A senator representing Ondo South
senatorial district, Pastor Omoyele Omogunwa has urged his legislative members
to legalize corruption in Nigeria.
Omogunwa said this while making
his contribution to the debate on the 2017 budget during the senate plenary
today Wednesday January 25, 2017.
The lawmaker who spoke at the
upper legislative chamber, lamented that corruption was pervasive in the
country, argued that it should be “legalised”.
The senator who defected to APC
soon after the party’s candidate in the last gubernatorial election,
Rotimi
Akeredolu, won the race said; there was corruption in the judiciary, and even
within the anti-corruption agencies, adding that if corruption was legalised,
Nigerians who stole public funds would use them in building factories and
industries in the country, instead of having them stashed away abroad.
He added that the performance of the 2016 budget should be examined first before that of 2017 is determined.
The official Twitter handle of
the Senate also confirmed Omogunwa’s suggestion, writing: “Senator Omogunwa
notes that Budgets doesn’t have maximal impact due to corruption. He says
corruption shld be legalized/liberalized then.”
This is a very sensitive matter
as Nigeria is experiencing her worst economic moment since independence.
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