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| Hon. Jullie Obetta |
As
we prepare to roll-out the drums to celebrate one year in office of Hon.
Juliana Obetta, the Okpokwu LG Chairman, in Benue State our only headache will
be how to move the whole people of Okpokwu to Abuja to commission the only
project achievement of the Administration ‘The RAWLEC STRIPPER’S CLUB HOUSE
& WINE BAR’ located in K-City Plaza, Wuse 2 Abuja! Though leased from
K-city plaza management, reconstructed and furnished with Okpokwu statutory money,
we are still at a loss as to the right ownership of the club between Okpokwu
people or the Chairman as an individual. Our fear was recently confirmed when
instead of naming the Club meant to entertained men of low morals with naked
ladies as ‘Okpokwu Stripper’s Club House & Wine Bar’ it became the other
way round!
We have every reason to
move to Abuja for this long awaited anniversary celebration because back home
here it is Kidnapping, Arson, Robberies, Poverty or the occasional visit by the
EFCC and ICPC who are investigating our dear Chairman. ‘Project’ and ‘development’
are words we can only find in the dictionary. Or do we stay back home and celebrate
the Cashier of the local government Mr. Sunday Adadu Obande who was recently
released on bail from the EFCC after spilling out the beans like Canary bird?!
The
Ultramodern Rawlec Strippers’ Club House & Wine Bar, Abuja
There is no doubt about
the fact that almost every index of public good you see in Benue state before
the administration of his Excellency the Rt Hon Gabriel T. Suswam, had its
foundation laid and built by the late second republic governor Aper Aku. These structures
were even being destroyed within the intervening period until the incumbent
governor Rt Hon Gabriel T. Suswam came to the rescue.
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| RAWLEC strippers club |
The six year tenor so
far of the incumbent governor has clearly dwarf the eight years of George Akume
as governor since we can only compare Rt Hon Gabriel T. Suswam with the late
Aper Aku in terms of performance, while George Akume can only be compared with
his comrade-in-arm Iyorchia Ayu under whose nose the Benue Cement company was
sold as minister for commerce and industry!
Suswam would have
however, gone into the history book as a great legend of this generation
especially for the people of Okpokwu LG who gave the highest vote in zone C to
the Governor in his last election if not for the imposition of Hon Juliana Obetta
on the people as Chairman against their wish and will!
If only the Governor
knew that Julie the daughter of Obetta would turn out to be a beast unleashed
on her people! If only Suswam knew that this Lady would intimidate the Okpokwu elders
into deafening silence while she empties the treasury into her private
accounts! If only the handsome husband of our amiable first lady, Yemisi
Dooshima Suswam knew that Chairman Juliana Obetta who was made a grandmother
this year (Her daughter put to bed out of wedlock in London) would be parading
herself as the Governor’s lover to wade-off even the last man standing in
Okpokwu, the Ogigo of Edumoga, the Oyachaba of idoma-land, the Imorimo of
Ichama and the father of the Okpokwu youths, Minister Comrade Abba Moro who
holds the Governor in high esteem!!
We all know that Dr.
Emmanuel Joe Agbo (PDP Chairman, Benue State) though not in support of the
status quo, looks the other way because he wouldn’t want to scuttle Ichama
chairmanship opportunity he prayed and fought fiercely to bring to reality!
Other Okpokwu warriors like Hon Robert Idoko, Hon Robert Amedu, Hon Maria
Aikulola, Hon Godwin Idoko, Chief Ikanyi etc have either gone into hiding or
ran into political exile leaving those impoverished youths whose conscience can
be bought over with a chilled bottle of Gulder, hot plate of pepper soup or
N200 MTN recharge card. Of course, with the fraud gate wide open our elegant
stallion, the fiery Amazon and the goddess of Air-trips whose love for air
travels can only be compared with migrating birds in winter now drench herself
with blood money, money meant to mitigate the agony of the malnourished farmers
who can’t even afford to eat well from their harvest because of school fees and
civil servant who can’t afford to change their 1971 shoes because they have to
settle Hon Robert Obetta (chief-of-staff) or risk losing their jobs! Talking
about impunity, arrogance, racketeering and avalanche of family meddlesome
interlopers in governance!
