The Minister of Information and
Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said that he is presenting to the public
available evidences of how the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, lied that he
donated N10 million to the victims of Offa bank robbery.
In a statement issued in Abuja on
Wednesday, the minister said he is presenting to the public both the unedited
version of a live radio interview as well as the doctored, re-broadcast version
on the donated fund to show Saraki’s disdain for truth.
Specifically, the minister said
that in the live radio interview on Christmas Day Saraki said he donated the
N10 million to the robbery victims in Offa.
However, it was doctored before
it was re-broadcast to remove any reference to the claimed donation of N10
million to victims of the armed robbery.
Mohammed said he is releasing the
evidence for Nigerians to see the extent to which “some leaders can go to
deceive the people and peddle lies just to shore up their dwindling fortunes”.
”In the unedited live version, Dr
Saraki, speaking in Yoruba, said categorically that he donated N10 million when
he visited Offa to commiserate with the victims of the armed robbery.
“He claimed he is donating N10
million, whereas about N7 million was stolen from the vaults of the banks that
were robbed during the attack.
”However, the version for
re-broadcast did not contain any reference to the Offa robbery.
‘Whereas they claimed to have
re-broadcast the interview due to popular demand, the truth is that they
decided to
re-air it without the claim of
N10 million donation due to the widespread derision that greeted that phantom
claim.
“These people have a chronic
disdain for the truth,” he said.
Mohammed challenged the Senate
President to answer three critical questions or learn to keep his peace:
“The first one is did he not say,
during the live interview, that the money in the vault was N7 million and that
he dropped N10 million when he went to Offa on a condolence visit?
” The second question is did he
really drop any money on that occasion?
“And the third, did he or did he
not doctor the original broadcast?”
The minister said while he would
not want to exchange words with Saraki on who is truly on ground in Kwraa, it
is important to let him know that six weeks from now, the people of Kwara will
answer that question.
”On Nov. 17, 2018, the people of
Kwara gave a hint of their determination to sack the rapacious leaders who have
dominated their lives when they voted for the APC in the by-election for the
Ekiti/Isin/Irepodun/Oke-Ero federal constituency.
”That crushing defeat so
devastated the political warlords, who hitherto claimed invincibility, that
they started doing what they have never done before: going from ward to ward to
campaign!
”Unfortunately, the game is up
for them, as they will soon learn, because the people have resolved that ‘O to
ge’ (enough is enough). In the meantime, they are free to continue to revel in self-deceit,”
the Minister said
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