ABUJA: The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has said that the issue of insecurity in Nigeria is made worse by the unprecedented level of corruption amongst the members of the Federal Executive Council of the present government, and the stinking corruption by mostly the aides of the President.
The HURIWA National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko who said this in a press briefing in Abuja on Friday, noted that there are reports that most of the FEC members prior to 2015 before the coming of the government, were as ‘wretched as church rats’.
He added that a few years down the line, there are reports that many of them have built immeasurable wealth and got huge assets to the amazement of some of the political thugs who were used to manipulate the electoral process and rig in the administration.
According to him, “It is said that some of these thugs who felt shortchanged by those who they helped to gain political power have abandoned them, as those they helped are now amassing massive wealth, whereas the thugs who helped them to perpetrate electoral fraud are dying in penury and absolute poverty.
“And so those amongst the armed thugs who cannot bear the disappointments with equanimity, then opted for violence and criminality which is the result of what we are witnessing today”, he said.
He further noted that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), is simply chasing shadows by asking bankers to declare their assets when the same Commission failed to pin down the sponsors of terrorism and the kidnappers who keep huge ransom in the same banks that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) controls.
He urged the EFCC to go after the aides of the President and the Ministers most of whom he said were even too poor to drive one good car and lived in rented houses with some reportedly selling recharge cards before political fortune smiled on them in 2015/2019.
“The EFCC should conduct forensic investigations of how these persons who have been in government became stupendously wealthy contrary to their early wretched status which people around them can attest to, this is the roots of kidnappings.
“Also, how many of the Ministers have their kids in public school? This is why one of them told us parents to protect our children because the government can’t protect children. The minister of State for Education is bereft of sound information on the constitutional obligation of government”, he stated.
