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Intersociety Blasts Osinbajo, EFCC Over “Ikoyi Planted Funds”
A Civil Society Organisation [CSO], International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law [Intersociety] based in Onitsha, Nigeria has lambasted Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [EFCC] over what it alleged as “Ikoyi Planted Funds”.
Intersociety claimed that the exercise was designed as a wool on the faces of the Nigerian masses as it was a mere sham.
The statement was signed by the Board Chairman, Emeka Umeagbalasi, Head, Democracy & Good Governance Program, Chinwe Umeche, Esq., and Head, Campaign & Publicity Department, Florence C. Akubilo, Esq.
Read the story titled “Ikoyi Planted Funds: In Solidarity With Suspended SGF’s Question: Who Is The Presidency? & Why Osibanjo’s Probe Team Should Be Disbanded” below:
It is the observation of the leadership of International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law that the appointment of the VP Yemi Osibanjo’s civil probe or fact finding team to look into the 12th April 2017 alleged discovery of a total of over N13.3 billion in a flat apartment in Osborne Towers at Ikoyi in Lagos State; is grossly and fundamentally erroneous in the eyes of the law and moral decency.
The Federal Government of Nigeria had on the heels of the alleged discovery and recovery; claimed a false victory and attributed it to “the handiwork of whistle blowing policy of the present Federal Government in sustaining its fight against corruption”.
The false stance and declaration of the Federal Government above appears to have caught the attention and collective mindsets of many Nigerians with the help of media creation and sensational reporting.
We at Intersociety are not and can never be part of such broad-day falsehood and deceit associated with the so called fight against corruption under the present dispensation until the real and concrete steps are taken in the that direction.
Intersociety is thoroughly self-sustaining and as a thorough bred independent, research and knowledge based organization in the advocacy areas of civil liberties and rule of law, democracy and good governance and accountability; and public security and safety; with its key officers and volunteers grounded in law, criminology, security studies, conflict and peace studies and journalism; our organization can never be taken for a ride or burst to a corner in matters of civil liberties and public governance policies and actions/conducts by any government, non-state actor, individual or group in Nigeria or any part thereof.
It therefore remains our firm position that the anti-corruption policies and conducts of the present dispensation in Nigeria have woefully failed a repugnancy test. They are nothing more than witch-hunting and governmental desolation and crookedness.
As far as anti-corruption is concerned in Nigeria or any part thereof, our organization has done several investigations on their handling styles by the present dispensation in the Federation and our findings have consistently shown that they are nothing to write home about.
That is to say that those who claim to be fighting corruption in the present Nigeria are chiefly responsible for corruption as we have it in today’s Nigeria; a case of hyper corrupt people fighting corruption.
We had in our 16th April 2017 public statement following the so called discovery of looted sum of over N13.3billion, raised 34 questions for the present the Federal Government; till date and as we write, none of the 34 questions has been answered correctly in part or wholly.
It was and still is our firm advocacy position that the Federal Government’s false claims of discovery and recovery of looted sum of over N13.3 billion in Osborne Towers at Ikoyi must not be separated from the $2 million Justice Ademola’s house and $9.8 million Moses Yakubu’s house discovery and recovery, etc.
It remains our firm position, too, that those monies may not have been genuinely discovered and recovered. Rather, they may most likely have been planted by some cabalistic and malevolent politicians in Nigeria’s Presidency for the purpose of setting up or roping in some penciled down regime enemies or electoral, economic and political enemies of the federally ruling APC.
A clear case in point is the recent public statement issued by the Anambra State branch of the federally ruling APC accusing the former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi of being the “owner of the looted funds” discovered in one of the flat apartments in Osborne Towers at Ikoyi.
The Anambra APC statement further calls on the former Governor in most scornful and wicked manner to cut short his trip abroad and come home and answer/take responsibility of the discovered looted funds.
The Anambra APC’s latest accusation is anchored mere fact that Peter Obi; likewise others, rents and uses one of the flat apartments in the multi-storey building where the money was said to have been discovered.
His said rented flat apartment was not the one where the illicit fund was stashed; yet the Anambra APC is bent on singling him out.
The Anambra APC statement came days after the announcement by a source in the Presidency of the appointment of a civil probe team chaired by Vice President, Yemi Osibanjo to probe same and report back to the appointing source in fourteen days.
The Anambra APC’s statement is clearly aimed at either stampeding the civil probe or confirming the high possibility of the Party’s controlled Federal Government agents planting such money to rope in the named or similarly targeted “enemy citizens”.
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