I see no reason why the judiciary should fix a date without adequately serving the parties involved. Due process must be followed.

Any way sha i dont have faith in the judicial system as long as buhari has refused to present his certificate and he is still the the president of NIGERIA.

If electoral system dey work as some people talk....PMB for don spend like 6years for jail by now

I think it is only in Nigeria that leaders are above the law of the land. A very big shame to the Nigeria's judicial system

ok

The ZIG-ZAG govt

Saraki!!! Why is it only you, can't you just do something good in this nation at all... Nah wa for you Senator Bukola Saraki.

Shut up, he remains our Senate President

kollybay4u:

Saraki from forgery case to another alleged false declaration of assets just the same day!!! And we call Saraki our senate president. Why it's always difficult for our politicians to just resign from office?

If they can arraignment NO3 & NO5 what is holding them for also arraignment bull-hari for forgery ?




Government of the north for the north and by the north

Don't even know why we commenting on this farce!

We rebuke you FG together with apc, may you not succeed in you evil plans .

kollybay4u:

Saraki from forgery case to another alleged false declaration of assets just the same day!!! And we call Saraki our senate president. Why it's always difficult for our politicians to just resign from office?

Three other cases are pending on money laundering
1- remember the N300millin stolen from him by his securities when he went to bea de change
2- why is he holding N12millin in his house stolen by his household members
3- his role in SGBANK collapse

OjujuCalabar:
SaharaReporters has exclusively obtained the sponsor-list of the employees that were illegally hired at the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).


The list—which includes some of Nigeria’s most prominent political figures—was released to SaharaReporters following its June 15 report exposing the Executive Chairman of FIRS, Babatunde Fowler, as overseeing the recruitment exercise in violation of Nigerian laws and in further harm to President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption initiative.

The list of sponsors includes aides of President Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, political operatives of the All Progressives Congress (APC), federal legislators, the Federal Character Commission (FCC), as well as top officials of FIRS itself. Also on the list are aides of the traditional ruler of Lagos, former President Shehu Shagari, and former Head of State Yakubu Gowon. That broad span demonstrates the depth and magnitude of the illegal employment menace in the country.

As in the case of the illegal hires of the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, which was exposed by SaharaReporters three months ago, Mr. Fowler illegally recruited no fewer than 349 new FIRS staff members by deliberately ignoring existing Nigerian regulations, laws, and guidelines for public jobs.

According to the list, Mr. Fowler himself sponsored the highest number of illegal hires, with at least 89 recruits being attributed to him. As the corruption spread in the service, the Special Advisor to Mr. Fowler sponsored no fewer than eight illegal hires, while the Coordinating Directors of the Support Services Group, the Domestic Tax Group, and the Compliance and Standards Group (CSG) also took turns.

Sources speaking to SaharaReporters revealed that two hires—Rasheeda Seghosime and Danjuma Seghosime—are the children of FIRS CSG Coordinating Director Queensley Seghosime.

In a practice that parallels the gerrymandering and manipulation in the illegal CBN hires, the Seghosime siblings are curiously listed as being from two different States: Rasheeda listed under Jigawa State, and Danjuma under Delta State.

Another powerful political figure who repeatedly sponsored candidates is Senator Owan Enoh, (Cross River Central). The list shows Mr. Enoh as having sponsored no fewer than 60 illegal hires. Another lawmaker, Babangida Ibrahim, who represents Katsina State in the House of Representatives, also appears to have sponsored no fewer than 10 people.

Sources with knowledge of the illegal hiring practices at the FIRS revealed to SaharaReporters that Mr. Enoh and Mr. Ibrahim, both of whom are the Chairmen on the Senate and House Finance Committees, worked with Mr. Fowler to distribute the public job spots to members of those committees.

This source explained that Mr. Enoh and Mr. Babangida may not even know all the names attributed to them as sponsors because they were intermediaries between Mr. Fowler at FIRS and the Finance Committee members in the Senate and House.

Neither Mr. Enoh or Mr. Ibrahim returned SaharaReporters calls when our correspondent sought comment on these developments.

No fewer than 35 illegal hires were sponsored by the “VP”, according to the sponsor list and FIRS sources speaking with our correspondent. However, according to one source, “I do not know whether these people were sponsored by the Vice President himself or people in his office.”

SaharaReporters spoke to Mr. Osinbajo’s spokesman Laolu Akande, who promised to respond to our inquiries on Friday but did not do so throughout the weekend.

The Secretary of the Government of the Federation, Babachir David Lawal, is listed as having sponsored no fewer than 27 illegal FIRS hires and was described as having enjoyed a “hands-on” role in selecting all hires.

