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Among other contentious and indicted corrupt officials, Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari, after a 3 month delay, has submitted Mrs Sadiya Umar Farouq, in charge of Nigeria’s Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, responsible for the looting and market sale of 200 tonnes of date fruits donated by the Saudi government, meant for Nigeria’s IDPs and poor to break their Ramadan fast.
No culprit was ever publicly arrested and punished under her charge when the donated dates were looted and found on sale in Borno markets. Now the implicated official stands to serve as a Minister of Nigeria under Buhari’s cabinet.
See Nigeria’s apology to Saudi Arabia published in the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-40300821
Nigeria has apologised to Saudi Arabia after 200 tonnes of dates the kingdom sent as a Ramadan gift were found on sale in local markets.
Dates are traditionally the first things Muslims eat when they break the Ramadan fast each evening.
The dates were intended for people who had fled their homes because of the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency.
Nigeria’s foreign ministry said an investigation was underway. However, no arrests have yet been made.
The foreign ministry said that Nigeria’s Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons had drawn up a list of places where the dates would be distributed, which included IDP camps and some prominent mosques.
The dates were found on sale in markets in Borno state, which has been hardest hit by the Boko Haram conflict.
After eight years of unrest, some 8.5 million people need life-saving aid in north-eastern Nigeria, aid officials say.
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