Buhari to Jonathan, Deziani: I will probe NNPC

missing $20 billion

 

 

ABUJA – Hard time may be awaiting the outgoing
government of President Goodluck Jonathan over
the alleged missing $20 billion from the coffers of
the Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation,
NNPC.
The president-elect, General Mohammadu Buhari
Sunday said he will revisit the issue.
Buhari who spoke while addressing a delegation
of Adamawa State chapter of the All Progressives
Congress, APC who paid him a congratulatory
visit at his campaign headquarters in Abuja on
his victory at the polls showed open resentment
that the present government turned a deaf over
the missing money when it was raised by the
former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN,
Sanisu Lamido Sanusi, who is now the Emir of
Kano.
He regretted that the government hurried sacked
the former CBN instead of investigating the
missing funds.
Buhari who spoke in Hausa langauage made it
clear that his administration would not condone
stealing of public funds meant to provide jobs for
the teeming jobless Nigerian youth.
“I heard that some people have started returning
money; I will not believe it until I go and see for
myself.
“Imagine a situation where the former CBN
governor who by God ‘s grace would later
become the Emir of Kano raised an issue of
missing billions of money, not in Naira but in
Dollars, $20 billion.
“What happened, instead of investigating to know
whether it was true that the money was missing
or not, they simply found a reason to remove
him. So these are the issues we are talking
about..