KRILMIJAY:
Enough of all these arms deal this , arms deal that. Someone needs to focus ooo. d year z running out & yet someone hasnt achieved anything, yet someone keeps dwelling in the past.

Pavarottii:

[s]STFU! Wen u go on probing the past administration without doing anything in ur administration. Are we not still going backward. The last time I checked, everyone is ready to be probed if invited. So wat is all the fume for as if, the people are hiding. Take them to court and let them defend demselves and u go ahead with working and developing the country while the institutions for corrupt practices do their job. But since ur kunu drinking dullard came on board. Tell me one thing he has done apart from chasing a wild goose. Since the probe started. Who av they indicted, how much av they recovered and who did they recover it from? Kwarraption fight my ass. Nigeria has earned over 2trillion since he came on board, rather he has borrowed more than 2b dollars since he came on board, no projects continued or started. Yet he can't even pay ordinary salary. So who is the real THIEF here. God will repay u and ur president in 10folds. [/s]

QuotaSystem:
My friend, nothing you say can change the fact that hundreds of thousands of lives have been needlessly lost to the massive corruption under GEJ through arm purchase scams, and he with his NSA Dasuki MUST defend the heavy allegations against them or bear the full consequences of directly or indirectly sponsoring terror and Boko Haram like the former NSA, Late Azazi alleged before he was assassinated.

E don set.

porka:


Take them to court.

'Nothing you say' here can substitute a court trial.

arsetalks:
It is a shame people want this issued ignored and forgotten when mismanagement is exactly why we are here in the first place.

The deadly my tribe aka my brother syndrome has ensured objectivity leave the heads of some people.

If GEJ did no wrong like his supporters would want us to believe, he should be probed and he will be vindicated but to ask that he be left alone is a sin against our generation.

QuotaSystem:
Are you unable to see that delaying the process is the subject of the article itself? Who is asking for extra time? Buhari or Dasuki?

Read before commenting next time.

PassingShot:

STFU! It is this type of attitude that brought us where we are. Would you rather the new administration ignores all the massive and senseless looting that caused the death of many innocent souls and then engage in its own round of looting spree and plunge the country further?

It's people like you that make the country to keep going back to the old generation for solution to our problems. The future better not belong to the Nigerian kind of youth found on this forum. It's a wasted generation!

porka:
[size=11pt]So how much is Buhari actually looking for now on this one?

$2.2b 'looted' from arms deals or,

$1b arms loan?

Who is helping Buhari with his various calculations?

IbokUtoroh:









shouldnt the president also be probing the people who instigated and escalated this issue when they swear that they will make the country ungovernable for gej after losing the elections?
so must we always leave the root and attack the branches?
the money in question is huge but I think the president shud also beam his searchlight on who fuel the crisis in that region.
must we be buying arms to eliminate people everytime, money that shud be channeled to development n infrastructure.

QuotaSystem:
My friend, nothing you say can change the fact that hundreds of thousands of lives have been needlessly lost to the massive corruption under GEJ through arm purchase scams, and he with his NSA Dasuki MUST defend the heavy allegations against them or bear the full consequences of directly or indirectly sponsoring terror and Boko Haram like the former NSA, Late Azazi alleged before he was assassinated.

E don set.

IbokUtoroh:









shouldnt the president also be probing the people who instigated and escalated this issue when they swear that they will make the country ungovernable for gej after losing the elections?
so must we always leave the root and attack the branches?
the money in question is huge but I think the president shud also beam his searchlight on who fuel the crisis in that region.
must we be buying arms to eliminate people everytime, money that shud be channeled to development n infrastructure.

porka:


[s]No, you look well. (That's if you know what a 'subject of an article' means.)

The subject of the propaganda is the theatrics around $1b arms loan. It went on to say some other people (former government officials) will be invited to for questioning. Maybe you need your glasses upgraded. It's probably weak.

And the subject of your bitter response is the 'hundreds of thousands of lives' lost, which must be accounted for.

You can only account for them in the court. No where else. [/s]

Pavarottii:

See this comedian, ur prayer is for GEJ to face consequences. Better wake up from ur sleep. Sure u typed this from the dream. Any hand laid on GEJ, for once, u will see that this country can be truly put on standstill... u r taking his followers gentility for granted? Any single hand laid on GEJ. Nigeria will surely divide. And they will be no oil to run dis country.
Quote me anywhere.

menix:
If they have not been able to establish that the loan was released why make it news

The way APC is going about, pointing fingers without doing their homework bafffles even Tafawa Balewa as he has changed position on the 5naira bills....

QuotaSystem:
Rubbish.

Reports from the Presidency stated that documents detailing the unaccounted expenditure of over $2 billion between 2007 and 2014 on arms have been reviewed by the arms purchases probe panel as contained in its interim report.

Furthermore, Dasuki himself has admitted receiving acknowledgement of delivery letters of untraceable purchased arms from GEJ's service chiefs. Hence those funds were released and assumed to have been spent. Monies that have now been denied to have been approved by the same GEJ.

