We’re all guilty of corruption—Saraki

By Odunewu Segun

 Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki has said all political office holders since 1999 should be blamed for the present predicaments of the country.

According to him, all public office holders in the country since 1999 were guilty of the mistakes of the past that led the country to its present political and economic mes.

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Reacting against the letter written by former President Olusegun Obasanjo alleging that the national Assembly is corrupt, Saraki insisted that it was wrong for anybody to hold an individual or group of people solely responsible for the mess of the past. “We have all been here since 1999 up to the recent past when things were not done right; we are all part of it. I was there, you were there, every other political office holder in different capacities was there as well.”

The Senate President stressed that blaming the woes afflicting the country now on some individuals or an institution still remains a wrong approach, adding that what is required of all stakeholders is collective participation for the good of all Nigerians.

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He however promised that details of the N115bn National Assembly budget on a section-by-section basis would be made public this year as against the practice of one item of the past.