Nigeria is in for another season of contrived controversy now that the Nuhu Ribadu led Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force has delivered its report and the coming of the controversy was expected by the discerning. Reason being that where it not for the executive summons that compelled Malam Ribadu to submit the report (which by the way had been ready since August 2012) Nigerians would have continued to discuss the deliberately leaked report when those who commissioned the report had not even seen it.

Deliberately leaked you may ask? But of course it was deliberately leaked! In Africa we say that if the witch flew at night and the baby died in the morning there is no need for a coroner's inquest.

It is known that Malam Ribadu met with his erstwhile friend Malam Nasir Elrufai for a reconciliatory meeting to mend fences between the duo. Now what happened at that meeting can not be established factually because it was a closed meeting, but what is known is that after that meeting somebody leaked the Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force Report to Reuters.

Now, Sherlock Holmes said, when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable is the truth. While Nigerians where pondering on who must have leaked the report, the leak exposed himself in the following manner.

On Monday the 29th of October 2012, the President ordered the Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force to submit its report. In the morning of the very next day (Monday the 30th of October 2012) Malam Nasir Elrufai released the full unedited copy of the report of the Committee on his personal website, el-rufai.org, within minutes of the report being published on Malam Elrufai's site, the same report was published on Premium Times, a site run by former 234Next journalist. 234Next if you will recall is that paper for which Elrufai famously had an interest. Within hours the report was also on saharareporters.com.

Now it is obvious from this timeline who leaked the report to Reuters, but the question is who leaked the report to Malam Nasir Elrufai, a known antagonist of the Jonathan administration and what was the motive behind this leakage? And then most importantly, why did Elrufai choose to 'officially' leak the report only the day after the President asked to see the report that his government commissioned? Million dollar questions if I may say!

But be that as it may, from the now obviously preconceived loud noises made on Social Media by Elrufai, it is obvious that the agenda was to whip up fuel subsidy like sentiments and get the citizenry roused up against a democratically elected government.

So determined where these agents to use the Ribadu report to bring down the present administration rather than clean the Augean stable that they refused to report the earth shattering news that Boko Haram had nominated Muhammadu Buhari as their mediator for peace talks! Please go to these sites and see for yourself that they blacked out that news item.

Now why would news website notorious for breaking news refuse to break the biggest news of the year? It is obvious that they had instructions from their 'owners' to play up a particular news story.

Now, from meeting with Elrufai, a known antagonist of the administration before the report was submitted, I have it on good authority (and Malam Ribadu can not deny this), that Ribadu met with a rival of President Jonathan who has a predilection for desperately seeking the presidency even if it means betrayal of his boss. Ribadu met this man almost immediately after he presented his report to President Jonathan.

What are the motives for these meetings with antagonists?

Well, again, let us borrow from the famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable is the truth.

These antagonist failed to acknowledge the courage of the President in setting up a committee to purge the oil industry which comprised people outside his sphere of influence. They failed to note that even Nuhu Ribadu testified that the President did not teleguide the committee either directly or via the Minister of Petroleum Resources. Rather they have approached the report with a pre conceived mindset.

The Nuhu Ribadu report covered a period that spanned many years. Most of the suspicious activities in that report occurred while others held sway in the ministry of Petroleum Resources, but all we are hearing is about the incumbent minister and her colleague in the ministry of finance. Why the targeted and selective tar brushing? Discretionary awards were rampant a mere four years ago, why is the name of the particular minister who held sway then not mentioned, I would hate to think that it is because he is from a certain geo-political region, but this is Nigeria where even elders constitute themselves into a forum to push for presidential candidates from their region so anything is possible!

The curious thing about this report is that some of the ills unearthed by Nuhu Ribadu's Committee were happening while he held sway as Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC). The Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force Report is as much a self indictment by Malam Ribadu on himself because he is saying that he was either incapable, or unwilling to tackle these ills when he was EFCC Chairman.

And I talked about motives. How about this for motive. About the time of his meeting with Malam Elrufai, the same Elrufai on his twitter profile came out to attack the professional standing of his former colleague when he stated on the 21st of September in a tweet that Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is "nowhere near" Sanusi Lamido Sanusi in intelligence!

Now I know that given that the CBN governor is married to the sister of one of Elrufai's three wives he would have a soft spot for him, but this statement coming around the time of his meeting with Ribadu evidences a motive to bring down the Coordinating Minister of the Economy as a first step in the ultimate plan to bring down the Jonathan administration.

If not, why the mad rush to accuse the current administration of burying the Ribadu Report even before it was submitted? I mean, there were four reports commissioned Including the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) Task Force, Governance and Controls Task Force, the National Refineries Task Force and the Petroleum Revenues Task Force.

