President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari
The incoming administration of the
President-elect, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is set to revisit
the reports of panels set up by the National Assembly to investigate
various financial scandals in Federal Government’s agencies and
ministries.
Saturday PUNCH gathered in
Abuja, on Friday, that top among reports that the administration would
examine include the fuel subsidy and N255m bulletproof cars scam probes
by the House of Representatives as well as the pension scandal
investigation by the Senate.
It was gathered that Buhari’s
pronouncement that he would take another look at the missing $20bn was a
precursor to the administration’s desire to retrieve illegally held
public funds.
A former Governor of the Central Bank of
Nigeria, now Emir of Kano, Mohammed Sanusi II, had alleged that the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation did not account for $20bn due to
be remitted to the Federation Account.
A competent source close to Buhari, who
pleaded for anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the
media, said the general knew that he had limited time within which to
turn around the nation, as such, he had no intention of wasting public
funds on endless probes.
