The All Progressives Congress (APC) has
expressed strong support for President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to probe the
immediate past federal government, saying the revelations of mind-boggling
corruption that are just beginning to emerge have made such a probe imperative.
”Some people have insinuated that the Buhari
Administration should ignore the massive looting of our patrimony and move on.
We say no responsible government can afford to do that, because it will amount
to endorsing corruption and impunity,” the party said in a statement issued in
Abuja on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
It said in the oil sector alone, billions of
dollars have been skimmed off by pathologically-corrupt public officials,
wondering how the government of the day can meet its obligations to the
citizens if it refuses to recover the huge funds taken away by thieving
officials
”It is an irony that those who are suggesting
that the Buhari Administration should turn a blind eye to the incomprehensible
looting are the same ones accusing the government of not doing anything. It
is even a cruel irony that the same party that presided over what is fast
emerging as the worst governance in the history of our country is the same one
that is daily bad-mouthing an Administration that is cleaning up its mess,” APC
said.
The party said even if all the acts of
corruption that were perpetrated during the tenure of the last Administration
are limited to what is now in the public domain, it is still absolutely exigent
for the Buhari Administration to do all it can to bring the perpetrators to
book and recover the looted funds.
- Vanguard
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