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says ‘kickbacks’ normal in gov’t

The Kano State Commissioner for Rural and Community Development, Musa Iliyasu-Kwankwaso has defended the state governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, on bribery video saga, saying collecting kickbacks is normal in government.

Speaking in a programme, titled: Jagoran Gwamnati a Karkara, aired on Freedom Radio in Kano on Sunday, Mr Iliyasu-Kwankwaso said, though it is illegal to collect certain percentage to award contract, the practice is rampant from federal up to the local government level.

“There is nothing new in this. Who asked the contractors to give the money to the governor?” he asked.

The commissioner challenged the contractors to come out publicly to claim that they paid 15 to 25% before they were awarded contracts.
“Since the three years of this administration, the contractors have been giving the kickbacks, why did they fail to claim that they must pay 15 to 25% before they were awarded contracts until now?

“I challenge the contractors to come out and say that they must pay the percentage before they receive contracts. This is just blackmail to the person of Ganduje.

“This kind of percentage, though it is not legal, but it is rampant in every level of government, from federal up to the local government level. It is nothing new,” he stressed.

He then challenged the authenticity of the clip, saying it was doctored. “This kind of video clip is normally doctored. Some politicians like Ibrahim Shekarau, Bindow, governor of Adamawa State among others, are all victims of this illicit practice. Let them continue to release even thousand of the video clips, so what?,” he said.

Mr Ganduje has appeared in a trove of video clips verified by graphics experts receiving bribe, amounting to about $5million from contractors in the state.

Multiple contractors who spoke with DAILY NIGERIAN on the condition of anonymity said the governor personally receives from 15 to 25 percent kickbacks for every project executed in the state.

The sting operation to capture the governor on camera began two years ago when one of the contractors agreed with DAILY NIGERIAN request to plant spy camera on his kaftan lapel while offering the bribe.
During about 10 months efforts to capture the bribe giving/taking scenes, the governor’s face and body were clearly captured in nine clips, while six others did not clearly reveal the governor’s face.

About $5m dollars were delivered to the governor during the sting operation.

https://dailynigerian.com/kano-commissioner-admits-ganduje-received-bribe-says-kickbacks-normal-in-govt/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Ategberoson:
you've been off point from the beginning of your needless and incoherent unpaid acknowledgement


save those words for after election to encourage your ignorant people like here

Hmm, truly it's needless to try and rescue a zombie. Haa, wasted 20 mins of my life I can't get back.

Go along now

seunmsg:
Hopefully, PDP and their wailing supporters will demand for the resignation and prosecution of Wike same way they demanded for the resignation and prosecution of Kemi Adeosun.

Until they prosecute Kemi Adeosun before we call for the prosecution of Wike. We know how this government treat opposition, so we'll never play into their hands

Ategberoson:
continue arguing ignorantly Atiku is not a saviour to Nigeria development

I'm arguing with fact and you're saying I'm arguing ignorantly? Where did I sound ignorant in my entire post?

Ategberoson:
if Nigeria is a sane country Atiku and OBJ shouldn't even have a say with atrocities that happened in their govt talkless of going for election. this is why I don't take Buhari serious anymore when he was sworn in we thought all these corrupt people would be brought down to their kneel. many PDP member returned all looted money the same sets of foolish PDP member are still criticizing Buhari that country is not moving with the same country they had wrecked


how can you've a capital of 1trillion and instead of adding to the capital, the administrator are distributing the money lavishly among themselves, the CEO fire all the past administrators and employ a new set of people after wrecking the 1 trillion to the lowest capital. does such past administrators has right to question the slow cash up of the company with many liability the new employer met on ground?


why dasuki was arrested and gej wasn't is an injustice on Dasuki side. Nigeria with useless law

And you think it's now that they are disbursing money? What do you think happened to the $300 million dollars Abacha loot that was returned recently? The same Abacha Buhari said he never stole.
What do you think is happening to the $1billion Buhari took for fight against Boko Haram, the same Boko Haram they said was 'technical defeated'

Have you guys noticed that every single picture that comes out from the Apc camp is carefully photoshopped and air brushed.

That's all they are good for, snapping and air brushing pictures.

All Buhari's pictures are photoshopped, all of them but I think its a widespread APC thing, snapping useless pictures up and down.

Nb: I'm not insulting these men, I'm just against their precision in picture editing when we have more important things to do

Ategberoson:
is that what you called achievement? no he should have spend the money na let efcc make him sweat


all politicians are thieves no matter how much you acknowledged them here. obi I don't know but atiku is a smart thief

You are referring to saving $150million as not an achievement? Anambra state allocation is around 4billion o, that's around 11million dollars. 50% of it goes into paying salaries, so let's say at the end of the month he gets 5.5million dollars. Coupled with all other projects, road construction, erosion control, bridge constructions, investment in education etc.

