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EbukaFran:
OP you mean how IPOB youths reacted on Twitter?

90% of those twitting are from one section of Nigeria For example Nonso, Azuka, Emeka etc

We know them and they can go and jump in the nearest Lagoon to their location

whether ipob or iPod or Amaka youths, they are still Nigerians and they have a say in whatever happens in Nigeria.

Keneking:
Can someone post the youtube link of the session?

I stopped watching sunrisedaily this monday, since they started inviting journalists as Newspaper Reviewers in studio

Anyway, Good Morning Show on NTA rocks

the video link is there on the post

more

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Nigerians went on twitter to react on the interview granted by Channels television to Martin Onovo.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhiV4GYMWgw&feature=youtu.be


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSPGntVpRwE&feature=youtu.be

Despite the succour granted the Bureau De Change Operators last week by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) that they can now source forex from oil companies and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the 2,786 operators in the country may still sack not less than 21,000 of their workers nationwide.
The ugly development is sequel to CBN stoppage of direct sale of foreign currencies (forex) from official source to the BDC operators.
Before the parley between the CBN and the BDC association took place last week, it was gathered that the operators were already perfecting plans to send some of their workers home as a result of poor business allegedly occasioned by the CBN’s new rules which have led to paucity of foreign currency to carry on in business by the BDCs.
According to some of the operators interviewed in Lagos, each of the 2,786 operators has not less than 10 employees on their respective payrolls.
The employees comprise those involved in the movement of cash from one client to the other, clerical officers and others who do the cleaning and help in one office duty or the other.
The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of TR Wonton Nigeria Limited, an operator based in Broad Street, Lagos, Alhaji Awwal Tukur, said the CBN’s directives had prevented them from getting official supplies of foreign currencies, and now they have to get their stock from, among others, individuals from abroad and exporters of locally produced goods who are paid in foreign currency.
SEE ALSO: Soludo: Ex-President Jonathan ran CBN like Idi Amin of Uganda
According to him, supplies of the volume of foreign exchange from such sources cannot be compared to the one from the CBN.
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Another operator, who claimed to be an official of Cash Express Bureau De Change, Lagos Island, but pleaded that his comment was personal and should not be taken as official statement from his company, said that besides the workers that would be laid off, the local and state governments would also lose revenue from the taxes and levies that the operators have been paying to them.
According to him, survival is hanging on the mercy of individuals who come into the country from abroad, majority of whom do their transactions at the ports and borders.
The Acting President of the BDC association, Aminu Gwadabe, who confirmed that about 21,000 employees would be thrown out of job, said they (BDC association) held a meeting with the CBN Governor Emefiele, last weekend, on the issue.
He said it was resolved that instead of allowing the BDC operators to crash out of business because of the CBN’s new policy on forex, the BDC operators can be allowed to source their forex needs from oil companies and NNPC, though the arrangement would not provide enough forex to sustain them in business as before.

According to Gwadabe, the succor will not stop them from retrenching workers, it would only reduce the number of people that would have been affected.
“We know the CBN did not just wake up to take the drastic measure it took on forex. It was due to the hard time that the apex bank is facing and all of us too are facing the same challenge of acute shortage of the dollar. We are all Nigerians; we know the foreign reserve is down. Dollar is something you have to earn.
“To us, we believe that the current arrangement of sourcing forex to transact our business from the oil companies and NNPC is just to keep us in business so that we do not close down completely. It is not going to be easy for all of us. It is just an arrangement put in place to enable amble on in business pending when the situation in the forex reserve improves.”

https://www.today.ng/news/national/71685/bdcs-may-sack-21000-workers-over-new-forex-rules

The Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) and the Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS) among others in Ogun State will embark on an indefinite strike today over government’s failure to pay their outstanding pension and deductions from their salaries.
Dupe Adewoye, the state Secretary of the Nigeria Civil Service Union (NCSU), said the union was ready for the strike.

Adewoye said NCSU had earlier in the month, issued a release, where “We categorically stated that despite the unprecedented developmental projects in the state, the government is about to plunge Ogun workers into perpetual state of impoverishment.

“A situation whereby the state government is holding on to cooperative deductions for the month of May, July, October , November and December 2015, while some local governments were even left out is no longer unacceptable.”

