I think the article below needs a wider audience to feel it. This man may not know how to debate, but he do know how to get things done, manage resources and still walk the street without any label of corruption!

Integrity is never old and as long as the leadership is incorruptible, any idea from the young generation will flourish. Reduce corruption by 70% and this country will see things happen. As long as corruption stays, our ideas, vision, plan and the $16 Billion dollars spent on power in the last 12 years will remain a fantasy.

Please note the writer!


[b]Buhari’s handshake and handcuff
By Ebele Chukwu

Obasanjo never hid his disgust for General Sani Abacha who had jailed him for a “phantom coup”. Released from jail and still wallowing in a fit of new found spirituality, he wrote a book and called it “The Animal Called Man”. And he elected to wage a battle on this “Animal Called Man”.
While taking his oath of office at the Eagle Square on 27th May, 1999, he had pledged to wrestle corruption out of our national psyche. In a fit of mediaeval triumphalism, he chanted: “there will be no sacred cows!”

But his first attack was a disaster. No sooner had he made that declaration than he dispatched Mallam Haroun Adamu to the headquarters of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), an intervention agency run by General Muhammadu Buhari, to start the war on corruption. Haroun Adamu’s public brief was to wind down PTF but the hidden one was to disgrace General Buhari by exposing the “shady deals” in PTF.

Contractors working for PTF were used to picking their cheques across the counter without much ado. Under the new inquisitor, contractors discovered they now had to oil their cheques out, something alien to the PTF they knew. They cried foul. And there were several other fouls after the first foul. To say that Obasanjo was thoroughly embarrassed by his minions would be an understatement, so much so that till date he does not discuss PTF in public.
As a General, it would appear that Obasanjo read Sun Tzu’ s “The Art of War” upside down. Sun Tzu had counselled: “Know thyself; know thy enemy. You will fight a thousand battles without defeat.” The blitzkrieg he deployed only showed he did not know PTF. He might not have needed to fire a shot to win or wean PTF. To date, most Nigerians knew how PTF started, what it did but not how it ended. Not known as one who forgives, was it not surprising that General Buhari walked the streets with his head high throughout Obasanjo’s imperial majesty when the fear of EFCC was the beginning of political wisdom?

In October 1994, General Sani Abacha increased the pump price of petrol from N3.25k to N11.00 per litre. Nigerians assailed him with criticisms for this unpopular move and to assuage their feelings, he quickly established the Petroleum (Special) Trust Fund to use a portion of the proceeds of the increase to intervene in critical sectors of the economy. Nigerians never took Abacha seriously on this project until Gen Muhammadu Buhari was announced and inaugurated the chairman of the PTF in March 1995.

That PTF awarded contracts worth billions of naira is not news. The news the PTF made within the four years it existed was and still is that contracts awarded were executed to their logical conclusion and for those not executed, the PTF got every kobo back. Before PTF, contractors were used to abandoning contracts and bolting away with their advance payments. It never happened in PTF. When Buhari visited the Onitsha end of the Enugu-Onitsha express way awarded to a local contractor and discovered the job was abandoned, he simply called on the bank that guaranteed the contractor to pay back. There and then, the contract was terminated and later awarded to another contractor. From that moment, banks and insurance companies that provided bonds to contractors learnt that the old order had changed and had to monitor projects it guaranteed.

For the years it existed, PTF published its annual reports and always addressed press conferences to respond to issues arising from the reports. And each time it did, it challenged anybody who could deliver on any of its projects at a price cheaper than what it cost the PTF to submit his proposal. Nobody ever did.

In one of the presentations of its annual report, the Executive Secretary of the Board of the PTF, Chief Tayo Akpata, maintained that the roads constructed by the PTF not only cost less than World Bank funded roads but were also better qualitatively. He challenged anyone to prove the contrary. Until the PTF was scrapped, nobody did.
While the PTF existed, contractors never needed to lobby and grease palms to get LPO’s. You only needed to belong to the appropriate group of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria and other professional groups to qualify. Not a few contractors received requests to supply the PTF in the comfort of their offices. It was so unbelievably true that some had to travel to Abuja to reconfirm if the LPO’s they received were genuine. And genuine they were.

