The Trade Union Congress has called on the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate and prosecute
companies, individuals and agencies involved in the House of
Representatives N10bn loan scandal.
In a statement on Sunday by TUC’s President General, Peter Esele, and its Secretary General, Chief John Kolawole, the congress said the probe was necessary to unravel those behind the scene in the loan scam.
The statement said, “TUC therefore demands that companies or individuals involved in acts that portray the House of Representatives in bad light in the N10bn loan scandal must be investigated and prosecuted forthwith by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
“Now we hear that the same leadership is embroiled in a scandalous N10bn debt caused by their huge appetite for free money when they have failed woefully in the discharge of their constitutionally-ascribed roles of making laws that will better our society.”
The congress also maintained that the process of law making in Nigeria was the most expensive saying the process would not help the country’s collective growth and development.
It, therefore, demanded that the salaries and other financial emoluments of members of the National Assembly be reviewed in line with current economic situations in the country.
It also urged President Goodluck Jonathan to rise above political alienation and face squarely the ugly issues that were anchored on corruption in the country’s systems as well as the high cost of running the National Assembly.
It said that there was the urgent need to reduce the allowances of the lawmakers in the next dispensation.
TUC also condemned the recent ammendment from the Senate barring newly-elected senators from holding any leadership position, saying the pronouncement was retrogressive and incapable of meeting the yearnings of Nigerians.
It said, “The desires of Nigerians are to have a more vibrant and knowledge based Senate as against the out going members that could pass only 12 laws in four years. It is our position that any member of the Senate should be allowed to aspire to any leadership position in the interest of fair play and democracy.
The congress said, “Or are we reinventing the military era when politicians and other well-meaning Nigerians were barred from expressing their constitutionally-ascribed rights?”
By Simon Utebor Courtesy Of: Punch
In a statement on Sunday by TUC’s President General, Peter Esele, and its Secretary General, Chief John Kolawole, the congress said the probe was necessary to unravel those behind the scene in the loan scam.
The statement said, “TUC therefore demands that companies or individuals involved in acts that portray the House of Representatives in bad light in the N10bn loan scandal must be investigated and prosecuted forthwith by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
“Now we hear that the same leadership is embroiled in a scandalous N10bn debt caused by their huge appetite for free money when they have failed woefully in the discharge of their constitutionally-ascribed roles of making laws that will better our society.”
The congress also maintained that the process of law making in Nigeria was the most expensive saying the process would not help the country’s collective growth and development.
It, therefore, demanded that the salaries and other financial emoluments of members of the National Assembly be reviewed in line with current economic situations in the country.
It also urged President Goodluck Jonathan to rise above political alienation and face squarely the ugly issues that were anchored on corruption in the country’s systems as well as the high cost of running the National Assembly.
It said that there was the urgent need to reduce the allowances of the lawmakers in the next dispensation.
TUC also condemned the recent ammendment from the Senate barring newly-elected senators from holding any leadership position, saying the pronouncement was retrogressive and incapable of meeting the yearnings of Nigerians.
It said, “The desires of Nigerians are to have a more vibrant and knowledge based Senate as against the out going members that could pass only 12 laws in four years. It is our position that any member of the Senate should be allowed to aspire to any leadership position in the interest of fair play and democracy.
The congress said, “Or are we reinventing the military era when politicians and other well-meaning Nigerians were barred from expressing their constitutionally-ascribed rights?”
By Simon Utebor Courtesy Of: Punch
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