It is one thing to talk against corruption.It is another thing altogether to be against corruption. President Buhari only talks against corruption. His body language and policy options show conclusively that he is not really against corruption.Buhari’s anti- corruption is merely a means to an end Muhammadu Buhari ran for election as president of Nigeria in 2003, 2007 and 2011. He failed woefully on all three occasions. He failed because he did not have the attributes that Nigerians wanted in a president. Many, I including, felt he was too sectional. His stint as military head- of-state between 1984 and 1985 was eloquent testimony of this. Among other misdeeds, Buhari preferred a Fulani from Niger to an Igbo from Nigeria as secretary-general of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). He locked Vice President Alex Ekwueme, an Igbo, in jail; but only put President Shehu Shagari, a Fulani, under house arrest. He told Lam Adesina of Oyo State that the Fulani herdsmen of the North are his people, as opposed to the Yoruba farmers of the South. He proclaimed a determination to install sharia law all over the federation. As a result, in 2011, out of a total of 30 million votes cast, Buhari could only muster 391,922 votes from all the states of the entire Southern Nigeria. Anti-corruption Rhetoric However, in 2015, Buhari ran for president yet again, and succeeded. He succeeded for one singular reason: He ran on an anti- corruption platform. By 2015, Nigerians were fed up with the rampant corruption that took place under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). While then President Goodluck Jonathan himself was not believed to be corrupt, the popular perception was that he tolerated corruption. Indeed, it was believed that corruption got to an unacceptable level under his stewardship. Enter, therefore, an image- laundered and refurbished Muhammadu Buhari, smelling of roses. Buhari was presented to Nigerians as our home-grown “Mr. Integrity.” He mesmerised a gullible electorate seeking a corruption-free presidential Messiah with a highfaluting anti-corruption rhetoric: “We cannot build an economy where corruption is the working capital.” “I will kill corruption before it kills Nigeria.” As a result, many Nigerians who had been implacably opposed to him in his earlier three election campaign efforts, swung to his support. These included Nigeria’s Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, who had earlier warned that: “In Buhari, we have been offered no evidence of the sheerest prospect of change.” It also included men like Nasir El- Rufai, who observed earlier that Buhari remains “perpetually unelectable” as a result of his “insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity and his parochial focus.” Even his former political nemesis, Olusegun Obasanjo, became his supporter. foraminifera However, after nearly four years in power, we now know that President Buhari has no real anti-corruption clothes. It is one thing to talk against corruption. It is another thing altogether to be against corruption. President Buhari only talks against corruption. His body language and policy options show conclusively that he is not really against corruption. Buhari’s anti- corruption is merely a means to an end. That end is not to rid Nigeria of corruption but to get into power and stay in power. Scandalous PTF If President Buhari was truly against corruption, he would not have agreed to serve under Sani Abacha, one of the most corrupt heads-of- state ever in the history of Nigeria. In 1994, Abacha appointed Buhari as chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF). Between 1994 and 1999, the PTF had a colossal budget of N181 billion. If President Buhari was truly Mr. Integrity, it would not have been discovered that the PTF he presided over was riddled with corruption. In 1999, President Obasanjo set up an Interim Management Committee (IMC), headed by Haroun Adamu, to investigate the activities of the PTF. While today, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is haranguing Ayodele Fayose over N6.9 billion, in 1999, the Adamu Committee discovered that a whopping N25 billion disappeared from PTF coffers under Buhari’s stewardship. Nigerians need to know that, under Buhari, the PTF specialised in buying expired drugs. A team of pharmacists commissioned to verify the Drugs Revolving Fund Programmes of the PTF discovered the prevalence of expired drugs all over the country, worth over N2.4 billion. Ambulances that could have been purchased for N3 million were inflated under Buhari’s stewardship to N13 million, resulting in a loss of N900 million. How can Buhari be known as Mr. Integrity and yet have this kind of tack-record?The Haroun Adamu Committee insisted that Buhari himself should be probed by the government. However, because of the unspoken fraternity in Nigeria whereby generals don’t probe each other, Obasanjo declined the recommendation to probe Buhari. The Adamu Committee discovered that in the PTF Assisted HIV/AIDS programmes under Buhari’s stewardship, there was an excessive order of HIV/AIDS kits, which resulted in most of the kits expiring before use, and gross inflation of the purchase price. This brought a loss of N579 million to the Fund. In the health sector, frames that could have been bought for N80 and N880 were inflated to N1,900, resulting in a loss of N13 million. The Adamu Committee valued the PTF residential estate under Buhari at N328 million. However, the contract was inflated by N374 million to N703 million. The finances of the estate were so fishy that the Obasanjo government decided to confiscate the entire project. The same sharp practices were discovered with regard to the extension of the PTF headquarters under Buhari’s stewardship. The Committee valued the construction cost at N326 million, but this was inflated by Buhari’s PTF to N461 million, thereby defrauding the fund of N135 million. In the rural water supply programme, the Committee was able to recover an estimated N1 billion paid illegally by Buhari’s PTF to contractors as a result of overpricing. In the National Health and Educational Institutions Rehabilitation programme, over N600 million was recovered from contractors due to non- performance and overpricing. In the National Educational Material Procurement Programme, N900 million was recovered. The rural telecommunication programme was also riddled with fraud. Buhari’s PTF paid N1.6 billion as mobilisation for the programme without any contract being signed whatsoever. In the Administration Account, N664 million was recovered. In the Project Account, N2.4 billion in discrepancies was recovered. In the Treasury Account, N510 million was recovered. How can Buhari be known as Mr. Integrity and yet have this kind of tack-record? The Haroun Adamu Committee insisted that Buhari himself