Mike Adenuga Get Reprieve From Siemens Bribery Scandal, Wife Says EFCC Begged Us.
| July 14, 2010 | Posted by QMarkMag under TV and Politics. |
Titi Adenuga.
As one staff member at Globacom puts it, “our Chairman, Dr. Mike Adenuga did not receive bribe from Siemens”. But for Globacom’s claim to be accepted without an iota of doubt, it needs to proffer reasons why Mike Adenuga waited till he received assurances of a soft landing from the Presidency before he showed up at the office of the EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission).
Information obtained reveals that Dr. Mike Adenuga, accompanied by his wife Titi (a.k.a. Snake), recently went to EFCC office in Abuja and gave a statement regarding his role in the Euro 17.5m Siemens bribery scandal. Our impeccable sources reveal that contrary to Globacom’s claim, Dr. Mike Adenuga did receive money from Siemens.
The source said that the anti-graft agency (EFCC) was instructed to allow Dr. Adenuga to give his statement while not causing him any embarrassment or harassment by not granting him bail. Apparently buoyed by the reprieve, Mrs. Titi Adenuga in a telephone conversation with our contributor, said that she had just returned from the Abuja EFCC office, and that the anti-graft agency agreed that their “invitation” was a mix up and apologized to them for falsely accusing Dr. Mike Adenuga.
Nevertheless, according to a Siemens source who elected anonymity, “In the late nineties, the German authorities approved a law making it a criminal offence for companies to bribe in order to win business and contracts overseas. But that didn’t stop Nigerians like Mike Adenuga from coming to Siemens’ headquarters in Munich…asking for pocket money during their European vacations. Employees of Siemens quickly stuffed thousand Euros in their pockets to quiet them”.
We understands that when Dr. Mike Adenuga departed for South Africa during the just concluded 2010 world cup, he had two options. The first was to lobby to see the President at all cost, and plead for leniency over his issues with the EFCC. If that failed, he was to go into another self-imposed exile until he was able to resolve his issues with the EFCC over Siemens bribery scandal.
Dr. Adenuga’s team advised him to lay more emphasis on seeing the President since self-imposed exile would not only be risky, but costly for a man whose business empire is in Nigeria. Our checks reveal that although Dr. Adenuga was ready to become a fugitive from justice for the second time, his only apprehension hinged on the fact that the political and legal terrain overseas has changed, and most countries are now reluctant to harbor fugitives wanted on corruption charges (reference the recent arrest of the embattled former governor of Delta State, James Ibori in Dubai).
It should be recalled that Governor James Ibori had fled Nigeria to avoid arrest by the EFCC, but met his Waterloo in his supposed safe haven of choice, where he now sits in prison awaiting his extradition to London to face money-laundering charges.
Another drawback to the exile scenario, as learnt, was the fact that the Siemens scandal has an international dimension, and if Dr. Adenuga were to be arrested by a foreign government, it would be very easy to obtain the bribery documents from Siemens, and he would then most likely face extradition back to Nigeria. - Huhuonline
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