Browsing: anti-corruption

Bello made the call during a symposium with the theme: “The role of religious preachers in the fight against Corruption,” on Friday in Abuja. The symposium was convened by the FCT Chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria and the Abuja National Mosque Management Board at the African Institute of Peace and Conflict Resolution. Bello, who was represented by the FCT Permanent Secretary, Dr. Babatope Ajakaiye, stressed that corruption has left negative consequences on the nation’s march to development

While exchanging views with a friend recently on the state of the nation, vis-a-vis the anti-corruption war, we found common agreement that perhaps the best thing that President Buhari would be remembered for, and fondly, without prejudice to other things he might accomplish during this eventful tenure of his, is the war against corruption, and bringing to the awareness of the Nigerian citizen, elite and ordinary people alike, that there is something like betrayal and pillage of the common wealth of the people and appropriation of same by those entrusted with its safe-keeping and management, that went on in a most rapacious manner in the last 16 years of democratic rule, beginning from 1999