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Another scam. It never ends.

Just imagine. This is the kind of politics you see only in Nigeria.

A country in North America is causing problems all over the world. The U.S. should get the hell out of the Middle East.

A government of propaganda.

VinTruth:
She knows what to do

Transfer (and claim you sold it) few of your choice properties ABROAD to Oga-at-the-top son/daughter (just like Diezani did) and EFCC will forget your case

Sanwoolu has tried his best, and failed so far for obvious reasons

Leave Sanwoolu & make your own inroad; Sanwoolu will be alright

The owner of Lagos is not happy such monies left the coffers without his knowledge

Meanwhile Saint Sanwoolu was sponsoring Speaker Obasa's impeachment over corruption when he is worse (oga's words not mine)

Boldly advocating for corruption. This FG reeks of hypocrisy and staggering corruption, but who is investigating them? One scandal after another.

I welcome every prosecution of corrupt individuals, but let due process under the law be followed. Not the desperation, intimidation, arrest by proxy and denial of rights.

What a mess this whole thing has become. Something previous U.S. Presidents avoided.

What was his motivation? Was it personal interest/revenge or public interest? This is someone alleged to be involved and also facilitated the process. What a joke.

Kukutente23:
How is US responsible for Arab Palestinians refusing to acknowledge the existence of the Jewish state of Israel?
Is US the reason why Hezbollah infiltrated Lebanon and took over Southern Lebanon that's a majority Christian region of Lebanon?
Last i checked, Russia let Alaska for the US willingly? There's no US base anywhere without the free acceptance of the host country

Can you force recognition? Why is Israel unlawfully occupying Gaza and parts of Southern Lebanon? A lot of these problems will be solved by Israel stopping its unlawful occupation in Gaza. Why do you think the largest arm producer in the world is focused on putting military bases everywhere? Who do you think is responsible for most of the conflicts across the world? The USA will never let the world have peace. Their hegemony is on the line.

Honestly, if he had a conscience, he would have resigned. What will he be coming back to do? Make things worse? What a pity.

Does he have a choice after his loud defeat? He was challenging and mocking Wike, but was thought a bitter lesson in politics. He should focus on the current job he has in Rivers State. This is the most disorganised administration in the history of the state. He has totally abandoned governance since his defeat. He and his deputy should just resign. Definitely going into the books as the worst governor of the state.

Kukutente23:
What is the business of Iranians with what's happening between Israel and Arab Palestinians. They are both middle east countries
If we go by your assertion then Britain had no business helping Nigeria its ally during the Biafra war

What is the business of the USA in the Middle East? Do you know what will happen if Russia and China start building military bases in Mexico and Cuba? The USA is responsible for most of the problems in the world. I know enough to say that. All you have to do to acquire that knowledge is to begin your research on the CIA.

What is the condition of our legal system now? Do most Nigerians have faith that they will get justice? We need to stop all these pampering.

Mtcheww. Focus on achieving something in this administration like Wike is doing and stop looking for a debate like a secondary school student. A man of scandals.

A puppet. The voices of Ukrainians mean nothing to him.

Helinuse:
Ok, let's step out of "JAPAN"


Let's get to Afghanistan.
The dudes, under the name of extreme religious ideas, bombed the World Trade Center.
The country literally ceased to exist until America decided it was tired of the country.

There are still people like you who believe the narratives from that false flag operation? Pity.

Kukutente23:
Thy will do so as soon as Iran stops shouting death to America

And why do you think that is? The USA has destabilised the Middle East. Do you also expect Palestinians in Gaza whose land are under occupation to shout prosperity to Israel? Be real.

A statement of fact.

The National Assembly has surrendered their oversight responsibilities to the executive which has led to the gross abuse of the system. Gbajabiamila is yet again at the centre of another scandal. With this recent revelation, I am convinced that this government's corruption will exceed that of all previous governments since 1999. If given another 4 years, it will be monumental and disastrous for the country. They must all be held accountable, even after leaving office. Document their corruption.

In an interview, Mark Gbillah, a former member of the Federal House of Representatives representing Gwer East/Gwer West Federal Constituency of Benue State in the 9th National Assembly, explained that there are outrageous and illegal deductions being made from the NUPRC. He said these deductions began with a memo sent on behalf of the President by his Chief of Staff, Gbajabiamila.


Excerpts from the interview below:

Shortly after they came into government, the president, on the advice of the Chief of Staff, that's how the memo shows, asked the NUPRC to split their cost of collection, which is 4%, into 2.5% to be used by NUPRC and 1.5% to be "ring fenced". That's how they put it, for a metering project that they decided they wanted to do.

