Monday, 21 May 2012
The Truth About The Oil Minister’s 20 Million Euro Mansion In Vienna, Austria By Uzoma Ahamefule
By Uzoma Ahamefule
Dear President Goodluck Jonathan and honorable minister, Mrs. Diezani Alison Madueke:
I am personally very happy about the urgency which this millions of euro mansion allegation in Vienna, Austria has been refuted and taken. Consequently I would want to inform you all, and fellow Nigerians that I went into action immediately after recovering from the shock of hearing that such amount of money had been invested in a foreign land in this manner in search of the truth.
With all sense of frankness and fairness I can unequivocally say that I have as a concerned and disturbed patriotic citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria living in Vienna, Austria gone deeply and investigated this saga. I used all the available means and otherwise to get to all the people and agencies that are very important in finding the truth. My curiosity and sincerity in digging out the fact nearly got me into trouble at different occasions. Therefore, I can beat my chest and say that there was no iota of truth in this accusation. Some school of thoughts may have it that I am just an ordinary individual whose investigations could be limited and could easily be rejected or punctured by law on technical ground. As a result, I am waiting for the final pronouncement of the official findings, which I believe that it will not be different from the naked truth I have just said.
In consideration to this my honest private investigation on the bogus mansion and its result, honorable minister Madam, let your celebration start now because you are a conqueror for your God has given you another important victory to the shame of the devil and the evil ones. I did not find any mansion in Vienna, Austria in the name of Mrs. Diezani Alison Madueke the honorable oil Minister Federal Republic of Nigeria. And I challenge anybody to prove me contrarily including “Heute” newspaper. Consequently I tender my unreserved apology for this misleading publication as someone who brought a translated version of the newspaper’s report to the Nigerian audience outside Vienna, Austria.
The record must be kept straight that ‘Heute’ newspaper dated 7.11.11 on page 11 carried the news that Nigeria’s oil minister had got a mansion in Vienna, Austria and some Nigerians living in Vienna have got a copy of that paper including the Nigerian Embassy whom I have also had contact with regarding this fairy tale in my candid opinion. My article was not ambiguous as I stated clearly that my reactions were based on the report of the newspaper and had also asked the oil minister to refute the allegation or resign from her position.
I am not a blackmailer, a politician, a contractor and evenly not looking for any favor from any individual or government in any form as to sell my conscience and integrity. I do not equally involve myself in dubious activities. I am just a patriotic concerned reliable citizen who also feels the pains of corruption by our political leaders in Nigeria. My actions are focused towards social change for the good of all Nigerians. This is what I am doing and will continue to do.
Austria is ranked as developed by experts, therefore, if one cannot make a reference to a newspaper report in a civilized country then all the judges all over the world that have admitted any newspaper in evidence and used it in any form should be castigated and such cases re-tried. And as long as this has not been done those bunches of miscreants who are nothing but ethnic village political champions should get this into their heads that the news did not emanate from me. Even though I am not afraid of death at all because when it will come you cannot do anything to change it since it is not within your power but in the hands of the creator, but all the abuses and threats on my person and family must stop. However, if it pleases God that their threats will become reality, it will also please my soul because they may not know that they have played the role Judas Iscariot played in Jesus Christ’s crucifixion by fulfilling part of my destiny to eternity where I will die no more and will see corruption, blackmailing and threat no more. If God so wishes may his name be glorified.
If a report from an Austrian licensed newspaper cannot be referred to as a source of information there would be no need for its existence just as we should equally not listen to BBC, CNN or NTA news etc. because it would be useless. If I should be scolded for making a reference to a newspaper report in a civilized country then we all are guilty of believing “The Times” in New York about the life of the US president Barrack Obama and his family in the White House because we have never been there and may never be. We should also not make a reference or believe Nigerian newspapers whenever they write anything about Aso Rock or President Goodluck Jonathan especially the regional newspapers until we as individuals go to Aso Rock and verify or see the president. If the reproach of some few individuals should be generally accepted then, we all are guilty to have believed newspaper reports about the former US president George Bush who is supposed to be in prison for his lies against late Saddam Hussein and genocide against Iraqi women and children because we were not in Iraq to see the war and count the number of women and children that were reported to have been killed by Bush’s arrogance in a supremacy show. For threatening a man who has done a patriotic job out of his own time, money and risk, we all should be jailed to have believed newspaper reports about the betrayal of Charles Taylor by African leaders who ate their words out of imperialism and complex and handed him over to their colonial masters against the peace accord reached in Monrovia, Liberia that led Charles Taylor to voluntarily relinquish his power as the president. Charles Taylor took asylum in Nigeria which was part of the treaty of his leaving power but it turned out to be a deceit and a gate way to his incarceration against the deal. Today Charles Taylor is standing trial in the same court that ceded Bakassi Peninsula against all glaring evidences and the feelings of Bakassi indigenes in Cross River state. You and I perhaps were not witnesses to all these historical events but yet we will quote, discuss and write as if it happened in our bedrooms because we believe in the media.
