Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has taken the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, to task, challenging him to reveal the identity of treasury looters sponsoring the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.
Fayose, who was reacting to a statement by Lai Mohammed that treasury looters were sponsoring IPOB, said: “It is high time Nigerians begin to hold the Information Minister accountable for his frivolous claims”, adding that it is unfortunate that the minister has been misinforming the nation.
“More than 20 months after he claimed that 55 Nigerians stole over N1.34 trillion from the country’s treasury from 2006 to 2013, Lai Mohammed is yet to tell Nigerians who the 55 people are.”
The Governor gave the challenge in a statement issued on Tuesday by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, he describing Lai Mohammed as “an embodiment of contradictions, who speaks from several sides of his mouth, turning himself to a vegetable while struggling to defend a government that has done more evil than good to Nigeria and its people.”
Fayose also called on Nigerians to prevail on the Information Minister to name the treasury looters sponsoring IPOB and provide proof of the sponsorship as well as the 55 people that he said stole over N1.34.
“On June 10, 2013, Lai Mohammed spoke against the proscription of Boko Haram, saying that it stifled the press and tampered with the fundamental human rights of Nigerians. He also spoke in support of true federalism and restructuring of Nigeria. But today, in defense of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government, everything Lai Mohammed supported then, he is now against and what he was against then, he now supports.”
Fayose further called on the international community, especially the United Nations and the International Criminal Court, ICC, to immediately investigate the grave crimes being committed by the military against Nigerians in the South-east, adding that there was no law in Nigeria empowering the military to declare any organization as terrorist and kill unarmed people.
