The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, has said corruption in the executive is far more than that of the legislature and judiciary combined.

He said this was because the executive spends a far bigger chunk of the money appropriated.

The anti-corruption agency boss also said that the public perception of the National Assembly members as being corrupt would not go away until the legislature throw open its yearly budget to the public.

The Spokesperson for the Commission, Mrs. Rasheedat A. Okoduwa, quoted Professor Owasanoye as stating this during a lecture at the 9th National Assembly induction programme for new legislators, in Abuja.
In the lecture titled ‘’The Legislature and Fight against Graft and Corruption’’, the ICPC boss who spoke on the alleged huge allowances of the National Assembly members and the controversial issue of constituency projects, said that the public perception of legislators as being corrupt would not go away until the National Assembly throws open its yearly budget to the public.

He stressed that the execution of the National Assembly budget, which has grown exponentially from N6.9 billion in 1999 to about N139 billion in 2018 for the same number of legislators has remained shrouded in secrecy, thereby giving room for allegations of abuse and misappropriation of the funds.

According to him, “It is believed that we have the highest paid legislators representing the poorest people in the world. Since 1999, NASS budget has increased without defensible legal or moral justification. Without increase in membership and addition of only one or two agencies, NASS budget grew from N6.9 billion 1999 to N139 billion in 2018.

"The problem is that it is just a single line item. The public is hardly told the breakdown and how it is used. The criticisms will disappear if we are told how it is spent.”

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/04/08/corruption-in-executive-far-more-than-legislature-judiciary-combined-says-icpc-chairman/%3famp

Hehehehe.
Only Buhari's zombies and Islamic fanatics keep denying this fact.
When osama buhari kept bad-mouthing national assembly as per their huge allowances etc,Saraki challenged him to publish the salaries and allowances of his ministers,did you hear pim again?

True, but Buhari is a hypocrite. He will never probe his executive. All those millions for cutting hair and billions for aso rock clinic where do they all go?

Loud it please.

The biggest corruption is promising "change" and increasing hardship and suffering

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I disagree, Sir. Legislature tops the list. It's damn glaring and Apparent!

When wind blows, fowl jash go open.....they are all looking for ways to give onnoghen soft landing... Because a pot can never call a kettle black...they should jail onnoghen at their own peril, the attrocities committed by the executive is enough to give one heart attack ...... This country is a mess

Defenders of the saint thief will soon come to defend him.

BennyDon:
I disagree, Sir. Legislature tops the list. It's damn glaring and Apparent!

So you know more than the ICPC boss?

You dun mean it?

BennyDon:
I disagree, Sir. Legislature tops the list. It's damn glaring and Apparent!

Receiving salary and allowance is not corruption.

ICPC dey like that agency of goverment wen dey pack shit for night...useless.

Corruption exist even in primary school. Ask the class prefects, they will tell you better

definitely.The corruption going on in this administration especially the executives is mind blowing.Check my siggy for your chinese yuan. Alipay and wechat fund availab

So ICPC still exists? Very redundant commission. ICPC and EFCC; Two agencies doing same job.

Corruption is a way of life in Nigeria.

It even exists in the smallest unit of the society which is the family.

If you doubt me try this experiment;


Get a government job.
Depend on your 140k salary.
Don't embezzle money, don't steal money!

Your 8 year old daughter will tell you;

"Papa you dey fucck up"

Dis country ehn hmmmmm

Just survive anyhow you can because our so called leaders don't care about us, so if u can find way out of dis country just do but if not na surviving skills remain o

Just survive

BennyDon:
I disagree, Sir. Legislature tops the list. It's damn glaring and Apparent!

Zombified blind supporter! So you know more than the ICPC boss? You are one of the problems of this country

Absolutely correct...The corruption in the Executive is teice that of the Legislative and Judiciary combined,that is why some of us are not deceived when Executive crooks like the APC-run Government deceive themselves they are ridding the Judiciary and Legislative of "corruption",meanwhile it is mere political beef.

Yet some APC twiddles who cant tell their right from left keeps arguing that.

dokyOloye:
Hehehehe.
Only Buhari's zombies and Islamic fanatics don't know this fact.
When osama buhari kept bad-mouthing national assembly as per their huge allowances etc,Saraki challenged him to publish the salaries and allowances of his ministers,did you hear pim again?

