Oh! Another $5.7m Arms Cash seized in SA: Jonathan please Stop Embarrassing Nigeria

The All Progressives Congress (APC)
has asked President Goodluck
Jonathan to urgently address
Nigerians on the serial
embarrassments to which his
administration is subjecting the
country in the comity of nations,
after another seizure of $5.7 million
of Nigerian arms money by the
South African authorities.
In a statement issued on Tuesday by
its National Publicity Secretary,
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said
the issues surrounding the first
seizure of $9.3 million have yet to
be resolved before this latest
scandal, wondering why the
government would want to turn
Nigeria to a rogue nation by taking
ownership of money laundering and
other acts of illegality, thus
devaluing the currency of every
Nigerian.

"Again, Mr. President, Nigerians
are urging you to please come
clean over these cash-for-arms
scandals. They want you to
answer critical questions on the
legality of your
administration's repeated
conduct. Nigerians want to
know the identities of the two
Nigerians who were arrested
with an Israeli in South Africa
over the first illegal deal,
especially since the Israeli has
been named.

"Nigerians want to why the
purported arms procurement
for the government is done
illegally between private
companies that are neither
known nor registered for
dealing in arms? And why are
the movement of monies not
transparently documented for
what they really are, if they are
truly for legitimate purposes?

"They want to know whether indeed
the weapons which the government
is seeking so furiously to procure
are for the battle against Boko
Haram or for a sinister motive,
considering the desperation of your
Administration to continue to rule at
all cost and by any means possible.

They want to know whether every
Nigerian should begin to fear what
will happen in the days and weeks
leading to the forthcoming general
elections, against the backdrop of
your Administration and party's do-
or-die politics.

"Mr. President, if the funds involved
in the latest seizure were sent
through bank transfer, can the
government explain why
Oritsejafor's plane was stuffed with
cash and transported to South
Africa? Can your Administration's
embarrassing explanation that it is
customary for other country's
security agencies, including with
MOSSAD, KGB and CIA, to cart plane
loads of cash across the world to
purchase black market weapons hold
any more water now? These are
some of the questions Nigerians are
asking, not an untenable spin by
untruthful government officials," it
said.
The party also wondered whether
the funds being ferried up and down
by the Administration were
appropriated by the National
Assembly, or whether they are part
of the missing $20 billion oil money.

APC slammed the federal
government for issuing childish and
immature threats against South
Africa threatening its investments in
the country, instead of addressing
the pertinent questions surrounding
the illegal arms procurement deals.
"Mr. President, you cannot threaten
another country when your
Administration is willfully breaking
the laws of that country. In this
case, your Administration stands on
a weak moral ground, as its hands
have been caught in the cookie jar.

Therefore, issuing infantile threats is
laughable, unacceptable and wrong,"
the party said.

It reminded the Jonathan
Administration that nowhere else
does a government engage in illegal
black market movement of money or
arms - both signatures of terrorism
worldwide, adding that only
terrorists and pariah nations move
money and procure arms in
clandestine manners.