kilode only for food wetin is she a glutton even if a glutton sef they dont even eat like that and over 100 million leave in abject poverty in naija chei where is the death penalty for goodness sake
I am curious to know what the big deal is with the 91k bill?
Public official or not, as the head of SEC she is entitled to spend even much more than that entertaining guests. And yes, as a top government official she is expected to entertain guests regularly
It is only poor pple (yes, poor hungry Nigerians) that will make a big deal out of inconsequential things like a $600 food bill of a top government official.
Lobster,pork belly,snail,crayfish,salmon,5 bottles of star......only u 1 down all these tins in one sitting!u no dey fear God ni?where your church mind dey when u dey order all these tins?SMH
Its obvious that it was not only her eating. Maybe she brought her gluttonous family to stay and chop and die. "Bevergage - A and Beverage- N". She was most def eating with others on the government tab.
Cheiii! Naija officials i dey hail o,una no dey fail o...Even though d masses dey cry o,una stil dey chop o...O'boy c fud;classical snail,lobster bissue,creme brulèè?! Neva knew we had different types of snail o! Jèsu gbä wa...Una go purge 1 day...Tufia!
Linda dey use this Gbenga drive traffic. Linda, e be like sey you be Gbenga. Also keep note that Gbenga may not be Yoruba, but only trying to ferment some wahala. So please desist from allowing such comments. It is a turn off from your blog.
Abeg is d aquafina transcorp is selling for N700 different from d ones in regular shops all over 9ja? All these hotels and their ridiculous prices sef! Hian!
These people always have meetings and guests, she may have not even eaten with them at this point. I am not in support but I know any seat like that comes with standard entertaining...
You can tell most of this Senators and House of Assembly people come from a improverished background..see as dem dey chop anything and everything..even things that would give dem runs..just chop chop..awon oni jeku je jati jati!!
She obviously had her famm or guests with her in her suite,me too must make first class go harvard on scholarship so niger go give me position oooo,thank God im still in year1
We need to take over this country walahi!!!! and see #Oke almost loosing his life cos his family can't raise 5m....mrs Sec Dg is eating 91k worth of food on a sitting, not a day oo! Posterity will judge them!!!!
Lol!no begin talk etnicity hia oh cos evrybody's personality no b d same nd by d way it luks lik she ate wit sme guests abi na only her go drink soda,star,7up,etc @ d same time abi u giv am ur own stomach?
91k not so bad - but it goes to show how expensive things are. For London, a decent three course meal goes for 20/30pounds - although you still can get 71pound for steaks o. (But that is the exception) But for even 10 people, at 300pounds - You come to about 75,000 naira. Now I am not sure Madame Oteh went to that restaurant with 10people. I guess its a general trend globally. Things are just getting too expensive. There used to be this joke my uncle used to crack in the early 90s, that by the time we grew up, a tin of milk would be 50,000naira. Looks like we are headed there...
Oh pulease...91k is very sensible 4 a meal at transcorp Hilton esp wen she OBVIOUSLY has guests. Des hotels charge double but omoh dat cray cost ooo. D ppl dat ate d food have taste. Dey ordered evrything I wud hav orded. I was in transcorp visiting a so-called friend. I invited my frnd and we had dinner worth abt 35k. We chop d guy's money plenty and it was only 2 of us. Wat wud u den say abt a govt official and guests? Abeg d money sounds reasonable 2 me jare. Lobster sounds yummy in my tummy.
Thank u! Dis isn't so much of a big deal! Boys de do pass dis one for pubs nau! We knw dt govt peeps r corrupt but dis is nothing. We de see pass like dis on a daily basis for club na, of which na for jus drinks. Mk una free d govt peeps jor, if una de d position una go sti cast! Abi una nor knw say money dey totori??
I don't know why this should be an issue, the hotel is at liberty to make their charges, it is not the duty of Oteh and his friends to haggle over the price. I do more than this on Belvedere Vodka every other friday at likwids.
Please people get real 91k for eight people for a woman at her level? Question is can she afford it on her salary yes she can. is she entitled to an entertainment allowance under her contract? yes she is... lets focus on the things that really matter. Less than $100 per head for DG SEC to entertain guests of the caliber of which we have not been informed is hardly news. LIB and other bloggers need to stop creating drama and inciting people especially when you cannot give the full story to back up your post. At least there is no champagne drinking there at about 25k per bottle... if that was on the bill what would you do cause a riot? They had a meal at the Nicon what do you expect? Buka prices??
If Aso rock has abudget of 1 billion naira for food and is accepted what is this.has anyone scrutinised the national assembly expenditure?IT may interest you to know that there is no due process in the award of contracts in the national assembly.The cost of governance is too high.We should cut down on our reps and senators same with ministers and parastatals.Government should stop this lip service to its recurrent expenditure.The amount of money that will be saved runs into billions if not trillions of naira that can be used in other sectors of our economy being underfunded.
Hmmnn.. But the truth of d matter is there are stil some govt officials that consume more than this in a day, how come no1 was bold enof 2 challenge goodluck 4 his 2million food budget per day abi mnth?? Why practice democracy backwards??? We are in a country that practices male chauvinism, nd bsydes Everybody in the govt is guilty of d same oFfence whether its done secretly or openly.. Mtcheewwww
@lagoshunter It is clear that not only are u conceited u r also stupid. 75% of nigerians don't have enough to feed their family government official or not it is higly irresponsible of for anyone to waste such amount on food meeting or not. There are cheeaper better means of she could have used. And as for u saying hungry nigerians, YES they are hungry so I don't blame anyone for Vexing over this so KMT!!!!!!!!
C'mon Linda, this cannot be one person consuming all this. The question you should be asking is - a) Was she entertaining guests in her official capacity? b)Was she entertaining people but not in her official capacity and billing the government for it? c)If she was entertaining guests in her official capacity, what is the limit that she can spend and did she exceed it?
Its really amusing when Nigerians display thier ignorance on platforms like this. if after seeing the rendetion of this supposed bill and they still keep yelling that she consumed the whole amount. So if the DG sec is hosting finance industry leaders, she should take them to a mama put joint abi? Haba Linda, please stop leading people on. Booking a top rated restaurant exclusively for dinner alone can run into millions sometime so what is this noise about that the DG of SEC hosted people to a lunch and spent 91K?
i don't see what the noise is about obviously she ate with other guests whether business or private...nicon is one of the most expensive hotels in nigeria so it figures that if you invite like 3 others to join you you can rack up this kind of bill side bar its still beta than her investigators asking her for 44m..smh
According to the link below, Oteh said she hosted a dinner on March 24, 2010 for a group of international capital market experts. The bill you posted also reads March 24. The difference is she says the amount is 83K but the bill shows about 84K. Please whilst we are trying to bring corrupt leaders to book, we should also be balanced in our reporting
In a country where 70 percent lives below a dollar per day and millions are unemployed.This a country where basic amenities of life is not available to the common man.Need I remind u guys that that is ow Nigerians politicians spend our resources lavishly (of course,the seating president also eats with 3 million Naira per day),we only talking about this one cos she has been exposed.Shake my head for my beloved motherland.
FOOD #84,300 Pere! Ko ti e po rara. I was expecting Food - #278,345. 79k Yeye! When most Nigerians live below 1 Dollar a day. Hum! "Monkey Dey Work, Baboon dey Chop." Food for Stomach, Stomach for Food One day all shall become Dust. Lobatan
People are stupid- Its obviously for 4 people. Cant you see there 4 salmon, creme bulee etc. Plus the hotel is expensive so what are you people saying?? Thats even small compared to what others are doing for ridiculous things such as putting a charge for "opening facebook account". At least this one you can trace it. I actually don't think this is a problem at all cos she CLEARLY had guests.
Why is the bill confused? It doesn't add up and if u are at Hilton, 91k bill isn't a biggie. They should also beef her for staying at Hilton. Only a dumb person won't notice she didn't eat alone. NEXT...
Honestly I see nothing wrong with this, this shows that she ate with other people. The price is kind of low for a hotel as transcorp with at least five people eating a meal. She is the DG of SEC or una want am make she go they chop with the people for mama put? This is a way to attack female politicians. Govt no go ever attack people like Peter Odili, Babangida, Obasanjo, Ibori, Lucky Igbinedion, .... Like this o.
i laughed@ 4500 for one classical snail , how big could the snail have beeen to be sold at that price ???? when i buy a basket of 30 big snails at oyingbo market for the same amount , she come dey blow grammer for tv say dem dey insult am , Madam Dg do you have a church mind at all? with your first class and all the harvard story , should you have done it like this ? true true can you use your hard earned money to buy one snail for 4500 ? you have worked all over the world like you boasted , wld you do this in an american company of course not , ole jatijati ni eeeh , oloriburuku , you are part of the nigerian problem , arrogant woman
i laughed@ 4500 for one classical snail , how big could the snail have beeen to be sold at that price ???? when i buy a basket of 30 big snails at oyingbo market for the same amount , she come dey blow grammer for tv say dem dey insult am , Madam Dg do you have a church mind at all? with your first class and all the harvard story , should you have done it like this ? true true can you use your hard earned money to buy one snail for 4500 ? you have worked all over the world like you boasted , wld you do this in an american company of course not , ole jatijati ni eeeh , oloriburuku , you are part of the nigerian problem , arrogant woman
Lagoshunter, I have just two words for u; stupid and ignorant! Stupid cos u said she's a top govt official entitled to such and ignorant for saying poor hungry nigerians! R u oblivious of what's going on around ere? Dunno why I'm asking,u obviously are! Koshikuro jare! Ignoramus!!!!!
@ LAGOSHUNTER may poverty possess your family up till your 10th generation in Jesus name,you have the nerve to call people poor,i'm sure you are poor too,do you have to make us know the rate in dollars??? PLEASE LIB READERS ATTACK THE IDIOT...........
lagoshunter said... I am curious to know what the big deal is with the 91k bill?
Public official or not, as the head of SEC she is entitled to spend even much more than that entertaining guests. And yes, as a top government official she is expected to entertain guests regularly
It is only poor pple (yes, poor hungry Nigerians) that will make a big deal out of inconsequential things like a $600 food bill of a top government official.
Linda i think you need to Give nigerians Full information and stop making Malicious accusation.......Shouldnt common sense tell you that, that meal was eaten by her and maybe colleagues or associates.......Even though i buy you 91k food where you for chop am.
I have worked in coporate organization and petty cash are assigned for unbudgeted cost like this and i can confirm that depending on the size and what eatery you go to, 91k is not too much
Linda we are lenearned people stop feeding us with stupid lies......it was not her alone that ate the food, like say if she invited you, you wont have dragged ur ass there..........i still remain your fan for bringing us gossip about what happening in nigeria but dont feed us with tom and Jerry stories
Before I start getting attacked by '******', in punch news paper, she said she ate with guest on some official assignment. Common sense suppose tell us say one man no fit finish the food wen dey for receipt.
Certainly Linda, this cannot be a bill for one person at a sitting.No matter how she can eat,she could n't have been able to consume 4 lobsters on her own. Let forego all these spur of the moment reaction and put on our thinking caps. The bill did not say the number of people on the table. Whats wrong in spending the equivalent of $600 in one of Nigeria's best hotels if it means more business for the capital market.
I don't think it is prudent that government officials should be lodged in hotels but,for a food bill which is certainly not for one, thats fine by me.
Lets forget the sensationalism and concentrate on why the probe was called for in the first place, to review the crash in the stock market and whether regulators did their best to protect investors.
There a lot of poor people reading this blog, I see why many countries don't grant nigerians visas Even those with genuine reasons. 91k is chicken money and she obviously had guests and is entitled to entertainment allowance. Gosh !!!
ONOME says...................... I very carefully read through the comments of others on this post and frankly I am amazed at the utter stupidity and shortsightedness of certain individuals. I do agree that she is an official and probably acting in her official capacity hosted certain "important guests" at that hotel and incurred such debt.However wisdom is profitable to direct and it challenges my sensibilities when a country where citizens can not boast of decent electricity,healthcare,basic amenities,good roads,security,education,care for the vulnerable think it is permissible for anyone be you VIP be allowed to spend such astronomical sums on a sitting.Astronomical yes because using relativity you can see that the average Nigerian does not earn that in one month. I DOFF MY HAT for NIgerians!It is shockingly astonishing.Are we all blind?or stupid?or simply too weak to say it the way it is?I keep saying it your leaders will keep pissing on you and say it is raining and you all will accept it with the same passive acceptance as displayed on this post. #sad#
Linda don't be caught in between, don't let them use you against Oteh for exposing a house member, do u know how much each house of rep member spends/day? Besides, it's Transcorp not some cheap hotel, we all know u have to pay in multiples of a 100 of the regular price in all these 5* hotels, abeg easy on the woman..
I tire º°˚˚˚°º....d individual prices of d items are xpensive but dats not her fault or a problem.....show me receipt dat says she blowed 850000k on food and I'll get yur point....any wealthy LIB reader can do more...smh
even at that, sheraton is hella expensive, how on earth should creme brulee be 10k! ki lo de. they are too expensive. all thats on the list, if you go abroad, you wont pass 200dollars. see how uch they charged for common $2 earl grey tea. but their pork belly is reasonable ish. that being said, it was quite extravagant by naija standards, but for regular diners at sheraton, im sure its business as usual.
