ICPC doing a wonderful job N450m Fraud: EFCC re-arraigns ex – public complaints boss Page 11 minister, Wakil, four others Page 6 ...ensuring public accountability CR CorruptionVOL. 1 NO. 20 REPORTER Monday, June 24th, 2019 www.corruptionreporter.com @corruptionrep [email protected] Battle for ministerial appointments rages as president prepares final list Page 15 The criteria Buhari must adhere to selecting ministers for his 2nd term administration PAGE 4 OPINION Page 7 Governor Ganduje says Page 13 Dealing with head armed robbers, not money- counts in Civil Service eating gorilla, stole $22,000 ...ensuring public accountability CR Monday, June 24th, 2019 Corruption 2 REPORTER ...ensuring public accountability CR Corruption Monday, June 24th, 2019 3 REPORTER EDITORIAL Nigeria’s significant Diaspora: A key resource bloc that government CorruptionCR must explore for nation building REPORTER EDITORIAL TEAM igeria assistance to the diaspora matters”, provides country. appointed as its PUBLISHER one of the This massive export Chairman, and Idris Abiodun Usman largest pool has also come at a cost has been working ofN migrants to other to the country as the assiduously to connect countries of the world, remittances figure Nigeria to a more with the Nigerian fails to capture the formidable Diaspora. CHAIRMAN EDITORIAL BOARD diaspora estimated to productivity and tax The government of Majeed Dahiru be in the region of 5 contributions of these President Muhammadu to 15 million people Nigerians to their host Buhari had floated spread across virtually countries. the first ever Nigerian every continent of the The Diaspora has Diaspora bond, to EDITOR world. been an economic give members of the Mohammed Basah Large swathes of block that Nigeria Nigerian Diaspora Nigerians can be found has never really opportunity to invest in countries such as the harnessed in a formal securely in their home United Kingdom, South way to develop the country and it was GROUP NEWS EDITOR Africa, United States country, the way other subscribed fully at Femi Lawson of America among countries’ citizens in 300million Dollars. others, with London’s Diaspora tend to retain As the president Peckham referred to as a close affinity to their commences his second a mini-Lagos owing to homelands. term, the Nigerian INT’L CORRESPONDENT the preponderance of Beyond unstructured diaspora is a key Willem Vermeer immigrants from Lagos remittances, there constituency that there. is a need to tap into must be explored and The Nigerian Diaspora this knowledge and mined to create an is also known for resource pool to even more prosperous WEBMASTER their excellence in run our national Nigeria that created Benedict Aguele all walks of life in institutions and drive opportunities for all different countries of investments into our her citizens. the world. According country. Rather than seeking PHOTO EDITOR to the 2010 census of A situation where so called “expatriates” Emmanuel Kenny Bako the USA, Nigerians about 40% of trained for jobs that our are the most educated medical doctors in countrymen are doing ethnic group, with the Nigeria, where there with great aplomb highest percentage is already an acute in other climes, the PAGE PLANNER of University shortage of medical government of the day Xtanlee Uche Echidi degree holders of all doctors, does not must seek out these African immigrants portend well for the ones and give them having average country and calls for prominent roles to play household income of a paradigm shift in in the emerging Nigeria $94thousand. government priorities within the fourth MISSION STATEMENT The Nigerian to arrest this drain. industrial revolution Diaspora, which The National that is well underway. was described by Assembly had in 2017 Our Diaspora has Where feeble minds Andrew Nevin, Chief passed a Bill for a shown time and again compromise integrityand Economist of Price Diaspora Commission, that Nigeria is more dignityand refuse to speak Waterhouse Cooper which was promptly than an oil exporting out, we will lift our voices in (PWC), as “Nigeria’s signed into law by country and there is no defence of Nigeria and its biggest export”, in then Acting President better time than now people against corruption, 2018 made remittances Yemi Osinbajo. The that we are trying to inpunity, bad governance of $25billion, a sum Commission would banish the wastefulness that was about 83% later see Hon. Abike of the past, to use them and those who trample the of the Federal budget Dabiri-Erewa, who to create opportunities laws of our land under their and about 8times the described it as “a for our massive feet. Official Development one stop agency for population. ...ensuring public accountability CR 4 Monday, June 24th, 2019 Corruption COVER REPORTER The criteria Buhari must adhere to selecting ministers for his 2nd term administration aving won the last consume what we produce”. More general election and than ever, we need people who been sworn in for a can drive the president’s vision to