Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has threatened
to expose all those, irrespective of their social stand, that are
indicted in the N1 trillion rail contract scam. Dogara said this
yesterday December 10th while declaring open the ongoing investigative
hearing into the railway scam that ran into billions of US dollars from
2010- 2015.
“In line with the anti-corruption stance of the present APC government
and the Legislative Agenda of the House, this Ad-hoc Committee must
ensure that the billions of US dollars spent on the contracts for
rehabilitation and maintenance of rail tracks, construction of standard
gauges, bridges, procurement of locomotive wagons and coaches from 2010 -
2014, answers to the value for money expectations of Nigerians. There
must be no sacred cows and the Ad-Hoc Committee must not take prisoners
by not only calling a spade a spade, but by also exposing corruption in
the process and all those who have misappropriated or misapplied railway
funds or assets. In line with our commitment to support the present
administration in the ongoing war against corruption, the Ad-Hoc
Committee must not fail to utilise its powers under Section 89 (d) of
the 1999 Constitution, should any person fail or refuse to respond to
its summons. In such cases, referral should be made to the House to
cause a bench warrant to be issued against them so that such person(s)
who are still in deep slumber may know that change has come to Nigeria.
The constitution empowers us to compel the attendance of any person or
authority in Nigeria no matter how highly placed, which is a very potent
tool. I assure you this time around that no such person(s) will have a
president to run to for a cover or protection from appearing before you
to answer questions regarding allegations of corruption against him or
her,” he said
He declared that the probe is in no way a witch hunt direct
“We must note, however, that this investigation is not a witch-hunt of
any person. Indeed, we have no scores to settle with anybody. The only
scores we have to settle is against corruption, inefficiency or waste in
administration of funds belonging to Nigerians. We are only performing
our sacred constitutional duties,” he said
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