Massive Corruption Uncovered in 2 LGs of Niger State

The Commission of Inquiry set up by the Niger State government to investigate perceived illegal dealings in two local government areas of the state has discovered massive stealing of public funds and disregard to laid down rules in Rafi and Borgu local government areas of the state.

The commission also believed that similar disregard for accounting rules were likely to be the order of the day in the remaining 23 local government areas of the state.

Submitting the report of the Commission to the Acting Governor, Alhaji Ahmed Musa Ibeto, at the Government House on Wednesday, Chairman of the Commission, Justice Aisha Bwari, lamented that the situation was so pathetic that hajj deposits by intending pilgrims were diverted to private use by elected council officers in the affected two local government areas.

“What we found most touching is the issue of diversion of hajj deposits,” she said.



In a bid to avoid accountability, she explained that all directives by the chairmen were given verbally, adding that there was no award of contract that was documented.

She gave the example of a 40-kilometre road project which grading was to cost the local government area N16 million with only N1.3 million  expended on the job and the balance of the sum disappeared into thin air, after it was collected from the treasury by the suspended chairman of the council.

Source: Nigerian Tribute