Don’t Send A Discordant Note In Your Anti-corruption Tunes – Falana Tells Tinubu

• Urges the President to lead an anti-corruption crusade

• Says “right now, we’re in trouble as a people”

Eko Hot Blog reports that human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN has cautioned President Bola Tinubu to refrain from sending the wrong signal in his fight against corruption in Nigeria.

Falana in his keynote speech at the 60th Call-to-Bar anniversary celebration of legal icon, Aare Afe Babalola, in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, noted there had been several high-profile politicians with looting cases in court who had been visiting the Presidential Villa.

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He said, “Some of those who are going in and out of the Villa are standing trial for looting the treasury of this country.

‘’No, wrong signals must not be sent to our people and the international community”.

Appealing to the President and his government to “show leadership”, Falana declared that “right now, we’re in trouble as a people”.

He added: “There is somebody here who was our president. If you were accused of corruption and your case was before the EFCC or the ICPC, you would not be appointed to a position of authority. We must go back to that era.”

Citing First Lady Oluremi Tinubu’s remarks at the 2023 Presidential Inauguration Inter-denominational Church Service in May, which said “God has blessed my family; we don’t need the wealth of Nigeria to survive but to do the right thing’’, Falana urged the President to lead an anti-corruption crusade.

He argued that with the President leading the anti-corruption crusade, Nigeria could “take its rightful place in the comity of nations”, as the largest concentration of black people on earth.

He decried the level of corruption in the country, describing it as having assumed a “very dangerous dimension”.

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According to him, the situation is such that highly-placed public officers steal money meant for building hospitals as people die on the roads.

“They steal money meant for ecology, to fight erosion, to re-forest certain parts of the country. So, when a country gets to that stage, corruption is now a crime against humanity,” Falana said.

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