Aides of former Katsina State governor, Ibrahim Shema, have accused him of embezzlement in a leaked audio.

The 13-minute conversation between former chief of staff to Shema, Husseini Dambo and a former caretaker committee chairman of Kankara local government area, Hadi Audu, claimed that Shema converted billions of naira of the state government and 34 council areas into his personal use.

In the audio conversation, Dambo alleged that Shema is worth a trillion of naira having allegedly diverted funds belonging to the state government.

Part of the conversation read, “We just suffer for nothing. Even an ordinary plot of land I do not have. I am ready for a showdown,” Dambo said even as he accused Shema of being selfish.

Dambo said he knew some of the governor’s companies in Lagos, which he claimed, were established through monies diverted from the state.

Dambo and Hadi were also heard complaining about the alleged overbearing influence of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chairman in the state, Salisu Majigiri.

They accused Majigiri, who served as chief of staff to Shema, of shielding the former governor and making him inaccessible, noting that the chairman’s attitude was driving prospective members away from the party.

When contacted, Shema, who spoke through his spokesman, Olawale Oluwabusola, described the audio conversation as baseless, insisting that “there is no substance in what they are saying.”

However, Majigiri (PDP chairman) who laughed off the leaked conversation said it was part of the gambit for 2023 polls.

Meanwhile, the audio has renewed calls on the anti-graft agencies to intensify probe and hasten the prosecution of Shema, as some residents of Katsina state have reacted to the conversation, insisting that it underscored the need for a holistic probe of Shema’s eight-year tenure, including all those that served as commissioners and close aides.

Shema, who governed Katsina State from 2007 to 2015, is currently undergoing trial by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for allegedly embezzling the state’s funds to the tune of N5.7 billion.

The commission arraigned Shema on a 26-count charge of conspiracy and laundering of N5.7 billion allegedly stolen from the account of state SURE-P. However, Shema pleaded not guilty to the charges and the trial is ongoing.

https://leadership.ng/in-leaked-audio-aides-accuse-shema-of-embezzlement/

So who leaked the conversation among the 2 aides to the ex-Governor

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All Nigerian politicians loot. They go into politics with the mindset of stealing until there's nothing to steal.

The deep-rooted corruption in this country can't be uprooted especially when the President is the chief enabler of corruption.

Speechless

Some people's are always be deceived in this country about this northerners due to their too much of showings to be too religious, to even say the fact this northern parasites are even more worse than southerners politicians when it comes to looting and embezzlement of public's money

Looters plc

Na so. Aloota continues.

This is serious

Macsjebs:

Nothing happened to the one caught red handed on video so nothing will happen to this one. They’re all paddy paddy with the despot in Aso Rock

one chance country....God why me in this country. Baba God come and answer my prayers

Trillions


This means that Tinubu is worth over 5 trillion naira

U no know b4

All they do is loot....

Which of the ex Governors in Nigeria that that didn't loot it's state

one chance country....God why me in this country. Baba God come and answer my prayers ooo

There’s no way on earth he’s worth a trillion, how much was allocated to the state during the governor’s tenure?

Nonetheless, the EFCC should squeeze every dime out of him.

What a failed nation

Nothing strange...na their usual way

Nothing go still happen

Too many leaked tapes these days , both audio and video

Social media wahala

atobs4real:
one chance country....God why me in this country. Baba God come and answer my prayers ooo

To Japa is just the best thing

These politicians steal public fund with heartless greed, even stealing money they don't really need.

None of the ex governors are spares from this

:Their problems

Firhasa:

To Japa is just the best thing

VERY CORRECT. NO JUST ONE MENTION JAPA. B4 YOU KNOW IT , THEY WILL START PRETENDING AS IF THEM BE CONSULAR

Maxymilliano:
So who leaked the conversation among the 2 aides to the ex-Governor

PDP politicians, Shema was angling to be PDP chairman

Standard Nigeria Stuff.
I would actually be very surprised if he didn't actually steal


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https://leadership.ng/in-leaked-audio-aides-accuse-shema-of-embezzlement/

Are they NOT all crooks and fraudsters?