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Efcc- Based Analysis Of Financial Political And Commercial Corruption In Nigeria by mekusxxx: 8:40pm On Nov 09, 2009
Names and tribes/states/ countries of Nigerian thieves. Culled mostly from the EFCC website but list not exhaustive as EFCC has not updated website.

As you trudge on in your life, be sure to acquiant yourself with new names that will be coming out in the future. So whenever you see a report of political/financial fraud Nigeria note the perpetrators (names and tribes) and connect to this post for an updated evaluation.


Already convicted

Alameiseigha (Ijaw)

Tafa Balogun (Yoruba)

Sunday Afolabi (National ID card fraud; Yoruba; died in detention) (ICPC)


Already convicted:NPA scam

Bode George (Yoruba)

Captain O. Adeboye (Yoruba)

Aminu Dabo (Hausa/Fulani)

Abdullahi Tafida (Hausa/Fulani)

Zanna Mairaribe (Hausa/Fulani)

Sule Aliyu (Hausa/Fulani)


Former governors: state thieves with lesser (especially short term) effect on the central purse, IMHO. A political thief in Ogun has no dire impact to the people of Oyo or Abia and vice versa.

Individual cases and amounts involved

Ayo Fayose(Former Governor of Ekiti State N1.2 Billion

Rasheed Ladoja (Former Governor of Oyo State) N6 Billion

Olusegun Agagu, former Ondo gov also mentioned in state fraud as well as fraud as a former minister but not yet arraigned.

Yoruba=2, for now.

Joshua Dariye(Former Governor Plateau State) N700 Million

Jolly Nyame(Former Governor of Taraba State) N180 Million

Saminu Turaki(Former Governor, Jigawa State) N36

Michael Botmang(Former Governor of Plateau State)  N1.5 Billion

Boni Haruna (Former Governor, Adamawa State) N254 Million

North (Hausa-Fulani/ minorities) = 5

Orji Uzor Kalu(Former Governor, Abia State) N5 Billion

Chimaroke Nnamani (Former Governor of Enugu State) N5.3 Billion

Igbo =2


James Ibori(Former Governor, Delta State) N9.2 Billion

Lucky Igbinedion(Former Governor of Edo State N4.3 Billion


Niger Delta =2

Other state thieves with effect similar to state governors

Nyeson Wike (Serving Chief of Staff to Governor of Rivers State)  N4.670 Billion

Dr Yuguda Manu Kaigama, Chairman, Taraba State Civil Service Commission N17 Million

Professor Innocent Chuka Okonkwo, fmr VC Imo state Univ, N145 Million.

Federal thieves with impact felt by all Nigerians (the real ones that affect us all in short and long term) who make our federal roads, hospitals, schools, sea ports, airports, federal bureaucracy, police force, and other commonwealth unworkable. So note this category in particular.


Adenike Grange(Former Minister of Health) FCT. N300 million  (Yoruba)

Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello( Serving Senator) N10 Million (Yoruba)


Prof. Babalola Borishade (Former Minister of Aviation) FCT (N5.6 billion) (Yoruba)

Kenny Martins (Police Equipment Fund) 9 N7,740 Billion (Yoruba)

Femi Fani-Kayode (Former Minster of Aviation) N250 Million (Yoruba) 

Gabriel Aduku(Former Minister of Health)  N300 Million (North/Kogi)


Mallam Nasir El-Rufai (Former Minister of Federal Capital Territory).( North)


Prince Ibrahim Dumuje (Police Equipment Fund)  N7,740 Billion (North)

Roland Iyayi (Former Managing Director of FAAN) N5.6 Billion (Edo)

Dr Albert Ikomi, rtd perm sec, N43 Million (Niger Delta-Cross River or Delta?)


Eider George (Austrian Business man) (Foreigner)


13 Filipinos (Charged for Oil Bunkering) N300 Million (Foreigners)


6 Ghanaians (Charged for Oil Bunkering) N250 Million (Foreigners)


Patrick Fernadez (Indian Buisnessman) N32 Billion (Foreigner)

Vaswani Brothers (foreigners missing in the list)

Groups of federal thieves (1)

Sen. Nicholas Ugbade,(Serving Senator/Kogi)

Hon. Ndudi Elumelu (Delta Igbo

Hon. Mohammed Jibo,(North)

Hon. Paulinus Igwe,(Rivers/ Ikwerre/Serving Members of House of Representatives)

