METROPOLITAN POLICE PAPERS EXPOSES IBORI’S GAMBINO STYLE

James Ibori

When ex-Governor James Onanefe Ibori, an Urhobo from Delta State took oath of office in 1999, he swore to be an honest new breed Nigerian statesman. A detail report recently obtained from the Metropolitan Police of London, United Kingdom is now exposing Ibori’s true color and personality as a new greed, second to none dishonest Nigerian. The document painstakingly unmasks Ibori as a crook who brazenly conned the people of Delta State and stole the resources that would have gone a long way in transforming the Big Heart state into the envy of every African.

Through the London Police papers, Ibori while presiding as the Governor of Delta State prove himself to be an elected thief with no other mission than looting and plundering the state. Period.

Pointblanknews.com can say without fear of being contradicted that Ibori failed as an elected leader, he disgraced his family as an unworthy father and husband and put the lie to the genuine aspiration of millions of Niger Deltans for infrastructural development as respect for their natural homeland.

As an elected Governor, Ibori’s annual salary would have been a modest N2.5 Million ($24,000), (£12,000) but immediately he assumed office as Governor of Delta State in 1999, he did not fail to remind himself that he was a man on a sole mission: To use his privileged executive position to amass stupendous wealth at the detriment of the generality of Deltans.

According to the London papers, Ibori hurriedly consolidated and with unequal rapidity set up a web of cronies, relatives and political associates to personalize the use of budgetary vote meant for “security,” “Education,” and Public Infrastructural Development.”

As an elected crook that does not have any respect for core family values Ibori would even set up a duplicitous bank account in the name of his five years old cousin. In that account, Ibori lodged a little less than £16,000.

When British sleuths saw that amount of money as being irreconcilable with the age declared for the so called owner they were put on red-alert to dig deeper into the circumstance and personalities behind the money. Thus started the chain of event that has now exposed Ibori as an elected vermin on a single mission of sucking economic and financial life out of oil rich Delta State.

It is difficult to imagine the depth of Ibori’s depravity and callousness. He dealt Nigerians double portions of heartless rape. After stealing from the nation which he swore on oath to defend, Ibori decided to unleash his prodigal personality. He took Nigeria’s money and decided to scatter it in overseas cisterns. Ibori would deep his proboscis to siphon mega bucks from Asaba and he would conduit same into accounts in unimaginable places like Mauritius, Panama, British Virgin Island, South Africa, Switzerland, Canada, Great Britain and the United States. One would think that he was trying to invest abroad. No, it was for mere ego trip and vulgar lifestyle. From the proceed of his loots, he would buy a $20 Million private Jet and a Mercedes Maybach McClaren valued at £275, 873, (406, 600 Euros.)

Ibori made futile attempts to justify the source of the money laundered abroad. His explanation does not convince even the dumbness nincompoop. For instance, London Police was able to establish that Ibori’s relations and personal aides like his younger sister, Christine Ibori-Ibie, Bimpe Pogoson, Tinu Faloye, Udoamaka Okoronkwo aka Oniugbo and others acted as lieutenants and fronts that made Ibori’s criminal career to be so easy. All of them were declared wanted, arrested questioned and released for further processing.

Indeed, Ibori’s modus operandi suggests that he was running nothing other than a crime family. His wife, Theresa Nkoyo Ibori is involved in the criminal escapades.

A blow –by-blow account of the investigations carried out by the Police in London reveals the complex operational mode often employed by Ibori and his cohort. An example will suffice. Bimpe Pogoson used to work in private capacity for Ibori before the latter became Governor. He invited her to serve with him in the new Government at Asaba. Pogoson was paid by Delta State Government as an employee. But she did nothing other than assisting Ibori to create fictitious companies and hidden accounts. The EFCC in Nigeria would later declare Pogoson wanted. She could not be found anywhere in Nigeria. The Metropolitan Police in London stepped in. In no time, they found out that she was in Britain and lives at Flat 39 Barons Court Church Lane, The Hyde, London.

These Metropolitan Police revelations speak for themselves. They are 31 pages in all and they are produced below:

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