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DaLover: See the threads to understand how yoruba people are fighting tooth and nail to make sure the oil coys dont relocate to the 9ja delta from lagos

1-https://www.nairaland.com/1262520/relocate-nnpc-headquarters-port-harcourt
2-https://www.nairaland.com/461832/govt-private-oil-companies-should

Just to let you know!!

This guy is very funny. How can yorubas stop corporate organisations from relocating? did michelin not relocate to Ghana?

Do you think corporate bodies take decisions based on ethnic colouration?

Do they care who is hausa or urhobo or igbo? What they care about is their profitability and security of investment --- capitalism at its best.

The way you people from alaigbo reason, always make one to question your brain reasoning capability.

Ijaw_citizen said it all, by telling you based your myopic decisions on emotions. let me also add this, your myopic decisions always make you to lose sight of long time objectives.

and the former concessioning was revoked. The4 plan was to give it to their cohort afterall.

Odua group should just bid for the concessioning and let us get this road done once afterall.

If Odua group is given such right, i am assuring you, the road will be ready in 18months and it will be world class.

Effort should be made to contact Odua Group by all, to ensure they bid for the concessioning.

Let the drive begin by bombarding Odua Group with mails.

GEJ please privatise NRC too and let us have our regional fast rail system.

Konmight: Has anyone seen Sincere 9gerian?

His PPP ( Pay Per Post) contract has expired.

He is busy negotiating an extended bumper package contract.

pazienza: The world can see the sincerity of Igbo man, by insisting all ethnic groups be represented, Ndiigbo is giving small groups like Ogoni, Andoni and their likes, the opportunity to be at the conference on equal level as everyone else, and not get swallowed up by bigger groups like Ijaw or Ikwerre, whom they might be sharing same senatorial or federal constituency with. This move will also favour our brothers in Northern parts of Cross river, where we have different and many small ethnic groups.

sincerity indeed!!!!!

or you are afraid that the hausas will outnumber you again and impose their wills on you.

Nigeria is a jungle with the 1st rule of the jungle at play -- self preservation first. You are fighting to wilt down the numerical strength of the hausas. It is not about giving representation to other minority ethnic groups.

We are too smart to see through your folly.

when we were telling them before now, they said yorubas are afraid of disintegration, that is the reason why we did not want to support the National time wasting Discussion. So, they are just realising what we were saying now. A man with foresight, sees miles ahead.

If the constitutional is not amended to accommodate referendum and Sovereign national Conference, we are just going to waste our time and national resources at the jamboree.

emmog25: Sorry bro I'm not in support of her fruadulent acts, it's just funny how she is been singled out(victim of politics you'll say). There are many of her likes and worse than she is, that they should also investigate.. Like I said earlier.. #Justbeingrational.

Other media houses should take up the challenge and investigate others too.

With that, the media houses will be doing their bit in fighting corruption and making our society a better place, bro.

listica: You are noting but a thief by posting this shit,are you not a Nigerian?once u r it means u r a thief,guys let's pop it up,APC is just an Anti party scandal.Jonathern 4 presdo 2015.stella oduah don't mind that hav noting 2 do with ther career.

Find your way to Aro for your medicine.

APC can be anything. That is their headache and not mine.

The bottomline is this administration worship corruption, GEJ is corruption himself and Stealer Oduah is both corruption and a confirmed fraudster.

if you are pained, jump inside Atlantic Ocean.

emmog25: Really, the question is "why sahararepoter again"?.. To think they expsed at first and nothing was done, and now on her case again? Smell something fishy..(Someone is really sponsoring her downfall) #justbeingrational

so, because someone is sponsoring SR against her, we should overlook her fraudulent act?

Was it the sponsor or SR that planted the dubious MBA from Jupiter in her CV?

Na wa for you o.

[quote author=5.00GP]IS IT SAHARA REPORTERS THAT TARNISHED HIS ADMINISTRATION WITH
CRISIS IN RIVERS STATE
LACKADAISICAL ATTITUDE TOWARDS TERRORISM (BOKOHARAM)
NON CHALANT ATTITUDE TO PROBE CORRUPT OFFICERS IN HIS ADMINISTRATION?[/quote]let them be crying wolf where there is none.

was it SR that made her to sign 255m for just 2 cars.

was it SR that included MBA from the pluto in her CV.

Majority of politicians are guilty of the forgery, but the dumb ones caught should be the scape goat.

Why can't the people lambasting SR, set up another media house to be exposing APC politicians too? Instead of sitting down and whining over the good job SR is doing.

with that, we will sanitize our society a little. We can see the reform social networking effect is having on Nigeria Police.

All the print media have been bought but the conscience of the people remain SR and Premium Times and kudos to them.

