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| MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by gregg2: 1:07pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
[LARGE]MTN Confirms That Salami Made/Received Suspicious Calls From ACN Chieftains[/LARGE] MTN Nigeria Communications Limited has finally laid to rest the controversy over the genuineness of the call logs rejected as credible evidence by the National Judicial Council’s (NJC’s) probe panel, by confirming that it released them to the police. Media had, during the multi-faceted and behind-the-curtain judicial probe, reported the call logs, which were presented as exhibits by sacked Governors Olagunsoye Oyinlola of Osun and Segun Oni of Ekiti states, as genuine, though certain media had claimed otherwise. The call data on mobile numbers belonging to the suspended President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Isa Salami and others, from the Police at Area G Command Headquarters, Ogba, Lagos, were rejected by the Justice Umaru Abdullahi probe panel due to what the panel described as “doubtful and unreliable source.” The panel subsequently used the call data obtained by the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA), which covered only three months, to absolve Salami and other jurists, saying that the data were not comprehensive enough to indict them for unethical communications with parties in Osun and Ekiti governorship appeals. The call data now being confirmed as authentic by the telecoms firm cover five months. Oyinlola and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Osun and Ekiti state chapters, had gone to court, claiming that MTN deliberately released incomplete call data to NSA in order to protect Salami and certain politicians accused of unethical communications during the trial of appeals arising from the governorship elections in the two states. They are asking for N150 billion damages and revocation of MTN’s operational licence. In MTN’s statement of defence to the suit, the firm acknowledged that the call logs from the Nigeria Police Area G Command Headquarters, Ogba, which the petitioners presented to the panel as exhibit and rejected by the panel, were from it. In paragraph 8, the firm claimed that “In response to paragraph 22-23 of the Statement of Claim, the 1st Defendant (MTN) stated that it always cooperates with security agencies and acceded to their legitimate requests while adhering to its rigid procedures to ensure its customer confidentiality regime is not compromised or prejudiced and also within the confines of its capacity and storage constraints. It was consequent upon this that the 1st Defendant, upon request for call data records from Nigeria Police Force Area G Command Headquarters Ogba, forwarded the CDRs to the Command.” In MTN’s response, handled by the chambers of the former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abdullahi Ibrahim SAN, the telecoms giant insisted that it could only provide data covering three months. “The 1st Defendant (MTN) duly honoured the request in line with its policies and capacity constraint, which limits the period within which CDRs can be stored on the 1st Defendant’s network to three months, by releasing the CDRs for the period December 2010 to February 2011 to the law enforcement agencies,” it stated. It added that: “The 1st Defendant, as earlier stated, received a request from NJC vide a letter dated 14th April 2011 for the release of CDRs of some of the 1st Defendant’s subscriber numbers for the period September 2010 to January 2011. The 1st Defendant could not honour the request of the NJC, because of its obligation to respect the confidentiality of its subscribers, and, therefore, being only able to release such information to the actual subscriber of a specific mobile telephone line upon request, law enforcement agencies or upon a court order.” However, in the response being filed by the plaintiffs to MTN’s defence, it is being contended that while the call data released to the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) by MTN covered only three months, the data released to the Area G Command covered the required five months. Oyinlola and PDP are contending that the call data of the months deliberately left out in what was given to the NSA would have made all the difference in reaching a different conclusion by the NJC panel. According to the plaintiffs, “The 1st Defendant’s storage capacity is not limited to three months. The call data records the 1st defendant released to Area G Command, Ogba, covered the period between 1st September, 2010 and 31st January, 2011 (5 calendar months). We shall also be calling the Area Commander, Area F Command, Ikeja, Lagos, to tender the call data records of a certain Sunday Awobiye, which spanned a period of six (6) calendar months. “These buttress the Plaintiff’s assertion of the 1st Defendant’s inconsistent, fraudulent and manipulative tendencies: The 1st call data record released to Adeolu Oyinlola by the 1st Defendant on the 4th of August, 2011 (already pleaded) covered only a period of one month, while the 2nd call data record released by the same 1st Defendant to the self-same Adeolu Oyinlola on March, 2012 covered three months. Very significantly, unlike the call data records the 1st Defendant released to the security agencies at the behest of the National Judicial Council, both of the call data records released to Adeolu Oyinlola had originating and terminating components. The 2nd call data record is hereby pleaded.” “Defendants should declare when, in the history of Lagos State, a Tunde Folawiyo (in whose name telephone subscriber no. 08034240000 was registered) occupied the seat of governor. Plaintiffs shall, at the trial of the suit, cause the appearance of a witness, who regularly interacts with Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the aforementioned subscriber no. 08034240000, as well as subscriber no. 08062240104 (registered in the name of Gbadegesin Ademola). “The honourable court is invested with the power to compel the 1st Defendant to avail it of the SIM registration details of the two suspicious numbers (especially now that subscribers are statutorily required to register their Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards, as it would assist the court to determine whether or not the 1st Defendant is in breach of section 14(?) of the Nigerian Communications Act. “Considering the 1st Defendant’s extracted confession that it had earlier released some call data records to the Area Commander, Area G Command, Ogba, Lagos, is it not clear that the 1st Defendant acted against public interest by misleading the security agencies, and by extension, the National Judicial Council, through the release of incomplete and inadequate call data? “Does the 1st Defendant consider it fair to have appeared for Justice Ayo Salami (the record of proceedings of the NJC Special