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OPINION: Buhari’s Unholy Romance With Niger Republic ; Ploy To Populate The North |The Source

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By Ochereome Nnanna

President Muhammadu Buhari’s romance with Niger Republic has become an affront to the national interest of Nigeria.

When he was sworn-in as an elected president in 2015, he went to Mamadou Issoufou’s Presidential Palace in Niamey, Niger Republic, to celebrate.

They gave him the reception of a conquering Fulani warlord: a white horse and a sword.

I found that curious. How can a Nigerian leader celebrate his electoral victory in a foreign country and not Daura, his supposed hometown in Nigeria? The answer has since been provided through Buhari’s policy actions in the past five plus years.

We have since learnt that Buhari is a first-generation Nigerian whose father, Ardo Adamu Buhari, a duck seller, had migrated from Niger, settled in Nigeria, and married a Nigerian woman, Zulaihat.

The borders defined by the European colonial masters mean nothing to typical Northerners. When you hear that Nigerian borders are porous, what it really means is that there is no intention in the minds of Northern Nigerians and their elite to create an effective barrier between them and their kith and kin in the neighbouring countries of Niger, Chad and Northern Cameroun.

Meanwhile, the Southern borders are strictly monitored (within the limits permitted by the selfish interests of corrupt Customs and Immigration officials).

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When Buhari’s Government, in August 2019, “closed the borders,” it was the Southern borders that were actually closed. Fatuhu Mohammed, a nephew of President Buhari, who represents Daura/Mai’adua/Sandamu Federal Constituency in the House of Reps.,  alerted, during a plenary session, that smuggling was still freely thriving at the Daura border, 13 kilometres from Buhari’s country residence.

It is no secret that Niger Republic Nationals are regularly smuggled in to vote in Nigerian elections.

It was in this dispensation that the political leaders of that country threw caution to the wind, and attended Buhari’s rallies in Kano with large contingents led by the Governors of Maradi and Zinder provinces!

If you thought these were inconsequential and harmless cultural exchanges, Buhari has proved you wrong.

He has taken several concrete policy steps that showed his engagement with Niger is longer a joke.

Early in 2018, the Federal Ministry of Transportation revealed plans by the president to build a railway line from Kano through Daura and Jibia to Maradi in Niger Republic.

I wrote an article condemning the project, but of course, they pressed ahead with it. The Federal Executive Council, in September, this year, announced an award of $1.9bn contract for the project. The money is part of the numerous loans Buhari’s government has been freeloading from China.

Also, in June this year, the Federal Government announced the award of contract for the construction of 614-km Gas pipeline from Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano with eventual termination in Morocco through Niger Republic worth $2.8bn.

The latest story in town is that on November 20, 2020, Nigeria signed an MOU to import petroleum products from Niger. The shipments will be coming from Soraz Refinery in Niger’s Zinder oilfields.

The refinery, which is jointly owned by China (60 per cent) and Niger (40 per cent) has a daily output capacity of 20,000 barrels. Niger’s domestic consumption requires only 5,000 barrels per day. The surplus 15,000bpd will be taken up by Nigeria to service our adjoining Northern fringes.

Ordinarily, there is nothing wrong about buying refined products from neighbouring countries if our countrymen in the Northern fringes will find that cheaper and more easily available. However, there is a shameful, or is it personal impunity factor at play here.

Buhari who as Petroleum Minister in the late 1970s oversaw the construction of the second (150,000bpd capacity) Port Harcourt Refinery, Warri and Kaduna Refineries; has been his own self-appointed Petroleum Minister since 2015.

He had promised to fix our refineries during the campaigns. When he took up the Petroleum portfolio, his supporters said he was bringing his “wealth of experience” to reform the sector. Almost six years down the line, the industry remains comatose. Even the reforms proposed by the PriceWaterhouse and Coopers, PWC, audit exercise in 2014 has been altogether abandoned.

Meanwhile, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, continues to import fuel while Nigerians are forced to swallow the bitter pill of the full deregulation of the downstream sector.

The first question is: What exactly has Buhari achieved with his position as oil minister?

