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Re: Fire Outbreak At Bukola Saraki's House by iukpe: 1:09pm On Aug 28, 2015
Fire gutted the house......but it was contained

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Re: Fire Outbreak At Bukola Saraki's House by baloney: 1:11pm On Aug 28, 2015
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Re: Fire Outbreak At Bukola Saraki's House by Elly1(m): 1:23pm On Aug 28, 2015
[quote author=byteHead post=37422070]An early morning fire has gutted the house of the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki.
The fire occurred on Friday morning at the Abuja residence of Saraki in the Maitama area of Abuja.
Saraki is still living in his personal house as the President of the Senate.

The incident was confirmed by Saraki on his Twitter handle.

He said he was already in the office when the fire outbreak occurred.
Saraki said the fire was quickly contained.

He tweeted: “Thanks for your concern.
“Happened while I was in the office.
“It was immediately contained.”




http://theeagleonline.com.ng/fire-guts-sarakis-house-emmanuel-leke/[/quote hahaha, so they wanted to roast the guy alive abi? Arson now involve, let watch out for the reaction, i know that will be more of vocano kind of, instead of all these stone lighter like. Although this is what happens or rather their experience when ppl re sneaky in their ways of life, can someone just tell me any southern state in apc tht is not having internal problems right now?, and still they think buhari or the northerners dont know what they re doing, instead of them to go and make peace within them self, they keep fighting for nothing
Re: Fire Outbreak At Bukola Saraki's House by Nobody: 1:26pm On Aug 28, 2015
karma?

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Re: Fire Outbreak At Bukola Saraki's House by xreal: 1:34pm On Aug 28, 2015
Somebody help me check the word NEMESIS out in the dictionary.

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Re: Fire Outbreak At Bukola Saraki's House by 989900: 1:36pm On Aug 28, 2015
. . . and some vital docs. got burnt . . . mmmmhhh wink

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Re: Fire Outbreak At Bukola Saraki's House by Obaf16(f): 1:47pm On Aug 28, 2015
adesegun121:
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Akama ra ooooooooooooooooooooooo
pele mr saraki
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Re: Fire Outbreak At Bukola Saraki's House by omuda: 1:49pm On Aug 28, 2015
byteHead:
An early morning fire has gutted the house of the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki.
The fire occurred on Friday morning at the Abuja residence of Saraki in the Maitama area of Abuja.
Saraki is still living in his personal house as the President of the Senate.

The incident was confirmed by Saraki on his Twitter handle.

He said he was already in the office when the fire outbreak occurred.
Saraki said the fire was quickly contained.

He tweeted: “Thanks for your concern.
“Happened while I was in the office.
“It was immediately contained.”

What is the root cause of the incident?


http://theeagleonline.com.ng/fire-guts-sarakis-house-emmanuel-leke/
Re: Fire Outbreak At Bukola Saraki's House by litetias(m): 2:16pm On Aug 28, 2015
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Re: Fire Outbreak At Bukola Saraki's House by stamcy(m): 2:18pm On Aug 28, 2015
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Re: Fire Outbreak At Bukola Saraki's House by sunnitus: 2:31pm On Aug 28, 2015
I trust my senate presido nah....na naija treasury go suffer dis incident pass.....lolz

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Re: Fire Outbreak At Bukola Saraki's House by Rotimi47: 3:05pm On Aug 28, 2015
3 may be answers - 1. Saraki setting fire to his own house just to destroy incriminating evidence. 2. Saraki setting fire to his own house so as to black mail EFCC and 3. Saraki trying to use the fire incident to win sympathy.

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Re: Fire Outbreak At Bukola Saraki's House by Elly1(m): 3:54pm On Aug 28, 2015
hahahaha, tinubu wanted to roast that guy alive, i know very well that saraki is going to react to this actions his enemies took against him mr saraki, i expect you to use vocano on him too, why buhari is bussy fixing his ppl in the right possitions in the country
Re: Fire Outbreak At Bukola Saraki's House by Ayatullah(m): 4:10pm On Aug 28, 2015
INTROVERT:
nibo??







Another move on the chess board grin

Which chess board? He or some members of his household must have been careless.
Re: Fire Outbreak At Bukola Saraki's House by Ayatullah(m): 4:11pm On Aug 28, 2015
INTROVERT:
nibo??







Another move on the chess board grin

Which chess board? He or some members of his household might have been careless.
Re: Fire Outbreak At Bukola Saraki's House by Harmvirus(f): 4:32pm On Aug 28, 2015
Hmm..
Re: Fire Outbreak At Bukola Saraki's House by Justicealh3(m): 5:28pm On Aug 28, 2015
Another money.

