Ikeja Bomb Blast: Group Demand Action On Former Defence DG goo.gl/HhHS3B: Ikeja Bomb Blast: Group Demand Action On Former Defence DG goo.gl/HhHS3B Jeremiah Emmanson — Nov 2, 2014 | Leave a comment A group, under the auspices of One Voice Against Corruption (OVAC), has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to direct the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, to reopen prosecution of Chief Mike Okibe Onoja and all other persons indicted in the Ikeja Army cantonment bomb blast. In a petition written to Mr President through the office of the attorney general of the federation and signed by OVAC National President, John Folarin Odusote, the group believed such action would send a clear message to Nigerians and the international community that the present administration has zero tolerance for established cases of corruption. The group, in a copy of the petition made available to Newswatch Times, yesterday in Abuja, stated that the panel of inquiry set up by the then administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo indicted Chief Mike Onoja for failing to apply the funds meant for cooling the ammunition depot. “We write to bring to the attention of Your Excellency a matter that is crucial to public perception of your administration’s fight against corruption. This matter has to do with the non-prosecution of the then Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Defence, Chief Mike Okibe Onoja twelve years after his acts of corruption led to the death of several Nigerians from the Ikeja Cantonment bomb blast. “Chief Onoja, as Permanent Secretary was Director General of Defence when the contract was awarded. Sadly, up till this moment, nothing has been done to bring him to book for his acts that resulted in such huge loss of lives,” the group noted. Speaking further, OVAC said “it is on record that Chief Onoja was a Permanent Secretary status in the civil service at the Ministry of Defence before he was dismissed from the service for corrupt acts.” It said: “Onoja used his office of the civil service as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Defence to corrupt advantage to build a vast personal interest in Nigeria and abroad. In addition to the properties he owns in Nigerla and abroad, he has held unto the foreign account he operated as a civil servant with impunity in contravention of the public service rules in Nigeria.” It added that a combined reports of the British Interpol and the Nigeria’s State Security Service (SSS) that jointly investigated him during Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration linked Onoja to several properties. “We therefore make the appeal before your office to direct the Attorney General of the Federation/Minister of Justice to cause an immediate inquiry and possible prosecution of the above mentioned character to be brought to book. This will save us and victims of this heinous crime against humanity the long journey to the International Criminal Court of Justice at Hague,” it concluded. « Previous Article Mubi: NEMA Establishes 7 More IDP Camps, Registers 15,000 IDPsOriginal link Read More goo.gl/KbiPnC (y) ✍comment ☏share
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