The Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Gombe zonal office quizzed the former deputy
speaker of Bauchi State house of assembly, Sace A.Dumba, the former caretaker
chairman of Dass local government, Mohammed Suleiman Rabo and former chairman
of People’s Democratic Party in Dass local government area of the state for
sharing about five hundred million naira (N500 million) to twenty local government areas of the State
for the re-election of the former
president Goodluck Jonathan in 2015
general election.
The commissioner for
finance Garba Dahiru reportedly lavished the bribe money on the People’s
Democratic Party (PDP) stakeholders in all the local government areas of the
State, during the administration of Isa Yuguda, the former governor of the
state.
They admitted to the
operatives of EFCC during interrogation that they signed and collected the said
amount from Garba so as to deliver PDP in all the local government areas of the
State.
They also told the
EFCC that the sharing formula was based on the population of each of the local
government in which Bauchi local government collected forty-eight million,
twenty thousand naira (N48, 020.000), Toro collected thirty two-million, four
hundred and ninety thousand naira while Ningi local government collected
twenty-eight million, two hundred and fifty thousand naira.
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