Rotimi Agboluaje, Ibadan
The umbrella body of Yoruba Youth Groups, Yoruba Youth Socio-cultural Association (YYSA), has urged Federal Government to follow to its logical conclusion the corruption cases involving Mrs Patience Jonathan, Justice Adeniyi Ademola, his wife Olubowale and one Mr Joe Agi, who were recently freed by the courts. Justice Ademola, his wife and others were freed for lack of concrete evidence, while the court unfroze Jonathan’s account.
The YYSA, in a statement jointly signed by the association’s President, Habib Olalekan Hammed and the Deputy Director of Publicity, Comrade Hamzat Abass Ayodeji and made available to the newsmen at the weekend, said that the administration would set the tone for the failure of its anti graft war if such cases were allowed to stand at the High Court.
The said: “It seems as if some highly placed Nigerians are taking this administration to ransom. If not, why would the federal government be handling corruption cases with levity to the extent of persistently losing it. It sounds highly embarrassing to hear that Mrs Patience Jonathan who was unable to account for millions of dollars found in her bank account and other properties she allegedly acquired defeated federal government in court.
“The discharge of Justice Adeniyi Ademola, his wife Olubowale and Mr Joe Agi at the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja resided over by Justice Jude Okeke is also a blow to the administration anti- corruption war despite the evidence that showed that Mr Joe Agi allegedly paid N30m into Mrs Olubowale’s account in three tranches of N10m each between March 11 and 27, 2015. This was gratification meant to influence Justice Ademola in his official functions.”
They concluded that if these cases are left alone along with the legislature and executive tiff over the clearance of Mr. Ibrahim Magu as Chairman of EFCC, and refusal of the Senators to confirm 27 INEC officers, them corruption is been seriously fighting back through it agents at the presidency and the National Assembly.
