Mene ne martaninku kan ₦1.3 biliyan da aka ware wa wata hukuma da ta zama ba ta wanzu ba?
Na ce wannan abu ba abin mamaki ba ne da zarar an ga babban hoton. Idan ₦8.8 trillion na kuɗin jama'a zai iya motsawa gaba ɗaya a wajen littafin asusu na hukuma, layin da ke tsakanin abin da aka ware da abin da aka sace ya daina samun wani ma'ana. Hukumar fatalwa da kasafin kuɗin boye ba abubuwan kunya daban-daban ba ne, su biyu dai sifofi ne guda biyu na hanya guda ta mulki: cewa kuɗin jama'a na waɗanda ke kan mulki ne, don amfani da su yadda suka ga dama, a wajen isar hannun doka da kuma saninsu na jama'a.
An fassara amsoshin da ke wannan shafin daga Turanci ta hanyar na'ura kuma fassarar bata riga ta bi ta hannun mai fassara ba.
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When a government operates a secret treasury of this scale at precisely the moment it needs to purchase electoral outcomes, the conclusion is not difficult to reach. The Tinubu administration is not reforming Nigeria's economy. It is financing its own political survival with money that belongs to the Nigerian people.
The recent public controversy over the ₦1.3 billion inserted into the 2026 Federal Budget for the so-called Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, an agency the administration itself was forced to acknowledge did not exist, is now rendered far less surprising in this broader context. When a government can move ₦8.8 trillion in public money entirely outside its own official bookkeeping, the boundary between what exists and what is a phantom, between what is appropriated and what is stolen, ceases to have any practical meaning. The ghost agency and the shadow budget are not separate scandals. They are two expressions of the same governing philosophy: that public money belongs to those in power, to be deployed as they see fit, beyond the reach of the law and the knowledge of the public.