PFIPC scandal: Adeyemi has too much authentic documentation – Bakare

Frontline activist, Bola Bakare, has said that the self-acclaimed Director-General of the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, PFIPC, Adeniyi Adeyemi, has too much authentic documentation.

He said that Nigeria has had this systemic failure for too long, calling on the government and all agencies concerned to look more strongly into the current scandal.

Speaking on Arise News, Bakare said, “I’m happy this is happening so that we can put a stop to it. If you look in Nigeria, the ministries we have in Nigeria are just about 40 thereabout, but when it comes to agencies, honestly, nobody in Nigeria knows how many agencies we have, they’re in the hundreds. 

“If Adeyemi had been quiet, this will have joined the hundreds of those agencies, and then we will be worse for it, because as we speak, those agencies are making Nigeria uncomfortable.

“Because when you talk in terms of ease of doing business, most people are looking at the everyday, the top echelon of what is happening in governance, and nobody is looking at those lower level of those agencies that have just simply that toga of governance that makes them go on the streets and make a mess of things. Those are factors we should look at closely,

“The kind of operation this Adeyemi has, I’m not holding brief for him, but we are smart enough to know what is really happening. He has too much of authentic documentation.

“That is why we have a lot of government agencies, Office of the SGF, Office of the AGF, Office of the Civil Service giving out authentic documentation because he has been able to pin the first person that gives out all those authentic letters.

“But my own grouse is, we have had this systemic failure with us for too long. And thank God we are having this, and I am calling on the government and all agencies concerned to look closely at this.”

Meanwhile, President Bola Tinubu has instructed the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, to initiate a thorough investigation into the activities of the alleged PFIPC.

The directive was contained in a statement released on Tuesday by the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga.

The statement indicated that the President has mandated the investigation to be completed and a detailed report submitted to him within 30 days.

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