The Peoples Democratic Party has said the former Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, who resigned her appointment on Friday, must be made to refund
The Peoples Democratic Party has said the former Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, who resigned her appointment on Friday, must be made to refund the salaries and allowances that she collected. The party said the refund should start from her days as commissioner in Ogun State from where she was appointed as the minister of finance. The main opposition party also said Adeosun, who has dual citizenship, must be made to name those who assisted her to allegedly forge her National Youth Service Corps exemption certificate.
The National Chairman of the PDP, Uche Secondus said if Adeosun named those that helped her, she would save the country from embarrassment arising from activities that members of the cartel would carry out in the future. Secondus said it was not enough for Adeosun to resign, she must be made to face the law to serve as a deterrent to others. He added that failure to take action would show that the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari remained partial in its fight against corruption.
The PDP boss stated that if the minister were to be a woman of honour and the Buhari administration was serious about the fight against corruption, Adeosun ought to have resigned from her job or be sacked the day the scandal became public knowledge. He said, “We expect the minister return all the money she had collected either as salaries or allowances before this scandal. She must calculate what she collected since her days as a commissioner in Ogun State up till the day she packed her belongings and left the ministry of finance and pay same to the coffers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
