Like Russia, there was a systematic doping programme in China during the 1980s and 1990s across a range of sports, a Chinese whistleblower, now seeking political asylum in Germany, has claimed.

The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, says the whistleblower policy of the Federal Government is one of the current administration’s successful initiatives.

Exactly four months after being sacked from his post for reporting a $229,000 and N800,000 fraud at the Department of Technical Cooperation in Africa, DTCA, to Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, yesterday, recalled the whistleblower, Ntia Thompson, to his job.

Almost three months after the Federal Government ordered the reinstatement of a whistleblower who reported the diversion of $229,000 and N800,000 by top officials of Directorate for Technical Cooperation in Africa, DTCA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which supervises the agency, has employed delay tactics to forestall his recall.

A whistleblower, Mr. Ahmed Echoda, has landed himself in trouble after he allegedly gave wrong information that led the Nigeria Police Force to raid the Abuja home of the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu.

Kemi Adeosun, Nigeria’s Finance Minister, seems to understand President Muhammadu Buhari’ mindset as far as fighting graft is concerned and is effectively broaching measures that have warmed the President’s heart. One of the measures already yielding positive results is the Whistle-blowing policy, which gives a percentage of recovered looted public fund to the whistleblower, an unprecedented policy that excites Nigerians at home and abroad, and opens a new chapter in financial crimes onslaught in the country.

The Federal Government will protect and reward whistleblowers, who provide information that leads to the recovery of stolen funds, Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said.

It is not only strange, but totally unacceptable that barely two months after the Federal Government announced the approval of a policy to offer generous financial rewards for whistleblowers who assist in recovery of stolen public funds, the first person to officially take up the challenge is relieved of his job. At least the news has not been denied by the Ministry involved.

In a bid to recover looted funds from alleged corrupt individuals and organisations, the Federal Government recently announced through the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun the approval of the payment of not more than five per cent to any person who exposes corruption by providing relevant information leading to the recovery of public funds.