In Nigeria, wonders never ends. A snake wended its way into the coffers of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, Benue State and swallowed a whopping N36 million. That news broke about a fortnight ago. Now monkey the copycat did not wait too long before heading the farms of Sen. Abdullahi Adamu to cart away N70 million belonging to the Northern Senators Caucus.
The caucus Adamu as its chairman on Wednesday, following allegations of misappropriating N70m belonging to the group.
Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu who presided over Tuesday’s plenary, announced the leadership change.
Briefing Newsmen after Plenary, Senator Shehu Sani said that since the money could not be accounted for, maybe this time monkeys have made away with the money.
“There are some things some of my colleagues will not say but I’m not used to holding back. When we assumed office, Senator Ahmed Lawan tendered the sum of N70 million to the 8th Senate. That N70 million was money gathered from the 7th Senate. It was handed over to northern senators of 8th Senate. The rumours going round, which I don’t know whether it’s true but I believe other senators know, is the fact that there were allegations that some monkeys raided the farm house of some of the executives of the northern senators forum and carted away some of this money.
“I think, this country is becoming a huge joke. First of all, it was the rodents that drove away the president and then we now have snakes consuming about N36 million and now we have monkeys raiding farmhouse. So, they don’t want this to be said but I believe that we should be very clear.”
Sen. Sani was in the news recently for storming the headquarters of the JAMB office with snake charmers to catch the money swallowing.
Since animals now treasure our naira as their delicacy, Nigerians must learn to build safety vaults with strong padlocks for the safety of their money. Today it is snake or monkey, who knows what will happen when elephants enter the fray. May be they will swallow money and their owners.
