“Did Ayo Oritsejafor’s embezzle church money?” CAN chides Tunde Bakare

by Isi Esene

by Isi Esene
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has replied the convener of the Save Nigeria Group (SNG) and senior pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly, vice presidential candidate to General Buhari in the April 2011 elections, Tunde Bakare, over his statement, last week, condemning pastors’ acquisition of private jets.
In its reaction to the fiery pastor’s outbursts, the general secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Musa Asake; director of National Issues of CAN in charge of North West Zone, Rev. Haruna Karatu; and the PRO of 19 Northern states and Abuja CAN, Elder Sunday Oibe, condemned Bakare’s comment, stressing that there was nothing wrong with people donating aircraft to their religious leaders.
Bakare effectively accused religious leaders of complicity in the bad governance in Nigeria.
In his response, the CAN secretary, Musa Asake said: “What is wrong with giving a birthday gift to Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor? Did he embezzle church money? Did he collect somebody’s money? If a group of people come together to buy him a jet to ease his evangelical work, why should that be a subject of public debate?”
“Oritsejafor is a man of God. He is doing everything for the work of God”.
Asake reportedly explained the rational behind the aircraft acquisition saying, “Redeemed Christian Church of God has thousands of branches and millions of members on all continents of the world. Winners’ Chapel and Christ Embassy equally have many international branches and hundreds of thousands of members. Pastor Adeboye, Bishop Oyedepo and Pastor Oyakhilome travel thousands of kilometres monthly doing God’s work and have to be in places not well-served by commercial flights.”
In a similar reaction, Apostle Isa El-Buba, general overseer of Evangelical Bible Outreach Ministries International, Jos, Plateau State, defended preachers who own jets, concluding that Bakare’s condemnation of these men of God was blasphemous. “There is nothing wrong for a preacher to own a jet. If people in the secular world can acquire jets for chief executive officers of big private enterprises, there is nothing wrong in giving gifts to a man of God of Pastor Oritsejafor’s standing. This is a man of God that travels across the whole world. He deserves what he has been given.”
Now we wait patiently for Bakare’s reaction to this explanation by CAN, currently led nationally by Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor.
YNaija.com

Homosexual lobby mounts pressure on President Jonathan

A gay lobby in the United States, All Out, has started a global campaign to collect 100,000 signatures of sympathisers to mount pressure on Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan not to sign the impending law against homosexuals.
As at Saturday evening, the group has collected close to 70,000 signatures. But how these efforts will persuade President
Jonathan not to sign the bill into law, remains to be seen.
The group claims to be working with partner organisations in Nigeria, such as Changing Attitude Nigeria, Improve Your Health Initiative, Initiative for Advancement of Humanity, International Centre for Advocacy on Right to Health, Sexual Minorities Against
AIDS in Nigeria, the Initiative for Equal Rights, Nigerian LGBTI’s in the Diaspora against Anti-Same Sex Laws.
The anti-gay bill, was first passed by the Senate on 29 November 2011.
The bill criminalises gay marriage and any same-sex “amorous relationship”, a major step in putting in place a law that has drawn widespread criticism in Western countries.
The Senate increased the punishment for gay marriage from the five years’ imprisonment originally proposed in the draft bill, to 14 years. The legislation must be passed by the House of Representatives and signed by President Goodluck Jonathan before it becomes law.
“Persons who entered into a same-sex marriage contract, or civil union commit an offence and are each liable on conviction to a term of 14 years in prison,” the bill says.
“Any person who registers, operates or participates in gay clubs, societies and organisations or directly or indirectly makes public show of same-sex amorous relationship in Nigeria commits an offence and shall each be liable on conviction to a term of 10 years in prison.”
The bill passed through the second reading at the House of Representatives last week, unanimously, drawing worldwide outrage by gay sympathisers.
A top US human rights official said he has not discussed with Nigerian politicians an anti-gay bill poised to pass Parliament.
Michael H. Posner, the Assistant of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour, declined to comment directly on the pending legislation during a press conference at the US consulate in Lagos.
But, he says human rights issues must be addressed within societies and “it is very difficult, if not impossible, for (foreign) governments to force that change”.
 DailyPost

