EMINENT Nigerians and groups were unanimous, yesterday, in their support for President Muhammadu Buhari’s vow to probe the immediate past Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s Administration.

They were, however, divided over the scope, time-frame and those to be probed. While some wanted the probe to be limited to the Jonathan administration, some countered that it should be extended to all past governments. There were also calls that the probe should be extensive, thorough, transparent and devoid of witch-hunt.

Speaking through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, weekend, President Buhari, who said he met a near empty treasury on assumption of office, restated his decision to probe the Jonathan’s government to recover the billions of dollars that have not been accounted for.

Last week, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) asked President Buhari to probe the immediate past administration over the $5.5bn dividends said to have been paid to the Federal Government by the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited. It also wanted taxes and dividends accruable to the Jonathan administration through the NLNG in the last six years unearthed.

When the issue of probe was first mentioned late May, Dr. Jonathan urged President Buhari not to focus only on his administration, saying it would amount to a witch-hunt if only his administration was probed. He had said, “I think in Nigeria, there are a lot of things that will be probed, very many things, even debts owed by states and debts owed by this country from 1960 up to this time. They say it is Jonathan’s administration that owed these debts… I believe that anybody that is coming for probe must also ensure that this probe is extended beyond the Jonathan administration. Otherwise, to me, it will be witch-hunt. If we are very sincere, it is not only the Jonathan administration that should be probed.”

It’s an attempt to recover our stolen wealth—Sagay
Throwing his weight behind the move, Constitutional lawyer, Professor Itse Sagay, SAN, said the planned probe is an avenue to recover the nation’s stolen wealth from those who pilfered the country’s treasury.

Sagay said: “The way I see it is this: the Buhari administration met a virtually empty treasury. The treasury has been looted in various guises, the NNPC has been a source of massive looting. As far as I am concerned, I will not call what he is doing as probing of any administration, it is an attempt to recover Nigeria’s stolen wealth so that the administration can work. I truly support it.

“In the process of trying to recover the stolen money, if he has to probe any government, present or past, let him probe, but the money has to be recovered. People should not come into government and now suffer from some sort of amnesia and think that state funds belong to them personally while the country is living in pains and poverty as we are now. Salaries cannot be paid in so many states, so Buhari is right in his struggle to recover our stolen wealth.”

Presidency should probe, but no witch- hunt – PDP
The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said, yesterday, that the Presidency was free to probe past administrations but warned that the exercise must not be carried out with malice, designed to witch-hunt some persons who worked under Dr. Jonathan.

Speaking withVanguard, PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, said the investigation must be within the ambit of the law and respect for fundamental human rights of citizens, adding that a government must plan for the future and not necessarily spending its energy looking into the past.

According to Metuh, the current government should allow some persons carry out the investigation while it concentrates on providing services to the people especially in the area of addressing the security challenge in some parts of the country. Metuh said: “It is the right thing to probe and investigate but there must be respect for fundamental human rights of the people. It must be carried out within the confines of the law, there must be no witch-hunt. There must be plans for the future, the government can go ahead with the probe, but must put forward those things that will move the country forward because very soon, Nigerians will be asking questions on insecurity, incessant arrest, the state of the dollar, among others.”

Probe should be transparent and not to witch-hunt —Ajulo, LP scribe

In his reaction, National Secretary of the Labour Party, LP, Dr. Kayode Ajulo, urged the president to be transparent in his anti-corruption crusade.

Shortyy:
If he likes let him be black. Who gives a F? GEJ has nothing to hide. Who knows if the baba wouldn't give up the ghost before he even tries that. The last time i saw him in Washighton DC, He looked really pale and sick.

egift:
I remember this famous line:

"Jonahhhhhhhhhhhh"

Shortyy:
If he likes let him be black. Who gives a F? GEJ has nothing to hide. Who knows if the baba wouldn't give up the ghost before he even tries that. The last time i saw him in Washighton DC, He looked really pale and sick.

