The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has presented to the public alleged audio evidence to back his claims that the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, lied that he donated N10 million to the victims of Offa bank robbery.
Lai Mohammed, in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday, said he is presenting to the public both the unedited version of a live radio interview as well as the doctored/re-broadcast version on the donated fund to show Saraki’s disdain for truth.
Specifically, the minister said that in the live radio interview on Christmas Day, Saraki said he donated the N10 million to the robbery victims in Offa.
However, it was doctored before it was re-broadcast to remove any reference to the claimed donation of N10 million to victims of the armed robbery.
Mohammed said he is releasing the evidence for Nigerians to see the extent to which “some leaders can go to deceive the people and peddle lies just to shore up their dwindling fortunes”.
THE EDITED AUDIO [LISTEN] –
”In the unedited live version, Dr Saraki, speaking in Yoruba, said categorically that he donated N10 million when he visited Offa to commiserate with the victims of the armed robbery.
“He claimed he is donating N10 million, whereas about N7 million was stolen from the vaults of the banks that were robbed during the attack.
”However, the version for re-broadcast did not contain any reference to the Offa robbery.
‘Whereas they claimed to have re-broadcast the interview due to popular demand, the truth is that they decided to
re-air it without the claim of N10 million donation due to the widespread derision that greeted that phantom claim.
“These people have a chronic disdain for the truth,” he said.