How a fake presidential council ended up with a budget of almost $1m in Nigeria
To do what the PFIPC did, an agency in Nigeria must pass through some of the most powerful offices in government - the secretary to the government of the federation - effectively the government's chief administrator, the head of the civil service, the accountant-general who controls public accounts, the budget office, and finally parliament, which must pass the spending into law.
Onigbinde listed the checks a genuine agency must go through - an office in the federal secretariat, sign-off from the civil service, a budget code, and a multi-step approval to open a bank account.
Even if no money left the treasury, the affair has shown how easily the appearance of a real government institution can be created in Nigeria - a country actively courting foreign investors, whom this council was ostensibly set up to attract.
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