second four year tenure, fulfilment. Hand having gotten the issue of the leadership of the legislative arm of Youth and women government out of the way, the next In his first term, President Buhari major task confronting President had appointed just three women to Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling his cabinet, but gave key positions All Progressives Congress (APC) is of Finance and Environment to the selection and constitution of a Aisha Mohammed (who went on to competent cabinet that will deliver become Deputy Secretary General on the aspirations of Nigerians who of the United Nations) and Kemi turned out in their number s to cast Adeosun respectively. Both had their votes. performed creditably, as Adeosun Nigeria has been through some steered Nigeria out of a major stormy weather in th4 last four economic recession and stabilized years, with the president working the states at a crisis point when assiduously to entrench a new way payment of salaries had become of looking at government business an uphill task for them not to talk that is a departure from the past of infrastructural development. when there was little delineation Amina Mohammed drove the between public resources and advocacy for the implementation private interests. While the of the UNEP Report on pollution administration scored a lot of points in Ogoni land, which led to the on the anticorruption front with launch of the cleanup of Ogoni and the adoption of the Treasury Single the establishment of the framework Account (TSA) public accounting for its implementation. system, among other measures to The next cabinet requires a higher track government expenditure as dosage of such star performers for well as the prosecution of many gender balance and more dividends who had in the past been perceived to the Nigerian people. The as untouchables in Nigeria. government also needs a lot more One area the President did not get of youthful vigour and creativity to the right policy leadership support deliver on the peculiar challenges to deliver more of his promises to before the nation today. Having Nigerians was in the quality of his sanitized the system, the next level cabinet, which underwhelmed in should incorporate more of the a lot of respects. The cabinet was younger generations, who will carry dominated by core politicians and on the legacy after the generation struggled in a lot of respects such president is no more. as the infamous certificate saga Nigerians, under the pretense of Beyond the mere academic exercise that consumed the former Minister helping to push their nominations of choosing from each state, the Global worldview of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, among through the gamut of security President has a responsibility of The global economic and geopolitical others. clearances that must be obtained for hunting for people in all the states of space is undergoing serious tectonic their nominations to scale through”. the federation who are trust worthy, shifts and the ministers Nigeria Next level This week the news has been and share his worldview, to drive his needs at this time are those with The President’s reelection campaign awash with stories about ongoing agenda for the people. a globalized worldview, who are was encapsulated in the mantra “consultations”, by President able to understand the times and “Next Level”, which essentially Muhammadu Buhari, with leaders Competence prepare Nigeria to effectively with outlined his plan to consolidate on of the APC across the states to seek Nigeria is not lacking in qualified a new world. The world today the areas he had made impact in the their input into the composition of men and women to drive even is driven by Information and first term “Change” government. The his cabinet. the most complex systems in the Communications Technology, “Next Level” would require a solid To achieve this cabinet, the world, as has been proven by our with traditional industries being cabinet that will provide leadership President must look beyond the people who have excelled in so disrupted and dislocated in ways in key sectors of the economy to regular pool of political jobbers many different fields for decades that many couldn’t have imagined ensure the critical infrastructure who see ministerial and other all over the world. President Buhari less than a decade ago. In the last and environment is provided for appointments as “job for the must give competence major decade, the United states of America the average Nigerian to thrive even boys” or compensation for their consideration in selecting members was a major purchaser of Nigerian when they do not have government “loyalty” to the cause of the party of his cabinet to put Nigeria, where it crude oil, but today she is not only connections which has created an or the president. In nominating rightly belongs, at the top echelons the largest producer of crude in economy of influence peddling and his cabinet, bearing in mind the of the comity of nations.