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Construction giant, Julius Berger, made its aircraft available to the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua to be flown from Germany to Saudi Arabia in September 2008, the latest diplomatic cables published on the whistle-blowing website, WikiLeaks, revealed yesterday.

The cable, written by former US Ambassador to Nigeria, Dr. Robin Sanders, quoted Shell's regional executive vice-president for Africa Ann Pickard as making the disclosure while discussing Yar’Adua’s health at the time.

The cable read: “Pickard agreed that the President's health is a guessing game. She said that in her recent meetings with Yar'Adua he seems alert but drawn in the face and frail. She reported that a Julius Berger (protect) contact says that the President was not in danger of dying soon but has serious ailments from which he will never fully recover.

“Pickard shared that Berger provides transportation including planes for the President and has reportedly flown in doctors and technicians to attend the President (reftel). She said, for instance, that her Berger contact confided that they flew the President from Germany to Saudi in September 2008. Additionally, the Berger contact thought the President would not return to the Villa offices, as they were moving the President's personal things out of the Villa.”

Other revelations from the latest cables, four of which were published yesterday, are:

•Pickard said a lot of “interesting” people were lifting oil even with no knowledge of the industry, suggesting a series of corrupt practices.

•A businessman and close associate of the late president was accused of smuggling but was said to have been told by Yar’Adua to clean up his act. He was called Yar’Adua’s “Mr. Fix It”.

•International Oil Com-panies (IOCs) have been making moves to influence the contents of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) to suit their purpose.

•Former Attorney-General of the Federation, Chief Michael Aondoakaa, was accused of demanding gratification before signing documents.

Sanders’ dispatch read: “Pickard said that Nigerian entities control the lifting of many oil cargoes and there are some "very interesting" people lifting oil. Oil buyers would pay NNPC GMD Yar'Adua, Chief Economic Advisor Yakubu and the First Lady Turai Yar'Adua large bribes to lift oil. Pickard also reported an instance of the Attorney General Aondoakaa allegedly soliciting a $20 million bribe to sign a document. The International Oil Companies (IOC) are quite concerned about the "very flawed" new petroleum sector energy bill. The IOCs will be asking U.S., Dutch, and U.K. COMs to convey points on the bill to GON policymakers.

“Pickard said that Nigerian entities control the lifting of many oil cargoes and there are some "very interesting" people lifting oil (People, she said that were not even in the industry). As an example she said that oil buyers would pay Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) General Managing Director Yar'Adua, (Note: not related to President Yar'Adua. End Note) Chief Economic Advisor Yakubu, and the First Lady Turai Yar'Adua large bribes, millions of dollars per tanker, to lift oil. The IOCs control the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cargos, so GON actors do not have the same opportunity for illicit gain. Pickard also said a former associate of hers (protect) had told her he had been present when Attorney General Aondoakaa had told a visitor that he would sign a document only if the visitor paid $2 million immediately and another $18 million the next day.”

Political Counsellor Walter Pflaumer who worked in the US embassy sent a cable on the alleged close relationship between businessman, Alhaji Dahiru Mangal, and Yar’Adua.

Pflaumer did not disclose the identity of his close, writing: “XXXXXX alleged a close association between President Yar,Adua and Katsina native and rumored smuggler Dahiru Mangal. XXXXX claimed Mangal is the President's "Mr. Fix It," taking care of "anything filthy" Yar'Adua needs done in addition to smuggling items for several wealthy Nigerian businessmen through Niger into Kano. Another Kano business contact corroborated XXXXXX 's allegations, but observed that Mangal no longer deals openly in illicit activity since Yar'Adua named him a special advisor earlier this month.

“Kano real estate entrepreneur and longtime Mission contact XXXXXX told PolOff February 10 that Katsina native Dahiru Mangal, who XXXXXX contends deals in illicit smuggling of goods into Nigeria, is also known as President Yar'Adua's "Mr. Fix It." XXXXX alleged a close association between the President and Mangal, dating to the former's tenure as governor of Katsina, and claimed the latter remains to this day Yar'Adua's "go-to man" to accomplish "anything filthy that Yar'Adua needs done."

