Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Jonathan Moves To Kill Ribadu Report - Aide Calls It “Inconclusive”
President Goodluck Jonathan appears to be maneuvering to discredit the report of the Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force, which was headed by Mallam Nuhu Ribadu.
His attack dog, Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, said the report appeared to be the work of "certain quarters" to "disparage the genuine efforts of the President to bring sanity and cleanse the Nigerian oil sector once and for all."
On Thursday, from his office at Asokoro District of Abuja, Okupe declared that the committee did not complete its assignment.
One of the major terms of reference of the committee, he said, was “to work with consultants and experts to determine and verify all petroleum upstream and downstream revenues (taxes, royalties, etc) due and payable to the federal government of Nigeria” but this aspect of the committee assignment, he claimed, was left undone.
“Unfortunately and most regrettably, this paramount duty of the PRSTF committee could not be accomplished as stated in paragraph four of the covering signed by chairman Ribadu and Secretary of the committee.
Paragraph four reads: “The data used in this report was presented by various stakeholders who made submissions to the Task Force… Due to the time frame of the assignment, some of the data could not be independently verified and the Task Force recommends that the government should conduct such necessary verifications and reconciliations”.
The presidential assistant noted that the implications of the report’s paragraph four was that the committee has issued a disclaimer to their own report which will now make it “impossible under our laws to indict or punish anybody except and until the federal government fully verifies and reconciles the facts as recommended by the committee in its submission to the government”.
He also condemned the politicization of the report and obvious attempt in certain quarters to disparage the genuine efforts of President Jonathan to bring sanity and cleanse the Nigerian oil sector once and for all.
Okupe opined that unfortunately, Ribadu to some extent advertently or inadvertently encouraged this negativism by his claims on his Facebook page that he resisted overtures to make him compromise the report. He challenged Ribadu to make public those that wanted him to doctor the report.
“His claim of an overture to him to compromise the report is perfidious and false. We respectfully enjoin Mallam Ribadu to be patriotic enough to name the proponents of this compromise. If Ribadu claims that by serving on the committee he is on the side of the Nigerian people, on whose side is President Jonathan whose idea it was in the first place to set up the Task Force and approve the appointment of Mallam Ribadu as chairman of the committee.
Okupe further condemned the leakage of the report to Reuters and other international news media before it was submitted to the President on Friday.
NO, he can't do that.
No GEJ can't fight corruption
Let Boko Haram face those who
Let Boko Haram face those who are the real thieves in Nigeria and leave d poor masses alone. God should take care of evil rulers in disguise. Those retaliating thru killing of innocent people are cowards. Ghana is better for it today because Rawlings took care of such people.
no comment let them contiune
no comment let them contiune to sheet on us but i believe that baba God is looked at them.
Mr. President you have the
Mr. President you have the oppurtunity to be the best among the best and write your name in the pages of History. You also have the oppurtunity to follow the ways those who have failed to take us to the next level have also done. you should be far away from the likes of Dr. Doyin Okupe should not be in your government takless of being your SSA on Pubic Affairs. Mr President try as much as possible to that Nigeria to the promise land.
GOOD FOR RIBADU
MY POOR RIBADU
I thought Ribadu was very intelligent to know that, that was a plot to discredit him. surprisingly, he thought he was honored.
Ribadu, did not use his 9th sense at all.
Go back and think, did you ever thought that PDP will appoint you to get any credit? you contested under the ACN as a presidential candidate and now given an assignment by PDP. Sorry, Ribadu you have just sold your future for PDP and will never be recognised by anybody at all.
A former Ribadu admirer. adieus Ribadu.
Yes Oronsaye was correct
@Deri, its amazing that you can support what you are not fully apprised of factually. Oronsaye, even by his own admission did not take part in the committees work and was and is not in a position to cast aspersions on the person of Ribadu or the committees report. All the questions you have raised are superfluous and irrelevant to the subject at hand and smacks of those kind of characters that jump to the defence of the President simply because "he is our own". Besides, you are not in a position to challenge Ribadu to say or do anything. In responding to topical issues, it pays to be circumspect and project objectivity rather than parochial sentiments
A vide of the report
A vide of the report presentation can be seen by anyone globally at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx14MFfeAAw.
