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Thanks to GEJ agenda

PDP ALWAYS THE GENESIS OF ANY VIOLENCE. Like saTAN.

Op, your lies will never stop nigerians from voting the right man GMB.
You work for the corrupt against the anti-corrupt.

They no see government what do you expect?
You think Sticks and cutlass go match this armor and AKs?

He's always for the people

slimfit1:
Go and turn sokoto to dubai first before you come and talk rubbish here.

yes he will.
THE saTANist are back to fear of GMB the liberator.

Nigerians will thank you

All to gombe and confirm wether he's a member of.. Or innocent

Are They all gunmen?

ojubi:
WITH DUE RESPECT TO HIS OFFICE AND PERSONALITY THE EMIR IS A "FOOL"

JUST LAST YEAR WHEN HE WAS OPPOSING THE GOVERNMENT, HE OPENLY SUPPORTED THE ACTIVITIES OF BOKO HARAM.
HE GAVE AN INTERNATIONAL INTERVIEW WERE HE STATED THAT BOKO HARAM ARE FIGHTING BECAUSE THE SOUTH IS GETTING MORE MONEY THAN THE NORTH IN FEDERAL ALLOCATION, BECAUSE OF THE 13 PRCENT DERIVATION, THAT THIS IS AN INJUSTICE TO THE NORTH SINCE ACCORDING TO HIM THE NORTH IS MORE POPULATED THAN THE SOUTH.

TODAY BOKO HARAM IS KILLING MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS ALIKE AS WELL AS THE POOR AND THE RICH, DISTROYING CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM COMMUNITIES AS WELL AS KILLING EMIRS AND IMAMS THE MUSIC HAS CHANGED.

THE NORTHEN ELITE SHOULD KEEP LIVING IN DENIAL, BOKO HARAM IS A DIRECT FALL OUT OF THE AMALJIRI SYSTEM WHICH UP TILL NOW ITS ONLY GEJ THAT SEEMS TO BE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT, WHILE THEY ARE PLAYING POLITICS WITH THEIR PEOPLE.

SORRY IF I CALL YOU BIGOT.
THERE ARE FALSE ACCUSATION IN YOUR STATEMENT.YOU DON'T HAVE PROVE OF WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, JUST SPECULATION.

YOU CLEARLY HAVE NO CLUE ABOUT BOKOHARAM ISSUE. TALK IS CHEAP.

This kind FACT makes TANians belle turn.
Come and start depending failure.

Still on Kids GLOVES mode.
people are dying

This is going to be very bad.
bokoharam will thank the gov.for this.

They are combination of kanuri,Chadian, Niger,Cameroonian and tuaregs from Mali.brain washed by extremists scholars in to believing they can create an Islamic state by declaring jihad in that region.

Their foreign features makes them vulnerable in the Hausa states in the north west, that's why aren't successful in having strong hold there.

Tambuwal

biafranqueen:
Sorry for the energy wasted!
I consider myself a progressive and I have seen progress in Nigeria under GEJ's administration.
APC has already dumped the General you people are going to break that man to pieces this time, shame on you!
Tell APC Management that Lagosioans want the Guest House Number 4 Oyinken in Ikoyi back in state control that property is valued at N450 million and Fashola has no right to sign it over in 2007, before he leaves he must give it back . You people are not even ashamed of yourself!

You just considered your self progressive but you are not.you are TANoids.
Vote ANTI-CORRUPTION
Vote GMB.

Tougher times ahead

Saving mode activated.
while we watch how extravagant campaigns will be.

WombRaiders:
Niger Republic shares a 1,000 mile border with Nigeria. Niger just like Another bordering state Chad, is predominantly Muslim nation.

The security apparatus and personnel strength in these two countries combined is nothing to write about.

These two countries are also sparsely populated.

ISIS have a jihadist expansionist plan to occupy all the middle east, central Asia, parts of eastern Europe, all of north Africa, Sudan, Somali land, Ethiopia, Spain, Portugal, south France and all of the Sahara and west Africa inclusive.

