PDP blasts Buhari's administration  over alleged N48b ministry fraud 


 

 The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has declared that the allegation of over N48 billion fraud in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has exposed “monstrous corruption in the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration,”  

 They went on to say that“The fraud in the Ministry of Agriculture has further exposed how officials of the Buhari administration and corrupt APC leaders have turned government ministries and agencies into their Automated Teller Machine (ATM) just as the case of exposed looting of billions of naira in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), the Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS) and National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) among others.”


The PDP stated that such a revelation had again shown “how the corrupt cabal in the Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) have been pillaging our national treasury and fleecing our nation of billions of naira through fraudulent transactions in various ministries, departments and agencies, while parading before Nigerians as saints.”
The PDP further claimed that “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.”

The Party went further to appeal to theN Assembly as well as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to immediately “commence an investigation into the behemoth of fraud in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.”

“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 PDP insisted.


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