Nigeria's Buhari orders corruption probe over humanitarian funds

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http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/y2nnD96bA_oMkCkQ3ldiXw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2017-04-19T132504Z_1_LYNXMPED3I0X2_RTROPTP_2_NIGERIA-IMF.JPG (https://www.yahoo.com/news/nigerias-buhari-orders-corruption-probe-over-humanitarian-funds-132504422.html)Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday ordered an investigation into corruption allegations against a senior civil servant related to the use of funds intended for handling a humanitarian crisis in the northeast of the country. The director general of the National Intelligence Agency was also ordered to be suspended after the discovery of more than $43 million in an apartment complex in Lagos in what the presidency described as a "related development". Buhari suspended David Babachir Lawal, secretary to the Nigerian government, and ordered a probe into contracts awarded under the Presidential Initiative on the North East (PINE), his spokesman said in a statement.



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