National Wire About Nigerians, Nigerian Business and Other Stories
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the revelation of another $2.5bn arms purchase scandal in which officials of the Buhari-led All
Progressives Congress (APC) administration were named is another ugly testament of the stench of corruption oozing out from the Buhari
Presidency and the APC, as a party.
The party alerts that with this fresh $2.5 billion arms scandal, reportedly involving the National Security Adviser (NSA) Gen. Babagana
Monguno, who had earlier revealed that $1 billion also for arms cannot be traced, an alarming $3.5 billion (N1.3 trillion) meant for purchase of weapons to secure our country under the Buhari administration has been looted.
According to a statement by Kola Ologbondiyan,
National Publicity Secretary, PDP, the party stressed that the exposed barefaced contract scam in the $2.5 billion scandal as well as the outright disappearance of the $1billion
as earlier revealed by the NSA, show the level of corruption and unscrupulousness among APC leaders and their agents, who are stealing
funds meant for arms while our citizens are daily marauded, pillaged and murdered by terrorists, bandits and kidnappers.
“In fact, the unending exposure of sleaze in the security architecture of the Buhari-led administration has further heightened apprehensions in the public space that the security situation has been turned into a huge
racket for corrupt enrichment of sneaky APC leaders and the cabal in the Buhari Presidency.
“It is more distressing that instead of standing on the side of the people to demand for a clean-up of the system and recovery of the stolen
funds, the APC, as a party, is rather desperate to justify acts of corruption, because its leaders and officials of its government are
involved.
He added that, the party demands that the Buhari Presidency should come clean and offer explanations on both the $2.5 billion and $1 billion.
Furthermore, the PDP restates its call to the National Assembly to conduct a joint open inquest into the funds and other monies drawn
purportedly for the security of our nation under President Muhammadu Buhari’s watch.
