AllenSpencer:
What's the persecution talk all about.

He has nothing to fear if his hands are clean.

Do you know how many unwarranted search and interrogation the police and SARS execute on common Nigerians


EFCC should carry on please.

Gbam. If his hand is clean he has no reason to panic or even be looking for sympathizers like Afenifere/Afenifebi. Lolz

Which of the afenifere?

asiwajub:


This group as since lost the relevance accord them years ago.

That doesn't invalidate d salient point they made

acounter2:
waiting for the first mumu to shout afonja.......

Seriously you're the first to said that it means you're the mumu.
I Twaile for your stupidility

Lumig:
Gbam. If his hand is clean he has no reason to panic or even be looking for sympathizers like Afenifere/Afenifebi. Lolz

Afenifere didn't say EFCC shouldnt investigate Saraki. It only said, let all politicians & governors from 2003 b investigated also. I believe d article was explicit enough

I wonder why Saraki too is buying and building houses upandan like birds?

tayomohammed:
I think the people in Afenifere are mad. We (Kwarans) petitioned the Efcc on what he has stolen from us and you are now shouting persecution. Afenifere ko, afenifebi ni. Useless old men.

Mr. Petitioner, I need to remind you something.

Lagos State governor Ambode indicted Fashola, saying that he used outrageous amounts to sink borehole and maintain a website.

A committee of inquiry was set up in Rivers State. That committee indicted Rotimi Amaechi of corruption, saying that he stile billions of naira of state money.

After so much criticism from the public, in 2016, the EFCC released a news flash, saying that they were investigating Fashola, Amaechi, and other APC members. 3 years later, no word from the EFCC on these men.

Usually, I try to stay apolitical, or better still fair in my assessment of government. But Buhari has shown that he's only probing perceived political enemies...the same thing Obasanjo did with the EFCC. Obasanjo's case was even better because he dealt with political enemies within his own party. However, Buhari is mostly targeting the opposition while his fantastically corrupt men remain free.

That's why serious organizations don't see him as an antigraft warrior. For instance, Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index for Nigeria has remained below average ever since Buhari assumed office with no hope of improvement in sight.

In summary, we need to kill corruption in Nigeria, but that fight should not be one-sided.

You people should allow karma do its work,don't worry he will come out of it.

EMMAACHILE:

There was really a country! If we no leave this place, our children fit curse us in the future. It's really terrible.!

I swear... leaving is not an option, it's a must!!

They always say we came into this world with nothing and will be leaving with nothing...

That is to say we can make any place in the world our habitat.........God said go into the world and not go into �� Nigeria

True

SoNature:


Mr. Petitioner, I need to remind you something.

Lagos State governor Ambode indicted Fashola, saying that he used outrageous amounts to sink borehole and maintain a website.

A committee of inquiry was set up in Rivers State. That committee indicted Rotimi Amaechi of corruption, saying that he stile billions of naira of state money.

After so much criticism from the public, in 2016, the EFCC released a news flash, saying that they were investigating Fashola, Amaechi, and other APC members. 3 years later, no word from the EFCC on these men.

Usually, I try to stay apolitical, or better still fair in my assessment of government. But Buhari has shown that he's only probing perceived political enemies...the same thing Obasanjo did with the EFCC. Obasanjo's case was even better because he dealt with political enemies within his own party. However, Buhari is mostly targeting the opposition while his fantastically corrupt men remain free.

That's why serious organizations don't see him as an antigraft warrior. For instance, Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index for Nigeria has remained below average ever since Buhari assumed office with no hope of improvement in sight.

In summary, we need to kill corruption in Nigeria, but that fight should not be one-sided.

You didn't talk about gej that probed Tinubu too. You just exposed your bias though you tried hard to conceal it.

nairavsdollars:
Temidayo Akinsuyi, Lagos

Afenifere, the Yoruba socio-political organisation, has described the latest probe of outgoing Senate President, Bukola Saraki, as political vendetta, saying the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was engaging in persecution instead of prosecution.

Residential houses belonging to Saraki located in Ikoyi, Lagos, were sealed off by the EFCC, which said it had opened a fresh investigation into Saraki’s stewardship as Senate President as well as a probe of his earnings as governor from 2003 – 2011.

Saraki, however, insisted that the action of the EFCC was a witch-hunt, claiming that the property in question had been investigated by the commission several times in the past.

Reacting to the development, Yinka Odumakin, Afenifere’s National Publicity Secretary, said while the organisation was not against probing anyone who was suspected to be corrupt, engaging in media trial and seizure of properties even before charges had been filed was not a proper way to go about investigation.

“I think it is more of persecution than prosecution because if you are doing corruption investigation, there are ways to go about it.

“All the media trial that EFCC is doing and going about seizing properties when it has not filed any charges – it is clear that there is some political vendetta at work.

“We are not against investigation of anybody for alleged corruption because nobody is above the law. But when you begin to show that you are engaged in persecution rather than prosecution, it doesn’t speak well.

“I don’t think Saraki is the only politician in Nigeria today. Why is it that it is only Saraki that the EFCC is investigating, starting from 2003 when he was state governor and Senate President? It is very unfortunate the way they are going about it.”

However, in his reaction, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), said what the anti-graft agency was investigating Saraki for was acquisition of properties by fraudulent means and not false declaration of assets for which he had been cleared by the courts.

“The investigation is not over. The earlier one was the issue of false declaration of assets. What they are doing now is acquiring properties by fraudulent means and siphoning money from the state.

“So, it is a totally different charge. Although he was cleared up to the Supreme Court on the issue of declaration of false assets, this one is different.

“That the court declared that a case is not proved does not mean that there is no guilt. So, this is a second approach which permits the agency to actually have the property forfeited without proving guilt.

“All he has to do is to go through the first process of temporary forfeiture and then, the owner of the property (in this case, Saraki) will be invited by the court through an order to come and justify how he acquired the property, usually by affidavit.

“So, the two parties will come and if he cannot establish satisfactorily to the court that he earned the money by which he acquired the property, then he will lose it to the Federal Government.”

When asked whether the current probe by EFCC was not connected to the refusal of the Senate under Saraki’s leadership to confirm Ibrahim Magu, the acting Chairman of the EFCC as the substantive chairman, Sagay said the motive for probing a crime was irrelevant.

“Certainly, I am not interested. Motive in this case is irrelevant. If a crime has been committed, you can have a wrong motive to do a good thing. Who cares?” Sagay said.
https://www.independent.ng/sarakis-probe-efcc-engaging-in-persecution-afenifere/

This Saraki of a man was a thorn in the flesh of President Buhari.

Now Buhari now has the last laugh !

acounter2:
waiting for the first mumu to shout afonja.......

AFONJAAAAAAAAAAA! Na you be the real MUMU

schoolboij:


You didn't talk about gej that probed Tinubu too. You just exposed your bias though you tried hard to conceal it.

Buhari is your president not GEJ, mister

So true

All looters deserved PERSECUTION, PROSECUTION AND PRISONCUTION as deterent for others, no matter the tribe he comes from. Afenifere - fekickback's barking is nothing.

Afenifere should sempe

SoNature:


Buhari is your president not GEJ, mister

Is Obasanjo your president when you talked about him in your hypocritical post? Lol.