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A new report has detailed how the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, in cohort with major Swiss oil trading companies, is draining Nigeria of billions of dollars of revenue through the sale of crude oil below the market value.
The report, titled Swiss Traders’ Opaque Deals in Nigerian, released on Monday by Swiss non-governmental advocacy organisation, the Berne Declaration, also described the schemes employed by Nigerian and foreign fuel importers, such as creating offshore subsidiaries referred to as “letterbox companies”, ship-to-ship transfer to create untraceable paperwork, payment of subsidy money to phantom and non-existing importers, and partnering with politically exposed fraudsters to defraud the country over $6.8 billion from 2009 and 2011.
Berne Declaration describes the Nigerian oil scam as the greatest fraud Africa has ever known.
The report narrates the specific roles played by seven major oil marketers and fuel importers through their shell companies in Switzerland and notorious offshore tax haven, Bermuda, to deny Nigeria billions of naira in tax earnings.
 
NNPC opaque deals
Describing the NNPC as the “all-powerful,” the report says the government owned corporation “plays a significant role in maintaining the ‘resource curse.”
According to the report, oil, which makes up 58 per cent of Nigeria’s revenue, is not contributing to the country’s development as much as it should. The report blames the engrained poverty and inequalities in the country partly on the siphoning of the nation’s resources through the NNPC and other shady deals by fuel importers in collusion with foreigners, especially Swiss commodity trading firms.
Prominent among these shady deals are the partnership between the NNPC and two Geneva-based commodity trading firms, Vitol and Trafigura, registered in Bermuda.
Through NNPC partnership with Vitol (the largest oil trader in Switzerland) and Trafigura (the third largest) described as ‘operational and financial black boxes’ billions of naira that should have accrued to the government are wired to Bermuda where the joint venture is established.
“In reality, the profit generated by these entities escapes State coffers, first, because no taxation in Bermuda is paid, since the tax on profits is zero,” the report stated.
“Vitol and Trafigura alone took respectively 13.44 % and 13.49 % of Nigerian crude oil exports in 2011 for a cumulative value of 6.7 billion dollars.”
More than 56 per cent of oil put up for sale by the NNPC in 2011 valued at $14.004 billion were sold to Swiss companies or Nigerian companies with “letterbox” subsidiaries in Switzerland.
The report shows how NNPC is cashing in on the disrepair of the country’s refineries to feed its fraudulent partnership with these oil dealers. Despite the fact that local refineries operate at less than 40 per cent capacity, the NNPC still allocates crude to them as if they were operating at full capacity. The excess allocations are then sold to Geneva-based companies or Nigerian oil marketers through their letterbox subsidiaries in Switzerland at knockdown prices or exchanged for refined petroleum products in shady swap contract.
“Nigeria is the only major producing country that sells 100% of its crude to private traders rather than market it itself and benefiting from the resulting added value. A number of beneficiaries of export allocations are nothing but letterbox companies whose sole merit is that they are linked to high-ranking political officials or their entourage,” the report stated, a view similar to that by a Nigerian government investigation team headed former anti-graft boss, Nuhu Ribadu.
The report suggested that Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) and their fronts are also cashing in on the absence of money laundering legislation in Switzerland to hide their loots. In fact, many of the “letterbox” subsidiaries may have been set up for that specific reason.
“Politically-linked holders of such letterboxes are known, in banking terminology, as ‘politically exposed persons’ (PEPs), towards whom any financial intermediary must exercise particular duties of due diligence by virtue of the law on money laundering in order to ensure the legality of the funds. In Switzerland traders are not subjected to such duties and have no obligation to question the credibility of their partners. This leaves them with full latitude to trade with such fake entities. But in Nigeria such entities represent a major part of the ‘market’,” the report explains.
Geneva, a haven for Nigerian Fraudsters
Oil importers that have been indicted in the subsidy scam have found a convenient hide out in Geneva where they have established subsidiaries.
Berne Declaration explains why Geneva has become a haven for these companies:
“There are two reasons underlying the creation of these subsidiaries… In certain cases, it is a matter of benefiting from the tax that the cartons offer for companies working primarily abroad – which is undoubtedly relevant for a Nigerian importer in other case the primary motivation is to get closer to banks specialising in financing trading. This hope has often proven vain due to the reputation of Nigeria and the relative anonymity of these firms. This is all the more so since several of these companies have no real activities in Switzerland, have contended themselves just with an address in a fiduciary or lawyer’s office.”
The report identifies seven major Nigerian fuel importers as the worst culprits. They include:
MRS Group, which owns a subsidiary, called Petrowest Services SA. MRS Group was indicted by the Technical Committee on Payment of Fuel Subsidy for collecting tens of millions of dollars between 2011 and 2012 that it could not back up with documents of physical transactions.
The Presidential Committee on Verification and reconciliation of Fuel Subsidy Payment later cleared MRS. The committee did not give any reasons to show that its transactions were legitimate, according to the Swiss report.
Ontario Oil and Gas limited owned by Ugo-Ngadi Adaoha has a Swiss Subsidiary named Ontario Trading and located at the premises of Nimex Petroleum in Geneva. Nimex Petroleum was once suspended from trading in Nigeria for not supplying required maritime documents.
Mrs. Ugo-Ngadi was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, in August 2012 for fraud and conspiracy but was later released on bail. Ontario was indicted for over N4 billion false subsidy claims.
The report revealed that despite dropping Ontario Oil and Gas from the list of fuel importers for 2013, the company was allowed to continue its crude oil export business.
Rahamaniyya Group, which owns a subsidiary called Rahamaniyya Oil and Gas SA in Geneva since October 2010 is also located in the premises of the shady Nimex Petroleum which seems to be acting as an incubator for shady companies.
The company was asked to reimburse over N507 million subsidy funds collected, but has not been stopped from importing fuel.
 
