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President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
EFCC, to do an immediate audit of funds
recovered by the Commission.
Vanguard Reports that the recent visit by the new
EFCC boss, Ibrahim Magu, to Aso Rock is owing
to the head of state’s bid to micromanage the
anti-corruption drive.
Although the source did not
make full disclosures about
what transpired at the
private meeting between the
President and Magu,
Sunday Vanguard was made
to understand that far from
the allegation of tele-guiding
the EFCC, “Mr. President
wanted a very clear picture
regarding accountability and
the exact amount of funds
already recovered from
some of those who were
said to be making refunds
to the coffers of the Federal
Government of Nigeria”.
It was learnt that Buhari’s
express orders to the Magu
was to the effect that the
funds already recovered
must be accounted for.
Whereas this was not an
indictment on the current
leadership of the EFCC,
Sunday Vanguard gathered
that some of the issues that
were already subjects of
controversy even before
Magu took over as the
Commission’s boss needed
to be sorted out.
Specifically, the activities of
the EFCC regarding recovery
of looted funds under
Ibrahim Lamorde, the
immediate past EFCC boss,
were considered. Buhari has
vowed that all stolen funds
would be recovered.
The present wave of arrests
and interrogation is not
unconnected with this drive.
Furthermore, it was revealed
that since the commission,
under Lamorde, made some
recoveries and seizures
from some looters (which
included properties), there
was need to account for
“everything that went
down”.
In fact, whereas Lamorde is
out of the country, there are
suggestions that he may “be
made to come back to the
country to properly account
for recoveries and sale of
properties that may have
happened under his tenure”.

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by Sonala Olumhense

I wish to enter 2016 by voicing my
disappointment at President Muhammadu
Buhari’s inaugural media chat.
Remember, he waited 30 years to return to the
leadership of Nigeria, having been summarily
thrown out in 1985.

And then he battled for at least 12 years to win
that chance, finally realizing that ambition in May
2015. That was seven months before he faced his
interviewers in December’s live interview. And yet,
President Buhari arrived largely unarmed,
unprepared and uninspiring. I do not mean he had
lost his outrage or his reformer-posture; he just
did not arrive with persuasive substance for his
supporters, let alone his critics.

Yes, it was evident that the Nigeria leader intends
to fight corruption. This was his unique selling
point and the single most important factor, which
propelled him into office. And yet, presented with
the prime time opportunity on live television, he
did not make an inspiring case.

To be clear: it is important that he intends to get
every penny from everyone who has stolen from
Nigeria, as tough as that task sounds. But it is
even more important to ensure that those funds
are not re-looted and that, through clear and
specific laws and structural changes, such
practices are discouraged in the future.

I hoped to learn of an informed vision of the
Nigeria he is engineering, but didn’t hear it. I
hoped to learn of the Nigeria he hopes will
emerge of his efforts in the next 50 or 100 years,
but didn’t hear of it.

In other words, 30 years after he must first have
punched the walls of his detention cell in anger,
12 years after he first tried to win the presidency,
and seven months after he arrived in Abuja, Mr.
Buhari seemed to be more outrage than strategic.
Everyone knows that the Nigeria leader inherited a
tough task. But that is exactly why despairing
Nigerians chose a man they perceived to be equal
to the task.

Eight months into this monumental assignment,
Buhari has not made the waves that those
Nigerians expected. Perhaps it was too much to
have expected that he would arrive with a
machete, chopping off the limbs—including the
human among them—of all the problems.
Until the media chat, however, he was merely
thought to be holding his cards close to his
chest.The problem is that at the event, those
cards were not in evidence. Many of his answers
were no answers at all; some were half-informed,
and a few were not inspiring. It is now unclear
whether his government is unwilling, or just being
slow.
I mean this only in description of Buhari’s
performance, not in indictment of his presidency.
In the election of 2015, he was vastly-superior to
his immediate rival, an incumbent who did not
seem to know what time of day it was.

But now, Buhari must show the potential for
which he was elected: vigorous, confident and
exemplary leadership. That challenge requires him
to get to the bottom of the menace of corruption,
which is sadly rooted in some of his friends and
former colleagues in the military. I have written in
the past that unless Buhari is willing and able to
reach those tap-roots of corruption in Nigeria, he
will not win the acclaim of a good job.

The other challenge before him is the nurturing of
democratic values, without which other reforms
would be laughable.

