Alleged Looting: Buhari Sets To
Nab Aliyu, Yuguda, Suswam,
Others
The government of President Muhammadu Buhari
is leaving no stone unturned in entrenching the
fight against corruption, amid the President’s
disposition towards ensuring that all ex-governors
who allegedly looted treasuries of their respective
states will face prosecution.
Checks by Newspot Nigeria are indicating that the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) is at the moment studying petitions
bothering on looting of treasuries leveled against
some former governors, and will soon be moving
to nab them at the nick of time.
Top on the list of former governors whose cases
are being seriously considered by the EFCC
include those of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu,
Benue, Gabriel Suswam and Isa Yuguda of Bauchi
State.
None of the ex-governors, according to findings,
are in Nigeria at the moment as they reportedly
left the country shortly after the change of
government in their respective states on May 29.
Reports are revealing that although President
Buhari has not openly issued an order for probe
of the ex-governors, he had stiffly rebuffed all
entreaties made to him for intervention on the
governors currently facing trials.
The EFCC has been cashing-in on the anti-
corruption posturing of President Buhari to press
charges against ex-governors, with Sule Lamido
and his two sons, Ikhedi Ohakim, Admiral Murtala
Nyako and his son as well as ex governor of
Bayelsa, Timipre Sylva, currently having issues
with the anti-graft agency.
Already, the new government in Niger State had
cried wolf on a loan obtained by Babangida Aliyu
on behalf of the state and from where he
allegedly looted the sum of N3 billion before
exiting from power.
The state government had asked him to return
the loot to treasury, while the EFCC is said to
have started the probe of numerous petitions filed
against the former governor, all bothering on
alleged corrupt enrichment at the expense of the
state’s resources.
Babangida Aliyu is said to be shuttling between
Saudi Arabia and Dubai in attempts to cover tract
on his movements and exact place of abode
outside Nigeria.
The Embassy of Saudi Arabia was said to have
initially denied him visa to travel, but the
governor reportedly asked for the intervention of
top traditional rulers from the North to make the
embassy backed down.
In the same vein, the current government of
Bauch State is said to be pushing for
investigation by the EFCC of Isa Yuguda on
alleged treasury looting.
Recent report of recovery of 22 exotic cars by the
state government from just two wives of the
former governor had further dented his public
image, all affirming how he had mismanaged the
economy of the state.
The former governor of Benue State, Gabriel
Suswam is also not good to his state allegedly,
given the allegations of high level of pillaging of
state’s treasury leveled against him.
In addition to leaving a huge debt profile for
Benue State, Suswam, according to reports left
the treasury of the state empty.
His predecessor who could not stomach the
alleged looting of the state’s treasury and had
once cried out stating, “I met an empty treasury
which if it is qualified, it can be put at 10 times-
minus zero.
“When the allocation in the month of May came,
there was an overdraft of about N1.9b and
because of transition, the banks have held the
facility”
Officials of government in separate chats with
Newspot Nigeria indicated that none of the
governors currently under watch by the anti-graft
agencies will escape judgment no matter where
they ran to.
One of them alluded to the cases of James Ibori,
Joshua Dariye, Murtala Nyako and others who ran
out of Nigeria to escape the hands of the law,
but later returned to Nigeria only to be
apprehended and placed under trial.
0 Newpot July 10, 2015 Bauchi,
Benue, News, Niger, Politics
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