The first audit report of the NNPC in 43 years revealed that the Kaduna Refinery gulped N63.4bn without generating a kobo in 2018. Also in September 2020, another NNPC report disclosed that three refineries reportedly swallowed N140bn to produce less than 40 metric tonnes of crude oil.

There is no clear picture about anything being done to bring back our refineries. Rather, we await for Dangote and other private refineries.

What “magic” is Niger employing to refine petroleum that Nigeria’s President and Oil Minister, Buhari, cannot deploy in Nigeria? Why aren’t Nigerians complaining about Buhari’s incompetence as Oil Minister and the use of Nigeria’s largely borrowed funds to develop his father’s country when our own infrastructural deficits are among the world’s worst?

The $1.9bn railway line to Maradi was never taken to the National Assembly for approval; it was an act of naked impunity. It is an impeachable offence, but who will bell the cat?

Buhari is using our scarce, borrowed resources to service his cross-border selfish interests with resources mined mainly from the Niger Delta and the Lagos business districts.

He is going beyond developing Northern Nigeria; he is working for Niger Republic too. Is this regime all about Buhari’s interests? And why are Nigerians who will repay the loans letting him get away with these?

These are issues that should concern Southern political leaders, elected representatives and statesmen. Rather, they struggle to be selected as leg men to serve the interests of a foreign country. It is a shame and a pity.

Ochereome is the Chairman,   Editorial Board of the Vanguard Newspapers

2023 And The Igbo: The Betrayers Are Mute |The Source

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By Ray Emeana

The people who worked against the Atiku Abubakar/Peter Obi ticket should be held accountable for our current challenges.

They assured, then, that a President of Igbo extraction  was assured once Buhari won. Now they have gone mute.

The Igbo need to strategize. Not the cacophony of voices going on. Power is not given. It is taken.

If Atiku had become the President in 2019, the Igbo through Obi  would have been strengthened for the shot now.

The time calls for a bi- partisan approach, with both PDP and APC Leaders insisting that both parties seed their Presidential ticket to the South East. Then, the Igbo can be assured.

The truth is that both Parties, the PDP and APC, are afraid to seed the Presidential ticket to the Igbo, in case the other Party does otherwise.

Their fear stems from the hypotheses that should their opponent return to the North to pick a candidate, the Party with  the candidate from the North will surely win, because the west is more likely to take sides with the North against the East.

That’s why the-Goveror Dave Umahi migration is actually a minus for the quest for a President of Igbo extraction.

Let the ostrich game stop. Leaders of both parties owe the Igbo the Presidency in 2023. The mind game is on. Only honest, collaborative, leadership will work.

 Nze Emeana, an accomplished Journalist, seasoned Administrator, is the Imo PDP Secretary

Super Eagles Drops In FIFA Ranking, Ranked Fourth In Africa |The Source

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By Akinwale Kasali

The latest World Football Governing Body Federation International of Football Association, FIFA, ranking has seen Nigeria drop in the November 2020 to the fourth in Africa and 35th in the World.

The Super Eagles moved four steps backwards in the FIFA Ranking following its shambolic performance against the Sierra Leonean  National team at the 2022 African Cup of Nations Qualifiers in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria and Freetown, Sierra Leone Capital.

Sierra Leone overturned the 4-0 lead of the Super Eagles  in Benin, to force a 4-4 draw, and also recorded another impressive display in the second leg of the encounter on home soil to earn a goalless draw.

The impressive outing of the Sierra Leone National team against the three time AFCON Champions saw it move four steps ahead in the FIFA Ranking to 113th position in th world.

In the last four months, the Super Eagles had remained in the 31st position in the world, but the abysmal outing in th AFCON Qualifiers saw it slip in the ranking.

Nigeria remains fourth in Africa behind the Teranga Lions of Senegal, Carthage Eagles of Tunisia and the Desert Foxes/Fennecs of Algeria.

Both Tunisia and Algeria played the Super Eagles in a friendly match held in Austria in October, with the Nigeria team playing a 1-1 draw with Tunisia and losing 0-1 to Algeria respectively.

The biggest movers in the FIFA Ranking was Equatorial Guinea and Burundi. Both teams climbed 10 Spots ahead their previous positions after avoiding defeats to Libya and Mauritania respectively in their double header at the 2022 AFCON Qualifiers.

