The Coalition Against
Corrupt Leaders (CACOL), has accused Senate President, Bukola Saraki, of undermining
the efforts of President Mohammadu Buhari over the anti-corruption crusade,
reports ITRealms.
The group in a letter to
the Senate President, said the Nigerian Senate, under Saraki’s leaderhip is
working at cross-purposes with its own campaign for the adoption of
Made-in-Nigeria products by canvassing for the acquisition of foreign revenue
aggregation software to replace an existing one created by a Nigerian in
Nigeria.
CACOL also accused Saraki
of manipulating the Senate to frustrate the Treasury Single Account (TSA)
regime currently being implemented via Remita, electronic payment platform
developed by SystemSpecs Limited.
The letter dated March 2,
2016, comes on the heels of report of the Joint Senate Committees on
Finance; Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions; and Public
Accounts, which had recommended the termination of the contract between
Systemspecs and the Central Bank of Nigeria [CBN] on the implementation of TSA
via the Remita platform.
According to the Executive
Chairman, CACOL, Debo Adeniran, the Senate under Saraki is playing double
standards, especially given that in one breath, the Senate Report “severally
insinuates that there is no valid contract between SystemSpecs, the company
that provided the Remita TSA collection platform and the CBN and in another
breath, recommends that the contract should be immediately terminated.”
“Our investigations however
reveal that the CBN and the OAGF independently issued at least five
circulars/letters at different times where Remita is specifically mentioned.
Can institutions as big and structured as the CBN and OAGF do this without any
contract between it and a vendor,” queried CACOL.
The group went on to label
the Senate’s recommendation for termination of the contract as “provocative,
retrogressive, insensitive and suspicious.”
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