@Gbenga the most experienced person on ibo women dont bring tribe into this. The world has gone past the time of ethnicity when issues like this arise. You cannot sit down and leave the ruling of the nation to someone else and complain.Besides she is a top official who is entitled to allowances. If this expenditure has been proved to be on a daily basis then there the problem lies. I am a college student and i have spent a 100K on a hotel for a night being a nobody.
I think its now clear that majority of the readers of this blog are poor. Whats the big bloody deal in spending 91k on food that was clearly bought for a number of people to eat. Yall need to get over it. Some are rich and some are poor and thats life.
Crazy man gbenga, u are calling on Ibo woman! How dare u? I though u are in kirikiri by now , LUNATIC.. one more word from u. Linda maka I see u America again. AKT PRINCE.
If it's the same Lagoshunter guy on twitter, I'm really not shocked at his stupid comment. Make sure y'all remember these idiots. One day they will try to run for public office.
Linda you sef ! You go need glasses o. At least 12 people chop for the table that was given this bill, I beg raad between the lines. Plus do u want to blame the Govt . Am sure dat those prices were jacked up . When tin person won chop when
Cont : when I snail cost 4.5naira and a bottle of 7up cost 500naira you should expect a bill like this. Tell me how they will not be able to finish one billion on food/entertainment for one year. God day sha
WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL ABOUT THIS? DID SHE EAT ALONE? REMEMBER THIS IS NO BUKA OOO.
GO TO A FINE RESTAURANT ANDD CHECK OUT HOW MUCH U WLD SPEND ON A MEAL ALONE.
PLS FREE THIS WOMAN, SHE IS NOT OUR PROBLEM. IF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS ARE JUDICIOUSLY USED ON INFRASTRUCTURE AND PROVISION OF OTHER SOCIAL AMENITIES , WE WONT BE NOTICING ALL THESE.
WE MUST MAKE OUR PUBLIC OFFICE HOLDERS ACCOUNTABLE TO US
Linda! You have just succeeded in exposing your ignorance about this issue. Yes signed the bill, but the consumption was for 8guests, on a single bill. On the top right corner of the bill, where the date and time is, you will see 'GST 8'. GST 8 means 8 guests. Please stop this misinformation, how did she spend 91k+ in one sitting on HERSELF? I will like you to correct your error and give it same prominence like this current post, as the posting is aimed at painting her in bad light. Cheers!
Linda, I am one of your fans but this time you really goofed and in the process you showed your lack of exposure. Haven't you ever been taken out on a date at a 5-star hotel, at least? These places cost money and it's obvious that she didn't eat alone. From the bill, she must have had mininum of 7 other people with her.
Besides, the SEC DG's press release explains the bill. It's satisfactory to most people who know what's up in corporate circles - social, business dinners are part of it.
Sorry, Linda. There's actually no story here and you kind of showcase your ignorance.
U r defintely ignorant! Wth do u mean by "poor hungry Nigerians" in country whr ppl can barely afford breakfast lunch n dinner u say it's no big deal! God punish u 4 d@ comment! Olorikori oshi!
Where should the DG of SEC take her official guests to dinner? Mr Bigs or Chicken Republic or Ada Enugu's Joint at Maraba? Linda, stop showing your localness and sexism. If it were a man would this be news? Please give us news.
sorry to say but nothing wrong with the bill given the fact that she hosted guests and also has an entertainment allowance. Maybe you should all query the hotel for the large amounts they charge. Afterall its supposed to be the best hotel to host guests in. Or have you forgotten that some people spend more than that in a day? Agreed that the average Nigerian doesn't receive up to 15k in wages but it's not a matter of witch hunting this woman. It should be a matter of the whole govt execs reducing their pay.
Herman Hembe or whatever your name is; What are your qualifications if i may ask? Dont bother to answer cos the fact that you have decided to use Linda Ikeji's blog to continue your stupid rants shows that you are half baked, half blind and as ignorant as the Linda and her stupid fans who don't know the difference between lunch with guests and eating alone. Publish if you like, i dont give a hoot! @lagoshunter, I hail u jor.
I concur!dis isn't as bad as was earlier projected!after all dint dey tell us it was 850k nd pple cursed d hell out of d woman?now dat its waaay less than dat pple r still cursing!regular nigerians spend more than dis on a friday nite out!may God deliver our mindsets here sha
To pay minimum wage of 18k, govt finds it difficult!
Is it not nigerians right to have good infrastructures and condition of living, if EDIATS that are supporting says, it is her right as a DG???
AS LONG AS THE POOR ARE CRYING, THE CORRUPT RICH PEOPLE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SLEEP AND MOVE PEACEFUL,BECAUSE THEY WOULD BE AFRAID OF KIDNAPPERS AND ARMED ROBBERS!
Linda please I know you are much smarter. You look at it, and know that it is not 1 person that had this. It was an OFFICIAL business meeting. She was staying at the Hilton because as SEC DG the govt is supposed to provide her with accommodation and instead put her up there. IT WAS IN HER CONTRACT!!!!! The govt puts her up in the Hilton, and later on develops Alzheimer's and starts questioning her why she is there???? Is our country run by fools?? People reading this and writing ignorant comments, are you that gullible to being such??
Last time I was in Nigeria, we ate at a restaurant in Lagos (V/I), bill was N35k and we didnt eat much, it was 3 of us. Let alone somewhere like Hilton that EVERYONE knows has crazy prices.
Herman Hembe and the House make N27m every quarter, so N60-100m a year! Have we asked them for their receipts?? They stay in govt provided mansions in Maitama, Asokoro and Wuse, have we checked how much those houses are worth?
NSE crashed in 2008, I lost millions.
Arunma Oteh started work Jan 2010. What does a March 2010 receipt have to do with the NSE crash??
Where are the SEC and NSE management from 2008, why are we not investigating them?
Musa Al-Faki was SEC DG before Arunma Oteh, how come most Nigerians dont even know his name?
Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke, why isnt she being investigated when she was in charge of NSE during the crash?? If we remember last year they found out she had been using a fake degree for the past 20+ years.
Can we focus on important matters, this is the biggest waste of time ever. Why is there even a probe? What the govt should be doing is asking Ms Oteh what she has been doing since Jan 2010, she should not even be asked about the crash. The issue started because she had Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke removed, because the woman was the root of the problem with the Stock market, since then Ndi has gone through a crazy extent to start a witch hunt against Arunma Oteh.
Linda I understand you are a blogger and thrive off traffic and comments, but to depict it in this manner, makes it seem like you are no different from the uneducated ones who do not know any better.Put your grown woman glasses on, and step up. Do your own investigation, and dont realize on sensationalized crap that is fed to you.
I laugh, is this ALL they have against Arunma Oteh?? This shows that she is BETTER than any one of them pointing fingers at her.
No nonsense woman,dis is a very mean comment.ure allowed to express ur displeasure at comments bt please leave out d curses on family nd deir generation.the person expressed his view on d matter jst d way u did urs.pls let's keep linda's blog peaceful nd entertaining
I concur!dis isn't as bad as was earlier projected!after all dint dey tell us it was 850k nd pple cursed d hell out of d woman?now dat its waaay less than dat pple r still cursing!regular nigerians spend more than dis on a friday nite out!may God deliver our mindsets here sha
Has any of you ever entertained guests at the Hilton? Why are we so ignorant in Nigeria.She is Chairman on the apex capital market regulatory agency for crying out loud!
People are so quick to make dumb comments. I stay at hilton everynow and then and I can tell you their food is very pricy (and tasteless) as you must have seen above. That being said, she obviously didn't have this meal alone. You guys should look beyond the 91k or so, she could have feed her aides, business colleagues, friends or whoever. This makes absolute sense if this is what is meant by she spent 91k on a meal in one sitting.
Lagos hunter, "Poor hungry Nigerians"? Shame on u. Big shame. U should hang ur stupid hunting head. And for all of u saying its not a big deal, u spend more, bla bla, one question: DO U SPEND TAX PAYER'S MONEY??????? Blind fools. Its people like u that make government officials think its ok to spend as they like. Yes she's a top government official. Yes she entertains guests. Yes 91k may not seem that much of a big deal on one bill, but if she does this everyday do u know how much it'll total? She spends tax payer's money. She has a duty to be prudent with it. Lagos hunter u better go and purge ur stupi,d failed, condescending mind. Talking about "its only poor Nigerians that'll complain". U sound poor. Wretched infact. And maybe small change just entered ur pocket. U'll never catch a rich person making such a daft comment. The nerve! Please get out of lagos and return to the forest where u can hunt conveniently. Olodo oshi.
It is a pity this blog is full of low lifers. As a C E O she is entitled to entertain guests so WTF.She did no put the money in her pocket.didnt u guys see the revelations about the Stock exchange, that was fraud unlimited.the job of the house was to find out what led to collapse of the exchange pls tell me how eating at Nicon has any relevance to the issue?? I just don't get it.I'm not defending Oteh but let's stick to the relevant issues hence the probe will seem like a public lynching
LINDA, YOU NEED TO STOP MISREPRESENTING STORIES JUST TO DRIVE TRAFFIC ON YOUR BLOG. YOU ARE SERIOUSLY NOT LOOKING GOOD AT ALL. THIS WAS A BUSINESS DINNER WIT A GROUP OF PEOPLE, ITS ALL OVER THE NEWS NA! THIS IS SO UNFAIR OF YOU LINDA, I'M SURE YOU KNOW THE REAL STORY BUT STILL WANT COMMENTATORS TO POST THEIR USUAL VILE.
THEY HAD DINNER AT A FREAKING FIVE STAR HOTEL WHERE EVEN A BOTTLE OF FANTA COSTS N500. A FAMILY DINNER I HAD RECENTLY AT JADE COSTS ABOUT N63K.
STOP PAINTING THIS WOMAN IN A BAD LIGHT AT LEAST NOT WITH THIS FOOD BILL, IT IS PERFECTLY NORMAL.
Guys... we are all very quick to jump on people... and linda this is wrong.
she definitely did not dine alone, and we all know that nigeria is quite expensive... saying that i dont think a £400 dinner for the DG of SEC (if its official) is too much.
Linda am sure u have gone out on a nite out with friends and have spent way more than that.
when we criticise lets criticise with sense... that includes u linda.
However there is no excuse for spending 30m on hotel living bills.. Thats morally wrong
c'mon its not so much, im not a govt official and ive spent $150 on dinner for me alone at a good restaurant, its obvious she had guest...this is no big deal
Problem with us Nigerians is that we can be so judgemental..Many of us go out to clubs or bars and blow more than this amount on drinks alone with friends but because this woman is a govt official and someone wants her out, this has become public news....Go and ask many company staff blow more than that amount in hotels all over Nigeria...So before we come on here to start judging dis woman, lets do a self check first and stop being so f**king self righteous.....And she wasnt eating it alone im sure lets check...
SIncerely you are all making this so so crazy when there is nothing here. For the DG of SEC and her family to go out together and spend 91k you people are making a case out of it???
Go and shout about your presidents eating N3m perdays mscheewww
This is unbelievable and needs to be looking into...A lot to question and more so am not sure one person can finish all these listed food in one sitting. This is just a politics. Oteh ti je gbi and shud be ready to face the outcome. Bunch of animals.
LOL.kilode.let mama eat ooo haba is it nt last supper?long hisssssss.FFO.See her cheek like puff puff.oloriburuku alajenboko,alajedanu.oloshi.Amole olonje iya
I don't know this woman personally, but from what I know she is very principled and I know she would come out of this very soon. This is the problem with Naija. Linda your blog is beginning to turn into something else, I think you should focus on better things and for the guy that is always insulting igbo women....I just feel sorry for you. Na so e dey start.
It'll be nice for us to use our brains sometime. Nigerians just love to critise the scapegoat. whatever happened to Odili, Igbendion and co nko?
That bill isnt outrageous for a DG and was def a biz lunch.
Some of u here go clubbing friday night and spend half of ur salaries, y wld clubs like Deuces and co be in operation? when pple go there and have bottles of drinks...i cant still understand y a club sells by bottle not by glasses even pints....we create too much so called "LEVEL" in this country...if little us patronise such clubs imagine what will happen when they all get to such levels of authority. Nigerians supposed big boys and girls pop ROSE for no reason, i think its so senseless. Our folks dnt have champagne till a very important celebration, nw friday night is all bot popping...oh puhlease!
That said, hubby and I ran up 28k bill at Talindo Steakhouse, just for steak, cocktails and dessert...now imagine if we were 4. just saying 91k for Nicon for her level isnt such a biggie.
Let them face the problems of real corruption and stop distracting it which such petty issues.
She hosted some foreigners. That is why the bill is that huge and that dinner or lunch wasn't held at a local nkwobi joint. My boss and i spent half of that amount at Protea when we hosted about 6 people to lunch. For me that wasn't too much, if she actually hosted some guests and also where (Transcorp Hilton) such event took place matters.
i tot they said it was 850k in a day now its 91k abeg govt you guys shuold judge well o, after all pple spend 100k for drinks alone in a bar, its no big deal, the pple probing her do worst than her jor.
Had a biz dinner with some clients from the UK at Illsoriso in VI last nite. Eight(8) of us, bill was 208,901 naira. So its no big deal. By virtue of her position she's entitled to that and even more.
she obviously didnt eat dis alone. my father is not a top government official and he has spent this much if not more on food at the hilton, yu'all should shut up please! even without government money, she could have easily spent this.
I have never been to Transcorp Hilton for lunch so I may be mistaken but do bills usually have 'food' and not the actually break down of the meals? Even the road side restaurants will specify if it was rice and stew or eba and egusi.
