Do Not Limit ypur probe to the Goodluck Jonathan-led Administration - Prelate, Methodist Church Nigeria.

THE Prelate, Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence, Dr Samuel Uche, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari not to limit his probe to the Goodluck Jonathan-led  administration, saying that would amount to  injustice.

He said the president should keep to his campaign promise of fighting corruption in all ramifications, by extending the probe to regimes of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Generals Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, Abdulsalami Abubakar and late Sani Abacha.

He spoke on Sunday, in Abuja, during investiture of Knighthood on 16 distinguished personalities, who have contributed to immensely to service of the church and socio-economic growth in Nigeria.

The Prelate noted that all the retired military generals who ruled the country in the past were equally guilty of corruption, alleging that majority of them used their ill-gotten wealth to build houses and mansions, among other things in Nigeria and abroad.

Uche said he was not against probe of Jonathan-led administration by Buhari’s government, but insisted that it would be unfair and unjust to limit the probe to Jonathan.

He noted that everybody in the country knew that the regimes of OBJ, IBB, Abacha and Abdulsalami all contributed to looting of the country’s treasury and bringing the nation to where it is today.

The Prelate added that even the Church was not free from corruption, as majority of churches have deviated from the real objectives of soul winning and rendering social services to the people.

He maintained that the Church had a role to play in ensuring an egalitarian society, where there is love, justice, equity, righteousness, kindness and total harmonious relationship between man and God, and man and man.

He said: “All of us are guilty. You know as I do know, if you had been born in the 70s, that all of us have been engaged in corruption.

“The Church unfortunately is engaged in corruption, because the Church is no longer winning souls the way the Methodist Church brought in from England was doing.

“When they brought Methodist Church, it came with education, health care, caring for motherless babies,  generating employment and making sure that people where equipped to serve God and humanity with all honesty.

“In fact, our oil boom became oil doom, where everybody is engaged in corruption, soldiers and civilians alike.”

“That is why I am advising the man we have elected to be our leader, that if he wants to fight corruption, he must start from the 70s. He should not limit it to the Jonathan-led administration.”