House of Representatives Speaker Aminu Waziri Tambuwal took a swipe at President Goodluck Jonathan today accusing him of encouraging corruption in the country by the way he has been handling of corruption cases.
Tambuwal disclosed this in Abuja today when accosted by journalists after he presented a paper titled “The Role of the Legislature in the Fight Against Corruption in Nigeria” at a one-day round-table marking the International Anti-Corruption Day organised by the Abuja Branch of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA).
The speaker alleged that the president’s body language seems to be encouraging graft in the country.
Tambuwal specifically accused Jonathan of refusing to take on high profile corruption cases exposed by the various committees of the National Assembly.
He said, “Take the subsidy probe, the pension, the SEC probe and recently the bullet proof car cases. After the House of Representatives did a diligent job by probing and exposing the cases, you now see something else when it comes to prosecution.
“In some cases, you have the government setting up new committees to duplicate the job already done by the parliament. Take the bullet proof cars case, the NSA, with all the security challenges confronting the country, should not be burdened with a job that can best be handled by the anti-corruption agencies”.
Tambuwal also lambasted Jonathan over the N255 armoured cars’ purchase scam involving the Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, he contended that the government had no business raising any administrative panel in a corruption case already clear to all Nigerians.
He however advised Jonathan saying,“What the President should have done was to explicitly direct the EFCC to probe the matter. With such directives coming from the President, I am sure we still have good people in EFCC who can do a good job. By the action of setting up different committees for straightforward cases, the president’s body language doesn’t tend to support the fight against corruption.
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