Fasehun Doubts Buhari Can Recover Stolen Funds
Dr Fredrick Fasehun, founder of the Oodua
People’s Congress (OPC), has expressed doubts over the possibility of
President Muhammadu Buhari recovering looted funds stashed in other
countries.
Fasehun, who was responding to allegations of bribery levelled
against him by the All Progressives Congress (APC), said that Buhari
must first clean his own house and let others learn from the way he did
it.
Expressing his bitterness regarding the oil-pipeline surveillance deal struck with the previous Jonathan-led administration, Fasheun said President Buhari’s administration refused to honour their end of the deal.
He said: “We have worked on the pipeline for three months and the Federal Government has not paid us a kobo. They didn’t give us a kobo for mobilisation; we were on the pipelines for three months, they didn’t pay us any money and we have completed the pipeline contract and they are still dilly-dallying on the payment.
“The contract wasn’t awarded to the OPC but a company called New Age and most of the available personnel came from the OPC.
“How can 4,000 people work for the Federal Government and the government will decide not to pay? Where is the civilisation in that? Where is the honesty in that? Is that not wicked, cruel, ungodly and undemocratic?”
The national chairman of the Unity Party of Nigeria, who was one of those who fought for Jonathan’s failed second term ambition, also denied claims that he and his members received money from Jonathan during the election campaign.
He said he only supported Jonathan based on principles, adding that those accusing him of collecting money from the former president should provide evidence.
The Jonathan administration assigned the surveillance of the Nigerian pipelines to the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, a deal that was nullified by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The federal government went on to station armed military personnel to take over the security of the facilities from the ethnic operatives, a development that resulted in a violent clash between militia operatives and the police at an oil pipeline close to Sagamu, Ogun state.
After the incident, the group went on a peaceful protest at the Mosimi, Sagamu, depot of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) over the non-payment of the three months security contract job given to their employer.
Muhammadu Buhari
Expressing his bitterness regarding the oil-pipeline surveillance deal struck with the previous Jonathan-led administration, Fasheun said President Buhari’s administration refused to honour their end of the deal.
He said: “We have worked on the pipeline for three months and the Federal Government has not paid us a kobo. They didn’t give us a kobo for mobilisation; we were on the pipelines for three months, they didn’t pay us any money and we have completed the pipeline contract and they are still dilly-dallying on the payment.
“The contract wasn’t awarded to the OPC but a company called New Age and most of the available personnel came from the OPC.
“How can 4,000 people work for the Federal Government and the government will decide not to pay? Where is the civilisation in that? Where is the honesty in that? Is that not wicked, cruel, ungodly and undemocratic?”
The national chairman of the Unity Party of Nigeria, who was one of those who fought for Jonathan’s failed second term ambition, also denied claims that he and his members received money from Jonathan during the election campaign.
He said he only supported Jonathan based on principles, adding that those accusing him of collecting money from the former president should provide evidence.
The Jonathan administration assigned the surveillance of the Nigerian pipelines to the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, a deal that was nullified by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The federal government went on to station armed military personnel to take over the security of the facilities from the ethnic operatives, a development that resulted in a violent clash between militia operatives and the police at an oil pipeline close to Sagamu, Ogun state.
After the incident, the group went on a peaceful protest at the Mosimi, Sagamu, depot of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) over the non-payment of the three months security contract job given to their employer.
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