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Sam Okoli

Here are the dirty deals of Raymond Dokpesi and why he is rabidly supporting President Goodluck Jonathan

High Chief Raymond Dokpesi by all standards is a very popular man. With no fewer than seven wives and many girlfriends, he is also the darling of many ladies. His media company, DAAR Communications, is also a household name. With its Raypower and AIT, radio and television stations, DAAR has revolutionised the broadcast media industry with quality content and programming.

But just as the saying goes ‘that behind every successful business, there is a tale’ Dokpesi’s case is not an exception. The tales of this Ezomo of Weppa Wanno Kingdom are however not all about hard work and perseverance but also of fraud and deceit. Dokpesi’s numerous fraudulent schemes reached the summit in 2009 when Nigeria hosted the Under 17 Junior World Cup. Daar Communications was granted the broadcast right for the tournament by the Federation of International Football Associations. But in an intriguing plot, Dokpesi approached then President Umaru Yar’Adua demanding payment for broadcasting the football tournament. In an invoice sent to the central government entitled, DAAR-FIFA HOST BROADCASTER BUDGET, Dokpesi demanded N5billion to defray the company’s cost.
•Dokpesi: Has many secret deals

•Dokpesi: Has many secret deals

Since the Federal Government did not enter into any contract with Dokpesi and DAAR on the tournament, a perplexed Yar’Adua asked for briefing from his aides. According to a report by Saharareporters in August 2010, the director-general of the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission advised government not to accede to the ‘bogus request’, more because the technical facilities DAAR was going to use for the broadcast, belonged to the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, owned by the Federal Government. There were also reports by several committees, which recommended the non-payment of the bill.

Yar’Adua thus stoutly declined payment, despite the intervention of his vice-president, Goodluck Jonathan, who then chaired the Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the tournament. Even when AIT blackmailed the LOC that it would not broadcast the final of the game and demanded a reduced amount of N3.5billion, to enable it pay creditors such as MTN that provided some Internet links, government refused to budge. The reduced amount followed the advice of a presidential committee on Harmonisation and Negotiation headed by Patrick Ekeji, the director-general of the National Sports Commission. It was set up by Jonathan’s LOC. But Yar’Adua stuck to his guns, as he saw no sense in paying for a service the government did not ask for in the first instance.

Yar’Adua died in April 2010 and Dokpesi wormed his way into the heart of Goodluck Jonathan, his successor. This chummy relationship did not come easy. Dokpesi was part of the Pastor Bakare’s inspired Save Nigeria Group that mobilised public support for Jonathan, in the succession crisis that came in the wake of Yar’Adua’s grave illness and eventual death. But after Jonathan became the president and he still did not pay AIT’s N3.5 billion bill, Dokpesi abandoned Jonathan and embraced former military president, Ibrahim Babangida, to work as the director-general of his campaign. Babangida wanted to challenge Jonathan for the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party.
•Ya’Ardua: Did not pay DAAR Communications for a job not executed

•Ya’Ardua: Did not pay DAAR Communications for a job not executed

When Babangida’s campaign collapsed, Dokpesi ran back again to Jonathan, using the platform of the South-South Leadership Forum. He was desperate at this time to curry Jonathan’s affection, not just for money but his survival. When bombs were detonated at the Eagle Square, Abuja, during the 1 October, 2010 independence anniversary, killing and wounding scores of people, Dokpesi was indicted and arrested by security agencies. They accused him of having links with the leader of MEND, Henry Okah who is currently serving a jail term in a South African prison.

A rattled Dokpesi quickly retraced his steps and began series of reconciliatory moves with President Jonathan. This medium learnt that as part of the peace deal, Dokpesi pledged to make his station available for the pursuit of Jonathan’s political goals, making his stations available as the publicity arm of the Jonathan presidency, doing it with even greater fervour than the NTA and Radio Nigeria. As he wormed his way back into Jonathan’s heart, he presented again in 2011, the bill government had rejected to honour in the past. Inexplicably, the pruned down N3.5billion bogus bill, had ballooned to N8.047 billion.

