A senior member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) party and two-time governor of the defunct Bendel State, Dr. Samuel Ogbemudia, has said anyone found to have looted the treasury under immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan should be hurled into jail without as much as a second thought.
Incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari is undertaking an in-depth probe of the Jonathan administration and there have been public comments by administration officials to the effect that the graft and oil theft was of a massive scale.
“All the information we read in the papers, if it is correct that some people looted the treasury under Jonathan, then they should be brought to book. If they are convicted, they will, certainly, go to jail”, Ogbemudia said in an interview with the Vanguard.
Ogbemudia however said it was necessary for Buhari and members of his team to carry out thorough investigations.
“But you cannot do that unless you investigate properly; so the Buhari regime should spend time to investigate and not to announce first that a man is a thief only to find out that he is not guilty.
“That will not help. Jonathan once described bribery and corruption as petty thief; if that is the new definition, let us see. This is the first time APC is in government; therefore, all the theories that they have been propounding along the line, this is the time to test them and it will take them time to assemble sufficient evidence of their genuine readiness to govern. I give them one year to prepare and three years to execute. If at the end of four years they encourage the PDP to come back, that will be good”.
Ogbemudia also had a word for those who consider the Buhari administration slow.
“My impression is that those who are saying it have my sympathy because they have never run government before. If they had been in government, they would have known how difficult it is to put together a sincere administration. Buhari is laying the foundation for a good take off. I know he has not appointed Ministers but Ministers are meant to help the President and, if the President wants to appoint a Minister, he does that for specific purpose. Those blaming him are aware that he said he was going to reduce the Ministries, he has to reduce them first and look for technocrats who can deliver the goods for him. So this issue that he is slow is rubbish because, tomorrow, if he fails to perform, the same people will blame him. And I know Buhari, he cannot afford to fail Nigerians; so let’s give him a chance”.
Ogbemudia also said the EFCC has suddenly woken up to its responsibility because “every society, the way the people behave is the evidence of the type of leadership it has. It is a reflection of the quality of the leadership in that nation. If under the last government, the EFCC did not have sufficient urge to act, then we should know why. Now, nobody is urging them on and they are working. I think they will continue to do so until somebody stops them.”
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