Oil Scandal Of $25billion :Why You Must Suspend Kachikwu & Baru - YPP Advises President Buhari

Baru & Kachikwu
The Young Progressive Party (YPP) has called
on President Muhammadu Buhari to suspend
the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources,
Ibe Kachikwu and the group managing director
of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
(NNPC), Maikanti Baru over allegations
insubordination and fraudulent award of
contracts.
The party said while corruption has been the
bane of Nigeria's socio-economic and political
development, Buhari has always been seen as
someone with undeniable capacity to stop the
corruption menace in the country.
The chairman of the party, Bishop Amakiri, said
while Nigerians overwhelmingly voted for
President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015, it has
become clear that what the country needs are
strong institutions and not strong individuals.
The YPP said the the allegations and counter
allegations between Kachikwu, the NNPC and
its GMD is one of too many events that have
characterized the President Buhari-led
administration since assuming office two years
ago.
YPP said the zeal exhibited by the All
Progressives Congress before the election
seems to have fizzled out when its is most
needed.
The party said: "While we have not entirely given
up on the ability of the President to provide
leadership especially in tackling this menace that
has continued to constitute a clog in the wheel of
our nation’s progress, the Young Progressive
Party do hereby recommend in line with global
governance best practices; the immediate
suspension and investigation of the allegation and
counter allegation of misappropriation and gross
abuse of office against Dr. Maikanti Baru and Dr.
Ibe Kachukwu in order to ascertain the level of
culpability in the fraudulent award of contracts to
the tune of $26 billion dollars without following
due process by the former and the probe of the
later tenure as GMD NNPC."
The party also called for the immediate
appointment of a substantive minister of
petroleum resources who can effectively see to
the day to day running of the ministry and whom
Nigerians can hold accountable for any breach
of public trust, the immediate implementation of
the report submitted by the presidential panel
headed by the vice president set up to
investigate the suspended secretary to the
government of the federation, Babachir Lawal
and the director general of the National
Intelligence Agency, Ayo Oke.
YPP also urged President Buhari's
administration to concentrate on building strong
institutions that does not depend on any
individual to fight corruption or drive good
governance.
It said: "It is instructive that the above
recommendations be strictly implemented in order
for the present administration to gain back the
confidence of majority of Nigerians who have
come to see the ongoing anti-corruption war as
selective and only targeted at anybody but
members of the APC and the executive.
"Conclusively, we would like to congratulate the
Super Eagles of Nigeria for qualifying for Russia
2018 against all odds and showing our leaders
how to unite our people and that impossible is
nothing if only we can shun our differences by
uniting.