After Blasting Jonathan, Obasanjo Turns To Lawmakers, Calls Them "Thieves" | Read

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Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo seems to be done with blasting President Goodluck Jonathan so he has moved on to the Lawmakers in the National Assembly.

Speaking at the same book launch occasion where the Oba Akiolu of Lagos said PDP will not rule Lagos in the coming elections, Obasanjo called the Nigerian lawmakers "thieves and looters".

“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," ha said.

“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,” he added.

Obasanjo went further to say that the Goodluck Jonathan’s administration has upped Nigeria’s corruption level through the huge sums of money it has been paying to the National Assembly to stop investigating its corrupt acts.

“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.”

In his final words, the former president said: 

"With a largely corrupt legislature, Nigeria is doomed."