One of the leaflets circulated to workers read thus: “Ogun Workers, ready for action. Sequel to the Labour (State and local government) demands: The contributory pension scheme be suspended. Full payment of outstanding deductions from our salaries (May, July, October, November and December, 2015) Payment of outstanding gratuity from November, 2012 to date and government not responding. All civil/public workers in the employment of Ogun State government are hereby directed to proceed on indefinite strike effective Wednesday, 27th January (today) 2016.”

http://www.thetrentonline.com/138559-2/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

we talk am Abi we now talk am. Ok continue

Any right thinking individual should ask questions, on this new propaganda from the lie master. What are the names of those that returned the money?
we have list of all those linked to Arms deal. so how did they returned the funds quietly.
FG said no plea bargain for looters of arm deal.?
Are those who returned the said money from APC?
Jafaru Isah who even returned part of the loot as alleged by APC, was publicised.

Lie Mohammed should stop lying to Nigerians

by Saatah Nubari

Welcome to piece number seven in the #SaatahBudgetSeries. If this is the first piece you are reading, I will advise that you find theprevious six articles in this series and peruse them with all seriousness — you need to know what the Nigerian government will spend money on.

Today, we will be taking a look at the budget for the Federal Ministry of Communication Technology. But before I proceed, let me first make known the agencies/institutions that fall under this Ministry: Ministry of Communication Technology HQTRS, Nigeria Communication Satellite, and the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST).


FEDERAL MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

The total budget for the Federal Ministry of Communication Technology is 15,997,128,516; 9,917,128,516 is for “Recurrent Expenditure” and 6,080,000,000; is for “Capital Expenditure.”

1,000,500,000 is what the Federal Ministry of Communication Technology has budgeted to spend on “Purchase of Office Furniture and Fittings.” I am still trying to understand this particular item, but let us compare notes. According to documents available to me, former Governor Rotimi Amaechi budgeted 9,837,700,000 for the construction of 485 Model Primary Schools when he governed Rivers State (only 116 were completed). Now if we break down this figure, we will see that 1,000,500,000, the amount the Federal Ministry of Communication Technology will spend on office furniture can get us almost 60 Model Primary Schools (based on what Amaechi budgeted while he was Governor). A look at the budget for the Federal Ministry of Power/Works and Housing also shows that they will construct one skills acquisition centre for 172,623,767, so how many skills acquisition centres can we get with the 1,000,500,000 the people at the Ministry of Communication Technology budgeted for “Office Furniture and Fittings”? I will leave you to answer that question.

Apart from the 1,000,500,000, the Federal Ministry of Communication Technology will also spend 152,601,423 to “Rehabilitate/Repair Office Buildings.” I will suggest that they build an entirely new Ministry building since they have decided to be parochial in their thinking.



9,301,486 is set aside for the “Rehabilitation/Repairs of Boundaries.” This particular item got me pretty confused. Does “Boundary” there mean our territorial boundary, or their office boundary? Or is it a new communication technology term? I would really love to know, because it seems the people at the Federal Ministry of Communication Technology don’t know the boundary between a joke and a National budget.

The ministry will spend the sum of 8,000,000 to “Present a Masterplan to the Federal Executive Council” while another 19,480,500 will be spent on the “Media Conference on the Masterplan.” You would think I am making these absurdities up, but far from it, these items are in our budget.

2,916,001,226 will be spent on (please don’t laugh) “Procurement of the Equipment and its Accessories.” Firstly, what “the Equipment” is being referred to here? What are the “Accessories”? They failed to make this known, but yet appended the lump sum of 2,916,001,226 to this unknown equipment and its accompanying accessories.

37,994,900 will be for “Concrete and Block Works.” This particular item is so funny that I cannot help but suspect that a marketer from Dangote Cement, who has been given a target for cement sales sneaked into the Federal Ministry of Communication Technology to put that in. We are definitely not a serious country.

17,750,000 is for the “Administration/Supervision of the Work.” The 2016 budget should be a case study of “How not to disgrace a country.” What “Work” will need supervision? And even if it needs supervision, what are the people earning salaries at the Federal Ministry of Communication Technology earning salary for, shouldn’t that be someone’s job? What is this “work” in the first place? This is an insult to our sensibilities, to be honest.

