N1.2 billion Fraud: Nigeria’s electrification agency confirms Premium Times story, says reforms ongoing

that detailed some of the challenges facing the organisation including a monumental fraud among top officials of its finance department.

The man reported to be behind the alleged fraud is the agency’s Director of Finance and Accounts, Abubakar Sambo. During interrogations by the investigating bodies, the officials involved mentioned Mr Sambo as the mastermind. Mr Sambo allegedly colluded with other officials at the Office of the Account General of the Federation to successfully perpetrate the fraud.However, the agency’s spokesperson, Mr Ibrahim, said the embattled DFA Mr Sambo, has been redeployed from the REA.

He added that the agency has collaborated with anti-graft agencies and its mother ministry of power to investigate the matter. He stated that the agency’s Managing Director, Ahmad Salihijo, has since his appointment in 2020, attempted to align electrification projects with the goal of improving the lives of rural communities in a sustainable manner.

According to him, the efforts resulted in various electrification programmes such as the Nigeria Electrification Project , Energizing Education Programme , Rural Electrification Fund , and Energizing Economies Initiative , a programmatic budgeting program for capital projects and others, with a particular focus on supporting the energy transition policy.

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