Buhari To Probe NNPC’s Missing $20bn

President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd) has said that investigations into the circumstances of an alleged $20 billion missing from the coffers of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, will be a priority for the incoming administration, Vanguard reports.

He made this known while receiving a delegation of political stakeholders from Adamawa State.

Noting the response of the outgoing administration to the allegation of the missing $20 billion raised by former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Alhaji Lamido Sanusi, the president-elect, who spoke in Hausa said: “I heard that some people have started returning money; I will not believe it until I see it by myself.

“Imagine a situation where the former CBN governor, who by God‘s grace, is now the Emir of Kano, raised an issue of missing billions of money, not in naira but in dollars, $20 billion”.

“What happened, instead of investigating whether it was true, they simply found a reason to remove him. So, these are the issues we are talking about”.

“This issue is not over yet. Once we assume office, we will order a fresh probe into the matter. We will not allow people to steal money meant for Nigerians to buy shares and stash away in foreign lands.”