Some time ago, we
brought you an exclusive gossip that some female politicians are squandering
tax payers money on their private jets…just yesterday, the House of
Representatives passed a resolution to probe the expenditures of the Minister
of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Maduekwe, on a private jet she
allegedly charters for private use and maintains with public funds.
According to the sponsor
of the bill, Hon Samuel Adejare who represents Lagos State, the minister
maintains the jet with 500,000euros or N130 million monthly.
"Thus, in the last
two years, the minister has committed at least N3.120bn to maintaining the private
jet, which is used solely for her personal needs and those of her immediate
family, which is an appalling act" he said.
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He also lamented that the frequent use of the
Jet by the Minister and her family members has caused an estimated N10billion
to be spent on it for maintenance, fuel, payment of crew members, hanger
rentage and others.
During their usual sittings,
the house members voted unanimously to adopt the resolution and mandated its
committee on Public Accounts to investigate the matter and provide results
within 3weeks.
While on the same saga, a member of the House, Hon Aminu
Suleiman through a motion he presented to the house, revealed that the Nigeria
Liquified Natural Gas NLNG had not remitted any of its generated revenue to the
federation account since 2004 till date. The house committee on Natural Gas was
directed to investigate the claims by Hon Aminu. Hmm…..there is indeed another
fire on the mountain…and let’s see who will run this time.
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