plaetton:


GEJ has vehemently denied ever signing anything close to $2b during his tenure.

In all honesty, if I see facts or records or testimony or charges totaling $2.2 b , I will accept that I have been wrong.

The truth is that the government is using that $2.2b figure for its shock value only.
Simple.

plaetton:


I like FACTS better. You can deal with beliefs.

That's the difference between you and I, comrade.

FACTS and Beliefs are not in the same universe.

NaijaEfcc:
I just weak for una, is this Zombie thing a job or what? lack proof? some returned the shared money? so it has reduce? how come the amount still never reduce? who and who has returned which money? so they are now free since they returned the money? so the president can now accuse without prove abi? Oya what of the 20billon that Sanusi said has been missing? why can't Nigerians understand when they are been used to settle scores?? think my man ( unless you are doing a zombie job but do it with conscience)

plaetton:
There has been Zero evidence, Zilch, that anyone collected $2.1b and misappropriated, let alone shared.

Infact, the entire Nigerian defence budget lies in that neighborhood, and has hardly ever exceeded that amount in any given year.

To say that they collected and shared $2.1b is equivalent to saying that some group of people looted the entire Nigerian defence budget ,,. Which is a boldface LIE.

The NSA, under Dasuki, misappropriated , according to publicly available records, about $322m or so.

Yet, everyday, the propaganda machinery keeps pumping out $2.1b theft.

plaetton:


If you do not keep up with FACTS, that's your own weakness, ignorance and folly,,.not mine.

My hobby here is to repudiate statements and opinions made from ignorance.

babadee1:


The president never said the $2.1b was stolen by Dasuki alone. That's the total amount stolen from the defence budget not in one year but over the five years of Jonathan's administration. The Dasuki probe has spread out into all the arms of the military and that is the total amount at stake.

OneManLegion:


Dasuki is the chief defendant here and he has not denied it. He's defense is that he did not embezzle the funds but used it for the weapons he said he needed. This defense has since been torn apart by the prosecutors with the recovery of hundreds of millions of naira from the Arms deal scandal.

Dasuki is now fighting on legalese. He's looking for a loophole to exploit so he can go Scot-free.

You claim the figures don't add up but no media outlet corroborates your fallacious supposition. Not Sahara Reporters, not Premium Times, Not Vanguard Ngr, Not even UK Daily Mail(the unofficial propaganda machine of the PDP in the UK).


The ONSA applied for $2.1b and was given same. I believe they spent a negligible amount therefrom to procure faulty, defective weaponry for the beleaguered soldiers who were endangered while Dasuki and co spent the rest on spiritual consultations(Baffarawa), and other such nonsensical stuffs.


Stop trying to defend the indefensible.

TippyTop:
Bubu is a comedian, he went for the wrong profession by joining the army, he woulda been a first class comedian.

Apina:

You speak like a philosopher within the confines of "episteme"

plaetton:


Comprehension! comprehension !

I don tire.

If $322m is stolen or misappropriated, but our president goes on world television and LIES that $2.1b was shared on dinner table, would you not feel embarrassed ?

Well , I do feel embarrassed.

Funny thing is that he is the mythical guy who is supposed to be honest.

plaetton:


If you think I am trying to defend anything here, then perhaps you have not been paying proper attention to my carefully chosen words.

If you understand a little psychology, you will see the techniques of APC's well oiled propaganda machinery.

They throw shocking figures to the masses, dress it up with suppositions, conjectures and innuendos, and then Viola! The plebeians soak it up hook line and sinker.
Even when the FACTS become evident , they still continue to role with the shock figures.

Just look at your wild allegations.
The Nigerian army has come up publicly on few occasions to reiterate that at no time were substandard equipment procured to fight Boko haram.
Yet YOU still go to town Hawking the very same LIEs that has been repudiated over and over.

See what I mean?

We have to learn and endeavor to always separate the wheat from the Shaff.

plaetton:
The man can lie.

plaetton:


This is a much better argument if true.

But, the President Said on world television that people Sat down like in a dinner table and shared $2.2b, and kept emphasizing it.

And this is my point all along.

Funds were looted.
Exaggerations are unnecessary.