4,218,010 is for “Block Works.” “Fellow Nigerians,” at this point, I will urge the Federal Government to investigate Dangote, there are just too many “Blocks” in this budget.

“Finishing” will cost 80,310,392. And just when I thought we had finished with everything that had to do with “finishing,” I saw another 1,083,476 for yet another “Finishing.” Like Jesus said at the cross, “it is finished” or if I may paraphrase, we are finished!

832,800 is for “Supervision of the Work,” another 381,600 for “Supervision of the Work,” yet another 2,064,000 for “Supervision of the Work,” and yet another 1,231,600 for “Supervision of the Work.” Don’t forget that I brought to your attention earlier the sum of 17,750,000 also meant for “Administration/Supervision of the Work.”

I think we have gotten to the most insensitive, callous, disgraceful and out rightly stupid part of the budget for the Federal Ministry of Communication Technology. 585,000,000 will be spent on the “Purchase of Chairs,” while another 415,500,000 will be used to “Purchase Tables.” I really do not have much to say about these particular items. I actually feel bad for the people of the Niger Delta; the people whose resources will be exploited to fund this budget, the people whose environment will be degraded to the barest survivable state. It is from that money, pain and suffering that 1,000,000,000 (One billion Naira) will be used to “Purchase Tables and Chairs.”

The Nigeria Communication Satellite will spend 318,009,860 for the “Provision of Broadband Internet Services to the National Assembly.” I do not see anything that makes this particular item sensible or necessary. The National Assembly (as useless as they have been) do not deserve internet connection. They can and should continue using the “suggestion boxes” they commissioned. With a budget of 115,000,000,000, I think the National Assembly should pay for their own “Internet Services,” that is if they even know what the “internet” is.

6,694,205,844 is the entire budget for NIPOST and all of it will be spent on “Salaries and Wages.” I would love to know how much revenue NIPOST generates.

We have come to the end of the seventh part of this budget analysis series, and as painful as it is to go through these insulting provisions, I will still have to leave you with a little in-between: The National Lottery Trust Fund will spend 500,600,000 for the “Acquisition of Land for Office Building.” That is what I call a jackpot. Have a wonderful day!

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http://www.thescoopng.com/ministry-of-communication-technology/

I no blame una, this same people who say Amechi is now their brother, after Amechi emptied Rivers state treasury to fund Buhari presidential campaign. That was how one fo0l went on channels and say if the South south communities fail to bring out those who vandalised the pipelines, the communities should be levied like odi. But I wonder what they smoke in the North. the north have produced more president and VP than any other region in the country. Buhari should start by probing past presidents, hos and past VP from the north.

OK

we are tired of hearing APC and FG throwing imaginary figures at us daily. What we want to hear is how much the government have recovered, and who stole it. but more especially there Government should follow the rule of law in its recovery process and the we against corruption must be balanced

THIS IS THE KIND OF POLITICIAN THAT TOUCHES THE LIFE OF THE COMMON MAN

Please i think we should allow Tonyebarcanista be, he's free to join any party that suits his ideology. but personally i think he has not joined APC but he's only trying to be a Nigerian

kikikikikikikikikikiiiii this man no go use laugh kill person for this obodo

just strolling while sipping my zobo

Buharist have lost their voice due to Aisha jollof rice

seriously the war against corruption needs to be balanced, it should not be only PDP members or only those who served under d last administration. let see if they will probe bruntai.

The article you are about to read is culled is from the website of the Bureau of Public Procurement. You will recall that the Nigerian landscape is currently regaled with the ongoing #Dasukigate probe and of recently, President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the probe of high ranking ex-Generals and Air Marshals concerning their role in procurement of Arms for The Nigerian Security Forces.

Our Question is, if there is to be a probe of those who procured arms for the Security Forces, will it not be logical to start the probe from the Director of Defence Procurement at the Defence Headquarters covering the time frame in question ? Investigation has revealed that the 26th Chief of Army Staff of Nigeria, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai was Director of Defence Procurement from sometime in 2012 to 2014. This time frame fails within the scope of the #Dasukigate probe and the probe of other Ex-Generals. Why has President Muhammadu Buhari refused to probe Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai ?

