Kwara State Gov. Bukola Saraki's Criminal Past Surfaces



Saharareporters is now in possession of criminal charges filed December 7, 1990 against the current Kwara State Governor, Bukola Saraki, and his sibling, Senator Gbemisola Saraki, pertaining to their work in the defunct (but now resurrected) Societe Generale Bank of Nigeria (SGBN).

The charge sheet obtained by our correspondent reveals that the Commissioner of Police in Lagos filed the charges of stealing and forgery against Dr. Olubukola Saraki, Mr. Tokunbo Salami, Mr. Jude Iluyomade, Miss Gbemi Saraki and Mr. Moh Basir Abdu Kadiri. Among other counts, the police charged the accused with stealing N510, 000 belonging to Societe General Bank of Nigeria (SGBN) in which the Saraki family had a controlling stake.

An Abuja-based senior advocate of Nigeria who reviewed the documents told our correspondent that the discovery “means that Governor Bukola Saraki and his sister, Senator Gbemi Saraki, must have lied in their electoral nomination forms having failed to disclose their criminal history when they filed papers to run for elective office in 2003 and 2007.”


Gov Bukola Saraki

Based on the discovery, Saharareporters’ investigators have determined that Governor Bukola Saraki does not share the same mother with Gbemisola Saraki as commonly believed. Our investigations reveal that the governor was born to a Jamaican mother who met the elder Olusola Saraki in London where she was a nurse and he practiced medicine. Saharareporters is still working to find the real name of Gov. Saraki’s mother. But one of our sources disclosed that the governor “has reunited with and resettled his mother in a lavish home in a Caribbean nation.”

In the past, Saharareporters has detailed Gov. Saraki’s extensive money laundering activities. Our investigations reveal that most of his declared assets were acquired following the collapse of his family’s banking venture and after he assumed the position of governor.

After the Saraki’s co-conspirators were arrested and charged with stealing, they headed for a Lagos High Court to seek an injunction against their trial. But Justice Abiodun Kesington of the Lagos High Court, who had initially granted them an injunction, later revoked it, granting the Nigerian police the go-ahead to commence their trial.


Kwara state polytechnic students in front of their hostel



Saraki's 1990 Rapsheet

The initial restraining injunction was obtained through suit number LD/1936/90. However, in a ruling on 4th April 1991, Justice Kesington agreed with the Commissioner of Police that the prosecution of the Sarakis and their co-conspirators was in order.

A police source familiar with the case told Saharareporters that corrupt former military head of state, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, ordered the trial stopped in an attempt to win the support of Dr. Olusola Saraki for his tireless effort to scuttle his own transition program in the early 1990s.

Subsequently, the Saraki family, including the governor, his father, Dr. Olusola Saraki, his stepmother and other siblings, were emboldened in their practice of stealing from Societe Generale Bank. Their looting spree eventually ran the bank out of business. 

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Can you imagine where Nigerian students live in an oil producing nation. I sob for my country.

oya Onovo continue this case, we need to conclude this messy business. several cases in the past where the demoniac IBB played the role of GOD

Onovo na toothless bulldog and a fellow criminal. How can a criminal indict another criminal?

Aloy~Emeka:




Can you imagine where Nigerian students live in an oil producing nation. I sob for my country.

so if I go to your village and photograph the nastiest and ugliest hut there, would I be correct to say thats your family home?

The charge sheet is a computer print, therefore I doubt its authenticity.

Nigerian courts only started using Computers about 10years ago. Infact typewriters can still be found in most government offices.

tpia.:




so if I go to your village and photograph the nastiest and ugliest hut there, would I be correct to say thats your family home?

What is that supposed to mean?. If students use the same crib in my village as a hostel, then you will be correct.

Tpia go ahead bring the nastiest issues with pics for discussion Nigeria would be better for it.

Pro Anti:

The charge sheet is a computer print, therefore I doubt its authenticity.

Nigerian courts only started using Computers about 10years ago. Infact typewriters can still be found in most government offices.

tpia is probably Gov Saraki's relative. I dont understand why some people cannot stomach the truth especially when it has something to do with their ethnic group.

tarano:

Tpia go ahead bring the nastiest issues with pics for discussion Nigeria would be better for it.

lol
But isn't that the point? To bring to light some of the nastiest situations out there so we all can see and push for change to those? Or should we simply focus on the not so bad>

Aloy~Emeka:

What is that supposed to mean?. If students use the same crib in my village as a hostel, then you will be correct.

Kobojunkie:


lol
But isn't that the point? To bring to light some of the nastiest situations out there so we all can see and push for change to those? Or should we simply focus on the not so bad>

Pro Anti:

tpia is probably Gov Saraki's relative. I dont understand why some people cannot stomach the truth especially when it has something to do with their ethnic group.

tarano:

Tpia go ahead bring the nastiest issues with pics for discussion Nigeria would be better for it.

Aloy~Emeka:




Kwara state polytechnic students in front of their hostel

Kwara poly students in front of their hostel. Is the baby also a student?

So some Kwara poly students may be living in this uncompleted house. Does the landlord need to bring it up to par or not?

Kobojunkie:


lol
But isn't that the point? To bring to light some of the nastiest situations out there so we all can see and push for change to those? Or should we simply focus on the not so bad>

Nigerians love Cinderella's story. Eerie but warm with a happy ending  while continuing to live in squalor and abject poverty. Not even in Ghana will you see students in tertiary institutions living in a place  like that.

tpia.:






Kwara poly students in front of their hostel. Is the baby also a student?