should be probed by the government. However, because of the unspoken fraternity in Nigeria whereby generals don’t probe each other, Obasanjo declined the recommendation to probe Buhari. But earlier this year, Obasanjo expressed his regret at not probing Buhari, given the damning report about his stewardship at the PTF. The truth of the matter is that if Buhari was indeed anti-corrupt, he would not have presided over a corruption-riddled PTF. Group Captain Usman Jibrin, a board member of the PTF, resigned from the organisation in protest over the blatant irregularities in Buhari’s appointment of the Afri-Project Consortium (APC) led by Salihijo Ahmad as consultants for the organisation. As a matter of fact, a principal actor in PTF consultancy scam committed suicide immediately the probe into the organisation’s affairs was instituted for fear of being exposed. Hypocritical Anti-corruption If President Buhari were against corruption, he would not have been an advocate and defender of the criminally-corrupt. Nigerians need no convincing that former head-of-state, Sani Abacha, was corrupt. After his death, it was discovered that he stashed huge chunks of public funds running into billions of dollars in different countries in Europe. Nevertheless, on the 10th anniversary of his death, Buhari told incredulous Nigerians that Abacha never stole. He maintained that all the allegations of looting the treasury leveled against him were “baseless.” He said: “ten years after Abacha, those allegations remain unproven because of lack of facts.” Buhari held this position in spite of the millions of dollars of Abacha’s loot recovered from banks around the world, and in spite of the fact that the Abacha’s family signed a formal agreement to return over $1 billion of such monies to the Nigerian government. Paradoxically, the same president, who insisted Abacha never stole, said this to Nigerians through his Twitter handle in 2016: “Nigeria is awaiting receipt from Swiss Govt. of $320 million, identified as illegally taken from Nigeria under Abacha.” So did Abacha steal or not? According to Mr. President, Abacha never stole because President Buhari was part and parcel of the Abacha administration. To admit Abacha was corrupt is to admit that the PTF he presided over under Abacha was also corrupt. President Buhari cannot campaign for re-election on an anti-corruption platform when, in the last four years, he has condoned corruption among his cohorts. Corruption never disqualifies anyone from prominence in Buhari’s APC. Bisi Akande, the first chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) , was jailed on corruption charges. We can see, therefore, that President Buhari’s anti- corruption fervour is merely self-serving. He regards only his political opponents as having the copyright on corruption. By this token, every allegation of corruption leveled against his friends and financiers must be “baseless.” When Obasanjo supported him, Obasanjo was not a thief. Immediately Obasanjo stopped supporting him, Buhari alleged Obasanjo mismanaged a $16 billion power project as president. As a result, in the last four years, President Buhari has prosecuted a war on corruption essentially against his political opponents.For Buhari, all PDP members are guilty of corruption until proven innocent. The president does not even wait for the verdict of the courts. The accused are tried and convicted in the media by the president and his cohorts, as long as they do not belong to the APC. Corruption-ridden Government President Buhari cannot campaign for re-election on an anti-corruption platform when, in the last four years, he has condoned corruption among his cohorts. Corruption never disqualifies anyone from prominence in Buhari’s APC. Bisi Akande, the first chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) , was jailed on corruption charges. The APC minority leader in the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, was convicted in the United States for defrauding a client. A judicial commission of enquiry set up by the Rivers State government maintained that, under former Governor Rotimi Amaechi, now minister of transport, a whopping N53 billion disappeared from the Rivers State Reserve Fund. Babatunde Fashola, former governor of Lagos and now minister of works and housing, was accused of spending N78 million of government money upgrading his personal website and of inflating the cost of the Lekki-Ikoyi link- bridge from N6 billion to N25 billion. None of these cases were taken up by the EFCC. A federal high court has ordered that criminal proceedings be instituted by the EFCC against APC chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, for corrupt enrichment as governor of Edo. If the court had not ordered this, it would clearly not have been done by the EFCC. Abubakar Audu was under prosecution by the EFCC for misappropriating N11 billion of state funds when he was governor of Kogi State between 1999 and 2003. Nevertheless, he was nominated as APC governorship candidate for Kogi in 2015. In spite of the fact that the EFCC had filed charges of corruption against Timipre Sylva for defrauding Bayelsa State of N19 billion between 2009 and 2012; he nevertheless became the governorship candidate of the APC for Bayelsa in 2016. Under this anti-corruption president, $43 million discovered in an apartment at Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos has been buried. Nothing more has been heard about the award of $ 25 billion worth of contracts without due process by Dr. Maikanti Baru, the group managing direct of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), as alleged by the minister of state for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu. The president has kept mum over the Department of State Services (DSS)’s indictment of the acting chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, and the report of the investigative panel on him set up by the attorney general of the federation (AGF). Nothing more has been heard from the probe panel on the N500 million bribe allegedly paid by MTN to Abba Kyari, the chief of staff to the president, designed to influence the government to discontinue its heavy stance on the $5 billion fine imposed on the company. Then there was the Abdulrashid Maina scandal, whereby a man who turned fugitive when alleged to have misappropriated N2 billion of the pension fund and was on the EFCC wanted list, found his way back into the country and into the federal civil service with promotion. We are still waiting to be told the owner of the Legico Shopping Plaza in Lagos where the EFCC claimed it found N448 million in cash. Under this administration, the corruption scandals are unrelenting. How can Buhari expect Nigerians to believe he is sincere in fighting corruption under these hypocritical circumstances?