Now, here is the issue: First and foremost, the PIA is a statute. It's an Act of the National Assembly. It cannot be changed by executive fiat. The president cannot just make a pronouncement. Even though the 4% that is indicated there is not in the Act, this is one of the lacunas in the PIA. This is one of the failures of our Assembly, because even then, we had issues of wanting to pander to the executive. So, a lot of times, you see, when considering, they say, "carried, carried, carried."

This is one of the carried problems. We carried it so much that there was no 4% inserted. So, even though that 4% is not indicated, what is indicated in that section in the memo that they wrote to those ministries, those officials, they said something that was untrue. They claimed that, based on Section 242 of the PIA, the president has authority to determine the percentage and the usage of the cost of collection. That is wrong. If you go to the provision, it clearly indicates that a cost of collection shall be given to the NUPRC. That is what that law says. There's no provision there about Mr. President being involved.

What the law provides is that the National Assembly is responsible for the appropriation of all funds accruing to the NUPRC. So that's number one: problem for the president. To just get up and say, "change 2 points," and based on what? There are statements in that memo that say that because the money that came to NUPRC in 2022 was about ₦93 billion, that the cost of collection was so huge, so that it seemed that the workforce was earning too much money being utilised for that, which was completely unfair.

In the wisdom of the National Assembly and the Nigerian people and the industry, it was recognised that, as regulators of a very capital-intensive, high-profile sector, the people that work in that industry cannot be put at your typical level of civil service. They have to have trainings. They have to have incentives. They have to have some packages so that they are comfortable enough to regulate and to oversee the mainstay of our economy.

So, first of all, there was no indication in that memo that they obtained any advice from the Salaries and Wages Commission to say, "okay, yes, this is what we found; these wages are..." It was really just by a decision, by a memo from the Chief of Staff. The president just approved it: "okay, just change it." So the thing now is: you do not also just assign money to a contract without any form of appropriation of any sort.

So they allocated 1.5% to that metering project that they claim. How do you allocate an amount, a recurring amount, to the same project over and over again? But this time now, every time cost of collection is collected, it is used for that.

Now, it's important that I make some key points here. Now, the reason why this issue is important: we have already mentioned it. The NUPRC is a regulator of the mainstay of our economy. So anything that affects them affects us, affects our revenue, because that is still where we get the bulk of our money from. And it also affects the reputation of the country, because if our regulator is not operating with the rule of law, then nobody will bring money in here. If the president can just wake up and say, "Oh, do this, do this," that means we're not operating a free market system. We're not operating by laws. That is why the PIA was made to guard against such actions. But this president came in and took actions that are, clearly, in my own opinion, outside his powers.

So, in legal parlance, they are ultra vires, the actions that are taken. And, of course, I am now part of a group of legislators who have recognized that, and nonpartisan, by the way, that there's a veritable tool called the Freedom of Information Act that many of us as Nigerians don't realize and we have not been utilising to hold our government to account. We agree, yes, a lot of Nigerians will say, "ah, will they respond? You know, will the judiciary?" But that's why we want to test the system. We want to pursue this to the very end. And with regard to this matter, we have deployed, through our legal counsel, freedom of information requests to the office of the Chief of Staff, to the BPP, because any such procurement should have a "No Objection Certificate."

We have sent to the Budget Office, who should tell us: was there any budgetary provision for this contract, or for this splitting of the money? We have sent to CBN. I'll tell you what CBN responded. They are the only ones who have responded so far. We have sent to the Ministry of Finance and NUPRC themselves. Then the Authority, because recently, again, there are allegations that 1% of that 1.5% has now been sent to the Authority. Again, there's no statutory provision for that. It's as if our commonwealth, some individuals are just sitting and sending it where they want, at their whim and caprice. And I want us to realize that we're a country of laws. We have laws, and if our leaders don't appreciate it...

Some of us are concerned about our posterity. We want our children to have a country. That's why I've not left the country. I believe in my country, and I need to hold this government to account. So our decision is: we would hold the government to account, and we want Mr. President to know, we want his Chief of Staff to know, that even if they leave office, we will have a record of this, and we will prosecute them at that time.

We want people to start to know that they must be held accountable, if not today, tomorrow. So that is why we're asking for this information to be given to us about these issues. And if they don't respond, probably by tomorrow or so, we're going to be issuing a 72-hour ultimatum for these agencies to respond, failing which we will go to court. We will test it in court. So any judge who wants to be on the wrong side of the law, we will also petition the NJC. We will also petition international courts.

