The heat is on. Nigeria's most
visible anti-corruption watchdog
led by a former legislator, Hon.
Dino Melaye, has given Nigeria's
Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah
72 hours to resign from office.
The ultimatum follows
revelations that she arm-twisted
a cash-strapped agency, the
NCAA, to purchase two armored
BMW 760 Li cars for her at
highly inflated prices.
Obascotec gathered from a
top source in Abuja that even
President Goodluck Jonathan is
shocked at Stella Oduah's
spending of N255m for just two
cars but he can't do anything
due to some reasons.
Anyway, Dino Melaye said his
group will embark on series of
actions to force President
Jonathan to fire the Mrs. Oduah
as a minister of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria as well as
order her to return the $1.6
million to the Nigeria Civil
Aviation Authority, which was
forced to buy the cars.
Dino Melaye said the purchase
of the vehicles was done in
violation of the various rules and
law guiding such high-level
procurement by government
officials, particularly the
monetiazation policy of federal
government.
First, Dino Melaye said he is
heading to court next Tuesday
to force the EFCC to prosecute
the Minister.
On the cost of the vehicles,
Melaye described them as
“unconscionable,” recalling that
the Speaker of House of Reps
also purchased two Armored
Mercedes Benz S-600 B7 grade
armored cars a year ago for less
than $800,000.
He also disclosed that he had
requested for quotations from
Germany that show that the
vehicles actually cost less than
$200,000 each. Even then, he
stressed, the Minister has no
right to purchase the vehicles
for her personal use in the first
place.
Stella Oduah is the co-chair of
President Jonathan’s main
presidential campaign team,
Neighbor-2-Neighbor hence she
may not be sacked since
Jonathan is known to romance
corrupt people openly.
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