Nigeria, one of Africa’s leading and most promising nation is once again under the spotlight for all the wrong reasons following the bizarre tale of how termites ate most of the vouchers containing details of N17.158 billion yet to be accounted for by the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund.
The said N17.158 billion, as stated in the 2018 audit report, was the total amount of money transferred by NSITF from its Skye Bank and First Bank accounts into various untraceable accounts belonging to individuals and companies from January to December 2013.
Reports even has it that the auditor-general’s office had in the 2018 audit report raised 50 different queries bordering on alleged misappropriation of funds by management of the agency, which is under probe by the Senate committee on Public Accounts.
This latest revelation has further proven that aside snakes and monkeys, even termites in Nigeria appear to be staging a revolution against the status quo. In fact, they can even be charged for engaging in acts that could be considered felonies, and even terrorism, if they were actually committed by actual human beings.
While we tend to laugh our heads off whenever animals make headlines for what we believe to be absurd reasons, this termites from NSITF has further confirmed that it no longer the very first shots in a revolution to get animals recognition.
Truth be told, these method of making innocent animals, especially those of the arthropoda phylum scapegoats in an attempt to cover up alleged corruption in Nigeria have left social media highly amused.
Credit: Leadership