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Guess the lying government is also getting tired of its own lies.

President Muhammadu Buhari has thrown out claims by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that a surge in smuggling of premium motor spirit (PMS) popularly known as petrol, was responsible for N774 million fuel subsidy incur daily, New Telegraph has learnt.
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The president, a source at the Presidency told this newspaper in Abuja last weekend, was particularly enraged by the embarrassment the claims had caused government and an immediate update on inter-agency collaboration between NNPC and the Nigerian Customs on the claims had been ordered. Chief Operating Officer, Downstream, NNPC, Henry Ikemefuna Obih, an engineer, confirmed to this newspaper on the sideline of a conference in Abuja, saying the “president did not want to hear this argument at all.”



Group Managing Director of NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru, had earlier declared that the country was losing volumes of petrol to smuggling across the border, just as he decried proliferation of fuel stations in border towns.


The subsidy being paid by NNPC to keep the pump price of petrol at N145 per litre has hit N774 million per day, Baru hinted, maintaining that the rise was due to abnormal consumption of petrol from less than 35 million litres per day to about 80 million litres per day. Describing it as petrol consumption under-recovery, Baru said that the N774 million daily payments is denying Nigerians the “benefit of the Federal Government’s benevolence of keeping a fixed retail price of N145 per litre despite the increase in PMS open market price above N171 per litre.”



President Muhammadu Buhari did not, however, buy into this. “He did not want to hear about this (claim) at all. He actually asked us to rather work with the Customs instead of going to town with the news he considers demeaning to the administration,” Obih said.



“Or how do you describe the effect of claims by NNPC, a corporation under the control of government, that the porosity of borders expected to be manned by customs, another agency of government, has led to a surge in smuggling of premium motor spirit (PMS) known as petrol. It does not sound well and, in fact, it is an indictment on the competence of government as a whole,” the Presidency source added.


Besides, Obih had said that his Corporation had also been mandated by the National Executive Council (NEC) to work with the World Bank and Ministry of Finance to determine the actual daily consumption of the product in the country. Nigeria had solely depended on importation of petrol due to gross inefficiency of four of her refineries.



The revelation that the country lacks knowledge of accurate figure of its daily fuel consumption casts doubts on government’s sincerity on efforts to get rid of sleaze in the downstream sector. Stating that the only data the Corporation has accurate knowledge of its truck out figure, Obih struggled to make Nigerians believe that this truck out figure surged from 48 million litres daily in 2016 to 50 million litres per day in 2017. He could not substantiate this.


“A study is being commissioned to know the actual number of litres we consume on daily basis. I am sure by the time the study is done, we will be able to provide an answer to the question on accurate number of PMS consumption in the country,” he said. It would be recalled that the state-owned oil firm raised the alarm on the proliferation of fuel stations in communities with international land and coastal borders across the country, maintaining that the development had energised unprecedented crossborder smuggling of petrol to neighbouring countries.



“This is making it difficult to sanitise the fuel supply and distribution matrix in the country,” Baru said when he led a top management team of the Corporation on a visit to the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali (rtd) on March 4, 2018. Baru claimed, according to a statement made available then by Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, that detailed study conducted by NNPC indicated strong correlation between the presence of the frontier stations and the activities of fuel smuggling syndicates.



He alleged that the activities of the smugglers had led to recent observed abnormal surge in the evacuation of petrol from less than 35 million litres per day to over 60 million litres per day, which is in sharp contrast with established national consumption pattern. Daily evacuation of petrol varies in recent past months, ranging from 35 million litres per day to 60 million litres per day and even to as high as 80 million litres per day as at December last year.


It is now settling at an average of 50 million litres per day, Ndu Ughamadu, Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, said when this newspaper called him for clarification on the exact consumption figure.



According to NNPC, “providing a detailed presentation of the findings, the NNPC GMD informed that 16 states, having amongst them 61 local government areas (LGAs) with border communities, account for 2,201 registered fuel stations. “The fuel tank had a combined capacity of 144,998,700 litres of petrol. Eight states, with coastal border communities spread across 24 LGAs amongst the states, account for 866 registered fuel outlets with combined petrol tank capacity of 73,443,086 litres"

http://reubenabati.com.ng/index.php/component/k2/item/10713-n774m-fuel-subsidy-buhari-discards-nnpc-s-fuel-smuggling-claims

Just watching how the government of "change & filled with saints" is just embarrassing itself & Nigeria.

Abeg what is the criteria used to arrived @ this decision

This matter is a simple one-minute verification to stop all these useless narratives but the unnecessary prolonged silence esp.from Kemi Adeosun the person on the hot seat & the FG she is representing tends to make the allegation true.

