A former board member of the Nasarawa State Health Management Board, Davidson Okechukwu Amadi, has described the insistence of the Presidency on Ibrahim Magu as the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission as a dent on the image of Nigeria.
Amadi wondered why in Nigeria people lacked conscience and cared less about their integrity.
If I were Magu, I would resign because it is not a do or die affair
“If I were Magu, I would resign because it is not a do or die affair,” he said.
He spoke in an exclusive chat with our correspondent in Lafia, the state capital, shortly after he inspected an ongoing construction work on a drainage he facilitated at the National Supplies area of to check the erosion menace threatening the area.
According to him, “I want to give service to my nation, I believe I am an incorruptible policeman and if I am here, I can fight corruption. But he (Magu) is not the only one that can fight corruption. You go to the Senate several times; they say no. If I were him, I would just resign.”
He, however, said that his position should not be misconstrued as supporting the action of the Senate in not confirming Magu as the substantive EFCC boss.
Also commenting on the agitation for Biafra, Amadi who is an Igbo man born and bred in the north, said those behind the agitation were mere businessmen and investors.
“These young boys are making money. It is an investment that they are doing because they are looking for money,” he said.
He also condemned the quit notice given to Igbo in the north by Arewa Youths, stressing it was uncalled for.
“The Igbo residing in the north are not the people causing trouble. Even those boys who are there are doing their Biafra business. It is business; money-spinning business,” he said.
Amadi, who had resigned his appointment with the Nasarawa State Civil service as a secondary school teacher, said he did not support the restructuring of Nigeria.
He argued that there was nothing wrong with the present structure of the country.
“The people who called themselves Biafra don’t they have five state governments? Are they doing very well? They would have been clamouring for restructuring if states from the south east are doing better than other states, but that is not there as you see mis-governance,” Amadi said.
