THE All Progressives Congress has called on President
Muhammadu Buhari to pay attention to the Federal Ministry
of Education in his bid to recover Nigeria’s looted funds.
The Rivers State Chairman of the APC, Dr. Davies Ikanya,
who made this call in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on
Sunday, said President Buhari should investigate the years
of the former Supervisory Minister of Education, Chief
Nyesom Wike.
Ikanya specifically drew the attention of the President to an
allegation that N20bn was released for the purchase of
books for Federal Government institutions, adding that such
books were never provided.
According to the state APC chairman, other areas President
Buhari should look include the Almajiri School Scheme, the
Universal Basic Education, the Tertiary Education Trust Fund
and the N87bn approved for the ministry but not utilised.
“The whereabouts of the 15 UBEC Toyota Hilux buses that
Chief Wike commandeered for his governorship election
campaign, which he has refused to return to the Federal
Ministry of Education, thereby hampering official activities in
the Commission;
“The over N180bn UBEC funds allegedly looted by Chief Wike
and Dame Patience Jonathan, through fraudulent contracts
for the supply of textbooks to higher institutions. (The
textbooks were never supplied);
“The recent fire that razed down only the Basic Education
Section of the Federal Ministry of Education building in
Abuja containing relevant indicting documents about Wike’s
activities while he held sway as the Supervising Minister of
Education.
“We should unravel why the fire incident took place and why
only this section was burnt. Was it for the sole purpose of
covering up the illegal transactions of the immediate past
Supervising Minister of Education, Chief Nyesom Wike?
“The burnt documents included the ones for the contracts
Wike awarded to himself and his cronies as a conduit to
siphon public funds. We want the Buhari administration to,
as a matter of urgency, look into this now that he wants to
recover looted funds.”
He, however, pointed out that the move by the President to
recover the funds looted from the country’s coffers was
laudable and a welcome development.
Ikanya explained that the impending recovery of looted
funds in the country would be the beginning of the journey
towards building an ideal nation.
“The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress
has thrown its weight behind President Muhammadu Buhari
in his bid to investigate and recover the billions of naira
looted by the immediate past administration of Dr.
Goodluck Jonathan.
“We received with great joy news of the resolution by
President Buhari to go after those who stole Nigeria blind
and virtually grounded the country’s economy. For six years,
we shouted ourselves hoarse that Jonathan’s administration
was the most corrupt in the history of this nation, and sadly
nobody believed us.
“But the recent revelations have proved us right. If not by
the grace of God and the resolve of Nigerians to vote out
that visionless government, the ship of our nation would
have been grounded by now,” the state APC chairman said.
However, efforts made to get the reaction of the Special
Adviser to the Governor on Media, Sir Opunapo Inko-Tariah,
to react to the allegations against his boss were futile, as
several calls and a text message to his mobile phone did not
yield any response.




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