To be paid for a completed contract, all the contractor needed was to present a certificate of completion issued by the ubiquitous consultants engaged by the PTF and his cheque would be prepared. And with a proper letter of introduction, a contractor could send a third party to pick his check across a counter in the Finance Department without any ceremony. Picking a cheque then was just like walking into a bank to withdraw cash across the counter. As staff of Set and Sell Communications Ltd and later Media Trust Ltd, I personally picked several cheques on behalf of these firms. The challenge the finance department of the PTF faced then was getting contractors to come and pick their cheques which would pile up for months as a good number never knew it was so simple.

One cannot also forget in a hurry the PTF drug revolving scheme. Under this, the PTF set up offices in hospitals across the country and supplied them with drugs. The financial consultants employed by the Fund ensured that receipts from the sales of the drugs were used to replenish the stocks in an unending cycle that banished out-of-stock anthem the Nigerian public were forced to listen to before then. And it was not easy to divert PTF drugs to the parallel market. The smallest tablet supplied had PTF logo engraved on it. Somebody attempted diverting the drugs and was caught. General Buhari took up the case personally and ensured the culprit went to jail. After that, nobody heard of diversions again.

The strategy of the PTF in procuring these drugs is worth reviewing. Over 60% of the drugs supplied to the PTF were locally produced. In fact, the PTF only imported drugs that could not be produced by the local pharmaceutical firms. The pressure on the existing pharmaceutical companies was so much that almost all these firms had to increase their capacity by expanding and employing more hands. Neimeth Pharmaceuticals, Emzor Pharmaceuticals among others can be contacted to affirm or disprove this. This policy was deliberately made to ensure that more jobs were created within the economy.

Builders who built for PTF would also tell you that they were not allowed to import paints. There was a list of all the paint manufacturers in the country maintained at the PTF from which builders bought paints. Within the same period, the capacity utilisation in these companies soared as they expanded and created more jobs. A look at the records kept by IPWA plc and other existing paint makers within the period under review is worth attempting to digest the profundity of the PTF intervention in the building sector; and other sectors it intervened in as its model was so overarching that critics labelled it “the alternative government”.
This column is not enough to put in a proper perspective the job General Buhari undertook and did while in PTF but it suffices through this glimpse to understand the mindset and the strategy of this maelstrom which the ruling elite hate for his forthrightness - a quality in short supply in governance today.
One can cite the number of roads and hospitals rehabilitated by the PTF. One can also quote the billions it spent. The essence of the PTF, however, lies more in the multiplier effect its intervention had on the economy as a whole than in the number of what it did, which on its own was equally impressive. This distinction is what differentiates growth from development. While the former is quantitative, the latter is qualitative. As a political economist, I know that the economic development of any third world country lies in qualitative transformation.

Before the coming of PTF, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida had introduced the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) which he had claimed had no alternative. The revered economist, Professor Sam Aluko, had also reminded him that economics was a science of alternatives; that even death had an alternative which was life and that SAP was a kiss of death. IBB was to acknowledge the failure of SAP when out of frustration around 1991, he exclaimed that “the Nigerian economy had defied all known economic theories and was surprised that the economy had not collapsed”.

The economy did not collapse. The PTF intervention ensured it did not. This was the lesson OBJ failed to grasp when he dissolved the Fund with executive fiat in 1999. As at 1997, funds available to the PTF was about N115 billion and Nigerians could point at projects the fund was expended on. A decade after PTF, the governments from OBJ’s to date had spent much more than that in the power sector alone and have not been able to generate even a megawatt more of electricity.
Managing public funds is serious business. General Muhammadu Buhari was fond of telling contractors on visit to sites: “If you perform well, you get a handshake. If you perform badly, you get a handcuff”. This is the mantra we need at this historical juncture. The man that incarnates this mantra out of the available presidential candidates is General Muhammadu Buhari.