Speaking on the issue in an interview granted to Kayode Ogundamisi and published in Sahara Reporters on October 18, 2010, Chief Edwin Clark branded Dokpesi as a cheat and dishonest person. Chief Clark was quoted in the interview: “They (federal government) are not owing him any money. He is a cheat. The Federal Government has set up a committee; they’ve looked into that case. It was NTA that covered the event”. The presidency simply ignored the observation of Chief Clark and decided to pay the fraudulent claim.
•Jonathan: Paid Dokpesi for job not well done

•Jonathan: Paid Dokpesi for job not well done

That was, however, the beginning of an intricate web of illicit financial transactions involving Dokpesi, the Presidency, the Federal Ministry of Finance and some private sector bankers. On the strength of the president’s promise, Dokpesi approached First Bank to open an account in the name of DAAR Communications at the Asokoro branch in Abuja. Contrary to the law, Dokpesi was and remains the sole signatory to the account even though as a company quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, its accounts should be operated through the Director of Finance and one or two other signatories. The Asokoro account was later closed, but a new one also in the name of DAAR Communication was opened at the Maitama branch.

Precisely on the 27 January 2012, the fraudulent fund of N8, 047,275, 290. 99 (eight billion, forty seven million, two hundred and seventy five thousand, two hundred and ninety naira, ninety nine kobo) was paid into the account with number 2017679134. In a letter dated 28 January 2012 and signed by both the Business and Relationship officers of the bank, Susan Abuh and Bukola Adeojo, the Maitama First Bank branch management acknowledged the payment. The acknowledgment letter reads: “ We write to inform you that we received the sum of Eight Billion Forty Seven Million Two Hundred and Seventy Five Thousand and Ninety Nine kobo only, (N8, 047, 275, 290, 99) into the above stated account domiciled with us in Maitama office on 27 January, 2012. This letter serves to bring to your knowledge that the said amount has been credited into DAAR Communications Plc account…” With the connivance of the bank, Dokpesi continued to run the account alone, contrary to extant financial regulations for quoted companies.

Surprisingly, even after receiving such a humongous amount of money purportedly on behalf of DAAR Communications, Dokpesi never thought of paying dividends to shareholders, who have not been paid any dividends since the company became PLC about seven years ago. Rather, the money was drawn down almost to zero, within three months. Payments were made into Dokpesi’s personal domiciliary account with number 2017451925. At a point, this account contained over a million dollars. Part of the money also went in form of thousands of dollars into Dokpesi’s VISA Gold Account number 3071078978.

Fidelity Bank that had taken DAAR to court and had gotten judgement to take over the company’s assets for debt calculated at N7.5 billion was paid N4.2 billion on 14 February. Part of the money was also used to open Letters of Credit (LCs) for DAAR, ostensibly to buy equipment for the broadcasting outfit. All his wives and mistresses were also well accommodated on the account, with amounts ranging from N2.5 million to N5 million. The National Broadcasting Commission was also paid N400 million from the account on 31 January. On 1 February, the construction company, Dantata Sawoe also got N400 million, possibly in connection with the multi-billion mansion of the media mogul, now completed in Abuja. By 3 April 2012, the balance on the account was below N60, 000.

Chief Dokpesi however longed for new funds to swell the account all over again. Relying on the same documents used to fraudulently collect the N8.04 billion as authorised by President Jonathan, he mischievously tried to dupe the Federal Government by collecting the same money twice. This medium learnt that Dokpesi’s attempt to collect double payment for the same project involved an intricate web of bribes to unscrupulous officials in the Federal Ministry of Finance, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the office of the Accountant General and even the presidential villa.

Anticipating that the attempt to collect the second fraudulent payment for a ‘phantom job’ he had already been paid for would succeed, Dokpesi even agreed on a sharing formula with some people in the Villa, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Justice and the CBN. His banker friend and confidante was to handle the distribution via series of blank First Bank transfer forms already signed down by Dokpesi. For instance, the sum of N2 billion was to have been transferred to an account of B.T OIL & GAS NIG. LTD with account number 2020605922 domiciled in the First Bank, Aminu Kano branch, Abuja.

Still in anticipation of receiving this money, Dokpesi, through DAAR Investment and Holding Company, applied to First Bank, Maitama Branch, for a facility of N160 million. The bank refused the request on the grounds that it had no information on the receivable to be discounted which is said to be related to the contract executed since 2009. “Parent Company has a bad loan which N95 million was written off the bank’s books. The rule is that such amount should be paid back if customer is to enjoy another facility with the bank; Not a fair risk and no easily available fall back position for the bank”, the bank said.

Dokpesi’s long expectation was however dashed when a vigilant official at the CBN revealed that the money being demanded had been paid before and the whole process was terminated.

