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‘I collected bribe
from Adenuga for
El-Rufai’
By Oluwole Josiah
Sunday, 14 Aug 2011
The Senate Ad hoc Committee
on Privatisation was on
Saturday treated to a drama
when a former Deputy
Director of the Bureau of
Public Enterprises, Mr. Charles Osuji, said he collected a bribe
from Globalcom Chairman,
Mike Adenuga for Mallam
Nasir El-Rufai, after the sale of
National Oil. Osuji, who brazenly admitted
going to Adenuga on behalf
of El-Rufai even when the
transactions on the sale of
National Oil had been
concluded, said he acted on the directive of El-Rufai. He also said that when he
brought the money to El-
Rufai, he refused to collect it
because, “Adenuga brought
the money in bits and so it
was incomplete.” According to Osuji, El-Rufai
eventually ordered his
dismissal from the BPE Although he did not disclose
the amount that was given to
him as bribe for El-Rufai, Osuji
explained that he could not
deliver the entire bribe sum
because the money was given to him in bits. But El-Rufai in his reaction,
told journalists that Osuji first
brought a N25m Zenith Bank
cheque to him. He said after he ordered Osuji
to return the money to
Adenuga, who had already
acquired National Oil, Osuji
subsequently returned with
$100,000 cash which he did not accept. El-Rufai, “I reported the
matter to the Vice President
who was the Chairman of the
NCP, and he and the then
Attorney General, Bola Ige
requested that Osuji be prosecuted.” The former FCT minister said
Osuji could not be prosecuted
because Ige died shortly after
that, but the NCP directed that
he should be dismissed. Chairman of the committee,
Ahmed Lawan and members
of the committee were
shocked to hear the story and
they said Osuji should have
been arrested and prosecuted for his actions. Lawan said, “This is sad. A
deputy director collected
money for BPE, if this is
happening in BPE, it is
additional misery for Nigeria.
He should have been arrested and prosecuted.”