Justice Uwais, others back Buhari on anti-corruption war

Former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mohammed Lawal Uwais and Former Nigeria Ambassador to the United Nations, Professor Ibrahim Gambari has urged President Muhammed Buhari to remain resolute in his administration’s fight to free the country from corporate and individual corruption.

They described as callous “the allocation of Nigeria’s scarce resource to individual for political interests at the expense of huge losses of lives and properties, especially, in the North-East, where the fight against Boko Haram continues to rage.”

Acting under the Umbrella of the Council of the Wise, they said “ten months after Nigeria’s historic elections that pushed out of power, the 16-years PDP Government, President Buhari’s APC-led Government remains trapped by massive state corruption that has almost grounded the country to a halt”.

They also applauded former President Olusegun Obasanjo for his recent letter to the National Assembly, and called on the Senate President, Bukola Saraki to do the needful by releasing details of the expenditures of the National Assembly for public scrutiny.

The Executive Director of Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development (SCDDD) and former Ambassador of Nigeria to Chad, Ambassador Abdullahi A. Omaki spoke on behalf of Justice Uwais and Professor Gambari.

The Council of the Wise operates under the auspices of the Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development. Justice Uwais is the Chairman of the Centre, while Professor Gambari is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Centre.

In a statement signed by Amb. Omaki they urged President Muhammadu Buhari, “to remain resolute in his administration’s fight to free Nigeria from the claws of corporate and individual corruptions that have held the country hostage”.

President Buhari is the only Nigerian politician and leader that has the pedigree to engage this systematic corruption because of his own personal record of high integrity which was personalized during the campaigns for the highest office in our country,  Amb.Omaki observed in the statement.

He said the need for the appeal was “hinged on the mind-boggling revelations on institutional rots that permitted for such callous and heartless lootings to take place under the PDP-Federal Administration until May 2015.”