The anti-graft agency, ICPC has discovered a ghost N-Power list tag “D’banj list” following the arrest of the legendary musician on Tuesday.
Investors King earlier reported that Oladapo Oyebanji popularly known as D’banj was alleged to have colluded with government officials who introduced over 70,000 ghost workers into the N-Power Programme and fraudulently diverted billions of naira into their pockets.
A source who spoke on the matter said “70,000 names were infused into N-Power by officials of the Buhari regime in the last four years.
“The fake list costs Nigeria N2.1 billion per year while original N-Power candidates are left unpaid”.
Created in 2016 by President Buhari, N-Power is established to address the issues of youth unemployment and empowerment, and also promote social development. Some of the available categories in the N-Power scheme include N-Health, N-Agro, N-Teach, and N-Creative among others.
While speaking on why the musician is being detained for up to three days, the source said “Today when his lawyers arrived for his release, they were told about this fresh list containing 20,000 names.
‘This list was being used to divert N600 million monthly from Nigeria in the last two years by Buhari government officials. The list containing 20,000 names has been bleeding Nigeria N600 million monthly over the last two years.
“It’s named the D-banj’s list. He actually denied the list when he was interrogated by our officials. That’s the reason he wasn’t released as planned.”
Meanwhile, information available to Investors King shows that the musician was released late Friday night.
The artiste who disclosed his Instagram post on Friday said he has no business with fraud while stressing that all he loves to do is ‘chopping’ life.
” I have no business with fraud, all I do is chop life. I was released on self-recognition because nothing was seen or found on me. God bless you all my people,” he wrote.