Anti-Corruption War: Start the probe with yourself, OBJ, IBB, Others – Shehu Sani to Buhari

Anti-Corruption War: Start the probe with yourself, OBJ, IBB, Others – Shehu Sani to Buhari

The senator representing Kaduna South Senatorial District at the national assembly, Shehu Sani, has called on Muhammadu Buhari to extend his anti-corruption war to other leaders who were in power before Goodluck Jonathan.

Sani said both former presidents and ex-military rulers of the country should not be exempted from the probe.

Addressing newsmen on Friday, Sani noted that Nigeria had earned over $3tn from crude oil sales over the last 56 years “but there is hardly 25 per cent of that funds to show for the realisation of that kind of large sum of money.”

He stated that one of the ways of fighting recession was for the Buhari-led administration to enlarge the scope of its anti-corruption war beyond the Jonathan administration to others before it, with the sole purpose of recovering the nation’s stolen wealth by corrupt-minded past administrators.

Sani said, “The fight against corruption, as it is now, is about recovery and arrest.

“If the government says the money recovered under the administration of Goodluck Jonathan is not enough to service the economy, then, we should move to the late Umaru Yar’Adua and Olusegun Obasanjo administrations too; move to Abubakar Abdulsalami, the late Sani Abacha, Ibrahim Babangida and Buhari himself as a military ruler then; and to Shehu Shagari of the Second Republic.

“We must go after the old thieves irrespective of the political parties they belong to now, as the government is going after the most recent ones. For example, there was a Senate committee that probed the Independent Power Project where it was said that over $16bn was looted and we have not seen anything done to the revelations made by the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, who is now the Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi, over the $20bn allegedly missing from the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation accounts under Jonathan, etc.”

Just few weeks back, the Senator called on African leaders to be committed to economic emancipation of the continent.

-News Reporters