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Re: N1.3 Trillion: 'Nigeria More Corrupt Now Than During My 5-Year Term' - Jonathan by ElsonMorali: 8:29am On Mar 27, 2019
Lol. Jonathan must be high on codeine and glue.
Re: N1.3 Trillion: 'Nigeria More Corrupt Now Than During My 5-Year Term' - Jonathan by GavelSlam: 8:43am On Mar 27, 2019
gare:
The one your father brewed for him idiot, but he looks sounds and reason for better than your PMB
Mynd44.
Re: N1.3 Trillion: 'Nigeria More Corrupt Now Than During My 5-Year Term' - Jonathan by newproject(m): 9:20am On Mar 27, 2019
grin

Next level
Re: N1.3 Trillion: 'Nigeria More Corrupt Now Than During My 5-Year Term' - Jonathan by gaskiyamagana: 9:28am On Mar 27, 2019
ElsonMorali:
Lol. Jonathan must be high on codeine and glue.
..... including peedpeemadol and ibotoxicant.
Re: N1.3 Trillion: 'Nigeria More Corrupt Now Than During My 5-Year Term' - Jonathan by tommykiwi(m): 9:28am On Mar 27, 2019
Bighead9:
Oga Jona, go and sit down. You legalized Corruption during your tenure with you Goat and Yam theory.
Only Zombies like you will not accept the facts
Re: N1.3 Trillion: 'Nigeria More Corrupt Now Than During My 5-Year Term' - Jonathan by Dino98: 9:28am On Mar 27, 2019
Sirjamo:
I don't know how much truth is there in Magu's claim, but I am absolutely sure that Buhari's administration does not have the luxury of losing over a trillion naira to corruption, where did the money come from? Is it from crude oil whose value has been going south since 2014?
Going south how?? It has been over 50dols for years now....infact, for the past few months its been 60+. That's alot of money too. Today its even at 68dols.

But okay...
Re: N1.3 Trillion: 'Nigeria More Corrupt Now Than During My 5-Year Term' - Jonathan by gaskiyamagana: 9:29am On Mar 27, 2019
Larryfest:
For once i think i agree with GEJ here cos the same corruption we chased him out for hasn't stopped or even decreased so who is deceiving who in this country nowhuh
Libya returnee comment.
Re: N1.3 Trillion: 'Nigeria More Corrupt Now Than During My 5-Year Term' - Jonathan by kotv: 9:29am On Mar 27, 2019
Very much true. I'm actually just waiting for when China will come and collect their payment for all the loans Buhari collected from them. Nigerians have yet to realize the amount of looting and damage this administration have put Nigeria. With what's going on in other African countries and how they are giving several of their national buildings and power to China to pay back the billions in loans they took out, we haven't yet seen the one chance Buhari put us under. And unlike other African countries who actually used the money to build what they say they are building, this administration did was steal it all so only God knows what they'll be giving out to compensate for the trillions they looted. I forgot how many countries this administration went to begging for money but I know the stupidest decision was China. The level of looting from this Administration, I'm sure Abacha is somewhere in hell proud of his progeny.
Re: N1.3 Trillion: 'Nigeria More Corrupt Now Than During My 5-Year Term' - Jonathan by KaptainAfrika: 9:31am On Mar 27, 2019
So Nigeria was corrupt during your time, ehn Fortunato, I mean GEJ. ���
Re: N1.3 Trillion: 'Nigeria More Corrupt Now Than During My 5-Year Term' - Jonathan by marv1:
Where will the money come from.
GEJ always speaking thrash as usual wanting to be relevant.
$8.4million seized from the wife account where did she get it from. GEJ believes that every Nigeria is corrupt and he can not help the situation and which led to what happened during his five years tenure.
GEJ petroleum minister bought 58 Mansion houses within two years under his nose and he keep saying Nigeria was not in recession under him with looting taking place here and there.
What a confused man??
GEJ said it was the Western world. America, UK, Europe and Russia and helped PMB to defeat him in 2015.
Now he should have learned that it doesn't matter who any foreign country support once you have the support of the masses at home there is nothing anybody can do..
This was evident in 2019 election.
So if you believe any thrash GEJ writes you are on your own.
Re: N1.3 Trillion: 'Nigeria More Corrupt Now Than During My 5-Year Term' - Jonathan by Senorprinz(m): 9:33am On Mar 27, 2019
Lol, he said Nigerians are not foolish to keep believing Apc's lies. The result of the last election should Tell him otherwise. This country isn't going anywhere but backwards till we stop attaching sentiments and emotions to governance and politics.
Re: N1.3 Trillion: 'Nigeria More Corrupt Now Than During My 5-Year Term' - Jonathan by benny123456: 9:34am On Mar 27, 2019
We won't know how buhari/APC is currupt now till after his four year and a new efcc is employed ....so we would know .....na after when goodluck fall we know say the money lost
Re: N1.3 Trillion: 'Nigeria More Corrupt Now Than During My 5-Year Term' - Jonathan by Bsure: 9:35am On Mar 27, 2019
Corruption is corruption whether under Jonathan regime or under Buhari. The writer should neither be proud of his master nor this Government...
Re: N1.3 Trillion: 'Nigeria More Corrupt Now Than During My 5-Year Term' - Jonathan by Lovelyn451(f): 9:35am On Mar 27, 2019
Now you're talking... Debunk the corruption allegations they've been heaping on you since you left office, expose their ass...Good luck Ebele Jonathan be brave for once in your life.
Re: N1.3 Trillion: 'Nigeria More Corrupt Now Than During My 5-Year Term' - Jonathan by LZAA: 9:36am On Mar 27, 2019
TeeeVeeee:
Following a statement attributed to the EFCC chairman Ibrahim Magu that between 2011 and 2015 32 entities looted N1.3trillion, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan - who was then Nigeria's President has in a statement released by his former aide Reno Omokri - has dismissed this as false. Below is the full statement:


