THE All Progressives Congress has called on
President Mohammadu Buhari, to pay attention to
the Federal Ministry of Education in his bid to recover
Nigeria’s looted funds.
The Rivers State Chairman of the APC, Dr. Davies
Ikanya, who made this call in a statement issued in
Port Harcourt on Sunday, said President Buhari
should investigate the years of the former
Supervisory minister of Education, Chief Nyesom
Wike.
Ikanya specifically drew the attention of the President
to an allegation that the sum of N20bn was released
for the purchase of books for Federal Government
institutions, adding that such books were never
provided.
According to the state APC chairman, other areas
President Buhari should look at are: The Almajiri
school scheme, the Universal Basic Education and
the Tertiary Education Trust Fund and the N87bn
approved for the Ministry but not utilised.
“The whereabouts of the 15 UBEC Toyota Hilux buses
that Chief Wike commandeered for his governorship
election campaign, which he has refused to return to
the Federal Ministry of Education thereby hampering
official activities in the Commission.
“The over N180bn UBEC funds allegedly looted by
Chief Wike and Dame Patience Jonathan through
fraudulent contracts for the supply of textbooks to
higher institutions. (The textbooks were never
supplied)
“The recent fire that razed only the Basic Education
Section of the Ministry of Education building in Abuja
containing relevant indicting documents about Wike’s
activities while he held sway as the Supervising
Minister of Education.
“We should unravel why the fire incident took place
and why only this section should be burnt. Was it for
the sole purpose of covering up the illegal
transactions of the immediate past Supervising
Minister of Education, Chief Nyesom Wike?
“The burnt documents included the ones for the
contracts Wike awarded to himself and his cronies as
a conduit to siphon public funds. We want the Buhari
Administration to, as a matter of urgency, look into
this now that he wants to recover looted funds.”
He, however, pointed out that the move by the
President to recover the funds looted from the
country’s coffers as laudable and a welcome
development.
Ikanya, explained that the impending recovery of
looted funds in the country would be the beginning of
the journey towards building an ideal Nigerian
nation.
“The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives
Congress has thrown its weight behind President
Muhammadu Buhari in his bid to investigate and
recover the billions of naira looted by the immediate
past administration of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.
“We received with great joy news of the resolution by
President Buhari to go after those who stole Nigeria
blind and virtually grounded the country’s economy.
For six years, we shouted ourselves hoarse that
Jonathan’s administration was the most corrupt in
the history of this nation and sadly nobody believed
us.
“But the recent revelations have proved us right. If
not by the grace of God and the resolve of Nigerians
to vote out that visionless government, the ship of
our nation would have been grounded by now,” the
state APC Chairman said.
However, efforts made to get the reaction of the
Special Adviser to the Governor on Media, Sir
Opunapo Inko-Tariah, to react to the allegations
against his boss were futile as several calls and a text
message to his mobile phone did not yield any
response.
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