The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded the immediate prosecution of the former Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, over his alleged role in the reported National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) two-point-five billion naira fraud.
In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party insisted that Mohammed should be prosecuted alongside the already docked Director General of the NBC, Alhaji Modibbo Kawu.
The PDP recalled that the former minister Mohammed admitted in a statement to the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission that he was “misled” by the Director General of the NBC into approving the payment of the two-point-five billion naira to a private company.
The PDP, therefore, insisted that since the ICPC holds that the former minister’s involvement had come under questioning, he should be made to explain himself in the dock, not as a witness but as a defendant in the matter.
The party also demanded the immediate prosecution of the sacked Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Professor Usman Yusuf, over allegations of misappropriation of nine hundred and nineteen million naira as exposed by a ministerial panel.
The Party stated that Yusuf must be prosecuted in order to track and recover the over twenty-five billion naira allegedly siphoned from the account of the Scheme in the Treasury Single Account (TSA) to service APC interests. The PDP said that the duo must not be left off the hook because of their affiliation with the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Presidency.
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