₦airaland Forum

IdisuleOurOwn:
Honestly, I don't know what to call you.
What you type is a portray of the highest sense of stupid.ity and a self denigration.

koboko69:
YOU ARE ONE OF THE DAFT UNDERAGE SPOILING THIS SECTION OF NAIRALAND!

hensben:
You are unintelligent no offense. Haven't you see were someone destroy or refused to improve what others have built. For reference, Buhari built all the refineries in Nigeria how has PDP led government improve or make it functional over the years huh what about educational system, health sectors, et al.
Throwing insult wouldn't make you sound intelligent.

egift:
If the Car (Nigeria) needs 50 days to be fixed, why are you still supporting PDP that spent 16 years unable to fix the same Car?

midolian:
Between himself, his Chief Security Officer and the former Petroluem Minister, former President Goodluck Jonathan spent, in just one deal, a princely $6.9 million dollars to buy three 40-feet mobile stages for use during mass public speaking events, investigations have now revealed.

Federal government investigators and security agencies say this is just one of the tons of allegedly corrupt practices frequently engaged and condoned under the presidency of the immediate past president.

Besides the fact that the sum for the stages have been incredibly inflated according to mobile stages industry experts, government investigators say there is no evidence as yet that any stage was purchased at all.

While the cost of mobile stages range in size and designs, only outlandish rock star musicians in Europe and the U.S. spend hundreds of thousands on their huge stages way bigger than the 40-feet stages. Even then, those musicians and super stars would not pay over $2m per stage, according to industry sources.

The process of procurement of the three mobile stages was neither known to extant Nigerian laws and due process regulations, nor were the offices of the Auditor-General and the Accountant-General in the know, according to investigators.
“There are no records of this purchase which was carried out in late 2011,” says an authoritative source.

This purchase was carried out only few months after Mr. Jonathan won a general election for a full term after having completed the term of late President Umaru Yar’adua.

A competent source said that at the centre of the fraudulent financial ring was the former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to President Jonathan, Gordon Obuah, who initiated a memo to the former president on October 17, 2011 asking for the purchase of three mobile stages.

He said in that memo to the former president that this is regarding “my earlier discussion with Your Excellency on the security implication of your public appearances and your subsequent directive on the need to procure a secured presidential platform”.
And on the same day, without any financial advise or purchase order reviews, the former president minuted an approval of the request to buy the three stages to the then Minister for Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke.
In his minute, the president said “we have discussed this, please deal.”

Right after that okay from the president, on the same October 17, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Administrative Matters, Matt Aikhionbere did another letter on the strength of the president’s approval requesting the Petroluem Minister to take action on the request to purchase the stages for $6.9m.

By the next month, an NNPC payment voucher number 3840336 was already in place revealing that the money was released.

The NNPC directed that the money be taken from one of its accounts in New York CITIBANK with sort code CITIUS 33, and Routing number 021000089.
It was first routed from the US bank to an NNPC account in Zenith Bank account number 5000026593, Maitama branch in Abuja, from where the money was sent to a private account.
The sum of $6.9m was then credited to a Sterling Bank account of one J. Marine Logistics Limited, Abuja, a company investigators say was registered by Obuah.

The CSO himself according to investigators have not been able to show proof of the purchase and his memo irked his bosses at the SSS that he took the initiative to write requesting for the stages, an action officials say was way above his pay grade.
Said an official of one of the security agencies conducting the investigation, “it is not the duty or responsibility of the CSO to make the determination on that purchase. He was meant to have informed the service, which will then review the situation and act accordingly.”

The source continued: “What has happened here is that the former president and the former minister with the collusion of the CSO decided to dip their hands into the public till and steal public funds for other purposes since no one has found the stages as we speak.”

The source said specifically that the $6.9miilion in question was promptly paid on November 29, 2011 into a private account belonging to the former CSO.

“The former president approved the procurement of the mobile platforms without due process, bypassing the Procurement Act.

“There was also no appropriation in the 2011 budget for such facility,” investigators said.
The source added that neither the minister of Finance nor the Director-General of the Budget Office was aware of the deal.

Investigators say this is just one of the several instances where the Jonathan administration used secret NNPC accounts to fund many questionable projects and for alleged personal financial aggrandizement.

Already the CSO has been questioned over his role and activities in the Jonathan presidency. It would be recalled that he was arrested, detained, questioned and later released.

Former President Jonathan and Mrs. Alison-Madueke could not be reached for comments.
But when contacted by PREMIUM TIMES, Mr. Obuah denied initiating or engaging in any such transaction.
“The allegation is totally false and baseless,” the former CSO said through his lawyer, Andrew Itsekiri.

“There was nothing like that. No such memo was initiated and no such money was released to him. They are just levying allegations they cannot substantiate against him.

“It is one of the allegations he was confronted with by the SSS, and it was found that they were pack of lies. Let NNPC come out with the records that any such funds were released to him.”

There has been considerable pressure mounted on the Buhari administration regarding its determination to probe allegations of corruption in the past, including from the National Peace Committee headed by the former Head of State, General Abdusalami Abubakar.

