President
Buhari has been lambasted by a prominent Yoruba group over the alleged
preferential treatment given to Lawal after his indictment by the
Senate.
Yinka Odumakin
The Pan-Yoruba socio-political Organisation, Afenifere, has
lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari over his handling of the
allegations against the Secretary to the Government of the Federation,
SGF, Babachir Lawal.
National Publicity Secretary of the organisation, Yinka Odumakin,
frowned at the President’s decision to absolve Lawal of corruption
against him.
Speaking on the issue, Odumakin said, “It is tragic that a
presidency, whose sole credential is anti – corruption, would treat a
monumental allegation against one of its principal officials this way.
“The Presidency that has all the time to investigate the number
of committee members , who did not sign a report, could not find time
to investigate the grass -cutting activities of the SGF. It is the
lowest low for the anti -corruption war. ”
Recall that the senate had called for Lawal’s arrest and
prosecution, following an Interim Report by its ad-hoc committee on
mounting Humanitarian crisis in the North East which indicted him of
fraud.
In the report, the committee alleged that Lawal who is the Chairman
of the Presidential Initiative of the North East, PINE, awarded
contracts to a company which he has link to.
But the President, in a letter read on the floor of the senate by
the Senate President on Tuesday rejected the call by the upper
legislative house, citing some infractions in the report.
However, senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, who heads
the senate’s Ad-Hoc Committee, equally expressed disappointment at the
presidency’s response to the committee’s report.
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