A Billion is a lot of money. I have no idea how many billions make a trillion. Or how many of Africa's Zimba trillionaires are invested in the China Stock Market…
If the Nigerian lootocracy's top sixteen were richer during the period 1981-1984 when the price of oil was much lower than the last sixteen years and up to five months ago, then that alone is more than sufficient reason for taking the contents of this list with a pinch of salt. I assume that some of them must be operating some lucrative mines, here and there in Africa. And their penchant for owning big hotels and mansions…
In that July 26, 2013 BBC Hardtalk interview Governor Rotimi Amaechi did not deny that Nigeria's national treasury was losing a billion dollars a month to oil thieves, in fact the rest of the programme was an impressive analysis of the dynamics of the thievery
There is no alternative to concluding that currently, Nigeria's richest crooks /professional politician looters are surely richer than the sums of money attributed to that so called top sixteen and we are to take it as for granted that they don't stash away all of their stolen eggs in one basket.
The sums of money owned by members of that list, could be accurate in so far as those individual bank accounts are concerned, but looters are usually cautious about where they stash their ill-gotten loot – and since they are aware of precedent and praxis, they know that there are other much safer bank and equity hideouts not only in Switzerland and many other places where their goods would be less likely to be "betrayed" to INTERPOL and other bounty hunters.
At some point during the presidency of Ahmad Tejan Kabbah (Sierra Leone) it was rumoured the US authorities had a list of corrupt politicians who would not be granted visas to visit the States. I don't know whether the list was ever made public (or if indeed it was a fictitious list and a rumour without substance) but after that the only game in town was speculation as to who was on that list and the only way for any member of the corrupt elite to prove his or her innocence was by making a trip to the US, either for holidays or at least a medical check-up. I guess that if they could, some of them would have heavily for their names to be taken off that list. Needless to say, there are quite a few who neither took off for a vacation or even a medical check-up in the US
There are a few good examples from e.g. the Congo. I waited in vain to hear what Laurent Kabila was going to say the following day when he was supposed to be addressing the UN, since on the previous night, in the journey between the airport and his hotel his motorcade had been stopped - a hold up - and he had been dramatically relieved of some of his diplomatic baggage and their precious contents. It was to be expected that his sense of outrage would be such that he would have reported the matter to the police, like a certain drug peddler who had his wares flushed down the toilet by my good friend the club owner who did not want such wares on his premises - here in Stockholm - so Mr- Peddler was so enraged that he went to report the matter to the police that the club owner had illegally seized his drugs and flushed them down the toilet..-.
On Thursday, 30 July 2015 13:26:44 UTC+2, Bola Dauda wrote:
Dear Professor Afolayan,There is something fishy about the above 16 names of the APC leaders! Whoever sent you the list seemed to have an ulterior motive not to include the PDP politicians who had been in charge of the Nigerian economy for 16 years! I would think twice before I use such information which appears to be obviously biased against the small fish! The above figure is less than $20billion. Who are the people with the remaining $130billion?Bola DaudaOn 30 July 2015 at 01:15, 'Michael Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafric...@googlegroups.com> wrote:--Old news? I don't know. First names? I don't know either. All I can say is this is how it was texted to me and if this is true, some people need to give account to the people, especially those poor, working class, civil servants, and all unpaid people of Nigeria. It is so sad, you don't even want to think about it!Michael~~~On Wednesday, July 29, 2015 7:03 PM, Michael O Afolayan <mafo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
US Unveils 16 Richest Politicians From Nigeria And Names Of US Banks They Starch Away Public Funds.
NAME***********
BANK ***********
AMOUNT********
1. Okorocha JP Morgan chase/ New York. $1.4 billion
2. Kwankwaso. American express/New York $1.15 billion
3. Shettima. Wells Fargo/ San Francisco. $1.1 billion
4. Nyako. Citi group/ New York city. $805 million
5. Ibrahim. Citi group/ New York city. $798 million
7. Amaechi. US Bancorp/ Minnesota. $757 million
8. Abdulaziz. Ally financial/ Detroit. $626 million
9. Oshiomole BB&T/ North Carolina. $625 million
10. Aregbesola. Citi group/ new York. $513 million
11. Al-makura. State street corporation & $510 million
12. Wamakko. Wells Fargo/ San Francisco. $476 million
13. Fashola. Citi group/ New York $448 million
14. Amosun Bank of America. $442 million
15. Ahmed. US Bancorp. $437 million
16. Ajimobi. Ally financial. $422 million
----what a shame!!!
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