The PIB is already before the National Assembly, so it is clear that there is political will to give life to the recommendation of the report, there is already reforms in place in the governmental sector with the most recent reform being the Performance Contract signed between President Jonathan and the Federal Cabinet and between the various ministers and heads of their Departments and Parastatals, and work is ongoing in the reform of our refineries.

So, why pick on the Ribadu Report?

I think the answer can be found in the same reason that the media mouth pieces of these antagonists refused to carry the story about Muhammadu Buhari and the Boko Haram peace talks offer.

It is now clear that the military campaign against Boko Haram by the Joint Task Force as well as the border closures ordered by President Jonathan in January 2012 are working and the noose is tightening around the neck of Boko Haram and those who have gained political traction by blaming the government for the insecurity occasioned by Boko Haram are at a loss and have to hurriedly come up with a new bogeyman to use in demonizing the Jonathan administration hence the desperation to latch on to the Ribadu report.

But they are fighting a losing battle. Malam Nuhu Ribadu himself inadvertently gave out that this report is not the smoking gun they have made it out to be. I will now quote what Ribadu himself said in the letter accompanying his committee's report.

Said Malam Ribadu and the Secretary of the Committee, Olasupo Sasore (SAN) who both signed the report "The data used in this report was presented by various stakeholders who made submissions to the task force in the course of our assignment at various dates which have been disclosed in relevant sections of the report. Due to the time frame of the assignment, some of the data used could not be INDEPENDENTLY VERIFIED and the Task Force recommends that the Government should conduct such necessary verifications and reconciliations."

Right here in black and white Ribadu is telling the world that the figures in his report are not factual, they are based on hearsay evidence that has not been corroborated and yet some persons are jumping up and down for joy at these figures.

Nigerians may want to consider the words of Segun Adeniyi who reported that in a discussion with Malam Elrufai after the death of President Yar'adua he complained to him that he, Elrufai, had unfairly vilified Turai Yar'adua to which Elrufai responded that there was nothing like a 'Turai cabal' but he simply made it up to serve a purpose!

But is it really true that the committee did not have enough time to verify the figures? Anybody who has seen the leaked report knows that it is time stamped August 2012, a full two months before it was officially submitted to the President on Friday November the 2nd.

Only a dim wit will believe that the Malam Nuhu Ribadu of the EFCC renown could not have verified figures in two months. Of course he could have if he wanted to. But did he want to verify? Would his report have been as sensational if he had taken time to verify these figures? The obvious answer is no.

Habit is a very difficult thing to break. Between 2002 when he was appointed EFCC Chair and 2008 when he was sent to 'school' by President Yar'adua, the most common complaint against Ribadu by Nigerians was that he rushed to the press to convict people in the media before he was sure of his case. It seems that Ribadu never broke free from that habit!

take dat: What stops the President if he really has genuine intention from calling back the committee immediately it was made known that the terms of reference was not fully adhered to? He hasn't done that rather his spokes man Okupe is busy working relentlessly to discredit the report! All na wash

May be you should go back and watch the video of what ensued during the submission, Ribadu did not make any statement regarding the inconclusivity of the report, so how could the President have known? Ribadu only made inference to the inconclusivity in the report where he advised the government to further verify and reconcile some of the purported claims in the report, this singular paragraph rendered the whole report non-implementable and do you expect any serious government to take such unsubstantiated claims to court?

This is what Okupe was saying and even though he has not impressed me so far, I just have to agree with him on this but the onus still lies with the government of the day to do the needful to ensure that justice is not only done to the report but must be seen to be done.

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oxford: Nigeria is in for another season of contrived controversy now that the Nuhu Ribadu led Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force has delivered its report and the coming of the controversy was expected by the discerning. Reason being that where it not for the executive summons that compelled Malam Ribadu to submit the report (which by the way had been ready since August 2012) Nigerians would have continued to discuss the deliberately leaked report when those who commissioned the report had not even seen it.

Deliberately leaked you may ask? But of course it was deliberately leaked! In Africa we say that if the witch flew at night and the baby died in the morning there is no need for a coroner's inquest.

It is known that Malam Ribadu met with his erstwhile friend Malam Nasir Elrufai for a reconciliatory meeting to mend fences between the duo. Now what happened at that meeting can not be established factually because it was a closed meeting, but what is known is that after that meeting somebody leaked the Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force Report to Reuters.

Now, Sherlock Holmes said, when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable is the truth. While Nigerians where pondering on who must have leaked the report, the leak exposed himself in the following manner.

