Garba Shehu Knocks Sen. Ndume Over COVID-19 Relief Fraud Claim

Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, says Borno south Senator, Ali Ndume, is a discontented Politician over his comments on the COVID-19 Relief Fraud.

Garba Shehu Knocks Sen. Ndume Over COVID-19 Relief Fraud Claim
Garba Shehu Knocks Sen. Ndume Over COVID-19 Relief Fraud Claim

Sen. Ali Ndume had asked the president to disband the committee in charge of giving relief to the poor over alleged fraud.
“We have reliable information that the names they generated are fake and that they connived with some of the banks to defraud the poor. If they should continue this way , it is better to stop the exercises,” Sen. Ndume said.

But in a statement on Friday, Shehu said it is disappointing of the politician to call out unnamed individuals in the administration and accuse them of unknown transgression.

Garba Shehu Knocks Sen. Ndume Over COVID-19 Relief Fraud Claim
Garba Shehu Knocks Sen. Ndume Over COVID-19 Relief Fraud Claim

The presidential spokesman asked the senator to provide proof to back his claims, describing him as a “discontented politician”.

“A number of ranking officials have been shown the way out at various times simply on account of this,” he said.

“Similarly, he believes in loyalty and truthfulness. Should any individuals be found to be serving themselves and not the people, then it is right and proper to call them out. But this must be done on the basis of evidence and proof – not on conjecture.

“It is therefore disappointing to hear a politician call out unnamed individuals in the administration and accuse them of unnamed transgressions. If this politician has evidence – then he should make public their identities as well as his proof. Innuendo is not proof.

“Similarly, simply claiming that the COVID-19 Palliative Measures Committee is not functioning as it should is not the same as presenting proof for such a claim.

“No one replaces an institutional government body in the midst of the global pandemic without clear and irrefutable evidence that it needs replacing.

“A press briefing from a discontented politician is rarely the source of such evidence.”

Shehu said every citizen should help combat the spread of the disease rather than “make political capital out of it, whatever his or her grievances”.

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