Ekiti State
Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described as absurd, claim by the Minister of
Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed that looters have resorted to
burying stolen funds in their backyards, deep forests and burial grounds,
saying;
He fired
that:
“Looters in
the Muhammadu Buhari’s presidency, especially those being compensated for
funding the election of the president in 2015 bury their own loots in the Villa
with Presidential protection, The governor asked;
“Should it
be wrong for other supposed looters that do not have presidential protection
like the All Progressives Congress (APC) looters to bury their loots in burial
grounds probably for spiritual protection?”
In a
statement issued on Monday by his Special Assistant on Public Communications
and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor said:
“Nigerians
can no longer be fooled with stage-managed loots recoveries, with no traceable
owners (looters), especially when the loots are traceable to close associates
of the president and his cabinet members. He said; “Obviously, this so-called
anti-corruption war has become a laughing stock with stray N49m found in Kaduna
Airport, N448 million discovered in a shop at Victoria Island, Lagos and N13
billion found in Ikoyi, Lagos neither having owners nor the identities of
owners of the properties where the money was found known.”
Governor
Fayose maintained that: “It is either the money belongs to members of Buhari’s
government or it is being planted by the government to sustain its fake
anti-corruption fight in the minds of the people.”
He said;
“Enough of stage-managed and fake anti-corruption war aimed solely at
opposition figures, especially presidential hopefuls in the 2019 election.”
The governor
noted that two different laws are operable in the country – one law for the APC
and those who decamp to the party and the other for the opposition, especially
those perceived as having presidential ambition.
“The
narrative they push daily is that only those in their government are saint
while other Nigerians, including those in the National Assembly, Judiciary,
opposition politicians and the civil servants are rogues while only Buhari’s
appointees are saints.
“To worsen
matters, the cluelessness of the APC government in the last two years has
plunged the country into debt without anything to show.
“The cabals
in the Presidency are also taking advantage of the President’s state of health,
which is as a result of his age to oppress Nigerians.
“Nigerians
must therefore keep their eyes on the ball and not be carried away by the
orchestrated distractions aimed at preventing them from seeing how the APC led
government has failed woefully.”
He called on
the international community to hold Nigeria accountable on the recovered N13
billion cash found in that Ikoyi, Lagos apartment saying; “this must not be
swept under the carpet.”
(Sun)
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