Catholic Bishop to Buhari: Your anti-corruption war is selective

The Apostolic Vicar of Bomadi Catho­lic vicariate in Delta State, Bishop Hyacinth Eg­bebo has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of be­ing selective in the ongoing anti-corruption fight of the Federal Government.

Egbebo who spoke with journalists at the weekend in Bomadi during the con­secration of a catholic priest also lamented the high im­punity and abuse of human rights in course of the fight.

The Catholic Bishop, who cited the instance of how former Director Gen­eral of NIMASA, Mr Pat­rick Akpobulokemi was bundled into a waiting bus after he had just been grant­ed bail at a federal High Court in Lagos by officials of the Economic and Finan­cial Crimes Commission (EFFC) was direct slap on rule of law.

According to him, the high level of impunity in the rule of law and abuse of human rights in the anti-corruption war of President Buhari calls for concern.

In his words, “In as much as we would want to com­mend Mr President on his zero tolerance on corrup­tion, it is very disheartening and a risk to our democracy that Mr President would have the impunity to set aside court orders under the guise of his anti-corrup­tion war.

“From videos I have seen, the way and manner Akpo­bulokemi was bundled into a bus by security agents de­spite meeting his bail con­ditions, is really embarrass­ing for us as Nigerians and the Nigerian government.”

He, however, suggested that, “the way to go about this is not to hound a se­lected few thereby making them scapegoats, rather, if someone has done some­thing wrong, let them an­swer for it as prescribed in the constitution because what we are witnessing as a people is dehumanising and very disheartening.”

LikeComment