Video: Dangote slams NMDPRA boss over $5m ‘stolen’ school fees for kids in Switzerland
Abdullateef Fowewe
Africa’s richest man and Chief Executive of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has unleashed a scathing attack on the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) boss, Farouk Ahmed, accusing him of siphoning public funds to bankroll a lavish $5 million education for four children at elite Swiss secondary schools.
@dailyeconomy8 Video: Dangote slams NMDPRA boss over $5m ‘stolen’ school fees for kids in Switzerland Africa’s richest man and Chief Executive of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has unleashed a scathing attack on the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) boss, Farouk Ahmed, accusing him of siphoning public funds to bankroll a lavish $5 million education for four children at elite Swiss secondary schools. In a fiery press conference, Dangote highlighted the stark disparity between the NMDPRA boss’s alleged extravagance and the struggles of ordinary Nigerians. He pointed out that even his own children attended local Nigerian secondary schools, not such opulent institutions. “I’ve had people actually making complaints about a regulator who has put his children in secondary school. And that secondary school education—which is six years for four of them—costs five million dollars,” Dangote stated, emphasising the improbability given Farouk’s government salary. “I mean, you can always imagine somebody paying five million for educating… even my own children; they didn’t go through those.” Dangote demanded immediate accountability, vowing to escalate the matter to the highest authorities for prosecution. “The man must come and explain to Nigerians how he paid five million dollars for six years of his four children’s education,” he declared. He contrasted this with families in Farouk’s home state of Sokoto, where parents scrape together just 100,000 naira ($60) per child for basic schooling, leaving many kids out of class. “I don’t understand why somebody who has worked all his life in government could foot such a bill,” he wondered. Dangote warned that such corruption threatens Nigeria’s downstream sector. “We must make sure that people don’t come and destroy a country just because they want to make a living that is not genuine, we’ll take it to the highest authority so that they will be prosecuted.” Neither Farouk nor his office has responded to requests for comment as of this report.
Video: Dangote slams NMDPRA boss over $5m ‘stolen’ school fees for kids in Switzerland
In a fiery press conference, Dangote highlighted the stark disparity between the NMDPRA boss’s alleged extravagance and the struggles of ordinary Nigerians.
He pointed out that even his own children attended local Nigerian secondary schools, not such opulent institutions.
“I’ve had people actually making complaints about a regulator who has put his children in secondary school. And that secondary school education—which is six years for four of them—costs five million dollars,” Dangote stated, emphasising the improbability given Farouk’s government salary.
“I mean, you can always imagine somebody paying five million for educating… even my own children; they didn’t go through those.”
Dangote demanded immediate accountability, vowing to escalate the matter to the highest authorities for prosecution.
“The man must come and explain to Nigerians how he paid five million dollars for six years of his four children’s education,” he declared.
He contrasted this with families in Farouk’s home state of Sokoto, where parents scrape together just 100,000 naira ($60) per child for basic schooling, leaving many kids out of class.
“I don’t understand why somebody who has worked all his life in government could foot such a bill,” he wondered.
Dangote warned that such corruption threatens Nigeria’s downstream sector.
“We must make sure that people don’t come and destroy a country just because they want to make a living that is not genuine, we’ll take it to the highest authority so that they will be prosecuted.”
Neither Farouk nor his office has responded to requests for comment as of this report.
