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Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by Dotng: 7:27pm On Oct 07, 2014 |
Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money In a terse reaction to what appears a potential diplomatic spat between the two countries, the Nigerian government denied the second transaction was illegal and reminded South Africa of how Nigeria has provided a beneficial environment for South African companies like MTN, DSTV and a host of others to do business unhindered. “It is our hope that South Africa would reciprocate this noble gesture,” the National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, said Monday, with a vow to eradicate Boko Haram regardless of the antics of “fifth columnists”. Nigeria responded with fury Monday after South African authorities confiscated a second tranche of funds meant for arms purchase to fight the extremist Boko Haram sect, denying the deal was unlawful and warning South Africa of its investment in Nigeria. The warning came after the South African government seized US$5.7 million wired by the Nigerian government through a bank to an arms dealer in that country. South Africa’s Asset Forfeiture Unit of the National Prosecuting Authority said the money, about N952 million, was the proceed of illegal transactions, according to local paper, City Press. The seizure was the second in nearly three weeks, coming after authorities there froze $9.3 million transported in cash by two Nigerians and an Israeli for arms purchase. At the time, South Africa said the transaction violated its laws on movement of cash. In a terse reaction to what appears a potential diplomatic spat between the two countries, the Nigerian government denied the second transaction was illegal and reminded South Africa of how Nigeria has provided a beneficial environment for South African companies like MTN, DSTV and a host of others to do business unhindered. “It is our hope that South Africa would reciprocate this noble gesture,” the National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, said Monday, with a vow to eradicate Boko Haram regardless of the antics of “fifth columnists”. Mr. Dasuki, named by the South African newspaper as the official who signed off the first controversial deal, confirmed late Monday the second transaction occurred as reported but firmly denied it was conducted illegally. “We want to state clearly that a business transaction actually took place between a legitimate company in Nigeria and another legitimate one in South Africa through the bank,” said Mr. Dasuki through a spokesperson, Karounwi Adekunle. “In the course of events, the South African company could not perform and decided to refund the money. What is illegitimate in this transaction done through the bank?” he queried. Details of the latest transaction came more than two weeks after two Nigerians and an Israeli were arrested as they attempted to smuggle US$9.3 million through Lanseria International Airport, Johannesburg, on September 5 in a private jet from Abuja. The money, stashed in three suitcases, raised suspicion when the passengers’ luggage were unloaded and put through the scanners. The National Prosecuting Authority, NPA, in South Africa said there was an invoice for helicopters and armaments intended to be used in Nigeria. Two black plastic suitcases, filled with 90 blocks each containing US$100,000 in notes, with combination locks, were seized, as well as two pieces of hand luggage also containing US currency, according to City Press. The Israeli national, Eyal Mesika, had the combination to open the locks. Under South African laws, a person entering or leaving the country is expected to carry cash not exceeding US$2,300, or the equivalent in foreign currency notes. The news of the first transaction angered Nigerians, particularly as it became clear the private jet involved belonged to the head of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Ayo Ortisejafor. Mr. Oritsejafor, a close ally of President Goodluck Jonathan, said the plane had been leased to a third party and he could not be blamed for its schedules. The Nigerian government later admitted it was behind the arms deal, claiming it acted out of desperation for arms to defeat extremist sect, Boko Haram. South African paper, City Press, said it was the NSA, Mr. Dasuki, who personally authorised the first arms contract by issuing an end-user certificate, alongside a “shopping list” for helicopters, unmanned aircraft, rockets and ammunition. But Nigerian security officials said the report by the newspaper indeed provided proof that the first transaction was not illegitimate as well, since the end-user certificate and a shopping list were provided. A security source was quoted as saying “in issuing end-user certificate, the ONSA (Office of the National Security Adviser) ensures that it carries all relevant agencies and stakeholders along. Therefore, such a responsibility is not a unilateral development,” according to PRNigeria, an agency frequently used by the Nigerian military to disseminate official statements. “For security reasons, the chains leading to the issuance of end-user certificate cannot be put in the public domain. “The recent interest in arms purchase was