The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu has been said to have received kickbacks through his younger brother, Dumebi Kachikwu, from the chairman of Taleveras Oil, Igho Sanomi, to facilitate oil contracts. It has been reported that all is not well between the Kachikwu brothers and their erstwhile ally, Mr. Igho Sanomi, following the Minister’s inability to deliver oil contracts to the businessman as agreed after allegedly receiving over a billion Naira in kickbacks. The brewing crisis in the scandal is that the Kachikwus are unwilling to return the kickbacks, which Sanomi paid partly in Naira and some choice properties in Maitama-Abuja and Banana Island-Lagos.
According to Sources, Sanomi has been pressuring the Kachikwus to return his money and houses that were transferred to the Minister upfront through Dumebi to facilitate oil contracts while he served as the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. Total payments to the Minister, who hitherto doubled as the NNPC boss, from Sanomi are estimated to be close to N2 billion and it has been revealed that Sanomi is spoiling for a dirty fight with the Kachikwus over their failure to return his money and houses.
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