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Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by HungerBAD: 2:42am On Oct 23, 2016
*CCB: Check her assets declaration form in Bayelsa

With N700,000 salary monthly as a Permanent Secretary, the ex-First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan would have to explain how she allegedly acquired nine houses, two hotels and one plaza during the tenure of her husband, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

The anti-graft commission has retrieved her monthly salary records and other allowances accruable to a Permanent Secretary in Bayelsa State.

But the pay package, EFCC sources told THE NATION, does not seem to tally with the properties credited to the ex-First Lady.

Although she allegedly claimed that the $15million in her accounts was a gift, the EFCC might demand records of those who showered her with the cash gift.

It was unclear as at press time whether or not the EFCC will seize the affected properties in line with Assets Forfeiture Clause in its 2004 Establishment Act.

Preliminary investigation had linked the following assets to the former First Lady: Port Harcourt —— Former Customs Service officers mess; two duplexes at 2/3 Bauchi Street; landed property with blocks at Ambowei Street; 3 Luxury apartments of 4-bedroom each at Ambowei Street; and Grand View Hotel along airport road.

Others in Yenagoa are two marble duplexes at Otioko GRA by Isaac Boro Expressway; Glass House along Sani Abacha Expressway which is housing Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board; Akemfa Etie Plaza by AP filling Station, Melford Okilo Road; and Aridolf Resort, Wellness and Spa along Sani Abacha Expressway.

Detectives were however said to be probing if the affected assets were declared to the Code of Conduct Bureau by Mrs. Jonathan as a former Permanent Secretary.

The Bureau said her assets declaration form was in its office in Bayelsa State and not Abuja.

Findings by our correspondent showed that detectives of the EFCC have intensified the ongoing probe of the former First Lady.

A reliable source said: “Our operatives are still going ahead with the investigation of the former First Lady.

“So far, our detectives have retrieved her pay slip which showed that after all deductions, she was on monthly salary of N700,000. It is left to her to justify how the salary was able to fetch her assets.

“We demanded for her pay status in line with Section 7 of the EFCC Act. She was a former Permanent Secretary, who earned salary at the end of the month. She managed public trust and she has to account for it.

“We will also look into her assets declaration forms when she assumed office and after she left. If these assets are pleaded, we will proceed to the next stage of our investigation.”

Section 7 of the EFCC Act says: “The commission has power to (a) cause any investigations to be conducted as to whether any person, corporate body or organization has committed any offence under this Act or other law relating to economic and financial crimes.

“(b) Cause investigations to be conducted into the properties of any person if it appears to the commission that the person’s lifestyle and extent of the properties are not justified by his source of income.”

Asked if the assets will be seized, the source added: “We are yet to get to this bend of investigation.

“But we have read report where she claimed that the $15million in her account was a gift. Then the onus is on her to submit a list of the sources of the gift.”

But the source claimed that detectives stumbled on a petition against her appointment as a Permanent Secretary.

It was written by a civil servant who felt the civil service rules and regulations were violated.

“The aggrieved civil servant alleged that promotion of the ex-First Lady from an Assistant Director to a Permanent Secretary was done without any promotion examination.

“He also said the ex-First Lady did not spend up to a year as a director before she was promoted. He said the extant laws are clear that she ought to spend at least four years before moving to the next Grade Level.

“But some in Bayelsa State claimed that appointment of Permanent Secretary is at the discretion of a governor. They said it is basically political.

“You can see that there are many dimensions to her case. In fact, in her file, the Head of Service of Bayelsa State simply wrote: ‘Promote her all the same.’ We have certainly gone far on her.”

On her assets declaration form and exit form, a source in CCB said: “All her forms are in our office in Bayelsa where she was a Permanent Secretary.”

http://thenationonlineng.net/ex-first-lady-earned-n700-000-perm-sec-efcc/

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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by mtchris(m): 2:44am On Oct 23, 2016
Hmmm

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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by tellwisdom: 2:53am On Oct 23, 2016
Abeg, fcck any news concerning EFCC. They ought not to be taken serious undecided

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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by socialmediaman: 2:53am On Oct 23, 2016
Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by jmichlins(m): 3:01am On Oct 23, 2016
I have known this woman to be a clown but this her issue with EFCC is the height and pinnacle of it all. Why lead them on to keep searching your cupboard when they can leave with the finger bone already found instead of finding the whole skeleton. Imagine asking the names of her gift donors. Make she no provide names of dead people. And if you no get any cent from the loot and still support her, you will need your destiny to be washed

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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by modath(f): 3:02am On Oct 23, 2016
Paid for what exactly?

