₦airaland Forum

The Speaker of the Akwa Ibom state House of Assembly, Barr. Onofiok Luke, has said that failure to fulfill promises made during campaigns by politicians and political parties is also corruption.

He said this on Tuesday during the Akwa Ibom state anti-corruption summit calling on anti-corruption agencies in the country to consider prosecuting politicians who get to public offices and abandon their promises to the masses.

“Every time we talk about corruption, we talk only in terms of the financials. But I think corrupt practices transcend this. If a political party goes to election and makes promises that they know they can’t fulfill, that is corruption.

Except in circumstances where we cannot genuinely deliver on promises because of circumstances, when we make electoral promises as politicians, including myself, and refuse to deliver on those promises, then we should be prosecuted for corruption”, the Speaker said.

He said it was dishonest for politicians to make lofty promises, get people to elect them on the basis of these promises, and then get to office and abandon the promises they made. He called on the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to persecute those found wanting in this regard.

On the occasion which was hosted by Governor Udom Emmanuel ------ Read more and see pictures of the event @ http://www.thekillerpunch.com/failed-campaign-promises-also-corruption-akwa-ibom-speaker/

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u sef corruption ...

And for your mind mr. Speaker you never promise and failed abi? If yes you are also corrupt, and if no you are lying that is corruption also .

promise and fail is the worst part of corruption

Another illiterate misrepresenting the people that elected him.

ISpiksDaTroof:
Another illiterate misrepresenting the people that elected him.

You are a great fool for calling my speaker an illiterate. For information sake, he is a trained lawyer, stop fooling yourself on social media.

yarimo:
And for your mind mr. Speaker you never promise and failed abi? If yes you are also corrupt, and if no you are lying that is corruption also .

dull brain, did u read the part he said "including myself "?

ChiefWailer:
dull brain, did u read the part he said "including myself "?

silly dullard. did he ever promise and failed or not ?