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Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by StepTwo: 10:47pm On Sep 26, 2016
The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Uguru Usani, was indicted for fraud and abuse of office during his tenure as a commissioner in Cross River State, SaharaReporters learned on Monday.

Usani was the Commissioner for Agriculture, Water Resources, and Rural Development during the last military administration in the state, which was headed by Col. U. F Ahmed (Rtd). It was Military Administrator Ahmed who handed over to the elected governor of the state, Mr. Donald Duke, at the beginning of the Fourth Republic on May 29, 1999.

Our correspondent on Monday obtained a document published in 2000 by the Cross River State Government indicting Mr. Usani for fraud and abuse of office.

In its gazette, the state government concluded in its findings that Usani along with a firm, Gersh Henshaw & Company, defrauded the government of about N16m through a contract for the valuation of the assets of an agency under his ministry.

It recommended that the former commissioner be prosecuted and that details of the transaction be forwarded to the Code of Conduct Tribunal.

On June 21, 1999 Governor Duke inaugurated the Financial Impropriety/Verification Standing Committee to, among others: ascertain the assets and liabilities of the ministries and institutions, all forms of financial impropriety (if any) in government ministries and establishments, the perpetrators of such financial improprieties; and recommend appropriate disciplinary actions to be taken against the culprits including recovery of all such sums.

The committee, which was led by Chief Orok Oyo, included Chief Andy Ikpeme, Ekpe Essien Ita, Otu Oka, Mr. Akomaye Adie and Okoi-Obono Obla (who was later replaced by Mr. Stephen Asuquo).

The recommendations of the committee and approval of the state government were published as Cross River Gazette titled, ‘Views of the Cross Rivers State Government on the Report of the Financial Impropriety/Verification Standing Committee.'

The 37th contract involving Usani and which was investigated by the committee is titled in the Gazette as 'The Case of Gersh Henshaw & Company.' It involved “the contract for the valuation of vehicles, workshops/equipment of the Cross River State Water Board”, awarded by Usani as the then Commissioner for Water Resources and Rural Development to Gersh Henshaw & Company, Estate Surveyors, and Valuers.
Usani was said to have paid about N20,750,000 to the company for the execution of the contract. The Head of Practice of the firm, Mr. Gersh Henshaw, was said to have testified before the committee, giving the impression that the firm did the state government a favour by accepting the lump sum of N20,750,000 from the then commissioner for the execution of the job.

But the committee stated that in line with the approved scale of fees for the valuation work done, Gersh Henshaw & Company ought to have been paid only N4,426,850.

The committee recommended that the sum of N16,323,150, being the excess of the payment, be recovered from Usani.

“The then Commissioner, Mr. Usani U. Usani, expressly refused to pay in accordance with the approved scales or fees although that would have meant a lot of savings on the part of government. He rather ended up paying an amount which was N16,323,150.00 higher than the approved scale or fees," the gazette read in part.

The committee had recommended to the government that a total sum of N17,031,446 comprising N16,323,150 being excess payment on the contract sum and N708,296 as tax deduction should be recovered from Usani.

But the government stated that the N708,296 tax deduction had been waved.

The government approved the recommendation that the particulars of the transaction should be forwarded to the Code of Conduct Tribunal with a complaint of “financial impropriety and abuse of office” against Usani.
According to the document: “The committee found that Mr. Usani and Mr. Gersh Henshaw deliberately failed to apply the approved scale of fees and in order to defraud the government.

“The Government of Cross River State should recover the total sum of N17,031,446.00 made up of N16,323,150 being excess payment on the contract sum for the valuation of the assets of Cross River State Water Board and N708,296.00 being total tax deduction.”

In the comment section, it said: “Government accepts this recommendation and directs that the sum of N16,323,150 only should be recovered from Mr. Usani U. Usani, the then Commissioner for Agriculture, Water Resources and Rural Development being excess payment on the contract sum for the valuation of the assets of the Cross River State Water Board. He should also be prosecuted.

“Government however, waives the payment of N708,296.00 being total tax deduction in view of its comment expressed in paragraph 38 (viii) above. Government shall forward particulars of this transaction to the Code of Conduct Tribunal with a complaint against Mr. Usani Uguru Usani for financial impropriety and abuse of office.”