informed by the challenges of insurgency which our nation had been grappling with in the last few years. This is why the understanding of all Nigerians is necessary. “Nigeria is desperate to counter activities of terrorists no matter what it takes even when some of our friends are not being fair to us,” the agency said Monday. The latest transaction was between Cerberus Risk Solutions, an arms broker in Cape Town, and Societe D’Equipments Internationaux, said to be a Nigerian company based in Abuja. The paper said the deal fell apart after Cerberus, which had earlier received from Nigeria R60 million (N1.02 billion) through its account at Standard Bank, tried to repay the money as it could not resolve its registration formalities with the South African authorities. “Cerberus was previously registered as a broker with the National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC), but the registration expired in May this year,” City Press said. “The marketing and contracting permits also expired at the same time. The company has since applied for re-registration, but the application lay in the NCACC’s mailbox for more than two months. “Sources told Rapport that Cerberus apparently tried to pay the money back to the Nigerian company, after which the bank became suspicious,” the paper reported. The paper added that while the NPA’s Asset Forfeiture Unit subsequently obtained a court order in the South Gauteng High Court to seize the money, the NPA spokesperson Nathi Mncube, said there were no indications the two transactions were related. “However, both are now the subject of a criminal investigation and all possible information and connections are being investigated,” Mr. Mncube was quoted as saying. The statement from Mr. Dasuki’s office confirmed the inability of the South African company to deliver and the attempt to refund. http://saharareporters.com/2014/10/07/nigeria-talks-tough-warns-south-africa-over-seized-57-million-arms-money |
Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by Nobody: 7:45pm On Oct 07, 2014 |
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Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by haniey(m): 7:59pm On Oct 07, 2014 |
Space booked |
Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by Nobody: 8:02pm On Oct 07, 2014 |
We are interested in the $9.3m illegal deal.... Fraudulent Government! |
Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by smada13(m): 8:16pm On Oct 07, 2014 |
Somebody is looking for trouble but it won't pay them at last o!!!! They should warn SA before it backfires o!!!! 1 Like |
Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by iJAY1: 8:17pm On Oct 07, 2014 |
"talking tough"? I expected to hear a more decisive statement from an upper official |
Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by Nobody: 9:49pm On Oct 07, 2014 |
Medicine after death. Dasuki 1 Like |
Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by Nobody: 12:03am On Oct 08, 2014 |
It is expected! Nigeria should do the needful...the terror war must be won so no time for kid gloves on fifth columnists. Tit-for-tat, do me I do you...Simple! 1 Like |
Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by fitzmayowa: 4:50am On Oct 08, 2014 |
Na wa ooo |
Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by Nobody: 5:33am On Oct 08, 2014 |
barcanista: How and what makes it illegal? Do you think money trafficking laws apply to governments? The law is meant for common plebs like yourself. That is why the first and recent shipments came in with a security clearance from the office of Dasuki. Ask the CIA or PENTAGON how they shipped dollars meant for Taliban war lords in Afghanistan or that used in sponsoring ISIS in Iraq or militias in Benghazi. Do you think those guys got a transaction alert? yeye people 6 Likes |
Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by Nobody: 5:49am On Oct 08, 2014 |
U.S. Army getting ready to pay Taliban warlords and opium growers in Afghanistan. How do you think they shipped so much dollars in? I bet it wasn't through Afghan Standard Trust Bank. The U.S. govt illegally ships billions of dollars world wide annually to fund covet operations, maintain spy networks and fund insurgencies. Nigerians should start getting some small common sense 7 Likes |
Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by Nobody: 5:54am On Oct 08, 2014 |
I strongly urge you all to read this: Commander's Guide To Money as a Weapon System http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/call/docs/09-27/09-27.pdf Here is the forward This Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) handbook assists company-, battalion-, and brigade-level officers and noncommissioned officers to effectively use money as a weapons system on the counterinsurgency (COIN) battlefield. Coalition money is defeating COIN targets without creating collateral damage, by motivating antigovernment forces to cease lethal and nonlethal operations, by creating and providing jobs along with other forms of financial assistance to the indigenous population, and by restoring or creating vital infrastructure. Money also funds other tools of war. Key lessons: • Money is a valuable weapons system. • Money and contracting in a COIN environment are