A group, Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, has described as a national embarrassment the lawmakers who followed wife of Senate President Bukola Saraki, Toyin, to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission’s office last week.
The wife of the Senate President was accompanied to the EFCC’s office in Abuja by 25 lawmakers.
According to the Executive Chairman of the CACOL, Debo Adeniran, that the lawmakers should abandon their constitutional duties to follow Mrs Saraki, who was being investigated for corruption charges by the anti-corruption agency, is the height of irresponsibility.
He likened the incident to what was witnessed during ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration, when a Peoples Democratic Party chieftain, Bode George, was accompanied by praise-singers, dressed in aso ebito court premises in solidarity with the accused each time he appeared in court to answer to corruption charges.
The CACOL boss accused the legislators of doing a job they were not elected to do. He added that the lawmakers’ action presupposed that they wanted to intimidate the EFCC in its task of tackling corruption.
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