CAR SCANDAL:Car Source Gave N112M As Kickback To Aviation Minister.

(Kickback is a form of
negotiated bribery in which a commission is
paid to the bribe-taker for services rendered)

Bellow is how Sahara reporter is reporting the bribery incident...

Even as the minister of aviation began a
new spin today that the BMW armored
cars purchased by the Nigerian Civil
Aviation Authority (NCAA) for her use
were done on "hire-purchase",
SaharaReporters has unearthed new
details about the $1.6 million spent by
the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority to
purchase the armored BMW cars for
Nigeria's Aviation Minister Stella Oduah.

A highly reliable source has told
SaharaReporters that the shady deal for
the car was done entirely between
Coscharis Motors Limited, a dealership
from which the cars were purchased,
one of Ms. Oduah’s private firms based
in Abuja, and First Bank of Nigeria.
“The NCAA was not even aware of the
deal until the minister told them to sign
that they had received two BMW cars,”
said our source.

After inking the deal, Coscharis Motors,
sellers of the highly inflated
automobiles, reportedly gave the
Aviation Minister more than N112
million as kickbacks.

Our source added
that Cosmas Maduka, who owns
Coscharis Motors, pocked N60 million
for each of the two BMW cars.

An official at the NCAA corroborated the
information that the agency was largely kept
in the dark about the transaction.

“We were
never privy to the transaction and had not
seen the cars even though our head of
transport was made to sign the delivery note,”
said the source.

The agency is under the
Ministry of Aviation.
The source added that the agency has still not
seen the cars even after the scandal
escalated.

SaharaReporters was first to break the news
that Ms. Oduah compelled a cash-strapped
NCAA to pay for two extravagantly priced
bullet-proof BMWs for her personal use.

After initially denying our reports, the
minister’s spokesman, Joe Obi, admitted that
the transaction transpired. Mr. Obi alleged
that the purchase was justified because of
unspecified threats to the minister’s life.
Neither Mr. Obi nor the minister has
provided proof of any threats to Ms. Oduah.
The minister has not addressed why the NCAA
paid a price tag that auto dealers in the US
and the UK described as a rip-off. US dealers
said that each of the BMW cars should cost
no more than $$167,000.
Last week, an official of the NCAA, Fola
Akinkuotu, spoke to the media and defended
the purchase of the cars.

Mr. Akinkuotu said
the cars were for the ministry’s protocol pool
for use in transporting foreign aviation
dignitaries when they visit Nigeria.

His
explanation conflicted with the original
statement by the minister’s spokesman, Mr.
Obi. A source at the NCAA disclosed that Mr.
Akinkuotu felt tricked into facing the media
on the scandal. “He had been told he would
only appear beside the embattled minister,
who was supposed to speak. Instead, he was
asked to speak,” said the source.

Meanwhile, a source at the Presidency said
President Goodluck Jonathan was unfazed
about the fraud perpetrated by Ms. Stella
Oduah, his Aviation Minister.

Ms. Oduah and
the late former National Security Advisor,
General Owoye Azazi, had played significant
roles in raising and disbursing money to rig
the 2011 presidential elections for Mr.
Jonathan. Mr. Jonathan will depart Abuja
tomorrow on a weeklong pilgrimage to Israel.

However, SaharaReporters learnt that several
ministers and diplomats have registered their
displeasure at Mr. Jonathan’s continued
retention of Ms. Oduah on his cabinet. 

SOURCE: Sahara Reporters.

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