Civil Society Urges Attorney General to Dismiss Frivolous
Petitions against Buhari Government Officials
A coalition of Citizens Watch Nigeria (CWN),
Transparency Centre Network (TCN), and Good Governance Project Initiative
(GGPI) under the auspice of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have expressed
condemnation on Civil Society Network Against Corruption (CSNAC) for what they termed
as “frivolous writing, self-serving, time wasting and ill-motivated petitions”
to the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) against some top government
officials in President Muhammadu Buhari administration.
In a statement signed and issued by the Executive
Secretary of CWN, Omoba Kenneth Aigbegbele; National Convener of TCN, Umar
Faruk, and National President of GGPI, Innocent Okadigbo, the groups described
some of the CSNAC’s petitions as malicious, wicked and defamatory aimed at
resolving personal grievances.
The groups alleged that the petitions are just ways
to settle old scores, probably seek revenge on perceived enemies “because some
of the said petitions have been handled severally by anti-graft agencies and
found to have lacked merit and subsequently dismissed.”
The trio maintained that this matter has gone
beyond anti-corruption war but has become highly political and unpatriotic
aimed at distracting President Buhari government and later accuse him of
achieving nothing.
“All the accused are patriotic Nigerians and key
players in Buhari government and their mischievous aim is to dampen their
enthusiasm to work for the government,” the statement added.
According to the statement, CSNAC had recently mentioned
Abba Kyari, COS to the president; Army Chief of Staff, Tukur Buratai; Minister
of Trade, Okechukwu Enelamah; Chairman PSC, Mike Okiro, and the Interior
Minister, Abdulrahman Danbazau, in its petition to the Attorney General of the
Federation as public officials to be investigated but “we insisted that some of
the mentioned persons had no case to answer but CSNAC and its paymasters have
some axe to grind with them.”
The statement added that this is a case of
witch-hunting from CSLAC for pressurising an anti-graft agency to indict a
government official but after examining the case, the anti-graft agency found
nothing against him and exonerated him of any wrong doing. but CSLAC is
curiously insisting on the case.
The trio therefore urged the Attorney General of
the Federation, Abubakar Malami, to be vigilant and cautious of blackmailers and
mischief makers who might be hell-bent to smear the good reputation of honest
and hardworking Nigerians working tirelessly for the good of Buhari government
because of past disagreements.
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