{"id":26112,"date":"2020-08-04T08:43:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T08:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=26112"},"modified":"2020-08-04T08:43:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T08:43:44","slug":"no-amount-of-efcc-icpc-can-stop-nigerian-leaders-from-stealing-gov-umahi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=26112","title":{"rendered":"No amount of EFCC, ICPC can stop Nigerian leaders from stealing \u2014Gov Umahi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Governor-David-Umahi.jpg\" alt=\"EBONYI: Sen. Ogbuoji plotting with INEC to allot 200,000 votes to APC during guber poll- PDP alleges\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The chairman of the South-East Governors\u2019 Forum and Ebonyi State governor, David Umahi has lamented the stealing of public funds by Nigerian leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that the menace had got to a level that no amount of anti-corruption agencies, including Economic Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) among others would be able stop Nigerian leaders from stealing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The governor spoke when he addressed newsmen at the governor\u2019s lodge at the state government house, Abakaliki, shortly after a virtual meeting with other governors of the zone and Igbo leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPeople don\u2019t fear God any more in this country. It\u2019s not about EFCC, ICPC and whatever thing. If we know that we are temporal on this earth and that when you sleep, you are at war with death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s only the good Lord that wakes up the winner, and then we have to begin to change our minds and begin to change our thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is no amount of EFCC, ICPC that will stop a leader from stealing. It is only God and conscience that will. When you get older as a leader, what do you want to see in a path that you have crossed before? What do you want to see?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat do you want your children to be known for? How do you want people to respect your children? Respect them that you stole all the money or that you built all the mansions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe should know that all these wealth are nothing. It must pass from one hand to another,\u201d Umahi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On why the leaders of the country steal, Umahi said, \u201cThe leaders of this country want to steal, so that their generation will not see poverty but it\u2019s not true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLittle sickness can take over the whole lots of that stealing. I am pleading with Nigerian youths to have a rethink, let them do self reevaluation. A peanut can be given to them to destroy another person. How have they felt in the past two, three, four or five years? It doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOne thing I have told the people of Ebonyi is that I will not share the money that is meant for developing the state to stakeholders. I will not share it, no matter whatever anyone can think, do or say\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chairman of the South-East Governors\u2019 Forum and Ebonyi State governor, David Umahi has lamented the stealing of public funds by Nigerian leaders. 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