The human
rights group, under the aegis of Save Humanity Advocacy Centre has given
the Transparency International 72 hours to leave the country over its
recent report that former Nigerian military chiefs stole as much as $15
billion through fraudulent arms procurement deals.
According
to a recent report jointly presented by the Executive Director of
CISLAC, Auwal Musa Rafsanjani and a Senior Legal Researcher at TI, Eva
Marie Anderson, corruption in the defence sector had weakened Nigerian
counter-terrorism capacity and strengthened Boko Haram terrorists.
Comrade
Ibrahim Abubakar, the Executive Director, SHAC, who faulted the report,
said the organization’s excesses have become unbearable and it should
leave the country without delay.
According to him, “We have taken
our time to look at the claims in the said report and our conclusion is
that it contained more of recycled history than groundbreaking research
that Nigerians are yearning for to take the ongoing anti-corruption
efforts of President Muhammadu Buhari to the next level.
“It is
however disappointing that the report is rich in allegations and short
on actionable revelations that could help to further plug loopholes in
the system.
“The report therefore has all the elements of a
contract awarded in pursuit of an agenda which is already well known to
many Nigerians going by our experience with Amnesty International and
those promoting falsehood in high places.
“It wasted a lot of its
focus on cases and incidents that the President Buhari led Federal
Government has dealt with or that happened too long ago to have been
brought up in the context Transparency International did.
“The
defence sectors of other countries regularly deal with issues that are
not too different from what the Nigerian Armed Forces have had to
contend with and at no time has Transparency International sought to
make them the object of international ridicule once they being
implementing actions to prevent recurrence.
“It is therefore
appalling that the massive reforms that have been introduced in
Nigeria’s defence sector was not taken into consideration when the
report was written rather they decided to present the past ugly trend
under past administration, which is considered as a gross injustice to
the current set of actors in the defence architecture of our country who
make daily sacrifices to see to our peace and wellbeing as a nation.
“We
therefore condemn the Transparency International’s report in its
entirety as an attempt to blackmail the Nigerian Armed Forces and the
Federal Government into allowing terrorists to freely roam the Nigeria.
For Transparency International to constitute itself into a sanction
imposing entity that can block arms sales and place travel ban, as far
as we are concerned, is a plot to decimate Nigeria’s population to allow
dark influences inherit the land and its resources. No right thinking
nation will accept such wicked evil and we reject it on behalf of all
Nigerians.
“In the interest of the preservation of Nigeria, we are giving Transparency International 72 hours to leave Nigeria.
“We,
by the same measure call on the Foreign Affairs Ministry and the
Ministry of Interior to act fast in expelling the saboteurs at the
organization from Nigeria within the stated time failing which we shall
bear no responsibility for the mass civil disobedience from Nigerians
who are being mobilized across the country.
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“Transparency
International shall receive a stiffer treatment than its co-saboteur,
Amnesty International received at the hands of Nigerian protesters in
the past. This ultimatum is to Transparency International and all its
local collaborators in the agenda to destroy the Nigeria’s image both at
home and abroad for their selfish interest.
“As the common
street lingo will put it, “our mumu don do”, we have had enough of
foreign occupiers that come here to lord it over Nigerians as if they
represent God. The wickedness of Transparency International, while meant
to particularly to dent the image of the current administration and its
efforts in the war against insurgency, the plot will make life
difficult for Nigerians given the humanitarian crisis that terrorism has
caused in our country.”
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