Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has described opinions in some
quarters that the anti-corruption fight of the Buhari-led government is
one-sided as absurd . Osinbajo said this while speaking at the end of the African
Union summit in Kigali, Rwanda on Monday July 18th.
“I think it’s entirely absurd, I think that view is absurd and without
foundation or basis whatsoever. We look at corruption from all possible
facets.
If you look at for example, corruption on the
military, from military procurement, obviously the only individuals
responsible for that could be persons who had held office within the
period in question and that has been done and clearly the opposition was
not in the office at that time. Those who were in the office were not
necessarily opposition individuals. These were service chiefs and other
personnel who had served for a while. The other issues for example is
the fraud and the corruption that is associated with large sums of money
given out by the past national security adviser (NSA) which went to
several political figures and again these were large huge sums of money,
over 2 billion US Dollars and the sheet size and the enormity of what
we are talking about, must not be diminished in anyway or trivialised in
anyway by any suggestion that it is partisan. How? In what way? I think
those who make that suggestion obviously want to trivialise a very
important programme of the government, a very important fight against
corruption and also the strong effort to recover huge sums of money that
have been stolen from Nigeria.”he said
