Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, today Nov. 26th rubbished the
National Assembly, saying it is an Assembly of looters
and thieves. He said this while speaking at the public presentation of
the autobiography of Justice Mustapha Akanbi, in Abuja. Some of what he
said below...
"Apart from shrouding the remunerations of the National Assembly in
opaqueness and without transparency, they indulge in extorting money
from departments, contractors and ministries in two ways"
"They do so during visits to their projects and programmes and in the
process of budget approval when they build up budgets for ministries
and departments, who agree to give it back to them in contracts that
they do not execute. They do similar things during their inquiries.”
"Corruption in the National Assembly also includes what they
call constituency projects which they give to their agents to execute
but invariably, full payment is made with little or no job done. In all
this, if the executive is not absolutely above board, the
offending members of the National Assembly resort to subtle or open
threat, intimidation and blackmail. When the executive pay the huge
money, normally in millions of dollars, all is quiet in form of
whitewashed reports that fail to deal effectively with the issues
investigated.”
"When the guard is the thief, only God can keep the house safe and
secure. But I am optimistic that sooner than later, we will
overcome. God will give us guards of integrity and honesty with the fear
of God and genuine love of their people and their country.
“Today, there is no institution of government that is not riddled
with corruption, not even the military. As the people cry out, where
then is the salvation.” Obasanjo said
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