On the Matter of Letters in the Heat of a Political Campaign {RE: Mrs Iweala 's AIE letter to President Jonathan .
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Mobolaji Aluko
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My People:
Timing, my People, is everything....so I smile when I read some of the commentary going on about this Arms-Gate or Dasuki-Gate, turning to Obaigbena-Gate.....as if we don't know what was happening......or did not know what was going on....we may have been born at night, but it was not last night.....
1. Timing is everything: Let us start from the not-so-obvious now: the PRESIDENTIAL and legislative elections in Nigeria were first scheduled for February 14, 2015, and then later postponed by six weeks to March 28 - postponement announced by INEC on February 7 . The main reason for the postponement were "security concerns", in addition to the other reason of incomplete voting card distribution.
So, only a child would not know that ANY letters written or actions taken DURING or AROUND this period would have a tinge of politics - for and against, blackmail or opportunism, genuine or not - in them. In fact, one can say that the full-blown political season began on December 12, 2014 when Buhari officially became APC's presidential candidate, because GEJ's presidential candidacy was a virtual foregone conclusion long before ratification on December 11, 2014.
2. Front and center of the POSTPONEMENT was the NSA himself, Sambo Dasuki. In fact, the first hint that the international community - which includes Nigeria by the way - got about a possible election postponement was from him in his chatter at Chatham House in far-away England on January 22, 2015. (We now know that CME Okonjo-Iweala's letter was written on January 20, 2015.)
3. The Obaigbena letters "extorting money" from a government desperate to win (as someone put it) and so happy to broaden its already blanket media coverage were written first in July 2012 for the April 2012 bombing (this was compensated in three tranches more than two years later: in August 2014, November 2014 and February 2015 (not 2014 as in the letter) - smack in the middle of the campaigns.) Note that Azazi was still NSA when the bombing occurred in April 2012, but Obaigbena's letter was written in July 2012, a month after Sambo Dasuki became NSA (Azazi: 4 October 2010 - 22 June 2012; he died December 2012; Dasuki was NSA from 22 June 2012 – July 2015). In fact, NSA was so pleading (in March 22, 2015, a week before the postponed elections) that he asked Obaigbena to please give them a little more time to pay two more newspapers (who may have been threatening Obaigbena to blow the lid off the entire plot.) [The plan was to pay each of the 12 newspapers N9 million each, and to pay NPAN itself N12 million - taking care of the N120 million for lost circulation due to military intervention; which was different from the N550 million ThisDay had received for the bombing.]
But why was the NSA being the one doing these disbursements to newspapers? Is it not reasonable to presume that if in fact he was in charge of arms and ammunition purchases, any significant money that he does not spend on those must have been money illegally taken from that money budget?
4. The Okonjo-Iweala letter was written in a deniability fashion on January 20, 2015. She must have suspected what the money was REALLY written for, but professional that she is, she was covering her trade-mark head-gear with hints of due process and deferment of accountability elsewhere - and for national security reasons, did not want to ask too many deep questions. [I believe that her own defence of her actions so far have been a little too strident and aggressive - but that is merely my opinion.]
5. Another timing is everything: none of these revelations would have come out if the PDP had won......the loss was so un-expected, I believe, that there was NOT enough time between election and handover dates to cover these tracks up. In fact, ironically, the six-week postponement made the time BETWEEN March 28 and May 29 so more constricted, making the PDP panic when we started to hear about possibility of "persecution" (not prosecution) and witch-hunting, and demand to probe the whole damn Nigeria beginning from Lord Lugard to GEJ, and to include OBJ, IBB, Sonekan, Abacha and Buhari himself if selectivity accusation is not to be sustained..
6. Finally, the charge of selectivity is being propounded by some actors around these forums - yes, selection of those who violated due process, and took bales of national money, ostensibly for one reason, but apparently for other reasons. The fact of the matter is that each one of us has who we secretly or overtly support or oppose: those we support we give most benefit of doubt to, and accuse those who pick on them of selectivity; and those we oppose we give almost no benefit of doubt to and think the worst of them. There are those, for example, for who Buhari can do no good, while Okonjo-Iweala can do no evil.....or vice-versa....but the truth is in between.
And there you have it.
Bolaji Aluko
On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 6:47 PM, 'Omoluabi' via AfricanWorldForum <africanw...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Professor Nwakanma !
Not so fast Sir!
The $1 billion dollar loan/facility you keep referring to was already captured in the 2015 budget!