A source at FIRS told SaharaReporters that, unlike many of the recruits sponsored by Mr. Enoh, SGF Lawal knew many of those he sponsored and was instrumental in selecting them to fill those spots. This source also added that Mr. Lawal was supposed to investigate allegations that FIRS was hiring people illegally as far back as April, but “simply ignored the issue.” It was also learned that at least 4 of the 27 illegal hires Mr. Lawal sponsored came from his wife.

Mr. Lawal told SaharaReporters by text and email that he was categorically certain that he had no role in the illegal hires and that reports linking him were false.

President Buhari’s Senior Special Advisers to the National Assembly, Kawu Sumaila and Ita Enang, are also listed as sponsors in the FIRS hires. Mr. Sumaila, SSA to the House of Representatives, sponsored five job slots; Mr. Enang, eight. Sources explained that Mr. Fowler provided these slots to Mr. Sumaila and Mr. Enang as a gesture of good faith concerning future requests.

Sources explained the keywords used to convey who was sponsoring which illegal candidate:

· CD meant Coordinating Director in various FIRS groups

· EC stood for Executive Chairman, meaning Mr. Fowler;

· DG BPSR meant Joe Abah, the Director General of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms;

· FCC stood for the Federal Character Commission, the Commissioners of which received job slots to distribute in exchange for ignoring the fact that FIRS was not publicly advertising the jobs.


Sahara Reporters Media
SaharaReporters sources could not confirm the code words “Baba” or “Mama”, which sponsored at least 20 and 10 jobs respectively, but curiously a duplicate name sponsored by “Mama” was also listed as being sponsored by “Small Villa.” It is believed that the code names were referring to President Muhammadu Buhari, who is widely called Baba, while "Mama" might be his wife, Hajia Aisha Buhari. Our sources could not confirm to whom or what “Small Villa” represented, either.

As in the case of CBN Governor Emiefiele, sour sources explained to that Mr. Fowler was the mastermind for this monumental illegl employment scheme as a way for him to maintain control of FIRS even if he got sacked by President Buhari.

“FIRS not only has a massive budget but if Tunde were to leave he would still be able to influence the FIRS,” one source explained.

He added: “Tunde would be able to peddle influence and buy favors from Nigerian companies to give them assistance manipulating FIRS” after he leaves.

Sources from the FIRS also explained to our correspondent that most of these illegal hires were relatives or friends of the sponsors but that some job slots were sold for money.

Other names which are listed as having sponsored some of the illegal FIRS jobs are the Attorney General to the Federation, Abubakar Malami; Chief Pius Akinyelure; Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu; former Head of State General Yakubu Gowon; the Head of Service, Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita; the former FIRS Executive Chairman Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru; Minister of Information Lai Mohammed; the Minister of State for Planning Zainab Ahmed; the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu; former FIRS boss Alhaji Kabir Mashi; and APC Deputy Publicity Secretary Timi Frank.

According to SaharaReporters’ investigation, six of the new recruits are of the position of deputy director, while 10 are assistant directors. Thirty-four others are of the rank of deputy manager, while the rest are made up of senior managers, managers, assistant managers and officers.

The full list of sponsors and illegal hires can be viewed below:

FIRS Sponsor List

Wailing wailing
Wailing wailer

Wailing wailing
Wailing wailer

Bring the papers and let me serve the thieves jare.

SARAKI, THE FACE OF CORRUPTION

kollybay4u:

Saraki from forgery case to another alleged false declaration of assets just the same day!!! And we call Saraki our senate president. Why it's always difficult for our politicians to just resign from office?

see your hypocrisy! does your President have the minimum certificate? in sane societies both PmB , Saraki will all be in jail and forfeit all.monies earned during the period .
Saraki is a fraud but so also is PmB ....

when people usually talk about judiciary i laugh in china, if it were to be an ordinary person it will start working. On this one i trust EFCC.

this Guy....

Keneking:
Cant they serve him?

- At home (Abuja and Ilorin)
- At school (where he got his Dr. degree)
- At Senate (at his office door, on his Senate President seat, on his table)
- At his official car ( paste the notice on the owner's corner and his windscreen)

What is so difficult?

But where is lalasticlala sef

Ronpet777:
Judicial cases take way too long in dis country as far as I am concerned.This Saraki man shld be incarcerated already na.He's got his hands soiled enough!

you self

Why can't the Executive arm of government mind their business. Let the Legislature get their joker ready ( Impeachment) if they can't bear the harassment any longer. Which side our Judiciary dey sef.

sammhi:

see your hypocrisy! does your President have the minimum certificate? in sane societies both PmB , Saraki will all be in jail and forfeit all.monies earned during the period .
Saraki is a fraud but so also is PmB ....

