Senate President Bukola Saraki has said that no amount of intimidation will
stop the Senate from investigating the alleged N25 billion Treasury Single
Account (TSA) fraud.
Saraki was reacting to a motion moved by Sen. Dino Melaye (APC-Kogi West)
over a newspaper article allegedly blackmailing the Senate for pointing out
the alleged fraud.
Saraki said would always carry it constitutional against any act that
detrimental to Nigerians.
“No amount of either blackmail or intimidation will stop us from doing the
work we have to do,” he said.
“We have a responsibility here to ensure that there are no leakages in
government funds and if there are, we will call the attention of the public
and do whatever it takes to salvage the situation; it is our responsibility.
“The fact about the TSA will come out and everybody will have opportunity
before the committee to state the fact, the facts will speak for
themselves.’’
Earlier, Melaye said his attention was drawn to the write-up accusing the
Senate of working against President Muhammadu Buhari’s effort to implement
TSA.
He expressed concern that the writer could conceive such an idea in spite
of the National Assembly’s resolve to work with Buhari in fighting
corruption.
Melaye recalled that it was the assembly’s stand on the alleged TSA fraud
that led SystemSpecs to refund the one per cent it collected from mopped up
funds to Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
“We commend Mr. President for the implementation of the TSA and for anyone
to say the Senate is fighting Mr. President is myopic, parochial and
unacceptable,” he said.