Senate
President, Bukola Saraki, has described the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation as the engine room of corruption in the country.
Saraki also bemoaned the fact that perpetrators of illegal deals in the corporation have not been apprehended and put on trial.
The Senate
President said this while addressing the leadership of the Nigerian
Labour Congress led by its President, Ayuba Wabba, in his office, on
Thursday, July 23.
He said, “I
think we need the cooperation of our workers who know it all. They see
it happen and when you look at the anti-corruption agencies, with all
due respect, you will find out that 80 per cent of some of the cases are
cases at the state level.
“You hardly see
where people who are the real engine room – which is the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation – where most of these corruption cases on
oil are, being put on trial.”
“We in the 8th
Senate have said there will be zero tolerance for corruption. Corruption
is one issue slowing down development and some of the problems we are
tackling.
“Whether you
talk about our refineries not working, you talk of the issue of fuel
subsidy, you talk about the high cost of governance, everything you
talked about comes back to this issue of corruption and I think it is
time for all of us, those of us in the National Assembly, the Executive
and the workers to show serious commitment.
“This should not
be a headline-grabbing approach because at the end of the day, you are
workers, when you talk about oil theft, we have Nigerian workers at the
terminals who surely must know when this thing is going on.
“Everywhere that
there is corruption, some workers are there either participating or
observing. We now have a great opportunity to win the war against
corruption because we have a leadership led by President Muhammadu
Buhari that we believe has the political will to do the right thing”
“We are assuring
you that at the executive side, we have elected the President that will
do it well. I am making the commitment on behalf of the National
Assembly and myself that we are committed to fighting corruption.”
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