There is also a lesson to be learnt from the day Buhari left PTF. Obasanjo, on assumption of office, announced the setting up of the interim management committee led by Mallam Haroun Adamu to wind down PTF. The following day, Buhari addressed a press conference and invited the new management to immediately take over. He told Nigerians that everything the new management needed were in the records to which they would have unhindered access. He bid his staff farewell, descended the stairs, literally jumped into his four wheel drive that took him home to Daura. He never stepped into that premises again to this day. And he never fled the country to escape the EFCC.


The likes of Obasanjo should go back to the military academy to understand “The Art of War” before going on another offensive.

Ebele Chukwu writes from Eziora, Ozubulu (ababio38@gmail.com, 08186482246 sms only[/b]

What a fascinating opinion the above article is, and note how careful the writer is to avoid mentioning Ayatollah Buggari's criminal record as a violator of human rights and red-eyed fundamentalist Taliban fanatic, whose idea of an election campaign is organizing serial mob murder.

The proverbial panel of experts can shout all night, but when the smoke clears and victors emerge, Ayatollah Buggari, the intellectually challenged Baboon-Dawa of Kutuwenji Village, will once again snatch defeat from the jaws of further defeat, by LOSING the upcoming Nigerian presidential election, along with his customary protest lawsuit,  in flying colors.   For mass murderer Buggari-Bin-Laden, this manifest destiny is written in stone and WILL come to pass shortly.

Pellow Kwantiri-man
Zat is all we have fwa you now
Sank you,  and may ze Almighty Punisher assuwa zat we "dip it" in ze Atlantic Ocean.

@OP
Well done. My heart was pumping out liquid tears, as I was going through this write - up.
Kudos. You are a patriot!

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The article fails to mention that Buhari's cousin, who was the sole authority for multi-billion PTF contracts, committed suicide before Abdulsalami opened the books. Such was the scale of fraud.

An article from a politically biased fellow. I didn't expect less

Beaf:

The article fails to mention that Buhari's cousin, who was the sole authority for multi-billion PTF contracts, committed suicide before Abdulsalami opened the books. Such was the scale of fraud.

And the vindictive vengeful Obasanjo could not find fault with Buhari or have anything to pin against him? Must you live everyday of your life proliferating and spewing nefarious lies here and there?

Do you know that one of the first project PTF took into handling was in Lagos State? Now tell me, one accomplishment your PDP or Goatluck Jonathief has accomplished in Lagos?

Oh! They accepted an ex-convict back into their caucus and charged him to deliver Lagos to PDP right?

Pataki:

And the vindictive vengeful Obasanjo could not find fault with Buhari or have anything to pin against him? Must you live everyday of your life proliferating and spewing nefarious lies here and there?

Do you know that one of the first project PTF took into handling was in Lagos State? Now tell me, one accomplishment your PDP or Goatluck Jonathief has accomplished in Lagos?

Oh! They accepted an ex-convict back into their caucus and charged him to deliver Lagos to PDP right?

Help me ask

Pataki:

And the vindictive vengeful Obasanjo could not find fault with Buhari or have anything to pin against him? Must you live everyday of your life proliferating and spewing nefarious lies here and there?

Do you know that one of the first project PTF took into handling was in Lagos State? Now tell me, one accomplishment your PDP or Goatluck Jonathief has accomplished in Lagos?

Oh! They accepted an ex-convict back into their caucus and charged him to deliver Lagos to PDP right?

Where did I mention Obj, and how does Obj come into the argument?
Fact is Buhari is a thief who gave out whole PTF estates to cronies and spent 42% of its budget, while satisfying fools with token peanut projects in Lagos and elsewhere.

Objectivity is a rare quality found in people and this write from the SE is honest as well as objective. Bakare said the woman who donated vehicles for the BB campaign said the only reason she donated those cars was that during the PTF days she never had to bribe anyone to get contracts and the only way she could reward Buhari was to support his campaign.

Any undergraudate in Nigeria in late 90s will know the PTF buses in all universities that were offering free transportation or subsidized. This was a man that with 115 billion was able to make an impact on the whole country. Anenih got 300 Billion as minister of works and there is not a single federal road to show for it, even the road that leads to his town of Benin is a death trap.

