Bankole said, “I am burdened to ask us as a people that our quest for a credible electoral system would not be brought about by legislation alone, no matter how beautifully crafted our electoral laws are. Our electoral conduct is as vital as the laws, if not more vital.”

The action of the Okiro panel which is seen as a bold move towards ensuring that the panel completes its job on schedule despite many attempts at frustrating it is also aimed at helping the panel unlock certain codes with which huge sums of the money were paid into accounts of either the beneficiaries or cronies acting as fronts for some beneficiaries.

They asked him to honourably resign his appointment after it was evident that President Yar’Adua who hired him was reluctant to invoke his powers under section 147 of the 1999 constitution to redeploy him let alone sack him from his cabinet.

…“I stole it to impress people at concert”, says suspect. By Evelyn Usman The inscription, ‘vehicles are parked at owners risk’ are usually boldly written at every given point, both at the international and local airports and parking spaces.

The Gbaramatu leader also said it was a taboo for the security outfit to burn down the palace of the royal father at Oporoza and sacrilegious also for a church to be burnt down among other buildings in Okerenkoko.