#EndSARS: Lawyer Calls For Fashola’s Appearance At Lagos State Judicial Panel Over Camera Discovery |The Source

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By Akinwale Kasali

For weeks now, the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry set up by the Lagos State Government to unravel the truth about the October 20, 2020, alleged shooting of the  #EndSARS Protestants at the Lekki Toll Gate,   by the Nigeria Army, and victims of Police brutality and extra judicial killings has been going on in Lagos, as well as in order states.

As part of the unveiling of the truth,  Adesina Ogunlana, #EndSARS protesters’ lawyer, has asked the Lagos State Judicial Panel to summon Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Works and Housing, to  explain his role in his alleged discovery of a camera at the Lekki Toll Gate.

Ogunlana prayed  the Retired Justice Doris Okuwobi-led panel should summon the two- term former Governor of Lagos State, Fashola, to explain the circumstances in which he found a camera at the tollgate, five days after the shooting incident.

According to Ogunlana, the visit to the tollgate on October 25 when Fashola found a camera “suggests an intrusion” into the evidence of the October 20 shootings.

Ogunlana said this while cross-examining the Managing Director of the Lekki Concession Company, operator of the Lekki tollgate, Abayomi Omomuwa.

Ogunlana  had asked Omomuwa if he was aware that:  “On October 25, the Governor of Lagos State brought some persons to visit the tollgate?” to which, Omomuwa said he only read it in the news.

Omomuwa, however, distanced himself from the Camera-finding-scene during the visit because he does not report to the Lagos State Government.

“Where is that camera that the Minister, popularly known as Agent Fash, removed?” And in response, Omomuwa said, “I don’t know”, Ogunlana probed further.

Counsel for LCC, Rotimi Seriki, objected to Ogunlana asking the MD that question, saying that the LCC cannot answer such a question as it was not in the place of LCC to keep an exhibit.

Replying to Seriki, the #EndSARS protesters’ lawyer said the issue was crucial to his case and asked if the panel had issued a summon on Fashola.

But the panel Chairma, Justice Okuwobi, told Ogunlana that he would have to follow the proper procedure if he wanted Fashola’s appearance before the panel.

Then, hinting that he would be requesting that Fashola be summoned, Ogunlana said, “I wouldn’t know if it is too early for me to apply for Minister Fashola to appear before the panel to assist investigation”.

Many people were aghast at the discovery of the Camera at the scene by Fashola, five days after the incident. While he was ridiculed  to no end in the Social Media which dubbed him “Agent Fash”, others called him Mungo Park who is reputed to have discovered River Niger, even though the natives knew about it, and had been fishing there, drinking it, and using it for other domestic activities.

OPINION: 2023: “When Will The South Have Political Sense?” |The Source

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By Ahmed Shehu Yerima

You must understand  something. All Southern politicians are driven by untold degree of selfishness. While in office, they are all aspiring for the next office. The strategy to get on the ladder is to sacrifice their people, their towns and villages and their region.

They do everything possible to please the Hausa-Fulani Northerners in order to be favoured. We can go back a little to pull out some examples.

(1) Gov. Peter Odili wanted to run for presidency, he was at home with Northern Emirs and Northern Opinion leaders. At the end, he failed.

(2) Gen Obasanjo held up  development programs in the South, and promoted infrastructure development in the North in order to get the 3rd term agenda through. At the end, he failed.

(3) James Ibori wanted to be  Vice President to President Yar’dua, in place of Jonathan. Delta State Liaison office in Abuja, became an ATM for all the Northern PDP members. At the end, not only did he fail, he was sent to prison.

(4) Jonathan Goodluck postponed South South development for his anticipated second tenure and put in all resources to the rehabilitation of the Almajiris. Built Abuja- Kaduna Rail line when Lagos Ibadan Express Way was impassable, East West Road was a mere historical concept; built and completed Federal Universities in Katsina, Jigawa etc, but did foundation ground breaking for the the Federal University in Bayelsa. At the end, he was sent out of the Villa by the Northern INEC Chairman he appointed.

