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theshield:
so if military buy arms they should come and report to you and your father right? Civilians are not suppose to know about military war chest. YOU PEOPLE TALK LIKE KIDS.

Ama80:
it's either u studied criminology or u ve already condemned him.our head of state is vindictive dats all.i support his public trial.

tinktanker:
if he is tried in secret buhari will pin him by all means even when he is innocent. Except u don't knw d beef pmb has wit Dasuki.

In order not to endanger the nation’s security,
there are many salient issues and contracts which
I cannot put in public domain. I am ready for trial
on all these allegations in order to prove to
Nigerians that I did nothing untoward in office. We
will certainly meet in court.

The immediate past National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd) has given his side of the story on the arms procurement saga which has pitted him against the incumbent federal government led by President Muhammadu Buhari.

In a statement on Wednesday, Dasuki insisted he was never invited to appear before an Investigative Panel on the Procurement of hardware and munitions in the armed forces.

The full statement reads: “In a theatrical manner, the Presidency fed the public with many allegations against my person and yet to be named former public officers.

“To draw sympathy, the presidency quoted some absurd findings including extra-budgetary interventions; award of fictitious contracts; 53 failed contracts; payment for jobs without contractual agreements; non-execution of contracts for the purchase of 4 Alpha jets, bombs and ammunition.

“For undiscerning Nigerians, they may tend to assume that the allegations were true and pronounce the former National Security Adviser guilty as charged.

“The statement issued by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, who should know better as a former President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors and a witness to history, was nothing sort of propaganda to cast aspersions on Dasuki.

“To set the records straight, Nigerians should appreciate that the AVM Jon Ode-led panel did not invite the ex-NSA under any guise before arriving at its ambiguous findings. At least, fairness demands that the panel ought to hear from Dasuki instead of its recourse to hasty conclusions. If the panel had been more patient and painstaking, it would have been availed of all relevant documents on some of the jaundiced findings.

“As if acting a script, the Presidency alleged that the Panel accused Dasuki of awarding fictitious contracts between March 2012 and March 2015. Contrary to this claim, Dasuki was not the NSA in March 2012 and he could not have awarded any contract in whatever name. The ex-NSA was appointed by ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on June 22, 2012.

“All contracts and accruing payments were with the approval of the President and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces. Once the ex-President approved, the former NSA paid. So, there was due process for every purchase in line with regulations guiding arms procurement for the Armed Forces.

“And Nigerians should note that all the services generated the types of equipment needed, sourced for suppliers most times and after consideration by the Office of the NSA, the President will approve application for payment. For sensitive sectors (military/security), there was no room for awarding fictitious contracts. The conclusions of the panel were presumptive, baseless and lacked diligence.

“There were no fictitious contracts; contract sums were not diverted and the relevant services in writing acknowledged delivery of equipment. For all procurements, the Nigerian Army, the Air Force and the Nigerian Navy have their contractors.

“While awaiting judicial process on these allegations, it is proper to make some references to show that the presidency was just desperate to hang some former public and military officers who served this nation at the risk of their lives.

“It is laughable for the panel to assume that 4 Alpha jets and 12 helicopters were undelivered. In a memo to the Office of the National Security Adviser(ONSA), referenced NAF/905/D/CAS of November 28, 2014, the immediate past Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Adesola Amosu acknowledged the receipt of the 4x Alpha jets attack aircraft and the helicopters.

“On 10/21/14, the Chief of Air Staff also confirmed the receipt of F-7 N1 aircraft combination of 250kg bombs and accessories at $2,894,000 with the cost of freight at $1,200,000. The same Air Force confirmed getting 2xTri Shield 36DG Tactical radars

“In another letter of December 1, 2014 signed by L.S. Alao(on behalf of the Chief of Air Staff), the Air Force said it received five containerized fuel storage and dispensing units with equipment.

“The Nigerian Army wrote the ONSA to acknowledge the delivery of 14 armoured tanks. In a December 13, 2014 memo, the Brigade of Guards thanked ONSA for releasing N30m for RCA, Operation allowance for Troops on Op Urban Sweep II for third and fourth quarters of 2014. This is apart from the installation of CCT Cameras at the Brigade Headquarters, 2 backscatter bomb detection vans and other equipment.

