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Nigeria - Chairman of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, has released details of how his group expended the N53m disbursed to it in tranches for the elections. The money was reported to be part of the $2.1bn arms deal fraud perpetrated by the Office of the National Security Adviser.
“Please find below full statement of the expenses incurred during our tour of 17 northern states and the FCT, sponsored by Chief Tony Anenih, on the directive of former President Goodluck Jonathan from January 14 to February 14, 2015”.
According to Yakassai, “States visited were Sokoto, Kebbi, Kaduna, Kano, Jigawa, Zamfara, Katsina, Nasarawa, Kogi, Niger, Ilorin, BenueBenue, Plateau, Adamawa, Taraba, Bauchi and Gombe”.
Chairman of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, has released the details of how his group expended the N53m disbursed to it in tranches for the elections.
He identified members of his team as Alhaji Sule Iyaji; Senator Abubakar D. Sodangi; Ambassador M.Z. Anka; Chief John Mankilik; Alhaji Sulaiman Lawal; Dr. Luka Bahago; and Barrister Bitrus Gwadah, Personal Assistant, with himself as team leader.
The elder statesman said members’ allowance @ N250,000 for eight members for 21 days came to N42,000,000. He disclosed that return tickets for Abuja-Sokoto, Abuja-Kano, Abuja-Ilorin, Abuja-Yola/Jallingo Abuja-Bauchi/Gombe plane trips were at a cost of N50,000 and the total came to N2,250,000.
Yakassai put hotel accommodation of N30,000 per night for nine persons for five nights. The elder statesman further said payments to personal assistants was N20,000 per person, while the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, delegation from Plateau State, which visited Anenih, got N2,000,000.
By the standards of those involved, Yakassai suggested that the expenditure pattern was modest. However, like the former PDP BoT Chairman said of the outstanding funds yet to be paid to him, the NEF Chairman put the outstanding claims for his assisgnment at N16,850,000. The breakdown for this, according to Yakassai, is as follows:
Car hire for seven persons for 25 days at N50,000 totals N8,750,000, accommodation at other places N6,000,000 and Plateau Special Delegation got N2,100,000. He said the idea behind the release of the details of the expenses of his committee was “just for the record”. Already, tongues are wagging regarding the intention behind the names published as co-conspirators in the arms scandal as some PDP leaders insist that funds allocated to them were for campaign purposes and no one asked where the funds were being sourced from.
Vanguard
“Please find below full statement of the expenses incurred during our tour of 17 northern states and the FCT, sponsored by Chief Tony Anenih, on the directive of former President Goodluck Jonathan from January 14 to February 14, 2015”.
According to Yakassai, “States visited were Sokoto, Kebbi, Kaduna, Kano, Jigawa, Zamfara, Katsina, Nasarawa, Kogi, Niger, Ilorin, BenueBenue, Plateau, Adamawa, Taraba, Bauchi and Gombe”.
Chairman of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, has released the details of how his group expended the N53m disbursed to it in tranches for the elections.
He identified members of his team as Alhaji Sule Iyaji; Senator Abubakar D. Sodangi; Ambassador M.Z. Anka; Chief John Mankilik; Alhaji Sulaiman Lawal; Dr. Luka Bahago; and Barrister Bitrus Gwadah, Personal Assistant, with himself as team leader.
The elder statesman said members’ allowance @ N250,000 for eight members for 21 days came to N42,000,000. He disclosed that return tickets for Abuja-Sokoto, Abuja-Kano, Abuja-Ilorin, Abuja-Yola/Jallingo Abuja-Bauchi/Gombe plane trips were at a cost of N50,000 and the total came to N2,250,000.
Yakassai put hotel accommodation of N30,000 per night for nine persons for five nights. The elder statesman further said payments to personal assistants was N20,000 per person, while the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, delegation from Plateau State, which visited Anenih, got N2,000,000.
By the standards of those involved, Yakassai suggested that the expenditure pattern was modest. However, like the former PDP BoT Chairman said of the outstanding funds yet to be paid to him, the NEF Chairman put the outstanding claims for his assisgnment at N16,850,000. The breakdown for this, according to Yakassai, is as follows:
Car hire for seven persons for 25 days at N50,000 totals N8,750,000, accommodation at other places N6,000,000 and Plateau Special Delegation got N2,100,000. He said the idea behind the release of the details of the expenses of his committee was “just for the record”. Already, tongues are wagging regarding the intention behind the names published as co-conspirators in the arms scandal as some PDP leaders insist that funds allocated to them were for campaign purposes and no one asked where the funds were being sourced from.
Vanguard
