{"id":169674,"date":"2025-07-16T09:11:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T08:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/buhari-appointees-betrayed-trust-and-worsened-corruption"},"modified":"2025-07-16T10:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:17:06","slug":"buhari-appointees-betrayed-trust-and-worsened-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/buhari-appointees-betrayed-trust-and-worsened-corruption","title":{"rendered":"Buhari Appointees Betrayed Trust and Worsened Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A former member of the House of Representatives, Dachung Bagos, says some appointees of ex-President Muhammadu Buhari betrayed the trust placed in them, resulting in worsening of corruption during the administration.<\/p>\n<p>Bagos made this statement on Tuesday, when he appeared as a guest on \u2018Politics Today\u2019, a programme on Channels Television shortly after Buhari was laid to rest in Daura, Katsina State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking at an individual of the president, he was able to look at fetch out people that he supposedly assumed would help him run the administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you will now find out that, at the end of the day, the issue of anti-corruption, the perception that we all held him in high esteem as a man of integrity, fighting corruption and ensuring transparency, you will now find out today that some of the people that were part of his administration are today facing one or two anti-corruption issues,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Buhari\u2019s oversight in monitoring and evaluating his appointees posed a challenge during his administration.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-lawmaker stated that Buhari was widely regarded as a man of integrity, but the insecurity that plagued his tenure overshadowed many of his efforts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A former member of the House of Representatives, Dachung Bagos, says some appointees of ex-President Muhammadu Buhari betrayed the trust placed in them, resulting in worsening of corruption during the administration. Bagos made this statement on Tuesday, when he appeared as a guest on \u2018Politics Today\u2019, a programme on Channels Television shortly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":169673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[97,10934,254],"class_list":["post-169674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-buhari","tag-dachung-bagos","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Buhari Appointees Betrayed Trust and Worsened Corruption - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A former member of the House of Representatives, Dachung Bagos, says some appointees of ex-President Muhammadu Buhari be ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/buhari-appointees-betrayed-trust-and-worsened-corruption\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buhari Appointees Betrayed Trust and Worsened Corruption\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A former member of the House of Representatives, Dachung Bagos, says some appointees of ex-President Muhammadu Buhari be ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/buhari-appointees-betrayed-trust-and-worsened-corruption\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-16T08:11:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-16T09:17:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1752644929.683463.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/buhari-appointees-betrayed-trust-and-worsened-corruption#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/buhari-appointees-betrayed-trust-and-worsened-corruption\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Buhari Appointees Betrayed Trust and Worsened Corruption\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-16T08:11:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-16T09:17:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/buhari-appointees-betrayed-trust-and-worsened-corruption\"},\"wordCount\":214,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/buhari-appointees-betrayed-trust-and-worsened-corruption#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1752644929.683463.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Buhari\",\"Dachung Bagos\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/buhari-appointees-betrayed-trust-and-worsened-corruption#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/buhari-appointees-betrayed-trust-and-worsened-corruption\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/buhari-appointees-betrayed-trust-and-worsened-corruption\",\"name\":\"Buhari Appointees Betrayed Trust and Worsened Corruption - 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