FRSC warns that old number plates will become invalid by September 2013

The Federal Road Safety Commission has warned that old number plates will become invalid by September 30, 2013.
Some months ago, the commission introduced new number plates which will replace the old ones.
The commission said in a post on Facebook on Thursday that from October 1, 2013, it would amount to an offence for anyone to use the old number plates.
It said a standard replacement fee of N10,000 had been set for each number plate while a new number plate costs N12,500, excluding registration fees which would be determined by state governments.
It said, “By October 1, 2013, it will be an offence for any owner or operator of a vehicle to still have affixed, old number plates on his/her vehicle as the deadline for the use of old plates is September 30, 2013.
“Owners of vehicles are enjoined not to wait till the last minute, when there could be a rush, before procuring the new plates. Those whose vehicle papers have expired or are about expiring are urged to procure the new plates rather than just renewing the vehicle papers, which of course will have to be renewed again when the new plates are being obtained. This will definitely save costs.
“The corps is also working out some incentives to encourage early replacement of the old plates and these shall be made public in due course.”
When the new plates were introduced last year, the Corps Marshal and Chief Executive Officer, FRSC, Mr. Osita Chidoka, had explained that it was to ensure the safety and security of Nigerians.
At a hearing on the matter organised by the Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter-governmental Affairs in March 2012, Chidoka said the new plates were intended to tie a number plate to an individual or organisation.
 DailyPost

OPINION: Counting The Cost of Diezani Alison-Madueke’s Sins – By Theophilus Ilevbare

Nigeria was rated the second most corrupt country in the world by the latest Gallup Poll no thanks to Denziani Alison-Madueke’s leadership of the petroleum ministry that has been shrouded in monumental corruption. According to the Ribadu report that the Presidency is now trying so hard to discredit, Nigeria’s long history of corruption in the oil sector continued with billions of dollars in signature bonuses paid by oil companies to the federation missing and to think of the list of unresolved oil scams such as the Halliburton, Siemens, Wilbros, Panalpina and A.G Daimler scandals, the Nigerian bribe takers as usual are walking scot free, mingling, wining and dining in Nigeria’s corridors of power while the United States, France, Italy, Switzerland and Germany have long punished companies and individuals involved in handing bribes to Nigerians.
From the false and jumbled dates of graduation and work experience in her CV to the arbitrary awards of crude lifting contracts to “brief case” companies, fraudulent assignment of prospective rights in five lucrative oil blocks to two barely established companies and extortion of bribes from marketers there have been calls from Nigerians for Alison Madueke’s sack or honourable resignation not because “she is guilty” but because “from the series of revelations coming from the probe, she is not innocent.” Its been one fraud after another, her continued presence in the cabinet makes a mockery of President Jonathan’s fight against corruption.
From the outset, she has always generated controversy. Needless it was to lie but she decieved Nigerians when she backdated her year of graduation from Howard University from 1992 to 1987 to connote she had work experience, giving the impression she skipped national youth service on her return to the country. She was actually 32years upon graduation in 1992 and hence the national youth service exemption rule applied to her. Obviously this must have misled Shell into giving her an appointment back then and subsequently as a minister of the federal republic of Nigeria. “What she has done is perjury. It is criminal and punishable by law and such a person is not fit to hold public office.” said an official of NNPC at that time. She equally misled the Senate and the Nation during her ministerial appointment. It was a fraudulent representation, a criminal offence punishable by law.
As the Minister of Transport in 2007, she shed crocodile tears at the sight of the deplorable Benin-Shagamu expressway promising to rehabilitate it. It turned out to be business as usual as she payed N30.9billion to contractors between 26th and 31st December of the same year for doing nothing as the road remained in the same deplorable state she met it.
The Senate, in October 2009, probed the questionable spending of N300 billion in the transport sector, Alison-Madueke was the only serving minister among five former ministers of state and four permanent secretaries indicted and recommended for prosecution. Vanguard newspapers also reported she allegedly transferred N1.2 billion into the private account of a toll company without due process and in breach of concession agreement.
As the minister of mines and steel development, the moribund next newspaper investigation brought her improriety to the public for the umpteenth time, exposing her under-arm dealings with US-based jeweller Chris Aire who out of the blues boycotted due process to register and gain approval pronto for his two brief case companies to lift Nigeria’s sweet crude. As usual no charges were filed and the allegations were considered false.
A more serious allegation in 2010 was the KPMG report on the “process and forensic review” of NNPC which opened a Pandora’s box of stunning verdict on every aspect of the oil industry. Regrettably, in a calculated attempt to truncate the investigation NNPC process owners’, by extension the petroleum ministry, refused to provide “supporting documents”. The KPMG report was considered inconclusive in critical areas such as issue and renewal of importation supply contracts, evaluation of petroleum products importation bids, criteria for allocation of products and volumes to importers, and prequalification of approved importers.
Another demonstration of President Jonathan Administration’s resolve to thread softly with corrupt cases and dine with a short spoon with such individuals is the poor handling of the N155billion Malabu Oil scam as Mrs. Alison-Madueke continue to play hanky-panky with sensitive documents needed for full scale investigation into the case by the House of Representatives committee set up to probe the oil scam. On October 4, 2012, hardly had the committee began its public hearing than it noticed the conspicuous absence of Alison-Madueke and Bello Adoke, minister of Justice. Sources privy to the investigation said “there is high-level complicity in the deal and there is therefore high-level cover up”. Investigation by the EFCC clearly established that Mr. Etete’s Malabu only served as a money laundering machine, as substantial parts of the funds was later transferred to various accounts owned by “real and artificial persons”.
An eye popping scam perpetrated under the Minister’s watchful eyes was the award of N1.1 billion naira contract to a contractor for the supply of a dive support sea-going vessel to the Federal Government-owned Petroleum Training Institute, PTI, Effurun, in Delta State, which was never supplied. Top officials of the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources were said to have conspired with a contractor in the scam.
Inspite of her numerous sins, the President deemed it appropriate to leave her in office making a mockery of his touted fight against corruption as other ministers in the cabinet at different point in time have been eased out but the most controversial, maligned, criticised, indicted but never found guilty and beloved minister of the Presidency, Deziani Alison-Madueke has remained untouchable. Her immortality and invincibility is gobsmacking and obfuscating. It is absolutely ridiculous for President Jonathan to think Alison-Madueke remains the right choice to steer the affairs of the ministry of petroleum resources and only Jonathan thinks so.
 Omojuwa.com

