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Nigerian anti-graft agencies urged to beam searchlight on professional bodies
Human rights activist, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), members of civil society groups and others have called on anti-graft agencies to beam their searchlight on professional bodies in the country if the fight against corruption must be successful. Falana and others are of the opinion that until members of professional bodies who are found to have aided crimes and criminality are sanctioned, corruption will continue to be on the rise. Falana, Chairman, Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA), Olarenwaju Suraj, and Executive Secretary, Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption (PACAC), Mr Sadiq Radda, argued that professionals such as lawyers, accountants, bankers etc should be made to face the same punishment alongside their criminal clients. They made the suggestions on Wednesday...
Kano governor: Nigeria can’t progress with current level of corruption
Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State has said Nigeria cannot progress with the level of corruption in the country. Speaking on Thursday at the inauguration of an eight-man Anti-Corruption Strategy Steering Committee, Ganduje stressed that all stakeholders must do all that is necessary to ensure a corruption-free state with limitless opportunities. Ganduje, who was represented at the occasion by Alhaji Usman Alhaji, the Secretary to the State Government, noted that there is no sacred lamb in the fight against corruption in the state. “Believe me, we don’t need to say that corruption in this country is killing all of us. The truth of the matter is that we will never develop or progress with this level of corruption in this country,” the governor cautioned. The governor said the miss...
How To Tackle Corruption
*IF YOU WANT TO REMOVE CORRUPTION IN ANY SYSTEM, MAKE THE PROCESS ELECTRONIC AND REDUCE LEVELS OF HUMAN INTERFERENCE- SIR MELIE ONYEJEPU* Sir Melie Onyejepu hails from Nnewi, Anambra state. He is currently the General Manager, Bureau for Public Procurement and Special Adviser, budget implementation and performance to the Executive Governor of Anambra State. As special adviser on budget implementation and performance, his office ensures that the state budget is properly monitored and that monies released to ministries are properly retired in line with the reason the budget was drawn. As Anambra procurement boss, his office also ensures that the law passed on procurement by the State House of Assembly are properly followed to the letter and that the state gets best price for the contract it ...