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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by Ahmed0336(m): 3:05am On Oct 23, 2016
@ the poster above can u just read what the OP posted?

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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by Adminisher: 3:20am On Oct 23, 2016
..and she was saving, saving, saving. ...she saved oo, then she even saved more and more.....even then she never stopped saving. After some time the money grew to $15 million.

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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by emiwanlee(m): 3:23am On Oct 23, 2016
Efcc dey mess up these days oh

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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by obo389(m): 4:10am On Oct 23, 2016
so perm secretary in this country earn this much?

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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by Abeymills(m): 4:18am On Oct 23, 2016
Useless efcc

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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by Pidggin(f): 4:22am On Oct 23, 2016
So if I earn N700,000 per month, I will be such a dunce that it will be impossible for me to multiply my earnings abi?If one of Buhari's daughters just made N3.5m in one event on Chibok girls issue alone, why is it impossible for PEJ to make much more in over 15 years of occupying positions of influence

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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by Aufbauh(m): 4:29am On Oct 23, 2016
Hmmm,...This our former first lady is "stinkingly wealthy" and fantastically corruptly stingy..... ehenn! grin

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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by sarrki(m): 4:39am On Oct 23, 2016
Mama peace just dey pack money right, left and center

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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by sarrki(m): 4:40am On Oct 23, 2016
Ahmed0336:
@ the poster above can u just read what the OP posted?


Summarize the whole thing for us

Prof

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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by sarrki(m): 4:41am On Oct 23, 2016
tellwisdom:
Abeg, fcck any news concerning EFCC. They ought not to be take serious undecided

So the looters should be taken serious?

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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by sarrki(m): 4:42am On Oct 23, 2016
Pidggin:
So if I earn N700,000 per month, I will be such a dunce that it will be impossible for me to multiply my earnings abi?If one of Buhari's daughters just made N3.5m in one event on Chibok girls issue alone, why is it impossible for PEJ to make much more in over 15 years of occupying positions of influence



Am sure you are joking

Don't tell me u mean it ooo

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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by anonimi: 4:48am On Oct 23, 2016
sarrki:
Mama peace just dey pack money right, left and center

Just like the daughter of your idol who is pretending to be fighting corruption.
Not forgetting the family of his former employer at PTF.
Bloody HYPOCRITES gbogbo.


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69-year-old widow of late former military leader, Sani Abacha, Mrs Maryam is pictured at a wedding last Saturday in Abuja. More photos after the cut..


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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by anonimi: 4:51am On Oct 23, 2016
Pidggin:
So if I earn N700,000 per month, I will be such a dunce that it will be impossible for me to multiply my earnings abi?If one of Buhari's daughters just made N3.5m in one event on Chibok girls issue alone, why is it impossible for PEJ to make much more in over 15 years of occupying positions of influence

If an ordinary Buratai who bought multi-million $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ mansions in Dubai can be protected, why not the daughter of our corruption-fighting, "only saviour"
They are "protected" species. grin shocked embarassed



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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by sarrki(m): 4:53am On Oct 23, 2016
anonimi:


Just like the daughter of your idol who is pretending to be fighting corruption.
Not forgetting the family of his former employer at PTF.
Bloody HYPOCRITES gbogbo.


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Your heroes will be proud of you

Propaganda you scored A1

like I said I will never support any youth as it stands

today .

Pls mark my word if any govt comes tomorrow and

Find Pmb wanting I will not support him

Nigeria is bigger than any individual

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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by Pidggin(f): 4:54am On Oct 23, 2016
sarrki:


Am sure you are joking

Don't tell me u mean it ooo

What is there to joke about? I simply stated fact

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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by anonimi: 4:54am On Oct 23, 2016
Adminisher:
..and she was saving, saving, saving. ...she saved oo, then she even saved more and more.....even then she never stopped saving. After some time the money grew to $15 million.

You must have written the above based on the Buratai excuse, right

General Buratai Bought Second Dubai Property Days After Appointment As Chief Of Army Staff

General Tukur Yusuf Buratai bought a second choice property in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, days after his appointment as Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS), an investigation by SaharaReporters has revealed.

More from: http://saharareporters.com/2016/06/27/general-buratai-bought-second-dubai-property-days-after-appointment-chief-army-staff


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More Details Emerge On Nigeria Chief Of Army Staff General Buratai’s Dubai Properties

An ongoing investigation by SaharaReporters into properties acquired in Dubai by Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Tukur Buratai, has revealed more details about the officer’s real estate acquisitions estimated at N160 million at the minimum.

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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by anonimi: 4:57am On Oct 23, 2016
sarrki:
Your heroes will be proud of you

Propaganda you scored A1

like I said I will never support any youth as it stands

today .

