Centre tasks Buhari on NIA missing monies

The Resource Centre for Human Rights and Civic Education (CHRICED) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to decisively act on the emerging revelations of corruption and abuse of office at the National Intelligence Agency (NIA).

The Executive Director of the centre Dr Ibrahim M. Zikirullahi said Friday in a statement that if the briefing note submitted to the National Assembly by the immediate past Acting Director-General of NIA is anything to go by, President Buhari must ensure that heads roll immediately to salvage his administration’s anti-corruption crusade.

“For key and trusted appointees of the President to be fingered in the kind of egregious abuse of office that have been detailed by the former Acting Director-General, is to say the least, most damaging to the anti-graft war. It is strange that some of the characters that have become synonymous with serious abuse of their official positions, as the President’s trusted appointees, have again been identified as the alleged perpetrators of these despicable acts at the NIA,” he said.

According to him it is clear that some key figures in the administration are not on the same page with their principal, the President need to deal a lethal blow to the monster of corruption.

He said, “Nigerians are therefore at a loss as to why the President continues to keep people whose tendencies have been so toxic to public confidence in the fight against corruption. Another issue that has come out clearly from the situation at the NIA is the fact that there are many who have been given serious national assignments, which see those important opportunities for national service as opportunities to enrich themselves.”