{"id":45045,"date":"2015-12-19T12:15:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T11:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=45045"},"modified":"2015-12-19T12:15:46","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T11:15:46","slug":"stella-oduah-in-n18bn-aviation-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/stella-oduah-in-n18bn-aviation-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Stella Oduah in N18bn Aviation Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"adn ads\">\n<div class=\"gs\">\n<div id=\":n6\" class=\"ii gt m151b9e47bc30724e adP adO\">\n<div id=\":n5\" class=\"a3s\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Documents have revealed how about $122million (N18.3bn) was withdrawn in<br \/>\nquestionable circumstances from the Bilateral Air Service Agreement (BASA)<br \/>\naccount of the Aviation Ministry and yet the ministry of Aviation is<br \/>\nsaddled with a debt burden of N100Billion<\/p>\n<p>Documents exclusively obtained by ORDERPAPER.NG indicate that at least<br \/>\n$23million (N3.4bn) of these removals were made between 2012 and 2014 when<br \/>\nMrs. Stella Oduah held sway as minister of Aviation.<\/p>\n<p>The pattern of withdrawals fell short of due process and arouse suspicions<br \/>\nas the account statements from the banks failed to indicate to whom the<br \/>\nmoneys were paid and\/or for what purposes.<\/p>\n<p>In each case, the transactions were all carried out on a particular day in<br \/>\ndifferent ranches (as indicated in the documents attached.)<\/p>\n<p>The BASA account is domiciled in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and is<br \/>\noperated through third party commercial banks in some cases. It is spent<br \/>\nonly on approval from the president for intervention purposes usually<br \/>\nrequested by the minister of aviation.<\/p>\n<p>Sources say to facilitate the suspicious transactions on the fund, Oduah<br \/>\nallegedly built a web and network of loyalists and appointed cronies as<br \/>\nheads of various parastatals of the Aviation Ministry who continued to do<br \/>\nher bidding even out of office.<\/p>\n<p>These cronies, according to sources withdrew $9.2million in December 2014<br \/>\nand another $4.1million in June, 2015, one month after the President<br \/>\nMuhammadu Buhari\u2019s administration was inaugurated.<\/p>\n<p>When ORDERPAPER.NG contacted Mr. Osita Chidoka, Oduah\u2019s successor as<br \/>\nminister, if he directed any withdrawal from the account,\u00a0 this is how he<br \/>\nreplied: \u201cThanks for asking. I believe the ministry will have the details<br \/>\nof expenditure from all its accounts. I don\u2019t have any details to provide.<br \/>\nFeel free to contact me if you require any clarifications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Did President Buhari approve any withdrawal from BASA account in June?<br \/>\nWhen ORDERPAPER.NG contacted Special Adviser to the President on Media and<br \/>\nPublicity, Mr. Femi Adesina on this question, he referred our reporter to<br \/>\nthe Ministry for details.<\/p>\n<p>But former Permanent Secretary in charge of Aviation, Binta Bello said<br \/>\nfunding for aviation projects halted once Oduah was removed as minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince she left, these intervention funds stopped,\u201d she said at a meeting<br \/>\nwith the senate committee on Aviation November 3, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>However, findings by ORDERPAPER.NG showed that the BASA funds continued to<br \/>\nbe accessed severally even when Oduah had left office.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the June 2015 transactions on the BASA Account domiciled at the<br \/>\nLondon branch of First Bank revealed that six successive withdrawals<br \/>\ntotalling $4,140,309.25 were made on June 29, 2015. A breakdown of the<br \/>\nwithdrawals is as follows: $2,057,536.64; $88,866.18; $1,688,457.45;<br \/>\n$88,866.18; $108,291.40; and $108,291.40.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2014, over $9m was removed from the BASA account through the<br \/>\nFirst Bank London branch on the 10th day of the month in tranches of five<br \/>\nsuccessive withdrawals.<\/p>\n<p>Attempts to get the Director-General of the NCAA, Mr. Muhtar Usman to<br \/>\nexplain these withdrawals were futile as he did not respond to phone calls<br \/>\nand text messages sent to his phones.<\/p>\n<p>The NCAA is the statutory signatory to the BASA account.<\/p>\n<p>Like previous other questionable withdrawals, the account statement for<br \/>\nthe month of June did not give details of who specifically collected the<br \/>\nmonies nor stated the purpose for the withdrawals as it simply said<br \/>\n\u2018payment as per instruction\u2019 in each case.<\/p>\n<p>Findings by ORDERPAPER.NG indicated that under Oduah as minister, the BASA<br \/>\nfund was accessed severally even when contractors were being owed for<br \/>\nprojects purportedly undertaken and for which the ministry continued to<br \/>\npile debts.