“On November 26, 2014, the immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh sought for approval of the award of one pair of uniform(in the interim) for the Armed Forces at N165, 375 to El-Jahab Mubarak Nigeria and N330,750,000 for two pairs.

These are some of the acknowledgement letters submitted to me by the end-users(the services). It is not for me to go and find out whether the equipment were delivered or not. I am not the one keeping the inventories.

“To show that I have nothing to hide, I submitted a comprehensive list of all requests for procurements by the services, the items bought and those equipment being awaited to His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari long before I left office. If there were issues, I should have been questioned. I was just the clearing house, I did not award contracts to my company or proxies. There was no contract awarded or equipment bought without approval from the then President and Commander-In-Chief. I am not a thief or treasury looter as being portrayed.

“In order not to endanger the nation’s security, there are many salient issues and contracts which I cannot put in public domain. I am ready for trial on all these allegations in order to prove to Nigerians that I did nothing untoward in office. We will certainly meet in court.

I have a lot to tell Nigerians but in the interim, they should not believe some of the allegations as the gospel truths. The good thing is that some of the key actors in the present administration were parts of the past process being viciously challenged.

“As for my tenure as the nation’s NSA, I acted in the interest of the nation and with utmost fear of God. I did not use the office for any self-serving agenda. I occupied the Office of the National Security Adviser at a difficult moment in Nigerian history when terrorism was at its peak and I am leaving posterity to judge me accordingly.”

IdisuleOurOwn:
Mbah Michael, always looking for trouble.

Cc : Afam4eva, OAM4J, Lalasticlala please take note of this guy or... ...... .. ....

Cc : DevilishM over to you.

omenka:
This woman go sabi find trouble wella.

Midolian and Front Page, siamese twins.

If this thread no reach permanent site, I go deactivate my...








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donphilopus:
If this guy knows he's truly facing this as a result of witch-hunt, then he should stop running helter skelter to seek soft landing. His Lawyers should go defend him at the CCT and stop looking for shortcuts.

baby4u2:
Lalisticlala when I posted this news you said it already hit front page a while back. What is it doing here again. Plus did u check the date of the news. I hope u just forgot.

That is the post proof

https://www.nairaland.com/2312410/uk-based-nigerian-doctor-nurse#33709789

omenka:
Just watch this thread.

Those PDP virmins that were celebrating the bombing yesterday would come in here and shout "propaganda", especially the redundant IPOD scoundrels.

They would rather believe it when Shekau says he's conquered the whole of Nigeria than believe a video showing the gains of the Nigerian Army.

That thread ran over 8pages because they all descended on it w¤nking like some degenerate p¤rnstars in celebration of the "success" of those killers. PDP and her supporters, as I always say, are the greatest curse upon this nation.

May God continue to answer the prayers of the good people of Nigeria and grant our Khaki boys the wisdom and courage to rid this country of these marauding bloodthirsty sons of Baal. And if some people from a particular part of the country sympathise with the course of the terrorists so much so the feel very unhappy over news like this, then they may as well join them in Paradise where there is ample supply of virgins rather than use their hands to fix their conji.

God bless Nigeria.






@Midolian: Baba, na which kain picture dey your dp like dat again?? Hain! Rotflmao!! What's your fascination with monkeys??

daretodiffer:
The mad dog that made you write rubbish in the name of opinion, dumbass

Modern slavery is not a new issue, it is a big deal if in 2015 you have no knowledge of what it is and the psychological effects despite your access to the internet.

If you think the man is a fo.ol, then you are a bigger fo.ol

daretodiffer:
You are a fool, a big fool

You have no idea how these things work, he has
been oriented not to reason. if you cannot
understand how it works, then you need to shush

Foo.l

theshield:
MY BRODA, I WAS BROUGHT IN SUCH A WAY THAT I HAVE TO BELIEVE WOMEN ARE MORE GODLY AND MERCIFUL THAN MEN. I THINK IM WRONG.

