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eGuerrilla: For someone who impugns their political report has been exposed, I'd say you are more than a mere spectator.
Fair assessment of where you really stand nes pa?

Stop being an id!ot. I won't warn you again, the game you are playing is one for fools (except you are a fool).
If you have brains, stick to the topic. If you have none, be prepared to be treated like a fool. Thank you.

Anyway, I know you are losing the argument and lack the intellect to marshall one; thats the reason for the cheap dodge.

Farouk Lawan was caught on video and audio recordings transacting an extortion. Kill yourself if that fact is too painful for you and other false preachers of concern for Nigeria. You are a mere counterfeit and defender of thieves as your foolish post shows.

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Whatever, take your matter to EFCC. This one is about Farouk Lawan's guilt.

Lol! I see red panic in the eyes of the "born to rule!"

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The man in question is changing story like water, but the ome thing he is not doing, is denying the video exists.

Give it up, bro. Farouk is going to jail.

[quote author=israel ben-zion]Anyone ready to discredit a man of honour without any proof of his alleged wrongdoings is a fool. And d fool shd hv known dat wen BH strikes, the carnage so caused is inferential evidence that they possessed bombs. St^pid analogy.[/quote]You are the fool here and have always been. You are fighting a lost battle, if you lost souls like boko haram to your highest and fight to pilot the nation into a ditch with criminals like Farouk Lawan. The bastard removed all the names of the real subsidy criminals, called himself a saint and you cockroaches were there to sing halleluya. You are fooling yourselves only.

[quote author=ndu_chucks]Can you read? abi you are now a blind bat? I maintain that anyone found guilty of any subsidy related crime including bribery should be imprisoned.[/quote]After reading your stuff, you still ask that question? Lol!
Anyway, dude it is quite clear that you are playing games by suggesting Otedola be jailed for calling the law on the criminal Farouk.
You might understand such backward logic, but from where I stand, it is a clear case of obscurantism.

Jarus: Confirmed from a very reliable source. The Faruk Lawan subsidy scandal is unfortunately true. Fell for set-up by EFCC, SSS etc. Deleted many names from the subsidy indictment list. Now, I have no doubt again that the only politician with 100% integrity is a dead one.

I recall when the subsidy report came out and many of us screamed that the list was far from complete. Nobody listened, instead everyone wanted to live a fantasy.

Well, those posing as your friends are your enemies.

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Jail Otedola for calling the law? Why not ask that the SSS be jailed too? Olodo.

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You are not a law court, bro. So, on what basis are demanding "proof?"
It is quite presumptuous for you to ask the SSS to come and prove stuff to you. In fact, its hilarious.

You and I are mere spectators. The law will take its cause and we'll read it on the web and watch it on tele.

Boboribo: The same Beaf who told us the video will soon be on Youtube is now saying the video is irrelevant. Haba!!!

Its not good to lie, bro. Shame on you.

The security agencies, he disclosed, gave him serialised dollar bills for the sting job and there are call logs, video and audio recordings in the possession of the agencies to confirm all that had transpired between himself and Lawan.

Intriguing! It looks like we've only seen the tip of the iceberg.
Farouks case seems much worse considering that Zenon does not benefit from the subsidy in any way. This is big.

maasoap: Just yet, I couldn't see much being done by PDP's governors in oil producing states despite collecting around 12 billion naira monthly where other non-oil producing states collect average of 2.5 billion naira. But if these people know that they can be voted out of power at any time, they will surely perform better. I personally believe that people of South South and South East are making themselves slaves of PDP thieves by not even try change for once.

We do not wish to be slaves to other ethnic groups, that is something we have experienced directly, which other sections of the country have not. So, we stay with PDP.
In a saner country, you wouldn't be looking at the billions the SS receives, rather, you'd be very occupied with how productive and competitive your section of the country is.

Each time people mention what other states get from the SS, I wonder if they do not feel any sense of embarrassment. They are meant to be getting exactly zero from the SE/SS. So instead of looking at the exploited states, consider just how pathetic all other states of Nigeria are.

If we didn't have oil, would Nigeria be poorer than Southern Sudan?

Can this go on the front page, please? Its Otedola stating his side of the story in the Farouk $3million saga:

https://www.nairaland.com/960829/fuel-subsidy-probe-otedola-confirms#11075607

Thanks.