Tridax Energy and Limited and Mezcor Limited have Swiss subsidiaries named Tridax SA and Mezcor SA in Geneva. They both received N2.544 billion ($15.9 million) without importing any petroleum products. In fact, the companies received permits to import products before applying for it. The companies, according to the Swiss report, have been traced to close associates and the younger brother of the Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke.
Sahara Energy’s Swiss subsidiary is called Sahara International Pte Limited. The company was requested to reimburse the government’s N6 billion subsidy fund it falsely collected. Despite importing less fuel than they should have and have been paid for, the company is still being allowed to import fuel.
There is also the Lagos-based Aiteo Energy Resources Limited owned by Benedict Peter and Francis Peter. Its subsidiary in Geneva is called Aiteo Suisse AG. Aiteo was asked to reimburse the government over N578 million in subsidy fund it falsely collected. Just like Tridax and Mezcor, Aiteo also received the permit to import fuel without requesting for it.
Efforts to reach the NNPC spokesperson, Tunmini Green, on the agency’s reaction to the report were unsuccessful. Ms. Green’s phone was switched off.

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By Bayo Oluwasanmi
People power! 
 
It is the most underutilized weapon in the arsenal of oppressed Nigerians. People power – ask the Egyptians and they would tell you how potent and pungent is people power.
 
Nigerians need some tutorials on people power from Egyptians. From “Arab Spring” into Summer of Discontent, Egyptians successfully overthrew two governments in 30 months through people power.
 
Nigerians have been lulled into a sense of apathy because they have been castrated by fear to confront the ruling class and for once change the dynamics of governance. 
 
The Egyptians now know they have power of mass of troops made up of ordinary citizens to direct or redirect their national affairs. Though it is too early to assess the benefits of the revolution, it is instructive to note that the people possess immense power to reject and eject any government at any time and install government of their choice. This is the salient lesson for Nigerians from the Egyptian Revolution.
 
The elected representatives of the people have become terminally diseased with Chronic Stealing Syndrome (CSS). They have been effectively neutered by corruption to be of any good to the people.
 
