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@ Onoja, good write up. Thanks

Sally Mbanefo, engaged
in physical fight in Brazil, while
attempting to cover up alleged fraud

The Director General of the Nigeria
Tourism Development Commission
(NTDC) Mrs. Sally Uwechue-
Mbanefo may be doing everything
possible to cover up an alleged fraud
in her participation in the ongoing
Brazil 2014 World Cup after a failed
attempt to chew up a piece of
incriminating document in a Brazilian
hotel June 18.
She has asked for a meeting with
President Goodluck Jonathan to
explain her role in the alleged fraud
that is threatening her credibility, The
Nigerian Times learnt on Monday.
Mbanefo was alleged to have diverted
an undisclosed amount of money
meant for the sponsorship of a
proposed Nigerian Fan’s village in
Brazil, after which she asked for the
Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) between her and Za
Entertainment, the contractor for the
project; tore it and began to chew the
paper. Her attempt to chew and
swallow the MoU led to a physical
altercation between her and President
of Za Entertainment, Mr. Azania
Omo-Agege who held her tightly
forcing the papers out of her mouth.
The NTDC in conjunction with the
National Sports Commission and
Nigeria Olympics committee had
planned a tourism village also known
as Fan’s village in Sao Paulo Brazil to
last the duration of the World Cup, in
order to showcase Nigeria’s rich
culture, tourism assets, entertainment,
cuisine and investment opportunities,
as well as, where fans could unwind
and have fun.
A reliable source who spoke to The
Nigerian Times disclosed that
Mbanefo, who was initially not
interested in the project, took it over
after she discovered that the efforts of
the project committee and the
contractors were already yielding
financial results.
The source said: “The project
committee sent letters to state
governments, sister agencies and
banks, soliciting sponsorship and
partnership since the DG made it clear
that the NTDC will not fund or take
responsibility for the project.
“A mandate letter signed by the DG
was given to Mr. Rufai Ladipo, the
CEO of Agile Marketing Company
who went around with the brochure,
marketing the project and seeking
funds.
“After some banks have indicated
their support for the project, the DG
then changed the receiving bank
account from that of the contractors to
NTDC account and immediately
cancelled the marketer’s contract.
“She then picked about three
journalists, her daughter and Omo-
Agege, without any member of the
NTDC project committee and went to
Brazil.
“In Brazil, Omo-Agege took her to the
project site which he had committed
to paying for, but the DG refused
giving him any money but opted to
rent a hotel room which she decorated
as a fan’s village.
“When Omo-Agege confronted her
about the issue, she requested to see
the MoU of the contract, which she
collected, tore and attempted to chew
the paper but Omo-Agege grabbed,
twisted her hand and retrieved the part
of the paper that has her signature.
“Omo-Agege is now in trouble in
Brazil for his inability to make
payment for his commitments there.”
The Nigerian Times contacted Mr.
Azania Omo-Agege, President of Za
Entertainment who was contracted by
the NTDC to build and operate the ill-
fated fan’s village in Brazil and he
corroborated our source.
He said: “The situation is that I came
into partnership with the NTDC board
to build the Fan’s village in which we
went around looking for funds, as I
was told that the funds will have to
come from the private sector.
“The monies were remitted into
NTDC account and I went to Brazil to
secure the venues and hotel
accommodations.
“Sally Mbanefo, all of a sudden
cancelled all the plans that we had and
went ahead to do a sham Nigerian
football fans village in a hotel room in
Brazil.
“When we got there, we had serious
arguments and I told her it was a
breach of agreement and she insisted
on doing a fans village for one or two
days. I told her she cannot do a fan’s
village for one or two days as it was
not what we had sent out to the
organizations funding the project.
“Za entertainment will have nothing to
do with a sham fan’s village in a hotel
room.
“I didn’t have money to do anything
in Brazil as planned as all the money
was supposed to come from NTDC.”
When asked to confirm the alleged
confrontation between him and the
DG, he said: “We had an altercation in
Brazil. When we were at the reception
of the hotel, she asked me for my copy
of the MoU of the project that we
signed and I went upstairs to my hotel
room and I brought it to her.
“There were five persons present at
the reception with us: the labour
leader from NTDC, a journalist form
The Nation Newspaper, Omolola from
Thisday Newspaper and another lady
from NTA.
“Immediately she got hold of the
MoU, she tore it into pieces and began
to chew it; I then grabbed her and took
the remaining pieces from her asking
why she was doing that?
“Till today, she has not given me an
answer to that.”
He added that the budget for the
project was between 40million and
50million Naira.
“Brazil is packed with Nigerian fans
and it is just a shame what NTDC has
done, she stooped so low to do this.
“I heard from the grapevine that some
banks paid some money to her but I
can’t confirm that. What I can say is
that we spoke to banks like Zenith
bank and they promised to partner
with us on the project. If there was no
money at all, all she could have done
was to cancel the event from here but
she didn’t do that.
“I was under the impression that there
was money, because I insisted that if
there was no money given to me, I
wouldn’t go to Brazil, but she
prevailed on me that she would make
the money available when we got to
Brazil,” he said.
Mr Rufai Ladipo of Agile Marketing
Company who was given the contract
to market the project and raise funds
for it stated his part of the story to The
Nigerian Times.
He said: “Two weeks to the
tournament, we had an MoU that
includes how much we were going to
be paid and I went around seeking for
funds for the project.
“From information available to me,
about four banks may have paid
money to her and we have not seen
anything and the failure of the fan’s
village project should be blamed on
the NTDC.
“We did everything possible to help
them but unfortunately it has ended
the way it did.