This is one of the reasons why I say he arrived at
his media chat unprepared, claiming his
government would be irresponsible to allow bail
for a man granted bail by a court of law. That, in
effect, defeats the objective.Let me be clear:
nothing would please me more than to see every
thief of federal funds picked up at the first smell
of such a crime and held until jailed and every
penny recovered.

But that is illegal. Outrage—even political power—
is no law, and there can be no democracy without
the rule of law.

It is critical to remember that the oath Mr. Buhari
took last May was administered not by the
Secretary to the Government, but by the Chief
Justice of the Federation. This underlines the
constitution.

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Former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BOT) chair Tony Anenih has explained how he disbursed the N260 million paid into his bank account from the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA).

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) believes the cash came from the allegedly misappropriated $2.1 billion arms funds.

Anenih wrote to the EFCC to state, among others, that he gave N63 million to a group coordinated by a former Special Assistant to former President Shehu Shagari (National Assembly Liaison), Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, for the 2015 presidential election.

Yakassai may be invited for interrogation over the “curious” payment, it was learnt yesterday.

Anenih was said to have told EFCC that he didn’t benefit from the money, but that he only shared it, following instructions.

Also yesterday, EFCC detectives grilled PDP National Publicity Secretary Olisa Metuh for nine hours over alleged N1.4billion traced to a company in which he has a stake. The cash is believed by the EFCC to be part of the $2.1 billion arms funds.

There were indications that Metuh might be detained by the agency.

According to sources, Metuh was arrested at about 9am at his Abuja home by three operatives.

At about 9.30am, he was taken into the interrogation room where he was confronted with some allegations, including evidence of transactions, for his reaction.

A top source, who spoke in confidence, said: “Metuh has been busy in the last nine hours writing a statement on some issues we have isolated for him.

“We have asked him to respond to the payment of N400million into Destra Investment Limited, a company he has high stake in.

“Metuh is also expected to explain some suspicious lodgments into the account of the company by some individuals and a company with link to one of the firms which was involved in arms procurement.”

Responding to a question, the source added: “We are yet to freeze the account of Destra Investment Limited but we will do so.

“Already, the EFCC is collaborating with all relevant banks in this regard. We will invoke the relevant section of the EFCC Act on the account soon.”

The Head of Media and Publicity of the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed that Metuh was being interrogated.

The EFCC has started investigating alleged “curious” payment of N63million to a group led by Yakassai for the 2015 elections.

It was learnt that the probe followed a letter to the EFCC by a former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the PDP, Chief Tony Anenih, on how he distributed the N260million paid into his account by the Office of the National Security Adviser(ONSA).

A highly-placed source in EFCC said: “Chief Tony Anenih has written the EFCC on how he disbursed N260million from ONSA to various groups including a team being coordinated by Tanko Yakassai.

“Anenih specifically indicated in the letter that N63million was given to Yakassai’s group. He mentioned a few others whose identities we will not disclose until our investigation has reached an appreciable stage.

“We will unveil the names of all the beneficiaries of the N260million soon. But we are at a level that we need to invite Yakassai to shed more light on why his group was allocated N63million arms funds.”

The source also added: “Besides the letter, we will invite Anenih to make a Statement on Oath and for interrogation.”

One of the charges against a former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki and a former Director of Finance and Administration this office, Shaibu Salisu, was the transfer of N260million to Anenih.

The charge said: “That you Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki whilst being National Security Adviser and Shaibu Salisu, whilst being the Director of Finance and Administration in the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) on or about 28th November 2014 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, and in such capacities entrusted with dominion over certain properties to wit: the sum of N260million be

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Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has described the return to power of President Mohammadu Buhari as a misadventure for Nigerians, calling on the international community, especially organisations like the United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU) to focus their attention on human rights abuses and contempt for the rule of law in Nigeria in 2016.

Governor Fayose, who said he was not disappointed by the President’s response during his media chat, to question on the disobedient of court orders by the Department of State Security (DSS), added that he had said it several times that once a dictator will always be a dictator and that those who helped him to power will end up in his gaol of dictatorship.

In a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor said he was aware of plot to muzzle him and others considered as non-conformists because of their opinion and critical stance on the President and his government, adding that; “such plot will definitely be counterproductive.”

He described the way and manner the former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) was being treated by the federal government as the hallmark of a dictator.

