Politics
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately sack, arrest and arraign Kemi Adeosun, the minister of Finance, over the alleged use of fake National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, certificate.
In a statement signed by Kola Ologbodiyan, the PDP national publicity secretary, on Sunday, July 8, said the president should not provide a cover for Adeosun over the issue.
According to the PDP statement, “The recent revelation has cast a full-length dark shadow on the overall integrity of his administration.”
It said further: “We challenge President Buhari to be bold to allow an open independent inquest into the exact figures amounting to the trillions of naira oil revenue earned by the nation in the last three years and how he had spent same with Mrs Adeosun as Minister of Finance.
“Mr President should also allow an open inquest into his handling, with Mrs Adeosun, of all our depleted foreign financial instruments, including the Excess Crude Account, ECA, from which funds were taken without recourse to the National Assembly,” the party said.
The PDP similarly charged the president to allow an inquest into his administration’s borrowing of more than N10 trillion in 30 months, with Adeosun as minister of Finance and the purposes for which the money was used.
It also called for an open investigation into the N18 billion Internally Displaced Persons, IDP, intervention fund and the N10 billion National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, alleged to have been stolen from the Treasury Single Account, TSA.
“Furthermore, we challenge President Buhari to allow an inquest into the leaked memo at the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, showing N9 trillion corrupt oil contracts as well as the alleged stealing of N1.1 trillion worth of crude oil, all in a sector under his direct purview as Minister of Petroleum.”
– July 9, 2018 @ 14:45 GMT |
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