* Says senators standing trial for corruption shouldn’t be elected

Foremost civil rights group in Nigeria, the Campaign for Democracy (CD), has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices And Other Related Offences Commission (ICOC) to beam their searchlights on the National Assembly members at both the upper and the lower legislative chambers.

The CD, in a statement by its Secretary General, Pastor Ifeanyi Odili, and made available to journalists in Abuja on Saturday, specifically asked the anti-graft agencies to thoroughly probe the alleged bribery scandal involving a ranking senator and 70 newly elected senators for the 10th Senate.

The media had, last week, reported a meeting between a senator and elected senators when the sum of $10,000 was allegedly shared to each of the 70 senators.

The CD said: “We have it through our impeccable source that some ranking senators have started using their ill-gotten wealth to woe the returning senators and the new members who have just received their certificates of return from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) last week with dollars and other hard currencies in order to win their votes when electing principal officers of the National Assembly.

“If we allow these politicians to use money to induce the newly elected members of the 10th National Assembly, the nation will not really get it right again.

“We are afraid that such practice could plunge the nation into another round of quagmire and the leadership of the National Assembly will not be able to join hands with the Executive to fight corruption headlong since they are products of corruption. It takes a corrupt senator to lobby positions with money.

“We have reliably gathered that aspirants for the position of the Senate Presidency have started reaching out to both returning and newly elected senators with huge amount of hard currencies with a view to getting their votes on assumption of office come June 2023.

“The EFCC and the ICPC should, as a matter of urgency, swing into action and probe the disturbing phenomenon to save our nascent democracy.

“The anti-graft agencies must also ensure that no senator that is facing corruption charges or have pending cases in court is allowed to take a sensitive position in the 10th Senate.

“They must all be thoroughly checked and cleared before they are allowed to contest any of the sensitive positions, most importantly, that of the Senate President.

“Most worrisome, some of the senators are still having cases at the courts ranging from money laundering and other corruption cases.

“This, we are poised to resist, if we must rid Nigeria of corruption which has become very endemic in our body system. We want senators whose track records at the Senate are unblemished.”

The civil rights group wondered “why the aspirant who is already giving out dollars failed to queue behind the zoning arrangements which will give room for equity, fairness and Justice”.

Drawing from the above, the CD said: “The anti-graft agencies must live up to people’s expectations by moving in and foreclose any possibility of turning the 10th Senate to den of corruption.

“It is critical to note that the Senate Presidency and other sensitive positions are not for sale if we want the nation to come out of its economic doldrum, stagnation or depression.”

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2023/03/25/senate-presidency-probe-alleged-10000-bribe-scandal-in-nassembly-cd-tells-efcc-icpc/

Nigeria My Country

N'assembly.......Haven of Rogues.

Go to COURT.......

Lol cash out don start already for some people...

Dear Uzor Kalu,

South East is not yet ripe for the office of the senate president let's keep building bridges and flyovers by 2040 we might be ripe for office of the senate president, The bridge will be long enough.

We must not allow our emotions to get the better part of us, Besides nobody should use religion to contest for office of senate president Nothing is wrong with muslim senate president , Religion shouldn't be a factor in choosing the leader of the senate .

History beckons make we no sit on fence abeg , A muslim senate president from the North will pave way for an Igbo senate president in the next 8 years.

Bola Tinubu after saying it is his turn to be president went on to bribe APC delegates $50,000 each to vote for him, so I am not surprised Orji Kalu that also said it is his turn to be senate president is also bribing senators with $10,000 to vote for him.

For dream

I suspect yekini amoda ogunlere sponsoring a candidate

Nah which can corntree b dis

Obidients will soon rush inside thread to cry for stolen mandate.
Mandate bandits one hijack mandate from real owner
When everywhere is silent, just know that obidients are busy manufacturing one fake news somewhere

They will soon release a new hit, this time, they will feature President Putin disguise as a stripper to talk to Tinubu disguised as a hunter.

A Country. Mmm

Jokers 🃏

Criminals all over the place.

It's the way corruption starts.
Na by force to attain NO 3 CITIZEN ?

God save Nigeria. These people want to make the next government the most corrupt in Nigerian history.

Na Dem dem the matter no go reach 24hrs.

Useless people

See figures abeg

Thank you, that is what they call structure. May God help us.

Africblogng:
We need not be told if not that the System is rotten. Corruption is what they call Structure in electoral System. And they are very much okay with it

This is the structure they claim to have. A structure built upon corruption and violence. A structure where the masses don't matter to them. A structure of themselves, by themselves and for themselves.

Things fall apart when the center cannot hold........

Some of the beneficiaries are here, they're the numbers promoting tribal sentiment here, they support criminals and exalt wicked corrupt politicians, them plenty for here, na dem.

Nigerians are just corrupt people..

I laugh at those that think the newly elected people would be any diff...