“Mangal, XXXXX said, is also the "go-to" for any wealthy Nigerian, who wants to import "just about anything" into Nigeria. He declined to state whether Mangal smuggled weapons, drugs, or persons into Nigeria.”

On October 20, 2009, Deputy Chief of Mission Dundas McCullough wrote: “Pickard said the GON [government of Nigeria] wanted the National Assembly to pass the [PIB] by November 17 in order for the GON to be able to announce it at the upcoming CWC Gulf of Guinea Conference in London November 17-19. She said that if the House passes the PIB in the coming weeks, “we need to move quickly” to obtain any necessary changes before it becomes law. Fortunately, she added,

“We are working with the House and the House appears to want to work with us.” She continued that if the Senate passes the PIB, “We aren’t worried.” Unfortunately, she explained, “We think the Senate will pass a bad bill” but it won’t really matter. She added that she would be at the Nigerian House and Senate later that day and would let the Embassy know if there were any unexpected developments.

“3. (C) The Ambassador asked if Shell had had engagements with the GON outside the National Assembly, such as with the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank of Nigeria. Pickard said, “We are meeting with them at all levels.” She noted that an IMF team headed by Charles McPherson was in Abuja to look at the PIB and that Shell would be meeting with them as well. In contrast, she said, “We are worried about the World Bank’s political agenda and it is not clear what their agenda is.” She said the World Bank was working on how to make the IJVs “bankable” so that they would be able to go to international and domestic banks for financing.”
Efforts to reach Tanimu and Aondoakaa last night were unsuccessful as calls to their phones were unanswered.

Sanders’ dispatch read: “Pickard said that Nigerian entities control the lifting of many oil cargoes and there are some "very interesting" people lifting oil. Oil buyers would pay NNPC GMD Yar'Adua, Chief Economic Advisor Yakubu and the First Lady Turai Yar'Adua large bribes to lift oil. Pickard also reported an instance of the Attorney General Aondoakaa allegedly soliciting a $20 million bribe to sign a document. The International Oil Companies (IOC) are quite concerned about the "very flawed" new petroleum sector energy bill. The IOCs will be asking U.S., Dutch, and U.K. COMs to convey points on the bill to GON policymakers.

“Pickard said that Nigerian entities control the lifting of many oil cargoes and there are some "very interesting" people lifting oil (People, she said that were not even in the industry). As an example she said that oil buyers would pay Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) General Managing Director Yar'Adua, (Note: not related to President Yar'Adua. End Note) Chief Economic Advisor Yakubu, and the First Lady Turai Yar'Adua large bribes, millions of dollars per tanker, to lift oil. The IOCs control the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cargos, so GON actors do not have the same opportunity for illicit gain. Pickard also said a former associate of hers (protect) had told her he had been present when Attorney General Aondoakaa had told a visitor that he would sign a document only if the visitor paid $2 million immediately and another $18 million the next day.”

This was one of the very first areas GEJ cleared up, hence the old actors hate him so much and are so bitter. It used to be a free for all for anyone to walk in, pay a bribe to the cabal and walk off with oil that was meant for the country's development.

Both the lifting and importation (another long and shocking story) areas were cleared  and thats how come we are able to buy petrol for 65 Naira per litre (or less) without spending nights at fuel stations.

Beaf:

This was one of the very first areas GEJ cleared up, hence the old actors hate him so much and are so bitter. It used to be a free for all for anyone to walk in, pay a bribe to the cabal and walk off with oil that was meant for the countries development.

Both the lifting and importation (another lon and shocking story) areas were cleared and thats how come we are able to buy petrol for 65 Naira per litre (or less) without spending nights at fuel stations.

Talk am again brother

This wikileaks sabi everything abi? ?
Fake [i]weak[/i]ileaks.

