Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has launched fresh attacks on Nigerian lawmakers, describing them as “much worse” than all those who have gone to the First, Second and Third Republics
He labelled constituency projects by legislators either at the national or state level as daylight “unarmed robbery” and one devised by lawmakers “in their hunger for illegitimate money.”
Obasanjo said this in one of his recently released books, „Nigeria Past and Future: Contemplations on Nigeria’s History and Vision For Tomorrow.”
In chapter seven of the book Lawmakers at Federal and State Levels, Obasanjo recalls that twice, as a military leader and democratically elected president, he had to deal directly with Nigerian lawmakers at the national level—and he saw “no redeeming feature in them to build a Nigeria of our dream as projected in our constitution.”
Obasanjo said the bill that birthed the current leading anti-graft agency in the country, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), took a year and a half to pass through the National Assembly as it was “somewhat watered down in the form that it was passed.”
According to him, some lawmakers said that if they passed the bill as originally sent to them, most would go to jail after their term as lawmakers.
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