Kene Rapu: It’s a man’s world? The rise of the fempreneur

Running a company has not been easy, especially in Nigeria where things are not always as straight forward as one may like them to be. However, with hard work, perseverance and doing what you love, the sky is the limit.

From childhood I have had two identifiable giftings- an analytical mind and a passion for fashion.
I graduated from the University Of Bristol, UK in July 2011, with an LLB law degree. With law I had put formal training to my analytic skills, but what about my passion?
I moved back to Nigeria the summer after graduation to enrol at the Nigerian Law School. Moving back to “the land of opportunity”, I knew I wanted to start a fashion- related “side hustle”. I never imagined that what I had planned to be a “side hustle” would blow up, and potentially become my “main hustle”.  However I must say, I am an astute person by nature and the possibility of combining business and fashion was exciting to me right from the start.
My company, Kene Rapu Enterprise – which is positioned to be an integral part of the value chain in the Nigerian fashion industry; was introduced in October 2011.
The first line Kene Rapu Enterprise launched was ‘SlippersbyKene’. It produces handcrafted slippers using the best of locally sourced materials, including vibrant African fabrics. Apart from satisfying my passion for fashion, my mission is to provide employment and support for local producers.
Kene Rapu Enterprise has just turned one year old. It has been a challenging but fulfilling year. We have grown very quickly, with a demand for slippers way beyond my expectation. We have a clientele base spanning from children to grandmothers, to fashion visionaries such as Deola Sagoe.
Due to the buzz SlippersbyKene has created, I was interviewed and my slippers featured in the September edition of the renowned Genevieve magazine.
Running a company has not been easy, especially in Nigeria where things are not always as straight forward as one may like them to be. However, with hard work, perseverance and doing what you love, the sky is the limit. Having a strong support system has also helped; I have been blessed with amazing family and friends.
My advice to other youths thinking of starting up businesses, is to not go in blindly. Get as much work experience in the field you want to go into. My desire to enhance my creativity played out early in life. Thus my first internship at the age of 13 was with one of my most influential mentors, the Founder and Creative Director of the globally renowned John 3v3 Hats. In the past few years, I have interned as an assistant to the fashion editor of True Love magazine; as an assistant to the fashion stylist of the Nigerian segment of the ELITE Model Look 2010 contest and also with the project coordinator of the Lagos Fashion and Design Week 2011. My successful handling of these projects resulted in my appointment as one of the co-ordinators of the Lagos Fashion and Design week 2012.
Most recently, I have been working as the store manager of the Tiffany Amber flagship store. Working with one of the pioneers of Nigerian fashion has taught me a lot, I have been able to learn business principles and first hand tips on being a FEMPRENEUR from the brain behind Tiffany Amber herself.
All of these experiences have helped me grow into the person I am today, and I look forward to working with more visionaries in the industry both in and outside Nigeria.
Formal training in the field you intend to go into is also important. For me, I believe it is of utmost importance to be stimulated in such a way that my creativity is channelled into a more financially viable enterprise. As such, I intend to enrol at a top fashion school in the next year or two.
My ambition is to build a strong global brand and to join the ranks of African designers who have global impact. What’s yours? I advise you to think outside the box, the time of the FEMPRENEUR is NOW.
YNaija.com