On Monday the 29th of October 2012, the President ordered the Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force to submit its report. In the morning of the very next day (Monday the 30th of October 2012) Malam Nasir Elrufai released the full unedited copy of the report of the Committee on his personal website, el-rufai.org, within minutes of the report being published on Malam Elrufai's site, the same report was published on Premium Times, a site run by former 234Next journalist. 234Next if you will recall is that paper for which Elrufai famously had an interest. Within hours the report was also on saharareporters.com.

Now it is obvious from this timeline who leaked the report to Reuters, but the question is who leaked the report to Malam Nasir Elrufai, a known antagonist of the Jonathan administration and what was the motive behind this leakage? And then most importantly, why did Elrufai choose to 'officially' leak the report only the day after the President asked to see the report that his government commissioned? Million dollar questions if I may say!

But be that as it may, from the now obviously preconceived loud noises made on Social Media by Elrufai, it is obvious that the agenda was to whip up fuel subsidy like sentiments and get the citizenry roused up against a democratically elected government.

So determined where these agents to use the Ribadu report to bring down the present administration rather than clean the Augean stable that they refused to report the earth shattering news that Boko Haram had nominated Muhammadu Buhari as their mediator for peace talks! Please go to these sites and see for yourself that they blacked out that news item.

Now why would news website notorious for breaking news refuse to break the biggest news of the year? It is obvious that they had instructions from their 'owners' to play up a particular news story.

Now, from meeting with Elrufai, a known antagonist of the administration before the report was submitted, I have it on good authority (and Malam Ribadu can not deny this), that Ribadu met with a rival of President Jonathan who has a predilection for desperately seeking the presidency even if it means betrayal of his boss. Ribadu met this man almost immediately after he presented his report to President Jonathan.

What are the motives for these meetings with antagonists?

Well, again, let us borrow from the famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable is the truth.

These antagonist failed to acknowledge the courage of the President in setting up a committee to purge the oil industry which comprised people outside his sphere of influence. They failed to note that even Nuhu Ribadu testified that the President did not teleguide the committee either directly or via the Minister of Petroleum Resources. Rather they have approached the report with a pre conceived mindset.

The Nuhu Ribadu report covered a period that spanned many years. Most of the suspicious activities in that report occurred while others held sway in the ministry of Petroleum Resources, but all we are hearing is about the incumbent minister and her colleague in the ministry of finance. Why the targeted and selective tar brushing? Discretionary awards were rampant a mere four years ago, why is the name of the particular minister who held sway then not mentioned, I would hate to think that it is because he is from a certain geo-political region, but this is Nigeria where even elders constitute themselves into a forum to push for presidential candidates from their region so anything is possible!

The curious thing about this report is that some of the ills unearthed by Nuhu Ribadu's Committee were happening while he held sway as Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC). The Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force Report is as much a self indictment by Malam Ribadu on himself because he is saying that he was either incapable, or unwilling to tackle these ills when he was EFCC Chairman.

And I talked about motives. How about this for motive. About the time of his meeting with Malam Elrufai, the same Elrufai on his twitter profile came out to attack the professional standing of his former colleague when he stated on the 21st of September in a tweet that Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is "nowhere near" Sanusi Lamido Sanusi in intelligence!

Now I know that given that the CBN governor is married to the sister of one of Elrufai's three wives he would have a soft spot for him, but this statement coming around the time of his meeting with Ribadu evidences a motive to bring down the Coordinating Minister of the Economy as a first step in the ultimate plan to bring down the Jonathan administration.

If not, why the mad rush to accuse the current administration of burying the Ribadu Report even before it was submitted? I mean, there were four reports commissioned Including the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) Task Force, Governance and Controls Task Force, the National Refineries Task Force and the Petroleum Revenues Task Force.

The PIB is already before the National Assembly, so it is clear that there is political will to give life to the recommendation of the report, there is already reforms in place in the governmental sector with the most recent reform being the Performance Contract signed between President Jonathan and the Federal Cabinet and between the various ministers and heads of their Departments and Parastatals, and work is ongoing in the reform of our refineries.

So, why pick on the Ribadu Report?

I think the answer can be found in the same reason that the media mouth pieces of these antagonists refused to carry the story about Muhammadu Buhari and the Boko Haram peace talks offer.

It is now clear that the military campaign against Boko Haram by the Joint Task Force as well as the border closures ordered by President Jonathan in January 2012 are working and the noose is tightening around the neck of Boko Haram and those who have gained political traction by blaming the government for the insecurity occasioned by Boko Haram are at a loss and have to hurriedly come up with a new bogeyman to use in demonizing the Jonathan administration hence the desperation to latch on to the Ribadu report.

