Wednesday, 3 May 2017

Recovery loot: Chairmanship aspirant calls for accountability

Recovery loot: Chairmanship aspirant calls for accountability

BY ASSAM ABIA

A  Chairmanship aspirant in the forth-coming election in Eket, Akwa Ibom State, Hon Samuel Warrie has called on the Federal Government to make public the total amount so far recovered from looters in his country.

He made the call over the weekend in Eket when youths of the Niger Delta under the aegis “Coalition of Niger Delta Youth Movement” paid him a visit in his home.

Obong Warrie said the call become necessary because for the past one year, the media has been inundated with reports of billions of Naira and Foreign Currencies either abandoned at airports or discovered in solitary building which is enough to turn the infrastructure situation of the country around, especially roads.

He commended the president Muhammadu Buhari’s led administration for its anti-graft campaign but maintained that the fight will be seen to be transparent if the Federal government publishes figures so far recovered if not names of looters.


“It will satisfy the yearnings and expectations of Nigerians if the property and amount recovered from unpatriotic Nigerians are made public because it will afford us the opportunity to contribute to how the looted funds should be utilized to the benefit of all”, he said.

He commended governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State for investing in agriculture in an effort to make the State a food basket, adding that with the present economic diversification policy of the Federal and State governments, Nigeria will in the next two years attain food sufficiency.

Speaking earlier, the national Coordinator of the “Coalition of Niger Delta Youth Movement”, comrade Nse Solomon Nse said they were in Akwa Ibom State to synthesize Youths on the need to participate in the on-going voters’ registration exercise which kicked-off in Akwa Ibom few days back.

He thanked the chairmanship aspirant for his youth friendly posture through empowerment and said the visit was to encourage him to continue in his selfless services to the region and the country at large.

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