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Nigeria Arrests Head of Fake Presidency Agency in $950,000 Fraud and Forgery Scandal

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The head of a bogus government agency set up in the Nigerian president's office has been arrested after weeks in hiding.  Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew, who had presented himself as director general of the purported Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, was detained in the south-western state of Osun State. He ran a fictitious entity that managed to secure a central bank account and an approved budgetary allocation of 950,000 dollars in the national budge. His arrest followed a warrant issued by the Federal High Court in the capital, Abuja, after he failed to appear at a hearing to face charges of forgery and impersonation. President Bola Tinubu ordered a corruption investigation into the fake agency a week ago. Peter Ndoro spoke to  Bukola Idowu, a civil rights activist in Nigeria and founding executive director of the Kimpact Development Initiative

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