The Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal,
Monday, accused the Executive arm of
government in Nigeria of paying lip service
to the fight against corruption.
Tambuwal who was speaking at the 2013
International anti-corruption day organized
by the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, in
Abuja, siad the Economic and Financial
Corrupt Practices Commission (EFCC)
officials are corrupt.
He said “I am happy that EFCC is here
because they are also corrupt. Let us start
by asking them what happens to grants they
receive from donor agencies which are
neither budgeted nor accounted for? That is
corruption.”
“This is why we have asked the House
Committee of EFCC to look into some of
these issues and report back to the House.
He added, “EFCC said it has started
implementing the report on probe of the fuel
subsidy regime. Let me say it here today
that what EFCC said it is implementing is not
the House report which exposed the
enormous fraud in the system, but the one
by Mr. Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede. We have
done our job, go and do yours.”
Tmabuwal further questioned the outcomes
of other probes embarked upon by the
National assembly that are yet to be
implemented even in the Executive arm of
government.
“What has happened to all the exposed
corruption cases? The Pension Scam, recent
and obvious fraud in the Aviation sector,
that of the Security and Exchange
Commission, SEC, where trillions of Naira
from private investors were suspected to
have been mismanaged. When we
commenced investigation into the matter,
what became of paramount importance to
the EFCC was allegation that one of our
members collected money as estacode to
travel but failed to do so.
The Speaker continued, “Our members were
immediately rushed to court for prosecution,
meanwhile, the top government officer that
was found culpable in the main fraud for
which the National Assembly called for
public hearing, nothing has happened to her
till date.”
He went on to speak about the Oduahgate
scandal and Arunma Oteh, “I cannot hear or
read anywhere that she was invited by the
EFCC or that any member of SEC was even
invited. We at the National Assembly, for
the sake of probity and accountability,
agreed that budgetary allocation to the
Commission should be suspended, only for
us to hear that the Executive found a leeway
of funding the agency. We are currently
investigating that.”
“Coming to what happened in the Aviation
industry recently, do we need an angel to
report to EFCC that something happened
there?”
He said theFederal Executive Council, FEC,
“which is not even known to the law, should
not be used as a forum for approving and
clearing contracts.”

Source: http://newswirengr.com/2013/12/09/president-jonathan-supports-corruption-house-speaker-tambuwal/