From Charles Onyekamuo in Awka, 03.31.2005

Obasanjo, he said, was right to go public with the National Assembly scam and disagreed with the insinuation in some quarters that the President reacted the way he did because the culprits were largely from a certain section of the country. He said such thinking is inimical to the advancement of Nigeria as a country and is embarrassing to the image of the country.
“I feel embarrassed. Right thinking Nigerians feels so. We all agree as a people that corruption is a major problem in Nigeria. So corruption at any level should be checked. It is embarrassing to the nation.
“I give 100 per cent support to the fight against corruption. I also feel that the President was right to raise the alarm on the N55 million scam involving the Education Committees of the two chambers of the National Assembly, and if some people feel that the alarm was because it affected mainly people from a particular section of the country, I disagree because corruption has no tribe.
“We know the issues concerning the former Inspector General of Police, Mr. Tafa Balogun and Dr. Makanjuola in the Ministry of Defense, they are not Igbos. If any Igbo man gets himself involved in corrupt practices, let him face the music,” he argued.
Muoghalu, who spoke to newsmen immediately after addressing a meeting of ANPP Chairman in Anambra’s 21 council areas in Nnewi, added that although he supported the fight against corruption, but that it must not be selective and that suspected corrupt officers should be given fair hearing so that the righteous would not be unduly incited and brought to public odium.
“Indeed, let due process and fair hearing be applied before the innocent is destroyed, so that at the end of the day, if any legislator or public officer gets himself enmeshed in corruption, he should face the music”, he said.
He described the office of the Senate President as a very high one superintending over a group of equals holding in trust the sacred mandate of the people, and reasoned that the President may have been incensed by the involvement of Wabara because of the position he occupies, and wanted to show the world that there is no sacred cow in his administration.