PROFESSOR Itse Sagay, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, is the chairman of the Presidential Committee on Anti-Corruption and one of the country’s foremost experts in constitutional law. A human rights activist, Sagay has undoubtedly paid his dues in the struggles for egalitarian society. Sagay who was part of the pioneer law class of the former University of Ife, subsequently took to academics and rose to become the dean of the law faculty of his alma mater before transferring his service to the University of Benin. At the height of military rule in 1986 he was one of those who ran into trouble with the authorities of the University of Benin for supposedly teaching what he was not paid to teach; which was an axiom for his perceived inclination to the promotion of civil rights in the university campus.

In this interview, Sagay takes a swipe at the Senate for initiating the amendment of the law establishing the Code of Conduct Bureau and also faults the National Assembly for the controversy trailing the 2016 budget. He also berates Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State over his letter urging the Chinese government to rescind its decision of a $2 billion loan to Nigeria. Excerpts:

By Dapo Akinrefon

But what do you have to say to what Governor Ayodele Fayose has done in writing to the Chinese government not to grant Nigeria any loan?

I think Fayose has a problem. The way I see it is that, the man who is on the brink of destruction has no restraint about what he does. To start with, what is the business of a state governor about a loan that is being given to the federal government?

Is it right for him to take such a step?

He has no business. In fact on the contrary, it is when a state government wants to take a loan, that it will require the federal government to guarantee the loan. So, he has no business at all and I regard him as being on a journey to self destruction and I wish him luck. Let him continue to destroy himself with his mad impulses.

TANTUMERGO007:
fayose is far greater than awolowo

orobs93:
I don't blame fayose
He is even better Dan those making sense from his stupidity

TANTUMERGO007:
fayose is far greater than awolowo

emerged01:
There is no way Fayose will continue to run his mouth and not run into trouble

TANTUMERGO007:
fayose is far greater than awolowo

kutchs:
Sagay is even more stupid than I previously thought. His stupidity has made him not to know that as a Nigerian Fayose has a business with the affairs of his country, his being governor of a state doesn't take away anything from that. After all he isn't going to be governor for ever. When the likes of Amaechi and co wrote to the US last year asking her not to sell weapons to Nigeria nobody told them they have no business with that.

As a constitutional lawyer I expect him to know that, but he has been blinded by sycophancy.
It is you Sagay who is on the road to self destruction and not Fayose.

emerged01:
There is no way Fayose will continue to run his mouth and not run into trouble

TANTUMERGO007:
fayose is far greater than awolowo

YUSUPH1986:
fayose/ awolowo? U lack a sense of history. Couple with inherited diarrohoea of mouth from fayose himself

DaHrNn:


Do you even understand the word GREATER? Your words affirm some sense of cluelessness.