{"id":76552,"date":"2020-10-25T17:18:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T16:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=76552"},"modified":"2020-10-25T17:18:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T16:18:39","slug":"endsars-timi-frank-urges-efcc-icpc-to-probe-governors-agencies-hoarding-palliatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/endsars-timi-frank-urges-efcc-icpc-to-probe-governors-agencies-hoarding-palliatives\/","title":{"rendered":"#EndSARS: Timi Frank urges EFCC, ICPC to probe Governors, Agencies hoarding palliatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1681540953081521312\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Sunday, urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) to probe and prosecute Governors and Government agencies hoarding COVID-19 palliatives<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">meant for Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>He also called on the President, General Muhammadu Buhari to urgently share all the money donated to the Federal Government as COVID-19 support to poor and vulnerable persons in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Frank who made these assertions in a statement in Abuja said that both the Federal and state governments should be blamed for deliberately keeping away what rightly belong to the people.<\/p>\n<p>He said that videos on social media showing thousands of Nigerians besieging government warehouses and forcefully helping themselves with such food items underscore the level of hunger and deprivation in the land.<\/p>\n<p>He warned Governors and Federal Government agencies who still have such food items locked up in their warehouses to immediately release them for distribution to the hungry masses or face the wrath of the people.<\/p>\n<p>Frank said: \u201cWhy should Government continue to warehouse food items donated to it while the people are hungry? Did they forget the saying that a hungry man is an angry man?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe action of government in keeping food items meant to cushion the effects of the ongoing pandemic among the poor and vulnerable, I dare say, speaks of their callousness, insensitivity, wickedness and man\u2019s inhumanity to man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernment should not forget that most Nigerians lost their jobs and other sources of livelihood as a result of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMust they be reminded that Nigerians are dying silently under the yoke of bad government policies, corruption and the greed of those that are today in position of authority?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere they by any chance keeping the food items for the 2023 campaigns as some state governors did in the past with relief materials meant for flood victims?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe demand that all monies received by the Federal Government as support from international agencies, local businesses and philanthropists should immediately be distributed among vulnerable Nigerians who need to survive the current hardship in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, it must be noted that the sheer multitude of persons seen around government warehouses in the past few days show that the Buhari\u2019s administration has driven over 100 million Nigerians into poverty rather than fulfilling its mantra of taking 100 million Nigerians out of poverty.<\/p>\n<p>I also urge on the President to immediately and urgently setup a presidential panel of enquiry to probe the governors and the federal government agencies responsible for this heinous and careless act and anyone found culpable must face the full wrath of the law unlike previous lip service enquiry reports that were swept under the carpet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe call on the Federal and State Governments to retrace their egotistical steps and embrace policies that would give the youths jobs and put bread on their table.<\/p>\n<p>Anything short of urgent measures to pacify the youths and address the growing hunger in the land would amount to another disaster waiting to happen. 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