[size=14pt]Fuel Subsidy Probe: Otedola Confirms Bribe to Lawmakers[/size]
11 Jun 2012
By Yemi Ajayi in Lagos, Ike Abonyi, Onwuka Nzeshi and Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja

•SSS sends videotape to EFCC

The full details of the $3 million bribery scandal involving members of the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on the Fuel Subsidy probe were revealed yesterday, as one of the major actors in the scandal has opened up on what transpired.

In an exclusive interview with THISDAY, chairman, Zenon Petroleum & Gas Ltd, Mr. Femi Otedola, who hitherto was suspected of being behind the $3 million bribery scandal, blew the lid on what transpired and how chairman of the ad-hoc committee, Hon. Farouk Lawan, and the secretary of the committee, Mr. Boniface Emenalo, had collected $620,000 from him in a sting operation masterminded by the security agencies.

The amount was part payment for the $3 million, which he alleged Lawan had demanded from him to exonerate Zenon Oil from the ad-hoc committee’s report.

As the scandal unfolds, it was learnt that operatives of the State Security Services have sent a video recording of the incident to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for further scrutiny and action.

Otedola, who was opening up on the issue for the first time, narrated how Lawan at the outset of the probe had approached him to get some insight into the workings of the downstream oil and gas sector.

Otedola said he obliged him and ensured that his managing directors of Forte Oil Plc and Zenon Oil appeared at the subsidy probe during its public hearing after both companies had been invited by the committee.

During the probe, he said the committee was informed in no uncertain terms that Zenon does not and has never made claims for subsidy payments from the federal government, as the company was engaged solely in the importation of diesel, a product that is not subsidised.
Zenon’s managing director, Mr. Kanmi Kareem Otaru, during the probe had denied that the company had anything to do with the subsidy regime. He told the committee, “For the avoidance of doubt Zenon never participated or benefited from the subsidy scheme or Petroleum Support Fund (PSF).”

According to him, going by the Act which established the PSF scheme, “Zenon couldn’t participate in it because we don’t have a network of PMS retail outlets which was one of the key criteria beneficiaries must meet and as such we are not qualified to participate to draw from subsidy payments on PMS. So we never collected as records will show.”

Irrespective of the clarification made at the hearing, Otedola said Lawan still approached him a few days before the report was to be tabled on April 18, 2012 before the House of Representatives, demanding money so that Zenon’s name will be kept out of the report.
“When this happened, I was very angry and reminded him that Zenon has never participated in the subsidy scheme and that it would be criminal to rope in the company for something it did not do.

“But Lawan responded, stating that several other marketers were playing ball and had offered the members of the committee large sums of money to ensure that their companies’ names were not published in the report,” he added.

Otedola, said initially he balked at Lawan’s attempt to extort money from him and told the legislator that he would not pay up, as Zenon had not committed any crime.

“Then a day before the report was to be submitted, Lawan called again, informing me that Zenon’s name had been included in the report.
“I, of course, was very angry and asked him to desist from his course of action, but Lawan insisted that I must pay up as other oil marketers had done before me.”

Otedola said he could not believe his eyes the next day when the report came out and Zenon’s name had been listed under the category of companies that had bought foreign exchange from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) but had not imported petrol.

The amount ascribed to Zenon in the report was $232,975,385.13. The report had recommended that Zenon and 14 other marketers that had bought the foreign exchange be referred to the anti-corruption agencies to determine what they used the monies for.
Otedola said at this point he again called Lawan demanding that Zenon’s name be removed from the list, as there was no way his company could have bought that volume of foreign exchange without importing products.

“I reminded him that the amount ascribed to Zenon was wrong as what the company bought was over $400 million for importation of products through the banks – Zenith, UBA and GTB – and that under Sanusi (CBN governor) there was no way anyone could have bought that quantity of foreign exchange and not imported the products having filled the Form M.

“Sanusi will simply clamp down on anyone who tries to pull that kind of stunt,” he said.
In spite of this, Otedola said Lawan still demanded that the members of the committee be given money in exchange for removing Zenon’s name from the report before it is considered in plenary by the entire House.

Otedola said he then asked how much would be required to make the committee happy, to which Lawan responded $3 million.
“I screamed at him, demanding to know why he was doing this to me. All he said was other marketers were paying up to keep their names out of the report so I should do likewise,” he said.

Otedola revealed that it was this point he decided to involve the security agencies to catch Lawan and his committee with their hands in the till.

