CSOs demand probe, prosecution of govt officials
It's not true - NNPC
APC, PDP keep mute
Lawsuits in
Quoting filings in a suit filed by an ex-employee of British oil giant,
Pro-democracy campaigners have at different times expressed worry over campaign funding and failure of the
According to Bloomberg, a former Glencore Plc employee in July admitted paying a middleman
Zarembok said in a witness statement made public this month that emails sent in 2017 by a
The company then wired
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It declined further comment while Zarembok's case at a
Bloomberg reports that similar details emerged two months ago when
Stimler was notified in
US prosecutors outlined how Stimler and others paid bribes worth millions of dollars in several countries, including to NNPC officials, between 2007 and 2018. A Glencore spokesman didn't respond to a request for comment.
"The conduct described in the plea is unacceptable and has no place in Glencore," the company said in a statement on
Bloomberg had previously reported that the unnamed "Foreign Official 1" refers to
It's not true - NNPC
When contacted, the APC deputy national publicity secretary, Yekini Nabena, simply said, "The story is inconsequential for now until they come up with specifics."
Efforts to get the reaction of the PDP were also not successful as the national publicity secretary of the party, Kola Ologbondiyan, did not respond to phone calls. He was also yet to react to the SMS and
CSOs demand probe
Speaking on the allegations, the executive director of the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, lamented the failure of the government to block leakages and take measures to control the use of dirty money in politics.
Rafsanjani, who is also the coordinator,
"The last election in 2019 showed gross impunity and open use of public funds to finance some individual's elections without being sanctioned.
"There have been credible allegations that show how some officials in the NNPC were involved in financing individual's elections and nothing was done to even stop the continuation of such abuses of public funds.
"Again, with the 2023 elections approaching, such abuses will continue since there is no political will to sanitise our electoral process," Rafsanjani said.
Also, the executive director,
He lamented that this particular case is even more worrisome because the electoral process itself was targeted.
"The CHRICED believes these allegations should be comprehensively investigated. Who collected the bribes in question, and how were the monies used in the electoral process? These questions demand urgent answers, and those found culpable should be held accountable," Zikirullahi said.
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