{"id":7275,"date":"2016-01-23T19:06:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T19:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=7275"},"modified":"2016-01-23T19:06:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T19:06:41","slug":"shehu-sani-condemns-buharis-anti-corruption-fight-says-it-is-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=7275","title":{"rendered":"Shehu Sani Condemns Buhari\u2019s Anti Corruption Fight, Says \u201cIt Is Political\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has condemned the<br \/>\nanti-corruption war by the President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s administration,<br \/>\nsaying it is driven by political consideration.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the 8th Forum of the laureates of Nigerian National Order of<br \/>\nMerit in Abuja, Sanni said no issue should dominate national discourse more<br \/>\nthan corruption, adding that political considerations could affect the<br \/>\nanti-corruption fight.<\/p>\n<p>Sanni charged the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCT, to probe the asset<br \/>\ndeclarations of other Governors who served at the same time as the Senate<br \/>\nPresident, Bukola Saraki, because politics should not be mixed with<br \/>\nanti-graft war.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the investigations into the ongoing arms deal supervised by the<br \/>\nformer National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, Sanni said corruption has<br \/>\nits consequences as seen in the arrest of those in charge of security in<br \/>\nthe last administration.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201cInsurgency is for some industry, business enterprise and<br \/>\nmeans of making money. Even Governors would say they allocate hundreds of<br \/>\nmillions to security but when you go there you won\u2019t find anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey say because of allocation to security they can build schools. So it<br \/>\nis for all of us to see why we have not won the war against insurgency and<br \/>\nwhy people are killed because of corruption. Politics mixed with corruption<br \/>\nwill take us nowhere,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that: \u201cIt is only in Nigeria that one says because somebody has<br \/>\ncontributed to the success of the ruling party, corruption charges should<br \/>\nbe withdrawn against him. But if he falls out of favour tomorrow, then,<br \/>\nEFCC will bring up the remaining.\u201d<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7276\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Shehu-Sanni-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"Shehu Sanni\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Shehu-Sanni-300x160.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Shehu-Sanni.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has condemned the anti-corruption war by the President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s administration, saying it is driven by political consideration. Speaking at the 8th Forum of the laureates of Nigerian National Order of Merit in Abuja, Sanni said no issue should dominate national discourse more than corruption, adding that political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[661,80,1126],"class_list":["post-7275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-code-of-conduct-bureau","tag-kaduna","tag-shehu-sani"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Shehu-Sanni.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1Tl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7277,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7275\/revisions\/7277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}