Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of the House of
Representatives, has threatened to expose all those indicted in the N1 trillion
rail contract scam, irrespective of their social status. Dogara said this yesterday December 10th while
declaring open the ongoing investigative hearing into the railway scam that ran
into billions of US dollars from 2010- 2015.
“In line with the anti-corruption stance of the
present APC government and the Legislative Agenda of the House, this Ad-hoc
Committee must ensure that the billions of US dollars spent on the contracts
for rehabilitation and maintenance of rail tracks, construction of standard
gauges, bridges, procurement of locomotive wagons and coaches from 2010 - 2014,
answers to the value for money expectations of Nigerians.
There must be no sacred cows and the Ad-Hoc Committee
must not take prisoners by not only calling a spade a spade, but by also
exposing corruption in the process and all those who have misappropriated or
misapplied railway funds or assets. In line with our commitment to support the
present administration in the ongoing war against corruption, the Ad-Hoc
Committee must not fail to utilise its powers under Section 89 (d) of the 1999
Constitution, should any person fail or refuse to respond to its summons. In
such cases, referral should be made to the House to cause a bench warrant to be
issued against them so that such person(s) who are still in deep slumber may
know that change has come to Nigeria.
The constitution empowers us to compel the attendance
of any person or authority in Nigeria no matter how highly placed, which is a
very potent tool. I assure you this time around that no such person(s) will
have a president to run to for a cover or protection from appearing before you
to answer questions regarding allegations of corruption against him or her,” he
said
“We must note,
however, that this investigation is not a witch-hunt of any person. Indeed, we
have no scores to settle with anybody. The only scores we have to settle is
against corruption, inefficiency or waste in administration of funds belonging
to Nigerians. We are only performing our sacred constitutional duties,” he said
1 comment:
I sincerely hope Nigerians can see and know why most of them are suffering and also think thrice before they cast their votes for unscrupulous politicians. Will the Govt retrieve all money stolen from the culprits or all these investigations is for show.
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