But they are fighting a losing battle. Malam Nuhu Ribadu himself inadvertently gave out that this report is not the smoking gun they have made it out to be. I will now quote what Ribadu himself said in the letter accompanying his committee's report.

Said Malam Ribadu and the Secretary of the Committee, Olasupo Sasore (SAN) who both signed the report "The data used in this report was presented by various stakeholders who made submissions to the task force in the course of our assignment at various dates which have been disclosed in relevant sections of the report. Due to the time frame of the assignment, some of the data used could not be INDEPENDENTLY VERIFIED and the Task Force recommends that the Government should conduct such necessary verifications and reconciliations."

Right here in black and white Ribadu is telling the world that the figures in his report are not factual, they are based on hearsay evidence that has not been corroborated and yet some persons are jumping up and down for joy at these figures.

Nigerians may want to consider the words of Segun Adeniyi who reported that in a discussion with Malam Elrufai after the death of President Yar'adua he complained to him that he, Elrufai, had unfairly vilified Turai Yar'adua to which Elrufai responded that there was nothing like a 'Turai cabal' but he simply made it up to serve a purpose!

But is it really true that the committee did not have enough time to verify the figures? Anybody who has seen the leaked report knows that it is time stamped August 2012, a full two months before it was officially submitted to the President on Friday November the 2nd.

Only a dim wit will believe that the Malam Nuhu Ribadu of the EFCC renown could not have verified figures in two months. Of course he could have if he wanted to. But did he want to verify? Would his report have been as sensational if he had taken time to verify these figures? The obvious answer is no.

Habit is a very difficult thing to break. Between 2002 when he was appointed EFCC Chair and 2008 when he was sent to 'school' by President Yar'adua, the most common complaint against Ribadu by Nigerians was that he rushed to the press to convict people in the media before he was sure of his case. It seems that Ribadu never broke free from that habit!

I tire for this your conspiracy theory(lol). Channel this energy into writing fictional novels cos this post of yours is too good to be true!

mrrock: The argument that because Jonathan set up the Ribadu committee he musn't be the same person wanting to discredit it is very childish. Haven't past Nigerian presidents been setting up committees over the years and rubishing them?. How many Nigerian politicians are in jail because of recommendations by previous committees?. I mean IBB, Buhari, Abdulsalami, OBJ committees. To name a few. How many Nigerian politicians are in jail because of corruption today?.
I have come to the conclusion Jonathan is just as corrupt as every other past head of state. The most wicked thing about him is the new trend of puting doubt in the minds of Nigerians when there's a serious need to prosecute the cabals or members of his administration.

Absolutely correct. I have always said Jonathan is a very dangerous President because he is a very corrupt individual who believes in nothing at all. That combination is dangerous because many have noted this about GEJ to include the most lawless in society. The problem for Nigeria is that we have more than our fair share of fraudsters and get-rich-quick scammers. To then give these people the signal, openly, that they can act with total impunity and without fear of any sanction whatsoever is very dangerous. It is what has led to lawlessness and increasing corruption everywhere currently - and GEJ absolutely does not 'give a damn' either way. Under such a character 419, terrorism, insecurity, infrastructural decay, corruption and misrule will proliferate.

For example, the FG and the NNPC are the only authorities that can issue Marketers licence. Both are headed by GEJ and Allison-Madueke. Under the duo many crooks, without any capacity to deliver, gained Marketers licence. They then, under GEJ's watch, carried out the biggest scam seen in the fuel subsidy sector ever. The next thing is for a very corrupt and callously indifferent President , rather than accept responsibility, to be trying to fool Nigerians with James Bond shenanigans using crooked minions like Otedola. The whole sleazy charade stinks.

As a Nigerian, I am thoroughly ashamed of this Government because it is one thing to be corrupt but another to flaunt it so openly. It is the latter that taints us all as a people. Foreigners looking on will just wonder what manner of Nation Nigeria is and whether we are a morally bankrupt people. Of course they understand that scammers exist everywhere. What they will find difficult to rationalise is the action of the GEJ government that consistently and openly undermine all efforts to tackle corruption.

And no single person has pointed out what the government has done to "discredit" the report.
Just mumbo jumbo by a few opposition stalwarts.