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Re: Fire Outbreak At Bukola Saraki's House by olaboy33(m): 9:48pm On Aug 28, 2015
Diesel1:
quote author=INTROVERT post=37422098]nibo??
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Another move on the chess board grin
Notin last forever....... As from 2day u will not be first to comment
bros..... cry
Diesel1:
quote author=INTROVERT post=37422098]nibo??
t




Another move on the chess board grin
Notin last forever....... As from 2day u will not be first to comment
bros.....
Re: Fire Outbreak At Bukola Saraki's House by Ghandi12: 6:45am On Aug 29, 2015
Rotimi47:
3 may be answers - 1. Saraki setting fire to his own house just to destroy incriminating evidence. 2. Saraki setting fire to his own house so as to black mail EFCC and 3. Saraki trying to use the fire incident to win sympathy.
Re: Fire Outbreak At Bukola Saraki's House by Victortee1(m): 8:42am On Aug 29, 2015
4ubootyman:
Is this news

captainprogress(m): 7:13am
THE Senate is in the news again for the wrong reason, even as the dust raised by the emergence of Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki as Senate President in controversial circumstances on June 9 is yet to settle. This time, the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions has launched into a seemingly pre-determined investigation of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde’s alleged diversion of N1 trillion loot recovered by the agency.

In its rush for quick result, the committee sidetracked established Senate rules, raising more dust in the process. The probe, as would be expected, has thrown up a deluge of reactions. Some watchers of events at the Senate have dubbed the probe of the EFCC boss a mission impossible, while others labelled the investigation a scam orchestrated to cover other scams. Yet, some others are asking why now, especially with the obvious disregard of due process in the probe?

A huge gulf has already emerged in the upper chamber, creating as it were, a sharp division among the occupants of the chamber. Both APC and PDP senators are kicking. Some who are thrown off guard are gasping for breath. For them, the investigation is a fraud that must be halted.

Has Saraki shot himself in the foot again? Some say he is a man in love with shortcuts; one who detests procedural course , one who has little regard for due process. Saraki’s passion for the back door to achieve selfish results, they contend, is legendary, as he has amply demonstrated the trait a number of times without qualms.

When he became the Kwara State governor in 2003, one of his first actions which, ruffled feathers, was the transfer of the state’s account in the defunct Trade Bank, the state-owned bank, to the defunct Societie Generale Bank, where he was executive director before he became governor. The account was returned after a lot of dust was raised against the mindless shortcut.

Again, he had recently planned what amounted to a civilian version of a coup against his party – All Progressives Congress (APC) – to emerge Senate President. The party had zoned the position to the North East, casting its overwhelming lot for Senator Ahmed Lawan.

However, on the day the 8th National Assembly was to be inaugurated, while 51 APC senators, almost half of the 109-member Red Chamber, were waiting to meet President Muhammadu Buhari at the International Conference Centre (ICC), Abuja, elections were hastily conducted in which Saraki and Senator Ike Ekweremadu emerged as President and Deputy Senate President respectively. The dust raised by that brazen defiance is still simmering.

Now, seeing Saraki as the guiding hand behind Dr. George Uboh’s petition against the EFCC boss, observers believe that the Senate’s probe of the EFCC is Senate President’s show, which has further brought to fore his loathing for order. Others insist there is no way Saraki and his loyalists in the Senate can come clean that the investigation was not arranged to fight the EFCC boss for daring to call to question Saraki’s wife over alleged financial impropriety.

Although Saraki’s loyalists have dismissed the invitation and investigation of Toyin Saraki as politically motivated, those who disagree with the imputation of political motive into the probe are asking why the EFCC investigation is coming at a time the wife of the Senate President is undergoing interrogation before the anti-graft commission.

Mrs Saraki was grilled for hours in July 28, 2015 by the EFCC alongside the daughter of former President Umaru Yar’Adua and wife of former Kebbi State Governor, Saidu Dakingari, Zainab Dakingari. She (Saraki’s wife) was invited for questioning for alleged money laundering, what a source described as alleged “questionable inflow of funds into companies where she has interest.”

Not a few are also wondering why George Uboh’s petition was not presented to the Senate in plenary if there was no hidden agenda. They ask why the petition was forwarded to the Ethics committee directly, an infraction of the Senate’s standing rules.

More curious is the fact that Senator Peter Nwaobosi (Delta North), who received the petition, is an ally of former Delta State Governor, Chief James Ibori, a bosom friend of Saraki. Dino Melaye, a member of the Ethics Committee, and Nwaobosi were among the senators who accompanied Saraki’s wife to the EFCC when she was invited for questioning.

In a sense, observers see the whole thing as Saraki and Ibori fighting EFCC. Nwaobosi, a commissioner under Ibori, is fighting his master’s battle against EFCC. It would be recalled that Ibori waged a vicious war against EFCC’s former chairman, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, before the former’s extradition to UK where he was jailed for money laundering.

Not willing to be used to fight a personal battle, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) caucus in the Senate rejected the probe by the senate committee.  The PDP senators expressed their position in a statement signed by the Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio; his deputy, Emmanuel Bwacha; Minority Whip, Senator Philip Aduda and his deputy, Senator Biodun Olujimi.