The
Underground Strippers’ Club House and Wine Bar!
On the 08th
of March, 2013 the Chairman’s brother who is the arrow head and anchor man of
all illegalities in Okpokwu Local Government Council (Hon. Robert Obetta -
a.k.a Chief-of-Staff) walked into
Zenith Bank Plc Otukpo Branch with a total sum of N15 million which was part of
an amount of N23,570,335.65 earlier withdrawn from Okpokwu LG council account
No: 1007887988 domiciled in United Bank for Africa (UBA) plc, Otukpo branch by
Mr. Adadu Sunday Obande, the cashier to Okpokwu Local Government council via 5
separate cheques (Cheque No. 31445995, 31445996, 31445997, 31445998 and
31445999). Knowing full well that the said N15m which was handed over to him by
the cashier to the LG was well above the cash transaction threshold of Ten
Million Naira stipulated by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Hon Robert
Obetta succeeded in circumventing the CBN policy restriction by impersonating
as one Mr. Emmanuel via the deposit slips and cleverly split the amount and
distributed them into various accounts (in a characteristic manner of money laundering) which included that
of the council Chairman’s private Company’s account - Rawlec Investment Limited
which received the sum of N9,300,000.00 via account No. 1012636302 in Zenith
Bank. Other accounts used in Zenith Bank Plc that same day bears pseudo names
for the purpose of perpetrating this criminality and the review of the Bulk
Teller Register who processed the transactions that day in Zenith Bank will
reveal the other accounts credited.
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| RAWLEC underground strippers lounge |
Furthermore, on the 27th
March, 2013, after given enough time-lag to wade-off any suspicion, the Cashier
to Okpokwu Local Government Council one Mr. Adadu Sunday Obande on the
instruction of the Council Chairman, Madam Juliana Obetta withdrew a total sum of
N31,448,040.69 from Okpokwu LG council account No: 1007887988 domiciled in
United Bank for Africa (UBA) plc, Otukpo branch via 5 separate cheques (Cheque
No. 31446003, 31446005, 31446006, 31446007 and 31446008) out of which Mr Adadu
Sunday Obande paid in a cash of N8,686,742.00 into UBA NEFT Ledger account No.
NGN04412509588 for immediate electronic transfer in favour of the Council
Chairman’s private company - Rawlec Investment Limited account No. 1012636302
domiciled with Zenith Bank Plc. The NEFT transferred amount from UBA Plc hit
the Company’s account in Zenith Bank Plc on the 28/03/2013 i.e. after 24 hours.
In the same manner, the
excess of the various monthly salary subventions sent to the Local Government
council via United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc (account no. 1007887988) starting
from December 2012 (i.e. N69 Million starting and some months close to N100
million), after deducting staff salaries and allowances (estimated at about N38
Million) were remitted through different styles and narrations into the council
chairman’s private company’s account, Rawlec Investment Limited domiciled in
Zenith Bank Plc and other commercial Banks in Nigeria instead of executing
people oriented projects. Excess crude share funds, SURE-P funds and N200m MDG
fund granted to only Okpokwu LG in the whole Zone C all ends up in this private
account! It should be noted that the existence of the company which was
incorporated with her under-aged children as directors against the registration
requirement by CAMA 1990 was not disclosed in her code of conduct form
submitted to the statutory authority (ICPC) Makurdi.
It should be further
noted that the Council Chairman’s private company - Rawlec Investment Limited,
which is located in K-City Plaza Wuse2 Abuja is merely a one-shop affair which
deals in female shoes and handbags with a total employee/staff strength of only
2 sales girls and perhaps with an estimated total worth of N2m only! Hence the
recent activities in the Company’s account since the assumption of office by
the council chairman (N350,000,000.00 turn-over) are not justifiable by the
nature of the company’s business and only qualify as stealing, laundering and
re-integration of ill-gotten public money.