Please this is irrelevant! How many Nigerians go out clubbing in one night and spend over 100,000?! This is the Director-General of an Organisation here!!! The money was in the budget for her to use as she deems fit! So Nigerians, back off and focus on the real issue. The stock market crashed. Ms Oteh wasn't in charge when it did. Some people just want to make her look bad because she's exposed some people. If you fight corruption, corruption fights back!
Alot of people making snide remarks are soooo ignorant. First of all if you go to Southern Sun for a dinner you would spend and average of 8k on food alone. we are not taking into consideration drinks et al. so you could have spent 15k on food and drinks alone. Multiply that by 6 people and you would get 90k easily. Those of you who have never been to a Transcorp Hilton or Southern Sun I do not blame you but your ignorance. It was a bloody business lunch people. Common Sense should tell you that it is not possible for one person to consume all that food even in a buffet. I guess some of you have never partaken in that either or know what a buffett is! LOL!
One, the pricing mix in that hotel is ridiculously expensive. Secondly, she couldn't have eaten all that alone. it must be some guests on her bill. We need to see her trend on a stretch of say a month. How did this bill leak to linda? what is the intention of the leak? I believe the lawmakers are not even the right abode for this probe. past experiences show that they are even more lousy with expenses.
There is nothing outrageous in this bill, at least for someone of her status... If u work in a govt agency or oil coy and get to be a manager or gm or in her case, dg which is equivalent to GGM in my coy, ur bill will be abt dis.
Those senators talking, how much is dia daily estacode and feeding allowance outside office...
Arunma oteh maybe corrupt but her food bill does not prove dis, neither does her hotel bill.
For Christ sake, this woman is a DG that deals with dignitaries. she is not that stupid like the people of National Assembly to write a food receipt of N850,000 for her self alone. she must have wine and dined with other people of her caliber. Please let us probe NA first before they probe anybody. they are just trying to divert attention from their wreckless spending.The woman is not a liability to the country she is contributing her quota to the economy. what has National Assembly contribute to the economy?. i expect them to probe Sanusi over 100m father Christmas gift for his people. She prolly refused to get them some ghana-must-go bags and thats why she’s been plotted against.Take a look at the video and look at her and look at the probing members of the house, never have i seen someone stand firm on her integrity to put those words to their faces and they were all looking like they’ve been caught too. who is the thief here. Shut down the National assembly, have a Single house made up of 10 people from each state, earning 200,000 monthly because it is for service to father land and not for accumulating wealth. With all due respect, i can categorically say, that the members of the National Assembly have no shame and regard for service and a good name. The pinnacle and apex of corruption in Nigeria is the National Assembly. It is a precise case of a big thief calling someone else a thief. if my figures were right, the lowest member of the House of Rep goes home every month with about N42,000,000. In a country where 62% lives on less than $2 bucks per day. of 3Trillion Naira budgeted, about 16,000 political officers take almost 1.5Trillion of it. So who is the thief? 365 House of Reps alone just budgeted almost 33 billion Naira for themselves only to seat 3 times a week. Who is the thief here? by the way, why do we need to have a bi-camera legislature when millions of Nigerians are living below poverty line? As for otteh, she probably got into this mess because she refused to cooperate with those members. she prolly refused to sort them and so they plotted her downfall. 365 House of Rep members, 109 Senators. David Mark and his deputy individually take home in 4 months is 6 times what David Cameron gets in a year. Who is the thief? . kai, naija dey joke big time. No wonder Pastor Bakare said Nigerians are idiots cos the leaders have engineered the system to keep it that way and we keep allowing this people. I think the purpose of the dinner should be the issue. No one can consume these items alone, let us not be quick to condemn the SEC boss. What would be important for us is to know what the purpose of the dinner was. Though am not backing her yet, but there is the probability she bought and pay personnel some of the items with her money and the receipts issued in her name. If that is the case, there’s no problem. Again, taking into account the items listed below, she was definitely not the only person consuming the items. One may reason if she had official meeting with some people and at the end bought these things for her visitors. We are yet to hear her site of the story before we condemn her.
Meanwhile, Hembe has admitted that he actually collected money from the SEC for the said training at Dominican Republic but was unable to meet up with the training bcos he first travel to USA and could not meet up with the training. The summary is that he actually collected the money and change his route to US.
So much hate. It was a sitting, she didn't eat this alone. And the sitting was not done in a fast food that you expect it to be cheap.Please lets not be quick to judge, we weren't even told how many guest was entertained. She might have done somethings wrong but lets try and be objective when dealing with issues.
Exactly, that bill clearly shows the SEC DG had guests so its not anything extraordinary in my opinion.
I organise team dinners and I know how much we spend for like 11 people so pls chill abeg and even in Jand when i worked here, i know how much we spent on team events!
Dont get me wrong, spending should be within reason however there are exceptional circumstances....
We need to be careful here,.. and not trivialise issues. If there is actual wrong doing,.. then let it be said to be so,... Definately, she didn't consume 5 bottles of Star at a sitting (alone),... The question here is,.. 'what type of breakfast/lunch/dinner is this -private or official? if it was private, then she should have paid. If it was official, then it's a different story. My take is that our public figures always want to trivialise issues to suit their purpose,... bringing out this story might be an attempt to draw 'wool' over our eyes,.. and mislead us,.. how come the Petroleum saga didn't produce (and has not produced) any concrete figures till date?
i tire for nigerians. this is poverty speaking. why exactly is 91k at the hilton a big deal again even for an ordinary citizen? even dinning in the common marcopolos and chopsticks of abuja and provide more disturbing figures. Linda, you of all people should know better. 1. she was clearly not alone. 2. the figures are reasonable for the location and venue of the dinner. so lets stop throwing stones unnecessarily and exposing our poverty striken mind sets. PS I have spoken the truth. for all the cursing experts, u can enjoy may ur curses go back to u a million folds.
arunma!! u no see her cheeks? fresh woman like that gas dey eat good na...lobster n tings. abeg free d babe jo...how many civil servant go harvard. arunma babiee carry go..ur #1 fan ;)hehe
Isn't it baffling that just one "human being" devoured all on the bill...LINDA...You know better that this is a bill for hosting some people to lunch or whatever it is the bill is for. Have you made inquiries into how much the same item on the menu would have been perhaps if it had emanated from ,say, Robert Cafe @ Akin-olugbade in V.I ?
lagoshunter said... I am curious to know what the big deal is with the 91k bill?
Public official or not, as the head of SEC she is entitled to spend even much more than that entertaining guests. And yes, as a top government official she is expected to entertain guests regularly
It is only poor pple (yes, poor hungry Nigerians) that will make a big deal out of inconsequential things like a $600 food bill of a top government official.
March 20, 2012 10:26 PM
@ lagos hunter you are so stupid....in a country where about 98% of its population cannot afford to feed and another 80% have to work about 6 months to earn that money, you think she is right because she is a government official. you foolish stowaway calculating the bill in dollars to show you live in america (actually showing your ignorance). standard of living and pricing of items are very diffrent in these 2 countries. coke bottle cost me £1.60 in the UK, guess what? its not up to 100 naira in nigeria. fool... and how high up is she? there are still alot of people higher so if she can spend almost 100,00ok to feed them the others above her should be running into millions abi? ignorant fool like you. i am sure you are eating nigeria's money where ever you are and its God that would punish you and your generation. onye oshi, ode oshi , BASTARD
hi my peep.....i dont think this bills is 2 much for someone in her position. i went to protea in gra ikeji on 25 dec last yr we ran a bill of 70k(7)pple for sunday brunch. pls lid change ur thought abt this oteh's food bill. period
Linda, I guess you are biased because if you have listened to her explanation she had official guests and it was a buffet. They normally charge bills to room numbers. Stop displaying ignorance here.
I laugh, al those who are saying poor nigerians living under one dollar a day, is it not you that has 50" plasma, is it not you that goes to the club and pops champagne, your probably reading dis blog on your laptops and bbs, is it not you that wear 30k beats by dre headphones ( i don't know if you can hear jesus through it), what of the poor nigerians living under 1 dollar a day. the question is why are we attacking this woman. wasn't it wether 2days ago that the caught someone with 2billion naira CASH in their house and i dont see any body complaining. please go and sit down. $1 per day mi $1 per day ko!!
Seriously this shouldn't be an issue,first of all with all that was eaten it's obvious she didn't have dinner alone but with guest,whether family members,guest or colleagues it doesn't matter, I for ine feel that 91k is very very reasonable to spend for dinner at transcorp, I have dinners in Lagos with friends and we spend about 30 - 35 k and we are just working girls who have our businesses or place of work,so prAy tell if a whole sec dg goes for dinner and spends less than 100k pls dat is not much at all, let's be realistic here for her to have been sec dg,with all her credentials she has a right to spend her money,people like that in such positions has a lot os allowances credited to her,100k is not too much and it is glaring that she had people with her,what if she had drank 4 bottles of champagne and each went as much as 40k for one so on champagne alone she would have spent 160k, please I think when we make comments we should try and put ourselves in their shoes before we start judging or placing blames,am not related to her,nor do I know her and dis is the 3 rd time am commenting on linda's blog but I just felt this had to be said. Linda please I love ur blog but try and and get your fActs right or put the whole story first so u get people knowing the whole story.keep it up my Darl Linda God bless you and as for all the beautiful pEople that leave there busy schedule who post comment that entertain us,make us laugh,make us furious and all which helps relieve our stress level. God bless you too
Sometimes(most-times) Linda, you can be such a BIG bit*h, shebi U were the one that wrote a previous story calling her the woman that spent 850k on food in one day. Now u don reverse mouth, come put this thin up. You don go Hilton before? If u have you go know say this bill small, and for crying out loud, she was hosting people. I know you just wan put anyhow stories cos it generates money and traffic for you, and that is all you are interested in. But most times you also have to put up accurate and unbiased stories for people. Don't be a fake journalist, be a blogger.
But really i think this should be her business not anybody's as long as it's her money she used and not ours. She is a millionaire and NOT married, so why can't use her money the way she likes !? Maybe thatz her strategy to forget thinking abt her no-hubby status. Most of us cannot spend like that becoz we CANNOT afford it; or maybe becoz it isn't friendly with our priorities..PERIOD !! Abeg leave the woman alone, itz her cash !!
I believe she had visitors who would have incurred such amount on her bill...... This is really common among public officials expecially when they on official assignment.
Seriously this is not a biggie. She ate with people in an official capacity. 91K is not too much eating at Transcorp hilton. I know how much smallie like myself spend when i go out to eat chinese much more a DG. At least she has a receipt to prove it. Pls free the woman and find something else to accuse her of. NEXT!
Seriously this shouldn't be an issue,first of all with all that was eaten it's obvious she didn't have dinner alone but with guest,whether family members,guest or colleagues it doesn't matter, I for ine feel that 91k is very very reasonable to spend for dinner at transcorp, I have dinners in Lagos with friends and we spend about 30 - 35 k and we are just working girls who have our businesses or place of work,so prAy tell if a whole sec dg goes for dinner and spends less than 100k pls dat is not much at all, let's be realistic here for her to have been sec dg,with all her credentials she has a right to spend her money,people like that in such positions has a lot os allowances credited to her,100k is not too much and it is glaring that she had people with her,what if she had drank 4 bottles of champagne and each went as much as 40k for one so on champagne alone she would have spent 160k, please I think when we make comments we should try and put ourselves in their shoes before we start judging or placing blames,am not related to her,nor do I know her and dis is the 3 rd time am commenting on linda's blog but I just felt this had to be said. Linda please I love ur blog but try and and get your fActs right or put the whole story first so u get people knowing the whole story.keep it up my Darl Linda God bless you and as for all the beautiful pEople that leave there busy schedule who post comment that entertain us,make us laugh,make us furious and all which helps relieve our stress level. God bless you too
loool this is how some people fail their exams READ PEOPLE READ!!! its obviously not just for her alone she had about 4 guest with her...and she's obviously trying to create a good impression by taking those guest to an hotel like Hilton...before you start bashing her about how much she spends think about the musicians and the professional footballers you all admire they come to clubs in england and spend this amount of money on a drink alone. why? because they can afford it and they worked hard to earn their money. why cant we say the same thing with her..yes i am quite sure that nigerian politicians arent the most God fearing people but c'mon lets be reasonable here there are people that do worst and that amount of money for a business meeting at a prestigious hotel is very reasonable
Ashamed Nigerians are quick to jump to conclusions Re: Ms Oteh. She explicitly stated that the said meal was for hosting foreign colleagues. If you work in a decent orgaanization, you would be aware that no costs are spared if you are hosting a client or an expat. Now if she spends 85k on food daily... there is a problem. Go through the receipt and see if only Ms Oteh can finish the food by herself. it is obvious its a party of 3 or 5. Will you take a client to mama put and spend 5000 on them...of cos u wont. She has exposed the number one vice of this country....corruption and should be commended. There are many Nigerians abroad who can contribute to the growth of this country. Acts like that of that dwarf called Hembe puts them off.
i really love to read your blog but posts like this dont potrya you well. how unintelligent off course we can see that she alone could not consumethat food in one sitting. at the same time she has explained that bill given for that day. she was hosting capital market experts that were in Nigeria to offer proffessional advice.
this was widely circulated in the papers why you chose not to report it i dont know or are you just trying to bring traffic to your blog
Please!!!!Please!!! can we free dis woman from the list u can see that Transcorp Hilton is also d thief here...do u see how much they charge for two cups of tea.. N900, N1800 for a plate of fruit salad...and N71,600 for food they are also implicated in the fraud we should instead..stop our officials from eating/staying there please!!!! next story!!!
