A Lagos-based legal practitioner, Mr. Liborous Oshomah, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to investigate those responsible for the ongoing budget switch in the National Assembly.
Speaking to The Guardian yesterday in Lagos, Oshomah stated that the budget switch has become a national embarrassment, saying that the matter should not be swept under the carpet by the Presidency.
On reason while the budget crisis should be investigated, Oshomah said: “If a document as important as the budget was altered and there is no proper and current investigation as what transpired and people brought to book, it really means that we are not serious with fighting corruption; it means we are just mounting anti-corruption and window dressing anti-corruption fight, because this is a part of corruption of need that encourages corruption of greed. If you do this and go free because you are in government, tomorrow you will do a bigger one, thinking you will still go free.
“I think it should be properly and thoroughly investigated, irrespective of who is involved. We are talking of a forged document; it is like somebody forging, or altering a letter sent by the President to the National Assembly without the consent of the President. Except the President is aware of all of these and decided to do things through the back door; that is when they can sweep the matter under the carpet.”
Oshomah stated that the budget switch might have been a result of the less effort put in the preparation of the 2016 budget.
Guardian
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