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Bello had put the total debt by the ministry at N100billion shortly<br \/>\nbefore the new minister, Mr. Hadi Sirika assumed office.<\/p>\n<p>In another suspicious transaction, a statement of the BASA account for the<br \/>\nmonth of February 2013 when Oduah was in office showed that some<br \/>\n$13.4million was collected same day on the 4th of February 2013 in<br \/>\ntranches of four withdrawals which failed to indicate the direct<br \/>\nbeneficiary or purpose for which the payments were made as the remark on<br \/>\neach withdrawal simply read \u201cPayment as Per Your Instruction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beside using BASA funds supposedly for airports remodelling projects, the<br \/>\nFederal Executive Council approved N20bn worth of contracts for the<br \/>\nministry under Oduah in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Although ORDERPAPER.NG could not confirm if full payments were made,<br \/>\ninvestigations so far indicate that the contracts may have simply been<br \/>\nconduit pipes for corruption since most of the projects were unexecuted<br \/>\nand yet the ministry remains indebted to the tune of N100billion.<\/p>\n<p>It is in the light of these questionable deals that Mrs. Oduah may have<br \/>\nlobbied her way to be a member of the Senate Aviation Committee which<br \/>\noversights the ministry and parastatals under it.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted for clarifications Mrs, Oduah rained invectives on our<br \/>\nreporter over the phone, accusing him of blackmail and threatening to<br \/>\n\u201cfight you social media people with the last drop of my blood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cI will sue you. I have two online publishing that I fund.<br \/>\nBefore when I was in government I took those rubbish, but this time I<br \/>\nwon\u2019t take this rubbish. Go ahead and publish. I am not afraid. It is<br \/>\nuntrue and unfair. I have served this country. I don\u2019t deserve this. I<br \/>\nwill fight you to the finish. I will fight you with the last drop of my<br \/>\nblood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In all her tantrums, Mrs. Oduah failed to address the specific questions<br \/>\nfor which she was contacted.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Oduah was sacked from office in February 2014 after the House<br \/>\nof Representatives and a presidential panel both indicted her in the<br \/>\nN225million BMW cars scandal which had attracted huge public opprobrium to<br \/>\nthe Goodluck Jonathan administration. She won a seat into the senate in<br \/>\nthe 2015 general election.<\/p>\n<p>Editor\u2019s Note:<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Oduah\u2019s response to a simple journalistic inquiry as dictated by the<br \/>\nethics of the profession elicited threats to deal with the reporter<br \/>\nthrough extra-legal means.<\/p>\n<p>For the sake of clarity, this is the text message our reporter sent to<br \/>\nher: \u201cHello Sen. Oduah, We are in possession of documents of how some<br \/>\n$122m was removed from the BASA Account in the CBN\/First Bank<br \/>\n(100367-USD-CLBANK-16) during your tenure as minister. Also at least N20bn<br \/>\ncontracts approved by FEC under your tenure failed or were phony projects<br \/>\nfor which payments were allegedly made. Your reaction pls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We wish to state that ORDERPAPER.NG operates strictly within the tenets<br \/>\nand ethics of responsible journalism guided by objectivity, balance and<br \/>\nfair hearing. We would NEVER engage in deliberate falsehood or blackmail<br \/>\nas Mrs. Oduah alleged in her wild response. We state unequivocally that<br \/>\nnone of our reporter has ever met, received nor solicited from Mrs. Oduah<br \/>\nas she hysterically suggested in her vitriolic monologue over the phone.<br \/>\nWe challenge her to prove otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>While we have no reservations should she choose to pursue her rights<br \/>\nwithin the limits of the law, we would however not be blackmailed from<br \/>\ndoing our job; not even by threats to life. Our investigations into the<br \/>\nN20bn failed contracts and other suspicious deals under her watch as<br \/>\nminister continue and will publish our reports in due course.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: Orderpaper.ng<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hi\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ajx\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gA gt acV\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documents have revealed how about $122million (N18.3bn) was withdrawn in questionable circumstances from the Bilateral Air Service Agreement (BASA) account of the Aviation Ministry and yet the ministry of Aviation&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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