‘President’s anti-corruption war no longer reasonable,’ Falae says

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January 25, 2016 11:45 AM

Falae also said further that the war against corruption had begun to look selective and was getting out of hand.

President Muhammadu Buhari

Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Chief Olu Falae has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s war against corruption has become unreasonable.

Falae also said further that the war against corruption had begun to look selective and was getting out of hand.

“It is getting out of hand. They know that there is no charge they can bring against me, that is why smear campaign is used as a substitute so that over time people will say I am a bad man,” he told Punch.

“I read some articles in the paper that talked about ‘the increasingly controversial anti-graft war’. It is truly becoming controversial because it is no longer reasonable; it is beginning to look selective. How could you link me with Dasuki? The person I have not seen for more than 20 years. The man I had no dealing with whatsoever.

“There are two models to clean up a society: the sampling model and the total revolution, like the French Revolution. The one that might be suitable for our situation is for the government to take cases that are unambiguous and take such people as an example; take the money from them and send them to jail as examples to the system. Then, put that behind you and go ahead with the development of the society.

“But if you take all the time looking for every criminal to send to jail, that will be an endless journey. At the beginning, the people will hail you because they like to see big men fall, but as more and more people are destroyed, then, more and more members of the general population will be affected.

“For some, their brothers or fathers or friends have lost their jobs and at the end of the day, the tide will turn and people will turn against that government.

“On this occasion, my advice will be those people who are the criminals in this system, whose crimes are unambiguous and documented, take them, apply the law, confiscate the loot they have taken, try them, and let them go to prison.

“Do that for a couple of months and leave the rest for the police to do their jobs in a normal way. This omnibus anti-graft campaign phase would have been over but the police would continue to monitor the system and catch thieves and criminals. Then the government would focus on the development of the society," he added.

Falae has been linked with the $2.1 billion arms deal fraudwhich was allegedly supervised by former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki.

The former SGF has admitted to receiving N100 million from the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih, who in turn received money from Dasuki.

Falae has however denied wrongdoing saying that his party, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) collected the money to campaign for former president, Goodluck Jonathan and that he had no idea where the funds were sourced from.

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