“I said it earlier that Buhari is a dictator and I warned several times that those that were promoting this lion will end up in its belly.
“Having heard from the President himself declaring Col Sambo Dasuki and Nnamdi Kanu guilty even before trial, Nigerians should be prepared for a return of the 1984 experience in which Buhari’s Military tribunal sentenced people to jail terms ranging from 21 to 300 years, such that the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) had to boycott the tribunal. Even when former Ondo state Governor, late Chief Michael Ajasin was twice cleared of any wrongdoing by Buhari’s military tribunals; he was made to remain in prison.

“Those who witnesses Buhari’s regime in 1984-1985 will still remember how the National Security Organisation (NSO) – now DSS broke up a press conference of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU); detaining four of its officers, banned the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and other associations and arrested their leaders. Even those who were not arrested were watched and warned by the NSO.

“As it was in 1984 when an accused was presumed as guilty and must have to prove his innocence, Nigerians are now being told by Buhari, ademocratically elected President that those he accused of corruption are already guilty and they do not have rights to enjoy bail granted them by the courts even after meeting all the bail conditions.

“That is enough a signal on what is to come in 2016 and the international community and lovers of democracy in Nigeria must be watchful of the level of human rights abuses that will be perpetrated by President Buhari.

“However, I want to assure Buhari that democratic time will surely catch up with him because no dictator has ever succeeded in muzzling the rule of law, which is the basic ingredient of democracy,” the governor said.

While calling on Nigerians to brace up for more hardships to be occasioned by the federal government’s strange economic policies, Governor Fayose said; “With the President referring to Deutschmark and French Franc as still being in use in Germany and France, it is obvious that 1984 economic solutions will still be applied to Nigeria’s economic problems in 2016.”

Almost seven months after he was sworn in as
Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari held his
first media chat. It was coordinated by Kayode
Akintemi of Channels TV with Mannir Dan-Ali of
Daily Trust, Ibanga Isine of Premium Times and
Ngozi Anyaegbunam of Media World International
as the other journalists. Buhari was also asked
questions taken from Twitter.
The 2-hour chat was quite interesting and had
questions expectedly covering the anti-corruption
drive of the government, the trials of former
National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki for
fraud and embezzlement, the economy and
general governance issues.
Here are seven important takeaways from the
chat:
The courts need to deliver judgments on
corruption cases with the speed expected of
them:
President Buhari in responding to questions on
the Dasukigate scandal said, “When I was Head
of State, we simply jailed those who were
corrupt. But now, we have to wait for the court to
deliver judgments. Those accused should go and
defend themselves in court.”
The current and much-criticized policy of the
Central Bank of Nigeria in limiting foreign
exchange in order to defend the naira is with the
blessings of the President:
President Buhari said on naira devaluation,
“Personally, I don’t support naira devaluation… I
need to be convinced. If you devalue the naira,
against what? Dollar, sterling, yen, French
francs?”
His confidence in his cabinet is high, and most
especially, in Babatunde Fashola:
Responding to a question on why he burdened the
former Lagos State governor with the ministries
of works, housing and power, he said, “I can
assure you that Fashola was not made super-
minister for nothing.” On his whole cabinet, he
said, “I didn’t appoint anyone to embarrass me. I
will take full responsibility for their actions.”
Security comes number one on President
Buhari’s priority list:
Almost every answer had the issue of security,
from the main security issues of Boko Haram and
Niger-Delta militancy, to providing infrastructure
(“When power plants built improves, you need to
secure gas pipelines”), to the recent agitations by
the secessionist movement Independent Peoples
of Biafra (IPOB).
He is a big believer in large-scale employment
programs built around agriculture, solid minerals
and education:
He reiterated the plans of his administration to
get 500,000 unemployed young people into
teaching at primary and the junior secondary
school levels through partnering with the National
Teachers’ Institutes in Kaduna and Ibadan to
train them.
The recent actions of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the
Department for State Services (DSS) in disobeying
court judgments that are not in their favour seem
to come from their reading of the President’s
body language:
In a response to a question on why the DSS has
consistently disobeyed court orders, he said, ”If
you see the kind of atrocities they committed
against the country, if they jump bail…” in clear
reference to the request by Col. Dasuki to go
abroad for medical treatment.
President Buhari does not seem to understand
that a sense of urgency is needed for his
government, with his plea for more compassion
as his government is still new. However, the
government has already spent one-eighth of its
tenure.
One thing is certain: Nigerians are delighted to
hear their president speak and answer questions,
no matter how satisfactory the answers are. We
hope that this will be the first of many more
media chats to come.

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