SERAP to Buhari: Withdraw ‘clumsy, selective looters’ list’

A non governmental organisation, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to withdraw the recently released looters list. A statement, Sunday, from the organisation stated that Buhari should “immediately withdraw the clumsy, arbitrary and selective looters’ list, released last week, as the list would seem to serve a […]

A non governmental organisation, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to withdraw the recently released looters list.

A statement, Sunday, from the organisation stated that Buhari should “immediately withdraw the clumsy, arbitrary and selective looters’ list, released last week, as the list would seem to serve a political objective or carry out political agenda.”

It added that “This kind of action can only diminish the government’s ability to fight corruption, frustrate its oft-expressed goal of a transparent governance, allow suspected perpetrators—whether from the All Progressives Congress (APC) or the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP)–to escape justice, and ultimately, deny victims of corruption justice and effective remedies.”

 The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed had on Friday released a list of some of those who have allegedly looted the nation’s treasury. 

SERAP executive director Adetokunbo Mumuni said: “The authorities should withdraw the looters’ list and come up with a comprehensive list.”

Mumuni added that Allowing the published looters’ list to stand will undermine the credibility of the government’s claim to fight corruption, and signal to Nigerians that it is not serious to satisfactorily address the allegations of grand corruption under the former government.