Former Governor of the Central bank of Nigeria and current Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has said that under that administration of former Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, about a billion dollar went missing every month. Sanusi said this on American TV show, The PBS NewsHour, which were looking at corruption in Nigeria.
“Frankly, I think a billion dollars under Jonathan a month was about what we were losing.” He said
He explain further “Basically, all it does is allow a group of people, who themselves don’t have any kind of operating background, to pay $50m for access to the crude oil in blocs, valued at over $2bn and they just take the crude oil, ship it out and don’t return the money and there is no trace of where the money has gone.
“Someone gets a contract to lift crude from the terminals to the refineries and in between, that crude is stolen; it is stolen on the high sea.”
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Sanusi also said if Former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke is sent to jail, it will be a warning to others, “If she goes to court and is jailed for example, it sends a signal; I think that there is a day of reckoning,” he said
