PHOTOSCENE: Charly Boy takes over NASS

Musician turned activist, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy on Wednesday led a protest march blocking the entrance to the National Assembly, Abuja.

They blocked the entrance to the complex, causing a traffic gridlock.

The march tagged ‘Occupy National Assembly’ is to force legislators to make public the budget of the National Assembly, and how much each legislator actually takes home in form of remuneration and constituency project funds.

They are also calling for the prosecution of judges accused of corruption, a downward review of salaries and benefits for politicians in the country, and asking that people who are guilty of stealing public funds should be sentenced to death as well as a slash in the salaries of political office holders by about 70 per cent and a stop of state and local government joint accounts.

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