The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) had thrown its weight behind the sack of the Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah by President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday from the Federal Executive Council.
The Aviation minister was sacked alongside her Niger Delta Affairs counterpart, Mr. Godsday Orubebe; Police Affairs Minister, Navy Cpt. Caleb Olubolade; and the Minister of State for Finance, Dr. Yerima Ngama.
Oduah had been in the eye of the storm since last year over the purchase of two bulletproof BMW cars for N255m, an amount which was found to be grossly above the market value.
Reacting to the development, the Executive Chairman of the Coalition, Comrade Debo Adeniran described the sack as a welcome development.
He said, “This is a right step in right direction, though long overdue but it is better late than never. Some of us are elated by the re-engineering going on in the system. We appreciate the move for it is a positive one. Maybe if the complete overhaul is done, the authority at the centre might win our hearts back to its side.
We need more purging of the cabinet. Jonathan should extend more of this action to every nook and cranny of his government as we have a lot of mediocres occupying high offices under his leadership and that is why there is no substantial achievement for people to applaud.”
The anti corruption crusader however called on the anti-graft agencies to prosecute the former minister for the corrupt practices perpetrated while she was in office.
13 Feb, 2014
Abimbola Adegoke
Media Officer, CACOL