M4gunners:
Probe Jonathan, then you must probe Obj,IBB and so on failure to do that then ..let me stop there for now.

Burger01:
Nigeria is broke, we need money. Stolen money not beyond the past administration must be probed. Buhari will be very unfair if the likes of Jonathan and frog-eyed madam oil thief didn't smell the inside of a prison.

Btw, pa Chukwudi and those asking PMB to probe peeps like IBB and OBJ...my question to you is why didn't Jonathan probe them I mean why didn't Jonathan probe to recorver stolen money? You know why?...That's because Jonathan himself was so corrupt and his corruption would be the talk of the century. Simply put, Jonathan had no other mission than to steal Nigeria blind...Hell yeah, he deserved to be probed and gaoled

PMB will do whatever it takes to recorver stolen money and such money used for the betterment of Nigeria. That he's even probing should send a signal to those backward thinking TANoid elements that this is a new government...and here - Stealing is Corruption

fitzmayowa:



The bolded is really low, why wish the president death If you are related to him would you wish him death

Hate won't take you anywhere my dear sister...

chukwudi44:


See reasoning!!! So You know Nigeria is broke and you want him to provoke war in the creeks(the main source of Nigeria's revenue) by probing GEJ while IBB and OBJ walks free.Oya clap for ya sef.

Hypocrite why didn't you ask why OBJ did not probe IBB or why D3 forged WAEC certificate

Shebi na only osun workers de queue for food naa baa? When the creek boys resume you will have a whole list of both federal and state civil servants queueing for food

chukwudi44:

[s]See reasoning!!! So You know Nigeria is broke and you want him to provoke war in the creeks(the main source of Nigeria's revenue) by probing GEJ while IBB and OBJ walks free.Oya clap for ya sef.
Hypocrite why didn't you ask why OBJ did not probe IBB or why D3 forged WAEC certificate
Shebi na only osun workers de queue for food naa baa? When the creek boys resume you will have a whole list of both federal and state civil servants queueing for food[/s]

Shortyy:

He's a sick dying man. What else do you want me to wish him? Health? hahaha. Oh please my dear, your general is nothing but a vegetable. He can't perform anything.

vedaxcool:



And u pretend to be a good Christian yet support and defend corruption like your life depended on it. With this sort of "religious" people the devil's cvacation a long vacation.

I keep stating you probe th regime clossest to you. In Nigeria of today there is no room for shameless defense of corruption using tribalism.

chukwudi44:


See reasoning!!! So You know Nigeria is broke and you want him to provoke war in the creeks(the main source of Nigeria's revenue) by probing GEJ while IBB and OBJ walks free.Oya clap for ya sef.

Hypocrite why didn't you ask why OBJ did not probe IBB or why D3 forged WAEC certificate

Shebi na only osun workers de queue for food naa baa? When the creek boys resume you will have a whole list of both federal and state civil servants queueing for food

Shortyy:
If he likes let him be black. Who gives a F? GEJ has nothing to hide. Who knows if the baba wouldn't give up the ghost before he even tries that. The last time i saw him in Washighton DC, He looked really pale and sick.

chukwudi44:


You are a bloody hypocrite!!! Why don't your vegetable General begin with the ones that have already been probed and indicted

IBB-indicted by the Dr Pius Okigbo panel for $12Billion gulf war oil windfall scam

OBJ-Indicted by the ndudi elumelu power probe report for $16 billion scam

Which is easier ? Probing GEJ or arraigning those already probed and indicted?

arsetalks:
This is your wish. And you know what they say about wishes. Keep day dreaming.

chukwudi44:


[s]You are a bloody hypocrite!!! Why don't your vegetable General begin with the ones that have already been probed and indicted

IBB-indicted by the Dr Pius Okigbo panel for $12Billion gulf war oil windfall scam

OBJ-Indicted by the ndudi elumelu power probe report for $16 billion scam

Which is easier ? Probing GEJ or arraigning those already probed and indicted?[/s]