Oduah, Otedola, others may come under Buhari’s microscope

President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari will revisit the reports of panels set up by the National Assembly to investigate various financial scandals in Federal Government’s agencies and ministries.

PUNCH reports that top among reports that the administration would examine include the fuel subsidy and N255m bulletproof cars scam probes by the House of Representatives as well as the pension scandal investigation by the Senate.

It would be recalled that billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola is among those that had been mentioned in the House reports on fuel subsidy scam in the country, while former minister of Aviation, now Senator-elect was at the center of scandal involving the purchase of three BMW bulletproof cars.

A competent source close to Buhari, who pleaded for anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media, said the general knew that he had limited time within which to turn around the nation, as such, he had no intention of wasting public funds on endless probes.

This, it was gathered, informed a tentative decision by the incoming administration, not to embark on fresh probes, but review reports and recommendations of “compelling” cases handled by the National Assembly.

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