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Senator Shehu Sani (Kaduna Central Senatorial District, APC) has said President Buhari’s approach to fighting corruption at both the legislature and executive arms of government is biased.
TheNewsGuru.com reports that Sani was reacting at the floor of the house to the president’s reaction on the Ad-hoc Committee’s report on Humanitarian crises in the Northeast ( which he also chairs). He accused the President of favouring members of the executive in cases of corruption while he frowns with the legislature at any slightest undoing.
Sani said the President’s position, to exonerating the SGF, Babachir Lawal of any wrongdoing in the award of contract in IDPs to his company, Rholavision Engineering Services Limited, was totally unacceptable.
He said it amounts to using ‘insecticide’ when it comes to fighting corruption in the National Assembly and Judiciary, while using a ‘deodorant’, when it comes to fighting corruption at the Executive arm
In his words: “Mr. President, Distinguished Colleagues, I rise through Order 43 of Senate Rules and I want to submit that President Buhari’s reaction on SGF shows the use of insecticides when fighting corruption at the legislative arm, while he uses deodorant at the Executive arm.”
Debunking claims that SGF was not given fair hearing before calling for his resignation in report, Sani explained that a public hearing was held, but the SGF did not honour the invitation which was given to him.
He also averred that copies of the report was signed by all the members of the Committee, while expressing shock at the version without his name which Mr. President relied on.
“Distinguished Colleagues, you realize that the copy which was read to us did not carry my name even as the Committee Chairman and I wonder where it emanated from,” he asked.
TheNewsGuru.com He insisted that the Committee did a thorough review of activities of government officials involving coordination of IDPs, adding that SGF remained indicted.