discovered $43.4 million, among other currencies, in the wardrobe of a four-bedroom apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos. Videos and photos of the sting operation shared by the anti-graft agency were similar to scenes from a raid of the stash house of a drug cartel. The EFCC credited a whistleblower’s confidential alert for the huge recovery. That moment represented a shift in the anti-corruption efforts of the federal government and encouraged whistleblowers to come forward with valuable information.
He said during the process of trying to get his job back, providing for his family became herculean while some people benefited from his plight. “I left for another assignment at FAAN, I was taken there as the director of finance and I had to leave Yaba College of Technology as bursar,” he said. “I lost my mother, I could not bury her in the [morgue]. Up till now I have not been able to balance up [payment], it was around that time I lost my junior wife. I had to stop the education of my children. I couldn’t fund their schools and it is still affecting me till today,” he said.Court Battle…Then Soft Landing
“People are wicked. I was in the hospital when they dismissed me. They brought the letter to me in the hospital. God saved me,” the former bursar said. “One of the members of the visitation panel from the federal ministry of education said what they had put into that institution in the past three years was over N15 billion but he did not see anything that looks like N3 billion there,” Mr Ameh said.
“Consequently, in line with extant rules, your appointment has been terminated from the Service of the College with effect from 13th May, 2020.”Mr Ameh did not hide his identity when he petitioned ICPC, but he, however, wonders how those he accused of malpractice got to know of the petition and eventually forced him out of the system.
Mr Ameh claimed that the documents he gave the ICPC lawyers were rejected and never tendered in court as exhibits. The ordeal also took a toll on Mr Ameh’s relationship with his wife after she got in contact with a cleric over his plight. Similarly, Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, budget and national planning, said Nigerians are losing interest in whistleblowing. “After about two to three years of the implementation of the policy, the interest of the public and the policy began to nosedive,” the minister said in July 2022.
It said the anonymity of the whistleblowers – who might be afraid of the loss of their jobs or the threat to life – is valuable in the fight against corruption.
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