WHAT A WORLD!!!
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A 30 year-old son decided to admit his father into an old peoples home as desired by his wife. He brought the father in a car to an old peoples home run by a Catholic priest.
Then appeared this elderly priest, who came out to have a long chat with the old man.
The son wondered and asked the priest whether he knew his father before, since they were talking as though they knew each other.
The priest replied, yes, and continued, "He came here 30 years back and took with him a very sick orphan boy who everyone else had rejected for adoption.
This man gave that boy a home and save his life. He told us this little boy deserves better and I'll dedicate my life to make him the wealthiest young man when he turns 25".
The priest continued, "I don't know how long you have known him but I can tell you he is a good man and I am glad to inform you that you were the sick boy".
The boy, on hearing this, fell on his knees and begged the old man for forgiveness.
The old man looked at him with a smile and said, "Son, I have forgiven you. You threw me out of my own home because of your wife.
Take the house, but know that I have removed you from my documents as the sole heir of my empire.
I have willed all my properties to this orphanage where I now belong."
At the height of your success don't forget where you are coming from, if not you will miss your destination and lose your Crown.
I pray we will not forget those who helped us to get to the top.
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Deep message!
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
How Mandela Infuriated His White Professor
When Nelson Mandela was studying law at the University, a white professor, whose last name was Peters, disliked him intensely.
One day, Mr. Peters was having lunch at the dining room when Mandela came along with his tray & sat next to the professor.
The professor said,
"Mr Mandela, you do not understand, a pig & a bird do not sit together to eat"
Mandela looked at him as a parent would a rude child & calmly replied,
*"You do not worry professor. I'll fly away,"*
& he went & sat at another table.
Mr. Peters, reddened with rage, decided to take revenge.
The next day in class he posed the following question:
"Mr. Mandela, if you were walking down the street & found a package, & within was a bag of wisdom & another bag with money, which one would you take ?"
Without hesitating, Mandela responded, "The one with the money, of course."
Mr. Peters , smiling sarcastically said,
"I, in your place, would have taken the wisdom."
Nelson Mandela shrugged & responded, *"Each one takes what he doesn't have."*
Mr. Peters, by this time was about to throw a fit, seething with fury. So great was his anger that he wrote on Nelson Mandela's exam sheet the word *"IDIOT"*
& gave it to the future struggle icon.
Mandela took the exam sheet & sat down at his desk trying very hard to remain calm while he contemplated his next move.
A few minutes later, Nelson Mandela got up, walked up to the professor & told him in a dignified polite tone,
"Mr. Peters, *you signed your name on the sheet*, but you forgot to give me my grade."
😂😄😆😩
Don't mess with intelligent people....pass it on to your intellectual friends....
One day, Mr. Peters was having lunch at the dining room when Mandela came along with his tray & sat next to the professor.
The professor said,
"Mr Mandela, you do not understand, a pig & a bird do not sit together to eat"
Mandela looked at him as a parent would a rude child & calmly replied,
*"You do not worry professor. I'll fly away,"*
& he went & sat at another table.
Mr. Peters, reddened with rage, decided to take revenge.
The next day in class he posed the following question:
"Mr. Mandela, if you were walking down the street & found a package, & within was a bag of wisdom & another bag with money, which one would you take ?"
Without hesitating, Mandela responded, "The one with the money, of course."
Mr. Peters , smiling sarcastically said,
"I, in your place, would have taken the wisdom."
Nelson Mandela shrugged & responded, *"Each one takes what he doesn't have."*
Mr. Peters, by this time was about to throw a fit, seething with fury. So great was his anger that he wrote on Nelson Mandela's exam sheet the word *"IDIOT"*
& gave it to the future struggle icon.
Mandela took the exam sheet & sat down at his desk trying very hard to remain calm while he contemplated his next move.
A few minutes later, Nelson Mandela got up, walked up to the professor & told him in a dignified polite tone,
"Mr. Peters, *you signed your name on the sheet*, but you forgot to give me my grade."
😂😄😆😩
Don't mess with intelligent people....pass it on to your intellectual friends....
How Nigerians Rig Every Election .....By Donald Duke
By Donald Duke
A MUST READ: How Governors Rig Elections, By Donald Duke
A comprehensive expose on how elections are rigged in the country has been unveiled by one of the insiders in the political process and former Cross River State Governor, Mr. Donald Duke. Last Wednesday at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Duke gave a blow by blow account to a gathering of pro-democracy advocates, including the Save Nigeria Group (SNG), of the modus operandi of State Chief Executives and Resident Electoral
Commissioners to thwart the mandate of the electorate, not just in states controlled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but all the others.
In his opinion, it is not just a question of replacing the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, but getting a critical mass to come out to vote and ensuring that votes count.
The Guardian today delivers excerpts of his extempore speech:
“LET me start this way. Professor Maurice Iwu is truly an enigma; he enjoyed the limelight. He enjoyed all the attacks, thrown and meted at him, he remained undaunted. I think, he belongs to the school of thought that believes that bad publicity is better than no publicity. So, even though he
was being attacked and scolded and all sorts of things were said about him, he didn’t shy away from even going to the United States and talking to Nigerians in the Diaspora about his work, he didn’t shy away from it. I was told he organized a rally to ensure that he will come back to do the
work he was appointed to.
Why do I call him an enigma? The truth is, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission has little or no bearing on the success of elections, that’s the truth. To me, it’s actually immaterial because he is head of the administration he takes the brunt. The best he can do is perhaps, draw up a blueprint but the implementation of that blueprint is
outside his control. So, if elections are rigged in say -Taraba State- we
don’t do that stuff in Cross Rivers State (laughter).
Every one looks at Iwu and he proudly says we did this or that. Hogwash!
Let me now take you through the process of an election. We have a hundred and twenty thousand booths in Nigeria. At the hierarchy, you have the Chairman of INEC, then you have the zonal Commissioners, then you have the Resident Electoral Commissioners and they are the heads in every state the
zone as the name implies; we have six zones in Nigeria, so you have six of
them. Then you have the Resident Electoral Commissioners and there are 36 of them of course, and Abuja. Then for each local government, you have an
electoral officer. Beyond that you have a hundred and twenty thousand
polling booths, headed by presiding officers. The people think that at the
end of the elections, the PDP would just decide who wins and who doesn’t and announces the results. I think the process is a bit more sophisticated than that.
This is what happens; the Resident Electoral Commissioner is usually from another state. The electoral officers, they move around. They are usually from that state, but for the conduct of elections itself, you would probably move from Cross River to Akwa Ibom or to Abia, but these musical chairs don’t mean nothing.
When the Resident Electoral Commissioner comes before the elections are conducted- of course when he comes to the state, usually, he has no
accommodation; monies have not been released for the running or conduct of the elections and all that because we always start late. He pays a courtesy.call on the governor. It’s usually a televised event you know, and of course he says all the right things. ‘Your Excellency, I am here to ensure that we have free and fair elections and I will require your support.’
Now, at that courtesy call, most governors, at least I did, will invite the
Commissioner of Police because he is part of the action and he sits there.
After the courtesy call, the Resident Electoral Commissioner now moves in for a one-on-one with the governor the says, “Your Excellency, since I came, I’ve been staying in this hotel, there is no accommodation for me and even my vehicle is broken down and the last Commissioner didn’t leave the vehicle, so if you could help me settle down quickly;’ and the governor says, ‘Chief of Staff, where is the Chief of Staff here?’ And the Chief of Staff appears. Governor says: ‘Please ensure that the REC is
accommodated–put him in the Presidential lodge, allot two cars to him, I
give you seven days to get this done. Then the relationship has started; I
am going to share some of these things with you so that we don’t leave here with any illusions. A lot of us, folks who have gone through an election or have been elected for one thing or another, see groups like Save Nigeria
Group (SNG), the CLP as woolly-eye dreamers, you have to come down to the backsides, since I am now a hybrid between both. I want to bring you both down to backsides. Let me take you down to what happens so that you can change it because if you don’t change it, we here won’t suffer but I think of our children will.
We the elite, I am one of them, we send our kids to the best schools around the World, when they come back they are misfits, they cannot fit in and so ultimately we are designing a system that would destroy us in the end.
Let me take our minds back to Somalia. Somalia is mono-religious,
mono-ethnic; they only have clans (but) they have one tribe. What has
happened there? It’s a failed state because the elite in Somalia were so
disconnected from the people that once they had some money, they buy houses in England, Washington and all those places; they were not investing, putting their best foot forward and I think that was what Pastor Bakare was
talking about. If you want to be in a contest, you put your best foot
forward; at the end of the day, there was such a disconnect that even till
today, they cannot bridge it. Let me tell you, the last recognized
President of Somalia is buried in Lagos- Siad Barre.
We are multi-religious, multi-ethnic and multi-problematic. The reason why most people worry about us is if we explode, who will contain us? Let me also say this, I know what I am saying now is an aside, I will go back to
the elections. When we conducted the census in 2006 or so, the raw figures said we were over two hundred million; when they went and processed the figures it came down to 140million.
When you look at those figures and compare to those we had in 1991 at a growth rate of 2.1 or something like that, it is really just an
extrapolation, because we were too embarrassed to admit our true numbers.
If we get it wrong, we will fail like Somalia; in Somalia, half of them are
in Kenya, Ethiopia, and a few are in Europe here and there; who will
contain us in all of West Africa and Central Africa and for that it is
imperative not just for ourselves but for the rest of the continent that we
get it right.
Now, back to the elections, once that relationship has been established between the governor and the REC, if you are a governor who is ‘A Governor’, maybe two nights after you just pop by at the governors lodge and see the REC and say ah, ‘ah REC how are you doing? Are you OK?’ He says, ‘ah! Your Chief of Staff has been wonderful. He has been very nice to me; he supplied me the vehicles and everything is Ok’.
A few weeks to the elections, the REC sees the governor; you probably have on the average about three thousand five hundred, four thousand depending
on the polling booths in every state. So, REC goes to the governor and
says, ‘Your Excellency, could you please give us the names of about four,
five thousand people so that we can hurriedly train them, we need them as Presiding Officers.’ You need experience. A good coach is one who has played and has lost matches in the past?
