Peter Rufai has allegedly diverted the sum of 200,000 euros that was put in his hand by
the Nigerian Community and ran to Nigeria last year.
Sources claim that the Belgian government has an arrangement in place
for ethnic groups and that of nationals of other countries in Belgium
whereby financial supports are given to them every quarter. A
subvention, it takes several different forms. At times, it is 5000 euro
in a quarter, and at other times it is well above it.
Organizations like the Egbe Omo Odua, Igbo Group, Nigerian Community,
Sierra Leon Community, and Ghanaian Community among others get theirs
and spend it with shrieks of delight. Most of the African communities
also have football clubs that also benefit from the largess.
Impeccable sources reported that last year the Nigerian
Community Football Club, an outfit managed by the ex-international and
in division four of the Belgian League, received 200,000 euro (about N44
million) from the Belgian authority to prosecute the club’s programmes.
Others like Ghana, Sierra Leon were also beneficiaries.
But while others used the money as specified that of Nigeria was
diverted by the manager, Rufai who left with it to Nigeria since last
year and has not returned.
Orijoreporter gathered that Dodo Mayana as he is fondly called in
Nigeria risked being jailed for three or six months if he returned to
Belgium. It was also said that Rufai’s reported illness last year in
Nigeria when he was admitted to Toki Hospital at Surulere for slumping
in his office, after his 78 years old mother’s death, was feigned so as
to distract attention from his wrongdoing.
HBC: Now is the right time for EFCC or ICPC to act on this news.
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