Another alleged audacious fraudulent venture by Dokpesi was his alleged plot to hack into account number 60959146 with SORT CODE 201334, belonging to one Dr Haggai I. Ali with Barclays Bank, Queens Road Branch, and Bristol, UK. Papers stumbled upon by TheNEWS, showed that it was an elaborate scheme to defraud the bank as well as Barclays Bank of UK to the tune of 800,000,000 Euro. The transaction was to have been conducted through Deutsche Frankfurt, Dubai and the money to be received through DAAR Investment and Holding Company with account number 1000086988.
•Chief Clark, Condemned Dokpesi

•Chief Clark, Condemned Dokpesi

A letter to First Bank personally signed by Dokpesi and dated 15 April, 2013, had requested the bank to “issue a letter in favour of Messrs CIGALE FINANCE SA, 5 RUE AUNIR, NOGENT SUR MARINE 94130, FRANCE”. The letter claimed that DAAR Investment and Holding Company was arranging funds to the tune of 800,000,000 Euro in two tranches of 300,000,000 Euro and 500,000,000 Euro “for the funding of DAAR Communications Plc expansion programme as well as other investment projects in the Nigerian economy”. He concluded the letter thus: “Messrs Cigale Finance SA have requested us to obtain a letter from our bank confirming its willingness to receive the funds into our account and disburse same in accordance with provisions of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which is attached for your perusal”.

On 30 April 2013, First Bank wrote Cigale Finance SA accepting the offer and confirming that DAAR Investment and Holding Company Limited was one of its well-known customers. Part of the letter reads: “We further pledge that we will abide strictly by the terms of the MOU duly executed by both parties,” First Bank wrote.

It was, however, discovered that all the documents cited by DAAR Investment as regards the purported 500,000,000 Euro investment were fake. The Memorandum of Understanding between DAAR Investment and Cigale Finance SA was a complete ruse. One of those who signed the MOU on behalf of DAAR Investment, Godfrey Usifoh, was also discovered to have falsely claimed to be a banker. Usifoh was indeed a staff of DAAR Communications and an aide of Dokpesi. Upon further enquiries by First Bank, Deutsche Bank confirmed that there was no transaction of that magnitude which was to come in two tranches of 300,000,000 Euro and 500,000,000 Euro in their coffers. The bank also called its Maitama branch to warn that it was an attempted fraud.

But life goes on for the Agenebode-born media chief. At the moment, his media organs remain the biggest megaphones for the Goodluck Jonathan campaign; turning them to mount baseless muckraking, hate campaigns against leaders of the opposition. The AIT, oblivious of its middle name as ‘independent’, has become the willing tool of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, showing libelous and hate documentaries against General Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the party’s national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Some media stakeholders said Dokpesi’s media empire is only performing a service to President Jonathan and the PDP, having been paid close to $50 million by the President’s campaign.

However, when TheNEWS contacted Dokpesi for his reaction, he asked his aides to handle the matter. They asked that we wait till the following day. We delayed production for almost 16 hours, after which they asked us to go ahead that they would respond this week.


http://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2015/03/dokpesis-dirty-secrets/

Let me see someone that will boldly come out and says that President Jonathan did not know anything or have a hand in sponsoring the Boko boys.

The past government were our greatest problem.

nikkiking:
you don't answer questions with questions!


Be genius, not mind reader.


If pdp did mismanaged this zoo Nigeria, is travelling round the world gonna fix it .

KEEP wailing, and thinking that the world president will come to visit to help you solve your problem @ home. PMB is doing the right thing, Nigeria had been so much raped by the 16 years of PDP that we are only hoping that things will get better.

Friday December 4

“You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.”  Ps 23:5 NIV

Learn to take care of yourself (2)

There are two kinds of people who’ll never understand your need to take care of yourself: (1) Legalists. They never stop trying to measure up to certain perfectionistic moral, ethical, and religious standards. (2) Serve-a-holics. They sacrifice themselves on the altar of endless church activity, believing it’s the only way to please God. Some of Jesus’ disciples did this. When a woman poured expensive oil on His head they got upset. How come? Had they never read the words, “You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows”? In Bible times oil was used for different purposes such as soothing, massaging, and refreshing the body after a long journey or a hard day’s work. “So God thinks it’s okay for me to take a break?” you ask. Yes, but since serve-a-holics have a need to be needed, like the disciples they think, “This [oil] might have been sold for much, and [the money] given to the poor” (Mt 26:9). Their belief system is: “Others matter—I don’t!” Understand this: When you take care of others but not yourself, you (a) become spiritually and emotionally drained; (b) end up resentful because your needs go unrecognized and unmet; (c) start looking for relief in the wrong places. That’s what drove Samson to Delilah’s house. She gave him a place to relax and let down his hair; then she exploited it for his destruction. When we look to the wrong people and things rather than learning to care for ourselves, we give a foothold to the Enemy. Don’t let that happen to you. Start taking care of yourself spiritually, physically, and emotionally.

