Sentences with phrase «arms deal corruption»

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Bafarawa, who is standing trial in the ongoing arms deal corruption trial, code - named «Dasukigate», made this known to newsmen in Sokoto on Wednesday.

The arms deal corruption case proved harder to shake off, however, even after it was controversially dropped by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) just weeks before the elections which saw him become president.

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Last week, a commission he set up cleared all government officials of corruption over the 1999 arms deal.

The governor, who reiterated his support for the fight against corruption, however, dismissed the $ 2.1 billion arms deal as a scam, noting that «all they are just doing is to brandish figures to deceive Nigerians and demonized the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and those opposed to his dictatorship in the All Progressive Congress (APC).

'' It is also clear, as has been shown so far by the outcome of the panel probing past arms deals, that the purchase of substandard weapons apparently resulted from the massive corruption that enveloped the deals, the kind of horrifying graft that saw the purchase of refurbished choppers that lacked rotors, or fighter jets that could not be deployed to the theatre of war because they were not up to par.

Immediate past president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, appeared in court on Friday to face corruption charges relating to a $ 2.5 billion arms deal.

Calls for the position to become fully independent resurfaced last year when the government cancelled an investigation into corruption in an arms deal between BAE Systems and the Saudi government.

The governor, who reiterated his support for the fight against corruption, however, dismissed the $ 2.1 billion arms deal as a scam, noting that «all they are just doing is to brandish figures to deceive Nigerians and demonized the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and those opposed to his dictatorship in the All Progressive Congress (APC).

Mixed through this we see commitment to dealing with a number of problems: access to justice, violence, exploitation, trafficking and torture of children, illicit financial and arms flows, the recovery and return of stolen assets, organized crime, corruption and bribery in all their forms, legal identity for all, and, of course, terrorism.