Investigative Panel; as well as the fact that the MTN staff, that appeared before the Panel was led in his evidence-in-chief by Justice Salami’s legal representative attest to this) and attempt (unsuccessfully) to repudiate the call data records the 1st Defendant had earlier released to a competent government organ? “Paragraph 8 of the 1st Defendant’s statement of defence, taken together with proof that the 1st Defendant’s storage capacity is more than three months, as well as the 1st Defendant’s failure/refusal/neglect to release the originating component of the call data records of the subscriber numbers requested by the National Judicial Council, prove beyond any doubt that the 1st Defendant deliberately frustrated the work of the NJC Panel; withheld the more important of the two components of call data records (terminating component); consciously avoided releasing the call data records of the period being investigated at the time, and perverted the course of justice. We shall, at the trial of this suit, require the Police, SSS and NSA to appear and tender the incomplete call data records supplied to them by the 1st Defendant.” |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by Olaolufred(m): 1:10pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
Your source |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by Beaf: 1:18pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
How did MTN get so involved in our local politics? It is really frightening. |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by Beaf: 1:25pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
This will likely get Tinubu in deep soup. Same story from another source: [size=14pt]Salami: Call logs rejected by NJC were from us —MTN[/size] http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/39360-salami-call-logs-rejected-by-njc-were-from-us-mtn |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by Bawss1(m): 2:05pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
Beaf: How did MTN get so involved in our local politics? A bad precedence has been set here with MTN yielding customer data to government agencies. 1 Like |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by nanos: 2:13pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
Now it is clear that ACN is as corrupt if not more corrupt than PDP. |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by nanos: 2:20pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
Facebook responses: http://www.facebook.com/Utomi/posts/343139309079905 Hephzibah Olajide Taiwo Beulah: ACN guys are liars and unrepentant thieves. U succeeded in deceiving them to vote for you using Lagos as a shining example. The deceived have forgotten that Lagos was a former capital. Go round the south west to see if they've done ANYTHING, except buying the media to propagate their propaganda. Bola Tinubu,a non indegene, is now popularly called 'EKO' and NOTHING indegenes can do about it. It's a pity! Ayo Olatunde: As the chief judge of the appeal court he should know better. It is purely against the ethics of his profession for his to have interactions with respondents during trial. We have to ask ourselves why he denIed it in the first instance. Oluwabusayo Sangowusi: The people in ACN are crooks,they are bunch of liars and deceivers.They r nt in any way beta than PDP.Ur days are numbered in the south west about an hour ago · Like · 1 Jegede Tex Franklyn: ACN & TINUBU are bigger fraud than PDP......Lekki Toll-Gate is a good example. Salami was working for ACN,period! One of the Laws of Power says 'A friend of my enemy is my enemy'. Salami should be sacked period. MTN should be fined heavily or made to go on 3 months suspension,that will make them cautious next time and it will serve as deterrence to other network providers. Can yu imagine Pot,calling Kettle,Black....exactly what ACN does! 3 hours ago · Like |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by jmaine: 2:38pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
Interesting Drama . . . . . |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by Afam4eva(m): 2:43pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
nanos: Facebook responses: Thank God it's a Yoruba man that's saying this. |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by hercules07: 3:22pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
I might be reading this wrong, the Oyinlola guys are saying that the logs in their possession shows that the ACN guys were communicating with Ayo Salami while the ones released to both the Police and NJC do not show this as they have been edited. The NJC reached their verdict based on the ones released to them by MTN, but Oyinlola is saying the two cdrs (one to the police and one to NJC were edited), so nothing new has been learnt here, until MTN can accept that the one released to Adeolu Oyinlola came from it and that the calls from Salami to the number was to a Tinubu, then Oyinlola does not have a case o. |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by hercules07: 3:23pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
afam4eva: You do know that the statement from that guy indicts PDP, ACN just got the SW, so if there has been no development, it has been because of PDP misrule. |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by Afam4eva(m): 3:24pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
hercules07: You mean PDP has been ruling Lagos since 1999? |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by hercules07: 3:27pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
afam4eva: If you read the post well, the guy said they used Lagos to deceive people to vote for them in the SW meaning that Lagos had something on ground, the guy now killed himself by saying that Lagos was a former capital, but for those who have lived in Lagos all of their lives, they know how Lagos was left when IBB moved to Abuja and what we have on ground now. |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by Afam4eva(m): 3:36pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
You got it wrong. What the guy said is that what was done in Lagos was a mere cosmetic surgery as Lagos was already made before ACN came to Lagos. |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by hercules07: 3:39pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
afam4eva: You got it wrong. What the guy said is that what was done in Lagos was a mere cosmetic surgery as Lagos was already made before ACN came to Lagos. The guy got it wrong and since it suits your agenda, you concur. Lagos is not Abuja that oil money totally developed, Lagos has been improved by ACN to a great extent, could they do better; definitely. Do not let hatred blind you, it is not a good thing. I can attest to what the Enugu guy is doing, even to what his predecessor did. |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by Beaf: 3:40pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