The fear of investigative journalism is the beginning of wisdom for politicians in saner societies. In nigeria, our politicians will be looking for sympathy after being exposed, on the basis of being witch hunted or on the basis of ''their fathers household enemy'' are still following them.

Media houses of the year 2013 are PT and SR and Kudos to them.

ARES: apart from the fact that you are a moronic ediot that generalizes.... every body is innocent until proven guilty..... and yes she is our daughter but is she did any of these things, she should face life in prison.... and i will support that with jesus joy....

stop Generalizing, that is the number one sign of a not so intelligent person

where was your idiotic head when people from your clan were shouting, ''she is our daughter and leave her alone''; during the car from the moon saga.

Demented soul from the abyss of hell.

I don't know why we are making noise, when we all know the best The Mandela of Otuoke will do, is to set up a 7man committee to probe the allegation, with a given duration of 2years only.

Stealer "fraudster" Oduah and Mandela of Otuoke are both the definition of corruption.

[quote author=IGBO-SON]^^^What's with all the grinning emoticons?......kinda like a deranged chesire cat! I think your hatred for Igbos and anything to do with GEJs gov't is finally getting the better of you![/quote]#


nahh I dont hate Igbos, Ewu. I hate the mentality of some deluded and disillusioned Igbos like you. I always hang out every friday, with my main man, Shawn, the best Igbo guy ever liveth. Nice dude, all the way back to Uni days. Not a brainless and myopic bigot like you.

I am not anti-GEj. I waited inside the sun to vote for him. I am demanding leadership, accountability and fight against corruption from a clueless and corrupt leadership.

Is that a crime?

note the word fraudulently being used in the case of Lockheed that you referenced.

Lockheed Martin Corp.

One of the world’s largest defense contractors, Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin Corp., agreed Friday to pay $15.8 million to the U.S. government to settle allegations that it mischarged perishable tools used on numerous contracts, the Justice Department said.

The settlement, announced by Assistant Attorney General Stuart F. Delery, who heads the department’s civil division, resolves accusations arising from a pricing scheme by Tools & Metals Inc. (TMI), a subcontractor that sold perishable tools to Lockheed Martin Corp. for use on military aircraft, including the F-22 and the F-35 fighter jets.

Mr. Delery said the accusations were based specifically on TMI’s inflation of the costs of the tools between 1998 and 2005, which Lockheed Martin then passed on to the U.S. under its various contracts with the government.

In March 2006, Todd B. Loftis, a former TMI president, was sentenced in federal court in Fort Worth, Texas, to 87 months in prison and ordered to pay $20 million in restitution after his December 2005 guilty plea in connection with his role in the scheme.

Loftis had waived an indictment and pleaded guilty to a one-count information charging conspiracy to defraud the government with false and fraudulent claims. He admitted that from 1998 through 2004, as president and chief operating officer at TMI, he, along with others, conspired to defraud the Defense Department and Lockheed Martin Aeronautics by obtaining payments from both through false and fraudulent billings.

In 1998, TMI, acting through Loftis, obtained a sole-source integrated supply contract with Lockheed Martin Aeronautics to supply all of Lockheed’s perishable tools for the manufacture of airplanes including the Defense Department’s F-16, F-22 and other military needs in Fort Worth, San Diego and Marietta, Ga.

Perishable tools are the drill bits, router bits and other small tools that are used in the manufacturing process.

In order to cover up this activity, the government said, Loftis and others under his direction created false invoices using a computer scanner to remove actual pricing data and substitute fictitious data to give the appearance of legitimate pricing. Loftis was able to control the audit sample of invoices as well so as to limit the possibility that a fraudulently priced part would be found. After the audits, Loftis ordered the fraudulently created documents and computer files to be destroyed.

TMI and Loftis realized approximately $20 million in profits on these fraudulent sales to the government, prosecutors said.

“It is troubling that a large defense contractor with long-established contractual ties with the United States failed to undertake appropriate measures to ensure the integrity and validity of the costs it submitted to the United States,” Mr. Delery said.

The federal government brought civil claims against Lockheed Martin under the False Claims Act, accusing the firm of contributing to the inflated amounts paid by the government by failing to adequately oversee TMI’s charging practices and by mishandling information revealing these practices.

The case was jointly handled by the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, the Defense Contract Audit Agency, the Contract Integrity Offices of the Departments of the Air Force and the Navy, the Defense Contract Management Agency, the Justice Department Civil Division and the U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern District of Texas.



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manny4life: I wish I can find this news article...

Actually if I recall correctly, no they weren't.

