A social advocacy group, Patriotic Alliance for National Development (PAND) yesterday commended the resignation of the immediate former Minister of Finance Mrs. Kemi Adeosun over her NYSC certificate forgery.
The group maintained that the Federal Government should prosecute her and every other individual who helped Adeosun forged the said certificate including the Department of State Security Service, in Ogun State and Abuja.
This was contained in a communique signed by publicity secretary to PAND, Comrade Adekunle Adewunmi.
In the statement "The Members of Ogun State House of Assembly, where Mrs. Adeosun was first screened as Commissioner-designate and the Nigerian Senate, in 2015, where she got the nod to serve as Minister should also be investigated.
The group equally demanded full prosecution of those whose cases appear to have been swept under the carpet in this present administration.
The statement reads; “The resignation of the immediate past Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun is not only honourable but quite commendable despite coming up after sixty-nine days since the lead was blown off the hidden NYSC certificate forgery issue.
"Now that she has resigned and travelled out of Nigeria, we maintain that her exit from the Federal Executive Council is not enough to make up for the embarrassment the fraud has caused our country, corruption that has been allegedly perpetrated in the name of the covering up the scandal and the level of such decadence in high places and among public officials."
According to her, someone got the certificate for her at a point she needed one. As investigations have proven so far, the certificate was forged. Though the issue is quite embarrassing, many should be made to answer for serving as accomplices in this huge crime against the nation.
At a time when millions of Nigerians have gone through the scheme, no one no matter how highly placed should escape the programme, not to talk of getting fake papers, to claim what is meant for many able compatriots. Not even at a time many have been prosecuted for the same offense.
Among those who should be questioned are officials in Department of State Security Service, in Ogun State and Abuja. Leadership and members of Ogun State House of Assembly, where Mrs. Adeosun was first screened as Commissioner-designate and the Nigerian Senate, in 2015, where she got the nod to serve as Minister.
"It is believed that nothing should have been worst than a nightmare to a government which rode to power on the self-professed love for integrity than a forgery case at that level of government, among several other criminal offences by officials of the same system, without due diligence of investigation and prosecution."
How then can we be sure of a Nigeria being managed by illegalities instead of probity? The group questioned.
We equally demand full prosecution of those whose cases appear to have been swept under the carpet under the present administration and indeed full cleansing of the system of similar cases.
Because we have no other country to proudly call ours, we won’t stop calling on everyone to remain patriotic for the good of our dear country, Nigeria.
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