Security cake
Paradoxically, security votes in Nigeria are usually not for security purposes. News that a former governor of Abia State from 2007 to 2015, Senator Theodore Orji, told the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission how he spent N38.8b security votes in eight years for other purposes shows that security votes do not mean what they should mean.
Orji, who is representing Abia Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, “said he shared much of the N38billion with members of the state House of Assembly, his security informants and traditional rulers.” He “claimed to have also given part of the money to military units, the police, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and security agencies as what he called statutory allocations.
The report added: “The yet-to-be identified informants allegedly pocketed a total of N7.200billion between 2007 and 2015. Some of the security agencies, according to him, received N2million per month.” But he could not provide “a comprehensive list of all the beneficiaries of the largesse,” the report said. It is unclear how Orji determined those qualified for a share of the cake, and how those who got a share were useful for security purposes.
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