Just days after the United States Department released a report which established that massive corruption remains rife under the Buhari administration, the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, has come out with a very incongruous riposte, intended to divert the attention of the public from the damning report.Ibrahim Magu, as usual, sought to drag the name of former President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan into the mix and blame him for this latest in a series of negative verdicts on the current administration’s anti-graft war.Speaking at a programme in Lagos on Monday the 25th of March, 2019, the EFCC boss alleged, without producing any shred of evidence, that “N1.3 trillion was stolen between 2011 and 2015 … by 32 entities, including private individuals and organisations."



This is strange because Magu was expected to have used the forum to address the issues of impunity raised in the U.S. State Department report which directly indicted leaders of the anti-corruption crusade by emphatically noting, among other things, that “there is a climate of impunity in the President Muhammadu Buhari government that allows officials to engage in corrupt practices with a sense of exemption from punishment”.The claim of a stolen N1.3 trillion public fund which Magu reiterated on Monday is not new, for the discerning members of the public, the claim by Magu is rehash of false allegations that started its ill-fated journey in 2016.In January 2016, Muhammadu Buhari’s prophetically named Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai (Lie) Mohammed, claimed at a world press conference in Abuja, to mark the beginning of the administration’s war against corruption, that 55 well-placed Nigerians stole a whopping N1.34 trillion between 2006 and 2013, a period covering the Presidencies of Obasanjo, Yar’Adua and Jonathan.


"Nine months later, specifically in October 2016, the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Professor Itse Sagay repeated the allegation with only a slight alteration, by alleging that about N1.4 trillion was stolen by top government officials and businessmen under the last three administrations.It will be recalled that in July 2015, Adams Oshiomhole, the current chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), had alleged that a former government minister in Nigeria stole $6bn (about N2.1 trillion). Oshiomhole said “US officials informed President Muhammadu Buhari of the alleged theft during his visit to Washington the previous month.”