Dr Aliyu Abdullahi(Serving Fed.Perm.Sec) (North)

Mr. Samuel Ibi (unknown)

Mr. Simon Nanle (unknown)

Mr. Lawrence Orekoya (Yoruba)

Mr Kayode Oyedeji (Yoruba)

Mr. A. Garba Jahun (North) (All N5.2 Billion )

Groups of federal thieves (2)

Prof B. Sokan (Yoruba)

Molkat Mutfwang (North)

Michael Aule (North)

Andrew Ekpanobi,(sounds Igbo, not sure) (All Directors)

Alexander Cozman(MD,Intermark et Ltd) (Foreigner) (All N636 Million)


Groups of federal thieves (3)

Dr Ransome Owan (Edo)

Mr. Abdulrahman Ado (Hausa/Fulani)

Mr. Adulrasak Alimi (Yoruba)

Mr. Onwuamaeze Iloeje (Igbo)

Mrs Grace Eyoma (Niger Delta/Cross River)

Mr. Mohammed Bunu (Hausa/Fulani)

Mr. Abimbola Odubiyi (Yoruba) (All N1.5 Billion)



Groups of federal thieves (4)

ChiefJoe Musa, DG National Gallery of Art, (North)

Olusegun Ogumba (Yoruba)

Chinedu Obi (Igbo)

Oparagu Elizabeth (Igbo)

Kweku Tandoh (naturalized Ghananian?) (All Directors of NGA). (All N1.012 Billion)


Groups of federal thieves (5)

Dr  Dayo  Olagunju, Ex.Sec.National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult  and Education (Yoruba). Joshua Alao(Yoruba)

Alice Abang (Cross River)

Jibrin Waguna (North)

Ahmed Abubakar (North)

Shehu Abdullahi (North)

Dr Victoria King-Nwachukwu (Igbo)

Adamu Khalid (North)

Moses Oseni (Yoruba

Francis Awelewa (unknown)

Bashir Suleiman (North) (All N479 Million)

Groups of federal thieves (6)

Hamman Bello Hammed, Ex-CG Customs (North)

Hannatu Sulaiman (North)

Tajudeen Olalere (Yoruba)

Lukman Hussain (North) (All N2.5 Billion) 

[b]Yoruba Federal thieves = 19

Igbo Federal thieves = 6

Niger Delta Federal thieves = 5

North (Hausa /Fulani northern minorities) Federal thieves = 23[/b]


Commercial thieves with effects only on selected population such as shareholders clients and customers

Popular Foods Ltd &Silver Maritime shipping coy ltd N2.5 Billion

Four Snr Zenith Bank Managers N3.6 Billion (names not provided)

Tom Iseghohi, Muhammed Buba, Mike Okoli,(both Niger Delta) (GM&Managers of Transcorp Group PLC) N15 Billion.


Dr (Mrs) Cecilia Ibru(Fmr CEO,Oceanic Bank PLC)  N160.2 Billion (Delta)

Dr Bartholomew( Fmr CEO,Union Bank PLC) Akwa Ibom)

Bassey Ebong (Akwa Ibom)

Henry Onyemem (Igbo)

Niyi Albert Opeodu (Yoruba) (Ex-Directors , UBN) N187.1 Billion.

Raymond Obieri,(Fmr Chairman,Interconti nental Bank PLC (Igbo)

Erastus Akingbola former CEO at large (Yoruba)

Hyacinth Enuha (Igbo)

Ikechi Kalu (Igbo)

C.A Alabi (Yoruba)

Samuel Adegbite (Yoruba)

Isyaku Umar (Hausa/Fulani

Sanni Adams (North or Edo) N131.8 Billion +.

Sebastian Adigwe (Delta Igbo)

Peter Ololo Falcon Securities Ltd  N277.3 Billion (Delta)

Okey Nwosu (Igbo) N95.1 Billion.

Alex Nkenchor Ex-Bank Manager (sounds Igbo)

Ebi Odeigah  (Delta) N860 Million

Yoruba total = 25

Igbo Total (including Delta Igbo and unsure but Igbo-sounding names) = 16

North Total (Hausa/Fulani/ Northern minorities) = 31

Niger Delta Total (excluding Imo, Abia and Ondo) = 15

Foreigners Total = 22 (excluding the Vaswani Brothers)


So make your conclusions, considering the individual tribes, especially of the federal thieves.

