Serving Overseer of the Latter
Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has opened up on the campaign against
corruption, stressing that the Federal Government’s approach to the fight was
defective and yet to produce any serious conviction after three years.
Recall that the global
anti-corruption watchdog, Transparency International, TI, had in February
ranked Nigeria low in its 2017 Corruption Perception Index, CPI, placing
Nigeria in the 148th position out of 180.
But Bakare on Channels Television
programme, Roadmap 2019, on Monday, pointed out that the President Muhammadu
Buhari-led government had not fought the war against corruption in a
sustainable and holistic manner.
The fiery preacher, who was
running mate to Buhari during the 2011 general elections, said while some of
the accused had been treated with kid’s gloves, others had been hammered even
when their guilt had not been completely established.
According to him, “All I hear
today is corruption is fighting back. It’s a thing of deep concern for me that
up till this hour, three years after, except the likes of Sambo Dasuki who had
been detained more or less forever for whatever reasons, I have not seen any serious
conviction.
“I have seen pats on the back via
‘return some and leave the rest’ and I have seen sensationalism. If we turn the
searchlight into the body polity in Nigeria, it will not be absolutely out of
place to say the synonym for politics in Nigeria is banditry, regardless of who
is in power.”
Pastor Bakare, who faulted the
Buhari-administration for failing to deliver on its major campaign promises,
expressed worry over the killings of people in Benue State and some other parts
of the country.
“These attacks have shown that
the country needs to renegotiate its union,” Bakare said.
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