vital elements of combat power. • Leaders must leverage money and contracting in operations. • Leaders must understand funding programs and contracting. • Brigades often lack internal resource management expertise and knowledge of funding. • Financial management administrative requirements in a combat environment can be extremely burdensome but are necessary for good stewardship. • Financial management expertise and knowledge of funding are critical to successful operations. • Without proactive leadership involvement, the potential for extensive fraud, waste, and abuse of funds exists in the COIN environment. This handbook is a guide and addresses some of the most common funds available to warfighters. Since policies, procedures, and guidelines change as do sources and amounts of funds available to fund warfighters, obtain the latest funding information from the supporting resource manager before taking action to fund warfighters. 1 Like |
Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by M4gunners: 5:59am On Oct 08, 2014 |
barcanista:Blind man wake up from your sleep . The case of $9.3m has been cleared. It wasn't illegal . The SA will release the money sooner or later . 3 Likes |
Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by Adetula1(m): 6:15am On Oct 08, 2014 |
Nigerian's should know by now that normal protocols are not been followed in purchase of weapon's during war time. |
Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by Nobody: 6:33am On Oct 08, 2014 |
M4gunners:who cleared it mr unblind man? Honestly, with people like you living it won't be long before concerned citizens sponsors pro abortion bill 1 Like |
Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by Bosville(m): 6:34am On Oct 08, 2014 |
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Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by Kc3000: 6:35am On Oct 08, 2014 |
I've never seen where a legitimate government with cash at hand is having so much difficulty acquiring arms to fight a terrorist group. I'm very much interested in knowing why the SA company that had already accepted payment from Nigeria all of a sudden couldn't get clearance from the SA govt and had to refund the money. Could it be that the same powers that frustrated our efforts to purchase military equipment from Israel and elsewhere have struck again? Meanwhile, BH is armed to the teeth and the latest unsubstantiated rumor is that they now have some gunships at their disposal. Keep playing politics with everything till the day "Boko Haram" starts flying fighter jets over your villages. 1 Like |
Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by Nobody: 6:37am On Oct 08, 2014 |
The U.S. Govt is not sincere about their claims of spreading Democracy to 3rd World Countries. Democracy is an effective weapon in ensuring bad puppet leaders who are encouraged to destabilize their countries and help siphon resources and money to the U.S. How do you think they got so rich? The rest of the world floats the U.S. economy. Having bad puppet leaderships also provides an avenue to fund black OPs. The U.S. govt has a shadow military of over 90,000 personnel working around the globe. Most of the funding that they draw for their missions comes from stolen loot stashed in safety deposit boxes. Since most of these black OPs are highly illegal and subversive within international and U.S. statute books, congressional allocations can not be approved. Also having to operate within the grey area of the financial World makes it easy to deny that the OP exist in the first place. The first way to unraveling any operation is to trace the money trail. All over Africa, the middle east and south America, the Pentagon has propped up corrupt puppet leaders who they give a level of legitimacy as long as they get their own cut. The Muhajadeen fighters of Afghanistan fighting against the Soviet occupiers in the 80's to which Osama Bin Laden was an active fighter were allowed to deal in Opium and Heroin in order to fund the weapons acquisition. Most of the Afghan heroin ended up in Europe which saw heroin pandemic. Today in Nigeria, there are several past leaders and opposition elements with strong ties to the U.S. govt. Abiola was one of them. Abiola after his death had little or nothing. His children are now glorified landlords as that is the only tangible asset he left them. All the money stashed in overseas accounts were duly recouped back to the real owners the CIA. 3 Likes
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Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by phlemzy: 6:37am On Oct 08, 2014 |
Due to how dirty the hands of some Nigerians have been in corruption, it's just too easy to disbelive that the seizes cash was meant for arm purchasal. After proper investigation is completed, the truth will be known to all. |
Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by Nobody: 6:45am On Oct 08, 2014 |
Kc3000: With all honesty there is really more to this than meets the eye. It is my opinion that I believe the Nigerian govt where not out to procure weapons but to recruit South African Mercenaries. South Africa is a leader in Private Military Contractors stemming from the Boer Wars. The FG needed to make it a covet OP so as not to draw criticism from both the general public and military circles. I strongly believe that the SA govt knew about this but scuttled it on behest of the U.S. THIS IS MY HONEST ASSUMPTION. 1 Like |
Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by lonelydora: 6:53am On Oct 08, 2014 |
RevDesmondJuju: This is the simple truth. But because of how corrupt our Nigerian leaders are, we don't believe whatever they say until proper investigation is carried, and the truth known. Right from the $9.3m scandal, i knew it was a clean deal, just SA was bent on painting us black. 2 Likes |
Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by Kc3000: 6:56am On Oct 08, 2014 |
RevDesmondJuju: This is a strong possibility, never thought of that. 1 Like |
Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by M4gunners: 7:00am On Oct 08, 2014 |
barcanista:So you are still doubting? |
Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by Nobody: 7:06am On Oct 08, 2014 |
Kc3000: Because I am smarter than you You will now appreciate why the govt will need it top secret. The top brass in the Nigerian Army will not like to see their jobs outsourced and the opposition may spin it that Jonathan is using his snipers. The Mercenaries would have had multiple roles from training, intelligence gathering and assisination of top Boko Commaders. It is a signal that Aso Rock does not believe in the capability of the Nigerian Military brass and their sincerity. The money would have been required in cash as maintaining an army is highly expensive to run on a daily basis. Most private military companies in South Africa hide under guise as security firms and arm dealers. They are also exclusively owned by white south Africans linked to the radical right wing Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaner_Weerstandsbeweging which are opposed to the ANC led government. Remember the story of these guys who are currently serving long prison sentences in Equitorial Guinea for staging a coup: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_du_Toit They are all white south Africans 1 Like |
Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by Nobody: 7:10am On Oct 08, 2014 |
SA hating on us since. |
Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by Samunique(m): 7:26am On Oct 08, 2014 |
Why can't Nigeria respect itself? Is only SA the existing country in the world where arms could be purchased? And i also will like to remind SA govt that what goes around will always come around. PERIOD!!!! |
Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by Nobody: 7:31am On Oct 08, 2014 |
Samunique: And what makes you think they went shopping for arms? 1 Like |
Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by ahkenaten(m): 7:35am On Oct 08, 2014 |
all that money should have been directed to an institution that will oversee creation of our own weapons and armunitions here in nigeria....we should be ashamed of buying arms already...lets start creating our own arms. |
Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by Myself2(m): 7:43am On Oct 08, 2014 |
barcanista: Ignoramus Why not shut up,read the entire thread and learn rather than expose your crass ignorance 3 Likes |
Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by Myself2(m): 7:46am On Oct 08, 2014 |
Samunique: The entire transactions are being sabotaged by fifth columnists,the same set of people that have made it to deal a decisive blow on the boko basterds once and for all. Even if the FG leaves SA and goes to shop elsewhere,chances are that the traitors will still act,I guess SA is even our best bet cos they have a boundary,if they cross it,the FG will squeeze their balls 2 Likes |
Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by Kc3000: 8:02am On Oct 08, 2014 |
RevDesmondJuju: Ok, smart guy We can only speculate but it would really be a desperate play by our govt, and is certain to evoke some backlash. Mercenaries are in it strictly for the money, so I've always had my reservations about their commitment, even though they tend to be highly trained and specialized former military personnel. I suspect the bottom line for them in this kind of conflict is to stay alive and hope the conflict continues and they can continue to get paid. They aren't cheap either. The best thing is to have them on short term contracts, and task them with very specific missions that can be easily verified, or let them focus on training. Bottom line, our Army would still have to do most of the heavy lifting if we intend on ending this scourge. It would be damn near impossible to source a private Army that can duplicate the efforts of a standing Army like ours. 2 Likes |
Re: Nigeria Talks Tough, Warns South Africa Over Seized $5.7 Million Arms Money by Nobody: 8:03am On Oct 08, 2014 |
South African Mercenaries are currently in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia. They know the gig on Islamic Terrorists. I will hire them if I was Jonathan given that vast majority of the northern muslim officers owe their allegiance not to the presidency but to the Hausa/Fulani Cabal that secured them their job. The Wild West in East Africa: What do a handful of South African mercenaries do for an encore 1 Like |
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