SARAKI'S- MANIPULATIVE ROAD TO JUSTICE

THE JOURNEY OF THE ORDEAL OF THE SARAKIS WITH THE EFFC AND THE POLICE HAS A HISTORY. IT DID NOT START WITH THE APC GOVERNMENT.

AHMED OJUROBA

It has become customary, every politician who comes under scrutiny from the Economic and Financial crimes commission (EFCC) cries wolf where there is none. It is tradition for them to want to make the general public see it as a witch hunting exercise but a wise man once told me that a man of integrity they say has nothing to hide.
Senate president Olubukola Saraki is the latest in the long line of corrupt politicians to tow this line. It has become some kind of a classic act. Working the sentiments of Nigerians, these people have mastered the act of playing victim.
It is an absolute insult on our collective intelligence for Senator Sakari and his cohorts to claim that he is being witch hunted.
One needs not do too much digging to find that the distinguished senator's running with the law dates way back. Senator Saraki had been a person of interest of the anti-graft agencies and news first broke in February 2012 that the former governor of Kwara had been invited by the police in connection with severe cases of "conspiracy and money laundering". The police letter has reference number CR.3000/X/SFU/ADM/BFC/Vol.17/2014.
The police had accused Saraki of using fictitious names to launder several million of dollars into the accounts of some companies owned by him.

“There are several unusual cash inflows into the dollar domiciliary account of Carlislie Properties and Investment Ltd by Polybags Industry (Nig) Ltd.,” according to the police affidavit.
It added that PolyBags industry made payments of between US$4,500 and US$10,000 eight ( separate times on 24th August, 2010 amounting to $78,000.

Curiously, the police said, “Polybags Industry NIg. has denied ever making such payments”, raising suspicion that the name polybag was probably used as a fictitious name to launder the money.

Police said different individuals linked to Saraki, including one Abdul Adama, lodged unusually huge sums of money into his naira and dollar accounts. One of such accounts is identified as 003497479.

Police listed some of the transactions as follows:”On the 10th of May 2009, 18 separate lodgments of $10,000 were made by the said Abdul Adama, who also used the fictitious name of Garba Dare to make some of these lodgments the same date! It totaled US$180,000.00 in one day!

“There was also an unusual single inflow on 12th February, 2010 of the sum of $120,000 which was immediately converted to pound sterling and wired overseas through the applicant (Saraki)’s Pound Sterling Account.

“There was unusual single cash inflow on 15th February, 2010 of the sum of $US1,000,000.00 in one day! Same was also converted to pound sterling and wired overseas through British Pound Sterling account No. 441/441953/3/1/0.

“The converted dollars to pounds sterling ended up in the purchase of a real property in the United Kingdom.”
The Police also said there are “so many other unusual heavy inflows into the applicant (Saraki)’s account that were usually wired overseas to fund applicant’s American Express Card No. 374588216 836009.”

“All these lodgments made in favour of the applicants have necessitated his invitation,” the affidavit added (The Will March 24, 2014).
Shockingly, Senator Sakari did not honor this invite and the chance to clear his name but instead sought a court injunction stopping the police from arresting and prosecuting him in relation to the matter.
Represented by three Senior Advocates of Nigeria, who were led by Saka Isiaku and Lawal Rabana, Mr. Saraki had prayed that Justice Olotu restrain the special anti-fraud unit of the Nigeria police from questioning him over his involvement in the N21 Billion million loan scam perpetrated at the now defunct InterContinental Bank.
When his bid to secure a court order stopping the police from arresting him failed, the beleaguered senator reportedly went into hiding.
Saraki’s connection with Joy Petroleum casts a huge shadow of doubt over his claims of innocence in the 21 billion loan scam from the now defunct Intercontinental bank.
Police investigation into the crime revealed that the accounts of Joy Petroleum, from which they found that credit transfers were made at a time the sole operator of the account, Mr. Obahor, a former aide of Mr. Saraki was long deceased.
The police also wondered how a debt of N9.7 Billion was dramatically written off from the same account that in turn was closed by one Abdul Adamu, who they found out to be an aide of Mr. Saraki.
The police were also puzzled to find that the head office of the company on No 30 Saka Tinubu Street, Victoria Island, Lagos belongs to Mr. Saraki. The police also question the fact that he had used his office as the Governor of Kwara State to influence the purchase of the stock of the company by the Kwara State Ministry of Finance. Above all, the police said Mr. Saraki had been an open promoter of Joy Petroleum Ltd. and on several occasions used his personal properties to guarantee loans taken by the company.
It is therefore absolutely absurd to sell us the line that Sakari is being targeted as even his wife, Oluwatoyin Sakari, a director in one of the companies been investigated in the loan scam, had also been grilled for her involvement in financial deals that have now gone awry.
The EFCC under the last administration was unable to complete its investigation into these matters because of interference by the powers that be whom the senator was wining and dining with at the time.
All such cases are being reopened by the anti-graft agency and if Senator Bukola Saraki hands and those of his associates are truly as clean as we would make us believe, then I see no reason for them to be worried.
The question then begs if Saraki would this time take the chance to clear his name once and for all or keep playing the game of elusiveness that he has come to master over the years.

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Wailing wailers can wail, Saraki is the cleanest politician of our days. Even buhari,'s purported integrity is not as Clean as saraki's PMB is a witchunter .

Saraki is not from. The country of western nigeria


Saraki is a village in somewhere I think is Kano state.

The northerners name themself after their city or town.

Saraki is just an immigrate to the country of western Nigeria. So he is qualify to run for office in nigeria.