Crisis hit the Sun Newspapers as Police declares associate editor wanted...

Serious crisis has hit sun newspapers over the court case against Ebere Wabara by Abia govt. A top staff that pleaded anonymity revealed that the usual Monday management meeting was stormy. According to this reliable source that is an editor, most of the top management staff are not happy with their publisher Orji Uzor kalu over his crude style of using his papers to malign the characters of his perceived enemies. They argued that OUK is the one sponsoring Ebere Wabara using Sun, even against their wish. Now that Wabara is in trouble OUK is advising him to travel abroad on health reasons, so as to escape arrest by the police that have declared him (Wabara) wanted. Sun management we learnt is not also happy that they are being owed four months salary. The staff it was learnt has already reported their woes to NUJ NLC and CLO. Meanwhile Ebere it was gathered is trying to flee the country but police said they are on alert.

Breaking News!!!! Ebere Wabara Jumps Bail, Declared Wanted by Court

An Umuahia Magistrate Court Monday issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Mr. Ebere Wabara of the Sun Newspapers  for failing to appear in court over charges of sedition against the Abia State government.
He was granted bail after initial arrest by the police and was expected to appear in court today but jumped bail prompting the Chief Magistrate , John Ukpai of Magistrate Court 4 to order his arrest and that of his surety, Mr. Chuks Onuoha  also of the Sun Newspapers.
Briefing journalists at the end of the court session, counsel to Abia state Government, Chief (Barr) Chukwunyere Nwabuko explained that Mr. Wabara is being arrested for disparaging the Abia State government and inciting the populace against the persons of the Governor and his family members through the Sun Newspapers and his internet publications.
According to the Government lawyer, Mr. Wabara was arrested  by the police to disclose what he knew about his allegation that Engr. Chinedu Orji, son of the Governor ordered the killing of the Governor’s aide, Mr. John Ndubuka  as well as the killing of perceived opposition which he has been publishing in his accomplice on-line site, The City Reporters by one Don Norman.
Barr.Nwabuko pointed out that Wabara had initially denied owning the internet online site, The City Reporters, but was indicted following police investigation of the on-line site.
The matter was adjourned to 10th of April due to the absence of the accused.

Media Watch International cautions Journalists

A non-governmental organization MEDIA WATCH INTERNATIONAL, has cautioned journalists to always stick to the ethics of the profession in the discharge of their duty. Media watch in a statement said that journalism is a noble profession; as such practitioners should be guided by objectivity and not slander in their reports.

Leader of the group Maxwell Ogama while reacting to the arrest of Ebere Wabara said that Journalists who in the course of their duty defames any body should be ready to face the music.

He said that any one who feels that any journalist has maligned him could sue the person. He therefore urged media men not to be used by desperate politicians now that elections are approaching. He reminded them to be steadfast and committed to building Nigeria.

Ebere Wabara: Merchant of OUK the expired drugs....Franklin James Nwankwo

Ebere Wabara: Merchant of OUK the expired drugs....Franklin James Nwankwo

He describes himself as a Language Expert. Yes, that is not contestable. However, somebody should remind Ebere Wabara what Moliere said about education, intelligence, foolishness and wisdom; that a learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool. Apart from always writing to impress (he hardly makes sense), Ebere appeals to me as the Village Teacher who was reminded by an uneducated commoner that one could still be comprehensively educated, yet; remarkably lacking in wisdom.

