The eight sins of the sacked DGs

1. Donation by a woman DG of N700m to PDP presidential campaign in 2015

2. Furnishing of an office at N800m

3. Construction of a store at N240m instead of N40m

4. Failure to account for revenue by a DG who diverted equipment to his private medium

5. N15b found in a secret account in violation of TSA

6. More than N6b debt in an agency generating at least N9b monthly

7. Personal assistant remanded in prison for alleged N17m bribery but DG stayed on

8. DG implicated in alleged N68b fraud.

No less than 10 of the 26 Directors-General and heads of parastatals sacked yesterday will be handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC for investigation and prosecution.

Abujacitynews learnt that President Buhari’s decision to sack the chief executives stemmed from reports of large scale corruption in their agencies.

The agencies under the searchlights of the EFCC and ICPC include but are not limited to the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC; National Broadcasting Commission, NBC; Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN; Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE; National Women Development Centre(NWDC); Industrial Training Fund, ITF; Nigerian Investment Promotion Council, NIPC; Nigeria Export-Import Bank, NEXIM and Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF.

An anonymous source told THE NATION that “... at least 10 of those sacked chief executives will be handed over to the EFCC and the ICPC. The report on their misconduct is ready for these anti-graft agencies to act upon.

“All security agencies received the list of those affected about 24 hours before the formal announcement. They will all be placed on surveillance until cleared.

“Some of them have actually appeared before EFCC and ICPC in the last eight months. Their cases are under various stages of investigation.

“The revelations are mind-boggling and it is sad that some of these chief executives continued with the impunity even after a new government had taken over.”