Human rights lawyer, Mr. Festus Keyamo,
has criticised the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sokoto,
Matthew Kukah, for faulting President Muhammdu Buhari’s approach to
fighting corruption.
Kukah, in an interview with SUNDAY PUNCH
last week, had said, “Buhari can and should learn from ex-President
(Olusegun) Obasanjo who got back so much of the loots after he came in
without any noise. I recall him saying that even pastors helped to bring
back loots from repentant parishioners.
“I believe the President, using the
intelligence resources available, should consider surprise as the most
vital tool in this fight. My worry has not been about not probing as
some of my critics falsely think. I have been saying ‘think, plan and
execute.’ If you make so much noise, vital evidence, data and files will
be destroyed by collaborators in the civil service or the relevant
offices.”
But Keyamo flayed the cleric’s argument,
saying Buhari should be commended, as long as his efforts were
successful in ensuring accountability.
“Whether it is publicly or quietly, the
end product is to recover the loot. Who told Kukah that noise does not
achieve results? Let us wait till the end of the day and see whether it
will achieve results or not,” Keyamo said.
The lawyer further flayed the Peoples
Democratic Party and apologists of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s
administration for Buhari’s anti-Jonathan probe.
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