“The brochure provided that all
payments be made to either our own
account or Omo-Agege’s account but
that was not done. I also understand
that some banks gave them money and
the people at the NTDC should be
able to account for that.”
When The Nigerian Times called to
speak with the NTDC boss, her aide
promised that she would call back as
she was in a meeting, but instead her
lawyer who identified himself as
Barrister Mark Ibrahim called to say
he had been asked to speak on her
behalf.
He said: “The NTDC entered into an
agreement with one Mr. Azania Omo-
Agege the President of Za
entertainment and the agreement
provides that Omo-Agege who is the
initiator shall source the funds and
drive same and shall also construct the
village and maintain same for the
entire duration of the world cup.
“Her contention is that these two
things were not done by them; there
was no village built as contracted,
instead of that, Omo-agege was now
asking for more money after he had
already been given $10,000 before
leaving Nigeria.
“He was not ready to fulfill his own
part of the agreement but the DG had
to use one of the rooms in the hotel in
which she stayed as a mini fan’s
village in order not to disappoint
Nigerians.
“According to her the man was
supposed to raise funds for all that but
refused to do so.”
The lawyer denied any altercation
between the DG and the contractor
claiming her kind of person would not
do such. He however accused Omo-
Agege of threatening his client in
Brazil.
Source: www.nigeriantimes.ng/news/brazil-2014-fans-village-how-ntdc-dg-sally-mbanefo-engaged-in-physical-fight-in-brazil-while-attempting-to-cover-up-alleged-fraud/

Boo-by trap turns to booby trap!

Ba photo anan!

Ina photo nka?

I smell rat!

Nice

^^Your explanation is unsatisfactory. What about the ac he complained about and about you demand for extra cash above the 40% agreed and the extra money collected on delivery.... Your response is @ best evasive. @ the risk of incurring your ire, I make bold to state that this issue has left a gaping hole on you PR/rep. Do well to fix it now, and most probably persuade the complainant offline to delete this thread. I'd do that in ur shoes!

freshness2020: She has been hiding her real self until she got married! You can't pretend for life...

Thanks

Foolish Demdem: She didn't say anything that is not new to Nigerians.
Of cos the leadership of the senate always dances to the tune of the drunkard in aso rock nau.
Next jorrr.

I also thought you died off during the nairaland down time. Pls get behind us!

Oooooh shutup! Sour losing fagz!