Unaccounted for suspected looters both political and commercial and deemed sacred cows

IBB, Abubakir, Obasanjo, Dangote. Otedola, Adenuga, Anenih, Sunday Ehindero, Odili, Abacha, etc etc.
Re: Efcc- Based Analysis Of Financial Political And Commercial Corruption In Nigeria by mekusxxx: 9:10pm On Nov 09, 2009
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Re: Efcc- Based Analysis Of Financial Political And Commercial Corruption In Nigeria by posakosa(m): 9:52pm On Nov 09, 2009
nice list----- many more people are not on the list----- imagine what all that money put together can accomplish in Nigeria or Africa as a whole.
Re: Efcc- Based Analysis Of Financial Political And Commercial Corruption In Nigeria by mekusxxx: 10:09pm On Nov 09, 2009
posakosa:

nice list----- many more people are not on the list----- imagine what all that money put together can accomplish in Nigeria or Africa as a whole.

Please help update the list with names. Thanks
Re: Efcc- Based Analysis Of Financial Political And Commercial Corruption In Nigeria by blacksta(m): 10:19pm On Nov 09, 2009
@poster

i see u have be banned - but u have refused to desist from tribalism.
Re: Efcc- Based Analysis Of Financial Political And Commercial Corruption In Nigeria by becomrich15: 10:19pm On Nov 09, 2009
So where did you get your list.

Stop spreading lie. Even if you dig inside the internet. You know you are telling a lie.


Continue to make up story to protect a fraud. How come after 6 or 7 years only 8 people. I know many names not on your list. Even you make yourself look so cheap. You balance it 31 to 31.


Yes, you think, we are fools. Get ethnics hate out of you.
Re: Efcc- Based Analysis Of Financial Political And Commercial Corruption In Nigeria by mekusxxx: 11:06pm On Nov 09, 2009
becomrich,:

So where did you get your list.

Stop spreading lie. Even if you dig inside the internet. You know you are telling a lie.


Continue to make up story to protect a fraud. How come after 6 or 7 years only 8 people. I know many names not on your list. Even you make yourself look so cheap. You balance it 31 to 31.


Yes, you think, we are fools. Get ethnics hate out of you.



List from EFCC website. Go there and take a look.
What is ethnic hate here when my own tribe is also listed? Can you define tribalism for me? Or is it my fault that some tribes decide to steal more than others?
Re: Efcc- Based Analysis Of Financial Political And Commercial Corruption In Nigeria by mekusxxx: 11:07pm On Nov 09, 2009
blacksta:

@poster

i see u have be banned - but u have refused to desist from tribalism.

I am new here. No one has banned me. For what?
Re: Efcc- Based Analysis Of Financial Political And Commercial Corruption In Nigeria by jona2: 11:17pm On Nov 09, 2009
naija. grin
Re: Efcc- Based Analysis Of Financial Political And Commercial Corruption In Nigeria by mekusxxx: 11:34pm On Nov 09, 2009
Re: Efcc- Based Analysis Of Financial Political And Commercial Corruption In Nigeria by WilyWily: 12:20am On Nov 10, 2009
Thank God hidden Characters of Western Nigerian are now exposed, these shows what i said earlier, How Yorubas quest to produce a millionaire after Nigeria/Biafra war led them to descend on Nigeria Coffers and Looted every thing. Thank to Awolowo for opening the Doors of Corruption for his Tribes men.
Re: Efcc- Based Analysis Of Financial Political And Commercial Corruption In Nigeria by adconline(m): 3:05am On Nov 10, 2009
Someone from Ghana is even stealing from Nigeria
Re: Efcc- Based Analysis Of Financial Political And Commercial Corruption In Nigeria by mekusxxx: 5:05am On Nov 10, 2009
adconline:

Someone from Ghana is even stealing from Nigeria

I guess he is avenging what our brothers do to others. grin
Re: Efcc- Based Analysis Of Financial Political And Commercial Corruption In Nigeria by becomrich15: 7:08am On Nov 10, 2009
your analysis was quickly put up to save face.

Now, like everybody knows. EFCC included several name before. where is their names. No more there. I have another list by efcc. Look was IBB son not arrested. His name is not on the list. you quickly made up to the list and did not put many names. To make the EFCC look like if they were not bias.

