In a letter to AbdulRahman AbdulRasaq, the governor of Kwara State and chairman of the Nigerian Governor’s Forum (NGF), Director of Media and Public Affairs Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo accused the NGF chairman of corruption and a lack of transparency in the organization’s management.
The leaked letter also revealed a weakness in the NGF Secretariat in Abuja, where senior officials are fearing for their lives due to accusations of carelessness and financial theft.
The leaked letter also revealed a weakness in the NGF Secretariat in Abuja, where senior officials are fearing for their lives due to accusations of carelessness and financial theft.
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By claiming that the NGF is now more transactional than developmental, Barkindo opened a bag of worms regarding the secretariat’s operations.
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In order to prevent the “prying eyes of governors in the name of NIGOFO among others,” he emphasized that it is not a change agent but rather “a conduit pipe for a few individuals” and urged a forensic audit of all NGF accounts, including those that were opened during times of crisis.
Barkindo emphasized that a few people had converted the Forum and its money into their own fiefdom, pointing out that the NGF accounts had not been audited in at least ten years.
Has anyone ever questioned why there isn’t a certified accountant working for the organization that handles such large financial transactions as the Paris-London refunds? The yearly income of all employees at an organization with over three billion naira in revenue is seventy million naira. The Forum staff is always inquiring as to where all the money is going. One employee makes N20,000 ($20) every month.
There are some cases. The intentional effort to discredit you in the eyes of your colleagues was the N630 million deductions from the N5 billion infrastructure support fund that resulted in a yelling match among governors during your tenure as chairman.
“You were not sufficiently briefed by the secretariat. They were told to place roadblocks and booby traps in your way from their master’s residence across the street. As a witness, I am. In the Paris-London Club transaction that the NGF mediated, the NGF made over N19 billion, of which the NGF’s employees were to receive N850 million as compensation from the Forum’s Chairman, Governor Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar of Zamfara State, at the time.
To protect itself from the prying eyes of governors acting on behalf of NIGOFO and other entities, I believe that the NGF needs to conduct a forensic audit of all its accounts, even those that were opened during times of crisis.