Oby Ezekwesili, former minister
of education, says Festus Keyamo, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), should
not defend the anti-corruption efforts of the federal government.
Ezekwesili said this on Monday
when they both appeared as guests on Sunrise Daily, a programme on Channels TV.
Keyamo, spokesman for President
Muhammadu Buhari’s 2019 campaign, had argued that the fight against corruption
was not one-sided and that the federal government was trying its best.
“It is immoral for someone to say
because you have not caught all the thieves, you should leave the ones you’ve
caught,” he had said.
“I mean it’s immoral. Let’s not
go there at all.
“We are not there yet, I agree,
but we have left where we were in 2015, nobody can doubt that.”
But Ezekwesili cautioned him not
to defend what was “indefensible”.
She said: “In the fight against
corruption, especially in a society where it has become systematic, you need
the public endorsement that indeed there is a fight against corruption.
“This administration lost it in
its own, by all of what you are defending.
“You shouldn’t defend what you
are defending, Festus. Indefensible. Most Nigerians were hoping that finally
with this administration, we will be effective with judicial outcomes on
corruption that it will send the very important deterrent that we need in our
country.
“But the government by its
multiple contradictions ended up sending a signal to the citizens that we are
not ready.”
She argued that premium dignity
is the basis of society and proposed that the government should make it clear
to Nigerians that “it actually considers the life of a citizen more important
than a barrel of oil”.
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