Dumebi Kachikwu, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the 2023 general elections, has demanded a probe into the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
The former presidential candidate also demanded for Tinubu’s administration to initiate a probe into the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, (NNPC), and the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS.
Kachikwu made the request during his Democracy Day broadcast on Monday.
He called on President Bola Tinubu to order a comprehensive audit of the CBN, NNPC, and NCS.
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For Kachikwu, such a probe would not only reveal any past abuses but also help the new administration to implement reforms that would jump-start the economy for the challenges ahead.
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While the ADC candidate commended Tinubu’s decision to remove the subsidy on petrol, he criticized the president’s failure to put in place adequate palliative measures to cushion the pain caused by the hike in the pump price of petrol nationwide.
He said:
“Our President must immediately investigate the activities of our CBN governor, the most political CBN governor we’ve had in the history of Nigeria.
“The pillars of the economy today are the CBN, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, and the Nigeria Customs Service. Every other sphere of our economy derives from these pillars but they are the most corrupt pillars of our society. If the President has started working on the CBN, he must at the same time, spread his tentacles to the NNPCL and the customs.”
