The Federal Government of Nigeria's Slams 9-Count Charge Against Former NNPC Boss, Mr. Andrew Yakubu

                                                  

The Federal Government, on Friday, preferred nine-count money laundering charge against former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mr. Andrew Yakubu, who was accused of stashing over N3billion at his house in Kaduna.

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, recovered the alleged loot which was in foreign currencies, from Yakubu’s guest house situated at Sabon Tasha, Kaduna State, following a tip-off by a whistle-blower.

EFCC said it had while raiding the house, discovered the sum of $9.7million and £74,000 that Yakubu hid in a fireproof safe inside the house. A Federal High Court in Kano, on February 13, granted an order that forfeited the recovered money to FG, a decision Yakubu had since challenged, maintaining that the money was accumulated gifts he received during different ceremonies.

We are hoping that this should served as a lesson to other government office holder in Nigerian, expecting that this suit will end in the favour of this Nation Nigerian. In the time past some political office holder have made away with a huge sum of money like this.

Come to think of this if the former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mr. Andrew Yakubu can have this sum of money in the guest house one will be tempted to ask , what the former NNPC Boss will have in his Swiss account. Needles to talk about the property he as acquired for him self in and outside Nigeria.

If not for whistle blower maybe some one like Mr. Andrew Yakubu would have been nominated for a position in this current administration or personally declared his intention for a political office, All thanks to God Almighty for not allowing this kind to happened.