Here is my point, you work for EFCC and you are telling a lie. Look Is Nuru Ribadu and Waziri ready to do a polygraph lie detector test. It would be conducted abroad. And the question of bias , ethnics and favour would be ask. If they have not be selective in thier conduct. Live Television.

The EFCC is a bias, ethnics goal push body that is use against the opposition of the govt.

The EFCC are nigeria police men. we all know about nigeria police, they collect bribe. Every men of the EFCC have once in thier life time collected bribe. EFCC= Nigeria police.

Allow state police.
Re: Efcc- Based Analysis Of Financial Political And Commercial Corruption In Nigeria by kirkmikel: 9:15am On Nov 10, 2009
I am sure you are one of those uncultured, ill mannered louts who wake their parents up with a slap or a kick Is Awolowo your father"s mate ? I ask you again is Akintola your father"s mate instead of keeping your foul disposition to yourself you chose to rubbish those who have contributed to moving Nigeria forward .
What has your father done for this country and you yourself what have you contributed. Are there no thugs where you come from and I wont be suprised if you are a thug yourself or an associate of thugs.
Re: Efcc- Based Analysis Of Financial Political And Commercial Corruption In Nigeria by mekusxxx: 4:22pm On Nov 10, 2009
kirkmikel:

I am sure you are one of those uncultured, ill mannered louts who wake their parents up with a slap or a kick Is Awolowo your father"s mate ? I ask you again is Akintola your father"s mate instead of keeping your foul disposition to yourself you chose to rubbish those who have contributed to moving Nigeria forward .
What has your father done for this country and you yourself what have you contributed. Are there no thugs where you come from and I wont be suprised if you are a thug yourself or an associate of thugs.

Sorry buddie, I never asked that more Yorubas decide to loot Nigeria than others. Who is Awolowo? Should he not be on the list of corrupt people. Shame on you for attempting to defend thieves.
Re: Efcc- Based Analysis Of Financial Political And Commercial Corruption In Nigeria by mekusxxx: 4:24pm On Nov 10, 2009
becomrich,:

your analysis was quickly put up to save face.

Now, like everybody knows. EFCC included several name before. where is their names. No more there. I have another list by efcc. Look was IBB son not arrested. His name is not on the list. you quickly made up to the list and did not put many names. To make the EFCC look like if they were not bias.

Here is my point, you work for EFCC and you are telling a lie. Look Is Nuru Ribadu and Waziri ready to do a polygraph lie detector test. It would be conducted abroad. And the question of bias , ethnics and favour would be ask. If they have not be selective in thier conduct. Live Television.

The EFCC is a bias, ethnics goal push body that is use against the opposition of the govt.

The EFCC are nigeria police men. we all know about nigeria police, they collect bribe. Every men of the EFCC have once in thier life time collected bribe. EFCC= Nigeria police.

Allow state police.

Bring out your own list or shut up for life. State police will simple protect thieves from their states. Nigeria is too corrupt to have a state police.
Re: Efcc- Based Analysis Of Financial Political And Commercial Corruption In Nigeria by MrFire: 8:56pm On Jun 27, 2010
Yoruba rules in crime in Nigeria
Please add Bank[b]ole[/b] in the ''being investigated'' list.


Bankole facing probe on 3 corruption cases -ICPC
Written by Lanre Adewole
Friday, June 25, 2010


THE Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) is probing the  Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Dimeji Bankole, over three different alleged corruption cases, Nigerian Tribune learnt on Thursday.







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Commission's spokesperson, Mr. Folu Olamiti, confirmed to our correspondent that the alleged N5.2 billion Rural Electrification Project, the N2.3 billion car scam and the latest N9 billion scam have been receiving the attention of the anti-corruption agency.


Bankole has been accused of involvement in the electrification project scam in which he allegedly employed his family members and cronies as contractors, manipulated as the brains behind the car scam, as well as the recent N9 billion capital vote scam.


Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs Farida Waziri, had described the House as a haven of corruption scandals while receiving a petition on the alleged scam from members of the House dubbed The Progressives, who have been pushing for the probe of the alleged scandal.


The same group, according to Olamiti, submitted a copy of the petition to the ICPC at noon on Wednesday.


Olamiti disclosed that investigation had commenced into the allegations against the Speaker, with the Nigerian Tribune being told that investigations into the two other alleged scams had reached an advanced stage.


It was further learnt that the ICPC set the necessary machinery in motion for a thorough investigation of allegations of corruption against the speaker, with the chairman, Justice Emmanuel Ayoola, setting up a special unit to probe the allegations of the mismanagement of the capital vote for 2008.


