He also said the comfortable involvement of foreign firms in looting spree defines the level of our economic vulnerability.
Sani said this yesterday while condemning how NNPC and some Swiss firms connived to swindle Nigeria of $6.8 billion through fraudulent oil deals as revealed by a Swiss-based Non-Governmental Organization, The Bern Declaration.
According to Sani, the revelation is alarming, shocking and it exposes the facade and depth of chicanery of the anti-corruption war in Nigeria; adding that the fraud and the fraudsters involved unreservedly stand condemned.
He said: “It is regrettable and lamentable that despite the existence of multiple security agencies, it has to take a Swiss-based NGO to blow the whistle on such a monumental theft. The revelation once again proves the cancerous and endemic level of corruption in the country and a systemic pattern of theft and robbery of our collective national resources by a joint criminal relationship between public office holders and capitalist multinational corporations.
“It is incredible that a nation that had made so much noise on the purchase of a N255 million bullet proof cars is indifferent to a revelation of a theft of billions of dollars. The Nigerian state is at the mercy of thieving public servants, politicians and criminally minded foreign multinational corporations,” he also said.
Speaking further, he said that fraudulent European and Asian businessmen categorized as investors continue to find willing partners in the criminal plunder of Nigeria.
He challenged Nigerians to demand a full blown investigation by the National Assembly and the anti-corruption agencies to find out those involved, how it happened and the actual amount of money stolen.
