The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to come clean on the N5.8 billion National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) scandal for which he was reportedly fingered by an investigative committee of the House of Representatives.

The party also charges the Buhari Presidency to immediately prosecute the sacked Director General of NEMA, Engr. Mustapha Yunusa Maihaja, who was also indicted by the House of Representatives over alleged embezzlement of N33 billion in the agency.

The PDP stands with Nigerians in rejecting this unpardonable pat in the wrist of allowing Engr. Maihaja to leave office without investigation and prosecution to recover the allegedly embezzled fund.

Our party believes that the failure to prosecute the indicted former NEMA Director General as a ploy to shield very top officials in the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led administration, who are alleged to be involved in the series of scam in NEMA, while the masses, for whom the fund was meant to serve, continue to suffer neglect and untold hardships.

The PDP insists that the sacking of Engr. Maihaja should not be used as an excuse to foreclose an investigation into the huge fraud in NEMA under Vice President Osinbajo as Chairman of Governing Board.

The party describes the sleaze in NEMA as an indelible smear on the Buhari Presidency and charged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to immediately take in Engr. Maihaja for questioning and if found wanting, prosecution.

The party notes that the Vice President had failed to provide cogent response to the report of the House of Representatives on the N33 billion NEMA fraud in addition to allegations that the N5.8 billion was withdrawn from the national coffers, while he was acting President, without legislative consent and expended without recourse to extant due process, procurement and contract rules.

The PDP recalled that the House of Representatives had exposed that while the fund was claimed to have been expended for procurement of grains under the emergency intervention on food security in the North East, none of the six states of the Northeast received any grain from the so called emergency intervention by NEMA.

The legislative house had also exposed that there was no evidence that the World Food Programme (WFP) received the 5000 metric tons of rice, which NEMA claimed to have bought and donated to WFP for distribution to victims of insurgency in the region.

Indeed, the failure of the Buhari Presidency to prosecute Engr. Maihaja, despite his indictment by the House of Representatives, had raised serious issues of alleged complicity in high places, for which Nigerians expect Prof. Osinbajo, as Chairman of Governing Board of the agency, to come clean.

It is even more saddening that the looted fund is part of the money set aside for emergency response such as provision of palliatives and other essentials for the poor masses to mitigate the hardships that would be occasioned by emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

The PDP therefore charges the EFCC to use the report of the House of Representatives as a working document and immediately invite Engr. Maihaja for questioning on the stolen funds as well as further expose top officials of the Buhari administration allegedly involved in the huge fraud in NEMA.

hmm!

if he is APC member, forget it.
his sins will be forgiven.

Had they forgotten what Adams oshomole said?
His sins are forgiven

Wailing mode activated. Na their work. They must wail.

The VP hands are clean

Ezennwa:
hmm!

if he is APC member, forget it.
his sins will be forgiven.

Who is telling you this nonsense

He always remain faithful with what he do

PDP, the only party that has taught Nigerians how to steal money,,,,,

Yeye party

I never knew PDP is useless to this extent�� ? Anyway, since you have lose your popularity and you think dragging the name the vice president could give you more hype...Maybe you can approach the court then...yeye party

Any plot against the VP can't work. Lots have tried in the past without success, that's not about to change.

qwertyboss:
Had they forgotten what Adams oshomole said?
His sins are forgiven

You are a liar, can you send me where he said that

Osinbajo has no hands in this,so wailing wailers keep off

I'm very sure VP osinbajo doesn't participate in an unclean things so PDP should keep their dirty mouth

The VP while acting in an acting capacity as the number citizen of the country while buhari was away for medical trip. People in the northeast IDPs were dying and falling sick due to lack of food, medicines and water to drink. As at this time, our budget was in the house of assembly after months of submission by the President so the VP saw this, he knew if he run this emergency with the lawmakers, it will take time before approval and the repo effect will be catastrophic because more people will die in the IDPs camps..so he called for emergency meeting with the CBN governor, finance minister, and franchise who will supply all the foods and medicine to the camps.
Direct transaction and agreements were made between the fg and the supplier without any third parties and the foods and other things were transported in convoy to the IDP camps.

So no harm no foul.

Osinbajo took a very smart and better decisions to save lives.

If PDP has anything against Osinbajo concerning NEMA ,I think they should go to court .
Awon ole

The very same persons asking where's Osinbajo have seen him hale and hearty, cerebral and suave and are immediately on the other bandwagon of a baseless accusation. The NEMA funds have been established to avert starvation in the IDP camps

Pdp and their antics

PDP is not ready to be an opposition, imagine a party that wasted a whole 16years mismanaging our ressourses now turn to fake news pedler. No amount of propaganda or fake news can dent the good image of the vice president.

PDP are the evil people to this country

All PDP evil plans will not work Amen. VP Osinbajo ever best

Another black noise.

okefrancis:

You are a liar, can you send me where he said that

You live in the shadows