On the issue that the firm be allowed the sum of N4,426,850 as total Consultancy fee (gross of total), the government accepted the recommendation, saying: “The Government of Cross River State should make a formal complaint against Gersh Henshaw & Company to his professional body, the Nigerian Institute of Estate Surveyors and Valuers for unprofessional conduct.”

Noting that recommendation, the government said: “The firm of Gersh Henshaw & Company should be blacklisted from further patronage by the Government of Cross River State.”



http://saharareporters.com/2016/09/26/buharis-niger-delta-minister-uguru-usani-was-indicted-cross-river-fraud

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Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by StepTwo: 10:48pm On Sep 26, 2016
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Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by sexychocolate1(m): 10:53pm On Sep 26, 2016
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Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by kolaish(m): 10:57pm On Sep 26, 2016
sexychocolate1:
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Probably a waste of time publishing all these; though, may be for the records because the govt will not see it as no member of APC is corrupt.

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Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by socialmediaman: 10:58pm On Sep 26, 2016
Buhari is probably not gonna do anything about this! With what has so far happened with the CBN secret hires, fraud allegations against his subjects etc, I doubt this will make a difference. However, all these will haunt them come 2019... that is, if greedy PDP reforms itself

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Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by mamabomboy: 10:59pm On Sep 26, 2016
Oh, isn't he an angel. Buhari sure knows how to pick the best of the best, F**ki** Dullard.

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Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by id911(m): 11:01pm On Sep 26, 2016
He is in APC and now a new creature, his sins are covered by the wings of Buhari. Look at renowned treasury looter like Amaechi eating in the same table with Buhari. Mr integrity indeed!


Even corrupt OBJ jailed members of his party during his tenure

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Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by realborn(m): 11:02pm On Sep 26, 2016
How did he go undetected at the insane-ate Senate screening?

The Party lords keep dumping on us garbage.

What a country! sad sad

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Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by danmasani101: 11:09pm On Sep 26, 2016
realborn:
How did he go undetected at the insane-ate Senate screening?

The Party lords keep dumping on us garbage.

What a country! sad sad

Same way the likes of Rotimi Amechi, Fashola, Fayemi etc passed through the screening

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Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by doctokwus: 11:14pm On Sep 26, 2016
Some of these things were manifest but we all thought the man was true to his words that he wudnt spare anyone because he was assumed to have the highest integrity of any Nigerian leader since 1979.Alas,Buratai,Kyari and Dambazzau proved everyone wrong,including die hard supporters.
Almost all his cabinet ministers and key appointees were accused of corruption,he chose to play deaf.
SR like many of his supporters seems to have had enough of PMB deceptions and inactions and with the veil and romance having been cruelly divorced of his dirty garments,the medium I am sure will go into it's usual frontal assault to totally expose the grand deception that is the anticorruption fight.Just like some,its ironic that it's the one campaign promise that brought him into power that PMB's has completely shown his grand deceit.

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Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by kings09(m): 11:23pm On Sep 26, 2016
Buhari is blind to diz facts n accusation against a saint

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Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by doctokwus: 11:30pm On Sep 26, 2016
id911:


Even corrupt OBJ jailed members of his party during his tenure
Yar'Adua jailed Bode George,perhaps the most powerful PDP member in the Southwest then.Ironically,the trial lasted for just about a year,years before the much touted administration of criminal justice act,ACJA,was signed into law.
Here going to 2 years since he came into power,voted in because of his promise to fight corruption and claimed integrity with ACJA fully in play,not a single politician of note is near jail!Of course,once of APC,jail is as far as fish is to land!!

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Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by realborn(m): 11:47pm On Sep 26, 2016
danmasani101:


Same way the likes of Rotimi Amechi, Fashola, Fayemi etc passed through the screening

They are all miscreants!!

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Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by GoggleB(m): 12:00am On Sep 27, 2016
Since he is an APC member he is a Saint...

Korrupt man fighting Korruption..

Stoopid government..

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Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by timeman: 12:21am On Sep 27, 2016
What exactly do wailers expect buhari to have done? That Buhari should have demanded of his tenureship having served under a military administration? How many civil servants were tried, let alone convicted under military administrations? Or Buhari should have dusted the alledged report from under the carpet whereby Donald Duke swept them. I'm now fully convinced that wailing has some pure strains of phychosis.
Kiss the truth!

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Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by Agimor(m): 12:27am On Sep 27, 2016
He has been baptised with the APC water hence old things are past away and behold all things has become new.

