The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has disclosed plans to probe Goodluck Jonathan with investigations into the financial transactions of his ministers and aides, The Punch reports.
Ibrahim Lamorde, who is the chairman of the commission, had already directed that all
petitions against former public officers at
the federal level should be forwarded to him to be acted upon.
The
source states that former ministers, special
advisers and others will be invited in a few weeks from now.
According to The Punch, its three top
sources
in the anti-graft agency confided in one that Lamorde was determined to
expose any corrupt act during the administration of the former
President.
One of them said:
“I am not aware of anybody who has been
summoned or interrogated by the commission. Those to be interrogated
would be determined by the gravity of the allegations against them as
contained in the petitions.What happened last week was that a directive was issued to move all petitions
against public office holders under the former President to the office
of the Chairman.The files will be studied and assigned to units to
handle the investigations. It is based on the petitions that people will be summoned.Most likely next week, action would be taken on those petitions…”
However, Wilson Uwajaren, the EFCC head of media and publicity, denied knowledge of such a directive on Monday.
He said:
“I am not aware of the directive you are talking about. It is not to my knowledge”.
Reacting, Alhaji Abdullahi Jalo, PDP’s publicity secretary, stated:
“I am sure Nigerians still remember that it was because of PDP’s desire to deal with the scourge of corruption that our government under the leadership
of President Olusegun Obasanjo established the EFCC and the ICPC. The
records are there.All we are asking for is that there must be fairness
and justice, whatever probe they want to carry out must have respect for
the rule of law, good conscience and the fear of God.”
He noted that such a probe must not be carried out based on vendetta
or simply because somebody does not like the name or the face of
somebody.
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