Zamfara State Governor Bello Matawalle has urged President Mohammadu Buhari to halt all study leaves, foreign transfers, and postings of officers whose appointments are critical to take-off of the incoming administration.In a statement yesterday, Matawalle said certain government functionaries were bent on frustrating the orderly transfer of power on May 29.
According to him, President Buhari has shown himself a patriot, democrat and man of impeccable integrity and character, ‘but not all his appointees can be so applauded’.
The governor noted that the president and his family have demonstrated their commitment to a peaceful transfer of power by moving out of Aso Villa into the Glass House. He added that the First Lady, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, had also conducted Senator Oluremi Tinubu round the Presidential Villa as part of preparations for handing over.He said: “The president and his wife have demonstrated good faith. However, other officers in government have acted in a different manner. They are behaving as if they want to put spanners in the work for the incoming regime. President Buhari should not allow this. He should frown on any attempt by any person seeking to damage the good job he has done. “One of such persons who has been speculated to have sought a study leave is Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele. If the leave has been approved, as reported in the media, the president should cancel it in the interest of peaceful transfer of power, accountability and good governance.
“Emefiele superintended management of the country’s financial and monetary systems. He is the one who initiated and implemented the disastrous Naira swap policy, the Naira confiscation program which put Nigerians through untold woes and trauma and set our economy backwards. This same Emefiele now wants to proceed on study leave, apparently in a bid to evade rendering accounts, when he has some 10 months left of his tenure . This is unacceptable. President Buhari should not countenance this. Emefiele must stay at his job to give full account of all that transpired under his watch to the incoming administration. He must answer all the questions the new regime may have for him, particularly when he still has some months left of his tenure.”
Also, Matawalle appealed to President Buhari not to approve foreign postings or grant any foreign travels for any officer of the outgoing government who may be critical or strategic to the smooth take-off of the incoming government. He alleged that some officers in the outgoing government are planning to surreptitiously leave the country at a critical time they are needed to answer to specific questions.
He stressed: “They show clearly that these officers have something to hide. This must be halted immediately. Any plan to evade rendering accounts is neither in the interest of accountability, transparency and anti-corruption, which President Buhari had championed in government, nor in the interest of an unencumbered take-off of the incoming administration.
“It’s also not in the interest of the country, which the president has always promoted and championed. This is my appeal and why I have decided to speak out as a patriotic Nigerian and concerned governor.”
Zamfara State Governor Bello Matawalle has urged President Mohammadu Buhari to halt all study leaves, foreign transfers, and postings of officers whose appointments are critical to take-off of the incoming administration.
In a statement yesterday, Matawalle said certain government functionaries were bent on frustrating the orderly transfer of power on May 29.
According to him, President Buhari has shown himself a patriot, democrat and man of impeccable integrity and character, ‘but not all his appointees can be so applauded’.
The governor noted that the president and his family have demonstrated their commitment to a peaceful transfer of power by moving out of Aso Villa into the Glass House. He added that the First Lady, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, had also conducted Senator Oluremi Tinubu round the Presidential Villa as part of preparations for handing over.
He said: “The president and his wife have demonstrated good faith. However, other officers in government have acted in a different manner. They are behaving as if they want to put spanners in the work for the incoming regime. President Buhari should not allow this. He should frown on any attempt by any person seeking to damage the good job he has done.
“One of such persons who has been speculated to have sought a study leave is Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele. If the leave has been approved, as reported in the media, the president should cancel it in the interest of peaceful transfer of power, accountability and good governance.
“Emefiele superintended management of the country’s financial and monetary systems. He is the one who initiated and implemented the disastrous Naira swap policy, the Naira confiscation program which put Nigerians through untold woes and trauma and set our economy backwards. This same Emefiele now wants to proceed on study leave, apparently in a bid to evade rendering accounts, when he has some 10 months left of his tenure . This is unacceptable. President Buhari should not countenance this. Emefiele must stay at his job to give full account of all that transpired under his watch to the incoming administration. He must answer all the questions the new regime may have for him, particularly when he still has some months left of his tenure.”
Also, Matawalle appealed to President Buhari not to approve foreign postings or grant any foreign travels for any officer of the outgoing government who may be critical or strategic to the smooth take-off of the incoming government. He alleged that some officers in the outgoing government are planning to surreptitiously leave the country at a critical time they are needed to answer to specific questions.
He stressed: “They show clearly that these officers have something to hide. This must be halted immediately. Any plan to evade rendering accounts is neither in the interest of accountability, transparency and anti-corruption, which President Buhari had championed in government, nor in the interest of an unencumbered take-off of the incoming administration.
“It’s also not in the interest of the country, which the president has always promoted and championed. This is my appeal and why I have decided to speak out as a patriotic Nigerian and concerned governor.”
Source- The NATION