A member of that committee, Bishop Mathew Kukah, is also known alongside Mr. Abubakar and others in the Committee to have been involved in attempts to mellow-out the resolve of President Buhari in his determination to probe and deal decisively with tremendous corrupt practices especially during the last six to eight years.
Reecall that at the June 29 meeting of the National Economic Council at the state House, the council raised questions over the non- remittance of the finances generated by the NNPC into the federation account.

NEC found that whereas the NNPC claimed to have earned about N8.1trillion in the last two years, what NNPC paid into the Federation Account during the same period was about N4.3 trillion, keeping the balance in its several secret accounts, allowing the former president and his cronies access to such unknown accounts to do as they please.
Consequently, NEC set up a four-man committee to investigate the missing money.

The committee, made up of Governors of Edo, Kaduna, Akwa Ibom and Gombe, submitted an interim report to NEC but in addition appointed financial experts to conduct forensic audit of the accruals into the federation account and the withdrawals from the excess crude account.

Also President Buhari, in an attempt to plug some of the procedural loopholes that facilitate and encourage corruption, directed that all revenue-generating agencies of goverment, including NNPC should now pay all revenues to a Treasury Single Account, TSA.

TSA makes it rather difficult to hide government revenues from any agency, and procedurally discourages a situation where the president can be accessing a secret slush account without the knowledge of the entire public finance process as was the case in this bogus $6.9m purchase of mobile stages.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/189221-jonathan-alison-madueke-cso-obuah-in-trouble-over-6-9million-mobile-stage-scandal.html

Lalasticlala

midolian:
Thank God Goodluck Ebele Jonathan didn't win for a 2nd term. If he had won, by now Nigeria ld be running to countries like Sudan for financial assistance.

omolami:
This Buhari is a complete dullard. How on earth can he do this to a respected Custom service. That apart, there exists law banning retired military officers from getting appointment in other fed uniform parastatals like customs, immigration and NSCDC etc .Is Buhari lacking quality advisers or yet to have one such that he cannot think properly?

hardywaltz:
The Lion Of Rivers State Fmr. Gov. Amaechi Lands In Port Harcourt This Morning


.Contrary to the usual lies by the PDP which yesterday claimed that the Lion of the Tribe of Ubima Gov. Amaechi had jetted out to London in frustration for not been appointed SGF.
Gov. Amaechi lands in PH dis morning and was received by associates who defied the rains and restriction of movement due to sanitation exercise.

lalasticlala and Ishilove kindly move to Front Page

benedictnsi:
Source or Adonbilivit

samflex:
At OP this is a big lie, the person in that pic is from kano and not ita ebong...his name is kawu suleiman.
I wish someone would be thrown in jail one day for all this shitty information without proper research just to discredit or make another person look bad, you people need to do the needful correction...that's not ita ebong scaling a fence but kawu suleiman from kano state.

Arbiola:
End Time Signs oh...Before u know,they'll stop us from from going to church... Iránu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why not Clubhouses?
Why churches?

Shutting down churches for the benefit of their pocket,will never make this country a better place.

4bobo:
Sorry, i dont reply son of a slut since you cant comment like a reasonable fellow other than a bastard. Its in you....

christinie:
I have only one question for Buhari and those who like or pretend to like his lopsided appointments:
Why did Buhari not find a man of integrity from the North to use as his running mate during the Presidential election? Why did he go South? If indeed regions do not matter he should have selected a man/woman from Duara or any other part of the North to be his running mate. I bet even those pretending not to mind if he appoints only Northerners would not have voted for him.
Let us not bury the truth in the name of defending our candidate. Let us call a spade a spade. Buhari is wrong and should be corrected instead of being praised/hailed. ONLY the truth shall set us free, NOT propaganda.

DickDastardly:
The only people who will be uncomfortable with Buhari's appointments are southern career political mafians, whose hopes he dashes daily by sticking to governance more than piliticking.

We love you Sir.
Sai Baba!
Sai Buhari!

Dollyak:
Not surprised. Ideally, the best thing is to wait till the end of his tenure before judging his appointments. However, northerners can never accept this type of marginalisation, which is why most southerners are angry. Anyways, what matters is good governance.

gbeseun:
But its. Better than ur useless transformation of all our nationalasset to private asset.crazy ffk

LordMecuzy:
Shutup Ffk if the likes of u had worked well for the Nigerian Masses this country will not be where it is today.... Rubbish

powerfulsettingz:
Who still cares about why this stewpid FFK thinks? You people made us made the critical decision if adopting PMB when you and ur fellow ministers almost run this nation dry,

Even if the north takes all the post I don't care so far I have access to good road, minimum of 18hrs electricity, good economy, and corruption free country where stealing will always be corruption

I wonder what I gain when the nation was been ruled by the Yoruba's wen we have someone from the South West as the president, speaker, ministers, ambassadors etc ....... Yet no dividence of democracy.


Bleep YOU FFK, bastard from South West

HerexG:
Can you stop ever stop a basket from leaking ?

He is doing what he knows best to do , slandering talks

Ginaz:
I smell lies