By Nwabueze Okonkwo
The Campaign for Democracy, CD, South East zone has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC to immediately commence investigations into the activities of Standard Organization of Nigeria, SON, National Agency for Foods and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC.
The group also urged EFCC and ICPC to probe the activities of National Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, National Communications Commission, NCC and other regulatory agencies over their seemingly corrupt practices. CD said the call was in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s change mantra which promised Nigerians that his administration would tackle corruption headlong.
In a press statement issued in Onitsha, Anambra state yesterday and signed by its zonal chairman, Uzor A. uzor, CD said these government agencies had billions of money allocated to them in the annual budget, irrespective of billions of money they generate from Nigerians and other stakeholders. The statement noted that the Dr. Paul Ohii-led NAFDAC had subjected and tasked importers to pay over N1 million for registration of a single pharmaceutical product compared to many products owned by the traders.
Describing the Chief Joseph Odumodu-led SON as center of corruption, the statement alleged that SON had kept blind eyes paved the way for our markets to be flooded with fake and substandard products such as electronics and motor spare parts imported from China and India, leading to many deaths in many Nigerian homes.
According to the statement, “the Mr. Sam Amadi-led NERC is also the epitome of corrupt practices. Amadi should tell Nigerians how much he generated during the privatization processes in the nation’s power sector, including his incessant and criminal increase in electricity tariff”. Insisting that it was very painful that most of these regulatory agency chiefs are about to complete their second term of 10 years in office without any single account, even as these agencies had made over N500 billion in the past 15 years.
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