A sting operation by an online newspaper that captured the governor on camera was said to have began two years ago when one of the contractors agreed to plant spy camera on his kaftan while offering the bribe.
During the about 10-month effort to capture the bribe giving/taking scenes, the governor’s face and body were reportedly clearly captured in nine clips, while six others did not clearly reveal the governor’s face. About $5m dollars were said to be delivered to the governor in all.
However, the clip stirred reactions online as some Nigerians described the development as a “shame to the Buhari led administration,who claim to be fighting corruption.’
But, reacting, the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Diaspora and Foreign Affairs, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, said the video was suspicious.
On her Twitter page, she wrote, “No audio?? Suspicious.”
Responding to a user, who asked if CCTV had audio? she said, ”You are obviously ignorant. The report said the person who recorded hid the camera in his cloth, in this political season, don’t get carried away with anything and everything. Think.”
from dailypost.
*So his face was photoshopped unto the face of the person collecting the money?LMAO
I don't want to say that this woman does not have sense. Everyone on Buhari's cabinet in fact.
ReplyDeleteNo, she has sense. It is not out of place for her to point out the absence of audio. The machines used now for recording are good enough to provide audio and video. More so, videos like this do not make it in the court of law because they are not contextually explainable.
DeleteIn Nigeria , the law says, you CAN NOT as an individual pay in cash more than N5,000,000 to anybody for whatever reason, it is N10,000,000 for a corporate body, but received about N1.8 billion . Audio or no audio the questions to be asked by intelligent people should be (1) when did the governor become a bank ? ( 2) is he supposed to receive more than N5,000,000 in cash? (3) in Nigeria Naira is supposed to be used for any transaction, why are they using dollars if this transaction is not illegal ? (4) the way he stored the money shows clearly that that there is more to this than meets the eye. This first thing I expected a responsible government to do is to release a statement asking the efcc and NPF to investigate, but because our president no go school, as usual, the come out defending their own. Buhari you must go back to daura come 2019 by GOD's grace
DeleteInstead of people to be angry that a governor she is supposed to serve the people is stealing your/my/ our collective resources, some senseless people are here depending him. With the N1.8 billion , 400 Fulani families given an enclosed ranch measuring about 6 hectares per family with modern facilities to raise cattle, and bring to an end all this senseless killings everywhere STELLA it is so bad now that people no longer travel by road especial in the north. I make bold to say that WE DO NOT HAVE A GOVERNMENT in Nigeria.
DeleteNo, no one is defending the governor. What is said here is the absence of rational arguments and basic knowledge of law on the possibility how of nailing the governor for this alleged crime after his immunity seizes.
DeleteGood analysis...
Delete09:32 and 09:57 thanks for those insight. Don't mind those confuse lots supporting corruption.
DeleteThe man dun finish
ReplyDeleteStella I watched that video over and over again, and all I could say is that, under Muhammadu Buhari corruption has taken a new twist. Even Emir Sanusi said it. I wonder why they are trying so hard to cover a full blown pregnancy. If that man run for a second term in office, then I know Buhari corruption fight is nothing but a mirage. You won't see APC supporters and Buharist especially that one that claimed to be a crusader of a better Nigeria condemn this act. If it were to be PDP governor, they will all jump out to shout kill him, jail him. Let me perch here to read their comment if at all shame will let them open this post, let alone comment.
ReplyDeleteIt seems you are very ignorant once again. So a video showing a governor hiding stash of dollars in his cloth now means that Buhari will deny him second term bid? You are a tyrant and don't really know what democracy and rule of law is all about.
DeleteLet a court convict him of the indictment and see if he will be able to contest any election again or not.
Social media campaign is always a smear campaign. Take the bloody evidence to court and stop this online stupidity.
#hadeyhalaba
You see how you people garnish and paint corruption when it affects those whom you love or affiliated to. So interesting and laughable you called it 'stashing of dollars in his cloth' forgetting it was a kickback from a contract which is corruption itself. I gave up on you guys. Tueh.... A governor that collects bribe in every given contracts, not as if it was the first time and you see nothing wrong with that. Then what is Buhari fighting for? Obviously a clamp down on opposition. In a sane country, he will be arrested for that single act. He won't even be given a return ticket, for it is a slap to corruption fight which the President have been rigmaroling about.
DeleteIt is really a problem when the desire to be critical and love for comments is based solely on very parochial and shallow mindedness. That is a governor of a state. The constitution makes it impossible to charge him to court because of his immunity just like your godfather Fayose who succeeded months and years of thievery but couldn’t be charged to court because he enjoyed immunity which ends today. Fayose is a PDP member and nothing happened to him until today. Even you his supporter shamelessly praise him for wanting to avail himself to the EFCC as if there is praiseworthiness in a thief accepting to be a thief. Anyway, he has no choice because traveling is not an option. In fact, his invitation is not even a prosecution as you wrongly asserted in another post yesterday. As for this act, It was by a governor and should be judged on that basis, not by Buhari or those who work directly under the presidency. Buhari cannot charge him to court, never and ever. He is a sitting governor. Moreover, just the face of a person and hands collecting money without the other party and voices to prove the reasons for the money exchanges will suffer in the court of law. Not because the judges would be bias. But because there isn’t a substantial evidence to prove the context of the video. Common basics in law and principles of prosecution. You just continue to bark with your toothless charges without having appreciation for little knowledge of jurisprudence.
DeletePlease do us a favour by providing evidence of what and when Sanusi Said what you claimed he said. Just few days ago you made false reference about security and intelligence chiefs, three anonymous challenged you with pure evidence. You ran away from that post. The following day, you made another false reference to the NPC nominee and more anonymous challenged you with proofs that in fact an Igbo man is the chairman of the NPC. You again ran away from that post. Numerous other false claims you proudly post here without shame. The Abati and Dele Momodu one is still fresh.
The hypocrite is the one who insults one thief but praises the other thief yet thinks he is objective and critical. Wow! Such a champion. Let me perch here to read gbagaun comments from the chief of gbagauns. That is if they won’t be ashamed to comment on this section, lol. I don die with laugh. Stella o, we greet you for this opportunity.
Just shut up and ace your incorruptible PDP,so Buhari was the one that demanded for the bribe,just blame Buhari for everything, mtsheeeeew 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
DeleteLady bug, please don’t bother yourself reply daftness and compound ignorance. See one example, he said “in a sane country, he will be arrested for that single act”. Let me ignore the grammar first but face the content. Which country? Which country have you been to outside Nigeria? No one with immunity can be arrested Mr Man. Please acquaint yourself with basic knowledge of law. There is no way he could be arrested while enjoying the shade of immunity. And that shields him away from prosecution.
DeleteIf you were a lawyer, which you aren’t, and this video was brought to you as proof of a person taking kickbacks from a contract, would you admit it as absolute proof? Based on the content of the video. If you said yesterday, I would understand more reason why people shouldn’t take you serious at all. Whoever understand basics of constitutional law will not speak the way you are ranting. Please educate yourself with simple knowledge. Not emotion-based-judgements. It is far from logic and rationality.
In Nigeria , the law says, you CAN NOT as an individual pay in cash more than N5,000,000 to anybody for whatever reason, it is N10,000,000 for a corporate body, but received about N1.8 billion . Audio or no audio the questions to be asked by intelligent people should be (1) when did the governor become a bank ? ( 2) is he supposed to receive more than N5,000,000 in cash? (3) in Nigeria Naira is supposed to be used for any transaction, why are they using dollars if this transaction is not illegal ? (4) the way he stored the money shows clearly that that there is more to this than meets the eye. This first thing I expected a responsible government to do is to release a statement asking the efcc and NPF to investigate, but because our president no go school, as usual, the come out defending their own. Buhari you must go back to daura come 2019 by GOD's grace
DeleteTeejay has seen political anonymous so he won't come here to entertain with his myopic rubbish again. He has jumped and pass.
DeleteOoops, I came to the party late but Teejay see how you are displaying your ignorance and illiteracy. Shame leave you dey catch me. I shame for you! 😏😳
DeleteWhen I say you only spit Bianfran sentiments here in the name of commenting on politics, you go dey vex. Isn't that obvious from your comments on this post? That's why I hardly bother to reply you
DeleteThis is one of Emir statement after buhari ascend to power.
DeleteEmir of Kano has blamed President Buhari for creating more billionaires through the forex subsidy in his administration
Speaking at the 15th Joint National Council on Developmental Planning meeting in Kano, Sanusi said: “We have created our own billionaires since 2015 from foreign exchange subsidy.”
Continuing, Sanusi said: “For instance, when the CBN was selling dollar at N197 and people were buying at N300, if I sit down in my garden and pick up my phone I would have enough people to call in the industry to get 10 million dollars at officials rate and sell at N300 and make a profit of over N1bn and if I do that four times in a year. For doing nothing I would have earned N4bn.
Teejay, GOD will continue to bless you , font mind all this people who are defending people that have soaked their hands in the blood of the innocent children and women , unknowing to them that they also be stained , there will be judgement one day, and when it comes make sure you don't write epistles on this blood.
