domination: With the recent political atmosphere in Nigeria which has been dominated by attacks and counter attacks, macaroni has debunked news being peddled by propagandist that he accused obedients of cyber bullying infact he maintained that Peter Obi has always preached peace.
The present and past management of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) ran into troubled waters on Friday in Senate for failing to justify spending of N17.158 billion in 2013 with required evidential documents, some of which were alleged to have been eaten up by termites.
The N17.158 billion as stated in the 2018 Audit report, was the total amount of money tansfered by NSITF from its Skye and First Bank accounts into various untraceable accounts belonging to individuals and companies from January to December 2013.
Auditor–General’s office had in the 2018 Audit report, raised 50 different queries bordering on alleged misappropriation of funds by management of the agency, which are being looked into by the Senate Committee on Public Accounts.
Specifically on the N17.158billion unsubstantiated transfers made by NSITF, the query reads: “Management of NSITF as shown in statements of Account No. 1750011691 with Skye bank plc, for the period 1st January, 2013 to 20th December, 2013, and Statements of Account No.2001754610 with First Bank Plc for the period 7th January, 2013 to 28th February, 2013, transferred amounts totalling N 17,158,883,034.69billion to some persons and companies from these accounts.
“However, payment vouchers relating to the transfers, together with their supporting documents were not provided for audit. Consequently, the purpose(s) for the transfers could not be authenticated.
“These are in violation of Financial rule 601 which states that “All payment entries in the cashbook/accounts shall be vouched for on one of the prescribed treasury forms. Vouchers shall be made out in favour of the person or persons to whom the money is actually due...
“Under no circumstances shall a cheque be raised, or cash paid for services for which a voucher has not been raised”.
In sustaining or vacating the query, the Senate Committee headed by Senator Mathew Urhoghide (PDP Edo South), interrogated NSITF’s past and present managements on where monies totalling N17.158billion were transferred to between January and December 2013.
But neither of the managements could offer satisfactory explanations on the undocumented multiple transfers as those at the helm of affairs in 2013 told the committee that documents like vouchers were left behind by them while the present Managing Director of NSITF, Dr Michael Akabogu, said no documents of such is in their kitty .
“The Container the said documents were kept by past management has not only been beating by rains over the years but even possibly been eaten up by termites.
“As directed by this committee, I told the past management officers on the need for them to help us out in answering this query with necessary documents which have not been made available for us,” he said.
However in his submissions, the Managing Director of NSITF from 2010 to 2016, Mallam Umar Munir Abubakar, said he was unaware of the query and have no explanations for it since the audit was not carried out during his tenure.
But his successor, Mr Adebayo Somefun, who was head of the agency from May 2017 to July 2020, said those in the account section should be able to trace the documents which the current General Manager Finance, alleged to have been locked up in an abandoned container within the premises of the Trust Fund in Abuja.
Irked by submissions of the past and present NSITF officials, the committee through its Chairman, Senator Urhoghide, descended heavily on them by ordering them to re-appear before the committee with all the requested evidential documents unfailingly on Thursday, September 22, 2022.
“This committee has given you people more than enough time to respond to queries slammed on NSITF in the 2018 Audit report by the office of Auditor General of the Federation.
“The queries are 50 in number ranging from one misappropriation to the other in billions of Naira. The one on N17.158billion multiple transfers carried out in 2013 has not been answered at all, not to talk of N5.5billion allegedly diverted into a commercial bank account without approval, N2.2billion unauthorised Investment without adequate records etc.
“These are completely unacceptable and the committee will make sure that these queries are sustained if required evidential documents on monies spent or misappropriated, are not provided,” he said.
He should sharraapp. For him to say that he is supporting Tinubu because he is an In-Law to the people of South-South, that Tinubu married from South-South....,, That's a major myopic reason. .. .. Peter Obi married from where?? South-Central??
A Nigerian man identified as mayorkunstudio on TikTok has shared a video of an oyinbo lady who visited him. According to him, the lady came all the way from abroad to the 'trenches' just to see him.
In the video which he shared via his account, the lady was spotted walking down a narrow stick alongside some of his friends who came along them.
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Creativityyyyy.!! .. .. I just need the full video of this.. Like they went to his house and videoed him talking things.. The didn't ask him direct questions on issues.. .. .. Just the way these guys here below were bombarding Obi
casualobserver: Actually he does, but you are not smart enough to see what is right In front of you because you are the typical African electorate.
Let me take it that the response you just gave was for whoever that is supposed to be your preferred candidate.. I asked you a direct question. So, the most logical thing is for you to give me a direct response, which you just did. .. .. (If you like, twist my response as usual, and be thinking that you're smart... You just fumbled again)
GeneralDae: Obi that wants to save money? look at you.
He wants to save money, but he keeps seeing agricultural potentials in every vast uncultivated land?? Is it not money that would be used to convert uncultivated lands to agricultural lands?? If he came to save money, how can he achieve his targeted agricultural potentials for Nigeria?
rusher14: I don't have it but it is sufficient enough to know this is quite recent
The reason I wanted to know if it was recent was for me to find its full version and listen to him in full. So, it is recent. I really need to hear him speak on some salient issues
GeneralDae: So next time when Agbado says he wants to continue from where Buhari stopped, don't mock him. This is what he means. Does Obi want to continue with all these projects?