On the 1st
of April, 2013 the Council Chairman, Hon. Juliana Obetta, her children and aged
mother went on a money squandering trip to London for over 3 weeks, frolicking
and junketing in a London Hotel Ranch all in the name of Summer Holiday while
the people of Okpokwu Local Govt Area wallowed in poverty, negligence and utter
Ignominy as to the where about of their Chairman. Neither the Local Government
council legislative house was carried along by way of information regarding the
Chairman’s trip abroad nor did the Vice Chairman, Mrs. Amina Audu briefed at
all to act on her behalf as required by law!
Hon Juliana Obetta has
however; ear-marked the individually/privately funded on-going multiple corner
shops construction at Ugwu Okpoga town (funded strictly by the individual plots
allottees) and other past projects executed by previous administrations as
Alibi to justify the disappearance of all the money stolen.
Again, the Chairman who
regards the LG council as an annexure or subsidiary of her private Company
Rawlec Investment Ltd based in Abuja FCT always ensure the local govt council
takes the back seat and has a knack for spending and ruling through the
telephone! Hence, the monthly F & GPC meetings, peace and security meetings
and other statutory meetings are not up-to-date in line with the enabling
laws.
The Chairman, who
openly bragged that she has been assured by the Governor of Benue State Rt. Hon
Gabriel T Suswam of caretaker chairmanship position immediately after this
tenure, then by 2015 she is sure of being the Deputy Governor of Benue state,
has been ruling with impunity, she is known for unguided utterances, disrespect
for elders, pomposity, treats staff members and PDP Excos (especially the PDP
Chairman, Mr. Godfrey Adah) with disdain!
The Christmas protocol
gifts by the Government in December 2012 cost the vice chairman of Okpokwu LG
Mrs. Amina Audu her protocol monthly allowance of N300,000 as stipulated in her
pay package since the beginning of this tenure! For daring to reject the
miserable one goat, one bag of rice allocated to her office, the chairman
instructed that no protocol allowance should be paid to her henceforth! Yet we
do know that based on PDP zoning policy, the vice chairman represent the
Edumoga district in the scheme of things and of course, the Edumogas account
for the largest population and voters’ strength in Okpokwu LG.
The Okpokwu LG Council
Chairman who is currently presiding over an armed robbery and crisis ridden
local government area has a very poor handling of security issues under her
jurisdiction as the brother Hon Robert Obetta every month short-changes the
police SARS allowance of N480,000 by N180,000. That is, he pays the SARS only
N300,000 and put the rest in his pocket and he also collect salaries meant for
30 casual security personnel and pay only 18 personnel while the balance ends
in his pocket. Till date the January 2013 salaries of all the casual security
personnel disappeared into the pocket of Hon Robert Obetta and those affected who
dare to ask him are threatened with job loss through staff screening by
external Auditors! No wonder secret cult killings recently claimed lives of 2
young men in Benue Polytechnic, Ugbokolo
vis-à-vis daily house to house robberies, motorcycle snatchings, high
tension Okpoga-Ollo border crisis, Okpoga-Ngle land crisis, Ichama-Fulani
crisis and multiple Fulani cow killings while the police remain financially
handicapped and demoralized. Attempts by SARS members to get the Chairman to
repair their broken down patrol vehicle and also Ugbokolo Police to get the
Chairman to change their patrol vehicle tires met solid brick wall! Yet the
chairman could afford a lavished vacation abroad. On the Sept. 30, 2013 Mrs.
Grace Idoko a lecturer in Benue Polytechnic, Ugbokolo and wife of former
Chairman of Okpokwu was kidnapped (on mistaken identity) in Ojigo town in
Okpokwu and was later released after 3 weeks when the family paid a ransom of
N2million. The Okpokwu vice chairman Hon. Amina Audu is still thanking God b/c
the kidnappers actually came for her being an arch-enemy of Juliana Obetta! For
the first time kidnapping was introduced into the lives of these innocent
people! Some reports even had it that Ugbokolo in Okpokwu recently became one
of the detention camps of the notorious kidnapper called Kelvin who was
recently apprehended. Alongside the kidnapping also came the introduction of
Arson to Okpokwu LG. recently. Obeya Memorial College belonging to the fore
most Okpokwu politician and a PDP war-horse Chief Obande Obeya along with Our
Lady of Mercy College in Okpokwu belonging to the missionary Church were burnt
to the ground in rather convoluted circumstances during this year’s rainy
season!
