A pro-democracy group, the National Committee of Yoruba
Youths, has called on Acting President Yemi Osinbajo to sack the chairman of
PACAC, Prof. Itse Sagay, for failure to declare his assets at the Code of
Conduct Bureau in accordance with the law.
In a statement signed by its National President, Comrade
Oladimeji Odeyemi, on Sunday in Abuja, the group stated that it has conducted a
thorough but secret search at the CCB’s office and was convinced that Sagay
evaded that constitutional responsibility on him to declare his assets.
It said: “The consequences of this illegality is for
Professor Sagay to be sacked from office and be immediately prosecuted. “We
therefore give the respected Acting President Yemi Osinbajo who is a Professor
of Law and senior advocate to put a stop to this illegality within 48 hours.
“We also call on the CCB to within 72 hours commence the
prosecution of the PACAC chairman at its tribunal.”
The group further
claimed that its investigation showed that Sagay’s circumvention of the law was
known to the former board of the CCB headed by Sam Saba and that the board
deliberately covered up the act of omission only for the facts to become known
now that the CCB has no board. It said:
“We are surprised and disappointed to find out that Sagay
continues to go to equity with soiled hands. He is the one who is loudest about
the anti-corruption fight of the government, yet he does not deem it fit to be
transparent by declaring his assets as demanded by law.
“He should in fact, go beyond the demand of the law by
making public his assets and justifying how he acquired them. This will put him
on a moral high ground to accuse others and pontificate on the fight against
corruption.
“The Professor specialises in attacking everybody about
corruption and need for transparency as well as using abusive words in spite of
his advanced age, yet he refused to do the basic thing which would demonstrate
his commitment to the fight.
“Sagay should walk his talk and stop being a hypocrite. With
this our finding, he should be sacked and prosecuted.”
The group went on to
remind the Acting President that failure to sack and prosecute Sagay will be
another testimony to the claim by some sections of the society that the fight
against corruption by the Buhari administration is selective and a mere
political game.
By ‘Kayode Omoyele
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