THE VAMPIRES DIARY 4
In
this particular series of Vampires Diary (the diary about some iniquitous
Nigerians) we bring to you full details regarding the fuel subsidy scandal
involving the Law-makers and the so-called ‘untouchable Nigerians’. I regard
these people as Vampires that are sucking the wealth of this nation. These
people are privilege to be at the corridor of power, authority and management
of the Nation’s resources instead they are majorly the source of pains to
majority of Nigerians as well as reasons behind the backwardness of this
Nation.
According
to reports in major Nigeria
newspapers, the Chairman of Zenon Petroleum & Gas, Femi Otedola explained
how the chairman of the ad-hoc committee (Hon Farouk Lawan) and secretary of
the committee (Boniface Emenalo) collected $620,000 (Bribe) from them as part
payment for an agreed $3 million bribery. This amount was to exonerate Zion Oil from
the investigation.
According
to Otedola, he was bewildered by Farouk demands for the aforementioned amount, having
in mind that his Managing Director (Kareem Otaru-Zeon oil M.D) had explained to
the panel that Zion
never participated in subsidy claims from the government. However, he said
Farouk still insisted on collecting the amount in order to keep Zenon’s name
out of the report.
Otedola
stated that Lawan informed him that other oil marketers had offered the members
of the committee huge some of money so as to maintain clean records. Therefore,
Zion as a
company too must also pay to be cleared of any allegation.
A
day before the publication of the report by this committee, Otedola was also
called again by Lawan informing him of the inclusion of Zeon in the report.
Though Otedola tried to make him see the reason why his company should not be
included but Zeon was included on the finally report that came out the next
day.
Zeon
name was included among the list of companies that bought foreign exchange from
CBN (Central Bank Of Nigeria) but failed to supply petrol. Again Otedola was
surprised when some of $232,975,385.13 was ascribed to his company as the
amount bought from CBN for the unfulfilled transaction.
Otedola:
I confronted him again regarding this report but he insisted that I should
reciprocate with the agreed amount like other marketers did and Zeon name will
be removed.
At
this point I decided to involve the security agencies to catch Lawani and his
committee with their hands in till.
The
first payment of the agreed Bribery was paid on April 21. Lawani actually came
to my place to pick $250,000 in cash (as the first installment) while another $250,000
on Monday. For these transactions I (Otedola) have the call logs, video and
audio recordings in the possession of security agencies.
While
on Tuesday $120,000 was given to Boniface before the House committee commenced
seating. This made a total amount $620,000 and with this Zeon oil name was
removed from the list of the companies that failed to import products.
Otedola:
my integrity is paramount to me. I started selling petroleum products 14 years
ago in drums and somebody who has never run a petrol station is trying to
blackmail and extort money from me.
“If others (marketers) have paid money, maybe they are guilty. But I did not do anything wrong, so why should they extort money from me? As a law-abiding citizen, I had to involve the security agencies. Indeed, I’m very disappointed because I have worked hard to build my business.”
“If others (marketers) have paid money, maybe they are guilty. But I did not do anything wrong, so why should they extort money from me? As a law-abiding citizen, I had to involve the security agencies. Indeed, I’m very disappointed because I have worked hard to build my business.”
Signature: d'prince
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