[size=15pt]Juju Scam: Yar’Adua Orders Probe of NDDC Boss[/size]
By Kinsley Nwezeh, 08.07.2008

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President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has ordered an investigation into allegations that the Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Ambassador Sam Edem, spent N1billion to secure the services of a sorcerer to employ spiritual means to enable him secure contracts from the Akwa Ibom State Government.
The President also directed the Inspector General of Police, Mike Okiro, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to get to the root of the matter.
Edem was also alleged to have burnt N270 million at a Port Harcourt cemetery, which he later bathed with in order to realise his wishes from the state government functionaries.
According to a statement made by the sorcerer, Dr. Perekambowei Ogah, also known as Matthew Sonoma, at the Zone 5 Police Headquarters in Benin, Edo State and published in the latest edition of Newswatch magazine, Edem paid into his executive savings account at the Ughelli, Delta State branch of one of the new generation banks, N15 million to make some sacrifice in order to retain his position as NNDC chairman when the board was dissolved.
Ogah also claimed to have received three different requests from Edem notably to work on the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Dr. Godswill Akpabio, in order to secure contracts from him; to kill the Managing Director of NDDC, Mr. Timi Alaibe, who also works in the same office with him to enable him have his way in decision making processes and to work on Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan to always provide him support if there is any plan to remove him.
For the above tasks, Ogah charged N570,000,000 for which Edem paid in instalments of N220,000,000, N50,000.000 and N40,000.000 respectively amounting to N310,000.000 with a balance of N260.000.000.
According to the sorcerer, at the expiration of the date for Alaibe’s demise, which never happened, Edem demanded a refund while Ogah stood his ground that the payment was not completed prompting Edem to report the matter to the police as a case of fraud.
“That after the expiration of the period within which the said Timi Alaibe was to die, the petitioner came to ask me why the charm did not work and I told him that his (Alaibe’s) spirit is too strong. On that note he grew annoyed and asked me to refund the money he paid for Timi’s work,” he said.
The NDDC chairman in his statement at the same Zone 5 Police headquarters, Benin, said he was under a spell when he made the payments.
According to him, “The amount of money the fraudster collected from me through the hypnotic spell is about N800million. The extortion spread over months and were always with death threats to my person and family members, friends and staff”.

source:http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=119018

O'boy, juju na big business now !!!!!!

N800 million? of his personal money or our money for Nigeria

While we genuinely continue the quest for 50% derivation, we should also invest same amount of energy in checking these type of leaders!

Wait a minute, did he really set N 270million on fire?? How much worth of contracts was he lookin at getting

ayomifull:

N800 million? of his personal money or our money for Nigeria

our money of course, where would the stupid fool get that kind of money from?!

bilymuse:

O'boy, juju na big business now !!!!!!

Juju na big business my guy, me i know juju man wey dey ride brand new benzo's everytime, money full!
them juju shrine is deceptive, but when them comot toga for night, na inside mansion for lekki or maitama wey dem dey go sleep!

That edem man should be sacked immediately and handed over to the police for immediate prosecution.

When will this nation be wrestled from these vissionless, lack-lustre, unserious, idol-worshipping leaders? To spend #800m on juju is simply horrendous!! Someone who has as much as #800m to spend on a jujuman surely has billions stacked somewhere and the #800m is like money for peanuts to him. I'm sure a visit to Sam Edem's village will revealed bad roads, lack of hospital, lack of drinkable water etc and here's a man wasting this much on a worthless venture.

Oh God!! When shall thy judgement come upon these so called leaders?

desgiezd:

When will this nation be wrestled from these vissionless, lack-lustre, unserious, idol-worshipping leaders? To spend #800m on juju is simply horrendous!! Someone who has as much as #800m to spend on a jujuman surely has billions stacked somewhere and the #800m is like money for peanuts to him. I'm sure a visit to Sam Edem's village will revealed bad roads, lack of hospital, lack of drinkable water etc and here's a man wasting this much on a worthless venture.

Oh God!! When shall thy judgement come upon these so called leaders?

I am tired my broda, these are the people ruling Nigeria and we expect changes?

Everyday i open nigeriannews site i read incredible amount been embezzled by our leaders, i am wondering does anyone know how much Nigeria has lost to corruption this year alone

800million naira for juju,where is this country going to?

Nigeria had become a laughing stuff long time ago. Different stories almost every week. Watch out for another terrible story again in the next forthnight. Only God knows when things will change in this useless country especially our leaders.

I thot juju no dey exist again na

This is propesterous!

I've said it several times before and I'll say it again:

[size=16pt]Juju is the longest running "419"![/size]

The Nigerian media is getting obsessed with the line

. . . . . . . . . . .    "Yar'adua orders   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  "

this it is becoming disturbing, especially at a time when no one knows who runs Nigeria.

Yepa!so this man did all this?JAH go punish im life,& we were told no fund for NDDC scholarship, he should better don't wake up from that spell!Ah!

Na real waooo 4 dat country.When wud the messaih come?
@deepsoul,u are dawm so funni

pls lets not be gullible with all these sensational reporting and media soundbites, the story is obviously exaggerated also on what grounds will efcc hold the man on ?i didnt know juju practice is now in the nigerian constitution now

The story is probably a little bit inflated (iroyin okere bi o ba lekan a din Kan) Distance information can never be complete, if they don’t add more… they’ll take from it. This idea might just be a plight to divert our attention from certain issues that is brewing within the country right now [size=5pt]only God knows[/size]. But that should not cloud our judgment too much on what is at stake (our economy and how this affect it). The man at stake has certain fiduciary duties that he’s obliged to maintain, did he satisfy those fiduciary duties? Those contacts that was awarded to him, were they satisfied up to the MOU that he signed? If those contacts were not executed according to agreement, then the man should face the wrath of the law.

This story was on major papers some few days ago and "juju" was the word used.

so yar adua wants to probe a juju scare with committee means, funny isnjt it? trust obj, he'd counter that guy by geither engaging all the major imams or pastor, pending on his mood

I just read the full story on Newswatch. . . I still can't believe it

apparently, N200m was also burnt in a cemetery ritual that required d dude to be naked. . .

heard last night that he's been arrested and replaced