Bukola Saraki Caught in the Act? Dirty Deal Involving Jonathan Has Been Exposed (See Details)

New information revealed by SR has showed that Senate
President Bukola Saraki blackmailed officials of the
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to “bribe” him with
N250million as “hush” funds after the senator had found
out that ex-President Goodluck Jonathan had illicitly
approved N60billion for the former National Security
Advisor (NSA), Sambo Dasuki, to purchase “arms”.
An inside source, who is a senior CBN official, disclosed
that bank officials paid the “bribe” to Saraki, who was
not the Senate President at the time, to ensure that he
and other senators kept silent about the irregular
withdrawals by the NSA and the Jonathan
administration.
The inside source also revealed that some officials of the
Central Bank of Nigeria had quietly resisted several
attempts by officials of the Jonathan administration to
carry out large-scale theft of funds from the national
treasury in the name of fighting Islamist insurgent group,
Boko Haram insurgents.
A CBN whistleblower made available to our
correspondent a hurriedly typewritten document that
detailed how ex-NSA, Dasuki, requested tranches of
dollars from the bank after obtaining approval from
former President Jonathan between February and March
this year.
According to the document, in third week of February
2015 the former NSA requested for $250 million from the
CBN, but got $200 million. In the fourth week of
February, the NSA put in a request for $150 million but
received $125 million.
In the first week of March 2015, with Nigeria’s postponed
elections a few weeks away, the NSA made a request for
another $250 million, but only got $204 million. In the
second week of March, Mr. Dasuki again called for $250
million, but the CBN provided $104 million and N3
billion.
According to the whistleblower, Abbas Umar Masanawa
who was appointed as the Executive Director in charge of
Finance and Strategy at the Nigerian Minting Company
by the Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele as soon
as he resumed as CBN governor in 2014 played a major
role.
Our source said Mr. Abbas then oversaw “the printing of
an unprecedented amount of naira by the Mint,” adding
“the printed cash was passed on to President Jonathan.”
Masanawa was key aide of Mr. Emefiele while he was the
MD of Zenith Bank before he got appointed to the Mint.
The source revealed that Jonathan and former NSA
Dasuki withdrew close to $600 million from the CBN
within a period of three to four weeks. He said the funds
were mostly used for election purposes.
Recall that news had broke with details of the illegal
withdrawal of N60billion from the CBN as well as the
theft of public funds from the NNPC.
It was alleged that a senator, on learning about the
illegal withdrawals, threatened CBN officials that he
would reveal the payments unless they gave him
N5billion.
A source at the Presidency told Sahara Reporters that the
person in question is Senator Bukola Saraki, who is now
Senate President.
It was revealed that as recently as May 2015, Saraki
received N250 million from CBN officials.
The cash transfer was deemed part of the “bribe” to
ensure that Saraki keep quiet about the questionable
withdrawals ostensibly meant for arms purchases.
The Presidency source suggested that Saraki got wind of
the illegal transactions through a CBN staff loyal to the
ousted CBN Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.
During the period in question Saraki had become a fierce
opponents of President Jonathan haven dumped the PDP
and with attempts made by the regime to kick him out of
the Senate.
The source also stated that Saraki’s blackmail of CBN
officials also included a demand that the CBN approve
Heritage Bank’s takeover of Enterprise Bank as recently
as August 2015. Senator Saraki has significant equity
stake in Heritage Bank.
Apparently basking in his ability to compel the CBN to do
his bidding, Saraki urged the bank’s top officials to
remove the National Assembly from the Treasury Single
Account policy, even after President Muhammadu Buhari
had explicitly refused to allow that exclusion.
In an apparent attempt to force the hand of both the CBN
and President Buhari, one of Saraki’s closest allies,
Senator Dino Melaye, raised an alarm accusing the
government of stealing N25billion from the TSA via a
remittance fee charged by a third party company that
had been hired by President Jonathan’s administration.
But when a probe committee looked into the alleged
fraud, it could not find proof of missing money.
See some details of the dirty deal below