(5) Under Jonathan, the then Minister for Aviation, Stella Odua, funded in full, the rehabilitation and upgrading of the Kano, Sokoto, Katsina Airports but Port Harcourt Airport operated from a Tarpaulin. Enugu (airport) completely shot down. At the end, AMCON took over all her assets and(she is)currently facing EFCC.

 

(6) Our brother Ibe Kachukwu was the Chairman of NNPC BOT & Petroleum Minister at the same time. He promoted the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano Gas Pipeline. He rehabilitated the Petroleum institute in Kaduna when the Petroleum Institute in Warri was not captured in the budget. He was humiliated out of office.

(7) Obono-Obla was appointed the Chairman of Government Asset Recovery Committee. His target was only all past office holders from the South South and South East. At the end  he was “framed” and arrested.

(8) The immediate past MD of NDDC and Akwa Ibom State APC Governorship candidate, Nsima Ekere gave out emergency jobs (contracts) only to Southern Contractors fronting for Northerners. NDDC became an ATM for “the Villa Boys”. Where is he now?

(9) Rotimi Amaechi is lobbying to be the next Vice President, in 2023. His first action is to sell the South and became a saboteur. No wonder, why, as the Transport Minister, he found it very necessary to build the Lagos-Ibadan- Abuja-Kaduna-Kano-Katsina Rail line, Calabar – Maiduguri Rail line, Transport University in Katsina.

The Great Eastern Railway line from Port Harcourt via Aba, Onitsha to Enugu to Okene in his books, is not feasible.

The Minister is completing the biggest rail and road line into Niger Republic and towards the border of Niger Republic and other countries while the roads in the South are impassable.

What Niger Republic has benefited in this Administration is bigger that all that South-south and South-east combined. Who are the MDs of Nigerian Ports Authority and NIMASA?

(10) The current Petroleum Minister, Chief Timipre Sylva, has initiated the construction of the Ajaokuta-Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Gas Pipe line to facilitate the building of a Gas Power Station in Abuja and Kaduna and “to turn Kano into an Industrial Head Quarters”. The man is from Bayelsa State where there is over 90% unemployment and no electricity light from National Grid.

11)” Ahmed Tinubu, for his desire to rule Nigeria practically sold the South, and with his bullion vans put Buhari to power. History will tell of him soon like others.

12) The number of appointments of people from Niger Republic in Buhari Administration is bigger than all South combined and all the National Assembly members are aware, but keep quiet because of future ambition and to avoid probe.

Yerima a former Senator, and two-time Governor of Zamfara State, was the first Governor, under the President Obasanjo Govt, to introduce, and implement the Shariah Law. The Source  does not necessarily agree with the opinion he expressed here.

APC Says Jonathan Has Been Working For President Buhari’s Administration |The Source

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Buhari and Jonathan working secretly with APC

By Akinwale Kasali

The All Progressives Congress, APC, is bent on colliding with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. It is bent on destabilizing the Party with its many claims and allegations.

On the heels of APC’s claims that there will be a mass defection of PDP stalwarts to the APC, the party is now alleging that former President Goodluck  Jonathan has been working secretly for the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.

This  claim is coming days after the APC paid a courtesy visit to the former President on his 63rd birthday, raising fears within the PDP family.

However, Statements by APC Spokesman, Yekini Nabena, while appearing on Channels Television’s Politics Today has further raised a lot of speculations, as the politics of 2023 unfolds.

Nabena openly made the statement that the former President has been working from the APC, with the PDP spokesman, Diran Odeyemi, right beside him in the studio.

But in a tit for tat situation, Adeyemi hit back, claiming that a number of APC Governors are set to defect to the PDP. Both parties traded words against each other thereafter.

Nabena: “Goodluck Jonathan has been working for this government, he has been going to all African countries. If he is not a progressive person, he won’t have been working for this Government. So the PDP should also know that”.

The former President  lost to President Buhari in the 2015 general elections, but he has since taken up several diplomatic assignments across the continent, and is well regarded in the international community.

Recently, the ex-President led talks that helped to de-escalate the crisis in Mali, with Nabena stressing that Jonathan’s work is evidence of the APC’s progressive streak.

