Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the sack of a Permanent Secretary who used more than 500 companies to award contracts to himself.
The offending official, who hasn’t been named, was sacked on Tuesday, March 21, on Buhari’s orders. According to report, The former permanent secretary was reportedly taken out of the Federal Secretariat by two police officers.
“We have been monitoring the man and the various companies being used by him to siphon huge sums of money from the ministry, which handles intervention programmes in the Niger Delta region but he has been very smart and suspicious of our movement, thereby making it impossible for us to arrest him despite the ambush we laid for him and his cronies,” a source told Vanguard.
“But Mr. President did not waste time in asking the Head of Service of the Federation to sack the man with immediate effect as soon as he got to know that the man had used over 500 companies to award fake contracts to himself and move huge sums of money from the ministry in question.
“In fact, the discovery of the large scale fraud in the ministry, which has suffered a lot of project failure and the subsequent sacking of the permanent secretary by Mr. President, followed painstaking investigation by the anti-corruption agencies, which will soon charge the man to court,” the source added.