The REC now goes down and says, ‘we need to conduct a training programme for the presiding officers and em, headquarters hasn’t sent us any money yet, you know.’
And the governor is like: ‘How much would that cost?’
REC replies: ‘N25million for the first batch, we may have about three
batches.’ Governor: ‘Ok, the Chief of Staff will see you.’ Now, the Chief of Staff, you call him: ‘Make sure, that we arrange N25 million this week and in two weeks time another N25 million and
Seventy-Five million in all.’
Chief of Staff: ‘Your Excellency, how do we do it?’ Governor: ‘Put it under Security Vote.’
In other words, its cash, ok, now, cash in huge Ghana Must Go bags – some of my colleagues will shoot me- (turns to the audience) is any former governor here? (Crowd replies no!)
Good. Cash is lodged in huge Ghana Must Go Bags for the REC and of course, to be fair to them, they call their electoral officers and say the governor has been very benevolent; he has given us this and that. I say three batches because they have them in Senatorial districts. So, you have one in Calabar, you have One in Ikom and Ogoja, those are the headquarters of the
Senatorial districts. Each one costs twenty-five million. Of course, the
sums are not properly retired. I don’t know how much of this twenty-five
million worked. But, there is a rapport this is going on.
The governor now turns round and says: ‘call me the party chairman.’ The
party chairman appears and the governor says: ‘INEC requires 50 thousand people for conducting the elections. See to it that we meet their needs.’ The chairman goes and you hear in the evening on radio and television:
There will be an urgent meeting of all chairmen and secretaries of XYZ
party at the headquarters. They should report promptly at 10am (because) matters of urgent interest will be discussed. End of announcement. Now we
have texts messages, so its easier, in no time everyone is here.
It’s a very short meeting, please go back and within 48 hours submit from.each local government two hundred and fifty names of trusted party members.
So in a week the deed is done. The names, sometimes even passport photographs if required are sent to INEC.
And the training programme is carried out. Let me pause a bit, this is at party level. They are usually civil servants. They may be teachers,
whatever, but they are party members. The remuneration, for each of them for the elections from Abuja is 10,000 Naira for the day’s work. But the state in its benevolence gives 50 to 100,000 Naira to each of these folks right before this election.
This is even where it gets even more interesting. So, you have each of the
three or four thousand polling booths; they are manned by party stalwarts. They are usually party stalwarts. You don’t send any peripheral member. The
remuneration from Abuja has not arrived but that of the state was received
48 hours prior.
On the day of elections, each polling booth has no more than five hundred ballot papers, that is standard.
There is not a polling booth that is more than five hundred. So only two
hundred people appear here, three hundred there, one hundred there, fifty
there, four hundred there, at the end of election what happens. The
Presiding Officer sits down and calls a few guys and says, ‘hey, there are a few hundred papers here, let’s thumbprint. This is the real election.
Well, this is not a PDP thing. I am not here to castigate the PDP; it’s a
Nigerian thing. This process may sound comical and jovial, it happens throughout the country, whether its Action Congress or APGA it’s the same
thing. We are all the same. They start thumb-printing, some are
overzealous. So at the end of the day you find some voting more than the number of people that were registered to vote.
Other wise they do it, you have 95 percent turnout. You start wondering
where were the voters, I didn’t see so many people. And the election
results are announced; XYZ party wins and it takes a week for this paltry ten thousand Naira for each presiding officer to arrive.
Listen to this before you ask your question: Who is the most important
person in an election? – The presiding officer. And if there are a hundred
and twenty thousand of them (booths) there are a hundred and twenty
thousand presiding officers, they are the most important people in the elections, not the Chairman.
So, as long as we keep applying that same method, you will get the same results. Its crazy to think that because you substitute Iwu for Jega all will change. In other words, Iwu is a crook, Jega is a saint. Jega is
great, he has an impeccable reputation. Iwu was great, now he seems not so great. Ok, they are both professors, they have reached the peak of whatever
discipline that they profess. The point is that it is the system and the
personnel and the chairman has little or no control over that.
Where are we now, we don’t even know when the elections will be. The
Constitution amendment seems to be stalling somewhere. So it’s either in January or in April. Sometimes, we behave as if we invented democracy. We always want to draw new rules. We should know the day of elections. It should be fixed. We should know that on so and so date I think, America is the 4th of November or so and if it falls on a Sunday it doesn’t make a
difference. The point I am making here is that date is fixed, you know;
because in a democracy, election should be a norm, not an event. In our
democracy, election is an event. Its like, we are going to spring on to you
with fire works, hey, we are going to have an election, we are all running around- I know most politicians are broke right now, so we are all running around the field.
Secondly, if you have your ears to the ground there, are whispers that may be, we need to postpone this thing. The whispers are there. In a democracy, you postpone an election? You postpone things you didn’t plan for, not
things that are there in the Constitution, that says you must do this, that and that, you can’t but –you know two ways of moving forward. This is where I like what SNG and CNP are doing.
We need a critical mass of Nigerians to get out and vote. It is important
because the more ballot papers that are legitimately used on election day, the fewer available to be used to rig the vote, that’s the truth. Don’t keep to yourself and think that they will announce results. They are more
sophisticated than that. And that’s why the aspirants who felt cheated and had the resources to employ forensic personnel, like those elections had
the elections upturned in Edo and Ondo, because they could establish
multiple voting by thumbprint.
So, if it’s an AC state the procedure is the same. I remember a state, that state will remain nameless. I hear the story that the then President was so determined that he must change the leadership of this state and he
called the IG and said, ‘look, that Governor is a security breach. Let's
have elections and flush the governor out, and the governor knows he is
under siege. A week before the elections, a new police Commissioner arrives. And you know if you are a governor and a new Police Commissioner
arrives before elections, you know something is wrong somewhere and he spends two, three days without going to see the governor, which is again a breach of protocol. The day he decides to see the governor, the governor
says, I won’t be at the office. However, if he gives him a particular
address they may discuss. Then the chap goes there and smartly salutes and it’s in a highbrow neighborhood of the city. (Shouts of Ikoyi rent the air.) ‘No! It’s Yobe!’ (The hall explodes in loud laughter).
The Commissioner of Police walks up to the governor and smartly salutes and says: ‘Your Excellency, I just came to introduce myself. My name is Mr. So, so and so. And the governor goes: ‘Ah, you are welcome. I heard you were here two or three days ago and I was wondering whether I won’t see you. Anyway, you are welcome. Have you settled down?’ ‘Yes I’ve been given accommodation and all that. And the governor asks, ‘where was your last posting?’ He tells him, he says fine.
Governor: ‘That car over there, this is the key and this is your house.
The Commissioner of Police now says: ‘Your Excellency, this Obasanjo is a very bad man. He is a very, very bad man. If you see all the things he has planned for you eh Olorun maje.’
How do we move on? How do we get out of here? What I have done is I’ve tried graphically to paint a picture of a process. How do we change this process?
One, I think, since we cannot change attitudes as quickly, we must ensure mass participation. In an election where there is a very high turnout, the
results are usually genuine. The most celebrated election in Nigeria, June 12, 1993 what happened? People came out. The more people who come out to
vote the fewer–there may be mago, mago here and there but there wouldn’t be much in such a critical manner to upset the will of the people. Beyond that, if you don’t vote in an election, you have no reason to criticize the
government and I tell folks everywhere that guys, I would say, I have lived my life. You guys have not and you are all criticizing Nigeria but did you vote in the last election? Most of them say no then I say, you’ve lost the moral right to criticize what the government does because you were not part of the process.
Is there a way out? I think there is. I think we need to employ technology.
It's just a suggestion and I want to share with you. I have said this in one or two fora and I’ve heard people say it has not been done in America
or the West why should we do it here? I say they don’t have the attitude we have here. Necessity is the mother of invention. It is not necessary for us to do what I’m about to suggest.
For the purposes of this, 3455, this number is for a phone and that number
is unique to you and valid for that election or the set of elections. And
each party has a numerical equivalent. AC could be 1, the PDP could be 5, the Labour Party could be 3, whatever. And on the date of elections you
decide that your number even if you don’t have a phone, you can go to a
centre where they have a bank of phones and once you put in your number
3455 it recognizes you, it cannot be duplicated. Its only you that has that
number and for that election on that date, once its used it cannot be used by anyone else. Then you can do this one from your house or anywhere, and any time between the hours of 9-12. When it says which party, you say 3 or 4 whatever the number, they ask you, ‘are you sure you say Yes’. You press it then you’ve voted. With that, I think we can conduct election but people say ah, it’s to technological and I say, why do you always underestimate the people in the rural areas? If you send them money this way, won’t they be able to cash it? Why is it that when it is to conduct their civic responsibilities it becomes high tech? I know this country, I ran a state for eight years, I know the nooks and crannies of my state. We are not the most enlightened of states in the country, but you see, I had a deal with MTN and Glo to ensure that every community in Cross River State has a base
station; for that I gave them sites free of charge; so, virtually every
nook and cranny of Cross River has a base station. Even the most rural of places; even in Bakassi when we still had control of it. And they all use it. They still use it to call their folks in the urban centres to say send us money. Why is that when it comes to civic responsibility it is high tech? Because the politicians don’t want to use it, that’s the truth.
I am not saying this is a perfect system, it can be fine-tuned, that will
ensure that within an hour or two everyone has voted and the results are
near perfect.
Of course, once you design a system, there are those whose work is to un-design the system. There are people like that and they work backwards. Once you have that we also think the same way. How do we work backwards,
where can this be faulted? It can be faulted in many ways. The service companies if you are able to break-through the integrity of the system, you know, here and there; but I think we are going to think outside the norm.
The point I’m trying to make is we have to think outside the box. I want
to commend the federal government, each time the government talks about elections, it keeps on talking about credible elections with brilliant
sound bite. But it must go beyond the sound bite and lets not kid
ourselves, by thinking that by putting a Jega there that all is well. With
Jega there, all will be well if he is able to design along with his team a
system that is virtually fool proof. In other words, he himself must
understand the system of elections, he needs to know how it works and how its been holding.