hercules07:When did PDP rule Lagos? E ro ra o! |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by Afam4eva(m): 3:42pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
hercules07: I'm not saying ACN did not do anything. What i'm saying is that ACN's success in Lagos is exagerated and Lagosians are even giving ACN credits for things that they did not achieve. And Oil money did not totally develop Lagos but oil money was very integral to what Lagos is today because it was the former FCT. Not just oil money but our commonwealth. |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by hercules07: 4:02pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
@Afam Katsumoto has dealt with this Oil money developed Lagos nonsense so there is no need to go over it again, of course the success of ACN is exaggerated, who will not blow his or her own trumpet, that of Chime and the Akwa Ibom guys are also exaggerated, what any state needs is to have a better governor follow the incumbent, in the case of Lagos, that has been the case (contrast that with FG). @Beaf I have explained myself above, Ore mi razists e take e easy oooooooooooo. |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by Nobody: 4:49pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
Bawss1: Banks, Telecoms, O&G coys e.t.c must submit data they hold on a customer if it is required by law enforcement agencies. |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by nanos: 4:50pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
hercules07: @Afam What did he deal with? You mean oil money did not develop Lagos? Pray, tell, what money was used to develop Lagos between 1970 and now? Oil money, and so are other states in Nigeria. However, Lagos got a headstart than other states because more oil money was pumped in, being the former capital. All these denials will not take you guys anywhere. |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by Nobody: 4:50pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
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| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by Beaf: 4:52pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
nanos: Don't mind them. As if there is anything in todays Nigeria that is not dependent on oil. ACN built Lagos out of thin air from 1999. |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by emmatok(m): 5:01pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
hercules07: I might be reading this wrong, the Oyinlola guys are saying that the logs in their possession shows that the ACN guys were communicating with Ayo Salami while the ones released to both the Police and NJC do not show this as they have been edited. HMM, So why are the PDP goons here jubilating. |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by procedure: 5:26pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
And how many calls did pdp to win cases. All i know is that in nigeria to get what is right for ur self u need to pay a price. I think salami rejected pdp bribe. Pot calling kettle black , fight of the most powerful not the most in corrupt |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by nanos: 5:29pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
procedure: And how many calls did pdp to win cases. All i know is that in nigeria to get what is right for ur self u need to pay a price. I think salami rejected pdp bribe. Pot calling kettle black , fight of the most powerful not the most in corrupt Then enough of the 'ACN is good'' nonsense. Both are evil and for ACN, a new party, to almost rival PDP in evil, is telling. |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by lagerwhenindoubt(m): 5:33pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
 it is just hilarious when we come up here to defend the indefensible We hold strongly to party allegiance than Nationalistic Ideals. The real losers are the voters not ACN or PDP or GEJ or Tinubu. It is you and I sitting out here defending rabid rats in the political system that will lose in the end. What have our leaders ACN/PDP/APGA/CPC etc done the past 13 years since Democracy? the results are plain for all to see.it has gone from Bad to Worse - yes the economy fared better during the Gulagish days of Abacha.  we now scramble over reforms and probes like the cake is enough for everyone to eat. it is not! that is why 2015 will herald much bleaker days ahead. |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by chucky234(m): 5:42pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
hercules07:Guy I have been in Lagos for close to forty good years and I can tell you that ACN government have under performed since 1999 going by what Lagos generate on a daily basis,Fash have ruled fraction of the state since he was voted in. He govern only VI,Ikoyi,Ikeja,Lagos Island,Surulere and Oshodi-Apapa expressway where the rich live leaving the poor in areas like Okoko,Ajegunle,Amukoko,Ajangbadi,Satellite,Ojo,Iba Town,Iyana-Ipaja,Ejigbo e.t.c to their faith and you sit there to praise them. Go to South Africa,Kenya and Angola to see the level infrastructural development in cities that generates far lower revenue than Lagos state then you will know that ACN has done absolutely nothing since 1999. |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by chucky234(m): 5:44pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
hercules07: 1 Like |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by ono(m): 5:57pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
chucky234: Wow!!! WORD! 1 Like |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by Afam4eva(m): 6:00pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
chucky234: +100 |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by musiwa43: 6:23pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
Glory be to God. Watch what happen in the North. It will have happen in Yorubaland. It is only a person who is wicked that will want this for Yoruba people. But Glory be to God. That all I can say.. won ki bi nu aje, ki a ju owo so nu. Agba ko ki wa loja, ki ore omo tutu wo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlLuDoLwr_w&feature=related https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP1rk3dpJKU&feature=related https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBSt5o6F20I&feature=related https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MAGkrDgL1w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahz3BEhkyho&feature=related https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y22BTb5CqM |
| Re: MTN Confirms That Salami Exchanged Suspicious Calls With ACN Chieftains by ahmedinho1(m): 6:47pm On Apr 17, 2012 |
afam4eva: ...And what about those states that PDP has been ruling since and Nigeria that PDP has been ruling since. Let's always get our facts right before we post! |
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