#DasukiGate: Goodluck Jonathan is an Accomplice in the $2.1bn Arms Deal - CACOL

Posted by Thandiubani on Wed 13th Jan, 2016 - tori.ng

The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders has indicted former president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in the ongoing $2.1 billion arms deal scandal rocking the political sphere.

Former President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

A group, Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, has said that president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is an accomplice in the ongoing $2.1 billion arms deal scandal as it condemned the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu’s comment exonerating the former president from the scandal.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, the group said Magu was very wrong to have defended Jonathan after going to the media to give reasons why the ex-President had not been arrested in connection with the $2.1bn misappropriated by the Office of the former National Security Adviser.

Magu had explained that no document had been traced to Jonathan, showing that he gave approval for the disbursement of the money for any purpose other than for the purchase of arms.

But the Executive Chairman of CACOL, Debo Adeniran, said, “The EFCC chairman should be impartial when investigating cases that involve the former President because the formal President is the Chief Security Officer of the country and should be completely in the know of what money was released for the security purposes, not the least, for the purchase of arms and ammunition to prosecute a ravaging internecine.

“And if it was not properly utilised, he should be the first person, as the Chief Accounting Officer of his regime, to query the former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.). Even the exposé ought to have come from the former President. Since Goodluck Jonathan didn’t see the result of the assignment he gave to the NSA and didn’t query him, it makes him an accomplice in the act of spending the money wrongly.”

“His job is to investigate any suspect in order to ascertain their level of involvement by using his prosecutorial power to get suspects prosecuted in a court of competent jurisdiction and not to defend them before investigation is concluded. In this case, he is behaving as if the former President has hired him as a defence counsel and that is not expected of somebody who is supposed to be an unbiased umpire.”