Dogara while speaking with newspaper editors in Abuja, last Saturday, said he was shocked by the monumental looting of the treasury in the
past, citing the discovery of billions of looted fund buried in a farm
in Abuja.
He explained that operatives of anti-graft agencies had been busy moving the cash out of the farm.
Dogara said he had never heard of such impunity in which people
“stole for the sake of stealing,” decrying the latest antics of
suspected looters to bury their loot in farmland. But in his words he added, “But, if I am just arrested, charged to court and maybe some money
recovered from me and, at the end of the day, nothing happens, a lot of
people may not be deterred in the future from engaging in corrupt
practices... If you look at the massive looting of the treasury, I never could have imagined
the scale of corruption that we are witnessing right now, where people
took lot of money running into billions and buried them in farms... As we are speaking now, they are recovering monies from someone’s
farm somewhere around Abuja. It is very unfortunate where people stole
money just for the sake of stealing.”
