Former President, Goodluck Jonathan, has
made it clear that he is not under probe by the committee set up by the House
of Representatives, to investigate how the budget allocated to the State House
Medical Centre since 2015 was spent.
Jonathan, in a statement
signed by his media aide, Ikechukwu Eze, said he had nothing to do with the
2015 Budget before he handed over power to President Muhammadu Buhari on May 29
of the same year.
He therefore said there was
no way his administration would be included in the expected probe of
allocations to the clinic.
“The House of representatives
resolved Thursday 12 October, 2015, to probe 2015-2017 allocations to Aso Rock
Clinic and some media reports are needlessly dragging the name of former
President Goodluck Jonathan into it.
“We had thought that the
media should be the first to remind Nigerians that since Jonathan left office
on May 29, 2015, he had absolutely nothing to do with the implementation of the
budget for that year.
“For emphasis, the 2015
Appropriation Bill which was passed by the parliament in April was signed into
law in May, 2015.
“And since the procurement
process, based on the new procurement law, takes at least three months to
complete, there was no way Jonathan would have had anything to do with the
budget implementation for 2015, before vacating Aso Rock Villa on May 29, 2015.
“We expect media houses to
always do proper investigations to avoid the convenient choice of always using
Jonathan as the scapegoat for the misdeeds of others,” the statement read.
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