GEJ is promising airport in all states at a time when 90% of nigerians dont even fly within Nigeria, he only plans to build airport so his fellow cronies can fly in and out of states. He has forgotten we need railways, roads to move goods and people.Such level of thinking depicts a man intellectually challenged, out of touch with reality and cluless about development. Another 4 years of GEJ is moving Nigeria 20 years backwards. OBJ supports GEJ because he knows GEJ cannot match 20% of his record in govt and punish Nigerians further for noot granting him his 3rd term agenda.

Ribadu on the other hand should not be forgetten that he was the chief executioner of the 3rd term agenda , the same ribadu that wanted a PDP govt now sings that PDP wasted 200 billion dollars in 12 years. The sam eRibadu that disqualified Atiku to pave way for a yaradua GEJ govt. Our politicians are prostitutes, not sincere and it is more shameful we Nigerians are forgetfull and just move with the flow.

Buhari is our only choice for a better Nigeria.

Beaf:

Where did I mention Obj, and how does Obj come into the argument?
Fact is Buhari is a thief who gave out whole PTF estates to cronies and spent 42% of its budget, while satisfying fools with token peanut projects in Lagos and elsewhere.

I really think you should start questioning your intelligence seriously Beaf. Pray tell me too, how does Buhari's cousin death and Abdulsalami come into the argument?

Fact is Buhari is not a thief or a clueless dolt as compared to the clueless ignorant dimwit we have as a president today. What token peanut projects has Goatluck accomplished in Lagos and elsewhere in Nigeria?

I remember I clearly felt the impact of PTF in my secondary school days. Not even knowing it was a Buhari behind those PTF desk and chairs that were distributed in my secondary school those years back! What has Jonathan accomplished? Providing kerosene and petrol for Nigerians? And coming on facebook to announce that he has provided kerosene for Nigerians.

Everybody in Nigeria knew that Abacha was an usurper, and that he was uncontrollably corrupt and was also involved in state sponsored murder, but Buhari who you paint in such glowing colours, still agreed to serve under such a man as the chairman of PTF. As chairman of PTF, he made his own cousin the sole consultant for monitoring and assessing the value of contracts. Afriproject consortium was so corrupt that at the inception of Abdulsalami's regime, fearful of exposure, Buhari's cousin committed suicide in his office. When the books of PTF were opened, the can of worms was so much that Haruna Adamu said he felt sickened by it. One body determined the contracts to be awarded, the payments to be made and whether the contracts had been satisfied.

Do you know PTF estate in Wuse? The sweetheart deal that Buhari's PTF made with the contractor was so sweet. Not only would the contractor collect rent from PTF, but after 8 years, the place would be his to own!

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[size=22pt]While you are at it, check the pedigree of Reno Omokri, the author. LOL![/size]

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the same ribadu that wanted a PDP govt now sings that PDP wasted 200 billion dollars in 12 years. The sam eRibadu that disqualified Atiku to pave way for a yaradua GEJ govt. Our politicians are love-peddlers, not sincere and it is more shameful we Nigerians are forgetfull and just move with the flow.

How about the Bakare that called Buhari old and decaying in 2006 and now campaigning seriously for&alongside Buhari. is not a love-peddler too?

Pataki & my fellow Buhari supporters. stop reply to Beaf and the other GEJ forty thieves. you are just wasting your time.

Please copy the article and send to as many possible on email contacts

I have sent to forty people and the feedback I got is amazing. so just move on and let Beaf and Co continue to rant her

Genbuhari3:

Pataki & my fellow Buhari supporters. stop reply to Beaf and the other GEJ forty thieves. you are just wasting your time.

