By Meletus EZE
A faith-based pressure group, called Citizens for Righteousness and Social Justice, has called on the National Assembly to review the immunity clause in order to check its abuse.
Bishop Kenneth Obi, the state Chairman of the group, said this on Monday, while briefing newsmen during a rally organised by the group in Owerri to protest gainst corruption and social injustice in Nigeria.
Obi said that the immunity clause had become a serious political encumbrance in the nation’s fight against corruption.
He said: “Part of our problem in this country is the immunity clause because some people hide under the clause to perpetrate all kinds of corrupt practices.
“We want Nigerians and the ruling class to know that it will no longer be business as usual.
“This civil society group will serve as a watchdog of the government.”
Obi said that the group embarked on the rally to “reawaken the consciousness of Nigerians,” especially the ruling class, against corruption and social injustice.
TBI Africa said that the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the group, which displayed placards with different inscriptions, also carried a coffin round the city.
Obi said that the coffin was to signify an end to social injustice and corruption in the country.
He described corruption as the bane of Nigeria’s underdevelopment, saying that no nation in the world ever made progress with high corruption rate.
The group also urged President Muhammadu Buhari to take the administration’s anti-graft war beyond party lines.
It said that the war should be all-incusive rather than “selective” and targeted at the opposition.
Also, Mrs Chinwe Nwaozo, the Head of Public Enlightenment of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission in Imo, said that all hands must be on deck for the fight to succeed.
Nwaozo said that the agency was doing its best to achieve a corrupt-free society.
She commended the group for collaborating with ICPC and other related agencies in the fight against corruption and advised it not to relent.