Today? Thought he travel with PMB to South Africa nii?

saintkel:
And d office of d vice president can't facilitate dat? We have serious issues at home dat need PMB's attention, d rate of killings is getting out of hand pls, we need our president, Osinbanjo can take care of foreign diplomacy

what does he needs to do concerning issue of killings that he cannot do on the plane through phone conversations or other means of communication? We doesn't needs his physical present for him to dish out directives on what & what to be done. PMB needs to rebuild our image that had been tatter abroad.

All this end time pastors self......!

Baba carry goooooo. I support you for all your trips, especially such that will propel this country forward. A deal that will create more than 200,000 is fully supported by me and all the people in my ward. Long live PMB, Long live Nigeria.

Wailers please find a suitable well and get drowned.

I honestly wish you all the best Pastor Anita. Since you've decides to move on, so be it, and be happy.

Setaje:
It's so bad. I took pictures too about 2 weeks ago. They are so slow. The security guys take bribe. The worst part was when my mum went she was told someone else has registered on her Sim. Imagine the nonsense. How can someone register on her Sim. She first registered her Sim in an Mtn office last year. A big office for that matter at fatai atere. She was then told to come back because they have to first send message to headquarters and get a reply before they can rectify it. If it were to be a civilised country they would be sued for such mistake.


I heard that mtn also provided all the mushroom outlets wiv money to rent chairs. They don't rent chairs. They allow old people stand under hot sun. It's not fair at all. This are the pictures I took

they deserves to be fine for $1trilion...... lol

Bode George again?

This man will never learn his lesson. Why is he always having links related to prison? A bi won fi ewon see nii?

Kilode? Is he/she not like any other baby nii?

Can eating of too much rice kill somebody? I know of a person that will eat rice 3 times a day and 365 days in a year. Just curious nii oooo.

Pheals:
no excuse every 6hours

Pata merin lojumo?

Thursday December 3


“She poured it on His head.”  Mt 26:7 NKJV

Learn to take care of yourself (1)

Jesus allowed others to minister to Him. Do you? “A woman…having an alabaster flask of very costly fragrant oil…poured it on His head…But when His disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, ‘Why this waste?’…when Jesus was aware of it, He said…‘She has done a good work’” (vv. 7-10 NKJV). There’s an important lesson in this story. You must allow the care you pour on others, to be poured on you. Otherwise you’ll burn out. Jesus practiced this principle. So did the Psalmist: “You anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over” (Ps 23:5 NKJV). In order for your cup of service to stay full, it must continually be refilled. And since people generally treat you according to how you treat yourself, you must learn to treat yourself right. It’s a good thing to take care of others, but sometimes we hide behind that in order to avoid having to take care of ourselves—or because we don’t know how. The question is: How can we fulfill Christ’s command to “Love your neighbor as yourself,” if we haven’t learned how to love ourselves? Many of us become resentful of the demands people dump on us each day without ever seeming to give anything back in return. When the world you live in makes endless withdrawals, you must learn to make deposits; otherwise you’ll end up with insufficient funds. And pretty soon those checks will start to bounce everywhere—morally, emotionally, and spiritually. Who’ll give back to you—if not you? So today pray: “Lord, give me the grace to allow the oil I pour on others, to be poured on me.”

Can the moderator update the score board please........?

Keneking:
RIP girl...

What could have provoked this attack on a Nigerian?

From a closer look, it appears she was stabbed from the front.

Stabbed from the front? What could have prompt that? Can Ibo attacked each other nii? I really don't know what to believe again. But, whatsoever reason, the innocent lady doesn't deserve to die like this now. Can't we just protest without been violence?

Vivian Gist, please accept our condolences once again.

Oh! Vivian.......we are so sorry. What is going to happen now?

saintandsinnerz:
Why can't Buhar release Nnamdi Kanu for crying out loud? Must Buhari through his stupidity allow innocent people who may not have anything to do with Ipob die as a result of avoidable violence? I keep saying this, Buhari and his agents made a grievous mistake by arresting Nnamdi Kanu. Had it been he ignored him as GEJ did, this IPOB agitation will not have spiralled to this level. Really the unity and indivisibility of Nigeria is sitting on keg of gun powder.

You are not making any point @ all. We are talking about the security of a country, and that's not a decision the President will decide. Afterall, there is a judiciary process going on his case now.

