{"id":21394,"date":"2019-01-24T19:46:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T19:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=21394"},"modified":"2019-01-24T19:46:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T19:46:18","slug":"buharis-minister-in-n20b-alleged-bribe-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=21394","title":{"rendered":"Buhari&#8217;s Minister in N20b Alleged Bribe Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p class=\"hide-if-no-js\"><a id=\"set-post-thumbnail\" class=\"thickbox\" href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-admin\/media-upload.php?post_id=21394&amp;type=image&amp;TB_iframe=1\" aria-describedby=\"set-post-thumbnail-desc\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-266x266 \" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Okowa-2019-Gubernatorial-Campaign-online-banner-ad-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"830\" height=\"103\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.newsroom247.com.ng --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The sacked Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TeTFund), Abdullahi Baffa, said he was forced out of office owing to his refusal to provide monetary kickbacks to Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Baffa told BBC Hausa on Wednesday that the Minister had sent a contractor to him demanding his share of N200 billion disbursed by the agency to tertiary institutions in Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He stated that he had never collected a dime from any of the benefiting tertiary institutions.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cIf they bring any evidence indicting me, I\u2019m ready to accept death punishment,\u201d Mr Baffa said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Bichi also said he was sacked over \u2018false\u2019 accusations of insubordination, inaccessibility and speaking to the press without authorisation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cOn Friday night, I was informed at the Presidential Villa that Minister of Education came with a letter reporting me to the president.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThis is not the first time Adamu Adamu reported me to the president, requesting my sack but the president stood his ground and refuse to sack me,\u201d he told the BBC.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">When the interviewer asked him about the authenticity of his source, Mr Bichi said he was certain the information was accurate.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cMy source is reliable. On Saturday night, I was reliably informed that I would be removed.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=17731&amp;ad_type=81&amp;rl=180\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cI asked what was my offence? They alleged that the offences were inaccessibility, insubordination and speaking to the press without the minister\u2019s authorisation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cAllegation of inaccessibility is unfounded as the minister knows that I spend more time in the ministry as his technical aide than in my TETfund office.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cI do not regret my refusal to obey the minister\u2019s directives because I cannot sabotage my country.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>\u201cGo and ask the minister. Eight months ago, Mallam Adamu Adamu sent one of his biggest contractors to tell me that the minister was angry with me for three reasons.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>\u201cThe third issue is that TETffund disbursed over N200 million to universities without remitting the percent kickback, amounting to at least N20 billion at 10 percent rate.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>\u201cThe fact is that since I started this job, I have never demanded a single kobo from any university. If any university shows proof of collecting kickback from them, let death sentence be passed on me,\u201d he added.(Daily Post) <\/strong><\/div>\n<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.newsroom247.com.ng --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The sacked Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TeTFund), Abdullahi Baffa, said he was forced out of office owing to his refusal to provide monetary kickbacks to Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu. Baffa told BBC Hausa on Wednesday that the Minister had sent a contractor to him demanding his share of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[5290,5288,5289],"class_list":["post-21394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-abdullahi-baffa","tag-adamu-adamu","tag-tetfund"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/adamu.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-5z4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21396,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21394\/revisions\/21396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}