$15m Ibori Bribe: Festus Keyamo Advises on Way Forward

RIBADU CANNOT ARREST UBA THEN

Deri when have become ibb's spokeman? Ibb who set up two comttee of enquries against dis man.after 30months cleared him of any wrong dealings.he is trying to do things the other ways to better d country.with Gen.Buhari i realise that a good name is better than silver and gold

@kool...My brother,Don't mind that guy dat called himself Deri. I hate who look @ National issues with ethnic Binocular. After all Festus Keyamo is from South south but the guy has done Justice to this Issue already what is your brother Jonathan doing on this issue after the matter occur while he was in office with the late Umar Yarudua. Some p@le are just edible academically, intellectual Buff on...I rest my case.

How can $15 MILLION DOLLARS CASH be shuffled around like piece of paper in a Country where poverty is the surname of 95% of her citizens and no ripples of outrage from anywhere?!

Workers can't get miserly N18000 per month; No road, no school, no hospital, no light, nothing. Yet no one is SCREAMING "where did this huge amount come from?"

Obasanjo made huge noise about a Minister who bribed Senators with N50M yet he remained dumb in $15M CASH!

I went back to sleep hoping that when I wake, this news would go away as comical dream. But, it is Nigeria, it is REAL; There is a president called Goodluck Jonathan! GOOOOOODLLLUCK to Nigeriiiia!

haba Naija! Must an Igboman be the one to do this dirt thing? Salvation require for the South-east.

We are all putting various comments about who get the money, who suppose get am, what was the money for, but none of us actually knows if the money is actually still available. Dont be surprised when we find out that that money has actually used its imaginary legs to waka to some untraceable location.. 9ja we hail thee

I am sure very soon d truth behind d $15million bribe allegation will b revealed. Am sure those who are laying claim 2 d said money did not think about d implications. Very soon, they will start regretting. Those who claim 2 b close 2 Ibori are only compounding his present ordeals. And they 2 will have their own share of d problems facing him.

IF WHAT RIBADU SAID IS TRUE THAT IBORI BRIBED HIM THROUGH ANDY UBA WHY DIDN'T HE RIBADU ARREST ANDY UBA IN THE FIRST PLACE?FOR CONSPIRECY TO BRIBE AND AIDING
OF CRIME.

Keyamo must be bereft of reasoning by asking the arrest of Ribadu. Why should Ribadu be arrested in this case? Was Lamode not at the meeting when the bribe was offered? Was it not Lamorde who took the money to CBN for safe keeping?Ibori bribed the officials of efcc and they used it as evidence against him in court,did not pocket the money. We have seen the performance of madam Waziri,whom keyamo was so proud to have worked with.Since Ribadu left efcc, Keyamo should point to other chairperson in efcc that has been effective as Ribadu despite the likes of Keyamo and Bamidele Aturu critism of him.

Well in 9ja, its only those of us from the SS that are often sent to jail-including the ones Tinubu and buhari wants to sentence life imprisonment in the Niger delta-if not how can a man who was alleged to have accepted $15m from Ibori to bribe Ribadu, now lay claim to such money by special proxy again? Is the guy Ok upstairs? The entire alawada dance stinks to high heaven-andy uba is just being economical with the truth-the guy is a thief, a 419ner who should spend the rest of his life in jail-I am wondering what is holding efcc from dumping him inside the old Buhari gulag. One thing that stands out in this case is that ribadu lied to the nation-those attempting to steal the money know where it came from.Andy Uba is not the type that will take $15m to ribadu without mixing it with some fake 5m dollar notes he printed himself-he is that mean-!

If Nigeria is serious with adherence to rule of law, and inerested in fighting fraud, Keyamo has offered the best advise as an escape route for a govt that is supporting crime. the question now is what was the money for, where did it come from, who has it.

@Deri ... keep living a life of falsehood anf denial of the truth. Very soon you will deny being the son of your father because of crumbs. Why has the CBN not denied the receipt of the $15m if Ribadu is a liar?

It is no secret that Uba was the courier of the money from Ibori to Ribadu. You Der stated thst this was not true. I have severally repeated your mission on S/R to use falsehood, half-truths and tales by the moonlight to deceive and hoodwink the gullible.

It will pay you better to lay claim on the money and use your wasted intellect to get it than the ablutions you are doing like a cat on SR for mere crumbd. Atake, Tompolo, etc, are smiling in billions to the bank. Deri you are wasted piece of toilet tissue. The countdown of your floushing away into the soakaway pit has started if you care to know.

@Julius Abey ..... Go and learn how to spell literate properly before asking me a stupid question.See your foolishness now? Even a fool is counted as wise by keeping quiet.

"Okoro Junior, Sit down, sit down. This is not a gathering for illiterates" - Bright Chimezie.

Onyema, Sit down, sit down. This is not a write up for illiterates. A word is enough for the wise. This is a speach by a learned man, Keyamo. Since you are neither privileged to be learned nor have good education the best course of action is to ask a learned man to interprete it for you. No shame in that. Please do not interpret it like ICHEOKU.

This Uba man will not rest until nabbed. Over the years, he has risen from a domestic affairs supervisor post to an "honorable" one despite all his past political and criminal escapades!

His USA trip with OBJ, $170,000 was smuggled into NYC aboard Presidential plane and $45,000 to pay farm equipment for Otta farms. http://saharareporters.com/news-page/what-did-obj-and-uba-bring-usa-pres...

Then he was on a level equivalent to a 'pick pocket' per PDP CORRUPTION SCALE, its no surprise the extent of his boldness and amount involved now!
Today's Google search on 'Andy Uba and corruption' has risen to 133,000!