Pls mark my word if any govt comes tomorrow and

Find Pmb wanting I will not support him

Nigeria is bigger than any individual

Your HYPOCRITE idol has been found wanting already, so stop fooling yourself while thinking that you are fooling anyone. Okay



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Dollarization Of The APC Primaries: How Amaehi Vanquished Atiku #saibuhari

The blogosphere was inundated with reports of the excessive sharing of dollars at the All Progressives Congress which took place during the latter part of last week.

One APC supporter and Special Adviser to Osun Governor on Environment, BolaIlori had blown the scandal open after he saw the beginning stages of the dollarization in action.

He took to his Facebook page and scribbled, “Crazy things are happening here!!! Some of these cannot represent the change Nigeria is yearning for. Excessive dollarization by one of the aspirants to is to say the least obscene. I have been involved in political process for decades now, I have never witnessed this volume of raw dollarization of party primaries. I only read about this kind of things in PDP primaries. A question been asked by conscientious delegates is that whoever can be giving out between $2000 to $5000 to…delegates certainly does not represent the kind of change Nigerians want…those who contributed to the pauperization of Nigeria now revel in dollarization… majority of Ondo delegates are still standing with Buhari but have been reduced from 85% to 70% within 24 hours…the remaining has gone with dollars ooo.!!!!!”

One has to wonder how Buhari was able to win the primaries in this era of stomach infrastructure where dollars are like the Biblical manna that God sent down from heaven to nourish the Israelites as they made their way to the promised land.

Sources close to the APC with knowledge of the way the Primaries unfolded have revealed that it was Rivers State Governor, Amaechi who flew back to Rivers State and returned to Lagos on Thursday morning with enough dollars to make Benjamin Franklin blush.

It has been revealed that Atiku offered the delegates $5000 each, but Amaechi doubled it to $10000 a pop. Thus turning the tables in favour of General Buhari.

Since his adventure into the APC, Amaechi has gone out of his way to prove himself a party loyalist, always the first to shoki or azonto at the many events the APC holds, which he himself is usually the chief sponsor.

According to party insiders, Amaechi has overtaken Tinubu as the major financier of the party. One does not need to wonder why he is always at President Jonathan’s throat over misappropriated oil wells or other such business. Anything that diminishes from the State’s coffers will have a ripple effect on his funding budget for the APC.



Joe Francis wrote in from Port Harcourt.


http://www.theheraldng.com/dollarization-apc-primaries-amaehi-vanquished-atiku-saibuhari/



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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by anonimi: 5:00am On Oct 23, 2016
HungerBAD:
•CCB: Check her assets declaration form in Bayelsa

When will you publicly share the asset declaration form of your corruption-fighting "only saviour"
Almost two years gone and still waiting for the fulfilment of a campaign PROMISE that will cost him nothing!


PhockPhockMan:
But Buhari, in the document titled, ‘I pledge to Nigeria’ had also said that all his political appointees would only earn salaries and allowances as prescribed by the Revenue and Mobilisation and Fiscal Allocation Commission.

He said, “I pledge to publicly declare my assets and liabilities, encourage all my appointees publicly declare their assets and liabilities as a pre-condition for appointment. All political appointees will only earn the salaries and allowances determined by the RMFAC. I pledge, as Commander-in-Chief, to lead from the front and not behind in the comfort and security of Aso Rock, to boost the morale of fighting forces and the generality of all Nigerians.”

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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by sarrki(m): 5:00am On Oct 23, 2016
anonimi:


Your HYPOCRITE idol has been found wanting already, so stop fooling yourself while thinking that you are fooling anyone. Okay



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Lol

Don't worry baba is not corrupt even your hero said it

Pls just take heart 2019 is too far .

For you to start having sleepless night

Baba is your president till we the progressive feel

Otherwise.

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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by fitzmayowa: 5:01am On Oct 23, 2016
Adminisher:
..and she was saving, saving, saving. ...she saved ooo, then she even saved more and more.....even then she never stopped saving. After some time the money grew to $15 million.


PEJ is indeed a "Saver", I wonder why OBJ didn't appoint her as finance minister atleast she would have been able to "Save" more than what OBJ was able to "Save" during his tenure...

Her money doubling technic is second to none from 700k monthly to $15 million dollars and still counting...cheesy grin cheesy

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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by anonimi: 5:04am On Oct 23, 2016
sarrki:
Lol

Don't worry baba is not corrupt even your hero said it

Pls just take heart 2019 is too far .

For you to start having sleepless night

Baba is your president till we the progressive feel

Otherwise.

