₦airaland Forum

blackandbold:
funny ehn...any report from any angle that point to GEJ's incompetence particularly with regards to massive corruption in the country..such report will be branded 'apc'.
eg
missing 20billion naira..apc report
missing subsidy money...apc report
farouk lawan $500k..apc report
police pension 25billion naira..apc report
etccc....we should really long for a government that will holds itsef accountable to the people..not a government or system that will always blame every other for its gallants messup and yet get away with it
no public office holder in the US with a fraudulent record goes scort free...he will pay through his or her nostrils every penny taken unlawfully, its only only in the present nigeria's system that u will see a public office holder escaping unpunished with 25billion naira.try such thing in the present day china and the individual will be executed.......

raumdeuter:
This Patience greed is getting out of hand. After eating 1billion food you are stealing the Niger Delta blind

Chai dia ris gooduuu oo

Ilekeh:
Sahara reporters have been right many times and about most of their allegations to dismiss this as false news.

I trust SR to not kiss azz and to give me unbiased news on Nigeria's current events.

obailala:
SaharaReporters isn't functioning today because GEJ is tolerating them. They still function till today simply because GEJ CANNOT touch them (they operate from a remote office somewhere in the middle of New York City).

If Sowore or any of his lieutenants were to step foot in Nigeria and are spotted, GEJ and his dogs (DSS) would not spare a second in sweeping them straight into kirikiri without trial. GEJ isn't as tolerant as you think he is.

EmoBoy:
But GEJ signed the freedom of information bill that other presidents were afraid to even think about.
GEJ is the most tolerant president Nigeria (even Africa) has ever produced. I'm not his fan, but I have to give him credit for that.

Collynzo419:
Febuhari on our mind

Stealing will be corruption in Nigeria! Compulsorily!

Sai Baba

EmoBoy:
Sahara is an anti-government media. Their support for Buhari and the APC will not be as romantic as it is if the APC finally seizes power.
They're like the linda ikeji of Nigerian politics, most of their reports are hogwash and nothing but idle gossip.

Mellin:
are u pa buhari's younger brother?

Cos I can't find the word COMPULSORILY in dictionary

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Collynzo419:
Are you Mama Piss's younger brother?

EmoBoy:
But GEJ signed the freedom of information bill that other presidents were afraid to even think about.
GEJ is the most tolerant president Nigeria (even Africa) has ever produced. I'm not his fan, but I have to give him credit for that.

Ilekeh:
Anti-government media? And yet they support APC and Buhari?

Nigga, grab a seat, get a bottle of coke and shut the phuck up.

oseo1:
I smell something fishy, according to the article their allocation was 400 billion and its 3 billion stopping them from paying salaries and meeting obligations to contractors? #UseYourBrain try again Sahara reporters

obailala:
Bro, there is a limit to which excessive tolerance becomes an undesirable trait... GEJ's so called tolerance has exceeded reasonabe and acceptable limits.

1. GEJ tolerated the bokoharam bastards; he actually claimed they were our brothers... Now the monsters are out of control

2. GEJ tolerated corruption and corrupt people; how can one possibly explain the unprecedented and in fact, unrealistic plundering of the nation's resources which is now trending in the range of billions of dollars, yet not a single person has been put behind the counter, let alone put behind bars?... I call this looting 'unrealistic' because it is so much that so many Nigerians (including Jonathan himself) does not believe that any kobo is missing. Everyone tells us NO MONEY IS MISSING! NO MONEY IS MISSING!!! yet the country's foreign reserves drops from over $60billion to $31billion in 4 years and eternal debt of the nation rises by over 1000% from about $3billion to about $40billion.

What do we have on ground to show for this monumental depletion in foreign reserves at a time the country experiences the highest economic boom (average $100per barrel crude)?....
1. some refurbished 1970 trains running on a narrow gauge (1950s technology)
2. Refurbished airports which still have leaking roofs in international arrival lounges
3. three (3) more planes added to presidential fleet with a proposal to add a fourth and make them 11 aircrafts
4. A boom in the private jet industry; Nigeria is presently the only country in the world with more private jets (rose from 20 in 2007 to 150 as at a 2012 count) than commercial passenger planes (less than 65 in total). Even GEJ bragged about this that "how can the world say Nigerians are poor and suffering when we have one of the highest number of private jets?"

I wouldn't even want to go into the further details of the proven criminals in and outwith the government who are tolerated and in fact, celebrated by GEJ; e.g. Abba Moro, Stella Odua, the pardoned Alamieyesegha etc.

GEJ is indeed a very tolerant man, even when he tried to show some intolerance such as in the Mbu vs Amaechi case or the withdrawal and teargassing of Tambuwal, the lousy attemps at intolerance did not still yield fruits because he doesnt just have it in him.

Oh yes! GEJ is a very tolerant man, but there is certainly an extent to which tolerance from a leader should be celebrated as a positive.

