If You Are Really Fighting Corruption, Courts And Prisons Would Have Been Congested By Now, Ango Abdullahi Tells Buhari
Prof. Ango Abdullahi, the Chairman of Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF) has said President Muhammadu Buhari is not fighting corruption in the country.
This is because the prisons are not filled with corrupt people by now.
“We have now seen corruption on a massive scale, and nobody is doing anything about it.”
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Speaking with journalists yesterday in Kaduna shortly after the opening ceremony of a public lecture entitled: “Education as an Instrument for National Integration: The Northern Nigeria Crisis, the elder statesman said if President Buhari was committed to fighting corruption, the nation’s courts and prisons would have been congested with convicted corrupt politicians.
While stating that many corrupt politicians were going about freely because APC had forgiven them their sins, Abdullahi pointed out that the case that readily came to his mind was that of Senator Danjuma Goje, whose ‘sin’ was allegedly forgiven by APC.
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“The President said he is fighting corruption, but I don’t believe him because, in the sense that, if he is fighting corruption, our courts and prisons should be full by now. This is because corruption is everywhere.
“You don’t just pick one case and make it a universal example of fighting corruption. We have just seen the conviction of Orji Uzor Kalu and it is becoming something that the world should know, when there are so many people with seventy something billion Naira with them. Those people should be in the same prison with Uzor Kalu.
“And in any case, if you want to say that, Uzor Kalu had committed an offence, but here is a national chairman of a party, the President’s party who pronounces that, don’t worry how much you have stolen somewhere else as long as you come and say you are a member of APC, you are forgiven. A good example of that is former Governor Danjuma Goje. It was the Attorney General of the Federation himself that went to court to say they were withdrawing the case from the court. And his offences are not different from Orji Uzor Kalu’s and many others that were reported.”