As I speak to you, we’ve not started voters’ registration. That exercise will take any where from three to four months. It will take at least, ninety days to run through its course, another six weeks to tidy up before it is published; lets not kid ourselves. You can have elections anytime, but you can’t have credible elections in January. So, for those thinking we can have elections in January, I think we have to rethink the process; we cannot have credible elections in January. We may have elections but it may
not be credible. Where are we? We need to get out of these holes; we need to traverse the length and breath of this country. We need to recruit an army of people may be 5, 000 in each state, two hundred young men and women who will reach our (people), give each of them a task to ensure that he registers at least a hundred person. That alone, will bring twenty million
people into the fold. This is what they did in the Obama election.
Fortunately, I was monitoring the Obama election, whether you attain voting age or not, you are able to send text and move around and get people to vote. It's one thing to register, some folk tell me, ‘how can I go to line up for hours to vote for this person’. This is again what pastor Bakare was talking about, if people are not excited about the candidates they will not
come out. ‘Look at the four people running, they are all clowns. I’ m going
to watch television; I’m not going to vote because either way a clown is going to win’.
So, we have to get involved in the process. We can’t all run for offices, we all can’t. ...”
A MUST READ: How Governors Rig Elections, By Donald Duke
A comprehensive expose on how elections are rigged in the country has been unveiled by one of the insiders in the political process and former Cross River State Governor, Mr. Donald Duke. Last Wednesday at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Duke gave a blow by blow account to a gathering of pro-democracy advocates, including the Save Nigeria Group (SNG), of the modus operandi of State Chief Executives and Resident Electoral
Commissioners to thwart the mandate of the electorate, not just in states controlled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but all the others.
In his opinion, it is not just a question of replacing the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, but getting a critical mass to come out to vote and ensuring that votes count.
The Guardian today delivers excerpts of his extempore speech:
“LET me start this way. Professor Maurice Iwu is truly an enigma; he enjoyed the limelight. He enjoyed all the attacks, thrown and meted at him, he remained undaunted. I think, he belongs to the school of thought that believes that bad publicity is better than no publicity. So, even though he
was being attacked and scolded and all sorts of things were said about him, he didn’t shy away from even going to the United States and talking to Nigerians in the Diaspora about his work, he didn’t shy away from it. I was told he organized a rally to ensure that he will come back to do the
work he was appointed to.
Why do I call him an enigma? The truth is, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission has little or no bearing on the success of elections, that’s the truth. To me, it’s actually immaterial because he is head of the administration he takes the brunt. The best he can do is perhaps, draw up a blueprint but the implementation of that blueprint is
outside his control. So, if elections are rigged in say -Taraba State- we
don’t do that stuff in Cross Rivers State (laughter).
Every one looks at Iwu and he proudly says we did this or that. Hogwash!
Let me now take you through the process of an election. We have a hundred and twenty thousand booths in Nigeria. At the hierarchy, you have the Chairman of INEC, then you have the zonal Commissioners, then you have the Resident Electoral Commissioners and they are the heads in every state the
zone as the name implies; we have six zones in Nigeria, so you have six of
them. Then you have the Resident Electoral Commissioners and there are 36 of them of course, and Abuja. Then for each local government, you have an
electoral officer. Beyond that you have a hundred and twenty thousand
polling booths, headed by presiding officers. The people think that at the
end of the elections, the PDP would just decide who wins and who doesn’t and announces the results. I think the process is a bit more sophisticated than that.
This is what happens; the Resident Electoral Commissioner is usually from another state. The electoral officers, they move around. They are usually from that state, but for the conduct of elections itself, you would probably move from Cross River to Akwa Ibom or to Abia, but these musical chairs don’t mean nothing.
When the Resident Electoral Commissioner comes before the elections are conducted- of course when he comes to the state, usually, he has no
accommodation; monies have not been released for the running or conduct of the elections and all that because we always start late. He pays a courtesy.call on the governor. It’s usually a televised event you know, and of course he says all the right things. ‘Your Excellency, I am here to ensure that we have free and fair elections and I will require your support.’
Now, at that courtesy call, most governors, at least I did, will invite the
Commissioner of Police because he is part of the action and he sits there.
After the courtesy call, the Resident Electoral Commissioner now moves in for a one-on-one with the governor the says, “Your Excellency, since I came, I’ve been staying in this hotel, there is no accommodation for me and even my vehicle is broken down and the last Commissioner didn’t leave the vehicle, so if you could help me settle down quickly;’ and the governor says, ‘Chief of Staff, where is the Chief of Staff here?’ And the Chief of Staff appears. Governor says: ‘Please ensure that the REC is
accommodated–put him in the Presidential lodge, allot two cars to him, I
give you seven days to get this done. Then the relationship has started; I
am going to share some of these things with you so that we don’t leave here with any illusions. A lot of us, folks who have gone through an election or have been elected for one thing or another, see groups like Save Nigeria
Group (SNG), the CLP as woolly-eye dreamers, you have to come down to the backsides, since I am now a hybrid between both. I want to bring you both down to backsides. Let me take you down to what happens so that you can change it because if you don’t change it, we here won’t suffer but I think of our children will.
We the elite, I am one of them, we send our kids to the best schools around the World, when they come back they are misfits, they cannot fit in and so ultimately we are designing a system that would destroy us in the end.
Let me take our minds back to Somalia. Somalia is mono-religious,
mono-ethnic; they only have clans (but) they have one tribe. What has
happened there? It’s a failed state because the elite in Somalia were so
disconnected from the people that once they had some money, they buy houses in England, Washington and all those places; they were not investing, putting their best foot forward and I think that was what Pastor Bakare was
talking about. If you want to be in a contest, you put your best foot
forward; at the end of the day, there was such a disconnect that even till
today, they cannot bridge it. Let me tell you, the last recognized
President of Somalia is buried in Lagos- Siad Barre.
We are multi-religious, multi-ethnic and multi-problematic. The reason why most people worry about us is if we explode, who will contain us? Let me also say this, I know what I am saying now is an aside, I will go back to
the elections. When we conducted the census in 2006 or so, the raw figures said we were over two hundred million; when they went and processed the figures it came down to 140million.
When you look at those figures and compare to those we had in 1991 at a growth rate of 2.1 or something like that, it is really just an
extrapolation, because we were too embarrassed to admit our true numbers.
If we get it wrong, we will fail like Somalia; in Somalia, half of them are
in Kenya, Ethiopia, and a few are in Europe here and there; who will
contain us in all of West Africa and Central Africa and for that it is
imperative not just for ourselves but for the rest of the continent that we
get it right.
Now, back to the elections, once that relationship has been established between the governor and the REC, if you are a governor who is ‘A Governor’, maybe two nights after you just pop by at the governors lodge and see the REC and say ah, ‘ah REC how are you doing? Are you OK?’ He says, ‘ah! Your Chief of Staff has been wonderful. He has been very nice to me; he supplied me the vehicles and everything is Ok’.
A few weeks to the elections, the REC sees the governor; you probably have on the average about three thousand five hundred, four thousand depending
on the polling booths in every state. So, REC goes to the governor and
says, ‘Your Excellency, could you please give us the names of about four,
five thousand people so that we can hurriedly train them, we need them as Presiding Officers.’ You need experience. A good coach is one who has played and has lost matches in the past?
The REC now goes down and says, ‘we need to conduct a training programme for the presiding officers and em, headquarters hasn’t sent us any money yet, you know.’
And the governor is like: ‘How much would that cost?’
REC replies: ‘N25million for the first batch, we may have about three
batches.’ Governor: ‘Ok, the Chief of Staff will see you.’ Now, the Chief of Staff, you call him: ‘Make sure, that we arrange N25 million this week and in two weeks time another N25 million and
Seventy-Five million in all.’
Chief of Staff: ‘Your Excellency, how do we do it?’ Governor: ‘Put it under Security Vote.’
In other words, its cash, ok, now, cash in huge Ghana Must Go bags – some of my colleagues will shoot me- (turns to the audience) is any former governor here? (Crowd replies no!)
Good. Cash is lodged in huge Ghana Must Go Bags for the REC and of course, to be fair to them, they call their electoral officers and say the governor has been very benevolent; he has given us this and that. I say three batches because they have them in Senatorial districts. So, you have one in Calabar, you have One in Ikom and Ogoja, those are the headquarters of the
Senatorial districts. Each one costs twenty-five million. Of course, the
sums are not properly retired. I don’t know how much of this twenty-five
million worked. But, there is a rapport this is going on.
The governor now turns round and says: ‘call me the party chairman.’ The
party chairman appears and the governor says: ‘INEC requires 50 thousand people for conducting the elections. See to it that we meet their needs.’ The chairman goes and you hear in the evening on radio and television:
There will be an urgent meeting of all chairmen and secretaries of XYZ
party at the headquarters. They should report promptly at 10am (because) matters of urgent interest will be discussed. End of announcement. Now we
have texts messages, so its easier, in no time everyone is here.
It’s a very short meeting, please go back and within 48 hours submit from.each local government two hundred and fifty names of trusted party members.
So in a week the deed is done. The names, sometimes even passport photographs if required are sent to INEC.
And the training programme is carried out. Let me pause a bit, this is at party level. They are usually civil servants. They may be teachers,
whatever, but they are party members. The remuneration, for each of them for the elections from Abuja is 10,000 Naira for the day’s work. But the state in its benevolence gives 50 to 100,000 Naira to each of these folks right before this election.
This is even where it gets even more interesting. So, you have each of the
three or four thousand polling booths; they are manned by party stalwarts. They are usually party stalwarts. You don’t send any peripheral member. The
remuneration from Abuja has not arrived but that of the state was received
48 hours prior.
On the day of elections, each polling booth has no more than five hundred ballot papers, that is standard.
There is not a polling booth that is more than five hundred. So only two
hundred people appear here, three hundred there, one hundred there, fifty
there, four hundred there, at the end of election what happens. The
Presiding Officer sits down and calls a few guys and says, ‘hey, there are a few hundred papers here, let’s thumbprint. This is the real election.