However, Odeyemi disagreed, reiterating that the APC is set to witness a couple of top defections to the PDP.

“Many APC Governors are talking to us,” Mr Odeyemi said. “Perhaps Nigerians have not seen the end of these activities. More Governors from APC are coming to join us. And I’m saying it with all emphasis.

“The question we have to ask ourselves is, what has been the achievements of APC now, that will now warrant people to join them, if not for selfish reasons? Nigeria knows which party to vote for in 2023 and that’s what we rely on.”

Not a few people have dismissed Nabena’s claim on Jonathan with a wave of the hand.

They say what Nabena sees as Jonathan  working for the Buhari Government are sub – Continental, Continental and International assignment Jonathan has embarked on.

As a matter of protocol, he must brief his home Government before and after such assignments. It’s standard.

A PDP chieftain who pleaded anonymity added: “Buhari and Jonathan belong to an exclusive club of Presidents of Nigeria. They are very few. Count them. They operate at a different level. Buhari and Jonathan are not enemies. As a sitting President, if Buhari sends Jonathan on a Continental or International assignment, Jonathan will go.”

The PDP chieftain is correct. In the USA, even though President Bill Clinton defeated President  George Bush senior, and confined him to a one – term President, when George Bush Jnr. became the President, he always sent Clinton on assignments, once sending him and his own father, President George Bush Snr. to Haiti on a national assignment.

However, after the former President Olusegun Obasanjo experience, the PDP may have a reason to worry.

In the run-up to the 2015 Presidential election, Obasanjo who was a two-term President under the PDP banner, shockingly abandoned the PDP and its cadidate, Jonathan,  and worked openly for the APC and its candidate, Buhari.

In 2019, when he realised he had made a mistake, he made a u-turn, and backed PDP’s former Vice President Abubarkar Atiku. It didn’t work.

And for the first time, Obasanjo was demystified – by Buhari.

Bloody Weekend In Ekiti; Policeman, Cleric Killed, Expatriate Kidnapped |The Source

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Kidnappers
Kidnappers

By Ayodele Oni

A gale of violence swept through Ekiti state at the weekend. Gunmen abducted a Chinese and, one other person, along new Ado-Iyin road, while a policeman was killed.

Also, the dead body of a Cleric was discovered along Igbara odo/ Ikere road in his car.

The Chinese  is a staff of a company handling the dual carriage road in the state.

Police spokesman, ASP Sunday Abutu, who confirmed the incident explained that it occurred around 4.30pm on Friday.

“It is confirmed that a kidnapping incident occurred today at about 4:30pm along New Iyin road .

“During the incident, one civilian, and an expatriate, were kidnapped, one was shot, and injured, while one policeman was shot dead.

“Our operatives are already combing the bush for possible apprehension of the perpetrators.

The deceased Pastor, who was in-‘charge of Solution Baptist Church, Reverend Oladimeji Gbolagade was allegedly murdered by gunmen.

His  body was found in his personal car in the early hours of Tthursday.

The President of Ekiti Baptist Church, Reverend Adeyinka Aribasoye, explained that the deceased had traveled to see his mother at Ipetu Ijesa, Osun State, and was returning from the journey when the incident occurred.

“The incident is synonymous to a kidnapping case that went wrong, perhaps he refused to stop for the abductors thus making them to open fire on him.”

According to him, his family members were already expecting him, but when it was getting too late, they began to make series of contacts before they found out that he had been killed on the road.

The security situation in the South West, especially, in Ekiti and Ondo States has been deteriorating, with a perplexed people asking what has become of the regional security outfit, Ametokun.

How Gunmen Dared Akeredolu |The Source

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Kidnappers
Kidnappers

By Ayodele Oni

Within a space of 24 hours, gunmen have dared the  Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu.They have called his bluff, as if calling him out for a duel, and asking  him: What can you do?

Akeredolu, SAN, is the Chairman of the South West Governor’s Forum. As the Chairman, he is seen as the boss of the Region’s Security outfit, Amotekun,  which set-up he defended to the hilt,  and launched with pomp and pageantry. And he was the first to launch it in his state. After the launch, most people heaved a sigh of relief, thinking there would be an improvement in the security situation in the state.

