The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) is facing allegations of extensive corruption from its erstwhile media director, even as the the Forum has strongly denied claims of misconduct.
In a letter by the former Director of Media and Public Affairs of NGF, Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, he described the NGF under Director-General Asishana Okauru as a “conduit pipe for a few individuals.”
“The NGF is now more transactional than developmental. It is not an agent of change but a conduit pipe for a few individuals,” Barkindo wrote.
He accused Okauru of turning the organization into his “personal fiefdom,” embezzling millions daily through over-invoicing.
Barkindo claimed the NGF head of secretariat has failed to audit accounts “in the last decade” and enriched himself lavishly while paying staff a pittance.
“In an organization that makes over three billion Naira annually, the total annual income of its entire staff is seventy million naira. Staff of the Forum are always asking where all the…
Source: Leadership Newspaper