As accredited print media house its primary aim is to inform and people rely on it for information because it is duty bound to verify its news and filter it before bringing it to the audience. It was on this note of respecting ‘Heute’s’ ethic professionalism as a licensed media entity I wrote in my article that I trust the newspaper, and consciously aware of the gravity of the allegation it leveled against the honorably minister and the insult it heaped on Nigeria, one had expected it to at least be very sure of its report. You can go back and read that article again.
Therefore I think that I did a patriotic work by bringing a translated version of the already known news to the Nigerian audience and equally made a genuine patriotic call not only as a concerned Nigerian when I said that the oil minister must clear her name or honorably bow out from office but also as a Nigerian who is doing something in his own little way for the sought change we all are yearning for to take place. No Nigerian in Austria was happy after having read that insult from “Heute” newspaper but as usual most of them took the discussions to their sitting rooms, café bars and their clan meetings or to their small group of friends for sympathy.
We have our problems in Nigeria including corruption in high places there is no doubt about that but corruption is not peculiar to Nigeria alone. Therefore, ‘Heute’ must explain to Nigerians what gave them the impetus to disgrace our Honorable minister by portraying her as wicked and inconsiderate before the world without facts. Millions of Nigerians all over the world especially those living in Austria have been misled like me and humiliated in so many ways with this report and as a matter of fact need an explanation why their country should be so bruised sacrilegiously with the derogatory word “Hungerland.”
The big questions now are: How did “Heute” come up with this damaging allegation? Who is behind this and what is the motive? For your personal clarification I have provided ‘Heute’s’ contact and mail addresses including telephone numbers bellow.
Heute AHW Verlags GmbH
Heiligenstädter Lände 29/Top 6
1190 Wien
Fax: +4350950 ext. 12222 or ext. 12555
Phone: +4350950 ext. 12000
E-Mail: office@heute.at
Mr. President Sir, this humiliation and insult was not only a damage to the honorable minister but also to Nigeria as an entity. Your morality as the commander in Chief of the Armed Forces Federal Republic of Nigeria who appointed Mrs. Diezani Alison Madueke as a minister and your entire cabinets are equally not spared. Accordingly, genuine concerned Nigerians like me are expecting you to please restore our dignity and pride by encouraging and supporting speedy investigation and legal action against the newspaper and their agents because anything short of this to the knowledge of the public would be a colossal failure. In other words, please no diplomatic settlement outside the eyes of the public should be considered in any form otherwise the coffin of the damage would have been sealed.
Sir, the real foreheads of the “Terrible Goliaths” which you said that are ready to kill their fathers and mothers or even their children just to stop your government maybe about to be exposed for your anointed stone to strike like David in the bible. Get to the root of this matter because from every indication Sir, it could afford you the opportunity of unmasking some of these monsters in the name of “Goliaths” or their agents.
In retrospect to the brouhaha that trailed the re-appointment of the oil minister and the unwarranted uproar that is now associated with her including this FAKE mansion in Vienna, Austria it is now so obvious that some forces are after her. May God continue to protect her.
Fellow Nigerians, we all should not forget that north, east, west and south - home is home, for that reason, let us all in unison play our respective roles well to move Nigeria forward and do away with blackmailing and distractions in any form. We should not allow ourselves to be a willing tool in causing pains to others. We must criticize genuinely and constructively because objective criticism brings the best out in any reasonable government.
Kill that ethnic politicking in you and let us leave legacies for our children and not ill-gotten billions in the bank from blackmailing and corruption. Nigeria must move forward.
Long live the federal Republic of Nigeria, long live President Goodluck Jonathan and long live the oil minister Mrs. Diezani Alison Madueke.
Uzoma Ahamefule
A concerned patriotic citizen
Writes from Vienna, Austria
Klick here: http://globalreporters1.blogspot.com
uzomaah@yahoo.com
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shut up
Submitted by obodoekwe styvn (not verified) on January 19, 2012 - 06:03.
my brother, you can fool the rogues you represent, but you cannot fool nigerians. you just sound like one of the fronts of of the nigerian rouguish ruling class. how much did the minister pay you to finish yourself publicly?
