For the past one week, the Borno-born civil servant has been running from pillar to pole, in a bid to save whatever is left of his battered image amid revelations that he is allegedly behind the tractors and fertilizers fraudulently sent to his farms in Yobe and Borno states.
A cat with nine lives, in 2003, Mamman was dismissed from service as attendant discipline action by the then minister of Agriculture, Mallam Adamu Ciroma, over the mismanagement of Funds, but somehow worked his way back to service and obliterated the record of his dismissal, barely one year after Ciroma left the office.
In 2008, Idris was in the news again, all for the bad reason, in fact he was alleged to have played a prominent role in the celebrated N800million end of the year budget refund scandal, as a deputy director in the ministry of Health, that led to the sack of professor Grange and Gabriel Adukwu, then minister of health and the junior minister, by the late Musa Yar’radua, former president of Nigeria.
Indeed, the battle this time is from within as Inuwa Bwala, a former Commissioner for information in Borno state, has raised an alarm on the stealing and looting of federal government funds which Idris has converted into property worth billions of Naira.
Inuwa and Idris are from the same Federal Constituency in Borno state.
Listed in the letter he addressed to Idris, dated 20 October 2016, is an entitled request for information under the Freedom of information Act, as the property the man had acquired through dubious means included property in Kaduna, Yobe, Maidugri, Kano, Lagos, Dubai and the United Kingdom.
The list of the property placed Idris on a level that he can compete with any Estate Developer and Estate Managers in Nigeria.
For instance, Bwala a professional Journalist who has worked with Punch newspapers, Tell Magazine, Leadership Newspapers and now the publisher of National Trail Newspapers claimed in his letter, that Idris owns the ten-storey building, along the highway, opposite the VIO office in Mabushi, Abuja; a fully-completed and functional black marble, shopping complex in Gwarimpa, Abuja; three completed houses , one occupied by Idris, also located in Gwarimpa, in Abuja all with a rough estate of over 200 billion naira.
Also traced to the director of finance are three blocks of duplexes at the NNPC staff Houses in Garki, 11 Abuja and ongoing Housing estate at Lugbe along Airport Road, Abuja at the NNPC staff Houses in Garki, 11 Abuja and ongoing Housing estate at Lugbe along Airport Road, Abuja.
With a shark like appetite for the acquisition of landed property, also traced to him in Borno state, are two houses, one ten-room storey and four-room flat, off Damboa Road, Maiduguri, Borno state; a duplex and two rooms in Biu.
Bwala alleged in his letter that tractors stolen from the Ministry of Agriculture are being hidden alongside another ten-bedroom duplex, standing in place of a six room mansion demolished two years ago, along Gombi Road, in Ashaffa, Borno state.
Also mentioned is a three-bedroom duplex off Inuwa wada, Malali, Kaduna, and another one occupied by one of his concubines on Sultan Road, Kaduna.
Also traced to Idris, are two fully-mechanized farms in Kuje in the FCT and at Yamarkumi on the outskirts of Biu in Borno, worth over N1billion.
Attached to the letter of enquiry are photographs of all the property listed.
Indeed Bwala has already signified his intention to drag Idris before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC for questioning and proper probe.
When contacted on his mobile phone, Idris in his standard response was: “everything in that letter are lies, you can go ahead with the story” he said.
But a very reliable source, who does not want his name mentioned, said Idris has been under security watch, a situation that denied him being promoted to the office of Accountant General of the federation this year even when it was clear he came first in the examination.
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