{"id":64192,"date":"2018-10-22T16:35:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T15:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=64192"},"modified":"2018-10-22T16:35:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T15:35:07","slug":"religious-political-leaders-dont-allow-me-sack-corrupt-people-vp-osinbajo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/religious-political-leaders-dont-allow-me-sack-corrupt-people-vp-osinbajo\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious, Political Leaders Don&#8217;t Allow Me Sack Corrupt People-VP Osinbajo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says whenever he wants to sack a public<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">official that has been found to be corrupt, he gets many calls from<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">religious and political leaders not to do so.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Speaking on at 24th Nigerian Economic Summit plenary on corruption and<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">rule of law, in Abuja on Monday, the vice-president said the Nigerian<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">elite are often times in the way of getting rid of a corrupt official.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Ngaire Woods, the founding dean of Blavatnik School of Government at<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Oxford University, who moderated the plenary asked Ossinbajo to tell the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">summit who calls him when he wants to sack someone corrupt.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">In his response, Osinbajo said: \u201cI would like to refer to the Nigerian<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">elite, and it\u2019s probably not fair to be that broad, but practically, every<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">segment, because people who have access to you, they could be political<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">leaders, religious leaders, business leaders, whoever has access to you.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe have a system where people just feel like, \u2018why don\u2019t you just give<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">this guy a break?\u2019 Which again is part of the problem. You don\u2019t get one<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">call, you get several\u00a0 calls.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The vice-president said the government is doing so much to tackle grand<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">corruption and systemic corruption; stating that since he became<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">vice-president, he has seen how much impact corruption can have on a<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">country \u2014 and its more than he ever imagined.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Osinbajo, who was commissioner of justice and attorney general in Lagos<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">state for eight years, said one of the most frustrating parts of the fight<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">against corruption for him is the slow pace of prosecution.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">He, however, added that the two conviction of former executive governors<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">secured by the federal government has shown that the hand of justice may<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">be slow, but it would eventually catch up.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The professor of law said reforms are important, and the federal<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">government has embarked on a number of them, including the criminal<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">justice reform, but the federal government cannot reform state<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">judiciaries.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The vice-president sacked Lawal Daura, former director general of the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Department of State Services (DSS).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">He was also involved in the suspension of Ayo Oke, former director general<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">of National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and Babachir Lawal, former secretary<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">to the government of the federation (SGF).<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says whenever he wants to sack a public official that has been found to be corrupt, he gets many calls from religious and political leaders not to&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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