You really are funny. When
Submitted by tara (not verified) on January 18, 2012 - 14:08.
You really are funny. When have you ever heard of a politician using his or her name to own properties? You have just proved to conspiray theorists that you are indeed related to the minister. Never mind her secret cannot be hidden for too long and that's what we love most about life! Nothing is a secret to God
It is a pity that you have
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 18, 2012 - 06:22.
It is a pity that you have proved yourself to be unpatriotic. You are behaving as if you are not a Nigerian. Do you expect Hon Minister to use her name to do such transaction especially when she is still serving as Minister? What about her two companies NESOR SA AND TRIDAX SA that are lifting oil into the country and being managed by her brother? Is she not the sole beneficiary of the subsidy? Her hands are not clean. Let us all join hands together to fight corruption in Nigeria. Please read The Nation Newspaper of today 18th January, 2012, then you will know that she has been unpatriotic and unfaithful for long. God bless Nigeria and faithful Nigerians.
The guy in question is either
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 18, 2012 - 06:09.
The guy in question is either related to Mrs Allison Madueke or looking for something else. My question is that "who owns NESOR SA AND TRIDAX SA managed by the Minister's Brother?" These two companies are the major oil lifters into the country and they are the ones "benefitting" in the subsidy we are fightung for. Let us call a spade a spade. Let us all fight this corruption war to a logical conclusion. God bless Nigeria and Nigerians
The Truth about the Oil Minister's 20m Euro mansion
Submitted by Anunobi B, (not verified) on January 16, 2012 - 13:32.
The writer has provided contact details of the Newspaper. Instaed of some lazy folks writing insults, why not they take up the challende and do their own investigations and report?
you are just a
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 16, 2012 - 09:19.
you are just a disappointment. You were either incompetent in your re-investigation, a gossip in your earlier allegations, or an outright fraud for selling out. Either way, you need redemption.
don't mind the clown, the
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 16, 2012 - 09:11.
don't mind the clown, the energy he spent re-investigating and apologizing would have been more than adequate to have confirmed the story first before publicizing it.
Uzoma's Naivity
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 16, 2012 - 00:07.
Sorry Mr. Uzomah Ahamefula, you're completely naive in this your back-and -fort theatrise. Your investigative abilities are impeviously below standard. Your failure to realize that Ms Alison-Madueke would unlikely use her name in buying such a property demonstrates poor research methodology on your part. Plse stop apologizing yet. Return to the publisher, and dig more with the suggestions furnished by these other various commentaries. Looking forward to your re-investigating the matter. Keep us posted. Goodluck. Thanks.
Stevechyke
DONT CRUXIFY THIS GUY YET.TRUTH SHALL PREVAIL.
Submitted by Femi (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 21:18.
This guy might be right,wrong,paid or agent.Truth shall surface one day.Nothing is hidden under heaven.'VANITY UPON VANITY' All what know is that all of our leaders in Govenment in Nigeria are corrupt.Nobody is SAINT.
next time carry out thorough
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 21:13.
next time carry out thorough investigation before involving yourself. Check and counter check all info before passing it around.
God have Mercy on their Souls
Submitted by Dodo Maiyaki (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 17:36.
I agree with everything you have done. You posed the problem appropriately:You have used your resources without asking anybody for refund. All you have been doing is working for social change in your country.
Those thieves who betrayed Charles Taylor, stole his money and are being hailed are the type of people some tribal jingoists would prefer but do not forget, their ideas do not represent the common people's and the country(Nigeria) your nobles actions are directed at.They should remember how Judas-after betraying his boss-ended.God have mercy on them!!
Do not hesitate to still report the matter to the dicredited law enforcement system(for we are required by our creator to give unto Caesar what is his) so we can hold them responsible for anything that happens.Keep up the good works.
Ignore them
Submitted by Dodo Maiyaki (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 17:21.
I agree with everything you have done. You posed the question appropriately:You have used your resources withou asking anybody for refund to work for change in your country. Those thieve who betrayed Charles Taylor, stole his money and are being hailed are the type of people some tribal jingoists would prefer but do not forget, their ideas do not represent the common people's and the country(Nigeria) your nobles actions are directed at.
Do not hesitate to still report the matter to the dicredited law enforcement system(for we are required by our creator to give unto Caesar what is his) so we can hold them responsible for anything that happens.