The National Assembly – Senate and the House of Representatives – comprised of untutored minds known for oppressive waste. Because of the dishonorable behavior of its members, the National Assembly has become the phoniest piece of baloney. With deliberate delight the legislators are steering the nation toward a descent into imagined hell. 
 
The presidential democracy that we practice is anything but democratic or presidential. What we have now is Hitlerite Democracy that has no room for peaceful protest, voices of dissent, exchange of ideas, and intelligent discourse without hurling insults or labeling critics as saboteurs or unpatriotic citizens trying to pull down the government.
 
Unlike in advanced democracies, our political parties are not as formalized and ideological, rather are formed around personalities. Instead of dealing with the issues, they fight individuals.
 
To be sure, governments are necessary but not all governments are good for their citizens. We often assumed wrongly that only governments that are dictatorships, authoritarian, or repressive are bad. Not true. There are many ways for a democratic government to repress their citizens.
 
Obviously, the objective of any repressive government is to make you a dependent citizen. Why? Because dependent citizens don’t think or rebel. Another way is to keep you guessing the next line of action the government would take. You may never know when you would be thrown in jail. Yet another way is double standard. There is no cause and effect. There are no consequences that are applied consistently.
 
The above characteristics of a repressive democratic government succinctly mirror our experiment and experience with our second or third fiddle (or is it fourth?) with democracy.
 
August 19, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili was the key note speaker at a Civil Society Roundtable on “Cost of Governance” hosted by the Civil Society Legislative Center (CISLAC). The focus of her address was on “unsustainable economic structure and management of public finance.” 
 
To substantiate her claim of prodigal waste by our representatives, she relied on eight years data 2005-2013 on budgetary allocations or transfers to the National Assembly. The source of her data was information displayed by the Ministry of Finance in the public domain.  By simple addition, she came up with One Trillion Naira for the eight years under review.
 
This is not the first time Dr. Ekwesili would collide head-on with the members of the National Assembly. Not long ago, she provoked the ire of the representatives and the presidency when she accused them of squandering the foreign reserve. On each occasion, she was vilified, harassed, insulted and threatened.
 
There seems to be a great confusion what the word democracy means to our representatives. Simply, it means the government of the people. It implies that every Nigerian including Dr. Ezekwesili should be able to have their say in one way or another in everything that affects their lives. We are not under dictatorship. We are in a democracy!
 
Citizens’ input and contributions that would inform or shape decision making process of our legislative bodies could best be exercised through representative democracy.  Representative democracy would be meaningful and relevant only if our representatives would really make all their decisions only after consulting their constituencies thereby having a clear idea about the views of their constituents on a particular issue, and trying to accommodate these views as best as possible.
 
Sadly, the Nigerian brand of representative democracy is not true democracy according to the above definition, rather is actually just elected dictatorship. Nigerians only vote every four years, they do not vote any issues. 
 
All Nigerians do is elect their so called representatives who then until the next elections have no obligations by law and little or no incentive to base their decisions on individual issues on the wishes of their electorates. Because the representatives hardly ever bother to consult them on various issues, the “representatives” act in a very dictatorial manner between elections. 
 
Is anything wrong for Dr. Ezekwesili asking to be heard? What part of her opinions or views on accountability and transparency constitute present and clear danger to democratic process? Has she any right to engage in debate or ask for one on how her representatives run the country? Why are the representatives so defensive and antagonistic? What do they have in their closets that they are hiding from Dr. Ezekwesili? By the way, who is afraid of Dr. Ezekwesili? And why? 
 
In Nigeria, the policy making process is weak, our political society is not pluralistic, and checks and balances are poor. These factors render political incentives impotent from promoting public good that favor Nigerian society at large.
 
A more representative democracy requires mutual, active engagement from political actors, state agencies, and groups of citizens in the daily functioning of the state between elections by way of making policies that address public needs, in providing services to the people in an effective way, in giving feedback for adequate reforms, and giving account to the citizens and their representatives for the way the country is run.
 
