Hundreds
of Ekiti State Indigenes rallied on Monday in support of the Federal
Government’s anti-corruption war, insisting that governor Ayodele Fayose must
be made to face the law, if found guilty of fraud.
Shortly
after the governor’s case against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) at the Federal High Court, Ado Ekiti on Monday, a group of
placard-carrying youths staged a protest few meters to the court declaring
their support for the anti-corruption crusade of President Muhammadu Buhari and
the EFCC crackdown on Fayose and his associates.
The
protesters carried various placards, some of which read: Some of their placards
read: "Buhari, We Support You", "Fayose Must Not Escape Justice",
"We Say No To Dasukigate", "EFCC We Support You", "No
Immunity for Impunity", "Let Us Kill Corruption Before It Kills
Us", "No Absolute Immunity for Corrupt Governors", "Fayose
Can't Be Above The Law", "Fayose Must Be Investigated".
Led
by an activist, Sunday Asefon, the group said they came to
demonstrate in support of the EFCC efforts to prosecute Fayose for alleged
money laundering insisting that the governor must face the law for the alleged
diversion of arms cash to fund his campaign.
They
sang solidarity songs in Yoruba: "Ko si idariji fe ni to ba jale, ayafi ko
lo sewon" which means "there is no forgiveness for anybody that
steals, such an individual must go to jail."
Addressing
reporters during the protest, Asefon said the action was to show solidarity
with the EFCC in getting to the root of the alleged stealing of the arms cash
saying whoever that is indicted must face the law.
Said
Asefon: "We are here today to show solidarity with the EFCC to support the
anti-corruption crusade of President Buhari whoever that is indicted must be
tried in the law court no if found guilty must be punished according to the law
of the land.
"We
are in full support of the freezing of Fayose's account which we believe was
timely at a time government workers are owed five months salaries and this man
is saying there is no money.
"Last
Monday, the governor instigated some students to protest against President
Buhari and the EFCC which we have dissociated ourselves from. Every reasonable
Ekiti person must support the move to recover the stolen funds.
"There
is no immunity for impunity, imagine the governor richer than the whole state
and we want the EFCC to continue with its war on graft and anybody found guilty
must face the music," he added.
Fayose,
who is claiming immunity, is under investigation by the EFCC for his part in
the infamous N4.7 billion slush funds from the Office of the National
Security Adviser (ONSA) under Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.)
His
personal accounts have been frozen by the anti-graft agency while his
associates have also been arrested.
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