{"id":44805,"date":"2015-12-11T23:24:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T22:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=44805"},"modified":"2015-12-11T23:24:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T22:24:06","slug":"i-got-n670million-from-dasuki-nduka-obaigbena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/i-got-n670million-from-dasuki-nduka-obaigbena\/","title":{"rendered":"I got\u00a0 N670million from Dasuki\u2013 Nduka Obaigbena"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Thisday newspaper, Nduka Obaigbena, has explained why he received N670million from Sambo Dasuki.<\/p>\n

According to him the\u00a0 N670 million was\u00a0 compensation for attacks on his newspaper\u2019s offices in Abuja and Kaduna in 2012.<\/p>\n

He said he also received compensation for the illegal seizure of newspapers by men of the armed forces.<\/p>\n

Mr. Obaigbena made the disclosure while responding to an invitation by the Economic and Financial Commission (EFCC) in connection to the ongoing probe into the usage of $2.1 billion arms procurement fund by the office of the NSA under Mr Dasuki.<\/p>\n

In a letter, dated December 9, 2015, addressed to the Chairman of the EFCC, Mr Obaigbena explained that he was in the United States and would honour the invitation in person as soon as he returned to the country. He, however, stated that he thought it necessary to issue a statement prior to his return.<\/p>\n

He denied to have ever received any suspicious funds from the office of the NSA adding that all funds he received were \u201cpayment for compensation to mitigate\u201d terror attacks on the head office of his newspaper in Abuja and another attack on the newspaper\u2019s office in Kaduna.
\n\u201cN100,000,000 +N100,000,000 and N250,000,000 respectively received in August, November and February 2014 as compensation to mitigate the dastardly Boko Haram twin bombing of the Thisday newspapers offices in Abuja and Kaduna on Thursday April 26, 2012, during which four innocent Nigerian lives were lost, our building destroyed and we lost full colour Goss printing towers and three (3) pre-press Computer-To-Plate and auxiliary equipment and other (in)valuable property valued at over N2.5 billion having lost our printing facility to terrorists due to inadequate protection by the Federal Government of Nigeria,\u201d he wrote.
\nMr Obaigbena added that he was compelled to make the request after the federal government spent N3 billion in reconstructing the United Nations office that was bombed by Boko Haram in August 2011.
\nHe further wrote that he received additional N120 million in March 2015 on behalf of the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN) and 12 newspapers who asked to be compensated for the \u201cunlawful seizure and stoppage of circulation by armed soldiers in Abuja and several cities.\u201d
\nMr. Obaigbena explained that as the Chairman of NPAN, he did that to forestall a planned class action the newspapers were going to institute against the government.
\nHe explained that on both occasions, former President Goodluck Jonathan initially refused to accede to the demands so as not to create a precedence but later approved the payment after he (Nduka) confronted him with the effort the government had undertaken to reconstruct the UN building.
\n\u201cOn both occasions, President Jonathaan said he did not wish to lay precedence and in our case, he specifically said there were many victims of Boko Haram, I had to confront President Jonathan on the Issue when I learnt of the approval for the reconstruction of the Abuja United Nations Building, since we were the second major organisation that would be attacked by Boko Haram after the UN attack. He therefore directed me to meet with the National Security Adviser who processed the three payments in question.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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