A public affairs analyst, Chief Osilem Emmanuel, has called for legislation on the Federal Government’s whistle blowing initiative to make the policy sustainable beyond the present government.
Emmanuel, who stated this while speaking to newsmen in Port Harcourt, recently, commended the successes so far recorded by the policy.
He urged the government not to spare anyone caught looting the nation’s treasury.
“If the president wants to succeed in this particular policy, he has to be objective and not partisan.
“Anybody that has looted Nigeria’s money should be made to cough that money out,” he said
According to him, where it is tilting towards the opposition, Nigerians would see it as unfair and some persons may resist it eventually.
While condemning the looting of public funds by some Nigerians, the analyst called for the enactment of a law to protect whistle blowers.
He further advised the government to spend the recovered funds on projects that would benefit Nigerians.
“The critical question is, how the money is spent against the backdrop of the state of the Nigerian economy now,” he said.
Emmanuel also called on the government to judiciously invest and reinvest the funds in such a way that the average Nigerian would be a beneficiary of the recovered loot.
He, however, commended President Muhammadu Buhari, for appointing a 3-man committee to investigate the circumstances surrounding the recovery of about N13 billion from a residential apartment in Lagos.