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Original Post Date: 2010-11-30 Time: 05:00:03 Posted By: News Poster
By Yunus Abdulhamid
Lagos – Corruption in Nigeria is perpetuated by corrupt and inept civil servants and not the political class, the Speaker, House of Representatives Mr. Dimeji Bankole has said.
He said in the past five years, an estimated N1 trillion was taken from the budget annually by civil servants and not returned to the treasury.
Bankole who was speaking at the University of Lagos lecture organized by the institution’s Committee of Faculty Presidents said 20 years ago, 80 per cent of staff of the Ministry of Finance had no good accounting education while 20 per cent had Ordinary National Diploma in Accounting. He attributed the lack of capacity in the ministry as part of why the nation was ripped off even by international finance institutions as a $5 billion loan metamorphosed into $20 billion some two decades later.
He said, “In 2008 when I became the Speaker of the House and the late president Umaru Musa Yar’adua came to present the budget proposal, he said in his speech that the previous year’s budget recorded over 90% performance. Yet, N21 billion was returned to the treasury. That left me to wonder on the disparity between the returned money and the supposed performance of corruption.
“After five weeks of probing and threatening of different people, they returned N350 billion as the unspent budget because I took the issue to the president. The following year, they returned N350 billion just to make us not ask questions. This year, they returned over N200 billion even though we extended the accounting year to march”.
While acknowledging that corruption has pervaded the land including corporate and business and political corruption, he maintained that the civil service in Nigeria has been the biggest perpetrators.
He said, “In a ministry, you will have seven ministers in four years but the permanent secretary would be the same thought the period.
There has been situations where a director of finance would not want to be promoted because he is in charge of finances even after being in that position for 10 years”.
Bankole also faulted a newspaper report attributed to the Central Bank Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi that the National Assembly gets 25% of the annual budget, saying, “the total budget is N4.6 trillion and the National Assembly gets N100 billion. By my calculation, that amounts to 2.5% and I am praying that he was misquoted. I know that five years ago, the annual budget of the CBN was over N200 billion. Let me leave that for another day.”
Bankole who insisted that corruption must be uprooted from Nigeria by the combined forces of the youths and responsible adults, said he found an addition of N2 billion in the N240 billion Abuja airport road construction on the report. He said when he questioned it, he was told it was a typographical error. “This nonsense must stop’ Bankole said.
He further accused the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) of colluding with external forces to rip the nation, saying, “We do not even know the exact amount of crude oil Nigeria exports annually as different agencies bring different figures”.
“The past government built the biggest power plants, spending about $13 billion without building the gas pipelines to power them. Another $6 billion has been spent by the present government. How can they be such comedians?”, he asked.
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Original date published: 30 November 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201011300240.html?viewall=1