The Presidency has said that it could not sack any of its officials on mere allegation of corruption without any concrete proof.

It also said that in Nigeria’s history, no government had confronted corruption as the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, who spoke with journalists in Abuja yesterday, said the system the administration put in place in the last one year had exposed massive grafts in pension office, fertiliser, power, oil and gas, elections, ports and judiciary, etc.

He said that the insinuation in some quarters that President Jonathan lacked the political will to fight corruption was false and that the President could not just sack ministers because of unsubstantiated allegations.

Okupe was reacting to calls for the sack of the Minister of Niger Delta, Elder Godsday Orubebe, and his Labour and Productivity counterpart, Chief Emeka Worgu, over allegations of corruption while in office.

Orubebe was accused of benefitting from a palatial house gift allegedly donated by a construction company where he currently resides while Worgu’s company is said to be connected to oil subsidy fraud.

But Okupe said these allegations were far from the truth.

He said: “These are allegations, if the President fires every minister and any government officials that people allege, I doubt whether 50 per cent of the officials will remain. You know how Nigerians are, I am not indicting anybody, I am not saying anybody is wrong or right but on allegation, the onus is on the person who is alleging to prove and the President cannot just act based on allegation; government does not work that way and the President is not also deaf.

“These are events in the last one month and some mechanism must be taking place to internally verify these claims and to actually come up with something. You know that a minister has been sacked in this administration and investigations took place and decisions were taken.”

Cataloguing the numerous victories Jonathan’s government has won its war against corruption, Okupe said before the administration came on board, the pension fund regime was one of the major channels through which public funds running into hundreds of billions of naira were misappropriated by corrupt officials.

He said: “Problems associated with the pension management system include embezzlement, falsification of records, ghost pensioners, obsolete administrative structure and denial of pensioners their due entitlements. This was what necessitated the setting up of the Presidential Pension Reform Task Team.

“Since June 2010, the activities of this important task force resulted in the following: Detection and deletion of over 73,000 ghost/fake pensioners from the Head of Service/Police Pension Office; recovery and saving of over N225 billion from two pension offices; capturing biometric details of over 170,000 pensioners; and stoppage of a monthly theft of over N4 billion from the national treasury.”
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Since jonathan came in, all corrup officials had been sentenced to death as we are seeing................. Beasts