DeleteAnonymous 9:33, first of all, you cannot prove to any sane lawyer or justices of the court that the money exchanged is up to or more than 5,000,000. Firstly because you cannot prove the denomination(s) of the currency except the ones at the back that you saw in the video. Secondly, you cannot tell us what the transaction was based on the content of the video. Thirdly, our legal tender is Naira, yes. So exchanges should be in the like currency. However, it is not illegal to possess dollars or having savings in the dollar currency in Nigeria. It is not a crime. Having said that, I am not arguing for the innocence of the governor. No. The governor is as corrupt as many other Nigerian politicians. My point here is the technicalities of all the arguments being made here. Forget emotions, sentiments, bias, etc. The video is not enough proof in the court of law to nail the governor. Furthermore, even if investigated, he cannot be sued or arrested because of immunity clause. This is a fact. And according to Jaafar Jaafar who released and first wrote about the video, the president ordered that the bribe scandal be investigated.
DeleteMy advice to you is first acquaint yourself with the details, context and necessary technicalities before jumping into emotional and sentimental conclusions.
Teejay, you are the best example of an hypocrite. JESUS! I used to believe that you when you used to say that you do not belong to any party and you only point out bad governance, irrespective of the party. I lost my trust in you the day you referred to PDP as “we” this recent week is just a great example of such statement. Now I know where you coming from all these days. No one here has commended the governor for collecting such dollar denominated currency. All they are saying is charge him to court and if guilty let’s see how he will go for second term. Is Buhari a judge or what is bubari’s own in the governors bid to contest for second term.
DeleteBuhari is corrupt if this governor goes for second term but he is not as Atiku, Saraki and co are working with free hands. Change your Biafran mind bro
Haba Teejay, read your first comment of what you claimed Sanusi Lamido said and the excerpt you just copied and pasted in your third comment. In the quotes, Sanusi’s statement didn’t even say one bit of what you said in your first comment. In fact, the area you copied that says “Emir of Kano has blamed President Buhari.......” is not even in the content of Sanusi’s speech. But from the person who wrote the News. Interestingly, only pages such as Pulse, Gistmania, Nairaland reported this except and all of them copied and pasted them in different months. No major newspapers such as punch, vanguard, daily trust, leadership, sun news reported this news. You can google it again to check. And let’s read the full presentation not two sentences. That is how you provide details. That is how we were taught. And that is why I am teaching you to learn how to do it. Context is very important in substantiating evidence. Do yourself a favour and learn that.
DeleteI smell political anonymous here o. I really smell the guy presence.
Delete10:24 Google is your friend. Go and search for it, you will see it was made by Sanusi himself. In fact it was a speech. All those saying the governor can't be arrested, yes I agreed based on immunity clause. What about impeachment? You all are jokers. I stand with a group of people who has promise to restructure the country and not to one lifeless administration.
DeleteThat news was from Premium times newspaper. Or is it a quack paper as well?
DeleteAnd Atiku, Dino melaye, Saraki are the group that has promised restructuring of Nigeria?
DeleteAnon 10.06, I am very sure that if you actually read through my write up, you will see where I said that the first thing that the FG should have done was to release a statement acknowledging that they h
DeleteAbeg, who be lawyer here make him teach teejay the meaning of impeachment and the processes of impeachment. He really needs to learn these basic stuffs. It is because of his ignorance that he is vomiting such shallow comments. You don’t know impeachment is also like a court case. And that processes of impeachment can be put on hold through a court of law. And that videos showing money exchanging hands without details are not absolute evidence in a court of law. Same as impeachment. Who do this boy na? God help give am sense o. Why would a grown up boy be humiliating himself publicly like this? Na wa o.
Deletesleeping governor
ReplyDeleteIt's laughable wonderful Abike Dabiri.
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Abike Dabiri theorem .
ReplyDeleteAt what age does human beings start seeing grey hairs in their pubic region.
Celystar
At what age DO human beings. Thank me later.
DeleteLMAO. So politics has turned Abike too? Anyways, she said it looks suspicious and I support her. It looks suspicious how a sitting governor has so much space in his caftan to put all that money. There must be something inside that swallows money
ReplyDeleteThe tailor wey sow that clothe is a hero. Imagine a walking bullion van. He should be contracted by banks.
ReplyDeleteLol
DeleteApc=lifeless,buhari=lifeless,apc and buhari supporters=zombie's.
ReplyDeleteIs it PDP supporters like you that are Draculas? Just asking o.
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