The Director, Media and Public Affairs of the Nigerian Governor’s Discussion board, NGF, Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, has written the NGF chairman and Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRasaq, alleging corruption and lack of transparency within the administration of the group.
The leaked letter additionally uncovered a crack throughout the NGF Secretariat in Abuja, as prime officers are at daggers drawn over alleged monetary fraud and recklessness.
Barkindo opened a can of worms on the working of the secretariat, saying the NGF is now extra transactional than developmental.
He confused that it isn’t an agent of change however “a conduit pipe for a couple of people”, and demanded a forensic audit of all of the NGF accounts together with those who had been opened throughout crises intervals to keep away from the “prying eyes of governors within the title of NIGOFO amongst others”.
Barkindo mentioned the NGF accounts had not been audited for 10 years or extra, stressing that a couple of people had turned the Discussion board and its funds into their private fiefdom.
Elements of the letter learn, “The secretariat’s accounts haven’t been audited within the final decade to say the least, that even the phony auditors invited to mock the auditing course of have at numerous occasions confessed that the job they’re doing for the secretariat is a wash.
“Has anybody ever puzzled why an establishment that midwife’s enormous financial offers just like the Paris-London refunds doesn’t have a professional accountant? In an organisation that makes over three billion Naira yearly, the overall annual revenue of its whole workers is seventy million naira. Employees of the Discussion board are all the time asking the place all the cash goes. There’s a workers that earns N20,000 a month ($20.)
“There are situations. The N630m deductions from the N5bn infrastructure assist fund which resulted in a shouting bout amongst governors when you are chairman was a deliberate ploy to make you look unhealthy amongst your colleagues.
“The secretariat didn’t transient you adequately. Their directions from their grasp’s home, throughout the road, was to set booby traps and obstacles in your path. I’m a witness. On the Paris-London Membership transaction which the NGF midwifed, the NGF made near N19bn out of which the workers of the NGF had been to be rewarded with N850m by the Chairman of the Discussion board, on the time Governor Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar of Zamfara State.
“For my part, the NGF requires a forensic audit of all its accounts together with those who had been opened throughout crises intervals to keep away from the prying eyes of governors within the title of NIGOFO amongst others.”