The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), yesterday, called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Offenses Commission (ICPC) to investigate the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila and the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, about the alleged constituency project swap.
A report has it that the project for the main road for the Federal College of Education (Technical), Umunze, located in Orumba South Local Council of Anambra State, has been found to have been executed in Surulere Constituency I of Lagos State.
The rights group said the two anti-corruption agencies should not wait for a formal petition, but act based on the evidence provided by the viral video.
The National Coordinator of HURIWA, Emmanuel Onwubiko, in a statement on the allegations against the Speaker and the minister over the Umunze project, said if found guilty after investigation, the duo should be arrested and prosecuted by the anti-corruption agency.
HURIWA also condemned federal parliamentarians from the Southeast who stood by and did nothing or even colluded with those whose specialty was said to be the active diversion of major infrastructure projects from the Southeast to their own zone.
The rights group, therefore, challenged the anti-corruption agency to arrest and prosecute South-East legislators in the National Assembly who have conspired to deny the South-East part of the strategic national infrastructure development that other zones have achieved.