Butterflyle0:


Good one sarrki.

I watched a video of one of the beneficiaries the other day. A poor woman. The 5k was like a miracle to her. Money people use on their dstv subscription is what she and her family use to survive.

That video.made me shed a tear bro. Let me see if I can find it again and post here.

very good that lives are been touched here but the major question is this, after the money runs out what next? instead of giving me fish, why don't you teach me how to fish. the money can be invested in many ways that will touch the same people lives and that will be lasting.

princenaira:


Wonders shall never end in Nigeria. This guy Uche Nwosu sat together with my younger bros in the scammed Imo 10,000 job text during Gov. Ikedi Ohakim tenure and he could not pass the exam. Note that few years ago he was idle and had never worked anywhere till the emergence of Rocha's. All he does is errabs messages at Rocha's foundation which belong to his father-inlaw.

all the post he held as shown above in his profile as was highlighted above are exclusively with his father in-law, no work outside Rochas.

not bad

Is this ride still available?

is the car still available? send other details to samayor80@yahoo.com more pix pls and the location

Tanks 4 ur reply am interested.

find.it.ng:
you'll have to pay for the parceling to abuja..cheapest NGN2,000...that totalls 5,000....notify if interested and you can pay on delivery.

Hw do i get one of dis. Am interested bt base in abuja.

All na wash likeable indeed. I knw him very well. 4get matter jor. All na politricks

Abagworo: On a serious note, when I visited Owerri 3 weeks ago people were telling me that Madumere is the next Governor. He is a likable and friendly man and that seems to have made a lot of people like him. Especially the Keke drivers and street guys.

