Coalition Urges Probe Of Attacks On Government Officials

A coalition of civil society organisations (CSOs) in Nigeria has called on security agencies to probe attacks on government officials.

The coalition, comprising 70 CSOs also threw its weight behind the minister of interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, calling on security agencies to immediately probe the media attacks on selected federal ministries including the Federal Ministry of Interior and bring the sponsors to book.

The spokesperson of the coalition, Ajagun Opeyemi, in a press conference in Lagos, alleged that the sinister plot against Tunji-Ojo is being sponsored by some cabals to discredit Tinubu’s administration.

Opeyemi expressed the view that Tunji-Ojo had not only demonstrated exceptional competence and dedication to his duties since he assumed office as the minister of Interior about five months ago but had also clearly proven himself to be a man of impeccable honesty, transparency, and accountability, as evidenced in the laudable reforms he has engineered in the Ministry of Interior and its various Departments, Agencies, and Parastatals.

The spokesperson while reading from a statement signed by 70 CSOs, commended President Bola Tinubu for not bowing to the emotions being vaunted out on the media spaces with the intention to stampede him into taking hasty actions that would get the very performing Minister of Interior off track.

“As a leader with a discerning sense of judgment, he has held a closed-door session with the minister which we believe is in connection with this allegation. Additionally, he has ordered the EFCC to carry out a thorough investigation. Instead of the mob seeking to feast on the flesh of the minister to wait patiently, they are busy calling for his suspension, a demand that has no basis in law but just a strategy to bring down the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu by labelling his Ministers as corrupt.”