Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption
(PACAC), Prof. Itse Sagay, has described the bill seeking to grant
amnesty to looters in the House of Representatives as disgraceful.
In a statement on Wednesday, Sagay said the sponsor of the bill, Mr. Linus Okorie should be punished.
He said: “Now what shall we do with Linus Okorie? I propose that the
House of Representatives should regard Linus’s bill to be so impertinent
and scandalous as to earn him a suspension from the House, for the rest
of the 8th session, i.e., until July 2019. That should serve notice
that Nigeria will no longer tolerate such brazen impunity and corruption
or its promotion thereof.”
Sagay insisted that Okorie was promoting corruption through the bill.
“That a Nigerian legislator (a lawmaker) can have the effrontery to
promote a bill which if enacted into law, will enable looters of our
treasury and national patrimony to keep the loot, if only they can
acknowledge it as looted, provided they undertake to spend it in
Nigeria, is breathtaking.
“In summary, what Mr. Okorie is encouraging is free plundering of
state funds without consequences. Simply put, it is the legitimating of
treasury plundering. It is clear that if such a bill becomes law, the
anti-corruption war is doomed.
“How do we punish this man for his total lack of morality, and his
heedless, headlong promotion of looting without adverse consequences? I
think people who come up with such shocking assaults on our common
morality and sense of decency deserve a sharp rebuke coupled with
sanctions,” he added.
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