We are not relenting. We're not joking with this. This is something that is a powerful tool. We have not been utilising it, for your information. Section 3 of the Freedom of Information Act allows those who are physically challenged to provide these kinds of requests. It allows those who are not even literate to go to the office of the Chief of Staff and say, "okay, write: 'I want you to give me so, I want to know how they spend my money, I want to know how this...'" So the person is supposed to write for that person who isn't literate and give the person back the copy for the records, while he provides that information for that person. This is the powerful tool that we have that Nigerians don't know, and we're trying to bring to their attention.

FULL INTERVIEW


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNzUNTrfCOQ?si=LhXbbELorXpdtJXi

Sore losers violating international law as usual. What a shame. They know they can't defeat Iran. You can't be dictating the defence capabilities another country should acquire. This is exactly why they need nuclear weapons.

The United States should get out of the Middle East and stop meddling in the affairs of others, which is something they don't tolerate themselves. Iran has the right as any other nation to acquire nuclear weapons for their defence. No nation should be compelling another by force.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Oe4zaTFTMHs?si=vGM-4eEqn9cJ-iR9

The daily experience of Nigerians.

Nothing will change. He even looks like Starmer.

Typical of the "go bek" folks.

muyico:
Why thief's rampant this day?

Economic hardship.

Condemnable. It is enough to simply take him to the nearest police station. That is the right thing to do instead of unleashing jungle justice. Same hypocrites support corrupt politicians.

helinues:
You will all learn in different ways. If not that you also is being mischievous, why are you claiming what you are not because of politics

There are a lot of people in Aso Villa claiming what they are not and even promised what they could not fulfill, but you still support them. Let people read comments of those with integrity pls. No one likes hypocrisy.

Amaechi please forget those people. It was why the minorities in the former eastern region refused to remain with them. They only choose you when it is convenient. Are these not the same people who always claim Ikwerre as part of them and draw maps to include people? Now it is no longer convenient because Obi is a presidential candidate. What a life. Even in their fives states, they discriminate among themselves, inclusive of religious postings in the catholic church.

agentarcher:
It's good to think and process your words in your head before you talk. I have been to courthouse and read multiple case files from my dad's library. it is obvious you don't know how the court works or how reality works. This case is something I follow cause I know people handling it. There multiple rape cases that have been settled with families and nothing has happened to the person that committed the act. Before a case is taken to court it has to be submitted. If the family and the arresting officer as well as everyone involved in the primary stage of the case is settled it will never see the day of court. There are multiple evidence that suggested she went there for sex. The girl in question is a twin and has been buried by the family which I am sure you don't know. You are not even from our town where the girl is from. A courthouse is just a stone throw from my house. The girl in question was supposed to go to Abuja to meet someone else, but this guy told her to come to asaba to meet him in an hotel that he will teach her content creation. She mentioned she was a virgin and the guy said no problem. After the whole rubbish that happened the girl messaged him that it would have been better she went to Abuja because the guy there would have given her more money, but now she lost her virginity she was keeping for 10k, if the chat provided is true. In the chat she also wrote to the guy that he forced himself on her and he has to compensate her properly. The lawyer representing favor family currently is trying to use the case to extort money. it is a lady. You can do your research and see. Just because the public has been made aware of the case doesn't mean it has gone to court. If all parties involve come out and say it was a misunderstanding, the only way that case goes to court is if the government sue the guy to court. Right how it's not the state vs. it wasn't the state that lead the arrest of the guy. It was Israel Joe who told the family that he knows who to call in the police force that he trusts that will get the useless Ifeanyi.

I understand how the legal system works because I'm part of it. Going to court with your dad and reading his case files doesn't make you a lawyer. I stated that your perception of this issue is shaped by the corrupt system and I was right. Most of what you stated here regarding the facts of the case are already well known. I don't know why you feel you have some special knowledge or insight. Nothing suggests she went there for sex and you won't find that evidence anywhere because it doesn't exist. You don't even understand the facts despite your claim of proximity. The invitation to Abuja which she rejected was the one hinged on sex. I have given legal advice to the police for quite sometime. I know the rot there. Even they know that any of them caught settling serious offences out of court would be in trouble. It is usually done in secrecy because anyone doing that is committing an offence. I have also seen families including those of the victims try to avoid going to court for different reasons. This matter has gotten public attention so we will see how it would be handled. This case is at the stage of investigation. Charges have not been filed yet.

If the Supreme Court had not ruled in FG's favour, they would have been lamenting and claiming that was what hindered them. Now there is a judgment in their favour, but implementation is a problem. What a shame.

Anything is possible, but let me get this right. So allegations including sexual assault were made against the DSS and the women (alleged victims) who made these allegations were invited by the same DSS? Are you kidding me? Of course they recanted. Who knows what transpired in that meeting. It is not fair at all. This is a case of investigating yourself and pronouncing yourself not guilty. This should have been done by an independent body where those women would have been given the protection and assurances to speak freely.