A rights group, Socio-Economic and Accountability Project (SERAP), had also petitioned the ICPC, asking it to commence instant investigations into the allegations by the Progressives against the House leadership as a means of returning transparency and accountability to the National Assembly.


SERAP and the Progre-ssives group specifically asked the ICPC not to gloss over the allegations against the speaker of the House of Representatives, especially the approval the leadership gave for the purchase of four units of Range Rover Jeeps; three units of Mercedes Benz S-600 cars for the use of the speaker and his deputy to the tune of N335,500,000.


They also asked the ICPC to look into the allegation that the House leadership purchased LCD 40 Samsung LNS 341 for members at N525,000 per unit, allegedly above the market price for the product, which was put at N180,000 per unit.


The groups also encouraged the ICPC to expedite action on the two other alleged scams, in the course of handling the fresh case against the speaker, most especially an allegation that some members of his family were beneficiaries of contracts on national rural electrification project.


The SERAP petition, signed by Mr Adeto-kunbo Mumuni, read in part: "We are seriously concerned that the above allegations constitute grave breaches of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Act 2000, the Public Procurement Act 2007, and the United Nations Convention Against Corruption which Nigeria has ratified.


"We are further concerned that allegations of corruption by lawmakers would undermine the credibility of the legislative process and impede the ability of the House to effectively play its constitutional role or to provide the necessary leadership in the anti-corruption fight.


"The allegations also amount to a grave breach of constitutional provisions and would undermine the constitutional role of the House of Representatives to make law for the good and development of the country."


SERAP, therefore, urged the ICPC to make public the outcome of its investigations, adding that "the commission should ensure the recovery of any money that is the subject of corruption and ensure that those suspected to be responsible are brought to justice."


Olamiti, while confirming the receipt of the petitions, said the commission would do a good job on the cases.
Re: Efcc- Based Analysis Of Financial Political And Commercial Corruption In Nigeria by MrFire: 9:02pm On Jun 27, 2010
N540m Car Scandal: EFCC Indicts House Principal Officers .
Sunday, 27 June 2010 00:00 By Marcel Mbamalu News - National .User Rating: / 5
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.EVEN as the House of Representatives leadership is currently being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over allegation of corrupt disbursement of N9 billion voted for capital projects, more trouble seems to be brewing from other sources.
The body language of the anti-graft agency indicate that it could resuscitate the car supply scandal that trailed the purchase of 380 Peugeot 407 cars from Peugeot Automobiles Nigeria (PAN) Ltd by the House.
In a 14-page report dated February 20, 2009, addressed and forwarded to the then President, Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, the EFCC said some officers and members of the House of Representatives actually have questions to answer in respect of the alleged scam in the purchase of 380 Peugeot 407 cars from PAN by the House.
The EFCC had launched a full-scale investigation into the matter after an alleged case of “criminal conspiracy, abuse of office and misappropriation of public funds,” was reported to the Commission by Mr. Festus Keyamo, of Festus Keyamo Chambers, Abuja.
Although the presidency has not made any official statement on the issue in the last two years, the petition titled: “Petition against Dimeji Bankole and the Leadership of the House of Representatives over fraud perpetrated in the supply of 380 cars,” which was written in 2008, was accepted by the Chairman of the EFCC, Mrs. Farida M. Waziri, and referred for investigation. But exclusive documents acquired by The Guardian, at the weekend, confirmed that the crime-fighting agency had actually released its investigation report since 2009 with a request for further directive from the Presidency.
Decision on the car supply contract was first taken at the December 12, 2007 executive session of the House during which members passed a resolution for the purchase of 380 units of Peugeot 407 for the oversight functions of the committee chairmen. The House later acquired the said number of cars, hence executing the contract as planned.
But Keyamo subsequently alleged, in his petition, that a contract for the purchase/supply of the said vehicles was awarded to PAN at the cost of N5,100, 000 (Five Million, One hundred Thousand Naira) each, totaling 1,938,000,000 (One Billion, Nine Hundred and Thirty-eight million Naira), but the leadership of the House instead purchased 380 units of Peugeot 407 ‘Comfort’ at N6, 209,175 each totaling N2, 359,486,500 (Two Billion, Three Hundred and Fifty-nine Million, Four Hundred and Eighty-six thousand, Five Hundred Naira), “thereby overpaying themselves fraudulently for each vehicle with over N1,109,175 (One Million, One Hundred and Nine Thousand, One Hundred and Seventy-five Naira, thus misappropriated the total sum of N539, 460, 825.”
The EFCC, upon the receipt of the petition, sent a team of its detectives to the National Assembly, where they held discussions with the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives. The Commission also recorded statements from the then Clerk of the National Assembly, Mr. Nasiru Ibrahim Arab, and the Acting Clerk of the House, Mr. Niyi Ajibode.
It also recorded statements from the National Assembly’s Directors, Estate & Works, Idris Muhammad Mahdi, Legal Services, Muhammed Ataba Sani-Omolori, Planning and Legislative Budget, Muhammed Kabir Suleiman, and Ag. Director, Finance and Supplies, Bukoye Lasisi.
The agency also undertook a ‘duty journey’ to PAN, Kaduna, from where various documents were recovered, and wrote to several banks and other establishments, including the Code Of Conduct Bureau and the Corporate Affairs Commission.
Indeed, the anti-graft agency, after conducting its investigation into the matter, among other findings, concluded that there was a contract between the management of the National Assembly (House of Representatives, to be precise) and Peugeot Automobile Nigeria (PAN) Ltd, which occasioned the payment of the sum of N2, 359,486,500 (Two Billion, Three Hundred and Fifty-nine Million, Four Hundred and Eighty Thousand, Five Hundred Naira) to PAN. The payment was reportedly confirmed by the CBN to have been made in three tranches.
At the weekend, when The Guardian contacted the Deputy Speaker, his aide declared “We cannot comment on report that we have not seen.”
Re: Efcc- Based Analysis Of Financial Political And Commercial Corruption In Nigeria by MrFire: 9:03pm On Jun 27, 2010
Bank Ole must go. grin grin
Re: Efcc- Based Analysis Of Financial Political And Commercial Corruption In Nigeria by Nobody: 9:09pm On Jun 27, 2010
Mr Fire:

