Related: What's New in Nigeria?
LAGOS, Nigeria - A former Nigerian state governor who serves as ranking member of the nation’s ruling party was arrested for allegedly embezzling $100 million of government money meant for public projects, an anticorruption official said yesterday.
Yeah, turns out all governments are the same no matter what you call them. All looting operations as seen from this outpost.
Agents from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arrested Abdullahi Adamu on Monday after a more than yearlong investigation, agency spokesman Femi Babafemi said. Agents seized Adamu’s passports and have asked him for his personal financial records to try to find the money they say he stole, Babafemi said.
Adamu served as governor of Nasarawa state, located just east of Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. While he was governor under the former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, anticorruption officials believe, Adamu stole money from unfinished construction projects funded through his state’s budget, Babafemi said.
Those projects included roads, schools, hospitals, and markets, the spokesman said.
“This year, 2010, is going to be a tough one for the corrupt in the country,’’ Babafemi said.
Babafemi said Adamu was cooperating with investigators and had yet to hire a lawyer. An initial court date over his arrest has not been set.
Adamu also serves as secretary to the board of trustees of the People’s Democratic Party, Nigeria’s ruling political party. Party spokesman Rufai Ahmed Alkali declined to say whether the party would ask Adamu to step down over the allegations.
“This happened while he was governor, not while he was the secretary,’’ Alkali said.
Under Nigeria’s federal system, states receive large shares of the nation’s oil revenues and have budgets rivaling those of other African nations.
One of the top two concerns of the empire and its mouthpiece MSM, ever notice that?
Those budgets can prove to be tempting targets for graft in Nigeria, a West African nation consistently ranked as having one of the most corrupt governments in the world.
Being an AmeriKan, I can hardly throw rocks.
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And then there is this cui bono set of events:
"Religious violence kills over 200 in Nigeria" by Associated Press | March 8, 2010
You sure it was religiously-based, agenda-pushers?
JOS, Nigeria - Rioters armed with machetes slaughtered more than 200 people overnight yesterday as religious violence flared anew between Christians and Muslims in central Nigeria, witnesses said. Hundreds of people fled their homes, fearing reprisal attacks.
Gee, and WHO (rhymes with) BENEFITS when CHRISTIANS and MUSLIMS fight for NO REASON? The PLAN and PROPAGANDA are SO OBVIOUS to me now.
The bodies of the dead - including many women and children - lined dusty streets in three mostly Christian villages south of the regional capital of Jos, local journalists and a civil rights group said. They said at least 200 bodies had been counted by yesterday afternoon.
What BETTER way to STIR THINGS UP, 'eh?
And is the STENCH of a FALSE FLAG ever stinking this up, cui bono?
Torched homes smoldered after the 3 a.m. attacks that a region-wide curfew enforced by the country’s police and military should have stopped.
More stink! It's the SAME ALL the TIME when it comes to this kind of crap, no?
The killings represent the latest religious violence in an area once known as Nigeria’s top tourist destination, adding to the tally of thousands killed in the last decade in the name of religious and political ambitions.
Yeah, even though it is all mostly local disputes.
Jos lies in Nigeria’s “middle belt,’’ where dozens of ethnic groups mingle in a band of fertile and hotly contested land separating the Muslim north from the predominantly Christian south.
Just like Sudan , 'eh?
Good pace to raise hell, cui bono?
In Dogo Nahawa, a village 3 miles south of Jos, residents said the dead included a 4-day-old infant.
And -- in a trademark of false flag operations -- something guaranteed to enrage people and incite revenge, cui bono?
Those who survived said their attackers shouted at them in Hausa and Fulani - two local languages used by Muslims.
Oh, OF COURSE!
A spokesman for Plateau state where Jos is located, Gregory Yenlong, said police were seeking to arrest Saleh Bayari, the regional leader of the Fulanis, because Bayari’s comments incited the attack. He offered no other details.
But the chairman of the local Fulani organization denied that his people were involved in the attack.And given the state of AmeriKa's newspapers, that statement is likely true, cui bono?
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Update:
Sticking with it and upping the death toll.
DAKAR, Senegal - Officials and human rights groups in Nigeria sharply increased the count of the dead after a weekend of savage ethnic violence, saying yesterday that as many as 500 people, many of them women and children, may have been killed near the central city of Jos, long a flashpoint for tensions between Christians and Muslims.
Which is really absurd because I'm just not feeling it. I have no beef whatsoever with Muslims. Now the Zionist *ew, on the other hand.... I'm sick of the mind games and manipulations as well as the MSM lies.
You know it's an image you will never repair, right? It's over, dudes. The mask is off, man. I'll never see Israel the same, and will never view her as legitimate. Hey, that's the way it is from here and nothing will ever convert me.
The dead were Christians and members of an ethnic group that has been feuding with the Hausa Fulani, Muslim herders whom witnesses and police officials identified as the attackers.
Officials said the attack was a reprisal for violence in January, when dozens of Muslims were slaughtered in and around Jos, including more than 150 in a single village.
Early Sunday, the attackers set upon the villagers with machetes, killing women and children in their homes and ensnaring the men who tried to flee in fishnets and animal traps, then massacring them, according to a Nigerian rights group whose investigators went to the area.
The latest attacks were “a sort of vengeance from the Hausa Fulani,’’ said the Reverend Emmanuel Joel, of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Jos.
After the January attacks, “the military watched over the city, and neglected the villages,’’ he said. The attackers, said Joel, “began to massacre as early as 4 a.m. They began to slaughter the people like animals.’’
WTF?
Military probably in on it (as if the newspaper would tell us).
Starting to have that familiar, anti-Muslim, false-flag stench, folks.
The police said yesterday that they had made 95 arrests, including a number of Hausa Fulani. The clothes of many of the suspects were bloodstained, said Mohammed Larema, a police spokesman in Plateau State.
The same cops that failed to prevent this?
The mood in Jos was tense as troops were deployed in the streets, shops closed early, and residents remained indoors.
Hmmmmmmm.
CUI BONO?
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