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FOI Act: Parties Threaten Okonjo-Iweala
Members of the Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP), have threatened to drag the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the nation’s Economy, Dr .Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to court for failing to make public the various probe committee reports.
The opposition political parties umbrella body had while giving a 7-day ultimatum to the minister early this month, stated that the Freedom of Information Act empowers Nigerians to demand and access information from public institutions.
According to CNPP, such information would assist members of the body “in examining the details of these reports, as records have shown that the billions of Naira wasted in the fuel subsidy scam could have been utilized to build two refineries with the capacity to refine over 500,000 barrels per day”.
The Decretary General of the body, Chief Willy Ezugwu, while addressing newsmen in Enugu recently on numerous burning national issues, expressed regrets that despite the 7-day ultimatum the conference gave the Ministry of Finance, the documents were yet to be unveiled.
“As far as I am concerned, the report has not gotten to us and we have written. We gave 7 days ultimatum, but now we have not gotten it, so we are heading to court” Ezugwu vowed.
Using the forum to react to the closure of Capital Oil Company, the CNPP Secretary General said the body insisted that government should be able to think of the people who are suffering as a result of the development.
While faulting the closure of the firm, Ezugwu frowned that the ugly situation has caused untold hardship to Nigerians, stating that Capital Oil had 35% of the Downstream.
He alleged that there were plans to subject Capital Oil to a situation whereby it could no longer exist, saying that no one has been able to stand up to disclose why the company was closed.
On the speculations that President Goodluck Jonathan is nursing second term ambition, in the 2015 election, Ezugwu simply, said he could seek second tenure if the constitution empowers him to do so.
He, however, insisted that there was need for the president to tell Nigerians his achievements so far if he has decided to run for the second term, decrying the alarming rate of killings, unemployment, and corruption currently taking place in the land.
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