{"id":5787,"date":"2015-08-26T18:59:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T18:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=5787"},"modified":"2015-08-26T18:59:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T18:59:43","slug":"jonathans-fight-against-corrupt-leaders-by-ken-agala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=5787","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan&#8217;s fight against corrupt leaders by Ken Agala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;They said he doesn&#8217;t fight corruption in high places. But he filed corruption charges against<br \/>\n1] Former US Vice President, Dick Cheney,<br \/>\n2] Albert Stanley ( former Chairman of KBR),<br \/>\n3] David Lesar( CEO of Haliburton)<br \/>\n4] David Utt( Former MD of KBR).<br \/>\nThe US never forgives Jonathan for putting the former Vice President on trial and worked day and night to see his fall.<br \/>\nGlobal industrial giants charged by Jonathan includes:-<br \/>\n1] Technip SA of France,<br \/>\n2] Snamprogetti Spa and<br \/>\n3] JGC Corp of Japan.<br \/>\nPresident Goodluck Jonathan arrested and detained 23 top officials including 11 from Haliburton and even the CEO of Saipem Construction in Nigeria.<br \/>\nAll were charged in suit CV\/435\/10 High Court Justice Abuja Judicial Division .<br \/>\nI remember Celestine Akpobari, the former Ogoni activist ( now APC chieftain ) saying &#8221; I would have loved to see Dick Cheney in chains in our court and facing justice in our prisons&#8221;<br \/>\nThis forced former US President George Bush and former US Secrtary of state James Baker to personally intervene and begged for a plea bargain.<br \/>\nAt the end of the case, the former US Vice President and his cohorts paid the sum of $250 million dollars about 45 billion in fines to the Nigerian government. These were for crimes committed between 1994 and 2004 long before he came into office .<br \/>\nThese are clear and verifiable facts muffled by the huge media gang up against President Jonathan.<a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Jonathan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5291\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Jonathan.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathan\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Delta-newsroom-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5344\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Delta-newsroom-logo1.png\" alt=\"Delta newsroom logo\" width=\"270\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;They said he doesn&#8217;t fight corruption in high places. But he filed corruption charges against 1] Former US Vice President, Dick Cheney, 2] Albert Stanley ( former Chairman of KBR), 3] David Lesar( CEO of Haliburton) 4] David Utt( Former MD of KBR). The US never forgives Jonathan for putting the former Vice President on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[506,513,505,299,509,508,511,514,507,510,512],"class_list":["post-5787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-celestine-akpobari","tag-dick-cheney","tag-george-bush","tag-goodluck-jonathan","tag-haliburton","tag-james-baker","tag-jgc-corp-of-japan","tag-kbr","tag-saipem","tag-snamprogetti","tag-technip-sa-of-france"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Jonathan.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1vl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5788,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787\/revisions\/5788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}