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A former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Doyin Okupe, says embattled former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), gave him N100m on the instruction of Jonathan.
Okupe, who served as Jonathan’s spokesman from 2012 to 2015, added that he received N10m monthly from Dasuki to pay salaries and run a weekly programme on NTA.

The former presidential aide said this in a Facebook post on Sunday while reacting to his arrest and interrogation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.


The EFCC had alleged that Okupe received N85m from Dasuki at different times.
In his reaction, Okupe said, “The initial N50m was approved by the President to be paid to me from his security vote. N10m was to furnish my rented living apartment and another N10m for my office. The balance N30m was approved as take-off grant.
“The N10m I received from the ONSA monthly was to run my office, pay salaries of staff, including overheads, pay expenses for our numerous press conferences, pay for publications in newspapers, magazines, local and foreign, television programmes, bulletins, and media consultants who assist and facilitate our work. I had about 23 staff, 11 were graduates out of which five were master’s degree holders.
“The second N50m was approved again by Mr. President when I reported to him that the monthly allowance had been cut from N10m to N5m and that I was no longer in position to keep running a one-hour NTA network programme called INSIGHT which was aired 9-10am every Friday.
“We paid NTA about N1.2m monthly for airtime. Two presenters were paid N600,000 monthly. We paid for tapes and editing per programme. Besides we also pay honorarium for guests either directly or in form of hotel bills for those outside Abuja, or transportation.
“This cost averagely N500,000 weekly or about N2m monthly. All in all we spend about N4m monthly on the programme. Mr. President promised to help with the expenses. About a few months later when we had incurred some debts the NSA sent me this N50m which was to cover the cost of the programme for 12 months.”
Okupe, who was also quizzed for allegedly receiving some dubious contracts from a local council in Niger State to the tune of N76.5m, said his company, Romix soilfix, was one of the over 20 construction companies who were duly awarded contracts for rural roads some five years ago by the Niger State Government.
He explained that due to lack of funds, contractors were paid irregularly making the job to drag.
“The job is still ongoing. The relationship of this to my service as senior special assistant to President is still not clear,” Okupe said.
The former presidential aide criticised the EFCC for allegedly releasing details about his health.
Okupe confirmed that he suffered a heart problem and he only explained this to investigators to prevent him from being detained.
He added, “I was born with sinus bradycadia, a non-disease based slowness of the heart. It precluded me from vigorous exercise from childhood but I have by God’s grace been able to live a normal and active life.
“With age the slowness grew worse and life threatening. I sought medical help and went through a procedure at the Arrhythmia Cardiac Research Centre in Atlanta, where this defect was corrected. It was just a year ago and I am still under satellite monitor from the USA. This is what I revealed to the EFCC and they made it a public issue.”
Okupe maintained that he was not a thief, adding that he had only two houses: one in Lagos and in his hometown.

Cc; lalasticlala mynd44

http://www.nigerianeye.com/2016/07/reasons-why-jonathan-told-dasuki-to.html?m=1

tolexy123:
Can it fly? If it cant then FUUCCK OFF with your junk!

hater, read well again

marvelife:
Benefit ?







God will forgive you all

what are you talking about?

dominique:
All that equipment will generate only 215MW Can that even power two industrial states like Lagos and Ogun?

what do you know about power systems? Add 215MW to out national grid, another 700MW in zungeru Niger state. #HatingHater

Leopard2A7:
I think Buhari is a foolish president.

What has happened to governance?

what is it with all these probes here and there?

These people are fighting back and the way it is going this government might go down as the worst in the history of this country; I don't think Nigerians ever had it this bad.

Left for me, Buhari should reign in the EFCC, stop all these probes, then go behind quietly to negotiate with these people to bring some of what they have so that everyone will be happy to join hands to move this country forward.

There are many issues that require the kind of attention Buhari is giving to corruption in this country:

1. Fulani herdsmen goung about raping women, killing Nigerians in droves and sacking communities especially in the MB & south.

