Buhari’s Anti-Graft War Faces Questions

By Chuks Ekpeneru

The altercation between the suspended Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Interim Management Committee, Joi Nunieh and Minister of Niger Delta, Godswil Akpabio highlights what some say are grave cases of corruption taking place in the Buhari Administration.

Nunieh who said ‘I am a Port Harcourt girl’ had leveled serious allegations of impropriety including sexual and financial misconduct against the minister.

Similarly, it has been an embarrassing scene with cross allegations between the Senate Committee on Niger Delta Affairs, chaired by Senator Peter Nwabaoshi and Akpabio over reckless expenditure of N40 billion of the commission’s fund without recourse to established processes of funds disbursement as well as collecting contracts worth of N500million without execution.

Senator Nwabaoshi had in June accused the minister of collecting contracts worth N500 million from the NDDC in 2017 alone without execution.

The Akpabio/Nunieh/NASS fight is coming at a time the Presidential panel probing suspended Acting Chairman of the Economic & Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has asked him to account for several billions of naira unaccounted for from various recovered funds and other sources.

Magu according to report of the panel  could not give a proper account of missing 332 out of the 836 recovered properties in March, 2018.

Magu is facing cases bordering on alleged re-looting of recovered funds and bribery which runs into hundreds of billions.

Supporters of Magu have, however, accused the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), a member of the Buhari cabal of being behind his plight.

Some say the Magu and Malami war is over who to auction the sale of luxury homes, cars, trucks, sea vessels, crude oil and other valuables running into billions of naira seized at various times.

Meanwhile a petition to the EFCC over bullion vans seen at Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s house in Ikoyi, Lagos, on the eve of the 2019 presidential election is lying unattended to.

These developments have prompted the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to assert that the All Progressives Congress (APC) as being directly responsible for the excruciating poverty and escalated insecurity being suffered by Nigerians in the last five years.

The PDP said, “The picture is becoming clearer on how APC leaders, in the last five years, siphoned and pocketed over N14 trillion, from various government agencies, meant for the development of the nation and the welfare of Nigerians.

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