Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has called for the immediate sack of the Minister of Information and Culture Alhaji Lai Mohammed for reportedly abusing the privileges of his office. Lai Mohammed reportedly misused his his official privilege by requesting for N13. 12 million from one of the agencies under his supervision. The rights group said the action amounted to promoting the culture impunity and lack of transparency by demanding for a loan of from Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) to fund his China trip.
According to a statement signed by the National Coordinator of the group, Emmanuel Onwubiko, the group demanded his immediate dismissal from the federal cabinet for abusing his official privilege. Onwubiko described the minister’s action as “a subtle attempt at blackmail and a sinister plot to seek to extort N13 million from one of the agencies under his ministerial supervision.” The action is absolutely against President Muhammadu Buhari’s current anti-graft disposition which is signposted in the bringing into being of the Treasury Single Account (TSA). He added: “As an administration which has shown through different local and international platforms that it is primarily passionate towards eradicating economic crimes and corruption, it is imperative that everything is done to protect the whistle blowers without whom this heinous illegality of obtaining loan through false pretence by the information minister would have become a fait accompli.” The rights group stressed that, “Mr President must see this as a litmus test of his avowed commitment not to tolerate impunity and lawlessness from even his closest political friends.”
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