Bank Ole must go. grin grin
you just sign up and your 3 posts so far are nothing to write home about.may God deliver you and your spirit.
Re: Efcc- Based Analysis Of Financial Political And Commercial Corruption In Nigeria by MrFire: 11:05pm On Jun 27, 2010
~Bluetooth:

you just sign up and your 3 posts so far are nothing to write home about.may God deliver you and your spirit.

Are you by any chance Yoruba? I need to know so I deal with you with a long spoon.
Re: Efcc- Based Analysis Of Financial Political And Commercial Corruption In Nigeria by MrFire: 5:35am On Jun 28, 2010
N2.3BN HOUSE CAR SCAM: Presidency gets EFCC report •ICPC rules out presidency’s involvement
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Written by Taiwo Adisa and Lanre Adewole, Abuja
Monday, 28 June 2010

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has forwarded the report of its investigations on the N2.3 billion car scam that rocked the House of Representatives in 2008 to the table of President Goodluck Jonathan.



EFCC chairman, Mrs Farida Waziri, had three weeks ago announced the completion of investigation on the alleged scam by operatives of the commission and that the report had been sent to the legal department of the Commission for further advice.

She also hinted that the commission would send the report to the presidency after it had received advice from its legal department.

But presidency sources told the Nigerian Tribune in Abuja that President Jonathan received the report before he left for the G-8 summit in Canada, last week. The president has since returned to the country.

Another source at the EFCC said that the commission had actually sent the report to the president’s table.

Mrs. Waziri had justified the decision to send the initial report on the car scam to former President Umaru Yar’Adua by saying that the decision was informed by the fact that the late president ordered the investigation in the first place.

It was not clear what steps Jonathan had taken on the report before he left Nigeria for Canada, but sources said that the president planned to refer the report to the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) for further advice.

A source said that the president’s immediate office would study the report before a decision to send it to the AGF was taken.

It was gathered that the president had come under severe pressure on the EFCC report, with some of those affected said to be sending traditional rulers to beg the president.

One of the affected persons was said to have confessed that he used the proceeds of the car scam to buy vehicles for traditional rulers when he heard of their complaints that former President Yar’Adua was not taking care of them.

It was also gathered that one principal officer of the House of Representatives, who felt unease at the possible release of the report, had been sending emissaries to the president.

He was said to have started by asking people who he believed were close to the president to accompany him to plead with Jonathan, but after that did not achieve the desired result, it was gathered that the man had started asking top Nigerians to intercede on his behalf with the president.

