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Madridguy u use laughing gas ni

The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, says he is ready to honour the invitation of the ad hoc committee set up by the Senate to probe the allegations levelled against him by the lawmaker representing Bauchi Central Senatorial District, Senator Isa Misau.

The police boss made his position known while addressing newsmen in Abuja, adding that he would appear before the panel as a mark of respect for the Senate.

The committee had, on Thursday, reported the police boss to the Senate over his non-appearance.

While Idris failed to appear before the committee on Wednesday, he wrote through his lawyer, Mr Alex Iziyon, informing the panel that his appearance would be sub judice as there were pending cases in court on the matter.

Following a meeting with the President, Muhammadu Buhari, he said he was consulting with his legal team on his appearance.

“These are legal issues. We are discussing with our legal team. Obviously, if there is a need, we are going to appear for the sake of having respect for the Senate. I will appear before them,” he stated.

Furthermore, the IGP explained that his mission to the Presidential Villa was to brief the President on some security challenges confronting the country and how he was fixing them.

He also noted that part of the discussion bordered on the upcoming election in Anambra State and the increased rate of kidnapping in parts of the country.



https://www.channelstv.com/2017/11/03/igpmisaus-feud-idris-agrees-appear-senate-committee/

Women are actually the cause of this

The detained former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, told the Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday that he would not be able to remember if the sum of N400m paid to a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, in 2014, was for the provision of security services.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had alleged in some of the seven counts preferred against Metuh and his company, Destra Investments Limited that the ex-PDP spokesperson fraudulently received the sum of N400m from ONSA without any justification and spent same on the party and personal affairs.

Dasuki, Metuh’s eighth defence witness, was fielding questions under cross-examination by the counsel prosecuting Metuh on behalf of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Sylvanus Tahir.

The ex-NSA, who was earlier led in evidence-in-chief by Metuh’s lawyer, Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN), said without recourse to his records which he had no access to while in the custody of the Department of State Services, he would not be able to confirm the payment of N400m to Metuh or the purpose it was meant for.

The witness also said he could not remember if the ONSA under his watch had relations with Destra Investments Limited, the company, through which Metuh allegedly received the N400m from ONSA in 2014.

When shown and asked to confirm the content of the e-payment mandate earlier tendered as exhibit in the case and on which his name and signature appeared, authorising the payment of N400m, Dasuki said, “My name has been typed out there.”
Asked to read out the purpose of the payment as contained in the “e-payment mandate”, the ex-NSA said, ” the purpose of payment: payment for security services.”

Then the prosecuting counsel, asked, “What services did the company, Destra Investments Limited, the second defendant render to entitle the company, the payment of N400m.”
In response, the Dasuki said, “If you want an answer, I still have to refer to my records.
“It would be useful for the counsel to make himself familiar with the NSA Act.”
The witness was also shown Exhibit D1, which was a letter from Diamond Bank in response to a request by EFCC.

When asked to read the narrative in a document attached to the letter, Dasuki said, “I have seen in the document that was produced, exhibit D1, that there is an entry that purports that payment from ONSA in the sum of N400m into the account of Destra Investment Limited.”

Dasuki has concluded his testimony and has been discharged by the court.
The case was adjourned until December 4 to entertain the defence’s next witness, billed to be former President Goodluck Jonathan.


https://www.punchng.com/updated-i-cant-remember-if-metuh-received-n400m-to-provide-security-services-dasuki

fyneguy:
What's the evidence that money was released for the contract by then? People tend to mix up budget and actual funds release.

Stop defending the indefensible.

Money was not released and they claim it is 25% completed in 2016.

Na stone them dey use

Fun eyin to fowosi Iwa combia Ole yi.

Mo n duro de yin ooooooh

E ma bo.