Well, this is not a PDP thing. I am not here to castigate the PDP; it’s a
Nigerian thing. This process may sound comical and jovial, it happens throughout the country, whether its Action Congress or APGA it’s the same
thing. We are all the same. They start thumb-printing, some are
overzealous. So at the end of the day you find some voting more than the number of people that were registered to vote.
Other wise they do it, you have 95 percent turnout. You start wondering
where were the voters, I didn’t see so many people. And the election
results are announced; XYZ party wins and it takes a week for this paltry ten thousand Naira for each presiding officer to arrive.
Listen to this before you ask your question: Who is the most important
person in an election? – The presiding officer. And if there are a hundred
and twenty thousand of them (booths) there are a hundred and twenty
thousand presiding officers, they are the most important people in the elections, not the Chairman.
So, as long as we keep applying that same method, you will get the same results. Its crazy to think that because you substitute Iwu for Jega all will change. In other words, Iwu is a crook, Jega is a saint. Jega is
great, he has an impeccable reputation. Iwu was great, now he seems not so great. Ok, they are both professors, they have reached the peak of whatever
discipline that they profess. The point is that it is the system and the
personnel and the chairman has little or no control over that.
Where are we now, we don’t even know when the elections will be. The
Constitution amendment seems to be stalling somewhere. So it’s either in January or in April. Sometimes, we behave as if we invented democracy. We always want to draw new rules. We should know the day of elections. It should be fixed. We should know that on so and so date I think, America is the 4th of November or so and if it falls on a Sunday it doesn’t make a
difference. The point I am making here is that date is fixed, you know;
because in a democracy, election should be a norm, not an event. In our
democracy, election is an event. Its like, we are going to spring on to you
with fire works, hey, we are going to have an election, we are all running around- I know most politicians are broke right now, so we are all running around the field.
Secondly, if you have your ears to the ground there, are whispers that may be, we need to postpone this thing. The whispers are there. In a democracy, you postpone an election? You postpone things you didn’t plan for, not
things that are there in the Constitution, that says you must do this, that and that, you can’t but –you know two ways of moving forward. This is where I like what SNG and CNP are doing.
We need a critical mass of Nigerians to get out and vote. It is important
because the more ballot papers that are legitimately used on election day, the fewer available to be used to rig the vote, that’s the truth. Don’t keep to yourself and think that they will announce results. They are more
sophisticated than that. And that’s why the aspirants who felt cheated and had the resources to employ forensic personnel, like those elections had
the elections upturned in Edo and Ondo, because they could establish
multiple voting by thumbprint.
So, if it’s an AC state the procedure is the same. I remember a state, that state will remain nameless. I hear the story that the then President was so determined that he must change the leadership of this state and he
called the IG and said, ‘look, that Governor is a security breach. Let's
have elections and flush the governor out, and the governor knows he is
under siege. A week before the elections, a new police Commissioner arrives. And you know if you are a governor and a new Police Commissioner
arrives before elections, you know something is wrong somewhere and he spends two, three days without going to see the governor, which is again a breach of protocol. The day he decides to see the governor, the governor
says, I won’t be at the office. However, if he gives him a particular
address they may discuss. Then the chap goes there and smartly salutes and it’s in a highbrow neighborhood of the city. (Shouts of Ikoyi rent the air.) ‘No! It’s Yobe!’ (The hall explodes in loud laughter).
The Commissioner of Police walks up to the governor and smartly salutes and says: ‘Your Excellency, I just came to introduce myself. My name is Mr. So, so and so. And the governor goes: ‘Ah, you are welcome. I heard you were here two or three days ago and I was wondering whether I won’t see you. Anyway, you are welcome. Have you settled down?’ ‘Yes I’ve been given accommodation and all that. And the governor asks, ‘where was your last posting?’ He tells him, he says fine.
Governor: ‘That car over there, this is the key and this is your house.
The Commissioner of Police now says: ‘Your Excellency, this Obasanjo is a very bad man. He is a very, very bad man. If you see all the things he has planned for you eh Olorun maje.’
How do we move on? How do we get out of here? What I have done is I’ve tried graphically to paint a picture of a process. How do we change this process?
One, I think, since we cannot change attitudes as quickly, we must ensure mass participation. In an election where there is a very high turnout, the
results are usually genuine. The most celebrated election in Nigeria, June 12, 1993 what happened? People came out. The more people who come out to
vote the fewer–there may be mago, mago here and there but there wouldn’t be much in such a critical manner to upset the will of the people. Beyond that, if you don’t vote in an election, you have no reason to criticize the
government and I tell folks everywhere that guys, I would say, I have lived my life. You guys have not and you are all criticizing Nigeria but did you vote in the last election? Most of them say no then I say, you’ve lost the moral right to criticize what the government does because you were not part of the process.
Is there a way out? I think there is. I think we need to employ technology.
It's just a suggestion and I want to share with you. I have said this in one or two fora and I’ve heard people say it has not been done in America
or the West why should we do it here? I say they don’t have the attitude we have here. Necessity is the mother of invention. It is not necessary for us to do what I’m about to suggest.
For the purposes of this, 3455, this number is for a phone and that number
is unique to you and valid for that election or the set of elections. And
each party has a numerical equivalent. AC could be 1, the PDP could be 5, the Labour Party could be 3, whatever. And on the date of elections you
decide that your number even if you don’t have a phone, you can go to a
centre where they have a bank of phones and once you put in your number
3455 it recognizes you, it cannot be duplicated. Its only you that has that
number and for that election on that date, once its used it cannot be used by anyone else. Then you can do this one from your house or anywhere, and any time between the hours of 9-12. When it says which party, you say 3 or 4 whatever the number, they ask you, ‘are you sure you say Yes’. You press it then you’ve voted. With that, I think we can conduct election but people say ah, it’s to technological and I say, why do you always underestimate the people in the rural areas? If you send them money this way, won’t they be able to cash it? Why is it that when it is to conduct their civic responsibilities it becomes high tech? I know this country, I ran a state for eight years, I know the nooks and crannies of my state. We are not the most enlightened of states in the country, but you see, I had a deal with MTN and Glo to ensure that every community in Cross River State has a base
station; for that I gave them sites free of charge; so, virtually every
nook and cranny of Cross River has a base station. Even the most rural of places; even in Bakassi when we still had control of it. And they all use it. They still use it to call their folks in the urban centres to say send us money. Why is that when it comes to civic responsibility it is high tech? Because the politicians don’t want to use it, that’s the truth.
I am not saying this is a perfect system, it can be fine-tuned, that will
ensure that within an hour or two everyone has voted and the results are
near perfect.
Of course, once you design a system, there are those whose work is to un-design the system. There are people like that and they work backwards. Once you have that we also think the same way. How do we work backwards,
where can this be faulted? It can be faulted in many ways. The service companies if you are able to break-through the integrity of the system, you know, here and there; but I think we are going to think outside the norm.
The point I’m trying to make is we have to think outside the box. I want
to commend the federal government, each time the government talks about elections, it keeps on talking about credible elections with brilliant
sound bite. But it must go beyond the sound bite and lets not kid
ourselves, by thinking that by putting a Jega there that all is well. With
Jega there, all will be well if he is able to design along with his team a
system that is virtually fool proof. In other words, he himself must
understand the system of elections, he needs to know how it works and how its been holding.
As I speak to you, we’ve not started voters’ registration. That exercise will take any where from three to four months. It will take at least, ninety days to run through its course, another six weeks to tidy up before it is published; lets not kid ourselves. You can have elections anytime, but you can’t have credible elections in January. So, for those thinking we can have elections in January, I think we have to rethink the process; we cannot have credible elections in January. We may have elections but it may
not be credible. Where are we? We need to get out of these holes; we need to traverse the length and breath of this country. We need to recruit an army of people may be 5, 000 in each state, two hundred young men and women who will reach our (people), give each of them a task to ensure that he registers at least a hundred person. That alone, will bring twenty million
people into the fold. This is what they did in the Obama election.
Fortunately, I was monitoring the Obama election, whether you attain voting age or not, you are able to send text and move around and get people to vote. It's one thing to register, some folk tell me, ‘how can I go to line up for hours to vote for this person’. This is again what pastor Bakare was talking about, if people are not excited about the candidates they will not
come out. ‘Look at the four people running, they are all clowns. I’ m going
to watch television; I’m not going to vote because either way a clown is going to win’.
So, we have to get involved in the process. We can’t all run for offices, we all can’t. ...”
Sunday, February 25, 2018
Old School Love Letter 😄😄😄
HOW SCHOOL BOYS USED TO WRITE LETTERS TO GIRLS IN THE 70s, 80s and 90s
G.C.S.S. SHUWA
P.O. BOX 2233
26TH JUN. 1997
Dear Sweet
Time and ability plus double capacity has forced my pen to dance automatically on this benedicted sheet of paper. I hope you're swimming in the wonderful pool of Mr. Health there. I am also parambulating in the cool breeze of wellness here.
Sweetie pie, the reason why this miraculous thing is happening is because, honey, I love you spontaneously, and as I stand horizontally parallel to the wall and vertically perpendicular to the ground now, I only think of you, since you are a fantastic and fabulous girl, put together as fantabulous. I implore you to decipher this my anthem of love oozing out from the innermost pendulum of my thoraxial cavity.
Darling, please stop haranguing with the feelings in my heart because I love you more than a snake loves rat.
To me each day I start by dreaming of you. Each time I see you, my metabolism suddenly halts and my peristalsis goes in reverse gear. My medula oblongata also ceases functioning.
Crazy, crazy, crazy you may say but this is verily veritable. If only you knew what is going on in my encephalon, you would prostrate. That's why I need to see you vis a vis soon for a better elucidation through tete a tete. No hyperbole & onomatopoeia, simple candidness.
Only you and me are protagonists in this subtle affair. As I cogitate and ruminate over the last episode, I genuflex before the Omnipotent and implore him to let this affair emulsify.
