- A Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Festus Keyamo has revealed why ex-president Goodluck Jonathan must be probed
- Keyamo said the former president has some questions to answer on the alleged Dieziani's loot
- He said it was not possible one minister to steal so much without the knowledge, connivance and approval of the president
Popular lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria-designate, Festus Keyamo, has said former President Goodluck Jonathan has knowledge about some of the monies ex-Petroleum Minister, Dieziani Alison-Madueke allegedly stole from the country.
NAIJ.com gathered that in a series of tweets on Thursday July 20, Keyamo called for the “dismantling of the warped system at the NNPC”, if such looting must be checked.
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“The big unanswered question: is it possible one minister allegedly stole so much without the knowledge, connivance & approval of the C-in-C?
“Without first dismantling the warped system at the NNPC, what we accuse Diezani of will continue unchecked. It would just be turn-by-turn.
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“This is not about PDP or APC. It is about a strange system that cannot know so much has been stolen until a foreign entity reveals it to us,” he wrote.
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had previously reported that Christian Nwosu, a staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) pleaded guilty to receiving N30 million as bribe from the N23 billion alleged stolen by a former petroleum minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke.
Watch the arraignment of Andrew Yakubu, a former group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC):