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I think the wailing wailers can rest now. He(GeJ) has the right to probe OBJ and Musa Yar'dua. PMB ride on

…Kwarans Groan In Pain While Gov Ahmed And His Gang Get Richer

While most Nigerians quickly put the blame of impoverishing Kwarans on the table of Bukola Saraki, what they are oblivious of is that the Kwara governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed is becoming more dangerous than his benefactor.

Impeccable sources have confirmed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) allegation that Ahmed truly pays Saraki a whopping sum of N100 million every month from the state’s coffers.

In the statement, the PDP stated, “We have noted the desperate bid of the Kwara State government to cover up for Sen. Bukola Saraki in respect of the millions of naira that he draws monthly from the state’s lean treasury in the name of an obnoxious, immoral and insensitive pension law that he enacted for himself while in office.

This latest cover-up has only succeeded in raising more questions than answers. It has also evidently shown that the government’s spin doctors have exhausted their basket of lies – a thing that has become a routine pastimes in the life of the present APC-led administration in Kwara State.

“Arising from the government’s latest official cover-up for Saraki, we raise the following posers:
“If in truth Mr. Bukola Saraki had not demanded for security operatives since he left office three years ago, why then did the speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Mr. Razaq Atunwa, on Tuesday, 10th September 2013 threaten to sue the IGP for allegedly violating the provisions of Section 2 (3) Paragraph H of the Third Schedule of Kwara State governor and deputy governor (payment of pension) Law 2010 which makes provision for over 10 different security attachés for Bukola Saraki? If the salaries of Bukola Saraki’s retinue of police and SSS security attachés were not being charged on the state meager allocations, why did the Kwara State House of Assembly subsequently pass a resolution describing the alleged withdrawal as ‘unconstitutional, ‘illegal’ and a ‘breach of law’ the legislators validly passed? If the KWSG is denying the assertion of the PDP on the over N100million that Bukola Saraki draws monthly from the public treasury in the name of pension benefit, it is also ready to deny its own speaker who had much earlier admitted that the security operatives are Bukola Saraki’s birthright pursuant to the pension law?

However, assuming for the purpose of argument that what Bukola Saraki takes home monthly is the sum declared by the secretary to the Kwara State Government, the moral question is, why should Bukola Saraki, who only spent eight uneventful and harrowing years in Kwara as a governor be receiving a pension package that triples that of an average permanent secretary that has spent over 30 years in fruitful service to the public? Why should he even draw any pension at all when he enjoys far more perks as a senator currently representing the same state in the National Assembly?

In the same vein, if the government is denying that it built the multi-million naira mansion at No. A1, Museum Street, GRA, Ilorin, which Kwarans now derisively call ‘Bukola Saraki Pension House’, why did the government order the foreign contractors handling the project to raise the fence of the building high up when the whistleblower, Sahara Reporters, sometime in May 2012, unearthed pictures of the innermost parts of the palatial mansion that has become a source of sorrow and regret to thousands of pensioners that pass through that place daily? More questions begging for answers!

Meanwhile, the fact that the government would so easily lie over Mr. Bukola Saraki’s publicly funded security apparatus, his ‘Pension House’ and other perks that he enjoys naturally presupposes that the whole indefensible rejoinder the KWSG gave against the verifiable revelations of the PDP is nothing but a pack of lies. These glaring lies have therefore vitiated all other cover-ups that the government dished out to the public in defense of a man that is currently standing trial in the case of IGP versus Sen. Bukola Saraki (FHC/ABJ/CS/152) for bleeding the state dry while in office and has refused to stop even out of office through his obnoxious pensions!

The fact that the KWSG could lie about the fact of the payment of the insensitive pension benefits of Bukola Saraki with so straight a face, is indicative of the disdain the APC-led government has for truth and facts. By plausible implications, it is also suggestive of the zero respect the government has for Kwarans that are demanding for answers from it in respect of the obnoxious pension law.

