Pan Yoruba socio-
political group, Afenifere has
criticized some members of
the National Assembly over
the alleged padding of the
2016 budget currently
rocking the Green Chambers.
In a communiqué issued in
Akure, the Ondo State
capital, yesterday, Afenifere
wondered why some
lawmakers despite the
ongoing anti-corruption
crusade of the President
Muhammadu Buhari-led
government still engaged in
corrupt activities.
According to the communiqué
read by the group’s
spokesman, Yinka Odumakin,
“We are miffed that in the
midst of anti-corruption
going on, people still have
the courage to be engaging
in this kind of corrupt
activities.
“This has reinforces our
long-held view that treating
the symptoms of corruption
without dealing with it as a
whole, we will not achieve
much because if the incentive
in town that people have to
steal money no matter the
corruption you are fighting,
people will still continue to do
this kind of thing; and this is
what we have seen in this
budget padding.
“It is like seeing pick-
pockets who are operating
where armed robbers were
being shot. The imperative of
this for us that Nigeria must
restructure at this moment.
“We need a new model of
governance that puts
governance at the question
of service, development and
not personal pursuit which
the present structure
offers.”