Mr. Tambuwal said the executive arm, headed by Mr. Jonathan,
has failed to act on corruption cases revealed by the National Assembly.He
spoke while responding to questions on Monday after he presented a paper titled
the ‘role of the legislature in the fight against corruption in Nigeria’ at a
one day roundtable to mark the international anti-corruption day organised by
the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, in Abuja.
“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,” he said.
He also said the government has no business setting up any
administrative committee in a corruption case that is clear to all Nigerians,
in apparent reference to the committee set up by Mr. Jonathan to probe the N255
million car scandal involving the Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah. The
three-man presidential committee had since submitted its report to Mr.
Jonathan, with the president taking no action.
“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,”
Mr. Tambuwal said.
“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.”
While lamenting what he described as the selective nature of
prosecution of cases by the anti-corruption agencies, Mr. Tambuwal pledged the
support of the national Assembly in the fight against corruption.
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