Please copy the article and send to as many possible on email contacts

I have sent to forty people and the feedback I got is amazing. so just move on and let Beaf and Co continue to rant her

True talk bro, i made a note of it and shared on facebook with my 1200+ friends. I'm shocked at how nigerians are hopeless not knowing Buhari is there to vote for

assme:

How about the Bakare that called Buhari old and decaying in 2006 and now campaigning seriously for&alongside Buhari. is not a love-peddler too?

stop raising issues that have been dealt with. Bakare has explained that several times and he even repeated same explanation in the vice presidential debate. Or dont you as a human being judge things wrongly and later change your judgement based on new truth and reality? Be sincere to yourself for once,

SAI BUHARI


The True FRESH AIR 2011 - any other is covered with shit and sprayed with perfume

@Beaf
Would you close that your "butter teeth", and stop commenting on this thread.
Mr. Salihijo, the consultant managing africonsult, has never been a cousin of GMB. Salihijo for your information, is from yola, Adamawa state. GMB, Mamman Daura his one and only brother, were born and raised in Zangon Daura, Daura Katsina state.
You mentioned AbdulSalami Abubakar, in your previous quote, and made reference to him as sending salihijo to untimely death. How stupeed could you be. Abdulsalami, that thief who depleted our foreign reserve to organise, fifa under 17 world cup, and enriched himself and his cronies therefrom. Mtswwww.

I am beginning to feel the hatred felt for this duckhead called Beaf and I am leaning towards that direction, he must be a paid campaigner for GEJ no doubt.
Gen Buhari did more as a PTF chairman compared to what your fat goathead bosses did in 12 years.
Beaf=PUNKASS

See the source of this article:

http://kubwaexpress.com/buhari%E2%80%99s-handshake-and-handcuff/

assme:

How about the Bakare that called Buhari old and decaying in 2006 and now campaigning seriously for&alongside Buhari. is not a love-peddler too?

Bakare gave his opinion as a citizen then in 2006 but after meeting Buhari in person he changes his mind.

Ribadu was part and parcel of PDP , he was OBJs attack dog, Ribadu can never prosecute OBJ for corruption, never prosecute Aneni and co because they all ate and drank together. Ribadu never prosecutued any of OBJs minister apart from the unfortunate Sunday Afolabio and it wasnt even Ribadu that opened that.

Ribadu compiled a list of corrupt people in 2007 including Lanre Tejuosho who had never taste public office. Lanre Tejuosho was Iyabo obasanjos opponent for the Senate, this is the kind of antecedent Ribadu has. Ribadu should spare us his hypocricy. When Bakare said they know some things about him , they definately know.

Buhari is the solution to immediate problem Nigeria is facing now!!!!! to stop organised crime supervised by the state to the detriment of the perplexity approved fraud at all levels must stop.A man with independent minded that is capable of introducing strong institution against corruption not carry ca cope FCC and ICC that take permission from politicians.a lot of thing is going rough why this govt promote poverty and corruption.
there is need for stiffer punishment against electoral offender as its against military intervention in politics.they dont want to do it because,they all have organised thugs and criminals working for them.

Genbuhari3:

Pataki & my fellow Buhari supporters. stop reply to Beaf and the other GEJ forty thieves. you are just wasting your time.

Please copy the article and send to as many possible on email contacts

I have sent to forty people and the feedback I got is amazing. so just move on and let Beaf and Co continue to rant her

Thanks a lot. Could you please paste the weblink to this article here so I can equally share it on my facebook profile.

Nigerians must know the truth and be set from the shackles of this demonic PDP.

Ladies and Gents, Brothers and Sisters. As I follow the campaign and all its rhetoric, I have noticed one very very very sad fact. THERE ARE NO TRUSTWORTHY CANIDATES. THEY ARE ALL ROUGES!!!! It doesnt matter the party you choose, the presidential canidate you like, THEY ARE ALL CORRUPT. The sad part is, we are willing to choose the one that is least corrupt. What a nation. Its like a man having to choose a wife from a LovePeddler house. Excuse you miss how long have you been in this profession 6 years, no that is too long and you 12 OMG!! and you 1 year, ah only one year so you only slept with say 500 guys, ok you are it baby. man im lucky to have found you, my mom will be so proud. WTF!!!!

olugbemi4u:

Buhari is the solution to immediate problem Nigeria is facing now!!!!! to stop organised crime supervised by the state to the detriment of the perplexity approved fraud at all levels must stop.A man with independent minded that is capable of introducing strong institution against corruption not carry ca cope FCC and ICC that take permission from politicians.a lot of thing is going rough why this govt promote poverty and corruption.
there is need for stiffer punishment against electoral offender as its against military intervention in politics.they dont want to do it because,they all have organised thugs and criminals working for them.