Lastly, for the avoidance of doubt, we insist that what the Kwara State Government received in federal allocations for the year 2013 was a total sum of N49,276,022,267.75 as against the N38.7 billion claim made by the government. This is because apart from the Gross Statutory Allocations, the government also received several billions of naira in both Foreign Excess Crude Savings Account and Value Added Tax (VAT) allocations from the Federal Account Allocation Committee (FAAC). If the government had hoped to sit on these huge funds and get away with it, we ask it to have a rethink for the secret is blown already.

We therefore ask the government to truthfully own up to its incompetence, do the needful by abrogating the obnoxious law as being requested by the overwhelming majority of Kwarans and finish up its remaining months in office to pave way for a more purposeful and truthful government” the state ended.
Despite the denial by the Kwara State governor that they have not built a house for Bukola or given him security as well as eye-popping allowances as pension benefits, we can authoritatively report with documents available that Gov. Ahmed is lying between his teeth.

We can also report without doubt that there is a particular mansion located on Abdulkadir Road, GRA, Ilorin, Kwara State, built for Bukola Saraki as his life pension quarters. Proud as ever and demanding the best of life, the senate president turned down the house and requested that Ahmed pays him the equivalent in cash which was promptly done.

As soon as he got the alert, we were reliably informed that Saraki went back to reclaim the house from the state government and no one coughed.

In line with our investigative nature to counter the denial of Gov. Ahmed that there is no bogus pension for Saraki, we can report that on 29th December 2010 Mr. Bukola conniving with his co-corrupt members in the State House of Assembly passed into law a bill that entitled him to these pension benefits:

Accommodation: (i) One residential house each for the governor and deputy at any location of their choice in Kwara State; (ii) One residential house in the Federal Capital Territory for the governor on two consecutive terms.
Annual Vacation: (iii) 30 days’ annual vacation outside Nigeria with 30 days’ estacodes and travel allowances for the governor.
Transport: Travel expenses allowances for the governor. (a) Three cars for the governor and in addition one pilot and two backup cars to be replaced every three years en bloc.
Furniture: Payable every two years en bloc.
Domestic Staff: Cook, steward, gardener and other domestic staff who shall be pensionable.
Medical: Free medical treatment for the governor and deputy governor and members of their immediate families.
Security: To be provided as listed below: Two SSS details for the governor and one female officer, one SSS detail for the deputy governor; eight policemen (one each for house and personal security) for the governor; two policemen (one each for house and personal security) for the deputy governor.
Drivers: Pensionable.



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​Keep a date as we bring to you report and images of the sorry state of Kwara schools, sporting facilities, the rotten multi – million naira Cargo Centre built by the state at the Ilorin International Airport, how Harmony Holdings Ltd owned by Dr. Bukola Saraki took over most of the state properties and other shocking revelations.
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ABUJA-The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Wednesday, administered the oath of office and allegiance on his contender for the Senate President of the 8th senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan and 27 other Senators who missed the oath taking during the inauguration of the chamber yesterday.

The Senate after the oath taking entered into a closed door session.

Many Nigerians are not only deliberately or conveniently and even inconveniently amnesic about their past, they are also lying to themselves about their future. This explains why we cannot seem to correct basic governance mistakes, even after we have suffered for decades from such mistakes and even after we have been repeatedly presented with opportunities to change it and with clear evidence available.

It’s over a week now since a new government was historically sworn in at the centre. While there is this high pretence from various interests groups about the new government, with some making such harebrained declarations of great achievements so far by the new government, the cold, honest truth is that the country is at the moment directionless and nothing is happening. This is something that the myth of a Muhammadu Buhari bringing change cannot hide. Okay, I know one week is not the time to judge a government, but that is actually under a ceteris paribus assumption. In the real world of power and public policy, one week is a long time in politics.

From the way the APC campaigned and for the fact that Buhari himself has been gunning for this top job for over a decade, giving the impression that he knows what he wants to achieve once he gets there, most Nigerians expect him to hit the ground running. But what have we got? He hit the ground alright, but he’s just strolling. Any honest APC change voter knows deep in his or her heart that this is not what they voted for. I know it’s hard to admit now, but it’s the truth. Buhari is evidently an ‘analogue’ leader who believes too much in the hype of his own wisdom and who consequently thinks he can micromanage this whole change thing. In the end, little minds and hangers-on will run rings round him, cannibalise his ideas, gorge on his goodwill and the goodwill to him from the people and leave the government he runs an empty shell. He will come out of it as Baba Go Slow Redux.

