Former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Mallam Lamido Sanusi has disclosed that contrary to claims of an efficient kerosene subsidy system by senior administration officials, those in charge of the system are corruptly enriching themselves and their cronies.
Sanusi told the Agence France Presse in an interview conducted in Lagos that the subsidy funds helps acquire “private jets…yachts… and expensive property(of some public office holders) in Beverly Hills (United States) and Switzerland.”
Sanusi also said that President Jonathan was a nice man surrounded by extremely incompetent and corrupt people.
His words: “When you sit with the President, he appears a nice and simple person who is trying to do his best.His greatest failing obviously is that he is surrounded by people who are extremely incompetent, who are extremely fraudulent and whom he trusts.”
He added that his removal from his position as CBN Governor was payback for his closeness to opposition figures and exposure of the rot in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation which has reached an all time high.
He said, “Since 2009, I have been annoying the government… There are people who think I have the wrong friends; people who think maybe I have not distanced myself enough from people who are seen to be opposition figures.”
“I think everybody has known that NNPC is rotten. I don’t think it has ever been as bad as this,” he told the French News Agency.
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