The authorization for the contract was there but the awarding was what caused problems, no due process followed. Also, what caused the stir because OIG found out that the contracts were inflated beyond the authorized limit. Before I say any further, I have to look it up.

Defense Contractor Fraud

When people think about government contractor fraud, they often think about defense contractors.

While fraud on the Department of Defense (DOD) often involves sophisticated multi-billion dollar weapons systems and enormous Fortune 500 companies like General Electric and Lockheed, many frauds involve smaller companies and contracts for such ordinary items as computers, uniforms, vehicle parts, and office equipment. Even small janitorial companies that perform services for the military can engage in conduct that cheats the government and implicates liability under the Federal False Claims Act.

The Federal False Claims Act is broadly written to bring large prime contractors and their subcontractors within the orbit of the law. Even a tiny subcontractor violates the False Claims Act when it cheats a prime contractor performing services or producing a product under a DOD contract.

The following conduct may raise red flags:

Over-billing the government in any number of ways including: a) billing for services or products that were not provided, b) shifting the costs of a fixed price contract to the costs of a cost-plus contract that the contractor may also maintain with the DOD or a DOD prime contractor, or c) in any other way inflating — absent justification — the costs of cost-plus contracts.
Providing defective parts or parts not manufactured in accordance with specification.
Failing to disclose product defects.
Providing services or products that were not provided or manufactured in accordance with procurement regulations including those governing: a) environmental compliance, b) labor standards, c) Buy American Act requirements, d) worker health and safety protections, and e) bidding.
Failing to engage in the proper inspection required by contract where a product is being provided.

cashkid18: sahara reporters is apc media tool to spread propaganda,dts a fact dude!!!!if u check most of their news,its all anti gej administration/pdp does that nt tell u sumtin dt their pay master is Tinubu n co

tell us. what is stopping pdp from having their own media tool, to spread their own propaganda?

manny4life: Mister, quit arguing foolishly.

The example is CLEAR.

Lockheed is the vendor, just like Cosharis was --- Both supplied hard goods to govt (DoD and Aviation Ministry)

The minister in this case is the party representing the ministry, while in the U.S. Case, because it's large, an equivalent authority next to the secretary supervising contracts was the one responsible. Stop yarning thrash jor..

you just shot yourself in the foot.

Was the contract awarded to Lockheed in the budget or not.

Was the appropriate authorization given for such purchase?

did the secretary supervising contracts exceeded his limit?

ISpiksDaTroof: You're obviously in the mold of the Nigerian criminals I had the pleasure of interrogating and prosecuting when I was in Law enforcement. You are nothing but a heartless crook. It shows in most of what you post online. What do you mean telling lies is not fraud? How else does someone get defrauded: by having the truth told to them?

You really need to reevaluate your mind frame.

thank you.

May whatever you worship bless you.

In his bid to support fraud blindly, he is arguing in a manner, that is making sane minds to question his brain capacity.

manny4life: When you allow your sentiments to die down and follow reality, holla @ me.

You're the one that classified not following due process as fraud abi? smh

Buying goods triple the price is WASTE...

Case example, when the Office of the Inspector General uncovered that a certain department bought a dozen of muffins for about $2,000 during their audit exercise, almost 100x the original amount, I don't see DOJ charging anyone for fraud. This is just a sample, there are many of them like this, it occurs in department of defense which have been accused several times. Even the most recent where a major defense contractor I believe Lockheed were billing about 10x the amount, DOJ made them pay back the balance. In this case, if the govt feels aggrieved, they can exert executive powers and force Cosharis to pay back the difference...

As for your other rants, HOT AIR.

So, to you. Lockheed is now an appointed Minister being paid with tax payers money?

i give up on you, if you can relate a contractor that quoted/bidded and was awarded a contract based on his quotaion, to a minister that approved a contract not in the budget, way above her approval level and at an outrageous and blood-sucking price.

If God was human, He would have turned you and the stealer ''fraudster'' oduah into a pillar of salt.

70% keh?

They constitute 95% of Rivers State.

manny4life: Civilized world? Lol, I'm laughing... Please get over yourself.

The BMW saga was case gone awfully wrong, BMW wasn't appropriated for and the fact she bought it isn't the issue because the use was VALID, it's the fact that due process wasn't followed. That isn't FRAUD. Start using your brains again.

Intentionally not following due process is not a fraud. What is it then Mr. PPP.

Buying goods at triple the price is not fraud. What is it then?

You yourself, you are a fraud, if that is not called fraud in your village.

Mind you, i don't know the archaic planets you came from that made you to have brains in your skull.

[quote author=manny4life]You're even foolishh than I thought, go back and read my very first comment.

