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Fayose asks government to release defence procurement audit report

By Muyiwa Adeyemi (Head South West Bureau Ado Ekiti)
18 July 2016   |   5:12 am
Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has asked Nigerians to demand the release of the authentic report of the Audit of defence equipment procurement in the Nigerian Armed Forces.
Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State

Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State

‘Targeting only opponents of govt is corruption’

Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has asked Nigerians to demand the release of the authentic report of the Audit of defence equipment procurement in the Nigerian Armed Forces.

In a statement issued yesterday by Lere Olayinka, his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Fayose said, “it is now obvious to the entire world that anyone that is in President Muhammadu Buhari’s good books can never be adjudged as corrupt even if such a person is caught looting the entire money in Nigeria’s treasury.”

Fayose described the claim by the Federal Government that the probe panel only looked into procurement and contracts awarded by the military between 2011 and 2015, because documents regarding procurement from 2007 to 2010 were not available as a clear indication of his support for corruption.

The governor said it smacked of sheer hypocrisy and nepotism for anyone to accept that fraud could have been perpetrated on procurement and award of contracts in an establishment without the involvement of the director of procurement.

“There are many petitions relating to the defence from 2007 that are been discarded, the question is why? There are several petitions against APC leaders that are not being looked into. The question is why?
“Fighting corruption and targeting only opponents of the president is in itself corruption,” he said.

He said; “Buhari’s’ Minister of Interior, Major General Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd) was Chief of Army Staff between 2008 and 2010 and the current Chief of Army Staff, Major General Tukur Buratai served as Director of Procurements, Defence Headquarters, from 2012 till May 2015.

“It is a fact that the committee in its terms of reference said it queried all procurement from 2007 to 2015. Even the Press Release issued was titled;
‘Third Interim Report of the Presidential Committee on Audit of Defence Equipment Procurement from 2007 to 2015.

“The first paragraph of the committee report also indicated that it used 2007-2015 as reference, stating that the committee ‘analysed procurement contracts awarded by or for the Nigerian Army between 2007 and 2015.

“The questions Nigerians must now begin to ask President Buhari and his government are; where is the report of Presidential Committee on Audit of Defence Equipment Procurement relating to 2007 to 2010? Who doctored the committee report and why? Fayose queried.

19 Comments

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    Fayose try and clear the logs in your eye first before agitated for others people issues

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      You are never Godwin. You are Mohammad, a destroyer. Fayose is saying the truth

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        Did you benefit from arms deal? Why are you protecting the thieves? If you think, the mismanaged money is meant to do things that will move Nigeria forward.

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          Yes. Burutai and Buhari himself gave me a part

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            You need to tell your kids and wife that you a thief and that you earned from sharing money meant for development of Nigeria. Also you need to inform them that this is not good because a house that is built with stolen money will not last. If you are a Christian, tell you pastor, go repent and return the money they gave you. If you are a Muslim, tell your Imam and seek for forgiveness also, in addition to returning what does not belong to you.

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            But saint Buhari gave me. Therefore he is a thief

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            Omo Olorun, did you read what Peters said about Buratai, the army thief or you care less since Buhari has cleared him? I am worried that we a lot of sycophants in this country. Why not be objective for once. When the real ethnic and religious cleansing will commence in earnest, i will remind you of your position today. Good day.

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            Emeka, just read that now. What I know is that APC will not be there for ever. You agree with me on that? The government that comes after them should probe the atrocities they too commit if they are covering up now.

            All I want is a government that works and officials that are voted do not go there to steal money meant for development. I am from Ekiti State, from North to South, East to West of the state, you can’t see any industry that employees 40 people. I don’t want my people to be handed rice and beans when it is time for election. The state has resources it can develop. The soil is fertile but no one wants to farm. The government of Fayose,that is there now, no development plan. Do you think any governor that is serious will find time to be eating boli(roasted plantain) around instead of sitting down to do rigorous exercise about how to move the state forward?

            I work hard to earn little money I make and I am objective in my analysis. I have lived and worked abroad. I see the way things work. It is not rocket science.

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          What do you mean by mismanagement of funds? The number one man who looted the money and bought houses in Dubai is now chief of army staff in buhari government. Do you know him? His name is general Buratai he has properties that worth over 200 million dollars in dubai. Anti corruption my foot.