Mr. Peter Obi bought 1 school bus each and gave to over 5000 sec schs in Anambra state. He bought 50laptops and installed internet facility in over 5000 sec schs in Anambra. He bought 30kva generator worth over 5millon naira and gave to over 5000 sec schs in Anambra. I was a student so i benefited.

Not to talk of the roads and the many erosion sites he worked on. Mr. Peter Obi did wonders in Anambra and ended up saving such an amount.

Sir, please Obediently Atikulate!

Ategberoson:
is that what you called achievement? no he should have spend the money na let efcc make him sweat


all politicians are thieves no matter how much you acknowledged them here. obi I don't know but atiku is a smart thief

Is it not better to be a smart thief than be an arrogant one? Where did Buhari's son get the money he used to buy a powerbike worth over 50million? Yet, Buhari will come to Nigerians and tell us he doesn't have 22million to purchase nomination form. Does he think we are stupid??

Sir, you must atikulate today. My argument still remains Atiku is better than Buhari

Ategberoson:
what was peter obi achievement as Anambra governor?


state his achievement here

Where will I start??

Chief amongst others, he had saved $150million in the Anambra state coffers as at the time he left the government. He provided the banksand account numbers where the monies and the equities were kept

Ategberoson:
Atiku is not any better, he's a smart thief

Atiku is better than Buhari. With Peter Obi in that government, things will improve greatly

Ategberoson:
any different between that and financial and political supremacy that occurred btw obj&Atiku

you kids don't know what instigate their political tussle. Atiku was a smart thief than OBJ hence what cause their earlier rift the second was obj tyrant decision for third term

so is the same Atiku you want Nigerian to vote for again to continue establishing business with Nigeria money, employ Nigerians that provide his service exchange of their salaries/wages and started chanting I employed 50million Nigerians as if that's the solution to move the country forward

So your point now is we should continue with Buhari
An ancestor that has and is still willing to borrow away my future??
Never Never Never
AnythingisBetterThanBuhari

andybob:
U also dey rant nonsense it clearly shows u are biased ,which ruling class in the era of Nigeria has ever cared for the citizen of the country,na today killing dey start,,,abeg talk another thing

Okwuo, abutaba ha. Abeg shift joor

Ategberoson:
see this mumu want to redeem irredeemable. imbeciles sef dey talk of redemption you've long lost


never again shall will return back to the era of stealing is not corruption. Buhari might have his flaw but Atiku is a no no

You'd rather stay in the era of Ganduje Babaringa Banking International and the era of Fulani herdsmen are Libyans

Ategberoson:
you're a kid. how does that invalidate that Nigerian decides determines who become president through poll not social media


and for your attached pic, Anyone can pretend to be PDP member to discredit Atiku and anyone can pretend to be APC member to discredit Buhari. this is election time, ma sun

Oga, I don't have your time. Byee

It's a serious waste of time trying to redeem the irredeemable

Ategberoson:
wait till inec declare that verdict. all these online sensation of atikulating, I stand with Buhari songs is just an ignorant display


Nigerians will decides through poll not on nairaland and I doubt if they will want to relied on smart thief

Ategberoson:
shut up is Atiku anyway better? see as you dey stylishly acknowledged politicians as if they're different


OBJ that you people see as a good man today was once tagged with many names, he started this efcc of a things to silent many critics



so chill and save your article till after Nigeriandecides

Nigerians have already decided. It's Atiku/Obi2019

Lalasticlala.

Mynd44

In 2014, shortly before leaving office, Mr. Peter Obi gave 160 Anambra First Class graduates 1million naira each to help them make a headway in their careers.

#AchievementsofMr.PeterObi

Read more at

https://twitter.com/FactsHubAfrica/status/1051203280490123265?s=20

GoTV:
Fayose deserves to be brutally tortured for the crimes against humanity he committed in Ekiti. Stomach infrastructure remains a scam and an insult to Ekiti people who he rendered useless. In saner climes, he would have been fed to hungry crocodiles and broadcasted on live TV to serve as a deterrence to others

Sometimes I wonder where some people who comment on this forum actually come from?
Bros, are you ok? Technology should fast improve so that computers will be deleting stupid comments all by themselves..

