Whistleblowers To Get N2.8bn For Exposing ‘Looters’
The Federal Government may soon reward whistleblowers with a sum of N2.8 billion for exposing “plunderers” of the state’s coffers.
This would be in fulfillment of the government’s ‘whistleblower policy’ which was launched in December 2016.
According to the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the policy has since raked in N47.565 billion ($151 million) and N8 billion, making a total of N55.565 billion.
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Given the entitlement to a maximum of 5 per cent of the total of recovered loots, the informants may be smiling to the bank with a whooping N2.78 billion.
While noting that the $9.2 million allegedly traced to ex-NNPC GMD, Dr. Andrew Yakubu was as a result of the whistleblower policy, Mohammed noted however that the discovery was not inclusive of the N55.565 billion.
“When we told Nigerians that there was primitive and mindless looting of the national treasury under the last administration, some people called us liars.
“Well, the whistleblower policy is barely two months old and Nigerians have started feeling its impact, seeing how a few people squirreled away public funds.
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“It is doubtful if any economy in the world will not feel the impact of such mind-boggling looting of the treasury as was experienced in Nigeria.
“Yet whatever has been recovered so far, including the $9.2 million by the EFCC, is just a tip of the iceberg,” the minister said.
