The Speaker of the House of Reps, Yakubu Dogara, has expressed shock
over the wicked manner big thieves looted the nation’s treasury, saying
such “big men” now bury their loot under ground in farms.
He urged all Nigerians to support President Buhari’s war against corruption, to save our country.
He said: “If you look at the massive looting of the treasury,
actually, I have been in government for quite some time, I never, never
could have imagined the scale of corruption that we are witnessing,
where people took lots of money running into billions and buried them in
farms.
“As we speak, they are recovering monies from someone’s farm somewhere around Abuja.
It is very unfortunate, where people stole money just for the sake of
stealing. If you were the one who was in charge of fighting corruption,
you would have even been shocked by the scale of the problem.
“I guess part of the problem we have is that the scale of the problem
far outweighs the anticipation of the agencies. So, if care is not
taken in the process, we may not get things right. They will have to
keep their heads level to be able to be in charge of this fight and do
it effectively.”
He continued: “You will recall that the fight against corruption is
one of the cardinal promises that Mr President made before assumption of
office. He had cause to say that we have to kill corruption before
corruption kills us and I know he is committed to fighting corruption to
a stand still.
“The process of doing that has become a subject of concern to some
people. The EFCC is actually the agency, as we all know, that is in
charge of this fight and if you look at what it has done so far, there
is even a discussion as to whether they are proceeding in the right
direction and whether it is not time for us to sit down and do an
assessment of how the fight has been, in view of the fact that in the
last one year I do not think there has been any major conviction.
“And it has always been a case of this person has been arrested and
detained and some things have been done or he has been charged to court
and then the story ends there. Whether we will succeed in fighting
corruption, if we continue in this way, only God knows.
“If the end is just to arrest people, charge them to court and,
thereafter, nothing happens, no one is convicted; because conviction,
even if you are not jailed, has a way of deterring people. The fact that
you are carrying that negative appellation as a former convict has the
potential to deter people from corruption in the future.
“But if I am just arrested, charged to court and maybe some money
recovered from me and at the end of the day, nothing happens, a lot of
people may not be deterred in the future from engaging in corrupt
practices.”
Monday, 11 July 2016
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