Can you please tell us what POLICY thrusts make you (plural) progressive?
If you cannot, it will be safe to conclude that you agree that you (plural) are rather progreTHIEVES.
To help you, I have provided a snapshot of Jakande's achievement in just four years (before he was overthrown and jialed by your DullardPoo) as a progressive.


eluquenson:
REVISITING SOME OF THE LATEEF JAKANDE'S GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS FROM OCTOBER 1979 TO DECEMBER 1983 (FOUR YEARS AND 3 MONTHS) IN LAGOS STATE
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* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.

* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.

* His government built the Lagos State Television

* His government built the Lagos Radio

* His government built Lagos State University

* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.

* His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.

* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.

* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.

* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.

* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.

* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.

* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.

* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.

* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.

* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.

* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.

* His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.

* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).

* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.

* In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.

* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980

* His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).

* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.

*His government established LASACO Insurance.

*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.

*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.

WHO SAYS 4 YEARS IN OFFICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MEANINGFUL ACHIEVEMENTS?

IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1999 WITH REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.

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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by anonimi: 5:08am On Oct 23, 2016
fitzmayowa:
PEJ is indeed a "Saver", I wonder why OBJ didn't appoint her as finance minister atleast she would have been able to "Save" more than what OBJ was able to "Save" during his tenure...

Her money doubling technic is second to none from 700k monthly to $15 million dollars and still counting...cheesy grin cheesy

Ebola Owu did not need to ask her how to save as he did very well all by himself while sleeping and fcvking away our mandate!



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...F A C T.. C H E C K ...

'Obasanjo and Atiku in 8 years built one UNIVERSITY each for themselves....Bells and ABTI.
They built NONE for Nigerians.

Jonathan and Sambo in 4 years built 14 (FOURTEEN) new universities for all Nigerians.
NONE for themselves.

NOTE: OBJ and ATIKU are now consultants/sponsors/piloters/members of APC....



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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by SamuelAnyawu(m): 5:15am On Oct 23, 2016
grin cheesy grin cheesy
Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by sarrki(m): 5:15am On Oct 23, 2016
anonimi:


Can you please tell us what POLICY thrusts make you (plural) progressive?
If you cannot, it will be safe to conclude that you agree that you (plural) are rather progreTHIEVES.
To help you, I have provided a snapshot of Jakande's achievement in just four years (before he was overthrown and jialed by your DullardPoo) as a progressive.




The person in question is your heroine


How did she amassed that amount of money

Pa jakande is part of the progressive movement

So don't mix it up

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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by anonimi: 5:19am On Oct 23, 2016
modath:
Paid for what exactly?

Good question.
Let me see if our honourable SINators and representaTHIEVES can answer since they also receive mega millions from us every month without making any law.



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The real 'Alpha House': Yes, this is where some Senators actually live

Paint peeling off the walls. Sheets for curtains. Broken blinds. A mangled wicker chair made settable with a board. An ancient stove with a giant hole. And there's also the pile of underwear in the living room.
What looks and feels like the most rundown frat house on campus is actually the Capitol Hill home of some of the most powerful men in Washington.
"Welcome to the Omega House," joked Dick Durbin, who is the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate.
"This is where I've lived for 31 years," boasted Chuck Schumer, the Senate's third-ranking Democrat.
It's hard to believe half the Senate Democratic leadership lives in these conditions, together. But they have for decades.
When Rep. George Miller, D-California, the third roommate and landlord, came in the door, he immediately ribbed the Senators as deadbeats.
"You guys get the rent from them?" asked Miller.
The house is so legendary that it inspired the new television series "Alpha House" on Amazon.com.
'How can this work?'
None of the real "Alpha House" members has seen the show, so they said. But they were all quick to say the characters -- who are Republicans -- are nothing like them.
"How can this work?" asked Durbin. "Republican Senators trying to make out they would live in a place like this."
They have a point, which may be why the creators of "Alpha House" cleaned up the fictitious home.
Maybe it's that life is stranger than fiction. Or, more likely, no one would believe prominent politicians would live the way they do in the real Alpha House.
"Wait a minute!" exclaimed Miller, the owner, when we pointed that out.
But he was feigning offense. Thirty seconds with the three and it is clear they revel in the notoriety of their living conditions.
Still, it has been years since they all gathered for this kind of interview and tour of the Capitol Hill row house.
The odd living arrangement began in the early '80s -- when Miller's family decided they no longer wanted to live in D.C., and moved back to the California district he represents.
Miller was living in the house alone until one night when there was a snowstorm and former Democratic Rep. Marty Russo of Illinois stayed over so he could walk to the Capitol.
They decided to make it permanent since it was convenient. They soon convinced Schumer, a House member at the time, to move in.
They had other roommates over the years that have since retired or been defeated, including former CIA Director and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, when he was in Congress.
But what is most striking about the place, aside from the mess, is that it's a time warp. They've done virtually nothing to update since Miller's family left three decades ago.
Jackson Browne and the Beatles
Records -- real vinyl -- line the bookshelf. One of them was Jackson Browne's "The Pretender," which came out in 1976. Another was an old Beatles album.
"The same exact records are there now as the day I moved in, 1982, 31 years ago," Schumer said.
Then there are the dust-covered books that were bestsellers in the early '80s.
The furniture is a hodgepodge of what the lawmakers salvaged from various relatives and other parts of their lives.
Durbin took one of the couches from his son, who was about to throw it out.
"He put it out in the trash -- it had to be 12, 14 years ago -- and I said it's better than anything we have. So we reclaimed it," Durbin recalled.
He said the coffee table is 46 years old -- the first piece of furniture Durbin and his wife bought when they were married.
"We're not afraid of the burglars," Miller said, "because we've been burgled twice and they took nothing."
The living room, virtually the only room on the first floor of the house, also serves as Schumer's bedroom. But "bedroom" is a generous term.
He sleeps on a mattress next to the kitchen. He half-made his bed for our visit, which Durbin said was a lot more effort than Schumer usually makes.
"I spruced it up for your coming here," joked Schumer.