“Pickard said that Nigerian entities control the lifting of many oil cargoes and there are some "very interesting" people lifting oil (People, she said that were not even in the industry). As an example she said that oil buyers would pay Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) General Managing Director Yar'Adua, (Note: not related to President Yar'Adua. End Note) Chief Economic Advisor Yakubu, and the First Lady Turai Yar'Adua large bribes, millions of dollars per tanker, to lift oil. The IOCs control the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cargos, so GON actors do not have the same opportunity for illicit gain. Pickard also said a former associate of hers (protect) had told her he had been present when Attorney General Aondoakaa had told a visitor that he would sign a document only if the visitor paid $2 million immediately and another $18 million the next day.”

Pflaumer did not disclose the identity of his close, writing: “XXXXXX alleged a close association between President Yar,Adua and Katsina native and rumored smuggler Dahiru Mangal. XXXXX claimed Mangal is the President's "Mr. Fix It," taking care of "anything filthy" Yar'Adua needs done in addition to smuggling items for several wealthy Nigerian businessmen through Niger into Kano. Another Kano business contact corroborated XXXXXX 's allegations, but observed that Mangal no longer deals openly in illicit activity since Yar'Adua named him a special advisor earlier this month.

And these were the people holding the destiny of Nigeria a while ago including Yar Adua whom we all thought was very clean!

Now we are getting to know better what happen behind the curtain in NASS and FG. GEJ must be elected in 2011

All i care for is that Aondoakaa should be totally stripped off his law practise certificate.

msanointed:

All i care for is that Aondoakaa should be totally stripped off his law practise certificate.

And the icing on the cake must be a jail term!

EFCC where are thou? Wikileaks is supplying you info free of charge.

houvest:

EFCC where are thou? Wikileaks is supplying you info free of charge.

Vote for Ribadu

everybody have seen it that pdp is made up of filthy and corrupt men. lord help us flush these men out of aso rock pls.

i am plenty sure patience is lifting right now

hopefully we will see more future cables

[size=16pt]It's amazing the amount of insider info this Saunders of a women was able to get,she really was an amebo,grade 1
And Julius Berger,any wonder Julius Berger kept getting very juicy FG contracts at tripple inflated rates

GEJ must continue in office in 2011,now I see the reason why Babagida and Atiku are being pushed by their backers whom Saunders referred to as very interesting people and smugglers that were lifting crude through underhand prcedures.[/size]

bababuff:

Vote for Ribadu  

Say No TO corruption.Ribadu for 2011

vote for ribadu or buhari. don't waste your vote on pdp.

Aondoakaa should be thrown in prison, or at most executed for treason. This man is as corrupt as they come.

I DONT DOUBT HER INFO ATALL, COS SHE DINES AND WINES WITH THE BIGS AND GET INFO FROM THEM, WHAT A SMART WOMAN SHE IS,,

Nigeria is becoming so interesting,

I dey laugh oo

Rawlings option or this country will burst someday.

Imagine the information they have on the ABJ bombings!

Pharoh:

Rawlings option or this country will burst someday.

everybody want development but no one want die!

I knew something was wrong when Andoaaka and his gang bent on that Gej must not be swear in as president I knew loads of rubbish are going on and loads of nonsense is going on underground Andoaaaka must be put to prison right away, more truth is coming up bit by bit they will all vomit all they swallowed soon.

And these were the people holding the destiny of Nigeria a while ago including Yar Adua whom we all thought was very clean!
[quote][/quote] So you took Yar'Adua as a clean person? That pretender, got quiet looks but rotten inside. I don't even trust GEJ himself. Who knows what he might be doing behind the curtains, just as no one knew what Yar'Adua was up to until now Wikileaks has revealed. Please they should keep exposing the dirty works of these filthy politicians. I wish they could just reveal how the bomb explosion in Abj really happened cos I know Okah wasn't the only person involved.

