Nigerians went berserk when Senate President Bukola Saraki on Tuesday, October 6 finally unveiled the much awaited ministerial list submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Many were of the opinion that the names were hardly mysterious and not worthy of the fanfare that preceded their announcement.

See: #TheList: Laments, anger trail Buhari’s underwhelming ministers

Earlier, Buhari had affirmed that no individuals who had track records of corruption would form any part of his glorious Cabinet, prompting the belief that the President had a stash of saints and was only bidding his time before revealing them.

Post Nigeria upon perusal came to learn that contrary to Buhari’s claim, a good number of the unveiled likely Ministers have various corruption cases hanging on their necks.

Records have it that they have been allegedly indicted with various degrees of corruption cases pending before the Economic Financial Crime Commission, EFCC.

1. Babatunde Fashola

The Former Lagos State Governor was involved in a scam worth N78.3m from the State’s treasury for an upgrade of his personal website. The contract for the refurbishment of the website was awarded to Info Access Plus Limited by the office of the Chief of Staff to the former Governor.



Civil society groups called on anti-graft agencies to probe the N1.2bn spent on the construction of pedestrian bridges along Eti-Osa–Lekki– Epe expressway “which did not specify the number of bridges.”

Other shady deals making the rounds include the N17m awarded for the provision of wall signage in three magistrate courts; N3.46bn spent for the construction of a beach resort in Ilase; and N61m disbursed for a Range Rover SUV and two Toyota Hilux trucks as the official vehicles for the Chief Judge of the State.

The various petitions came in, following a similar outcry by anti-corruption group, the Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, CACOL.

Debo Adeniran, CACOL’s Executive Director, stated in an interview recently that his organisation’s independent investigation showed that the 1.36 kilometer Lekki-Ikoyi link bridge cost N6 billion, and not the N25 billion stated by Fashola’s administration.

Adeniran also stated several petitions written to the EFCC to probe the various projects in the state in the face of the more than N500 billion debts left by Fashola’s administration.

See: Fashola facing EFCC case as Pressure Group moves against him

See: Fashola continues to grapple with N78 million website saga

2. Rotimi Amaechi

Christie Amanpour’s Live Report on CNN revealed that Amaechi has been stacking money in different foreign accounts.

According to the statement, Amanpour’s show said “the sum of over 757 million U.S. dollars was stacked by Amaechi in a foreign U.S. Bancorp/Minnesota account.”

The Integrity Group, a Non-Governmental Organization, also sent a petition to EFCC to investigate Amaechi for the over N70bn stolen from the Rivers State Government.

This amount is separate from the N21bn which the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP claimed Amaechi transferred from the Power Assets proceeds account of Access Bank to the accounts of three private companies with a 25 Trans-Amadi Road, Port Harcourt address.

Current Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike accused Amaechi of sponsoring Buhari’s presidential campaign organization with billions of naira stolen from the Rivers State coffers.

See: I’m now a “common criminal” – Amaechi

See: Why we must scrutinise Amaechi’s conduct – Wike

3. Lai Mohammed

The demunitive National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and one time Chief of Staff to Ahmed Bola Tinubu , Lai Mohammed was accused by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Olisa Metuh of embezzling funds meant for fencing of an airport in APC-led S/West States.

According to Metuh, Mohammed fraudulently refused to supply ambulances after collecting monies from another APC S/West State and also acted as a personal aide to one of the alleged most corrupt politicians to ever bestride the political landscape of the country (Tinubu).

Reliable sources have it that the amount diverted by Mohammed runs into billions of Naira.

4. Kayode Fayemi

The Former Governor has been accused of diverting N4.1bn from workers entitlements to his party APC, while he was in office.

The PDP statement that brought this to light, which was signed by the party’s Publicity Secretary, Jackson Adebayo, alleged that Fayemi used ghost workers to perpetrate the fraud.

“Some of the money involved in the fraud amounting to N2.1bn was withdrawn from the salary accounts of civil servants and moved to the APC secretariat for sharing from time to time in the four years that the APC government led by Fayemi lasted in Ekiti State.
“The missing deductions from workers’ salaries for the months of April, May, June July and August, 2014 running to about N1.8 billion was also traced to the APC secretariat,” PDP alleged.

The APC has tried to shield Fayemi from facing the full wrath of the anti-graft agency.

5. Chris Ngige

The Former Governor of Anambra State in November 2013 was indicted for laundering N46bn Local Government Fund.

The disturbing Police reports said: “The EFCC has stated that it has established how former Anambra Governor and candidate of the APC Dr. Chris Ngige in the November 16th governorship elections in Anambra laundered and misappropriated the N46bn of Local Government Funds between 2003 and 2006 when he held sway as the Governor.’’

The interim report signed by the then Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP, Hayatu Shaafa who led a team to investigate the petition against Ngige confirmed this.

The well-detailed report stated that over a dozen persons, mostly key players in Ngige’s government, were questioned in the course of the investigation.

All that emerged from the questions posed to such an array of former high government officials was the singing of a sorrowful song; “my duty is to obey instructions without asking questions.”

“Once you begin to hear such a refrain, it is certain that something untoward, something indefensible, something odious, has happened,’’ a source stated at the time.
As of press time, mixed feelings were still trailing Buhari’s nominations.

http://www.post-nigeria.com/looters-amaechi-mohammed-fashola-others-yet-to-account-for-n800bn/

.lol,wike you want die for amaechi matter?

They asked Saraki to resign because he was accused of corruption. And some were spitting rubbish about integrity. Now, the same APC and their messiahic president are forcing some set of people accused of corruption down our throats. Where is integrity?

obum88:
They asked Saraki to resign because he was accused of corruption. And some were spitting rubbish about integrity. Now, the same APC and their messiahic president are forcing some set of people accused of corruption down our throats. Where is integrity?

has Amaechi been charged to court like saraki?

Jorussia:
has Amaechi been charged to court like saraki?

Charged to court is a yardstick?

hmmmm no news on this looting for PMB election

The media court or the negotiations table.

Jorussia:
has Amaechi been charged to court like saraki?

Amechi is Still eating, continue wailing.. ..

Abeg we need that money ooooo

These people are now saints o, free them jor

This is front-page material
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SmartChoices:
This is front-page material
Mynd44 lalasticlala obinoscopy ishilove Seun

Cc
Modath
Eleko1
Firefire
Ajepako
Tonyebarcanista

There goes the 'saints' and his 'spotless angels'