When you define fraud and tell me what fraud she has committed, after all you have a lawyer in the house, we can talk.[/quote

see this world renowned psychiatric patient. Your isi-ewu brain is too shallow, to be sending me on an errand.

are you reading the jargons your cockroach brain is spewing out at all?

So, you were in planet mars, when she was buying odeshi-proof cars at a mere paltry sum of 255mm and for which she was fully indicted by House of Reps.

If that is not a crime and fraud, in the cave where you came from; in a civilised society, where some of us are from, such a woman will face a machine gun firing squad.

manny4life: Yeah she is everything claimed in the book...lol

Please bring up something worth it. I've heard that one too many times, it's becoming stale.

Mr. PPP, i doubt whether you are not a corrupt fraudster too, for supporting perjury, corruption and lootocracy.

To be corrupt is bad enough. To now add being a fraudster to it, makes devil himself look like a saint.

agbameta: In other countries, folks caught with fake diplomas go to jail, but I don't see her going to any jail in Nigeria and not because she shouldn't, but because Nigeria is a lawless country where her kind get away with such criminal acts just like she got away with the BMW fiasco even after the people of Nigeria via the Nigerian legislature faulted her actions and recommended 3 years jail term and also just like her corrupt boss sat on the same report he ordered via his own sham committee and waste of taxpayers money transpired nothing on behalf of the people of Nigeria.
And you, you are just a sad reflection of the crooked and corrupt people you uphold and defend, you are also a mentally corrupt and grossly misguided human being..

she should thank her stars, that Nigeria is North Korea. That 30year old beast of a president in North korea, would have fed her to the hound dogs by tomorrow morning.

manny4life: You can question all you want, rant all you want, do whatever you want to do... You're free to do so, but making unguarded and foolishh comments like you did in your post I quoted in response to holier than thou attitude, you sure need to cut it out. She was made a minister based on her qualification (education, experience and other factors).

Why are we making such noise about this? Did she not go for NASS confirmation? Why did NASS not perform thorough investigation on her? All they had to do was hire an investigative firm and in two weeks even before their hearing and confirmation, all the results will be made available. So please, preach your FALSEHOOD else where.

Again, you're free to criticize her, I really don't care, but STOP your inference and justification to Igbos...Peace.

Are you part of the PPP crew?

Direct your questions to NA and SSS that failed to do their jobs and not me.

She is a fraud.

She is a thief without morals.

Corruption personified.

Infact she is corruption

manny4life: Lol, they have been confirmed, it's you who's not accepting the result... Who's fault is that? Mine?


I never said it was disturbing me, what I said is your "holier than thou attitude, your type shouts out blue murder and commit grave offenses behind closed door. An unverified news is what you're ranting about, when it comes back that SR twisted and turned what she says, will you accept it? You can rant but save your I'm holier attitude

So, because i am giving holier-than-thou attitude, I should not question someone that is being paid with tax payers money; someone that lied to gain an undue advantage. She was made a minister on falsehood. No wonder, she could buy odeshi-proof cars. She forgot to buy Sahara Reporters-proof car.

She is nothing but a FRAUD.

If you dont question your leaders in Alaigbo, other parts of the country are not that gullible.

where are the PPP agents?

People like cashkid18 that is viewing the thread.

manny4life: Please enough with the holier-than-do attitude, so yes she embellished her resume (which hasn't been confirmed), you're here ranting and calling her names... Please enough with the BS.

The same way her odeshi-proof cars are yet to be confirmed.

If my ranting over a corrupt and fraudster is disturbing you, find your way to romance section.

(Thank God, you did not put Go and Die this time around )

from thief to fraudster.

before you know it, alaigbo people will flood this thread, with their ''she is our daughter'' slogan

We should not even expect less from a tribe, that celebrate criminality and with get-rich-at-all-cost syndrome.

The woman is a disgrace to womanhood.

creazor: Do u need more names?
Innoson, Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Adichie, Prof Chike Obi, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, Obi Ezekwesili, and the various makers of electonics u tink are made in japan, plus d makers of d 'italian' shoes we wear on a daily basis.
I am only discouraging such statements against Igbos.
BTW I tink they're d most creative Nigerians.

do you still have more or are you through backyard entrepreneur/2by2 shop owner with 5-7 child slaves?

this guy is a learner.

You have all those people you listed and your able bodied men, workforce of alaigbo and children keep trooping to SW. You have all those people and alaigbo is still a pathetic cesspit.

balkanization is just aroung the corner. We will see the biggest loser.

sCun: Your northern slave masters are also land locked, you should worry about them.
We have Onne, Port Harcourt, Calabar and Warri ports few minutes away from different parts of Biafra.
We will use them and pay the required duties.
Worry about your northern slave masters and not us!

Who are the "We"?