The PDP caucus stated in the statement: “It has come to the notice of the PDP leadership in the Senate that the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions would begin a public hearing on Wednesday, 26th of August,  2015 and the committee has invited the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to appear before it.

“The PDP leadership in the Senate is not against any committee of the Senate performing its oversight duties and or functions but we feel that this is not the appropriate time to embark on the most important assignment, particularly since the same action was mooted and had failed at previous plenary session.

“We therefore urge the committee to suspend its public hearing on this particular matter until further notice. The PDP Senate leadership reassures the Nigerian public of its support for the war against corruption by the Federal Government of Nigeria but hastens to add that such fight against corruption should be total and not selective.

“Nigerians need peace at this period of economic challenges precipitated by the falling of oil prices and actions that will overheat the polity and generate unnecessary friction between the executive and the legislature should be avoided.”

The Senate Unity Forum, a group of APC senators who detailed the violation of the Senate rules in the investigation, in its own case, did not hesitate to dismiss the Ethics, Privileges and Public Petition Committee’s investigation of the EFCC chairman as illegal.

The Forum has taken time out to educate those who are wont to rush into nailing the EFCC boss that in standard parliamentary practice, a petition is routed through either a Senator or a member of the House of Representatives.

“Upon receipt of such petition,” the Forum said, “the representative will inform the presiding officer of the chamber and, thereafter, present the petition in plenary. Upon presentation in plenary, the presiding officer will invite the Senator/House of Representatives member to lay the petition, which automatically becomes a public document.

“Thereafter, the presiding officer will refer the petition to the appropriate committee for consideration, after which it would be returned to the Senate in plenary. In this regard, nothing of the sort happened.

“The Senate proceeded on recess on August 13 and it is not on record that the petition of Mr. George Uboh, accusing Lamorde of diverting over N1 trillion recovered from some corrupt Nigerians, including former governor of Bayelsa State, DSP Alamieyesigha, and the former Inspector General of Police, Tafa Balogun, was presented to Senate in Plenary.”

The Forum, therefore, declared its support for the position earlier adopted by some senators that the Lamorde probe should be halted because it did not follow due parliamentary process.

It added: “For the avoidance of doubt, Rule 41(1-3) of the Senate Standing Orders specifically spelt out how petitions are handled in the parliament.

“Rule 41(1-3) states: (1) A petition must only be presented to the Senate by a Senator, who shall affix his name at the beginning thereof.

“(2) A senator presenting a petition shall confine himself to a brief statement of the parties from whom it came, the number of signatures attached to it and material allegations contained in it and to reading the prayers of such petitions.

“(3) All petitions shall be ordered, without question being put, to lie upon the table. Such petition shall be referred to the Public Petitions Committee.

“It is after these steps have been taken that the presiding officer would refer the petition to the aforementioned committee.

“It should be noted that in this case, none of these laid-down procedures were followed before the ‘Senate Unity Forum’ read in the newspapers that the Senator Samuel Anywanu-led Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions Committee would on Wednesday, August 26, commence the probe of EFCC chairman

“We stand against this probe. It is illegal and unconstitutional because it did not follow our rules.”

Four members of the Senate Unity Forum endorsed the statement, including Senators Ahmed Lawan, George Akume, Barnabas Gemade and Abu Ibrahim.

Senate Leader, Mohammed Ali Ndume, a core Saraki loyalist, has also joined the fray. Ndume admitted “a procedural error” in the probe, aligning with the position of the PDP Senate caucus which distanced its members from the investigation.

The EFCC, on its part, says it has no confidence in the probe of the Senate Committee. The commission stated that the committee lacked objectivity and that it was not likely to get a fair hearing, especially after a delegation it sent to observe the proceedings was walked out by the members of the committee on the pretext that the commission had earlier written that it would not be present at the hearing.

Although the Senate and its handlers are busy burning all available cables, the probe of the EFCC under questionable circumstances speaks volume about what Nigerians are to expect from the 8th Senate

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Re: Fire Outbreak At Bukola Saraki's House by Ghandi12: 8:14pm On Aug 29, 2015
Saraki has schemed himself to Senate Presidency - difficult to blame anybody now but if Saraki becomes relevant and influential again in top government decision there is only one person to blame - PMB.

My recommendation to RMAFR for new salary structure of law-makers is as follows:

* Reps and Senators should be on the same pay as the constitution does not see them unequal.
* The Speaker and Senate President should not earn more than the Permanent Secretaries of Federal Ministries.
* A salary of N350,000 is decent enough for any service-driven lawmaker - those who cannot cope should resign.
* A ceiling of N1 Million naira maximum for all accruable allowances and basic salary for all Lawmakers is strongly recommended.
* Going home with N1 Million naira every month is a very big luxury many a Nigerian may never achieve in a lifetime.


RMAFR should please also do a thorough review of take-homes at the States and LGA level to reflect the dwindling revenue of the Nation.

Political leadership is all about service and only those who are ready to make sacrifices should be encouraged

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