Fraud Suspect Vindicates Obasanjo; Says He Paid Bribe To Senators

First it was Prof. Pat Utomi who supported the statement by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo that the National Assembly is filled the rogues and armed robbers by disclosing that a serving Senator duped him. Now, the principal suspects standing trial in the Pension Fund Scam, Dr. Sani Shu’aibu Teidi, has disclosed that he and other accomplices gave the Senator Aloysius Etuk-led Senate Committee a N3bn bribe in dollars.

The bribe, he said, was to stall the prosecution of the accused persons.

Also, the mind-bugling scam took another dimension as the immediate past chairman of EFCC, Mrs Farida Waziri, was fingered. She was said to have got a property located at Parakou Crescent, Wuse II, Abuja, as bribe. He said her action was premised on the hope that the Senate Committee would stall the fraud proceedings as promised.

The allegations are already causing serious ripples within the Senate committee. A source close to the principal accused, Dr. Teidi, said that the cause of the disaffection within the Senate committee was borne out of the discovery that, out of the N3bn obtained as bribe from the six accused, Senator Etuk attempted to outsmart his colleagues by declaring only N500million, a paltry one-sixth of the actual bribe he allegedly collected.

An obviously angry Dr. Teidi “felt betrayed by the Senate committee leadership’s greed and inability to properly handle our (the accused persons’) matter”, the source said. Dr. Teidi has therefore resolved to make public all information on the botched agreement.

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