All Dr. Ezekwesili is asking for is democratic accountability. Democratic accountability is ensuring citizens, political parties, representatives, and other democratic stakeholders and institutions and provides feedback to, reward or sanction officials in charge of setting and enacting public policy.
 
Democracy is not a spectator spot. When good men and women do nothing, idiots thrive. Dr. Ezekwesili’s strident calls and fanatical insistence on the elected representatives to discuss or debate the economic and financial health of the nation, call for openness, honesty, and fairness. 
 
Operating from a state of permanent annoyance in juxtaposition to Dr. Ezekwesili’s demand for accountability, the National Assembly sees Dr. Ezekwesili as a trouble maker, unpatriotic, hell raiser, and as someone who pokes her nose on “other people’s business.”  All Dr. Ezekwesili did in her presentation was to amplify the impact of the spending recklessness and misplaced priorities of the legislators.
 
The elected representatives have exhibited profound ignorance and stupidity for not knowing the basic underlying principles of democracy? Why are their eyes so closed that they can’t see? And their minds shut they can’t think?
 
Why are the representatives so paralyzed with fear by Dr. Ezekwesili’s invitation to dialogue and debate on the very crucial and critical issue of our cost of governance which is the most expensive in the world? As a matter of fact, she’s doing the representatives a favor by needlessly reminding them of their duties to the people. If anything at all, they should welcome her invitation with gratitude.
 
Tax payers are responsible for the salaries of the law makers as well as the entire government functionaries. What does it cost the law makers to make their salaries including the president public information without subjecting their employers – Nigerians – to unnecessary and undeserved torture by trying to imagine how much they are being paid for services not rendered? What’s the secrecy all about?
 
The legislators would never win the argument by intimidating, harassing, threatening, coercing, abusing, and insulting Dr. Ezekwesili. The Nigerian public is on her side. The law makers are frankly and nakedly defenseless by their knee-jerk responses of feeding us with forged, twisted, unsubstantiated, unreliable, and unverifiable salary figures and expenditures of the National Assembly. 
 
Instead of hurling bricks and bats on Dr. Ezekwesili, the National Assembly must come forensically clean of any act or traces of misappropriation and squandering;   Dr. Ezekwesili has proven over and over again that we are not all dumb after all! 
 
For a moment, let me play the role of an interpreter for Dr. Ezekwesili’s speech on “Cost of Governance” to our legislators perhaps they are unable to decode her challenge for debate on One Trillion Naira budgetary allocations that were transferred (I hate to use that word) to the National Assembly.
 
Education is the centerpiece of our infrastructure. Without a sound and solid education, the center piece of our infrastructures cannot hold. Dr. Ezekwesili is asking our legislators how much money was allocated for education vis-à-vis the appropriation for National Assembly.
 
She is asking the law makers how much money was appropriated on health, on roads, on water, on light, on security, on social safety net, on housing, on pension, on jobs, etc., compared with the One Trillion Naira expenditures of National Assembly in eight years. The devastating reality is that the legislators have written checks marked “insufficient funds” for these sectors while millions of Naira went into their private bank accounts.
 
Dr. Ezekwesili seems to be saying to the legislators: “Where is the money? What did you do with it? Where is the proof? Where is your vision? Where is your conscience? Where are your values? What are your priorities? Where is your commitment to the Nigerian people?” 
 
Civilized legislators in a civilized democracy would have acted with a deliberate speed by providing answers and proofs how One Trillion Naira was spent. But, this is Nigeria! We should salute Dr. Ezekwesili for having the courage and determination and look power in the eye and ask why and how.
 
Have you ever wondered about the unusual way God uses people and events to accomplish his purpose on earth? God used a wet piece of wool to call Gideon into his service. He used a talking donkey to rebuke Balaam. He used a hungry fish to turn Jonah around. He swept his spiritually-dirty nation clean by using an even dirtier “broom” – the brutal Babylonians. And he raised up a heathen king to free his people from exile. 
 
