National Broadcasting Commission N2.5 billion Scandal, PDP calls for Probe of Lai Mohammed

The main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for the probe of the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed over the scandal of N2.5 billion rocking National Broadcasting Commission.

The party in a statement signed by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, pointed out that the ICPC’s uncovering of fraud in the N2.5 billion NBC Digital Switch Over, DSO, the contract has further exposed the inherent corruption in the Presidency.

The statement read,

“The party urges the ICPC to go beyond the N2.5 billon NBC fraud and investigate the allegations that Alhaji Lai Mohammed abused the privilege of his office by approving a letter from his office requesting the NBC, an agency under his supervision, to advance a loan of N13.1 million to his ministry for a purported official assignment in China.

READ ALSO: TRAGEDY! Armed Robbers invade a bank in Osun killing a policeman, Medical Doctor

“This further exposes how corruption has become endemic at the NBC under the direct supervision of the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who has not yet cleared his name on the N13.1 million NBC loan scandals since May 2016.

The party further claimed that the failure by the Buhari Presidency to investigate Alhaji Lai Mohammed “for this alleged act of manifest corruption shows how the Presidency has been concealing humongous corruption and sharp practices being perpetrated by APC leaders and cronies of Mr. President in the ministries, departments and agencies.”

READ ALSO: Governor Fayemi Laments As He Reveals The Huge Debt He Inherited From Ayo Fayose

The party argued that as spokesperson of a government, which claims to be committed to the fight against corruption, Lai Mohammed

“cannot, in all honesty, hold such a position with this allegation still hanging around his neck.”

www.sojworld.com (c) January 25, 2019