Mallam Nasir El Rufai who went on self imposed exile during the President Yar’Adua regime has suddenly found his voice since he came back.
He has also found himself a social crusader of sort and an agent of anti corruption. Most people have suddenly forgotten how Mallam El Rufai sent several people to their early graves through his Abuja master plan redemption which led to the demolition of several houses in the FCT and environ.
His bulldozers were rolling on streets like armoured tankers pulling down buildings at will even when court orders restrained him from doing so in some instances.
Some houses were also acquired and given out to friends and relatives as was revealed by the Senate adhoc committee that probed his tenure as the minister of the FCT.
Mallam Nasir El Rufai who went on self imposed exile during the President Yar’Adua regime has suddenly found his voice since he came back.
Our findings recently has shown that if anything, that beyond such masquerading antics of Mallam El Rufai is a man who may be living beyond his means.
The mighty shopping mall which is nearing completion is at Kado Estate beside OASIS International school opposite Donna King Bar directly opposite 22ndAvenue is the highbrow area of the FCT.
According to investigation, the land which initially was housing one of the biggest malls in the FCT was pulled down by him
El Rufai was said to have rolled in his bulldozers without any warning and prior notification pulling down the marble shopping mall to rubbles under the pretence that it was sitting on water way.
Before leaving office, our Investigation revealed that Mallam Nasir El Rufai reallocated same to land to himself and now erecting a gigantic building of his own which is nearing completion.
The question on every one’s lips is what moral right does Mallam El Rufai have to erect such a building after pulling down an original one belonging to someone else.
Also, where did Mallam El Rufai get the money to embark on such mighty infrastructure which we heard is one out of the severals scattered around Abuja.
Our attempt to reach the former minister to state his own side of the story was not successful.
WIKILEAKS PUNCTURES EL-RUFAI'S CLAIMS OF INCORRUPTIBILITY
On a television interview Programme '60 minutes with Angela' aired on MITV yesterday, controversial former minister of the FCT, Malam Nasir Elrufai, boasted about his incorruptibility.
Malam Elrufai after condemning the present administration as a corrupt government which is responsible for much of the problems in Nigeria then went on to portray himself as a squeaky clean saint. There have been media reports that Elrufai who is nursing a Presidential election hopes to succeed Muhammadu Buhari as the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change.
But the whistle blowing site, wiki leaks has punctured Elrufai's claims to incorruptibility.
In one of several cables mentioning Elrufai wiki leaks revealed how Elrufai then Director General of the BPE attempted to award a contract to a company in which he and his brother had substantial interests until he was stopped by the then vice President, Atiku Abubakar.
By his own admission Malam El-Rufai was brought into government by Atiku Abubakar, as a protege, to head the BPE in 1999 yet within the first few years of the Obasanjo first term he had already began backstabbing Atiku to President Obasanjo and the American ambassador by claiming that he was pressured by Atiku Abubakar to award a major telecommunications contract to Ericsson rather than Motorola. When the U.S. Ambassador to whom Nasir El-rufai had told this tale met with the then Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, as well as Stephen Orasanye, the Principal Secretary to President Obasanjo, both men revealed that the contract was not awarded to Motorola not because of underhand dealings as alleged by El-rufai but because El-rufai had been suspected of manipulating the process to favor Motorola after Ericsson wrote a petition to the government alleging that El-Rufai suppressed the information that his elder brother allegedly owned 10% shares in Motorola and that he himself (El-rufai) once worked for Motorola. Upon investigation by the U.S. embassy directly with Motorola, it was established that it was true that El-Rufai had worked for Motorola only two years before he took on the BPE job and that indeed his elder brother was a distributor for Motorola. But even while he was telling the President and the Americans that Atiku was manipulating the NITEL contract award to suit Erricson, he was unaware that both the President and the Americans knew of his interests in Motorola. The details of the contract are contained in this wikikeaks cablehttp://www.cablegatesearch.net/cable.php?id=01ABUJA1679&q=el-rufai%20nasir and http://www.cablegatesearch.net/cable.php?id=01ABUJA1957&q=el-rufai%20nasir
Also, it is on record that Malam Nasir Elrufai as Director of the BPE awarded a consultancy contract to a "Dutch" firm known as Pentascope to manage the affairs of the nations flagship telecommunications firm called NITEL. But pentascope, a scandalized nation would learn later, was a hastily formed asset-grabbing front whose central address was traced to an empty warehouse in the Netherlands! We would also learn to our horror when the deal unraveled that the contract papers for the sale was written in Dutch!! All told, Nigeria lost close to N40 Billion on that transaction. Some argue with good reason that the failed transaction, which saw NITEL stripped of its valuable assets by the PENTASCOPE predators, doomed the company to date. NITEL is still a cesspool. Because PENTASCOPE and subsequent private managers stripped the company bare, it now has few, if any, suitors willing to pay reasonable money for it. It was for this reason that the House of Representatives banned Ekrufai from holding political office for life.