I never took any one of them for a sacred cow cos the heart of man is EXTREMELY wicked so therefore we should trust with CAUTION this people have ruined this country and they are still doin so till now even GEJ is not clean every man and i mean every man has skeletons in his/her closet. we should watch out because more damning revelations are on the way.there are 250,000 cables to be released and only about 1295 have been released so far,we can only expect more damning revelations about these WICKED MEN[quote][/quote]

Morning friends,
Please, what is it with these WikiLeaks
expose? The thing is becoming very
alarming. The questions I've been
asking are: why did they not expose
these things as they happened? How
provable are the leaks? Can perpetrators
of those crimes be tried, based on the
evidences of the leaks?
I need answers o!

They loot us and milk us dry from our God given wealth, they use the loot money to import all kinds of weapons of mass destruction to disstabilize the whole nation.

They are the founders of all the militant groups in Nigeria today be it Boko aram, Mend, or what ever. It is their hand work to date to make such the militants are supplied with such weapons in order to keep Nigeria unstable while they continue to loot us dry to maintain their selfish/ill gotten wealth!!!!!!!!!

Their wealth is ill-gotten with so much atrocities they caused the country weeps enough is enough. Oh God of heaven and earth who created Nigeria fight for us, eliminate those that are guilty and cut them off from the face of the earth. Amen

How much longer are we going to continue to put up with all these looting and nonsense?? This is really annoying to know that Nigeria is being looted by the so-called 'leader' we have!

Sanders’ dispatch read: “Pickard said that Nigerian entities control the lifting of many oil cargoes and there are some "very interesting" people lifting oil. Oil buyers would pay NNPC GMD Yar'Adua, Chief Economic Advisor Yakubu and the First Lady Turai Yar'Adua large bribes to lift oil. Pickard also reported an instance of the Attorney General Aondoakaa allegedly soliciting a $20 million bribe to sign a document. The International Oil Companies (IOC) are quite concerned about the "very flawed" new petroleum sector energy bill. The IOCs will be asking U.S., Dutch, and U.K. COMs to convey points on the bill to GON policymakers.

“Pickard said that Nigerian entities control the lifting of many oil cargoes and there are some "very interesting" people lifting oil (People, she said that were not even in the industry). As an example she said that oil buyers would pay Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) General Managing Director Yar'Adua, (Note: not related to President Yar'Adua. End Note) Chief Economic Advisor Yakubu, and the First Lady Turai Yar'Adua large bribes, millions of dollars per tanker, to lift oil. The IOCs control the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cargos, so GON actors do not have the same opportunity for illicit gain. Pickard also said a former associate of hers (protect) had told her he had been present when Attorney General Aondoakaa had told a visitor that he would sign a document only if the visitor paid $2 million immediately and another $18 million the next day.”

These are some of the reasons why the cabal never wanted GEJ in power. I can even recall several of them saying, "we can't trust him." Trust him not to send them to jail?
We will be in for very interesting times after the elections, cos prison yards will start getting packed full of those that have held the country back and still maintain some power cos the current govt is inherited, the Aondokaa's, IBB's etc.

Beaf:


These are some of the reasons why the cabal never wanted GEJ in power. I can even recall several of them saying, "we can't trust him." Trust him not to send them to jail?
We will be in for very interesting times after the elections, cos prison yards will start getting packed full of those that have held the country back and still maintain some power cos the current govt is inherited, the Aondokaa's, IBB's etc.

Would love to believe this but I heard Cecilia Ibru is out and about in Nigeria as if nothing happened. Erastus Akingbola is also back in Lagos

I remain convinced that Ribadu is the way, truth and the life that this country needs.
SAI ACN!!!!

Well, I am not surprised by all these revelations! I believe more shocking ones will still show up not quiet long from now. It's high time all these corrupt practices of these thieves are paid for by themselves! Funny enough, some of these thieves such as Aondoakaa are learned men for crying out loud!! I just thought they ought to know better! Like I said earlier, am not surprised, yet, just the thought of these revelations makes me sick!!!