The Chairman of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has formally submitted his petition against the Managing Director of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA, Ahmed Farouk, to the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, accusing him of corruption and financial impropriety.
In the petition submitted on December 16, through his lawyer, James Onoja, SAN, Dangote demanded the arrest, investigation and prosecution of Ahmed for allegedly living above his means as a public servant.
The petition was received by the office of the Chairman of the ICPC, Dr Musa Adamu Aliyu, SAN.
The Dangote Group chairman specifically accused the NMDPRA boss of spending, without evidence of lawful means of income, sums amounting to over 7 million USD on the education of his four children in different schools in Switzerland for a period of six years upfront.
Dangote in the petition named the four children and their schools in Switzerland including the amount paid for each of them, to establish his allegations.
He alleged that Farouk Ahmed was using the instrumentality of the NMDPRA to embezzle and divert public funds for self gains and pursuit of private interest to the detriment of the Nigerian people, which orchestrated uproar and protest by different groups recently.
The billionaire businessman claimed that Farouk Ahmed throughout his lifetime as an adult worked in the public sector in Nigeria and that the totality of his earnings over the years was nothing close to 7 million USD, allegedly diverted from the public coffers to pay for the education of his teenage children abroad.
Credit: dailypost.ng
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