The pan-Yoruba socio cultural organsation, Afenifere, yesterday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the ministers accused of corruption by some judges arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS).
The group asked the National Judicial Council (NJC) to investigate all the allegations of corruption levelled against the judges.
At its monthly meeting held at the home of its leader,Chief Reuben Fasoranti, in Akure yesterday, Afenifere expressed its readiness to join President Buhari in his fight against corruption.
It, however, requested that the fight must be fair.
The group’s Publicity Secretary, Yinka Odumakin, in a communique at the end of the meeting said: “Afenifere is determined to ensure that it uses all machinery to ensure that all the ministers fingered are investigated and those found guilty prosecuted.”
“For the ministers who have been mentioned for attempting to pervert the course of justice, we are asking that such minister should step aside immediately as minister.
After that, they should go through due process of the law to either ascertain their innocence, or if their guilty is established, they should be punished according to the laws of the land.
The group also lauded the current investigation of some judges in the country.
It, however, condemned the manner in which they were arrested by DSS operatives.
“Investigating corruption is within the purview of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC).
“For anybody to go to someone’s home around 1am and say I am DSS official in a country where the wife of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor was kidnapped by soldiers is abnormal. Therefore, we frown at going to the homes of the judges at night.
“We also believe as Afenifere that the judges are not above the laws of the land just because they are judges.