on october 27, 2013 at 2:18 am
in news Hon Zakari Lafia Mohammed is the spokesman of the House of
Representatives and a member
of the House Committee on
Aviation. In this chat, he speaks
on how the committee will
ensure that all necessary avenues are explored to deliver
justice to Nigerians on reckless
spending in government. By Emman Ovuakporie The Minister of Aviation is said to
have gone abroad despite the
N255m cars scandal involving her.
Do you think her action is
appropriate? That is another serious act of
impunity on the part of the
minister. It is also a clear case of
not taking the parliament
seriously, it is rather
unfortunate. All she ought to have done is to delegate her
Permanent Secretary or a
Director in her ministry to carry
out the rituals of signing the
BASA agreement and face
squarely what is on ground for her. The heavens will not fall if
another person signs on behalf
of Nigeria. We will not stop until
we get to the bottom of why
such a huge sum of money was
spent for vehicles. What exactly did the National
Assembly approve for the NCAA?
Take a peep at page six of their
budget, we approved 5 Toyota
Pickup Hilux, 16 Toyota Corolla, 5
Toyota Landcruiser Jeeps, 3 Toyota Hiace buses all at a cost
of N240 million but they
eventually bought 54 vehicles
through the bank lease for the
sum of N643 million which was
financed by the bank. There was no time we discussed the issue
of a lease with them during the
budget defence. I do not want to
preclude this investigative
hearing but we will dis-
passionately seek justice for all Nigerians through this
investigation. Never again in the
history of Nigeria will public
servants take Nigerians for a
ride. But, from all indications, it
appears as if the minister may
not meet your deadline for the
hearing as you are expected to
close shop on Tuesday? If she fails to show up we will
issue a bench warrant to get
her arrested. Arrest! Has it come to that?
This is a national issue that must
be properly thrashed out with
the zeal of a wounded lion. If
need be, we will ask the Speaker
to issue a bench warrant immediately she fails to show up
and she will be arrested. We’ve
given her enough grace as the
committee will sit on Friday,
Monday and Tuesday. All those
excuses given on her behalf will not hold by the time we conclude
our findings. You mentioned that NCAA officials
used two budgets. What do you
mean?
Yes! They are using both the
approved budget and the
unapproved one. In the approved one, we clearly deleted the
purchase of armoured cars and,
in the approved budget,
armoured cars were not
captured. This is a clear case of
ineptitude and negligence of duty which can never be
accepted by Nigerians that we
represent here in the National
Assembly. But why would….?
The simple instruction we gave is
that they should delete the
armoured cars. We argued then
that they do not need such cars
to inspect perimetre fence. It is embarrassing to us and the
entire country.Source:www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/oduahgate-may-order-arrest-aviation-minister-house-reps/

hmmmmm.... wetin ds woman do sef. nah new tin she do?

As far as Facrook Lawan is still in that house, i doubt their credibility.

The moral burden on the house is too heavy for them to attempt such. Faroukgate, Hembegate, Elumelugate, Ettehgate, etc easily come to mind.

Besides, do they really have such powers

omenka: The moral burden on the house is too heavy for them to attempt such. Faroukgate, Hembegate, Elumelugate, Ettehgate, etc easily come to mind.

Besides, do they really have such powers

so 'cos they lack credibity oduah should be left off the hook,is that what ur implying?

Haba too many gates in that house,which kind building be that sef.

Yeye dey smell!

When the house invited the man behind the pension scam, Mr Maina and refused to show up. The house committee said they leave him unto God for judgement.

overdrive: Haba too many gates in that house,which kind building be that sef.

what about watergate scandal?

which can never be
accepted by Nigerians that we
represent here in the National
Assembly.....This part gat me laughin out loud....Foolz dey knw dat nijarianz dey represent airnt happy wit dia loot nd de stil kip it up.....Coz of oduah dey knw nijarianz wnt take it.... I do not want to
preclude this investigative
hearing but we will dis-
passionately seek justice for all Nigerians through this
investigation. Never again in the
history of Nigeria will public
servants take Nigerians for a
ride.....Stupid idiot...Y'all re makin life be lik a hell to we nijarianz....You idiotz,old foolz re lootin uz dry, ridin wit our brainz, now una knw itz not gud...

This must be a joke.

They should order the arrest of Otedola and Farouk first . After prosecuting them, then we can start to discuss about the propaganda being sponsored by Yorubas and their APC supporters in the aviation ministry .






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nedu2000: so 'cos they lack credibity oduah should be left off the hook,is that what ur implying?

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Please shut it, which hook is that?

Where is Farouk Lawal? You ppl stop all this nonsense.





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Tolexander: Yeye dey smell!

When the house invited the man behind the pension scam, Mr Maina and refused to show up. The house committee said they leave him unto God for judgement.

hahahahahahahahaahahahahaha

Foolish old men

Make una leave our Ibo daughter alone ooooo. Stop ganging up on her. We celebrate thieves in the east. Smh!

nedu2000: so 'cos they lack credibity oduah should be left off the hook,is that what ur implying?

Sadly yes, its not there job, if they were doing their job well we would not be in this mess. They don't even have the moral right anyway, all of them are criminals so we don't want their help. We know they would try to extract money from her too. Basically, that is why we have the police. Let the police deal with the matter we know nothing good will come out of them too every thing will go in circle.

nedu2000: so 'cos they lack credibity oduah should be left off the hook,is that what ur implying?

Nah. U misunderstand me. I'm all for prosecution of Oduah even if Alamieseigha is the judge, but I'm saying due to their inaction regarding the cases of their colleagues, they may find it quite difficult to carry out their threat.

LET HE WHO IS A MEMBER IN THE HOUSE WITHOUT SINS OF CORRUPTION BE THE FIRST 2 CRUCIFY STELLA. OH, IS IT B/C THEY'RE NOT CAUGHT, EVEN WHEN CAUGHT, LIKE WHAT HAS EVER BEEN DONE ABOUT IT- CRUCIFICATION? NO! HYPOCRITES- THATS WHAT OUR LEADERS ARE.

funny set of people.
the house has no such powers.

This woman is not guilty yet. Let us wait for the committee outcome, then we shall know what to say. Shekanah!