Abba Hamisu Sani
Africa-Press – Nigeria. Fighting Corruption in Nigeria by the Present administration under President Buhari is taking a new dimensions as Citizens are no longer trusting the anti grant institutions.
Recently Buharis’s administration has crippled the crusade as he per done the two convicted former Governors of Taraba State Jully Nnyame and Joshua Dariye of Platue State.
With the arrest of Accountant General to the Federation Ahmad Idris by Economic and Financial Crime Commissions EFCC for Squandering more than eighty Billion Naira and accumulation of Properties in UK ,Dubai and in different locations in Nigeria.
t was learnt that Idris came under scrutiny last year following allegations that he offered huge sums of money to a family in order to secure the marriage of their 16-year-old daughter.
The uncle of the teenager, Nura Bagudu, had told The PUNCH in an interview that the accountant-general offered properties and gifts to the young lady and her family and had lodged complaints to the Federal Government.
“He told the young lady to go to Abuja and choose any house she wanted and he would buy it for her,” Bagudu had told The PUNCH.
he Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has traced at least 17 properties to the Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris.
This is just as the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, suspended Idris who is currently being investigated for fraud to the tune of N80bn.
An official of the EFCC, who wished to remain anonymous, said the properties traced to Idris are located in Kano, Lagos, Abuja, Dubai and London.
EFCC arrests Ahmed Idris, Accountant General of the Federation for N80billion fraud
He, however, said preliminary investigations showed that the nation’s chief accountant allegedly used proxies to buy some of these properties. The commission would therefore need to invite some of the proxies of the accountant-general.
The detective added that from all indications, these properties were purchased while Idris was in office and did not declare them before the Code of Conduct Bureau as stipulated by law.
He added, “About 17 houses in London, Lagos, Kano, Abuja and Dubai have been traced to him. In Abuja, some of the houses are located in serviced estates.”
The statement read in part, “The commission’s verified intelligence showed that the AGF raked off the funds through bogus consultancies and other illegal activi ties using proxies, family members and close associates. The funds were laundered through real estate investments in Kano and Abuja.”
it was learnt that Idris came under scrutiny last year following allegations that he offered huge sums of money to a family in order to secure the marriage of their 16-year-old daughter.
The uncle of the teenager, Nura Bagudu, in an interview he said that the accountant-general offered properties and gifts to the young lady and her family and had lodged complaints to the Federal Government.
“He told the young lady to go to Abuja and choose any house she wanted and he would buy it for her,” Bagudu had said.
Ibrahim Garba Maryam popularly Known as I G Maryam is an activist and Anti Corruption Crusader.
He said the Present administration is romancing with Corruption instead of fighting it, as it promised during it’s Campaign in 2015 and 2019.
I G Maryam stated that the kind of Properties acquired by the Accountant General of the Federation Ahmad Idris like Gezawa Commodity and Exchange Market in Kano is an indication of Corruption to the highest order.
Garba Maryam said Federal Government is narrowing Funds from different landers but its officials are busy stilling the Money .
He added that is why no one can trace the Money allocated to different Ministries and Agencies for executing Projects and Services.
Ibrahim Garba described the unpatriotic Act of the Accountant General of the Federation Ahmad Idris and other Buhari’s Government officials as shameful and disgrace to the Nation among the Comity of Nations.
N80billion Fraud: How Accountant-General, Idris Made Money From Controversial Platform, IPPIS, Deducted Salaries Of Thousands Of Workers .
Faruq KPeroge is a Nigerian American base Scholar of Mass Communication and Public analyst.
The Scholar Said must of Money allegedly syphoned by the Accountant General is Workers Salary deduction from Integrated Payment Plan IPPS .
In his latest column, Kperogi argued that Idris’ action also amounted to blasphemy against Nigeria as well as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) which had been on strike for months.
The US-based scholar said the suspended AGF should be prosecuted, citing the recent outrage that trailed the death of Deborah, the student Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto who was killed by a mob over alleged blasphemy.
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