In a country where there is so much unemployment, companies are shutting down or laying off workers due to high cost of production, where maternal and child mortality is still high due to insufficient health care, lack of hospital facilities and neglect on the part of hospital personnel and so on, it happened that the N3.58 billion mansion of former Minister of Petroleum resources was confiscated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
On Monday it was gathered that EFCC took over one of Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke's properties. The property which is situated in Asokoro area of Abuja is valued at N3.58 billion ($18,000,000 using official exchange rate). Its internal furnishings is estimated at $2,000,000 and it even as a bullet proof gym (for goodness sake, what do you need a bullet proof gym for?).
The EFCC boss Ibrahim Magu explained that in the month of April, it seized wristwatches valued around £2 million. One watch is estimated at £1.4 million from the wife of the chairman of Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts Nigeria Limited, Mr Jide Omokore while the second is from petroleum minister Mrs Alison-Madueke and is valued at £600,000.
On Monday it was gathered that EFCC took over one of Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke's properties. The property which is situated in Asokoro area of Abuja is valued at N3.58 billion ($18,000,000 using official exchange rate). Its internal furnishings is estimated at $2,000,000 and it even as a bullet proof gym (for goodness sake, what do you need a bullet proof gym for?).
The EFCC boss Ibrahim Magu explained that in the month of April, it seized wristwatches valued around £2 million. One watch is estimated at £1.4 million from the wife of the chairman of Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts Nigeria Limited, Mr Jide Omokore while the second is from petroleum minister Mrs Alison-Madueke and is valued at £600,000.
Imagine what these stolen funds would have done if channeled properly. Imagine the many lives that would have been saved in our hospitals. Imagine the jobs that would have been created and how crime would have reduced. Imagine the pride the country would have rather than the shame of being labelled 'one of the poorest and most corrupt nations in the world. Imagine...just imagine.
Though the government of the day is yet to give 100% commitment to fighting corruption it should equally work on ways to clog the sink of corruption. If this is not done, we will still hear of such cases especially when a new regime takes over.
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