Currently ISIS have established an Islamic State in huge swaths of occupied territory spanning two countries, Iraq and Syria.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/06/30/article-2674736-1F46221200000578-100_634x381.jpg


Why are our own very Boko Terrorists not expanding out of Nigeria?

They have made incursions into Cameron, Chad and Niger but you don't see them claiming territories over there but they seem only concern with the north east.

The answer is simple. Boko haram was created solely to terrorize Nigeria.

Q
The APC, northern mulsim caliphate, northern business oligarchs and the US government are behind boko haram.

SIMPLE ANSWER=THEY HAVE STRONG LEADERS

Stoical:
Hello, maybe I am the only person that have noticed the number of BH being killed from time to time by HUNTERS, and our soldiers have been portrayed as not being able to do that. Please, do these hunters always achieve these successes without casualties or, do they always round-up these BH guys in 40s, 60s, 75s, 80s, etc...

I really would wanna know, so that I could inform the military boys to always round them up first and shoot their sorry asses. Maybe, people will hear that they worked by then...

Just being curious!!!

E be like se you no hapi as hunters don de overpower bokoharam

IfyAwazie:
and who told u by den our oil will remain for dem to demand. Our leaders whould have siphon it finish and transfer d money into dere foreign accounts.

Ok mama

PDP exploiting the gullible minds. I wonder the of kind juju they have done to the people who believe these lies.

They know the sponsors of BOKOHARAM and yet they allowed the KILLINGs to go on.

if not for the people.(They called them sympathizers of BH)

Even for the sake of our gallant officers that are dying everyday.

IfyAwazie:
Waooo, wonderful. So, how does dat reduce d value of naria.

the smarter they get the lesser They demand your oil which in turn weakened your naira.

KwoiZabo:
Bad news for El-rufai
Bad news for Senator Zanna
Bad news for Sharia reporters.
Bad news for all boko Sympathizers esp those on Nairaland
God we need more of such news now more than any other time.

Who did this to you? pity how bigotry invaded your mind.
you cant even celebrate this good news without showing how sick you are.

vikyno:
El- rufai seeking attention since .... Make d guy go rest jo...

And he gets it.
Who are you talking about?

BENZINA:
Start to confess which part you play in all these "Hell Roof'n fire".

The worst is our clueless (you know who)refuses to bring him to justice.
Why is that so?

lonelydora:
Hausas believed they own Nigeria.

I like how e de pain you

I foresee you going back to licking more wounds again.

Justcash:
Many Nigerians hold a narrow view when defining corruption.

According to professor (emeritus) Dr. Petrus van Duyne:
Corruption is an improbity or decay in the decision-making process in which a decision-maker consents to deviate or demands deviation from the criterion which should rule his or her decision-making, in exchange for a reward or for the promise or expectation of a reward, while these motives influencing his or her decision-making cannot be part of the justification of the decision.
Corruption can come in various forms and a wide array of illicit behavior, such as bribery, extortion, fraud, nepotism, graft, speed money,
pilferage, theft, embezzlement, falsification of records, kickbacks, influence peddling, and campaign contributions (APEC, 2006).

Buhari was extremely corrupt as both the head of PTF and as head of state. Since most people tend to present him as a saint that saw the prudent management of PTF funds, I will focus on his role in PTF.

WHEN, in 1994, the late General Sani Abacha, invited former Head of State, Major Gen. Muhammadu Buhari to serve as head of the newly created Petroleum (Special) Trust Fund (PTF), the latter gave one condition for this acceptance: He must be given the title of Executive Chairman, and he must have a free hand to run the Fund as he saw fit, without any interference from anyone.

The PTF was itself a child of controversy. Abacha had, in 1994, increased the price which Nigerians had to pay for petrol, diesel and kerosene. The Nigerian populace vehemently opposed the hike, both because the increase was exorbitant, and because most Nigerians were certain that the windfall from the price hike would find its way into the hands of a few highly placed Nigerians.

To assuage this fear, Abacha summoned Gen. Buhari from retirement, to administer a new Trust Fund into which all excess income from the price increase would be paid, and from which the Fund would intervene in critical areas of the economy in such a manner as to directly benefit ordinary Nigerians. Buhari's main qualification was that he was considered to be both a strict disciplinarian and an incorruptible man. And he was for this reason expected to ensure that the fund was properly used, and that it would not become another avenue from which public funds were simply carted away by a handful of well-placed Nigerians. That was the expectation. But the reality, in the end, was a story of massive and cynical looting of the public treasury.

