YES, the truth has always been with us that the Nigerian legislature is a den of robbers. From the beginning of this democratic set-up in 1999, till the date of this 8th National Assembly, it is true that corruption of monumental dimension has become recognizable symbol of the Legislature.
There are continuous linkages of bribe-demanding and taking, all in the name of over-sight functions, from the National Assembly to the outer world – this is a statement of truth. I did not say statement of fact, knowing fully that what the law needs to convict is fact and not truth.
We can reel out a few of these hard truths to buttress this assertion. In the beginning of this Republic while President Olusegun Obasanjo presided and Salisu Buhari honourably presided at the House of Representatives, there was a sudden appearance of Five Hundred Million Naira placed close to the Mace on the…
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