BY VICTOR AHIUMA-YOUNG

A GROUP of industrial unions under the aegis of Integrity Group of Industrial Unions, IGIU, yesterday, said that the manner President Goodluck Jonathan handles the subsidy probe report and the $3 million bribery scam involving Farouk Lawan and Chief Femi Otedola, Chairman of Zenon Petroleum, will go a long way to determine the Federal Government anti-corruption crusade.

IGIU in a statement decried the care free attitude of the anti-graft agencies and called on President Jonathan to use the subsidy fraud to reflect on the need for stronger state intervention in the economy, instead of the current neo-liberal agenda under which the economy was left at the mercy of so-called market forces.

The statement by Mr Leke Success, President of National Union Hotel and Personal Services workers, NUHPSW and Mr Peters Adeyemi, General Secretary, Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Related Association, NASU,  said “It is  tragic that the crime committed against the Nigerian state where a few corrupt and greedy individuals swindled the country of trillions of naira had unfortunately been turned into a mere circus show as a result of allegations and counter allegations of bribery between Lawan and Chief Otedola.

“While we condemn the piecemeal dramatisation of the subsidy scam, we equally deplore the indifferent disposition of the respective anti-corruption agencies for not acting. “