Nigerian Army Generals Pocketed $43m Meant For Peacekeepers, Petition Says

“It is on record and verifiable that over 3,950 troops who participated in Peace Support Operations in Liberia and Sudan between 2013 to 2014 are still been [owed] various months of allowances amounting to over $43.23m US Dollars which is equivalent to N6,919,168,000:00 Billion Nigerian Naira to date,” the petition said.
by Sahara Reporters Jul 11, 2014

Former Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General OA Ihejirika named as aone of the culprits SaharaReporters has obtained a powerful but anonymous petition written by concerned Nigerian soldiers who claim that the Nigerian Army owes its men and women who have served in various United Nations peacekeeping operations over $43 million.

The document also carpets the United Nations, which it alleges may have collaborated with cheating Nigerian army chiefs to divert the allowances of the peacekeepers into their own pockets.

“It is on record and verifiable that over 3,950 troops who participated in Peace Support Operations in Liberia and Sudan between 2013 to 2014 are still been [owed] various months of allowances amounting to over $43.23m US Dollars which is equivalent to N6,919,168,000:00 Billion Nigerian Naira to date,” the petition said.

The petition warned that in view of the present security situation in the country, 3,950 soldiers being owed such a staggering amount could revolt “and this will not be good for our country.”

It also names the “principal actors” involved in the matter to be:

Former Chief of Army Staff (Retired), Lieutenant General OA Ihejirika;
Present Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General KTJ Minimah;
Director of Army Finance and Administration (DAFA), Major General AI Muraina;
Former Director of Army Training and Operations (AHQ DATOPS), Major General JO Nwaogbo; and
Present Director of Army Training and Operations (AHQ DATOPS), Major General JAH Ewansiha.

“It is obvious that lies and deceits have become a tradition among Nigeria Army generals,” the petition says. “They always devise ways to sweep matters that [touch] them under the carpets with cover ups.”

On the world body, the document says, “If the only hope of mankind today the United Nations can collaborate with Nigeria to divert the money meant for payment of Nigerian soldiers who participated in Peace Keeping Operations in Liberia and Sudan, it will be right for one to say that the entire universe is doomed and heading towards destruction.”

Full text of the petition:

NIGERIA ARMY AUTHORITIES EMBEZZLE $43.23M US DOLLARS ALLOWANCES OF NIGERIAN SOLDIERS IN PEACE KEEPING OPERATIONS

If the only hope of mankind today the United Nations can collaborate with Nigeria to divert the money meant for payment of Nigerian soldiers who participated in Peace Keeping Operations in Liberia and Sudan, it will be right for one to say that the entire universe is doomed and heading towards destruction.

The United Nations is known for standard, transparency, justice, fair play and equality but, it is worrisome how this honorable body or few members in this body have targeted Nigeria and descended too low to collaborate with some born-cheat generals in the Nigerian Army to divert soldiers Operation Allowances into their private pockets.

It is on record and verifiable that over 3,950 troops who participated in Peace Support Operations in Liberia and Sudan between 2013 to 2014 are still been owned various months of allowances amounting to over $43.23m US Dollar which is equivalent to N6,919,168,000:00 Billion Nigerian Naira to date. The 800 soldiers from 223 Armour Battalion Zuru, Kebbi State, that served as Nigerian contingent NIBATT 40 at Nyala Super Camp in Sudan Darfur region between June to December 2013 are still being owned 2 months allowance while the 800 soldiers of 15 Field Engineering Regiment Ijebu Ode that served as NIBATT 33 at the Central Monrovia in Liberia between September 2013 to March 2014 are being owned their operation allowance for over 7 months of their return. The 800 soldiers from 322 Artillery Regiment in Benin City that served 10 months in Labado Sudan as NIBATT 41 returned to Nigeria in June 2014 only to meet 1 month operation allowance in their domiciliary account while the balance of 9 months disappear as their counterpart with no one to give account of it till date.

It was also gathered through an authentic sources that the domiciliary account of the 800 soldiers of 342 Artillery Regiment Obinze Imo State currently serving in Nyala Super Camp South Sudan as NIBATT 43 for 8 months now are red as no dime have been deposited into their account. This also applies to the 750 soldiers of 311 Artillery Regiment Kontangora, Niger State currently serving as NIBATT 34 in Liberia.

