Breaking: Group commends EFCC's moves to recover N189bn stolen in Tambuwal's Sokoto

Breaking: Group commends EFCC's  moves to recover N189bn stolen in Tambuwal's Sokoto

 ...Says Buhari's anticoreuption stance helpful to EFCC's deft moves

The Sokoto Anti-corruption Crusaders ( SAC) have commended the EFCC for moving swiftly to investigate what it described as "the unprecedented thievery of N189 billion of taxpayers' money by the officials of Sokoto State government. They stresses that it was unacceptable that this was happening under  the incumbent Governor Aminu Tambuwal's watch.

Chairman of the group, Comrade Ibrahim Ahmed Goronyo, in a media statement issued  on Friday, said the EFCC has "done us proud by investigating officials of the Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal administration over the case and we truly  appreciate".

The group, in the statement,  urged the EFCC Chairman Abdurraahid Bawa not to relent in his efforts to  "rescue Sokoto taxpayer's money that have suddenly disappeared from the public treasury without justification".

The group also expressed "deep concern over this brazen thievery of taxpayer's money,  for which Governor Tambuwal has been playing the Ostrich for a long time", adding that "Tambuwal can't  be above the law".

The group also urged Nigerians to be wary of "a multimillion naira media campaign  by Tambuwal's political  handlers, designed to take away public attention from ongoing investigations that might nail Tambuwal and his foot soldiers in the end".

The group  alleged that Governor Tambuwal  has "hired some spin doctors in the multimillion naira diversionary campaign, to twist the narrative in order to prepare the ground for confusing the public describing it as "a well-funded revisionism that is dead on arrival".

The group said it would continue to stand by the EFCC for what it described as " the agency's  bold stance against official corruption by some State governors especially in the Northwest, notably Sokoto - who stashed away millions of taxpayer's funds, with no visible, commensurate development projects.  We cannot fathom why, after taking trillions as FAAC allocation, Sokoto is still notable as the most poverty-ravaged and insecure State. And as if to add salt to  injury, we are now confronted with a N189 billion theft in the same State".

The Statement commended  Buhari for his anti-corruption stance, which "emboldened the EFCC to take on Tambuwal as a demonstration of the President's determination to deal ruthlessly with official corruption in the Northwest State of Sokoto".