Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, has asked Ali Ndume,
senator representing Borno south, to name those officials who are enriching
themselves in the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Shehu was reacting to comments made by the senator on the
federal government’s efforts to provide palliatives for citizens as the country
fights the spread of COVID-19.
While speaking with journalists in Borno on Thursday, Ndume
asked the president to disband the committee in charge of giving relief to the
poor over alleged fraud.
“We have reliable information that the names they generated
are fake and that they connived with some of the banks to defraud the poor. If
they should continue this way , it is better to stop the exercises,” the
senator reportedly said.
But in a statement on Friday, Shehu said it is disappointing
of the politician to call out unnamed individuals in the administration and
accuse them of unknown transgression.
The presidential spokesman asked the senator to provide
proof to back his claims, describing him as a “discontented politician”.
“A number of ranking officials have been shown the way out
at various times simply on account of this,” he said.
“Similarly, he believes in loyalty and truthfulness. Should
any individuals be found to be serving themselves and not the people, then it
is right and proper to call them out. But this must be done on the basis of
evidence and proof – not on conjecture.
“It is therefore disappointing to hear a politician call out
unnamed individuals in the administration and accuse them of unnamed
transgressions. If this politician has evidence – then he should make public
their identities as well as his proof. Innuendo is not proof.
“Similarly, simply claiming that the COVID-19 Palliative
Measures Committee is not functioning as it should is not the same as
presenting proof for such a claim.
“No one replaces an institutional government body in the
midst of the global pandemic without clear and irrefutable evidence that it
needs replacing.
“A press briefing from a discontented politician is rarely
the source of such evidence.”
Shehu said every citizen should help combat the spread of
the disease rather than “make political capital out of it, whatever his or her
grievances”.
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