"For the Nigerian National petroleum Corporation (NNPC), claims that the Adhoc committee report may have been altered to embarrass it (the NNPC), is only in tandem with the current reckoning of its spokesman as a “chief denial officer" The House of Representatives has vowed to forge ahead with the debates and adoption of the fuel subsidy report which has generated public outrage and triggered attempts by indicted government officials to scuttle the implementation of findings. The deliberations are scheduled for Tuesday, and is planned to be relayed live television, the House said. But public discussions remained charged by late Monday about the indictments that have once again put Nigeria's controversial oil regulator, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), on the spotlight. The NNPC and sister agency, the Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), are worst hit by the report, and are to refund more than N1 trillion to federal coffers, while their officials have been recommended for sack. Officials of the agency have staged fierce media campaign since Sunday in efforts to counter the indictments, and as the House said, undermine the outcome of Tuesday's debates. The NNPC Corporation accused the House of doctoring the reports, and on Monday, an aide said Petroleum Minister, Diezani Allison-Madueke, who heads its board, and the corporation’s group managing director, Austin Oniwon, will not step down. The House on Monday hit back on the corporation, accusing it of lying, and branded the agency’s voluble spokesperson, Levi Ajuonuma, the “chief denial officer.” The lawmakers pushed back the allegations it tampered with the reports, questioning what logic it makes to be accused of “doctoring” its own report. “For the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), claims that the Ad hoc committee report may have been altered to embarrass it (the NNPC), is only in tandem with the current reckoning of its spokesman as a “chief denial officer”, the House said in a statement signed by spokesperson, Zakari Mohammed. “The corporation must have been in possession of another version of the report for it to assert that the one officially laid before the House of Representatives on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 was altered,” the statement said. The House described the corporation’s position, and the purported legal action instituted against it by a group of 18 indicted marketers as “an orchestrated plot to scuttle the findings of the committee.” Mr. Mohammed said the moves only attempted to “impugn” the credibility of the report and its recommendations. “Coming under various guises, including but not limited to buck-passing and alleged non-invitation to the investigative hearing, several of them are desperately seeking to undermine the outcome of the report consideration billed for today (Tuesday).” He urged Nigerians to dismiss those concerns and to be “vigilant and wary of those who would rather that the country continues to be run in the usual corruption-laden way, which put unmerited resources in individual pockets at the expense of the people.... Curled from Premium Times (c) 2012

Height Of Corruption

A system riddene with corruption where corrupt politicians rule the states own mansions and fat bank accounts in the detriment of the masses who elects them. The masses lavish in abject poverty and barely live below a doller a day in a nation rich in Oil and other natural resources. James Onanefe Ibori was the former governor of Delta state in Nigeria which happens to be one of the richest state as an oil producing state in Nigeria. He was convicted on corrupt charges in England and sentenced to 13years imprisonment by a court in England. James Onanefe Ibori in the late 1980s and in 1990, was found guilty of stealing goods from Wickes store in London where he worked as a clerk, a year later he was he was convicted of handling a stolen credit card. All these criminal record did not hinder him in running for the Delta state gubernatorial election in 1999 which he won from 1999 to 2007 which is 2 terms consecutively. When he was indicted of by the EFCC of corrupt practices he tried to bribe the then Chairman of The. Economic Financial Crimes Commission which was then Nuhu Ribada to drop corruption cases against him. Later he flee the shores of Nigeria to England but was that a mistake on his part? Because with that kinda money if he was convicted and charged in Nigeria he woul have gotten like 3years jail term with a 5 star luxury service in prison. Dame Cicilia Ibru who was the then Chairman of Oceanic bank got a 6 months bed rest at a very expensive hospital as sentence for Stealing almost N200 million. Also Erastus Akingbola, today walks as a free man after defrauding the former Intercontinental bank now Access bank. Of Tens of billion of naira. Another case is of Chief Bode George, who was convicted and jailed for 2 years spent his term in luxury while in prison with a chef and personal physician on stand - by, but now back in full embrace of his friends of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Our judiacial and criminal justice system has been degraded over time to serve the rich corrupt leaders. If the judiciary had done it work properly, Ibori would never have worked in any government house as a steward much less of a governor. After he (Ibori) was elected as governor of. Delta state several cases were brought up against him alleging that as a former convict he's not fit to be a governor., but all the cases were some how dismissed. With all these corruption raging across the land is the judicial system blind or it also ridden by the same corrupt practices within other institution of government...? A question to ponder upon... o

Is love worth it...?

I remembered the song by Brick &Lace "Love Is Wicked" how true is that? you may ask... what will you do when you love someone so dearly to the extent that you can take a bullet for? but the person doesn't even give a damn about you neither do that person knows of your existance.   at this point you might ask yourself... is loving someone a crime? why do we love and never gEt the chance to be loved back by thesame persons? no wonder it is said love is wicked... sometimes I wonder why we possess the ability to love at all... but love we must because that what makes us humans to feel pain, to go through excitement to have mixed emotions too. what amazes me is the ones we love never get to love us back but never appreciate the ones that love us for who we are...it is said. respect  is reciprocal but why love can't be same too? once love someone so dearly that would give my life to see her live but at the end I was ridden with emotional trauma... nd I asked myself is love worth trying again at all...? the answer I got was YES because without love there will be no emotions to tell us what we feel. love is what makes us humans as it is said "NO PAIN NO GAIN"