When on 11 February 2014, the Nigerian National dailies Punch newspaper published this issue, with a view to finding a solution to this ugly trend, the dubious Nigeria Army through its Public Relations Officer. Brig Gen Olajide Olaleye came up with their lies and deceitful propaganda that “it was not true that the Nigerian Army was owning soldiers arrears of operations allowances”, and to cover up their secret deals within 48 hours they paid in 4 months operation allowance into NIBATT 40 troops domiciliary account remaining 2 months which are yet to be paid till date after 8 months of their return from the operation area.

The questions that remain unanswered are:

1. Why is United Nations owing only Nigerian Peace Keepers after sacrificing their lives to bring peace to the troubled regions?



2. If the United Nations have paid the Nigerian military authorities or the Federal Government, where are the monies, who is with it?



3. Are the authorities concerned waiting for similar Akure incident to occur before they address the issue?

4. Is the Army Chief Lt Gen KTJ Minimah not aware that such monies are been owned to his troops by UN or is released by UN and hijacked by his generals leaving these soldiers who have painstakingly and diligently served this nation in foreign land to suffer endless hopes for their overdue allowances?

5. Why should the Army Director of Defence Information, Major General Chris Olukolade in his response to the Punch publication of 11 February, 2014 deceive the soldiers and lie to the nation that “the money is not missing and that the authority is working round the clock to secure the funds from the appropriate quarters and relevant agencies sponsors of the mission”.

6. For over 8 months Army authorities have been working round the clock to secure money that we well know that United Nations MOU with troops contributing countries states that UN pays at the inception of each tenure.

7. If this is not one of the Nigerian Army general’s lies and deceits, let the Director of Defence Information, Major General Chris Olukolade tell us and Nigerians who are the appropriate quarters and relevant agencies sponsors of the mission that are hijacking these soldiers allowances as he claims?. Is it UN, the Presidency or COAS?.

8. If the UN is owing Nigeria for over 8 months now as claimed by our generals, where are they getting the $100 and $200 US Dollars respectively that they pay to each troops in Sudan and Liberia in operation area monthly as maintenance allowances?

Considering the present security situation in the country, this is a bad omen. 3,950 soldiers being owned such a staggering amount could revolt and this will not be good for our country. Let us use Akure incident as a lesson and do something before this issue gets out of hand.

It is obvious that lies and deceits have become a tradition among Nigeria Army generals. They always devise ways to sweep matters that touches them under the carpets with cover ups. Here under are the names of the various units that have served either in Sudan or Liberia with the Nigeria banks where they opened their domiciliary account for anybody who wish to verify the authenticity of this report.

NAMES OF UNITS, THEIR NIBATT AND BANK USED FOR DOMICILIARY ACCOUNT IN NIGERIA FOR COMFIRMATION

1. 15 FER IJEBU ODE - NIBATT 33 - ECO BANK

2. 311 Arty Regt Kontongora - NIBATT 34 - DIAMOND BANK

3. 223 Armour Battalion Zuru - NIBATT 40 - ECO BANK

4. 322 Arty Regt Benin - NIBATT 41 - ECO BANK

5. 41 Engr Div Kaduna - NIBATT 42 - DIAMOND BANK

6. 342 Arty Regt Owerri - NIBATT 43 - KEYSTONE BANK



THE PRINCIPAL ACTORS IN THIS MATTER ARE:

1. Former Chief of Army Staff (Retired) Lieutenant General OA Ihejirika.

2. Present Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lieutenant General KTJ Minimah.

3. Director of Army Finance and Administration (DAFA) Major General AI Muraina.

3. Former Director of Army Training and Operations (AHQ DATOPS) Major General JO Nwaogbo.

4. Present Director of Army Training and Operations (AHQ DATOPS) Major General JAH Ewansiha.

Corruption is the hallmark of PDP led Federal government

Lieutenant General OA Ihejirika (Rtd ) FOR GOVERNOR ABIA STATE 2015

So y did u single out Ihejirika's name as d title of ur dry si.lly post? Ure just a du.mb disgruntled lazy bigoted bi.tch

May it never be well with any thieve that steals the moneys meant for his/her subordinates.

Gej has sink Nigeria into the sea of corruption. He celebrates corruption, he thinks corruption, he release corrupt people from jails, he sleeps with corruption, he eats corruption, he drinks corruption, he dreams corruption.

