State Legislators: Partners in LOOT?

There is no question that the State Houses of Assembly (parliaments) were an abject failure during the last eight years of democracy. And that was not a swell advert for the majority party in the land, the PDP.

Example: If governors are now being arraigned for alleged looting of state treasuries, pray, where were the legislators? What was their primary function and duty? Who approved the budgets and who abandoned constitutional oversight?

Not that it was any better at the federal level, but the search be already afoot there. No escape, as there is enough clamour for answers and there is solid evidence that action will come.

Our thoughts must be with the hapless citizens in most states and local government areas in the land. They have been so badly served and short-changed that there must be urgent and FULL investigation. Governors and local government chairmen could not have unleashed such mindless looting and primitive gorging alone! Nah...

Let their accomplices be fished out and arraigned too.

For example: We hear an arraigned governor, who is a serving senator of the republic, averred that he actually siphoned several billions from his state's treasury to fund/support the failed Third Term Agenda of an opposition president! Can you beat that! Thereafter, he moved over to the ruling PDP, bundling his entire state cabinet, legislators and party hierarchy and political elite in tow! He was rewarded with a senatorial seat, alas!!

We are not unmindful of the extra immunity he thus enjoyed from the then-president, who gleefully paid a state visit to the rural and impoverished territory to proclaim the governor as a miracle worker, and the land as a place of admirable progress! The media was awash with this presidential endorsement and ruling party heist. The rest, as they say, be now history.

And, hallo-hallo, the history is unraveling...to tell the true story. Yes, for the real history, at last!

So, why will that governor be alone - in arraignment, in humiliation, and in gaol, if convicted??? Where are the technocrats? Where are the bureaucrats? Where are the colluding-contractors? Where, pray conscience, are the party chieftains and the state parliamentarians???

Who audited the state accounts? Did the anti-corruption agencies and other authorities get any hints, petitions and bank withdrawal alerts?

How come it took the new governor, a fellow party stalwart, to blow da whistle - with a media megaphone - before action followed???

May the other governors follow this gallant example! Fast. Double-fast.

We wait.