“…with the NSA involved I was fine with it. Afterall he is the chief accounting officer of Nigeria’s national security. If he wants to buy it at N100 billion who am I to say no?”

Two years ago, as the late evening sun cast the cityscape in brilliant colours and long shadows, the two of us dragged our chairs under the Ube tree behind the Abuja office of PREMIUM TIMES. The setting sun had left room walls radiating excess heat.

My guest was a contractor who was turning his back on the Nigerian defence contracting gang. It was the second day of a series of interviews that lasted several months. A tripod propped a camera in front of us as he squealed on his collaborators and described a particular corruption-ridden, hyper-inflated gunboats purchase contract he masterminded.

“Why did you not back out (when the government guy approached you to inflate the cost)”? I asked. “…for the sake of the country. For patriotism.”

“Well, you are talking about morals, ethics or considerations like that, but don’t forget that this is a state affair and the state does not embody morality neither does it embody those fine sentiments that people will wish to attribute to it,” he said.

“The state is a living thing of its own and our kind of state is a very predatory state. It thrives on power. Absolute power. And the basic source of capital accumulation for those running the state and their political matters is through primitive accumulation of capital, otherwise theft.”

My guest was describing an inflated contract in which the government was paying him to buy military boats that it already paid another contractor to supply.

Details of this and other tainted contracts are the focus of a coming PREMIUM TIMES investigative series that will reveal the greed and lack of patriotism of some of our country’s security chiefs, abuse of public trust and mindless theft of public funds that characterise defence procurements in Nigeria.

The Objective Situation

Contract inflation is a public sector term that translates to “treasonable stealing”. For a number of high-ranking government officials in Nigeria, stealing public funds through contract inflation is a way of life.

A number of past Nigerian officials are currently undergoing trials for alleged corruption-related offences linked to defence procurements.

Back to my guest. He told me he decided not to walk away from the fraudulent deal in question because it posed no immediate legal threat.

In fact, the deal, he said, got the backing of two National Security Advisers – Andrew Azazi and Sambo Dasuki.

READ MORE: https://www.icirnigeria.org/investigation-when-generals-turn-bandits-inside-the-massive-corruption-in-nigerias-security-contracting/

This is how the military run their things:

President's loyalist are 'untouchables'.

The governors are scared of the untouchables when drafted to the governor's state.

the untouchables are either members of one frats who knows so much about the President and always the hitmen to get their rival off their system (Protection forever).

the governors are aware of the above, so they don't complain much.

The untouchables do hard drugs which they don't want the common civilians to touch; if they are inspired by drugs, they export to foreign countries with the aide of fulish civilians who are into the same frat with them promising them protection (las las all na scam, if them catch you, you are from the state whose capital is Ibadan}

The untouchable don't give a fuccck about the police and the police gives little Bleep about them (Police wey cross the untouchables way, sorry na your surname)

The Unntouchables get budget, dial their oga's number on how to share the budget, then take directives from Oga, if oga is not around, Oga's PA takes the call and tell them Oga's instruction (PA go collect eyesaw)

Last last, the masses dey look but them nor dey see anything (Magic).

Inside nigeria, everything na sakamajay!

In falz voice, this is Nigeria.

This is Nigeria, Many people are Bandits

There just no hope for this naija las las!!

We know, lord knows!!!

I’m selling this space to Bet Naija fake advertising people. And all this fake data sellers. If you’re one of them, the space is available for 20k

Any thing happen here in Nigeria. Most "big" men in Nigeria are criminals.

Dasuki and Dieziani again

Imagine Maj.Gen.Otiki moving #500million from a supposed war-ravaged area to a more peaceful Abuja.Why will troops not continue to die sense- less deaths with the greed & wickedness of these generals?

The present government have bred and legalized its own brand of brazen corruption in all strata of our national life.Imagine what a corrupt military will do to a nation.

It is finished

The fight against Boko Haram is a big scam, no wonder 25 people were able to afford N22m each to buy APC Governorship primary form in Borno state. The highest in Nigeria, even Lagos didn't have more than 4 candidates.
It shows you that there is a lot of money in Borno from the insurgency.
The Generals and the northern traditional rulers are fully involved in this scam

In falz song
This is Nigeria

Its stealing...Not corruption

Yes

Thought this happened under Jonathan? Why bring it up now?? Or Azazi and Dasuki served under the current administration?

Hmmn... Nigeria mu country

E don tay na


IBB and abacha comes to mind...
I ddnt read d passage anyway,
I don't wanna read it anyway

I pray that the military take over this government. Buhari is a massive failure.

Zombies how far Mr integrity

It happened under the past administrations, it is happening now, and when some of us complain, some people will shout 'is it your money'

And even those that are shouting, some of them are shouting because they aren't in on the game.

The agents of change are turning blind eyes to the thing because it is their turn to enjoy.

And Nigeria moves on....

Corruption is Nigeria and Nigeria is corruption....


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