Hon. Dino Melaye
Former member of the Federal House of Representatives, Hon. Dino Melaye
has praised the sack of Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah and Minister
of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, describing it as the
long-needed opening to institute corruption charges against the two
former ministers.
Speaking on behalf of his civil society group, the Anti-Corruption
Network (ACN), Melaye described the sack as validation of the age-long
cliché that the voice of man is the voice of God.
“I am vindicated; power truly belong to the people”, he said. “When
we protested against two of these criminals, many abused us. But today,
we are happy. We salute the courage of Mr. President, although he
delayed too much because they ought to have been fired since”.
He recalled that his group submitted the corruption history of three
ministers to the United States of America last year; and with the sack
of two, the third must be relieved of her ministerial position as soon
as possible.
“Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Deziani Alison Madueke must
go, too. The president must take hard decisions in the interest of
Nigerians”, he said.
“Now that they have been sacked, we will institute criminal charges
against Orubebe and Oduah. The voice of the people is the voice of God.
“We encourage Nigerians to continue to protest vehemently against
mal-administration, ineptitude and corruption. For me it is a no
retreat, no surrender. No amount of arrest, intimidation, blackmail or
name-calling will detract my attention from fighting all forms of
injustices”.
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