By the way, I was bamboozled, scintilated, exhilarated, and left in a state of prolonged euphoria by the contents of your missive which was quite edifying and exalting. It left my bio-chemistry in a paradise-like equilibrium.
Empirically speaking, I love u chemically... I don't ever want to see gloom and doom looming over your angelic live portrait. Let my appellation be scribbled across your heart, with indelible ink. If any boy tries to ask for your companionship, tell him that u are leased and caveated.
I think I have to pen off here, because I still haven't finished studying electrolysis polymerization. But before I evaporate, I like to revitalize your memory with those encapsulating lyrics which proclaim that your catarrh is my butter, your piss is my mimbo, the world's greatest lover is me.
Catch you later. Sleep tight and don't let those bed bugs bite you because you are too sweet for them.
Goodbye for now.
Your slave in love,
your pillow, your cushion,
Natty Dread
G.C.S.S. SHUWA
P.O. BOX 2233
26TH JUN. 1997
Dear Sweet
Time and ability plus double capacity has forced my pen to dance automatically on this benedicted sheet of paper. I hope you're swimming in the wonderful pool of Mr. Health there. I am also parambulating in the cool breeze of wellness here.
Sweetie pie, the reason why this miraculous thing is happening is because, honey, I love you spontaneously, and as I stand horizontally parallel to the wall and vertically perpendicular to the ground now, I only think of you, since you are a fantastic and fabulous girl, put together as fantabulous. I implore you to decipher this my anthem of love oozing out from the innermost pendulum of my thoraxial cavity.
Darling, please stop haranguing with the feelings in my heart because I love you more than a snake loves rat.
To me each day I start by dreaming of you. Each time I see you, my metabolism suddenly halts and my peristalsis goes in reverse gear. My medula oblongata also ceases functioning.
Crazy, crazy, crazy you may say but this is verily veritable. If only you knew what is going on in my encephalon, you would prostrate. That's why I need to see you vis a vis soon for a better elucidation through tete a tete. No hyperbole & onomatopoeia, simple candidness.
Only you and me are protagonists in this subtle affair. As I cogitate and ruminate over the last episode, I genuflex before the Omnipotent and implore him to let this affair emulsify.
By the way, I was bamboozled, scintilated, exhilarated, and left in a state of prolonged euphoria by the contents of your missive which was quite edifying and exalting. It left my bio-chemistry in a paradise-like equilibrium.
Empirically speaking, I love u chemically... I don't ever want to see gloom and doom looming over your angelic live portrait. Let my appellation be scribbled across your heart, with indelible ink. If any boy tries to ask for your companionship, tell him that u are leased and caveated.
I think I have to pen off here, because I still haven't finished studying electrolysis polymerization. But before I evaporate, I like to revitalize your memory with those encapsulating lyrics which proclaim that your catarrh is my butter, your piss is my mimbo, the world's greatest lover is me.
Catch you later. Sleep tight and don't let those bed bugs bite you because you are too sweet for them.
Goodbye for now.
Your slave in love,
your pillow, your cushion,
Natty Dread
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Buhari Pardons And Reinstate Sacked 900 Million Naira Thief
*Buhari reinstates NHIS boss under probe for alleged N919m fraud*
*• reinstated by the Kingibe, Abba Kyari led cabal*
*• as NHIS boss says "who is the minister, f**k you, f**k the minister who suspended me"*
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February 7, 2018
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Abuja;
President Muhammadu Buhari has recalled the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme , Prof . Usman Yusuf , who was suspended by the Minister of Health , Prof . Isaac Adewole , on July 6 , 2017, has learnt .
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In a letter with reference number , ‘SH/COS / 10 / 6 / A / 29 ’, signed by the Chief of Staff to the President , Abba Kyari, the President informed the minister of Yusuf ’s recall, adding that he ( Yusuf ) had been “admonished to work harmoniously with the minister .”
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The letter , it was learnt, was sent to the minister on Tuesday evening .
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When our correspondent called the minister to confirm the new development , Adewole only said , “ Yes, what you have heard is true.”
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He refused to answer any further inquiries about the issue .
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Sources at the federal Ministry of Health also confirmed Yusuf ’s reinstatement . They did not, however , disclose when the NHIS boss would resume .
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The letter made no mention of the probe Yusuf was facing at the EFCC.
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Incidentally , Yusuf was being grilled by the men of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday when his letter of reinstatement was sent to the Federal Ministry of Health.
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Yusuf , who is being probed by the EFCC and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission , was accused of perpetrating fraud to the tune of N 919 m .
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A committee set up by the minister had submitted a probe report to the President last September accusing Yusuf of abuse of office .
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In the report which was compiled by senior officials of the health ministry , the Department of State Services and the ICPC , the panel described Yusuf as a public servant who “portrayed a holier than thou attitude but at the background , milked the agency dry” by conniving with others to perpetrate fraud to the tune of over N 919 m .
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According to the panel , the N 919 m was dubiously given as payment to consultants for staff training .
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The committee said as the head of the agency , Yusuf was personally responsible for all administrative , procurement and financial lapses .
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According to the report , “His ( Yusuf ’s) deceitful attitude coupled with ‘ name dropping ’ of Mr . President as having sent him to sanitise the NHIS but he caused more harm than good to the scheme .”
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The committee , therefore, recommended that the EFCC probe the agency for diversion of funds and contravention of the Procurement Act of 2007.
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The report stated that Yusuf contravened the Procurement Act of 2007 through nepotism and other irregular award of contracts and should be sanctioned in line with the provision of the Act .
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Explaining how the alleged staff training scam took place , the committee said in some instances , the number of trainees was far more than the entire number of employees at the agency while in some other instances , some employees were registered for the same training in two different states at the same time.
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Most of the consultants were said to have charged about N 250 , 000 per participant.
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*The PUNCH had exclusively reported in December that Yusuf , who is close to the cabal in the Presidency , had been making moves to return to his post.*
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*When our correspondent reached out to him to respond to the allegations levelled against him last December , Yusuf had said , “ F *ck you , and f *ck the minister .”*
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Meanwhile , it was learnt that Yusuf was grilled for over 12 hours at the EFCC on Monday and Tuesday .
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A source at the EFCC said , “The NHIS boss was with us all through Monday and returned on Tuesday for more questioning . His passport was also seized . He will return on another day for more questioning .”
Copyright PUNCH .
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http://punchng.com/buhari-reinstates-nhis-boss-under-probe-for-alleged-n919m-fraud/
*• reinstated by the Kingibe, Abba Kyari led cabal*
*• as NHIS boss says "who is the minister, f**k you, f**k the minister who suspended me"*
.
February 7, 2018
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Abuja;
President Muhammadu Buhari has recalled the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme , Prof . Usman Yusuf , who was suspended by the Minister of Health , Prof . Isaac Adewole , on July 6 , 2017, has learnt .
.
In a letter with reference number , ‘SH/COS / 10 / 6 / A / 29 ’, signed by the Chief of Staff to the President , Abba Kyari, the President informed the minister of Yusuf ’s recall, adding that he ( Yusuf ) had been “admonished to work harmoniously with the minister .”
.
The letter , it was learnt, was sent to the minister on Tuesday evening .
.
When our correspondent called the minister to confirm the new development , Adewole only said , “ Yes, what you have heard is true.”
.
He refused to answer any further inquiries about the issue .
.
Sources at the federal Ministry of Health also confirmed Yusuf ’s reinstatement . They did not, however , disclose when the NHIS boss would resume .
.
The letter made no mention of the probe Yusuf was facing at the EFCC.
.
Incidentally , Yusuf was being grilled by the men of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday when his letter of reinstatement was sent to the Federal Ministry of Health.
.
Yusuf , who is being probed by the EFCC and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission , was accused of perpetrating fraud to the tune of N 919 m .
.
A committee set up by the minister had submitted a probe report to the President last September accusing Yusuf of abuse of office .
.
In the report which was compiled by senior officials of the health ministry , the Department of State Services and the ICPC , the panel described Yusuf as a public servant who “portrayed a holier than thou attitude but at the background , milked the agency dry” by conniving with others to perpetrate fraud to the tune of over N 919 m .
.
According to the panel , the N 919 m was dubiously given as payment to consultants for staff training .
.
The committee said as the head of the agency , Yusuf was personally responsible for all administrative , procurement and financial lapses .
.
According to the report , “His ( Yusuf ’s) deceitful attitude coupled with ‘ name dropping ’ of Mr . President as having sent him to sanitise the NHIS but he caused more harm than good to the scheme .”
.
The committee , therefore, recommended that the EFCC probe the agency for diversion of funds and contravention of the Procurement Act of 2007.
.
The report stated that Yusuf contravened the Procurement Act of 2007 through nepotism and other irregular award of contracts and should be sanctioned in line with the provision of the Act .
.
Explaining how the alleged staff training scam took place , the committee said in some instances , the number of trainees was far more than the entire number of employees at the agency while in some other instances , some employees were registered for the same training in two different states at the same time.
.
Most of the consultants were said to have charged about N 250 , 000 per participant.
.
*The PUNCH had exclusively reported in December that Yusuf , who is close to the cabal in the Presidency , had been making moves to return to his post.*
.
*When our correspondent reached out to him to respond to the allegations levelled against him last December , Yusuf had said , “ F *ck you , and f *ck the minister .”*
.
Meanwhile , it was learnt that Yusuf was grilled for over 12 hours at the EFCC on Monday and Tuesday .
.
A source at the EFCC said , “The NHIS boss was with us all through Monday and returned on Tuesday for more questioning . His passport was also seized . He will return on another day for more questioning .”
Copyright PUNCH .
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http://punchng.com/buhari-reinstates-nhis-boss-under-probe-for-alleged-n919m-fraud/
The Funeral Of A Killed Wife
A man was leaving a cafe when he noticed an unusual funeral.
A funeral Coffin was followed by a second one. Behind the second coffin was a solitary man walking with a black dog.
Behind him was a queue of 200 men walking in single line. The man couldn't stand his curiosity. He approached the man walking with the dog, "I am so sorry to disturb you, but I've never seen a funeral like this with so many of you walking in single line. Whose funeral is it?"