Even the former president is also a fraud

martolux:
Saraki is bigger than the Federal Government.

gbam! bigger than all of them ..... they cant even see draw not to talk of wining . sp for 4years

OjujuCalabar:
SaharaReporters has exclusively obtained the sponsor-list of the employees that were illegally hired at the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).


The list—which includes some of Nigeria’s most prominent political figures—was released to SaharaReporters following its June 15 report exposing the Executive Chairman of FIRS, Babatunde Fowler, as overseeing the recruitment exercise in violation of Nigerian laws and in further harm to President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption initiative.

The list of sponsors includes aides of President Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, political operatives of the All Progressives Congress (APC), federal legislators, the Federal Character Commission (FCC), as well as top officials of FIRS itself. Also on the list are aides of the traditional ruler of Lagos, former President Shehu Shagari, and former Head of State Yakubu Gowon. That broad span demonstrates the depth and magnitude of the illegal employment menace in the country.

As in the case of the illegal hires of the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, which was exposed by SaharaReporters three months ago, Mr. Fowler illegally recruited no fewer than 349 new FIRS staff members by deliberately ignoring existing Nigerian regulations, laws, and guidelines for public jobs.

According to the list, Mr. Fowler himself sponsored the highest number of illegal hires, with at least 89 recruits being attributed to him. As the corruption spread in the service, the Special Advisor to Mr. Fowler sponsored no fewer than eight illegal hires, while the Coordinating Directors of the Support Services Group, the Domestic Tax Group, and the Compliance and Standards Group (CSG) also took turns.

Sources speaking to SaharaReporters revealed that two hires—Rasheeda Seghosime and Danjuma Seghosime—are the children of FIRS CSG Coordinating Director Queensley Seghosime.

In a practice that parallels the gerrymandering and manipulation in the illegal CBN hires, the Seghosime siblings are curiously listed as being from two different States: Rasheeda listed under Jigawa State, and Danjuma under Delta State.

Another powerful political figure who repeatedly sponsored candidates is Senator Owan Enoh, (Cross River Central). The list shows Mr. Enoh as having sponsored no fewer than 60 illegal hires. Another lawmaker, Babangida Ibrahim, who represents Katsina State in the House of Representatives, also appears to have sponsored no fewer than 10 people.

Sources with knowledge of the illegal hiring practices at the FIRS revealed to SaharaReporters that Mr. Enoh and Mr. Ibrahim, both of whom are the Chairmen on the Senate and House Finance Committees, worked with Mr. Fowler to distribute the public job spots to members of those committees.

This source explained that Mr. Enoh and Mr. Babangida may not even know all the names attributed to them as sponsors because they were intermediaries between Mr. Fowler at FIRS and the Finance Committee members in the Senate and House.

Neither Mr. Enoh or Mr. Ibrahim returned SaharaReporters calls when our correspondent sought comment on these developments.

No fewer than 35 illegal hires were sponsored by the “VP”, according to the sponsor list and FIRS sources speaking with our correspondent. However, according to one source, “I do not know whether these people were sponsored by the Vice President himself or people in his office.”

SaharaReporters spoke to Mr. Osinbajo’s spokesman Laolu Akande, who promised to respond to our inquiries on Friday but did not do so throughout the weekend.

The Secretary of the Government of the Federation, Babachir David Lawal, is listed as having sponsored no fewer than 27 illegal FIRS hires and was described as having enjoyed a “hands-on” role in selecting all hires.

A source at FIRS told SaharaReporters that, unlike many of the recruits sponsored by Mr. Enoh, SGF Lawal knew many of those he sponsored and was instrumental in selecting them to fill those spots. This source also added that Mr. Lawal was supposed to investigate allegations that FIRS was hiring people illegally as far back as April, but “simply ignored the issue.” It was also learned that at least 4 of the 27 illegal hires Mr. Lawal sponsored came from his wife.

Mr. Lawal told SaharaReporters by text and email that he was categorically certain that he had no role in the illegal hires and that reports linking him were false.

President Buhari’s Senior Special Advisers to the National Assembly, Kawu Sumaila and Ita Enang, are also listed as sponsors in the FIRS hires. Mr. Sumaila, SSA to the House of Representatives, sponsored five job slots; Mr. Enang, eight. Sources explained that Mr. Fowler provided these slots to Mr. Sumaila and Mr. Enang as a gesture of good faith concerning future requests.

Sources explained the keywords used to convey who was sponsoring which illegal candidate:

· CD meant Coordinating Director in various FIRS groups

· EC stood for Executive Chairman, meaning Mr. Fowler;

· DG BPSR meant Joe Abah, the Director General of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms;

· FCC stood for the Federal Character Commission, the Commissioners of which received job slots to distribute in exchange for ignoring the fact that FIRS was not publicly advertising the jobs.


