The human rights cru-sader noted that the recent fraudulent practice had subjected the country into international ridicule to the extent that those who had the privilege to travel were being meted with disdain and humiliation. “As the situation is now, we are all ridiculed in the presence of the whole world.You heard the com-ment of the international monitoring committee who travelled around, lis-ten to what they say about our government, the hu-miliation is just too exces-sive and it is odd for some of us to bear this shame and the criminality and lack of conscience of an-other people,” Soyinka added. Speaking earlier, Bak-are noted that “with all the revelations in the Na-tional Assembly and the low confidence the people have in the anti-corrup-tion agencies in dealing with political corruption in Nigeria, we are de-manding the appointment of a private prosecutor to deal with these prosecu-tions.“The counsel to be so appointed must be a man or woman of proven in-tegrity with a team of lawyers recommended by the Nigerian Bar Asso-ciation working with such private prosecutor. Civil society organisations should also be allowed to appoint their own counsel as observers.” Bakare regretted that many of the indicted “subsidy scammers” were members of the ruling party and businessmen who had “over the time been billion naira donors at Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, fundraisers.He, therefore, called for a thorough investigation into whether there was any connection between “their dubious subsidy payment and the dona-tions they made to the rul-ing party.” He also condemned the clearance of Gombe State Governor Ibrahim Dankwanbo, who was the Accountant-General of the Federation in 2009 and who was alleged to have issued cheques of N999m in 128 times in 24 hours to-talling N127bn.“The impression this gives is that the governor may have been exonerated in a deal to ensure that he does not spill the beans if push comes to shove.” The clergy lamented that “if our people realise what N3 trillion can do in the life of a nation, it would not be difficult to understand why we must kill corruption lest it kill us all as it is systematical-ly doing already. We have nothing to lose but our chains as we embark on this patriotic and just re-sistance against the de-stroyer of our nation.”Bakare gave kudos to the House of Represen-tatives for its painstak-ing consideration and adoption of the report in two days with some amendments, adding that “this shall go down in history as one act of redemption by a cham-ber of the National As-sembly that has not done much since 1999 to en-dear itself to the people it represents.”