Current anti-corruption fight is not Buhari’s war – Lai Mohammed

 

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has asserted that the ongoing anti-corruption crusade is not President Muhammadu Buhari’s fight alone.
Mohammed explained that the current anti-graft fight was a war aimed at liberating Nigerians from “poverty, misery, sickness and wretchedness.”
He insisted that Nigeria must win the war against corruption, stressing that it went beyond the desire of the President.

In a statement by his Special Assistant, Segun Adeyemi, Mohammed said the federal government would not be deterred by the serial negative outcome of corruption cases that were recorded at the High Court level.
The statement sent to DAILY POST quoted the Minister as saying that the Federal Government would not be dampened in its anti-graft battle despite recent setbacks.
Mohammed assured Nigerians that the government had appealed against all the negative decisions, and will “vigorously canvass its case at the level of the Court of Appeal.”

He also said that judgments on the corruption cases are “being rigorously reviewed to determine whether there were errors on our part or whether the government is the victim of mischief”.
”The war against corruption is going to be long, tough and arduous, but this administration is equipped, physically, mentally and intellectually, for the long haul. We must win this war because the law is our side, the people are on our side and God is on our side,” the statement by Mohammed read.
“This is only the beginning, so any setback will not deter or discourage us. This is not Buhari’s war. It is Nigeria’s war of liberation from poverty, misery, sickness and wretchedness.
”Nigerians will appreciate more the grave and dire consequences of corruption when they consider that the $9.2 million found in a village house in Southern Kaduna can finance the construction of one health centre in each of the 774 local governments in Nigeria and fund them for one year.

”Against this background, one can therefore imagine what Nigeria could have achieved with the $20 billion that was estimated to have been looted in the last 3 years of the immediate past administration, either in the areas of job creation or infrastructural development.
”The government is therefore more determined than ever to recover as much of this plundered funds as possible and use them to put our youths back to work, fix our roads and other infrastructure, equip our hospitals and universities and invest in electricity in order to bring our industries back to life and bring back some level of comfort to our homes and offices”, he added.