This one I’ll share with my minister’: Fresh bribery scandal hits Fisheries Ministry
After two months of investigations, Malagen has gained access to secretly recorded tapes and official correspondences. The medium has also conducted interviews with deep-throat informants and confronted key players at the Ministry of Fisheries, including minister James Gomez and permanent secretary Dr Bamba Banja both of whom are named in a bribery scandal. In briefs Money has many times changed hands between Golden Lead, a scandal-ridden Chinese owned fish meal company and top officials of the Ministry of Fisheries and Water Resources, a former staff turned informant told Malagen. One such alleged encounter was captured in an audio clip where a voice, purportedly...
In this investigation, Malagen follows the lead of a whistleblower to reveal payments of alleged bribery to top officials of the ministry of fisheries by operators of a controversy-laden Chinese-owned fishmeal factory.
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