" I wonder if they have any conscience…"– Top 20 Comments on DailyPost Topic Of The Week

We have received many views on whether it is right for state Governors/governments to acquire private jets. We would like to thank you for your comments and urge readers to please make comprehensible comments and use short-form/abbreviation only where necessary.
Here is our 20 best pick.
Audu Ishaya: It is not right. Where are they going to? They were voted to stay in their respective states to work for the common man and not to be moving about anyhow. The jeeps they own are okay for them.
Chicharito: In my opinion, buying jets will only be right if the people in such a state are living in the best condition possible. I mean better roads, availability of water, power supply being steady, good business environment, support for SME, free education at least to secondary school level, good security, workers earning the approved minimum wage on time, innovations and projects awarded and delivered on and money made available for uncompleted ones, proper accounting of the internally generated revenue, etc. Then if the state has enough left to acquire a Rocket they should please go ahead.
Santos: Both church leaders and governors who acquire private jets are thieves. Tunde Bakare is no better. He wanted to be vice president under Buhari to loot everything in this country.
Augustina Ebalu Oboh: 45 million dollars? Do you know how much work that can do in a state? And for pastors, you can imagine how many rich and poor people are forced by words to sow. people suffer in churches with those so called pastors asking them to go and fast and pray. All they preach is give, give and give! my God! whatever a man sows, he shall reap. Do you know how much is paid to park these planes and how much it cost to land this plane in an airport?
Princewill:  These people are all the same. Look at our hospitals, many people are dying every day. Pastors now think that private jets are their right while so many of their members and congregations are dying of hunger and starvation. They have the money to acquire private jet so that they can fly to heaven and meet the LORD, what is the need for all this? It is so shameful they think there is no hold up in the sky on their way to heaven, they have forgotten about plane crash right. These so called governors are fools soon there will be a revolution in these states and in Nigeria when the youth will finally rise up against this looters, against these liars and against this selfishness of theirs.
Ekaba:  There is no justification for our Governors/State Governments to acquire private jet while millions of youth are roaming the street in search of jobs. If this billions of Dollars they spend to acquiring jet is invested in businesses that will give jobs to our youth, there will be less crime in the society. It appears the people we voted for are now mocking us and lavishly spending the tax payers money with every impunity. It is very annoying to hear that the very people we voted are spending such huge amount on private jets while many families cannot boast of three square meals, no good school, parents have no work. This trend cannot continue this way.
Efosa Prudence Albert: What for? Have they provided the basics for their people? Why the private jets? Visionless people! Where would they get the money to maintain such an ostentatious item? It’s insane!!! There is this race for politicians and men of God to buy Private jets. Why? When there’s too much hunger and suffering in the land! Well let’s see how all these play out. God will intervene for the masses! Amen!
Oluchi Nnodim: Buying jet, when there is no job for our graduates, people are suffering. It is only God that will help us. Very soon they will start buying heaven.
Aniemeke Maureen: Please, my people, there are thousands of motherless baby’s homes out there that need your help.
Oladele Muyiwa: Very very wrong. Imagine the Governor of a poor state like Taraba owning a private jet. Of what benefit is that to the people?
Godswill Chimaruoke Umeh: Let them start buying. The more they buy, the more the revolution that will consume all of them.
Olawunmie Tijani Egwuatu: The jets will surely kill them all in Jesus name. AMEN.
George Kpanikwu: If Mr president can own a jet, then the Governors can as well own jets too.
Peter Olufemi Ajibade: Yes, each Governor should have at least, three jets ,1 for himself, 1 for the wife and 1 for children. Then depending the state’s purse, they can get another for visitors.
Ebinimi Afrogha: They should buy extra life from God, so if this life finishes, they will use the other one! Useless Leaders.
Musa Abdullahi Sakanko: With the current hyper unemployment, it is very wrong for governors or governments to buy private jets, instead of investing that money in huge projects that will create employment opportunity.
Oru Felicia:  It’s not right for them to acquire private jets in the midst of so much poverty and frustration among the citizenry! It’s indeed a wrong move for any governor to make at this time.
Igbigbisie Emmanuel Ogheneochuko:  That is stupidity in the highest order. Buying private jets to do what? Bunch of failures and disappointment – thieves and fraudsters. See if they do not know, we are ready for a revolution.
Ajetunmobi Azeez:  I wonder if they have any conscience, many people are suffering and all they could think about is their expensive live style. God will definitely judge all of them.
Ashiegbu Joy:  They are not supposed to own a private jet, where did they get the money from? When lots of Nigerians cannot afford three square meals a day, there’s unemployment everywhere. They are very very wrong.
DailyPost

