Aliko Dangote, the president of Dangote Group, has accused the chief executive of the Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), Farouk Ahmed, of corruption.
Dangote alleged on Sunday that Ahmed paid about $5 million for the secondary school education of his four children in Switzerland.
He questioned how a government official could afford such a huge sum for schooling abroad while many students in his home state of Sokoto are unable to attend school due to lack of funds.
He called on the authorities to launch a full-scale investigation into Ahmed’s activities, insisting that the outcome should be made public.
“I have actually had people making complaints about a regulator who has put his children in secondary school. That secondary school education, which lasts six years, cost Nigeria $5 million for four children.
I mean, you cannot imagine somebody paying $5 million for educating four children,” Dangote said during a media briefing at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Fertiliser Plant in Lekki, Lagos.
“From Sokoto, where he comes from, people are struggling to pay N100,000 for school fees. A lot of children are at home, not going to school, because of N100,000.
I cannot understand why somebody who has worked all his life in government would pay $5 million for his children’s secondary education,” he added.
“This is a system where some of us are taxpayers. When people complain, we also complain, because when I pay tax, I want to see my money put to use, not stolen.
I don’t know why the authority chief executive, Mallam Farouk, has four children educated in Switzerland at the cost of $5 million for secondary school alone, not university,” Dangote alleged.
“My children went to secondary school in Nigeria. They did not go outside Nigeria to attend secondary school,” he stressed.
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