Honestly even if i am against some of d way our Govt official spent money not in this case Hellooo we r talkin about lest than 100,000 naira Sheraton Hotel for that matter oh pls fellow Naija ppl dont over rate it Question how much is she allow to spend on a day we r talking about DG common guys una dey compare buka food to sheraton even u Linda u know things r expensive in all those high rated Hotels..if na all those mistress wey those politician dey lodge ofcus they will consume more than dat
Please what's the big deal here? Does that look like a bill for one person's meal? I think we are just quick to condemn without using our brains. As important as she is, is it now a crime to entertain guests? I even think 91,000 is cheap to entertain people at Transcorp
Please what's the big deal here? Does that look like a bill for one person's meal? I think we are just quick to condemn without using our brains. As important as she is, is it now a crime to entertain guests? I even think 91,000 is cheap to entertain people at Transcorp
This Hilton sef! Dem too dey do! Bloody expensive and not particularly fantastic quality or service for that matter. Can someone tell me why they are so expensive cos I don't get it? is it just the name? Their rooms have become so shabby. I have seen threadbare beddings and curtains in a couple of their rooms in recent times and wonder why they cant refurbish these rooms at the exorbitant prices they charge! Anyway I digress. So which one is the N850k they said she spent in a day? Was that an error? The question I have is, who did she host? Was it work-related or personal? If it was personal, she should be reprimanded and told to stop spending our government money to host her friends and family (assuming of course that the tab was picked up by SEC). Even if she was hosting a dinner for work colleagues, there are several ways to be more prudent. We don't want it shoved in our faces that you can afford lobster bisque and creme brulee when the average Nigerian can barely afford 3 or even 2 basic meals a day.
I think what public and government officials should take away from this sorry saga is that they have to be more prudent in their lifestyle and spending. Nigerians are more aware now than they have ever been, about what goes on in the polity and the affairs of how this country is run.
All government officials are accountable to us the people. After all, that is what true democracy is about - government for the people by the people.
As you can see in the receipt she wasn't the only one that ate the foods. what if she had a party?
I think she is not given a fare hearing because she refused to bribe them.
A woman handling her position isn't a day's job and trust our Nigerian men to try all means to kick her out of the seat.
Make ona free the babe jor. What about those house of reps members buying cars worth millions for girls in abuja? talk more of how much they lavish on a daily bases.
Ode onijekuje ashawao, I bet u live in face me I kill u, why won't u go n eat & quench, oniranu, agaracha, wen people r barely surviving on £1 a day, weere like u is supporting sumone dat spent 91k for lunch, how abt bfast n dinner, oloshious fellow, go n try n fix ur yansh wey the guy don tear with the food, ebina mscheeeew
13,500 for fresh crayfish, who told her the crayfish are fresh?after they will say people are cursing them, why wont they invoke the curse of the masses that can barely afford money to buy N50 garri to soak without sugar . i mean this price is just too ridiculous
Arunma Oteh is actually one of the decent people we have in our government today. She is educated and qualified for her role. Most of you would know that she was high up in the ADB before choosing to serve her country. Seeing as this bill was for multiple people, I think the outrage displayed by some of LIB readers is quite frankly uncalled for. Lets focus our attention on the worst politicians before driving away the few talented and educated ones with such negative publicity. Linda I actually expect better from you.
OOh, please Linda, N84,000 is not much for 4 people at the Hilton or any where in the world. Its not a buka now. Yes, if we have to compare with the sufferings in our dear country, yes its a lot. However, their would always be a gap between the rich and the poor. Trust me, its no biggie. If you know what your senators spend when they go out abroad, you would pass out! Now imagine,(people that know) a 4 course meal at a very nice restaurant in London's westend, washed down with a bottle of Crisytal Champayne or an exotic wine for 4? you would spend nothing less than £2,500. About N650,000. Believe me, they do it daily. It doesnt make it right, but they do.
FOOD IN NIJA RESTAURANTS ARE MORBIDLY OVERPRICED, THEIR HOTELS ARE MORBIDLY OVERPRICED..IN AMERICA NO ONE PAYS THESE RIDICULOUS AMOUNTS...THE GREED IN NIJA IS MIND BOGGLING YET THE MASSES ARE SUFFERING UNDER BACKBREAKING POVERTY SHAMEFUL!!!!
let her incur that bill at Sweet Sensation and i would be worried. Transcorp and the like are morbidly over priced ad not worth the amount. Besides i am sure she was not eating alone. I doubt she drinks beer.
its sad dat some pips will comment asking WHATS THE BIG DEAL....well,its not ur fault that u earn above 150k a month and u have other business(legal or illegal) u run on the side.if you are fully aware of the situation of d masses and u have a CONSCIENCE(which obviously you don't have) you will scream like d rest of us over the outrageous expenditure of funds which is part of the taxes the same masses pay.
if you now live abroad(which doesnt make you any better than d rest of us)and you think its also chicken change then its not your fault. my prayer for you is,if and wen you decide to come down n start up a business in naija and u get ridicules levies or taxes to pay both FG,state govt n the urchins on weekly basis then you readup news about how one local Councillor or house of rep is spendn extravagantly dont complain. seriously, dont complain....... thats my peice
Abeggggiiii She no deo anything jor..what is 91k? with guest ooo... Booking a table in a decent club in london is £550...do the maths. And Nigerians do it here not to talk of in naija where people still spend over a million naira in a club. In fact anybody wey dey talk rubbish about this na better 'iti bolibo'.
Lmao. Poverty mentality dey worry u Linda. Me and 3 of my girls go to lounges and spend 25 , 000 naira on just drinks and appetizers only. NAIja restaurants are overly priced so I don't think she has done anything wrong here
Having seen the evidence against her, particularly that of N85k food or N850k, I would have said that those that find this impossible are suffering from poverty mentality but I will not. Rather, will put it down to lack of exposure. Just a dinner of 10 people in the case of 85k or a 100 people in the case 850k is enough to rack up those bills... This is a CEO of SEC for crying out loud. Anything from HOD dinner to market operators dinner/lunch could have necessitated those... And again, this was a one off.. It is quite clear that those saying that the private sector will never spend this much do not know what they're saying... This is chicken change compared to what the likes of Shell, Mobil, Guiness, Nbl, Nbc, nesle, bat, etc spend.
Where one may have issues is with her lengthy stay in the hotel. But you have to wait for her to explain before drawing any conclusion.
The woman was not there when the market collapsed. She was head-hunted to right the wrongs that led to the crash. Has she been found wanting here? All we are yakking about are administtative issues which at best will atttact a reprimand or a refund at worst. The way the committee went about their business, one would not have been mistaken for thinking it was a spanish inquisition... Let them face the real problems (belated) and stop chasing shadows..
"...It is only poor pple (yes, poor hungry Nigerians) that will make a big deal out of inconsequential things like a $600 food bill of a top government official."
@lagoshunter I don't even know where to start with you. I can only deduce that you're enjoying kickbacks from these glorified armed robbers or that you must be in some top political position yourself, because if you are a Nigerian who is not in power and your stupidity is already spewing forth like this then this country has no future. Even if she used official money to entertain (how won't she use "official" money by the way? The money they are earning rightly and the money they are chopping illegally, isn't it all official money?), my problem is with your comment about poor people. You are saying "poor people" like only 1% of this country is poor. Over 90% of the population is poor and they are poor because we do not have facilities in place to help them develop, because regular (and sometimes barely educated) Nigerians have attained fancy titles and stolen from other regular Nigerians. Your mouth like poor people, like they don't count, like they are inconsequential. Yes poor people are angry and because there are so many poor people 600 dollars is a freaking big deal. Amadioha and Sango fire your mouth there. The way you talk about poor people you would think all the rich people that get accused and insulted are rich because they worked for their money. Nonsense. Be there talking out the side of your ass.
We all see now that Herman Hembe admitted he didnt go to Dominican Republic, instead he went to Texas!!
His excuse was that he got there too late, and they told him not to bother coming from Texas!!
Mind you, this man was given prob business class ticket, hotel money for all those nights, food allowance and all. Yet he chose to fly all the way to Texas, for reasons best known to him. Texas is no way close to Dominican Republic. He obvious had his own vacation intentions. He picked the wrong lion to mess with. He couldnt find anything substantial to use against Arunma Oteh, and allowed himself to be used as a pawn by Emeka Ihediroha and co. I LAUGH!!!!
Lindaaa! Why are you so hypocritical? The woman spent 91,000 (NGN) as against 850,000 (NGN) your stupid reps said she spent at one sitting. Would she have eaten all that food alone? Is she a glutton? I don't know this woman from Adam, but for goodness sake, why can't you people just think and see beyond your noses. She is a D.G for heavens sake and she s gonna be meeting with numerous people. And for you information, Transcorp is not cheap. You saw a bottle of soft drink being sold there for N500. Would you buy it for that amount outside? Why are you people so Nigerianish? Would you rather she hit amala joint just to prove Akintola to you people. Such low lives! If you, Linda gets to that post which I pray, please carry your Coal pot follow body to Transcorp. And if you are invited there for an event, simply tell them that you are too low to eat their kinda food. Mschew! Just look at the way you wrote the headline. You are already judgmental. Women are each other's worse enemies. Are you ignorant of the corruption in the Legislative house. Did you not hear that they asked her for millions of Naira as bribe. Do you think she made that up? Or is the committee chairman your sugar daddy? Why do you always try to cover up the truth when you see it sometimes. I used to like you but right now, I dont know. I think you are a little bias. This woman didn't grow up in Nigeria so she has no Nigerian sense. (sharp sharp). I believe She Just gullibly and innocently walked into a trap. All the committee members, their colleagues and senators put together needs to be tied to the stakes. They are raping Nigeria silly and the country is fainting under them. Ha! Ha! What a house of thieves!
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she drinks star too????
and a Total bill of 91k plus...
WONDERFUL!!!
Living it up. Correct menu à la carte!
She spent dat on food alone in 1 day. Hw many pple ll dat pay according 2 their minimum wage? O chukwu nna
Looks like she ate with guests, she could'nt have consumed all that alone could she???
no na five gbosas! later they would say we shd not protest
kilode only for food wetin is she a glutton even if a glutton sef they dont even eat like that and over 100 million leave in abject poverty in naija chei where is the death penalty for goodness sake
Blood of Jesus! If this is true, then she must be very wicked! Oni jekuje oshi! Gluttonssss!
Is gah danu! Elebi of d highest order!!!
13,500 for fresh crayfish...lwkmd
Omo mehn! i can't shout!
Ibo Ibo Ibo. Ibo women will kill, bury and rape your corpse in one day.
--Gbenga
Na wa oh!!! And she no invite me...cheiiiiii!!!
I am curious to know what the big deal is with the 91k bill?
Public official or not, as the head of SEC she is entitled to spend even much more than that entertaining guests. And yes, as a top government official she is expected to entertain guests regularly
It is only poor pple (yes, poor hungry Nigerians) that will make a big deal out of inconsequential things like a $600 food bill of a top government official.
Lobster,pork belly,snail,crayfish,salmon,5 bottles of star......only u 1 down all these tins in one sitting!u no dey fear God ni?where your church mind dey when u dey order all these tins?SMH
Its obvious that it was not only her eating. Maybe she brought her gluttonous family to stay and chop and die. "Bevergage - A and Beverage- N". She was most def eating with others on the government tab.
Cheiii! Naija officials i dey hail o,una no dey fail o...Even though d masses dey cry o,una stil dey chop o...O'boy c fud;classical snail,lobster bissue,creme brulèè?! Neva knew we had different types of snail o! Jèsu gbä wa...Una go purge 1 day...Tufia!
Wat do u expect? Our money o, chei our money, oga dey chop am yafu yafu.
It could be a business dinner or so with clients. Just saying. Lol!
Linda dey use this Gbenga drive traffic. Linda, e be like sey you be Gbenga. Also keep note that Gbenga may not be Yoruba, but only trying to ferment some wahala. So please desist from allowing such comments. It is a turn off from your blog.
Abeg is d aquafina transcorp is selling for N700 different from d ones in regular shops all over 9ja? All these hotels and their ridiculous prices sef! Hian!
These people always have meetings and guests, she may have not even eaten with them at this point. I am not in support but I know any seat like that comes with standard entertaining...
You can tell most of this Senators and House of Assembly people come from a improverished background..see as dem dey chop anything and everything..even things that would give dem runs..just chop chop..awon oni jeku je jati jati!!
She obviously had her famm or guests with her in her suite,me too must make first class go harvard on scholarship so niger go give me position oooo,thank God im still in year1
lobster bissue, creme brulee, fresh crayfish...ISSORAIT!!!
dats someone's full month salary blown in a day's meal.
We need to take over this country walahi!!!! and see #Oke almost loosing his life cos his family can't raise 5m....mrs Sec Dg is eating 91k worth of food on a sitting, not a day oo! Posterity will judge them!!!!
Lol!no begin talk etnicity hia oh cos evrybody's personality no b d same nd by d way it luks lik she ate wit sme guests abi na only her go drink soda,star,7up,etc @ d same time abi u giv am ur own stomach?
@lagoshunter
U R A BIG GOAT AND AM SURE UR MAMA SEF NA THIEF. ONIRANU
91k not so bad -
but it goes to show
how expensive things are.
