[size=14pt]N17bn vanishes in Nasarawa[/size]
. Gov calls in security agencies
By FEMI ADESINA
Tuesday, September 20, 2011


The princely sum of $113 million (about N17.176 billion) has developed wings and flown out of the Nasarawa State Government treasury. But the governor, Alhaji Umaru Tanko Al-Makura is raising hell, screaming enough to pull the roofs down.

The money, according to Al-Makura, the only governor elected on the platform of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), was the refund given to the Nasarawa State Government from loans earlier repaid to the Paris Club of creditors, but which was refunded when Nigeria concluded a debt forgiveness deal in the latter part of President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration.

At an interview with Daily Sun in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital at the weekend, Governor Al-Makura told the story thus:
“When we were still part of Plateau State, there was the Paris Club issue. A loan was taken, but this area, which is now Nasarawa State never benefited from the loan. But being part of Plateau State when the loan was taken, our resources were used to pay back. After the debt negotiation, we exited the loan repayment. This state then benefited by virtue of the contributions it had made over the years in financing that loan. Certain refunds were made, and we benefited $113 million in 2008. The money was accessed, cashed and domiciled in Nasarawa, and everybody was happy.

“But less than six months later, the money developed wings, and evaporated. It sounds like fiction. But up to this point I’m talking to you, that $113 million is nowhere to be found. I’m talking to you with every sense of responsibility. It was never budgeted, never appropriated and you cannot tie any project to that amount. Even in the handing over note I got from my predecessor, there was no mention of it.

The only mention of it was that the money has been got, but there is the problem that Plateau State complained that the $113 million given to us was much more than the ratio of the contribution Nasarawa State made while the loan repayment lasted, that we were supposed to have about 86 million dollars. Plateau State complained to the Federal Ministry of Finance and Debt Management Office (DMO). And after that, Nasarawa State was subjected to deductions, which started only when I got sworn into office in May. Since May, June, July, August, and now September, Nasarawa State has been paying N240 million as repayment of the excesses we’ve been paid. We didn’t enjoy the loan, money was paid back to us as refund, and nobody can say where the money is.

“I challenge anybody, on my honour, to prove that Nasarawa State has benefited from that money. And now, even with our meagre federal allocation of N2.1 billion monthly, the amount is subjected to N240 million, and that will last for 36 months. That is the predicament in which we find ourselves.”
What then has the governor done, or intends to do, in order to recover the money?
“We have taken the matter up with the security agencies,” Al-Makura says.
“The matter is being looked into, and very soon, the culprits will be brought to book.”

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/newsonthehour/2011/sept/20/newsbreak-20-09-2011-001.html

Damn, Northerners hate money and the money must have been stolen by someone who is from where the sun rises because they love money so much.

you have to fall in love with naija.

Only 17 billion? Them just dey learn

Pdp will know where the money is.

Where did Nasarawa get 17 B naira from?

I dont believe it jo

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Pdp will know where the money is.

Roflmao. Is PDP a human being?.

Not much

Doubt it though

THE MONEY HAS BEEN USED FOR BOKOHARAMISM

Anyone who is smart enough to steal his own money (Government money in his care in this case), will also know the strategic benefit of raising hell and screaming roof down.

That strategy is call misdirection.

Kudo governor, you are a sharp guy!

the only thing you here abt Naija is BAD news,corruption news,boko haraminism, we are always in the news for all the bad reason, WE NID TO SPLIT THIS COUNTRY
REVOLUTION IS INEVITABLE

E pass that one. Make i'm look well i'm go see more. I pity the man shaa i'm no Dey PDP. Them go frustrate i'm move to finD where the money fly enter. I hope the toothless bull Dog, EFCC Dey hear?

My brothers who are crying that naija should split can you not learn from this story. We're the evil that hunt ourselves. We kill ourselves and blame it on other people. We kill our tribe/brothers and blame it on other tribes/brothers. Politicians're loyal to two things: 1. their Party 2. their pockets that they don't even take the interest of the electorate at heart.
Imagine Nasarawa State been paid N17billion on a plater of gold, imagine what that mony if used well can do for the state but its gone,taken by someone in the state, a fellow tribes-man who is supposed to support the development of his people.

this is not news

OH my dear state.

Seem somebody is calling wolf here. Or is the governor saying what we all don't know.

If Nasarrawa got N17Billion as a result of exit from Paris Club debt, how much was paid to Lagos?
How much was paid to Rivers, Delta, Akwa Ibom, Kano, and Ondo?

Let Al Makura check his records, we want to know how much others got from the debt forgiveness deal.

Beside, I think Nigeria paid part of the debt and the remaining was forgiven, we were not told that monies were also shared and given to states.

Alxmyr:

Seem somebody is calling wolf here. Or is the governor saying what we all don't know.

If Nasarrawa got N17Billion as a result of exit from Paris Club debt, how much was paid to Lagos?
How much was paid to Rivers, Delta, Akwa Ibom, Kano, and Ondo?

Let Al Makura check his records, we want to know how much others got from the debt forgiveness deal.

Beside, I think Nigeria paid part of the debt and the remaining was forgiven, we were not told that monies were also shared and given to states.

I Don't think you reD the story well pls reaD it again anD go through your comment once more

Al - makura is preparing the ground for "why I didnt perform". As the only CPC governor he has no choice than to live up to his campaign promises. I hope the PDP dominated house are not deceived by this diversionary tactics.

Alxmyr:

Seem somebody is calling wolf here. Or is the governor saying what we all don't know.

If Nasarrawa got N17Billion as a result of exit from Paris Club debt, how much was paid to Lagos?
How much was paid to Rivers, Delta, Akwa Ibom, Kano, and Ondo?

Let Al Makura check his records, we want to know how much others got from the debt forgiveness deal.

Beside, I think Nigeria paid part of the debt and the remaining was forgiven, we were not told that monies were also shared and given to states.

The more you look, the less you see.

[color=#990000][/color]so so sad. corruption at its height

And the Boko Haram dudes will clamour, fight and kill to have sharia law so as to have a hungry commoner who stole some piece of food to quel hunger amputated

like sey person ask this governor weda him get dat kind moni,him for sey him no get,now wey d moni don fly enter my account him don open him nyash mek everybody see, guy b useful

Roland17:

Only 17 billion? Them just dey learn

ONLY N17b my bro,sbody will b somewhere saying luk at dis stupid jjc,aboki governor,wen 1single pson can steal dat amount in jst a few mths

Where did Nasarawa get 17 B naira from?

I dont believe it jo

Don't mind these jobless people. Meanwhile, have those spreading this fallacious rumor found out how much is missing in their states?One jobless guy wrote to raypower (political platform) from a south western state this morning asking this silly question about a missing 17b naira from nasarawa state.

no one go go jail for that, nothing go happen. Progress please!

Wonder if they gave it to those Boko Boys, or on cheap Lebanese rejects

Is that why the Al-makura government is being father Christmas by "awarding"a 60million Naira to an unregistered audit firm? Vide the current probe by the Nasarawa state House of Assembly

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