Let us break it down a little. For an agency to be created under the Nigerian government, it must ordinarily pass through rigorous processes involving multiple institutions and layers of approval.
Nigerians have been thrown into deep disappointment after news surfaced that the so-called PFIPC, the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, was a fake governmental agency. Operated by Mr. Adeniyi Mathew, PFIPC was allegedly created with forged signed documents, yet somehow secured office space inside the Federal Secretariat in Abuja and even found its way into the 2026 national budget with about ₦1.3 billion in allocation. This information is shocking enough. But beyond the headlines and public outrage lies a far bigger question that many Nigerians have been asking; How did this happen? This scandal should be treated as more than just governmental oversight or an individual act of fraud but rather as a revelation of what appears to be a failed and broken system in the government.
Let us break it down a little. For an agency to be created under the Nigerian government, it must ordinarily pass through rigorous processes involving multiple institutions and layers of approval. A federal ministry first identifies a gap and develops the necessary policy framework. That proposal then goes through legal scrutiny before becoming a bill. The bill must be debated and passed by both chambers of the National Assembly before it reaches the President for assent. Once signed into law, it is officially published through the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and reflected within the Civil Service structure. It is a process deliberately designed to prevent exactly this kind of situation.