The man replied, "That first coffin is for my wife."
"What happened to her?"
"My dog attacked and killed her."
"Well, who is in the second coffin?"
My mother-in-law. She was trying to help my wife when the dog attacked and killed her also."
A thoughtful moment of silence passes between the two men.
Then the man asks in excitement, "Can I borrow the dog?"
The man replied, "Join the queue." 😂😂😂
[2/5, 1:19 AM] Pascal Chime: 🙆🏿♂🙆🏿♂🙆🏿♂🙆🏿♂
A funeral Coffin was followed by a second one. Behind the second coffin was a solitary man walking with a black dog.
Behind him was a queue of 200 men walking in single line. The man couldn't stand his curiosity. He approached the man walking with the dog, "I am so sorry to disturb you, but I've never seen a funeral like this with so many of you walking in single line. Whose funeral is it?"
The man replied, "That first coffin is for my wife."
"What happened to her?"
"My dog attacked and killed her."
"Well, who is in the second coffin?"
My mother-in-law. She was trying to help my wife when the dog attacked and killed her also."
A thoughtful moment of silence passes between the two men.
Then the man asks in excitement, "Can I borrow the dog?"
The man replied, "Join the queue." 😂😂😂
[2/5, 1:19 AM] Pascal Chime: 🙆🏿♂🙆🏿♂🙆🏿♂🙆🏿♂
The Tenants
An ant 🐜 knocked on the door of a house.
The house owner opened the door.
"I want a place to stay,” said the ant.
"I have a vacant room which you can occupy for free of cost,” said the owner.
The ant went inside and occupied the vacant room.
After some days, the ant brought in another ant 🐜 and requested the owner, “Can you please allow this ant to stay with me?"
"Oh sure, you can do so without paying any rent,” said the owner.
After some days the ant brought a 3rd 🐜 ant and requested the owner to allow it to stay with them.
The owner agreed to it without asking for any rent.
This went on as the 🐜 ant brought in more & more ants and the owner agreed to let them stay without any rent.
One fine day, the ant brought in the 10th ant 🐜 and requested the owner to allow it to stay with them all.
The owner said,
"OK, you can all stay here, but now you all need to pay rent!"
Now the question is 😗
Why did the owner ask for rent when the 10th ant came in?
🤔
🤔
🤔
🤔
🤔
🤔
🤔
🤔
Because they were now *tenants!*🤣
🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂/
The house owner opened the door.
"I want a place to stay,” said the ant.
"I have a vacant room which you can occupy for free of cost,” said the owner.
The ant went inside and occupied the vacant room.
After some days, the ant brought in another ant 🐜 and requested the owner, “Can you please allow this ant to stay with me?"
"Oh sure, you can do so without paying any rent,” said the owner.
After some days the ant brought a 3rd 🐜 ant and requested the owner to allow it to stay with them.
The owner agreed to it without asking for any rent.
This went on as the 🐜 ant brought in more & more ants and the owner agreed to let them stay without any rent.
One fine day, the ant brought in the 10th ant 🐜 and requested the owner to allow it to stay with them all.
The owner said,
"OK, you can all stay here, but now you all need to pay rent!"
Now the question is 😗
Why did the owner ask for rent when the 10th ant came in?
🤔
🤔
🤔
🤔
🤔
🤔
🤔
🤔
Because they were now *tenants!*🤣
🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂/
Rome Was Not Destroyed In A Day
ROME WAS NOT DESTROYED IN A DAY - Simon Kolawole
Sadiq Daba, the actor, ran into some serious health issues recently. He cried out for financial help to undergo foreign treatment. Pronto, Nigerians reacted overwhelmingly. But wait. I did not hear anybody talk about Daba’s religion or ethnic group. The people who tweeted and retweeted his appeal for help, and those who contributed money, were certainly not from his village. I was so so so so so happy. It confirmed, yet again, my pet theory about Nigeria — that we do not hate each other. We are just victims of the unending political manipulation of ethnic and religious identities for selfish gain. Evidently, ordinary Nigerians have the “Nigerian spirit” in their DNA.
Indeed. I have met extremists and chauvinists from across religions and races. I am yet to hear anyone declare that we were not created by the same God. One of the most astonishing things about life, to me, is the fact that although we can choose to be Muslims or Christians, and so on, nobody can choose to be Hausa, Fulani, Igbo, Yoruba or whatever. We just woke up one day to find ourselves as members of one ethnic group or the other. It was not our making. So why should you discriminate against me, and hate me, on the basis of an ethnic identity that is beyond my control? Is it my fault that I was born into a family that was clearly not my choice?
Today, I am going a little bit practical on how we can renew our minds. There is a saying that Rome was not built in a day, a proverb originated by the 19th century English playwright, John Heywood, who also gave us immortal expressions such as “out of sight out of mind”, “better late than never”, and “the more the merrier”. He said Rome wasn’t built in a day “but they were laying bricks every hour”. This, in some sense, tells us the value of consistent hard work, perseverance and conscious efforts at construction. If Nigeria is going to change, therefore, we must alienate those who see themselves, first and foremost, as ethno-religious champions. It all starts in the mind.
But, pardon me, Rome was not destroyed in a day either. It took ages to build the city but took a much shorter time to destroy it. Rome was sacked by the Visigoths in 410 AD. In three days, they looted, burnt and wrecked the beautiful city. That hastened the collapse of the Roman Empire. Same thing applies here: the destruction of Nigeria by ethnic champions and religious bigots will not happen in one day — it is a gradual, steady process. That is why we the people must guard our hearts jealously before we are recruited into the hate brigade under different guises. Those already recruited can decide to desert straightaway. We need to build, not destroy.
My suggestions. To start with, do not participate in the sharing of messages and materials that are clearly intended to preach hate and prejudice. Saying “shared as received” is pure hypocrisy. You can be critical of leadership without attacking or disparaging their religions and ethnic origins. As a matter of principle, I do not share messages that are clearly meant to spread hate. It is a duty I owe my conscience. We all have terrible things to say about other people. If we do not allow love to guard our hearts, we will keep adding fuel to fire. Therefore, before you press the “send” or “forward” button, ask yourself: what is my motive? Unto thyself, be honest.
Also, do not feed your children with hate and prejudice. Fill their hearts with edifying things. A senior colleague of mine, a Muslim, married a Christian, who then converted to Islam. He told me he once engaged the services of a cleric to teach his children the Qur’an every Sunday. One day, he overheard the cleric telling the children not to drink from the same cup or eat from the same plate with their aunts, who were living with them, because they were “infidels”. My colleague fired the “afa” on the spot. He remains a devout Muslim, sure, but he saw danger and immediately quenched it. This kind of hate messaging certainly fuelled the mindset that birthed Boko Haram.
This is how hate works: it focuses on what divides us rather than what unites us. If there are Qur’anic verses that say Muslims should love and care for Christians, the hate merchants will focus on where Christians are called “infidels”. If there are verses in the Bible that say “love your neighbour as yourself”, the messengers of hate will focus on “what fellowship does light have with darkness?” There is nothing you want to justify with the scriptures that you won’t find. If you truly have love in your heart, you will focus on the verses of love. The God that forbade eating four-footed creatures is the same God that ordered Apostle Peter, in a trance, to kill and eat! To the pure all things are pure.
And this is how prejudice works: because Chief Obafami Awolowo did not declare Oduduwa Republic in solidarity with Biafra in 1967, every Yoruba is a traitor — including the one that was born early this morning. Because an Igbo chap was arrested for 419, every Igbo person — dead, living or unborn — is a fraudster. Because Barkin Zuwo struggled with speaking English, every northerner is an illiterate; in fact, no northerner has a brain. Because of the insane activities of ISIS and Boko Haram, every Muslim is a terrorist, including your friend. Tragically, there are people that the only thing they can see in you is your language or religion, not the content of your character.
Let me quickly say this before I shut down my laptop and take a stroll: it is very difficult to resist the message of hate and prejudice in a society already polluted by manipulative politicians, their overpaid sidekicks and our inept leaders. I know. When everybody is saying there is casting down, it is very difficult to go against the grain and say there is lifting up. You just go with the flow. But maybe the “casting down” gang is not as big as the “lifting up” brigade — just that the latter has been intimidated into silence. They must begin to speak out. Rome was not destroyed in a day. Those working to destroy Nigeria neither sleep nor slumber.
As for me and my house, we resolved long ago that we would never feed our children with hate, prejudices and biases. These things are usually passed on from generation to generation. I resolved to follow the example of my grandmother by celebrating the best in others rather than focusing on their worst. I would rather talk about the dignity in labour you find among the Hausa, the creativity among the Igbo and the industry among the Yoruba. Accuse me of living in denial and I will accuse you of living in bitterness. Accuse me of being politically correct and I will accuse you of being self-righteous. Accuse me of being naïve and I will accuse you of being jaundiced. It’s all in the mind.
Sadiq Daba, the actor, ran into some serious health issues recently. He cried out for financial help to undergo foreign treatment. Pronto, Nigerians reacted overwhelmingly. But wait. I did not hear anybody talk about Daba’s religion or ethnic group. The people who tweeted and retweeted his appeal for help, and those who contributed money, were certainly not from his village. I was so so so so so happy. It confirmed, yet again, my pet theory about Nigeria — that we do not hate each other. We are just victims of the unending political manipulation of ethnic and religious identities for selfish gain. Evidently, ordinary Nigerians have the “Nigerian spirit” in their DNA.
Indeed. I have met extremists and chauvinists from across religions and races. I am yet to hear anyone declare that we were not created by the same God. One of the most astonishing things about life, to me, is the fact that although we can choose to be Muslims or Christians, and so on, nobody can choose to be Hausa, Fulani, Igbo, Yoruba or whatever. We just woke up one day to find ourselves as members of one ethnic group or the other. It was not our making. So why should you discriminate against me, and hate me, on the basis of an ethnic identity that is beyond my control? Is it my fault that I was born into a family that was clearly not my choice?
