Prove Emerges that EFCC is Turning a Blind Eye To Rotimi Amechi N70 Billion Loot

    As the fight against corruption thickens, more evidence are popping up against many top politicians in Nigeria including the Former Governor Rotimi Amaechi, now minister of Transport.

             

A non-governmental organization called The Integrity Group, has given evidence which suggests that the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu lied regarding the body’s anitgraft campaign.

A piece of evidence that the Integrity Group has presented to back their claims that the EFCC boss is lying regarding certain details of the nation’s antigraft war.
According to reports by The Whistle, Magu, recently told the press that his agency has not received any petition against members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

He made this statement in response to mounting accusations that the EFCC under his leadership is being used as a tool for political witch hunt.

Magu said: “Such accusations have come up a lot, but we work with petitions before us. In fact, I am eager and waiting for something from the other side, but nothing has come so far.”
However, the proof shows that there was a petition received by the EFCC and duly acknowledged against the former Rivers state governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, who is not just a party leader within the APC ranks but Nigeria’s minister of transport and aviation.

It will be recalled that Magu was recently accused of shielding President Muhammadu Buhari’s associates from probe.


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Is Buratai Power Drunk Could He Orchestrate a Coup

A recent statement by the Nigerian army and their authoritarian deadly actions last December have gotten Nigerians scared of a pending coup attempt.

In a letter written by Adeolu Ademoyo of Cornell University published by PremiumTimes, General Buratai was asked why he felt he was equal to the President of Nigeria in lieu of the statement from his office:

‘“…An attempt on COAS is akin to an attempt on a sitting President. So, in the cause of doing our work we make no apology to any group…” – Major General Adeniyi Oyebade, General Officer Commanding, One Mechanised Division, Kaduna.’

Chidozie Godpower Osuala commented, “The president and politicians should be careful. This man is power drunk and can plot a coup.”

Another Nigerian commented that “the responsibilities and stress of the war and the push may have been too much for him and pushed him over the edge.”

Akor Benjamin said “Nigerians in great danger with buratai actions and threats..“

General Buratai had claimed an attempt on his life in Zaria from stick and stone wielding youth and went ahead to kill as many as 1000 Nigerians in three separate locations to “punish” them for the blockade of his road. The action was condemned as “unjustified” and excessive use of power, by the Human Rights Watch.

Lt. General Buratai who was commanded to remain in Maiduguri to oversee the Boko Haram war is believed to have been impressed by his responsibilities as new Chief of Army Staff in the time of internal terror war and begun to feel like the President of Nigeria.

Nigeria last experienced a Military coup in 1993 when an authoritarian General Sani Abacha grabbed power from a transitional government.


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DG NATIONAL TASKFORCE on Small Arms Blasts Fani Kayode

Emmanuel Osita Okereke, the director general of the National Taskforce to Combat Illegal Importation of Small Arms, Ammunitions and Light Weapons, the president of Importers Association of Nigeria and a former presidential candidate of the African Liberation Party, warned former minister Femi Fani-Kayode against making verbal attacks on President Muhammadu Buhari.

Addressing the press in Enugu on Thursday, Okereke touched upon the subject of Fani-Kayode’s sharp criticism of the incumbent president.

An attack on President Buhari is an attack directed to Nigerians since the president is a corporate personality, Okereke said.

“Fani-Kayode has been involved in the government since 1999 to 2015 and somebody like him should not be talking. He was a minister of culture and tourism, and a minister for aviation. As a minister, Fani-Kayode could not renovate one single airport. Can he tell us what his achievement as minister of aviation? Can he tell us what his achievement as minister of culture and tourism.

“He was special adviser to Obasanjo. When he became the spokesman of the Jonathan campaign organization, what was his achievement? If he had capacity as a media person he would have found out the fault and the problem while Jonathan could not win the election. So I look at him as a failure,” Okereke said.

“President Buhari is not his mate and he never contested the same position with him. They had the power, they couldn’t manage the power and power has been given to someone else”, Okereke added.



