Emefiele: Go After CEO’s of NIMASA, FIRS And Cabal Ministers – Timi Frank Urges DSS
Former deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, has challenged the Department of State Services (DSS), to urgently arrest and prosecute heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the Federal Government under former President Muhammadu Buhari, known to have abused their offices through corrupt tendencies.
In a statement on Sunday in Abuja, Frank stressed the urgent need for heads of critical government agencies known to have serially and fraudulently abused their offices and allegedly stole the common wealth of the people to be brought to book.
Frank, who stated these while reacting to the suspension and arrest of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele by the DSS, said that failure or refusal to arrest and prosecute the former ministers and heads of the MDAs known to have seriously abused their offices for selfish gain would show that the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration was only out to witch-hunt Emefiele, who is presently in DSS custody.
He listed the Chief Executive Officers of the MDAs to include, the Directors General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Mohammed Bello Koko, and the Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Muhammad Nami.
Others include, the former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, former Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika and his Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development counterpart, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq.
Frank specifically said that without moving against members of the powerful cabal, the Tinubu’s administration would have lent credence to insinuations that it was only up against Christian political office holders as recently alluded to by the former Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai.
He urged the Tinubu’s administration to include beneficiaries of corruption proceeds from the affected MDAs in its list of suspects to be arrested and prosecuted.
Frank further said; “Those who illegally benefited from illegal allocation of oil blocks and marginal oil fields championed by the NNPCL and the CBN’s Money Redesign Policy must be fished out and prosecuted.
“The recent deception by Sirika, who chattered an Ethiopian Airline Aircraft to deceive Nigerians that Nigeria Air has materialized, must also be probed. “Similarly, the Personal Assistant to former President Buhari, Tunde Sabiu must not be left out.
“The execution of the National Social Investment Programme by Hajiya Farouk leaves a lot of questions to be answered. This is the time for Nigerians to know what really happened and how much was used to feed school pupils at home during COVID-19,” he said.
