Muhammadu Buhari Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === US$2.8 billion NNPC scandal === {{See also|Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation}} During his tenure as Federal Commissioner of Petroleum and Natural Resources, US$2.8 billion allegedly went missing from the accounts of the [[Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation]] (NNPC) in [[Midland Bank|Midlands Bank]] in the United Kingdom. General Ibrahim Babangida later allegedly accused Buhari of being responsible for this fraud.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brimtime.com/2013/06/ibb-hits-buhari-harder-over-28billion.html|title=IBB Hits Buhari Harder: Over N2.8Billion Was Stolen By Buhari and Seen In His UK Bank|date=17 June 2013|website=brimtime.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150119183407/http://www.brimtime.com/2013/06/ibb-hits-buhari-harder-over-28billion.html|archive-date=19 January 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Uko|first1=Ndaeyo|title=Romancing the Gun: The Press as Promoter of Military Rule|date=December 2003|publisher=Africa World Press|isbn=978-1-59221-189-0|page=90|quote=Buhari's Decree 4, which led to his overthrow, was seen by Nigerians as an attempt to prevent the press from digging into a scandal which he was supposed to have known something about: the mysterious disappearance of the huge sum of N2.8 billion from the NNPC while it was under his supervision.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Frynas|first1=Jedrzej Georg|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0W8-vc7AlFAC&q=nnpc+buhari+2.8+billion&pg=PA41|title=Oil in Nigeria (Politics and Economics in Africa)|date=1 April 2000|publisher=Lit Verlag|isbn=978-3-8258-3921-5|page=41|quote=This followed evidence from a US accountancy firm that some 2.8 billion Naira (roughly US $4 billion) had not been accounted for by the bank records of the NNPC. The Irikife Tribunal, which investigated the matter, even failed to summon Generals Buhari and Obsanjo who were responsible for supervising the NNPC and controlled oil sales during the period in question.|access-date=19 January 2015}}</ref> However, in the conclusion of the [[Crude Oil]] Sales Tribunal of Inquiry headed by Justice [[Ayo Gabriel Irikefe|Ayo Irikefe]] to investigate allegations of 2.8 billion Dollars misappropriation from the NNPC account, the tribunal found no truth in the allegations even though it noticed some lapses in the NNPC accounts.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Zabadi|first1=Istifanus|last2=Sampson|first2=Isaac|date=2009|title=Modalities for Coordinating Nigeria's Anti-Corruption Strategies|url=https://www.academia.edu/415860|journal=Constructive Engagement|volume=1|issue=1|access-date=5 December 2017|archive-date=4 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204194406/https://www.academia.edu/415860|url-status=live}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page