Itemise one by one what the government has done to make you say they have discredit the report. Tell us.

sheyguy: Come 2015 we av to be careful of those guys with "Na our oyel" mentality. If not for the fact DAM is part and parcel of the Gej corruption setup meant to reclaim "Our Oyel", why hasn't she tow the path of Nnaji and resign?

well, It's their oil isn't. The only solution is if this country divides. Each region would be able to properly manage itself and there would be accountability. The truth is that the country has never been one, everyone is just grabbing what they can from this national cake. It's now so horrible that private organizations emoloyees are no different from the civil servants. The corruption is just everywhere and overwhelming.

sheyguy: Come 2015 we av to be careful of those guys with "Na our oyel" mentality. If not for the fact DAM is part and parcel of the Gej corruption setup meant to reclaim "Our Oyel", why hasn't she tow the path of Nnaji and resign?

well, It's their oil isn't. The only solution is if this country divides. Each region would be able to properly manage itself and there would be accountability. The truth is that the country has never been one, everyone is just grabbing what they can from this national cake. It's now so horrible that private organizations emoloyees are no different from the civil servants. The corruption is just everywhere and overwhelming.

Even Sahara Reporters has nothing specific to point to. Citing a proposed meeting with journalists as an effort tby Government to discredit the report is absolutely childish. Give us facts not one concoted story and big english that is as empty as the mind of the person conjuring the story. All these are just mumbo jumbo by some opposition stalwarts to keep the polity heated.

Presidency intensifies efforts to discredit Ribadu report - how? Because Okupe wants to meet with journalists. How childish.

Government magic at its worst. Government of committees, no development. Its a shame.

werepeLeri: From Ribadu himself on Page 2 of the report:

The report on page two states that: “The data used in this report was presented by various stakeholders who made submission to the Task Force in the course of our assignment at various dates, which have been disclosed in relevant sections of the report. Due to time frame of the assignment, some of the data used could not be independently verified and the Task Force recommends that the Government should conduct such necessary verifications and reconciliations.”


Is this not what government is taking about? Take it or leave it, why is Ribadu passing the job of the committee back to government?

So what you are saying in essence is that part of the report is enough to throw the entire report into dustbin? Never to implement the recommendations of the report?

Barywhyte:


So what you are saying in essence is that part of the report is enough to throw the entire report into dustbin? Never to implement the recommendations of the report?

And who told you the entire report has been thrown into the dustbin - show me where you got that from.

take dat: The distasteful part of it is that Nigerians just simply show apathy to all these inefficiencies of the government and some misguided youths will defend the government simply because the President na"our son or brother".

My brother, the situation in this country is as hopeless as a shrimp in a fry pan. We've never had it this bad. Somtimes I sit down and wonder: what does the president think about when taking his bath, or taking a dump. What does he think about when lying in bed and about to sleep?? Does he have any idea what people out here are going through? I work in the rural area and believe me, the level of poverty you see around you makes you just wanna cry. It is so heartbreaking.. Imagine somone trying to fend for a family of four by selling items on a tray whose total worth isn't more than 300 naira!!! I doubt if these men up there know what squalor people live in down here, they would have a change of heart for good...
I do what I can to help but hey its like a nation of destitudes out here... What I give is barely enough to turn around the furtunes of a single family..
We truely need a revolution..

we go dey luk,dem they loot,wake up NIGERIANS! we have being in slumber 4 so long

Questions that needs Answers

https://www.nairaland.com/1099394/ribadu-boko-haram-creatures-habit

Please let us not forget what lead to the setting up of the Ribadu Committee. In January we had one of the most serious protests/strikes we have seen in a long while. It was in the wake of this that the FG set up the committee, as a way of appeasing the people. We felt that with this committee and the House of Reps and Senate Committees, we would see some justice. SO please stop saying "why would GEJ set up a committee only to discredit it". At the time he set it up, it was a way of appeasing a very tense Nation.

The Oil industry is controlled by Government, i.e. the President and the Petroleum Minister, however in past governments, the Petroleum Minister never had so much power. Now that the committee has come out to report the fraud in the industry, who should be blamed? Goodluck Jonathan, Diezani Allison-Madueke, the late Musa Yar'Adua, Rilwan Lukman, Olusegun Obasanjo, Abdulsalam Abubakar, the late Sani Abacha, Ibrahim Babangida. If the report says the fraud committed happened under the watch of these people, they have a case to answer. Do you think GEJ will resign and submit himself and the others for investigation and possible prosecution?

This is not a tribal matter and it does not matter that GEJ and DAM are from the Niger Delta. This fraud has transcended tribe, Ijaw, Urhobo (excuse my spelling), Yoruba, Ibo, Hausa, whatever tribe they are, they go there and steal.