"However, the U.S. State Department denied the story, asking Oshiomhole, to name the official and not drag United States into Nigeria domestic politics.The truth is that Ibrahim Magu lied and this is not the first, or second time he has lied to the public.It would be recalled that Mr. Magu has boasted on many occasions that the EFCC under him had recovered about N739 billion within two years, adding that over N500 billion was recovered in 2017 alone.However, Kemi Adeosun, the then minister of finance in the same Government at that time, decided to put a lie to Mr. Magu’s claims, by revealing in March 2018 that contrary to all the figures provided over time by the EFCC’s acting chairman, Ibrahim Magu, only N91 billion of such claims could be accounted for by the Government.


"So, instead of relying on wild and unsubstantiated allegations, I would advise Mr. Magu to focus on some facts, like the following:
According to Transparency International, Nigeria is more corrupt today than at anytime during the five-year period of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s time in office.


Whereas under Jonathan and the PDP, Nigeria made her best ever improvement on Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index, moving 8 places forward from 144 to 136 in 2014, but under President Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, Nigeria has made her worst ever retrogression, moving backwards 12 places from 136 to 148. This is a fact.



It is also a fact that under the Muhammadu Buhari administration arranged the recall, reinstatement and double promotion of Abdulwasiu Maina, the biggest ever thief in Nigeria’s civil service history and even gave him armed guards.



It is also a fact under the Muhammadu Buhari administration, the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation awarded $25 billion worth of contracts without due process. To put this in perspective, that money can pay 1 million Nigerians the proposed new minimum wage of ₦30,000 for 4 years. This is a fact.



Moreover, it is a fact that renowned entertainer, Mr. Charles Oputa, AKA Charly Boy, recently revealed that the spokesman for the Muhammadu Buhari re-election campaign, Mr. Festus Keyamo, paid him a nine-figure sum (at least one hundred million Naira), to attack the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the February 2019 Presidential elections.



The question Mr. Magu should answer is where did Festus Keyamo get so much money that he carelessly throws around?



Finally, Nigerians saw clear evidence via drone imagery that bullion vans carted cash to the home of the National Leader of the All Progressive Congress, Senator Bola Tinubu, 48 hours to the Presidential election.



Mr. Tinubu even boasted on live television that the bullion vans carried money and that it is nobody’s business. This is even as the Money
Laundering Act of 2011 makes it illegal for any individual to make cash payments exceeding Five Million Naira. And provides that every cash transaction over ₦5,000,000 must be done via a financial institution. ‪


These are the types of characters surrounding President Buhari. Characters that you will not trust with even your dog.



One had expected that all these remonstrations from the US State Department among with the facts listed above would prompt Mr. Magu to change his politically-influenced blame game approach and adopt a more professional strategy.



Sadly, that was not to be.


To have simply repackaged the fable of the missing N1.3 billion at this time, shows that the EFCC boss probably thinks that Nigerians are a bunch of people with no retentive memory.



Magu should realize that his credibility and that of the agency he leads should derive from the attention he gives to objectivity, professionalism and hard evidence. It is rather unfortunate that Magu chose to enmeshed state institution such as the EFCC into partisan politics, thereby prioritizing propaganda, deceit, half-truth and hearsay as the organization’s strategy of governance. Enough! Nigerians want to hear something new, good news, tales of hope, and not this rehash of poorly articulated fables like corruption fighting back and non-existing folklores of people who stole in an unknown year.


Reno Omokri (For Dr. Goodluck Jonathan)


https://enewsnigeria.com/jonathan-blasts-buhari-nigeria-is-more-corrupt-now-than-during-my-5-year-term/
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Re: N1.3 Trillion: 'Nigeria More Corrupt Now Than During My 5-Year Term' - Jonathan by Nobody:
I un-voted Joe cos of corruption only to end up voting a redundant, cunny, coded crook that AIMLESSLY hangs on to power as if his life depends on it!

the shithole is hopeless!
Re: N1.3 Trillion: 'Nigeria More Corrupt Now Than During My 5-Year Term' - Jonathan by Nobody: 9:40am On Mar 27, 2019
Sirjamo:
I don't know how much truth is there in Magu's claim, but I am absolutely sure that Buhari's administration does not have the luxury of losing over a trillion naira to corruption, where did the money come from? Is it from crude oil whose value has been going south since 2014?
Chai! Do you know how much Nigerians pay in tax? Crude oil is just a legal way federal government make money. Many illegal ways full.

