President Buhari of Nigeria had travelled to the US two weeks ago
and during his meeting with President Obama and other State Department
officials in Washington, was given a list of oil thieves who stole the
nation blind under the presidency of Goodluck Jonathan.
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State who was with part of
President Buhari’s delegation, giving a hint of what the list contains
said that, “The PDP destroyed the country. I mean from the lips of
American officials; senior officials of the State Department said one
minister under PDP cornered as much as $6billion…“The man said even by
Washington standard, which is earth-quaking”
Another prominent Nigerian and wife of late MKO Abiolaa, who, like
me, is also conversant with certain facts about the oil industry and
happenings around the diplomatic community, challenged the figures and
claimed that the amount the unnamed Jonathan’s minister stole is $9.3
billion dollars. According to Queen Zainab Duke-Abiola, the Akasoba of
Kalabari land in the Niger Delta, she had evidence from the White House
that a former Petroleum Minister stole $9.3 billion.
Duke Abiola, said that: “According to the information available to
us, the minister stole more than $9 billion; not Australian dollars, but
US dollars.”
“And what I am saying is that the money should be used to develop
the Niger Delta. Use this to help the impoverished Niger Deltans,” she
added.
I do not want to go into the controversy of whether it is $6
billion dollars or $9.3 billion dollars, but all I know is that from
information available to me, the figure of Duke Abiola, who also hails
from the Niger Delta, is nearer to what insiders believe Sweet Diezani
cornered from the national treasury. Diezani has become a b*tt of joke
among diplomatic circles worldwide at how a pretty African woman can
loot and impoverish her people, including fellow women.
Diezani Madueke, is a woman who has so much power around the
Presidency of Jonathan that if she had listened to simple advice,
including the ones I gave publicly, she would have turned Nigeria on the
path of greatness. I closely monitored the level of power this woman
wielded, such that she became a source of constant quarrel between the
President and his wife Patience. This woman simply had the First Lady in
derision and all attempts by Patience to make her husband see Diezani
as Jezebel failed till weeks before the rescheduled Presidential
elections.
Nigerians must know that that it was Diezani Maduke that brought
down the Jonathan Government, giving credence to the alleged warning the
First Lady had given the then President. US officials had always
pointed out to Jonathan the level of corruption existing in the system
and how they are being committed by his friend and cronies. They have
always pointed in the direction of Diezani as one person whose level of
loot is actually earth shaking, even by US standards. There were even
attempts to convince Jonathan to sack her quietly, but the later was too
weak to take any step against the pretty lady, until her greed
swallowed his presidency. It was a sober and regretful Jonathan, after
conceding defeat to Buhari, was in no mood to see Diezani, and when she
was bent on bursting in on the former, was shouted out of his office.
Jonathan’s eyes opened too late. He was already on his way to Otuoke .
Nigerians must know that it was the US and UK pressures that made
it possible for Buhari to be president of Nigeria. They quietly eased
Jonathan away, and I got wind of such grand plot. They cited levels of
corruption unseen in the history of Nigeria, and pointed also at
Jonathan’s insistence on retaining a most corrupt woman as Oil Minister.
Diezani greedily put hand in every oil deal. In a piece I published
earlier in April 2012 titled ‘Injustice! How Babangida, Abacha,
Obasanjo shared Nigeria’s Oil Blocks’ and another one in February 2015
titled ‘30 Facts about Owners of Nigeria’s Richest Oil Blocks in the
Midst of National Poverty’ I stated concerning Diezani that “in April
2011 Mike Adenuga attempted to buy Shell’s OML 30 for $1.2 billion
dollars. The Minister for Petroleum and Nigeria’s most powerful woman
refused the sale of the OML30 to Adenuga citing national interest. This
block was later sold to Heritage Oil for $800 million dollars eleven
months later”.
In this deal, Nigeria was shortchanged of a whopping $400 million
dollars (N80 billion naira). Everybody fingered Diezani Madueke’s
influence for the open theft which favored Shoreline Energy, the local
partner to the deal. Since she tasted the forbidden apple, she cut deals
off all oil blocks till the last one done two months to the end of the
Jonathan administration.
Her last deal two months to end of Jonathan’s regime, involved the
transfer of operatorship of another of the country’s most valued oil
fields, OML 42, with capacity of estimated 700 million barrels, from
NPDC, subsidiary of NNPC, to Neconde Energy Ltd. The irrationality
behind the transfer caused Nigeria’s oil workers under National Union of
Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and Petroleum and Gas Senior
Staff Association (PENGASSAN) to down tools paralyzing economic
activates all over Nigeria in March, 2015. As usual the presidency told
Nigerians that it was the opposition party that is sabotaging it. The
oil workers, having watched how OML 30 was sold in 2011, plus subsequent
others, decided to protest the last one.