For London, a decent three course meal goes for 20/30pounds - although you still can get 71pound for steaks o. (But that is the exception) But for even 10 people, at 300pounds - You come to about 75,000 naira. Now I am not sure Madame Oteh went to that restaurant with 10people.
I guess its a general trend globally. Things are just getting too expensive.
There used to be this joke my uncle used to crack in the early 90s, that by the time we grew up, a tin of milk would be 50,000naira. Looks like we are headed there...
Ur a mumu oo
Oh pulease...91k is very sensible 4 a meal at transcorp Hilton esp wen she OBVIOUSLY has guests. Des hotels charge double but omoh dat cray cost ooo. D ppl dat ate d food have taste. Dey ordered evrything I wud hav orded. I was in transcorp visiting a so-called friend. I invited my frnd and we had dinner worth abt 35k. We chop d guy's money plenty and it was only 2 of us. Wat wud u den say abt a govt official and guests? Abeg d money sounds reasonable 2 me jare. Lobster sounds yummy in my tummy.
Thank u! Dis isn't so much of a big deal! Boys de do pass dis one for pubs nau! We knw dt govt peeps r corrupt but dis is nothing. We de see pass like dis on a daily basis for club na, of which na for jus drinks. Mk una free d govt peeps jor, if una de d position una go sti cast! Abi una nor knw say money dey totori??
She must have been with guests...the price of each individual item is ridiculous!!
This is so embarassing ...KMT
gbenga use ur head while commenting.....
Forget about the bill being incurred. What manner of prices does the hotel have?
I mean, seriously , those items can be procured and cooked at a five star restaurant in NYC for half this price.
I don't know why this should be an issue, the hotel is at liberty to make their charges, it is not the duty of Oteh and his friends to haggle over the price. I do more than this on Belvedere Vodka every other friday at likwids.
Hmmmmm
Please people get real 91k for eight people for a woman at her level?
Question is can she afford it on her salary yes she can. is she entitled to an entertainment allowance under her contract? yes she is...
lets focus on the things that really matter. Less than $100 per head for DG SEC to entertain guests of the caliber of which we have not been informed is hardly news. LIB and other bloggers need to stop creating drama and inciting people especially when you cannot give the full story to back up your post. At least there is no champagne drinking there at about 25k per bottle... if that was on the bill what would you do cause a riot?
They had a meal at the Nicon what do you expect? Buka prices??
What is the issue here? I assume head of the SEC is not a small position of responsibility, I'm also sure it is within her entertainment budget,
What in this bill indicates it was incurred by her? What indicates this bill was paid for from FGN coffers?
I too can present a bill tomorrow and ascribe it to whomever I want. Come on.
If Aso rock has abudget of 1 billion naira for food and is accepted what is this.has anyone scrutinised the national assembly expenditure?IT may interest you to know that there is no due process in the award of contracts in the national assembly.The cost of governance is too high.We should cut down on our reps and senators same with ministers and parastatals.Government should stop this lip service to its recurrent expenditure.The amount of money that will be saved runs into billions if not trillions of naira that can be used in other sectors of our economy being underfunded.
Hmmnn.. But the truth of d matter is there are stil some govt officials that consume more than this in a day, how come no1 was bold enof 2 challenge goodluck 4 his 2million food budget per day abi mnth?? Why practice democracy backwards??? We are in a country that practices male chauvinism, nd bsydes Everybody in the govt is guilty of d same oFfence whether its done secretly or openly.. Mtcheewwww
Hmmmm!*candylove*
you guys are obviously fools have you heard of business lunch meeting
@lagoshunter
It is clear that not only are u conceited u r also stupid. 75% of nigerians don't have enough to feed their family government official or not it is higly irresponsible of for anyone to waste such amount on food meeting or not. There are cheeaper better means of she could have used. And as for u saying hungry nigerians, YES they are hungry so I don't blame anyone for Vexing over this so KMT!!!!!!!!
C'mon Linda, this cannot be one person consuming all this. The question you should be asking is -
a) Was she entertaining guests in her official capacity?
b)Was she entertaining people but not in her official capacity and billing the government for it?
c)If she was entertaining guests in her official capacity, what is the limit that she can spend and did she exceed it?
Its really amusing when Nigerians display thier ignorance on platforms like this. if after seeing the rendetion of this supposed bill and they still keep yelling that she consumed the whole amount. So if the DG sec is hosting finance industry leaders, she should take them to a mama put joint abi? Haba Linda, please stop leading people on. Booking a top rated restaurant exclusively for dinner alone can run into millions sometime so what is this noise about that the DG of SEC hosted people to a lunch and spent 91K?
i don't see what the noise is about obviously she ate with other guests whether business or private...nicon is one of the most expensive hotels in nigeria so it figures that if you invite like 3 others to join you you can rack up this kind of bill side bar its still beta than her investigators asking her for 44m..smh
According to the link below, Oteh said she hosted a dinner on March 24, 2010 for a group of international capital market experts. The bill you posted also reads March 24. The difference is she says the amount is 83K but the bill shows about 84K. Please whilst we are trying to bring corrupt leaders to book, we should also be balanced in our reporting
http://www.punchng.com/news/oteh-explains-n850000-feeding-bill-secondment-of-access-bank-staff/
In a country where 70 percent lives below a dollar per day and millions are unemployed.This a country where basic amenities of life is not available to the common man.Need I remind u guys that that is ow Nigerians politicians spend our resources lavishly (of course,the seating president also eats with 3 million Naira per day),we only talking about this one cos she has been exposed.Shake my head for my beloved motherland.
Oh please. Stop sensationalizing the whole issue. Have you asked questions? Are Nigerians so stupid to believe she ate all this alone? Next please.
FOOD #84,300 Pere! Ko ti e po rara. I was expecting Food - #278,345. 79k Yeye! When most Nigerians live below 1 Dollar a day. Hum! "Monkey Dey Work, Baboon dey Chop." Food for Stomach, Stomach for Food One day all shall become Dust. Lobatan
People are stupid- Its obviously for 4 people. Cant you see there 4 salmon, creme bulee etc. Plus the hotel is expensive so what are you people saying?? Thats even small compared to what others are doing for ridiculous things such as putting a charge for "opening facebook account". At least this one you can trace it. I actually don't think this is a problem at all cos she CLEARLY had guests.
Why is the bill confused? It doesn't add up and if u are at Hilton, 91k bill isn't a biggie. They should also beef her for staying at Hilton. Only a dumb person won't notice she didn't eat alone. NEXT...
Honestly I see nothing wrong with this, this shows that she ate with other people. The price is kind of low for a hotel as transcorp with at least five people eating a meal. She is the DG of SEC or una want am make she go they chop with the people for mama put? This is a way to attack female politicians. Govt no go ever attack people like Peter Odili, Babangida, Obasanjo, Ibori, Lucky Igbinedion, .... Like this o.
i laughed@ 4500 for one classical snail , how big could the snail have beeen to be sold at that price ???? when i buy a basket of 30 big snails at oyingbo market for the same amount , she come dey blow grammer for tv say dem dey insult am , Madam Dg do you have a church mind at all? with your first class and all the harvard story , should you have done it like this ? true true can you use your hard earned money to buy one snail for 4500 ?
you have worked all over the world like you boasted , wld you do this in an american company of course not , ole jatijati ni eeeh , oloriburuku , you are part of the nigerian problem , arrogant woman
i laughed@ 4500 for one classical snail , how big could the snail have beeen to be sold at that price ???? when i buy a basket of 30 big snails at oyingbo market for the same amount , she come dey blow grammer for tv say dem dey insult am , Madam Dg do you have a church mind at all? with your first class and all the harvard story , should you have done it like this ? true true can you use your hard earned money to buy one snail for 4500 ?
you have worked all over the world like you boasted , wld you do this in an american company of course not , ole jatijati ni eeeh , oloriburuku , you are part of the nigerian problem , arrogant woman
Lagoshunter, I have just two words for u; stupid and ignorant! Stupid cos u said she's a top govt official entitled to such and ignorant for saying poor hungry nigerians! R u oblivious of what's going on around ere? Dunno why I'm asking,u obviously are! Koshikuro jare! Ignoramus!!!!!
@ LAGOSHUNTER may poverty possess your family up till your 10th generation in Jesus name,you have the nerve to call people poor,i'm sure you are poor too,do you have to make us know the rate in dollars??? PLEASE LIB READERS ATTACK THE IDIOT...........
lagoshunter said...
I am curious to know what the big deal is with the 91k bill?
Public official or not, as the head of SEC she is entitled to spend even much more than that entertaining guests. And yes, as a top government official she is expected to entertain guests regularly
It is only poor pple (yes, poor hungry Nigerians) that will make a big deal out of inconsequential things like a $600 food bill of a top government official.
Lagos hunter, it is all about context. What the GDP in Naija? In the US, $600 may not be a big deal but in Naija, it is....
Linda i think you need to Give nigerians Full information and stop making Malicious accusation.......Shouldnt common sense tell you that, that meal was eaten by her and maybe colleagues or associates.......Even though i buy you 91k food where you for chop am.
I have worked in coporate organization and petty cash are assigned for unbudgeted cost like this and i can confirm that depending on the size and what eatery you go to, 91k is not too much
Linda we are lenearned people stop feeding us with stupid lies......it was not her alone that ate the food, like say if she invited you, you wont have dragged ur ass there..........i still remain your fan for bringing us gossip about what happening in nigeria but dont feed us with tom and Jerry stories
Before I start getting attacked by '******', in punch news paper, she said she ate with guest on some official assignment. Common sense suppose tell us say one man no fit finish the food wen dey for receipt.
Certainly Linda, this cannot be a bill for one person at a sitting.No matter how she can eat,she could n't have been able to consume 4 lobsters on her own. Let forego all these spur of the moment reaction and put on our thinking caps. The bill did not say the number of people on the table. Whats wrong in spending the equivalent of $600 in one of Nigeria's best hotels if it means more business for the capital market.
I don't think it is prudent that government officials should be lodged in hotels but,for a food bill which is certainly not for one, thats fine by me.
Lets forget the sensationalism and concentrate on why the probe was called for in the first place, to review the crash in the stock market and whether regulators did their best to protect investors.
outrageous!
i beg this is cheap, people should leave her be, i bet many of them spend more than that.
There a lot of poor people reading this blog, I see why many countries don't grant nigerians visas Even those with genuine reasons. 91k is chicken money and she obviously had guests and is entitled to entertainment allowance. Gosh !!!
You are a fool to Insult lagos hunter and his mother as well!!!
And which 5star NYC restaurant please?? You obviously have not been to any in 5 years
ONOME says......................
I very carefully read through the comments of others on this post and frankly I am amazed at the utter stupidity and shortsightedness of certain individuals.
I do agree that she is an official and probably acting in her official capacity hosted certain "important guests" at that hotel and incurred such debt.However wisdom is profitable to direct and it challenges my sensibilities when a country where citizens can not boast of decent electricity,healthcare,basic amenities,good roads,security,education,care for the vulnerable think it is permissible for anyone be you VIP be allowed to spend such astronomical sums on a sitting.Astronomical yes because using relativity you can see that the average Nigerian does not earn that in one month.
I DOFF MY HAT for NIgerians!It is shockingly astonishing.Are we all blind?or stupid?or simply too weak to say it the way it is?I keep saying it your leaders will keep pissing on you and say it is raining and you all will accept it with the same passive acceptance as displayed on this post.
#sad#
@anonym. 3.14pm- poverty is a curse that seems to be affecting you
Well done Muyiwa... It is sad we have a colossal number of ignoramuses on this blog
Where did u get ur statistics from and is it evidence based? Stop fooling yourself and try helping naija out like boys in Taiwan did for their country
Mama sotee most of ur comments are stupid and nonsensical . I feel sorry for you
@3.45pm- she is entitled to entertainment allowance dahhh!!!!
Linda you definitely need mOre exposure and to step up on ur circle of friends and you know why. Aint insulting u lady... Just an Observation
@ no sense women- You are a fool for using jesus'name to swear. Talk intelligently. Probably dats why you are actually poor
@3.45pm- she is entitled to entertainment allowance dahhh!!!!
Linda don't be caught in between, don't let them use you against Oteh for exposing a house member, do u know how much each house of rep member spends/day? Besides, it's Transcorp not some cheap hotel, we all know u have to pay in multiples of a 100 of the regular price in all these 5* hotels, abeg easy on the woman..
I tire º°˚˚˚°º....d individual prices of d items are xpensive but dats not her fault or a problem.....show me receipt dat says she blowed 850000k on food and I'll get yur point....any wealthy LIB reader can do more...smh
When the president himself feed on millions everyday , what do you expect from the ministers not to talk about the others .. they are all gluttons
even at that, sheraton is hella expensive, how on earth should creme brulee be 10k! ki lo de. they are too expensive. all thats on the list, if you go abroad, you wont pass 200dollars. see how uch they charged for common $2 earl grey tea. but their pork belly is reasonable ish.
that being said, it was quite extravagant by naija standards, but for regular diners at sheraton, im sure its business as usual.
@Gbenga the most experienced person on ibo women dont bring tribe into this. The world has gone past the time of ethnicity when issues like this arise. You cannot sit down and leave the ruling of the nation to someone else and complain.Besides she is a top official who is entitled to allowances. If this expenditure has been proved to be on a daily basis then there the problem lies. I am a college student and i have spent a 100K on a hotel for a night being a nobody.