Awon ole

This is ridiculous

1. The contract was first awarded on October 14, 2012, at the cost of N4.5bn and was to be completed within eight months. With nothing to show


2. It was later reviewed to N11bn. To be completed in another 8 months again in 2014. Still nothing to show

3. 2017 rewarded and concessioned To AWOL (away without Allowance) for N69 billion. A nee registered money bag company with not tract records in nigeria. More or less preparing ground for 2019 election campaign money



Kai kaiiiiiiii

Aregbese o de beru Olorun.



Kaiiiiiiiiiiiiijiiii

So its no more 25%completed as alleged by osun government last year.


Awon ole

This scam airport.


Always awarding contracts to contractor's every year.

2016 it cost 11 billion and 25% complete

Fast forward 2017 to gulp 69 billion

Against the background of opposition’s criticisms of the MKO Abiola International Airport, Ido Osun in Osun, the Consultant Engineer to the state ‎government on the project, Wemimo Adebajo, has revealed that the airport when completed will rank among airports with the longest runways in Nigeria.

Mr. Adebajo, during an inspection tour of facilities at the airport with journalists stated that the present site of the MKO Abiola International Airport was the first place where aviation activities took place in West Africa.

The consultant, speaking on the percentage of work done at the airport, noted that government, having spent N2.7 billion out of the revised total cost of N11billion for the project, work could be said to have reached 25 per cent.

He added that the West African Frontier Force was lifted from the Ido-Osun aerodrome, the present site of the MKO international Airport project during World War II, hence the conscious effort by the state to make it the best in Nigeria if not in Africa.

He told journalists that the tour of the facilities became germane to allow journalists be adequately informed about the magnitude of the work done in order to situate the criticisms of the opposition in their proper context.

According to the consultant, the runway of the airport waiting to be laid with 500 mm asphalt is 3.5 kilometre in length, 12.3 metres excavation and re-filling with laterite. He added that both sides of the runway are equipped ab initio with water pipes which will be the first of its kind in Nigeria.

He explained that with such a feature, the airport will have been equipped with facilities that will make emergency fire fighting readily available near the runway in case of any emergency landing or fire outbreaks.

He pointed out that though the runway has not been completed, but in case of an emergency, the runway at its present state can be used by any pilot to land an aircraft at the MKO International Airport.

“Still more to be done, I believe the airport is good for the state. The main delay right now is a question of funding and the state is seeking ways on how to make it available.

“We are approaching the federal government for 50 per cent of cost of building the airport which is Federal Government policy, right now. What the contractor is doing is site maintenance so as to ensure that when work resumes there won’t be any case of deterioration of the huge work that had already been done here,” the Airport Consultant stressed.

Mr. Adebajo also added that the Control Tower nearing completion is at the third floor of four sitting on a foundation of an excavated ground of nine metres.

He said, “A lot of work has been done, and as we go round, you will see the control tower which we have built and it is almost completed. You will see the terminal building built to the foundation, the airport fire station has reached the stage of roofing.

“The runway is going to take about 60 per cent of the cost of any airport project. A lot of work has been done on the runway, there are about 8 streams in the path of the runway. It therefore became necessary to excavate and build box covets so that the water in the stream will flow unhindered under the runway.”

He explained that the essence of the facility tour of the airport with journalists was to allow people know what the state is doing at the airport and not just respond to allegations.

“I think the State government is trying to make sure that the press, the people of the state and Nigeria as a whole are briefed on what they have actually been doing. If it was just to respond to some political allegations, you will be talking to a politician, not a technocrat like myself.

“I have actually read in the newspaper that the contract has been inflated to 15.5billion Naira which is not true, I have just told you it is 11billion Naira and if you compare this with every others in Nigeria, you will realise that the cost of this one is cheap”.

The Consultant Engineer confirmed to journalists that the airport project predated the Rauf Aregbesola administration stating that the project had since 2010 been reviewed to over N7.5 billion even before the coming of the Aregbesola administration.

