Corruption: Why Buhari must probe Shagari – popular pastor

– Prelate Samuel Uche says anti-corruption war must dig past the administration of Goodluck Jonathan

– Shagari was president during the second republic

– Buhari has insisted that he will wipe out corruption from Nigeria

Dr. Samuel Uche, the prelate, Methodist church Nigeria has said that the anti-corruption war championed by President Muhammadu Buhari must begin from the Shehu Shagari-led government.

Shagari was the president of the country from 1979 to 1983 before his government was toppled by a military coup that brought in the then General Buhari.

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President Buhari has reiterated his commitment to rid Nigeria off corruption and this has been evident in the number of high profile detainees. Some officials who served during the administration of former president, Goodluck Jonathan have either been questioned by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission or are under the radar of the anti-graft agency.

The Punch reports that the prelate said the only war Buhari can wipe out corruption is to begin the war from the administration of Shagari. He said this on Saturday, February 13 at the maiden Founder’s Day anniversary and inauguration of Very Rev. Sunday Onadipe as rector of Methodist theological institute, Sagamu in Ogun state.

Uche advised the president to also extend the war on corruption on members of his cabinet in order to gain the confidence of Nigerians.

“My advice to the President is that the fight against corruption should be total and shouldn’t be a selective fight. Let him go back to 1979 and start fighting corruption till today. If it is lonely and lopsided, it will seem as a (political) vendetta against the opposition. Nobody will tell him that but the church will tell him that and that is how we see it.

“The corruption fight is selective and against opposition parties and it shouldn’t be so. There are people in his (Buhari) government we know that are more corrupt than those who are being arrested. It should be total and holistic so that we can be sure that he is fighting corruption.”

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“Some times ago, when (Sunday) Mbang was the prelate of this church, he said nation building should start from the church; there was a march throughout Nigeria against corruption by the Methodist church.

“The Methodist church started the fight against corruption about 15 years ago before even the government initiated it. So, we have been on it and I must tell you that of all those people they are arresting now, I have not seen a single Methodist member.”

The anti-corruption war has however been criticized by some persons especially members of the Peoples Democratic Party who accused the president of selective war on corruption.

President Buhari however denied the claim that he his selective and he described it as ‘false and baseless’.

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