Same goes for everybody still supporting this administration.. where do you guys come from bikonu? An administration that doesn't care about the common man on the street, they'd rather give you 5k trader's money than create policies that you'll help SMEs.
An administration that went to US and the main thing Oga stated clear was that Fulani herdsmen do not carry arms.. Not that his country needs aids, but to defend terrorists.

If not for anything, the bloodletting under this administration should make any sensible person be against them but here is one of our citizens openly displaying, should I call it stupidity.

If you're supporting Buhari because of tribal reasons, ask yourself this important question.. IS IT WORTH IT?

Lives of thousands of people in the middle belt and beyond are in the hands of Nigerians o. If Buhari should enter a second term, second term you know even the stupidest politicians do anyhow; they have nothing to loose na.

Imagine Buhari on a second term mission?

The ball is in our court.

Please don't mind the incoherent fellow I quoted, it's not his fault. If you have watched the movie 'World War Z', you'd know it's not really his fault

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deomelo:
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What is this unintelligent ipob talking about?

See this one barking like a rabid dog. All the time unintelligent ipobs, village ipobs.. when it's a clear fact that ipobs are the most intelligent people among the tribes of Nigeria and Africa at large. Village Ipob when we know that Osun is a village when compared to Ebonyi, Oyo state is filled with brown roofs, Lagos is pile of dirt, Abeokuta can't stand Enugu city..

Even after the entire of Igboland was decimated during the civil war, yet the comparisons above stand.

Oga, go and be frustrated alone, even if Buhari wins a second term, I can tell you that there is no Igbo, the same age with you and your level of exposure that is not better than you.

See this village Osun rat calling Ipob unintelligent. Pray God to make you an Igboman in your next life, you'll see life from a very different perspective.
You'll see that life is sweet and should be made sweeter every day; every Igboman's life moto.

PeaceOut!

KINGEvidence:
Looters regrouping again!..
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Born2Breed:
No need explaining to those gullible zombies,ogundamisi should concentrated on taking his medications maybe that will alleviate his tuberculosis.

The silly tribalist has never said anything about Tinubu business and houses which were all acquired after he became governor of Lagos since 1999 till date.

Odiegwu my sister

Mr. Peter Obi said he owns no other house anywhere in Nigeria apart from his house in Onitsha. You should understand that when an Igbo man talks about his house, he's talking about the house he built from the scratch. In Igbo culture, when a man builds a house, he has now fulfilled one of the obligations of being a man.

Besides the house in question was bought in 2001, years before Mr. Peter Obi became the governor of Anambra state, showing you that this man was already made even before he ventured into politics.

Mr. Peter Obi singlehandedly sponsored his first term election which he was rigged out of. He spent almost three years in court seeking his mandate and after 3 years, the case ended in his favour. This is a man that made his own money, fought his own battles and left an indelible mark on the Anambra state people.

Mr. Peter Obi owes his political and economic lifeline to nobody, he has no godfather and he's not answerable to any cabal. This is the man we need in this country.

Mr. Peter Obi left $150million in the Anambra state coffers when he left the government. He provided the 3 banks and their respective account numbers where the monies and the equities were left. Unlike other governors leaving debt behind for their successors.

BMC should try harder, all these gimmicks will only make us love him more.

This is the man of the hour!
Meet Mr. Peter Obi!

Antipob777:
I have followed many threads with dismay here on Nairaland and I feel as a patriotic Nigerian I owe Atiku and the PDP the obligation to advice them and share my views.

While Buhari and the APC are busy strategizing as usual ahead of the 2019 general election, the PDP and Atiku have been carried away with the social media.

Our brothers from the South East have been shouting and making noise all over the social media especially here on Nairaland.

I must be frank and sincere, anybody who tells Still and PDP that they will sweep the SS and SE is a liar and must be deceiving them.

In Rivers state today, APC is fully on ground and there is no way PDP can sweep Rivers state. Wike today will be facing a huge battle as he has lost many of his strongmen to APC. Wike cannot control the military, police or INEC as he did in 2015 with the support of patience Johnathan and federal might where results were written to favour Johnathan.

Again, Wike will focus on his re-election battles as he has many huddles to face. Anybody who resides in Rivers state and is sincere to himself or herself will truly attestate to my assertions.

In conclusion, PDP will find it difficult to win Rivers.

In Delta state, APC is fully on ground with heavy weights on her side and anybody who tells you that with James Ibori, PDP will sweep Delta state is a liar. One should be wondering why ibori is silent for a very long time. Ibori will work for PDP only in the governorship election.

In conclusion PDP and Still will face a tough battle in Delta state.