In an earlier statement issued by the state government, the Director, Bureau of Communication and Strategy, Semiu Okanlawon, had debunked insinuation of contract inflation, saying considering exchange rate factors, and the fact that the scope of the project was reviewed to make the airport more sophisticated than earlier projected, allegation of inflation was mischievous and misplaced.

bulletproofmonk:
@ OP, before you jump to any conclusion, give us information on what contractual framework this project is being delivered. AWOL could just have been a Special Purpose vehicle (SPV).

The question we should ask Aregbese is what happen to all the money budgeted for the Airport every fiscal year for the past 5 years

Sarrki come and see your Gomina.


Awarding contract to a company that got registered October 2017.


Chaiiiiii

Chaiiiii
This is chain

How do this people sleep at night self

AbelDjassi:
I don't care who is funding the white elephant project, but I am sick to my teeth of the retarrrdded lies being perpetuated ad nauseum.

@DutchBruh is absolutely correct to call out Ogbeni's malfeasance here instead of waiting for a few years to express his anger. If you disagree, check out the screenshot attached.

Come on @sambony1, tell me where in the world it is that serious people assign important projects to companies without any credible track record. Do you want me to dig up my posts on 'Omo Ipon' and the controversy which accompanied it at the time, because of the role assign to the Governor's son (Kabiru) in that project? Yes, I am referring to Kabiru - the only IT expert of repute in the whole of Osun state! What about the other business of school uniform contracts going to firms run by the Governor's wife?

It is time to don the armour of battle again. NL will feel the heat once I get into stride.

Chaiiiiioiii there is God hooooo.


Aregbese.

What happen to all the budgets approved for this jamboree Airport.

krasican:
from his statement u can see that he gave money to them...so u are telling me that if u gave somebody 400m u will easily forget in the space of 2yrs

Remember that Court works on evidence.

Dasuki said he had no access to his record's.

Dasuki is simply saying let me yave access to my records.

enemybulldozer:
Is like devil fighting devil

But how can Devil fight the Devil

I know Myd44, Sarrki, madridguy et.al have an amswer for this

Nairalanders

With all the latest happenings, cover-up, revelations.

1. Can Corruption fight corruption
2. Can thief prosecute a thief.

If yes, How with valid evidence

If No, Why?


Cc: lalasticlala

You are all invited to a ‘Special’ Dinner to negotiate cancelling the probe into $26bn NNPC contracts.

find more details below

eddyslim:
Ask buhari

#BuhariIsNotAware according to BMC warlord Myd44, sarrki et.al

where is Osibanjo Report

where is Ayo ikoyi money

and so what.


is Lawal now in EFCC detention

The Head of Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita, has said President Muhammadu Buhari is aware of the reinstatement of a former Chairman of the Pension Reforms Commission, Mallam Abdulrasheed Maina, into the civil service.

She however said she warned the President against it.

Oyo-Ita said that her warning was based on the implications such reinstatement would have on the anti-corruption war of the Federal Government.


The HoS stated this in her memo to the Chief of Staff to the President, Mr. Abba Kyari.

The memo, with reference number HSCSF/HCSF/LU/COR/FCSC/750/T, was dated October 23, 2017.

The memo, titled, “Re: Abdulrasheed Abdullahi Maina,” was received in the office of the Chief of Staff to the President on October 23.

A copy of the memo was sighted by our correspondent in Abuja on Monday.

The President had directed the HoS to investigate the circumstances that surrounded the return of Maina to the civil service.

He gave the directive following the public outcry that trailed Maina’s reinstatement.

Maina, whose whereabouts is still unknown, has been accused of embezzling pensioners’ funds running into billions of naira and is currently under investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

Explaining further, the HoS said she met the President after the Federal Executive Council meeting of Wednesday, October 11, where she verbally warned Buhari against bringing Maina back to the service.

She, however, did not say what the response of the President was after briefing him.

