by Panshak Ibrahim

The president-elect, General Mohammadu Buhari, says he will investigate the alleged missing $20 billion from the account of the Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation, NNPC.

Buhari made the disclosure on Sunday, April 26, while addressing a delegation of Adamawa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, who paid him a congratulatory visit at his campaign headquarters in Abuja.

He said it was unfortunate that the present government failed to investigate the missing money case when it was raised by the former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Sanisu Lamido Sanusi.

Speaking in Hausa langauage, Buhari made it clear that his administration would not tolerate pilfering of public funds.

“I heard that some people have started returning money; I will not believe it until I go and see for myself. Imagine a situation where the former CBN governor who by God ‘s grace would later become 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 to know whether it was true that the money was missing or not, they simply found a reason to remove him. So these are the issues we are talking about.”