Today, I am going a little bit practical on how we can renew our minds. There is a saying that Rome was not built in a day, a proverb originated by the 19th century English playwright, John Heywood, who also gave us immortal expressions such as “out of sight out of mind”, “better late than never”, and “the more the merrier”. He said Rome wasn’t built in a day “but they were laying bricks every hour”. This, in some sense, tells us the value of consistent hard work, perseverance and conscious efforts at construction. If Nigeria is going to change, therefore, we must alienate those who see themselves, first and foremost, as ethno-religious champions. It all starts in the mind.
But, pardon me, Rome was not destroyed in a day either. It took ages to build the city but took a much shorter time to destroy it. Rome was sacked by the Visigoths in 410 AD. In three days, they looted, burnt and wrecked the beautiful city. That hastened the collapse of the Roman Empire. Same thing applies here: the destruction of Nigeria by ethnic champions and religious bigots will not happen in one day — it is a gradual, steady process. That is why we the people must guard our hearts jealously before we are recruited into the hate brigade under different guises. Those already recruited can decide to desert straightaway. We need to build, not destroy.
My suggestions. To start with, do not participate in the sharing of messages and materials that are clearly intended to preach hate and prejudice. Saying “shared as received” is pure hypocrisy. You can be critical of leadership without attacking or disparaging their religions and ethnic origins. As a matter of principle, I do not share messages that are clearly meant to spread hate. It is a duty I owe my conscience. We all have terrible things to say about other people. If we do not allow love to guard our hearts, we will keep adding fuel to fire. Therefore, before you press the “send” or “forward” button, ask yourself: what is my motive? Unto thyself, be honest.
Also, do not feed your children with hate and prejudice. Fill their hearts with edifying things. A senior colleague of mine, a Muslim, married a Christian, who then converted to Islam. He told me he once engaged the services of a cleric to teach his children the Qur’an every Sunday. One day, he overheard the cleric telling the children not to drink from the same cup or eat from the same plate with their aunts, who were living with them, because they were “infidels”. My colleague fired the “afa” on the spot. He remains a devout Muslim, sure, but he saw danger and immediately quenched it. This kind of hate messaging certainly fuelled the mindset that birthed Boko Haram.
This is how hate works: it focuses on what divides us rather than what unites us. If there are Qur’anic verses that say Muslims should love and care for Christians, the hate merchants will focus on where Christians are called “infidels”. If there are verses in the Bible that say “love your neighbour as yourself”, the messengers of hate will focus on “what fellowship does light have with darkness?” There is nothing you want to justify with the scriptures that you won’t find. If you truly have love in your heart, you will focus on the verses of love. The God that forbade eating four-footed creatures is the same God that ordered Apostle Peter, in a trance, to kill and eat! To the pure all things are pure.
And this is how prejudice works: because Chief Obafami Awolowo did not declare Oduduwa Republic in solidarity with Biafra in 1967, every Yoruba is a traitor — including the one that was born early this morning. Because an Igbo chap was arrested for 419, every Igbo person — dead, living or unborn — is a fraudster. Because Barkin Zuwo struggled with speaking English, every northerner is an illiterate; in fact, no northerner has a brain. Because of the insane activities of ISIS and Boko Haram, every Muslim is a terrorist, including your friend. Tragically, there are people that the only thing they can see in you is your language or religion, not the content of your character.
Let me quickly say this before I shut down my laptop and take a stroll: it is very difficult to resist the message of hate and prejudice in a society already polluted by manipulative politicians, their overpaid sidekicks and our inept leaders. I know. When everybody is saying there is casting down, it is very difficult to go against the grain and say there is lifting up. You just go with the flow. But maybe the “casting down” gang is not as big as the “lifting up” brigade — just that the latter has been intimidated into silence. They must begin to speak out. Rome was not destroyed in a day. Those working to destroy Nigeria neither sleep nor slumber.
As for me and my house, we resolved long ago that we would never feed our children with hate, prejudices and biases. These things are usually passed on from generation to generation. I resolved to follow the example of my grandmother by celebrating the best in others rather than focusing on their worst. I would rather talk about the dignity in labour you find among the Hausa, the creativity among the Igbo and the industry among the Yoruba. Accuse me of living in denial and I will accuse you of living in bitterness. Accuse me of being politically correct and I will accuse you of being self-righteous. Accuse me of being naïve and I will accuse you of being jaundiced. It’s all in the mind.
Political Thief Vs. Ordinary Thief
What is the difference between an Ordinary Thief (OT) & a Political Thief (PT) ?
1. The *Ordinary Thief* steals your money, bag, watch, gold chain etc.
But, The *Political Thief* steals your future, career, education, health & business !
😭
2. The hilarious part is : The *Ordinary Thief* will choose whom to rob
But, you yourself choose the *Political Thief* to rob you.
😭
3. The most ironic one : Police will chase and nab the *Ordinary Thief,*
But, Police will look after and protect the *Political Thief !*
That’s the *travesty cum irony* of our current society!
And, we blindly say we are not blind !😌
1. The *Ordinary Thief* steals your money, bag, watch, gold chain etc.
But, The *Political Thief* steals your future, career, education, health & business !
😭
2. The hilarious part is : The *Ordinary Thief* will choose whom to rob
But, you yourself choose the *Political Thief* to rob you.
😭
3. The most ironic one : Police will chase and nab the *Ordinary Thief,*
But, Police will look after and protect the *Political Thief !*
That’s the *travesty cum irony* of our current society!
And, we blindly say we are not blind !😌
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Why America Denied Atiku Abubakar Visa
Honorable Jeff Sessions Attorney General:
I came across the most fascinating article https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/…/corruption-us-senate-repor…/. Atiku Abukkar is a politician that employs many Americans in Nigeria and is running for President of Nigeria. Atiku has a family member Blessing Dorin Douglas working in San Jose California January 2018 in Stonecrest financial real estate firm. So this family member would need to be disclosed as politically exposed person agreement.
Atiku Abubakkar and his wife Jennifer Blessing Dorin Douglas were the subject of an investigation previously that I had read about previously but this report contained information I had not previously been aware.
I am disabled but this is in the public’s interest I feel.
I am disabled but this is in the public’s interest I feel.
The text of the article is as follows:
In 2003, the United States supported the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, now ratified by over 140 countries. Also in 2003, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) formed an investigative group dedicated to combating foreign corruption by PEPs. In 2004, President Bush issued Presidential Proclamation 7750 denying U.S. visas to foreign officials involved with corruption, and Congress later enacted supporting legislation. A 2009 study sponsored by the World Bank analyzed PEP controls worldwide and recommended stronger measures to reduce corruption.
The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (Subcommittee) initiated this investigation to learn how U.S. laws apply to PEPs utilizing the domestic financial system, and examine how foreign senior political figures, their relatives, and close associates may be circumventing or undermining anti-money laundering (AML) and PEP controls to bring funds that may be the product of foreign corruption into the United States. It is the latest in a series of Subcommittee hearings examining foreign corruption and its U.S. aiders and abettors.
Former vice president Atiku Abubakar has for a long time been challenging Nigerians who accused him of being corrupt to come forward and prove it. So far nobody has come forward.
Well, PMNEWS has received a report on how Atiku was the subject of a probe ten years ago, by a United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Senator Carl Levin.
The report detailed how Atiku Abubakar while still the vice president of Nigeria between 2000 and 2008, used offshore companies to siphon millions of dollars to his fourth wife in the United States, Jennifer Douglas.
Specifically, the report said Jennifer Douglas, an American citizen, helped her husband bring over $40 million in suspect funds into the United States through wire transfers sent by offshore corporations to U.S. bank accounts.
In 2004, the then President Bush barred Atiku and other corrupt politically exposed persons from being issued visa to the United States.
The US Senate probe was motivated by US government concern about corruption in the Third World and its corrosive effects on the development of honest government, democratic principles, and the rule of law.
“It is also blamed for distorting markets, deterring investment, deepening poverty, undermining international aid efforts, and fostering crime. Some have drawn connections between corruption, failed states, and terrorism. Corruption also continues to be a massive problem. The World Bank has estimated that $1 trillion in bribes alone exchange hands worldwide each year,” the committee noted in its bulky report.
Atiku was not the only foreign Politically Exposed Person(PEP) probed by the committee. He had company in Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, now the 48-year-old son of Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mbasogo, the President of Equatorial Guinea (EG), late President of Gabon, Omar Bongo and three Angolan PEP accounts, involving an Angolan arms dealer, an Angolan government official, and a small Angolan private bank.
The committee submitted its report on 4 February 2010, three years after Atiku left office.
The report unveiled violations of US laws by Atiku and his fourth wife, Jennifer Douglas. It also included revelations about Siemens bribe paid into one of the accounts, and it possibly provided the basis for Atiku being barred from entering the United States, since then.
This Report examines how politically powerful foreign officials, their relatives, and close associates – referred to in international agreements as Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) – have used the services of U.S. professionals and financial institutions to bring large amounts of suspect funds into the United States to advance their interests. Using four case histories, this Report shows how some PEPs have used U.S. lawyers, real estate and escrow agents, lobbyists, bankers, and even university officials, to circumvent U.S. anti-money laundering and anti- corruption safeguards. This Report also offers recommendations to stop the abuses.
Here is a summary of the report:
Atiku Case History.
From 2000 to 2008, Jennifer Douglas, a U.S. citizen and the fourth wife of Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President and former candidate for President of Nigeria, helped her husband bring over $40 million in suspect funds into the United States through wire transfers sent by offshore corporations to U.S. bank accounts.
In a 2008 civil complaint, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged that Ms. Douglas received over $2 million in bribe payments in 2001 and 2002, from Siemens AG, a major German corporation.
While Ms. Douglas denies wrongdoing, Siemens has already pleaded guilty to U.S. criminal charges and settled civil charges related to bribery and told the Subcommittee that it sent the payments to one of her U.S. accounts.
In 2007, Mr. Atiku was the subject of corruption allegations in Nigeria related to the Petroleum Technology Development Fund.