It was, however, gathered that the pleas had not received a good response from Jonathan, who has vowed not to interfere with the work of the anti-corruption agencies.

A source said that the apparently frustrated officials of the House have now resorted to other strategies to save their seats.

One strategy, a source said, was to “create some commotion here and there and divert attention.

“It is apparent as of the last check that Jonathan has not been forthcoming on the pleas that he should frustrate the investigations of the EFCC on the car scam in the House. The affected people are already redesigning their strategies but the government is watching,” a top official of the government said.

Meanwhile, unlike the EFCC, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) is not planning to involve the presidency in its final investigative report before prosecuting those found culpable in the alleged N2.3 billion car scam.

The anti-graft agency, on Thursday, disclosed that investigation had reached an advanced stage on the alleged scam, adding that the embattled Speaker Dimeji Bankole was also being probed on other two alleged scams.

Sources at the ICPC told the Nigerian Tribune that the commission would not be going through the presidency when its final report would be ready.

It was further gathered that those indicted would be taken straight to court, with the sources adding that “it is absolutely wrong to do it that way (submit report to presidency). ICPC does not do such a thing. Once we are through with our investigation, we go to court once we establish a case against you. The commission had never done it and we would not start with this case (car scam). The case was not given to the commission by the presidency and the commission leadership had never for once gone to the presidency for directive.”

It is believed in many quarters that the refusal of the presidency to okay further action on the report sent to it by the EFCC was stalling the work of the legal unit, saddled with commencing the prosecution of those indicted on the alleged scam.

Lagos lawyer, Festus Keyamo, in an interview with our correspondent on Friday, had pointedly accused President Jonathan of sitting on the EFCC report to protect certain interests.

According to him, “I don’t know why the question on the car scam is being directed to us who had done our duty as patriotic Nigerians. The question should be directed to Ima Niboro, the president’s spokesperson. He should issue a statement to tell Nigerians why the report has not been made public.

The chairman of EFCC, about three weeks ago, said the report was with the presidency. Let us ask Niboro why the reports has not been made public. Jonathan wants to please everybody at the same time. He is not showing enough seriousness about fighting corruption.”

Jonathan, who demanded and got the EFCC report afresh when he became acting president, had been silent on his alleged involvement in the cover-up.

The ICPC is also investigating Bankole on his alleged involvement in the N5.2 billion Rural Electrification Project scam and the 2008 capital vote N9 billion scam.

It was gathered that the commission’s chairman, Justice Emmanuel Olayinka Ayoola (rtd), would lead the operations in the investigation of the N9 billion scam.

Commission’s spokesperson, Mr. Folu Olamiti, had disclosed that a special unit had been set up by the chairman to investigate the alleged N9 billion scam.
Re: Efcc- Based Analysis Of Financial Political And Commercial Corruption In Nigeria by MrFire: 5:50am On Jun 28, 2010
Behold Bankole’s House Of Fraud And Blows!
Dan Amor, 0802 359 7734 (sms only pls) danamor67@yahoo.com



The Federal House of Representatives otherwise known as the Lower Chamber of the Bi-Camera legislature is swimming in fraud. Members of an aggrieved group of lawmakers tagged The Progressives are pushing for the removal of the Speaker, Honourable Dimeji Bankole alleging sleaze and other sharp practices. Brandishing a 69 – page document to prove their position, the leader of “The Progressives” Hon. Dino Melaye told reporters in Abuja last week that Bankole should explain how he spent the House’s N9billion capital budget in 2008 and 2009. He also alleged that the Speaker inflated the cost of 400 units of Samsung 40-inch television set (LCD) by N210,000,000. Melaye said that on May 28, 2008, Bankole and the Body of Principal Officers approved and authorised the purchase of four units of Range Rover (V8), three units of Mercedes Benz – S600 cars for his and the Deputy Speaker’s use at the cost of N335,500.000. Details of Hon. Melaye’s startling revelations can be found in Nigerian daily newspapers of Thursday June 17, 2010.

