The Economic and Financial Commission has
received kudos in their renewed onslaught against corrupt Nigerian Government
officials. The praise came from the Chairman, League of Patriotic Lawyers,
Malam Abubakar Yusuf. Speaking in Lagos, the fiery lawyer even called for the
Bangladesh treatment where corrupt officials are tried for two weeks and
thereafter the guilty ones are executed by hanging. "Without such a
drastic action, stealing will continue", he declared to the ExposeNews. “The
situation where Nigerian Government officials think that they are clever and
attempt to hide their ill-gotten wealth under pseudo names won’t work anymore”.
He cited the case of Justice Ofili Ajumogobia who bought several properties in
Park View Estate and London using fake names although the properties bore her
signatures. She is right now in EFCC net. There is also the case of Orji Uzor
kalu whose billion naira fraud case has now been charged to court. The lawyer
equally hailed the EFCC for exhuming the $182 billion Halliburton case and
bringing former Attorney General Andoakaa to book. He also commended the EFCC
for trying to arraign five Senior Advocates of Nigeria, Lawyers, who were
allegedly paid hefty sum of $26 million as negotiation fees.
How the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan frittered away the nation’s scarce resources is beginning to spill out – despite the shrill insistence by ex-Finance Minister, Okonjo Iweala that the records sheet were clean! Information pieced together by our investigators show that several paramilitary Agencies under the Federal Ministry of Interior shared a record 10 billion each for the purpose of influencing the March 28 General Elections in favour of the defeated incumbent. However, things did not go down well with the ranks and file during the sharing. Outgoing Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Boss (name withheld) was said to have misappropriated the huge booty by allegedly pocketing 5 billion for himself, while declaring the other half (5 billion) as the sum total. The bone of contention was that while the rank and file received 40,000 each some key associates close to the big guns went home with a hefty slice. Causing the rumble.
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