Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has been named as one the beneficiaries of the N1.162 billion allegedly looted by a former governor of Plateau State, Chief Joshua Dariye.
Dariye was alleged to have paid N100 million into the account of a company, Marine Float Nigeria Limited, owned by Atiku.
This was stated on Tuesday by a witness, Musa Sunday, at the resumed hearing of the suit brought against the former governor by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
The witness gave evidence on how Dariye shared the N1.162 billion ecological fund he got from the Federal before a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja.
Dariye, now the senator, was governor of Plateau State between 1999 and 2007. The crime was allegedly committed in 2004.
The witness, an investigator with the EFCC, under cross-examination, gave a detailed breakdown of how Dariye allegedly shared the N1.16bn to his political associates and officials of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, in Plateau State.
According to Sunday, investigations by his team of detectives revealed that the ex-governor gave N100m traced to a company – Marine Float Nigeria Limited owned by former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar
“The Ecological Fund Office is under the Presidency but the Office of the Vice-President oversees it and the vice-president chairs the agency’s activities. The vice-president at that time was Alhaji Abubakar Atiku,” the witness said.
He also said N100m was traced to the South-West PDP, received by Yomi Edu, who was then minister of special duties, while N80m went to then Permanent Secretary of the Ecological Fund Office in the Presidency, Kingsley Nkoma.
Sunday further said N10m went to a former Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu, N6.8m to the PDP Plateau State and N66m to 274 PDP wards in the state
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“When the money meant to provide electricity is looted, we all are perpetually sentenced to darkness. When the money meant for health care is pocketed by a few, we are unable to reduce maternal and infant mortality.
These are the costs of corruption.”.......
If this quote does not elicit the determination of all Nigerians (including the 'bad belles' among us), to give Buhari's administration 100% support in his anti-corruption efforts, nothing ever will.
Ordinary Nigerians have been victims of these heartless robbers for too long and it's time to neutralize them for good. We may never have a better chance to redeem our only beloved country!
May God Bless and help the Buhari's government!
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