How the Fund became a funnel

Gen. Buhari was Executive Chairman of the Petroleum (Special) Trust Fund from its inception in 1994, to its disbandment by the Obasanjo administration in 1999. According to the report of the Interim Management Committee, which was set up in that year to investigate the affairs of the Fund, the total income accruing to the Fund from mid-1994 to July 1999 was in excess of N181 billion. There were six major areas in which the PTF intervened directly during the period. They were: roads and waterways; supply of educational materials and rehabilitation of educational infrastructure; food supply; health; water supply; and what was curiously termed other projects.

The management structure of the Fund was so capricious, from start, as in retrospect to suggest that the executive chairman was far more impressed by his position as an alternate Head of State, an Interventionist Czar who was answerable to no one, not even the Head of State himself, than anything else. First, he unilaterally appointed a single consultant, Afri-Projects Consortium, as the sole adviser to the Fund. Then he delegated virtually all his powers to this agency. Afri-Projects Consortium was given the exclusive power to initiate projects, assess their probable cost, approve the costs, execute the projects, and assess the quality of execution, all alone. The Consortium's decisions could not be questioned by anyone outside the Fund. Even the statutory members of the Fund's Board of Trustees found themselves helplessly watching as huge sums of money were paid out for questionable projects. And not surprisingly, the three professional management firms recruited by the Interim Management Committee to audit the performance of Afri-Projects Consortium came up with the unanimous conclusion that APC had over-charged the Fund for its services to the tune of over N2 billion.

APC directly managed the HIV/AIDS Intervention Programme of the Fund. Its managerial incompetence was found to be staggering. It knowingly imported sub-standard, poorly packaged, poorly stored, expired, or soon to expire treatment kits and drugs. And in the end, the auditing firms that investigated APC's performance concluded that it had cost the government N579 million by stocking huge silos of useless drugs and kits, purchased at inflated prices.

PTF's intervention in other areas of the health sector was equally atrocious. For instance, under the supervision of the omnipotent APC, PTF purchased large quantities of spectacle frames which were at the time costing only N800 a piece locally, for N1,900 a piece. This cost the public treasury over N45 million in inflated charges.

Ambulances whose going price at the time was N3 million each were found to have been purchased for N13 million each, leading to a loss to the treasury of N900 million.

PTF, through APC, purchased general drugs at the cost of N3 billion. The Interim Management Committee's consultants concluded that the Fund had been cheated by as much as N1.5 billion through inflated charges, and because most of the drugs had already expired before they could be safely used.

The Interim Committee's consultants also discovered that PTF had decided, without approval from the government, to build a residential estate in Wuse, Abuja, a project which was clearly outside the scope of its intervention mandate. The project purportedly cost PTF N703 million. But the consultants concluded that a realistic valuation of the project could not exceed N328 million. The project cost was inflated by more than 100 per cent, at N375 million.

In virtually every other area of PTF activity, three separate consultants engaged by the Interim Committee, and working independently, concluded that there had been massive fraud or criminal mismanagement of funds belonging to Buhari's empire. The Headquarters Extension and Renovation Project of the PTF cost the Fund N461 million. The consultants determined that it should not have cost more than N326 million. The Fund had been defrauded by N135 million.

The PTF had three main bank accounts. The independent consultants concluded that the Fund had been short-changed by as much as N3.6 billion by way of short payment of interest accruals from deposits, or excessive charges on Cost of Turnover by preferred banks.

The Rural Water Supply Scheme was another funnel from which huge sums of money were siphoned away. The independent consultants determined that as much as N1 billion was recoverable from inflated costs and mobilisations for work that was never done. They discovered, also, that the Fund had lost as much as N900 million in the Educational Materials Supply Scheme, through inflated charges and non-performance of contracts duly paid for.