Bankole’s defence is that allegations are wild, meant to destabilize the House. The concern of the Nigerian people who have for long been at the receiving end of this culture of corruption is the interest of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the matter. Reacting to the submission of The Progressives who had gone to tender their petition to the anti-graft agency on Monday, the Commission’s Chairman Mrs. Farida Waziri said: “I think most Nigerians have been very concerned because there have been scandals upon scandals in that House. And that is the bastion of democracy and the hope of the common man”. Stating that the Commission would do something by commencing investigation into the matter immediately, Mrs. Waziri further emphasized: “I mean it is something that is worrisome. And I think with this step you have taken and the action that will follow, it is obvious that there is need to sanitize the House of Representatives and make it like any other House anywhere in the world”.

No doubt, capital corruption has grown to become a pampered monster in Nigeria. And rather than lead the way to moral rebirth, the government appears too eager to be seen condoning and even championing corruption. Several of its officials continue to be indicted daily for unethical conducts without any attempt on its part to initiate their probe and trial in an open court. What the government does at best is to merely disengage them, and watch them depart happily with their loot in tact. In a country so wanting in transparency and honesty on the part of its elite and officials, many Nigerians have been seduced by widespread bad examples in high places into the belief that sharp practices have become an acceptable route to survival. While grinding poverty squeezes the life out of millions of Nigerians due to the administrative irresponsibility of those in the helm of affairs. Our political rulers, their families and cronies flamboyantly parade their ill-gotten wealth before the hungry masses as they swim in ostentatious profligacy.

The unfortunate development at the Lower Chamber of the National Assembly presided over by Dimeji Bankole has sufficiently summarized the Nigerian misfortune. A misfortune that is annoying, occasioned by the reality that those who are charged with the management of the nation’s resources have routinely failed the nation

as they have turned themselves into thieves whose sole objective is to empty the national treasury into their private pockets. Now, following the revelation of uncontrollable sleaze in the House of Representatives, no one is in any doubt that there is a system in place that sees to it that the Nigerian people are not shortchanged in all that the government does supposedly on their behalf. It is sad that such alleged enormous looting took place in the House of Representatives at a time when probity and transparency in government are supposed to be the new mantra in public service. It is even sadder that this is happening in a democracy, when the principle of checks and balances is supposed to be the operational modus. Why beat and suspend law makers for having the moral courage to blow the whistle in a democratic dispensation?

There is, however, the hope that the EFCC is interested in seeing to the bottom of the scam and that all those who are involved are promptly investigated and tried without fear or favour. This is a huge moral test for the Jonathan government which has been mounting the high horse on corruption. The law must be allowed to take its due course in this scandal and the due process must be extended to all other government agencies, as corruption is evidently widespread in the country. How else can it be explained that the billions of naira budgeted for several capital projects have come to nought as the money has been used to buy luxury items at highly inflated costs? The media which have been keeping quiet over this crisis should explain to Nigerians what their primary responsibility is. It is to make government accountable to the people. But it is surprising that the Lagos–Ibadan axis of the Nigerian press which nailed Salisu Buhari for certificate forgery and Patricia Eteh for earmarking N628m for renovation of her residence, is keeping mute over this recent scandal.

Even the Nigerian human rights community and activists who have been championing anti-corruption causes have suddenly stopped talking when they are needed most. One would have thought that the Nigerian public would generate the necessary heat needed for Bankole and his team to pack their loads of alleged stolen wealth and go. In many ways, these horrendous disclosures would have humbled Bankole to step down to allow for proper investigations into his activities as Speaker. The EFCC must do something urgently to give Nigerians confidence that no one is above the law. Anything short of the immediate resignation of Bankole as Speaker would portray the law as a cobweb in which the small flies are caught and the big ones move freely with impunity.
Re: Efcc- Based Analysis Of Financial Political And Commercial Corruption In Nigeria by omongbati1: 3:16am On Dec 20, 2010
Oyato
Re: Efcc- Based Analysis Of Financial Political And Commercial Corruption In Nigeria by omongbati1: 5:38am On Dec 20, 2010
common crooks
Re: Efcc- Based Analysis Of Financial Political And Commercial Corruption In Nigeria by Nchara: 6:19pm On Jan 13, 2012
Let's add

Adenuga
Wale Tinubu
Otedola
Tinubu
and the rest of the oil cabals
Re: Efcc- Based Analysis Of Financial Political And Commercial Corruption In Nigeria by JamesDoe: 8:12pm On Jan 13, 2012
Goodluck Jonathan
Patience Jonathan
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Diezani Alison Madueke
Admiral Madueke
T Orji
Kalu
Ibori
Alamieyeseigha
Andy Uba
Chris Uba
[the list goes on and on]

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