Nigerians react after govt officials, NNPC sold 48 million barrels of stolen crude oil

Following the corruption scandal that has hit the Buhari led-administration involving some of his appointees, a sum of $2.5 billion worth of crude oil was stolen by some government officials and the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.

A total of 48 million barrels of stolen crude oil were said to have been sold and proceeds shared among themselves. This crude oil theft was said to have occurred in 2015.

Reacting to this expose by a US-based journalist, Jackson Ode, Nigerians have taken to social media to share their views.

odogwugodwin.o.o: Since Peter Obi spoke about government involvement in crude theft, clear revelations started coming out. Shame on Buhari APC government.

flexchummy: And yet some will wake up on voting day, get dressed, walk to the polling booth and cast their votes for an APC or a PDP presidential candidate? If that’s not utter waste of your time, I don’t know what it is . What will make a young Nigerian vote for these two parties ???? The corruption is on a massive scale. If these two parties are the only options Nigerians have ; then we are done. However, we have a choice.

ovwioba_2cute: Every day, the ministers use Ghana must go bags to carry money from the NNPC office in Abuja. Buhari knows all about it. Infact, he's the chairman of the Ole association of Nigeria. He knows the billions of naira that come from the sale of crude oil and that's why he insisted on being petroleum minister, and a president at the same time.

mumijake: Anyone named here can come in 4 years time and contest for presidency and guess what my people...Mr Dele might still support him. These are allegations just like Atiku was alleged that year but there is not smoke without fire. Say no to PDP&APC

obiasams: Interestingly and painfully, nothing will happen. No culprits would be named; no criminal charges preferred and the corruption continues on a massive scale. This country is plagued by bad leaders who aren't interested. Until we have a government with the political and moral will to fight corruption, we would keep going in circles.

deltabass1: They sold $2.5billion worth of crude oil covertly.... That's about NGN12 trillion shared among a very few Nigerians... Hmmmn... Ok oo.

chukzeee: This is huge but I am not surprised.....even without concrete evidence we know there is heavyweight corruption in high places in this country....this is why this country keeps borrowing, no health care, doctors, nurses, lecturers are all running, asuu on strike for almost 8months, bandits, insecurity. We simply have no business being poor....our leaders just choose to looth away our common wealth and keep borrowing to worsen our currency....we have an opportunity to atleast right some of these wrongs, let's vote wisely come 2023...God bless Nigeria