Woman gang-raped inside Keke Marwa, baby thrown to death

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The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Prof. Itse Sagay, on Monday revealed that Nigeria is the highest country in the world with abandoned projects, as a study showed that 55 top Nigeria government officials and private businessmen illicitly diverted a total of N1.35 trillion between 2006 and 2013.

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Speaking at the old Banquet Hall of the State House, Abuja during the Conference on Promoting International Co-operation in Combating Illicit Financial Flow and Enhancing Asset Recovery to Foster Sustainable Development, he said that trillion of naira was lost to fuel subsidy scam in the country and millions of dollars stolen by ex-Minister from NNPC to bribe election officials in 2015.

He said: “A study revealed that between 2006 and 2013 fifty five top government officials and private businessmen illicitly deviated in total N1.35 Trillion roughly at that time $7.5 million to themselves at the expense of ordinary Nigerian citizens. This was what was revealed. What was not revealed turned out to be far more mind boggling.

“This include trillions squandered in fuel subsidy scam, billion Dasukigate scam, hundreds of millions of dollars taken from the NNPC by the former minister to bribe election officials in 2015, the list goes on.”

According to him, one-third of the stolen money could have been devoted to several relevant projects in the country which made Nigeria the highest country in the world with abandoned projects.

He said that government officials had been more interested in sharing projects moneys for their selfish benefits than completing projects.

He said, “In the press release of January 2016 on the negative impact of looting, government provided the following insight: One third of stolen funds could have provided 600.18 kilometers of road, 36 ultramodern hospitals per state, that would have provided education for children from primary to tertiary level at the rate of N5.34 billion per child and 20,062 units of two-bedroom houses. The amount stolen would have done all these.

“As I was putting my thought to paper on Thursday 1st June, a newspaper headline kept screaming at me: N423 billion Niger Delta projects misappropriated by the Ministry of Niger Delta.

“So you can see that the corruption onslaught is devastating and unrelenting this driving us further and further from our sustainable development goals.

“I have always said it and you know Nigerians don’t like the truth, but this is the truth, give our Elites an opportunity to do a project, vote money for that project, the first thing they do is divide that money amongst themselves.

“Nigeria has largest number of incomplete projects in this world, many people just take the money and walk away in collusion with the Ministries and Agencies that awarded the contracts.

“Let me draw the connect between unrestrained looting and illicit financial flows. Most of the financial assets stolen in Nigeria are taken out of the country as part of the illicit financial flow. The immediate impact is that Nigeria is deprived of the capacity to realize its sustainable development goals of the UN officially known as transforming our world.

“These include no poverty (eradication of poverty), zero hunger (eradication of hunger), good health, quality education, clean water and sanitation, affordable clean energy etc.

“It is hard for any country to achieve that when it has looted 90 per cent or its resources and this hemorrhage is leaving our shores under-developed world to the developed world, developing them more while we are regarding.

“The annual flow of criminal activities is estimated at between $1 and $1.6 trillion and half of this comes from developing countries like ours.

“It is therefore vital that we increase our capacity of understanding the illicit financial flows, the hemorrhage if we are to meet our sustainable goals or if we are ever to transform something better. We have to acquire the capacity to stop the hemorrhage.” The police said on Tuesday that three men allegedly gang-raped a woman in an autorickshaw (Keke Marwa) near New Delhi after throwing her nine-month daughter off the vehicle to her death.

Gurgaon Police Chief Sandeep Khirwar said the crime occurred in Delhi’s suburbs of Gurgaon when the 21-year old woman boarded an autorickshaw in which the three men were already sitting.

Khirwar said that the woman told the police that the men started harassing her as soon as she sat down.

Police added that the woman said when her baby daughter started crying, the men flung the child out of the vehicle.

Khirwar said that baby died due to her head injuries.

“The suspects sexually assaulted the woman in the autorickshaw as it moved on deserted roads in the area. It is a very heinous incident.

“We have formed a special investigative team and hope to arrest the three accused soon,” Khirwar told dpa.

The police initially registered a case of murder based on the woman’s complaint but it was only later, over the weekend, that she told the police that she was also raped.

“Medical tests were conducted that confirmed the sexual assault. We have added charges of gang-rape to the murder case,” the police officer added.

Sex crimes have been a focus of public attention in India since the gang-rape and murder of a student in New Delhi in 2012.

In spite of enactment of tougher laws, the attacks on women have continued unabated.

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