Women In Huge Corruption Scandals In Nigeria

What a man can do, a woman they say can do better. Yes that have become the case of these powerful women in Nigeria, that once occupied great positions in both the country's economic and political sectors.
Though most still have cases in court to clear their involvement in the case leveled against them: (Note that they have not been found guilty of the charges).

Stella Oduah:

 she was the former Nigerian Minister of Aviation in the administration of Goodluck Jonathan, was involved in the corruption scandal of buying two bulletproof BMW cars at an allegedly inflated rate of N255 million. However, Justice Mohammed Yunusa restrained the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from arresting the former minister of aviation on September 3. The decision of a Federal High Court in Lagos also stopped the attorney general of the federation, the inspector general of police and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission from inviting Oduah for questioning.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

 had been accused of stealing $1 billion while serving as finance minister in Jonathan’s past administration. President Muhammadu Buhari demanded three weeks ago to explain where $1.005 billion loan obtained from China in 2012 under President Goodluck Jonathan, disappeared.

However, Okonjo-Iweala denied the accusations of misspending the money, as well as the allegations that she and her family were planning to open a multi-million dollar hospital in the federal capital territory.

Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello,

 The daughter of Nigerian ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo, was embroiled in a money laundering scandal worth N300 million. In 2008, the EFCC charged her to court, but she urged the court to dismiss the charges on the grounds that the money allegedly given to her by the ministry of health had been spent for a bribe given to the members of the Senate Committee on Health.

Besides that she together with her colleagues were also accused to have spent N500,000 each for a full-paid trip for a seminar in a luxury hotel in Ghana.

 Zainab Dakingari

 She is the daughter of former president Umaru Yar’ Adua and the former first lady of wife Kebbi state. The ex-governor Saidu Dakingari's wife was accused by the EFCC of a fraud to the tune of N2 billion perpetrated during her husband’s tenure as governor of the state.

The EFCC wants her to explain the source of the steady stream of huge cash into her companies, while she occupied the office as the ‘first lady’ of Kebbi state.

Diezani Alison-Madueke

She was one of the most powerful women in the past administration led by Dr. Ebele Jonathan, and had been at the centre of controversies for years. Mdam Alison-Madueke is one of the most controversial members of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. She was accused of spending N10 billion of state funds to charter, operate and maintain a jet for her personal use.

Besides that Alison-Madueke has been accused by the former CBN Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (HRH) of embezzling a huge sum of $20 billion. He insists that the former petroleum minister was responsible for the disappearance of $20 billion in oil revenues from the national treasury. The Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ajjampur R. Ghanashyam also accused her of a large sum about $25 million from Indian businessmen in a shady oil deal.

Alison-Madueke has strongly denied all the accusations.

Marilyn Ogar

She is the former Department of State Security spokesperson, and was also accused of collecting bribes before the governorship elections in Osun state from the Petroleum Products Marketing Company to supply lorry-loads of dual purpose kerosene.

It was alleged at various points that Ogar had times without number committed violence against the psyche of Nigerians through her unguarded embarrassing and unprofessional utterances.

Besides that she made a very strange politically charged statement, telling that the APC offered two top SSS officials a combined bribe of N14 million to influence the Osun state governorship election.

Toyin Saraki

She is the wife of the Senate president and former governor of Kwara state, Bukola Saraki, even though the APC led government weren't too happy at his controversial emergence as the leader of the 8th senate. she was invited this by the EFCC  not long time ago to explain the strange inflow of funds into companies where she had interests when her husband was the governor of Kwara state. Reacting to the commission’s invitation, Toyin Saraki said she will honour the invitation, which she did.

However, her appearance at the headquarters of the anti-graft agency caused a lot of scene, as she was ac-complained by an unruly crowd of supporters. The crowd forced their way into the offices of the EFCC’s Director of Operations, accusing the agency of bias. However, a senior agent at the EFCC said the agency had generated solid evidence of graft against the Senate president’s wife and so they were not bothered by her entourage.