The Committee for the Defence of
Human Rights, CDHR, has described the controversial list of treasury looters
released by the Federal Government as an insult to Nigerians.
Minister of Information Lai
Mohammed had released the controversial list of treasury looters at a press
conference in Lagos.
But the group in a statement by
its president, Malachy Ugwummadu, asked the federal government to look inward
into ex-PDP chieftains now in APC to show seriousness in fighting corruption.
His statement read: “If the
Federal Government was serious about total anti-corruption war, it should also
‘look inwards’ and name ex-PDP chieftains who are now in the APC.
“The conviction and prosecution
of looters were the real proof of any anti-corruption fight.
“On whether it was right for the
Federal Government to have named persons whose corruption cases were already in
court, it is an issue that was neither ‘here nor there’.
“If the persons listed view it as
name-dropping, they could sue for defamation; justification is the total
defence to defamation. But I think what happened was that the Federal
Government succumbed to pressure in releasing the list.
“What is important for the
Federal Government to make Nigerians think it is serious about anti-corruption
war is if it looks inwards and names those accused of corruption, who defected
from the PDP to the APC.”
Comments
Post a Comment