Sahara Reporters Media
SaharaReporters sources could not confirm the code words “Baba” or “Mama”, which sponsored at least 20 and 10 jobs respectively, but curiously a duplicate name sponsored by “Mama” was also listed as being sponsored by “Small Villa.” It is believed that the code names were referring to President Muhammadu Buhari, who is widely called Baba, while "Mama" might be his wife, Hajia Aisha Buhari. Our sources could not confirm to whom or what “Small Villa” represented, either.

As in the case of CBN Governor Emiefiele, sour sources explained to that Mr. Fowler was the mastermind for this monumental illegl employment scheme as a way for him to maintain control of FIRS even if he got sacked by President Buhari.

“FIRS not only has a massive budget but if Tunde were to leave he would still be able to influence the FIRS,” one source explained.

He added: “Tunde would be able to peddle influence and buy favors from Nigerian companies to give them assistance manipulating FIRS” after he leaves.

Sources from the FIRS also explained to our correspondent that most of these illegal hires were relatives or friends of the sponsors but that some job slots were sold for money.

Other names which are listed as having sponsored some of the illegal FIRS jobs are the Attorney General to the Federation, Abubakar Malami; Chief Pius Akinyelure; Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu; former Head of State General Yakubu Gowon; the Head of Service, Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita; the former FIRS Executive Chairman Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru; Minister of Information Lai Mohammed; the Minister of State for Planning Zainab Ahmed; the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu; former FIRS boss Alhaji Kabir Mashi; and APC Deputy Publicity Secretary Timi Frank.

According to SaharaReporters’ investigation, six of the new recruits are of the position of deputy director, while 10 are assistant directors. Thirty-four others are of the rank of deputy manager, while the rest are made up of senior managers, managers, assistant managers and officers.

The full list of sponsors and illegal hires can be viewed below:

FIRS Sponsor List

So what do we do with d pfucking list now,show it 2 pmb 2 intervene or 2 continue wailing.

pharmagba:


Three other cases are pending on money laundering
1- remember the N300millin stolen from him by his securities when he went to bea de change
2- why is he holding N12millin in his house stolen by his household members
3- his role in SGBANK collapse

do you know that SGBANK is the new HERITAGE BANK? just asking you if u are aware of this

Achuwa1:
A lazy govt tht is full of lies & deceit always distracting the zombies as usual.
no case against ekwerenmadu ever succeeds coz he is always 2 steps ahead of buharis govt.
where is buharis certificate?

Are you sure you are better than Buhari, the 'certificateless' president, after all? Your writing skill should you put your own certificate to shame, that's if you have any at all!

tritt:






http://saharareporters.com/2016/06/21/forgery-trial-saraki-ekeweremadus-forgery-trial-stalled-abuja?

The Federal Govt at this time do not need all this distraction, they focus more on taking us out of this calamity, the economy is messed up, and they still have the time to fight dirty, I really don't understand the priorities of this Govt, is to fight your enemies at the detriment of the economy, while your friends who are thieves walk around free persons.

They should this men, and wait to fight another day.

I really support this immunity for National assembly leadership n also 4 Judiciary. We have 3 arms of government and I dnt know why only only the executive should be enjoying immunity and willl be using it to intimidate the Legislature. Imagine ordinary governor n deputy governor enjoying immunity while Senate president, Speaker of d house n Chief judge of the federation doesn't.

x9ja1960:
Says who? Na you give am the palm oil him use soil the hand? Abegi no dey house become judge, you fit try become online advocate for due process sha!

No be dis same Nigeria me and U dey? U need person to tell u say him hand no clean? Collecting salary as a senator and as a former govnr and many oda atrocities.Let's call a spade a spade jare.We can't continue being led by pple who wish to suck us dry with every chance dey get!

dekaz:
do you know that SGBANK is the new HERITAGE BANK? just asking you if u are aware of this

No

Where are all depositors money swallowed up by S G bank
Bro this forum is not for illiterate.

sammhi:

see your hypocrisy! does your President have the minimum certificate? in sane societies both PmB , Saraki will all be in jail and forfeit all.monies earned during the period .
Saraki is a fraud but so also is PmB ....

This is not a matter of hypocrisy at all but just an observation for those people we call our law breaker rather for them to be our law maker!!!

pharmagba:


Three other cases are pending on money laundering
1- remember the N300millin stolen from him by his securities when he went to bea de change
2- why is he holding N12millin in his house stolen by his household members
3- his role in SGBANK collapse

Yes you are correct now I remember that. Why Saraki?