Obi was never planning to abandon any of Buhari’s meaningful Projects.. So,, what are you saying.??
casualobserver: Your are daft! Politics is not like engineering or medicine or law or other fields where you are dealing with sensible people. In politics especially in Africa you are dealing with low intellect, uneducated, people like yourself and you need their votes. If you tell them we are going to remove subsidy to build roads or tell them We cannot afford to send everybody to university, they will vote against you. So as a politician you tell them what they want to hear to get you into office and if they do t let you remove subsidy or increase university fees, that’s their problem, they are the ones that will have bad roads and degrees that have no value.
The job of a politician is to win elections and unfortunately his constituency are people without sense therefore a politician says what he needs to say to get elected because he depends on people with more emotion than sense……people like you!!!!! Lalongs error was saying the truth to morons and he quickly retraced his steps. You only have to look at the Obidients to know that the masses are dumb and there is nothing you can do to prevent a man who has decided not to have sense from having sense so you borrow yourself sense and make their lack of sense work for you and leave them to their fate!!!
Peter Obi doesn't see Nigerians the way you just described them. .. So, is this how your preferred Candidate sees Nigerians??
casualobserver: Your are daft! Politics is not like engineering or medicine or law or other fields where you are dealing with sensible people. In politics especially in Africa you are dealing with low intellect, uneducated, people like yourself and you need their votes. If you tell them we are going to remove subsidy to build roads or tell them We cannot afford to send everybody to university, they will vote against you. So as a politician you tell them what they want to hear to get you into office and if they do t let you remove subsidy or increase university fees, that’s their problem, they are the ones that will have bad roads and degrees that have no value.
The job of a politician is to win elections and unfortunately his constituency are people without sense therefore a politician says what he needs to say to get elected because he depends on people with more emotion than sense……people like you!!!!! Lalongs error was saying the truth to morons and he quickly retraced his steps. You only have to look at the Obidients to know that the masses are dumb and there is nothing you can do to prevent a man who has decided not to have sense from having sense so you borrow yourself sense and make their lack of sense work for you and leave them to their fate!!!
You talk too much nonsense all at once. Lalong’s error was hypocrisy. Same as Atiku who deleted his tweet about Deborah. .. And you have shown numerous signs of hypocrisy since we started this discussion
Nvestor02: The presidential ambition of the former governor of Anambra is one of the most talked about in the country. Many people have already been mobilizing for him ahead of the coming election, especially the youths.
However, according to the Nigerian constitution, the election cannot be won with the vote of a single region at all. A person must have 25% of the vote in at least 24 states out of the 36 that we have.
This shows that at least Peter Obi will need to get a huge vote in the North and the South West before his ambition to be president can come to pass.
However, this question is: Can Peter Obi get 25% of the votes in the South West and North?
To begin with, both the South West and the North are home to the presidential candidates of the two major parties, the APC and the PDP, and as a result, this region may not be fertile for Peter Obi.
Apart from that, the party of Peter Obi's Labour Party is almost a new face to many people, and it would be hard for the party to gather large percent of votes in these two regions where both APC and PDP have members in almost all households that exist there.
The last election in Osun and Ekiti shows that the Labour Party has no strong stand in the South West because even with the presence of Peter Obi in Osun state to campaign for the governorship candidate of the state, Lasun Yusuf, the Labour Party still comes far behind both APC and PDP, who have multiple thousand votes.
Because of the fact that the Labour Party of Peter Obi has a low presence in both regions and because they are mostly unknown to the elderly and middle-aged people who mostly vote during elections, we can stand by the conclusion that Peter Obi may not be able to see 25% of the votes in both regions.
You're still playing old-men’s Politics.. .. The Youths Were Kids some time ago,, and they were promised that they are the leaders of tomorrow, that they are the future of our country. Now, the tomorrow is here. Things have changed. WATCH OUT.!!
Nijablast: That is fair enough. Emi lokan of Nigeria is the next president. Obituaries, Obi supporters, Obidiend, Obidientzombie can take over social media.
Why is it that Atiku is not your wahalla?? But the Obi that would Come Fourth... The Obi that is going to divide the PDP vote.. .. WHYYYY.??
Jesus indeed. The things you said inside the song,, na Jesus go do am?? .. Jesus himself no go wan that kind love sef,, not from you sef to start with. ... Liars Everywhere
casualobserver: Get over yourself and stop dragging matter for 3 days! Get a life!!!!!
You see TRUTH?? I am ready to drag it forever. .. Lalong lied. And he apologized. .. If he knew he didn't tell any lie, he would have defended himself.
casualobserver: You problem is clearly and intellectual one, you are not very bright! He apologized because he is a politician nothing more!! He apologized because he realizes he is dealing with people with low intellect and at the end of the day they are the ones who vote not because his statement was wrong.
Every politician knows the people don’t like to hear the truth, his mistake was telling the truth and he retraced his steps because he knows the masses like being pacified and lied to.
Your name is PITY.. If he knew he was saying the truth, he would have defended it, not apologising. .. .. .. He lied by involving the Pope in a discussion that has nothing to do with the Pope.