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Wikileaks Punctures Mallam Elrufai's Claims Of Incorruptibility by DeCleff(m): 10:28pm On May 06, 2012 |
On a television interview Programme '60 minutes with Angela' aired on MITV, controversial former minister of the FCT, Malam Nasir Elrufai, made the following boast "I challenge any one who has given me bribe to come out and say so". First of, Elrufai has been accused under oath previously by a deputy director who worked under him at the Bureau of Public Enterprises, one Charles Osuji, of bribery. According to Osuji, he swore under oath that he had collected bribes from Chief Mike Adenuga on behalf of Malam Elrufai to devalue National Oil before it was sold to him. But Elrufai denied these allegations and said that he fired Osuji for collecting bribes although when he was asked by the Senate Committee if he had issued any written query of if there was any documentary evidence to back that claim up he responded in the negative. Malam Elrufai who is known to be very litigious and troublesome has never sued Charles Osuji for libel based on Osuji's claims that he collected bribes for him. Also, the then Political Counsel of the U.S. embassy in Abuja had personally named ElrufHamas one of the government officials who were personally known to him to be despite fore being in government but who had becoming fabulously wealthy after leaving office. The Political Counsels testimony appears at the bottom of this write up. Elrufai denied the accusation but never sued the Political Counsel who is personally known to him. Malam Elrufai after condemning the present administration as a corrupt government which is responsible for much of the problems in Nigeria then went on to portray himself as a squeaky clean saint. There have been media reports that Elrufai who is nursing a Presidential election hopes to succeed Muhammadu Buhari as the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change. But the whistle blowing site, wiki leaks has punctured Elrufai's claims to incorruptibility. In one of several cables mentioning Elrufai wiki leaks revealed how Elrufai then Director General of the BPE attempted to award a contract to a company in which he and his brother had substantial interests until he was stopped by the then vice President, Atiku Abubakar. By his own admission Malam El-Rufai was brought into government by Atiku Abubakar, as a protege, to head the BPE in 1999 yet within the first few years of the Obasanjo first term he had already began backstabbing Atiku to President Obasanjo and the American ambassador by claiming that he was pressured by Atiku Abubakar to award a major telecommunications contract to Ericsson rather than Motorola. When the U.S. Ambassador to whom Nasir El-rufai had told this tale met with the then Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, as well as Stephen Orasanye, the Principal Secretary to President Obasanjo, both men revealed that the contract was not awarded to Motorola not because of underhand dealings as alleged by El-rufai but because El-rufai had been suspected of manipulating the process to favor Motorola after Ericsson wrote a petition to the government alleging that El-Rufai suppressed the information that his elder brother allegedly owned 10% shares in Motorola and that he himself (El-rufai) once worked for Motorola. Upon investigation by the U.S. embassy directly with Motorola, it was established that it was true that El-Rufai had worked for Motorola only two years before he took on the BPE job and that indeed his elder brother was a distributor for Motorola. But even while he was telling the President and the Americans that Atiku was manipulating the NITEL contract award to suit Erricson, he was unaware that both the President and the Americans knew of his interests in Motorola. The details of the contract are contained in this wikikeaks cable Click HERE and HERE Also, it is on record that Malam Nasir Elrufai as Director of the BPE awarded a consultancy contract to a "Dutch" firm known as Pentascope to manage the affairs of the nations flagship telecommunications firm called NITEL. But pentascope, a scandalized nation would learn later, was a hastily formed asset-grabbing front whose central address was traced to an empty warehouse in the Netherlands! We would also learn to our horror when the deal unraveled that the contract papers for the sale was written in Dutch!! All told, Nigeria lost close to N40 Billion on that transaction. Some argue with good reason that the failed transaction, which saw NITEL stripped of its valuable assets by the PENTASCOPE predators, doomed the company to date. NITEL is still a cesspool. Because PENTASCOPE and subsequent private managers stripped the company bare, it now has few, if any, suitors willing to pay reasonable money for it. It was for this reason that the House of Representatives banned Ekrufai from holding political office for life. And for Elrufai who now nurses Presidential ambition, perhaps the words of Simon Kolawole in his back page column will suffice "I have strong reservations about his (Elrufai) ability to lead a country like Nigeria, especially in a democratic setting. He will make an excellent military administrator because of his soft spot for arbitrariness. He was once said to threatening to revoke some Cs of O. Reminded that the Cs of O were obtained legally, he allegedly retorted, what does it take to cancel a C of O? Is it not for the minister to just say so?" http://www.naijapundit.com/news/wikileaks-punctures-mallam-elrufai-s-claims-of-incorruptibility |
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