Oh, boy! What are these guys getting into? They need to sit down and have a rethink.

Lagos N4.7b @ work. Thumb up for Ambode.

Wednesday December 2


“[Hidden] treasures…riches stored in secret places.”  Isa 45:3 NIV

There’s no substitute!

When we’re stressed—and who isn’t nowadays?—often our first inclination is to consult the latest “how to” book or DVD, or seek out the camaraderie of Christian friends. Reimar Schultze observes: “At best we get a splash of what we’re looking for. Time about God never replaces time with God. Look around your church and tell me whether with all the religious books, CDs, and programs, there are any that come up to the stature of Enoch, Abraham, Moses, and Noah. God Himself has been, and always will be the greatest source of information, inspiration, transformation, and fellowship…Isaac was meditating in the fields when ‘he lifted up his eyes, and saw…’ (Gen 24:63). From being alone with God comes seeing…in our quiet moments He sets before us gifts and delicacies…hidden to the hurried man. The Bible says, ‘When [Jesus] had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray’ (Mt 14:23)…Many who came to see Jesus traveled for days, yet He sent them away so He could pray. To get alone with God you have to send something away: relatives, friends, schedules…opportunities…other people’s opinions. That was true with Jesus. Many were offended by Him. He didn’t let people-pressure run His life; it was governed by His Father…[You can] become a slave to man, or live to meet God’s expectations. You can’t do both. If you do the latter, streams of living water will flow from your innermost being, and you’ll have power with God. He’ll reveal to you ‘hidden treasures, riches stored in dark places.’”

Beehshorp:
Ehya... Another scam and lie for gullible Nigerians to swallow..when will dey start the meal per day for children in school or the #40 per litre for fuel..
Make una swerve jorh we don tire for lies nd propaganda.. Gej brought sure-P and empowered millions of people now u want to start giving us 5k and na u wan reduce minimum wage..
I am not a member of dis satanic blood sucking sharia party so even if dey are serious I would never take dia 5k cos I would never stand with dem even if the going gets good

Which sure-P? The same sure-P people wey dey fight with police for toll-gate area for traffic control?

Keneking:
Where is lalasticlala sef

What do you need him for? Is he the one doing the registration nii?

Maths ba wo? A bi isiro ko nii?

Abeg, stop this joke!

nzeobi:
End time banks featuring END time doctors in
End time death

Indeed, End Time of everything!

xtrorse:
"Yorubas are perpetual slaves to Northern herdsmen" - Falae, 2015.  

It is a pity that Falae is just realizing this in 2015.
Since the days of Afonja and Alimi, to the days of Awolowo, MKO Abiola, Pa Ajasin and now the Fulanis have been hunting Yorubas for sports.

Miserable and demented cretinous savage of dirt and slavery!

Haven't you realise that there's a different from a fighting a lost war and using a diplomacy to settle your scores? Besides, is it the only SW that has been attacked by the Fulanis? Our course are totally different from yours, and I'm afraid that that your dream die years ago. So, wake up my friend and face the reality.

Tuesday December 1


“Who am I…that you have brought me this far?”  2Sa 7:18 NIV

Always be humble

A member of Parliament took his little daughter to visit Westminster Abbey. As she stood looking up at its magnificent columns, her father asked, “What do you think, sweetheart?” With childlike candor she replied, “I was thinking how big you look at home, Daddy, and how small you look in here.” God’s presence has a way of humbling us. In the Old Testament, King David went in and sat before the Lord and said, “Who am I, O Sovereign Lord, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far?” The Bible’s filled with examples of people who humbled themselves before God. In Matthew’s gospel he mentions his own name only twice, and both times he calls himself a tax collector. And John doesn’t even mention his own name in his gospel. The name “John” that appears throughout his gospel refers to John the Baptist. John simply calls himself “the other disciple,” or “the disciple whom Jesus loved.” Luke wrote two of the most important books in the Bible without ever once mentioning his own name. And Paul, the Bible’s most prolific author, referred to himself as “a fool” (2Co 12:11). He described himself as “the least of the apostles” (1Co 15:9), and later claimed to be “less than the least of all saints” (Eph 3:. In fact, as Paul grew older his ego grew smaller, and in one of his final Epistles he referred to himself as “the chief of sinners” (See 1Ti 1:15). King David wrote no psalm celebrating his victory over Goliath, but he wrote a psalm of penitence confessing his sin with Bathsheba (See Ps 51). So, always be humble!

Work is about to start. Let the ministers start probing and start getting things fixed up.

Lol. ..., but wait ooo, was this true?