Obiano Carefully Making Moves To Runaway From Prosecution After Tenure
…sends state anti graft bill to assembly.
…as Speaker plots to get the bill passed secretly.
AIF Media, one of the leading Anambra polictical facebook platform managed by a political analyst, Mr Eneh Victor has authoritatively gathered that gov Obiano whose tenure will end by March 17, 2022 is making a secret move to perfect laws that will protect him from being prosecuted by the nation’s anti graft agencies.
Mr Victor Recalled that EFCC in a letter to the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service dated November 15, 2021, requested the Service to place the governor on watchlist and inform it anytime he is travelling out of the country from any of the International airports and other points of entry and exit.
This may have prompted the outgoing governor to approach the state assembly to secretly enact a bill that will protect him from prosecution. From some sources within the state assembly, AIF Media was informed that the executive sent in a bill to establish an anti graft agency in Anambra state.
The state anti graft agency will be responsible for the prosecution of public officers who misappropriate state resources. But from our findings, some provisions of the bill are provided to protect the state chief executive from indictment. For instance, AIF Media learnt that the bill provided for Accountant General, Attorney General and IGR chairman to be members of the Board of the proposed state Anti Graft Agency.
If Attorney General, Account General and the Chairman of the IGR become members of the Anti Graft Agency, is it possible for them to prosecute their boss?
Most importantly, the bill allegedly abrogated all corruption cases pending in any court against public servants in the state before its enactment. It voided all pending cases of corruption.
The implication is that corruption cases before this bill is passed and accented to, are invalided by the bill when passed.
However, this bill has heightened tensions among the state lawmakers. AIF Media was told that the bill has passed the first reading and awaiting the second and final reading which may come up this week. But curiously, many of the lawmakers said the bill was only read by the Speaker without making copies available to them.
The opposing lawmakers wonder why the Speaker can not make available copies of the bill to members for such an important bill. They are afraid that the bill may be passed without them seeing or studying it. They are also afraid that the bill will likely scale through second and third reading and be passed by voice vote next week.
The haste at which the executive sent the bill and the secrecy the Speaker accorded it suggests of unhealthy plot to evade EFCC and other anti graft agencies by the outgoing administration.
Investigation by AIF Media reveals that some lawmakers are only concerned with how much they can make with the bill. Some of them were asking how much they will get if they agree to pass the bill for Agu Awka. Those ones are less concerned with the content of the bill and what it tends to achieve.
Nevertheless, this bill is injurious to the state. Immunity has protected our governors from prosecution while in office. It will be forbidden to have another law that will prevent them from standing trial after their administration. The lawmakers should think of the state first before individual. It is not about the outgoing administration. This bill if passed will empower successive govts to appropriate and misappropriate the state resources and leave office without accounting for their steward.
Concluding, one wonders how an administration that has only about a month in office would be interested in having a law or establishing an anti graft agency for the state. It smells of suspicion and the members of this 7th Assembly should not allow themselves to be used in helping corrupt leaders to evade trial.
AIF Media will follow this development and Chrysora Media will always update you.
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