Ebonyi State governor and
chairman of the South-east Governors’ Forum, Chief David Umahi has said that no
amount of clampdown by the Economic Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, and the
Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, ICPC, will
stop Nigerian leaders from stealing.
The Chairman made this known
while addressing journalists at the governor’s lodge, government house
Abakaliki, shortly after a telecommunication meeting with other governors of
the zone and Igbo leaders.
According to him “People don’t
fear God any more in this country. Is not about EFCC, ICPC and whatever thing.
If we know that we are temporal on this earth and that when you sleep, you are
at war with death.
“It’s only the good Lord that
wakes up the winner, and then we have to begin to change our minds and begin to
change our thoughts.
“There is no amount of EFCC, ICPC
that will stop a leader from stealing. It is only God and conscience that will.
When you get older as a leader, what do you want to see in a path that you have
crossed before? What do you want to see?
“What do you want your children
to be known for? How do you want people to respect your children? Respect them
that you stole all the money or that you built all the mansions?
“We should know that all these
wealth are nothing. It must pass from one hand to another. The leaders of this
country want to steal, so that their generation will not see poverty but it’s
not true.
“Little sickness can take over
the whole lots of that stealing. I am pleading with Nigerian youths to have a
rethink, let them do self reevaluation. A peanut can be given to them to
destroy another person. How have they felt in the past two, three, four or five
years? It doesn’t work.
“One thing I have told the people
of Ebonyi is that I will not share the money that is meant for developing the
state to stakeholders. I will not share it, no matter whatever anyone can
think, do or say,” he stated.
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