According to him, “As a law-abiding citizen, I decided to involve the security agencies and they advised me to play along, which prompted me to offer to pay part of the money with the promise that I would pay the balance when my company’s name had been removed from the report."

The security agencies, he disclosed, gave him serialised dollar bills for the sting job and there are call logs, video and audio recordings in the possession of the agencies to confirm all that had transpired between himself and Lawan.

He said on April 21, the Saturday before the plenary, Lawan came in person to his residence and collected $250,000 in cash, as the first instalment, “then the next Monday night he came and collected another $250,000.

“On Tuesday, at 9am, just before the House commenced seating, Boniface came and collected another $120,000.”
Otedola confirmed that during the sting, Lawan and Boniface collected a total of $620,000 in three instalments as part of the $3 million demanded from him.

He added that with the $620,000 that had been extorted by Lawan and the committee, during the plenary, Zenon’s name was removed from the list of companies that had bought foreign exchange but did not import products.

Otedola continued: “He (Lawan) now asked for the balance of $2.5 million, but when I told him that I had no money now that the money was in Lagos, he suggested that I should charter a plane to fly the money from Lagos to Abuja.”

Otedola stressed that his decision to get the law enforcement and security agencies involved stemmed from the fact that he had not broken any law, maintaining that as a law-abiding citizen, he was saddened by the fact that he was being blackmailed by of all people, members of the legislature.

“If you have information that an armed robber is come to raid your home, won’t you notify the police? So, that was the purpose of the sting operation.

“Besides, my integrity is paramount to me. I started selling petroleum products 14 years ago in drums and somebody who has never run a petrol station is trying to blackmail and extort money from me.
“If others (marketers) have paid money, maybe they are guilty. But I did not do anything wrong, so why should they extort money from me? As a law-abiding citizen, I had to involve the security agencies. Indeed, I’m very disappointed because I have worked hard to build my business.”

Insisting that he had nothing to hide or fear over what had happened, Otedola maintained if he was in the wrong he would not have involved the security agencies in the first instance.

In a reference to the strong denials made by Lawan since the scandal became public, Otedola stated, “When he (Lawan) demanded the bribe, I called the agencies. That is because I had nothing to hide. When the bribe was paid, why did he not call and report it to the agencies if he had nothing to.”

Meanwhile, THISDAY gathered that the videotape of the illicit transaction had been sent to the EFCC to investigate the incident.
When contacted, the EFCC, however, said it had neither received the videotape nor had it commenced investigations into the bribery scandal.

EFCC Head of the Media Unit, Mr. Wilson Uwugiaren, said the allegation had not been brought to the knowledge of the commission.
According to him, the only related matter currently being handled by the EFCC was the report of the ad-hoc committee that the commission was studying to establish the facts and track down anyone found culpable for the alleged mismanagement of the PSF.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/fuel-subsidy-probe-otedola-confirms-bribe-to-lawmakers/117757/

What do you hope to replace PDP with? One of those ethnic parties like ACN or CPC? Or some similarly lousy constellation of bigots, hegemonists and pretenders?

The SE/SS know where the shoe pinches. Politics is an existential game for those two regions. One faced the threat of extermination through war and the other currently faces the threat of extermination through exploitation.

Because of the awuf train, many will never understand where we are coming from and where we are headed.

sleek29: @beaf (Reno Omokri), nice job of defending your boss and his allies, farouk has stepped on powerful toes and so we all expected a fight back, why not release the video for all to see, does this make all indicted in the N2.6tr subsidy scam innocent, what happened to the subsidy money, another wonderful distraction track in the GEJ National distraction album just after Unilag name change, Dana Air mishap and now this, always taking Nigerian's mind of the real issues

Another "born to rule" dunce.
Next!

noblezone: emm, me thinks it is a matter of time, the "foools" will arrest the "wiseman" who in his "greatest of wisdom" collected the bribe.

Even the "wisemen" of Narialand know the truth: the "wiseman" is "innocent" and the "foools" are just accusing him for "nothing".

As a "wiseman", wether he collected the money or not is irrelevant, he is still remains a "hero": our "hero" who in the spirit of "patriotism" and all "sincerity" has done a "great" job by revealing the "truth" and nothing but "the truth".

