Nigeria’s
Ex.President Olusegun Obasanjo, who ruled the country from 1999-2000,
throughout which he swore to fight corruption within the country, obtained
sizeable helpings of the ill-famed Haliburton bribe cash, the Special
Investigation Panel headed by Inspector-General of Police, Mike Okiro, has
declared in an interim report.
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| Olusegun Obasanjo |
According
to the document, that was submitted to President Umaru Yar’Adua in May last
year by Okiro, showed that Obasanjo shared the total of $74 million
between 2000 and 2001 along with his Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, likewise
as Funsho Kupolokun and Gaius Obaseki, who were sequent heads of the NNPC throughout
the government’s early years.
During
that very same time span, the interim report said, Obasanjo and also the ruling
party, the People’s political party, additionally pocketed $5m from the
Halliburton slush funds.
Other
major beneficiaries included General Sani Abacha, who got $40 million in
1994-95; Ibrahim Aliyu, $11.7million in 2001-2002; former Minister, Dan Etete,
$2.5 million in 1996-1998; Abdulkadir Abacha, $1.8 in 1998; and M. G. Bakari,
$3.1 million.
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