OBJ Carpets Hon. Elumelu
May 12, 2008 by 
Che Oyimnatumba · Leave a Comment
Ashimole Felix/Abuja.
Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo (OBJ) has replied the May 9th 2008 Invitation to appear before the Hon. Ndudi Elumelu led Public Hearing on Power Sector.
Vintage OBJ pointed the structural flaws of the invitation but like a misunderstood statesman in an image reclaiming mission, OBJ took to lecturing the committee on Africa culture of respect for age and authority.
According to the text made available to journalists, OBJ denied awarding contracts to unregistered companies, stating that it is not the duty of the president to verify the corporate personality of a company bidding for contract and if such companies presented bank documentations and other Corporate Affairs Commission forms, than there must be a racket involved that need to be exposed and punished.
The former president also said that it will tend to portray inadequate knowledge or ignorance” for the committee to say that there is nothing at power project sites to justify the huge sums of money sunk into the power sector.
Obasanjo said that between 1999 and 2007, his administration spent about $6.5bn including letters of credit in the power sector.
He further urged the committee to hand over to EFCC and /or ICPC any minister or aide that served under his administration found to be corrupt but cautioned that the necessary documents must back up such.
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