Is Buhari’s probe lopsided ? Or targeted at a particular section of people ? Who is Buhari afraid of ? Your guess is as good as mine.

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http://www.bpp.gov.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=190&catid=83

The Defence Headquarters has recently organized a three-day procurement awareness seminar for the various personnel of the armed forces responsible for procurement operations. The seminar, whose theme was ”Understanding Public Procurement Policy Towards Efficient Defence Procurement in Nigeria,”was declared open by the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Air Marshal Alex Badeh, who was represented by Air Vice Marshall A.A. Iya, Chief of Policy and Plans at the Defence Headquarters.

In his address, the CDS expressed “profound gratitude to the Director-General of the Bureau of Public Procurement, Engineer Emeka M. Eze, OFR, and his staff for the cordial relationship between the DHQ and BPP in our collective efforts to be prudent in Defence Procurement to achieve national defence objectives,” which he hoped would be further enhanced by this Seminar.


Major-General T.Y. Buratai … Why is he not among those probed ?


AVM Iya is seen here reading the address of the CDS.



Participants

Director of Defence Procurement at the Defence Headquarters, Major-General T.Y. Buratai

Earlier, the Director of Defence Procurement at the Defence Headquarters,Major-General T.Y. Buratai, gave a welcome statement that underlined the importance attached to the seminar by the Defence Headquarters. “It is our hope that at the end of the Seminar we all would be better informed about Public Procurement Procedures and work towards the emergence of an enhanced Defence Procurement Procedure for the Armed Forces of Nigeria,” he stated, adding “It is further hoped that at the end of the entire exercise, participants would take away a firm grip of the difference between Public and Defence Procurement functions and procedures.”



Lead resource person, BPP’s James Akanmu, brandishing a copy of the Public Procurement Act, 2007, at one of the sessions

The resource persons at the seminar were drawn from the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), the agency that regulates public sector procurements. The team was led by James Akanmu, head of the Bureau’s training and research unit, who also represented the Director-General of the BPP, Mr. Emeka M. Ezeh, OFR, at the opening ceremony.



Participants at the seminar were personnel from the different Armed Forces performing procurement functions.



The high-powered team of resource persons from BPP

culled from http://www.bpp.gov.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=190&catid=83

Osita Duru @radicalyouthman. http://www.thebreakingtimes.com/who-is-buhari-afraid-of-who-will-probe-buratai/

Staff of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and prosecution lawyer Barrister Adesina Raheem, were mobbed by supporters of former governor of Zamfara state, Ahmed Sani Yerima at the arraignment of the former governor at the High Court in Gasau on Thursday.

The ICPC lawyer, Barr. Raheem who confirmed the incidence to The Guardian on telephone, said that the mob who were on protest against the arraignment of the former governor, moved to attack him and staff of the ICPC but for the intervention of men of the State Security Service and Mobile Police who whisked them away from the court premises to the mobile police base in the town.

According to one of the staff of the ICPC, who did not want his name mentioned, they were chased by the mob and had to leave the court premises before the end of the proceedings. However, the proceeding had almost reached the conclusion before the mob action became unbearable and the staff were helped to escape by security personnel.

“By that time, the judge, Justice Bello Shinkarfi had granted bail to the three accused persons but we couldn’t stay to know if they were able to perfect the conditions of their bail. The three accused persons, including the former governor were granted bail in the sum of N100 million each and two sureties in like sum. The sureties are to have properties worth N150 million which must be situated within Gasau”, he said.

But Barr. Raheem told The Guardian that he had received information from his colleague with whom he appeared for ICPC, that the accused persons were making efforts to perfect their bail term.

“I have been informed that the accused persons are presently in court and are making efforts to perfect their bail terms. They are yet to bring forward the titles to their properties. It might be difficult to get a single property that is worth N150 million within Gusau but I think by the time they combine several properties, they will be able to meet the conditions considering the caliber of persons that came to court with the former governor”, the prosecution counsel told The Guardian while also informing that the case has been adjourned till February 29 and March 1.

