Who authorized the opening of the vaults of the Central Bank of Nigeria to fund the 2006 third term upheaval to the tune of over N30 billion? Who were the foot soldiers who distributed monies to lobby National Assembly members, Chiefs, Emirs, Obas and sundry characters? Specifically, who were those who collected the bribes?
Who authorized the opening of the vaults of the Central Bank of Nigeria to fund the 2006 third term upheaval to the tune of over N30 billion? Who were the foot soldiers who distributed monies to lobby National Assembly members, Chiefs, Emirs, Obas and sundry characters? Specifically, who were those who collected the bribes?
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These are the questions that the Conference Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) wants answers to, and it has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to commence a probe to get them.
In a statement by Osita Okechukwu, the National Publicity Secretary, CNPP said, “Probe of the 3rd Term is a matter of utmost national importance, not only to recover our looted funds, a bleeding which took place when the Oil price was hovering at its peak of between $140 to $145 per barrel; but also to locate how Chief Obasanjo’s failure to extend his tenure led to his adoption of Do-or-Die tactics hence the 2007 sham elections and the emergence of the incompetent government in our clime today.”
CNPP said that the Commission is in good stead to carry out this probe because the current chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde was the agency’s Operations man during that time.
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“Now that Senator Ibrahim Mantu, former Deputy Senate President and Chairman Joint Constitutional Review Committee (JCRC) during the 3rd Term saga, has come out publicly to defend ex-president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s revision of history and his infamous role in the failed bid that cost the nation over N30 billion; Conference Nigerian Political Parties {CNPP} calls on the EFCC to probe the failed exercise,” the statement said.
Mantu had been quoted as saying, “Throughout the exercise there was never a time that president Obasanjo lobbied me to use my position as chairman of the CRC to bend the rules and ensure the passage of the tenure elongation clause. ……nobody can say I took money or distributed money. I was not only the DSP, I was the Chairman of the CRC and therefore there is nothing that will happen without me at the center of it. First and foremost, the whole thing about third term is much ado about nothing. It was in the course of the zonal public hearing that a sub-committee headed by Senator Omar Hambagda brought in the report’.
“We dismiss Senator Mantu’s statement in its entirety and are of the candid view that the 3rd Term is much ado about the depletion of our natural resources, the failure of Obasanjo regime to complete any project, especially of the federal roads he awarded since assumption of office, even Ota-Agege-Abeokuta road and total criminal dislocation of our journey to true democracy,” the statement said.
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