As a "wiseman", he must have collected the money in "wisdom" and if he was in any way influenced by the money with respect to outcome of the probe, the "wisemen" of nairaland know that such influence must be overlooked provided that he indicted Mr. President in one way or the other. Wether such indictment is real or imaginary is irrelevant.

Whosoever has a contrary opinion must be on the "payroll" of the present regime and is an "enemy of the state".

Beaf endorses this post.

jamace: Chei! This soldier of fortune go kill person for this NL o.

The personal attack thing is a bit tired now. It just makes you sound daft, bro.
Please contribute an argument, or remain silent if you have none. Thank you.

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Again, what money did Farouk Lawan produce in the house of reps? Maybe he was only hallucinating.

“There was a frenzy in the House on Thursday when the affected Rep attempted to cause the committee on anti-Corruption to display the money as evidence of attempts to bribe him but members resisted the move on the claim that the line of argument cannot be pushed because the man had kept the money for more than two months.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/sat/index.php/news/7639-subsidy-probeefcc-probes-rep-over-3m-bribe.html

kingoflag: Oh yeah? Oya, let's put up a thread and ask people what they think of you and what they'd do to u were they to encounter you alone in a dark alley.

That has been done numerous times, and the result has always shocked gutter creatures like you. But people like you cannot see themselves in the mirror, which is a great pity, because you would recoil in horror and die of a heart attack.
You claimed not to have spent more than two weeks of your life in Nigeria, yet you are comfortable in the company of slimeballs and degenerates; if you are not the son of of an oil block owning member of the core-Northern elite, then you must be the biggest fool that ever existed. On the other hand, if you are, then your gutter behaviour is expected.

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I will ask again:
What money did Farouk Lawan attempt to tender before the house? Was it the same money he is now claiming he never received?
If he didn't take money, what was he tendering?
Its an open and shut matter thats not even worth debating.

I will repeat that asking for the video is as silly as asking for boko haram bombs to be posted to you before you believe they exist.

I wish goodluck to anyone that wants to go to Yellow House Abuja to demand SSS give them videos so they can believe. Ridiculous things get said on NL sha.

kingoflag: haha the rabid pretentious beast has suddenly stopped foaming at the mouth, what happened? GEJ gave you another raise in blood money again? Oh, I'm foulmouthed eh? Well, I implore everyone to go through our old posts....

I'm sure this sort of stup!dity makes sense only to your type, but to others it only casts you as attention seeking, primitive and unintelligent.

eGuerrilla: ^
Farouk is basically saying there is no smoking gun.

Clearly, the cabal is going to have to adopt the nuclear option in order to contain this scandal .

Funny. So what money did he try to tender before the house?

acidtalk: Okay! I have agreed. Farouk Lawan is my father and I took after him with my lies .Now can you please crawl back to your cage?

People hadly notice the action before a reaction takes place. This is the same way he has been attacking my every post and when I fired back, some people then assumed I should be a 'saint' and not fire back. For crying out loud I am HUMAN and have blood flowing in me.

Why didn't you quote the exact words of the lady in question before i replied her. See man, I know you well, if it was you she told what she said to me, you would not only have gone crying to the moderators but also cried out your socket with complains.

I will try to ignore you henceforth but I just wanted you to know, no matter what thread or section of nairaland, I will take you down if I dare face you.

Come dude, there is no need to tell lies. You were the first to start the attacking me, you even made up a very evil prayer for me to say amen to; which I did, since my hands are clean; but when I challenged you to say amen to your own prayer, you refused. Why can't you say amen to your own prayer if you are not a liar and swindler at best? Why, bro?

To make matters worse, you started this thread with the lie that your posts do not carry religious sentiment. I pointed out your "prayer" to you as evidence of the fact that you are a liar and a hypocrite. If you can lie at the drop of a hat and use gutter language on a woman, then this entire thread is a counterfeit produced by an immoral gutter being.

Are you not the same person that said my father was Lucifer? Were you a saint when you said that? Or maybe you have mental issues.
Now, you want to "jail your father."

Lying scum. Say amen to your own prayer if you dare, its right here:
https://www.nairaland.com/959606/farouk-lawan-subsidy-probe-committee/9#11065431
Anyway, I've said amen on your behalf.

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Crap.
So, what money did he produce in the house of reps?

