Reject Buhari's $29.6b loan request: PFN tells Senate

www.odogwublog.com reports that the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, yesterday urged the Senate to discountenance ‎any pressure being mounted on it to approve President Muhammadu Buhari's $29.6b loan request.

The Chairman of the PFN in Enugu State, Rev. Dr. Godwin Madu in a press statement made available to news men in Enugu yesterday,said President Buhari    should be stopped from continuing with the borrowing plans.


It could be re-called that the presidency has been holding series of consultations with the Senate leadership after the request was turned down.

PFN tasked President Buhari's administration to use the recovered funds for implementing its policies. It will not be nice at this time of recession to go borrowing for any reason when there are billions of Naira so far recovered from individuals and corporate bodies.

He stated, "The Senate should not approve it because it is not to the best interest of the country. Such move will further ruin the future of this country."

The Christian body equally condemned the release of five suspects in the murder of an Igbo woman in Kano, Madam Bridget Agbahime.

"How can this type of thing happen in Nigeria? We can't imagine an authority of the state making a no-case submission in favour of suspects who already confessed to the murder.
"The person killed is a human being; this further puts to question ‎the integrity of the judiciary because in the first case, the magistrate court lacks the jurisdiction to try murder cases.
"Our stand is that the National Judicial Council, NJC, should summon and investigate the magistrate in question", the PFN declared.

"We call on the Kano State government and the NJC to know that a murder‎ case cannot be closed that way; it has become a point of judicial reference in the court of law."