The Rural Telecommunications Development Scheme was another such scheme from which money was cynically carted away by favoured clients. The scheme was designed in two parts: a Pilot Phase, and the Main Phase. The Pilot programme was intended to determine the viability of the project. But this did not deter PFF, under Gen. Buhari, to award contracts for the main programme to the tune of N1.6 billion, without any contracts signed, and before any conclusions could be drawn from the Pilot project.

It is a horrendous story of criminal negligence, cynical fraud, and unprecedented disregard for all civilised standards of prudence and transparency in the disbursement of public funds. In the end, the independent consultants concluded that of the N181 billion that accrued to PTF in the four and a half years of its existence between July 1994 and July 1999, as much as N25 billion was either stolen or improperly expended.

The great man's defence

Sources from within the PTF Interim Management Committee assert that when Gen. Buhari was invited to comment on the findings of the committee's consultants regarding the conduct of the empire over which he presided, he coyly retorted that he was not aware that such massive fraud went on his watch, but that in any event, he could not have benefited personally from the hideous purloining of the treasury. .

That may be true, but it does not detract from the fact that he delegated to this outfit the sole and exclusive power to initiate projects, assess those submitted by other companies, approve variations on contract sums, and determine the quality of work done. He also, by his own admission, according to our sources, approved in writing all recommended payments from the Fund. But he did not know, he claimed, that those to whom he had delegated virtually all his powers were stealing the country blind. And no one has a right to call him to account, since to do so would be to question his famous reputation.

Former president Shehu Shagari was kept in jail for nearly one and a half years by Buhari, and almost lost his sight, when Buhari seized power on December 31, 1983, not because he was found guilty of any criminal offence, certainly not for abuse of his office. Shagari's only crime, it appeared, was that Buhari was convinced that the buck stopped at his desk, for as President, he had to pay vicariously for the purported crimes of his lieutenants. Umaru Dikko, Shagari's ubiquitous Minister of Transport, almost died in a crate, contrived by Buhari, that was en route from London to Nigeria, where he no doubt would have suffered worse than Shagari's fate. Some state governors were jailed for 200 years and more, because they could not account for how they spent their security votes (which were often no more than N20 million).

Regional Bias in the Distribution of PTF benefits

This was most visible in the road construction carried out by PTF. Of all the roads rehabilitated by he PTF, only 1984.5 kilometres of roads representing 10.84 per cent were carried out in the South West; from where the bulk of the PTF revenue came since the zone consumes over 60 per cent of refined petroleum products. All the Southern States had 4,440.43 kms or 24 per cent of road rehabilitation as against 13,870.47 kms or 76 per cent in the Northern States zone three comprising the North-West States of Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara had a lion share of 5020 kms or 27.42 per cent because the Fund’s Chairman, Buhari and the military dictator Sani Abacha were from there; zone four comprising the North-East States of Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe picked 23.48 per cent. This is the zone where Salihijo Ahmed, the late Chief Executive of Afri-Project Consortium APC, the sole consultants that supervised all PTF projects came from.

Figures in other sectors were more scandalous. For instance, under the National Health and Educational Rehabilitation Programme (NHERP), the the North picked 100 per cent. In the vocational programme, North had 97 per cent . In the primary area, the North enjoyed 88 percentwith the other regions sharing 12 percent, and in the secondary area, the North had 86 per cent.The health sector is similar. For the Teaching Hospitals, the North had 62 per cent. For the Specialist Hospitals, it was 71 per cent for the North; in General/State Hospitals the North had 56 per cent for health clinics. Under the food supply summary, it was 83 per cent for the North, Buhari’s zone having 60.54 per cent to itself.

http://www.nigerianmuse.com/20061228122222zg/nigeria-watch/all-about-the-oputa-panel-hrvic/nigeria-has-persecuted-the-yoruba-submission-of-afenifere-to-the-human-rights-violations/

http://news.biafranigeriaworld.com/archive/ngguardian/2002/nov/03/article12.html

ALL OF THE FACTS ABOVE COUPLED WITH THE FACT THAT BUHARI IS A PROPONENT OF NEPOTISM SHOWS THAT HE IS VERY VERY CORRUPT.

I 'll still Vote GMB.
Sai BUHARI!

Trailblazer1:
Speak English please.

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