Shortly after he left office as governor in May 2019, Mr. Amosun was exposed as a gunrunner in a series of articles by Premium Times. Over a year and a half later, he has not been brought to justice. Instead, he has remained a close ally of President Muhammadu Buhari, a relationship that has continued to shield him from being brought to book for complicating Nigeria’s perennial insecurity.

No sooner after he assumed office in May 2011 than the Gateway State descended into chaos. Armed robbery, abduction-for-ransom, cultism and political assassinations became rampant across the state.

But as residents were reeling from the disarray which they blamed on the governor’s “ineptitude,” Mr. Amosun was busy inflicting a generational assault on the state’s treasury, according to state financial records reviewed by Peoples Gazette.

The records showed that Mr. Amosun withdrew N900 million in 90 transactions at N10 million each on September 26, 2014.

On September 29, 2014, alone, Mr. Amosun collected N1.2 billion in 120 cash transactions at N10 million each from the state treasury.

The next day on September 30, 2014, Mr. Amosun again withdrew N600 million in cash over 60 transactions at N10 million each.

The transactions were pulled from Ogun State Government Expenditure Account by Taiwo Adeoluwa, Mr. Amosun’s cabinet secretary throughout his two-term tenure. In some other cases, the transactions were carried out on Mr. Amosun’s behalf by Olusegun Olaleye, then permanent secretary of the state’s finance ministry.

 

Mr. Amosun rejected multiple requests seeking comments from the Gazette about the transactions, but they came around the presidential primaries of the then-opposition All Progressives Congress.

Mr. Amosun supported then-candidate Muhammadu Buhari at the primaries and he has long been seen as one of those who provided a financial buffer for the Nigerian president. Nigerian politicians are generally known to bribe their way through primaries — using cash inducement to amass just enough number of delegates.

Some students of the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara who were recently freed by their abductors have begun to disclose their horrible experiences while in captivity.

Naija News understands that the 344 schoolboys who were abducted last week Friday by Boko Haram got released on Thursday night, December 17 and arrived Katsina from Zamfara state on Friday (today).

Sharing their awful experience with the dreaded terrorist group a few moments ago with Channels TV, one of the boys who gave his name as Aminu said they were fed potatoes and sometimes forced to sleep with hunger in the bush.

 

He said, ”We suffered in the bush. In fact, we were hungry in the bush. It took up to two days before we ate in the bush. They usually gave us dan kali (potatoes in Hausa) to eat.

Aminu while been interviewed said he is feeling very sick.

Narrating his own experience, another student whose name is given as Abubakar said: “At the time we were there, the place was very cold and the food we were taking was just bread and groundnut cake and cassava. The place we were sleeping is the same place we were defecating. In the night if yiu say yiu want to go and urinate or defecate, they would beat you and ask you to go back and sleep.”

 

Abukakar vowed not to return back to his school except the Nigerian government provides them with adequate security.

He added, “Nobody amongst us is thinking of going back to that school unless if some forces are there to guide us and control us.”

He lamented that the distance between their school to the town is much and that was why their abductors could easily carry them away into the forest before the police and army arrive at the school