The General Secretary of the
Campaign for Democracy, CD, Ifeanyi Odili, has told the Federal Government that
the recently released list of looters of national treasury was not complete.
In a statement made available to
reporters on Tuesday, Comrade Odili lamented that the list omitted the names of
former PDP members who were now in the ruling APC.
He said that corruption
allegations against such persons had been dropped on partisan grounds.
The CD Secretary further
mentioned names such as Dr. Femi Thomas, a former Executive Secretary/Chief
Operating Officer of the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, who defected
from the PDP to the APC and as such, had corruption cases against him dropped.
He also wondered why nothing had
been heard again on corruption charges against a former Minister of Police
Affairs, Musiliu Obanikoro, and the former governor of Enugu State, Sullivan
Chime, once they crossed over to the APC.
The statement added, “The CD has
observed with dismay that all the people that had been picked up at one time or
the other over corruption allegations were members of the opposition Peoples
Democratic Party.
“But we also observed that once
these people renounced their membership of the PDP and cross over to the ruling
All Progressives Congress (APC) they automatically become saints. All charges
against them will either be promptly dropped or technically frustrated by the
anti-graft agencies that brought up the charges.
“A particularly appalling case is
the several cases of corruption levelled against the immediate past Executive
Secretary/Chief Operating Officer of the National Health Insurance Scheme
(NHIS), who was being investigated for alleged flagrant abuse of financial
rules and regulations, executive rascality, embezzlement of public funds and
monumental diversion of government funds by the Independent Corrupt Practices
and Other Offences Commission (ICPC).
“This same man, who was a former
Commissioner for Health in Ekiti State was in 2016 arraigned before a Federal
High Court in Lagos over an alleged payment of $2.2million Dollars without
going through a financial institution.
“But the moment this man crossed
over from PDP to APC, he has become a free man and he is now dictating
political tunes in his Ekiti home town as he goes about with impunity.
“What do we say of the former
Minister of Police Affairs, Musiliu Obanikoro? Where are the corruption charges
preferred against him?
“Or Sulivan Chime, the former
governor of Enugu State, who defected from the PDP to the APC? All their sins
have been forgiven them,” the CD lamented.
It thus demanded that “in the
spirit of fairness, all those facing corruption allegations must return to the
courts to have their days.”
“Otherwise, the anti-corruption
crusade of the Buhari government is a total ruse and must by rejected by all
right-thinking Nigerians,” the CD warned.
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