The $1 billion you refer to was applied for at the tail end of the last administration and is now also being investigated by the panel. You're only grasping at straws now that the world is about to be reminded of GEJ's incompetence, corruption, and possible culpability in the massacre of thousands of his own citizens.

If you're confused, seek clarification and avoid peddling ignorance in public.

Arms Deals: Fresh Controversy Over $1b Loan Approved For Jonathan

-Ex-president returns home, loyalists regroup to defend tenure

-Dasuki writes EFCC, asks for more time

More questions may be awaiting former President Goodluck Jonathan on arms deals during his tenure after his weekend denial in Washington DC that he never incurred a bill of $2 billion on arms procurement.This includes the whereabouts of the over $1billion loan approved for him by the 7th National Assembly for arms purchase to fight the Boko Haram insurgency.

It was unclear last night whether the loan was accessed by the administration before the expiration of its tenure on May 29.

His loyalists claimed yesterday that the money was not made available before he left office.

There were suggestions that the Special Investigative Panel on arms procurement may be asked to establish the truth about the loan.

More military officers, ex-ministers and arms contractors may be invited for clarifications, it was gathered.

Jonathan returned to Abuja from the USA on Friday with his ex-members said to be regrouping to defend arms deals during his presidency and other allegations against the administration.

Jonathan had on July 16, 2014, written to the 7th National Assembly for the approval of a $1 billion loan for the fight against Boko Haram.

The ex- President said he needed the cash to upgrade military equipment and for training as well as logistics for the Armed Forces.

Jonathan made the request in a letter entitled: “Tackling ongoing security challenges: The need for urgent action.”

On September 25, 2014, the Senate approved the loan following the submission of the report of the Senate Joint Committee on Finance and that of Local and Foreign Debt by the Chairman, Senator Ahmed Makarfi.

A reliable source, who spoke in confidence, said: “In spite of the submission of Interim Report, the ongoing probe of the arms deal is continuing. One of the areas being looked into is what became of the $1billion loan approved for Jonathan by the 7th Senate.

“Actually, the loan was approved going by the records made available to the probe panel. So, if the panel is talking of $2billion, it must have been based on records in its care.

“This development may lead to the invitation of some ex-ministers to clarify the status of the loan and whether or not it was diverted to other use.”

But a former Minister said: “Initially, the vote was about $900m but the leadership of the 7th Senate advised the Executive to ask for $1billion to accommodate unexpected financial challenges in fighting Boko Haram.

“The Ministry of Finance ought to write letters to those advancing the loan and those companies supplying the arms on how the government will remit the funds.

“We however did not get the $1billion loan because the former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, did not sign necessary papers as a result of the inability of her office to receive the required votes and proceedings from the National Assembly.”

Ex-President Jonathan returned to Abuja on Friday with his erstwhile cabinet members regrouping on how to defend their tenure.

A highly-placed source said: “We have resolved to respond to any issue raised by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari on facts and figures.

“Ex-President Jonathan has started it in the US, we will no longer keep quiet because the stigmatization is increasingly becoming unbearable.

“We will not confront Buhari government but we will be replying on points of records.”

Embattled former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, was said to have written to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for more time to appear for grilling over the arms deals.

The letter was submitted to EFCC on Friday by Dasuki’s counsel.

A source in EFCC said: “We have received Dasuki’s letter, we will get back to him accordingly.

“If after Monday, he continues to evade appearance before this commission, we will have no choice than to obtain a warrant of arrest from a court to pick him.

“We have tried our best to be civil and handle the case in line with international best practices.”

Seun,Lalasticlala

http://thenationonlineng.net/arms-deals-fresh-controversy-over-1b-loan-approved-for-jonathan/

Pavarottii:

See this comedian, ur prayer is for GEJ to face consequences. Better wake up from ur sleep. Sure u typed this from the dream. Any hand laid on GEJ, for once, u will see that this country can be truly put on standstill... u r taking his followers gentility for granted? Any single hand laid on GEJ. Nigeria will surely divide. And they will be no oil to run dis country.
Quote me anywhere.

SonOfEl:


Mumu, when the likes of tinubu, babangida, abdrusalam, otedola, who are the real thieves, are still moving around as free big men. Keep deluding yourself.

arsetalks:
Look into the mirror and you will find the mumu there. PDP spent 16 years in government, how come they did not probe the aforementioned? Off course you can't know, you are too dense to know.

porka:


Now it's clear you need a psychologist (perhaps a psychiatrist) more than a pair eye glasses.

The article is reproduced verbatim below;

SonOfEl:


Your hypocrisy is legendary. Was ANPP, APC, CPC, etc not represented in these 16 years dispensation? Yet why are the people still suffering? Kano, kebbi, jigawa, osun etc all had governors and federal representatives and senators, what did they do? Hypocrites!

