Coalition Asks Tinubu’s Government To Probe Managing Director Of Nigerian Electrification Agency, REA For Using Mother's Name To Open Bank Account To Divert Public FundsThe group made this call in a s
Coalition Asks Tinubu’s Government To Probe Managing Director Of Nigerian Electrification Agency, REA For Using Mother's Name To Open Bank Account To Divert Public FundsThe group made this call in a statement signed by Gboyega Adeoye, the union Secretary-General detailing how Mr Salihijo manipulated his several bank accounts details and opened some accounts in his mother’s name to siphon public funds.
“Ahmad juggled his names, using: Salihijo Ahmad Ahmad, Ahmad Ahmad Salihijo and Ahmad Salihijo. Ahmad as account names in the various bank accounts belonging to him, with the two in his mother's name earlier mentioned in similar fashion: Bilikisu Ahmad Salihijo and Salihijo Bilikisu in Jaiz Bank. Same discrepancy goes with the dates of birth of the accounts' holder, reading: October 201983vJuly 272009, January 1, 1989, May 32012 January 292015, August 241985, March 302004 among others.
“And let it be mentioned here that the World Bank and African Development Bank gave over $550m under Ahmad's watch, in repayable grants to Nigeria Electrification Project, NEP, a unit in Rural Electrification Agency, REA, tasked with delivering energy access to poor communities nationwide. The statement continued: “We are aware that the federal government is duty-bound to repay those grants and so, it behoves this new administration to be circumspect in dealing with how the grants are spent, particularly when it is obvious that such fund has not sufficiently answered the purpose for which it was granted. Energy poverty in Nigeria's underprivileged communities is still very endemic and on the rise.
“We hereby entreat the World Bank to tarry a bit until those currently charged with managing the affairs of NEP, particularly as regards the initial grants are cleared and contract awards and past spending concerning the earlier grants are subjected to close scrutiny by relevant enforcement agencies.
“While we call on President Tinubu to order investigation into Ahmad's activities as head of REA by the appropriate law enforcement agencies, we also warn that failure to act, we shall be compelled to draw prosecutorial power from the 2022 decision of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in the case of RAPHAEL OBIJIAKU V CHIEF JOE OBIJIAKU & 2 ORS 17 NWLR 377 at 405 Paras E- F, which empowers private citizens to institute and prosecute crimes of any kind without fiat from the Attorneys-General.
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