No, I’m not judging Buhari after one week. I’m just using the above comment as a signpost of something more fundamental. I’m telling Nigerians that Buhari and co have no idea what to do at the moment and for various reasons. They most probably did not expect to win. Their campaign was abjectly poor on vision, but Nigerians still voted them. Now that they are there, it’s head-scratching galore! They attempted to buy time immediately after the win by repeatedly stating how bad things are and why Nigerians must be patient, but when they got the feedback from the people, they knew that kite wouldn’t fly. Yet, rather than for the thinkers and intellectuals amongst them to seize the party and its leadership by the scruff of the neck and boldly craft out an agenda at least for the first two months while they work on the thereafter, they were busy deifying Buhari and creating all sorts of silly myths around him. They totally refused to appreciate that there’s a difference between campaign and governance. Buhari is not God! All is falling around him now, but spin doctors are doing great covering up, but for how long are they going to depend on empty gimmickry?

Here is the unvarnished truth and this truth is the purpose of my post: The real character of our democracy is in view now. The reason Buhari has not been able to make or propose important appointments is not because the old Senate was still in place or any of that kind of excuse. It is simply because the party is factionalised dangerously in its attempt to share power. That wouldn’t have been a huge problem, if there was enough democratic content within the party. But where there is a distinct lack of internal party democracy, where a party is colonised by power cabals soused in the grand tradition of high corruption, what you see now from the APC, even after winning power, is what you get. Like the PDP before it, the APC is only a special purpose vehicle to win power, not an ideologically ground movement, not a party ready to form government or deliver good governance. If there was internal party democracy, you will not have a situation where party members elected into the National Assembly would be dragging themselves publicly in the mud to win leadership of the Assembly. It would have been a simple case of the members elected meeting and voting by a simple majority on who they want to lead them - nothing more than a thirty minutes affair and it’s over. But they cannot, because there are tin gods in every corner wanting to put up their human drainpipes in every aspect of national leadership. How can any result of such a process benefit Nigerians?

Of course, things can be corrected if young party activists begin to rise now and make their voice count, rather than timidly sit back doing “Babe ke!” and “Rankadede” behind expired leaders whose only claim to leadership is the amount of money they’ve stolen while in public service at some level. Such an action will jolt the party leadership into action and will prod them to begin to take the job at hand seriously. If this does not happen, the APC like the PDP will fail and you will hear such excuses as Buhari himself being of good mind, but those around him being evil. We will hear threnodies of how he was betrayed by his party or how his spokespersons muted his real intentions in pages and pages of silence. The power fight will take the usual ugly ethnic turn and nothing will be achieved for the nation as the better part of four years will be spent locked in such mortal political combats. One can only imagine the effect of this on the ordinary people knowing how our people are easily the playthings of politicians and inciters.

For the rest of society, the implications are dire. Anyone who thinks once the APC fails, the PDP would walk back needs another think coming. The historical fact is that the PDP has failed Nigerians, which is why they were voted out. Yeah, we can all provide extensive lists of rationalisations for this, but the fact that the PDP did not and could not challenge the APC victory is statement of fact enough. So, no, Nigerians won’t just be rushing back to the PDP after four years simply because APC has failed them. Rather, the more dangerous result of the APC failure is that Nigerians will become disillusioned with party politics and begin to express themselves in ways that are not so nice. Real social anarchy could be the outcome.

So, really, what Nigerians should be doing now is to clear their eyes and begin to look for a means of creating a third force in politics. I’m not talking of supporting another party outside the PDP or APC, but a third force in terms of a conglomeration of new ideas, no matter how informally we start this. We must begin to create conversational spaces nationally where we as citizens can begin to look at issues without partisan-tinted glasses and provide solutions we can push in public space and force the establishment to accept them. Nigeria has wasted too many years under rudderless leaderships that the people have to seize the day now and begin to force the issue. If we really want democracy to work for us, we the people have to actually make it work for ourselves. This consciousness must start now.