Minister of Information and Culture, Ahaji Lai Mohammed is in hot soup as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to investigate him.

The party is insisting that the anti-graft agency should investigate the minister for his allegedly role on the N2.5 NBC scandal involving the Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Is’haq Kawu Modibbo.

PDP in a statement by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, said;

“The party urges the ICPC to go beyond the N2.5 billon NBC fraud and investigate the allegations that Alhaji Lai Mohammed abused the privilege of his office by approving a letter from his office requesting the NBC, an agency under his supervision, to advance a loan of N13.1 million to his ministry for a purported official assignment in China.”

“This further exposes how corruption has become endemic at the NBC under the direct supervision of the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who has not yet cleared his name on the N13.1 million NBC loan scandals since May 2016.”

“The demand, which was against budgetary approvals, principle of Treasury Single Account, TSA, and the anti-corruption claims of the government he represents, has not been investigated and culprits prosecuted, even when it was clear that it corrupted the agency in converting it into a lending institution, against our financial regulations and the laws that established the NBC.”

“The failure by the Buhari Presidency to investigate Alhaji Lai Mohammed for this alleged act of manifest corruption shows how the Presidency has been concealing humongous corruption and sharp practices being perpetrated by APC leaders and cronies of Mr. President in the ministries, departments and agencies.”

“As spokesperson of a government which claims to be committed to the fight against corruption, Lai Mohammed cannot in all honesty, hold such a position with this allegation still hanging around his neck.”