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Endemic Corruption: How gov’t officials paid for one hospital project 5 times – IC Chairman

The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, Dr. Musa Aliyu (SAN), Wednesday narrated how one hospital project was paid for 100 percent by government officials, five times, without building the hospital.

He spoke at a media engagement with Northern media executives and Bureau Chiefs, in Abuja, this afternoon.

Dr. Aliyu said that the above case was only one of very many instances of the endemic corruption in the country and that it must not be allowed to continue, urging the media and well-meaning of the Nigerian public to sign-unto the fight against the scourge.

His words, “There was a case of a hospital which was paid for 100 percent, five times. Yet, there was nothing to show for it. That tells you how bad the problem of corruption has become. We cannot continue like this.

“All of us should hands to tackle corruption in this country. Fighting corruption is not easy because when you fight corruption, corruption fights back. Those involved in corruption are united in their evil. They try to lie against us in order to discredit what we are doing. But as a nation, all well-meaning of the public must hands to tackle corruption.

“We don’t have an option. If we don’t tackle corruption, our children will have no future. If we don’t fight corruption, those involved will wreck the economy and we will all suffer for it.”

Dr. Aliyu gave another instance of the corruption in the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) where a government official listed his wife, son and an inlaw in the payroll.

He said the son was a mere student, far from working age.

The IC Chairman added that N20 billion which would have been taken by officials of another agency was blocked, last year, attesting to the commission’s strategy of proactive actions, to prevent frauds in the MDAs.

Huge assets abroad

Dr. Aliyu disclosed that huge assets stolen from the country and other African nations were kept abroad and that his team was collaborating with other anti-graft agencies within Nigeria and other African countries to trace and repatriate such assets.

Although the IC boss said he could not immediately put a figure to the assets, in property and cash, a forum of African anti-graft agencies has been formed to strengthen the efforts to identify and return such assets back home.

He criticized countries in the Global North, where such assets are held, for helping corrupt Africans to loot the continent, by providing them a safe haven for the proceeds of corruption.

Dr. Aliyu also condemned the practice by nationals of Global Northern countries where Nigeria’s assets and those of other African nations are kept for coming up with various obstacles to repatriating them, when traced.

Even when the authorities of those countries agree to release the assets, their nationals would come up with proposals to serve as consultants who must be paid huge commissions for any such repatriation to be effected.

The African Anti-Graft Forum, Dr. Aliyu revealed, has commenced actions towards encouraging African experts to team-up with and establish consortia, a view to tracing such assets and providing necessary assistance towards their repatriation.

Media role

The Chairman appealed to the Nigerian media to see anti-corruption as a duty, particularly given their commitment to enthroning a just, prosperous nation, adding that corruption must be dealt with for the nation to witness the socio-economic development of Nigerians’ dream.

His team, he revealed, has commenced intense budgetary analysis, as well as, tracking and had, in some cases, blocked provisions where it was obvious that public funds would be miss-used.

Answering a question on the disposal of properties recovered from corrupt public officials, Dr. Aliyu said that IC would constantly adhere to the Proceeds of Crime Act and that the commission had set up a committee of critical stakeholders, including Civil Society Organisations, the media, and government procurement experts to ensure a hitch-free, transparent public auctions of such assets.

The chairman advocated a review of the nation’s laws to make corruption less attractive, as according to him, in some jurisdictions, even in Africa, anyone found guilty of corruption would not benefit from it.

Instead such a person is made pay the amount involved 100 percent to public coffers, with interest and barred from holding public office for as much as 10 years.

He challenged the Nigerian public to stop eulogizing corrupt people, who indeed have been discovered to be the problem of the society.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/02/endemic-corruption-how-govt-officials-paid-for-one-hospital-project-5-times-ic-chairman/

Nawa oo.

While Musa no name de state Nlfpmod.

I have been telling people, if we sit down to analyse all our budgets, 70% are irrelevant. Yet people are being taxed to death to generate revenues that will be squandered.

You can be sure that those government officials are civil servants and not politicians.
Politicians dey chop dem own ooo but civil servants don chop this country to death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k27bf7uFJCY?si=bfykVrWsx7o1q6BP

Why you will never leave your footwear outside again

USAID money. Trump has never been wrong

Mention those who are involved or you are also as useless as those people too,mention the government official who put his family on the payroll,perhaps you know they have your secrets too so you can't reveal theirs.wheb it is time for God to deal with una...

USAID has led to sufferings and the loss of countless African lives by incentivicing corrupt African leaders to forment crisis to keep getting aid money. Sad

Corruption will neva end in Naija trust me

someone said Satan had his headquarter in Nigeria and have branches in other countries.

We all will still die and leave the money

Oluwa oo

The IC Chairman’s revelation about a hospital project paid for five times with no results shows how Nigeria is deep-rooted in corruption.

This systemic theft undermines development and denies citizens essential services. Fighting corruption requires collective action, stronger laws not this sh**t law, and international cooperation to recover stolen assets.

Nigerians must stop glorifying corrupt individuals and hold them able from the president to the jobless man sitting at home. The future of the nation depends on tackling this scourge head-on ahh ahh.😡

Nigeria needs a Donald trump

Too bad for him not to mention the culprit and he wants corruption to end.

More corrupt when you try to shield corruption by not giving out complete information.

See your life?

https://youtube.com/shorts/b0AwH4lY2nU?si=fa9Zj6ff-fOtB3uH

What APC can not do does not exist

Nigeria is Fantastically Corrupt.........Dabid Cameron

Hmmmm..

Habbaaa

K

E shock you

Hmmm

Tinubu and Buhari govts - axis of corruption

Ineffectual parrot. What do you want ordinary Nigerians to do with that information when you know people did that and you don't arrest them and prosecute them to provide the money.

Why is he as IC telling us this story when the culprits are not mentioned.

iwaeda:
I have been telling people, if we sit down to analyse all our budgets, 70% are irrelevant. Yet people are being taxed to death to generate revenues that will be squandered.

Same IGR my yoruba brethren are using to boast?

The information about Tilumbu forgery, Guinea citizenship, drug trafficking, Lagos embezzling, attending schools before they were founded, what did you do with the info?

ReubenE:
Ineffectual parrot. What do you want ordinary Nigerians to do with that information when you know people did that and you don't arrest them and prosecute them to provide the money.

Why is he as IC telling us this story when the culprits are not mentioned.

Most of this payment were done under Mr Saint Buhari, God punish his ers

ValarDoharis:
The information about Tilumbu forgery, Guinea citizenship, drug trafficking, Lagos embezzling, attending schools before they were founded, what did you do with the info?

I am trying to understand what you are asking and how it is related to what I said.

Did you see me say anywhere I am law enforcement?

So the government official does not have name?