Please see: http://leadership.ng/news/387069/reps-nigeria-payback-1-billion-security-loan-7-years
QUOTE
Reps: Nigeria To Payback $1 billion Security Loan In 7 Years
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A $1 billion loan requested by President Goodluck Jonathan to buy security hardware to fight Boko Haram will be paid back in seven years, it was revealeed at Tuesday’s plenary in the House of Representatives.
Chairman, House Committee on Finance, Abdulmumin Jibrin said the country would pay N30 billion annually for seven years before settling the debt. He told lawmakers that the N30 billion to be paid annually would form part of Nigeria’s budget from 2015.
UNQUOTE
Please, let us not manufacture facts.
The ABACHA monies that Okonjo-Iweala gave to Dasuki were not captured under any appropriations act. None. Not the budget or supplementary.
Those are the facts.
Please revise your priors.
Viscount
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Subject: Re: [africanworldforum] RE: Mrs Iweala 's AIE letter to President Jonathan .
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Date: Saturday, December 12, 2015, 9:58 AM
Ok, so you agree that a supplementary bill was passed
authorizing the president to source a loan for $1 billion,
outside of the 2015 budget. Again, where is the beef? The
president, as very clearly state in the former
minister's letter clearly sought counsel,
and decided to utilize part of the Abacha funds, primarily
as part of a loan to fund the emergency as approved by the
National Assembly. He was within his rights as president to
source this loan from the cheapest, and most easily
available source. I do not
get this obsession about the use appropriation of the
Abacha fund. Again, we must be interested in the USE of that
fund not its APPROPRIATION. Those are two different
beasts.
Obi Nwakanma
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Subject: Re: [africanworldforum] RE: Mrs Iweala
's AIE letter to President Jonathan .
Sir,
The Appropriation Act 2014/5 does not provide for the
supplementary sums you referred to.
The President's request was for authorisation to source
$1billion dollar loan facility which was approved, quite
separate from normal or supplementary appropriation.
Other sums expended which supprass the amount you refer to
were not appropriated.
Olu/
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Subject: Re: [africanworldforum] RE: Mrs Iweala
's AIE letter to President Jonathan .
Joe, it is Olu eating his cake and having it! So,
actually Olu, the onus is on you to provide proof that my
assertion is "peddling inaccuracies." Could you
provide counter proof that the National Assembly provided a
"loans facility" separate from the Abacha
funds? From which specific source did the National Assembly
direct the president to take the loan under the financial
schedule of the emergency appropriation? In fact, is it
not clear in the ex-minister's letter that the
withdrawal from Abacha's fund would
be regarded as a "loan" from that fund to
accomplish an emergency mandate, and to be accounted
for to the president. The Abacha fund was a "dormant
fund" and it was put to use. That's what
governments do everywhere in the world. They source from the
cheapest
"available funds" subject of course, to full
accounting. The fundamental question will be: having taken
from this money, was it fully and properly utilized as was
appropriated? This is where the National Security Agency has
questions to answer - the use of
the money as disbursed, not in the disbursement, which
followed every financial protocol because it was a
"funded mandate" of the National Assembly. And I
hope this also responds to Okoi's issue with
"sophistry."
Obi Nwakanma
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Subject: Re: [africanworldforum] RE: Mrs Iweala
's AIE letter to President Jonathan .
The sums in question were never appropriated, if
you assert otherwise please
prove.
Hehehehe! Bro Olu na waoh!
You assert it was
not appropriated. And then ask anyone who disagrees with
your assertion to prove so. I thought you making the
assertion ought to share the security / defense budget
appropriations and prove from it that your assertion
is correct
Joe
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Sir,
You are peddling inaccuracies here. The National Assembly
approved a loan facility of the said sum, quite seperate
from Abacha loot and other funds, please don't conflate
issues. The sums in question were never appropriated, if you
assert otherwise please prove.
Olu/
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Subject: Re: [africanworldforum] RE: Mrs Iweala
's AIE letter to President Jonathan .
General Ishola:
The basic facts of this matter should be made clear: a
National Assembly had approved an emergency $1 billion
spending bill on request by the president to fight the Boko
Haram insurgency. It was an extra-budgetary bill, and the
president after meetings with
the committee on spendings, decided to deploy moneys from a
national account to fund that request, and its omnibus
authorization by parliament. The National Assembly did
not specify any particular area from which the $1 billion
could come - whether it would
be through new taxation, or withdrawals from the Sovereign
Fund, or from borrowings from the National Provident Fund,
or from a bank. The president could have, following the
authorization of his omnibus request from the National
Assembly, chosen to borrow
the $1 billion from the IMF, or raise taxes, or borrow from
the National Retirement Funds, or from any of the sovereign
funds, including the Abacha fund which is now held in trust
for Nigeria, subject to its use. The president chose to take
part of that money
- about $300 million to fund the mandate of the National
Assembly. The question of whether the president could do
just that must have been debated, and presumably cleared by
the Presidential Attorney, and of course, the
Attorney-General acting for the Ministry
of Justice. There is nothing in the narrative that shows
yet that all these steps were not taken. It is therefore
within the presidents authority and mandate to deploy the
use of National funds, and in the particular case of this
open authority by the NA for an
emergency funding, raise the money from wherever he deems
fit, subject to accounting to the National Assembly. That is
why he was elected president: to make those kinds of
judgment call.
