Lawmakers Who Accompanied Saraki’s Wife To EFCC’s Office Are Irresponsible – Group

Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL), a civil group has condemned the action of some lawmakers who followed the senate president’s wife to the office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)

Toyin Saraki was summoned by the EFCC for questioning a week ago for questioning and was said to have been accompanied by 25 lawmakers.

The Punch reports that the group frowned at the action of the lawmakers and labelled it a national embarrassment.

Debo Adeniran, the executive chairman of CACOL described the lawmaker’s move to abandon their duties to follow the senate president’s wife to a meeting with the anti-graft agency was the height of irresponsibility.

“These national lawmakers and supposed representatives of the Nigerian people reportedly accompanied Mrs. Saraki, who had been invited by the anti-corruption agency to come and answer to an allegation of corrupt practice, in a show of solidarity with the accused. We are particularly disturbed and miffed at what has been termed not only a show of shame and gross irresponsibility but a clear anti-thesis of what their primary constitutional duty is.

“One cannot but wonder how far President (Muhammadu) Buhari would be able to go in his avowed war against corruption in this country, if the very lawmakers who are expected to give him the needed support through the provision of enabling legal framework with which to successfully prosecute the war, are openly, though tacitly, fraternising with corruption by turning themselves into bodyguards of a suspected corruption criminal.”

He said the action of the lawmakers was to intimidate the EFCC and disrupt their work. He likened to the scenario that happened during the administration of Olusegun Obasanjo when Bode George was accompanied by praise singers each time he appeared in corrupt for corruption charges.

Adeniran further noted that it was obvious that the plans of some lawmakers in the national assembly was to make the fight against corruption difficult

Meanwhile, amidst investigation from EFCC, Toyin Saraki , showed concern for women, especially pregnant women during anti-natal and post-natal care by medical practitioners in the country.