EZEIGBO1OFIMO:
God Bless the Nigerian Army.

victorD3:
I thought the military said the factory was not real?

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The factory where Boko Haram manufactures its Rocket-Propelled Grenades has been knocked out by gallant troops of the Nigerian Military.

The RPG facility is in Jamrari, Bama local government area of Borno State.

DAILY POST recalls that the factory was recently posted online by Boko Haram sect.

Images obtained by DAILY POST Tuesday night show the fabricated rockets which were uncovered during the raid by troops of 111 Special Forces 7 Division Garrison.

Some of the images also show killed Boko Haram fighters, who engaged Nigerian soldiers from 29 Brigade in a fierce battle on Monday in Matali, Damboa local government area of Borno State,

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jascon1:
English saves ignorance, try it! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_control

Follow that link and get some education. So, do u think u are a smarter thinker than the UK govt.? They have found the family guilty on charges, you of all sages find the man guilty of not escaping. Why not escape out of corruption in Nigeria?

CassaBooBoo:
Do you know the fear, they would have kept in him
Do you know if he was even allowed to mingle with people to get a better orientation??
Do you know the threat they would have given him and the man too go dey fear for e life ni??
Let's not blame him abeg!!!

Someone like me now wey get street OT...this can't fit happen to me sha!!! lol...
God sha no go let us see this kind thing...

jascon1:
if u ask a neuroscientist, he wud tell u that ur brain has huge presence of malnourished cells that has lead to schizophrenia.
At 14 don't you expect someone to be vulnerable and easily brainwashed? He was held captive by strangers, He was locked-in, he was maltreated, he was beaten to succumb to orders, his mind was negatively invaded. You read about pastors asking adults to eat snakes and what do u think? The mind is so easy to influence. Bob Marley spoke about mental slavery, ever thought what that means?

modath:

Mido, I no suppose laugh but the "na donkey" make my nose run, u get bad mouth but you always do it with style..

loomer:
So u no dey read? Person wey no dey go out, person wey no dey get info on how the place be, how him wan know him right? He was a kid wen him go there o

theshield:
Personally, i will never forgive the wife.... How can a woman be part of such evil conspiracy? women are suppose to correct men when they r in the wrong path.

rightym:
How could dey do so to their fellow Nigerian.
So sad

tasceige:
Don't forget his orientation was change right from when he was 14...

A British couple was found guilty on Tuesday of keeping a Nigerian immigrant enslaved for more than two decades, forcing him to work for no pay and threatening him with deportation if he tried to escape, prosecutors said.

Emanuel Edet, 61, and Antan Edet, 58, held their victim captive from the time he was brought to Britain when he was 14 years old, said the Crown Prosecution Service.

The husband and wife were convicted at Harrow Crown Court in northwest London on charges of child cruelty, slavery and assisting in illegal immigration.

They had told the teen when they brought him from Nigeria in 1989 that they would pay him and provide him with an education, prosecutors said.

Instead, the victim, now 40, was forced to cook, clean, garden and care for the couple’s children without any pay for up to 17 hours a day, they said. He was forced to eat alone and typically slept on hallway floors, they said.

He got no education and had only very limited contact with his family and the outside world. The couple took his passport, and he had no identity documents, prosecutors said.

Prosecutor Damaris Lakin said the Edets told their captive he would be arrested as an illegal immigrant and deported if he left the house and contacted police.

“He believed this and felt trapped and completely dependent on the Edets,” Lakin said in a statement. “Emanuel and Antan Edet have cruelly robbed this victim of 24 years of his life. They have treated him with complete contempt.”

“This was a shocking case of modern day slavery,” he said.

The convictions came on the first day of a two-day Trust Women conference in London on women’s rights and human trafficking held by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Prosecutors said the Edets had changed the victim’s name and added him to their family passport as their son when they brought him into Britain.

REUTERS

PassingShot:
Midolian, this made fp yeater night.