Now the crucial question is: did he benefit directly or
even indirectly from the use of that fund? Was any part of
the fund expended directly by the presidential office, and
not in line with the reasons for which it was budgeted and
approved? These are the
questions which the 8th National Assembly should be
asking, not president Buhari. If the investigations arms of
the National Assembly arrives at the conclusion that the
former president and his National Security adviser have,
through their work, not fully
accounted for the use of funds, they would call for their
summons, and their investigation by the Criminal
Investigations Department of the Nigerian Police, a a
function now taken over by the EFCC, and eventual
prosecution. National Security investigations
are high-level investigations and are usually closed-door
everywhere in the world. A lot of security funds are slush
funds, used sometimes for the unnameable. President Buhari
ought to know this, and should really be thoughtful on
these questions because he
cannot be jury and judge, and president at the same time. A
clean process would affirm the rule of law. It is thus
important to bring both the ex-president and his National
Security adviser before an investigations panel of the
National Assembly, after which,
should they satisfy themselves that there was a breach in
public accounting authorize the incumbent president to
initiate prosecution through his minister of
justice.
In any case, the task of the minister is not to
second-guess the president once the necessary clearance had
been made legally, but to seek full authority to act in the
presidents name as the Nation's Chief Treasurer, and
release money as fully approved.
Mrs. Iweala did exactly that, and cannot be held
responsible for whatever ways an agency, particularly the
National Security agency expends the approved fund. That
would be the work of the Auditor-General, and the
Inspections department of the Contract Monitoring
Agency, all of whom should report to the National Assembly.
A minister can take the "moral high ground" as you
suggest, only when there is a moral and legal conflict, and
a matter of high principle involved. But there was no such
basis for agony on a matter
that had been given necessary weight in the authority of
the president backed by a National Assembly mandate. We need
to keep this narrative straight so as not to muddle it with
other larger issues.
Obi Nwakanma
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Subject: Re: [africanworldforum] RE: Mrs Iweala
's AIE letter to President Jonathan .
VO,The NASS approved USD1 Billion for the President
without asking for details just before the elections.From
the revelations so far,some military procurement did happen
but most of the money was shared by the President and the
NSA with the selfish enemies
of the poor of our country .
PDP IS REALLY A PARTY DECEIVING THE PEOPLE.
An exPresident of Argentina is in jail.Same with
Guatemala.South Korea has done same.GEJ MUST ACCEPT
RESPONSIBILITY AND SEEK PEOPLES FORGIVENESS.
OBj has accepted that he was not incorruptible.
This is why men and women like Oby Ezekwesili like Ribadu
who used to swear that OBJ is incorruptible need to hide
their faces in shame.
There are tested men and women of INTEGRITY in our
country,let them come out and beat their chests We need them
now not the hypocrites iw
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Olu:
I don't think it happen like that in practice. Our
democracy is still a work in progress. Executive domination
is rampant and it is even worse in the States where the
governors are emperors.
But I really would think that the National Assembly may
have authorized the procurement of arms to fight the
insurgency.
Vin Cool Breeze Otuonye
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Subject: Re: Mrs Iweala 's AIE letter to President
Jonathan .
Coolbreeze:
My understanding is that funds can only be expended when
duly appropriated by the legislature. That in my view is the
authorisation she required before the release of funds.
No one has remotely suggested this occurred. A nod and wink
from the President in our 'democracy' under the 1999
constitutional provisions does not and cannot count for
proper authorisation.
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Subject: Re: Mrs Iweala 's AIE letter to
President Jonathan .
Olu:
I don't understand the proper authorization you
mean. The President requested release of the funds. She
wrote to confirm or inquire about it and you're talking
about proper authorization. What other authorization do you
need? Remember, I said before that
my South West compatriots and Adam Oshiomhole are Ngozi
Okonjo Iweala 's biggest critics.They criticize when
there's nothing to be critical about. That is why I said
the next Finance Minister must come from the SW so we can
see what he or she can do. But the
problem in our society is this seemingly "big man
syndrome". It is a situation where just one individual,
for example the President or the governor will run the State
and legislators are nothing but rubber stamps. We see it al
the time in State governments.