Beside how much crude crude oil do the nation sell per day?
Re: N1.3 Trillion: 'Nigeria More Corrupt Now Than During My 5-Year Term' - Jonathan by blackboy(m): 9:40am On Mar 27, 2019
Oga Jona...you are on point. Not less corrupt either the same or more. Corruption is still running wild.
Re: N1.3 Trillion: 'Nigeria More Corrupt Now Than During My 5-Year Term' - Jonathan by Houstency(m):
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Re: N1.3 Trillion: 'Nigeria More Corrupt Now Than During My 5-Year Term' - Jonathan by igwefivestar(m): 9:45am On Mar 27, 2019
Sirjamo:
I don't know how much truth is there in Magu's claim, but I am absolutely sure that Buhari's administration does not have the luxury of losing over a trillion naira to corruption, where did the money come from? Is it from crude oil whose value has been going south since 2014?
keep on living in denial.

Re: N1.3 Trillion: 'Nigeria More Corrupt Now Than During My 5-Year Term' - Jonathan by farem: 9:46am On Mar 27, 2019
Uncle Jona, we need facts and figures, not just general , but baseless, statements like the above
Re: N1.3 Trillion: 'Nigeria More Corrupt Now Than During My 5-Year Term' - Jonathan by igwefivestar(m): 9:48am On Mar 27, 2019
udemzyudex:
Typical zombie reasoning. Keep looking for where the money comes from while they are looting and putting the country in standby mode.
don't mind him.
Re: N1.3 Trillion: 'Nigeria More Corrupt Now Than During My 5-Year Term' - Jonathan by kotv: 9:50am On Mar 27, 2019
Seenyo:
I un-voted Joe cos of corruption only to end up voting a redundant, cunny, coded crook that hangs on to power as if his life depends on it!

the shithole is hopeless!
Nigeria is just hopeless. The worst is glaring everyday
Re: N1.3 Trillion: 'Nigeria More Corrupt Now Than During My 5-Year Term' - Jonathan by igwefivestar(m): 9:53am On Mar 27, 2019
yarimo:
Foolish man always on ogogoro
ur father that is not foolish and not always on ogogoro, what is his stand in ur community?
Re: N1.3 Trillion: 'Nigeria More Corrupt Now Than During My 5-Year Term' - Jonathan by AmazingELixir: 9:54am On Mar 27, 2019
[[s]quote author=Sirjamo post=77019009]I don't know how much truth is there in Magu's claim, but I am absolutely sure that Buhari's administration does not have the luxury of losing over a trillion naira to corruption, where did the money come from? Is it from crude oil whose value has been going south since 2014?[/quote][/s]


This youngman you have a penchant for reasoning through the wrong sources, you better detach your thinking faculty from your shi.t sack..
Re: N1.3 Trillion: 'Nigeria More Corrupt Now Than During My 5-Year Term' - Jonathan by Nobody: 9:56am On Mar 27, 2019
kotv:
Nigeria is just hopeless. The worst is glaring everyday
spot-on! I thought the nomad is the much anticipated Messiah, but the dude is a pathetic/ irredeemable fiasco!
Re: N1.3 Trillion: 'Nigeria More Corrupt Now Than During My 5-Year Term' - Jonathan by frowland(m): 9:58am On Mar 27, 2019
Larryfest:
For once i think i agree with GEJ here cos the same corruption we chased him out for hasn't stopped or even decreased so who is deceiving who in this country nowhuh
It has gotten to a point now where we argue who stole more? Infact, both criminals argue who stole more from us and we the masses are taking sides? This men are ALL enjoying their wealth one way or another while you guys are here wasting data, time and energy on who stole more. Lol, deluded idi0ts. All of you.
Re: N1.3 Trillion: 'Nigeria More Corrupt Now Than During My 5-Year Term' - Jonathan by igwefivestar(m): 10:00am On Mar 27, 2019
Sound statement from Reno.
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