Ministerial List: Nominees Are Who Is Who In Corruption -Omokri

Former Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri has criticized the 43 cleared ministerial nominees by President Muhammadu Buhari, describing the list as who is who in corruption.
Omokri stated this when spoke from London during a live national television programme monitored by The Tide in Port Harcourt.
This is as he said that President Buhari may have made a mistake for sending the list to the Senate when he should have forwarded same to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Omokri alleged that names like former Governors of Akwa Ibom and Bayelsa State, Chief Godswill Akpabio and Chief Timipre Sylva respectively were being prosecuted by the commission, wondering why such persons should be appointed ministers.
He said, “When I saw the list, my first impression was that the President may have mistakenly sent to the National Assembly a list that he was supposed to have sent to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for prosecution. I mean maybe he confused the list because it is obviously a list of who is who in corruption in the country.
“Look at the people on that list. For instance Chief Godswill Akpabio, it is obvious, the EFCC has the biggest corruption case ever against him of N108billion and I have evidence to that.
“The EFCC release statements by itself in 2015, 2016, you can google it. They (EFCC) grilled him (Akpabio). One of the statements said they seized a school from his wife. Another statement said he made a gift of N1.4billion to a bank.
“If I am lying I challenge Akpabio and the EFCC to sue me to court. These were findings that were released to the press by the EFCC. It is not just Akpabio. The list is who is who in corruption.
I will give you another example. Timipre Sylva is really funny.
“Timipre Sylva was prosecuted by the EFCC and when the EFCC was prosecuting him, they hired a consultant. The name of that consultant is Festus Keyamo. Festus Keyamo was actually the lawyer who prosecuted Timipre Sylva in his N19billion case with the commission, when the EFCC also seized 48 houses from him,” Omokri stated, even as he queried how Sylva and Keyamo would seat in the cabinet to decide the fate of the country.
“It is so funny that the man who prosecuted Timipre Sylva and the Timipre Sylva himself will seat in the federal executive council to decide the fate of Nigerians. Is that not funny? ”

By: Dennis Naku