Does Mr. Jonathan know what a ridiculous figure he presents on this issue, visible to everyone on the world stage? Does Mr. Oresanya? Their performance, attitude, and is embarrassing to us all. Nigerian leaders are exposed internationally as acting like irresponsible children. It is astonishing. We hope for their departure from power at the earliest possible stage. Unfortunately, given the electoral shams, their replacements are likely to be just as embarrassing.
Federal Reputation burial ground.
The idea of inaugurating a panel on the oil industry by JEG is a farce and a way of exonerating himself from the mess he orchestrated. Is anybody telling us that he does not know what is actually wrong with the industry? National assembly committee on petroleum is inconclusive. In the end the outcome is a law suit by the one criminal against the other. Tukur's and Arisekola's children are free for ever! Ribadu should have known from the onset that he was to be used and dumped. Corrupt Nigerian leaders are ready to call on so called experts to buy time and placate Nigerians. What we witness now is that JEG is casting Ribadu in bad light. He has been used one more time, disgraced and dumped. Allison Madueke, Okupe and Jonathan are now the good ones.
leadership no be come chop
i go laugh 2015, the shoeless, fresh airless, clueless fisherman will definitely go back to the creek to do what he knows how to do best. leave the power house to the rightful owners wozobia
Yes Oronsaye was correct!
Yes Oronsaye was correct! Ribadu is too empty to be president-and to be given such a sensitive assignment! How do u expect him a fulani to work against his brother Buhari and the thieves in the oil industry? Who are the owners of the oil-blocks in d SS? Are they Ijaws? Ribadu would have penned his name in Gold if he had not played politics with a simple assignment like this one-again where are the firms which were indicted by Ribadu? I challenge Ribadu to name one oil firm or individual that was found to have cheated government in his report- Insulting Jonathan upon the resources that his zone has for 58 yrs used in feeding 9ja is silly-it does not make sense-show us the rogues that the other president sent to jail-the fuel scan was not introduced by him either
say that again most of the post- are from d same man
So Oronsaye was correct after all. Ribadu should be ashamed of himself. He has produced an inconclusive report with a disclaimer and given the govt the opportunity to put it in the dustbin. He must have done this deliberately to sabotage Nigerians. No wonder he was so emotional when Oronsaye queried the validity of the report. Ribadu is a traitor.
open the space for people to
open the space for people to air their views-dont limit the discourse to members of teamribadu
Okupe is a scoundrel
You are a hired gun. Why not put your name if you are sure of yourself? The problem with the incompetent and corrupt Jonathan is that he is surrounded by scoundrels like Okupe and other lickspittles. In God's own time we shall rid Nigeria of all these vermin.
I weep for Nigeria
Nigeria is finished!Oh God my country Nigeria is no more.
Any country whose leader double speaks and deceives is finished!
We are only waiting for the funeral.
How apt? Who else should
How apt? Who else should announce the report is inconclusive? None, other than Okupe. Someone versed in contract scam surely knows how to discredit one. And Okupe is well suited for that. For people who thought Jonathan does not know what he is doing? He certainly does. Just doesn't cut out to be a president, but he knows what he's doing. It's part of his cynical nature, just like the company he keeps, along with his mentor and their party. And then again you have Alison-Madueke blaming the scammers for being corrupt. Her history is there for being a pilfer! What a croc? This country is one huge joke. Until upright people with genuine tendencies get the chance to run the country, it's going to be like this. All we have right now are people with questionable characters with no conscience. Jonathan is a pathetic human being and that's been nice to say the least.
Jonathan is a Thief!
President Jonathan is the number one and the most corruptible president of Nigeria.President Jonathan was sponsored by the fuel subsidy looters and serves as president of Nigeria protecting the business interest of the criminal gangsters in Nigeria who backed his regime.
President Jonathan never ever fought or support the anti-corruption fight against the scumbags who are looting our commonwealths to the bone.
President Jonathan aids and abetts looters,embellers and thieves to go scotfree from prosecution.Jonathan is the worst president and the most stinking in corruption president Nigeria ever had.
