Saharareporters has uncovered the existence of the real list submitted by the EFCC to the Presidency, our highly reliable source said elements within the presidency doctored the final list that was released to the media yesterday after excluding names of presidential favorites.
Click here to download the original list
Saharareporters has uncovered the existence of the real list submitted by the EFCC to the Presidency, our highly reliable source said elements within the presidency doctored the final list that was released to the media yesterday after excluding names of presidential favorites.
Click here to download the original list
The original list contained names of four presidential candidates namely:
-Alhaji Abubakar Atiku
-Orji Uzor Kalu
-Attahiru Bafarawa (Sokoto State)-Accused of deducting local government funds, diversion of public funds and abuse of office, the list indicated that the case was still under investigation)
-Goodluck Jonathan -Accused of looting Bayelsa State funds to the tune of N8.2 billion-case under investigation
Amongst governorship candidates the following names were included in the original list:
-Justus Olugbenga Daniel (Ogun State)- Accused of embezzlement and economic sabotage,; fraudulently obtained waiver on importation of vehicles and iron rods which he later sold to Globe Motors (839 vehicles and 10,000 metric tons of iron was sold to Chief Anumudu) for N300 million. Also accused of breach of code of conduct (found to operate foreign accounts) and money laundering.Case Status: Case under active investigation, subject (Globe Motors) agreed to refund N300 million to the FG
-Chief Olusegun Agagu (Ondo State)-Accused of conspiracy, abuse of office, criminal diversion of public funds and stealing. Illegally deducted a total sum of N2.4 billion being 40% of oil derivation fund meant for Ondo State’s OSOPADEC. Case still under investigation.
-Otunba Alao Akala (Oyo State) – Case of abuse and misappropriation of Oyo State government funds. Case Status:Case still under investigation
-Bukola Saraki (Kwara State) –A case of embezzlement of former Societe Generale Bank of Nigeria (SGBN), Case Status: aspirant was indicted during the investigations.
Also included in the original list are Senator Musiliu Olatunde Obanikoro who was accused of lying under oath over his real age.
The Governor of Gombe State, Alhaji Danjuma Goje was also listed as being involved in money laundering, stealing and embezzlement, the list indicated that his case was newly assigned by the EFCC.
Senator Ndoma Egba a close ally of President Obasanjo was accused of abuse of office and misappropriation of public funds on the new list.
Dr. Olusegun Agagu of Ondo State indicted, to refund $3.5 million Nigerian Airways loot
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Gov. Olusegun Agagu indicted by Nigerian Airways Limited judicial panel (White Papers); to refund. $3.2 million Saharareporters, New York
The People Democratic Party (PDP) is a fix over a belated discovery of massive fraud against one of their gubernatorial flag bearer, Chief Olusegun Agagu, in Ondo State.
Chief Olusegun Agagu, who is currently the governor of Ondo State, was indicted by a judicial panel of inquiry headed by Justice Obiora Nwazota for fraud and embezzlement totaling 3.5 million dollars.
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According to recommendation 32 and 33 of the White Paper adopted by President Obasanjo from the panel, Chief Olusegun Agagu was required to "refund the sum of $3.5 to the national treasury being sums he stole from the defunct Nigeria Airways Limited (NAL) being part settlement of the botched lease purchase agreement". In all, persons indicted by the Justice Nwazota’s panel were required to refund $66.3 million being sums of monies traceable to their individual accounts.
The judicial panel looked at the operations of Nigeria Airways from January 1983- December 1999. The federal government in accepting the reports of the panel stated that: "Government accepts recommendations in items (a) to (i) and directs the federal ministry of justice and police to recover the money", the indictment of Prince (Dr) Chief Olusegun Agagu falls within that purview (a)-(i).
Interestingly the same federal government led by President Olusegun Obasanjo leading PDP party leaders who were all dressed in red clothes were handing flags of the PDP to Chief Olusegun Agagu and other Southwest gubernatorial candidates as the party representatives in the upcoming April 2007 general elections, ironically President Obasanjo pointed in the direction of Olusegun Mimiko, Chief Agagu’s opponent accusing him of corruption and promising that the EFCC would investigate him for corruption. Sources at the EFCC told Sahararareporters that they are yet to receive any petition from anyone accusing Mimiko of corruption, but promised that he will be thoroughly investigated should such petition be received by the EFCC.
Saharareporters gathered that shortly after President Obasanjo returned from the Southwest PDP rally in Akure, Ondo State in which 3 people were killed, he was handed a petition on the Justice Nwazota’s judicial panel recommendations on Governor Agagu. The president was told that the police had already taken statements from Chief Agagu on the issue as far back as 2005. The president was said to be confused and asked that the petition be made secret while the PDP leadership tries to reach out to the petition writers for settlement, since they were PDP members.
The petition, our investigators learnt came from governorship candidates from the North, South-South and South-East who accuse the president of protecting his fraudulent "Yoruba candidate brothers" –especially in Ogun, Ondo, and Oyo States-while other PDP candidates equally accused of corruption in other regions were denied the same opportunity by the party leadership.
According to section 182 of the Nigerian constitution, anyone indicted for fraud by a judicial panel of inquiry is not fit to run for office.
Also Saharareporters has uncovered the fraud perpetrated by former Oyo State governor, Otunba Alao Akala since 2003, they include a rice import scam in 2003 in which Alao Akala, then deputy governor of Oyo State, was responsible for importing 360,000 bags of rice through an import waiver granted by the presidency. Though a bag of rice sold at a retail price of N4, 200 in Lagos, Otunba Alao Akala claimed they were imported for N5, 250 per bag. The total sum of this scam was N1.8 billion; it is unclear if the governor, Chief ladoja knew about this scam as our source insisted that the money was shared between Alao Akala and chief Lamidi Adedibu who facilitated the granting of the import waiver from the presidency.
While in power as the illegal governor of Oyo State, Otunba Akala was engaged in a book publishing scam. Sources at the EFCC told Saharareporters that a major book publishing outfit, MacMillan publishers were involved and had been invited by the EFCC to explain why they helped Otunba Alao Akala forge vouchers which put the publishing of books that ordinarily sold for N350 at N750, which allowed Otunba Alao Akala to pocket N756 million from the deal. The contracts were initially for 1.8 million primary school textbooks in mathematics, English Language and Integrated Sciences.
Further frauds were also discovered in the computerization of payrolls for teachers and civil servants in Oyo State. Though the entire computerization project was done at once at the sum of N20 million, Otunba Alao Akala was said to have broken it into two, namely : (1) Computerization of Primary school teachers payroll which he claimed cost N20 million; (2) Computerization of Secondary School teachers and Civil Servants payroll claimed to cost N182 million.
The governor was however exposed when it was discovered that Oyo State had more primary school teachers than secondary school and civil servants combined together. While there are 25,000 primary school teachers in the state, there are only 14,000 secondary school teachers and 10,500 civil servants in the state. Therefore, it didn’t make logical sense that N182 million was spent to computerize the payroll of secondary school teachers and civil servants while N20 million was spent on 25,000 primary school teachers.
Saharareporters sources said that only N20 million was expended on the entire computerization project. Also traced to Otunba Akala is another N780 million road construction contracts he re-awarded to construction companies owned by Chief Lamidi Adedibu and the ‘purchase" of a refurbished generator already paid for by Oyo State in 2004, though the generator was originally purchased for N1.4 million in 2004. EFCC sources said it re-appeared in the state expenditure in 2006 as a newly purchased electrical generator for N20 million after the painting was changed.
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