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Nigeria: Probe Obasanjo, Group Tells EFCC, ICPC
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This Day (Lagos)
24 March 2008
Posted to the web 24 March 2008
Charles Ajunwa
Lagos
Lagos-based Non-Governmental Organisation, Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL), has called on the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC ) and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC), to investigate the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, with a protest march scheduled for Wednesday to drive home its point.
CACOL has also called on the anti-graft commissions to prosecute Obasanjo for alleged mismanagement of national resources and corrupt enrichment if found culpable.
In a statement made available to THISDAY, entitled "The Probe of Obasanjo Regime Must Continue to Prosecution," signed by the Chairman, Debo Adeniran, the group said the inability of the House Committee on Power and Steel to probe how Obasanjo's government applied the $16billion appropriated to the sector between 1999 and 2007, has rubbished whatever good intention that might have informed the effort of the Honourable Ndudi Elumelu-led panel.
He said such trend , if not checked, would further embolden present and future leaders to be more brazen in squandering the nation's resources, adding that all those that had their hands dipped into the public till should be brought to justice.
Adeniran said, "going by assertions and evidences given so far at the Elumelu panel and similar ones before it, Obasanjo's regime could have misappropriated, misapplied, mismanaged or misdirected more funds during its eight-year tenure, than all other regimes before it put together."
He said the level of corruption witnessed during Obasanjo's administration had its negative impact on all sectors of the economy, ranging from energy, power, works, health, education and justice.
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"It is in consideration of negative impacts all these arbitrariness and others yet to be exposed had on the lives of ordinary Nigerians that we hereby call on the House of Representatives who have thus far won admiration of average Nigerian for comprehensive examination of how those eight years of monumental waste was run to go a step further by prosecuting the administration, and join it in this noble crusade aimed at salvaging the hapless citizen from the doldrums of socio-economic enslavement," he said.
Adeniran also urged the House to beam its searchlight on the oil and telecommunications sectors, especially the Wilbros and Siemens bribery scandals that happened during Obasanjo's tenure.
He said "the House should also take a look at other corrupt allegations against the former president, especially the ones on Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), including Gbenga's (Obasanjo's son) allegation on amoral gratification for contracts."
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