He posted it on Tuesday via Twitter
in response to criticisms by the speaker of Mr. Jonathan’s anti-corruption effort.
Mr. Tambuwal has recently presented
a paper titled the ‘Role of the legislature in the fight against corruption
in Nigeria’ at a one day roundtable to mark the international
anti-corruption day organised by the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, in Abuja. He
attacked the officials stating the following:
“Take the subsidy probe, the
pension, the SEC probe and recently the bullet proof car cases. After the House
of Representatives did a diligent job by probing and exposing the cases, you
now see something else when it comes to prosecution. In some cases, you have
the government setting up new committees to duplicate the job already done by
the parliament. Take the bullet proof cars case, the NSA, with all the security
challenges confronting the country, should not be burdened with a job that can
best be handled by the anti-corruption agencies.”
Responding to this statement, Mr.
Abati blasted Mr. Tambuwal in a series of tweets, noting that the latter should
focus more on the efforts of the administration in fighting corruption, and
comment on what he knows.
"The administration is not
going to fight corruption on the basis of mere speculation, or the bad politics
being played by some people. I think it is unfortunate that a man that is
occupying such a high office is talking about body language."
According to the presidential
spokesperson, Mr. Tambuwal should make the effort to know that government is
investigating various matters and working on them in accordance with due
process.
He also added that President
Jonathan would not condone any act of proven corruption.
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