Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Yakubu Dogara has revealed a rather
disturbing information about the ongoing
anti-corruption war.
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Honourable Yakubu Dogara
Dogara who spoke with journalists at the
weekend in Lagos, said monies running
into billions of naira have been recovered
buried in farmlands in the Federal Capital
Territory, Abuja.
The speaker was however silent on the
precise amount recovered from the
farmlands, but he said he was informed
that an estimated N1.5 billion cash had
so far been dug up.
He pointed out that he could never have
imagined the scale of corruption Nigeria
witnessed, especially in the last
administration.
His words: “As we are speaking now, they
are recovering monies from someone’s
farm somewhere around Abuja. It is very
unfortunate where people stole money just
for the sake of stealing.
“If you were the one who was in charge of
fighting corruption, you would have even
been shocked by the scale of the
problem.”
Dogara also dismissed allegations from
the opposition party, the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) that the ant-
corruption war is selective and meant to
witch-hunt their members.
“You will recall that the PDP had been in
power for a number of years – for more
than a decade – and if you were to weigh
members of the opposition that are in
government now and had the opportunity
to serve, those that would have tendencies
to engage in pilfering of resources,
majority will come from the PDP, except
we are not being realistic,” Dogara said.
He however noted that not all members of
the All Progressives Congress (APC) were
saints, adding that APC also spent money
in the course of the electioneering
campaigns.
He however said there was no evidence
yet to prove that government officials at
the time transferred money to the APC
campaign, stressing that the bulk of the
money that was received by the PDP.
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