Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, on Wednesday, lambasted the Nigerian government for her inefficiency in the fight against corruption in the country, saying many persons ought to be in jail if the system was ideally stamped and being manipulated.
Soyinka pointed out that corruption cases involving some state governors over whom much satisfactory evidence had already been pooled suddenly were shoved beneath the carpet without any substantial reason.
This was mentioned by the playwright on an African Independent Television’s programme, Kakaaki, adding that the system had been so corrupted and bottlenecked that cases were stretched out into silence by variant sorts of technicalities.
“There are instances where the prosecution had reached a height where evidence had been given on governors who had been stealing and depositing in bits and pieces so as not to flout a certain regulation. I mean cases have reached that point then all of a sudden, silence.
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“We no longer can clearly ascertain from right and left The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, which I backed solidly ever since the days of Nuhu Ribadu, in all kinds of ways.”
When asked whether the National Assembly, dominated by the All Progressives Congress, was not putting enough pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari, he said that NASS had to put in a good shift of work in its relationship with the President.
However, Soyinka said the desire of some lawmakers for committee positions “where I think all the goodies are shared” has made them compromise.
He added, that it is the duty of the constituency to remind them of these derelictions, these failures to come up to scratch as expected when they come round next for elections.
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January 27, 2021
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