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Cardinal Okogie Blasts Oritsejafar and CAN

In perhaps the most stinging criticism of the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), by a past leader of the body, the former Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Olubunmi Okogie, said the current president of the association, Ayo Oritsejafor is making a mockery of the association by his closeness to

President Goodluck Jonathan and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party.
Describing him as “fallen from grace to grass”, Mr. Okogie said Mr Oritsejafor’s has also lost grip of the leadership of CAN.

Mr. Okogie, who spoke during an interview with the New Telegraph newspapers, said Mr Oritsejafor “unrighteous” quest to remain in power and his “romance” with politicians have finished him and derailed the once respected Christian body from the lofty dreams of its founding fathers.

“My brother, I must tell you this; CAN leadership today is zero. CAN has no leader,” he said.

“Thank God you are talking to one of the founders of CAN, and I was there as their leader for eight years. Then, the whole country knew that CAN had a leader, not by my own might, but by God. Because what we were doing then, we had only one voice. But the problem we have now is that people are struggling for power in unrighteous way. And because he is struggling for power, he can do little or nothing.

Mr. Okogie took a swipe at the CAN president over his link with the $9.3 million smuggled abroad purportedly to procure arms and seized by South African authorities.“And we didn’t buy the position. But this time around, because they are rushing to be in power, nobody obeys them. And look at how they are making mockery of themselves and making mockery of “religion”. Is that religion? Today, they are with the federal government. We saw the writing on the wall when we left. The very first person that took over started romancing with Obasanjo. Then one or two CAN presidents tried their best before it got to this present CAN president, Oritsejafor. This is not right. Look at how Oritsejafor has fallen, from grace to grass.”

Two Nigerians and an Israeli were arrested at the Lanseria Airport in South Africa on September 5, 2014 as they tried to enter the country with the cash conveyed in a private jet owned by the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Ayo Oritsejafor.

Mr Okojie said if Mr Oritsejafor is indeed a man of God as he claimed he should rely on God and should have no business getting involved in the $9.3 million arms scandal.

“They are ready with their moneybags. Where did they get the money from? Where did they get the $9.3m that has been seized by South Africa from? They said it was to buy arms. We have to be very careful in this nation. What is the man (Oritsejafor) looking for? If you call yourself a man of God, then you should rely on God. Why should he be jumping up and down? But because he was not elected, not chosen by God, that is what is happening. Today, he wants to build a university, tomorrow he wants to be something else, next tomorrow he wants to be like other people.
He said Mr Oritsejafor is a sinking man and might take President Goodluck Jonathan down with him.

“And he is not going down alone; he is also staining the name of the Head of State. Of course, why not? If you eat with those with dirty hands, then you must be dirty.”

Criticising the House of Representatives for electing not to investigate the botched arms deal, Mr. Okogie said the deal was a clear case of money laundering and that President Jonathan and Mr. Oritsejafor should be prosecuted for their involvement in the deal.

“In fact, if I have a lawyer, I would sue them. And I am telling you that I will win. If you can tell me that if I carry huge sums of money without declaring it, that you will arrest me for money laundering, then what is this one. They were carrying all that money and it was not declared. It is a clear case of money laundering. Yet, they are the ones making laws against money laundering.”

The Catholic priest also spared some stinging words for private jet flying mega preachers in the country describing their taste for finery things as unbiblical. He said rather than surround themselves with material things; they should instead spend the money to take care of the needy in the society.

“As far as I am concerned, why are they men of God? I asked one so-called religious leader, and you know what he told me? He said, “My God is a rich God. So if yours is a poor God, that’s your business.” Imagine! So you can even see that this one can’t be called a man of God. And these are the people that tell you they can work miracles, that they have a direct telephone line to God.

“They say they can do this, they can do that, and God is watching all of us. If it were to be in the Old Testament, they would all have been struck down by God. But God is a patient God. We have to be praying for this kind of people, for them to have a change of heart. What are they looking for with jet? Another one said, “Jesus said go into the whole world and evangelise, so how can I go into the whole world, with what? I need a plane to be able to go to the whole world.”

“Even the devil can quote scripture. But did Jesus Christ say you should go and steal to go and buy plane? But now they are claiming that they were given the jets as gifts. But why can’t they spend that money on the poor? There are many Nigerians who are begging that they have nothing to eat, and yet you say you’re preaching. Preaching for what? Are there no pastors where they are going? May God not punish us according to our sins.”

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