A human rights and anti-corruption crusade group rebukes Babachir Lawal for supporting pro-government protests
– The group calls on the federal government to wake up and face the reality of governance as Nigerians are suffering under the administration
Lawal Babachir has been accused of diverting millions of naira meant for the feeding to IDP’s in the northeast.
A group known as the Foundation for Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Crusade (FHRACC) has berated the secretary to the government of the federation, Lawal Babachir, for calling the Jonathan regime corrupt when he is equally been accused of corruption.
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The FHRACC rebuked Lawal Babachir for supporting those who staged pro-government protest on Tuesday, February 14.
The group in a statement by its president, Alaowei Cleric, said Lawal’s support for the pro government protesters is an indication that the APC Government is still playing opposition politics instead of addressing national issues, Daily Post reports.
It said Babachir Lawal who has been indicted of corruption in this government made a mockery of himself by calling Jonathan regime corrupt.
The group said Babachir Lawal’s case had shown that the Buhari’s anti-corruption crusade was selective.
It said: “If anybody is to refer Jonathan’s Government as corrupt, it should not be from a man who is having weighty allegation of corrupt practices hanging on his neck.
“At least Jonathan did not protect the ministers accused of corrupt practices in his Government unlike Babachir Lawal’s case who is not only been
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“What baffles us most is when the government desperately hired some jobless miscreants to launder its bartered image, while Babachir Lawal played the ostrich game.
“After spending two years to plunge the country into an unmitigated hardship by this APC Government of excuses, the solution Babachir Lawal can proffer to save Nigeria from the imminent collapse is to keep on blaming Jonathan for their woes?
The human rights group called on the federal government to wake up and face the reality of governance, adding that Nigerians are suffering under the administration.
Meanwhile, acting president, Yemi Osinbajo, has blamed corruption for the root cause of the current economic hardship faced by Nigerians.
Osinbajo said the economic challenges affecting Nigeria is a consequence of corruption, which had been in the country for many years.
The acting president made the statement on Tuesday, February 14, when he spoke at a town hall meeting with the members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Punch reports.
Osinbajo explained that the federal government was investigating a $15bn defence contract, stating that the disappearance of such an amount would lead any country into hardship.
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