The Chairman of the Presidential
Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), said on
Thursday he could not wait for the current Senate, which he described as the
worst since 1999, to go next year.
He faulted the lawmakers’
insistence on the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris’s personal
appearance before them.
According to Sagay, such move
smacked of personal vendetta against the IGP.
The PACAC chief, who said he was
not a fan of the current Senate, accused the red chamber of abdicating its
responsibilities by its refusal to pass the 2018 budget almost halfway into the
year.
He told the Nation Newspaper:
“You know I have never been impressed by this Senate. It’s probably the worst
we have ever had since the return to civilian rule. They are more concerned
about exercising vain authority and power than in actually doing anything
substantive for the country.
“These are people – the whole
Senate – who would adjourn sitting and go to the Code of Conduct Tribunal in
solidarity with their President. For everyday they go, the work of legislation
is suspended. And they owe a duty to this country to make the laws for the
order, peace and good government of Nigeria.
“Each time they abandon their
legislative duties, they’re in fact committing a breach of their obligation,
apart from the fact that doing that sort of thing is infantile.
“As if that was not enough, the
whole Senate packed themselves again to visit Dino Melaye in the hospital. How
rational is that? Why can’t they send a delegation of two or three people who
would report back? So, it’s like a showoff of power and intimidation. I don’t
think it’s really worthy of them to behave like that.”
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