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      You can’t defend the illiteracy and dishonesty of the Daura moron called Buhari. Pity

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        Referring to the president of your country as a moron? you need to check your brain or review your upbringing, how low is your life? what are you gainning or losing in calling Buhari a moron? you are a disgrace to humanity & education.

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          Am certainly unrepentant that Buhari is moronic. A president that presides a country in who his kinsmen are killing rural dwellers of other ethnic extractions with any arrests or security response certainly doesn’t deserve a place among mankind. You are the one whose heads requires examination if you see nothing wrong with all these killings

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            Your tirades against the man is beyond the killings going on soon you will come out from your shell about how Buhari stops your benefactors from stealing our commonwealth, does this killing started when Buhari becomes president?

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    Buhari keeps marketing his illiteracy and dishonesty with every actions of his. Pity!

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      No matter what, how lettered are you? can you even solve the problems in your household talk less of the area you live. The Otuoke man with his PhD leads this country to doom, & your so called illiterate is trying to bring the country back to sanity is that your problem?

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        ‘Sanity’ in your myopic and mundane mentality but certainly insanity before sane minds. A president that is presiding his country with his kinsmen uncontrollably killing and maiming citizens of other ethnic groups in order to secure grazing land for animals must certainly be mad and insane. You can never see anything wrong with this because you exist at the same abysmal level with Buhari’s mentality.

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          Your problem is a bit confused, during the past government killings has been going on, & those who are caught has been brought to book & now you belief that those involved in the bad practices will be spared because they are from one ethinics or the other. You need to clear your mind from ethnic & religious bigotry to be sane & also belief that be you hausa, ibo , yoruba or even fulani we are all one.

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            Look my friend, stop disgracing yourself here! If you are really a Nigerian, as your pseodonym “ADER DELE” implies (I’m not even sure you are a Yoruba man!), go and register in a secondary school in your area and study, first and foremost, how to read and write sentences in English. Before you come to join the discussions & conversesions here. At least you will have at the end of your course a genuine certificate, which your Fulani president, who you are foolishly defending here, does not have. Maybe then you will realise what the other contributors to the theme or topic here are writing about. At the moment, since you are equally a butcherer and murderer, like your Fulani herdsmen brothers, you do not realise that ransacking villages from the Middle-belt to the South-East and from the South-West to the South-South of Nigeria, is a serious crime against humanity. You are no different from those islamic terrorists from the North (the so-called B-H), who have reduced the North-East to a “no-mans land” in the name of a stone-aged religion! Nor those other islamic terrorists now rampaging Western Europe in the name of a so-called “IS-jihad”. [Instead of “Your problem is a bit confused, …” you should have written; “Your problem is a bit confusing”. Secondly, instead of ” those who are caught has been brought to book”, you should have written: “those who were caught, were brought to book …”]. OK? Buhari worshipper!

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        It is so sad that at this time, people like you would still hold opinions like this – “the Otuoke man with his PhD leads (should have been led) this country to doom”. It is obvious to the world and THE DIFFERENCE IS CLEAR! The Otueke man grew The economy of Nigeria to NUMBER 1 in Africa. Don’t you know this? Since Buhari came on board, the economy has been crashing. Are you not aware? What is $1 to Naira? Inflation in Nigeria is now about 16.5% – the worse in 11 years as issued by the National Bureau of Statistics. Would you challenge that? I think we should stop this politics and sincerely pray for and advise the government even if you are an unrepentant, diehard supporter of the present APC government. What sanity are you talking about? Witch hunting and crushing of the opposition elements? So those in PDP for nearly 16 years and decamped to APC are saints and not corrupt abi? The likes of Amaechi? Who sponsored APC presidential campaign? Where did the monies come from? Have you heard Metu criticise the government again? HE HAS BEEN SILENCED! This is the the so-called fight against corruption by this government – TO SILENCE THE OPPOSITION. That in itself is corruption! Procurement in the Army is probed- the NSA and other pro PDP are arrested, molested, incarcerated, while the then director of procurement has no case and is promoted to chief of Army staff by Buhari and the then chief of Army Staff rewarded as minister of interior! This is Nigeria and what else if not corruption? Who is deceiving who?