Our head of tail in the person of gej is corruption amplified

Ok. I daresay,Nigeria Army are not any different from you and I. We all are unfortunately stinkingly corrupt. From the C in C to the child just born in Nigeria. This is rather callous, ominious and evil trend. I see a revolt if this is true. You can deceive some people sometimes,but you cant deceive all the people all the times.

Fake Story, no source abi na for bear parlour them cook this one?

Thank God Ihejirika benefited, and i wish he actually got the lionshare. Nigeria cake aint for the masters and their slaves alone, it must be shared across board.

Loot or share´...lexicon aint matters but the avenue to enrich yourself should be the koko

diablos: So y did u single out Ihejirika's name as d title of ur dry si.lly post? Ure just a du.mb disgruntled lazy bigoted bi.tch

Mumu, she should have written all the names on the title? Your slow brain should know ihejerika was COAS within the period stated, which automatically makes him the selling point of the news as the most senior officer thief. It is dry and silly cos your brother was named among the thieves. The way you people support corruption is very disgusting and actually very foolish. I wonder if some of this money ever gets into the pocket of dull,silly,slow beings like you. When your boss, the owner of NL was modifying titles, you were always blind then. No money is ever missing in the PDP led government, it is just that it is always invisible.

Nothing these people do will shock me anymore. This, I knew long before.

These are the people we expect to curb Boko haram with a trillion naira flowing regularly!

PDP/GEJ have turned this country into a shit hole.

koboko69:

Mumu, she should have written all the names on the title? Your slow brain should know ihejerika was COAS within the period stated, which automatically makes him the selling point of the news as the most senior officer thief. It is dry and silly cos your brother was named among the thieves. The way you people support corruption is very disgusting are actually very foolish. I wonder if some of this money ever gets into the pocket of dull,silly,slow beings like you. When your boss, the owner of NL was modifying titles, you were always blind then. No money is ever missing in the PDP led government, it is just that it is always invisible.

Bas.tard...foo.lish son of a mad blind wi.tch...Instead of dropping ur sil.ly opinion which no one usually gives a fu.cck about, ure quoting a post dat was not directed to ur stu.pid, slowpoke.ic self. Why did ur sis.ter whor.e not include all d military involved in d scam? y single out Ihejirika? i don't blame u...watever comes out of a leaking condom or premature ejaculation always ends up daf.t n slow like u

waternogetenemy: Fake Story no source abi that for bear palour them cook this one?

I just read the entire story on saharareporters just now.. The way and manner you ibo people love shielding any person that is corrupt from your part of the world is very sickening..


You ibo people don't condemn your corrupt leaders that are sucking you dry.. You see the spirit of smartness in the evil thing called corruption and unfortunately majority of you ibo people interpret "corruption as smartness"..

This is the evil trend you have sow for your unborn generation which they will harvest whenever the become the leaders of your alaigbo tomorrow.

kastonkastrol: I just read the entire story on saharareporters just now.. The way and manner you ibo people love shielding any person that is corrupt from your part of the world is very sickening..


You ibo people don't condemn your corrupt leaders that are sucking you dry.. You see the spirit of smartness in the evil thing called corruption and unfortunately majority of you ibo people interpret "corruption as smartness"..

This is the evil trend you have sow for your unborn generation which they will harvest whenever the become the leaders of your alaigbo tomorrow.

Sahara Reporters abi na Yoloba propaganda reporters. That is the most tribal and fake news press in Nigeria. I would take everything i read from them with a pinch of salt.

Ihejirika wants to use to fund his election as governor of Abia State.

OkijaAmaka: Thank God Ihejirika benefited, and i wish he actually got the lionshare. Nigeria cake aint for the masters and their slaves alone, it must be shared across board.

Loot or share´...lexicon aint matters but the avenue to enrich yourself should be the koko

When we start having several cases of mutiny which will bring about rebel soldiers and officers as a result of the monumental corruption in the high ranks and files in the Nigerian military which cuts across the BH menace and the peace keeping missions, I hope you will have somewhere to hide your already dead head. God will deliver us from this set of people that keep encouraging corruption and defending it at all cost, just as a result of the tribal politics Jonathan have sown in this country.

diablos:


Bas.tard...foo.lish son of a mad blind wi.tch...Instead of dropping ur sil.ly opinion which no one usually gives a fu.cck about, ure quoting a post dat was not directed to ur stu.pid, slowpoke.ic self. Why did ur sis.ter whor.e not include all d military involved in d scam? y single out Ihejirika? i don't blame u...watever comes out of a leaking condom or premature ejaculation always ends up daf.t n slow like u

throwing cusses by this time of the day only tell the sane minds that you are a complete lowlife.. If I were the person you just insulted, I won't dignify you with any further response. Ihejirika is an arm-robber.

