Former Abia State governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, has claimed that some Nigerians who were once involved in 419 and different harmful legal actions abroad have now discovered their approach into politics in the nation.
Kalu alleged that a number of of those politicians had beforehand engaged in superior charge fraud and different critical crimes in South Africa and South America.
In a video shared on his Fb web page, the senator mentioned: “Most individuals, a few of them were abroad doing 419, doing all types of harmful crime throughout, and you already know a leopard can’t change its pores and skin.
“When individuals are used to taking cash that doesn’t belong to them, they will by no means change their character. Should you’re anticipating them to vary, it isn’t true. They will by no means change.
“I feel that each the civil servants and politicians who’re ruling, who’re the ruling class, ought to stand as much as assist to redirect the financial dynamics of this nation. The financial dynamics may be very affluent if we do it proper.
“Why ought to folks stack {dollars} in their homes? Why ought to folks be giving out {dollars}? It’s not our authorized tender. Folks ought to discover ways to put the cash in Nigeria’s system so Nigeria can now profit from the cash that we’re transacting on.
“So I feel that we’re working very exhausting whether or not folks complain, lots of people that were in South Africa and Southern America in all places doing all types of enterprise are at this time in politics, but it surely’s what we see.”
The previous Senate Chief Whip additionally urged properly-that means Nigerians to hitch politics for the fitting causes fairly than monetary achieve.
He mentioned: “Let the great folks come and be a part of and make politics higher the best way it needs to be. It’s not for saints. This enterprise just isn’t for saints, but it surely’s not for those that immediately have broken themselves in dishonest white males or different black folks.
“For me, I plead with our folks, allow us to help our financial reforms it doesn’t matter what our political leaning shall be, whether or not it’s in something or this or that. We must always come collectively and construct a brand new leaf.”
