Sani Shu’aibu Teidi, [size=25pt]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.[/size]

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.

[size=20pt]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.[/size]

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.

[size=20pt]The accused director, who hails from the same constituency with the Kano State-born Senator, alleged that he used his own pension loot to buy substantial shares in one of the national dailies, and was said to have approached Gaya to know why their case was yet to be quashed as promised after availing them of the N3bn bribe as requested – a disclosure which shocked the committee’s vice chairman.[/size]

The matter took a turn for the worse with Senator Etuk denying the charge levelled against him by the suspects, and other members allegedly lost confidence in him.

The Senator however did not pick the repeated calls made to his phone and neither did he respond to LEADERSHIP’s text messages which sought clarification over the matter.

[size=20pt]Senator Etuk had urged the EFCC, the police and other anti-graft agencies to investigate the allegation against him and his committee, claiming that it was the chairman of the task force team who had been trailing the committee with bribe offer to influence the pension scam investigation.
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He was quoted to have said that obtained evidence and fact would speak for itself when his committee’s report was submitted to the Senate, not the sentiment of a desperate fellow whose fraud and corrupt act has been exposed. “The committee never and will never request for bribe,” he said.


http://www.leadership.ng/nga/articles/25925/2012/05/28/n3bn_pension_scam_we_bribed_senate_committee_dollars_suspect.html

Can we not simply shoot these people?

^^^^That should be signed to law.

'Armed Robber and rogues are in states and National Assembly, what sort of laws do they make?'

A weak and inept leader is by far more dangerous than a tyrant. I hope we still have a country at the end of Jonathan's miserable tenure.

In another week this matter would have been swept under the carpet further emboldening public officials in their relentless assault on the Nigerian state and her people.

But let no one forget that name Senator Etuk who scammed the state and his fellow senators. This is also one of the many scams involving Farida Waziri. I am sure there will be more coming out in the open very soon.

^^^ That Lawmakers collect bribe is not Jonathan's fault!

That you pay bribe at the airport before you leave your country is never the president's fault but squarely your fault!

BlackPikiN: ^^^ That Lawmakers collect bribe is not Jonathan's fault!

That you pay bribe at the airport before you leave your country is never the president's fault but squarely your fault!

Tell am jare!
In those days when people were caught redhanded stealing, they would say, "na devil decieve me!"
Nowadays the gutter moraled, mentally lazy souls have forgotten the existence of Satan, their master and now have the scripted response; "Ayam a tif because Jonathan no get shoe!"

The comedy of idiocy has no bounds!

Nigeria should be called what it is, a country of corrupt leaders ruling over a majorly corrupt people.

We need to start from scratch and redefine this strange entity called Nigeria.

3 billion as bribe

The total money itself must be around 10 billion or over

NIGERIA IS THE WORST PLACE TO BE A CIVIL SERVANT

These animals don`t have conscience

What is God waiting 4 self.

I quote: those in the house of assembly are criminals(obasanjo)is he right or wrong..even though he is a criminal..its only a thief dat knwos how to trail a thief..hmmmm.wat a country..

When Buhari talk na, una go say the man dey mad. mtcheeww

They are professional pen robbers and not armed robbers.

When OBJ said this,they were not happy

Jeel: When OBJ said this,they were not happy

Where is Boko Haram to sanitize these people? If Boko Haram could only focus on slaughtering these people(corrupt leaders), they will enjoy the support of many Nigerian, irrespective of tribe or religion. Now I am of the suspicion that these group of senators were also bribed by the subsidy rogues to keep mute, probably in excess of 10 billion naira. Kai Niger!

oga mathew aremu obasonjo said it; house of rougues and robbers what else? They said Oba shuld give names. Who give this name? Haha i dey laugh

see money

When would good news start coming outta nig. God knows i'm fed up! I wish someone can sponsore me,i'm ready to destroy our corrupt leaders. If them get gun we get JAZZ! Gosh!

if only i can get to the national assembly,av made local bomb to wreck havoc on these useless people,we need to kill them all

When would good news start coming outta nig. God knows i'm fed up! I wish someone can sponsor me,i'm ready to destroy our corrupt leaders. If them get gun we get JAZZ! Gosh!

wia is d so called SNG inspite of all dis corruption scandals? smh for naija

Ooooohhhhh one nigeria!!!!!!!

Beaf:

Tell am jare!
In those days when people were caught redhanded stealing, they would say, "na devil decieve me!"
Nowadays the gutter moraled, mentally lazy souls have forgotten the existence of Satan, their master and now have the scripted response; "Ayam a tif because Jonathan no get shoe!"

The comedy of idiocy has no bounds!

that was soooo funny!

i no fit say anything here.but the only answer to nigerian problems is GMB,believe it or not.

All senate-led committees are criminals. 109 people at the upper house are hell-bound.

Naija is un redeemable

and we say revolution is not bound to happen... all this politicians see nigerians as animals.. In a sane society... all nigerians would be out on the street , until all this people are either in a life sentence or hanged. by the time the oil dries up... citizen would turn to zombies..

Hmmm..

4words- revolution, Buhari, Ghana model

Na wa o, wonders will never end in Nigeria. We keep blaming our leaders as if they are not a product of the system. We truely need to change our value system. Corruption has really eaten deep into every fibre of d society. May God help us.

Now I am finally away from the shithole called Nigeria, I can finally read such headlines as this without getting angry.

With how interesting this story seems. I really don't think our judiciary are competent enough to sentence any of them, God knows why!.

make them chop na their time,if na u dey dia,u fit even thief pass them