Ebere appears to have promised the immediate past KINDERGATTEN Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu that he would help him win the confidence of market women whose collective psyches were debased by his mother, the millions of youths who were impoverished by his wheelbarrow and shovel empowerment tools, thousands of politicians who were wrongly inspired by OUK’s deceptive leadership styles, Abia’s economy left in an almost irredeemable backward status and the future of children mortgaged by a Governor whose knack for greed, selfishness and self-centeredness underdeveloped Abia. I know by the grace of God that marketing OUK in 21st Nigeria is a terrible mistake.
If Ebere is endowed with productive wisdom, he ought to have known that ORJI UZOR KALU is an expired drug. The least he could do for us is to promote this caveat on OUK, “If you have a supply of drugs that is old or expired, discard of them safely through your local pharmacy’s disposal system or with your doctor’s office. Avoid flushing them to avoid potential contamination of the water system”.
I do not know whether to sympathize with Ebere for celebrating foolishness or pity his ignorance. This is what he said about OUK: “Let me say it for the second time, an aggregation of thousands of these so-called Abia PDP stalwarts and their receding followers cannot have the minutest value (an expired drug has no potency value) of Kalu’s heroism (as a pathological liar), invincibility (like Ganiyu Adams), transnational fame (or notoriety?), nationwide popularity (infamousness) and superlative chord (strapless) with fellow Abians and non-Abians. This is the crux of the morbid hatred (disdain is a better word) for Kalu: his diminishing opponents (that exiled him politically) are afraid of his domineering carriage (in Nigeria or Gambia?) and intimidating potentialities (like?) that naturally make his dwindling hypercritics fret (yet they retired him prematurely), submissive and subservient!
Orji Uzor Kalu acquired very insignificant formal education, so he could easily be carried away by Ebere Wabara’s use of words. However, no matter how hard you try to wash a pig, it does not change his status. What Ebere does not know is that OUK has long taken a slide to unalterable oblivion. Abians issued him a yellow card at the end of his first tenure in 2003, issued him another yellow after 2007. Two yellow cards translate to a RED CARD. OUK has a permanent NO vote for his eight disaster years in Abia.
At the risk of repeating myself, let me remind Ebere that OUK his paymaster with all his noise about being business minded ceded Enyimba Hotels (with a market value of about N20b) to his friends (the two Maduakos through Aba Chamber of Commerce) at a paltry sum of N12m, denying Aba the life time opportunity of having a five star hotel with all its value chain advantages. OUK’s illiteracy got Golden Guinea Breweries and the Umuahia Ceramics Industry entangled in the worst legal/ownership cobweb. The result of that dumb decision is the denial of employment opportunities to thousands of Abians. If a Governor aided the death of industries he inherited and caused the remaining to go moribund, he is obviously valueless. Does Ebere Wabara know that the international (?) business man OUK lived in a rented Government House for the eight years he attempted to wreck the ship called Abia? So, what value is this dumb Ebere Wabara talking about?.
I am still wondering what Ebere means by invincibility. I entered the words OUK and INVINCIBILTY in Google search. The search result was “do you mean the demystification of OUK the local champion?”. Where is PPA? What happened to REALITY ORGNAIZATION WORLDWIDE? If OUK is truly invincible how come his PPA crumbled like a pack of cards and his clandestine moves to join the PDP thwarted by even political feather weights in his Igbere? Do you still remember the purported issuance of PDP membership card marked 9787945 to OUK? His invincibility is in my mind, a logical construct that exists only in the mind’s eye of spin doctors like Ebere Wabara.
I don’t know what Ebere means by transnational fame. Ebere needs to be reminded that the average Nigerian nay Abian sees OUK as a crook, an illiterate and a proponent of politics of deception. Unless Ebere has short memory, he should remember how the presence of OUK at the Ekwunife campaign train in Anambra ensured that she had the least votes in an election OUK boasted that if Ekwunife loses, he will believe there is no God. What of the disaster called “OUK for PRESIDENT 2007”? Does Ebere know that his man’s transnational fame meant less than 2% chances in aggregation of nationwide polls?
What Ebere describes as morbid hatred is actually strong disdain for OUK. The reason for this public disdain and monumental disapproval is simple, OUK squandered public goodwill and set Abia on the path of stagnation. The people Ebere described as “diminishing opponents’ are actually the people who have successfully quarantined OUK politically, ensured that he is retired prematurely and consigned to the dustbin of history. At least, the whole world now knows that his purported popularity was a scam, what with his inability to sustain the existence of his PPA. He has shamelessly run from pillar to post, claiming friendship with successive PDP National Leadership. In the final analysis, each refused to admit him.
The story of OUK makes me sick. It gives me goose pimples. It is even worse to imagine that an adult with reasoning faculties could spare time to “market” an expired drug like OUK.
Abia is merely recovering from the misrule of an illiterate businessman called OUK. There are verifiable conscious efforts to do for Abia in 2014 what OUK’s colleague Governors did for their States before 2007. If OUK should serve as performance benchmark for any Government, then that Government is sure courting alienation by the people. Abia is coming on at the moment. I will say with every sense of responsibility that all the years eaten up by the OUK locusts are being restored.
It is shameful to note but the insane truth is that Abia just started building state – of – the art General Hospitals, markets, roads across rural communities, model primary and secondary schools, workers’ secretariat, a Government House, Primary Health Centres in all nooks and crannies of the State, model high court buildings, housing estates, agricultural farms, a model library, an event centre, international conference hall, first ever Eye hospital just to mention but a few.
If OUK was reasonable enough to have laid a foundation for the take off of Abia, his name would not have been deleted from Abia history. Ebere Wabara should please stop introducing an expired drug (that’s what OUK is) to us. He is going to tell us that the achievements listed above are nothing; that is not too bad to say. The task now is, for every three projects I credit to TAO; I challenge Ebere Wabara to mention just one that OUK did for eight years. I am waiting. Onye ara Ekeoha!

• Franklin writes from Enugu, Nigeria

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