Former minister of education, Oby
Ezekwesili, has berated Nigerian lawmakers for their “inability” to hold the
executive accountable.
Describing them as “lemons”, she
said neither the Senate President Bukola Saraki nor Yakubu Dogara has invested
in public trust.
In a series of tweets on Tuesday,
the former minister blamed the low public trust experienced in the country on
the quality of the lawmakers at the national assembly.
“Public trust was always pretty
low in our society cos of our checkered experience with military governments,”
she wrote.
“The reason we continue after
eighteen years of uninterrupted democracy to have low public trust in our
society is because of quality of legislature.
“If we ever manage to improve the
quality of those that constitute our legislature — national assembly —
@HouseNGR & @NGRSenate public trust rises.
“Terrible that neither speaker
@YakubuDogara nor senate president @BukolaSaraki have invested in building
public trust through legislature integrity.”
The former vice-president, World
Bank (Africa region), said it was tragic that “maybe a few citizens” take the
lawmakers serious on any of their hearings on scandals.
She said ordinarily, citizens
should hold their legislature in high regard “and therefore have high public
trust in government — but we don’t.”
“For as long as individual and
institutional integrity of national assembly remains poor in citizens’ rating,
executive scandals will soar. Sad.
“To build up our public trust, we
direly need a legislature — national assembly that is trusted by citizens to
hold executive accountable.
“When executive infractions that
our national assembly could have handled with public support keep piling up
scandal after scandal, it is tragic,” she added.
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Its so unfortunate they cant even speak on the fake fight against corruption been run by PMB and his allies. Birds of same feather
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