1LRNZH:
Ongoing investigation by SaharaReporters has revealed that former Education Minister Nyesom Wike and Nigeria’s First Lady, Patience Jonathan, collaborated in a number of schemes that enabled them to loot the resources of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The commission, which was established to spearhead economic development in Nigeria’s oil-producing delta, has been left financially insolvent, unable for the first time ever to pay salaries to its staff or to meet its obligations to contractors.

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Patience Jonathan
Over a two-week investigation, insiders within the commission told SaharaReporters that Mrs. Jonathan and Mr. Wike, current governorship candidate of the People Democratic Party in Rivers State, caused a large part of the commission’s current woes.

A source at the commission alleged that its management gave Mrs. Jonathan N3 billion immediately after the National Assembly approved the commission’s budget. “They said the First Lady had facilitated the passage of the NDDC’s budget without delay by the National Assembly. That’s why they gave her such a huge sum. The payment was recorded as a consultancy undertaking,” the source said.

In addition, money drained from the agency is reportedly bankrolling Mr. Wike’s governorship bid. “Barrister Wike is using billions of naira from the NDDC to run his campaign. It is one of the major reasons that the commission has not been able to honor its obligations or pay salaries,” another source at the commission stated.

Numerous sources said Mr. Wike had handpicked Itotenaan Henry Ogiri as the agency’s executive director (in charge of finance and administration). The understanding was that Mr. Ogiri, a close associate of the Ikwerre-born governorship aspirant, would dip into the funds of the commission to help finance Mr. Wike’s campaign.

Bassey Dan Abia, a lawyer from Akwa Ibom State, heads the commission’s management, which is in its second year. Several disaffected staffers accused the management of financing other political projects across the Niger Delta, contrary to its mandate.

Mr. Wike’s campaign is said to enjoy a huge war chest from the commission’s funds. The former Education Minister, who is being backed by Mrs. Jonathan, showers tons of dollars, his preferred currency, on his supporters and underlings, including some ex-militants [/b]he has retained to intimidate supporters of his political opponents.

[b]For the first time since then President Olusegun Obasanjo rebranded the commission in 2000, the NDDC missed the timetable to pay workers’ salary in January. In addition, senior staff of the commission said they were distressed that their housing, furniture and other allowances have not been paid for the first time since the establishment of the agency.

A long time staff of the commission said this was the first time in his experience that the agency had failed to pay salaries in more than a decade. “I was employed here immediately after I graduated from the University and the NDDC started the graduate-training scheme. We have never been owed salary ever. We used to receive our salaries no later than the 22nd of every month. But right now we don’t even know when it is coming,” he said.

Another staff said the board of the commission was filled with politicians who are bankrolling the political aspirations of their puppet masters.

“We got over 400 billion naira for our budget last year. But look at the situation we are in now. It’s so embarrassing,” the staff said. He said the board members were mere proxies who take orders on how to run the agency from outsiders who are only interested in what they can get from the commission.

“They are running this place like a fiefdom, and they receive orders from the politicians that put them here. They have given all the money to their political bosses and now we are in trouble here.”

Occupants of the commission’s top management posts, including its chairman (from Cross River State), its executive director for projects (from Delta State), and its managing director (from Akwa Ibom) were accused of funneling funds to partisan political candidates. The governors of their state of origin nominated members of the management board, except in the case of Rivers State, where Mr. Wike chose. President Jonathan and Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers have been in a long running political feud.

The NDDC was set up to fund projects designed to ameliorate the environmental degradation in the Niger Delta caused by oil exploration. The area produces more than 80% of Nigeria’s wealth.

A staff source said that, while their salaries have not been paid, the management of the commission was promising them a significant bump in salaries and allowances if Mr. Jonathan wins re-election on February 14.

“They keep telling us to expect a lot of goodies when the present president is returned as the country’s ruler, but does it mean we have to die of hunger because they’re doing election?” the source said.

[url]http://saharareporters.com/2015/02/01/wike-patience-jonathan-loot-paralyze-nddc-agency-can%E2%80%99t-pay-salaries[/url]

bushdoc9919:
You know...as much as I want PDP out....APC will just put in a new set of cronies.

That is the scary thing about Nigerians.....as soon as an old set clears out....a new set comes in to continue the chop from where the old set left off...

And around them are millions of Nigerians....waiting patiently for their crumbs from Master's table.......

That is why we must get off oil....it prevents both the rich and the poor from working for their money. Not for their salary.....for their money!

mikolo80:
and how do you propose we get off oil

olumite2014:
That woman that cannot speak simple correct english statement is embezzling 3 billion naira,even prof Wole Soyinka's networt is not up to that.
There is God oooooOoooooooooooo!!!!!!

size40:
The reasons for establishing NDDC and Niger Delta ministry has long been defeated. Those 2 important agencies established for d development of Niger Delta are died already. I petty for my region Niger Delta.

bushdoc9919:
This article gives a good idea.......