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Bizibi:
when a case like this lingers on this long just know it is a dead case,effcc is playing hide and seek on the woman's case.

143WaZoBia:
Adesina too de fear.Gambari na chief of staff not chief of army staff.

MinorityOpinion:
Efcc and DSS should be ready. He must be charged and brought to book soon. Nigerians irrespective of their tribes should condemn corruption.

"..The following words have become most suited to no other person but Femi Adesina himself.He has since become everything he said of Gambari.A sycophant. A bootlicker.A groveller.Warts and all..."

The Coalition of South East Youth Leaders (COSEYL), the umbrella body of all the youth organizations in the Southeast zone, Thursday defended the N38.8 billion former governor of Abia State, Senator Theodore Orji spent as his security votes while in office as governor of the state.

In a statement signed by the President-General, Goodluck Ibem and Secretary-General, Comrade Kanice Igwe, the organization said that the senator representing Abia Central Senatorial Zone and who held sway as the Executive Governor of Abia State from 2007 through 2015 used the security votes that were allocated to his office judiciously.

“As a former civil servant who rose through ranks and who knows, understands and appreciates the relevance of financial discipline and accountability, His Excellency Chief T. A. Orji ensured that every farthing of government was properly accounted for and diligently too.”

The group said that during his tenure as governor, “he received international and domestic awards as an accountable leader and a manager of lean resources. Several international reputable organizations wrote to his office to honour him at that time, most of which he turned down. The only awards he received were those his people invested him with, which turning down would mean neglect.”

According to the group, Abia State was faced with serious security challenges ranging from heist, broad daylight robbery to kidnapping. Severally were banks robbed on weekly, if not on daily, basis, adding that. Orji used the security votes at his disposal to deal decisively with those hoodlums, flushing them out of the state. “It was during this era that the kidnap kingpin Osisikankwu was neutralized.”

“That as it stands, the federal government has invested over N2 trillion in the fight against Boko Haram insurgents and armed bandits in Borno, Adamawa, Yobe and other states in the North and have yet to make a headway in the fight to eliminate these insurgents and hoodlums. But in Abia state, Senator T. A. Orji received N38.8b security votes in eight years which he used judiciously to stop notorious kidnapping and robbery gangs.”

They described the media hype on the security votes as “the handiwork of few disgruntled elements who were denied the opportunity to feed fat from the state coffers as the governor’s prudence denied these elements such opportunity”

It is instructive to remind Obasa and the house of thieves that public money is for government services and projects. By their corruption, we are all affected. It threatens the sustainable economic development, ethical values, and justice in Lagos State.

Nigerian politics is defined by moral bankruptcy, rampant nepotism, sheer incompetence, mass corruption, assault on the truth, and pure evil.

Nigerian politicians go into politics to enrich themselves, families, and friends. The political class believe they are invincible and above the law. Political corruption in Nigeria is all about money and dishonesty. Nigerian politics is extremely crooked, dangerous, and diabolical. Local, state, and federal governments are being suffocated under a tsunami of corruption. 

An expose by SaharaReporters revealed that the Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, used N17m of state funds for monthly maintenance of his personal residence, guest house, and office.

According to the report, Obasa approved the sum of N47.5m per quarter to pay social media influencers to publicise activities of the House. Enraged by the reports, Obasa according to SaharaReporters, paid thugs N50m to burn down SaharaReporters’ Civic Media Lab in Lagos. 

No Speaker in all the 36 states House of Assemblies is free of corruption. Corruption is what keeps them in office. Corruption is what keeps them going. Corruption is what they know how to do best.

But it is hard to beat Obasa’s repulsive malfeasance when it comes to sheer volume.Obasa’s monthly robbery of Lagos State is an unparalleled achievement.For Obasa to be able to move such huge amount of money every month without any interception or interruption by any of the three arms of government portrays Lagos State House of Assembly as a house of festival of culture of corruption. Bayo Oluwasanmi

The unrestricted looting of the Lagos State treasury by Obasa shows the level of moral decay that has permeated Nigerian society. Our politicians use their position and power to steal resources meant for the people.

There are two dimensions to the looting of the state treasury by Obasa. Embezzling public fund immensely benefits him personally. Members of the APC controlled assembly are generously enriched by the plundering of the treasury. It’s a case of Speaker Obasa and the house of forty thieves!

The words of the French economist and author, Frederick Bastia, rings true for the Obasas of the world: “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” 

How the hell is Obasa able to access the state treasury at will like his own personal ATM? What happened to checks and balances? What’s the role of the state Accountant-General?

What did Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu know about the monthly heist of the treasury by Obasa? Why has the governor failed to address the issue since SaharaReporters published the expose? Over to you Governor Sanwo-Olu, Lagosians need answers!

One sacrosanct fact about Nigerian politics is that our politicians scramble for power. They kill for power. They are not driven by a desire to serve but to steal. People of my generation have never seen such evil people like the people currently running the affairs of Nigeria at all three tiers of government. This is not the Nigeria we grew up. These group of political terrorists masquerading as  rulers are from the pit of hell. 

It is instructive to remind Obasa and the house of thieves that public money is for government services and projects. By their corruption, we are all affected. It threatens the sustainable economic development, ethical values, and justice in Lagos State.

It is the surest way to destabilize Lagos and endangers the rule of law.The action of Obasa and other corrupt law makers undermines the institutions and values of how democracy works in Lagos State.

Most importantly, the poor in Lagos State suffers most the harmful effects of treasury looting by Speaker Obasa and others. Obasa has a case to answer.History will remember Obasa’s speakership as a true relic of grand corruption.

Ishilove:
What the fvck is a repented terrorist?? These are the saboteurs making a mockery of the war against terror in Nigeria.This country is a joke.

Chikelue2000:
in Ojukwus voice...."good morning Nigeria"

Aflix:
And CBN recently said there's no Forex scarcity. Why is this government always lying to us Well na better cash out for streets

The Federal Government has inaugurated the Ajaokuta Presidential Project Implementation Team aimed at realising the economic diversification agenda of the regime of the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, is the chairman of the team while the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Olamilekan Adegbite, is the Alternate Chairman.

Inaugurating the committee, the SGF said that it was the desire of the government to industrialise the country within a diversified economy.

He said, “The Ajaokuta Steel plant has languished in economic unproductivity for about four decades, and previous efforts at reviving it had proved abortive. This has resulted in avoidable massive foreign exchange losses at intolerable opportunity cost to the country.

“The pressing need to redress these avoidable challenges has necessitated this presidential intervention at this time. This is further underscored by difficulties being witnessed with present challenges in the global oil industry.”

The SGF said it was the focus of the regime to make Ajaokuta steel West Africa’s largest fully integrated steel producer and most importantly, to accelerate industrialisation in steel-related industries.

He added that the government placed a lot of value on the diversification of the economy, hence, the President’s participation at the Russia/Africa summit in Sochi, Russia, hosted by his Russian counterpart, President Vladimir Putin.

Mustapha pointed out that the Ajaokuta Steel Project would “be resuscitated on the basis of a Government-to-Government agreement with funding from the Afrexim bank and the Russian Export Centre”.

Tissaia:
"Obasa, tricked former governor of the state, Akinwunmi Ambode, to collect the sum of N350m" Sahara rumorers are potical party not a media outlets.

Bringback9ja:
The same "Ajaokuta kick start after century" A dead battery can never start a car