The government does not have to exaggerate and milk it for its shock value.
It undermines their efforts, and some would say, motives.

seunajia:
plaetton has always been a knucklehead, IDK why you guys engage him. Let him continue to revel in his pain and misery because Nigerians rejected Jonathan. We of course know we don't want kleptomaniacs, iPods and their supporters close to public office. They're rejected outcasts. Cockroaches!

Buhari fire on jore, however, know surely, we go commot ladder for your own leg too if you fcvk up.

plaetton:


Lol.
Tinubu had always been a knuckle head to the GEJ administration.
And I had great respects for him for providing a virile opposition in our democratic journey.

Problem now is that APC , even after winning the elections, is still acting like an opposition party, depending heavily on propaganda and shock to justify its own existence.

Hilarious.

seunajia:


I have no time to entertain your nonsense. I'm not a Tinubu fan. Thieves must be tried, shamed and jailed. Get rid of yourself if you can't stand that. Nay, shout yourself hoarse on nairaland.

Eat sheet.

plaetton:


Thanks for for answering " present ".

sammhi:

if pmb says that ..it is very unpresidential..it just shows how hollow he is
reverse it..will Obama or Cameron come here to poke fun at the ills of his country that he is trying to resolve? never
very low mentality for a president to utter such ... secretly, they will laugh behind him at his foolishness
pmb most times shows the mentality of a low class ,unenlightened individuals ....poor carriage..maybe that is why obj says Pmb is not hot in foreign affairs
not a laughing matter , omenka ..it is actually depressing
in Fela's voice: "which kind tin be dis o.i never hear this kind tin before ooo: my people are useless, my people are indiscipline ..na animal talk bi dat"

plaetton:
The man can lie.

plaetton:
There has been Zero evidence, Zilch, that anyone collected $2.1b and misappropriated, let alone shared.

Infact, the entire Nigerian defence budget lies in that neighborhood, and has hardly ever exceeded that amount in any given year.

To say that they collected and shared $2.1b is equivalent to saying that some group of people looted the entire Nigerian defence budget ,,. Which is a boldface LIE.

The NSA, under Dasuki, misappropriated , according to publicly available records, about $322m or so.

Yet, everyday, the propaganda machinery keeps pumping out $2.1b theft.

MarieSucre:

You cannot repudiate without facts. I am also waiting for the evidence too. Pls could you get it for us?

MarieSucre:


You cannot repudiate without facts.
I am also waiting for the evidence too. Pls could you get it for us?

plaetton:


This is a much better argument if true.

But, the President Said on world television that people Sat down like in a dinner table and shared $2.2b, and kept emphasizing it.

And this is my point all along.

Funds were looted.
Exaggerations are unnecessary.

The government does not have to exaggerate and milk it for its shock value.
It undermines their efforts, and some would say, motives.

Calebsky:


This is the true picture. Dasuki was unilaterally empowered by the previous administration while running legitimate errands for his boss.

Babacele:
figures of speech are meant for a purpose : to make people understand better the meaning of words. No matter how the president said it ,the fact remains that people shared 2.1 b public money which is criminal...so let the criminals defend themselves or if you have all the evidence with dates, places and figures to put a lie to the president's claim please do not hesitate Mr Devil's Advocate.

Babacele:
oh Jeez I never knew you understand my deep frustration when he couldn't repudiate with facts but keep mentioning the word' facts 'as if that is all one needs anytime facts about a thing are required. the dasukigate goes beyond dasuki alone but he is just d fulcrum: apart NOI $322m which was outside the 2015 budget for d office of d NSA, plus previous budgets e.g in 2014 about N110bn was budgeted to that office(both rec current and capital expenditure). and several other funds that they never wanted the public to know about until Buhari came on stage...so tell me y should i believe those who refused to equip our soldiers for BH to kill them easily like goats ;and who would have murdered the soldiers by labelling them mutineers for demanding a better condition especially when provisions were made in the national budgets for such demands? Y should I doubt Buhari who has a wider view of this official crime against the Nigerian state until proven wrong by time? time will tell.

plaetton:


Babacele,

You never tire ?