Nigerian lawmakers probing job racketeering in government agencies are allegedly extorting money from the agencies The committee of the House of Representatives, which initially gained public support for its anti-corruption stance have been fingered in a report by Premium Times, where they've been accused of intimidating agency heads into paying bribes to avoid public disgrace and indictment. According to the report, on Tuesday, August 15, some committee members met with heads of the nation’s federally-owned universities – 51 vice-chancellors – and afterwards secretly negotiated two million naira bribe from each of them to save themselves from public humiliation and eventual indictment. During the negotiation with the leadership of the Committee of Vice Chancellors, representatives of the committee demanded three million naira from each institution. The professors protested, saying their institutions were poorly funded and that it would be difficult to raise the bribe money. The co...