I didnt know how insecure i was without nairaland til this ish happened. Thank God. I felt it the most. On other matters, one wonders what the likes of Demdem and Bluetooth were doing during the downtime. Infact... I laugh. Nobody saw them even in NL facebook. Bunch of 'goons' lol.

I didnt know how insecure i was without nairaland til this ish happened. Thank God. I felt it the most. On other matters, one wonders what the likes of Demdem and Bluetooth were doing during the downtime. Infact... I laugh. Nobody saw them even inside NL facebook. Bunch of 'goons' lol.

Aljazeera and all its programmes

1. Defer to him...not differ...
2. The vice president as he then was... not as it then was; he is animate, human and not a minor!

3. Good English is good!

A

Does the Nigeran military possess an anti missile defence system?

For wia?

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You'l not regret it.

Front page pls!

Beautiful stuff rooted in spontaneity!

Atumatu

MO@tt!

I must say that there is nothing like 'ember' months! October is not ember! Unless u mean Octember!

Hit like if u agree pls!

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Hippo go wipe ooooooo!

@ Vin Obi Eze
Wtf!!!!!!
Ghana waaaat!
Nwanne this na nairaland not Ghanaland.com
So take style pour ur medicine drink!

Ubaman

Yep

By Jide Jegede
While reviewing Nigeria’s history since independence, former President Olusegun Obasanjo said the country may have been cursed with poor and irresponsible leaders.
Mr. Obasanjo, who gave the keynote address at the 4th Annual Ibadan Sustainable Development Summit organised by Centre for Sustainable Development, University of Ibadan, in collaboration with African Sustainable Development Network, on Tuesday, said if Nigerians were yet to commend a leader after 53 years of independence, “Then we are jinxed and cursed; we should all go to hell.”
He also condemned the younger generation of leaders in the country, saying they lack integrity and probity and have failed their people woefully.
Making specific reference to his Vice President for eight years, Atiku Abubakar; former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu; former Speaker, House of Representatives, Salisu Buhari; former Bayelsa State Governor, Deprieye Alamieyeseigha; and others as younger generation of leaders, the former President said Nigeria was not lucky even with them.
“We had some people who were under 50years in leadership positions. One of them was James Ibori, where is he today? One of them was Alamieyeseigha, where is he today? Lucky Igbinedion, where is he today?
“The youngest was the Speaker, (Salisu) Buhari; you can still recall what happened to him. You said Bola Tinubu is your master. What Buhari did was not anything worse than what Bola Tinubu did.
“We got them impeached. But in this part of the world some people covered up the other man. The man claimed he went to Government College, Ibadan but the governor (Oyo State) went to Government College and packed all the documents so that they would not know that he did not go there.
“I wanted someone who would succeed me so I took Atiku. Within a year, I started seeing the type of man Atiku is. And you want me to get him there?
“I once went to Tanzania because Julius Nyerere recognised Biafra. He told me not to mind his aides and others in government. They would say they have one house in town but their five year old sons and daughters would have houses all over.
“Some of you who are condemning the leadership would get there tomorrow and it will be a different story. Only very few are actually good.
“Abacha, my predecessor got $750m. Through our lawyer in Switzerland we recovered $1.25bn and the lawyer still said there is probably still another $1bn to be recovered. In 1979 we had 20 new ships specially built for Nigeria. When I came back 20 years after, the national shipping line had liquidated.
“The whole thing is not just about leadership. If we talk about good leadership you should also talk about good followers. If you talk about human right you should also talk about human duties and obligations.
“It is sad that after 53years of independence we have no leader that we can commend. The problem in Africa is that when one person takes over he would not see any good thing that his predecessor did. Let us condemn but with caution,” the former military ruler and two-term democractically elected president said.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Isaac Adewole said he was worried about the fate that could befall the country as she holds her general elections in 2015.
“We have not raised question about the scenario where 35 people found it difficult to conduct credible election in this country,” the don said in reference to the election of the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum that has polarized Nigeria’s 36 state governors.

http://mobile.saharareporters.com/news-page/nigeria-jinxed-cursed-says-former-president-obasanjo-premium-times