CORRUPTION: NPA Earns N162bn While Remits Only N2bn – Oshiomhole

On Tuesday, August 18, Adams Oshiomhole, the governor of Edo state, said that the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) only remitted N2billon out of a total sum of N162billion it generated in a year.

At the National Delegates’ Conference of the National Union of Roads Transport Workers in Abuja the governor disclosed that the data he quoted was from an official report.

Oshiomhole also called on the union to support Buhari’s anti-corruption war.

The governor advised the members of the National Peace Committee (NPC) to give the expected attention to the place of justice in the quest for lasting peace.

 Oshiomhole said: “So, I want to propose to the President of the NLC that you should advise the members of the National Peace Committee to include justice, national justice at the peace committee because peace is a product of justice. So, for us to have peace, there must be justice otherwise we are going to have the peace of the graveyard and there can be no justice if one person can pocket $6bn. Last week, someone told us and this was an official report that in one federal parastatal, the NPA, they admitted to collecting N162billon in one year. They spent N160billion out of that and remitted N2billion to the federal government. Is that justice? Can someone plead in defence of this kind of abuse?”

Ayuba Wabba, the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), in his turn promised to support the president’s crusade against corruption.

He said: “We are therefore saddened by the news making the rounds that the peace committee recently visited President Buhari to persuade him against bringing to book those involved in the scandalous theft, which we now understand runs into several trillions of naira.We call on the eminent members of this committee not to diminish their standing in the eyes of the Nigerian public by trying to stand in the way or better still, act as an obstacle to the retrieval of our commonwealth by these erstwhile public officers, who have plainly betrayed the trust of the Nigerian people.”