Gbawe:


My dear sister, is this not why some continue to insist that GEJ is literally getting away with murder because Nigeria has never been this divided along ethnic and religious lines. If not for how terribly divided Nigerians are today, along sectional lines, should every single Nigerian not angrily condemn this insanity whereby the GEJ Government has frittered 3 trillion ($18 billion) allocated for defence and security over 3 years only to be insensitively asking for another $1 billion when there is absolutely nothing to show for the massive amount devoted to fighting insecurity under Jonathan? This would spark a revolution in almost any other nation on earth !!! I.e $18 billion devoted to fighting terrorism and insecurity is looted callously by treasonous elements, while the nation becomes far more insecure and significantly greater number of Nigerians are being maimed and killed by terrorist, yet the Government has the nerve to ask for a $1billion loan !!!

All this at a time we are supposed to have healthy 'rainy day' savings facilitated by how oil price per barrel has been significantly higher than budgeting benchmark for the entire time GEJ has been President!!!! Benchmark hovers around $75.00 per barrel yet oil has been above $100 for virtually most of the Presidency of GEJ. Give or take, Nigeria is gaining at least $20 per barrel above benchmark. Given the volume of oil Nigeria sells daily, one does not need to be a rocket scientist to know the sort of savings Nigeria should have put away which means it is insanity for GEJ to now be asking approval to borrow a mere $1 billion we will likely be paying interest on when we this sort of amount should be a small part of what Nigeria has put away in savings for emergency spending !!! This is why I have no doubt $20 billion indeed 'disappeared' as Sanusi revealed.

I am in no doubt that GEJ is running Nigeria like a Ponzi scheme and that Nigeria is indeed broke with brazen deception being the only thing Okonjo-Iweala et al are using to fool the world that the situation is otherwise. The brazen looting GEJ is supervising truly marks him out as inhumanly corrupt. Jonathan , if Nigeria was not so divided currently, should head the queue of leaders to be impeached immediately so that, without any delay, our nation can be rescued from the huge crash she is heading toward at 200 miles per hour!!!! I personally cannot believe, given all we know,that GEJ has the nerve to ask for this loan and I cannot understand why lawmakers should even be considering the request when they should be probing far, far bigger past allocation which appears to now have been embezzled brazenly !!!! How much is the amount Nyako was alleged to have mismanaged, to warrant his 'gra gra' impeachment, in comparison to what was looted n fuel subsidy scam plus the $18 billion pumped into security and defence under GEJ? Is the callous looting of funds meant to keep Nigerians safe and secure not far more grievous and deserving of punishment than anything else? Crazy nation.

wirinet:


Buhari himself does not yet know the total amount allegedly stolen or misappropriated by the last administration, the ministries and parastatals are many, NNPC, Defense, Pensions, customs, etc; and most of them did not audit their accounts for many years.

how the defense budgets had been spent is still a mystery to this new government, the records don't just add up. The government is trying to ascertain which loans they are liable for.
The defense budget for most of Jonathan's tenure averages 1 trillion naira (over $5 billion) yearly. What was done with it, and where are the inventories of the Equipments bought?
Below is the defense budget from 2008 to 2013;
2008: N 444.6 billion (Umar Yar’Adua)
2009: N 233 billion (Umar Yar’Adua)
2010: N 264 (Umar Yar’Adua)
2011: N 348 billion (Goodluck Jonathan)
2012: N 921.91 billion (Goodluck Jonathan)
2013:N1.055 trillion (Goodluck Jonathan)
2014: N968 billion (Goodluck Jonathan) - See more at: http://www.nigerianobservernews.com/2015/01/11/budget-nigerian-ministry-defence-need-accountability/#sthash.WvOQMV72.d8E5D2OP.dpuf
Jonathan spent over 3.5 trillion naira on defense ( over over 18 billion dollars) not minding the alleged $1billion loan. Is it out of place for the new government and Nigerians in general to ask how these monies were spent?


Various committees he had inaugurated, EFCC, and others. If the national assembly was not so useless, they too should be investigating how close to $20 billions were spent on defense in five years and our military is still ill equipped.
He doesn't seem to have got any one right since.

QuotaSystem:
How does reposting the article change the confusion you were ravaged with regarding the new contention over the $1billion? Or does it change the fact that GEJ has roped himself into a fix with his denial despite Dasuki's assertion that acknowledgement letters were received for funds he claims were unapproved.

Next time read to understand and not to wail.

arsetalks:
Arguing with you is a waste of my knowledge. If those states are suffering, isn't it the failing of the federal government? PDP ruled for 16 years, if those states' governors made their people suffer, who controls Efcc? ICPC?

Keep pretending to be obstinate while reality plasters your face with slaps

porka:


[s]You need a physician.

I consider it immoral for me to keep on a conversation with an unbalanced person, since I am not a doctor.

Go and treat yourself[/s].

Keegan:


Senseless!

menix:
Coming from a senseless calculator..

Oyind17:

End time calculator.