Nigeria was losing about 250,000 barrels of oil to oil thieves
daily and the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC), Mr Yakubu at the Oil and Gas Conference in Abuja in
March 2014, put the crude oil theft for 2013 alone at $11 billion
dollars. Acording to Yakubu ““in 2013 alone, the country lost 300,000
barrels of crude oil per day (bpd). By implication, computing these
figures at an average price of $100 per barrel, it would result in a
total loss of $10,950,000,000 (300,000 x $100 per barrel x 365 days=
$10,950,000,000) in 2013 alone”. Is Diezani unaware of this?
While this theft is ongoing, another theft involving deliberate
sale of millions of barrels of Nigeria’s crude was ongoing, without
recourse to any procedure. This is advanced official oil theft. This one
goes through what looks like official channel but usually the quantity
is in batches of 1 or 2 million barrels. This is the type of deal
President Buhari said that one minister was selling 1 million barrels of
oil daily and putting the money into private account. They sold many
hundreds of batches of 1 and 2 million barrels over a period of 5 years,
netting between $ 100 and $ 200 million dollars per deal. For estimated
100 such deals, it amounts to $20 billion dollars stolen, sold,
pocketed without recourse to Federation Account. Was Diezani unaware of
this too.
In another widely circulated piece ‘Stolen! $142 billion dollars
Nigeria’s Oil Revenue in 5 years, in the Midst of National Poverty,
Additional Financial Mathematics’ I have stated that “Total probable
missing/ stolen or unremitted Oil funds in 60 months(of Jonathan’s
regime) = 142.2 billion dollars” and I tabulated how I arrived at the
figures accordingly. Coincidentally, President Buhari told journalists
in the US last month that Nigeria is looking for $150 billion dollars
stolen in ten years. Therefore, we are at the same page.
Diezani Madueke led the greatest financial r*pe on Nigeria. I asked
a PDP chieftain what they are doing with all the looting in the oil
industry and he told me that they are preparing for 2015 presidential
elections. This conversation was late January 2014.thirteen months to
the elections. However, I had the feeling, with the level of looting,
that probably there is attempt to plunder the nation ahead of possible
breakup.. My countercheck with the various militant camps and
leaderships, including NDPVF,MASSOB,OPC, and other groups did not
suggest any high scale preparation associated with plot to break up and
balkanize Nigeria. I resolved that this is pure greed. I raised alarm in
certain places and happily elements within the international community
heard, a topic scheduled for another day. I thank Nigeria’s online media
community for invaluable cooperation whenever I raise such alarms, and
players within NNPC and CBN whose information are valuable.
$6 billion dollars in the hands of one Jonathan’s Minister can build twelve (12no’s) of 2nd
Niger Bridge at the cost of $500 million dollars (N100 Billion naira)
each and silly Igbo leaders will not have to fall down and beg any
Jonathan to give the South East an overprized PPP Bridge, as though the
money being looted by one “Sweet Babe’ cannot give us one.
$6 billion dollars can build 12 brand new six lane Enugu-Port
Harcourt Expressway or 18 brand new Enugu-Onitsha Expressways and the
average of twenty Igbo and Niger Delta blood spilled weekly on those
roads due to accidents associated with poor state , will not occur.
$6 billion dollars can create 2 million jobs in Nigeria if
prudently managed, and by means of economic viral effect, take 10
million people out of poverty line, and one Jonathan’s minister diverted
it and somebody is playing ethnic and religious card. Nonsense!
$6 billion dollars is part of the $142 billion dollars answered
prayer from God to the Nigerian masses, including my church members ,
disciples, and followers and some silly things , powered by the Queen
of the Coast, stole it, using it to fly private jets, buy perfumes,
Victoria Secrets, Mary Kay Products and properties overseas. I do not
want to talk more, but I want the oil looters to know that many
Nigerians know where they hid their money.
Sweet Diezani and her co travelers drawn from all tribes and
religions, who connived to steal various sums from oil theft ranging
from $6 billion dollars and accumulating to over $142 billion dollars
should stop using part of the loot to lobby some prominent northerners
for soft landing, they should return our money quietly and publicly
before the Thunder of God will Fire them to non-existence for lending
hand to the devil in destroying Nigeria.
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