Lawyers uncover plot to frustrate Buhari’s anti-corruption war

A Non-Governmental Organisation, Coalition of Lawyers Against Corruption in Nigeria, has uncovered plans by some dismissed Directors-General in collaboration with some serving political appointees to blackmail the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) as a ploy to frustrate the reforms being currently undertaken by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to sanitise the public service.
In a release jointly signed by the Executive Director, Barrister Segun Bamgbose and the Director of Media of the Coalition, Barrister Bamidele Salam, the organisation said the desperation of the affected officers is being demonstrated in a series of falsehood and propaganda being planted in some newspapers and online Media against the person of the SGF, Mr David Babachir, and other key functionaries of the Buhari administration.
The Coalition of Lawyers against Corruption in Nigeria believes that in the execution of a holistic war against corruption in any society, there are bound to be causalities in the leadership of the political and bureaucratic structure because they are the ones who manage public resources and have a responsibility to account for how such resources are used for the common good of the Public.
“Even though we are not unmindful of the fact that when corruption fights back, it is usually dirty and vicious, we are of the view that resorting to crude tactics
That anyone is sanctioned through removal from offices and trial should therefore not be taken personal by anyone who truly believes that public offices are only kept in trust by those who hold them and that there will always be a period of reckoning to whoever abuses such offices through corrupt practices.
While restating its total and unequivocal support to the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari in the war against embezzlement of public funds, graft and other corrupt practices in government, the coalition urges security agencies to swing into action and bring all those responsible to justice.