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Indications have emerged that President Muhammadu Buhari might not yield to the demand in some quarters that these ministers be relieved of their appointments.
A source in the Presidency confided in New Telegraph that much as President Muhamnadu Buhari would want to protect his personal integrity by dealing with corrupt persons within his cabinet, he does not subscribe to sacking people on mere allegations.
According to our source, the federal government was not about to sack the “indicted” ministers yet because doing so will be succumbing to the mob mentality.
“If every person who is accused of corruption through an allegation is suspended, sacked or dismissed from government, we will not have a President in office today.
I am sure that if you open your newspaper today, there must be one person naming an allegation against the President, the Senate President or the Speaker of the House. You know that kind of a thing; that’s the culture we have in this country".
Recall that in the wake of the clamp down on the judiciary, Justice Sylvester Ngwuta and Justice Inyang Okoro of the Supreme Court had accused the Minister of Transport, Mr. Chibuike Anaechi, of seeking to influence judgment in 2013 and 215.
Ngwuta also alleged that a former Governor of Abia State and now Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, also attempted to bribe him in order to influence judicial outcome in the 2015 governorship election dispute in Ebonyi State.
A source in the Presidency confided in New Telegraph that much as President Muhamnadu Buhari would want to protect his personal integrity by dealing with corrupt persons within his cabinet, he does not subscribe to sacking people on mere allegations.
According to our source, the federal government was not about to sack the “indicted” ministers yet because doing so will be succumbing to the mob mentality.
“If every person who is accused of corruption through an allegation is suspended, sacked or dismissed from government, we will not have a President in office today.
I am sure that if you open your newspaper today, there must be one person naming an allegation against the President, the Senate President or the Speaker of the House. You know that kind of a thing; that’s the culture we have in this country".
Recall that in the wake of the clamp down on the judiciary, Justice Sylvester Ngwuta and Justice Inyang Okoro of the Supreme Court had accused the Minister of Transport, Mr. Chibuike Anaechi, of seeking to influence judgment in 2013 and 215.
Ngwuta also alleged that a former Governor of Abia State and now Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, also attempted to bribe him in order to influence judicial outcome in the 2015 governorship election dispute in Ebonyi State.