‘ICPC Should Investigate Lai Mohammed Over N2.5 Billion NBC Fraud’ – PDP

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Below is a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Kola Ologbodiyan, made available to PoliticsNGR calling on the ICPC to investigate Information Minister, Lai Mohammed for an alleged N2.5 Billion Fraud;

“The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) charges the
Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission
(ICPC) to go beyond the Director General of the National Broadcasting
Commission (NBC), Is’haq Kawu Modibbo and institute a system-wide
investigation into the N2.5 billion NBC scandal.

The PDP
particularly demands an open investigation into the alleged roles
possibly played by certain top officials of the Buhari Presidency,
including the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,
around the matter.

The party says ICPC’s uncovering of fraud in
the N2.5billion NBC Digital Switch Over (DSO) contract has further
exposed the inherent corruption in the Buhari Presidency and how
Presidency officials and leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
have been siphoning billions of naira from government agencies.

This
further exposes how corruption has become endemic at the NBC under the
direct supervision of the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji
Lai Mohammed, who has not yet cleared his name on the N13.1 million NBC
loan scandal since May 2016.
The party therefore urges the ICPC to go
beyond the N2.5 billon NBC fraud and investigate the allegations that
Alhaji Lai Mohammed abused the privilege of his office by approving a
letter from his office requesting the NBC, an agency under his
supervision, to advance a loan of N13.1 million to his ministry for a
purported official assignment in China.

The demand, which was
against budgetary approvals, principle of TSA and the anti-corruption
claims of the government he represents, has not been investigated and
culprits prosecuted, even when it was clear that it corrupted the agency
in converting it into a lending institution, against our financial
regulations and the laws that established the NBC.

The PDP
insists that the failure by the Buhari Presidency to investigate and if
found answerable prosecute Alhaji Lai Mohammed for this alleged act of
manifest corruption shows how the Buhari Presidency has been concealing
humongous corruption and sharp practices being perpetrated by APC
leaders and cronies of Mr. President in the ministries, departments and
agencies.
Alhaji Lai Mohammed is a spokesperson of the Buhari
administration, which claims to be committed to the fight against
corruption. He cannot, in all honesty, hold such a position with this
allegation still hanging around his neck.

This is more so as
allegations are rife in the public space that agencies in the Ministry
of Information and Culture now reek of corrupt and sharp practices in
the last three years.”

Source:- Politicsngr

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