N255m car scandal: SANs, NGOs ask Jonathan to sack Oduah

Some prominent lawyers, including Yusuf Ali (SAN), and two civil rights organisations, Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice and the Foundation for Human Rights and Advocacy on Thursday in Abuja faulted the presidential panel set up by government to probe the controversial N255m car scandal involving the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority and the Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah.

They also called on President Goodluck Jonathan to sack Oduah and disband the three-man presidential panel set up to investigate her.

They said the Presidential panel was a cover-up like other panels adding that “it is a means of distracting the anti-graft agencies prosecuting the minister.”

The Executive Director of ANEEJ, Rev. David Ugolor and Director of FHRS, Olafaju Emmanuel told journalists that the panel was a waste of time.

They said, “We condemn in its entirety this step taken by President Goodluck Jonathan over the Minister of Aviation’s profligacy and use of public funds to purchase two BMW armoured cars. Setting up of a panel of inquiry by the President is a clear move to cover up Stella Oduah who we all know is a close ally of President Jonathan.

“We say this because in a country where we have different anti-corruption agencies saddled with the responsibility of trying cases such as this, what is the need for such a panel?

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Source: Punchng