Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, yesterday, accused the executive arm of government of paying lip service to the fight against corruption even as the African Development Bank (AfDB), says an estimated US2.6 trillion dollars gets stolen annually through high level corrupt practices in Africa.
Tambuwal, who was the guest speaker at the 2013 International Anti-Corruption Day, organized by the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, in Abuja yesterday, also alleged that the Economic & Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, was very corrupt, saying the anti-graft
body never accounted for huge sums of money it received from donor agencies.
EFCC
He said: “Let us start with the anti-corruption agencies themselves. I am happy that EFCC is here because they are also corrupt. Let us start by asking them what happens to grants they receive from donor agencies which are neither budgeted nor accounted for; that is corruption
“This is why we have asked the House Committee on EFCC to look into some of these issues and report back to the House.
“EFCC said it has started implementing the report on probe of the fuel subsidy regime. Let me say it here today that what EFCC said it is implementing is not the House report which exposed the enormous fraud in the system, but the one by Mr. Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede. We have done our job, go and do yours.
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