Expert Faults Buhari’s Anti-Corruption Process

A financial  expert and
Chief  Executive Officer (CEO) of Emic Communications Company Limited, Mr. Emeka Iwezor, has thrown his weight behind President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption crusade but faulted the process being adopted in the fight.
According to him, Buhari should have set up a Commission of  inquiry with terms of reference to investigate all the allegations of corruption if he wants to get it right.
Mr. Iwezor who spoke with The Tide during an interview in Port Harcourt last Tuesday described what the President is doing  now in the fight  against  corruption as drama, saying that a commission of Inquiry  composed of experts was crucial  and not  just the Economic and Financial  Crime  Commission (EFCC), to actually ascertain  those to be prosecuted.
“I support the government of Buhari in the fight against corruption and he must try to get it right. The problem is not necessarily looting  money  but the way of life in doing things rightly.”
Nigerians celebrate corruption without questioning how they get wealth. A commission of Inquiry should be set up to GET the fight right”, the financial expert stressed.
He noted that corruption has been the bane of the Nigerian society and that to follow  due process, the Senate must give approval to the setting up of a Commission of Inquiry  to look into the issues of corruption so as to get a report that would serve as a working document for further  action.
It would be recalled that the Committee on Peace headed by former Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar advised Buhari to follow due process in handling the anti corruption fight.
Iwezor said that the issue was not a party affair that should be used to witch-hunt a particular party members but should involve all sections of the country’s economy, adding “for former President Olusegun Obasanjo to have allegedly returned about $88 billion after eight years of his tenure calls for  thorough investigation  as he may have more to bring.”
In the normal process, he said Obasanjo was supposed to be arrested  since President Buhari has the constitutional power to order for his (OBJ’s) arrest.

Shedie Okpara