Oyo-Ita said, “Please, note that the OHCSF was never in agreement with the reinstatement and consequently never conveyed the approval of the FCPC to Mr. A. A. Maina, nor approved his posting to the Ministry of Interior or any other MDA

“Rather, I sought audience with His Excellency, Mr. President on Wednesday, 11th October, 2017 after the FEC meeting where I briefed His Excellency verbally on the wide-ranging implications of the reinstatement of Mr. A. A. Maina, especially the damaging impact on the anti-corruption stance of this administration.”

The letter partly read, “Further to your letter Ref. SH/COS/100/A/1570 dated 23rd October, 2017 on the above subject matter, I write to inform you of the circumstances leading to the irregular recall of Mr. Abdulrasheed Abdullahi Maina.

“I wrote to place on record the following facts as it permits to Mr. A. A. Maina who was dismissed from service on 21st February, 2013.

“The move to recall Mr. A. A. Maina was at the instance of a series of letters from the Attorney General of the Federation to the Federal Civil Service Commission requesting the commission to give consequential effect to the judgement that voided the warrant of arrest issued against Mr. A. A. Maina which formed the basis for the query and his eventual dismissal.

“The letters herewith attached as Annexes I-III are:

(a) Ref. HAGF/FFCSC/2017/VOL.1/1 dated 19th January 2017,

(b) Ref. HAGF/FFCSC/2017/VOL.1/ 2 dated 21st February 2017; and

(c)Ref. HAGF/FFCSC/2017/VOL.1/1 dated 27th April 2017.

“The FCSC thereafter requested that the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation should advise the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior to consider the AGF’s letter and make appropriate recommendations to the commission and this was so communicated to the Ministry of Interior.

“The Ministry of Interior took the matter to the Senior Staff Committee of the ministry and recommended the reinstatement of Mr. A. A. Maina into the service as Deputy Director.

“The OHCSF forwarded the recommendation to the FCSC which has the constitutional responsibility for appointments, promotion and discipline for further action.

“The FCSC in consideration of the letter from the AGF and the recommendations of the SSC of the Ministry of Interior consequently approved and conveyed the reinstatement of Mr. A. A. Maina with effect from 21st February, 2013 vide letter herewith attached as Annex IV.

“(vi) The letter of reinstatement, as communicated to HCSF Ref. FC. 4029.82/Vol. III/179 dated 18th September, 2017 attached herewith as Annex IV, ostensibly also copied the Ministry of Interior which is the one erroneously used to document Mr. A. A. Maina on a claim that he has resumed work since 28th September, 2017. The Ministry of Interior informed the OHCSF of this development vide letter Ref. MI/1436/II/24 dated 16th October, 2017 from Ministry of Interior stating that Mr. A. A. Maina has resumed with effect from 28th September, 2017 is attached as Annex V.

“Please note that the OHCSF was never in agreement with the reinstatement and consequently never conveyed the approval of the FCSC to Mr. A. A. Maina nor approved his posting to the Ministry of Interior or any other MDA. Rather, I sought audience with His Excellency, Mr. President on Wednesday, 11th October, 2017 after the FEC meeting where I briefed His Excellency verbally on the wide-ranging implications of the reinstatement of Mr. A. A. Maina, especially the damaging impact on the anti-corruption stance of this administration.

“However, I have requested the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, to provide any documentary evidence to support the claim of reinstatement and posting of Mr. A. A. Maina by OHCSF, since after his dismissal.

“The letter to the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior is attached as Annex VI. The foregoing is accordingly submitted for your information and further consideration.

“Please accept the assurances of my best regards.”

http://punchng.com/buhari-aware-of-mainas-reinstatement-i-warned-him-hos/

IG give Aisha 2 jeep, Buhari is not aware.

The latest Excuse in town is that Buhari is not aware

•Abdulrasheed Maina was recalled and paid with backlogs of N22m covering his sack period,
Buhari is not aware!

