Sani Shu'aibu Teidi, one of the suspects standing trial before the Federal High Court, Abuja, for the massive looting of the pension treasury, has alleged that he and other accomplices paid the Senator Aloysius Etuk-led Senate Committee a N3bn bribe in dollars.

The bribe, it was alleged, was to stall the prosecution of the accused persons.

The bribe scandal took another dimension following the mentioning of the name of the immediate past chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs Farida Waziri, who allegedly working with the mindset that the Senate Committee would make good its promise of stalling the case of the accused persons, also got a property located at Parakou Crescent, Wuse II, Abuja, as bribe.

The principal suspect further alleged that the Senator Aloysius Etuk-led committee failed to fulfil an earlier promise of helping to stall their prosecution after collecting the N3bn contributory bribe.

LEADERSHIP gathered that the allegations are already causing ripples within the Senate committee.

A source close to the principal accused, Dr. Teidi, said that the cause of the disaffection within the Senate committee was borne out of the discovery that, out of the N3bn obtained as bribe from the six accused, Senator Etuk attempted to outsmart his colleagues by declaring only N500million, a paltry one-sixth of the actual bribe he allegedly collected and also participated in the sharing.

The source added that Dr. Teidi and other accomplices paid the Sen. Etuk-led committee the N3bn bribe in dollars after Teidi was coerced into giving details of his assets/ properties, with the promise to soften the severity of his offence, after which he was asked to give out 50 per cent to them.

An obviously angry Dr. Teidi "felt betrayed by the Senate committee leadership's greed and inability to properly handle our (the accused persons') matter before" it, our source added, and he therefore resolved to make public all information on the botched agreement.

"In fact, the N3bn bribe offered the senate committee was contributed by all the accused persons, each with the amount of N500million. The committee made us believe that when we give the money being demanded, it will give us a safe landing, thereby escaping prosecution, but, to our greatest dismay, they only succeeded in cutting their own share," the source quoted Dr. Teidi.

According to the source who pleaded anonymity, trouble started when the deputy chairman of the committee, Senator Kabiru Gaya got wind of the exact sum offered by the accused from an independent source, who is also his kinsman, a former director of the Police Pension Board and incidentally a relation of one of the accused standing trial before the Abuja Court and confronted Senator Etuk with his findings.

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can u imagine! Just imaginez!

Sorry to sound critical of GEJ but he should make some people an example - that's the only way peole will be afraid to do these things!

sitting and pontificating that he's a victim of the past just keeps worsening his image - he is the only person who can give bite to EFCC! I hold no bried for Salami but this is when such uncompromised judges are needed who would send such perverts to 300 years under the ground at kirikiri! But when such are kicked out because they are honest, justice is perverted and then we all start to shout and cry

This is just the beggning of scams and counter scams,am waiting for the mother of all Scams. this one aspect i so much love about OBJ despite all his ills and corrupt tendencies,he knows when to strike right on target,he once said that the national assembly is made of "ROGUES" and "THIEVES".he was dia for 8yrs so there is iota of truth.NIGERIA is a NATION of SCAMERS full stop.
GEJ should stop doin the talking we want to see action movies just like the days of OBJ and Ribadu

Everyday,mind boggling allegations of corruption,billions frm every imaginable high ranking govt official linked to the presidency &/or d NASS,everyday one gets dizzy not just wt d sum stolen,but d nonchallant & unperturbed attitude wt which d culprits go about their everyday activities.Nobody up there evn seems to understand d destructive effect of such looting:distortions/ridiculous prices in e.g,d property/stock mkt,easily putting some ladies into vices as is now rampant in some institutions,etc;if a proper intelligence agency were in place,I wudnt be surprised if BH was funded frm some embezzled funds.Its harsh,but d fact is dat under our present way,d future for dis country economically,politically,socially& morally is less dan bleak

a case of the accused acussing the accuser,naija we hail thee

When the bushmeat catch the hunter

OBJ was right after all. He wasn't as good a president as he could in my opinion, but heck he is eons ahead of this fooleish scum of GEBadluck.

obj has been vindicated.

Senate position should be scraped.

They are legislating on money and their shares only