Many thanks to our over-pampered federal legislators, this past week we got a good serving of comic reliefs from the National Assembly. Suddenly, the words “pad” and “padding” have been shoved into our faces and national consciousness. The House of Representatives has been mired in its own daub of corruption, owing to the tendency of our political class to cheat, take advantage of the system, apply nepotism and be self-centred, as opposed to having national interest in the conduct of their official assignment. We are being inundated with the controversy of the so-called “budget padding”.
I initially refused to give it much attention, knowing that little, if anything would come out of it, in the long run, if history serves as guide. This is because there are two main ways the matter could be resolved and whichever way taken, there is a tendency of it being politicised and eventually resolved (read killed) via a “political solution”. The two ways of resolving the matter are through the internal processes of the legislature or through external actions by the investigative bodies of state such as the police, with a view to prosecution.
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