The former minister of education, Obiageli Ezekwesili. Twitter
Co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign Oby Ezekwesili has urged Festus Keyamo (SAN) not to defend the anti-corruption efforts of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Ezekwesili, a former minister of Education, made this known on Monday when they both appeared on Channels TV.
Keyamo had argued that the fight against corruption was not one-sided.
“It is immoral for someone to say because you have not caught all the thieves, you should leave the ones you’ve caught.
“I mean it’s immoral. Let’s not go there at all,” Keyamo said.
Reacting, Ezekwesili said: “In the fight against corruption, especially in a society where it has become systemic, you need the public endorsement that indeed there is a fight against corruption.
“This administration lost it in its own, by all of what you are defending.
“You shouldn’t defend what you are defending, Festus. Indefensible. Most Nigerians were hoping that finally with this administration, we will be effective with judicial outcomes on corruption that it will send the very important deterrent that we need in our country.
“But the government by its multiple contradictions ended up sending a signal to the citizens that we are not ready.”