I really do not believe any committee would have been set up if there were no protest/strikes in January. Had anyone talked about subsidy fraud or need for committees before the protests/strikes??

werepeLeri:

And who told you the entire report has been thrown into the dustbin - show me where you got that from.

My brother we all know where this ends. I dnt have to be told it is all nonsense. Jonathan will never implement the report of this committee. He has never implemented the reports of over 30 different committees set up to look into various issues between May 2010 and now. What give you an assurance that he will implement the report that indirectly indicted him in the unilateral allocation of oil blocks to a fictitious Malabu Oil company? Yes that's part of the contents of Ribadu report. Forget about it. Nothing works. A corrupt man don't fight corruption otherwise he will be consumed by the same corruption

take dat: I tire for this your conspiracy theory(lol). Channel this energy into writing fictional novels cos this post of yours is too good to be true!

So sorry. But your mumu na world class oh!
If you had to quote that entire enclyclopedia to write this crap.

Barywhyte:

My brother we all know where this ends. I dnt have to be told it is all nonsense. Jonathan will never implement the report of this committee. He has never implemented the reports of over 30 different committees set up to look into various issues between May 2010 and now. What give you an assurance that he will implement the report that indirectly indicted him in the unilateral allocation of oil blocks to a fictitious Malabu Oil company? Yes that's part of the contents of Ribadu report. Forget about it. Nothing works. A corrupt man don't fight corruption otherwise he will be consumed by the same corruption

1st off, Malabu was not mentiond in dis report in d way that u just made it to be. 2nd, Malabu is NOT an unkwown company, it has been incorporatd for more than a decade and is ownd by Etiebet. By d way, Malabu was one of d large offshore fields that past Northern leadas gave out to people they considerd close to dem, all of which was given to fellow powerful Northerners who control more than 90% of these large offshores fields situatd in d Niger Delta but gave only one to a Niger Deltan (Etiebet- who was then Pet Min); curiously they later withdrew d license from Etiebet, and GEJ only restord to it cos of d pressure and anger of Niger Deltans, just as Yar'adua restord Danjuma's field afta Obj withdrew it. Now, all of a sudden sm of these people are questioning why d President restord Malabu but are not talking about the oda licenses that Northerners gave themselves in smone's else backyard, and you dont know that it is all politics? Touch Malabu and then demands wud be made to also cancel all d fields held by northerners and that they gave at the same time as they gave Malabu to a Niger Deltan.....

Hmmmmm.....can anyone on this forum convince me that this enclave called NIGERIA, is not a failed state....I have lost hope for this country since yesterday

taharqa: 1st off, Malabu was not mentiond in dis report in d way that u just made it to be. 2nd, Malabu is NOT an unkwown company, it has been incorporatd for more than a decade and is ownd by Etiebet. By d way, Malabu was one of d large offshore fields that past Northern leadas gave out to people they considerd close to dem, all of which was given to fellow powerful Northerners who control more than 90% of these large offshores fields situatd in d Niger Delta but gave only one to a Niger Deltan (Etiebet- who was then Pet Min); curiously they later withdrew d license from Etiebet, and GEJ only restord to it cos of d pressure and anger of Niger Deltans, just as Yar'adua restord Danjuma's field afta Obj withdrew it. Now, all of a sudden sm of these people are questioning why d President restord Malabu but are not talking about the oda licenses that Northerners gave themselves in smone's else backyard, and you dont know that it is all politics? Touch Malabu and then demands wud be made to also cancel all d fields held by northerners and that they gave at the same time as they gave Malabu to a Niger Deltan.....

Malabu is owned by Dan Etete and not Etiebet

acidtalk:

So sorry. But your mumu na world class oh!
If you had to quote that entire enclyclopedia to write this crap.

don't be offended but you are just a fool cos no be your hand I take type am!

I will just make 3 points since i have already talkd about this previously: 1st, plz read tru the comments of previous posters here or articles writing by critics and show me anywhere where they pointd out the infractions that was specifically committd by dis admin as containd in d Ribadu Report Or whether most of these infractions and practices have not been going on for decades?

2nd, d Ribadu committee was not a probe committee but an administrative one whose terms of Reference was to look at the System of payments and practices bw d Nigerian state and d oil companies. The committee found out that d Practices have generally been inefficient, wasteful and corrupt; how d hell is this a surprise? We already knew that that has generally been d case in d Upstream oil sector since d 1970s afta d end of d civil war- in a word 'darkness'. They made recommendatns to change this culture MOST of which are in d PIB bill currently in d NA. Now go tru all d comments and articles of critics and see if there is any mention of this all-embracing critical bill that wud go a long way in solving a problem that hv been with us for decades? For instance, d bill wud break up d hegemoth NNPC into parts, one of which (NOC) which unlike d current NNPC wud be commercialisd and partly listd in d Stock Exchange where it wud hv to give full accounts of its finances and hv corporate governance. One wud hv thought this wud be an opportunity for sm of us to put pressure on d NA to pass d bill afta previously 'insulting' d President into sending d bill to d NA.