What you are doing is what some of us are doing. A dummy( with a procured paper qualification is no intelligence) who has found a government position where easy money is available would go to any length to impress the master. This is where and why you and your family are threatened.
@ Uzoma
Submitted by My Clem (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 10:55.
This guy is just a plain idiot from head to toe. Nothing to add
FAILED
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 07:59.
If ur investigations nd reports were 2 b true, den am sorry bt u hv failed cos its a well know fact dat d account d open nd properties dey buy wit d stolen money is not normally done in dia name, so dat it cnt b traced back 2 dem. 2 state d fact, am diassapointed in d oil minister cos she is 1 of d few I trusted.
STOP INSULTING OUR SENSIBILITIES PLEASE
Submitted by AnonymousEBIYE (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 01:22.
Nigerians are no fools what about her jweler in LOS ANGELES who is now lifting crudeoil on her behalf
Lying Reporters and Newspapers
Submitted by Michael Nwafor (not verified) on January 14, 2012 - 12:31.
There are many issues here to point out for correction:
1. The Heute Newspaper or whatever it answers must not publish a LIE. As a newspaper, it can be relied upon by readers and this is replication of lies.
2. If the translator discovers that the Heute publication is a LIE, integrity demands that he must state so publicly and apologise. We must not bear a false witness as the Holy Book commands.
3. Commentators must not insist that the LIE is the truth because it NEVER will be. The truth is constant and cannot change.
Meanwhile, I have read a list of the so called OIL CABAL beneficiaries and it includes AP, OANDO, MRS, CON OIL, OBAT, HONEYWELL, etc. There is no connection between JONATHAN and these guys. We have an idea who the are fronting for.
Lanre,I agree. Imagine the
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 13, 2012 - 20:19.
Lanre,I agree. Imagine the guy concluding with: "Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Long Live President Goodluck Jonathan, Long live Diezani Allison-Madueke".
It shows he may have been paid to write that rejoinder.
May God help us!
PAID REJOINDER (HOW MUCH BRIBE DID YOU RECEIVE?)
Submitted by SAED OMOTAYO (not verified) on January 13, 2012 - 18:50.
I think this guy is looking for appointment in the ministry of petroleum resources.
Have you forgotten that the minister would not explicitly use her name knowing the implication of doing so?
Have you also forgotten that Iyabo Obasanjo used a proxy name to negotiate contracts in Europe while serving as senator?
My guy!!!, reading your write up i thought you are intelligent, SORRY YOU ARE NOT
I think this guy is looking
Submitted by SAED OMOTAYO (not verified) on January 13, 2012 - 18:45.
I think this guy is looking for appointment in the ministry of petroleum resources.
Have you forgotten that the minister would not explicitly use her name knowing the implication of doing so?
Have you also forgotten that Iyabo Obasanjo used a proxy name to negotiate contracts in Europe while serving as senator?
My guy!!!, reading your write up i thought you are intelligent, SORRY YOU ARE NOT
I said it; problems in Nigeria are varied and convulsive!
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 13, 2012 - 17:13.
You posted an article and you asked for comments and I happened to have done this only joust yesterday yet you have not posted it! Haba, aboki woni ili abu wan’na kwuma; What is going on? Besides, you give us 1000 characters to post for comments - it is not enough to post meaningful and incisive comments to deal with the problems depicted sometimes on your features unless you don’t want factual comments or responses! It is not surprising some of them turn out to be abusive! Try and post my comment submitted yesterday; you’ll never know, it could prompt some corrective measures somewhere, folks! Thank you.
Ahamefula's Defence
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 13, 2012 - 16:46.
I have read thoroughly your defence. It is at least honest and honourable. What I cannot vouch for is how professional you were in the conduct of the investigation. I am sure you do not expect to find any Nigerian public official purchasing property abroad in their real name. Nigerians are smarter than that, even if we have no conscience. What you could have done if you had the appropriate capacity and enablement, was to investigate all purchases of properties in that country in the period under consideration and trace the payments backward, you would have had to wade through both clean and laundered money, and with luck, you could have encountered stooges, fronts, surrogates and what have you, some of whom cannot afford by any pedigree such funds. But either nemesis or the Almighty will do something in this country one day surely ....
WHAT DO YOU KNOW? EXPOSE IT TO SAVE NIGERIA FROM THESE HEARTLESS
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 13, 2012 - 13:47.
THIS CHANCE IN OUR GENERATION MUST NOT BE MISSED
THIS CHANCE TO ERADICATE CORRUPTION IN OUR GENERATION MUST NOT BE MISSED
OCCUPY NIGERIA PROTEST SHOULD CHANGE EMPHASIS FROM SUBSIDY TO ERADICATION OF CORRUPTION.