President Muhammad Buhari has ordered the immediate arrest of former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki over improprieties in the procurement of arms and ammunition under his watch.

The presidential order came subsequent to the release of the interim report of the 13 man committee set up by the Office of the National Security Adviser to audit the procurement of arms and equipment in the Armed Forces and Defence sector from 2007 to date.

According to Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, “While the committee which was inaugurated on 31 August 2015 is yet to complete its work, its interim report has unearthed several illicit and fraudulent financial transactions.

As part of the findings, the committee has analyzed interventions from some organizations that provided funds to the Office of the National Security Adviser, Defence Headquarters, Army Headquarters Naval Headquarters and Nigerian Air Force Headquarters, both in local and foreign currencies.

“So far the total extra budgetary interventions articulated by the committee is Six Hundred and Forty Three Billion, Eight Hundred and Seventeen Million, Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand, Eight Hundred and Eighty Five Hundred Naira and Eighteen Kobo (N643,817,955,885.18).
The foreign currency component is to the tune of Two Billion, One Hundred and Ninety Three Million, Eight Hundred and Fifteen Thousand US Dollars and Eighty Three Cents ($2,193,815,000.83).

“These amounts exclude grants from the State Governments and funds collected by the DSS and Police. It was observed that in spite of this huge financial intervention, very little was expended to support defense procurement.
The committee also observed that of 513 contracts awarded at $8,356,525,184.32; N2,189,265,724,404.55 and €54,000.00; Fifty Three (53) were failed contracts amounting to $2,378,939,066.27 and N13,729,342,329.87 respectively.

“Interestingly, it was noted that the amount of foreign currency spent on failed contracts was more than double the $1bn loan that the National Assembly approved for borrowing to fight the insurgency in the North East.

The committee also discovered that payments to the tune of Three Billion, Eight Hundred and Fifty Million Naira (N3,850,000,000.00) were made to a single company by the former NSA without documented evidence of contractual agreements or fulfilment of tax obligations to the FGN.

“Further findings revealed that between March 2012 and March 2015, the erstwhile NSA, Lt Col MS Dasuki (rtd) awarded fictitious and phantom contracts to the tune of N2,219,188,609.50, $1,671,742,613.58 and €9,905,477.00. The contracts which were said to be for the purchase of 4 Alpha Jets, 12 helicopters, bombs and ammunition were not executed and the equipment were never supplied to the Nigerian Air Force, neither are they in its inventory.

“Even more disturbing was the discovery that out of these figures, 2 companies, were awarded contracts to the tune of N350,000,000.00, $1,661,670,469.71 and €9,905,477.00 alone. This was without prejudice to the consistent non-performance of the companies in the previous contracts awarded.

“Additionally, it was discovered that the former NSA directed the Central Bank of Nigeria to transfer the sum of $132,050,486.97 and €9,905,473.55 to the accounts of Societe D’equipmente Internationaux in West Africa, United Kingdom and United States of America for un-ascertained purposes, without any contract documents to explain the transactions.

“The findings made so far are extremely worrying considering that the interventions were granted within the same period that our troops fighting the insurgency in the North East were in desperate need of platforms, military equipment and ammunition. Had the funds siphoned to these non performing companies been properly used for the purpose they were meant for, thousands of needless Nigerian deaths would have been avoided.

“Furthermore, the ridicule Nigeria has faced in the international community would have been avoided. It is worrisome and disappointing that those entrusted with the security of this great nation were busy using proxies to siphon the national treasury, while innocent lives were wasted daily.

“In light of these findings, President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that the relevant organizations arrest and bring to book, all individuals who have been found complicit in these illegal and fraudulent acts.”

hinwazaka:
Midolia,n has REMATA paid you yet. No wonder you jump from one thread to the other singing praises for BUHARI. So you want to eat our money. Corruption is truly the devil.

hinwazaka:
This is how they tried to kill Akpabio tried to kill himsef before he went for his trip abroad. [s]This bast@rd we call our President has brought back the days of political assassinations. God will punish the 15 million Nigerians who thumbed us back to Egypt and pharoah.[/s]