3rd, I am yet d undastad how the people asking d President to start prosecuting basd on dis report want him to so. Apart from the fact that d report was not a Probe and so not SPECIFIC (and dis is important cos if prosecutn wud occur an anti-corruptn agency wud hv to do d specifics and build cases that can stand in d courts), the authors of d Report usd their hands to write that Some of d data they usd were not verified/reconciled. So shld d govt NOW arrest all former heads of state (including Obj who also doubld as his own Pet Min, lol), former Pet Mins, heads of NNPC etc, and then take them to court basd on a report whose terms were general and whose authors said that some of dier data were not verified? How many hours wud d 'cases' last in a law court? How can d govt be 'discreting' a report that Ribadu and Soare demselves wrote was incomplete, when the govt is just saying that the report was incomplete and still needs more work? Was it not Ribadu who specific askd d govt to so do? By d way, why wud Ribadu lick an incomplete report so as to give d impression that d govt was doctoring it when it was the same Ribadu that askd govt to verify sm data?..... POLITICS SHOULD NOT BE TOO DIFFICULT TO DICEPHER

take dat: Malabu is owned by Dan Etete and not Etiebet

Issokay....i usually mix up those 2 former Pet Mins and Niger Deltans

taharqa: 1st off, Malabu was not mentiond in dis report in d way that u just made it to be. 2nd, Malabu is NOT an unkwown company, it has been incorporatd for more than a decade and is ownd by Etiebet. By d way, Malabu was one of d large offshore fields that past Northern leadas gave out to people they considerd close to dem, all of which was given to fellow powerful Northerners who control more than 90% of these large offshores fields situatd in d Niger Delta but gave only one to a Niger Deltan (Etiebet- who was then Pet Min); curiously they later withdrew d license from Etiebet, and GEJ only restord to it cos of d pressure and anger of Niger Deltans, just as Yar'adua restord Danjuma's field afta Obj withdrew it. Now, all of a sudden sm of these people are questioning why d President restord Malabu but are not talking about the oda licenses that Northerners gave themselves in smone's else backyard, and you dont know that it is all politics? Touch Malabu and then demands wud be made to also cancel all d fields held by northerners and that they gave at the same time as they gave Malabu to a Niger Deltan.....

If you read my comment well, I wrote that the report linked him indirectly to Malabu Oil scam just like several oil blocks were allocated to cronies of Nigerian rulers fraudulently. I didn't say that there was "Malabu" in the report. I wrote that Malabu Oil is a fictitious company that actually never existed even though it appear to be household name. Take your time to go through this investigative journalism; then you will know what Malabu is all about.

premiumtimesng.com/business/5827-investigation-the-fraud-called-malabu-oil-gas-part-1.html.

premiumtimesng.com/news/104351-adoke-lies-to-lawmakers-on-malabu.html

lukkie:

The next thing for any sensible govt to do is extend the mandate of the committee so that all unverified data can be verified and the report re-submitted.

The style of this govt is to pretend to be fighting corruption when we all know it's not fighting jack. I don't know about you o but I'm not that easily deceived. The handwriting is clear on the wall. At the end of the day, this govt is will leave the oil industry worse than it met it.