I think its now clear that majority of the readers of this blog are poor. Whats the big bloody deal in spending 91k on food that was clearly bought for a number of people to eat. Yall need to get over it. Some are rich and some are poor and thats life.
Crazy man gbenga, u are calling on Ibo woman! How dare u? I though u are in kirikiri by now , LUNATIC.. one more word from u. Linda maka I see u America again. AKT PRINCE.
That is why these govt officials are always looking as large as the country they are stealing from.
http://www.sec.gov.ng/press-release-19th-march-2012.html
If it's the same Lagoshunter guy on twitter, I'm really not shocked at his stupid comment. Make sure y'all remember these idiots. One day they will try to run for public office.
Linda you sef ! You go need glasses o. At least 12 people chop for the table that was given this bill, I beg raad between the lines. Plus do u want to blame the Govt . Am sure dat those prices were jacked up . When tin person won chop when
Linda why are u bleating like a goat when we have already placed Jonathan on N1billion/yr food?
They are chopping from the national cake.
Stale News.
Next pls. . .
Cont : when I snail cost 4.5naira and a bottle of 7up cost 500naira you should expect a bill like this. Tell me how they will not be able to finish one billion on food/entertainment for one year. God day sha
WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL ABOUT THIS? DID SHE EAT ALONE? REMEMBER THIS IS NO BUKA OOO.
GO TO A FINE RESTAURANT ANDD CHECK OUT HOW MUCH U WLD SPEND ON A MEAL ALONE.
PLS FREE THIS WOMAN, SHE IS NOT OUR PROBLEM. IF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS ARE JUDICIOUSLY USED ON INFRASTRUCTURE AND PROVISION OF OTHER SOCIAL AMENITIES , WE WONT BE NOTICING ALL THESE.
WE MUST MAKE OUR PUBLIC OFFICE HOLDERS ACCOUNTABLE TO US
even Obama or OBJ no chop this kain fud
Linda! You have just succeeded in exposing your ignorance about this issue. Yes signed the bill, but the consumption was for 8guests, on a single bill. On the top right corner of the bill, where the date and time is, you will see 'GST 8'. GST 8 means 8 guests. Please stop this misinformation, how did she spend 91k+ in one sitting on HERSELF?
I will like you to correct your error and give it same prominence like this current post, as the posting is aimed at painting her in bad light. Cheers!
Linda,
I am one of your fans but this time you really goofed and in the process you showed your lack of exposure. Haven't you ever been taken out on a date at a 5-star hotel, at least? These places cost money and it's obvious that she didn't eat alone. From the bill, she must have had mininum of 7 other people with her.
Besides, the SEC DG's press release explains the bill. It's satisfactory to most people who know what's up in corporate circles - social, business dinners are part of it.
Sorry, Linda. There's actually no story here and you kind of showcase your ignorance.
U r defintely ignorant! Wth do u mean by "poor hungry Nigerians" in country whr ppl can barely afford breakfast lunch n dinner u say it's no big deal! God punish u 4 d@ comment! Olorikori oshi!
Where should the DG of SEC take her official guests to dinner? Mr Bigs or Chicken Republic or Ada Enugu's Joint at Maraba? Linda, stop showing your localness and sexism. If it were a man would this be news? Please give us news.
GUEST?? There is no Guest, it's only her. The day she had Guests, what they spent was N850,000 On Food.
The N91,000 is only for her.
sorry to say but nothing wrong with the bill given the fact that she hosted guests and also has an entertainment allowance. Maybe you should all query the hotel for the large amounts they charge. Afterall its supposed to be the best hotel to host guests in. Or have you forgotten that some people spend more than that in a day? Agreed that the average Nigerian doesn't receive up to 15k in wages but it's not a matter of witch hunting this woman. It should be a matter of the whole govt execs reducing their pay.
Herman Hembe or whatever your name is; What are your qualifications if i may ask? Dont bother to answer cos the fact that you have decided to use Linda Ikeji's blog to continue your stupid rants shows that you are half baked, half blind and as ignorant as the Linda and her stupid fans who don't know the difference between lunch with guests and eating alone. Publish if you like, i dont give a hoot! @lagoshunter, I hail u jor.
@lagoshunter, me think she is your mother or sister or relation or abi is it madam herself???
91K on food along for a day! AND WE SHOULD NOT COMPLAIN??? Would she spend that from her own salary,if not it is osho-free???
mschewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
She has a healthy apetite
I concur!dis isn't as bad as was earlier projected!after all dint dey tell us it was 850k nd pple cursed d hell out of d woman?now dat its waaay less than dat pple r still cursing!regular nigerians spend more than dis on a friday nite out!may God deliver our mindsets here sha
A hungry man is an angry man!
Yes! that is why we are angry LAGOSHUNTER!!!
To pay minimum wage of 18k, govt finds it difficult!
Is it not nigerians right to have good infrastructures and condition of living, if EDIATS that are supporting says, it is her right as a DG???
AS LONG AS THE POOR ARE CRYING, THE CORRUPT RICH PEOPLE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SLEEP AND MOVE PEACEFUL,BECAUSE THEY WOULD BE AFRAID OF KIDNAPPERS AND ARMED ROBBERS!
bloody ediats! mschew!
Linda please I know you are much smarter. You look at it, and know that it is not 1 person that had this. It was an OFFICIAL business meeting. She was staying at the Hilton because as SEC DG the govt is supposed to provide her with accommodation and instead put her up there. IT WAS IN HER CONTRACT!!!!! The govt puts her up in the Hilton, and later on develops Alzheimer's and starts questioning her why she is there???? Is our country run by fools?? People reading this and writing ignorant comments, are you that gullible to being such??
Last time I was in Nigeria, we ate at a restaurant in Lagos (V/I), bill was N35k and we didnt eat much, it was 3 of us. Let alone somewhere like Hilton that EVERYONE knows has crazy prices.
Herman Hembe and the House make N27m every quarter, so N60-100m a year! Have we asked them for their receipts?? They stay in govt provided mansions in Maitama, Asokoro and Wuse, have we checked how much those houses are worth?
NSE crashed in 2008, I lost millions.
Arunma Oteh started work Jan 2010. What does a March 2010 receipt have to do with the NSE crash??
Where are the SEC and NSE management from 2008, why are we not investigating them?
Musa Al-Faki was SEC DG before Arunma Oteh, how come most Nigerians dont even know his name?
Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke, why isnt she being investigated when she was in charge of NSE during the crash?? If we remember last year they found out she had been using a fake degree for the past 20+ years.
Can we focus on important matters, this is the biggest waste of time ever. Why is there even a probe?
What the govt should be doing is asking Ms Oteh what she has been doing since Jan 2010, she should not even be asked about the crash. The issue started because she had Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke removed, because the woman was the root of the problem with the Stock market, since then Ndi has gone through a crazy extent to start a witch hunt against Arunma Oteh.
Linda I understand you are a blogger and thrive off traffic and comments, but to depict it in this manner, makes it seem like you are no different from the uneducated ones who do not know any better.Put your grown woman glasses on, and step up. Do your own investigation, and dont realize on sensationalized crap that is fed to you.
I laugh, is this ALL they have against Arunma Oteh?? This shows that she is BETTER than any one of them pointing fingers at her.
I'll be back.
No nonsense woman,dis is a very mean comment.ure allowed to express ur displeasure at comments bt please leave out d curses on family nd deir generation.the person expressed his view on d matter jst d way u did urs.pls let's keep linda's blog peaceful nd entertaining
I concur!dis isn't as bad as was earlier projected!after all dint dey tell us it was 850k nd pple cursed d hell out of d woman?now dat its waaay less than dat pple r still cursing!regular nigerians spend more than dis on a friday nite out!may God deliver our mindsets here sha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh8YmwuRgvk
Linda please let people know of this dance ooo and video. Its the new dance in town.
Why do u want to make we yoruba people look tribalist. Think well before you type. One Nigeria.
Has any of you ever entertained guests at the Hilton? Why are we so ignorant in Nigeria.She is Chairman on the apex capital market regulatory agency for crying out loud!
People are so quick to make dumb comments. I stay at hilton everynow and then and I can tell you their food is very pricy (and tasteless) as you must have seen above. That being said, she obviously didn't have this meal alone. You guys should look beyond the 91k or so, she could have feed her aides, business colleagues, friends or whoever. This makes absolute sense if this is what is meant by she spent 91k on a meal in one sitting.
Lagos hunter, "Poor hungry Nigerians"? Shame on u. Big shame. U should hang ur stupid hunting head. And for all of u saying its not a big deal, u spend more, bla bla, one question: DO U SPEND TAX PAYER'S MONEY??????? Blind fools. Its people like u that make government officials think its ok to spend as they like. Yes she's a top government official. Yes she entertains guests. Yes 91k may not seem that much of a big deal on one bill, but if she does this everyday do u know how much it'll total? She spends tax payer's money. She has a duty to be prudent with it. Lagos hunter u better go and purge ur stupi,d failed, condescending mind. Talking about "its only poor Nigerians that'll complain". U sound poor. Wretched infact. And maybe small change just entered ur pocket. U'll never catch a rich person making such a daft comment. The nerve! Please get out of lagos and return to the forest where u can hunt conveniently. Olodo oshi.
It is a pity this blog is full of low lifers. As a C E O she is entitled to entertain guests so WTF.She did no put the money in her pocket.didnt u guys see the revelations about the Stock exchange, that was fraud unlimited.the job of the house was to find out what led to collapse of the exchange pls tell me how eating at Nicon has any relevance to the issue?? I just don't get it.I'm not defending Oteh but let's stick to the relevant issues hence the probe will seem like a public lynching
LINDA, YOU NEED TO STOP MISREPRESENTING STORIES JUST TO DRIVE TRAFFIC ON YOUR BLOG. YOU ARE SERIOUSLY NOT LOOKING GOOD AT ALL. THIS WAS A BUSINESS DINNER WIT A GROUP OF PEOPLE, ITS ALL OVER THE NEWS NA! THIS IS SO UNFAIR OF YOU LINDA, I'M SURE YOU KNOW THE REAL STORY BUT STILL WANT COMMENTATORS TO POST THEIR USUAL VILE.
THEY HAD DINNER AT A FREAKING FIVE STAR HOTEL WHERE EVEN A BOTTLE OF FANTA COSTS N500. A FAMILY DINNER I HAD RECENTLY AT JADE COSTS ABOUT N63K.
STOP PAINTING THIS WOMAN IN A BAD LIGHT AT LEAST NOT WITH THIS FOOD BILL, IT IS PERFECTLY NORMAL.
this is obviously a business meeting. 91K is alright...
Guys... we are all very quick to jump on people... and linda this is wrong.
she definitely did not dine alone, and we all know that nigeria is quite expensive... saying that i dont think a £400 dinner for the DG of SEC (if its official) is too much.
Linda am sure u have gone out on a nite out with friends and have spent way more than that.
when we criticise lets criticise with sense... that includes u linda.
However there is no excuse for spending 30m on hotel living bills.. Thats morally wrong
c'mon its not so much, im not a govt official and ive spent $150 on dinner for me alone at a good restaurant, its obvious she had guest...this is no big deal
Problem with us Nigerians is that we can be so judgemental..Many of us go out to clubs or bars and blow more than this amount on drinks alone with friends but because this woman is a govt official and someone wants her out, this has become public news....Go and ask many company staff blow more than that amount in hotels all over Nigeria...So before we come on here to start judging dis woman, lets do a self check first and stop being so f**king self righteous.....And she wasnt eating it alone im sure lets check...
SIncerely you are all making this so so crazy when there is nothing here. For the DG of SEC and her family to go out together and spend 91k you people are making a case out of it???
Go and shout about your presidents eating N3m perdays mscheewww
91k for food only!! The mount for people never see for their life as salaries.
it looks like a bill for 5 people or more. so it might have been a business lunch!
This is unbelievable and needs to be looking into...A lot to question and more so am not sure one person can finish all these listed food in one sitting. This is just a politics. Oteh ti je gbi and shud be ready to face the outcome. Bunch of animals.
This woman should quit office. I don't know why some people feel comfortable living off other people's resources.
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LOL.kilode.let mama eat ooo haba is it nt last supper?long hisssssss.FFO.See her cheek like puff puff.oloriburuku alajenboko,alajedanu.oloshi.Amole olonje iya
I don't know this woman personally, but from what I know she is very principled and I know she would come out of this very soon. This is the problem with Naija. Linda your blog is beginning to turn into something else, I think you should focus on better things and for the guy that is always insulting igbo women....I just feel sorry for you. Na so e dey start.
..look at the facts people...the Location!! and the Quantity of food ordered!!!
Though its a lot by most of our standards, but i believe its ok!!
Also, she was with guests or friends, and most of us spend more in one night (officially or otherwise)....
..my opinion!!
It'll be nice for us to use our brains sometime. Nigerians just love to critise the scapegoat. whatever happened to Odili, Igbendion and co nko?
That bill isnt outrageous for a DG and was def a biz lunch.
Some of u here go clubbing friday night and spend half of ur salaries, y wld clubs like Deuces and co be in operation? when pple go there and have bottles of drinks...i cant still understand y a club sells by bottle not by glasses even pints....we create too much so called "LEVEL" in this country...if little us patronise such clubs imagine what will happen when they all get to such levels of authority. Nigerians supposed big boys and girls pop ROSE for no reason, i think its so senseless. Our folks dnt have champagne till a very important celebration, nw friday night is all bot popping...oh puhlease!
