{"id":64857,"date":"2018-11-27T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=64857"},"modified":"2018-11-27T15:13:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T14:13:55","slug":"ben-bruce-reacts-as-ganduje-allegedly-donates-n10m-to-efcc-tells-magu-what-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=64857","title":{"rendered":"Ben Bruce reacts as Ganduje allegedly donates N10m to EFCC, tells Magu what to do"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ben Murray-Bruce, Senator representing Bayelsa East has reacted to report making the rounds that the EFCC received N10million donation from Kano State governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, to organise anti-corruption marathon.<\/p>\n

A statement emerged online on Monday by Mr Ganduje\u2019s spokesman, Aminu Yassar, saying governor Ganduje donated the money to EFCC, ICPC and Athletic Federation of Nigeria for the anti-corruption campaign.<\/p>\n

However, the EFCC in a swift reaction in a statement by its spokesman, Tony Orilade, denied receiving any donation from the state governor.<\/p>\n

He said the report making the rounds on social media was a deliberate attempt to malign the efforts of the Commission in the fight against corruption.<\/p>\n

But, reacting, Bruce described such donation by Governor Ganduje as an insult to the anti-graft agency.<\/p>\n

He urged EFCC to either return the funds back to Ganduje or use it to hire a private prosecutor to try him.<\/p>\n

Bruce in his Twitter page wrote: \u201cI call on the EFCC and the ICPC to do the honorable thing and return Ganduje\u2019s \u2018donation\u2019 to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat donation is an insult. In fact, if the money is not returned to him, it should be used to hire a private prosecutor to try him.\u201d<\/p>\n

DAILY POST reports that Ganduje has since been the subject of several videos, which showed him receiving wads of US dollars from persons believed to be contractors.<\/p>\n

At least six of such videos have been published since the first clip was released on October 11.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ben Murray-Bruce, Senator representing Bayelsa East has reacted to report making the rounds that the EFCC received N10million donation from Kano State governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, to organise anti-corruption marathon. A statement emerged online on Monday by Mr Ganduje\u2019s spokesman, Aminu Yassar, saying governor Ganduje donated the money to EFCC, ICPC and Athletic Federation of Nigeria […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}