Ministry of foreign affairs has discredited a report that the minister of state for foreign affairs Zubairu Dada is involved in a N10m bribery scandal and job racketeering.
The ministry said in a statement on Friday that the minister has never met an official of the ministry Suleiman Momoh mentioned as his accomplice in a report by Sahara Reporters.
“The Ministry wishes to inform the general public that the reports is untrue, baseless and should be disregarded as the Honourable Minister of State does not known and has never met the officer in question – Mr Suleiman Momoh, neither has he ever been involved in any transaction with him either personally or through any agent, at any point in time,” the ministry’s spokesman Ferdinand Nwonye said in the statement.
“The Ministry wishes to further clarify that the Honourable Minister of State does not have any ‘boy’ who represent or run errands on his behalf as DTCA or elsewhere, as alleged in the report.
“The Ministry therefore uses this opportunity to urge the general public to kindly disregard the report, as it was a mischievous ploy to malign the Honourable Minister and defame his hard-earned reputation.”
