The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has declared that Vice
President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo is not the right person to investigate the
criminal allegations leveled against suspended Secretary to the Government of
the Federation, SGF, Mr. David Babachir Lawal.
The General Secretary of the NLC, Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, who
was reacting to the suspension of Lawal and the Director-General of National
Intelligence Agency, NIA, Ambassador Ayo Oke, wondered why the Vice President
should be the person to investigate criminal allegations hanging around the
neck of the SGF.
The NLC scribe said, though the decision of the federal
government to suspend the duo was right, but Osinbajo shouldn’t be assigned to
handle such sensitive case.
He said in a statement on Thursday, “Well, we think that it
is something that is positive. There are those who will say that it has taken
long, particularly the issue of the SGF. Well, government has now decided to
suspend them and investigation is going on, it is fine.
“But what we don’t understand is how an administrative
committee, chaired by the Vice President, will be investigating what is an
alleged criminal offence. However, whatever processes they have chosen to
adopt, what is important is that they need to bring the facts before the nation.
“We need to know that there are no sacred cows and at the
end of the day, we hope that justice will be done and citizens will be able to
attest that justice has been done.
“Once there are allegations of corruption and there are
prima facie cases established while such investigation is going on, the normal
practice is that people step aside, or are suspended or they remove themselves
from the process.”
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