{"id":316732,"date":"2017-05-05T11:55:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T11:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=316732"},"modified":"2017-05-05T11:55:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T11:55:26","slug":"nigerian-officials-jailed-for-selling-food-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=316732","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian officials jailed for selling food aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Two Nigerian officials have been jailed for selling food aid meant for people fleeing militant attacks and food shortages in the country&#8217;s north-east.<\/p>\n<p>The two sold 180 bags of rice donated by an international aid agency, the court in Maiduguri, Borno State, heard.<\/p>\n<p>They were jailed for two years and fined 1m naira ($3,200; \u00a32,500) each.<\/p>\n<p>More than two million people have been displaced in north-eastern Nigeria where security forces are battling Islamist militant group Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution of the two officials was brought by Nigeria&#8217;s anti-corruption agency, the EFCC.<\/p>\n<p>Umar Ibrahim, a local councillor, and Bulama Ali Zangebe, a member of a camp feeding committee, are said to be the first convicted for corruption in relation to food aid in Nigeria since the insurgency began in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The rice had been donated by the Danish Refugee Council for victims of insurgency in the town of Mafa, and had been marked as not for sale.<\/p>\n<p>The two admitted the charges against them but told the court that the rice was about to expire.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-with-caption\">\n<div class=\"player-with-placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-placeholder player-with-placeholder__image narrative-video-placeholder\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p04wvyqj.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>President Muhammadu Buhari took office in 2015 with a pledge to root out corruption in government.<\/p>\n<p>Last month his office ordered an investigation after the head of the national intelligence agency was suspended over corruption allegations.<\/p>\n<p>He acted after anti-corruption officers found more than $43m (\u00a334m) in a flat in the main city, Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Nigerian officials have been jailed for selling food aid meant for people fleeing militant attacks and food shortages in the country&#8217;s north-east. The two sold 180 bags of rice donated by an international aid agency, the court in Maiduguri, Borno State, heard. They were jailed for two years and fined 1m naira ($3,200; \u00a32,500) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}