A former lawmaker, Shehu Sani, has faulted President Bola Tinubu for saying that he is not interested in probing military spending under his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari.
It was learnt that during a media chat on Monday, Tinubu said that he won’t be investigating military expenditures under Buhari’s government.
Speaking during an interview on Channels Television on Tuesday, the former lawmaker, who represented Kaduna Central, said that doing that was tantamount to rewarding larceny and corruption.
He said: “When you find yourself in this position, especially with a nation facing these critical issues like ours, you still have to go backward and see how public funds that were looted have been recovered and I think we have been doing that with what has happened in the CBN the last time.
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“But when one of the panelists questioned him (Tinubu) about the looting, the mismanagement of security and defense forces under the Buhari administration, which he needs to probe, I think he made it clear that he is more interested in moving forward than moving backward.
“It’s a bit contradictory; you can move backward in CBN but you can’t move backward in security.
“I believe that what should have been is that if he is being provided with evidence that shows that there are clear cases of corruption, he would move to recover public funds. That is what the answer was supposed to be.
“If you say that whatever happened in the past has gone, it is more like rewarding larceny which he has done by saying he is not going to go back.”
Speaking further, Mr. Sani called on Nigerians to hold President Tinubu responsible over the state of the nation.
He said: “He (Tinubu) should be held responsible for what has happened under his government.
“He has economic reforms. He has started, there are lots of pains, Nigerians are suffering but it is a fact all over the world and in history: economic reforms have never been popular with the citizens.”
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Last modified: December 24, 2024
