“Nigerians were shocked by reports of how funds meant to service the food security system in our country are being plundered by those in power, resulting in the crippling of our agricultural sector thereby creating attendant hunger and starvation in our...
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“Nigerians were shocked by reports of how funds meant to service the food security system in our country are being plundered by those in power, resulting in the crippling of our agricultural sector thereby creating attendant hunger and starvation in our land,” PDP further claimed. The opposition PDP said it had rejected “this attempt at cheap scapegoatism and demands that the Buhari Presidency should immediately speak out and conduct an open investigation that will expose all those involved in this huge scam in the Ministry of Agriculture as well as recover the stolen funds”.
The human rights group said it was “immoral and illegal that rather than ask the EFCC to investigate, arrest and prosecute him for the alleged mismanagement of these humongous sums of public fund, Buhari rather chose the carrots- and- stick or rather outright administrative soft-landing procedure of issuing him query.”
HURIWA recalled that the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan, made the allegations in a leaked query she issued to Bello on May 11, 2020. “HURIWA is shocked that over 80 percent of the witnesses the EFCC presented in court are all coming from the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. Yet the EFCC which is a Federal Government and publicly funded institution is complaining that the witnesses who are employees of the Federal Government are frustrating the prosecution of a matter involving such a high- profile individual most likely because he is seen as a sacred cow, “ the statement noted.
“Our preliminary findings have shown that all the transactions made at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development while Bello held sway as permanent secretary were approved following administrative principles, due processes and traditions in the conduct of government businesses. Also, some of the allegations made are transactions that were done prior to the tenure of the accused permanent secretary.
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