President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday querried the
spending of $16 on power project during the administration of former
President Olusegun Obasanjo.
The president was speaking at
the Presidential Villa in Abuja while receiving the Buhari Support
Organization led by the Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs
Service, Ahmed Ali.
Buhari did not mention Obasanjo's name, but
asked where was the power after a former president claimed to have spent
$16bn on the project.
The House of Representatives had in 2008
described $16 billion spent on power by Obasanjo's government as
colossal waste, blaming it on "poor budget planning and a lack of proper
oversight by relevant bodies.
The Socio-Economic Rights and
Accountability Project had also in 2016 urged the acting Chief Justice
of Nigeria, Justice Water Samuel Onnoghen, to immediately appoint an
independent counsel to investigate allegations of corruption in the
spending of $16 billion on electricity by Obasanjo's government.
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