Allow EFCC to do its work – Eyiboh tells A’Ibom govt

Spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress Campaign
Organization in Akwa Ibom, Mr. Eseme Eyiboh has asked Governor Udom
Emmanuel to allow the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission(EFCC) to its work of fighting corruption.

Reacting to the press statement issued by the Akwa Ibom State,
through the Hon. Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr.
Charles Udoh on Thursday, Eyiboh described the state government’s
cry that it was been witch hunted as ” playing the ostrich “.

He said it was preposterous for the state government through its
statement to accuse the anti graft agency of “perpetuating
illegalities against the Government and the good people of Akwa
Ibom”.

“The release is one of those empty Statements on the current
corruption charge against government officials and cronies, through
which Akwa Ibom funds are corruptly taken away from the people.

“The government has continued to live in denial of the serial
malfeasance that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
EFCC, has been unraveling in the past three years of Udom Emmanuel
administration.

“The cry of witch-hunt and such other familiar cover-up
lamentations do not answer the fundamental question of why, for
instance, Udom Emmanuel’s legal fees as a governorship candidate
should be paid from public coffers”, Eyiboh stated.

He queried why huge sums are paid out to private lawyers when
the state ministry of justice is populated by experienced, well
trained, but poorly motivated staffers.

“It is in the best interest of the state and for the sake of
accountability to allow the EFCC do its statutory duties of
checkmating corruption.

“If the government of Deacon Udom Emmanuel is sure that the
officials are not corrupt, why do they keep blocking the anti-graft
agency? The truth is that Gov. Emmanuel runs the most diseased,
inept and opaque government in modern Nigeria.

“It is futile to keep running from pillar to post, from one
court to another to hide from the corruption that has always been
there in the full glare of the Akwa Ibom people. If you are not
hiding anything, make your officials available for investigation”,
the statement read in part.

On behalf of the APC campaign organization, Eyiboh said, ” We
appeal to the EFCC not to be deterred by the resort to playing the
victim’s card and baseless allegations of political motivation.

“Akwa Ibom State, whose social services, health and educational
institutions and have continued to decay as a result of poverty of
the philosophy of statutory governance, often blamed on paucity of
fund deserves the best.

” Any excuse to the contrary can only fly in the face of
crippling corruption, such as the illegal withdrawal of billions
paid into private coffers”.

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