Dr. Ezekwesili reminds me of Esther’s faith-inspired statement: “If I must die, I must die.”  God has placed Dr. Ezekwesili in a strategic place at critical moment to be the instrument of deliverance for Nigerians. Her presence in Nigeria at this time is not by accident, but by divine appointment. Who knows perhaps she is the Esther for just such a time as this?
 
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COUNT ME OUT OF THE POLITICS OF HATRED – TB Joshua
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This is an official statement from Prophet T.B. Joshua. My attention has been drawn to an online article headlined ‘Pastor T.B. Joshua Revealed As Man Behind Al-Mustapha’s Release’ written by Sahara Reporters.

This article is from the enemy. They should not drag me into the issue of politics. If I was ever to go to Aso Rock, I would go publicly. I have already told you how I met Al-Mustapha. Don’t put words in my mouth. I explained that I got to know him many years ago when a petition was addressed to General Bamaiyi who was the then Chairman of the NDLEA. I spent nine days with them for investigation and they found the whole thing to be a fabrication.

From there, I was taken to see the president where I met Mustapha. I was able to reveal to them who I am by telling them what was to come as a prophet. I told him that he would spend several years in prison and would be finally released which no one else had ever told him. That is why you saw him coming here as his first port of call. Where there is no vision, people perish.

It is therefore very malicious for Sahara Reporters to attach any political meanings to Al-Mustapha’s visit. At no time did I tell President Jonathan that his political fortune rested with setting Al-Mustapha free, neither did I ever suggest that Chief James Ibori, former Delta State Governor be brought back to Nigeria to assist the president in the 2015 presidential election.

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He was taken to London by his uncle almost immediately after the incident. While in London, he began deploying his football skills. Though his parents were murdered, his passion for football was never killed. He played football for his school and later for a local Tandrige League club until Crystal Palace FC approached him. From that point, his career progressed in leaps and bounds.
This player played for England's under 16, 17, 19 and 21 teams between 2005 and 2010 scoring 11 goals for England during this period. He later moved to Wigan Athletic and now he plays for Chelsea. This footballer is called VICTOR MOSES.
His story is a touching one, I share his pains. I also share his courage. He had a choice not to step into Nigeria again but he didn't take that option. When the call to serve his fatherland came, Moses dumped England and embraced Nigeria... That is patriotism!
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This player played for England's under 16, 17, 19 and 21 teams between 2005 and 2010 scoring 11 goals for England during this period. He later moved to Wigan Athletic and now he plays for Chelsea. This footballer is called VICTOR MOSES.
His story is a touching one, I share his pains. I also share his courage. He had a choice not to step into Nigeria again but he didn't take that option. When the call to serve his fatherland came, Moses dumped England and embraced Nigeria... That is patriotism!
Today, we see a Victor Moses bringing joy to every Nigerian including those who may have inspired his parent's death... That is Love!
On Sunday, Moses would stand for the National Anthem and pledge allegiance to a country that couldn't defend his parents... That is faith!
Moses would deliver the "African Cup of Nations" trophy to Nigeria not minding what had happened in the past... That is forgiveness! Moses rose through bitterness and despair to the limelight of hope and courage.
He never gave up on his country. He persevered... That is purpose!
If someone like Victor Moses, despite the bitter past, never gave up on Nigeria, then why should we?