GEJ & Panel
GEJ should be made to pay for the total cost of all the probe pannel he has set up since he rigged his way to Aso Rock.What else do you expect from a shoeless and brainless pig. That thing cannot even pass an SSCE exam and he is brandishing himself as a PhD holderPhD ko DpH ni. Ass hole of a president.
guy, pls "shine your eyes" &
guy, pls "shine your eyes" & stop being incredulously naive, that is the similar problem with Ribadu- he was naive, he should have known the job was all about rubbishing his person, your govt gave a job to a committee & before the committee could conclude their job, 2 of that team were given juicy appointments in the same ministry they were meant to investigate. Ribadu should be able to differentiate btw sincerity and otherwise, character-wise, you can hardly fault Ribadu, his problem is this ignorance, thesame reason he fell cheaply for Jagaban/GEJs set-up in d last election.
who is d worst?
All criminals birds of the same feather fluck 2gther.POTS KALLING KETTLES BLACK.Who is honest amongst them GOODLUCK,RIBADU,OKUPE AND DIEZANI? Pls answer.When ppl are suffering to get fuel,have evr seen any of them on the queue struggling.God will punish all of them causing suffering to us.
In Haliburton matter, evil
In Haliburton matter, evil won and we lost; in Farouk vs Odetola, evil won and we lost; in this Ribadu committee matter, evil is winning and we are losing. Who will rescue us from this gang?
DR DOYIN WHO?
Could this be the same Dr Doyin Whom OBJ called Ole and chased him out of Aso Rock in the mid-night that has the audacity to comment on the Ribadu Report.
This chap is a cheap thug parading himself as a "spokes man". He shaould keep quite and enjoy the small allowance he receives. I beg.
He has no direct access to the President nor attend cabinet meetings. He is a bloody errand boy.
Banza.
NA TODAY?
No surprises here guys. Jonathan does not need Ribadu's report if he truly wants to deal with corruption in the oil and gas sector. He knows exactly who the thieves are and he is their kingpin. He is number one while Diezani is number two. This is not hearsay. I KNOW FOR A FACT. Good luck to them all ans to my South South brothers who think that they are compensated for resource control when their south south leaders steal huge sums and build mansions in Abuja while the ordinary people in the creeks are having it as bad as they have ever had it.
NAIJA-ENGLISH CLASS
Teacher: One day our country will be corruption free. ''which tense is that?''
Akpors: Future Impossible Tense.
Report
I think Ribadu is honest enough to have stated in Page 4 of the report that they couldn't verified some facts due to the time they had.
So, let Mr. President extend the time so they could finish their work. And don't put them under pressure of time!
Thank you Reuters
The leakage of this committee report is the only consolation in this drama of the absurd. let's imagine the report being submitted to GEJ and his minister of petroleum in secret. It would have been thrown in dustbin and when Nigerians ask for the report Oronsanye and otti would stage a press conference to brief us of their findings and that is:everything is ok in NNPC no cause for alarm. that is ASOROCK way
Ribadu should not be pitied.
Ribadu should not be pitied. He deserved to be rubished. How can somebody in his right senses accepted to serve in any committee set up by this administration if he is not a crook who is ready to cover up their atrocities. Is Ribadu who wanted to rule Nigeria, so daft that he doesnt know the system that all contracts and payments must be approved by both the President and the Ministerof Petroleum.Does he think they will allow him to expose them without fighting and rubishing him and all he stands for. Is he so inexperienced that he cannot learn from the mistakes of Bola Ige, Onagoruwa, Jakande and Ibru who dined with the devils and paid dearly for it.
paragr 4
those cabal ple have change the paragraph 4page am very sure fore this one day naije will wake up
HE IS NOT A MUMU
I have come to realise that the President is not a mumu that most people think he is.He is doing things that will benefit him and his cronies,no more,no less,so by doing these things,and you call him a mumu,its a great understatement,the real mumu are the nigeria people who are suffering and finding it hard each and everyday to survive and they will have to do with these bunch of thieves till 2015 is a very very looong thing.
WHAT DO U EXPECT?
In all honesty, do you people expect GEJ to fight corruption in Nigeria?
This servs Nuhu Ribadu well,
This servs Nuhu Ribadu well, GEJ has succeeded in ridiculling him big time. The little respect pple have for him has been eroded with his report.The fact that he agreed to wine and dine with pple with questionable xter has dented his image seriousely. Ribadu should knoe that 10 angels swearing he was right will make no difference in public glare. ITS UNFORTUNATE.