“There was a frenzy in the House on Thursday when the affected Rep attempted to cause the committee on anti-Corruption to display the money as evidence of attempts to bribe him but members resisted the move on the claim that the line of argument cannot be pushed because the man had kept the money for more than two months.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/sat/index.php/news/7639-subsidy-probeefcc-probes-rep-over-3m-bribe.html

@topic
Anyone asking for the video is being as daft as someone asking for boko harams bombs to be posted to them before they believe boko haram exists.
Anyway, this is NL where the new fad is acting silly.

I'm not the only one casting a leery glance at Jenson who sounding truly pathetic at the after race interviews. The "evil" British press has its beady eye on him too! They have already begun chewing his exposed entrails. Expect a macabre show of blood and gore if button replicates his non-performance in Valencia; then the press would truly be gnawing at his very soul.

[size=14pt]'Confused and very lost': Disappointed Jenson Button searches for answers[/size]
While his team-mate powered to victory, Button could only come home in 16th place - and he doesn't know where it's going wrong

https://i3.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article852112.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/jenson-button-monaco.jpg
Confused: Jenson Button cannot understand why his McLaren is without the competitive pace Hamilton has
Getty

Jenson Button cut a disconsolate figure as he headed home from Montreal admitting "I am leaving here confused and very lost".

A year ago he roared to a dramatic last lap triumph in lashing rain to celebrate one of the greatest moments of his career.

A year on in brilliant sunshine he could manage no better than 16th in a car that his teammate Lewis Hamilton wrestled to a remarkable victory.

After seven rounds and seven different winners in a season that started with his victory in Melbourne he now trails Hamilton by the massive margin of 43 points.

He has just 45 points after picking up just two points in the last four Grands Prix.

Afterwards he admitted he was at a loss to explain why he cannot get the performance out of the car.

"It is not the tyres. I cannot be the only person who can't drive the tyres. It's impossible," said Button.

"Every time you jump in the car you are confident it is going to go well and every time you make changes you think you are going to improve it.

"But I have never had a race like it. I am pushing the car to its limits. That felt like the limit of the car."

Button had a miserable Friday in which his car spent most of the day on the blocks as the gearbox was removed twice.

Then on Saturday he could manage no better than 10th and barely made it into the top 10 shoot out as he ran out of tyres.

And the Friday from hell turned into a nightmare Sunday.

He briefly improved his position, despite starting on the harder tyres, only to fall through the field unable to make his rubber last..

He pitted twice and fell back each time but as he viewed the wreckage of his weekend he added: "Congratulations to Lewis and the team, they could find some speed in the car today.

"Lewis did a good job and the strategy worked out well for them in the end. There was no speed at all.

"I couldn't look after the tyres, I didn't have any pace. There was nothing there.

"I was the only person on the primes at the beginning who couldn't look after them.

"It has been the same at the last couple of races. I don't know why that is. That is normally something that I am pretty good at."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/formula-1/disappointed-jenson-button-searches-for-answers-872262

Pathetic.

Mesico2: @Beaf, am so sure that even u urself doesn't understand how God made u this irritating. I talk my own but u called me a fool simply because I didn't think what u think. E dey ur body o.

My brother, you insulted me first. So, I turned round, hit you in the gonads and popped out your right eye.
Don't insult me next time, so that you don't come back weeping. The more intelligent thing to do is face the topic.

Fool.

Oluwa4Sure: LOLLLLLLL!!!!

Bros don't be so shallow minded, saying things are easier than doing them!!!!

Why will he want to send his father to jail in the first place? When he is the head of theives

Word.

acidtalk: I might have fought back by replying some certain people which didn't go down well with some members so I will say, I AM SORRY!!!

Some people just come out to frustrate you by posting jagons so that they can derail your thread. That was exactly what was done. He basiacally followed me and attack me on 3 threads before I finally spat back.

Like I will always say, I am not a perfect being but I have a conscience and always want to go to bed each night with a clear mind because I just might not be alive to see another day break.

People thought the Police force can never stop taking bribe, but when this new IG (acting) implemented the ban, didn't the bribe taking reduce to the bearest minimum?

The thing is let's be honest and upright, no type of change is impossible to make.

Once greed and wastefulness is eradicted, Corruption will be totally wiped out from our society.

Crap. You are a liar and hypocrite like Farouk Lawan.
One of the people you insulted with gutter language happens to be a woman; its quite obvious that you have the morality of a housefly. Such a person could even be a wife-beater, yet you created this hypocritical thread, To deceive who?

I hope your sources are true. It would be good news indeed!