Period

I stopped reading at Sahara reporters.

seanet02: Corruption is the hallmark of PDP led Federal government

pdp swear for u?

diablos:


Bas.tard...foo.lish son of a mad blind wi.tch...Instead of dropping ur sil.ly opinion which no one usually gives a fu.cck about, ure quoting a post dat was not directed to ur stu.pid, slowpoke.ic self. Why did ur sis.ter whor.e not include all d military involved in d scam? y single out Ihejirika? i don't blame u...watever comes out of a leaking condom or premature ejaculation always ends up daf.t n slow like u

These are the kind of breeds seun and pdp have encouraged into nairaland. Its really sad. They are bent on destroying Nigeria, and Nairaland.

waternogetenemy:

Sahara Reporters abi na Yoloba propaganda reporters. That is the most tribal and fake news press in Nigeria. I would take everything i read from them with a pinch of salt.

you see, you are even lost in the grip of reality.. Saharareporters is an online news platform. SR is in USA not in Nigeria and one of its chief executives is a ibo man.


Ignorance is bliss indeed

kastonkastrol: throwing cusses by this time of the day only tell the sane minds that you are a complete lowlife.. If I were the person you just insulted, I won't dignify you with any further response. Ihejirika is an arm-robber.

Period

See diz per.vert claiming to b sane n calling his father a lowlyf...ure jst a mor.onic sick bas.tard. May Ogun in infinite wrath...visit u wit leprosy diz morning. Id10t!

koboko69:

These are the kind of breeds seun and pdp have encouraged into nairaland. Its really sad. They are bent on destroying Nigeria, and Nairaland.

Wat has Seun & pdp got to do wit my opinions? ur brain is indeed redundant.

The petition warned that in view of the present security situation in the country, 3,950 soldiers being owed such a staggering amount could revolt “and this will not be good for our country.”



These guys dey look for justification to plot coup.


Any coup against GEJ die by bullets and bombsbombs

waternogetenemy:

Sahara Reporters abi na Yoloba propaganda reporters.

You are very foolish! Need i say more? ... You are brain dead!

Sahara reporters is owned by Omoyele Sowere, an Ijaw man just as the president.

The way you stup1d ibos defend corruption in so far as the person involved is from your tribe is mind boggling

diablos:

Wat has Seun & pdp got to do wit my opinions? ur brain is indeed redundant.

Enjoy

Sahara reporters??.. need I say more?

waternogetenemy:

Sahara Reporters abi na Yoloba propaganda reporters. That is the most tribal and fake news press in Nigeria. I would take everything i read from them with a pinch of salt.

Even if you like, take them with ten bags of salt, it doesn't take any substance out of their noble works. They only seem to be "yoloba" propaganda media when they report about sleaze from our side. Even die hard igbo and PDP posters have posted stories about corruption in the SE reported by SR. People like you have had their nose so inflated they could hardly look past it!! Get a life son.

NafeesaAA: Lieutenant General OA Ihejirika (Rtd ) FOR GOVERNOR ABIA STATE 2015

I am not surprised this is coming from a boko haram sympathiser.
You guys have still not gotten over the so called ''genocide'' he committed by dealing with your terrorist group ruthlessly.

It is not unbelievable, we have to be the change we desire.

NafeesaAA: Lieutenant General OA Ihejirika (Rtd ) FOR GOVERNOR ABIA STATE 2015

so that he can continue milking abia from where T.A orji stops.

kastonkastrol: May it never be well with any thieve that steals the moneys meant for his/her subordinates.

Gej has sink Nigeria into the sea of corruption. He celebrates corruption, he thinks corruption, he release corrupt people from jails, he sleeps with corruption, he eats corruption, he drinks corruption, he dreams corruption.

Our head of tail in the person of gej is corruption amplified

is gej army generals that divert the money?