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Nigeria’s Defence Ministry Budgets $510,110 Instead Of $13,631 For 2020 UN Biological Weapon Convention | Jehu's Blog
In a well-orchestrated corruption scheme, the Ministry of Defence has budgeted $510,110 instead of $13,631.49 for Nigeria’s contribution to the United Nations 2020 Biological Weapons Convention. SaharaReporters had previously exposed how the Defence Ministry budgeted and received $1.3m for the payment of the United Nations 2019 Biological Weapons Convention instead of the $3,197 the country was billed. The money was for the cost of the meeting centred on the prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of bacteriological (biological) and toxin weapons and on their destruction (BWC). In this latest corruption unearthed at the Ministry of Defence, it was discovered that the fund was inserted into the 2020 budget of the Ministry of Defence Headquarters with code ERGP14138154. The budget had been a means of legalising embezzling of funds by different ministries and agencies. In what had been another means of siphoning and embezzling public funds by the Defence Headquarters, the ministry took over the payment of the annual BWC from the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation in 2019. When converted to naira, N183,639,796 was budgeted by the Defence Ministry instead of the N4,907,336.4 the country was asked to pay. In a document from the UN …