The Vice-Presidential candidate of the
All Progressives Congress, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has said that one of the
fundamental problems bedeviling the nation is the failure of the
President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government to tackle corruption.
Osinbajo stated this during a Twitter chat tagged #AskProfOsinbajo on Monday.
He said it was saddening that under Jonathan’s government, “there is no consequence for corruption.”
He added, “One of the fundamental
problems is that there is no consequence for corruption. I think that
what everyone will agree to about a Buhari government is that it will
not tolerate corruption. “If the number one citizen has a clear
and uncompromising anti-corruption stand then the anti-corruption policy
will work. If the number one and number two citizens have a strong
stance on anti-corruption then our policy can succeed.”
Osinbajo added that a Buhari Presidency
would bequeath to Nigerians a country where everyone would have a good
job and lives a descent live in peace security. He also accused President Goodluck Jonathan of politicising the fight against the Islamist sect, Boko Haram. Osinbajo argued that the present administration had failed to “sincerely identify” the menace posed by the insurgent group.
The law professor also blamed the
failure of the security forces to contain the excesses of Boko Haram in
the on-going war against terrorism on corruption. “The current administration has
politicised Boko Haram. The corruption around defence funds has created a
situation where soldiers are not well equipped and motivated.
“General Muhammadu Buhari wiped off
Maitatsine, another Islamic insurgency during his administration, by
sincerely identifying the problem as a challenge to the authority of the
state to maintain law and order.
“The administration took command and
funded the military transparently and that is what we need to do now to
end this insurgency,” Osinbajo said. Meanwhile, a former Attorney General of
the Federation and Minister of Justice, Kanu Agabi (SAN), has urged the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to be steadfast in the fight
against corruption in the country.
He said that the operatives of the EFCC
must carry out their responsibilities with the conviction that society
had put them in a position to enforce the nation’s laws against
corruption. The former AGF said that he had the
belief that the commission had credible personnel with the capacity to
enforce the laws of the land. A statement signed by the Head of Media
and publicity of the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, quoted Agabi as having
made the comment while delivering the Special Guest’s address during the
commission’s maiden ‘Rewards and Recognition’ ceremony in Abuja on
Monday.
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