A pro Buhari group; Buhari Youth Vanguard (BYV) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to ignore calls for the sack of the Minister, Niger Delta Affairs Ministry, Senator Godswill Akpabio, from some discredited and corrupt politicians and contractors.
The group said the calls and sponsored media attacks on the Minister, before, during and even after the forensic audit exercise, were expected in a situation like this, but we know that the Minister is equal to the task. In the coming days more attacks on his image would cone to the fore.
In a 4 page statement signed by its National Chairman, Barrister Ladan Funtua, the group said,” while we have nothing but commendations for the courageous step your Hon Minister for Niger Delta Affairs is taking to confront the corruption virus ravaging the NDDC.
” We demand urgent arrests and prosecution of suspected corrupt politicians and erstwhile public officials who are involved with multiple corrupt cases in order to reduce exactly the lethal clutches of this scourge corruption.
“The statement reads:
“While we have nothing but commendation for the courageous steps your Honourable Minister of Niger Delta Affairs is taking to confront the corruption virus ravaging the moral fabric of NDDC.
Mr President, we demand urgent arrests and prosecution of suspected corrupt politicians and erstwhile public officials who are involved with multiple
corrupt cases in order to reduce exactly the lethal clutches of this
scourge”CORRUPTION”
Sir, after careful evaluation of the country’s gradually worsening
circumstances over the years, we are constrained to conclude that the present mire in which we have found ourselves owes largely to the significant changes, convolutions, our constitution and governance policies have been subjected to, ostensibly for less than altruistic intentions.
“Your Excellency, we think your administration is making giant strides in the anti-corruption war, we also support the report of forensic audit in the NDCC while an extension of it be sent to other ministries and establishments.
“Sir, the current controversies trailing the Niger Delta Development
Commission, NDDC, is more of an issue of systemic corruption beyond the personality of the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Chief Godswill Akpabio.
Your Excellency Mr President, we think the past administration of the PDP
had instituted a huge conduit pipe in the Niger Delta Development
Commission (NDDC) as an ATM, where certain individuals made it a culture