2. Power supply is almost dead.

3. Unemployment has reached alarming proportions.

4. SMEs are closing shop throwing more Nigerians into the already saturated labour market.

5. Inflation has reached a point where Nigerians now steal pot of amala & ewedu to feed and survive.

6. Ritual killing/kidnapping has reached monumental proportions.

7. Nigerians are no longer safe as can be seen recently when militants invaed Ikorodu twice and kill several persons. Policemen sent there to check the militants only went to start collecting N100 from each Okada.

8. Agriculture that was doing so well before this herdsman became president is nothing to write home about today.

Which way Mr Buhari??

I don't know if Buhari is a curse to Nigeria.

Shame to every Southerner that worked to bring this man back to power.

ethnic bigot

ZeroTolerance:
Imagine no light in Bida for 2 weeks despite all the dams in Niger state. Will Niger delta avengers be blamed for this too?

God punish Buhari and Fashola

what do you know about power systems?? Some of you will just come online to type rubbish....
Go and know more about power systems, most especially transmission. You will know the effect of little or no power generation on consumers

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idupaul:
I am only a harsh critic of bad governance ..I campaigned and voted for Buhari

[/s]LIAR!!! You think we've forgotten how you campaigned for GEJ? SMH

ADAMUdaCOWBOY:
I am sure you didn't even read the post

does he even know the meaning of tyrant?

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Viktor1983:
Fucc'd up country..
Excuses, blames, all talk ; no balls...

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quid:
Me I still believe in Change oh

it is well, Naija will be great

quid:
[size=14pt] Hopefully
1 GBP will be equal to 1 Naira

Let us keep praying. .
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lol, you wicked I swear

Had I know, they should deal with it.

Funny

Make dollar sef follow drop

PRYCE:
Dan Niger! Ban taba zuwa Minna nnan ba fa ama da yadar Allah, zani gan garin!

Allah ya nuna mana, yanzu dai ina Maiduguri

PRYCE:
Ni dan Taraba ne!

yayi kyau, ni dan minna ne

PRYCE:
Ni dan Arewa ne dan uwana... ciki da waje!

arewa daga wani jihar

PRYCE:
You sef dey agitate for Oodua republic? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

So what do we call the wastern western agitation? IPOO? Indegenous people of Oodua?

IPOO sounds like POO...

#ProundlyNorthern

you are certainly not a northerner, u must b from the SE

murphyibiam15:
THE TRUTH IS GRADUALLY COMING OUT...SO NO LONGER EASTERNERS ARE CORRUPT....NOW BORNO...ISSORITE.

WITH THEIR MOUTH THEY SHALL MAKE CONFESSIONS

Northerners do not support their own corrupt politicians, we support the prosecution of our own corrupt politicians. Unlike the ugandans who sees the prosecution of their own politicians as witch hunting.

Kyari is from borno state, 99% of borno politicians are very corrupt. Magu must finish what he started #KyariMustGo

LesbianBoy:
God Punish PDP supporters

Fixed

koboko69:
It wasn't a crime advising u to stop littering this section with submissions of poor and little intelligence. I remember ur analogy of the budget and paying salaries yesterday. What we discuss here is way beyond ur political intelligence, u should probably stick to just name callings, like Zombie, Buhari is a this and that, u will garner more likes like that, rather than disgracing ursef trying to explain or evaluating what u have zero knowledge about.

mehn!!! You don injure that ladyexcellency

After governor Fayose of Ekiti state publicly took on the first lady, Aisha Buhari yesterday, he has come in for some criticism.

One comes from the Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Buruji Kashamu who has slammed Fayose stating that he should desist from the needless mudslinging against the wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari and face the allegations against him.

The Senator did this in a statement issued in Abuja and he called Fayose’s attempt to deflect allegations against him “clutching at a straw”

In the statement, Kashamu said, “It is interesting that Mr. Fayose is talking about the rule of law and the need to do things within the ambit of the law. I never knew that he has ever heard of the concept of the Rule of Law. When he trampled on other people’s rights in a bid to abrogate their tenure in office where was the Rule of Law? Now he is crying out because he is afraid he might have to get a taste of his own medicine because a man must certainly reap whatever he sows.