Is dat why imo state must b turn 2 rochas group of companies? D new deputy governor has been his paid worker for long also d commissioner for lands. So wat next? Maybe d sec. 2 d state government.

chagaz: y re some ppl talking against God sent gov. A gov, who has bn doing marvellously well. Be infmed now, dt there is no more space for all those criminals who think thy can use state money to enrich themselves. Imo must b better!!!!!!!

Thank God o

Hw can he die when he is coming 2 strategies a new way 2 carryout their wicked act.

okpara ugo: This man wan die like chicken.

A nice car. Pls wat year is it?

At his level making a donation of dat amount is a disgrace. D 7m is nt up 2 wat he lavish on his escapades a week so wat are we talking abt here?

yagbaboy1: . . .which one u don donate? Even if na 5 kobo.

1.5 out of 7m na wa o

Wat is d condition of d car? Any repairs 2 b done n where is d location? Does it use fuel or gasoline?

Does it use petrol or gasoline

Thanks wil get back 2 u. Thought u didnt give me d price 4 d ridgeline[quote author=oviecardealer][/quote]

Am waiting 4 ur response pls

Maxlaw: Pls hw much can i get honda ridgeline, toyota hilux n ford explorer toks. Low milliage bt 2008 and 2009 model

Maxlaw: 2008 or 2009 model

am stil waiting 2 hear frm u pls.

2008 or 2009 model

oviecardealer: pls specify d year so I can giv u a quote for them,thanks.

Pls hw much can i get honda ridgeline, toyota hilux n ford explorer toks. Low milliage bt 2008 and 2009 model

You dnt knw wat u are saying. Architecture a waste of time? Can't just believe this.

chineji: Botany and geophysics and microbiology and environmental biology and history and theology and religious studies and architecture

Hence he luv u so much, make him c reason dats if u are so sure of d lady. I had a similar case 3months to my wedding dat she would control n shade my family away, bt d diff is dat my father was supportive. He said every woman has d tendency of trying 2 control bt all still depends on d man and for d past 2yrs and 3months we've been married she's been so caring 2 my family, we also av a son and d pastor dat said we should nt get married has been avoiding us. Just b sure of her character and be prayerful watever is been seen can be avoided thru prayers and both of u av 2 join hands 2geda 2 make things work.

Lexaccord: Now that my dad feels bad as a result of the revelation? Cos me no mind go find rep for him on my wedding day lol! Or rather blackmail him with some things cos he likes me so much and he will still listen to my own point.

No governor in this country dat isn't corrupt. Rochas is nt a saint bt lets keep our fingers cross and wait 4 revelations.

antontech: They just want to dent the name of Rochas,i just hope he is not corrupt too.

Just a point of correction she is just going to 25yrs and d uche u called young is older than her by far. Uche is over 40yrs i knw them personally nt hearsay.

muktarl:


Go and sit in gutter. That girl is over 37yrs old, its all written over her. She is ugly, fat like a zombie. The girl na big fvck up rubbish sai..

Roches must be smiling now that he has succeeded in deceiving the young man with the liability of a daughter. The girl na real disaster.

Ofcourse she is. She is nt up to 25yrs old.

Chino_anyi:

hummmmm s dat a young lady in ur eyes

Since u didn't read why insulting him why cann't some of u grow up. Plus stop following pple blindly cos of what u heard, some of us are closer 2 them n knw them in and out.

Caesar1988: i bet u,dis is absolute non sense....No time to read ur rubbish write up...but d topic shows how idiotic u r...ur dad is a disapointment to ur mum....

okpara ugo:

If Rochas is unproductive and made all his wealth, abeg i wan become unproductive.

lazy people actually spend years doing what a sharp mind does in one month. it is not about how long but how well.

have you ever heard that

i hated working for people because i use 4hours to do office work(daily deliverables) yet am required to sit in office from 8am to 6pm. thats a lazy man's calendar....

its nt all dat glitters dat is gold. I pray u av d opportunity 2 work under him then u will knw beta. A word is enough 4 d wise.

There is nothing wrong here. When obama went 2 saudi Arabia he bow 4 d king has any U.S president done that b4? So which of d 2 is worst?

fellis:

What do you mean I want to compare him to Obama? Did you see Obama in any part of my post?
And who Jonathan knelt in front of was not Almighty God. It was the pastor.

Hi, i just completed d survey and am intrested. Am base in Abuja. So wat is d nxt step?

Its 2-1 pls update