The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Thursday, March 8, 2021, said the revelation of another $2.5 billion arms purchase scandal is a testament of the stench of corruption oozing out from President Muhammadu Buhari-led government and the All Progressives Congress, APC, as a party.
This is as the party argued that the fresh $2.5 billion arms scandal, coupled with the earlier revelation by the National Security Adviser, NSA, Gen. Babagana Monguno (retd), that $1 billion also for arms cannot be traced, means that “an alarming $3.5 billion (N1.3 trillion) meant for the purchase of weapons to secure our country under the Buhari administration has been looted.
The PDP stressed that the exposed barefaced contract scam in the $2.5 billion scandal as well as the outright disappearance of the $1 billion 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.”
A statement signed by Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP spokesman read: “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 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.
“Our 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.”
Source: Vanguard
