Names Of Sponsors Of Terrorism Should Be Announced — Prof. Itse Sagay

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, had made the claim in Abuja on Thursday. He had also said government had identified 26 bandits and seven co-conspirators linked to financing of terrorism in Nigeria, among others.

According to him, the discoveries were made by the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) between 2020 and 2021. He, however, did not name the alleged culprits neither did he say what actions the government has taken against them.

Reacting to the development Prof. Itse Sagay, Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption said there is no reason the names of people who have committed the worst crimes against humanity in Nigeria should not be announced or their faces paraded,.

“I agree with those who are critical of government’s silence on this matter,” he told Saturday Sun. “These people should be made known to the whole world because they have subjected us to much fear, humiliation and pains.

We want to know them. So, I agree with the majority of Nigerians who are now crying out, insisting that the people should be identified and prosecuted to our knowledge and there must be no secrecy about this.

“Why the government is not announcing the names of those that have been identified as supporting and sponsoring terrorism is what I can’t just understand because when all these Yahoo Yahoo boys do things, they are brought before the camera.

When people commit all sort of crimes their names are mentioned and their pictures splashed all over the place.“