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There is no bathroom on the first floor, so Schumer has to use one on the second floor, where Miller and Durbin have actual bedrooms, with doors.
"When you're my age, at four in the morning to trudge up the stairs to the bathroom, it's no picnic," Schumer shared.
Next to his mattress is a door to the outside, with broken and bent blinds.
"I can see the weather without having to get out of bed," Schumer said. "It's a special effect."
His ties are strewn over an old couch, which serves as his makeshift closet.
And then, there's the kitchen.
The freezer doesn't work. The refrigerator is a sight to behold, but exactly what you would imagine based on the rest of the house: beer cans and old food, including a baguette so hard that Schumer grabbed it and demonstrated how you can use it as a weapon.
The stovetop has a giant hole, which Miller said, perhaps in jest, was made by the rats they've found in the house -- which they still have traps around to catch.
"I thought the rats were in the Senate. I didn't know they came to the House," Miller said without missing a beat.
Since the only visible cookware is a kettle so rusty and old that Miller joked it was a gift from Ben Franklin, the three men resort to the easiest meal possible: cold cereal.
The counter is covered with bulk boxes of Raisin Bran, Mini-Wheats and Kashi. And there is a giant plastic bag of sweetener, which looks like it has been swiped from various fundraisers along the way.
"I prefer Raisin Bran. But I like the Mini-Wheats," Durbin said.
"When you come home late at night and you have to still stay up to work, my incentive? Some people like a nice, you know, jigger of scotch. Mine is Raisin Bran. It keeps me up and I read the newspapers," Schumer said.

Early risers

What is a typical day in the house like?
Durbin is usually the first one up and out at 5:30 a.m. when he goes to the gym. Next is Miller, who usually takes a morning walk around the monuments.
"They leave while I'm sleeping. We do it by design. We hate each other," Schumer said, laughing.

In all seriousness, they don't do much hanging out together here. Unlike the "Alpha House" characters, the real lawmakers are rarely home at the same time.
"He comes in at 12 o'clock at night talking on his cell phone," Miller said of Schumer. "Half his staff must be in Hawaii for picking up the phone at midnight."
It is hard to believe such high-profile politicians live in these conditions.
"When my wife comes, she will not stay here," Schumer confessed.
What helps make it work is that [size=13pt]they're only in Washington about three nights a week.[/size]
And, Miller said, they're good friends.
"We all have different schedules. We all have different interests. You can come back here. You can catch up with one another. You can catch up with the House and the Senate. We know one another's families, so you know what the kids are doing. You know what the grandkids are doing," Miller said.
"I might add location, location, location," Durbin interjected. The house is just blocks from the Capitol.
"It is close to where we work. And it's easy to get back and forth, and I think that has spoiled us," Durbin said.
Durbin sums up another reason he's lived here for 21 years, and Schumer for 31, this way:
"We love it. It's home."

From: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/04/politics/real-alpha-house/

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Re: Patience Jonathan Earned N700,000 As Permanent Secretary - EFCC by sarrki(m): 5:23am On Oct 23, 2016
anonimi:


Good question.
Let me see if our honourable SINators and representaTHIEVES can answer since they also receive mega millions from us every month without making any law.



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Pmb is an achiever already

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