by Azeez Adeniyi

The Federal Government has started considering applying the whistleblower policy to the issue of illegal ownership of weapons.

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists on Wednesday.

He said the Federal Government was planning on how to enhance the capacity of the whistle-blower mechanism.

Shehu said the government was considering bringing the policy under the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption or any other body.

“The government thinks that the whistle-blower mechanism is too important to be left without a strategic, national direction,” he said.

He said the huge funds being recovered ‘is a revelation about the mindless, callous and reckless scale on which Nigeria had been robbed by unpatriotic and egregiously selfish public officials’.

He confirmed that the policy may soon be applied for illegal possession of arms.

“Yes, it is true; the Presidency has received suggestions that call for the whistle-blower policy to be extended to the possession of illegal weapons by powerful individuals in the country.

“The government will look at all that and make a pronouncement.

“Nigerians would be encouraged to expose the presence of illegal weapons in the homes of powerful politicians and other public figures who may use those deadly arms for sinister political agenda,” he said.

Azeez