“If you look at the letter written to re-transmit his name, he said he didn’t find anything plausible to reject him for and nothing incriminating has been found on him. The only thing the President didn’t do is that he didn’t put his house in order because the Director-General of DSS is a member of the board of EFCC. Now both EFCC and DSS are under the President. So why wouldn’t the President reconcile them and ensure that there is no other intimidating letter from DSS that would go to the National Assembly?”
Executive Chairman of Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL), Mr. Debo Adeniran, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari ought to have ironed out differences between the leadership of the Department of State Security (DSS) and the acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu before re-presenting Magu’s name to the Senate for confirmation.
Magu was on Wednesday rejected for the second time by the Senate relying on the DSS report.
But Adeniran, who accused the Senate of mischief, said the President could re-present Magu’s name or allow him to continue in acting capacity.
He spoke to newsmen on the sidelines of a book presentation, “Buhari and the Challenge of Governing a People United by Corruption” authored by Sunday Emmanuel Abbah, a Lagos-based writer and public commentator.
Adeniran said the President could not afford to nominate a malleable individual who would compromise in the fight against corruption.
He said, “If you look at the letter written to re-transmit his name, he said he didn’t find anything plausible to reject him for and nothing incriminating has been found on him. The only thing the President didn’t do is that he didn’t put his house in order because the Director-General of DSS is a member of the board of EFCC. Now both EFCC and DSS are under the President. So why wouldn’t the President reconcile them and ensure that there is no other intimidating letter from DSS that would go to the National Assembly?”
Speaking at the presentation of the eight-chapter book containing 111 pages, Adeniran called for a state policy and the individual resolve to stamp out corruption.
The book author said Nigeria’s problem was not ethnicity or tribalism but selfishness and tendency to aggrandise wealth by individuals, noting that Nigerians are united in corruption and hiding under the shadow of tribalism.
“For instance, all the people in the National Assembly are not representing us but only fighting for their selfish agenda. Our problem is not Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba or Igala man, tribalism is just a talk on the lips,” he said.
