A lawyer in Lagos, Ebun Olu-Adegboruwa, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s fight against corruption seems more like a distraction than achievement.
Speaking
on Channels Television programme, Sunrise Daily, Olu-Adegboruwa
stressed that the war on corruption is taking a path of vendetta rather
than prosecution of corrupt individuals.
“Anti-corruption fight seems to be a distraction.
Corruption is not just on stealing money. It is in abuse of office. It
happens on the table of the civil servant, National Assembly and other
places,” he said.
Speaking further, ‘If
you say you want to fight corruption as a major programme it will be at
the detriment of development of infrastructure. If that is the only
attention you have and that is what is going on now. We don’t hear
stories about what we doing to tackle blackouts, tackle the rot in the
educational system the judiciary, where we need to declare a state of
emergency.’
Olu-Adegboruwa noted that way and manner which the prosecution of the corruption charges against ex-NSA, Sambo Dasuku and PDP spokesman, Olisa Metuh spelt vendetta as these people had issues with the ruling party or President Buhari in the past.
The
lawyer also said that for the war on corruption by the administration
of President Buhari to thrive, the rights of Nigerians must be respected
as enshrined in the constitution.
In his words, ‘There
seem to be some vendetta. We must advise the president correctly
because we must face national lives. I cannot accept that human rights
are subsumed under a war for corruption. To say that people will no
longer be granted bail in Nigeria because they are facing corruption
charges.’
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