{"id":34379,"date":"2017-05-05T17:44:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T17:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nigerian-officials-jailed-for-selling-food-aid\/"},"modified":"2017-05-05T17:44:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T17:44:35","slug":"nigerian-officials-jailed-for-selling-food-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nigerian-officials-jailed-for-selling-food-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian officials jailed for selling food aid"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Two Nigerian officials have been jailed for selling food aid meant for people fleeing militant attacks and food shortages in the country’s north-east.}<\/p>\n

The two sold 180 bags of rice donated by an international aid agency, the court in Maiduguri, Borno State, heard.<\/p>\n

They were jailed for two years and fined 1m naira ($3,200; \u00a32,500) each.<\/p>\n

More than two million people have been displaced in north-eastern Nigeria where security forces are battling Islamist militant group Boko Haram.<\/p>\n

The prosecution of the two officials was brought by Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, the EFCC.<\/p>\n

Umar Ibrahim, a local councillor, and Bulama Ali Zangebe, a member of a camp feeding committee, are said to be the first convicted for corruption in relation to food aid in Nigeria since the insurgency began in 2009.<\/p>\n

The rice had been donated by the Danish Refugee Council for victims of insurgency in the town of Mafa, and had been marked as not for sale.<\/p>\n

The two admitted the charges against them but told the court that the rice was about to expire.<\/p>\n

President Muhammadu Buhari took office in 2015 with a pledge to root out corruption in government.<\/p>\n

Last month his office ordered an investigation after the head of the national intelligence agency was suspended over corruption allegations.<\/p>\n

He acted after anti-corruption officers found more than $43m (\u00a334m) in a flat in the main city, Lagos.<\/p>\n

\"Millions<\/figure>\n

Source:BBC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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