Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, says his predecessor, Mohammed Abubakar, spent N2.3 billion to buy materials for burying dead bodies in the state.

The accused has yet to respond but a spokesperson for him said the allegation was ridiculous.

The incumbent governor, who spoke through his spokesperson, Dr. Ladan Salihu, in an interview with journalists in Bauchi claimed over N900 million of the money was spent on buying white cloth materials used for wrapping dead bodies while over N1.4 billion was used to buy the wood for lacing the graves for the burial.

According to him, the government discovered various issues of corruption, venality, daylight robbery of the common wealth of Bauchi State where billions of naira were siphoned illegally.

He said: “These monies which ought to have been appropriated by the Assembly before expenditure, all of a sudden emanated from our treasury books. How could you imagine that a state government, within five months that is between January and May 2019, spent well over N2.3 billion on funeral materials, the clothes that are used in wrapping dead bodies and the woods that you lace the graveyards with?

“The immediate past government spent N2.3 billion, that government did not spend a quarter of that amount in our own hospitals and clinics. They have the temerity to want to put up a show of shame.”

He added, “Government will take very, very stern measures; we will recover every kobo that has been looted or stolen by the immediate past administration and in fact, the administration before it. It is an obligation: you don’t allow criminality to run roughshod on the rest of us because these are public funds.

“We must take steps, there’s no factor of fear or favour or ill will, and it is just the way the business of government must be conducted. We will take every measure. We’ll use every institution and go after everyone that has stolen Bauchi State’s money. We will pursue this case in the relevant institutions of recovery whether it is EFCC, ICPC, the constitution of a Special Recovery Mechanism within the state, I can assure you, we will pursue these issues vigorously, rigorously and without let.”

When Nigerian Tribune contacted the then-Special Adviser to the former Governor Abubakar on Media and Strategy, Ali M. Ali, he said, “That is very ridiculous, I cannot make further comments on the issue because I am not aware of such allegations.

“I’ve not heard of anything like that, so I will speak on it when I make my findings but this is laughable. I will get back to you on that when I have done my findings from my principal.” http://saharareporters.com/2019/06/24/former-bauchi-governor-spent-n23-billion-buy-burial-materials-incumbent-governor-claims

sugacoatedmouth:
Is the billionaire is nameless

sugar coat ur English mr

sarrki:
Oyegun is one of the useless politicians that have Know shame at that age

You join a party get your share

Once you are thrown out you become opposition and campaigned for another party

All of us go dey alright laslas

one day you go dey alright ,inugo

Dearpart1000:
This Act does not apply to offences which are of political nature and it doesn’t apply to offences which relate to the military profession or offences which are not regarded as offences in the laws of Nigeria but which may be offence in the laws of other countries.......I am not understanding oh! So who are the laws made for exactly if politician and the military are exonerated? Or did I read wrongly ?

forget about them brother

post=79560529:
God bless our President Muhammadu Buhari and his AMIABLE Vice President PROF YEMI OSINBAJO.

Slow and steady we will get to a New Nigeria.

God bless Nigeria.

This frog-eyed thief below should be the first to go to jail.
Followed by the ineffectual buffon.

how you guys reason amazes me,you will be the first to talk about respect,but you are calling someone that ur hundredth generation cannot lace his booth ineffectual Buffon, ur brain must be leaking real bad ,dead meat seller .

Ijawwomaninoyo:


Shame on your mother!

ubanka there

Andersonjr:
kinda same here but not that i hate him but i don't just want him to progress or win anything at Totthenham lol no hard feelings
#chelseafan

raise ur right hand and say I be witch oo,5 times.na so e dey take start .

Ijawwomaninoyo:
There's time to talk, there's time to be quiet. That's wisdom!

shame on you

yarimo:
Wallahi kogi state is lucky to have YAHAYA BELLO as governor. Carry on sir

it shall never be well with you

They will soon tag him wailer and ipob. Ndi ara

abdulazeez1002:
They don't deserve it.

you are stupid

Let's hear from osibanjo first

Another paid group,we Igbo's know ourself.

Ijawdefender:
Enough of these meetings,PMB solve the security issues in the North.

that's their oil well

Anwar therefore advised the people to “move and feel free in these days of Sallah celebration and beyond. As every measure for the state to remain peaceful is taken with all seriousness.”
They are even contradicting their self..for you to be a buhari supporter you have to exchange ur sanity with insanity.

Abacha never stole ...malam alhaji imam buhari

indigenous234:
OP, always add the source of your info please.

BTW, is it the same Abacha that Bubu said never stole?

noted check it out on BBC,this will not see FP because abacha is a saint according to bubu and we know that our mod are APC sympathisers

More than $267m (£210m) belonging to a former Nigerian dictator has been seized from a Jersey bank account.

The money was "derived through corruption" during the presidency of Sani Abacha in the 1990s, according to Jersey's Civil Asset Recovery Fund .

A shell company called Doraville held the funds, which were frozen in 2014.

After a five-year legal wrangle, the money has now been recovered and will be split between Jersey, the United States and Nigeria.

Jersey's attorney general, Robert McRae QC, said the seizure "demonstrated [Jersey's] commitment to tackling international financial crime and money laundering".

Mr Abacha was in power from 1993 until his death in 1998.

It is not yet clear how much money will be kept by each government.

Jersey's Law Officers Department declined to comment on the final distribution of the funds because it could "prejudice ongoing discussions".

Image copyright JEAN-PHILIPPE KSIAZEK/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Sani Abacha meets with former Pope John Paul II
Image caption Sani Abacha met with former Pope John Paul II in March 1998, shortly before his death
Jersey's government said it had approached the US in 2007 to request legal proceedings begin in US courts over the laundered funds.

The US Department of Justice itself has forfeited millions of dollars of money back to Nigeria, ruling Mr Abacha and associates laundered funds through the US banking industry.

Following an "extensive" collection of evidence in a variety of international jurisdictions, the funds were frozen by the Royal Court in 2014 and finally paid into the Civil Asset Recovery Fund on 31 May.

The money is just a fraction of the billions of dollars that were allegedly stolen and laundered during the presidency of Mr Abacha.

Swiss authorities last year returned $300m (£228m) to the Nigerian government, after it was found to have been stolen from public funds.

That money is being paid back to 300,000 Nigerian households over the next six years.

A spokesman for Jersey's Law Officers Department said it had faced "challenges and appeals" all the way to Jersey's highest court, as well as "separate proceedings" by a third party in US court.https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-jersey-48509274#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s

Abacha did not steal

post=79003284:
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Two different version in the same topic?!
What are we to believe now for krissake?!


We will win this war together as a nation.

Mr dead meat seller I wish you the fate of soldiers that died recently at marte and delwa,I have friends among them,are you human at all?because ur reasoning baffles me..what happened at marte and delwa for you calling it fake just for ur blind support for buhari I wish you and ur household times ten of that.

post=79003284:
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Two different version in the same topic?!
What are we to believe now for krissake?!


We will win this war together as a nation.

Mr dead meat seller I wish you the fate of soldiers that died recently at marte and delwa,I have friends among them,are you human at all?because ur reasoning baffles me..what happened at marte and delwa for you calling it fake just for ur blind support for buhari I wish you and ur household time ten of that.

Buharis brother

How much was he paid to say that.

I heard that buhari was teaching other countries how to fight terrorism the other day

Nigeria my Nigeria

The pix was a stupid show ,the excuse is even more foolish gan,you just showed us that you have become an over grown olosho(akuna)

Is she the one in the pix?
Asking for a friend

I thought speed said he has stopped smoking Igbo??

Talk is cheap

Special interview indeed.

Ambo the woman governor