The lost of the election has mad several people develop psychiatric disorders including this poster.

RichBoy247:


The lost of the election has mad several people develop psychiatric disorders including this poster.

The "loss", not lost.
Odenni

That's not true ma. I blame the mods for not vetting the post properly before putting it here with a misleading title. This man never said the coreuption in the executive is far more than that of the legislature and judiciary combined. This is even nor logically right cos the executive gets a far lower budgetary allocation than the legislature and the budgeary spend on line items are well spelt out even though monies allocated to some items may be questionable high. On the other hand,the budgetary allocation of the legislature is shrouded in utmost secrecy and attempts has been made by several human rights groups from 1999 to 2018 to make them reveal this but all has been futile. Till date, nobody (including the president and some members of the executive ) knows exactly how much a senator and a house of reps member earns per month. Our legislators are the most expensive in the world. It's just a sad country we live in!

Ziggylady:


Absolutely correct...The corruption in the Executive is teice that of the Legislative and Judiciary combined,that is why some of us are not deceived when Executive crooks like the APC-run Government deceive themselves they are ridding the Judiciary and Legislative of "corruption",meanwhile it is mere political beef.

Yet some APC twiddles who cant tell their right from left keeps arguing that.

What is the work of ICPC ? To complain about corruption ??!!!!

smeag0l:
That's not true ma. I blame the mods for not vetting the post properly before putting it here with a misleading title. This man never said the coreuption in the executive is far more than that of the legislature and judiciary combined. This is even nor logically right cos the executive gets a far lower budgetary allocation than the legislature and the budgeary spend on line items are well spelt out even though monies allocated to some items may be questionable high. On the other hand,the budgetary allocation of the legislature is shrouded in utmost secrecy and attempts has been made by several human rights groups from 1999 to 2018 to make them reveal this but all has been futile. Till date, nobody (including the president and some members of the executive ) knows exactly how much a senator and a house of reps member earns per month. Our legislators are the most expensive in the world. It's just a sad country we live in!

I worked and stayed in Abuja for some years before my recent posting to Lagos,threfore i can tell you for free that the Executive is as neck-deep in corruption as the Legistlative and Judiaciary perheps even more considering their scope and direct impact to life if the average man on the street..

Therefore singling the Legislative or Judiaciary out because of parochial interests while the Executive run wild like she has been doing is the bane of this country...

I am not defending the Legislature and Judiciary to be honest,but i feel that a holistic approach to the "corrupt fight" will yield better positive result...not the circus we have been saddled with for eons.

Well, even though the executive profited a lot from the excess crude account from 2003 to 2015 because the account has no books but the legislature is still the most corrupt. Imagine that majorit of the bills Buhari rejected last month were because they were adding 1% and 2% of tax payers money as funds to foot those bills when there are ministries and parastatals that already do same jobs. Add this to their constituency allowance which is meant for projects in their constituency but which are not eexcited. We don't even know how much their constituency allowances are to start with.There's no way the executive can be more corrupt than the legislature even under any president we've had.

Ziggylady:


I worked and stayed in Abuja for some years before my recent posting to Lagos,threfore i can tell you for free that the Executive is as neck-deep in corruption as the Legistlative and Judiaciary perheps even more considering their scope and direct impact to life if the average man on the street..

Therefore singling the Legislative or Judiaciary out because of parochial interests while the Executive run wild like she has been doing is the bane of this country...

I am not defending the Legislature and Judiciary to be honest,but i feel that a holistic approach to the "corrupt fight" will yield better positive result...not the circus we have been saddled with for eons.

BennyDon:
I disagree, Sir. Legislature tops the list. It's damn glaring and Apparent!

For every one legistlative curruption u mention i will list five executives

dokyOloye:
Hehehehe.
Only Buhari's zombies and Islamic fanatics keep denying this fact.
When osama buhari kept bad-mouthing national assembly as per their huge allowances etc,Saraki challenged him to publish the salaries and allowances of his ministers,did you hear pim again?

hahahahahahahahahaha,
I'm not sure you read the undiluted message to legislootors,
although the headline is different from the message,
i may not likely blame you.