President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday begged lawyers to support the anti-corruption war of the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government.

Buhari said this at the Kaduna branch of the Nigerian Bar Association’s Law Week with the theme, “The fight against corruption: the role of the Bar and the Bench,” in Kaduna.

The President was represented on the occasion by his Senior Special Adviser on Legal Matters, Prof. Adamu Usman,

He reminded the lawyers how some of their colleagues almost frustrated a similar crusade he embarked upon as the military Head of State in 1984.

He noted that his second coming should receive the necessary support from lawyers to succeed so that the country would be rid of corruption.

In his keynote address, Usman told his colleagues that history would remain unkind to them if they failed to do everything possible to rid the nation of corruption, saying that “whenever history repeats itself, it carries vengeance and calamity in its fist and teeth.”

He also urged the lawyers to play their part in ensuring that corruption was kicked out of the country, “the way the military is pushing out Boko Haram insurgency and other security challenges out of the country.”

He said, “In Buhari’s first coming, the Bar in particular was not very helpful to his anti-corruption crusade. They boycotted the Special Military Tribunals for the Recovery of Public Property set up by his then government on the grounds that the tribunals were chaired by soldiers instead of judges, the lawyers’ preferred chairmen.

“Only Gani Fawehinmi of blessed memory and a few other senior lawyers broke the rank with their colleagues by supporting the tribunals and participating in their trials.

“Now the same Buhari is back again on the saddle locking horns once more with the hydra-headed monster called corruption.

“When in 1984 we refused to support his anti-corruption war, we saw what corruption eventually did to the country.

“It may even do worse now if by our lack of cooperation and support, the current anti-corruption war is once more lost.

“I strongly feel we should give the current anti-corruption fight a chance of success by supporting it. History should not repeat itself because from my knowledge of history repeating itself, whenever it repeats itself, it carries vengeance and calamity in its fist and teeth.”

Meanwhile, the National Vice-Chairman (South) of the APC, Hilliard Eta, has said the President Buhari-led administration is taking tough decisions required to lay a solid foundation for Nigeria’s future.

He said this in Abuja, on Monday.

According to him, the party has within the last one year put in place a new template for national growth.

The party chieftain appealed to Nigerians to show greater understanding because the change the party promised was not going to happen in a day.

Eta noted that within the last one year, the APC government had succeeded in taming the Boko Haram monster and improving the nation’s security.

He said, “We all know how much this government has achieved in curbing insurgency in the North-East and even the international community has accepted the fact that this government has done so much in the area of dealing with Boko Haram insurgency in the North-Eeast and in security of the nation in general.

“In the area of corruption, except one is blind, government has been sincere not just by mouthing the war against corruption, but actually doing what is actually necessary to curb corruption. First, by living by example because the saying goes that when a fish is getting bad, it starts from the head.

“So, living by example and making sure that whoever is caught to have dip his hands into the treasury are prosecuted. On the economy which is what everybody is complaining about today because of the hardship; we campaigned for change and not a miracle. For change to take place, there has to be a gestation period while miracle is instant because it is divine.

“I know that Nigerians are impatient. Even if you want to build a beautiful edifice, you must first lay the foundation. This government has laid the foundation for the take-off of the economic boom that we must necessarily bring to Nigerians because that is what we promised.”

He stressed that the people of the South-South were at the verge of experiencing unprecedented development the type that eluded the zone in the last 16 years the Peoples Democratic Party held sway.

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Sai Baba May you live long, in good state of health and wisdom. I am always happy having you as my president, though you're yet to fulfill all your campaign promises, you promised to stabilize the oil, but till now we're still suffering, you promise to give us 24 hours un-interrupted power till now you have not bring on 10 hours standby power, and we are paying more on the epileptic power supply. You promise to bring 1 US dollar to 1 Naira and till now Naira is going down against the dollar. I am always amaze with the fact that you're truly an honest leader, as I am seeing the fight against terrorism and corruption yielding positive response. I am sure as a leader if you can win this two major war the aforementioned will follow. Corruption is the biggest rock blocking our way as a country. I hope the Nigeria Bar Association will sit upright and support the total war against corruption.

I stand with Buhari.

Nigeria shall be great again

But we all know lawyers are liars who depend largely on twisting stories to survive.

The FG should find better strategies of winning it's war on corruption rather than appealing to a people whose survival depends on defending even the "indefensibles".

Who dis man dey deceive sef?,

blatantly encouraging corruption by pegging the official exchange rate at 199naira while the black market rate is 345naira,
Refusing to probe Amaechi and Fashola and even making 'em Ministers,
Not to mention Tinubu, who has the Lagos state treasury in his pocket.
Na only zombies you fit deceive,
Many Nigerians have come to the realisation that you are a scam Mr Buhari

Buhary dey beg ?

Anyone who wouldn't join in the battle against corruption should just fall off the wagon


Nigeria will get there , with or without the hypocrites

DaBullIT:
Anyone who wouldn't join in the battle against corruption should just fall off the wagon


Nigeria will get there , with or without the hypocrites

even buhari is an hypocrite!!!, how will do you that?. He shared part of dasuki loots or you think we don't know that dasuki gave him 300k dollars and a jeep as gift? Lol criminal is pointing finger to crook,

Is it true that Buhari returned the 2 SUV's given to him by Dasuki yesternite??

Lawyers can only support fight on corruption based on rule of law not fighting corruption based on opposition and infringements of human rights . All meaning Nigerians will support a true fight of corruption when all the politicians in PDP or APC or any parties are taken to competent court of justice for trials .

Luckylife:
Lawyers can only support fight on corruption based on rule of law not fighting corruption based on opposition and infringements of human rights . All meaning Nigerians will support a true fight of corruption when all the politicians in PDP or APC or any parties are taken to competent court of justice for trials .

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Nice and matured response. What we see in this govt is intimidation

God bless pmb with knowledge ,wisdom and understanding,long life and prosperity .

jcross19:
even buhari is an hypocrite!!!, how will do you that?. He shared part of dasuki loots or you think we don't know that dasuki gave him 300k dollars and a jeep as gift? Lol criminal is pointing finger to crook,

Only you refuse to use your brains sha

God punish buhari and his useless government.
Gob bless Nigeria!
God bless Niger Delta!!
God bless Akwa Ibom/Cross River!!!

slimfit1:


Only you refuse to use your brains sha

only zombies fail to use their and you are one of them. You have been programed to reason with your anus.