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$65m Fraud: Buhari Govt Haven For Looters, Fraudsters – PDP
- “President’s son in-law; a beneficiary of the primitive family patronage in the Buhari administration”
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the government of President Muhammadu Buhari is cozy with corrupt persons and other characters of questionable characters
Ekohotblog reports that the main opposition party said this in reaction to the declaration of the president’s son-in-law wanted over a N31 billion fraud ICPC.
Gimba Yau Kumo, a former managing director of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, who in 2016 married Mr Buhari’s second daughter Fatima, Tarry Rufus and Mr Bola Ogunsola, were declared wanted over misappropriation and diversion of $65 million National Housing fund.
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Kola Ologbodiyan, PDP’s spokesperson in a statement on Friday said, Kumo’s involvement in fraud “further confirms that the Buhari Presidency is indeed a sanctuary for fraudsters, treasury looters and common criminals.”
“It speaks volumes that the Buhari Presidency had remained silent in the face of this huge fraud involving Mr President’s son in-law; a beneficiary of the primitive family patronage in the Buhari administration, only for certain members of the cabal to be reportedly mounting pressure on the ICPC to let him off the hook,” the statement read in part.
Though Buhari campaigned on riding Nigerian public service of corruption, saying Nigeria must kill corruption before it kills Nigerians, his allies have been fingered in different corruption saga.
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