PFIPC scandal: Babachir Lawal queries budgetary allocation to ‘fake agency’ 

Amid the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, PFIPC, scandal, erstwhile Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, has claimed that determination is an organization compromise and a large racket going on.

Lawal made this assertion on Monday when helium appeared arsenic a impermanent successful an interrogation connected Arise Television’s ‘Prime Time’.

Recall that ‘the Director-General of the  PFIPC, Adeniyi Adeyemi, alleged that Femi Gbajabiamila, Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, received N400 cardinal done a proxy and demanded an further N200 cardinal to unafraid his appointment.

The presidency, however, refuted the allegation, saying that Gbajabiamila cannot constitute letters oregon springiness appointments.

Airing his ain opinion, Lawal said, “There’s an organization compromise and a large racket going on.

“If the bureau was created by conscionable 1 person, however was a fund assigned to an bureau that doesn’t exist?

“Agencies support budgets. If they didn’t exist, however was the fund allowed to pass? There are antithetic steps taken that would person flagged this earlier the fund was passed.

“Funds cannot beryllium appropriated to an bureau that has not been legislated.

“There has to beryllium a ineligible ground for its existence, but first, it is the enforcement that raises specified an bureau and makes the connection earlier further approvals by the Accountant-General of...