The former Zamfara state governor is being prosecuted by the ICPC for alleged N1.6 billion fraud before Justice Bello Shinkarfi of the High Court of Zamfara State sitting in Gusau. The other suspects in the case are Alhaji Isham Dikko, Development Management Limited and HAD Nigeria Limited

The said amount, was obtained as loan and was allegedly diverted to frivolous use though it was meant to execute some projects in the state. N1 billion of the loan, which was approved by the state House of Assembly was obtained by Sani’s administration for the repair of collapsed Gusau dam and settlement of the victims of the said dam while the remainder of N600 million was alleged to have been illegally obtained without the approval of the House of Assembly and was also diverted.

Though the main purpose of obtaining the N600 million loan was for the purpose of executing the sale of 50,000 metric tones of assorted grains to the Federal Government, much of the sum was allegedly diverted and only 9, 181.89 metric tons of the grains was supplied to Federal Government.
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2016/01/icpc-staff-lawyer-mobbed-at-yerimas-arraignment-in-gusau/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Kebbi State Governor, Abubakar Atiku Bagudu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has been dragged to a Federal High Court, Abuja following pre-election evidences that he ought not to stand for election over his involvement in a series of corrupt matters relating to billions of dollars looted by Nigeria’s late military dictator, General Sani Abacha.

The suit HHC/ABJ/CS/312/2015, filed against the serving governor at the Federal High Court Abuja by the plaintiff, anti corruption crusader and lawyer Barrister Sahabi Sani Sami enumerated a series of corrupt cases involving the governor both home and abroad for which he is still refunding money secretly at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), but the ruling APC government is allegedly covering him.

The case was brought before the court on Thursday but the court adjourned hearing. The judge Ademola Adeniyi moved the case to Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016 to allow parties involved adopt their various addresses.

The judge said it is not possible to take the preliminary objections and substantive hearing immediately.

“There is no way we can take the two together. It was for definite hearing as at December 10 but after that so many things have changed,” Adeniyi said.

After the session’s adjournment, the plaintiff, Sani Sami told journalists he expects the candidate for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) be sworn in since the a All Progressive Congress (APC) party candidate is not qualified.

Sami said: “We all know who Abubakar Bagudu is, talk about Abacha’s loot you can only think of Bagudu. We are interested in helping president Buhari fight corruption by not allowing corrupt people hold public offices.”

But defence counsel, Riki Tarfa said his team is ready to defend all allegations against the defendant.

“The allegations are baseless, all of them,” Tarfa said.

Also speaking, Machidu Attahiru, the Kebbi state APC chairman said: “Kebbi people voted and made their choice for four years and we stand by that.”

He said despite the court sittings, the governor, Bagudu is not distracted or deterred from delivering his mandate to the people of Kebbi state.

Bagudu, SIGNAL investigations have revealed, is wanted in the United States of America, over his involvement in the looting of over $600 million during the reign of late General Sani Abacha.

“General Abacha, his son Mohammed Sani Abacha, their associate Abubakar Atiku Bagudu and others embezzled, misappropriated and extorted billions from the government of Nigeria and others, then laundered their criminal proceeds through the purchase of bonds backed by the United States using U.S. financial institutions”, a report by the US Justice department revealed.

Documents show that Between January 1994 and June 1998, General Sani Abacha, National Security Advisor Gwarzo, Bagudu and Mohammed Abacha stole more than $2 billion from Nigeria by fraudulently and falsely representing that the funds were to be used for national security purposes.

Despite its anti-corruption war, the APC government of President Muhammadu Buhari has been silent over the issue. President Buhari it will be recalled served under the regime of General Abacha as Chairman of the late dictator’s Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), a body which has never been subjected to any government probe despite allegations that it was used by Abacha to siphon billions of dollars from Nigeria’s treasury.

www.signalng.com/wanted-in-the-us-for-fraud-apcs-governor-bagudu-of-kebbi-dragged-to-court/

