Thank you, Professor Segun Ogungbemi, for your enquiry about Kennedy Emetulu's engagement in Jonathan's SURE-P. You may wish to know that my first encounter with Kennedy Emetulu was when this forum published his Buharists and their Stockholm Syndrome on the 2nd of November 2014 and to which I posted a rejoinder on the 6th of the same month. In my rejoinder, I stated categorically that Kennedy Emetulu is not a Jonathanist but a political mercenary employed by Jonathan's Subsidy Re-Investment Empowerment Program (SURE-P) and his assignment is to attack Jonathan's opponents and critics online. Silence means consent or agreement and since Kennedy Emetulu failed to respond to my rejoinder, I took for granted that he found nothing wrong in my post. However, on the 3rd of February 2015, this forum posted another diatribe from Kennedy Emetulu against Lola Shoneyin for supporting Buhari in which he repeated the allegation of N2.8 billion pilferage against Buhari, among others, when he was Federal Commissioner for Petroleum and Natural Resources. On reading Kennedy Emetulu's allegations against Buhari, Cornelius Hamelberg was incensed and reminded him that his repeated allegations against Buhari had effectively been dismissed in my post, of 6th November 2014, to this forum. It was at that stage that Kennedy Emetulu replied to my response on his Buharists and their Stockholm Syndrome which, of course, attracted further exchanges between us in this forum.
It is incontrovertible that Obasanjo appointed Buhari as Federal Commissioner for Petroleum and Natural Resources in February 1976, a position he held until April 21, 1977, when the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation was promulgated into law by Decree No. 33 of 1977. Buhari was made a non-Executive Chairman of the Board of the new NNPC comprising of a Managing Director, Permanent Secretaries from Ministry of Finance and Economic Development and three persons appointed by the Federal Executive Council. Obasanjo was responsible for granting crude oil lifting permissions to companies between 1977 and October 1979 when he handed over to Shehu Shagari. During that period, accrued oil revenues were paid by the oil lifting companies direct into the Central Bank account which, under the existing law then, was obliged to render account to the Federal Commissioner of Finance. May I add here that the price of crude oil per barrel between 1976 and 1978 was $14.33 and remained so until December 1979 when it rose to $29.27/barrel. Armed with the fact that Buhari was never Federal Commissioner of Finance or Governor of Central Bank and his chance of stealing or allowing N2.8 billion NNPC oil money to be stollen was zero, I sent 10 questions to Kennedy Emetulu, through my post to this forum on the 7th of February 2015, for answers.
The questions were : (i) How many barrels of crude oil were exported by Nigeria between 1976 and 1978 and what was the price per barrel? (ii) What was total annual revenue of Nigeria between 1976 and 1978? (iii) Did Buhari steal the N2.8 billion himself or was it stolen under his watch? (iv) What was the account number in London Midland Bank which you said belonged to Buhari and in which you said the missing NNPC crude oil sales money was discovered? (v) Who paid the N2.8 billion into the unspecified account number in London Midland Bank? (vi) Was the account in the Midland Bank held in pound sterling or dollar? (vii) When and how was it discovered that the N2.8 billion traced to London Midland Bank had disappeared? (viii) Beside the purported statement, in an NTA interview, credited to Senator Dr Olusola Saraki, was there any official written report by his Committee stating that N2.8 billion NNPC money was stolen under Buhari's watch? (ix) When did Saraki's Senate Committee complete its enquiry and to whom was the report submitted? (x) Was there any debate and resolution in the Senate over the alleged Saraki's report on the missing N2.8 billion? Concluding, I promised to reciprocate to Kennedy's request for proof of his engagement in SURE-P if he answered those questions. Earlier on, I made it known to Kennedy that I knew his brother contested the PDP gubernatorial primary in Delta State in December 2014 and scored only four votes.