•COAS Buratai bought Dubai house from money meant for Arms,
Buhari is not aware!

•$26b NNPC contract was illegally signed without approval,
Buhari is not aware!

•$43m was found in an Ikoyi apartment,
Buhari is not aware!

•Chief of Staff Kyari got a bribe from the giant Telecom company in Nigeria,
Buhari is not aware!

•Babachir Lawal looted #300m meant for the clearing of weed at the IDP camps,
Buhari is not aware!

•The IGP involved in bribery case and later again impregnated a serving woman Police as against Police Act,
Buhari is not aware!

•Fulani herdsmen kill innocent men, women and children in the Middle Belt, SS, SE & SW,
Buhari is not aware!

•2016 & 2017 budgets were missing and padded respectively, and not implemented,
Buhari is not aware!

•We are in recession,
Buhari is not aware!

•Nigerians are dying of hunger and starvation,
Buhari is not aware!

•Restructuring is the way out of the division in the land,
Buhari is not aware!

•Our Ministers are liars and thieves,
Buhari is not aware!

•Magu works for the cabal,
Buhari is not aware!

•BH was busy killing Nigerians in Borno while Buhari telling the Turkish govt that he has wiped them off,
Buhari is not aware!


No drug in Aso rock clinic, Buhari is not aware!

Shame

What is Buhari is even aware of self.

Who is in-charge
.............................................................

Keep excusing & isolating Buhari from what should be his duties. One day, Nigeria and her people will be sold to China and Buhari will not be aware.

They will soon sell Nairaland and Seun will not be aware.

Myd44 they soon change your passsword and you will not be aware.

Sarrki you will soon get to know that Buhari is not even aware that you are a nigerian

omokab:
It is surprise and disturbing that most of youth are lazy and can't even read and comprehend with what they are reading. Hate is all what they know. Salami rejected the offer base on past experience he had with cjn and judges of court when he was passing a difficult period during jonathan era not because of present administration. Cjn and court refuse to support him when jonathan government was maltreating him.

So Jonathan is still in charge

The CJN is thr one un charge now.

Grow up man

Do you also fail to realize that AFECE were his contractor then.

You forget the phone calls.

The truth of the matter is that Tinubu had instructed him not to join this failed government

So OP you have to create a thread just yo ask a question you cab simplyask him by PM

PapalsBull:
[s][/s]

Welcome to your new assignment from BMC HQ

A white Mercedes Benz G-Wagon belonging to Governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose, was on Tuesday completely burnt down on the Oshodi-Oworonshoki expressway in Lagos.

Confirming the incident, Fayose’s spokesman, Lere Olayinka said the SUV caught fire on the motion but the Governor was not in the vehicle.


“No casualty recorded. Cause of the fire not ascertained yet.

“There was an accident involving the governor’s vehicle on his way to the airport yesterday. Though he was meant to be in the vehicle, by providence, he was not there.


“What caused the sudden fire under the vehicle is yet to be ascertained,” Olayinka told New Telegraph in a telephone chat.

Fayose was among the 17 Southern Governors, that converged in Lagos on Monday , to discuss crucial national issues.


The others included: Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode; Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun; Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu; Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola and Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi.


The Governors of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike; Edo State, Godwin Obaseki; Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu; Enugu State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi; Akwa Ibom State, Emmanuel Udom and Ebonyi State, David Umahi, were also present.

https://www.dailypost.ng/2017/10/25/governor-fayose-escapes-death-mystery-fire-engulfs-vehicle-photos

Mynd44:
I am not even trolling again. How do you expect to go up the chain in PDP when they know you are not stable?

Heck, people here (where you are more popular) dont even take your words for ish. You scream youths youths but your brand of youth remind me Yahaya Bello.

It reminds me of when Patricia Etteh was elected and she messed things up for women. Lawd, you had such huge followership only to throw it away because of sentiments and instablity and you think anyone will take you seriously?

BMC shiaman how na