PRESS RELEASE


WHERE IS TRANSPORT MINISTER SENATOR IDRIS UMAR GETTING THE BILLIONS HE IS FRITTERING AWAY?

We cannot help but raise the alarm over the spending spree of the Honourable Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Audu Umar, which has assumed a frightening dimension in the past one month.

Minister Umar, who hails from Gombe State, has in the past one month distributed over 50 special cars and over 150 motorcycles to politicians in his home state in addition to sharing over N50 million to them. He has also extended the largesse to the Emirs in the state in his bid to make them partisan as opposed to maintaining political neutrality as demanded by their status as royal fathers.

Besides, Minister Umar has of late been using private jets during his visits to Gombe. Our rough calculations indicate that the Transport Minister has frittered away billions of naira in his spending spree.

The big question is: From where is Minister Umar getting all these funds that he is recklessly spending? We are not against him supporting the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in its desperate bid to rebuild its crumbling house and the 2015 political aspiration of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, but must our common patrimony be looted to achieve this? We recall that Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State recently alerted Nigerians that some 400 northerners have been corrupted and handed a heavy financial war chest with which to promote Jonathan’s 2015 presidential aspiration. A similar allegation had also been made by the Pan-Northern group, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF). One of the unnamed beneficiaries of the said bribe may have unwittingly exposed himself! Where is the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)?

Former South African President Thabo Mbeki recently described how corrupt the Nigerian leadership is. Are our leaders not ashamed of this shameful categorisation? This is very sad and unfortunate considering that the Federal Government could not honour the agreement it voluntarily reached with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) since 2009, thus forcing the closure of the country’s universities for over five months now.

Even if they no longer have a sense of shame and are not moved by the trauma to which they have subjected the majority of Nigerians, who are wallowing in poverty, our leaders should remember that there is always a day of reckoning. As the old adage goes: Every day for the thief, one day for the house owner!

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Chief Eze Chukwuemeka

National Publicity Secretary,

Defunct NPDP (Now merged with APC)

01-12-13

Ha ha ha . . . The Gej Strategy in Motion
by the time 400 strong Billionaiers hit the disgruntled Northernes , mostly Christians, and win their votes for Gej, i can imagine what Nigeria will look like after 2015. In fact There will be little or nothing left for the common man when these four hundred men are being rewarded.

Nonsense...
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.if they don't waste the money, will they give it to me ?

Eze emeka ,you are becoming a foolish busy body man. you should go to other advance countries and learn how to talk as an opposition. i dont know whether you are a woman that alway gossip and querry.. you shameless igbo man, those greedy northerns and some selfish south westerners have pushed you in the forefront to be showing your stupidity as an unreasonable man you are, i wonder why they will not choose an hausa man or even yoruba man for that post.... nonsense

NcBarnabas: Eze emeka ,you are becoming a foolish busy body man. you should go to other advance countries and learn how to talk as an opposition. i dont know whether you are a woman that alway gossip and querry.. you shameless igbo man, those greedy northerns and some selfish south westerners have pushed you in the forefront to be showing your stupidity as an unreasonable man you are, i wonder why they will not choose an hausa man or even yoruba man for that post.... nonsense

So you are ok with the way he is spending the money So kill the messenger and screw the message. The way you people condone stealing that is why Nigeria is so backwards jeeez

I dey come

This is a serious issue and need to be looked into. One man is richer than some countries. Wasting money anyhow when there are many homeless people here n there, some children are not even going to school cos there is no money, many go on hunger everyday. EFCC where are u ?

first thing: there was nothing like NPDP as a political party, it was only a faction of a legitimate party, which later "crossed-carpets".
Second thing: When he was under the PDP, would he claim he didn't know about these things. Why should he be trying to castigate his former team? The Nigerian opposition is really not there yet, let them study how things are done in other countries.

Which side are you coming from? Go ask Obama and the Democrats what spending does to the Economy.

Spending and Sharing the money boosts the Economy and spending power of any State thereby putting smiles on people's face.

Would you have appreciated it if he stocks the money in Swiss Banks?

Disclaimer: Your interpretation of my comments may have no bearing on what I intended.

9jagirl4re: So you are ok with the way he is spending the money So kill the messenger and screw the message. The way you people condone stealing that is why Nigeria is so backwards jeeez