Group asks President Tinubu to purge MINT, NIRSAL, others of Emiefele’s cohorts

By Ngozi Ode

A Texas-based pro-good governance group, League of Patriots has appealed to the President and the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, President Ahmed Bola Tinubu to, as a matter of urgency purge Nigeria Security, Printing and Minting, popularly called MINT and Th Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending NIRSAL of all Emiefele-Boys who thronged out with him from Zenith Bank.

The group said Emiefele perennially ran those strategic institutions controlled by the Central Bank of Nigeria with utmost and untamed impunity with his Zenith-Bank clique.

League of Patriots is a Nigerian pro-good governance and investment-promoting group, based in Austin Texas. The group in their Zoom meeting with membership participation from USA, Europe and Nigeria frowned that if its previous outcry about the activities of Godwin Emiefele were heeded, Nigerians would have been saved from a lot of difficulties Emiefele’s currency redesign policy caused them.

The League, as it is fondly called, noted that Godwin Emiefele ran a cult-like policy with his clique from Zenith Bank to fill strategic institutions for the purpose of self-aggrandizement and self-enrichment. MINT and NIRSAL were two strategic institutions The League identified as hubs of corruption and inefficiency.

“You recall that Mr. Masanawa was quite reckless like his principal in running MINT. Aside from violating the Code of Conduct Act by sitting on a board of private companies with which he siphoned money to acquire property, buy shares in other private businesses and fund his political ambition, he took corruption to another height with his team members. Funny enough, one of his types replaced him when he resigned. Mr. Ahmed Haliru. It was just a game of hitmen. Something close to what we say in Nigeria – chop, I chop”

“Our message is simple. As a
strategic partner in progress, and as Nigerians who desire a change not only in words but in actions, we appeal to President Ahmed Bola Tinubu to, as a matter of national urgency purge these strategic institutions where Emiefele riling impunity festered across.

“We hold the view that Mr President should be more interested in serving Nigerian people who elected him than serving the interest of those who have a history of corruption. He should ensure that the likes of Masanawa, Haliru and their likes in NIRSAL do not get away with the crime they have committed against Nigeria people.

This is so necessary and I hope Mr president see reasons with them.