January 11, 2016 Ben Ezeamalu

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested Emeka Mba, the Director General of the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission over an alleged N15 billion fraud.
Mr. Mba was arrested on Monday morning in Abuja and taken to the EFCC’s headquarters where he is currently being interrogated.
Those familiar with the investigation say the EFCC had been investigating the NBC in the past one month.
Last week, some detectives stormed the headquarters of the NBC, ransacking computers and files in the Finance and Account unit.
During the operation, some key Accounts staff where taken away.
Sources said the arrested officials made confessional statements to the EFCC implicating Mr. Mba and some top officials of the NBC.
When contacted, the EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, said he was on an official assignment in Lagos and had not been briefed.

But a top official of the anti-graft agency said: “Yes, he (Mr. Mba) is with us. We are investigating massive diversion of public funds and we’re making progress. Mba definitely has questions to answer.”

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/196600-breaking-nbc-director-general-emeka-mba-arrested.html

May God help the present administration to conquer the fight against corruption.

He's now gon be detained indefinitely...

So Sorry For You Mba!....

But If they want statement, Just go all gibberish on them like Yandu did with The Broker (Guardians of the Galaxy)!

Hmm... Everyone should start asking their cats and rats if even the animals looted. This is too much

If this is true, then Nigeria has a lot to do clean up the system. With this rate of exposures, Nigeria is bound to make the record as the most corrupt nation on earth. God help us.

No wonder he failed to tame radio biafrauds.

I've always suspected that man's complicity in the sudden growth of radio biafra during and after the electioneering period.

Like every jonathanian who knows that a government run by Buhari will send their corrupt ass to jail, anything that will bring down the "zoo" has their full support.

It's like the whole nation is contaminated with corruption.
It's Everywhere you go. All we want are strong institutions that can go after whoever even if she was the President's wife.

It's like every boss just sat in their respective offices vacuuming and distributing resources that passed through their table like it was their grandfather's business dynasty.

engrflames:
May God help the present administration to conquer the fight against corruption.

Are you for real?

Na that ben bruce I wan make dem arrest.Wailing wailer might not like this but I've spoken my mind.Ya know the next thing to do.

I am so much loving the new EFCC....

There is real hope for Nigeria. God bless GMB.

The arrested person is not a politician, but it won't surprise me if PDP sympathizers still find some depraved reasons to throw tantrums at the president. Lemme guess - "...he is being witch-hunted for allowing vile campaigns to be aired against the president during the last elections".
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On a more serious note, the sheer scale of corruption & sleeze that goes on in Nigerian public offices is suffocating. How some disgruntled Nigerians (just because of hatred for the president) want us to all turn a blind eye is beyond me.

I just wish this won't be a case of arrest, detain and then start investigation.

On a flip side I just love d way buhari is looking at sectors and trying to stamp out corruption. Every oga at the top wud be apprehensive as to if buhari will beam his search light on them.

What I hate with a passion is how EFCC is going about the whole stuff. There is too much media propaganda. They don't seem to do thorough investigation. If not we will be by now be seeing people on handcuffs and sweating in jail.

God bless Ibrahim Magu and the whole EFCC team.

Copy of the petition sent to PMB and ICPC

Between the months of May 2013 shortly after Mr. Mba assumed office as D-G NBC up till date it has been a free fall for broadcasting in Nigeria. Our petition is therefore against willful acts and criminal omissions that occurred in the course of the period at NBC offices in Asokoro, Abuja with fall in standard of broadcasting nationwide i.e. massive licensing of unqualified Operators and violation of the NBC Code.

PETITION AGAINST MR EMEKA MBA, DIRECTOR-GENERAL, NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMMISSION (NBC)

We are a group of concerned nationalists who are in the vanguard of making Nigeria a better place for all Nigerians to live. In the spirit of the on-going reformation and rebirth of our country, Nigeria, under President Muhammadu Buhari, we are obliged to petition your office over the extensive damage done to the Broadcast Industry in Nigeria by Emeka Mba the serving Director General 2013-2015.

Between the months of May 2013 shortly after Mr. Mba assumed office as D-G NBC up till date it has been a free fall for broadcasting in Nigeria. Our petition is therefore against willful acts and criminal omissions that occurred in the course of the period at NBC offices in Asokoro, Abuja with fall in standard of broadcasting nationwide i.e. massive licensing of unqualified Operators and violation of the NBC Code.

Since Mr. Mba assumed the mantle of leadership at NBC, a hitherto very professional, prudent and well respected regulatory body, all things has been turned upside-down, NBC is losing her glory in the minds of Nigerians and seasoned professionals in the industry. A result of Emeka Mba holding sway like an Emperor in the old Roman Empire.

1. Excessive lobbying to remain in office:
Since the inception of the present administration Emeka Mba has resorted to intense lobbying to retain his position. This is notwithstanding that he used the funds of the NBC to bankroll the campaign election of the immediate past President, Goodluck Jonathan (subject to further investigation by the relevant agencies.)

