{"id":279105,"date":"2011-02-24T00:26:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T00:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/02\/24\/remove-agf-now-ribadu-tells-jonathan\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T00:26:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T00:26:41","slug":"remove-agf-now-ribadu-tells-jonathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/24\/remove-agf-now-ribadu-tells-jonathan\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove AGF now, Ribadu tells Jonathan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By EMMAN\u00a0 OVUAKPORIE
ABUJA \u2014 The Nuhu Ribadu Campaign Organisation, yesterday, called for the outright removal of the Attorney-General and Chief Justice of the Federation, Mohammed Bello Adoke, over his alleged lack of commitment on the fight against corruption.<\/p>\n

In a statement issued by the Director, Media and Communications of the campaign organisation, Ibrahim Modibbo,\u00a0 said: \u201cPresident Goodluck Jonathan cannot be going around in his campaign, promising to fight corruption when his principal justice officer\u00a0 continually acts at variance to the will of good governance. We, therefore, call on President Jonathan to remove Adoke now.\u201d<\/p>\n

This call is coming on the heels of a petition by 10 civil society groups, mounting pressure on the presidency to back its promise of fighting corruption with action.<\/p>\n

Executive Director of Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, Awwal Musa Rafsanjani, had on Monday in Abuja addressed a press conference where he stated: \u201cAdoke has flagrantly violated sections 15(5) and 174 (3) of the 1999 Constitution when he set out to withdraw several cases on economic crimes against the public interest.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cProminent amongst these cases are the Halliburton bribe scandal, the National Electricity Regulatory Commissioners scandal, the trial of Kenny Martins handled by Festus Keyamo, for allegedly embezzling Police Equipment Fund, the Siemens scandal and many others. In each instance, corruption charges were dropped and accused persons absolved of various allegations \u2013 for no good reason.<\/p>\n

Some of these international cases, Mr. Modibbo stated, were initiated by the EFCC and the international community took action, prosecuted and convicted their own citizens who were involved. \u201cBut the AGF thought otherwise,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis action cannot be excused; our people live in extreme poverty. A World Bank report indicates that over 80 per cent of oil revenue benefits only one per cent of the population and it attributes this to corruption.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf, therefore, the Jonathan government is truly sincere about providing good governance, it must fight corruption to a standstill so that our people will eventually smile as their resources would be judiciously used in providing dividend of democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Our investigations revealed that the Minister\u2019s office has consistently absolved highly placed people in the society of corruption charges and the campaign organization believes that this will further encourage corruption in the society.<\/p>\n

If no immediate action is taken to address this issue of damaging consequence, we will be left with no alternative than to conclude that Jonathan\u2019s campaigns against corruption are empty rhetoric that begin and end on the pages of the newspapers.<\/p>\n

\u201cBalance, equity and justice in a society can only be achieved when good is rewarded and evil is punished. The path that the Federal Government is towing is sending the wrong signal to the people and is encouraging gross theft of our common weal, as people now think that anyone can get away with flagrant corruption in as much as he\/ she holds the Umbrella.\u201dModibbo added.<\/p>\n

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By EMMAN\u00a0 OVUAKPORIE ABUJA \u2014 The Nuhu Ribadu Campaign Organisation, yesterday, called for the outright removal of the Attorney-General and Chief Justice of the Federation, Mohammed Bello Adoke, over his alleged lack of commitment on the fight against corruption. In a statement issued by the Director, Media and Communications of the campaign organisation, Ibrahim Modibbo,\u00a0 said: \u201cPresident Goodluck Jonathan cannot be going around in his campaign, promising to fight corruption when his principal justice officer\u00a0 continually acts at variance to the will of good governance. We, therefore, call on President Jonathan to remove Adoke now.\u201d This call is coming on the heels of a petition by 10 civil society groups, mounting pressure on the presidency to back its promise of fighting corruption with action<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\nRemove AGF now, Ribadu tells Jonathan - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/24\/remove-agf-now-ribadu-tells-jonathan\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Remove AGF now, Ribadu tells Jonathan - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By EMMAN\u00a0 OVUAKPORIE ABUJA \u2014 The Nuhu Ribadu Campaign Organisation, yesterday, called for the outright removal of the Attorney-General and Chief Justice of the Federation, Mohammed Bello Adoke, over his alleged lack of commitment on the fight against corruption. 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