Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has reached end of its wit in the fight against corruption.
The vocal playwright said this on Wednesday when he featured on a television programme, Kakaaki, on AIT.
Soyinka said the inability of Buhari to tackle corruption head-on has emboldened some influential and powerful persons in the country to run roughshod on the country’s judiciary.
He added that the system had become corrupted so badly that court cases were being stretched out through technicalities.
He noted that, had Buhari’s government not run out of steam in its corruption war, many people would be languishing behind bars.
“There are so many people who should be in prison if this government had not run out of steam, and so the system is being manipulated. There are cases where the prosecution had reached the level where evidence had been given on governors who had been stealing and depositing in bits and pieces so as not to flout a certain regulation. I mean cases have been taken to that level and suddenly, silence. The EFCC, which I back solidly ever since the days of (Nuhu) Ribadu, in all kinds of ways, we no longer know the distinguishing from rights and left,” he added.
On restructuring and devolution of powers, the laureate wondered why the National Assembly refused to make the move and do the needful since the executive had been reluctant on the issues.
He said the struggle of some selfish lawmakers for committee positions where the “goodies are shared” made them cohort of the executive.
“And it is the responsibility of the constituency to remind them of these derelictions, these failures to come up to scratch as expected when they come round next for elections,” he added.
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