{"id":60113,"date":"2017-11-07T22:35:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T21:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=60113"},"modified":"2017-11-07T22:35:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T21:35:57","slug":"paradise-papers-saraki-hides-no-asset-violates-no-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/paradise-papers-saraki-hides-no-asset-violates-no-law\/","title":{"rendered":"*Paradise Papers: Saraki Hides No Asset and Violates No Law*"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Once again, the issue of offshore company registration which was first raised in 2016 is being revived and thrown to the public space. As a responsible public officer, Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, will continue to explain his position. We know this is the period of politics when mudslinging is a common trick in the game.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">However, we will like to make it known that Dr. Saraki violated no law and did nothing illegal in the course of registering the company under reference, Tenia Limited, and afterwards.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">As we had earlier explained when the issue was first brought into public view, the company in question, Tenia Limited, was incorporated in 2001, long before Dr. Saraki ventured into politics and was elected into public office.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The company from incorporation to date had never been used for any transaction. It held no asset. It had no bank account to the best of the knowledge of Dr. Saraki. Even if it did, the Senate President was not a signatory to such account. This is just a paper company and therefore could not have been used to hide any asset.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The company, unlike the other ones investigated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), had been a dormant entity from creation such that when in late 2015, its existence was raised with the Senate President, he could not readily recollect that there was such a company linked to him. He then immediately directed that the company be struck off.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">For the umpteenth time, we will reiterate the fact that the Senate President has fully complied with the law on assets declaration, even as it concerns the company under reference.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">We call on all members of the public to disregard the claims and insinuations suggesting that the company in question was incorporated to perpetrate any illegality or that its existence violates any law.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Signed<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Yusuph Olaniyonu<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Special Adviser (Media and Publicity) to Senate President<\/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>Once again, the issue of offshore company registration which was first raised in 2016 is being revived and thrown to the public space. 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