Despite his bounty from our corrupt political system, one would have thought that he would spend the next few years quietly laundering his 'image' instead of 'dollars'!

Each day and Uba's further exposure brings him closer to that "National service" he truly deserves! CONVERSELY, this is Nigeria and he is an "important man"!

What is complicated about a public servant rejecting a bribe and handing it over to the government as evidence of his honesty.
Ribadu should head for the law courts and indict these criminals in power who want to pawn his hard earned image as a honest man in exchange for money and for the protection of confirmed and convicted criminals.
The vultures hovering over the bribe money should all be tried as accomplices in the execution of the bribery,the fact however is that the ones who are supposed to protect the interest of the masses are the ones flouting all the laws and obstructing justice

Babangida, while reacting to the blame heaped on him and others for “killing” the nation’s oil sector and the attendant negative consequences on the welfare of Nigerians, had through his aide, Kassim Afegbua, said: “On General Buhari, it is not in IBB’s tradition to take up issues with his colleague former presidents. But for the purpose of record, we are conversant with Buhari’s so-called holier-than-thou attitude.“He is a one-time Minister of Petroleum and we have good records of his tenure as minister. Secondly, he also presided over the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) which records we also have.“We challenge him to come out with clean hands in those portfolios he headed. Or, we will help him to expose his ‘records of performance during those periods.’ Those who live in glass houses do not throw stones. General Buhari should be properly guided,” Babangida had said. Unquote- may be it was penned by a baboon with a human brain

@Onyeama

So since you know Ibori did not offer $15m to Ribadu ... can u tell us exactly how the $15m came by ?
If not, u would really look very stupid !

This was Keyamo's statement:

“This is because, it is either Ribadu on the one hand is lying that he was offered $15million as bribe or Andy Uba, Ibori and Chibuike Achigbu on the other hand are all lying that it was not bribe. Both versions cannot be correct and any version that is false amounts to a crime under our laws.”

HOW DID THIS CONSTITUTE THAT $15M DOES NOT EXIST , ONYEAMA ?

Kool, let me try to understand what you were saying...So, if I ask you for a bribe to help you get what is your right to get from the Goverment, and you called the authority to report me...as you should, You are saying you should be arrested and charged. What would be your crime ?

@KOOL, its u who should be ashamed of yourself-think for once! If its true that the said $15m was given to Andy Uba to hand over to Ribadu as bribe, and Andy Uba knows deep inside his heart that it was Ibori who actually gave him the money to bribe ribadu-why is he laying claim to the money again? And lying to us that the money was a donation to the PDP? OBJ donated over 240m to the PDP hours after his release from jail. Did anybody ask Obj to tell the nation how he came about that money? Aware Obj had only N20,000 in his account when he left jail. It was the Holy Spirit that forced andy uba to lay claim to the money. Again why should people be forced to depart from the case by EFCC-without an investigation? Let us first of all have the money displayed in public or in court-then start from there-prosecute andy uba for taking money from Ibori to bribe ribadu-and have him sent to jail 4 50yrs-the FGN is just being silly-did the money come from aso rock via obj to andy uba?

took the pains to interview andy uba-all this while. Aware Andy Uba is not the type who would let go $15m bribe money just like that. Andy Uba tried to lay claim to the money because he knows how the whole nonsense came about-they want to lie their way into claiming something that is not even theirs-its clear the money did not come from Ibori-so who planted the money? The same Andy Uba who should have been arrested by Ribadu when he arrived 9ja from the USA over his money laundering case-is now the GO TO in a case involving Ibori vrs OBJ-wonders in 9ja will never end-if Farouk can make $650,000 issued by SSS to otedola vanish-is it $15m that andy uba will keep for efcc-Uba made the claim cause he knows ribadu is lying period!

Its as clear as the blue sky that Andy Uba and ribadu are lying. They told us lies because somebody high up wanted thief Ibori dead. The fun in the whole rubbish is that no journalist in 9ja took the pains to interview andy uba-all this while. Aware Andy Uba is not the type who would let go $15m bribe money just like that. Andy Uba tried to lay claim to the money because he knows how the whole nonsense came about-they want to lie their way into claiming something that is not even theirs-its clear the money did not come from Ibori-so who planted the money? The same Andy Uba who should have been arrested by Ribadu when he arrived 9ja from the USA over his money laundering case-is now the GO TO in a case involving Ibori vrs OBJ-wonders in 9ja will never end-if Farouk can make $650,000 issued by SSS to otedola vanish-is it $15m that andy uba will keep for efcc-Uba made the claim cause he knows ribadu is lying period!

@Onyema... what nail did Keyamo hit on the head? You are a half illiterate who doesn't understand a conjecture from a statement of fact. To make matter worse for you and Keyamo, Senator Uba and Lawyer Achigbu have made a retreat and withdrwawn the case from court. So who is the liar.

The likes of you just cannot believe that any Nigerian would reject a bribe of $15m. I know that just $1000 would have made you lose your senses. If Ribadu was a liar, the CBN governor would have denied his claim especially when he was wanted dead or alive.

I am surprised by Keyamo's article as memory is till fresh on the one he wrote on the Otedola/Lawan saga. It is the likes of Keyamo that puts a seal of approval on bribery judging from what he wrote on it. If Otedola had been questioned and probably charged to court for offering bribe, would Uba and Achigbu have been bold to even think of making a claim on the $15m? Animals !!!

Mr. Keyamo,

You have hit the nail on the head. The federal government knows that Nuhu RIbadu was not offered any $15m bribe. Nuhu is a liar and I am glad Mr. Keyamo, that you are the first prominent person with correct knowledge of what transpired between Ibori, Nuhu, Obasanjo and Andy as per the $15m.