Fresh $2bn arms scandal: PDP says Buhari Presidency, APC stink

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said on Thursday that’s the disclosure of another $2.5bn arms purchase scandal in which officials of the Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration were named was another ugly testament of the stench of corruption oozing out from the Buhari Presidency and the APC, as a party.

In a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party alerted Nigerians to the fact that with this fresh $2.5 billion arms scandal, reportedly involving the National Security Adviser (NSA) Gen. Babagana Monguno, who had earlier disclosed that $1 billion also for arms couldn’t be traced, an alarming $3.5 billion (N1.3 trillion) meant for purchase of weapons to secure the country under the Buhari administration had been looted.

The party further stressed that the exposed barefaced contract scam in the $2.5 billion scandal as well as the outright disappearance of the $1billion as earlier disclosed by the NSA, showed the level of corruption and unscrupulousness among APC leaders and their agents, who were stealing funds meant for arms while citizens were daily marauded, pillaged and murdered by terrorists, bandits and kidnappers.

“In fact, the unending exposure of sleaze in the security architecture of the Buhari-led administration has further heightened apprehensions in the public space that the security situation has been turned into a huge racket for corrupt enrichment of sneaky APC leaders and the cabal in the Buhari Presidency.

“It is more distressing that instead of standing on the side of the people to demand for a clean-up of the system and recovery of the stolen funds, the APC, as a party, is rather desperate to justify acts of corruption, because its leaders and officials of its government are involved, ” PDP said.

The party demanded that the Buhari Presidency should come clean and offer explanations on both the $2.5 billion and $1 billion.

The PDP also restated its call to the National Assembly to conduct a joint open inquest into the funds and other monies drawn purportedly for the security of the nation under President Muhammadu Buhari’s watch.