The National
Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Caretaker Committee, Senator Ahmed
Mohammed Makarfi, has faulted the anti-corruption crusade of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), saying there are enough proofs that the war has
failed.
Makarfi told
some journalists in Kaduna yesterday that Nigerians would be able to assess the
anti-corruption crusade under President Buhari better after the end of his
tenure.
He alleged that
there is enough proof that under the present government, the country is still
entangled in corruption. According to him, “we will be able to assess APC
government when they leave office. By 2019 when we take over, we are not going
to be vindictive but the truth would prevail. Who told you there are no
petitions against them as they are in office right now?
“When they leave
office, we will see what will come up, we will know whether corruption is
something limited to one political party. We are not doing justice to the fight
against corruption when we try to politicise it.’’
Highlighting how
the anti-graft war is being prosecuted by the Buhari administration, the PDP
boss said, “take a look at the private sector, those the EFCC has charged to
court, no politician has been tried or taken to court for anything near that.
“Go to the
private sector and the public service, even some of the security agencies, but
if you try to just narrow corruption to only politicians from the opposition
parties, we are undermining the fight.’’
On why the
Senate committee he headed while in the Senate cleared former Petroleum
Minister, Deziani Alison-Madueke, Makarfi explained: “We did not investigate her,
we investigated NNPC and the proceeds of sale of crude that NNPC was supposed
to have remitted to the federation account and for the period of either 15 or
16 months, a limited period of time.
“Our report made
it clear. There are several aspects under her ministry that we did not look
into, because we were not mandated to look into them. But still, within the
area we investigated, our report was clear that over a billion was not
accounted for. Our report was clear, it is a matter to do with NNPC and we said
that every cent should be accounted for and should be a continuous process.”
And alarmed by
the allegations of corruption against former Petroleum Minister, the
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) yesterday, urged the
Federal Government to seek an arrest warrant from the International Criminal
Court (ICC) to bring her before the court.
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