Posted on: 07:02 Fri, 22 Jan 2016



Nigeria’s minister of Information and Culture, Lai
Mohammed has revealed that 21 people
benefited from the arms deal money which was
allegedly distributed Sambo Dasuki, former
national security adviser (NSA).
The Minister made the disclosure at a meeting
with online media publishers in Lagos.

“Some have said the government is dwelling too
much on the war against corruption to the
detriment of other areas of governance.

Our response to that is that indeed, there is nothing
like dwelling too much on this war, which is a
war of survival for our nation”, Mr Mohammed
told the publishers.

”The situation is grim, very grim indeed, as far
as corruption is concerned. That is why the
federal government is embarking on this
sensitisation campaign our approach is not to
vilify anyone but to use facts and figures to give
Nigerians a sense of the cost of corruption.”

”The amount received by 21 individuals and
companies from ONSA is more than the 2015
zonal intervention project budget by N2.829bn.

Whereas the sum of N51.829bn was
appropriated for 1,278 projects in the zonal
intervention projects for 2015, a total of 21
individuals and companies benefited from the
Dasukigate to the tune of N54.659bn as we
know so far”.

”The implication, therefore, is that the amount
received by 21 individuals and companies is
more than the 2015 zonal intervention project
budget by N2.829bn. Furthermore, the value of
what beneficiaries of Dasukigate contributed to
development is zero, compared to how the lives
of Nigerians would have been transformed,
poverty reduced and livelihoods improved by the
zonal intervention projects which would have
cost N2.829bn less than Dasukigate”.