{"id":79478,"date":"2025-12-01T06:27:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79478"},"modified":"2025-12-01T06:27:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:27:32","slug":"atiku-demands-probe-as-tinubu-govt-spends-n17-5tn-on-pipeline-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/01\/atiku-demands-probe-as-tinubu-govt-spends-n17-5tn-on-pipeline-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Atiku Demands Probe as Tinubu Govt Spends N17.5tn on Pipeline Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has called for an independent probe into the N17.5tn reportedly spent by the Federal Government on pipeline security and related costs within one year, describing it as \u201ca brazen financial scandal\u201d and a moral indictment on President Bola Tinubu\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Sunday, Atiku said the spending nearly matches the N18tn spent on fuel subsidy over 12 years, a scheme he argued directly supported millions of Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>He alleged that the current expenditure mainly benefits firms linked to the President\u2019s associates.<\/p>\n<p>He criticised the categorisation of the spending into \u201cenergy-security costs,\u201d \u201cunder-recovery,\u201d and \u201cother receivables,\u201d claiming it conceals the true beneficiaries.<\/p>\n<p>According to NNPCL\u2019s 2024 audited accounts, the N17.5tn figure includes N7.13tn for stabilising petrol prices, N8.67tn for under-recovery, and N8.84tn for security-related costs, advances and infrastructure protection.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku questioned the soaring costs despite petrol selling above N1,000 per litre in some areas and demanded full disclosure of the companies involved, their contracts and deliverables.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the government to halt further payments until transparency is ensured.<\/p>\n<p>He said no administration presiding over such \u201cfiscal recklessness\u201d can demand sacrifices from citizens struggling with inflation, rising fuel prices and a weakening naira.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigerians deserve transparency, not deceit,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has called for an independent probe into the N17.5tn reportedly spent by the Federal Government on pipeline security and related costs within one year, describing it as \u201ca brazen financial scandal\u201d and a moral indictment on President Bola Tinubu\u2019s administration. In a statement on Sunday, Atiku said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":79479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,1720,172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-energy","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79480,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79478\/revisions\/79480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}