“Mr. Fayose is talking about the fact that he enjoys immunity under the law. If I may ask: can a governor who disobeys the law with reckless abandon seek protection under the law? You cannot say because immunity covers you, you should not be investigated if you are suspected to have benefitted from the funds that were meant to buy arms for the protection of Nigerians. I think it is high time that we, as a people and government, address the issue of people committing crimes and hiding under the immunity clause”

Kashamu continued, “Fayose must stop chasing shadows and address the allegations against him. It is preposterous that he suddenly remembered that someone was involved in the Halliburton scandal at exactly the same time that he is being investigated over the funds he allegedly collected from the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA).

Kashamu inquired, “The questions are: Was he a beneficiary of the ONSA funds? Is it true that over N300million was frozen in three accounts traced to him? Were suspicious cash deposits made into the accounts in 2014, in clear violation of the Money Laundering Act and other enabling laws?

“It is said that you can fool some people all of the time but you cannot fool all the people all of the time. Nigerians can now see that what is playing out is a confirmation of my earlier position that the loudest among us are not necessarily the most pious. If he is being asked questions about his campaign funds, he should be bold enough to give explanations without necessarily casting aspersion on anyone. He should allow necessary investigations to go on unimpeded.

“That will not only help to prove his innocence or otherwise but could possibly boost his rating. He could even choose to waive his immunity to aid the investigation if he does not have anything to hide. Immunity does not preclude any public officer even a governor from explaining how he funded his election campaign or the source (s) of deposits made into his account (s).

Kashamu also stated that it was time for Fayose to come to terms with the allegations he’s facing, “The reality that Mr. Fayose must come to terms with is that the allegations against him are too grave to be sidelined for a seemingly spurious allegation against the wife of the president. Months of workers’ salaries are yet to be paid in Ekiti State; development partners have abandoned state, just as families are languishing as a result of his ill-advised political scheming.

“This current campaign of calumny and juvenile tantrums cannot sweep the issue of corruption under the carpet; neither can it kick enough dirt to make any right-thinking Nigerian to shut his or her eyes to the truth. This is not about party affiliation or dog eating dog. It is about the plundering of our commonwealth and there should be no sacred cows in the fight against corruption. This is a fight that all patriotic Nigerians should lend their weight without any primordial sentiments or prejudice.” he concluded.

Cc; lalasticlala mynd44

http://www.herald.ng/kashamu-slams-fayose-aisha-buhari-allegation/?utm_source=nnd&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=nnd

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naijaking1:
When you have no points blame iPod
When your excuses are weak, blame iPod
When Oshiomle no fit impregnate his wife, blame iPod
When Aisha Buhari is avoiding the US like plaque for fear of being arrested, blame iPod
And when cancer tear up Buhari ear, blame ipod

[/s]when you have no point blame Buhari

IPOD created this link, all this one no go work for una. Try again OP

Haters gonna hate, Buhari till 2023

That is not her twitter account, hers is @ABuhari.

EgusiSoup:
Another North

.any Igbo woman still supporting this government needs to has brain surgery!

Beremx take note!

*spits**

he is from middlebelt

jpphilips:
Boko haram kill people daily including yourself I guess?

help me ask her, I dont know where that girl is extracting her news from. She is just pained that this administration is winning the war

amtaken:
Maybe BH should relocate to your community so that you will understand what the victims are going through, maybe that will stop you from politicising it.


BH never stopped killing people under PMB. Why do you want me to lie to please you?

Why not focus on how the menace can be curbed instead of unwarranted argument?

SMH for NL kids.

I reside in Borno, I should be the one telling you about military success here. I was here when it started, I can confidently tell you that NA are winning the war. Maybe you are referring to yourself as NL kid. SMH for you

Built2last:
and all the competent ones are in core north abi. face front mr one Nigeria

hes not from core north, he's a nupe man from middlebelt