Finance Minister: Why NYSC must prosecute Kemi Adeosun – HURIWA
Following the resignation of Kemi Adeosun as Minister of Finance, a
pro-democracy and non-governmental organisation, Human Rights Writers
Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, on Friday called for her prosecution for
forgery.
HURIWA made the call while dismissing Adeosun’s resignation over
certificate scam as an “insufficient remedy for her alleged
indiscretion.”
In a statement by the National Coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and
the National Media Affairs Director Miss Zainab Yusuf, the organization
also urged the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) to immediately drag
her to court so she would be “sanctioned if found culpable or for the
Attorney General of the Federation to do it himself or grant a fiat to a
private entity to prosecute her over alleged forgery.”
HURIWA also expressed shock that President Buhari “still keeps his
senior Special Assistant on public prosecution Mr. Obono Obla despite
his indictment for parading fake WAEC certificate as attested to before
the National Assembly by the hierarchy of the West African Examination
Council (WAEC).”
The group said the slow action of the “President in showing the way out
or tolerating persons with alleged questionable credentials has
absolutely destroyed any claim of his government waging war against
corruption because a government cannot claim to go to equity with
tainted and soiled hands.”
According to HURIWA, “We are of the considered opinion that the Federal
Ministry of Justice or the NYSC must institute a legal proceeding
against the Minister of Finance since the NYSC has ruled that the
exemption certificate could not have come from them.
“Her reported resignation if proven is neither sufficient nor has it paid for the severity of the alleged crime.”
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