This is the story of a young boy whose parents were murdered during 2002 riots in Kaduna. He was aged 11 years at the time. His parents, Mr Austine and Mrs Josephine Moses, were missionaries until they met their untimely death. The boy left his house to play football but returned home to see that all his parents had laboured for had been razed down and he would never see his mother and father again.
He was taken to London by his uncle almost immediately after the incident. While in London, he began deploying his football skills. Though his parents were murdered, his passion for football was never killed. He played football for his school and later for a local Tandrige League club until Crystal Palace FC approached him. From that point, his career progressed in leaps and bounds.
This player played for England's under 16, 17, 19 and 21 teams between 2005 and 2010 scoring 11 goals for England during this period. He later moved to Wigan Athletic and now he plays for Chelsea. This footballer is called VICTOR MOSES.
His story is a touching one, I share his pains. I also share his courage. He had a choice not to step into Nigeria again but he didn't take that option. When the call to serve his fatherland came, Moses dumped England and embraced Nigeria... That is patriotism!
Today, we see a Victor Moses bringing joy to every Nigerian including those who may have inspired his parent's death... That is Love!
On Sunday, Moses would stand for the National Anthem and pledge allegiance to a country that couldn't defend his parents... That is faith!
Moses would deliver the "African Cup of Nations" trophy to Nigeria not minding what had happened in the past... That is forgiveness! Moses rose through bitterness and despair to the limelight of hope and courage.
He never gave up on his country. He persevered... That is purpose!
If someone like Victor Moses, despite the bitter past, never gave up on Nigeria, then why should we?

This is the story of a young boy whose parents were murdered during 2002 riots in Kaduna. He was aged 11 years at the time. His parents, Mr Austine and Mrs Josephine Moses, were missionaries until they met their untimely death. The boy left his house to play football but returned home to see that all his parents had laboured for had been razed down and he would never see his mother and father again.
He was taken to London by his uncle almost immediately after the incident. While in London, he began deploying his football skills. Though his parents were murdered, his passion for football was never killed. He played football for his school and later for a local Tandrige League club until Crystal Palace FC approached him. From that point, his career progressed in leaps and bounds.
This player played for England's under 16, 17, 19 and 21 teams between 2005 and 2010 scoring 11 goals for England during this period. He later moved to Wigan Athletic and now he plays for Chelsea. This footballer is called VICTOR MOSES.
His story is a touching one, I share his pains. I also share his courage. He had a choice not to step into Nigeria again but he didn't take that option. When the call to serve his fatherland came, Moses dumped England and embraced Nigeria... That is patriotism!
Today, we see a Victor Moses bringing joy to every Nigerian including those who may have inspired his parent's death... That is Love!
On Sunday, Moses would stand for the National Anthem and pledge allegiance to a country that couldn't defend his parents... That is faith!
Moses would deliver the "African Cup of Nations" trophy to Nigeria not minding what had happened in the past... That is forgiveness! Moses rose through bitterness and despair to the limelight of hope and courage.
He never gave up on his country. He persevered... That is purpose!
If someone like Victor Moses, despite the bitter past, never gave up on Nigeria, then why should we?

This is the story of a young boy whose parents were murdered during 2002 riots in Kaduna. He was aged 11 years at the time. His parents, Mr Austine and Mrs Josephine Moses, were missionaries until they met their untimely death. The boy left his house to play football but returned home to see that all his parents had laboured for had been razed down and he would never see his mother and father again.
He was taken to London by his uncle almost immediately after the incident. While in London, he began deploying his football skills. Though his parents were murdered, his passion for football was never killed. He played football for his school and later for a local Tandrige League club until Crystal Palace FC approached him. From that point, his career progressed in leaps and bounds.
This player played for England's under 16, 17, 19 and 21 teams between 2005 and 2010 scoring 11 goals for England during this period. He later moved to Wigan Athletic and now he plays for Chelsea. This footballer is called VICTOR MOSES.
His story is a touching one, I share his pains. I also share his courage. He had a choice not to step into Nigeria again but he didn't take that option. When the call to serve his fatherland came, Moses dumped England and embraced Nigeria... That is patriotism!
Today, we see a Victor Moses bringing joy to every Nigerian including those who may have inspired his parent's death... That is Love!
On Sunday, Moses would stand for the National Anthem and pledge allegiance to a country that couldn't defend his parents... That is faith!
Moses would deliver the "African Cup of Nations" trophy to Nigeria not minding what had happened in the past... That is forgiveness! Moses rose through bitterness and despair to the limelight of hope and courage.
He never gave up on his country. He persevered... That is purpose!
If someone like Victor Moses, despite the bitter past, never gave up on Nigeria, then why should we?

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