Students do have babies. Its not a problem to show the world that a baby that age lives in such hellhole. Imagine the bacterias and other yamayama wey full there besides, they don't have electricity. If that place is not students coven, they wouldn't use paint to write 'Kukumba Village' in front of it.

Aloy~Emeka:

Nigerians love Cinderella's story. Eerie but warm with a happy ending  while continuing to live in squalor and abject poverty. Not even in Ghana will you see students in tertiary institutions living in a place  like that.

that isnt a hostel, you ignoramus. Its a private building which some poly students may or may not be renting if they cant afford better digs.

If your aim is to ask the kwara govt to build more hostels then do so.

Aloy~Emeka:

Students do have babies. Its not a problem to show the world that a baby that age lives in such hellhole. Imagine the bacterias and other yamayama wey full there besides, they don't have electricity. If that place is not students coven, they wouldn't use paint to write 'Kukumba Village' in front of it.

the stall on the front porch nko?

tpia.:

the stall in front of it nko?

Won't they buy garri, beans, candles and co from yaya akeem?

Aloy~Emeka:

Won't they buy garri, beans, candles and co from yaya akeem?

so that stall belongs to a student?

It belongs to yaya Akeem who sells provisions to students. That is Nigeria's version of convenience stalls. Don't act like you don't have one at Ojodu.

Aloy~Emeka:

It belongs to yaya Akeem who sells provisions to students. That is Nigeria's version of convenience stalls. Don't act like you don't have one at Ojodu.

so yaya akeem lives in the hostel with the students and set up her stall on the front porch.

abi how does yaya akeem come into this story.

btw, whats the connection with the jamaican angle? From the rest of the write up.

Am I the journalist?.That is what they are paid to do. Gov Saraki's mother is jamaican which means he is not a full blooded Nigerian. His allegiance may be to Jamaica and not Nigeria because his mother raised him in UK.

tpia.:






Kwara poly students in front of their hostel. Is the baby also a student?

So some Kwara poly students may be living in this uncompleted house. Does the landlord need to bring it up to par or not?

Students do have babies. Visit a hostel out here in the states and you are likely to see families living in hostels. Not sure why this is new to you.

Kobojunkie:

Students do have babies. Visit a hostel out here in the states and you are likely to see families living in hostels. [b]Not sure why this is new to y[/b]ou.

Usual habit whenever they want to live in denial.

Kobojunkie:

Students do have babies. Visit a hostel out here in the states and you are likely to see families living in hostels. Not sure why this is new to you.

In Nigeria, I dont see students living in communal govt built hostels with their babies.

The point here is students living in that building doesnt make it a govt sponsored hostel.

I'd go after the landlord if I were you.

Aloy~Emeka:

Am I the journalist?.That is what they are paid to do. Gov Saraki's mother is jamaican which means he is not a full blooded Nigerian. His allegiance may be to Jamaica and not Nigeria because his mother raised him in UK.

you've got to be kidding me.

tpia.:

In Nigeria, I dont see students living in communal govt built hostels with their babies.

The point here is students living in that building doesnt make it a govt sponsored hostel.

I'd go after the landlord if I were you.

Did you ever live in one of the hostels in any of the many government schools in Nigeria?

Kobojunkie:

Did you ever live in one of the hostels in any of the many government schools in Nigeria?

so when you lived in one of those hostels, your baby lived there with you?

Aloy~Emeka:

Am I the journalist?.That is what they are paid to do. Gov Saraki's mother is jamaican which means he is not a full blooded Nigerian. His allegiance may be to Jamaica and not Nigeria because his mother raised him in UK.

lol

tpia.:

so when you lived in one of those hostels, your baby lived there with you?

Not necessarily mine, but I mentioned earlier, there were families living in some of the government managed buildings meant to be campuses for students. The same can be obtained here. I remember going to have dinner with a chinese couple next door to mine and they had a baby in there and the place for decent for them. Not sure why that is THE PROBLEM here considering  the picture is NOT about the baby but about the hostel itself. There is no rule against students having babies.

Kobojunkie:

Not necessarily mine, but I mentioned earlier, there were families living in some of the government managed buildings meant to be campuses for students. The same can be obtained here. I remember going to have dinner with a chinese couple next door to mine and they had a baby in there and the place for decent for them. Not sure why that is THE PROBLEM here considering  the picture is NOT about the baby but about the hostel itself. There is no rule against students having babies.

the US is not Nigeria.

In the govt hostels and campuses, babies do not live on campus.

If you really believe thats a student hostel just because someone said so, then you know next to nothing about Nigeria.

In which case you should learn before you comment.

The govt hostels arent self contained flats like what obtains overseas.

I'm not saying they're shiny futuristic marvels but the building in that picture is not a campus hostel. Its an ordinary face me i face you building owned by a private citizen.

tpia.:

In Nigeria, I dont see students living in communal govt built hostels with their babies.

The point here is students living in that building doesnt make it a govt sponsored hostel.

I'd go after the landlord if I were you.

You will go after the landlord for doing his best in making sure that Nigerian students at least have a closed space to lay their heads unlike the govt who will care less if they sleep under the bridge?

Aloy~Emeka:

You will go after the landlord for doing his best in making sure that Nigerian students at least have a closed space to lay their heads unlike the govt who will care less if they sleep under the bridge?

look, we can do this all day.

Is the landlord not collecting his rent and shouldnt he bring his property up to par.

Are the students living there for free?

Shouldn't your govt provide a decent place for their students for a decent price?. Why crucify the landlord who managed to build a hut in order to house homeless Nigerian students when the govt is out there spending our oil money with their mistresses. saraki has plenty wives and concubines many of which were acquired with our oil money.