The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that it believed in the war against corruption which President Muhammadu Buhari has since launched, but queried the arrest, yesterday, of the former Chairman of Daar Communications, Chief Raymond Dokpesi in connection to the arms purchase acandal amounting to $2.2 billion.
Dokpesi was said to have benefitted from the money disbursed from the office of the former National Security Adviser (NSA), retired Col Sambo Dasuki, running into billions of naira.
The PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, said in a statement in Abuja that the arrest of Dokpesi was government’s plan tailored to decimate the opposition and cow the media in Nigeria.
“While the PDP is not against the war against corruption, we insist that the crusade must be carried out within the limits of the law and not as guise to persecute and torture opposition elements.”
Metuh demanded an open and public trial of all those arrested so that all issues and charges against them as well as their defence therein would also be in the public domain. [myad]
