Ex-President Goodluck Jona­than, the Petro­leum Minister, in his government Diezani Allison-Madueke and his former Chief Security Officer Gordon Obuah, are allegedly involved in a $6.9 million scandal, said to have been used to purchase three 40- feet mobile stages for use during mass public speaking events.

This was revealed through investigations carried out by Federal government inves­tigators, and security agen­cies, according to presidency source.

The said deal is allegedly just one of the several in­stances where the Jonathan’s administration used secret NNPC accounts to fund many questionable projects, and for personal financial benefits. According to the investiga­tors, this is just one of the tons of alleged corrupt practices frequently engaged in and condoned under the Jona­than’s administration.

According to one of the sources, “Besides the fact that the amount for the stages were incredibly inflated according to mobile stages industry ex­perts, government investiga­tors say there is no evidence as yet that any stage was pur­chased at all.

“While the cost of mobile stages range in size and de­signs, only outlandish rock star musicians in Europe, and the US spend hundreds of thousands on their huge stages way bigger than the 40-feet stages. Even then, those musi­cians and super stars, would not pay over $2 million per stage”, the source quoted in­dustry sources.

The investigations also re­vealed that the process of pro­curement of the three mobile stages was neither known to extant Nigerian laws and due process regulations, nor were the offices of the Auditor- General and the Accountant- General in the know.

“There are no records of this purchase which was car­ried out in late 2011,” a top government source said. The source continued: “This purchase was carried out only few months after Dr. Jonathan won a general elec­tion for a full term, after hav­ing completed the term of late President Umaru Yar’adua”.

According to the source, “at the centre of the fraudulent financial ring was the former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to President Goodluck Jona­than, M. O. J. Obuah, who initiated a memo to the former president on October 17, 2011 asking for the purchase of three mobile stages.

He said in that memo to the former president that “this is regarding my earlier discus­sion with Your Excellency on the security implication of your public appearances and your subsequent directive on the need to procure a secured presidential platform.’

“And on the same day, without any financial advice or purchase order reviews, the former president minuted an approval of the request to buy the three stages to the then Minister for Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Ma­dueke. In his minute, the presi­dent said “we have discussed this, please deal.” He then ini­tialed the memo.

“Right after that okay from the president, on the same Oc­tober 17, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Administrative Matters, Matt Aikhionbere did another letter on the strength of the presi­dent’s approval, requesting the Petroluem Minister to take ac­tion on the request to purchase the stages for $6.9 million.

“By the next month, an NNPC payment voucher number 3840336 was al­ready in place, revealing that the money was released. NNPC directed that the money be taken from one of its accounts in New York CITIBANK with sort code CITIUS 33, and Routing number 021000089.

“It was first routed from the US bank to an NNPC account in Zenith Bank account num­ber 5000026593, Maitama branch in Abuja, from where the money was sent to a pri­vate account. The sum of $6.9 million was then credited to a Sterling Bank account of one J. Marine Logistics Limited, Abuja, a company investiga­tors say was registered by Obuah. “The CSO himself, according to investigators has not been able to show proof of the purchase, and his memo irked his bosses at the DSS, that he took the initiative to write requesting for the stag­es, an action which officials say was way above his pay grade”, the investigators said.

According to a source from one of the security agencies conducting the investigation, “it is not the duty or respon­sibility of the CSO to make the determination on that pur­chase. He was meant to have informed the Service, which would then review the situa­tion and act accordingly.

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This is not a big deal. 3 mobile stage at the cost of $6,000,000? I see nothing wrong here, shipping cost and other arrangement will swallow the $900,000. APC should go and hide their heads in shame cause this case is dead on arrival.

What's the big deal here? Mobile stage, are you expecting it to come in cheap? Pls leave Jona alone. That man needs rest.

GEJ the wicKed man

This APC people are stewpid, since one mobile stage cost 2million dollars as u people clearly stated in this writeup, three mobile stages will cost 6million dollars.