Expdonaloaded News; Buhari’s corruption war vindictive –TUC chairman

CHAIRMAN of Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Akwa Ibom State, Akamba Awah, has carpeted the Federal Government’s anti-graft war, describing it as, ‘lip service and vindictive’. Awah in a tele­phone interview with Daily Sun yesterday said if President Muhammadu Buhari was sincere in his regime’s corruption fight, he should have begun from President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administra­tion.
His words: “As far as I am concerned, it is vin­dictive.
Why can’t they go to the era of Atiku/ Obasanjo regime and begin to fight corruption. If they want to fight corruption, they should go back to past government not only one. Go to all past governments.”
On the agitation to know what the previous gov­ernment in Akwa Ibom State left behind in terms of debt, the labour leader said it was the duty of the state House of Assembly to compel the executive to disclose the debt profile of the state before think­ing of granting the incumbent governor the permis­sion to plunge the state into another loan that would take 20 years to pay back. He said labour had been asking the executive and the legislature to disclose the debt profile of the state without success.
“We are not going to fight them with guns. But we are waiting. When they cannot pay us our sala­ries, we will now tell everybody to ask them why they cannot pay us salary. If you don’t tell us how much you owe, we will not call off our strike.”