Tinubu Moves To Replace Tribunal Judges After Humiliating Defeat In Home LGA

ACN LEADER, ASIWAJU BOLA TINUBU
SAN FRANCISCO, November 16, (THEWILL) - THEWILL has uncovered a plot by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to replace the judges of the Lagos State Appeal Tribunal hearing the petition of the Action Congress Of Nigeria (ACN) whose candidates lost the local government Chairmanship elections in Badagry and Ikoyi-Obalande Local Government Development Areas of Lagos State.

Having suffered embarrassing electoral defeats in the local government area where his Ikoyi residence is domiciled, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and the ACN have sponsored a phoney group which has petitioned the new Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Ayotunde Adeyoola Phillips, asking her to stop the suit and replace the judges on the panel.

The group has alleged that the judges have been compromised.

A whistleblower who first leaked the plot to THEWILL on Thursday said the panel of judges would be replaced with judges who would upturn the judgement of the lower tribunal and hand victory to ACN candidates.

THEWILL gathered that the judges who were appointed into the Appeal Tribunal by the Lagos State led ACN government have rebuffed several overtures by Tinubu to overturn the verdict of the State’s local government electoral tribunal which affirmed the election of Mustapha Adisa Dada as chairman of Badagry Local Government Area as announced by Tokunbo Fatoyinbo, the Returning Officer, Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC), and its verdict upturning the election of Adewale Adeniji of the ACN in Ikoyi-Obalende Chairmanship election. The tribunal declared Mr. Ibrahim Babatunde Obanikoro of the PDP winner.

The 5 justices are Justice O. Oke (Chairman of the Tribunal), Justice Tunde Oshodi, Justice Dada, Justice Candy Johnson, and Justice Ali Bawse.

THEWILL can report that the appeal Tribunal judges have been pressured by the newly sworn-in Chief Judge of Lagos State, to adjourn indefinitely and not deliver judgments in the two petitions.

Midweek, the Lagos State Appeal Tribunal adjourned the Badagry petition indefinitely, while the same fate befell the Ikoyi-Obalende matter on Thursday. No reasons were given for the sudden adjournments.

Reacting to the shocking decision of the Tribunal judges in the Ikoyi-Obalende petition, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and winner of the election, Mr. Ibrahim Babajide Obanikoro addressed a press conference where he appealed to the Chief Justice of Lagos State “to stand and defend the judiciary system because any attempt to derail justice by either changing the judges or extending the duration of the petition is an infringement to justice and an encouragement to lawlessness and abuse of law.”

