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The least you should do
when accusing someone of an impropriety is to get proof and evidence of
the said misdeed. Conjuring stories or resorting to imagination won’t
cut it. If you can’t back up your accusations with hard facts, then
you’d be dismissed as a careless noisemaker and nothing more than a
rabble rouser.
The
new INEC chairman Mahmood Yakubu has been accused of being an
accomplice in a N850 million fraud involving the Universal Basic
Education and the Education Tax Fund while he was Executive Secretary of
the Tertiary Education Trust Fund. This accusation is not only false
but equally malicious. It is malicious because there is not one shred of
truth in it. You can’t just make up stories without research and run to
town with it declaring it as fact. That is simply not done.
It
is imperative to note that rumours can’t trump the truth because the
truth is always constant. The whole ‘N850 million’ fraud is a bunch of
lies originating from a mind averse to research and seeking the truth.
The truth is there was no such N850 million’. The amount involved was
N722.5 million. If something as simple as the amount cannot be gotten
right, how are people supposed to take seriously any other point the
subscribers of this story have to put out regarding it?
The
situation is clear. The UBEC requested for an amount from the TETFUND.
The UBEC was clearly informed that the funds were only contingent upon
satisfactory completion and retirement of the 2005 allocation. Till
date, no part of the N722.5 million has been released to the UBEC. The
implementation of the procurement has been put on hold due to several
factors the most important being the matter is still in court.
How
can money that wasn’t released be referred to as ‘stolen’ money? Where
is the proof that this phantom amount was indeed stolen? There isn’t any
because the accusation is baseless and untrue. It is a regurgitated
rumour brought up to tarnish an innocent man’s reputation.
Professor
Mahmood’s credentials and work experience speak for him. His work ethic
and scandal free tenure as Executive Secretary is testament of the
conscientiousness of the man accused of these wickedly false
accusations.
Passing
around of baseless, untrue and wicked stories disguised as the truth is
simply unacceptable. A rebuttal is always necessary lest people mistake
deception for objective facts.
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