On 2 December, 2015, Nick Schifrin, PBS Newshour special correspondent aired the report “Nigeria: Pain and Promise: How a Cancer of corruption steals Nigerian oil, weapons and lives”.
Some of the sound bites:
Godwin Ekpo a Nigerian tricycle driver, whose wife was killed by police after refusing to pay a bribe of N2,000.
Musa Muhammed: a principal of a school in Bauchi, whose roof was blown off by wind because the contractor used a wrong wood for the roof. His students sit on the floor and the school lacks books.
The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, in his TEDEX speech in 2013, where he said Nigeria lost about $1bn (N197bn) every month under former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Sanusi: “In Nigeria, there is no accountability at all and that is why I think Nigeria’s corruption is worse than corruption in most parts of the world. It is the worst type of corruption. It’s stealing. Frankly, I think a billion dollars under Jonathan a month was about what we were losing.”
Schifrin, the PBS correspondent, quotes United States and UK authorities as saying that Alison-Madueke might have “personally overseen the stealing of $6bn. The most common method is awarding oil contracts to companies owned by friends.”
The PBS NewsHour said it had in its possession a letter written by the embattled former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), and addressed to the CBN, requesting $47m. The letter was written on the letterhead of the Office of the NSA, titled ‘Request of Funds for Special Services’ with reference number, NSA/366S, dated November, 2014. According to the report, the money was given to the ONSA in cash and was conveyed in armoured vehicles at midnight.
In a second document on the letterhead of the NNPC and addressed to the Director, Banking and Payments of the CBN, the CBN was asked to give the National Intelligence Agency, which was under the leadership of Dasuki, $289,202,382. This was despite the fact that the NIA’s budget was only $160m for the year.
*Just sit back and watch the looting of a nation, called Nigeria, during the Jonathan years.