The Chairman, Presidential
Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, SAN, has said that the
Senate would be disgraced if it challenged former Chairman of the Independent
National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega.
He advised the members of the Red
Chamber to accept Jega’s remark that the National Assembly was deeply enmeshed
in bribery.
He said, “Obviously, Jega has
names. I wouldn’t be surprised if when he was presiding over INEC, some of them
did that (demanded bribes); so let them not challenge him too far.
“He just decided to be
politically correct by not mentioning names. If they challenge him, he would
mention names.
“We all have names of different
people who have done different things. The fact that no one is mentioning them
doesn’t mean the claims are not true. So, he is right. This corruption has been
going on since 1999.
“They claim to be carrying out
oversight functions and would insist that the agency they want to oversight
would book their hotel rooms, pay for their food, pay for their transport and
then give them money in addition.
“What sort of result would come
out of such an oversight exercise? They have run their institution aground,
making it almost irrelevant in Nigerian democracy.
“The legislature will change when
people of integrity begin to enter the Senate and begin to kill that culture
(of corruption).
“For example, even though I don’t
agree with him in all things, I would be shocked if I hear that Senator Shehu
Sani demanded bribe from anybody because I believe he is a man of integrity.
“When more and more people like that begin to
come in, there would be a change.“
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