THERE SHOULD BE A COLLATION OF ALL THIS POINT BLANK CASES OF CORRUPTION FOR ALL THE PROTESTERS ON THE GROUND TO READ.
SPEAKERS AT PROTESTS SHOULD NOT WASTE TIME ON BABBLINGS BUT BE PRECISE IN DECIMATING THE EFFECTS OF THIS CORRUPT PRACTICES TO THEIR LISTENERS.
THIS CHANCE TO ERADICATE CORRUPTION IN OUR GENERATION MUST NOT BE MISSED
to Uzoma Ahamefule Hasn't
Submitted by BENSON IKEMEFUNA (not verified) on January 13, 2012 - 12:14.
to Uzoma Ahamefule
Hasn't this idiot heard of holding companies and proxy purchase. Lawyers routinely purchase assets on behalf of foreign owners through a wide variety of structures and the end owners name may never appear on a public document. Uzoma you may be in vienna but get an education first before you go running your fat mouth. IDIOT.
B.I
I blame our leaders
Submitted by Bmdee (not verified) on January 13, 2012 - 10:27.
I blame our leaders past and present for not allowing majority of us Nigerians to have quality education. It is not only about being able to read and write, but it is about understanding what you read, and writing what you understand. Uzoma has put together a very well composed article filled from beginning to end with sarcasm. But I guess a lot of us who have read it either did not read the whole article, or read and didnt understand. His article is a brilliant call for the Federal Government to defend their Minister, and us Nigerians from the corruption labelled on most Nigerians wherever we find ourselves. If the published story about the minister was a lie, then it means she is too rich from Nigerian Oil Money to chase millions of Euros she can make from a lawsuit from an International News Organisation that has tarnished her "supposedly" clean reputation
oil minister house in Vienna
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 13, 2012 - 09:21.
Your apt and well structured defence of the nigeria oil minister suggest on whose side you stand. Please note that, your opinion on this matter holds no water, as you are neither her spoke's person or attorney, if you are inviting her attention for financial support from her, kindly look for other ways of doing it. It is not your business to defend her even if the report is false, let's be guilded in misleading the reading public on sensitive issues, decipating such energy in the defence of Mrs Dezieni suggest foul play, oil mininster should be wary of sycophants like you.
Writers must quit Sarcasm in this difficult times for Nigerians!
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 13, 2012 - 07:52.
@Ibrahim Saad, this is not the time for anyone to be sarcastic. The time for sarcasm is over, if anyone wants to write any writeup or article they must call a spade a spade. Writers in this trying times for poor Nigerians must communicate in plain language for all Nigerians to understand and not mislead them with useless sarcasm.
YOU MISSED IT TOYIN THE AUTHOR WAS BEING SARCASTIC!
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 13, 2012 - 07:49.
@Ibrahim Saad, this is not the time for anyone to be sarcastic. The time for sarcasm is over, if anyone wants to write any writeup or article they must call a spade a spade. Writers in this trying times for poor Nigerians must communicate in plain language for all Nigerians to understand and not mislead them with useless sarcasm.
re: truth about minister's mansion
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 13, 2012 - 01:07.
uzoma,
I advise you dont make your conclusions yet on this issue
what you've failed to realise is that many of the public figures in nigeria dont use their real names to acquire properties or invest abroad but do such through proxy and have a way of sorting it out in the future.
if you investigate from now till eternity, the name deziani may never appear on any of the documents
my old man told me that "there is always an iota of truth in every rumour". please do not jump into conclusions
Peter
YOU MISSED IT , Toyin Adekunle
Submitted by ibrahim saad (not verified) on January 13, 2012 - 01:06.
YOU MISSED IT TOYIN THE AUTHOR WAS BEING SARCASTIC!
Any defender of Looter & Oppressors Should Die with Them!!!!
Submitted by Toyin Adekunle (not verified) on January 12, 2012 - 15:06.
@ Uzoma Ahamefule: If at all what you did is true or false is not important now. The timing of your writeup is insane, insensitive and inappropriate. If you are related to the oppressor in question, you should have kept your stinking mouth quiet!
At this time that people are angry with those wicked oppressors in power is the time you have chosen to defend one of Jonathan's harlots in the corridor of power. Does any of these useless, wicked & oppressive leeches in power deserve any defence or honour. You have only done one thing: You have exposed yourself as one of the bootlickers!!!
