{"id":75282,"date":"2020-08-09T15:03:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T14:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=75282"},"modified":"2020-08-09T15:03:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T14:03:26","slug":"timi-frank-urges-buhari-to-probe-osinbajo-augf-over-alleged-n10bn-withdrawal-from-tsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/timi-frank-urges-buhari-to-probe-osinbajo-augf-over-alleged-n10bn-withdrawal-from-tsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Timi Frank urges Buhari to probe Osinbajo, AuGF over alleged N10bn withdrawal from TSA."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m-8439836857180274894\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">A political activist and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Sunday, urged the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, to urgently constitute a panel of inquiry to investigate the illegal withdrawal of N10billion from the Treasury Single Account.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\nFrank in a statement in Abuja, said that such a panel must of necessity be given a clear mandate to unravel the involvement of the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo and the Auditor General of the Federation (AuGF), Anthony Ayine, in the brazen illegality.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that for Osinbajo, it appears to be a season of one month one corruption scandal.<\/p>\n<p>The political activist said has become extremely worrisome that the nation is sinking deeper into corruption, with multiple fraud scandals, at a time Nigerians expected to see tangible dividends of the anti-corruption war, which is the foremost object of this regime.<\/p>\n<p>He also called on Osinbajo to explain his role in the various corruption allegations that have been trailing him since 2017 rather than always running to court to divert attention.<\/p>\n<p>He called on the National Assembly not only to probe the N10bn TSA heist, but to act on their report by initiating impeachment proceedings against Osinbajo, if found wanting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince after the 2019 general elections, Osinbajo has been enmeshed in one corruption allegation or the other, and it is high time an official probe is ordered to unravel the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Frank said: \u201cFirst, Osinbajo was linked to N90bn said to have been funneled to him by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) to prosecute the 2019 general elections in the Southwest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Vice President was also said to have received the sum of N4bn from the suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) which is still questionable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBesides, the House of Representatives Committee on Emergency and Disaster Preparedness had indicted Osinbajo for approving the sum of N5.8 billion for emergency intervention of food security to the northeast in June 2017, when he was acting president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is why the present allegation of illegal withdrawal of N10billion from the TSA made against the VP has become one scam too many.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is only a thorough and unbiased investigative panel that can either confirm or disprove these allegations and the time to order such a probe by Buhari is now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOsinbajo as an elected public official, and he owes Nigerians an inalienable obligation to explain his part in all these corruption allegations against him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoing to court and seeking to use legal gymnastics to intimidate and harass whistle blowers is at best diversionary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn his part, the AuGF should be suspended from office to allow for unhindered\u00a0 investigation of this illegality and gross abuse of office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ongoing probe of the suspended acting chairman of the EFCC should serve as a template for the unraveling of this mind-boggling looting of the nation\u2019s treasury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigerians expect the National Assembly to rise up and defend democracy and ensure that the nation\u2019s resources are not being brazenly plundered in this sordid manner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is high time the lawmakers jettison their rubber stamp attitude, conduct diligent investigation and ensure that those found to have abused their offices are booted out, through impeachment or otherwise, and equally prosecuted to serve as a deterrent to others.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/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>A political activist and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Sunday, urged the President, Major General 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