The presidency has dismissed
claims that President Muhammadu Buhari was planning to use part of the looted
funds for his re-election, while also using the anti-graft agencies to muzzle
his political opponents.
Special Assistant to the
President on Justice Sector Reform, Juliet Ibekaku-Nwagwu, said the insinuation
was false in its entirety.
In a chat with Punch, she said
the President remained focused and would not allow any perception stop him from
fighting corruption.
Ibekaku-Nwagwu said: “How will he
use the looted funds for his re-election? In this country, it is the
Appropriation Act which appropriates what should happen to any money that comes
into Nigeria or money generated by revenue agencies; that is very clear.
“You know that, now, we have the
Treasury Single Account and any money that goes into the Federation Account
cannot come out without what we call obligated money.
“The money would have been obligated
possibly by a ministry because it has set a budget for what it wants to do and
all those monies that are obligated, you cannot take them out without showing
to the government or to the ministry or the permanent secretary where the money
is going to.
“Let me say, every effort has
been made by this government to ensure that there is a clear procedure through
which government activity can be funded and that you cannot just wake up, take
money from the TSA and walk away with it.
“The Federal Government just
passed an executive council memo where it stated that every money spent by
government that is above N5m must be published.
“So, the Accountant-General of
the Federation now has an obligation to publish, so what we expect citizens can
do within that framework is to begin to identify all those pieces of
information and see if any of those funds will go into an election.”
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