Thursday, 4 February 2016

How military chiefs used their wives, kids to hide looted funds

Information emanating from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC suggest that some of the looted $2.1b arms procurement fund have been traced to the accounts of wives and children of some former and serving military chiefs.

Abujacitynews learnt that the EFCC may soon block access to the accounts fingered in the offense.

A source close to the anti graft agency revealed that some of the indicted officers, both serving and retired acquired properties in the names of their family members in order to conceal their loot.

Another source close to the investigation told The Nation that the EFCC has made some interesting discoveries concerning the looted funds.

His words:
“Our investigators have uncovered that some of these military officers under probe stashed  their shares of the $2.1billion arms cash in the accounts of their relations, especially wives and children.

“We have traced such slush funds and we may freeze these accounts until we have screened the inflows and expenditures. The legitimately operated accounts will be freed after thorough screening.

”Besides, some houses belonging to the children and relations of some military chiefs have been identified as products of proceeds of financial crimes.

“We have already marked the properties of one of the children of a top military brass. We have invoked Temporary Assets Forfeiture Clause in EFCC Act.

“It is obvious that some of the arms cash were laundered through proxies, relations and phony companies. Some even registered companies in the names of their spouses or families.

“We have done enough ground work to interrogate some of these former and serving military chiefs.

“We have also summoned most of the former and serving military officers referred to EFCC for probe,” he said.

Wednesday, 3 February 2016

Police to replace firearms with stun guns IGP

The Inspector General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase says that the Nigeria Police Force will soon introduce stun guns as part of measures to reduce fatalities associated with misuse of firearms by police officers.

Speaking in Abuja on Wednesday after a meeting with senior police officers, Arase said that the introduction of stun guns will discourage the use of firearms by policemen on metro patrol.

“Right now, what we are trying to do is to discourage issuing firearms to police officers, who go on metro patrol. And that is why we are thinking of introducing stun guns this year.

“Stun guns can incapacitate you, demobilise you, but they will not kill you. So, in case there is a mistake, then we will be able to ensure that the fatality is not such that will result in death.

“It is also true that from statistics we have internal mechanisms for dealing with people who engage in misuse of firearms and I must tell you that many of them have been dismissed. But it is not every day you will see it on the pages of the paper that they have been dismissed,” he said.

Dariye was given diverted N1.162b for land reclamation - witness

A letter signed by former governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye requesting for funds to reclaim lands damaged by erosion and mining activities was admitted as exhibit yesterday by a Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting at Gudu, Abuja.

The former governor who now represents Plateau Central in the Senate is standing trial on
23 counts of criminal diversion of the N1.162b  ecological funds meant for land reclamation and flood channelisation project in the Bokkos area of the state preferred against him by the EFCC.

The anti graft agency's second prosecution witness, an accountant in the Federal Civil Service, Mr. James Adewesu, mounted the witness box on Wednesday to give details of the processes leading to the release of the funds to Dariye, who he said personally collected the cheque for the N1.162b bn from the Ecological Fund Office at the Federal Secretariat in Abuja.

Adewesu who said he was serving in the accounts department of the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, where the account of the Ecological Fund  was domiciled told the court that the cheque was released to Dariye following the approval of the state’s request by then former Vice-President,  Atiku Abubakar, who was the chairman of the Ecological Fund Office.

The witness then read a letter signed by Dariye and titled
“SOS: An appeal for Federal Government’s assistance on reclamation of lands devastated by past mining activities in Plateau State.”

The court admitted the letter as exhibit.

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Former lawmaker in police net for buying stolen vehicle

A former councillor in Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State, Mr Sunday Abo has been arrested by the Nasarawa State Police Command for buying stolen vehicles from armed robbers.

Parading the suspect in Lafia, the Nasarawa State Police PublicRelations Officer, ASP Ismail Numan, said that the former councillor was arrested for buying an Acura saloon car stolen from a Catholic priest at gun point.

Numan said that a gang of armed robbers had on November 11, 2015, attacked one Rev Fr Christopher Omaku at Mararaba in Nasarawa State, dispossessing him of his belongings.

“They also robbed him of his Acura saloon car. Further investigations led SARS operatives to Otukpo to arrest the receiver of the vehicle, Mr. Aboh Sunday, who was a former councillor of the area,” he said. .

17 Reasons Why 2Baba Is Not a Song Thief By Efe Omorogbe

This is the reaction of 2Baba's camp as articulated by his manager, Efe Omorogbe concerning the allegation of song theft by his former Plantashun Boiz colleague, Austin Ahmedu, aka Blackface.

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1. 2Baba and Blackface do have a bunch of songs they co-wrote in their days as Plantashun Boiz.

2. Both artistes have collectively and individually recorded and commercially released materials from this collection.

3. 2Baba has always given Blackface (Austin Ahmedu) co-writing credit every time he recorded any song that has Blackface’s input – No matter how minimal.

4. Blackface has neither given 2Baba (Innocent Idibia) co-writing credit nor sought ‘permission’ to record any of the materials they jointly authored.

5. Blackface has earned royalties off his shared publishing rights for about a decade.

6. A huge chunk of income he has made derives from royalties earned by the commercial exploitation of the successesful materials performed/recorded by 2Baba.

7. 2Baba did not and couldn’t have stolen ‘Let Somebody Love You’ from Blackface. The song was released about 2 years ago. Blackface complained about his name being misspelt on the CD sleeve and we personally apologised to him.

8. Yes. Blackface contributed to the writing of the first verse of the song. The second verse was entirely 2Baba. Bridget Kelly wrote her verse and Efe Omorogbe wrote the outro verse.

9. Efe Omorogbe is not 2Baba’s manager on ‘Let Somebody Love You’ but a co-writer.

10. The outro verse was lifted from the song ‘How?’ written in 1997 and recorded in 1999 at Dolphin studios, Surulere. Blackface didn’t write that bit. Couldn’t have written that bit. Blackface cannot in 2016, touch Efe Omorogbe’s writing from 1997.

11. Blackface should be honoured to have shared co-writing credit with 2Baba. I am. For each and every song we have collaborated on.

12. Blackface should be grateful 2Baba recorded their co-authored materials to ensure a lifetime of royalty income for him.

13. Blackface should record and release his own version of ‘Let Somebody Love You’ and keep 100% publishing on that version. Oops! 2Baba will still be entitled to a share.

14. Blackface is not in 2Baba’s league as a songwriter. Their post-Plantashun Boiz’ catalogs speak for themselves.

15. Blackface should go to court to seek redress if he indeed believes he has a case.

16. Blackface should know that nobody ever secured a court judgement via a twitter rant or media tour.

17. Blackface must have realised by now that the unfortunate tirade has not made “Killa” a hit. At least, not at the moment.

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