babafemi is a moron. His rejoinder cannot establish that the original article was based on falsehood as he claimed. The writing shows that of someone who is suffering from mental disability. Please, spare us the pain of reading junks you posted here. Your madam is a thief, including you. Most of the previous articles written against EFCC on various cases of kickbacks we never heard anything from you, why are you jittery now that the issue at hand concerns the president?

Femi hear this.

When are you guys gonna try Dame Patience Jonathan for money laundering? Yes, Farida Waziri says GEJ is interfering in the buisness of EFCC. Waziri extended an invitation to Rabadiu. We know that GEJ has learnt "the business as usual" way of doing things in Abuja. Waziri was an ex-police officer, where the DPO is a bank manager, NPF-the headquaters of Bribery and coruption. Waziri, please put your house in order before Femi writes. Femi remember no condition is permanent in Nigeria you may soon become one of us and may tell us the truth one day, but for now keep lying to us. Jukwa Musthapha of Abacha's era. With Waziri still in office when her likes Anakondaa and Iwu have gone is what I call 'political spoils system' position.