Outspoken Senator, Shehu Sani has alleged that friends of President
Buhari are making money from the humanitarian crisis in the North-East.
Sani said that investigations revealed that most
public office holders award contracts without due process, Daily Post reports.
You will recall that the Senate had earlier
called for the resignation of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation
(SGF), Babachir Lawal, over allegations that he misused funds meant for
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
According to Sani, “Our preliminary investigation and report have
shown to us and to the nation that public office holders who are close to the
president simply use the opportunity to award contracts indiscriminately and in
the process not being able to achieve the major aim of addressing the
sufferings and hardship of which people in the Northeast are undergoing in the
last few years.”
“The insurgency that has ravaged the Northeast has created
thousands of orphans and widows and the most we can do for them is to commit
resources and see to it that they return back to their lives, but we have not
done that.”
The
North-East was badly hit in the wake of attacks by members of the Boko Haram
sect.
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