The speaker of Nigeria's lower house of parliament on Monday accused the government of failing to tackle graft, urging President Goodluck Jonathan to do more to stamp out endemic corruption.
Aminu Tambuwal said Jonathan's administration had repeatedly failed to act upon the recommendations of anti-corruption investigations by parliament and instead ordered
further probes on the same cases with an identical remit.
"After the House of Representatives did a diligent job by probing and exposing the cases, you now see something else when it comes to prosecution," he told a gathering of the Nigerian Bar Association in the capital, Abuja.
"In some cases, you have the government setting up new committees to duplicate the job already done by the parliament...
"By the action of setting up different committees for straightforward cases, the president's body language doesn't tend to support the fight against corruption."
Tambuwal is a member of Jonathan's Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) but is said to be close to one of five rebel state governors who joined the main opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) last month.
He has denied rumours that he, too, would defect to the APC.
There was no immediate response from Jonathan, who is travelling to South Africa to attend the memorial service for South Africa's former president Nelson Mandela on Tuesday.
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