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
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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
He said banks were at a vantage position to disclose suspicious transactions to relevant authorities and called on them to take on the major responsibility of stamping out corruption
Nigerians are elated by this development. It shows that Buhari is committed beyond the rhetoric of his world declaration, during his trip to the United States of America, that he was determined to “Kill Corruption Before Corruption Kills Nigeria”
The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has taken a swipe at the Federal Government’s anti-corruption stance. Fayose describec it as…
Buba-Lamido said the call became imperative in view of the fact that corruption could kill more people than a conventional weapon
The provost of the academy, Prof. Sola Akinrinade, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Monday
She spoke further, “The Council resolve to add to the government efforts to fighting corruption and we have today adopted the Clean Business Nigeria Plan as a means of integrating the private sector in to the efforts of government to deal with the issues of corruption that arise all over the place