That is the stupidity in anything APC.Joe Igbokwe have simply compounded Kemi Adeosun' s problem.

Man's best friend? The seemly pregnant doggie don suffer!

Let the culprits be investigated, convicted & punished accordingly. The bastardization of our electoral system by politicians.

See a party that have not only delivered poverty in mega measure but brought unprecedented pain, anguish, unemployment, violence, bloodshed & ethnic killings never seen in the histroy of Nigeria.
Ekiti people stay clear of APC for your own good.

So the doctors have now been absolved of the alleged complicit in the unfortunate death of the beloved corps member.
Over to the killer policeman & the NPF.Shithole country.

".......The real reason, however, for the very slow pace of action is due to lack of unanimity of purpose among the ruling body; subsequently, the business of governance has gradually been subjected to ill-motivated power play considerations.
The ruling body, the Supreme Military Council, has, therefore, progressively been made redundant by the actions of a select few members charged with the day-to-day implementation of the SMC’s policies and decision.*

The concept of collective leadership has been substituted by stubborn and illadvised unilateral actions,thereby destroying the principles upon which the government came to power. Any effort made to advise the leadership, met with stubborn resistance and was viewed as a challenge to authority or disloyalty.

Thus, the scene was being set for systematic elimination of what, was termed oppositions. All the energies of the rulership were directed at this imaginary opposition rather than to effective leadership.


The result of this misdirected effort is now very evident in the country as a whole. The government has started to drift. The economy does not seem to be getting any better as we witness daily increased inflation.

The nation’s meager resources are once again being wasted on unproductive ventures. Government has distanced itself from the people and the yearnings and aspirations of the people as constantly reflected in the media have been ignored.

This is because a few people(Presidency cabal) have arrogated to themselves the right to make the decisions for the larger part of the ruling body.
All these events have shown that the present composition of our country’s leadership cannot, therefore, justify its continued occupation of that position.

........The present state of uncertainty and stagnation cannot be permitted to degenerate into suppression and retrogression..." Exactly the scenario today with the president.

Sarrki was there audio recording she was worshipping him? The woman is desperately asking the president to do the needful about the senseless but jihad killings going on.

"Femi Falana, has attributed the prevailing insecurity in Nigeria to incompetence and impunity by the federal government.....
He said the unimaginable incompetence displayed by the federal government in preventing the massacre of innocent people had endangered the corporate existence of the country"
Guess the clueless government can see that the same truth keeps staring it in the face?

“Our current situation as a nation demands that public officers serving the current government should be seen to be above board in implementing the administration’s Change agenda.
Public officers are also compulsorily required to demonstrate transparency, responsibility and accountability in steering the ship of state.”

“....We, therefore, call on President Buhari to immediately wade into this matter by suspending Mrs. Kemi Adeosun from her position as the Minister of Finance in order to allow full investigation into the circumstances surrounding the forgery allegation and misappropriation of funds under her Ministry.
A Buhari that also committed perjury with his fraudulent WAEC certificate

Contrary to the allegation by the federal government that opposition politicians are responsible for the killings across the country, a human rights activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has attributed the prevailing insecurity in Nigeria to incompetence and impunity by the federal government.


Falana stated this when he addressed the Catholic community in Ekiti State at the weekend during a public lecture delivered in honour of Bishop Felix Ajakaiye.

He said the unimaginable incompetence displayed by the federal government in preventing the massacre of innocent people had endangered the corporate existence of the country.


He said: “President Buhari and his officials have not helped matters as their reactions have tended to give the impression that the federal government is conniving with armed herders and bandits. For instance, during his last visit to the United States last year, President Buhari blamed the killings by herders on Gaddafi’s men who had infiltrated the country through our porous borders. The federal government has since turned round to blame disgruntled politicians for the killings.”

He said while the federal government accused the Benue State government of vicarious liability by enacting an anti-grazing law; the government did not explain the killings in states like Plateau, Kaduna, Nasarawa and Zamfara where there is no anti-grazing bill.

Falana said the statement credited to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr. Audu Ogbeh, that the federal government was going to acquire land to establish colonies for herders “immediately fuelled the rumour of a planned annexation of certain parts of the country by Fulani people.”

He also accused the Defence Minister, General Dan Ali (rtd), of misleading the Nigerian people by saying that herders have been moving cattle from one part of the country to another from time immemorial.