The Senate on Thursday said that the country was losing about 1,000 megawatts of gas-generated electricity as a result of the blowing up of major oil pipelines in Warri, Delta State by persons suspected to be Niger Delta militants.
It condemned the recent attacks on pipelines in the Niger Delta region, saying the development was causing colossal damages to the National Integrated Power Plants (NIPPs).
Addressing Senate correspondents, after Plenary on the development, the joint Senate Committees on Gas, Downstream, Upstream, led by Senator Tayo Alasoadura described as unpatriotic the action of vandals.
According to him, it is disheartening that the vandals have decided to blow up pipelines at this time of national emergency, when the dwindling price of oil and the insurgency in the North-East of Nigeria is confronting our nation.
He said, “It is very disheartening that at a time when all hands should be on deck to revive the economy and ensure the survival of the country. Some people could decide at this point in time in the history of the nation to further sabotage the efforts of the present administration to bring some sanity into our country.
SEE ALSO: Delta to sell N27bn abandoned IPP project
“It is, therefore, apt for the Senate to condemn strongly, and make an ambiguous language this dastardly act that portends to send the hands of the clock backwards”.
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The committees regretted that the sabotage has led to the shutting down of the two refineries that had just started working in few months, even as they appealed to the militants to stop this mindless act by giving Nigerians the respite to allow this present administration to stem the tide of poverty and want ravaging our people.
“They should give respite to Nigerians so that we can see some governance. It is not good enough for an administration to be fighting one war there, and they are waging another there. When will he have time to govern? So, please help us appeal to them so that Nigeria can move forward”, Alasoadura said.
SEE ALSO: Abuja DISCO to install 4,000 smart meters in Niger
On his part, Chairman Senate Committee on Gas, Senator Albert Bassey, added that the explosion affected the major gas pipelines in the country.
He said, “The Committee on Gas had invited the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Nigerian Gas Company (NGC), and they have made us to understand that the country will be loosing over 200 million scores of cubic feet of gas on a daily basis, which is equivalent to 1,000 megawatt of electricity.
“This is the gas terminal that supplies Egbin and most of the NIPPs along the South Western region of this country. In a period, where we are grappling with the challenges of domestic gas supply, we believe very strongly that it should be condemned”.
https://www.today.ng/news/national/69433/power-supply-drops-by-1000mw-due-to-pipeline-vandals-senate

Agbasco:
I think this is worse than these ones you mentioned. Imo and Osun's salary has not been paid, its a debt and it would be paid BUT this has been recorded as paid despite less than half.
Osun and Imo are obviously owing BUT this is a scam from kogi government and it's unfair

OSUN IS WORST BECAUSE DESPITE RECEIVING BAIL OUT FUNDS, PEOPLE ARE STILL BEING OWNED SALARIES, BESIDES SALARY BEING PAID BY OSUN STATE GOVERNMENT IS HALF. AM AVERAGE OSUN WORKER WILL THANK GOD IF HE RECEIVES THIS

ASK SOME ONE FROM OSUN AND IMO WHO IS A GOVERNMENT WORKER TO SHOW YOU HIS OWN STATEMENT, YOU WILL HIDE THIS ONE AND THANK GOD

Was it Jonathan that ask militants to hold this fo0l hostage during APC primaries in Baylesa. The fool is trying to be relevant but the truth is that no one takes him serious again

geesilver:
why is this man always AFRAID. when corruption is mentioned.

WHAT IS BEING AFRAID HERE, LIE MOHHAMED SPEW RUBBISH ABOUT 15 PEOPLE STEALING SUCH AMOUNT OF MONEY, HE SHOULD AS WELL TELL US THE NAME OF THOSE 15 PEOPLE

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has challenged the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed to make public names of the 15
former governor and 55 Nigerians that he claimed stole N1.34 trillion between 2006 and 2013 or keep his mouth shut permanently.

He said; “The reality is that the All Progressives Congress (APC) Federal Government has destroyed the economy within eight months in
power and rather than look for solutions to the problems facing Nigeria, Lai Mohammed and his cohorts are branding bogus figures about
stolen money just to cover up their lack of solution to the country’s economic problems.”

The governor, who also described as disgraceful, bringing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh to
court in handcuff, said; “Even the masterminds of Mandala and Nyanya bomb blasts, Kabiru Sokoto and Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche were not handcuffed
when they were arraigned in court.”

In a release issued by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said it was funny that
close to one year after it won the presidential election, the President Mohammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) federal
government was still operating as if it was campaigning for votes.