Mr. Mba is bent on destroying broadcast in Nigeria with his reckless expenses, nepotic (refusal to stop Radio Biafra), corrupt ways. Mr. Mba has absolutely no regards or respect for compliance with mandatory Government bureaucracy in a bid to attract illegal gains to himself and his cronies.
This petition is submitted for the following and other reasons that may be discovered after a thorough investigation is carried out into the affairs of the NBC under Mr. Mba 2013 -2015.

2. Single Award of Contracts:
Mr. Mba has awarded contracts and issued licenses in contravention of the procurement laws of Nigeria. Typical example is the award of the software contract he recently awarded to a firm that had the highest quotation and the least competence.

3. Reckless Issuance of licenses:
Mr. Mba has solely awarded contracts and licenses without the approval of the Board of the NBC or its tender’s board. All the licenses issued in the twilight of the immediate past administration were issued without the compulsory security clearance from the Department of State Security. Statutory fees were neither demanded nor paid in the process.

4. Loss in revenue from licenses:
Mr. Mba has awarded such contracts and licenses to his friends and cronies with the full intention of making the L.G. lose millions of Naira. These include TV, Radio and DTH licenses. Backdated approvals are still being issued for licenses and contracts up till date (kindly note that collection of these losses in revenue will boost the present regime finances).

5. Non approval of extra budgetary expenses:
Mr Mba has appropriated monies belonging to the Federal Government unlawfully. Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) is spent without recourse to statutory approvals and or budgetary allocations.
Mr. Mba has made huge expenditure without prior or subsequent budgetary approval. His personal expenditure is unrivaled in the history of NBC. He is bent on leaving an empty purse whenever he leaves office.

6. Violation of code of conduct of NBC:
Mr. Mba has deliberately and for personal gain frustrated the policies of the Federal Government in relation to broadcasting by constantly approved the violation the code of conducts of NBC by encouraging his favourites to get away with copyright violation, piracy and not to be broadcast musical and video.

These are some of the reasons for our petition. Demands investigation into the finances and books of the NBC in the past ten years to show the trend since Mr. Mba took over at NBC 2013 NTBB Code of Conducts.

We therefore seek your IMMEDIATE INTERVENTION by investigating the NBC with a view to saving Nigeria and public funds from being frittered away.

Thank you.

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/petition-against-mr-emeka-mba-director-general-national-broadcasting-commission-nbc.html

irunooboo:
How does Gej and other PDP members sleep at night with all these massive looting they supervised for so long? Shame

Goodluck will sleep well. That man is an empty 'servant spirit'. If you look at him properly all you will see is empty chaffe. There is nothing in the guy

What is needed now is to declare a state of emergency on corruption.

Why are they stealing this nation blind for crying out loud?

Okay na.

Its either news of someone's arrest, someone was freed by court and rearrested or a celeb uploads picture.













Anyways, its not my business.

Baba needs yams to finance 2016 budget. I'm sorry for all those stole our precious yams.

Just in case

mtchew.

ok

Because he bears Emeka ba
Buhari continu

I doubt if this man will escape. During his tenure as DG of NBC, a lot of uncensored broadcast by media organizations and the way budget of the commission were spent does not really go in line with the financial rules. If he can explain himself very well, EFCC will free him but with a lot of explanation

richidinho:
ok Because he bears Emeka ba
Buhari continu

Corruption needs no tribe. Stop fighting to adopt, colonise and defend it!

Roast him...

The sectional witch hunt continues. Buhari is a hardcore tribalist.


Picking and choosing ministry or parastatal occupied by southerners to prosecute.


I will not complain, if I dont know that Northerners have produce far more Political billionaires than south especially the East.


The North have held power longer than any region in the country.


Buhari should prosecute everybody or his exercise is one in futility.


Buhari wants to tell me that NNPC occupied by Northerner after Northerner consecutively is without corruption?


Are we stupiid in this country?


Even Buhari himself, have not accounted for the missing Petroleum fund when he was Petroleum Minister.


EFCC should arrest Buhari, then we know they are working. Nonsense!

EFCC SHOULD INVESTIGATE ALL THE MINISTERIES ONE SHOULD NOT BE LEFT OUT ON THESE MISSION. SAI BABA BUHARI OYOYO GOD BLESS YOU SIR

Thank God for giving us Buhari. If not, we wouldn't have known a tenth of what we now know and such destruction of our economy would have continued till all hope is lost.

Magu has gotten the needed tool to go for the looters jugular - the political will of the president to fight corruption.

hammerT:
The sectional witch hunt continues. Buhari is a hardcore tribalist.

hammerT:
The sectional witch hunt continues. Buhari is a hardcore tribalist.

YOUR HEAD NEED TO BE EXAMINE OTHERWISE

hammerT:
The sectional witch hunt continues. Buhari is a hardcore tribalist.

Passage to Togo, Benin Republic and many other ECOWAS countries is free.

These goats should just vomit the yams so the country can move on. We don't even have enough prisons to place the multitude of goats that could be caught.

i suspected this, deal with him...whao making front page for the first time. better days ahead.