Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has disclosed in far away United States that the Federal Government is not interested in arresting former President Goodluck Jonathan over various allegations of corruption during his administration.
Prof. Osinbajo revealed this in Houston, Texas at a Townhall event where he interacted with US-based Nigerians who asked questions live at the event and also via the Internet, according to a statement issued by his spokesperson, Mr. Laolu Akande in Houston.
The vice president fielded about thirty questions at a well attended townhall event moderated by Mr. Rudolf Okonkwo of Sahara Reporters and Prof. Nimi Wariboko of Boston University.
Answering questions from the Internet on when former President Goodluck Jonathan would be arrested, Osinbajo pointed out that the Buhari administration is not in the business of arresting just anyone anyhow.
He said all the Buhari administration does is to empower the security agencies and the anti-corruption agencies to do their jobs, without the administration trying to direct them.
He also added that the fight against corruption in the country is not fought on ethnic, hasty or premeditated grounds.
According to him, “corruption is not an ethnic thing, there is an equal representation in the stealing as no one operates with his/her ethnic group alone, the culprits are in every case seen so far, united by greed to steal and not by ethnic or religious interest.”
He frowned at a situation where, for instance, as much as $15 billion has disappeared from the national coffers into private pockets, pointing out that no responsible government would wave that aside so as not to offend people.