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When Corruption Gets Rewarded


When Corruption Gets Rewarded

Let me show you something shocking happening in this government and why corruption has become a culture amongst the so-called members of the government. 


The woman President Tinubu appointed as director of women mobilisation in the APC Presidential Campaign Council is called Betta Edu - a minister that was suspended by the same Tinubu almost 3 years ago. 


Betta Edu, as Nigeria’s Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, was accused of directing that N585 million meant for vulnerable people in Akwa-Ibom, Cross-River, Lagos, and Ogun states be paid into a private UBA account belonging to a ministry official, Oniyelu Bridget Mojisola, rather than through normal government channels. 


She was suspended in early 2024 over allegedly diverting the funds to a personal bank account , and the EFCC’s subsequent investigation reportedly widened dramatically. 


Pay attention here: 


By April 2024 the agency was tracing over 50 bank accounts, with roughly N600 million average in each, suggesting the scale went well beyond the original N585m figure (some reports cite a N44 billion figure tied to the broader ministry scandal). She was briefly detained and questioned by the EFCC before being released on bail, and her passport was seized  at the time.


Nothing again was said about it and everyone forgot. A minister that was meant to use her ministry to fight poverty, ended up impoverishing the people by looting the public funds through over 50 private bank accounts.


But the only punishment she received by a president who wants to convince Nigerians that he’s fighting corruption, is an appointment to lead his reelection campaign. 


But let me take your mind farther a bit and this was one of the questions I wanted to ask Daniel Bwala in an interview that will be published today on KaaTruths YouTube channel before he turned the interview to a ring of insults and bullying. 


The current government seems to have an irresistible passion for rewarding criminals. Dozens of the appointed and elected officials are people with criminal records and one of them is Abubakar Bagudu who was appointed Minister of Budget and Economic Planning on August 21, 2023.


A US federal court documents named him directly as a co-conspirator who helped launder proceeds of General Abacha’s theft of Nigerian public funds, and he personally agreed to return over $160 million to avoid criminal trial in Jersey in 2003. He indeed returned that amount according to records. This man was rewarded with a ministerial position to control Nigeria’s entire national budget. 


Imagine appointing a cat known for killing and eating rats to become the manager of a rat farm. 


Now, do you understand why a budget for FIFA World Cup qualifiers was smuggled into the budget almost a year after Nigeria was eliminated? 


Do you now understand why three budgets are running concurrently and do you remember the budget for the phantom agency? 


There are just so much open corruption going on in this government that should worry every Nigerian, but only a very few of us seems to be aware and awake to reality. 


-KAA

Host of KaaTruths Podcast. 

#kaa_truths

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