And for Elrufai who now nurses Presidential ambition, perhaps the words of Simon Kolawole in his back page column will suffice "I have strong reservations about his (Elrufai) ability to lead a country like Nigeria, especially in a democratic setting. He will make an excellent militaryadministrator because of his soft spot for arbitrariness. He was once said to threatening to revoke some Cs of O. Reminded that the Cs of O were obtained legally, he allegedly retorted, what does it take to cancel a C of O? Is it not for the minister to just say so?"
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EFCC docks El-Rufai, 2 others over alleged fraud
News Apr 8, 2011
…Granted bail on self-recognition
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri & Regina Otokpa
ABUJA – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, docked a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, alongside two of his alleged accomplices, Hajiya Altine Jubrin and Malam Ismaila Iro, before an Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama, on an 8-count amended criminal charge bothering on fraud and gross abuse of public trust.
The former Minister is facing trial over allegations that he connived with his co-accused persons to fraudulently allocate several plots of land to his wives, family members and cronies whilst he held sway as the Minister of the FCT, between 2003 and 2007.
Whereas the 2nd accused person, Jubril, was said to have used her position as the then Director-General of the Abuja Geographic Information System, AGIS, to approve the illegal revocation and re-allocation of the lands from the original owners, the 3rd accused person, Iro, allegedly used his position as the General Manager of the same organisation to facilitate the transfer of the title deeds of the lands to all the allottees anointed by the ex-Minister.
The anti-graft agency had insisted that its investigations revealed that nine family members of the former minister got choice plots in the Asokoro, Wuse II, Maitama, Jabi, Kubwa, and Utako Districts of the FCT.
Meantime, the embattled ex-minister and his co-accused persons, tookb turns yesterday to enter plea of ‘not guilty’ to the entire 8-count amended criminal charge that was carefully read to them yesterday by the court clerk, and were subsequently granted bail by trial Justice Abubakar Sadiq Umar, on self recognition.
News Apr 8, 2011
…Granted bail on self-recognition
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri & Regina Otokpa
ABUJA – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, docked a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, alongside two of his alleged accomplices, Hajiya Altine Jubrin and Malam Ismaila Iro, before an Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama, on an 8-count amended criminal charge bothering on fraud and gross abuse of public trust.
The former Minister is facing trial over allegations that he connived with his co-accused persons to fraudulently allocate several plots of land to his wives, family members and cronies whilst he held sway as the Minister of the FCT, between 2003 and 2007.
Whereas the 2nd accused person, Jubril, was said to have used her position as the then Director-General of the Abuja Geographic Information System, AGIS, to approve the illegal revocation and re-allocation of the lands from the original owners, the 3rd accused person, Iro, allegedly used his position as the General Manager of the same organisation to facilitate the transfer of the title deeds of the lands to all the allottees anointed by the ex-Minister.
The anti-graft agency had insisted that its investigations revealed that nine family members of the former minister got choice plots in the Asokoro, Wuse II, Maitama, Jabi, Kubwa, and Utako Districts of the FCT.
Meantime, the embattled ex-minister and his co-accused persons, tookb turns yesterday to enter plea of ‘not guilty’ to the entire 8-count amended criminal charge that was carefully read to them yesterday by the court clerk, and were subsequently granted bail by trial Justice Abubakar Sadiq Umar, on self recognition.
EFCC, docked a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, alongside two of his alleged accomplices, Hajiya Altine Jubrin and Malam Ismaila Iro, before an Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama, on an 8-count amended criminal charge bothering on fraud and gross abuse of public trust.
EFCC docks El-Rufai, 2 others over alleged fraud
News
News
Apr 8, 2011
…Granted bail on self-recognition
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri & Regina Otokpa
ABUJA – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, docked a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, alongside two of his alleged accomplices, Hajiya Altine Jubrin and Malam Ismaila Iro, before an Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama, on an 8-count amended criminal charge bothering on fraud and gross abuse of public trust.
The former Minister is facing trial over allegations that he connived with his co-accused persons to fraudulently allocate several plots of land to his wives, family members and cronies whilst he held sway as the Minister of the FCT, between 2003 and 2007.
Whereas the 2nd accused person, Jubril, was said to have used her position as the then Director-General of the Abuja Geographic Information System, AGIS, to approve the illegal revocation and re-allocation of the lands from the original owners, the 3rd accused person, Iro, allegedly used his position as the General Manager of the same organisation to facilitate the transfer of the title deeds of the lands to all the allottees anointed by the ex-Minister.
The anti-graft agency had insisted that its investigations revealed that nine family members of the former minister got choice plots in the Asokoro, Wuse II, Maitama, Jabi, Kubwa, and Utako Districts of the FCT.
Meantime, the embattled ex-minister and his co-accused persons, tookb turns yesterday to enter plea of ‘not guilty’ to the entire 8-count amended criminal charge that was carefully read to them yesterday by the court clerk, and were subsequently granted bail by trial Justice Abubakar Sadiq Umar, on self recognition.
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EL-RUFAI - NASIR EL RUFAI IS TOO CORRUPT
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