That said, hubby and I ran up 28k bill at Talindo Steakhouse, just for steak, cocktails and dessert...now imagine if we were 4. just saying 91k for Nicon for her level isnt such a biggie.
Let them face the problems of real corruption and stop distracting it which such petty issues.
#justpassing by#
She hosted some foreigners. That is why the bill is that huge and that dinner or lunch wasn't held at a local nkwobi joint. My boss and i spent half of that amount at Protea when we hosted about 6 people to lunch. For me that wasn't too much, if she actually hosted some guests and also where (Transcorp Hilton) such event took place matters.
i tot they said it was 850k in a day now its 91k abeg govt you guys shuold judge well o, after all pple spend 100k for drinks alone in a bar, its no big deal, the pple probing her do worst than her jor.
Had a biz dinner with some clients from the UK at Illsoriso in VI last nite. Eight(8) of us, bill was 208,901 naira. So its no big deal. By virtue of her position she's entitled to that and even more.
she obviously didnt eat dis alone. my father is not a top government official and he has spent this much if not more on food at the hilton, yu'all should shut up please! even without government money, she could have easily spent this.
Obviously members of the house want to bring this woman down, spending 91k with guest is not bad.
Oteh should know she lives in a proverbial glass house she need not to throw stone, now the house is about to shattered. I hope she would survive it.
I have never been to Transcorp Hilton for lunch so I may be mistaken but do bills usually have 'food' and not the actually break down of the meals? Even the road side restaurants will specify if it was rice and stew or eba and egusi.
I think this Food bill is a fake
I here by sentenced her 2 death by starving. Ole buruku! No b dis yeye transcorp fault wen dey sell a bottle of coca-cola 4 #5000.
Darn! Which tummy did she use or did she call her villagers to a banquet?
Please this is irrelevant! How many Nigerians go out clubbing in one night and spend over 100,000?! This is the Director-General of an Organisation here!!! The money was in the budget for her to use as she deems fit! So Nigerians, back off and focus on the real issue. The stock market crashed. Ms Oteh wasn't in charge when it did. Some people just want to make her look bad because she's exposed some people. If you fight corruption, corruption fights back!
It's obvious, that she wasn't the only one eating so whats the big deal? Nigerians and their shallow minds
Alot of people making snide remarks are soooo ignorant. First of all if you go to Southern Sun for a dinner you would spend and average of 8k on food alone. we are not taking into consideration drinks et al. so you could have spent 15k on food and drinks alone. Multiply that by 6 people and you would get 90k easily. Those of you who have never been to a Transcorp Hilton or Southern Sun I do not blame you but your ignorance. It was a bloody business lunch people. Common Sense should tell you that it is not possible for one person to consume all that food even in a buffet. I guess some of you have never partaken in that either or know what a buffett is! LOL!
One, the pricing mix in that hotel is ridiculously expensive. Secondly, she couldn't have eaten all that alone. it must be some guests on her bill. We need to see her trend on a stretch of say a month. How did this bill leak to linda? what is the intention of the leak? I believe the lawmakers are not even the right abode for this probe. past experiences show that they are even more lousy with expenses.
There is nothing outrageous in this bill, at least for someone of her status... If u work in a govt agency or oil coy and get to be a manager or gm or in her case, dg which is equivalent to GGM in my coy, ur bill will be abt dis.
Those senators talking, how much is dia daily estacode and feeding allowance outside office...
Arunma oteh maybe corrupt but her food bill does not prove dis, neither does her hotel bill.
For Christ sake, this woman is a DG that deals with dignitaries. she is not that stupid like the people of National Assembly to write a food receipt of N850,000 for her self alone. she must have wine and dined with other people of her caliber. Please let us probe NA first before they probe anybody. they are just trying to divert attention from their wreckless spending.The woman is not a liability to the country she is contributing her quota to the economy. what has National Assembly contribute to the economy?. i expect them to probe Sanusi over 100m father Christmas gift for his people. She prolly refused to get them some ghana-must-go bags and thats why she’s been plotted against.Take a look at the video and look at her and look at the probing members of the house, never have i seen someone stand firm on her integrity to put those words to their faces and they were all looking like they’ve been caught too. who is the thief here. Shut down the National assembly, have a Single house made up of 10 people from each state, earning 200,000 monthly because it is for service to father land and not for accumulating wealth.
With all due respect, i can categorically say, that the members of the National Assembly have no shame and regard for service and a good name.
The pinnacle and apex of corruption in Nigeria is the National Assembly. It is a precise case of a big thief calling someone else a thief. if my figures were right, the lowest member of the House of Rep goes home every month with about N42,000,000. In a country where 62% lives on less than $2 bucks per day. of 3Trillion Naira budgeted, about 16,000 political officers take
almost 1.5Trillion of it. So who is the thief? 365 House of Reps alone just budgeted almost 33 billion Naira for themselves only to seat 3 times a week. Who is the thief here? by the way, why do we need to have a bi-camera legislature when millions of Nigerians are living below poverty line?
As for otteh, she probably got into this mess because she refused to cooperate with those members. she prolly refused to sort them and so they plotted her downfall. 365 House of Rep members, 109 Senators. David Mark and his deputy individually take home in 4 months is 6 times what David Cameron gets in a year. Who is the thief? . kai, naija dey joke big time.
No wonder Pastor Bakare said Nigerians are idiots cos the leaders have engineered the system to keep it that way and we keep allowing this people. I think the purpose of the dinner should be the issue. No one can consume these items alone, let us not be quick to condemn the SEC boss. What would be important for us is to know what the purpose of the dinner was. Though am not backing her yet, but there is the probability she bought and pay personnel some of the items with her money and the receipts issued in her name. If that is the case, there’s no problem. Again, taking into account the items listed below, she was definitely not the only person consuming the items. One may reason if she had official meeting with some people and at the end bought these things for her visitors. We are yet to hear her site of the story before we condemn her.
Meanwhile, Hembe has admitted that he actually collected money from the SEC for the said training at Dominican Republic but was unable to meet up with the training bcos he first travel to USA and could not meet up with the training. The summary is that he actually collected the money and change his route to US.
Besides from the bill, u will realise that she had a meeting with some ppl and decided to foot the bill.
So much hate. It was a sitting, she didn't eat this alone. And the sitting was not done in a fast food that you expect it to be cheap.Please lets not be quick to judge, we weren't even told how many guest was entertained. She might have done somethings wrong but lets try and be objective when dealing with issues.
Exactly, that bill clearly shows the SEC DG had guests so its not anything extraordinary in my opinion.
I organise team dinners and I know how much we spend for like 11 people so pls chill abeg and even in Jand when i worked here, i know how much we spent on team events!
Dont get me wrong, spending should be within reason however there are exceptional circumstances....
We need to be careful here,.. and not trivialise issues. If there is actual wrong doing,.. then let it be said to be so,... Definately, she didn't consume 5 bottles of Star at a sitting (alone),... The question here is,.. 'what type of breakfast/lunch/dinner is this -private or official? if it was private, then she should have paid. If it was official, then it's a different story. My take is that our public figures always want to trivialise issues to suit their purpose,... bringing out this story might be an attempt to draw 'wool' over our eyes,.. and mislead us,.. how come the Petroleum saga didn't produce (and has not produced) any concrete figures till date?
7UP 5OO,AQUIIFINA WATER 1400.SOME PPLE NEVA SEE FOOD CHOP ODA THEY CHOP THROWAY.I NO FIT SHOUT
i tire for nigerians. this is poverty speaking. why exactly is 91k at the hilton a big deal again even for an ordinary citizen? even dinning in the common marcopolos and chopsticks of abuja and provide more disturbing figures. Linda, you of all people should know better. 1. she was clearly not alone. 2. the figures are reasonable for the location and venue of the dinner. so lets stop throwing stones unnecessarily and exposing our poverty striken mind sets.
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Isn't it baffling that just one "human being" devoured all on the bill...LINDA...You know better that this is a bill for hosting some people to lunch or whatever it is the bill is for. Have you made inquiries into how much the same item on the menu would have been perhaps if it had emanated from ,say, Robert Cafe @ Akin-olugbade in V.I ?
Abegi she didnt eat it all by herself.....5 stars n all she only entertained guest FYI
Abegi she didnt eat it all by herself.....5 stars n all she only entertained guest FYI
Linda if u see that woman bakassi u go know say she fit chop am, all d food na her yansh dem dey go, gluttons n power
91K ON FOOD? Na wa for our leaders.May God help us.
lagoshunter said...
I am curious to know what the big deal is with the 91k bill?
Public official or not, as the head of SEC she is entitled to spend even much more than that entertaining guests. And yes, as a top government official she is expected to entertain guests regularly
It is only poor pple (yes, poor hungry Nigerians) that will make a big deal out of inconsequential things like a $600 food bill of a top government official.
March 20, 2012 10:26 PM
@ lagos hunter you are so stupid....in a country where about 98% of its population cannot afford to feed and another 80% have to work about 6 months to earn that money, you think she is right because she is a government official. you foolish stowaway calculating the bill in dollars to show you live in america (actually showing your ignorance). standard of living and pricing of items are very diffrent in these 2 countries. coke bottle cost me £1.60 in the UK, guess what? its not up to 100 naira in nigeria. fool... and how high up is she? there are still alot of people higher so if she can spend almost 100,00ok to feed them the others above her should be running into millions abi? ignorant fool like you. i am sure you are eating nigeria's money where ever you are and its God that would punish you and your generation. onye oshi, ode oshi , BASTARD
hi my peep.....i dont think this bills is 2 much for someone in her position. i went to protea in gra ikeji on 25 dec last yr we ran a bill of 70k(7)pple for sunday brunch. pls lid change ur thought abt this oteh's food bill. period
Linda, I guess you are biased because if you have listened to her explanation she had official guests and it was a buffet. They normally charge bills to room numbers. Stop displaying ignorance here.
..so linda too don turn to ladun, peeps will not take u serious if u start 'censoring' commentsd.. my 2 kobo :)
I laugh, al those who are saying poor nigerians living under one dollar a day, is it not you that has 50" plasma, is it not you that goes to the club and pops champagne, your probably reading dis blog on your laptops and bbs, is it not you that wear 30k beats by dre headphones ( i don't know if you can hear jesus through it), what of the poor nigerians living under 1 dollar a day.
the question is why are we attacking this woman. wasn't it wether 2days ago that the caught someone with 2billion naira CASH in their house and i dont see any body complaining. please go and sit down. $1 per day mi $1 per day ko!!
Seriously this shouldn't be an issue,first of all with all that was eaten it's obvious she didn't have dinner alone but with guest,whether family members,guest or colleagues it doesn't matter, I for ine feel that 91k is very very reasonable to spend for dinner at transcorp, I have dinners in Lagos with friends and we spend about 30 - 35 k and we are just working girls who have our businesses or place of work,so prAy tell if a whole sec dg goes for dinner and spends less than 100k pls dat is not much at all, let's be realistic here for her to have been sec dg,with all her credentials she has a right to spend her money,people like that in such positions has a lot os allowances credited to her,100k is not too much and it is glaring that she had people with her,what if she had drank 4 bottles of champagne and each went as much as 40k for one so on champagne alone she would have spent 160k, please I think when we make comments we should try and put ourselves in their shoes before we start judging or placing blames,am not related to her,nor do I know her and dis is the 3 rd time am commenting on linda's blog but I just felt this had to be said. Linda please I love ur blog but try and and get your fActs right or put the whole story first so u get people knowing the whole story.keep it up my Darl Linda God bless you and as for all the beautiful pEople that leave there busy schedule who post comment that entertain us,make us laugh,make us furious and all which helps relieve our stress level. God bless you too
Sometimes(most-times) Linda, you can be such a BIG bit*h, shebi U were the one that wrote a previous story calling her the woman that spent 850k on food in one day. Now u don reverse mouth, come put this thin up. You don go Hilton before? If u have you go know say this bill small, and for crying out loud, she was hosting people. I know you just wan put anyhow stories cos it generates money and traffic for you, and that is all you are interested in. But most times you also have to put up accurate and unbiased stories for people. Don't be a fake journalist, be a blogger.
But really i think this should be her business not anybody's as long as it's her money she used and not ours. She is a millionaire and NOT married, so why can't use her money the way she likes !? Maybe thatz her strategy to forget thinking abt her no-hubby status. Most of us cannot spend like that becoz we CANNOT afford it; or maybe becoz it isn't friendly with our priorities..PERIOD !! Abeg leave the woman alone, itz her cash !!
I believe she had visitors who would have incurred such amount on her bill...... This is really common among public officials expecially when they on official assignment.
Seriously this is not a biggie. She ate with people in an official capacity. 91K is not too much eating at Transcorp hilton. I know how much smallie like myself spend when i go out to eat chinese much more a DG. At least she has a receipt to prove it. Pls free the woman and find something else to accuse her of. NEXT!
Anyone who can buy ! bottle of 7UP for 500 naira needs help....I mean 7UP? why is transcorp even selling it sef?