In Bayelsa I see PDP and Still having an easy ride but should the aspirants who lost their tickets or primary election decide to work for APC then Bayelsa will be a tough huddles for Atiku and PDP.

Bayelsians are very angry with Good luck Johnathan as during his reign of powers, GEJ never did anything for his people and may not have say to control his people.

In Akwa Ibom state, APC is fully on ground and the election will be do or die as majority of the strongmen in Akwa Ibom state are members of the APC and I doubt if Atiku and PDP will be able to withstand the fight.

Gov. Ugoma will be mainly focused on his re-election battle knowing he cannot control the military, police or INEC.

I fear Atiku may not be able to win Akwa Ibom state.

In Cross River State. Gov Ayade is a close Ally of Nigeria and I foresee him focusing on his re-election than making any move for Atiku and his party PDP. Moreover many strong men in cross River State are in APC and will surely mobilize votes for Buhari

In IMO state, APC is fully on ground and I assure you that PDP and Atiku cannot sweep the state. APC will surely use federal might, military and police to secure huge votes in IMO state.

In Ebony state today, APC is fully on ground with huge members and coupled with the fact that Umahi is a stunch supporter of Buhari I do not see Atiku sweeping Ebonyi state.

In Enugu state, APC have lots of strong politicians as members and I see this politicians using the federal might to secure huge votes for Buhari

In Anambra state, I foresee Obiano working for Buhari and I also foresee the APC stalwats using the federal might and police to secure huge votes for Buhari

Edo state will be a walkover for Buhari and APC.

Abia state will be a walkover for Atiku and PDP.

My advice is for the PDP to focus mainly on the North and South west as these are the regions where the block votes will come from.

Anybody who have lived anywhere in the North can tell you that no matter how poor Buhari has performed the Northerners still prefer him to Study.

Atiku and PDP should as a matter of urgency use there grassroots leaders to caution the youths from the south East to slow down with there online ranting and stop abusing the SW.

This is reducing on daily basis their chances in the SW.

One wonders how the igbos who hates the Hausa/Fulani have suddenly falling in love with Atiku who is also an Hausa/Fulani.

APC will fight dirty in 2019 to remain in power and I urge the PDP to shun online rantings and begin now to strategize.

PDP always winning online while APC wins in reality.

PDP, how many times will this online winning of elections happen to you before you learn your lessons.

A WORD IS ENOUGH FOR THE WISE.

I concur with the things you wrote, that's the reality on ground. But what is meant to happen will happen.. if Atiku is meant to be Nig President, then he'll get there, if not.. so be it but I'm really hopeful he gets there because of Obi. With Peter Obi at the FG, wasteful spending will be curbed to 0% and infrastructure will improve greatly. You know why I know, because Peter Obi is a man of himself. He owes no one allegiance, not even Atiku and he's allergic to anything that will soil his name. Obi will really influence Atiku's government to work and the tribal discord between Nigerians will for once be put behind us.

morisnewrain:
This is not worth yardstick to choose a VP. What did Obi do after living the floody site? And Obi is a likely to be familiar with the terain while Osinbajo is a stranger. He doesn't know the depth and where drainage passes. I never see anything wrong with him in a canoe. Why not talking about the Willie Obaino that is in the canoe as well?

Willie Obiano is a big mofo na, that one is a story for tomorrow. What has Osinbajo done about the flood till now, at least the one we know about?

https://www.nairaland.com/4790857/anambra-flood-picture-updates-odekpe
This was today

BabaO2:
What you don't know is that Ede is not Osun State but a town in Osun State. On the rerun election, ordinarily, Osogbo, ife, etc wouldn't have voted for anybody from Ede with their long historical bitterness. Saraki himself knew this, that is why he started shouting INEC should declare PDP the winner of the election despite the election was not conclusive at the first poll. Saraki is a dirty man with dirty and crude ideas to stampede INEC.

Okwu o, abutaba ha. Biko shift joor

Alzirida:
I will go for a man who understand safety.

Safety but didn't consider the safety of the boat driver?

Look closely, the picture is a million words

Alzirida:
I will go for a man who understand safety.

Safety but didn't consider the safety of the boat driver

Look closely, the picture is a million words

bluecircle470:
No wonder our so called president says our youth are lazy....lazy thinkers and not dynamic. Smart but not intelligent (SBNI). Should this be a campaign strategy or what?

Here is a Nigerian youth admitting that Nigerian Youths are lazy just for political correction. Shame on you and your kind. The picture is a campaign strategy Yes!, it goes a long way to show the personality of the two men.

Did you notice that the boat driver was not even wearing a vest and those men didn't care

Nigerians will Obediently Atikulate