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Don’t harbour or negotiate with looters, Timi Frank advises Tinubu
Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Friday, called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu not to entertain, harbour or negotiate soft landing deals with ex-government officials known to have abused their offices by looting the nation’s treasury.
Frank who made this appeal in a statement in Abuja, lamented that the zeal of the President in going after corrupt elements during his early days in office seems to have waned or completely died.
He urged the President to rev up his drive to make corrupt officials account for their stewardship in order not to make the arrest and ongoing investigation of the Governor of the Central Bank, Godwin Emefiele and Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, AbdulRasheed Bawa to appear as being vendetta driven.
He also called on the President not to reward ex-governors and ex-ministers with corruption cases or criminal allegations against them by the anti-graft agencies with fresh appointment “as doing so would make his anti-corruption drive a mere child’s play.”
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He urged the security agencies executing the anti-battle under Tinubu to extend their probe to the oil and gas sector by ensuring that those who fraudulently benefitted from fuel subsidy regime and bogus daily PMS consumption in the country, are made to refund the people’s money they looted in the process.
Frank, who is the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) Ambassador to East Africa and Middle East, said described a situation where former political office holders with known corrupt tendencies are now finding their way into Tinubu’s cabinet.
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He said: “It is very clear that most of them might be appointed into your administration as Ministers or other key government positions which would be tantamount to rewarding looters.
According to him, the poor masses are today suffering from hardship occasioned by Tinubu’s policies like fuel subsidy removal, while those who fraudulently benefited from the subsidy regime should be allowed to go scud free.
“Going by the zeal Tinubu displayed in his first few days in office, Nigerians believed that by now many of those who abused their offices and corruptly enriched themselves during past administration would have been arrested and being probed by now.
But it is clear that only two persons have been arrested and are undergoing investigation. Meanwhile there are so many of them out there,” he said.