Seriously this shouldn't be an issue,first of all with all that was eaten it's obvious she didn't have dinner alone but with guest,whether family members,guest or colleagues it doesn't matter, I for ine feel that 91k is very very reasonable to spend for dinner at transcorp, I have dinners in Lagos with friends and we spend about 30 - 35 k and we are just working girls who have our businesses or place of work,so prAy tell if a whole sec dg goes for dinner and spends less than 100k pls dat is not much at all, let's be realistic here for her to have been sec dg,with all her credentials she has a right to spend her money,people like that in such positions has a lot os allowances credited to her,100k is not too much and it is glaring that she had people with her,what if she had drank 4 bottles of champagne and each went as much as 40k for one so on champagne alone she would have spent 160k, please I think when we make comments we should try and put ourselves in their shoes before we start judging or placing blames,am not related to her,nor do I know her and dis is the 3 rd time am commenting on linda's blog but I just felt this had to be said. Linda please I love ur blog but try and and get your fActs right or put the whole story first so u get people knowing the whole story.keep it up my Darl Linda God bless you and as for all the beautiful pEople that leave there busy schedule who post comment that entertain us,make us laugh,make us furious and all which helps relieve our stress level. God bless you too
loool this is how some people fail their exams READ PEOPLE READ!!! its obviously not just for her alone she had about 4 guest with her...and she's obviously trying to create a good impression by taking those guest to an hotel like Hilton...before you start bashing her about how much she spends think about the musicians and the professional footballers you all admire they come to clubs in england and spend this amount of money on a drink alone. why? because they can afford it and they worked hard to earn their money. why cant we say the same thing with her..yes i am quite sure that nigerian politicians arent the most God fearing people but c'mon lets be reasonable here there are people that do worst and that amount of money for a business meeting at a prestigious hotel is very reasonable
@gbenga u an idiot,why u been tribalistic.wat has ibo got to do wit dis.pple like u need to be ostracized from the society.
Anon March 20, 2012 10:29 PM; i have told Linda this several times. Gbenga's comments should not see any light on her blog.
Ashamed Nigerians are quick to jump to conclusions Re: Ms Oteh. She explicitly stated that the said meal was for hosting foreign colleagues. If you work in a decent orgaanization, you would be aware that no costs are spared if you are hosting a client or an expat. Now if she spends 85k on food daily... there is a problem. Go through the receipt and see if only Ms Oteh can finish the food by herself. it is obvious its a party of 3 or 5. Will you take a client to mama put and spend 5000 on them...of cos u wont. She has exposed the number one vice of this country....corruption and should be commended. There are many Nigerians abroad who can contribute to the growth of this country. Acts like that of that dwarf called Hembe puts them off.
Oh please Linda
i really love to read your blog but posts like this dont potrya you well. how unintelligent off course we can see that she alone could not consumethat food in one sitting. at the same time she has explained that bill given for that day.
she was hosting capital market experts that were in Nigeria to offer proffessional advice.
this was widely circulated in the papers why you chose not to report it i dont know or are you just trying to bring traffic to your blog
if you like dont publish, you have read it
Please!!!!Please!!! can we free dis woman from the list u can see that Transcorp Hilton is also d thief here...do u see how much they charge for two cups of tea..
N900, N1800 for a plate of fruit salad...and N71,600 for food they are also implicated in the fraud we should instead..stop our officials from eating/staying there please!!!! next story!!!
ole oloju kokoro
one word ole,thief,barrawo
Honestly even if i am against some of d way our Govt official spent money not in this case Hellooo we r talkin about lest than 100,000 naira Sheraton Hotel for that matter oh pls fellow Naija ppl dont over rate it Question how much is she allow to spend on a day we r talking about DG common guys una dey compare buka food to sheraton even u Linda u know things r expensive in all those high rated Hotels..if na all those mistress wey those politician dey lodge ofcus they will consume more than dat
Please what's the big deal here? Does that look like a bill for one person's meal? I think we are just quick to condemn without using our brains. As important as she is, is it now a crime to entertain guests? I even think 91,000 is cheap to entertain people at Transcorp
Even if they eat Gucci rice nd NIKE beans.. It won't be dis expensive.. All na wash.
Please what's the big deal here? Does that look like a bill for one person's meal? I think we are just quick to condemn without using our brains. As important as she is, is it now a crime to entertain guests? I even think 91,000 is cheap to entertain people at Transcorp
This Hilton sef! Dem too dey do! Bloody expensive and not particularly fantastic quality or service for that matter. Can someone tell me why they are so expensive cos I don't get it? is it just the name? Their rooms have become so shabby. I have seen threadbare beddings and curtains in a couple of their rooms in recent times and wonder why they cant refurbish these rooms at the exorbitant prices they charge!
Anyway I digress. So which one is the N850k they said she spent in a day? Was that an error?
The question I have is, who did she host? Was it work-related or personal? If it was personal, she should be reprimanded and told to stop spending our government money to host her friends and family (assuming of course that the tab was picked up by SEC). Even if she was hosting a dinner for work colleagues, there are several ways to be more prudent. We don't want it shoved in our faces that you can afford lobster bisque and creme brulee when the average Nigerian can barely afford 3 or even 2 basic meals a day.
I think what public and government officials should take away from this sorry saga is that they have to be more prudent in their lifestyle and spending. Nigerians are more aware now than they have ever been, about what goes on in the polity and the affairs of how this country is run.
All government officials are accountable to us the people. After all, that is what true democracy is about - government for the people by the people.
As you can see in the receipt she wasn't the only one that ate the foods. what if she had a party?
I think she is not given a fare hearing because she refused to bribe them.
A woman handling her position isn't a day's job and trust our Nigerian men to try all means to kick her out of the seat.
Make ona free the babe jor. What about those house of reps members buying cars worth millions for girls in abuja? talk more of how much they lavish on a daily bases.
Ode onijekuje ashawao, I bet u live in face me I kill u, why won't u go n eat & quench, oniranu, agaracha, wen people r barely surviving on £1 a day, weere like u is supporting sumone dat spent 91k for lunch, how abt bfast n dinner, oloshious fellow, go n try n fix ur yansh wey the guy don tear with the food, ebina mscheeeew
13,500 for fresh crayfish, who told her the crayfish are fresh?after they will say people are cursing them, why wont they invoke the curse of the masses that can barely afford money to buy N50 garri to soak without sugar .
i mean this price is just too ridiculous
She's just being used as a scape goat for not dancing to their corrupt tune.
91k is nothing. I wish she had recorded the conversation of the Chairman asking for bribe.
A woman heads a major seat in this country and it becomes a problem.
Nansense!
Arunma Oteh is actually one of the decent people we have in our government today. She is educated and qualified for her role. Most of you would know that she was high up in the ADB before choosing to serve her country. Seeing as this bill was for multiple people, I think the outrage displayed by some of LIB readers is quite frankly uncalled for. Lets focus our attention on the worst politicians before driving away the few talented and educated ones with such negative publicity. Linda I actually expect better from you.
she is obviously not the only one dat ate that food, so pple take it easy on d lady!
OOh, please Linda, N84,000 is not much for 4 people at the Hilton or any where in the world. Its not a buka now. Yes, if we have to compare with the sufferings in our dear country, yes its a lot. However, their would always be a gap between the rich and the poor. Trust me, its no biggie. If you know what your senators spend when they go out abroad, you would pass out! Now imagine,(people that know) a 4 course meal at a very nice restaurant in London's westend, washed down with a bottle of Crisytal Champayne or an exotic wine for 4? you would spend nothing less than £2,500. About N650,000. Believe me, they do it daily. It doesnt make it right, but they do.
FOOD IN NIJA RESTAURANTS ARE MORBIDLY OVERPRICED, THEIR HOTELS ARE MORBIDLY OVERPRICED..IN AMERICA NO ONE PAYS THESE RIDICULOUS AMOUNTS...THE GREED IN NIJA IS MIND BOGGLING YET THE MASSES ARE SUFFERING UNDER BACKBREAKING POVERTY SHAMEFUL!!!!
and she would say she is a woman....
thief
let her incur that bill at Sweet Sensation and i would be worried.
Transcorp and the like are morbidly over priced ad not worth the amount. Besides i am sure she was not eating alone. I doubt she drinks beer.
Linda, your love for sensationalism often makes you look dumb. Why not report the complete story?report both sides and let the public judge.
its sad dat some pips will comment asking WHATS THE BIG DEAL....well,its not ur fault that u earn above 150k a month and u have other business(legal or illegal) u run on the side.if you are fully aware of the situation of d masses and u have a CONSCIENCE(which obviously you don't have) you will scream like d rest of us over the outrageous expenditure of funds which is part of the taxes the same masses pay.
if you now live abroad(which doesnt make you any better than d rest of us)and you think its also chicken change then its not your fault. my prayer for you is,if and wen you decide to come down n start up a business in naija and u get ridicules levies or taxes to pay both FG,state govt n the urchins on weekly basis then you readup news about how one local Councillor or house of rep is spendn extravagantly dont complain. seriously, dont complain....... thats my peice
Abeggggiiii She no deo anything jor..what is 91k? with guest ooo... Booking a table in a decent club in london is £550...do the maths. And Nigerians do it here not to talk of in naija where people still spend over a million naira in a club. In fact anybody wey dey talk rubbish about this na better 'iti bolibo'.
Wat is in 100k lunch. Poverty is worrying you people. This is not a big deal.
Really,where do you dine when in America?
relativity is what you bloggers fail to understand. so the DIG pays 84,300 for food. To her it could simply be less than 1 percent of her salary O_O
Lmao. Poverty mentality dey worry u Linda. Me and 3 of my girls go to lounges and spend 25 , 000 naira on just drinks and appetizers only. NAIja restaurants are overly priced so I don't think she has done anything wrong here
Having seen the evidence against her, particularly that of N85k food or N850k, I would have said that those that find this impossible are suffering from poverty mentality but I will not. Rather, will put it down to lack of exposure. Just a dinner of 10 people in the case of 85k or a 100 people in the case 850k is enough to rack up those bills... This is a CEO of SEC for crying out loud. Anything from HOD dinner to market operators dinner/lunch could have necessitated those... And again, this was a one off.. It is quite clear that those saying that the private sector will never spend this much do not know what they're saying... This is chicken change compared to what the likes of Shell, Mobil, Guiness, Nbl, Nbc, nesle, bat, etc spend.
Where one may have issues is with her lengthy stay in the hotel. But you have to wait for her to explain before drawing any conclusion.
The woman was not there when the market collapsed. She was head-hunted to right the wrongs that led to the crash. Has she been found wanting here? All we are yakking about are administtative issues which at best will atttact a reprimand or a refund at worst. The way the committee went about their business, one would not have been mistaken for thinking it was a spanish inquisition... Let them face the real problems (belated) and stop chasing shadows..
"...It is only poor pple (yes, poor hungry Nigerians) that will make a big deal out of inconsequential things like a $600 food bill of a top government official."
@lagoshunter I don't even know where to start with you. I can only deduce that you're enjoying kickbacks from these glorified armed robbers or that you must be in some top political position yourself, because if you are a Nigerian who is not in power and your stupidity is already spewing forth like this then this country has no future. Even if she used official money to entertain (how won't she use "official" money by the way? The money they are earning rightly and the money they are chopping illegally, isn't it all official money?), my problem is with your comment about poor people. You are saying "poor people" like only 1% of this country is poor. Over 90% of the population is poor and they are poor because we do not have facilities in place to help them develop, because regular (and sometimes barely educated) Nigerians have attained fancy titles and stolen from other regular Nigerians. Your mouth like poor people, like they don't count, like they are inconsequential. Yes poor people are angry and because there are so many poor people 600 dollars is a freaking big deal. Amadioha and Sango fire your mouth there. The way you talk about poor people you would think all the rich people that get accused and insulted are rich because they worked for their money. Nonsense. Be there talking out the side of your ass.
We all see now that Herman Hembe admitted he didnt go to Dominican Republic, instead he went to Texas!!
His excuse was that he got there too late, and they told him not to bother coming from Texas!!
Mind you, this man was given prob business class ticket, hotel money for all those nights, food allowance and all. Yet he chose to fly all the way to Texas, for reasons best known to him. Texas is no way close to Dominican Republic. He obvious had his own vacation intentions.
He picked the wrong lion to mess with. He couldnt find anything substantial to use against Arunma Oteh, and allowed himself to be used as a pawn by Emeka Ihediroha and co. I LAUGH!!!!
Lindaaa! Why are you so hypocritical? The woman spent 91,000 (NGN) as against 850,000 (NGN) your stupid reps said she spent at one sitting. Would she have eaten all that food alone? Is she a glutton? I don't know this woman from Adam, but for goodness sake, why can't you people just think and see beyond your noses. She is a D.G for heavens sake and she s gonna be meeting with numerous people. And for you information, Transcorp is not cheap. You saw a bottle of soft drink being sold there for N500. Would you buy it for that amount outside? Why are you people so Nigerianish? Would you rather she hit amala joint just to prove Akintola to you people. Such low lives! If you, Linda gets to that post which I pray, please carry your Coal pot follow body to Transcorp. And if you are invited there for an event, simply tell them that you are too low to eat their kinda food. Mschew!
Just look at the way you wrote the headline. You are already judgmental. Women are each other's worse enemies.
Are you ignorant of the corruption in the Legislative house. Did you not hear that they asked her for millions of Naira as bribe. Do you think she made that up? Or is the committee chairman your sugar daddy? Why do you always try to cover up the truth when you see it sometimes. I used to like you but right now, I dont know. I think you are a little bias. This woman didn't grow up in Nigeria so she has no Nigerian sense. (sharp sharp). I
believe She Just gullibly and innocently walked into a
trap. All the committee members, their colleagues and senators put together needs to be tied to the stakes. They are raping Nigeria silly and the country is fainting under them. Ha! Ha! What a house of thieves!
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