The IGR revenue of the
Local Government is not spared as the Chairman’s brother Hon Robert Obetta who
is a mere Adviser on staff matters took charge as the Chairman of revenue task
force! He is either seen collecting N50,000 and above from the revenue staff
right in the market arena at Ugbokolo or
demanding that his UBA Plc account opened in pseudo name be credited
with specific amount to enable him use his ATM card!
No activity,
department, individual or desk is spared of the scavenging, intimidating and
over-bearing activities of the self-styled ‘chief-of-staff’ who told those that
cared to listen that he is a street man and used to be called bad names
already. Apart from commercializing casual employment which saw widows and poor
farmers borrowing to settle him in order to get employed by the council, he
also took it upon himself to issue and sign frivolous employment letters to
unsuspecting public against the embargo placed by the Benue state government by
designating the victims as PAs to the chairman! Janet Onyega, Agaba Okwori and
over a hundred others are all victims of this scam.
Hon Robert Obetta took
over the use of the council Toyota Hilux pick up van and the vox wagen Golf car
meant for the health department of the LG. Infact, for daring to question the
dictator in person of Hon Robert Obetta over the use of the vehicles, the frail
looking HOD for health Mr. Lawrence Ameh was unceremoniously transferred out of
Okpokwu LG to war-torn Agatu LG earlier this year!
The protocol officer
Mr. Joseph Igoche for refusing to improvise blank receipts in order to retire
avalanche of unjustifiable spendings by both the Chairman and her
‘chief-of-staff’ mostly through the telephone, he was infamously replace with
one Mr. Rogers (believed to know how to play ball)
The supervisory
councilor for Education, youths and sport Hon Emmanuel Ameh (a.k.a. Pronto) is
already leaking his wounds. The much dreaded ‘chief-of-staff’ deducted N30,000
out of the N200,000 approved by the council chairman to prosecute the recently
concluded Hon Hassan Saleh football competition organized to promote youth
empowerment in his federal constituency. Within that period, Hon Emmanuel Ameh
got council approval of N3,000,000 to renovate the Okpoga township stadium but
was informed by the dreaded ‘chief-of-staff’ to step aside while he the
‘chief-of-staff’ handles the renovation in the hope of enjoying the excess
amount that would be left after the renovation! As at today, the renovation
idea is dead!!
For daring to ask for
his delayed monthly allowance in February, 2013, the sitting Councilor
representing Ingle/Okpaile ward Hon Emmanuel Agbo-ogo on the order of the council chairman and the
‘chief-of-staff’ was beaten to a pulp by police SARS and whisk away into police
detention in Okpoga (see THE SUN newspaper of February 26, 2013).
Earlier in the year,
the council Chairman and his ‘chief-of-staff’ brought in external auditors to
the council with the sole purpose of finding ways to save more money for their
pockets. After searching fruitlessly, the auditors recommended the demotion of
all staff by grade levels and steps to reduce the salary wage bill and for this
they were paid a whopping sum of N1,500,000 for job well done, while the career
staff and officers of the council under the leadership of NULGE chairman
Comrade Adakole Ameh now lives in fear of the unknown!
Very recently, the
Secretary to Okpokwu LG Council Hon Vincent Odo Tula, a veteran Banker and one
of the most decorated young man in Okpokwu LG council because of his doggedness
in creating Banking employment for 36 graduates from Okpokwu LG area in the
past was fired from the Government for refusing to give a bribery of N1,500,000
to the dreaded Hon. Robert Obetta as a prize for the secretary position he
occupied! Hon Vincent Odo Tula who the people of Okpokwu LG respect so much for
mentoring 7 out of the 36 graduate Bankers up to Branch manager positions
before humbly resigning (in the same manner of late Hon Ogiri Ajene becoming a
councilor) to serve Hon Juliana Obetta as Secretary to the council was made an
object of ridicule to the shock of his people when he reported the matter to
the council chairman Hon Juliana Obetta insisting that he has evidence to prove
his allegation. Instead of giving the Secretary fair hearing, Hon Juliana
Obetta rather fired him for not complying with the illicit request while the
chief-of-staff Hon. Robert Obetta’s power wax stronger, gaining the fear of the people for destroying
a very big fish who the people before now idolizes! This last straw greatly
assaults the people’s sensibility and finally dries up what was left of the
reputation of the Obetta’s crooked administration.
