The federal government has been lauded for its anti graft posture and its determination to rid the nation of corrupt public office holders to serve as a deterrent to others.
The coalition of 71 civil society groups rooting for the cleansing of the Nigeria Correctional Service said this in a statement in Abuja.
According to the statement signed by the co-founder of Public Asset Accountability Network (PAAN) Jason Kolawole and Kabir Usman, of Yes Integrity Builds Advocacy Reach Network (YABRIN), the FG should commence the prosecution of the former Controller General of Nigeria Correctional Service, Ja’afaru Ahmed.
“The Public Asset Accountability Network believes that beaming more of the anti-graft searchlight towards the former Controller General of Prisons, Ja’afaru Ahmed would unearth earthquaking acts of corruption and ill-gotten wealth amassed by one man through robbery of the state.”
PAAN said the proceeds of crimes linked to Ja’afaru Ahmed aptly makes him a candidate for the federal government arrest, interrogation, prosecution and stripping of these national assets that he has converted to his personal use.
“For the avoidance of doubt, it is common knowledge that Ja’afaru’s emergence as the Controller General of Prisons was not without exposure of his corrupt character revealed in his several age adjustments to position him for the office of the Controller General where he had legitimate authority and security to carry out his wickedly planned enterprise of diverting funds, contracts and assets of the Nigerian Prisons service to himself and cronies.
“In the height of his self acclaimed Lordship, he ordered an officer to slap a former member of House of Representative.
Such a man should not be entrusted with public office again either at the national or sub-national level. Else, the state would suffer bigger stripping of assets while such proceeds of crime would be converted for personal gains as he is wont to and exemplified by him at the NIS.
“We challenge the Federal government to deploy the instrument of state towards Fmr Controller General of NIS, Ahmed Ja’afaru and reclaim all the proceeds of crime he has acquired to the detrimental of national development particularly, the prisons service. This call is for accountability and equity.”
