Okoi Obono-Obla, a former chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property, has said that the Muhammadu Buhari administration failed to fight corruption in the country.
Obono-Obla made the allegation while speaking on the Mic On Podcast hosted by ChannelsTV’s Seun OKinbaloye. “I wrote to the DG, Customs to ask if the person paid customs duties of the vehicles, he said ‘No’, they didn’t pay. I wrote to the Federal Inland Revenue Services to know if the person paid tax on the vehicles; he also said ‘No’ and that they don’t have the records. We went to court to get an order of interim forfeiture, and it was granted pending the hearing of the case.
“They conducted an investigation and sent the report to me. The report confirmed that this senator has over £200 million worth of property in the offshore islands; I sent a copy to the president and one to the Attorney General. Till today, nothing happened,” he added.