As if I have twisted the tail of a toothless and clawless lion, Kennedy Emetulu, roared in this forum on February 7, 2015 thus, "What has my brother contesting for the PDP gubernatorial ticket got to do with ANYTHING? Why are you talking here as though you've made some DAMAGING DISCOVERY ABOUT ME when I was the one that publicized my brother's campaign on my Facebook wall and elsewhere and used his picture, so WHAT HAS THAT GOT TO DO WITH ANYTHING? What was Kennedy hiding behind the use of the word ANYTHING? The simple answer is, Kennedy Emetulu's brother is = PDP which is= Jonathan who is= SURE-P which is= Kennedy Emetulu. The circle is closed and only a numskull will not understand that Emetulu has substituted SURE-P with ANYTHING in order to hide the truth. As the Yoruba adage goes, it is like sonorous proverb to beat Ògìdìgbó drum, it is only the wise who can dance to it and it is the learned who understands its language. Since I have no Facebook account I was not aware of Kennedy Emetulu's activities there and the information about his brother's gubernatorial adventure got to me through other source. However, Kennedy Emetulu roared further, "Yes, he (Emetulu's brother) was Commissioner of Energy in Delta States, chosen by my people to contest for the governorship in the course of which he and other contestants reached agreement to COLLAPSE THEIR STRUCTURES AND PRESENT ONE MAIN CANDIDATE FROM DELTA NORTH IN ORDER TO WIN THE TICKET." Contrary to the impression created here by Kennedy that his brother did not contest the PDP gubernatorial primary election in Delta State, Charles Emetulu actually, was one of the 17 candidates that contested and he polled only 4 votes against the winner, Ifeanyi Okowa, who polled 406 votes. Delta State contains, Nka Igbo, Isoko, Itsjekiri, Ijaw and Urhobo people and it is in the context of ethnic mixture that one can understand what Kennedy Emetulu meant with DELTA NORTH WINNING THE TICKET. Simplified, Delta North is the Igbo speaking part of Delta State from where Kennedy Emetulu originated and no matter how good candidates from other ethnic groups in Delta State are, Emetulu would not approve them as gubernatorial candidates as long as they do not come from his Igbo part of Delta State. About his brother, Kennedy wrote, "He was the first public official cleared by the Security Services to contest that election and THE ONLY ONE, WITHOUT A BLOT IN HIS FILE. I donated to his campaign and helped him as much as I could because I believe in him. Charles Emetulu who did not have a blot in his file lost primary election to Ifeanyi Okowa who had a blot in his file but this is acceptable to Kennedy Emetulu because of his tribal affinity with Okowa.
A direct evidence of Kennedy Emetulu's dishonesty is his deliberate distortion of what I wrote about him. Referring to me, Kennedy wrote, "OH YES, YOU SAID I'M A CHRISTIAN AND YOU ARE RIGHT." However, what I wrote in my post to this forum on February 7, 2015 was, "Kennedy Emetulu CLAIMS to be a Christian but his behaviour is inversely proportional to Godliness and diametrically opposed to the teachings in the Holy Bible. Otherwise, he would have followed the admonition in Leviticus: Chapter 19 verse 15 that says, *Do not pervert justice, do not show partiality to the poor or favouritism to the great, but judge your neighbour fairly..*" I did not say Kennedy was a Christian, rather I said that he claimed to be a Christian. Is that not self-explanatory?
I see this forum as a place where we, Africans, can cross-fertilize good ideas that can elevate the natural resources rich Africa from abject poverty to modern industrial Continent. It is disgusting and irritating when people, in the 21st century, come to this forum to propagate ethno-religious politics for Nigeria which is my main point of disagreement with Kennedy Emetulu. His service in Jonathan's SURE-P, covert or overt, is not criminal and to point it out is not defamatory. Therefore, if I should reduce myself to Kennedy Emetulu's self-inflated perception when he was replying to Abolaji Adekeye about his assertion on Buhari in this forum, on 7 February 2015, I would have asked him to sue me to court if he feels that I have defamed him by exposing him as a SURE-P employee. In his written account, Kennedy Emetulu has admitted that he and some unpatriotic Nigerians had gathered round Chatham's House in London to shout *THIEF* at Buhari and his Nigerian political associates, as well as blocking his passage out of the hall, thus necessitating London Police intervention to protect Buhari from the Nigerian Savages led by an intellectual bandit. What an irony of history that the white London Police should be protecting a Nigerian Presidential candidate from hostile Nigerian lycanthropes! Despite the fact that Kennedy Emetulu was never inside the hall where Buhari spoke, as he was not there to listen to what he had to say, Kennedy later reported that he caught a brief glimpse of an elephant. Kennedy must either be a blatant liar or an ignoramus who does not know how an elephant looks like. When the truth catches up with Satan from Delta North, God takes away his ability to lie. Kennedy Emetulu can continue with his disoriented fables about Buhari, but when next he visits Asaba to dance Antillogu under the rusty Niger Bridge, he will certainly be awarded the traditional title of ONYE OZUZU (imbecile).
I rest my case!1
S. Kadiri
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - BUHARI'S CHATHAM HOUSE CHARADE: NOT A STATESMANLIKE PRESENTATION AND NOT A STATESMANLIKE EXIT!
From: seguno2013@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 21:27:33 +0100
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Our Colleague Kadiri,
Below is what Kennedy says. Do you have any concrete proof or evidence that he works for a federal agency called SURE-P? If any member of this forum has any information that Kennedy is a federal government worker, please tell us.
"Salimonu Kadiri, I have never worked for any government agency in Nigeria in my life, I do not do contracts or any kind of work for government or any public agency, I have never met Jonathan nor anyone involved in running the SURE-P programme at any level in my life, yet the fool came here a couple of months ago or so to say I work for SURE-P and that he has evidence of more than hundred pages to expose me. I called him out here and asked him to show his evidence, he couldn't."
Prof. Segun Ogungbemi
Salimonu Kadiri, I have never worked for any government agency in Nigeria in my life, I do not do contracts or any kind of work for government or any public agency, I have never met Jonathan nor anyone involved in running the SURE-P programme at any level in my life, yet the fool came here a couple of months ago or so to say I work for SURE-P and that he has evidence of more than hundred pages to expose me. I called him out here and asked him to show his evidence, he couldn't. All he did was just continue
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