Nigeria: "N' Assembly is an assembly of looters and thieves" - Obasanjo says

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is one person who has publicly expressed his dissatisfaction with the Johnathan administration and never stops expressing his thoughts about the administration whenever he has the chance to. Speaking at the public presentation of the autobiography of Justice Mustapha Akanbi, in Abuja yesterday Nov. 26^th, Obasanjo rubbished the National Assembly, referring to it as an Assembly of looters and thieves.

Isn’t it funny how we Nigerians love to do finger pointing while ignoring our own flaws? What is happening in Nigeria today is a legacy that has been left behind by past leaders and follow follow is a Nigerian thing. Corruption and looting is a pattern in Nigerian leadership so it is not surprising that he said that. Please read the rest of what he said after the cut if you are interested and in the meantime, remain happy and spread happiness around. Xoxo

"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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