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Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by naijaking1: 12:32am On Sep 27, 2016
id911:
He is in APC and now a new creature, his sins are covered by the wings of Buhari. Look at renowned treasury looter like Amaechi eating in the same table with Buhari. Mr integrity indeed!


Even corrupt OBJ jailed members of his party during his tenure

It took Buhari 9 months to find these angels of ministers! If any of you cause any of them to be removed, it might take Buhari another 9 years to find a replacement angel minister!

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Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by kenny987(f): 1:38am On Sep 27, 2016
doctokwus:
Some of these things were manifest but we all thought the man was true to his words that he wudnt spare anyone because he was assumed to have the highest integrity of any Nigerian leader since 1979.Alas,Buratai,Kyari and Dambazzau proved everyone wrong,including die hard supporters.
Almost all his cabinet ministers and key appointees were accused of corruption,he chose to play deaf.
SR like many of his supporters seems to have had enough of PMB deceptions and inactions and with the veil and romance having been cruelly divorced of his dirty garments,the medium I am sure will go into it's usual frontal assault to totally expose the grand deception that is the anticorruption fight.Just like some,its ironic that it's the one campaign promise that brought him into power that PMB's has completely shown his grand deceit.

To assume (ASS-U-ME) makes an ass of u & me.Next time study antecedents before 'assuming'. Buhari is not doing anything new or unexpected considering his nature, history and cronies that visibly surrounded and still surround him. All of these were out there and concerned citizens screamed to high heavens but u got taken in by dreams of 'pighting kwarrapshin' and seeming sainthood. Refusing to publicly declare his assets as he swore he would was already a deal breaker. Now eyes don clear...there were more optins beyond APC and PDP but y'all chose to make it an 'either/or' situation so we gotta deal with it.

So the anti-corruption fight is now grand deception? How sad that u only realised the lies now that it is too late to do anything about them. I wonder how u guys could even comfortably place buhari and integrity side by side in a positive sense! How? shocked On what basis? Na wa o!

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Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by Nobody: 5:53am On Sep 27, 2016
And you think the dullard buhari will tell Usani 'go home' just because of this? Smh.

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Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by SamuelAnyawu(m): 6:06am On Sep 27, 2016
Sahara please don't disturb APC Party men...



They are all Saints grin grin grin grin grin

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Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by sinistermind(m): 6:25am On Sep 27, 2016
Na today?? when Amaechi's own was revealed, what was done?

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Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by hucienda: 6:32am On Sep 27, 2016
Burr ... Burr ... But ... it took the president six months to select him.

Surely, Uguru - like Buratai, Amaechi, Tinubu, Buhari - is a saint?
undecided

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Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by CR77(f): 7:33am On Sep 27, 2016
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Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by ceeethru(m): 7:35am On Sep 27, 2016
There a full white paper of indictment for the minister of transportation, strong evidence that his chief of staff collected bribe from Mtn, same with his minister of interior who has also been indicted, and his chief of army claims he bought two houses in Dubai worth 1.5m dollars with his personal savings welcome to the change.

Buhari need hot slap I swear... lol

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Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by acunon: 7:37am On Sep 27, 2016
We will look further into this more carefully
Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by Evergreen4(m): 7:37am On Sep 27, 2016
There's no corrupt person in APC

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Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by TwoBottles: 7:38am On Sep 27, 2016
In "Stevenson's Kidnap" by Oliver Goldsmith, David was looking for the house of Shaw so he asked an old man; "please where is the house of Shaw?" The old man replied; "this is the house of Shaw, blood built it and blood shall see the end to it.

Nigerian democracy was built on corruption and corruption shall see the end to it.
Little wonder the entire political class are criminals.

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Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by ELPablochapo: 7:38am On Sep 27, 2016
Vindictive govt.

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Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by drnoel: 7:38am On Sep 27, 2016
realborn:
How did he go undetected at the insane-ate Senate screening?

The Party lords keep dumping on us garbage.

What a country! sad sad
There was country. It has now spiralled off the road the founding fathers wanted
Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by Nobody: 7:39am On Sep 27, 2016
only PDP is corrupt

APC are saints and virgins

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Re: Uguru Usani Was Indicted For Fraud In Cross River (Documents Attached) by Nobody: 7:39am On Sep 27, 2016
who is clean in nigeria political class? tell me

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