THE Presidency has offered reasons why it will not stop criticizing the administration of Former President Goodluck Jonathan. The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande in a statement issued on Saturday said the current administration would continue to talk about the
"colossal atrocities in the management and disbursement of public funds” stressing that Nigerians have not forgotten the “severe damage caused the economy by the rampant abuse of public trust and grand larceny”.
The statement read in part;
“Those who are asking our people to simply forget the blatant violation of public trust and the pillaging of the nation’s commonwealth witnessed in the past are saying wittingly or otherwise that we should forget where the shoe actually pinched and pretend as if the social raping of the nation never occurred.
How can we do that? We have a situation where a former First Lady came out openly to claim over $ 171m found in her accounts and you think Nigerians will simply overlook that. You have a situation where hundreds of billions have been recovered including the discovery of $ 43 m cash in an apartment in Ikoyi, and you think Nigerians will simply forget that?”
He added that all pending corruption cases against past office holders would be handled by a special court for speedy dispensation of justice.
“We have a number of lawyers, senior lawyers, people with solid reputations who have volunteered to assist in prosecuting the cases and soon the prosecuting agencies will be assigning specific cases to them”.
His statement may not be unconnected with the fallout of his principal's recent allegation that the Jonathan administration shared $150bn few weeks to the 2015 general elections.
