•Seeks to recover N57.2bn from lawmakers

•Says lack of funds hinder ex-Oil minister, Dieziani’s probe

From Iheanacho Nwosu, Abuja

President Muhammadu Buhari is working to recover N57.2 billion from five serving senators just as the President is facing intense pressure to turn off searchlight on chieftains of his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) facing corruption cases, his biographer, Prof. John Paden has said.

The amount to be recovered from each senator was also listed in the book.

The book, Muhammadu Buhari: The challenges of leadership in Nigeria, written by Paden, equally revealed that the administration’s ongoing investigation of alleged dubious international oil transactions by former minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke and her foreign allies as well as tracking of stolen oil is being hampered by lack of funds.

The book was launched on Monday, October 3 and has drawn varied reactions from Nigerians over some positions and claims.

Detailing various efforts being made by the president in the fight against corruption,Paden said of the nine senators currently facing corruption cases, five are being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices (and other related) Corruption (ICPC) for alleged misappropriation of N57.2 billion.

The senators, according to Buhari’s biographer are: Ahmed Sani Yerima who ruled Zamfara State between 1999 and 2007 (N1billion); former governor of Plateau state who recently defected to Buhari’s APC from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP); Joshua Dariye (N1.2 billion) and ex-governor of Gombe State and incumbent Senate Committee Chairman on Appropriation, Danjuma Goje (N25 billion).

Others senators are: former governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Adamu (N15 billion) and son of former governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako), Senator Abdulaziz Nyako (N15 billion).

Although investigation of the senators was inherited by the administration, the president’s disposition in the war on corruption has placed more heat on the lawmakers, the author contended.

According to the book, president Buhari has been going through enormous pressure to give preferential treatment to APC leaders fingered in corruption cases but stated that such requests have not received his blessing.

Paden said: “Importantly, in none of these cases (apart from certain military procurement scandals that impacted national security) has the prosecution been sponsored or encouraged by president Buhari. He has kept his hands off the judiciary, despite enormous pressure for him to come to the aid of APC allies.”

He further added that, “although a number of senior officials had been tried for corruption prior to the Buhari Presidency, the extent of the current corruption court cases in Nigeria is unprecedented. By February 2016, nine senators (out of 109 in the National Assembly) were facing criminal charges.”

On the reason the administration is yet to make desired impact in recovering petro-monies involving Mrs. Madueke and her foreign allies, the book claimed that investigation into the deals were being hampered by lack of funds.

“A major challenge for the Buhari government was how to track stolen oil…At the heart of the oil bunkering scandals was the former minister of Petroleum Resources and her associates,” the book alleged .

It stated that “a general lack of funds appeared to hamper the Nigerian component of the investigation… In February, a letter by the Presidential Advisory Committee on Corruption(PACC) to a United Kingdom -based anti corruption organisation, Global Witness, soliciting assistance in raising funds, revealed that due to the fall in crude oil prices and the general economic downturn, government lacked the needed funds to pursue the recovery of loot.”

http://sunnewsonline.com/anti-corruption-war-buhari-moves-against-ex-govs/

Information like this is much in the news,,,,,once the loots are recovered,,,u start hearing no food in IDP camp

After the recovery I hope the loots is used for something meaningful..

We are tired of seeing recovery loots on pages of newspaper and not seeing what it is used for.

yet to see the evidence of the recovered loot on our economy

If only all these media cash can translate into money in the bank, we will be out of recession.
Too much talk and less action

Sylva just got back his 48 seized houses from buhari efcc ... Walahi buhari is mad with this his yeye corruption crusade

Pls can somebody ask this man

We're he kept other trillions loots dey recovered since.


All I c re group of frustrated bigots

Who have seen that dey have lost the support of the pple due to d battered economy.


Dis alone is a prove that Nigeria Economy is now officially dead.

I am very sure mammal daura is d head of this task force "Operation give zombies something to masturbate on"

hmm

Buhari moves again...where is he moving to

Monday Media news for the zombies



Well #IStandWithSamDaddy 2019


Good Morning

nowonder sen, joshua dariye defected

wise thief buhari will soon forgive him

[[s]quote author=idensko post=50070363]Pls can somebody ask this man

We're he kept other trillions loots dey recovered since.


All I c re group of frustrated bigots

Who have seen that dey have lost the support of the pple due to d battered economy.


Dis alone is a prove that Nigeria Economy is now officially dead.

I am very sure mammal daura is d head of this task force "Operation give zombies something to masturbate on"

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WTF

It's high ime we make politics unattractive to this politicians
Though 57.2bn is small compare to what they alocate to them selves, but its a good start if put into action.

Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance. Stability, not fear and terror. Peace, not chaos. Love, not hate. Convergence, not segregation. Tolerance, not discrimination. Fairness, not hypocrisy. Substance, not superficiality. Character, not immaturity. Transparency, not secrecy. Justice, not lawlessness. Environmental improvement and preservation, not destruction. Truth, not lies.
Suzy Kassem,

You already lost it Mr President

Let's join hands to cleanse our country of this vermin

idensko:
Pls can somebody ask this man

We're he kept other trillions loots dey recovered since.


All I c re group of frustrated bigots

Who have seen that dey have lost the support of the pple due to d battered economy.


Dis alone is a prove that Nigeria Economy is now officially dead.

I am very sure mammal daura is d head of this task force "Operation give zombies something to masturbate on"

Can someone tell this bigot the money recovered can't be spent yet until the court cases are over?

It is ironic that you can tag people as bigots whereas the main reason you are yet to see why the economy is so battered is bigotry itself.

One day you will get healing.

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so that bearded Yerima stole this much and used religious piety to hoodwink his people

this one sided witch hunt will take Buhari nowhere


wish we could just ship buhari, OBJ and Co and dump them in the bermuda triangle and build new country


tired of old hags running this country aground

See 419 at it's finest.
The money recovered already? How far Zoohari you know the article we read last week talking of the billions recovered, Oyibo gave you high five?
Even the Abacha loot that Ngozi has worked on for 9 years you APC are reaping it now.
So all those billions were spent on looking for billions
CHAI!!!!!!!!
Now you need more money to go recover other money?

Zombies help me figure this plan out, I just don't gerit, please come explain, I want to keep hope alive!
Ok so he will garnish the monies of these Senators to the tune on 57 billion and use that money to catch the former minister, whom they said they have every evidence when she went to court in London? So how much does Zoohari need to fight corruption cause I did not see that line in the budget?

Lol. . .Can't you try some new ways of buying time in office?

... Who the one-sided anti corruption fight help?

uncle buhari what of thief TA Orji and Son's Nig Limited

I just love this man the more. In times like this that corruption has eaten deep into every fabrics of our life style, a strong and determined man like Buhari is who we needed and God has surely answered our prayers.

If life has been hard for you and still supporting these criminals (those that have not improved you life in any ways) the government is going against then God may never answer your prayers.

uncle buhari what of thief TA Orji and Son's Nig PLC

mekd:
Buhari moves again...where is he moving to

Moving to daura very soon..

una go hear wheeeeeeen! Ride on Sai Baba

Ok