Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential nominee, has called on the Federal Government to publicly identify oil thieves and terrorism financiers operating in the nation.
The former governor of Anambra State stated that the government shouldn’t tolerate sacred cows and that this declaration had to be made in the interest of the country.
On Wednesday, August 31, Peter Obi announced this decision via his Twitter account, stating that he was interested in the high-profile Nigerians connected to these crimes.
He wrote;
I am struck and intrigued by the news report linking ‘highly-placed’ Nigerians to oil theft. The same has been the case with financing insurgency and Boko Haram. When will FGN summon the political will to publicly name such persons?
In the national interest, there should be no sacred cows.
Lai Mohammed, the minister of information and culture, revealed in February that the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit has identified 96 terrorist funders.
Mohammed, however, omitted to name the organisations and people behind terrorism’s backers.
He had said;
For its part, the analysis by the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, in 2020-2021, revealed 96 financiers of terrorism in Nigeria, 424 associates/supporters of the financiers, involvement of about 123 companies and 33 Bureaux de Change, in addition to identifying 26 suspected bandits/kidnappers and seven co-conspirators. The analysis has resulted in the arrest of 45 suspects who will soon face prosecution and seizure of assets.
I am struck and intrigued by the news report linking "highly placed" Nigerians to oil theft. Same has been the case with financing insurgency and Boko Haram. When will FGN summon the political will to publicly name such persons?
— Peter Obi (@PeterObi) August 31, 2022