Isn't it the job of the legislature to pass and
authorize spending? Have they lived up to their
constitutional role? If for example, the President or the
governor requested for release of funds and the Minister or
Commissioner refused, he or she will be fired
for insubordination or lack of loyalty.
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Subject: Re: [NIgerianWorldForum] Re: ||NaijaObserver|| Mrs
Iweala 's AIE letter to President Jonathan .
But did she ever obtain the said proper authorisation
before the release of the sums? And if so where is it
buried?
Olu/
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Subject: Re: [NIgerianWorldForum] Re:
||NaijaObserver|| Mrs Iweala 's AIE letter to President
Jonathan .
Obi,
You are giving
free basic civic lessons that ought to be paid
for.
There are
folks who have made up their minds to devote their time to
the pull Okonjo Iweala down project. In pursuit of that
project they make a mockery of themselves and most of us
stay quiet on the sidelines joining them to
mock themselves
The world
continues to celebrate Iweala while the haters continue to
have heartburn. I join the world in celebrating an African
woman of substance
If during the
investigations, it is found that Iweala kept some of the
approved funds for herself or that the NSA gave her some of
the funds for 'special prayer sessions ' then the
world will condemn her and I will be at the
front condemning her.
Anyway those
of us who were of age in 1984 know this is all drama to
deflect attention from the looming economic crisis staring
us in the face. Deja vu.
Let someone
wake me up when a former president or governor or minister
actually goes to jail and his/ her loot returned to the
treasury
Joe
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So, what is the beef in this letter? I do not say
the following in defence of Mrs Okonjo-Iweala, but as
a comment on the frivolity of public debate, either
based on preventable ignorance or sheer mischief. Anybody
who reads this letter from the ex-Minister
of Finance to the President, even at a cursory level, will
note the following:
a) The minister covered herself by seeking proper
authority to release money to the NSA. If she released the
money without due conference with the president, then she
will have questions to answer.
b) The National Security Agency made a proper request for
funding in a meeting, possibly a National Security meeting
chaired by the president in which that forma request was
made, and presumably the decision to release money from the
Abacha funds agreed.
c) an Executive decision was clearly made to vire money
from the recovered Abacha money on a 50-50 basis to solve
the problem of Arms procurement as requested by the
NSA. If Nigerians remember, a broad case had been made about
the problem of arms by the
Nigerian Armed Forces in the fight against Boko Haram.
Questions had also been raised aby the process of defence
procurement in the past which had been problematic, and the
president, following advise from his National Security
Adviser made the judgment call
to procure arms through the National Security Agency rather
than through the normal Defence Contracting procedure.
The president was within his executive rights to make that
call. The Minister of Finance demonstrated judgment and
accountability by requesting
the authority of the president to make the requested fund
available to the NSA. Mrs. Iweala did not break
the law because she adhered to the strict procedure
in seeking presidential authority. She did not act
on her own whim. She released the funds to the
agency ONLY as authorized by the president. There is no
evidence that she was involved directly in the
procurement process thereafter.
I think the question Nigerians should be more concerned
with should be (a) Were funds properly appropriated for the
purpose for which it was requested? (b) Did the president
break any financial laws in authorizing the release of funds
outside of the authority
of the National Assembly?(c) Was the fund fully released to
the NSA as requested, and as was authorized by the
president, (d) Were the funds used for the purpose for which
the president authorized his minister of finance to release
money for an Agency of state
charged by the president to procure arms for the fight
against the insurgency under a national emergency
framework?, and (d) Was the minister right to release the
funds. But even more importantly, did the elected National
Assembly exert any oversight, as it
should, on the process? These are the questions. But from
the evidence of this letter, the Minister and the President
acted responsibly. The onus is now on the former NSA
to show that the National Security Agency, under
his leadership, did exactly what he
was legitimately authorized to do. That is, that he
purchased the arms, and that the process of procurement fell
within authorized guidelines, and that neither Jonathan nor
Iweala nor any of their nominees, benefited directly either
as contractors, or through
kick-backs, from the process.
Obi Nwakanma
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Subject: ||NaijaObserver|| Mrs Iweala 's AIE
letter to President Jonathan . [1 Attachment]
[Attachment(s) from
Imperial included below]
Below is the letter written by Mrs Ngozi Okonjo Iweala
seeking Jonathan's authority to incur military
expenditure (AIE ) based on the memo from the NSA .
This clearly shows that the appropriation was done between
Sambo Dasuki, Okonjo Iweala and Goodluck Jonathan .
May God continue to save Nigeria from ourselves . Amen .
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