The All Progressives Congress (APC) has slammed the PDP-led Federal Government for its insulting and disingenuous explanation aimed at deceiving Nigerians over the US$9.3 million cash-for-arms deal that went awry in South Africa, saying everything about the deal is shady.
In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the deal violates the foreign currency laws of Nigeria and South Africa, violates Nigeria’s Money Laundering law as well as the Public Procurement Act and makes a mess of the Federal Government’s cashless policy.
In addition, it said, all the circumstances surrounding the transaction were umbrageous, including the fact that the funds involved, though in cash, were neither declared before departure in Nigeria nor declared on arrival in South Africa.
”Based on these shady circumstances, one can safely conclude that the arms to be procured, if at all, were not meant for any Boko Haram fight as claimed by the government but perhaps a ploy to stockpile arms for the private militia of the PDP ahead of next year’s general elections.
”As we said in our earlier statements on this issue, the office of the NSA cannot and does not procure arms for the armed services. These services procure their own weapons. Therefore, it baffles that the office of the NSA issued the end-user certificate for the transactions. This is a shady deal,” APC said.
The party said in order to buttress its assertion that the whole deal is shady, there are questions that the Federal Government has bluntly refused to answer in connection with the ill-fated deal, including why a private plane was used for a supposedly-official deal when there are over 10 aircraft in the Presidential Fleet.
Nigerians are also eager to know why the money for the purchase of the arms was not transferred to the country’s Embassy in South Africa for onward transfer to the contractor, if indeed a contractor was used as claimed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, or the money transferred directly to the contractor, and why the Nigerian government chose to deal with an arms contractor with questionable registration in South Africa.
”If indeed the transaction was clean and official, which representatives of the office of the NSA and the Chief of Defence Staff were on the dollar-ferrying plane? Who indeed was the arms meant for? And perhaps the most important information of all: Who and who were on the plane?,” it said.
APC said Nigerians are more interested in who was on the plane rather than who was not on it, hence the government should stop hiding behind ‘national security’ and come out to identify those on the plane.
The party said irrespective of the feverish moves by the Federal Government, using less-than-sincere officials, to spin the whole shady deal and make it look clean and official, the truth is that even terrorists could not have been engaged in a shadier and more crooked deal to obtain weapons. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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ReplyDeleteThis confused man again? Always with package of lies. Desperado. I hate to see you on this web.
ReplyDeleteMr LIE MOHAMMED, for you to come again and ask the FG to name those on the plane has truly made me and indeed Nigerians you claimed are interested in knowing who were in the plan, to form today take you as a clown. You had earlier stated that ASARI DoKubo was in the plane and you made that to be a satement of fact! only for us to hear that Asari was in Saudi Arabia performing HAJJ!. What a shame to an elder to lie without looking back!. What would your children do if you can speak uncontrollably like this. You are a big dissappointment to us all. Please spare us more of these your lies henceforth.
ReplyDeleteStop attacking the messenger but the message. The FGN vis a vis GEJ has got all wrong here. Nigeria belongs to all.
DeleteEven an embryo knows that the $9.3 and $5.7 m respectively are the money meant for the purchase of arms and ammunition to kill Nigerians sake of 2015 elections.
ReplyDeleteI am very sure, they've already got some in their secret and unlawful armories before the Almighty God in which I serve exposed them. Those are the kind of useless people we have as leaders; people whose minds is to kill Nigerians and rig the elections as usual, OBJ said earlier before now.
stupid idiot.i hate to insult elders but dis lai mohammed is jst a big fool.
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