While everyone
including H.O.Ds and Schedule Officers now live in fear of the much dreaded
‘Chief-of-Staff’; Hon Robert Obetta who was appointed few months ago as an
Adviser to Okpokwu LG Council on monthly
salary of N40,000 by his sister Hon Juliana Obetta has recently bought a new
Peugeot 407 super sedan worth Four Million Naira (N4,000,000) only and cruising
with his suspected occult- member body guard all over the town in a mafia style
to the awe, frustration and consternation of the now impoverished people of
Okpokwu LG Area.
Needless to say that
she has made nonsense of the 35% gender affirmative policy of the Jonathan
administration, dwarf the fraudulent tendencies of the men forks and disgrace
all well-meaning mothers all over the world.
Furthermore, Hon
Juliana Obetta for continuously disrespecting the PDP state chairman Dr.
Emmanuel Agbo, Okpokwu Local Govt. PDP chairman Hon Godfrey Adah, the Minister
of Interior Comrade Abba Moro, breaking off communication with all party elders
and even failing to recognize all the Okpokwu PDP chairmanship Aspirants in the
last PDP primary elections in her usual pomposity has succeeded in destroying
the formidable PDP structure in Okpokwu LG and generate negative popularity for
the party as most party faithful are now preparing to migrate to the new APC
political party as soon as it coast in the LG. Okpokwu as the oldest and one of
the most populated LG in zone C is too important in the political system to be
ignored and lost to a rival party! . In this regard, some of us are of the well
considered opinion that the name of the Governor should be used to promote PDP
good agenda and not to oppress, repress the people and openly steal their money
and flaunt ill-gotten riches before their very eyes!
Though inexperience in
politics, Hon. Juliana Obetta who live above elderly counsel should know that
her youthful Honorable supervisors like Hon Emmanuel Ameh Pronto (failed
tokumbo car dealer), Hon Robert Obetta
(a known yahoo fraudster) and the remaining members of her cabinet made
up of village farmers and boot lickers like Christian Agom (present secretary) cannot
give her any useful political advice to swing things alone for PDP.
Cooperation, respect and understanding is essential with the party structure,
stakeholders and elders to have a resounding victory in 2015 as exemplified by
the victory of the incumbent Governor of Benue state Rt Hon Gabriel T. suswam.
Evil flourish when
good people do nothing about it! Exactly one year in office by this December
month, Madam Juliana Obetta has really flourished and will be commissioning her
new talk-of-the-town RAWLEC STRIPPERS’ CLUB HOUSE & WINE BAR in Abuja, whereas
there is nothing to commission in Okpokwu Benue state to mark the anniversary
celebration! Hon Juliana Obetta who is a neighbor and a regular caller at the
Popular Ketch-off wine bar in Abuja got her break as soon as she became
the Okpokwu Chairman and decided to take advantage of the public fund entrusted
to her to beat the popular Ketch-off
wine bar (an Abuja base joint meant for the big boys, movie stars, music
Artists, comedians and ministers) to the game by designing and constructing a parallel
joint with additional features like the underground strippers club to give ketch-off wine bar a big run for all
its fame and popularity. The Rawlec Strippers' club house & wine bar which
was constructed on a leased part of K-City Plaza where Juliana Obetta earlier
has a rented shop will soon be launched by our able chairman. All thanks to
Okpokwu money.
Finally, our able
Chairman has stop going to Okpokwu completely since her criminal exploit
against her people became public knowledge and Watch-dogs like EFCC, ICPC and
others are nosing into the rots. While Okpokwu is now running on auto pilot, we
still fear that if the silences from our political leaders of goodwill continue,
she may be tempted to sell Okpokwu land to the Lebanese Hezbollah warlord to
open an amusement park or zoo with our completely subdued parents distributed
into the cages for tourists’ income into RAWLEC INVESTMENT LTD
All the same happy
1-year Anniversary to Okpokwu people!!!