Falana said contrary to the misleading claim of the Minister, there was no basis to move cattle all over the place because Sir Ahmadu Bello, Obafemi Awolowo had ranches at Mokwa (Niger State) and Akunu (Ondo State), respectively, while the Obudu (Cross River State) was built by a Scottish in 1951.

“Under the Gowon regime the Audu Bako regime in Kano State had the best ranches in the country. Owing to the destruction of the ranches, grazing routes were acquired for herders in many northern states. But the routes have since been seized by a handful of absentee farmers and other latifundists for alleged commercial farming. However, the Kano State government has since revived the collapsed local ranches. Hence, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has offered to integrate all displaced herders in Benue and Taraba States in the ranches in Kano State,” Falana said.

He also noted that the Nigerian army has recently built a ranch in Giri in the federal capital territory and has undertaken to establish ranches in other army formations in the country.

In dismissing the allegation of persecution of Christians and ethnic cleansing in the country, Falana drew the attention of the leaders of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) to the fact that “the dreaded Boko Haram sect has continued to kill thousands of Muslims in mosques and markets under President Buhari?” and asked, “was President Jonathan, a Christian, not similarly accused by some Muslim groups of allowing the Boko Haram sect to massacre Muslims and kidnap school children?”

The senior lawyer asked if the CAN leaders had forgotten that on May 14, 2004, President Obasanjo said ‘CAN my foot’ when the body condemned the brutal killing of Christians during one of the ethno-religious violent clashes in Plateau State and state of emergency was later imposed while the then governor, Joshua Dariye was suspended for six months by President Obasanjo for his alleged negligence in containing the crisis?


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/07/09/incompetence-impunity-responsible-for-insecurity-in-nigeria-says-falana/amp/

After they win then the crisis rocking the APC becomes the order of the day & the viscious cycle of national stagnation continues. Meanwhile Buhari must still go back to Daura.

Joe Igbokwe is a shitcrap man.Can he show face now? APC is full of stupid dumbass fellas.

Going by the disaster APC is @ the national level Ekiti indigenes should be better keep clear of this evil for their own good & survival.

"MRS ADEYEMI: There are occasions when you need to…we are talking about records of the past. There are occasions where some information you may have to search very well and through different places; particularly too, the organisation moved sometimes from Area 3 (in Abuja) to the present headquarters.

So there are various times when (for) some information, you need a little extra time to get your record straight. But we don’t want ever to give out information when every test has not been carried out. Just give us a little more time and we will get back to you.

So NYSC means their database is not secure No wonder documents can be forged.

Just a tap on a computer will solve this issue but the APC government will still keep try to spin the narratives starting with the Joe Igbokwe's shameless photoshopped of Kemi on NYSC uniform to cover their shame but I bet this is another one a scandal too hot for them to handle. Shitty people. Shithole government.

A sound government in a saner clime does not need this further embarrassment. The accused often resigned.

Perjury is a serious offense.Kemi,Buhari, Oshiomole, Obono-Obla.............and the list keeps increasing.

Better than never.No land for fulani occupation in MB & Southern Nigeria.

".....The monarch argued that land anywhere in the country belongs to all Nigerians and it is wrong to say Fulani herders should not be allowed to create cattle ranches in Yorubaland.

Oluwo wondered why those saying land should not be allocated for the creation of cattle ranches in Yorubaland.........

“More than half of the land mass of this country belongs to the North. The remaining is shared by the Southerners. We should look for unity. We should not discriminate....."

See one of the sophisticated idiotic kafir Imagine what the fool is saying here? After Gov.Ganduje invited the fulanis & they refused to go over? Why are people cursed like this

“Without a doubt, the declaration of Mr. Galadima if left unchecked is capable of leading to the public nuisance and a breach of peace across Country......
Guess more than the herdsmen killings, BH, extra-judicial killings etc? Comic relief I tell ya
“As Nigerians are aware, the coinage APC is both a mark and a copy right capable of being protected under the common law principles

APC is a synonym for lies,deceits, falsehood, pain, hunger, anguish, retrogression, deaths & any form of negativity ever imagined.Hence no reasonable humanity should associate with such a brand.

Nigerians can only imagine what it would be like if we were to wake up one morning to a bank claiming to the Reformed First Bank Plc or a Construction company claiming to be the Reformed Julius Berger Plc formed by a group of its directors allegedly because they disagree with certain decisions taken at the board meeting! This will be viewed as a blatant assault on the brand for which both civil and criminal recourse can be sought.“

APC is full of clowns & desperate numbskulls! 1st.Bank & Julius Berger will sue these idiots.
Guess this charge & bail lawyer is oblivious of the freedom of association as enshrine in the Nigerian constitution.