Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has given a profound illustration of the cost of corruption in Nigeria, saying that the $9.2 million seized from a former boss of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC could build 774 health centres.
The money, found in a bungalow in Sabon Tasha in Kaduna by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, could also fund all the requirements of the centres for a whole year, he said.
Alhaji Mohammed gave the illustration in a statement urging Nigerians not to be discouraged about recent court verdicts on corruption cases.
”Against this background, one can therefore imagine what Nigeria could have achieved with the $20 billion that was estimated to have been looted in the last 3 years of the immediate past administration, either in the areas of job creation or infrastructural…
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