By AKOMA CHINWEOKE
The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) has condemned in strong terms the bill before the National Assembly seeking for special allowances and welfare packages for past Nigeria leaders including military heads of state  up to their four spouses.

Speaking through its executive chairman, Debo Adeniran, the coalition described the bill as a threat to the nation’s economy and her democracy.

“Ordinarily, Mr. Adeniran posited, “there is nothing strange that a nation takes care of its past leaders if they ascended and relinquished power through the peoples’ mandates. But the case of Nigeria is different.  These set of leaders being compensated had bastardized our economy right from out set.

They sunk us into heavy unverifiable debts and used their positions to loot our joint wealth for their selfish use. We should not encourage younger soldiers to strike again in anticipation of looting the country dry and get compensated thereafter.”