Thank you my brother

Lagosboy:

Bakare gave his opinion as a citizen then in 2006 but after meeting Buhari in person he changes his mind.

Ribadu was part and parcel of PDP , he was OBJs attack dog, Ribadu can never prosecute OBJ for corruption, never prosecute Aneni and co because they all ate and drank together. Ribadu never prosecutued any of OBJs minister apart from the unfortunate Sunday Afolabio and it wasnt even Ribadu that opened that.

Ribadu compiled a list of corrupt people in 2007 including Lanre Tejuosho who had never taste public office. Lanre Tejuosho was Iyabo obasanjos opponent for the Senate, this is the kind of antecedent Ribadu has. Ribadu should spare us his hypocricy. When Bakare said they know some things about him , they definately know.

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samix:

I am beginning to feel the hatred felt for this duckhead called Beaf and I am leaning towards that direction, he must be a paid campaigner for GEJ no doubt.
Gen Buhari did more as a PTF chairman compared to what your fat goathead bosses did in 12 years.
Beaf=PUNKASS

Hatred?
Sometimes I wonder what drives some NLers! There are some pretty unhealthy types floating around who have no brains, yet wish to bully the brainy, perhaps out of jealousy. Shame on you!

Dude, I hope you will not be the next in jail for bombing or any similar dastardly act.
Ask House of Assembly aspirant of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) for Suleja Constituency, Lado Abdullahi what it feels like to be caught and arraigned for a hate crime (bombing a rival party's rally).
Or maybe that hatred will express itself as throwing stones at cars belonging to people half your age? Ask Buhari how much respect that has cost him.

I can remember clearly that around 1996,PTF through julius berger relayed the whole of the lagos ibadan expressway since then the road has been abandoned except the few times where contracts are given to cronies to do some jobs they are not qualified to do like the joke widening carried out  3 years ago.

LAGOS BOY.AM SURE YOU WILL STOP POSTING ON NAIRALAND AFTER APRIL ELECTION.BUHARI WILL LOSE WOEFULLY AND AM SURE YOU WILL HIDE YOUR FACE IN SHAME.hOW MUCH DID THEY PAY YOU?

See the source of this article:

http://kubwaexpress.com/buhari%E2%80%99s-handshake-and-handcuff/

PBundles:

Ladies and Gents, Brothers and Sisters. As I follow the campaign and all its rhetoric, I have noticed one very very very sad fact. THERE ARE NO TRUSTWORTHY CANIDATES. THEY ARE ALL ROUGES!!!! It doesnt matter the party you choose, the presidential canidate you like, THEY ARE ALL CORRUPT. The sad part is, we are willing to choose the one that is least corrupt. What a nation. Its like a man having to choose a wife from a LovePeddler house.  Excuse you miss how long have you been in this profession 6 years, no that is too long and you 12 OMG!! and you 1 year, ah only one year so you only slept with say 500 guys, ok you are it baby. man im lucky to have found you, my mom will be so proud. WTF!!!!

If therez any consensus regarding Buhari amongst varying groups of reasonable people even as far as the international community, it is that BUHARI IS NOT CORRUPT. other allegations against him may be argued out before possibly being proven to be untrue but as far as corruption goes, theres no argument there.  It is a certified fact that Buhari is not corrupt. Gbam!!!. They've tried and toiled, plotted and conspired but they've failed woefully at attempts to smudge his incorruptible record.

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Pataki:

Thanks a lot. Could you please paste the weblink to this article here so I can equally share it on my facebook profile.

Nigerians must know the truth and be set from the shackles of this demonic PDP.

ur talk make sense well well. Na em bi watin i go do just now. D 1 wen i do b4 people (frnds) tank me well.  Jeg no get dis kyn record at all. I bi Delta boi but many of us dey suport BUHARI because of d past records.