The governor said; “They are turning governance to Nollywood, such that when one movie is about to end, they release another one. As it
appears that the $2.1 billion arms deal movie is getting to an end, Lai Mohammed introduced another movie titled; N1.34 trillion loot.

“Unfortunately for them this time around, Nigerians have become tired of watching the Federal Government movies, they now want reality.
Nigerians are now aware of the scam in the $2.1 billion arms deal movie having seen that the amount those already charged to court were
charged with is not more than N10 billion and $2.1 billion is over N600 billion.

“Therefore, Lai Mohammed must either tell Nigerians details of the 15 former governors and 55 people that he claimed stole N1.34 trillion,
where the stolen money is kept and bring back the money or apologise to Nigerians for lying.”

While describing the persistent claim by the federal government that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) destroyed Nigeria for 16 years as
hypocritical, Governor Fayose said Nigerians must begin to ask which party majority of those presently ruling the country under the APC
government were between 1999 and 2014.

“Majority of those who ran the Federal Government between 1999 and 2003 under the PDP are in the APC government today. President, vice
president, ministers, governors, senators and House of Reps members who were part of the PDP government are now in APC. Yet, APC keeps
telling Nigerians that PDP ruined the country. This hypocrisy must stop,” he said.

The governor, who insisted that due process of the law must be followed in fighting corruption, noted that disobedience to court
orders itself is a criminal offence that is more grievous than corruption.

He said no amount of harassment and intimidation will silence opposition in the country, saying President Buhari and his men should
rather get used to the reality that opposition must exist in a democracy.

http://www.thebreakingtimes.com/fayose-lai-mohammed-must-name-15-ex-governors-55-nigerians-that-stole-n1-34tr/

Plus10:
pishure of them fleeing or you take off this thread

THANK YOU BRO, LET THEM SHOW US PICTURES OF THEM FLEEING

OrlandoOwoh:
It's Fashola that fought ebola more, not Jonathan. If outbreak of ebola had taken place outside Lagos State, the spread would've been enormous. Fashola was said to have ran back to Nigeria from abroad upon hearing of it.

was it fashola that stopped the Ebola case in rivers state too. or was fashola behind the declaration of Nigeria being Polio Free by WHO. mtweeeew

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) condemns in totality the brazen display of authoritarianism demonstrated by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC Government in handcuffing its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh even when the court is yet to hear his case.
This development which expectedly elicited widespread public outcry clearly betrays an extra-judicial, top political witch-hunt policy of the APC, carefully designed to humiliate, embarrass and portray PDP leaders as common criminals and set the stage to cow and decimate opposition and perceived foes of the government.
The question remains, if not to mortify, dehumanize and break our National Publicity Secretary, who has been very vocal against the APC administration, and of course to send a signal to others critical of the government, what else would have informed the decision to produce him in court in handcuffs, even when his case does not border on security threat?
Is this an attempt to sway the court and ambush the judicial process against our National Publicity Secretary, all because of his stance against observed ineptitude and dictatorial tendencies of this administration?
The PDP invites all Nigerians and the international community to note the emerging barefaced abuse of state power and violation of constitutional provisions regarding the arrest, detention and eventual arraignment of our spokesperson.
Nigerians by now, should be extremely scared that our country is fast drifting into a police state where being in opposition or holding views divergent to that of the government makes one a criminal and an enemy of the state.
For now, the target of the on-going lopsided war against corruption is the PDP and its leaders. All APC members, including those with known corruption issues are immune from investigation, arrest and prosecution.
However, more worrisome is the fact that institutions of government, especially security and corrective agencies have now fallen victims of dictatorial abuses. Our fear now is that in no time, ordinary citizens of Nigerians, who in the last 16 years have lived under the rule of law and constitutionally guaranteed personal liberty, would begin to suffer brutality and oppression.
Under PDP administration, some Nigerians, including APC leader and former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu were tried but never humiliated; now we see security operatives under this regime being used to crush and humiliate the opposition.
Finally, while we study the bail conditions, we urge all PDP members to remain calm, united, focused and continue to pray for the nation and her people. We also urge the media to remain on the side of justice, fairness and rule of law and resist the pressure of being used as a tool to promote arbitrariness and abuse of process in the so-called fight against corruption.
Signed:
Prof. Adewale Oladipo
National Secretary