{"id":16267,"date":"2017-10-06T11:39:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T11:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=16267"},"modified":"2017-10-06T11:49:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T11:49:08","slug":"how-buhari-is-encouraging-corruption-in-nnpc-anti-corruption-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=16267","title":{"rendered":"NNPC\/KACHIKWU SAGA: BUHARI HAS COMMITTED AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENCE &#8211; Anti- Corruption Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The Executive Director of Corruption Observatory, Mr. Ivie Richards has condemned in strong terms, the position of President Muhammadu Buhari as Minister for Petroleum Resources, stressing it promotes corruption.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Mr. Richards made this known while speaking as a guest on Channels Television\u2019s Sunrise Daily, in Lagos\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1425461581\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Thursday<\/span><\/span>.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">He said, \u201cI quarrel seriously and I condemn in its entirety the fact that a sitting President doubles as the Minister for Petroleum. That has helped this rot a great deal and the right things need to be done.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cAgain, that is another aberration. In that report, Kachikwu said that he is the Chairman of the board, but he is not the Minister for Petroleum.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=14639&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cMinister is supposed to be the Chairman of the board. If you watch closely between the lines, you will see the insinuation that the tender board of the NNPC got some approvals from the President.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWhat my real interest is here is to invite the organized civil societies, at least those concerned with good governance, to drag the tender board of the NNPC, its governing board, to court to let Nigerians know of all that is happening behind the curtains.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The CO\u2019s boss further noted that if the allegation is proven true that President Buhari gave approval for procurement to NNPC\u2019s board, it is more than enough ground to impeach the nation\u2019s Commander-in-Chief.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>\u201cBut my major interest and focus would be, \u2018Is it true that at any time, the President gave approval tacitly to this procurement, direct approval to the Tender board of the NNPC?\u2019 If that is true, to me, that is an impeachable offence.<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>\u201cIf you look at the case in Brazil, South Korea, for we know leaders have been shown the door. They are not as grievous as this. So I would want this nation, organized civil societies to properly unravel what happened between the Tender board of the NNPC and Mr. President,\u201d he stressed.<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BUHARI-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15558\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BUHARI-3-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BUHARI-3-300x296.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BUHARI-3-80x80.jpg 80w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BUHARI-3-40x40.jpg 40w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BUHARI-3-64x64.jpg 64w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BUHARI-3-75x75.jpg 75w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BUHARI-3.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Director of Corruption Observatory, Mr. Ivie Richards has condemned in strong terms, the position of President Muhammadu Buhari as Minister for Petroleum Resources, stressing it promotes corruption. Mr. Richards made this known while speaking as a guest on Channels Television\u2019s Sunrise Daily, in Lagos\u00a0on Thursday. He said, \u201cI quarrel seriously and I condemn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BUHARI-3.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-4en","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16269,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16267\/revisions\/16269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}