Executive arm more corrupt than legislature and judicial – ICPC Chairman
Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), Bolaji Owasanoye, says the executive arm of government in Nigeria is more corrupt than the judicial and legislative arm. According to Rasheedat Okoduwa, ICPC spokesperson, Owasanoye made the comment while delivering a lecture at the induction for new legislators in Abuja titled “The legislature and fight against graft and corruption”. Owasanoye described corruption as the enemy of development and good governance. He stated that Nigeria has the highest paid legislators representing the poorest people in the world, he said the national assembly budget had increased, over the years, for the same number of legislators without defensible legal or moral justification. He added that the public perception of legislators as being corrupt will be sustained unless the assembly makes its yearly budget public. “Corruption in the executive is far more than the legislature and judiciary combined.