Leadership (Abuja)
19 May 2008
As the Federal Government gets set to commence what it called the mother of all probes in the oil sector, officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and an unnamed political party have been found guilty of receiving over $6.3 million bribe from a foreign oil and gas company, Wilbros Group, to award a $387 million contract for engineering, procurement and construction work on ...
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It is indeed very incredible and very disturbing for a political party to have targeted for bribe by a foreign company. This is an indirect way of controlling the polity of the country by financing the activities of a party in order to impose some candidates that had been secretly groomed to dance to the tune of some foreign forces since, as the dictum goes, he who pays the piper dictates the tune. So, the truth of the on-going situation in the present set-up is progressively being revealed and, again, it is not surely unconnected with the pervading ethnic intolerance in the polity.