{"id":105160,"date":"2023-12-24T19:53:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T18:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/director-alleges-fraud-in-running-of-nigerian-governors-forum-demands-forensic-audit"},"modified":"2023-12-24T22:22:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T21:22:28","slug":"director-alleges-fraud-in-running-of-nigerian-governors-forum-demands-forensic-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/director-alleges-fraud-in-running-of-nigerian-governors-forum-demands-forensic-audit","title":{"rendered":"Director alleges fraud in running of Nigerian Governors Forum, demands forensic audit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Director, Media and Public Affairs of the Nigerian Governor\u2019s Forum, NGF, Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, has written the NGF chairman and Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRasaq, alleging corruption and lack of transparency in the management of the organization.<\/p>\n

The leaked letter also exposed a crack within the NGF Secretariat in Abuja, as top officials are at daggers drawn over alleged financial fraud and recklessness.<\/p>\n

Barkindo opened a can of worms on the running of the secretariat, saying the NGF is now more transactional than developmental.<\/p>\n

He stressed that it is not an agent of change but \u201ca conduit pipe for a few individuals\u201d, and demanded a forensic audit of all the NGF accounts including those that were opened during crisis periods to avoid the \u201cprying eyes of governors in the name of NIGOFO among others\u201d.<\/p>\n

Barkindo said the NGF accounts had not been audited for 10 years or more, stressing that a few individuals had turned the Forum and its finances into their personal fiefdom.<\/p>\n

Parts of the letter read, \u201cThe secretariat\u2019s accounts have not been audited in the last decade to say the least, that even the phony auditors invited to mock the auditing process have at various times confessed that the job they are doing for the secretariat is a wash.<\/p>\n

\u201cHas anyone ever wondered why an institution that midwife\u2019s huge monetary deals like the Paris-London refunds does not have a qualified accountant? In an organisation that makes over three billion Naira annually, the total annual income of its entire staff is seventy million naira. Staff of the Forum are always asking where all the money goes. There is a staff that earns N20,000 a month ($20.)<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are instances. The N630m deductions from the N5bn infrastructure support fund which ended in a shouting bout among governors while you are chairman was a deliberate ploy to make you look bad among your colleagues.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe secretariat did not brief you adequately. Their instructions from their master\u2019s house, across the street, was to set booby traps and obstacles in your path. I am a witness. On the Paris-London Club transaction which the NGF midwifed, the NGF made close to N19bn out of which the staff of the NGF were to be rewarded with N850m by the Chairman of the Forum, at the time Governor Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar of Zamfara State.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my opinion, the NGF requires a forensic audit of all its accounts including those that were opened during crisis periods to avoid the prying eyes of governors in the name of NIGOFO among others.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. The Director, Media and Public Affairs of the Nigerian Governor\u2019s Forum, NGF, Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, has written the NGF chairman and Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRasaq, alleging corruption and lack of transparency in the management of the organization. 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