N80billion Fraud: How Accountant-General, Idris Made Money From Controversial Platform, IPPIS, Deducted Salaries Of Thousands Of Workers – Farooq Kperogi

The US-based scholar said the suspended AGF should be prosecuted



United States-based Nigerian social critic, Prof Farooq Kperogi, has reacted to the alleged theft of N80billion by the suspended Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had recently nabbed Idris for allegedly stealing and using proxies to obtain prime properties located in Kano, Lagos, Abuja, Dubai, United Arab Emirates and London, United Kingdom, at the expense of Nigeria.

In his latest column, Kperogi argued that Idris’ action also amounted to blasphemy against Nigeria as well as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) which had been on strike for months.

The US-based scholar said the suspended AGF should be prosecuted, citing the recent outrage that trailed the death of Deborah, the student Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto who was killed by a mob over alleged blasphemy.

He said, “I am intentionally appropriating, and extending the semantic boundaries of, the term “blasphemy” for this piece because it seems to be the only term that inflames enough passions to get Nigerians to talk, listen, or act.

"Alhaji Ahmed Idris, the suspended Accountant General of the Federation, has “blasphemed” the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Nigeria, and even decency with his stratospheric pillaging of the nation’s resources. One of the consequences of his theft is the closure of our public universities.

"He should be “beaten,” “stoned,” and “burned” with speedy prosecutorial vengeance to avenge his blasphemy. If blasphemy is “the act of depriving something of its sacred character,” Idris has more than stripped our public universities of their “sacredness” by being partly responsible for the ongoing strike by ASUU, which has put the futures of our youth on hold.

"Idris was arrested last Sunday by officers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for stealing at least 80 billion naira. The Punch of May 19 also reported the EFCC as saying that Idris used proxies to obtain prime properties “located in Kano, Lagos, Abuja, Dubai and London” at the expense of Nigeria.

"While it’s heartening that the EFCC has finally arrested and detained him for the staggeringly monumental fraud he’s been perpetrating for years, it was ASUU that first called attention to the questionable source of his wealth when no one cared.

"Prof Lawan Abubakar, who coordinates the Bauchi Zone of ASUU, issued a statement on behalf of ASUU last year in which he called attention to Idris’ unexplained wealth and grasping acquisitiveness.

“We would want Gentlemen of the Press to assist us in the conduct of two Investigations,” he said. “The first is to uncover who bought the version of the Sokoto Hotel in Kano with a whopping sum of N500million cash down and demolished it the next day for ongoing development of a multi-billion-naira shopping mall.

“How and where did he get money for such investment? The second assignment is to assist uncover who is hiding to invest multi-billion naira in the Gezawa Commodity Market and Exchange. How and where did he get money for such investment?”

"It turns out that Idris actually got the bulk of his ill-gotten wealth on the back of the despair and agony of university lecturers. He blatantly stole lecturers’ salaries through the fraudulent Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), which ironically bills itself as a safeguard against fraud.

"Idris made N16,000 for every university lecturer who enrolled in IPPIS. The IPPIS also indiscriminately and inexplicably deducted thousands of naira from the salaries and allowances of lecturers every month.

"Just days after his arrest, many friends told me, they started getting bank alerts notifying them of the payment of backlogs of unpaid allowances— and possibly payments from the reversal of illegal deductions.

"So, the IPPIS is basically designed as a conduit to siphon the legitimate earnings of university teachers and other public sector employees, and Idris milked it for what it was worth. How can one person be that monumentally avaricious and unfeeling? How can one person visit so much anguish on so many people for so long without consequences—until now?

"Freedom from the torment of the IPPIS is one of the reasons ASUU is on strike—and why our children are mindlessly vegetating at home and wriggling in emotional pain. That’s secular blasphemy (if you would forgive the counterintuitive terminological paradox) worthy of the toughest “red lines”— if we care about the future of Nigeria.”

"Finally, I wish someone would indoctrinate Nigerians to be as angry, touchy, intolerant, and pushed to draw “red lines” over injustice, misgovernance, elite cruelty, etc. as some people in the Muslim North are over “blasphemy.”

"Leaders would always be on their game, on their guard, and on their best behaviour. And Nigeria would be one of the best places to live on earth."

https://saharareporters.com/2022/05/21/n80billion-fraud-how-accountant-general-idris-made-money-controversial-platform-ippis

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Ok

It is time we legislate a grave consequence for looting public funds however, this is impossible as those in the national assembly are also guilty of corruption.

The rate at which they have been paying arrears of lecturers since his arrest isn't coincidence but a truth he intentionally did not release their funds for his selfish reasons.

I just don't want APC to win the next Presidential election so that the whole corruption carried out during their tenure can be exposed

I pity we the hopeless

After Buhari handing over come 2023, the level of mindless looting that occurred during his tenure which will be uncovered can best be imagined

Guys wey no get girlfriend get peace of mind

We need a law that can start giving this people Jungle justice Asap...

Make dem dey take dem to bakery throw dem inside the Big Oven without any traces of there remaining....

Until there is capital punishment for those siphoning and looting our commonwealth, this will continue till thy kingdom come.

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Ok

This one is small to some people there in Abuja ooo

Hmmm

Nah you be nollwood 25 bullet you nor wound, you say you wear bulletproof. We agree, we nor argue we agree.
You like Ronaldo you nor like football nah story you Dey find

Someone election funds is about to go down the drain

What amazes me is how these guys steal so much and comfortably go to bed .

For many that do not understand, 80 billion is a whole lot of money for just one guy to pocket .

It can do a lot in our education and health sector

₦80 billion, $200,000,000

Africans are super wicked and greedy just like Hushpuppi we don't know when to stop



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Bullion van Tinubu will stop them

The black man doesn't mind killing his own country to feed his greed. We are the most unpatriotic people on earth and it's just so sad.

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aboki men been milking this country dry since 1960.

Naija we hail these over rangers to let this man be because he is a northerner

Noted

Sad but true logic from Kperogi.
Desecration is actually the belittling of holy commandments and not the manhandling of a book the commandments are written on. We should be talking about death penalty for blasphemers of the constitution and not one prophet who talks about the blasphemers dying but not what kind of death(spiritual or physical or soul), time of death(immediately or at God's time) or type(by God or by Satan) of death.

As for the blasphemer of N80b, I know two N500,000 is one million Naira. Can someone please workout how many million is inside 80 billion and multiply that by 2?

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