The Chairman House Committee on Ethics and Privileges has described the donation of N100 million by the Central Bank of Nigeria to the victims of recent Kano bomb attack as insufficient.
The Chairman of the committee, Barr. Gambo Musa Dan-Musa, told LEADERSHIP SUNDAY in an exclusive interview? that the CBN is only performing its corporate social responsibility by giving back to the public what belongs to them.
“Well as far as I understand this matter is as you said it is public money, but I will say it s also going to the public. So when that money was given, I was not comfortable because to me the amount was too small.
The amount should have been much more than that because Central Bank of Nigeria has a corporate social responsibility (CSR) to the community and to entire Nigeria and I would say that perhaps it is when this man came that they have started to practice the corporate social responsibility they have.
“They should have been dolling out money to various communities when some of these disasters happen. And if you look at it critically, it wasn’t involving only Kano people, for anybody to insinuate that because he is from Kano and therefore giving Kano people, he was being selfish.
No, even many tribes were involved because the action that brought so many lives to be lost was an indiscriminate action. So it was Nigerians that suffered and Nigerians were the public”, he said.