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FCT, Abuja – The Civil Society Coalition for Transparency in Governance (CISCOTIG) has dismissed efforts to involve Femi Gbajabiamila, the President’s Chief of Staff, in investigating the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation.
A jointly signed statement by the group’s convener, Comrade Michael Sunday Emaluji, and its secretary and spokesman, Adebayo Lion Ogorry, asserted that Gbajabiamila is not implicated in any wrongdoing.
The statement reads:
“We have seen tenuous analyses that concluded Gbajabiamila’s guilt simply because he was listed as Betta Edu’s reference on the CV used for her confirmatory screening before the Senate.
“Some surmised that the Chief of Staff was part of the transactions because he is reportedly of the same political sub-bloc as some people who have been insinuated to be connected with the issue.
These conjectures have been made to gain ground even though those behind them are aware that they do not have the facts to back up these claims.
“But the most outlandish of these claims is the one that comically concluded that the Chief of Staff is complicit in the transactions being investigated because he forwarded the memo containing President Tinubu’s approval to the suspended Minister for the release of N3 billion for the verification of the National Social Register compiled by the former administration of Muhammadu Buhari.”
