Nigeria: That UN Damning Report On Pine Corruption

24 November 2017
editorial

AS if further justifying the sack of the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr David Babachir Lawal, over the scale of alleged corruption in catering for the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in the North East, a fresh damning report demands urgent action to bring the alleged profiteers in human misery to justice.

The new report by the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP and the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, covering the period 2015 to 2017, catalogues the spate of thievery and criminal diversion of funds, food and other items meant to alleviate the plight of innocent Nigerians displaced by the Boko Haram Islamic insurgents by officials of the Presidential Initiative on the North East, PINE.

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