Of the $40 million in suspect funds, $25 million was wire transferred by offshore corporations into more than 30 U.S. bank accounts opened by Ms. Douglas, primarily by Guernsey Trust Company Nigeria Ltd., LetsGo Ltd. Inc., and Sima Holding Ltd.
The U.S. banks maintaining those accounts were, at times, unaware of her PEP status, and they allowed multiple, large offshore wire transfers into her accounts. As each bank began to question the offshore wire transfers, Ms. Douglas indicated that all of the funds came from her husband and professed little familiarity with the offshore corporations actually sending her money.
When one bank closed her account due to the offshore wire transfers, her lawyer helped convince other banks to provide a new account. In addition, two of the offshore corporations wire transferred about $14 million over five years to American University in Washington, D.C., to pay for consulting services related to the development of a Nigerian university founded by Mr. Atiku Abubakar.
American University accepted the wire transfers without asking about the identity of the offshore corporations or the source of their funds, because under current law, the University had no legal obligation to inquire.
Executive Summary
Combating corruption is a key U.S. value and goal, due to its corrosive effects on the rule of law, economic development, and democratic principles. In 2001, the Patriot Act made the acceptance of foreign corruption proceeds a U.S. money laundering offense for the first time, and required banks to apply enhanced scrutiny to private banking accounts opened for senior foreign political figures, their relatives, and close associates. In 2003, the United States supported the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, now ratified by over 140 countries. Also in 2003, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) formed an investigative group dedicated to combating foreign corruption by PEPs. In 2004, President Bush issued Presidential Proclamation 7750 denying U.S. visas to foreign officials involved with corruption, and Congress later enacted supporting legislation. A 2009 study sponsored by the World Bank analyzed PEP controls worldwide and recommended stronger measures to reduce corruption.
The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (Subcommittee) initiated this investigation to learn how U.S. laws apply to PEPs utilizing the domestic financial system, and examine how foreign senior political figures, their relatives, and close associates may be circumventing or undermining anti-money laundering (AML) and PEP controls to bring funds that may be the product of foreign corruption into the United States. It is the latest in a series of Subcommittee hearings examining foreign corruption and its U.S. aiders and abettors.
During the course of its investigation, the Subcommittee staff conducted over 100 interviews, including interviews of lawyers, real estate agents, escrow agents, lobbyists, bankers, university professionals, and government officials. The Subcommittee issued over 50 subpoenas and reviewed millions of pages of documents, including bank records, correspondence, contracts, emails, property records, flight records, news articles, and court pleadings. In addition, the Subcommittee consulted with foreign officials, international organizations, financial regulators, and experts in anti-money laundering and anti-corruption efforts.
Corruption: The US Senate Report That Finally Nailed Atiku Abubakar
https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/…/corruption-us-senate-repor…/
https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/…/corruption-us-senate-repor…/
What Happy People Do Differently
If you can read, understand and digest this, your relationship with your spouse and people around you will last longer.
*Look at these happy faces*
😄😊☺😂😌😚😆😄☺😁
*And look at these sad faces*
😡😠😢😳😰😥😳😢😠😱😨
Did you notice that almost all happy faces have closed eyes !
And on the other hand, all sad or angry faces have open eyes !
This is life.. Close ur eyes & ignore all negative things to live happily 😄
Yuo konw waht is Rael Reltionship?
I m gving yuo an exmpl : Jsut c tihs msg. Evrey splleing of tihs msg is wrnog. Bt sitll yuo can raed it wihtuot ayn mistake. if u wnat true Raleti0nship; jsut ignoer mistaeks of others.. and understand them...!!👍
Don't keep this with you. Pass it on..
😃😊Keep smiling😊😄
*Look at these happy faces*
😄😊☺😂😌😚😆😄☺😁
*And look at these sad faces*
😡😠😢😳😰😥😳😢😠😱😨
Did you notice that almost all happy faces have closed eyes !
And on the other hand, all sad or angry faces have open eyes !
This is life.. Close ur eyes & ignore all negative things to live happily 😄
Yuo konw waht is Rael Reltionship?
I m gving yuo an exmpl : Jsut c tihs msg. Evrey splleing of tihs msg is wrnog. Bt sitll yuo can raed it wihtuot ayn mistake. if u wnat true Raleti0nship; jsut ignoer mistaeks of others.. and understand them...!!👍
Don't keep this with you. Pass it on..
😃😊Keep smiling😊😄
FFK Exposes Babagana Kingibe As a British Spy
ON KINGIBE, HERE IS HOW FEMI FANI-KAYODE CAPTURED IT..
"I will say this just once after which I will never mention or discuss him in this forum again. Baba Gana Kingibe is one if not the most dangerous, evil, treacherous and demonic souls that I have ever known and the very thougt that he wants to be President sickens and offends me. Though he is a Kanuri he is one of the greatest defenders of northern hegemony that has ever lived and he has a deep hatred for the south even though he pretends to love the Yorubas particularly.
He was made by the Fulani and he always serves their interests and purpose even though he has also betrayed every Fulani leader that has ever helped him. Apart from betraying his mentor and the man that gave him his first job and brought him into politics, Maj Gen Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, and leading him to his death, he also betrayed OBJ, who gave him his first break in life, MKO Abiola, who made him his running mate and Umaru Yar'adua who made him his SGF. He also betrayed Abacha, who made him his Minister of Internal and later Foreign Affairs, and he played a role in the death of Abacha's son Ibrahim and others. Presently he is one of Buhari's most trusted allies and hardliners and he operates covertly guiding matters secretly and from behind. He is their "expert advisor" on the south.
Though he is not Fulani he is far more powerful than people like Ismaila Isa Funtua in the cabal and second only to Mamman Daura. Most imp of all is that he is not just an ignorant northerner but a British public school trained man who went to Sussex University after finishing at Bishop Storfords College. I have known him for 48 years because during the days of the civil war when he was a student at Sussex University with men like the late Ibrahim Tahir he used to spend a lot of time in my fathers house in Brighton, England. I have known him well since and at one point he, myself, his ex-wife Ireti and my ex-wife Yemisi were very close. What he tried to do to me and all of OBJ's loyalists and OBJ himself when Yar'adua was in power was callous and unimaginable.
He went as far as to accuse us of plotting a coup and some of us were investigated and questioned. All because he hated OBJ and because Jimi Lawal, El Rufai's best friend, was having an affair with his wife Ireti. He is sophisticated, urbane, enlightened, suave, polite and as ruthless, deadly and murderous as a rattle snake. Worst of all is that he was trained by M16 who he still works for till today. His role and influence in the Nigerian intelligence agencies is legendary and still subsists till today. His hands are filled with blood and he has no conscience or remorse about anything he has ever done in the past. It amazes me that a man that is so much under the shadows and that is a well known spook and spy should be considered by anyone at this stage of our history to run for the Presidency. It tells u that most adult Nigerians are still living in the dark and have NO knowledge of who did what in their own history. I urge everyone here to do their research.
A man like Kingibe is utterly deadly and unaccetable. Give him or anyone like him power and not only will we back to square one but no southerner will EVER smell power again. Finally let me add this. There is nothing that I have said here that I have not told him to his face. I did so in Nasr El Rufai's house in 2011 just after he was kicked out of Yar'Adua's govt, after Nasir lost his daughter and came back from exile. If I ever see him again I will say even worse."
FFK
"I will say this just once after which I will never mention or discuss him in this forum again. Baba Gana Kingibe is one if not the most dangerous, evil, treacherous and demonic souls that I have ever known and the very thougt that he wants to be President sickens and offends me. Though he is a Kanuri he is one of the greatest defenders of northern hegemony that has ever lived and he has a deep hatred for the south even though he pretends to love the Yorubas particularly.
He was made by the Fulani and he always serves their interests and purpose even though he has also betrayed every Fulani leader that has ever helped him. Apart from betraying his mentor and the man that gave him his first job and brought him into politics, Maj Gen Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, and leading him to his death, he also betrayed OBJ, who gave him his first break in life, MKO Abiola, who made him his running mate and Umaru Yar'adua who made him his SGF. He also betrayed Abacha, who made him his Minister of Internal and later Foreign Affairs, and he played a role in the death of Abacha's son Ibrahim and others. Presently he is one of Buhari's most trusted allies and hardliners and he operates covertly guiding matters secretly and from behind. He is their "expert advisor" on the south.
Though he is not Fulani he is far more powerful than people like Ismaila Isa Funtua in the cabal and second only to Mamman Daura. Most imp of all is that he is not just an ignorant northerner but a British public school trained man who went to Sussex University after finishing at Bishop Storfords College. I have known him for 48 years because during the days of the civil war when he was a student at Sussex University with men like the late Ibrahim Tahir he used to spend a lot of time in my fathers house in Brighton, England. I have known him well since and at one point he, myself, his ex-wife Ireti and my ex-wife Yemisi were very close. What he tried to do to me and all of OBJ's loyalists and OBJ himself when Yar'adua was in power was callous and unimaginable.
He went as far as to accuse us of plotting a coup and some of us were investigated and questioned. All because he hated OBJ and because Jimi Lawal, El Rufai's best friend, was having an affair with his wife Ireti. He is sophisticated, urbane, enlightened, suave, polite and as ruthless, deadly and murderous as a rattle snake. Worst of all is that he was trained by M16 who he still works for till today. His role and influence in the Nigerian intelligence agencies is legendary and still subsists till today. His hands are filled with blood and he has no conscience or remorse about anything he has ever done in the past. It amazes me that a man that is so much under the shadows and that is a well known spook and spy should be considered by anyone at this stage of our history to run for the Presidency. It tells u that most adult Nigerians are still living in the dark and have NO knowledge of who did what in their own history. I urge everyone here to do their research.
A man like Kingibe is utterly deadly and unaccetable. Give him or anyone like him power and not only will we back to square one but no southerner will EVER smell power again. Finally let me add this. There is nothing that I have said here that I have not told him to his face. I did so in Nasr El Rufai's house in 2011 just after he was kicked out of Yar'Adua's govt, after Nasir lost his daughter and came back from exile. If I ever see him again I will say even worse."
FFK
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