A Lagos-based radical lawyer and rights crusader, Yemi Omodele has insisted that the Nigerian senate remains a gathering of fraudsters who have the intention of perpetrating fraud to any point.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with our correspondent at his Ikeja office, while reacting to the recent action of the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), who had dragged the upper legislative chamber to the United Nations (UN), for attempting to amend the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) Act at a time when its president, Senator Bukola Saraki, is facing corruption charges before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), the legal luminary said, “You see, I have always been saying it that politicians are advanced thieves. What happened is that the senators at the National Assembly do not respect themselves.

“It is like they want to use the offices they occupy to subvert justice, which is very unfair. They should have waited so that the senate president or the senator facing the criminal charge or allegation faces it until the court arrives at a decision.

“Nobody was there when the said crime was being committed, those people assisting him to amend the law are questionable and their hands are soiled and at this moment, I call on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the ICPC, the Code of Conduct Tribunal to make sure that the senator that proposed that bill is properly investigated with the intention of getting him prosecuted because that means he is a facilitator of corrupt act in Nigeria, he remains an agent of corruption.

“If they look into his record very well, they will discover that he is an international corrupt officer. The amendment they are proposing to carry out is contrary to the provisions of the 1999 constitution as amended.

“The Code of Conduct Bureau is an act of the national assembly; it is an act established by the constitution. Are they amending the constitution alongside with that law or that act or are they amending the act without amending the constitution? Two wrongs cannot make a right.

“With due respect to the senators, I am of the strong contention that the senators need what I call legislative tutorial so that they could be well tutored on what to do so that they will not just wake up one morning and say they want to amend the law or constitution as the case may be.

“The aim of that intended amendment is to cover up the evil deed of their godfather. It is bound to fail and the attitude of the senators is an international, local, judicial and constitutional fraud.

“They should put on their thinking caps. The senate remains a gathering of fraudsters with an intention to perpetrate fraud of the highest order.”

This is nothing but the truth

Na today u know that one.
But the right should say 'NASS is a gathering of fraudster'(members of house of representative included)