The full text of the release reads: “Good morning ladies and gentlemen of the fourth realm, this press conference was called to draw the public attention to the latest development on the Ikoyi Obalende Development Area appeal tribunal case at the Lagos State’s Appeal tribunal Igbosere. You will recall our stolen mandate of October 22, 2011 was returned by the election tribunal panel led by Hon. Justice Dolapo Akinsanya on October 4, 2012. That decision was appealed by ACN and its candidate Mr. Wale Adeniji.

Two weeks ago the court adjourned to 15th of November (yesterday) for final argument and to announce date of judgment. We arrived in court yesterday and to our surprise, the registrar of the court announced an adjournment of the case sine die (meaning indefinitely) without reason. In the Nigerian history of election appeal tribunal, this situation will be precedent. There has never been a situation where the court adjourns sine die on an election appeal before hearing the case.

Our investigation revealed via a source that two petitions were filed against the eminent judges alleging bribery and corruption and questioning their integrity. We further learnt that one of the petitions was directed at the panel of five eminent judges while the other was filed against the Chairman of the panel Hon. Justice O. Oke. 

While awaiting the receipt of the copy of the petition, we reliably found out that one of the petitions was written and submitted by one Mr. Rasaq Ogunseye an ACN stalwart (Ikoyi Obalende Chairman). Mr. Rasaq Ogunseye was Mr. Wale Adeniji’s collation agent for the LGA result collation on Oct 22 2011 (election day).

Its on record that Mr. Rasaq Ogunseye was a witness during the tribunal proceeding, in his witness statement, he affirmed that he was the local government collation agent for Mr. Wale Adeniji, that all the results of the election was handed over to him but they were misplaced hence he could not produce it to the court.  During the appeal proceeding he failed to testify before the Judges. Its perplexing that the petition of a witness deposed to give testimony and failed to do so is accepted and credited to stop an appeal’s tribunal seating.

Permit me to seize this opportunity to appeal to the Chief Justice of Lagos State Hon. Justice O. Philips to stand and defend the judiciary system because any attempt to derail justice by either changing the judges or extend the duration is an infringement to justice and an encouragement to lawlessness and abuse of law.

Hon. Justice O. Philips there is a famous saying “that justice delayed is justice denied”. There is an urgent need for you to wade into this matter to defend and protect the image of the judiciary in Lagos State and Nigeria. I am certain there are processes and procedures for dealing with matters of accusation and petitions as laid down by the National Judiciall Commission -- the umbrella council for the Nigerian Legal system.

Exactly twenty years ago, the military annulled an election, which was adjudged to be the freest at that time in our chequered history. The entire country was at standstill for almost seven years. To my greatest shock and surprise, it is those who benefited most from the fall out of the sad event that are at the center of annulment that took place at Ikoyi/Obalende on 22nd of Oct 2011 and are also trying hard to intimidate and coerce the judiciary into what will amount to travesty of justice.

We are too familiar with ACN’s antics and pranks, we also know they will go to any length to steal and keep mandate but we are resolute that defenders of democracy, law and order will not allow this planned manipulation of the judiciary system via blackmailing, and false allegation of bribery and corruption.

While this press conference is to inform our teeming supporters, the good people of Ikoyi-Obalende and Nigeria at large of the development in our case, it is also pertinent to state that threat to my life have increased in recent times via phone calls, unmarked cars tailgating. Police and other security agencies have been alerted and are again informed with this press conference.

Finally, I will like to state categorically that we are confident of the merit of the case as adjudged by the tribunal panel, we did not seek favours from those courageous judges, we have not sought any in the on going appeal. Again I call on the Chief Justice of our great state; Justice O. Phillips to stand on the right side of history and on the side of Justice. It was the courageous judiciary siding with the civil right activists in the US that gave the world the American society of today which has become a pride to humanity. I call on you to allow with immediate effect the appeal tribunal to resume deliberations on our case and all other outstanding petitions. I also use this opportunity to call on stakeholders, the Nigerian Bar Association, National Judicial Commission, Civil Society organizations, elder statesmen, mothers, fathers, to weigh in on this very important matter.

The great people of Ikoyi-Obalende are asking that their choice on Oct 22nd 2011 as confirmed by the tribunal court judgment of Oct 4th 2012 stand. Justice must prevail.”