The Executive Chairman of the Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL), Mr. Debo Adeniran, has described the withdrawal of the forgery charges against Senate President Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu by the Federal Government an embarrassment to the anticorruption drive. Speaking to journalists in Lagos yesterday, Adeniran said that the withdrawal of the forgery charges against Saraki and others member of the National Assembly represented an embarrassment to the anti-corruption drive and its crusaders, who have cheered the government on the crackdown on corrupt public officials and other persons found culpable in sharp practices.
Adeniran posited that there were political undertones to the forgery charges; noting that if there were no political undertones against Saraki and his deputy, then they should have been willing to prove their innocence judicially and can in turn sue the government for defamation of character and other damages if found not-guilty.
“It leaves a lot of doubts in the minds of the majority in terms of what could happen to the pending corruption cases against Bukola Saraki with the withdrawal of the criminal charges bordering on forgery levelled against him by the Federal Government.”
Nov 22, 2024
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