The Anglican
Archbishop of Enugu Ecclesiastical Province, Dr. Emmanuel Chukwuma has
said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption posture is
disingenuous because the president does nothing about the corruption in
his cabinet.
During an interview with The Sun,
the respected clergyman regretted Buhari’s inability to control the
menace of the killer Fulani herdsmen in the country saying that by
remaining silent on the Fulani militia killings in his Democracy Day
speech, the president demonstrated he was only paying lip service to the
issue.
He maintained that the Fulani herdsmen
killings was a grand plot orchestrated to Islamize Nigeria and that the
victims of the grazing terrorism were ready to defend themselves.
“We are ready to face them. Any evil
herdsman that performs any nonsense anywhere in the South-east should be
ready for war. We are not going to draw a reprisal, but we will defend
ourselves and make sure that they do not exist in this area anymore to
rape our women, destroy our farms and unleash criminality,” Chukwuma
said.
Dr. Chukwuma rated Buhari’s one year in
office very low and said that Buhari is corrupt. “APC came on with a
deceitful colour,” he declared. “Blowing the mind of Nigerians
day-by-day with bogus promises, which we are yet to see.”
When pressed to comment on Buhari, the
archbishop said, “Yes, Buhari is corrupt! You want to hear it from my
mouth? He is corrupt and I am emphatic about it!”
“He would not say he is not. If he is
not corrupt, why did he allow corrupt people, especially former
governors to serve in his government?
“How did he source the money used to
fund his election? Why is he giving an individual that is being accused
of corruption key portfolio in his government, if he is not corrupt
himself?
“There are several instances to prove
that he is corrupt. Look at some former governors and others, if they
did not use their states’ funds to sponsor Buhari’s election, as have
been severally alleged, what can the president tell Nigerians that make
this set of people more qualified to handle two or more key ministries,
each of which is even a huge load on an individual?
“How many heads does Fashola have, or
what makes him more human, more capable or more qualified to handle
three huge ministries if not to enable him recoup monies he used to
sponsor Buhari’s election? The same with Amaechi. That is corruption.
“It is most unfortunate that the
government of he, who claims to be an apostle of anti-corruption is
filled with questionable and corrupt individuals.”
Chukwuma also took Nigeria’s information
minister to the cleaners in the interview. He questions why Buhari had
not taken action against Mohammed over the attempt to compel the
Nigerian Communication Commission to loan him N13 million for a trip to
China. He said it was God that exposed Lai Mohammed and that he was
nothing but a sycophant.
“Look at the minister of information,
Lai Mohammed, who recently attempted to compel the Nigerian
Communication Commission – an agency under his ministry – to loan him
over N13 million to fund his un-named official trip to China,” he said.
“If not that God exposed him by leaking
his memo to that effect, that money would have been cornered just like
that. It shows that such thing has been happening – muscling agencies
and parastatals under him to loan him money that may never be repaid. Is
that not sheer abuse of office? Has the president done anything about
that? We all know why. That is also corruption.
“The information minister has just been
making too much noise with no reasonable impact. Look at even the
budget. How can you budget over N39 billion for information propaganda?
That amount is more than the budget of some two ministries put together.
“What do you need such money for; to
feed Nigerians with more lies and deceit? The man has got to a point
where the president should relieve him because function of party
propagandist is different from that of a country’s image maker, which
Lai is yet to realise. Lai Mohammed is a sycophant just like Jonathan’s
Labaran Maku,” he said.
The clergyman also spoke about the renewed Biafra agitations in the country. You may read the full interview at The Sun.
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