buhariPan Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere has criticized some members of the National Assembly over the alleged padding of the 2016 budget currently rocking the Green Chambers.
In a communiqué issued in Akure, Ondo State capital on yesterday, Afenifere wondered why some lawmakers despite the ongoing anti-corruption crusade of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government still engaged in corrupt activities.
According to the communiqué read by the group’s spokesman, Yinka Odumakin, “we are miffed that in the midst of anti-corruption going on, people still have the courage to be engaging in this kind of corrupt activities.
“This has reinforces our long-held view that treating the symptoms of corruption without dealing with it as a whole, we will not achieve much because if the incentive in town that people have to steal money no matter the corruption you are fighting, people will still continue to do this kind of thing; and this is what we have seen in this budget padding.
“It is like seeing pick-pockets who are operating where armed robbers were being shot. The imperative of this for us that Nigeria must restructure at this moment.
“We need a new model of governance that puts governance at the question of service, development and not personal pursuit which the present structure offers.”
