The senate president, Bukola Saraki, has reacted to a letter from former President Olusegun Obasanjo, to Mr. Saraki and the speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, in which Mr. Obasanjo accused the National Assembly of corruption, greed, impunity and lawlessness.
Mr.
Obasanjo’s letter, published exclusively by Premium Times on Wednesday, said
most members of the 469-member National Assembly were receiving constituency
allowances without maintaining constituency offices as the law requires of
them.
The
former leader said he was distressed by the massive corruption and lawlessness
at the National Assembly and other arms and tiers of government.
In
Mr. Saraki’s statement, obtained from his media office on Thursday, the senate
president assured that the Senate under his leadership was committed to good
governance, transparency, accountability, due process and responsiveness to the
economic reality of our nation.
“It
is for this reason that the legislative chamber has introduced bold and
progressive reforms in the management of the finances of the National
Assembly,” he said.
He
also said he was canvassing making the National Assembly budget open to the
public.
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