Festus Keyamo speaks. Lagos Lawyer, Festus Keyamo has said that President Goodluck Jonathan has no single appetite to fight corruption. In a statement he issued yesterday, Keyamo said “We have a president who has no single appetite to fight corruption – yes, none. Imagine a campaign that is dominated by the theme of corruption, yet the president has decided to appoint a person facing trial for money-laundering as his Director of Media and Publicity. “If nobody would say it, I will say it because I am the one prosecuting the fellow in court and the case has been adjourned to February 23 and 24 for trial. “Part of the lies told is that the fellow has been freed whereas some of the counts in the charge were just struck out and the court held that he has a case to answer on some other counts. “Yet nobody is asking the president these hard questions. Before Jonathan’s administration, Boko Haram was nothing but a rag-tag group of extremists living in enclaves like Sambisa, while our proud military boys patrolled the towns. Now, under Jonathan, the reverse is the case. “One obvious flaw is that our president has lost control of the military and the top hierarchy of the military is merely feeding fat on this unfortunate situation and the president seems to be totally helpless in the face of this. “The president is already sounding like a broken record. He says he has made the rails to function again. He mentioned this so much that you imagine that he was primarily elected to revive a few train lines. It sounds very funny when you hear such things, whereas the primary duty of government is the protection of lives and properties.” Keyamo added that “On the other hand, the president eats, sleeps and wakes up with corruption. In one of his famous interviews, he did not even see stealing as corruption. That is why he does not see the point why he should not appoint a person standing trial for corruption as his Director of Media and Publicity. He just does not care. “So, Nigerians, we must decide what we want. When Buhari fought corruption and was supposedly high-handed, he was ruling with decrees. Now, he has the constitution, the National Assembly, and the judiciary without ouster clauses to guide him. “It is therefore only an idiot that will believe the propaganda that he would throw everyone suspected of corruption into jail. I feel so sorry at times for the gullible masses of this country who fall for such cheap propaganda. But it is his type of appetite and revulsion against corruption that we so dearly need at this time.” Via The Herald.
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 07:27:17 +0000
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