Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Yakubu Dogara has revealed a rather disturbing
information about the ongoing anti-corruption
war.
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Honourable Yakubu Dogara
Dogara who spoke with journalists at the
weekend in Lagos, said monies running into
billions of naira have been recovered buried in
farmlands in the Federal Capital Territory,
Abuja.
The speaker was however silent on the precise
amount recovered from the farmlands, but he
said he was informed that an estimated N1.5
billion cash had so far been dug up.
He pointed out that he could never have
imagined the scale of corruption Nigeria
witnessed, especially in the last administration.His words: “As we are speaking now, they are
recovering monies from someone’s farm
somewhere around Abuja. It is very unfortunate
where people stole money just for the sake of
stealing.
“If you were the one who was in charge of
fighting corruption, you would have even been
shocked by the scale of the problem.”
Dogara also dismissed allegations from the
opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) that the ant-corruption war is selective
and meant to witch-hunt their members.
“You will recall that the PDP had been in power
for a number of years – for more than a decade
– and if you were to weigh members of the
opposition that are in government now and had
the opportunity to serve, those that would have
tendencies to engage in pilfering of resources,
majority will come from the PDP, except we are
not being realistic,” Dogara said.
He however noted that not all members of the
All Progressives Congress (APC) were saints,
adding that APC also spent money in the course
of the electioneering campaigns.
He however said there was no evidence yet to
prove that government officials at the time
transferred money to the APC campaign,
stressing that the bulk of the money that was
received by the PDP.
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Title : 1.5 billion Naira buried in farmland recovered in Abuja
Description : Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has revealed a rather disturbing information about the ongoing anti-corruption w...