But nothing has changed. Ondo remains under the siege of kidnappers. And fear reigns. In the past 24 hours, gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have struck an arrow in the heart of the state.

Barely few hours after a first class Monarch was killed by suspected kidnappers, gunmen have kidnapped the wife of Mr Olugbenga Ale,  Akeredolu’s Chief of Staff.

Gov. Akeredolu under attack of kidnappers
Governor Akeredolu

Information has it that she was kidnapped at Owena area along Akure/ Ondo highway Ondo State  Thursday night.

There is a permanent road block in the area manned by soldiers 24 hours.

Mrs Ale was  reported to be returning from Lagos when the incident happened.

Ondo State Police Command, has been silent on the incident, apparently not to further highten the fear already created by the monarch’s death.

Shell Vs Ogoni:Supreme Court Slams Shell; Gives Ogoni N17bn |The Source

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By Akinwale Kasali

Wild  jubilation engulfed  the Ogoni Community in Rivers State Friday afternoon as the Supreme Court  dismissed an application by  oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company, requesting a revisit of a January 11, 2019 judgment ordering it to pay N17bn to some Ogoni communities in affected by an oil spill from the company in 1970.

A five-man panel led by Justice Olabode Rhodes-Vivour unanimously dismissed the company’s application for a review of the judgment after upholding the preliminary objection filed by the communities’ legal team.

Justice Centus Nweze prepared Friday’s lead ruling but it was read by another Justice of the apex court, Justice Chukwudumebi Oseji.

The Apex court had in the case which lasted about 31 years from when it started at the High Court, issued the N17bn order in favour of Ejama-Ebubu in Tai Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State, represented by Chief Isaac Agbara and nine others.

The communities’ lead lawyer, Lucius Igwe, said on Friday that the judgment sum with the accrued interests for the 32 years period stood at about N182bn.

At the September 22, 2020, hearing leading to the Supreme Court’s ruling, Nwosu had urged the apex court not to only dismiss the application, but to also make an order against all the senior lawyers in Shell’s legal team as a “deterrent” for the filing of the judgment review application which he alleged was aimed at ridiculing the integrity and finality of the decisions of the apex court.

Shell’s legal team led by Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN) had big shots in the legal profession including Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), a former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Kanu Agabi (SAN), Dr Wale Babalakin (SAN), and Wale Akoni (SAN).

Shocking: Airforce Runway Cannot Carry Super Tucano Fighter Jets, Says American Suppliers |The Source

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By Uche Mbah

Nigeria may lose the $493 million the Government deposited to buy Super Tucano jets from the United States of America, USA. The American suppliers, allegedly, say the runway at the Airforce’s  Kainji Airstrip, is defective.

The Senate committee on Airforce, Tuesday, made this shocking situation known during the ongoing Budget  defence

Recall that the sum of $463 million had been deposited by the Federal Government in 2018 for the purchase of Tuscano fighter Jets to fight the Boko Haram terrorist group. However, the American Government had insisted  they would supply the Aircraft in 2020.  2019 was an election year in Nigeria, and analysts believe America was waiting the election out.

But the Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Air Force, Senator Michael Nnachi (Ebonyi South), while presenting the budget report of the Air Force to the Senate Committee on Appropriation, said that if the fighter jets  were not bought, the deposit  could be lost. According to him, when the Americans who came to inspect the runway at Kainji said the runway cannot carry the jet.

According to him, additional N9billion is needed to take care of the runway, or else Nigeria will lose the deposit and the Aircraft.

“It is very serious issue, they are running around, they have gone to the Finance Minister, they have gone to CBN, they have gone to the Senate President. The money needed is not part of the main budget”, he said.

“Nigeria has already paid $493 million for the aircraft and the officials of the American company who came to Nigeria last week said that the Kainji runway is not capable of carrying the fighter jets. They said that Nigeria will forfeit the Aircraft if the situation of the runway persists.”

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Jubril Barau, in his own contribution, said that the committee will look inward to provide funds to address the challenges in the 2021 budget.

The questions perplexed Nigerians are asking are: If the FG and the Airforce Leadership did not know the capacity of the high profile jet, and why nothing has been done about the runway og the Airstrip.

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