That's my take too. And it's very simple

taharqa: I will just make 3 points since i have already talkd about this previously: 1st, plz read tru the comments of previous posters here or articles writing by critics and show me anywhere where they pointd out the infractions that was specifically committd by dis admin as containd in d Ribadu Report Or whether most of these infractions and practices have not been going on for decades? 2nd, d Ribadu committee was not a probe committee but an administrative one whose terms of Reference was to look at the System of payments and practices bw d Nigerian state and d oil companies. The committee found out that d Practices have generally been inefficient, wasteful and corrupt; how d hell is this a surprise? We already knew that that has generally been d case in d Upstream oil sector since d 1970s afta d end of d civil war- in a word 'darkness'. They made recommendatns to change this culture MOST of which are in d PIB bill currently in d NA. Now go tru all d comments and articles of critics and see if there is any mention of this all-embracing critical bill that wud go a long way in solving a problem that hv been with us for decades? For instance, d bill wud break up d hegemoth NNPC into parts, one of which (NOC) which unlike d current NNPC wud be commercialisd and partly listd in d Stock Exchange where it wud hv to give full accounts of its finances and hv corporate governance. One wud hv thought this wud be an opportunity for sm of us to put pressure on d NA to pass d bill afta previously 'insulting' d President into sending d bill to d NA. 3rd, I am yet d undastad how the people asking d President to start prosecuting basd on dis report want him to so. Apart from the fact that d report was not a Probe and so not SPECIFIC (and dis is important cos if prosecutn wud occur an anti-corruptn agency wud hv to do d specifics and build cases that can stand in d courts), the authors of d Report usd their hands to write that Some of d data they usd were not verified/reconciled. So shld d govt NOW arrest all former heads of state (including Obj who also doubld as his own Pet Min, lol), former Pet Mins, heads of NNPC etc, and then take them to court basd on a report whose terms were general and whose authors said that some of dier data were not verified? How many hours wud d 'cases' last in a law court? How can d govt be 'discreting' a report that Ribadu and Soare demselves wrote was incomplete, when the govt is just saying that the report was incomplete and still needs more work? Was it not Ribadu who specific askd d govt to so do? By d way, why wud Ribadu lick an incomplete report so as to give d impression that d govt was doctoring when it was the same Ribadu that askd govt to verify sm data?..... POLITICS SHOULD NOT BE TOO DIFFICULT TO DICEPHER

I quite agree with you that most of the infractions and sharp practises discovered by the committee have been going on for a long time but still can't exonorate this government simply because those infractions and sharp practises are still the order of the day. NNPC still sells its daily allocation of crude oil for local refining at cut down prices. NNPC still sells through traders instead of selling to refineries. Crude oil theft which has never been witnessed in history is going on during this administration. The issue of missing signature bonus from the three oil blocs this government awarded is there and so many others.
Yes, the job of the task force was not to probe but if during their investigation they discovered that certain individuals , companies or government agencies were milking the nation, shouldn't the committee recommend reprimand against them? This was exactly what happened, Okupe himself acknowledged the prosecutory part of the recommendation.
The problem people are having with the non verification and reconciliation of data is not being handled properly, rather than government calling back the committee immediately it was detected they chose to play to the gallery through innuendos and all sought making people doubt the intention of government.
The PIB is an executive bill so it is the FG that ought to push for its accelerated passage and not us

MeGaStReEt: REVOLUTION! REVOLUTION!! REVOLUTION!!!

Nigerians are weakling

I HATE NIGERIANS ##sad

Sharrap! You start we no follow you? E-diot.

Gbawe:

Absolutely correct. I have always said Jonathan is a very dangerous President because he is a very corrupt individual who believes in nothing at all. That combination is dangerous because many have noted this about GEJ to include the most lawless in society. The problem for Nigeria is that we have more than our fair share of fraudsters and get-rich-quick scammers. To then give these people the signal, openly, that they can act with total impunity and without fear of any sanction whatsoever is very dangerous. It is what has led to lawlessness and increasing corruption everywhere currently - and GEJ absolutely does not 'give a damn' either way. Under such a character 419, terrorism, insecurity, infrastructural decay, corruption and misrule will proliferate.

For example, the FG and the NNPC are the only authorities that can issue Marketers licence. Both are headed by GEJ and Allison-Madueke. Under the duo many crooks, without any capacity to deliver, gained Marketers licence. They then, under GEJ's watch, carried out the biggest scam seen in the fuel subsidy sector ever. The next thing is for a very corrupt and callously indifferent President , rather than accept responsibility, to be trying to fool Nigerians with James Bond shenanigans using crooked minions like Otedola. The whole sleazy charade stinks.

As a Nigerian, I am thoroughly ashamed of this Government because it is one thing to be corrupt but another to flaunt it so openly. It is the latter that taints us all as a people. Foreigners looking on will just wonder what manner of Nation Nigeria is and whether we are a morally bankrupt people. Of course they understand that scammers exist everywhere. What they will find difficult to rationalise is the action of the GEJ government that consistently and openly undermine all efforts to tackle corruption.

I've copied and saved this excellent analysis for future reference.

Like OBJ, like GEJ!
Ribadu. . . an over-used and abused political 'whor-e' without retirement benefits!
Nothing to show but a very slack, SMELLY, leaking poohsie FOR A MOUTH!!!

@Taharqa. Note that even if the committee did not put a clause that government should verify the figures, it is still in government's power to re verify those figures. If the government is serious they should drop all these media interviews, advertorials and concentrate on how to make the verified part of the recommendation workable