Alhaji Ahmed Dogara, former member of the Niger State House of Assembly, on Saturday urged the Federal Government to declare its position on the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, and the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ayo Oke.
The Presidency had on April 19 suspended Lawal and Oke from office, pending the conclusion of investigations by a panel set up by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The panel, headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, was to investigate allegations of contract fraud and bribery against Lawal by the Senate and the N13 billion found in an Ikoyi apartment by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, claimed by the NIA.
Dogara told the News Agency of Nigeria in Minna that making public pronouncements about the two suspended public officers would send signals to public officers to desist from taking pleasure in looting public treasury.
He said that many Nigerians had expressed worries about the case of the SGF, NIA boss and the lists of corrupt officers that nearly ruined this country had remained a nightmare to the public.
He said it was high time for the Federal Government to act fast to enable Nigerians to strengthen their political will in exposing public officers looting the national treasury.
Dogara commended the President for the immediate disengagement of the former Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, from the Federal Civil Service.
He said: “Mr. President showed, as he had done now, that he can hire and fire to salvage the bad situation in the polity.
“President Buhari’s commitment to fight corruption these years that made the majority of the masses to support his candidature, is the same step that can earn this government votes in the next election in 2019.”
NAN.
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