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Alhaji Sadiq Mohammed Rabiu, the chairman of the Kogi Pilgrims Board has been suspended by the state governor, Yahaya Bello, and handed over to the Department of State Services (DSS) for further investigation and possible prosecution.

Director-General, Media and Publicity to the Governor, Kingsley Fanwo, who disclosed this in a statement in Lokoja, said Rabiu had been handed over to the Department of State Services, DSS, for investigation and possible prosecution over allegation of fraud during the just concluded Hajj.

Fanwo expressed the governor’s discontent with the dehumanising treatment of pilgrims from the state during the 2016 Hajj.



Fanwo said: “The travails of the chairman stemmed from allegations of corruption, nepotism and blatant disregard to the welfare of the state’s contingent to this year’s pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.”

He said that the suspension of the chairman followed the outcome of an investigative panel into the allegations of corruption, nepotism and dehumanising treatment of pilgrims, in spite of adequate provisions made by government.

Fanwo said that the administration was poised to address the issue of corruption with “absolute seriousness in order to checkmate the effect of corruption on the development of the state”.

http://www.newshelm.com/2016/10/gov-yahaya-bello-hands-over-kogi.html

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Hi peeps

If the man in charge of visit to HOLY LAND is corrupt, then the country is finished. No fear of Allah! So sad.

jamace:
If the man in charge of visit to HOLY LAND is corrupt, then the country is finished. No fear of Allah! So sad.

I don't even know why the Government would be sponsoring people to Mecca and Jerusalem. It doesn't just make sense!

Unblockable:
I don't even know why the Government would be sponsoring people to Mecca and Jerusalem. It doesn't just make sense!

The constitution of Nigeria is against it, but some crooks who benefit from it will always push it forward for implementation.

This country is really in a total mess. Some 1diots have really fvcked up this entity.

1. There is nothing like DSS . What we have under our laws is SSS.

2. The SSS does not have powers to prosecute for financial crimes.

Does Kogi state not have an Attorney- General?

What business does a serious country or a unit within it have with sponsoring people to the 'holy land?(whether Jerusalem or Mecca). We are crying of recession and hunger yet some bespectacled oafs are busy frittering the scarce resources on crap.

Even Saudi Arabia the home of Islam had to change from Islamic to Gregorian calendar, just to cushion the effect of their dwindling fortunes. That shows a country that does not play to the gallery or indulge in hypocrisy like we do here.