Sometimes in 2015 after the electoral triumph of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the presidential poll, I visited the morgue of the General Hospital in Kachia Local Government Area to complete arrangements for a hearse to transport a relative’s remains the following day. After payment of the necessary fees, my attention was drawn to the presence of labourers extending the walls of the hospital far into the bush.
I asked one of the staffers why the walls were being extended, insisting that the money could be deployed to rehabilitate some dilapidated structures in the hospital that were then an eyesore. His response pointed to the fear of Buhari: “The job for the construction of the walls of the hospital was awarded by the then Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) that was under the leadership of General Muhammadu Buhari (retd). Shortly after he relinquished the chairmanship position of the Fund, the contractor simply vanished into thin air. He just returned last week to continue the…
Source: Leadership Newspaper
