DAVID MARK, A THIEF?

What a Robin Hood! He stole with one hand and now, with the other is giving back, part of what used to belong to Nigeria, to his community of Oturkpo, Benue State, Nigeria. He just handed over a multimillion Naira complex to the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) to serve as a study centre in Otukpo, Benue State. The Complex include an information and computer technology center, a laboratory centre, lecture theatres, an auditorium, staff rooms and some recreational facilities. The Project manager of the center Ojay Iyanya, stated that to date, Sixty(60) million Naira has been spent on the center which was solely financed by the President of the Senate, David Alechenu Bonaventure Mark!

Icheoku says, this makes the Nigerian Senate President, David Mark, a criminal, a fraudster, a looter and a thief? Where did he get the money from? Were Nigeria to be a corruption-free, civilized society, this midget of Oturkpo would be in prison for the massive fraud he perpetrated as a Minister of Communication in Nigeria, during the Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida reign of terror. He made stupendous wealth then, which he spread around in several banks and investments overseas, with three of the accounts allegedly at the Northern Bank, Isle of Man and another one at the Allied Irish Bank, Jersey with several others yet to be tracked down. These four named accounts at one time were joint repository of six (6) million British Pounds Sterling belonging to David Mark!

It was during his time as Communications Minister that this criminal, who now heads the Nigerian Senate, brazenly dipped his itchy fingers and hands into the Nigeria pie, big time. David Mark brokered a non-executed seventy-seven ($77) million dollar “telecommunications" contract on behalf of Nigeria Telecommunication company (NITEL) and also procured a refurbished aircraft for NITEL at an outlandishly over-inflated price. It was with part of "profits" he made from these deals, that David Mark bought the £5.9 pounds 18-hole St. Margaret’s Golf Course & Club in Dublin Ireland, just a five- minute away drive from the Dublin International Airport. Several other pay to play deals in NITEL flourished very well under David Mark leadership; and the last twelve ($12) million dollars SIEMENS bribery scandal involving yet another senator, Jubril Aminu, gives an insight into the type of cash-cow NITEL was, which David Mark milked dry but is now dead! David Mark also bought a private house worth £2.5 million pounds Sterling on Kingston upon the Thames River in London. Virtually all of David Mark's children of very polygamous marriage life-style attend schools in Europe; yet he is a Christan judging by his name, for whom the one man one wife injunction does not make sense, just like Olusegun Obasanjo? David Mark met and married one of his wives in Ghana while on the run from Sani Abacha's henchmen for the massive looting he committed at NITEL. It is on record that David Mark remained on his self-imposed, massive theft-induced exile from 1993 until 1998 when Sani Abacha died. Till date, David Mark still maintains massive investments in Ghana, the Caribbean, USA, Europe as well as additional hefty bank accounts in Switzerland, Cayman Islands and Jersey. And this is the caliber of man shamelessly leading the Nigerian Senate?

David Mark is now playing Father Christmas by donating a learning center at Oturkpo, Benue State, Nigeria! From where did he get the money, since it is on record that while growing up that his family was dirt-poor? Icheoku remembers vividly according to the accounts, that at one time before being cajoled into joining the military, his father could hardly afford to pay for his regular school fees, which automatically removes him from the genre of a trust-fund kid? As a military officer, how much was his emolument? And today, as a "Senator" and a "Senate President", how much is his take-home pay? Only one thing explains the unexplainable, David Mark is very corrupt!

Icheoku says, Nigeria's problem is intractable and will remain so until Nigerians, as a people, stop celebrating criminality. David Mark is one such criminal who ordinarily should be cooling off in a prison somewhere, far removed from decent society; but being a Nigerian, he is not only a senator and a senate president but is openly laundering Nigerian looted money back to the country in the form of a sixty (60) million Naira learning center in Oturkpo, Benue State Nigeria! What a morbid philanthropist, David Mark is? Icheoku is not impressed with this assumed generosity and says, this will only encourage more looting by officials of state in Nigeria. These official-thieves will just have to wait it out, knowing that some day not too far in the future, they will be celebrated by a people who have no scruples for criminality in a land of anything goes! Icheoku says, shame on you David Alechenu Bonaventure Mark, for your theft at NITEL cannot be washed away by your bloody donation of a leaning center! Instead you should stuff it in your, you know where?

mark donates N60m Complex To NOUN