Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II
says if embattled former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani
Alison-Madueke is jailed and convicted for corrupt charges, it will send a signal
to other corrupt officials in Nigeria. Sanusi made known in an interview with US TV news, PBS Newshour
"If she (Diezani) goes to court
and is jailed for example, it sends a signal I think that there is a day of
reckoning. In Nigeria, there is no accountability at all and that is why I
think Nigerian corruption is worse than in many parts of the world because it
is the worst type of corruption. Its stealing".
He went on to say that under the
last administration, a billion dollar was stolen every month.
"Frankly, I think a billion
dollars under Jonathan a month was about what we were losing.”
Sanusi said the stealing of oil
money was done via the award of oil blocs to groups of friends who do not have
any knowledge of oil wells.
"Basically what it does is to
allow a group of friends who do not have any kind of operating background to
pay $50 million to access to crude oil in blocs valued at over $2 billion and
they just take the crude, ship it out and don't return the money and there is
no trace of where the money has gone. Someone gets a contract to lift crude
from the terminals to the refineries and in-between that crude is stolen in the
high seas".
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