Plateau State Commissioner for Information and Communication, Honourable Muhammad Abubakar Badu, has challenged the anti-corruption claims of APC Presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari and tasked him to explain how N2 billion disappeared from the petroleum ministry when he was in charge.

Speaking on Monday during a brief ceremony to mark the conferment of the honour of Ethics Ambassador on him by the Centre for Ethics and Self Value Orientation in Jos; He said “War against corruption or anti-corruption crusade must be holistic”.

Plateau State Commissioner for Information and Communication, Honourable Muhammad Abubakar Badu, has challenged the anti-corruption claims of APC Presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari and tasked him to explain how N2 billion disappeared from the petroleum ministry when he was in charge.

Speaking on Monday during a brief ceremony to mark the conferment of the honour of Ethics Ambassador on him by the Centre for Ethics and Self Value Orientation in Jos; He said “War against corruption or anti-corruption crusade must be holistic”.

He dismissed the APC presidential candidate’s claims and pronouncements about fighting corruption as “sheer pretence and electioneering gallery show”, recalling that as minister of petroleum under the General Olusegun Obasanjo administration in the 1970s, the whopping sum of N2 billion disappeared under his watch, and was traced to an aircraft arrested by the government of Idi Amin in Uganda.

According to Muhammad, at that time, the naira was stronger than the American dollar, and that translates as robbing Nigeria of vital development projects, especially as that government failed to account for the money up to this day.

The State’s imagemaker maintained that, for discerning people to believe and subscribe to his anti-corruption political war cry, the APC presidential hopeful must explain to the world how the money disappeared from the ministry’s coffers, and the diplomacy that resolved the controversy that led to the arrest of the aircraft carrying the cash in a Uganda airport.

Stressing that, “In as much as it is desirable to combat corruption in high places as a bane of national development, it is as much desirable that this trip to equity be embarked on by those with clean hands”.

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Buhari Should Account for N2 Billion Missing Fund- Muhammad Badu