Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday took another potshot at members of the National Assembly, describing the constituency projects being embarked upon by them as “corruption”.
He stated this at the opening of a two-day investment forum organised by the Niger State government with the theme: ‘Impact Investing for Advancing Agricultural Economy And Innovation’.
Obasanjo said, “Sultan talked about roads. I hope our lawmakers will use their position and act positively so that when they put in road projects in the budget, they will not turn it into what they now term as constituency projects.
“You and I know what constituency projects mean, it is simply corruption.”
He maintained that the federal and state governments should carry out massive rural and urban road construction to facilitate the movement of agricultural products from the farms to the markets.
It would be recalled that the ex-president had while delivering a lecture at the first Akintola Williams Annual Lecture in Lagos late last year stated that the “National Assembly stinks and stinks to high heavens. It needs to be purged”.
He also accused the federal parliament of corruption and of operating a cabal “worse than any cabal that anybody may find anywhere in our national governance system at any time”.